The failure of Wuzhou can be said to be due to a momentary inadvertence, but in Guangzhou, he has worked hard for several months and made sufficient preparations for this, but why can't he still defend it?
This shouldn’t be the case, it’s unscientific!
He wants to counterattack. No matter what, he will drive the puppet Tang rebel army out of the city!
The city of Guangzhou must not fall into the hands of the thieves, otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous!
For this reason, he ignored the critical situation on the east and west city walls and forcibly transferred the last 1,000 people from the Supervision Bureau and 3,000 people from the Guangzhou Battalion. He also gathered the defeated trap camp and 2,000 soldiers from the Musketeer Battalion, and reorganized
Six thousand troops launched a massive counterattack on the northern city wall!
He even put on armor himself and went forward to supervise the battle, in order to recapture the northern city wall and drive out the puppet Tang rebels who had boarded the city wall!
However, at this time, almost half of the northern city wall had fallen into the hands of the Tang army, and the two main infantry regiments of the 1st Infantry Brigade had even entered the city.
The counterattacking Ming army did not have any advantages not only in terms of quality and equipment, but also in terms of quantity.
In this counterattack, even though Wang Yue personally took up the sword and went into battle to boost morale, they still failed to succeed. They attacked the Tang Dynasty King's defense line like a tide, and then died under the defense line!
Just a few attacks resulted in hundreds of casualties. At this time, even Wang Yue's threat to kill the generals he led was no longer able to get the soldiers to launch a counterattack.
Because that is no longer a counterattack, but a death attempt!
In the afternoon of that day, the Ming army, which had no hope of counterattack, completely collapsed. Countless troops fled, and many people even surrendered directly in front of the formation. With the hopelessness of the counterattack on the northern city wall, the Ming army in the east and west finally could not hold on anymore, and successively
collapse.
In the evening, the troops of the King's Division of the Tang Dynasty completely occupied the north, west and east city walls. A large number of Ming troops broke out and fled towards the south city. Of course, some people surrendered directly instead of fleeing.
That night, after the Tang Dynasty King's Division initially took control of several important locations in the city, they did not waste their energy on clearing out the defeated troops in the city. Instead, they directly lit torches and continued to launch a strong attack on Nancheng!
Wang Yue led the Ming army to mount a brave and fearless resistance. As a result, the casualties of the Ming army defending the city that night were even greater than during the day, with the overall loss of almost more than 2,000 people.
After suffering heavy losses, they had to completely withdraw from the south city wall, and then boarded ships one after another to retreat under the cover of naval gunfire from the Ming Navy anchored on the bank of the Pearl River.
The storming and retreat lasted almost a whole night, and using this whole night, the Tang Dynasty King also moved a large number of artillery to the south city wall that had just been occupied, and violently bombarded the Ming army ships anchored in the Pearl River!
The Ming Navy used naval guns to fight back, and both sides used a total of more than a hundred artillery pieces to carry out a fierce bombardment!
In the early morning, the Ming Navy covered the last batch of retreating Ming soldiers to retreat!
On a Ming army's Fuchuan warship, Wang Yue, with bloodshot eyes, looked at the city of Guangzhou in the dawn and didn't speak for a long time!
The group of Ming army generals behind him also looked ugly.
After a while, Yu Dayou suddenly said: "How could we lose?"
"Even though the puppet Tang bandits are coming with force, we are still fully prepared!"
"Our army has sufficient and sophisticated weapons and equipment for this battle, and our troops are considered sufficient, and our soldiers are resisting with all their might!"
"But we still lost. Why?"
After hearing Yu Dayou's words, many people began to wake up, yes, why did they lose?
If we say that Wuzhou suffered a disastrous defeat in the First World War, it was because the ordnance was not as sophisticated as the rebel army and there were not enough troops.
So in the Battle of Guangzhou, although there were a lot of Ming troops in the city, their combat effectiveness was quite good among the Ming troops. Among them, there were 8,000 recruits as the core troops, tens of thousands of guardsmen and 5,000 temporary recruits.
of youthful strength.
Speaking of military strength, it was more than the Tang army attacking outside the city!
In terms of ordnance, although they do not have as many artillery pieces as the puppet Tang bandit army, they are still quite a lot. They even have super invincible general cannons of more than two thousand kilograms. Although there are a few less muskets, there are still hundreds of them, armor, and long swords.
There is no shortage of cold weapons such as spears.
The supervisors in these armies were elite divisions. The trap camps and musket battalions were directly modeled after the assault camps and musket battalions of the puppet Tang rebel army.
But why did it still fail so quickly and miserably?
Wang Yue glanced at Yu Dayou and the generals at this time!
Finally, he turned his attention to Yu Dayou and asked: "In General Yu's opinion, why is our army so reluctant to lose?"
At this time, Yu Dayou said with a decisive tone: "In view of the humble position, the reason is no other than the disadvantages of guns and artillery, and the military law is not strict!"
After Wang Yue heard this, he sighed. He knew what Yu Dayou said, but there was nothing he could do!
He had exhausted all his strength. If he had no guns or cannons, he forged them and purchased them from foreigners. If he had no soldiers, he recruited young men for training and re-armed the governor.
Now, he found that he was really powerless!
And the group of generals under him are all worthless waste, especially the generals who were entrusted with important tasks. Their performance in this battle made him quite disappointed. There are more than 5,000 people and they are well-equipped.
The supervisory standard was even worse than that of the Guangzhou Battalion with only 3,000 people!
Especially when resisting the puppet Tang rebel army's attack on Nancheng last night, Du Biao's remnant troops almost collapsed at the first touch. Only the Guangzhou Battalion was able to resist steadily and even provide cover for the entire army's retreat. Although in the end the Guangzhou Battalion also suffered heavy losses and escaped.
Only half of the troops came out, but this Guangzhou battalion, with less than 1,500 men left, performed better than other troops under his command.
It was normal for the guardsmen to perform poorly, and he did not want to treat the guardsmen too harshly, but when the supervisor was beaten like this, he was very, very disappointed!
In the past few months when he was in charge of Guangzhou City, he had collected a large amount of supplies and military expenditures. It can be said that most of them were spent on Du Biao, hoping that Du Biao could stop the puppet Tang thief Jun En at the critical moment.
But Du Biao never showed the fighting power he should have from beginning to end.
The trapped camp almost collapsed as soon as the war started. The Musketeers camp was better, but it didn't last long before collapsing.
But the Guangzhou Battalion, which was still equipped with ordinary equipment, fought very tenaciously!
Now he was thinking that if the first reinforcements at that time were not the Dubiao but the Guangzhou Battalion, maybe Guangzhou would not have been lost.
The failure of this battle was due to the incompetence of the generals!
If it weren't for the concern about the impact, he would have wanted to drag them out and behead them right now.
But now, it is obvious that killing the general cannot change the situation. If we want to save the situation, we must make changes in the subsequent battle against the puppet Tang Dynasty!
So he looked at everyone, and finally waved his hand and said: "General Yu will stay, and everyone else should disperse. It's still a long way to Huizhou, so keep an eye on it!"
After everyone dispersed, Wang Yue and Yu Dayou continued to talk, and this time the content they talked about was no longer limited to the Battle of Guangzhou, but had expanded to include how the troops should train and what tactics to use.
Half an hour later, Wang Yue and Yu Dayou appeared in front of everyone and directly announced: The Guangzhou Battalion and the remnants of Dubiao will be merged together to rebuild the Guangxi Dubiao.
And Yu Dayou became the new commander-in-chief of this new Du Biao, and several generals in the Guangzhou Battalion also became important generals of the Du Biao, especially the crucial Musket Battalion, and the trapped camp were Yu Dayou's confidant generals. As for the original Du Biao,
General Biao, Wang Yue randomly arranged a position and sent him away.
At this time, Li Xuan naturally did not know that Wang Yue, who was defeated in Guangzhou again, not only did not commit suicide by diving like other Ming army commanders, but unwillingly wanted to reorganize and train the army, and also
Started to reuse Yu Dayou.
He has the demeanor of repeated defeats and repeated battles, and repeated defeats!
Now Li Xuan is on the northern city wall of Guangzhou, looking at the city of Guangzhou after the war!
Now, this most important city in South China has finally fallen into his hands. Relying on this city, the Tang Dynasty will have a window for large-scale foreign exchanges.
At the same time, conquering Guangzhou also removed the last hard nail for the Ming army in the Guangdong region. Later, he could mobilize troops to attack Shaozhou Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture and Chaozhou Prefecture, and completely capture Guangdong.
In this way, Guangdong and Guangxi were completely under the control of the Tang Dynasty. With the addition of most of Guizhou, the barely powerful Tang Dynasty could be said to have occupied three provinces.
On that day, the Tang Dynasty King's Division continued to carry out clearing operations against the defeated troops in the city. As for the Ming army that had escaped from the Pearl River, it was naturally impossible to pursue them!
The navy of the Tang Dynasty was not very good and could not effectively support the army's pursuit operations, so Li Xuan could only watch helplessly as the Ming army boarded ships and evacuated from Guangzhou Nancheng.
On the last day of the Battle of Guangzhou, after basically clearing the Ming army in the city, Li Xuan also received the battle report of this battle from Colonel Lei Wan!
If the Battle of Guangzhou begins when the troops of the Tang Dynasty's royal division arrived at the gates of Guangzhou, it would have been three months by now.
If we count from the beginning of the general offensive, it has been almost ten days now.
The battle that lasted for so long also caused heavy losses to the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty. Among other things, Guangzhou City held back many of the main forces of the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty for several months. This was a huge loss for the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty. If
If it weren't for Guangzhou City, other units of the First Army had already conquered Shaozhou, Huizhou and other places. Why haven't they even captured Shaozhou Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture and Chaozhou Prefecture yet?
In terms of personnel, more than 800 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in this battle. The casualties of more than 2,000 people were not a small number. As for the ammunition consumed, it was even more numerous. The artillery battle that lasted for ten days was just fired out.
There are more than 30,000 rounds of artillery shells!
Each artillery fired an average of more than 300 shells, and a few of them even exploded!