Zhang Yue has been fighting with the puppet Tang rebels for a long time, and he already knows the tactics of the puppet Tang rebels to attack the city. Zhang Yue predicts that after the puppet Tang rebels arrive at Fuzhou City, they will rest for a day and build a
Use simple siege equipment, build artillery positions, and start bombardment the next day. After bombardment for a day, the puppet Tang rebels will use heavy armored infantry to launch a general attack!
And once the puppet Tang thief army launches a general attack on the city with heavy armored infantry, I am afraid that Fuzhou's city wall will not be able to hold on for even an hour!
This is not an exaggeration, but a fact. In the past, most of the cities of the Ming army were lost in this way, including the heavily armored Luling City in Ji'an.
Therefore, Zhang Yue could not give the puppet Tang rebels so much time. He had to catch up as soon as possible, and no matter what, he had to shorten the time to less than three days, otherwise, Fuzhou would be over.
But the problem now is that his troops can't continue to speed up!
The reason why Zhang Yue's troops were unable to increase their speed was actually very simple: lack of physical fitness.
The troops under Zhang Yue are not all supervisors or frontier troops. If they were purely supervisors and frontier troops, their physical fitness would be better, and they would be able to catch up with the main force of the Second Army even if they gritted their teeth.
However, there are tens of thousands of guardsmen and local recruits in Zhang Yue's department. They usually lack food and clothing, and many young and old are weak. Their physical fitness is not very good. At this time, they want to fight with Supervisor Biao and others.
It is simply impossible for the frontier army to maintain a high-intensity march like that.
Even the governors and border troops were not as physically fit as the Tang Army, let alone the ordinary recruits and guardsmen, who were young and strong.
The reason for lack of physical fitness is simpler: the food quality is not high!
Supervisor, this is the army that Zhang Yue tried his best to maintain supplies. I can't say that it is like the army of the Tang Dynasty, which has enough rice every day and meat every three days, but it can still eat two dry meals a day, which is barely enough.
Eat enough food and have enough nutrition to sustain training for three days and every five days.
The frontier troops fighting south are also elite troops. Although they still carry the name of guards, they are completely different from the ordinary guards in the interior. They have relatively sufficient supplies in all aspects and have rich combat experience.
But those ordinary recruits and guardsmen do not have such treatment. Their food standards are less than half of the supervisory standards. Many times they don't even have enough to eat. This is not enough to eat, so naturally they can't expect to carry out the mission.
For physical training, it would be good if you can practice once every ten days and a half.
During the war, although Zhang Yue temporarily raised the food standards to ensure the morale and physical fitness of the soldiers, physical fitness needs to be accumulated over a long period of time, and sharpening a gun before the battle has no effect.
The recruits and guardsmen could not keep up with the marching speed of the governor and the border army, but it was impossible for Zhang Yue to divide his troops. Let the governor and the border troops catch up first, and let the guards and ordinary recruits chase slowly behind. This way
If you do so, you will violate the taboo of dividing the troops. If the puppet Tang rebel army kills a carbine, the consequences will be disastrous.
Furthermore, without the help of a large number of recruited soldiers and guards, Zhang Yue actually did not have much confidence that he could defeat the main force of more than 20,000 puppet Tang rebels with only 20,000 to 30,000 supervisors and border troops.
For safety reasons, his army must march in groups as before!
But we can't just watch the pseudo-Tang traitor army arrive in Fuzhou first. In that case, Fuzhou will be finished!
So after much deliberation, he finally sent 3,000 elite cavalry from the border army to catch up first!
He did not expect these three thousand elite cavalry from the frontier army to be able to stop the enemy's main force. He only hoped that these cavalry could delay the enemy's march!
At this time, the tactical choice made by Zhang Yue actually deviated from Li Chunjing's previous expectations!
Zhang Yue did not directly send all four thousand cavalry to hold them back as Li Chunjing had expected, but only sent three thousand cavalry!
There are still a thousand supervisory cavalry on hand!
And these thousand Supervisor Cavalry are still a huge threat to the Fourth Mixed Regiment!
More importantly, Gu Shizhong, who was in Fengcheng, knew nothing about Zhang Yue's troop division strategy. When he learned from the scouts that a large group of Ming cavalry had separated from the main force, he began to
After pursuing the main force of the Second Army, he also officially ordered the troops to move out!
Four days after the Second Army was divided, the main force of the Fourth Mixed Regiment left Fengcheng, preparing to execute the battle plan to attack Nanchang!
To be on the safe side, his troops did not stupidly go directly towards Nanchang, but prepared to march westward first, and then turn and attack Nanchang.
However, after leaving Fengcheng, the traces of the strengthened Fourth Mixed Regiment were also exposed to the eyes of the Ming Army's reconnaissance cavalry. Although the cavalry team of the Fourth Mixed Regiment had expanded the peripheral reconnaissance scope as much as possible to intercept the Ming Army's
Reconnaissance cavalry.
However, in terms of cavalry, especially in small-scale cavalry battles, the Tang Army actually did not have an advantage over the Ming Army's cavalry, and even had certain disadvantages.
The cavalry team of the Fourth Mixed Regiment desperately intercepted the Ming Army's reconnaissance cavalry, which also attracted the attention of the Ming Army's reconnaissance cavalry. It was determined that there must be a big situation ahead, so more reconnaissance cavalry were mobilized towards the west of Fengcheng.
search!
Even though the cavalry of the Fourth Mixed Regiment had tried their best to intercept, the Ming Army's reconnaissance cavalry still discovered the traces of the Fourth Mixed Regiment, and even approached the main force of the Fourth Mixed Regiment less than three miles away.
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Looking through the telescope at the Ming army's scouts running away in the distance, Gu Shizhong also sighed. After hiding for just one day, his troops had already been exposed.
Now, we can only hope that the main force of the Second Army can buy us more time!
"Command the entire army to turn to Nanchang and march at a faster pace! We must reach Nanchang within two days!" Brigadier General Gu Shizhong was riding on his horse and watched his troops begin to change direction and speed up, but there was no high-spirited look on his face.
His expression was filled with deep worry!
And not long after, the location of Zhang Yue's main force, located in the northeast of Fengcheng, about fifty miles away, also learned from the mouth of the messenger who had been galloping all the way and exhausted several fast horses that the reconnaissance cavalry monitoring the direction of Fengcheng discovered that the fake
The Tang rebel army came out of the city, and their number greatly exceeded previous expectations, reaching at least 6,000 people.
"Didn't the bandit army in Fengcheng have only one regiment number? Why did six thousand people suddenly appear?" Zhang Yue immediately said with a straight face.
A few days ago, the reconnaissance cavalry told him that although there was a puppet Tang bandit army stationed in Fengcheng, there was only one regiment!
And Zhang Yue is also quite familiar with the organization and numbers of the puppet Tang bandit army. A regiment only has a size of two to three thousand people, but now six thousand people suddenly appeared.
Someone immediately said: "It is true that there is only one regiment, but this regiment is not an ordinary infantry regiment in the puppet Tang rebel army, but their mixed regiment!"
"Even if it is a mixed group of the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty, it is absolutely impossible to have 6,000 people!" Zhang Yue knew very well that the strength of a mixed group of the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty was only four to five thousand people, and it could not be 6,000 people.
scale!
At this time, it is naturally impossible for the Ming army to know that the fourth mixed regiment has been strengthened!
Although Zhang Yue was angry and the people below him were not doing things well, which led to deviations in his strategic judgment, but since 6,000 enemy troops left Fengcheng, it didn't take a guess to know that they definitely wanted to go to Nanchang.
Although there are more than 10,000 soldiers in Nanchang City now, my family knows their own affairs. The defenders in Nanchang City are mostly guardsmen and young men, and even the local recruits only have 2,000 or 3,000 soldiers.
It may be possible for them to deal with the puppet Tang bandit army of two to three thousand people, but they may not be able to deal with the puppet Tang bandit army of six thousand people!
Now how to do?
Should the army return to defend Nanchang, or continue to Fuzhou?
If we don't return to defend Nanchang, then Nanchang may be lost.
But if he doesn't go to Fuzhou, Fuzhou will definitely be doomed. You know, he just got the information this morning. The vanguard of the puppet Tang thief army has arrived at Fuzhou City. If nothing happens, the main force of the puppet Tang thief army will arrive in Fuzhou tomorrow.
Once the city falls, give them three more days and Fuzhou will be finished.
Nanchang, Fuzhou!
Either of these two places cannot be lost!
After Zhang Yue pondered for a moment, he finally gritted his teeth and said: "The Du Biao cavalry, immediately pursue westward, and be sure to hold back the 6,000 puppet Tang rebels who set out from Fengcheng!"
At the same time, he gritted his teeth and mobilized 10,000 infantrymen to quickly return to defend Nanchang!
As long as these 1,000 supervisors hold back the advance of the 6,000 puppet Tang traitor troops, then our 10,000 infantrymen can smoothly rush back to Nanchang to strengthen the defense, and in this way, the safety of Nanchang can be guaranteed.
Moreover, the total strength of the Puppet Tang thief army is only this much. Since the troops have been divided into 6,000, it means that the Puppet Tang thief army that has arrived at the head of Fuzhou City has 6,000 fewer people. Although the total strength of the Puppet Tang thief army led by him has also been reduced.
Ten thousand, but it should still be enough.
I continue to lead the main force personally, and cooperate with the 30,000 defenders in Fuzhou, and I am still confident of fighting the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army!
As long as the main force of the pseudo-Tang rebel army is disabled, it doesn't matter even if Nanchang is really lost. The worst thing is that it can be taken back again!
"The main force of the army continues to march eastward to Fuzhou, speed up, and must arrive at Fuzhou City within three days. I will completely annihilate the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army under Fuzhou City!"
After Zhang Yue made his decision, the main force of the Ming army began to divide its troops. A thousand Dubiao cavalry left the army immediately, and then ran towards the west without looking back.
Later, tens of thousands of infantrymen also turned around and returned to Nanchang, and these ten thousand infantrymen were still all local guardsmen. Zhang Yue did not send even a single supervisory or border army infantry back to support!
Because now Zhang Yue's goal is no longer even to protect Fuzhou, but to become the main force to severely damage or even annihilate the Second Army!
So he must bring all the supervisors and border troops with him!
And whether he could defend Nanchang, Zhang Yue didn't count on the 10,000 guardsmen. What he counted on was the 1,000 supervisory cavalry!