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The reason for the slow advance of the Second Army was naturally because Du Danqing had changed the silly tactics of defending against the city wall!

They did not go directly above the city wall as before, but began to dig trenches outside the city wall, communicate with them, build civil fortresses, and use some low hills outside the city to build artillery firepower.

As for the city wall, they were directly used as an artillery position, just to take advantage of the height advantage of the city wall, and they also remodeled the city wall and piled up a large number of sandbags on the city wall to increase the defense effect of solid artillery shells and howitzers.

This made the second army attacking outside the city a little uncomfortable!

If you foolishly launch an infantry attack directly, the firepower of the supervisor is not bad, there are not many large-caliber artillery, but there is not much shortage of field artillery of five pounds, and the Wankou artillery and the Folang machine artillery are even more. A pile of them, these artillery's killing effect on infantry is naturally not bad.

And our artillery is also difficult to cover and eliminate these Ming troops hiding in trenches and civil fortresses!

In the end, it was only possible to dig trenches to advance, and then advance to a certain distance to shoot against the Ming army, and pull up the lighter 24-pound howitzer to shoot at close range.

Doing so will take too much time!

Wang Chaohong was a little hesitant. Should he just rush up to it? Although he would have to pay a certain amount of casualties, it was better than the current stalemate.

But Wang Chaohong didn't dare to make such a decisive battle. The ghost knows how many casualties it will cost if he charges!

He can accept the death of a few hundred people, but if tens of thousands of people are killed or injured, he is very doubtful that the Son of Heaven will be furious and send himself a glass of poisoned wine!

During the battle of the Great Tang Emperor, the casualty rate has always been kept low. Even in siege battles, there are usually not many casualties!

The low casualty rate for a long time and the smooth battle will inevitably cause the generals of the Datang Army to have a fear of some difficult battles, especially those that need to withstand high casualty rates.

Li Xuan, who was in Jiujiang, also quickly received a report from the front that the war was not going well!

This report was written by Wang Chaohong himself. It introduced in detail the many difficulties encountered by the Second Army at present, and at the same time euphemistically proposed whether the Second Army could be given more time to conquer the Huangzhou line of defense.

When I saw this report now, it was one day before he made his instructions on Chen Lifu's case!

Therefore, Li Xuan now has no intention of dealing with the conflicts between the officials in Jinling City. Now there are more important things waiting for him to do.

The attack on Huangzhou was slow, and the huge Second Army was almost dragged to the front line of Huangzhou!

It took them nearly half a month to kill all the way from Susong to Huangzhou before, and now they have been dragged for five or six days in Huangzhou, which means that most of the month was spent.

Counting the time, it is almost the middle of December. If we continue to drag on like this, it is estimated that we will not be able to conquer Huangzhou before the Spring Festival!

Moreover, the battle in Huangzhou was only part of the second phase of a series of Southwest Campaigns. The Second Army's attack on Huangzhou was to create opportunities for the actions of the First Army. The army, unable to put more pressure on the governor, forced the Ming army governor on the front line of Hanyang to send reinforcements to reinforce Huangzhou, then when the first army landed on the west side of Hanyang, they would be attacked by the Ming army governor from the front line of Hanyang. Bid the attack of the main force of the Chinese army.

This is too risky for the follow-up action plan of the First Army!

Li Xuan thought about it for a long time, and then summoned a group of combat staff represented by Lieutenant General Lei Wan and asked them for their opinions on the war in Huangzhou!

Lieutenant General Lei Wan said that even though the Second Army encountered some difficulties, these difficulties were not insurmountable, and the Second Army was not allowed to continue to delay in time. The department was afraid that the supervising Chinese army would send reinforcements, or simply break through the Huangzhou line of defense and kill all the way to the eastern part of Hanyang.

Only in this way can we cooperate with the landing troops of the First Army to fight!

Now the landing troops of the First Army, the 1st Infantry Division, the 10th Infantry Regiment and other units have completed the final preparations, and the Yangtze River Fleet has also completely wiped out the remaining forces of the Ming Army's supervising naval divisions in this section of the Yangtze River. The boats used to cross the river are also ready, all kinds of ammunition can't wait for the supplies and even the ships are already loaded, just waiting to launch the river crossing operation.

However, if they want to cross the river, they need an opportunity, and this opportunity can only be created by the Second Army!

Other combat staff members also said that the Second Army had no way out, and they had to conquer the front line of Huangzhou before the Spring Festival.

The staff of the Privy Council's War Department gave Li Xuan such advice from the overall perspective. After careful consideration, Li Xuan also felt that he was not a mother-in-law and was afraid of casualties.

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