An Zihe's offensive was quite sharp. The deputy commander of the First Infantry Division had experienced almost all the battles of the First Infantry Division and had extremely rich experience in siege operations.
Especially when Hao Bainian served as the commander of the First Army for a long time and commanded the entire First Army. The detailed tactical command of the First Infantry Division was often handled by An Zihe. An Zihe's combat experience was quite rich.
Having participated in many critical battles in Wuzhou, Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, etc., he knew that if he wanted to quickly break the city, he must completely destroy the enemy's morale as soon as possible!
Through intensive killing in the early stage, especially the crucial battle to climb the city, we can reach the top of the city in one go.
Only in this way can the enemy's morale be shaken in the shortest possible time, thereby causing the enemy's entire army to collapse.
If you test it slowly, it will often destroy your own morale. In the end, the war will become protracted, and you may even be unable to attack for a long time. You can only rely on siege to break the city. Just like when the Second Army attacked Guiyang, it was because they failed to attack Guiyang at the first time.
In order to conquer it, we could only rely on a long-term siege. It took more than half a year to conquer Guiyang City.
Therefore, whether he was attacking Chenzhou or Guiyang Prefecture, he always adopted a decisive and rapid offensive. Often after conducting a wave of probing attacks, he would immediately invest heavy troops to launch a fierce attack.
Such tactics are very effective for attacking small and medium-sized cities such as Chenzhou and Guiyang, and the defenders still have little fighting will.
Three days later, An Zihe led his army to successfully capture Guiyang Prefecture City again. The city's defenders were defeated. Except for thousands of people who escaped, the rest were either killed in battle, captured, or surrendered voluntarily!
It only took Anzihe less than seven days to completely conquer Chenzhou and Guiyangzhou, and completely eliminate the Ming army south of Hengyang City!
In the two battles before and after, An Zihe's troops annihilated more than 3,000 Ming troops and captured (including voluntary surrender) more than 10,000 Ming troops. The Ming troops who escaped were also defeated and could not reorganize and pose a threat to themselves.
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However, with such an outstanding success, An Zihe's troops suffered considerable casualties, with more than 300 killed and hundreds more lightly injured.
But when An Zihe handed over the prisoners to the rear, accepted supplies and led his troops north, his troops were once again fully manned!
Because the 1st Supplementary Brigade directly transferred new recruits to the temporary 4th Regiment and 3rd Infantry Regiment immediately!
Therefore, when An Zihe led his troops to go north, although his troops' combat effectiveness inevitably declined, they were still fully equipped. As long as they went through a period of adaptive training and allowed the new recruits and veterans to get used to each other,
Then it won't take long for you to regain your peak combat effectiveness.
After An Zihe led his army northward, all the protection south of Hengyang City was handed over to the First Supplementary Brigade. The brigade headquarters of the First Supplementary Brigade was also moved from Zhaoqing to Chenzhou. More than 6,000 people in the brigade were stationed in Yizhang, Chenzhou, and
Guiyang Prefecture and other places.
At the same time, officials from various cabinet ministries quickly followed suit and began to organize local governments in these places, bringing these places under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
Patrol police are formed to maintain local security, and tax inspection teams are formed to collect various taxes to fill the gap in military expenditures. At the same time, administrative officials are also the first to reassure the people and tell them that the war is far away from them and that everyone can return to normal in the future.
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The main or even only job of these local officials is to maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty, restore normal production in the local area as soon as possible, and contribute money and food to the Tang Dynasty!
The Tang Dynasty was not a refugee regime, and the Tang Army was not a bandit, well, at least not anymore.
Now they will not attack a place, plunder it and then leave, regardless of the life or death of the local people. The current Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty are competing for hegemony. To occupy a place is not to loot it, but to
Occupy this place, rule it, and collect taxes.
This can be seen from the many strategies of the Tang Dynasty Army. If it were not necessary to consolidate the occupied areas and maintain the existing ruling areas, the Datang Army's 100,000 troops would not be able to go there, even Hengyang and Changsha could not be defeated.
, but you can also bypass these big cities and go to other places in minutes. Even if Li Xuan is willing, the current First Army can fight all the way to Jiangnan.
Of course, whether you can come back is another matter!
Destruction is not what Li Xuan wants, what he wants is to seize control of these places from the Ming army!
And this is also an important feature that distinguishes the Tang Dynasty from other thieves in history, and it is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty is so afraid of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty!
If the Puppet Tang thief army spreads everywhere and plunders every place it captures, although this will cause great trouble to the People's Dynasty in a short period of time, as long as they slowly encircle and suppress it, they can always defeat the Puppet Tang thief army.
The rogue thieves who stabilized the rear were wiped out.
But now, the Puppet Tang thief army is not like this. They occupy a place after they capture it. Now, all the land in the three provinces has fallen into the hands of the Puppet Tang thief army. More importantly, the Puppet Tang thief army used
There is a steady stream of armed troops in these three provinces.
And such a pseudo-Tang Dynasty will not only shake the Ming Dynasty, but also completely seize the Ming Dynasty!
After An Zihe led his army to the north, he did not go to Hengyang because Hao Bainian had already led his army to leave Hengyang at this time!
The Ming army in Hengyang City was large in number and had a lot of guns and artillery, and they couldn't stop it, so Hao Bainian had already set his sights on Shaoyang!
However, An Zihe did not go to Shaoyang like Hao Bainian. Instead, he went to Qiyang west of Changning according to Hao Bainian's order. He first helped the temporary first regiment to capture Qiyang and then transferred to the northeast to garrison in the Paishan area...
Let them garrison in Paishan last. This is to prevent Hengyang's enemy troops from marching south to Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture. On the other hand, once Hengyang's enemy troops advance westward to Shaoyang, Anzihe will have time to outflank their retreat and cut off their
supply lines.
This also resulted in the more than 7,000 people under An Zihe's command not to directly participate in the Battle of Shaoyang, but to act as peripheral troops.
Before that, An Zihe had to first respond and cooperate with the temporary first regiment in Yongzhou Prefecture to attack Qiyang.
The battle north of the temporary first regiment was not smooth. The unit was not strong and did not accept the expansion like the temporary fourth regiment. They first tried to attack Lingling, but found that the Ming army was too much to chew on.
So he feinted a shot and made a gesture of going directly north to Qiuyang, which attracted the Ming army from Lingling. Finally, he annihilated a large number of Ming troops through field battles and finally captured Lingling.
After capturing Lingling, they headed north to Qiyang. However, the temporary first regiment had lost some soldiers who had been fighting for a long time, lacked ammunition, and the soldiers were tired, so they were unable to capture Qiyang independently, so they asked Hao Bainian for support.
Hao Bainian also gave An Zihe the task of assisting the temporary first regiment!
The reason is simple. Currently, under Hao Bainian, only An Zihe's troops are free, so An Zihe leads the troops to support the battle of the temporary first regiment.
The fighting on the front line of Huguang is still continuing. The war has not broken out, but such small and medium-sized battles are continuing, not only in the southern part of Huguang, but also in the northeastern part of Guizhou, including the Chenzhou Prefecture area of Huguang, with the Second Infantry Division as the core
The Tang Army also continued to fight against the Ming Army.
The Ming army here was equally cunning. They not only defended the city, but also used various small-scale troops to attack the Tang Army's logistics supply lines and rear areas, forcing the Second Infantry Division to give up the tactics of large-scale opening and closing, and also dispersed.
Many small groups of troops came out to encircle and suppress these Ming troops. Although the results were considerable, in one month at least several thousand Ming troops were annihilated.
But it also successfully held back the Second Infantry Division's large-scale eastward advance!
After all, the Ming Dynasty is not stupid now, and will not give the Tang Army a chance casually. Their tactics are mainly to defend the city and small-scale attacks, and simply do not give the Tang Army the chance to face a decisive battle in the large-scale wilderness that it most desires.
The battle on the front line in Huguang is still stalemate, and the reaction from Li Xuan's side also makes Li Xuan a little upset!
Since the Tang Dynasty got on the right track, although there have been more and more troops, as the Ming Dynasty has paid more and more attention to it, more and more troops have been encircling and suppressing the Tang Dynasty. This has become more and more troublesome and time-consuming.
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Especially in the battle in Huguang, although small and medium-sized victories were achieved successively, they were still far from establishing a decisive battle situation.
This might be bad, when Li Xuan is worried that it will enter a stage of stalemate and consumption, and this is not what Li Xuan wants. He wants to capture Changsha, drink in Dongting Lake, and enter the Yangtze River Basin before the rainy season arrives.
However, the battle on the front line is not going well, and it is useless for Li Xuan to worry in the rear. What he can do now is to provide more support to the front line troops, especially the replenishment of troops and ordnance.
So this made Li Xuan spend almost three days and two days intervening in the affairs of the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, because of these three departments, one is responsible for raising military expenditures, one is responsible for producing ordnance, and the other is responsible for recruiting soldiers, all of which are directly related to
To the important departments of victory and defeat on the front line.
Li Xuan stared at them every day, and the officials below did not dare to show any slightness, because if things were not done well, Li Xuan would not hesitate to replace them or even kill them.
In the past two years, many officials in these departments, especially the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Industry, have changed a lot, especially the middle-level officials responsible for specific affairs. Several people have changed in some important positions.
Li Xuan personally watched, which greatly improved the work efficiency of these three departments, but Li Xuan himself was so tired that he didn't even have time to watch the dance of the Thigh Era.