Four hundred and fiftieth eight chapters around the point to help
After this failed exploratory attack, Hao Bainian confirmed that the defense force in Liuzhou City was not weak, and it was conservatively estimated that the defenders should number more than 10,000 people.
A force of ten thousand people is actually nothing. The key thing is that the officials of the Ming Dynasty in Liuzhou were too cautious. They shrunk from the beginning to the end and did not take the initiative to go out to fight in the field. They even hid on the top of the city.
Under such circumstances, if he had to attack rashly, he would probably suffer a lot of casualties, so he simply suspended the general attack on Liuzhou City. Anyway, Liuzhou was a turtle in the urn. With the strength of his army, he really had to make up his mind to pay a certain amount of casualties.
If you say you can take it, you can take it.
There is no need to rush and check the situation first. However, when he stationed troops under Liuzhou City, he quickly heard the news of Ming army reinforcements. According to some unreliable intelligence, Wang Yue, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, heard that the puppet Tang Dynasty
After the bandit army went south to Liuzhou, they had already gathered troops and marched westward to Liuzhou, preparing to join the Ming army in Liuzhou to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang bandit army!
Since the Ming army from Wuzhou took the initiative to come to Liuzhou, Hao Bainian would not let go of this opportunity. As soon as he got the news, Hao Bainian immediately forgot about Liuzhou. Now that there was an opportunity to encircle the point and mobilize reinforcements, who should he take care of?
What about Liuzhou? Let's fight this Ming army reinforcements first.
So soon, the First Infantry Regiment and most of the Second Infantry Regiment under Hao Bainian's most elite First Infantry Brigade quickly bypassed Liuzhou Prefecture and continued southward, heading straight to Xiangzhou!
And where is Xiangzhou?
The south gate of Liuzhou City is the only place where Ming troops from Wuzhou and other places must pass to reinforce Liuzhou!
Xiangzhou is located in the south of Liuzhou City, and Xiangzhou is the confluence point where Liujiang River merges into Qianjiang River. Like Huaiyuan County, it is a river intersection point and a strategic transportation artery.
If the Ming army in Wuzhou wants to march west to reinforce Liuzhou, then Xiangzhou is the place they must pass through. Well, this is the same whether the Ming army goes by land or by river.
At this time, Hao Bainian left Liuzhou City alone and did not fight. Instead, he sent the most elite First Infantry Regiment to Xiangzhou. At the same time, he also sent the Second Infantry Regiment to the south of Liuzhou Fucheng, ready to support the First Infantry Regiment in combat at any time.
The two main infantry regiments gathered in the south of Liuzhou, and their purpose was naturally not as simple as siege of Liuzhou City.
His target was the reinforcements from the Ming army in Wuzhou.
For Hao Bainian, today's Liuzhou City is a roadblock, and it must be removed!
But if Liuzhou is just a roadblock, then Wuzhou is a big mountain!
As the seat of the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Wuzhou has a strong city defense that cannot be compared with Liuzhou. If we do nothing now and attack Wuzhou directly in the future, it will be like hitting an iron plate.
It is very likely that we will lose our troops and generals under Wuzhou City and suffer heavy casualties!
In order to make the subsequent attack on Wuzhou smoother, if the Ming army can be annihilated in the wild, Hao Bainian will naturally not miss this opportunity!
The Tang Army that originally besieged Liuzhou City suddenly no longer besieged Liuzhou City, but left more than 3,000 troops near the southern city gate. This made the Liuzhou Ming Army in the city confused. Where did these pseudo-Tang rebels go?
You must know that the puppet Tang rebel army that besieged the city a few days ago had more than 10,000 troops, and their firearms were extremely sharp. If the defenders in the city had not fought hard to defend the city, they would have been defeated during the first attack by the puppet Tang rebel army.
The city gate is open.
However, although they defended the city, the Ming army inside the city did not look down upon the puppet Tang rebels outside the city at all!
Why?
Because the recent record of the annihilation of three thousand soldiers in Rong County reminded them of what would happen if they underestimated the puppet Tang rebel army!
It is naturally impossible for the Ming army in Liuzhou City. The puppet Tang rebel army roaring in and roaring away did not actually go far. Hao Bainian left a garrison infantry regiment outside Liuzhou City as a precaution, and all the remaining main troops were
After being taken away by him, in order to prevent the logistics route from being cut off, he also asked the baggage troops to bring all the food and ammunition they could bring.
The main force came out, carrying a large amount of food, grass and ammunition, and the Second Artillery Battalion and the Second Cavalry Battalion also marched with the army.
Anyone with a little bit of military knowledge would know that Hao Bainian was preparing for a large-scale decisive battle of even longer duration!
And Xiangzhou was Hao Bainian’s initial choice of battlefield!
When Hao Bainian bypassed Liuzhou and headed for Xiangzhou with the main force of the 1st Infantry Brigade, dozens of ships were going upstream on the Qianjiang River in Wuxuan County!
Although most of these boats are small wooden boats, when there are more of them, they still look quite spectacular.
Among these small ships, several are relatively tall ships!
On one of the largest ships, several civil servants from the Ming Dynasty wearing civil official robes were drinking. In front of them, several dancers still wearing gauze were twisting their bodies in the cold weather.
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"Sir Wei, this time we go to exterminate the puppet Tang traitor army. We will definitely be able to decide in a battle. I would like to wish you success in advance!" An official came up with a wine glass!
Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi, just nodded slightly and took a sip!
Then he said: "Although the puppet Tang thief army is nothing to worry about, since it can cause so many troubles in Guizhou, it has always been more or less outstanding. Now when we go to Liuzhou, we still have to be careful."
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"Master Wei, you are too worried. This time our army has eight thousand soldiers, and there are more than ten thousand troops in Liuzhou City. This adds up to almost twenty thousand soldiers and horses. Those puppet Tang rebels who invaded Guangxi are only ten thousand
People, even with three heads and six arms, cannot stop our army of more than 20,000 people!"
"However, after defeating the puppet Tang rebel army under Liuzhou City, I am afraid that the puppet Tang rebel army will dispatch more troops from Guizhou to go south. In that case, it will be more troublesome to fight!"
"Nowadays, the Puppet-Tang traitor army is already very powerful in Guizhou. It may not be easy to wipe it out easily. The only solution now is to suppress it slowly, and Liuzhou is our first step to hold back the Puppet-Tang traitor army!"
These people are all senior officials of the Ming Dynasty in Guangxi, and the leader among them is Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi. Another important person in Guangxi, the commander of the Guangxi capital, is currently guarding the city in Liuzhou.
From their conversation, it can also be confirmed that the news of Zhu Zhihai's defeat and death has basically spread!
In fact, he didn't know that on the day Zhu Zhihai was defeated in Liping Mansion, the news was rushed north through eight hundred miles. Mr. Zhengde in the capital received the news of Zhu Zhihai's defeat and death only ten days later.
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Not to mention how the capital of the Ming Dynasty was shaken and how to arrange the follow-up, but the strong rise of the puppet Tang rebel army also made Ming Dynasty officials in nearby provinces see the threat.
Although there was no order from the imperial court, they had no way to send soldiers and horses from the province into Guizhou to destroy the puppet Tang rebels, but they unanimously organized their troops to prepare for war.
This is especially true in Guangxi. Otherwise, Hao Bainian would not have encountered three thousand soldiers in Rong County, let alone the stubborn resistance of tens of thousands of soldiers in Liuzhou.
These are all responses made in advance after Guangxi received the news that the puppet Tang rebel army defeated the Guizhou officers and soldiers!
After learning that the puppet Tang bandit army had officially invaded Guangxi, the officials in Guangdong and Guangxi could not sit still, and immediately dispatched 8,000 reinforcements to travel upstream on the inland river to Liuzhou.
In the minds of these Ming Dynasty officials, Liuzhou would become a fortress that would prevent the puppet Tang rebels from going south!
Well, in fact, it is indeed the case. Without taking Liuzhou, the Tang Dynasty Wangshi would naturally not be able to attack Wuzhou or even occupy the entire Guangxi.
However, they probably didn't expect that Hao Bainian didn't care about how to conquer Liuzhou City now. He was more concerned about how to eat their eight thousand army!
After the reinforcements sent by Wuzhou arrived in Wuxuan County, it didn't take long for them to enter Xiangzhou territory.
At this time, the reconnaissance cavalry unit of the Tang Dynasty King's Division also confirmed the existence and approximate location of these Ming army reinforcements for the first time.
"They are in the Jinji Township area, and it is expected that they will continue to move north along the Liujiang River!"
"According to the accurate information obtained by the current reconnaissance cavalry, the total strength of this Ming army is about 8,000 people. It is worth noting that among these 8,000 people, there are no young men, civilians, etc., but all regular troops. In addition, it cannot be confirmed.
According to the news, at least half of these eight thousand people are soldiers!"
The speaker was Lieutenant Colonel Li Xin, the chief of staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade. This man did not look like a soldier, because he looked frail, as if a gust of wind could blow him away.
But if you understand his past experience, you can know why this person can hold the position of chief of staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade.
Before joining the army, this man was also a scholar who had no hope of taking the imperial examination. He did not choose to be a civil servant, but chose to join the army. He studied in the martial arts school and then the imperial school. After commanding an army in combat for the first time, he became a captain.
To put things into perspective, this man's physical condition is indeed not very good, and his thin body makes it difficult for him to fight with his children.
If any enemy soldier comes with a sword and shield, he can probably be chopped down with a sword!
But how can I put it, sometimes the army led by scholars is more bloody than the army led by military generals!
What Li Xin likes most when fighting is to ride a big horse and rush to the front with his command knife held high. If his subordinates don't rush up with him, he will enforce military law without hesitation.
Moreover, this man has even killed prisoners!
From captain to battalion commander, his path to promotion was relatively smooth. Later, after serving as a staff officer in the Operations Department for a few months, he was transferred to the 1st Infantry Brigade as Chief of Staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade, and became the Chief of Staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade.
Hao Bainian's right-hand man.
I saw him continuing: "In addition, there is also intelligence reality. Ming troops are coming from other directions one after another. The Ming troops in Qingyuan, Si'en and other prefectures have already begun to move. If nothing happens, they will come one after another.
Rush to Liuzhou City!"
"And what we have to do is to stop and defeat them one by one!"