Man Tanghong

"Here!"

The scout bowed in agreement and exited the side hall.

After the scouts left, Li Shimin said slightly teasingly: "Let's not stay here anymore, let's go to the top of the city to have a look!"

Yang Zhengdao fought ten miles outside Aries City in the middle of the night. It seemed that he was going to attack the city overnight. He really should go and take a look.

Li Yuanji nodded, followed Li Shimin out of the side hall, and then left the Xiangyi Racecourse Courtyard under the guard of the remaining Yong Wangwei.

There were no people on the street outside the other courtyard, and the courtyards and tents on both sides of the street were also empty.

When the scouts reported back and found the traces of Yang Zhengdao and his party, everyone in Baiyang City was automatically incorporated into the battle order.

Yong Wangwei was sent out of the city by Li Shimin, the city guard was sent to the hills on both sides by Li Shimin, and the rest of them were all sent to the city wall to guard Baiyang City.

In other words, it is a group of common people who are responsible for guarding Baiyang City.

But no one underestimated them because they were ordinary people, because at this time, none of the ordinary people who dared to appear in Baiyang City and could appear in Baiyang City were simple characters.

Take the steward who helped Li Shenfu guard the other courtyard as an example. He is an old soldier who has served for six years. With the long weapon again, he quit the army and became a part of Li Shenfu, and was sent here by Li Shenfu to guard the other courtyard.

He also came with twelve veterans who had served for four to five years, and ten of them were his former comrades.

The stewards of other courtyards, households, and gatekeepers may not be as good as him in terms of status, but they may not lose to him in terms of qualifications, and all of them have military experience.

When they wandered around Baiyang City on weekdays, they looked like ordinary people, some of them were even worse than ordinary people, like beggars.

But when the war came, none of them panicked, and none of them shouted in fear. They all acted as if nothing was wrong.

When the drum is about to sound on the school grounds, no one needs to be notified, they will consciously put on leather armor, cloth armor, etc., take up their weapons and gather in the school grounds.

After the three-way point beat the drum, basically all those who could arrive arrived, and all of them were sorted according to their previous positions and functions in the army.

This is the fighting literacy of the whole people during the Fubing system.

The vast majority of men have the experience of serving in the army, even if they have no experience in the army, they can play a few times with a sword, gun, sword and halberd, so as not to hurt themselves when swinging wildly.

This is one of the important reasons why there were far fewer bandits in this period than in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Because of the emergence of a small group of bandits and rogues, the local government will not report to the court, and the local government organizes its own troops to wipe them out.

Therefore, bandits and bandits without the support of wealthy families, or local gentry, could not survive during this period.

There are some kings who often appear in novels and have been kings of places for many years. They are all supported by wealthy families or local squires, and they only rob merchants who have no background in the past and will not invade. Ordinary people, or businessmen with background, otherwise they wouldn't be able to survive.

As for those without the support of wealthy families and squires, they simply cannot survive during this period.

Therefore, those who have some martial arts skills and like to wander around, like to be called a ranger and like to be a ranger, rather than some masters of such and such mountains, or heroes of such and such mountains.

This kind of masters of a certain mountain and heroes of a certain mountain only appeared after the emergence of professional soldiers during the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Some people may say, if there were not so many bandits in the Tang Dynasty, then why did Li Shimin recruit so many blind people to become bad people in history?
This has to mention a kind of person who will appear in all dynasties after unifying the world.

This kind of person is a ruffian.

This kind of person has been fighting all his life. After the world is stable, he will have no means to make a living, so he can only idle around and cause trouble.

Under such circumstances, those who once contributed to this country and protected this country have become those who destroy this country and affect the stability of this country.

Therefore, successive dynasties will take some measures to deal with such people.

The method Li Shimin adopted was to control evil with evil, win over a group, and fight a group.

Win over those who are still useful among the soldiers and make them temporary workers in the yamen, helping the local yamen and official yamen to deal with the remaining soldiers.

As they are both soldiers and gangsters, they are naturally the ones who understand the gangsters best, and it is easier to deal with them.

With their help, the soldiers and gangsters will naturally be punished, and the local stability can be restored quickly.

This is Li Shimin's original intention and purpose of setting up bad people.

As for the description of bad guys as a mysterious organization in later film and television dramas, and turning Yuan Tiangang into the leader of bad guys, Bad Shuai, that is purely a play and cannot be taken as real.

Yuan Tiangang, an official of the Qin Tianjian, is in charge of watching the astrology and the weather, and he has nothing to do with arresting and arresting robbers. How could he become the leader of bad people.

Even if Li Shimin, Li Zhi, and Wu Zetian were kicked in the head by a donkey, they would not be able to let a man who could read the stars and tell the weather to serve as a catcher or leader of temporary government servants.

Moreover, if the bad guys are really some kind of mysterious organization that helps Datang do some secret things, it is impossible for Li Shimin, Li Zhi, Wu Zetian and other emperors of Datang to send a person who can watch astrology, watch the sky, and play the emperor's calendar to lead them.

Is Duan Zhixuan not popular, or Xu Jingzong not popular?

The former is courageous, the latter is resourceful.

They are all good at helping the emperor do dirty things.

Isn't that more suitable for running a mysterious organization than Yuan Tiangang?

Therefore, those in later generations of film and television dramas are not credible.

The bad guys are just a group of temporary workers composed of ruffians and blind workers, without any mysterious missions, and they are not some extremely powerful mysterious organization.

Now if there is really any mysterious organization in Datang, the Dushui Supervisor is more likely than bad people.

The Capital Water Supervisor is in charge of the world's water conservancy and is responsible for maintaining and supervising the construction of water conservancy projects in various places. The officials there often travel around the Tang Dynasty. They help the emperor collect intelligence and do dirty things, which is far easier than bad people.

After all, they run around all day, no matter where they go, they will not be suspected, and if they kill someone, bury them under the embankment, or make a dike burst to wash everything away, they will not be suspected. Suspect.

As for Baiqisi, who is widely sung by later generations, although he is engaged in espionage now, in history, he really did not do this.

Historically, it was a place that accepted the elites of the Tang Dynasty and some outstanding martial artists.

It is a strong army composed of warriors drawn from hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, capable of charging thousands of formations with a hundred horses.

This is not bragging, this is the record achieved by Li Shimin leading Baiqi himself.

Although after that battle, Li Shimin's beloved horse was shot into a hedgehog, and the Baiqi under his command were also killed and injured.

But if you survived with hundreds of horses charging thousands of formations, you will be able to disdain many people and armies.

It was because of this incident that Li Shimin founded Baiqisi.

The intention is that with these hundred riders, he can go anywhere in the world.

Therefore, Baiqisi is not a mysterious organization, but a very simple and powerful army. It can be regarded as the last and most trustworthy military force of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

It's just that it hasn't been used since Li Shimin, and slowly disappeared into the dust of history.

Speaking of which, when Li Shimin led a hundred cavalry into a formation of ten thousand, it only happened when he lured the enemy deep into the enemy's territory and got away with it.

At that time, as usual, he used his head to lure the guards of the city he was going to attack, but the general who guarded the city had heard that he liked to do this, so he rushed out before he approached the city, and caught him off guard .

He achieved the record of charging into ten thousand formations with a hundred cavalry only when he was fleeing for his life with a hundred cavalry.

If it was a head-on confrontation, he would definitely be cold by now.

Among all the generals in the Tang Dynasty, there is only one person who can really lead a hundred horses to charge ten thousand formations, but this person is not Li Shimin.

"why are you laughing?"

Li Yuanji and Li Shimin walked for about half an hour before arriving at the stairs in the west of Aries City. Li Shimin saw an inexplicable smile on Li Yuanji's lips, and subconsciously felt that Li Yuanji's smile had something to do with him, and he was still laughing at him. It was an embarrassment, so I asked angrily.

Li Yuanji didn't hide it either, and said cheerfully: "I remembered how my second brother lured the enemy out of the city when he conquered Song Jingang in the past!"

Li Shimin's face turned dark when he heard this, and he defended himself with staring eyes: "That traitor guarding the city is unreasonable, otherwise, how could I be so embarrassed?!"

Li Yuanji nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, yes..."

Before Li Shimin could speak again, Li Yuanji said again: "Is this what people often say if you always walk by the river, do you have shoes that don't get wet?"

Li Shimin glared at Li Yuanji viciously, didn't want to talk any more, and strode towards the city wall.

Li Yuanji chased after him, smiling recklessly.

Li Shimin has been wise and powerful for most of his life, this incident is definitely one of the most embarrassing things for him, and anyone who mentions him will give him black face.

On the city wall, the defenders organized by the common people have already guarded the crenels, and set up bed crossbows and other things on the crenels, but the bed crossbows are not easy to allow, and there is no city to rely on if Suni loses his troops. Gong, so he didn't bring many bed crossbows, so there were only thirty bed crossbows on the crenel.

But it was these thirty bed crossbows that gave great confidence to the people defending the city.

In siege warfare, bed crossbows can play far more than the same number of soldiers, or even more.

With the bed crossbow, you can shoot and kill important members of the enemy, causing some of the enemy's troops to lose command and fall into paralysis.

It can also shoot the braver ones among the enemies to restrict their ability to climb the city wall.

If there is no bed crossbow, it is impossible to effectively shoot and kill the important members of the enemy, as well as the braver ones among the enemies, only with a bow and arrow that is not strong enough.