Valley Emperor

Moving the capital to Zhaoqing after going south was decided before going south to Guangxi, so even before Zhaoqing was won, officials of the Tang Dynasty began to prepare for this.

After Hao Bainian took Zhaoqing down, the entire Tang Dynasty set off a wave of moving the capital!

Major General Li Chunjing, the commander of the Third Army, who led the army to fight in the western region of Guangxi, specially returned to Wuzhou by the navy's return transport ship, in order to be able to accompany His Majesty into Zhaoqing when the capital was officially moved.

However, many generals below Major General Fang Xitong who fought in Guizhou are naturally impossible to return to Wuzhou. The wars in Guizhou are more frequent and difficult.

According to the battle report of the Second Army, after a large number of Ming troops in the Huguang direction entered Guizhou, they have already conquered many places, including Zhengtai County, the land of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, and the Bronze Drum Fortress where large-scale battles broke out. After waiting for the city, it was reported from the northeastern part of Guizhou that another Ming army of about 10,000 people entered from the northeastern part of Guizhou. The prefecture and the Tang Dynasty robbery camp in Shiqian Mansion turned their backs on the battlefield.

Now the situation in the northeastern part of Guizhou is quite bad. The territory in the northeastern part is basically lost. Only the remnants of the second garrison regiment and the robbery camps in several of the above-mentioned prefectures and counties have more than 4,000 people to guard Zhenyuan mansion. However, it is conceivable how low the combat effectiveness of this unit, which is composed of the remnants of the garrison regiment and the robbery battalion, can withstand the attack of the tens of thousands of Ming troops.

As for Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, it is the core attack area of ​​the Ming army. The 30,000-strong army is in this area. Although Xingquan Mansion is still standing strong, and most areas of Liping Mansion are still safe, they are still fighting. very hard.

As the main force of the regular army, there are no less than hundreds of casualties, and currently in eastern Guizhou, the regular army is only a few thousand people.

Although the reason why the army was able to conquer the above-mentioned places so quickly was because the Second Army voluntarily gave up these places in order to shrink its forces to defend Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, no matter what, the Ming army was progressing smoothly and recovered. It is said that after receiving the good news from the front-line army, Zhang Yue, the governor of the four provinces who was still busy raising the army in Shaoyang, was quite gratified. In a certain county, there are many thieves.

I just don’t know how Zhang Yue will feel after learning that Wuzhou and even Zhaoqing have fallen. If the big bosses in the capital know that Wuzhou and Zhaoqing have fallen, will they have doubts about Zhang Yue’s strategy of attacking Guizhou first and then Guangxi? .

These are all unknown to outsiders, at least not from the Tang Dynasty.

From the point of view of the Tang Dynasty itself, the eastern part of Guizhou is extremely difficult to fight. Major General Fang Xitong, the commander of the Second Army, has now given up the siege of Guiyang, leaving only a garrison regiment and a number of thieves. The camp was outside the city of Guiyang, to contain the Ming army in the city of Guiyang, to prevent them from chasing.

However, he has been leading the main force to rush eastward for several days, but the distance is too far, and the mountain road is rough and difficult. When Fang Xitong and other troops of the Second Army rush back to Liping and Xingquan, I am afraid that Gotta go in March.

Because now and even for the next month, Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion still have to rely on the existing troops to fight.

The situation is quite a crisis.

Under such circumstances, the generals of the Second Army would naturally not be able to participate in the relocation ceremony, but there must be no shortage of congratulatory memorials.

The senior generals of the Second Army will not come back to participate in the ceremony of moving the capital into the city, but this does not affect the grandness of the upcoming ceremony of moving the capital into the city. It was gathered in Wuzhou, ready to follow Li Xuan to Zhaoqing.

At the same time, the preparations in Zhaoqing have also entered the final stage. The officials responsible for hosting the welcoming ceremony in Zhaoqing have dressed up the entire Zhaoqing Mansion. The main streets are covered with loess and hung in the city. A large number of royal flags of the Tang Dynasty are also regarded as informal flags 'Yellow Blue Dragon Flag', and there is also a common military flag 'Red Dragon Sword Flag'.

The defeated soldiers and stray people in the city have already been cleared in advance. Zhaoqing is a city that is scheduled to be the capital. Naturally, it cannot be treated sloppily in terms of safety. It was clean, but all the gentry families whose families were officials in the Ming Dynasty were also forcibly moved out.

Today, the people in the city are only ordinary people, and there are basically no traces of the big gentry.

Maybe it will be said that in this way, Zhaoqing City will be adjusted to zero?

how is this possible!

After Li Xuan moved the capital to this place, a large number of officials and their families will come together. There will be at least 5,000 people in this group alone. The guards will also be stationed in the city, and the army and navy troops They will also be stationed near the city, and Zhaoqing will definitely be more lively than before.

And this is the huge influence brought by the administrative center of an empire.

After all these preparations were made, Li Xuan officially led the Hundred Officials, the Guards, and the Sixth Infantry Regiment and other troops to move eastward. In addition to these official personnel, there were also many officials, family members of the soldiers, and others. Businessmen, gentry, landlords and others who are closely related to the Tang Dynasty will also travel eastward with Li Xuan's team.

There are nearly 20,000 people in this team. For the sake of safety, some people will take boats, while some people will travel on the shore.

Li Xuan, on the other hand, went to Zhaoqing on the largest ship currently owned by the Tang Dynasty and the largest warship in the navy, the Xingquan.

Xingquan is a very typical sand ship. The predecessor of this largest warship in the Tang Navy was not a gunboat in the hands of the Ming army. On the contrary, it was just an ordinary merchant ship before, and it was not from the Ming army. What was seized in his hands was the spoils of the tax inspection team that was so powerful.

The tax inspection team that first arrived in Wuzhou started taxation work, and found that there was a shipping company that did not pay taxes. What else is there to say? They checked the assets directly. It happened that this shipping company had a big ship returning from Guangzhou. So this 130-ton sand boat became the trophy of the tax inspection team.

Because of its large tonnage and a new ship, it is naturally impossible for the navy to let it go.

Although it is said that the Xijiang waterway is only an inland river and the water depth is relatively shallow, the traditional type of sand boat has the characteristics of shallow draft, so if you are careful, it can still be used reluctantly.

Now that Li Xuan is going to Zhaoqing, he will naturally take the largest and safest Xingquan, which is a bit harsh to say. This ship is big enough. Even if he encounters an accidental sinking, there will be enough time for him to escape. .

Along with the Xingquan, there are many other warships and many transport ships of the navy, in addition to a large number of ordinary ships belonging to the logistics department.

Because these ships are generally very small, although there are not many goods and people, the number of ships is quite large. There are more than one hundred ships in the entire fleet.

Of course, most of them are small wooden boats that can only take a dozen or twenty people!

There was a fleet of ships on the river, and a large number of troops and other personnel accompanied by the shore, including the Guards cavalry battalion, all marching on the shore.

The speed of the fleet's eastward advance is not very fast, it can even be called slow, and it has been dawdling until the second day of March before arriving outside the city of Zhaoqing!

After arriving outside Zhaoqing City, Li Xuan and all the officials put on their uniforms, and even the ordinary soldiers in the army put on clean military uniforms, which must be displayed when entering the city. The best grooming.

And when he first entered Liuzhou City, this time Li Xuan once again refused the dragon sedan chair arranged by the Ministry of Rites to be carried by thirty-six people, but insisted on riding a war horse into the city.

Although a group of civil servants, especially the officials of the Ministry of Rites, said that this was not in line with the etiquette system and would damage His Majesty's majesty, Li Xuan had already made up his mind to let the world know that Li Xuan was an emperor on horseback. This vast world was conquered by personally leading the army and commanding the army, not a country that was conquered by sitting on a sedan chair carried by thirty-six people.

Therefore, Li Xuan insisted on riding a war horse into the city, while other officials naturally objected to the invalidity and could only obey.

This time, the city entry ceremony basically replicated the last time to enter Liuzhou City~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but the scale was much larger and it took longer.

On this day, Li Xuan rode a pure white warhorse, dressed in a dragon-patterned military uniform, with a sword hanging from his waist and black leather gloves, and set foot on Zhaoqing City surrounded by the cavalry battalion of the Guards.

He announced his arrival to the whole city of Zhaoqing with the sound of hoofs!

He announced his arrival to the Guangdong and Guangxi regions with a loud gun salute!

He used the footsteps of the tens of thousands of troops entering the city to announce his arrival to the land of China!

Here he comes, with swords and spears, with muskets and cannons, with an army of a hundred thousand!

He has come, with death and new life, with destruction and construction!

After Li Xuan rode his horse into the city, he stopped on the street in the city and then got off the horse. His long leather boots stepped on the streets of Zhaoqing City. Then he saw him squat down slightly and then stretched out his black leather gloved hand, grabbing it from the ground. He got up a handful of dirt, then stood up to face the civil and military officials behind him, raised his hand, and let the dirt flow down his fingers, then turned his horse again, urging the horse to come forward, and at the same time muttered: "I'm here, I'm here. See me conquer!"