Valley Emperor

As early as when the pseudo-Tang bandit army went north to Guilin, he already realized that once the pseudo-Tang bandit army completely captured Guilin, it would pose a major threat to Jingzhou, and Jingzhou was the logistics supply base for Xingquanfu westward. , is inescapable.

So even if the Puppet Tang Bandit Army was still in Guilin at the time, he had already sent tens of thousands of troops south to Guilin, and told the tens of thousands of Ming Army not to confront the Puppet Tang Bandit Army head-on, because he knew that if they were to confront the Puppet Bandit Army, it would It is very likely that Wanbing Ma is not the opponent of the pseudo-Tang thief army, so he made this Wanming army the food channel for attacking the pseudo-Tang thief army, mainly attacking weak points.

He didn't want to kill and injure many fake Tang thieves, nor did he expect to be able to retake Guilin. He only hoped that the Wanming Army could hold back the pace of the fake Tang thieves, and drag the fake Tang thieves firmly in Guilin House, so that they could give Xingxing a chance. The main Ming army in Quan Mansion had enough time to capture Xingquan Mansion and encircle and wipe out the pseudo-Tang bandit army in Xingquan Mansion.

The battle situation in the early stage did develop as he expected. After the Wanming Army was dispatched, the pseudo-Tang bandit army in the Guilin area was exhausted and unable to go north at all.

But now, these pseudo-Tang thieves have suddenly appeared in Jingzhou. The reason for this situation is nothing more than two possibilities. One is that the pseudo-Tang thieves in the Guilin area ignored the back road and went directly north. And this possibility is unlikely, because in this case, their back road may be cut off by their own army, and when the food and grass are running out, these pseudo-Tang thieves will not say go to Jingzhou to relieve Xingquan Mansion, I am afraid that they themselves They will all fall into the siege of their own armies.

You must know that the Jingzhou area, as an important logistics base for the Huguang Ming Army, is naturally not empty. On the contrary, there are still heavy troops. There are tens of thousands of troops in the city of Jingzhou.

In the past, the pseudo-Tang thief army was stagnant in Guilin, and the commander of this pseudo-Tang thief army should not be such a stunned young man, who would go north regardless.

The second possibility is that the pseudo-Tang bandit army in the Guilin area received reinforcements, and the pseudo-Tang bandit army after receiving the reinforcements left some people to maintain food routes, and some went north.

This possibility is also the greatest. The army of the pseudo-Tang thieves has a lot of troops. It has long been said that the army of the pseudo-Tang thieves has more than 100,000 troops. Even now, many of the thieves of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty have gone to Guangdong, but the thieves who stayed in Guangxi The army will still not be less.

Zhang Yue felt helpless when he thought of the fact that the pirate army of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty would increase its troops in Guilin, and that it might continue to increase its troops in the future.

Even if these pseudo-Tang thieves can fight, there are still a lot of them. If it is necessary to exterminate the pseudo-Tang thieves, it may not be possible to rely on the four provinces alone, not to mention that among these four provinces, Guizhou is actually Most of Guangxi and half of Guangdong have fallen into the hands of the pseudo-Tang bandit army. Even if Zhang Yue has three heads and six arms, he cannot recruit troops from these places.

Now the only thing he can rely on is Huguang.

Fortunately, Huguang is a big province. It is a bit ruthless and can gather a lot of troops, but now it seems that relying on the troops of Huguang is probably enough to maintain the current situation, but if you want to enter Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong, you are afraid. It is not possible, it is better to ask for help from Nanzhili, Jiangnan, Fujian and other provinces, so that they can send troops as soon as possible.

Encircling and suppressing the pseudo-Tang Dynasty is no longer something that one province or even four provinces can do. It is necessary to let the imperial court gather the national troops.

I just don't know when the imperial court will be able to dispatch the frontier troops to the south!

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue sighed a little. He mobilized more provinces, and even the frontier troops to participate in the siege and suppression of the puppet thieves. Make a decision, for now, just do your own thing.

Since the pseudo-Tang bandit army came to Jingzhou, it is natural that the pseudo-Tang bandit army cannot successfully capture Jingzhou. In this case, the 50,000-strong army that has entered Xingquan Prefecture will be surrounded by counter-encirclement, and food and grass will be cut off. , Don't be an army of 50,000, even if it is an army of 500,000, it will collapse.

Therefore, Zhang Yue quickly ordered the defenders of Jingzhou to stand on the spot, and issued a death order. Once Jingzhou fell, officials in the city would be executed regardless of martial arts.

Because many civil and military officials in Guizhou, Guangxi and other provinces cast thieves before, especially officials whose families were originally in these two provinces, they did not feel any psychological pressure to cast thieves, which made Zhang Yue change his decision.

First of all, he transferred all officials from Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong to other provinces to prevent them from throwing thieves before the battle. Of course, this transfer is not a direct transfer to an official position, he does not have the power. He used alternative methods, such as assigning other dispatches to go to the southern Zhili and Jiangnan regions, or, for example, to purchase military supplies, request reinforcements, and so on.

The team that went to Nanzhili to purchase military rations consisted of more than thirty people, all civil and military officials from the three provinces!

The generals who served as the front-line generals and the civilian officials in several areas that were close to the front were all from other provinces, not even from Huguang.

From Zhang Yue's point of view, such a person would have some scruples, and would not dare to throw thieves at will when faced with the heavy pressure of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

Because throwing a thief means that the entire family behind him will be seized by the court and exterminated.

If you can't throw the thief, then you can only defend it, because if you can't defend it, they will die themselves.

From Zhang Yue's point of view, the puppet thieves of the Tang Dynasty could hold on to Xingquan City for several months with only 4,000 remaining soldiers. He deployed tens of thousands of troops in Jingzhou, so how could he be able to hold on for ten days and a half months!

And with this time, he can continue to send troops back to Jingzhou to help Jingzhou, and maybe he will be able to encircle and fight these pseudo-Tang thieves who dare to enter Jingzhou.

Therefore, Zhang Yue ordered the Jingzhou defenders to stand guard, and at the same time dispatched swift horses to Xingquan House, so that the army stationed in Xingquan House sent at least 10,000 people back to Jingzhou.

As for himself, he continued to sit in the hinterland of Huguang, and continued to search for troops to prepare for reinforcements in Jingzhou.

Jingzhou, there is absolutely nothing to lose!

When Zhang Yue was dispatching troops, Chen Keqiao also led the troops to run all the way. After winning the city step, the main force of the Fourth Army did not stop at all, but continued to move towards Suining.

The army ran all the way, and it didn't take a few days to reach the city, but after arriving there, it was found that there were not many Ming troops here, at most a few hundred people.

Seven or eight thousand troops attacked the city, and it took half a day to completely take the city. However, during the siege, Chen Keqiao discovered that although the number of Ming troops here was small and their combat effectiveness was poor, they would also surrender. However, all the soldiers and junior officers surrendered spontaneously, but none of the middle and senior officers and civilians surrendered. Very few fought to the death, many committed suicide, and some fled.

There is no one who surrenders and is willing to be a prisoner, let alone surrender to the Tang Dynasty. Since then, he has become a part of the Tang Dynasty!

At this time, he also thought that when he attacked Chengbu before, it seemed that he did not capture the middle and senior officers and civilian prisoners of the Ming army. This seems to be a bit wrong!

With suspicion, Chen Keqiao asked some low-level officers and officials of the defending army in the city to interrogate, only to find out that many of the middle and high-level officials in the city were temporarily dispatched from other provinces, and they clearly ordered that once the officials cast the thief, they would be killed. Extermination of the family.

And the city also had more troops before, but it was suddenly transferred two days ago.

After listening to Chen Keqiao, he said, "Zhang Yue has learned to be smart. He uses outsiders to lead his troops, and he is ruthless enough!"

At this time, the adjutant on the side said: "General, now the pseudo-mind has transferred the strength of the city, I am afraid that it will be transferred to Jingzhou, so when we go to attack Jingzhou, I am afraid we will encounter some troubles!"

But after listening to Chen Keqiao, he smiled slightly, and then said: "Who said that this official is going to attack Jingzhou, this Jingzhou is the rear of the pseudo-ming thief army, you don't have to think about it, you know that there must be a lot of troops, we Going to attack Jingzhou is just gnawing on hard bones, it will take a long time to say, and I still don’t know if I can take it down!”

"Don't fight Jingzhou? Aren't we going to outflank the back road of the Puppet Ming Bandit Army?" The major next to him didn't understand Chen Keqiao's thoughts. Before, their Fourth Army ran all the way to Jingzhou, whoever watched Everyone would guess that Chen Keqiao was going to fight Jingzhou!

At this time, Chen Keqiao said: "Whoever said that they must attack Jingzhou to outflank the Ming army's back road must be attacked in Jingzhou. It is such a long road from Xingquan Prefecture to Jingzhou Prefecture, this official can find any place to cut off the gap between the two places. Contact, as long as the connection between the Ming army in Xingquan Prefecture and Jingzhou is cut off, this official does not believe that the tens of thousands of pseudo-ming thieves in Xingquan Prefecture can safely besiege Xingquan Prefecture!"

"Once the food and salaries are cut off, the 50,000 pseudo-ming bandit army will probably be in chaos~www.wuxiaspot.com~ At that time, they will definitely retreat!"

"If we just retreat, the 50,000 bandit army of Xingquan Prefecture will return, and the pressure on our side is not small!"

Chen Keqiao glanced at his adjutant with the same eyes as an idiot: "Who told you that you must stand up to them, we won't leave when they return?"

After I finished speaking, I was a little sighed. My captain and adjutant said that he had entered the Imperial Academy and was still a staff officer in the Department of Operations for a while, but his brain was a little bit insane. It is estimated that he still does not know his first What is the combat mission of the Fourth Army?

What is the main task of his Fourth Army heading north, to conquer Jingzhou? Into the hinterland of Huguang? Yes, but these are not the most important combat missions of the Fourth Army at the moment.

The most important task of his Fourth Army now is to cooperate with the Second Army and rescue the Fourth Infantry Regiment. Under this strategic need, what his Fourth Army has to do is to contain more Ming troops and force the Ming Army Withdrawing troops from Xingquan House, no matter how bad it is, it is necessary to force the Ming Army to send some troops back to Jingzhou, so as to provide assistance for the Second Army to rescue Xingquan House.

To some extent, this is a very simple plan to surround Wei and save Zhao!