After hearing these words and looking at their attire, the soldiers guarding the door knew the importance. Of course, they would not let these two knights in rashly.
Instead, someone immediately trotted forward, and after confirming each other's identities, the officer with the rank of second lieutenant accompanied the two knights inward.
It didn't take long for the two knights to hand over a letter to Zeng Ziwen, director of the Privy Council's Operations Department.
Zeng Ziwen first took out the stamp with the bottom and compared it. After confirming that it was a letter from the 1st Infantry Brigade, he opened it. After opening it, he did not rush to read the content, but read the handwriting.
As well as the seal at the end of the letter, after truly confirming that it was a letter handwritten by Hao Bainian himself, he took a serious look at the content of the letter.
When he saw this, a look of ecstasy immediately appeared on his face, and this kind of ecstasy had never appeared before when he received the news that Zeng Ziwen had defeated the Ming army at Anjia Wharf.
A combat staff officer next to him was a little curious: "Sir, is there another good news coming from the south?"
Zeng Ziwen immediately said loudly: "What a great victory in Liuzhou. General Hao has received good news. The army going south has captured the city of Liuzhou and wiped out all the puppet Ming rebels in the city!"
"I will attack immediately and report this great victory to the Holy One!"
After saying that, Zeng Ziwen couldn't wait to go out with Hao Bainian's personal letter, and then went straight to the temporary palace not far next door, which was the original Xingquan Mansion Office, to meet the saint.
Because Zeng Ziwen was in a good mood, he walked faster. Everyone he met on the road was smiling. When someone asked him why he was so happy, he just smiled and said nothing.
Although it would not take long for Liuzhou's good news to spread, he still wanted His Majesty to know about it first.
After arriving at the palace, he asked for an interview. However, because he arrived a little early and His Majesty had not come to work yet, he could only ask someone from the Hanlin Academy to inform him while he waited patiently.
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Anyway, this is good news and not a bad thing. It doesn't hurt to wait. It won't delay anything.
While waiting for His Majesty's arrival, Zeng Ziwen was also thinking in his mind that Liuzhou was captured this time, and he had already defeated the Ming army's 8,000 troops in Xiangzhou before. In the short term, Liuzhou Prefecture was completely under his control.
It's down.
At the same time, the partial division of the army going south, that is, the thousand troops sent to Guilin, is progressing relatively smoothly. This group has successively served as the commander of the 4th Infantry Battalion, the 1st Infantry Battalion, and the current deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment.
The force led by the lieutenant colonel, consisting of the 2nd Reserve Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 13th Garrison Battalion, only had about 1,100 people. However, after they entered Guilin Prefecture, they were not in a hurry to attack Guilin Prefecture.
, but fought on the outskirts of Fucheng, Guilin, and successively captured small towns such as Yining and Yongning Prefecture. In the process, they captured many soldiers who surrendered from the Ming army, plus soldiers recruited by officials from the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War who accompanied the army.
, also allowed them to form a new independent garrison battalion, and the second reserve battalion was able to maintain full strength at all times.
After this round of fighting, the eastward troops not only did not decrease, but also expanded to nearly a thousand people, making the westward troops expand to about 2,000 people, occupying the western and southwestern areas of Guilin Prefecture.
However, although Guilin Prefecture is not a key defense area of the Ming army, and there are not many troops in Guilin, there are still thousands of Ming troops and young men guarding the city, and the troops advancing westward do not have artillery, muskets and other firearms.
, is an all-cold weapon force. It is still difficult to conquer a city guarded by thousands of people. Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Xu Ke’s next goal is to continue to capture other small counties in Guilin Prefecture, so as to strategically encircle Guilin City.
, cut off the connection between Guilin Fucheng and Wuzhou.
Judging from these circumstances, the situation in Guilin is relatively optimistic!
In addition, half a month ago, the Operations Department also issued an order to dispatch a mixed team of regular troops and two battalions of garrison troops from central Guizhou to the south to Qingyuan Prefecture, Guangxi. Although the number of troops dispatched was not large,
There are not many regular troops in the western part of Guangxi, and it is not a key defense area for the Ming army. In addition, after arriving in Guangxi, you can still recruit troops on the spot and recruit and surrender the Ming army to supplement the force, and then capture Qingyuan
It is not difficult to get a house.
Now that the ministry has entered Qingyuan Mansion, I believe it won't be long before good news comes.
Based on the above, we have laid the foundation in Guangxi, especially in the central and northern areas of Guangxi, and at this time, it is logical for Shengjia to go south.
The senior officials of the Tang Dynasty all know that the southward strategy is not just the southward movement of the army, nor is it just the southward movement of the southward detachment, but the political, industrial, and military focus of the entire Datang Dynasty moving south!
Long before the army went south to Guangxi, the Tang Dynasty had already begun preparing to move to Guangxi.
Hao Bainian's army has not yet conquered Liuzhou Prefecture. Various cabinet ministries and departments of the Privy Council have already sent a large number of officials south, especially the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War, the workshops of the Ministry of Industry, and the Ordnance Department, Training Department and other institutions of the Privy Council. Most of their top leaders
They are already over there in Guangxi, and even if they are not the first in command, the second in command is definitely there.
Even in the Ministry of Etiquette and the Ministry of Etiquette, there are basically people at the ministerial level who have arrived in Liuzhou first to work.
On the one hand, their mission is to support the army going south, and on the other hand, it is also to welcome the Holy Emperor, and more importantly, to start the work first.
For example, the Ministry of Industry, in order to be able to establish a large-scale workshop as soon as it entered Liuzhou Fucheng, had already started preparations in Rong County and began to recruit workers for basic training.
Once Liuzhou is captured, these officials who entered Liuzhou in the early stage will immediately settle in Liuzhou's capital city to serve as the front station for the Holy Emperor's journey south!
Before Zhaoqing is captured in the later period, Liuzhou will become the political, military, industrial, and commercial center of the new Tang Dynasty. Even if Wuzhou is captured by then, it will not be relocated immediately.
Only after Zhaoqing is captured, the political center of the Tang Dynasty will be transferred again. However, even after Zhaoqing is captured in the later period, Liuzhou will still be an important stronghold of the Tang Dynasty because of the
Various workshops cannot be relocated.
Moreover, to the north of Liuzhou are Xingquan Prefecture, Liping Prefecture and other places where the Tang Dynasty started. These two places are close to Huguang and cannot be given up easily.
By then, Liuzhou will be an important transit point connecting Guizhou and Guangxi, and its strategic position will still be very important.
Even if we take a step back, if Hu Guangda's army invades Guizhou, and our strategic focus moves southward, resulting in insufficient military strength in Guizhou, and thus loses Xingquan Prefecture and Liping Prefecture, Liuzhou will become the main force to resist the Ming army's southward march.
an important strategic support point.
At the same time, because Liujiang is a tributary of the Xijiang River, it can have convenient transportation links with Wuzhou through river transportation, so there are certain merits in developing industry and commerce here.
Otherwise, the Tang Dynasty would not have rushed south to Liuzhou and prepared to build a large number of workshops here.
That's because there is a need for it.
It is already the second year of Xuanping. If we use years to record the history of the Tang Dynasty, then strictly speaking, the Tang Dynasty has been established for four years. From the first year of Anjian to the second year of Anjian, Xuanping
In the first year of Xuanping, the fourth year of Xuanping, the Tang Dynasty had gone through four years of development.
Although it is said that the first year of Anjian was only a little over a month, and the second year of Xuanping this year has just begun, using actual time statistics, the Tang Dynasty was actually established in only two years and one month.
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But in the past two and a half years, not to mention the first half of the year, it was Li Xuan’s father Li Erbi’s fooling around, but in the next year and a half, it was always fighting with the Ming army and
own expansion.
Especially in the past six months, since the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to attack Zhengtai County, the Tang Dynasty successively conquered Zhengtai County, Xingquan Prefecture, Liping Prefecture, and in the past two months, it swept through central Guizhou like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
In the eastern and northern areas, currently only the western part of Guizhou and Guiyang Fucheng are in the hands of the Ming army. However, the western part of Guizhou is because the Tang Dynasty King's army is not marching so fast and has not reached it yet.
As for Guiyang, it is a provincial capital after all. Even though Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, has died, other senior officials in Guizhou have already taken responsibility and are desperately hoarding strength to defend Guiyang. The strength of the westward marching troops is not strong enough.
I've been working on this for a while and I really can't get it down.
Up to now, the Tang Dynasty has actually embarked on the path of retreat if it does not advance, just like sailing against the current. If it does not continue to expand, it will be surrounded and suppressed by the Ming Dynasty.
Whether it was for its own development or self-protection, the expansion of the Tang Dynasty could not be stopped.
At present, the expansion of the Tang Dynasty is to go south!
Now that the capital city of Liuzhou has been captured, Zeng Ziwen guessed that the Holy Emperor will officially move south in the short term!
Zeng Ziwen's guess was correct. After Li Xuan heard the news about Liuzhou's victory, he came out to meet Zeng Ziwen right after breakfast, but he didn't say much to Zeng Ziwen.
Because at this time, Li Xuan had already issued an imperial edict to convene an imperial strategy meeting, ordering ministers of all cabinet ministries, heads of departments in the Privy Council, and military officers above the regiment level in Xingquan Prefecture to attend the meeting.
At this imperial strategy meeting, Li Xuan didn't need to say more. At the beginning of the meeting, the civil and military officials who had already received the news of Liuzhou's victory had already brought up the matter of moving to the capital of Liuzhou!