Many of the civilian generals under Zhang Yue were specially promoted by him to have their titles increased. The senior civilian generals are basically given the title of the Supervisory Council. For example, the commander-in-chief of the first army in the Supervisory Committee of the New Army is the general of the left and right.
The chief imperial censor of the capital.
As for some important mid-level civilian generals, there are various types. For example, some commanders of the First Guard are already experienced and well-known, and may be joined by a general secretary to consult, while some are ordinary generals.
Most of the civil servants have local official titles.
Most of the local official titles are the titles of prefect, prefect, tongzhi and even chief envoy in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas that have fallen to Guizhou.
The civilian generals in the training army are relatively simple, because they were originally recruited by local officials themselves. Although they have been reorganized into the training army by Zhang Yue, the former local officials are still in charge of these training troops.
Du Danqing is not very old, he is only in his forties this year. His official career has been quite smooth. He was a Jinshi at a young age, and he also entered the Hanlin during the cabinet election. After being sent to the outside world, he served as a local magistrate.
, he also served as the governor of Southern Jiangxi and the governor of Fengyang. When he was a local official, he was very good at suppressing bandits.
However, he was suppressed by political opponents in the early years, and finally ended up resigning and returning to his hometown. Zhang Yue personally wrote to him and came to Huguang, and wrote a letter on his behalf to plead for redress.
After arriving, he served as the chief envoy to Jiangxi, and later served as the commander-in-chief of the left army of the New Army of Dubiao. He commanded the New Army of Dubiao in Jiujiang and Nankang, with a total of 20,000. In addition, there were more than 8,000 soldiers training in Jiujiang and Nankang.
The army also came under his command.
The Supervisory New Army under Zhang Yue has a total of five armies. These five armies are basically deployed separately in a certain place. For example, the former army in Hengyang, the right army in Changsha, Chenzhou Prefecture, and Yuezhou
Those in the area around the mansion are the rear army.
As for the Chinese Army, it is deployed in Wuchang. However, because it has been stationed in the rear for a long time, the strength of the Chinese Army was not very strong in the early days. It only had more than 5,000 people. Now it is rapidly expanding and is currently commanded by Zhang Yue himself.
Currently, among the more than 50,000 people in the Dubiao New Army, the most powerful one is actually the Zuo Army under Du Danqing. Even the left and right armies stationed in Changsha and Hengyang only number more than 10,000 people.
Only Du Danqing's left army had a strength of more than 20,000!
When he learned that the puppet Tang bandits in Nanchang City were leaving the city in large numbers and heading towards Wuchang, Du Danqing immediately sensed something was wrong!
Where is Wuchang? It is the rear area of almost the entire Dubiao New Army. More than 80% of the guns and artillery used by the Dubiao New Army were built in Wuchang. Although the Dubiao Chinese Army is garrisoned in Wuchang now, the Dubiao Chinese Army
His strength is not too strong.
Earlier this year, the Superintendent's Chinese Army only numbered more than 5,000 people. Although Zhang Yue began to expand the new Superintendent's Army on a large scale during the more than a month of elimination and training, the current Superintendent's Chinese Army already has more than 5,000 people.
There are more than 10,000 people, but the newly added troops are all new soldiers, so the combat effectiveness can be imagined.
Under such circumstances, can Wuchang withstand the attack of tens of thousands of the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army?
In this regard, he remains pessimistic!
And he was not the only one who was pessimistic. Soon, Zhang Yue from Wuchang also learned the relevant news, and then sent a fast horse to send a message to Du Danqing, asking Du Danqing to immediately initiate corresponding actions to coordinate Wuchang's defensive operations.
Although Zhang Yue did not explicitly tell Du Danqing what to do, the meaning was very obvious, that is, the puppet Tang rebels could not be allowed to successfully reach Wuchang City.
Directly lead the main force out of the city and then fight against the puppet Tang rebels in the wilderness?
Don't be kidding, if someone said this a year or two ago, it would still be recognized by a large number of people, but now, if anyone dares to say that in a field battle with a comparable number of puppet Tang rebels, it will be divided.
Within minutes, he would be labeled as a traitor.
Because this is not an interception operation, but a death battle!
If you fight defensively, you can barely do it. If you launch an attack in the wild, you are seeking death!
After Du Danqing pondered for a long time, he summoned many staff to discuss it together, and finally decided to stand still!
Although Wuchang's Supervisory Command Chinese Army is weaker, it still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and there are also a large number of new recruits being trained in Wuchang.
There is no shortage of side, and all kinds of guns and ammunition are available.
Even the workers in the workshops can actually be dragged out to fight.
Today's Wuchang, in Du Danqing's view, certainly lacks the ability to take the initiative, but simply defending the city still has great hope of success.
Moreover, the Puppet Tang Dynasty rebels are going to attack Wuchang. They have such a long journey, and there are a lot of materials needed for the Puppet Tang Dynasty army to fight. How can they maintain such a long supply line under their noses?
Just kidding, thinking that he is the Zuojun under Du Danqing is a lie!
It is unnecessary for the army to come out in full force. Otherwise, the fate of the fall of Nanchang will be repeated. What Du Danqing has to do now is very simple, stick to the city defense, and then send small-scale partial divisions to attack the food roads of the puppet Tang rebels.
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It doesn’t take much, just send a team of cavalry of a thousand people!
Since the last disastrous defeat of the Du Biao New Army cavalry outside Nanchang City, Zhang Yue also calmed down and began to revitalize the Du Biao cavalry. Of course, retraining would not work. The method used by Zhang Yue to expand the Du Biao cavalry
Simple and efficient, he directly gathered the small number of cavalry from each of the original guard posts, and then organized and trained them according to the method of supervising the new army.
When Zhang Yue reorganized the guards, although he drove all the infantry into workshops to work or farm, some of the backbone of the guards and the cavalry were retained.
Today, the Zuo Army has a cavalry force of about a thousand people under its command. Although the quality of this cavalry is worse than the previous Supervisor Cavalry, it has four legs at least. It cannot rush into the formation, but it can be used
It's not a big problem to attack the food routes of the puppet Tang rebels!
In addition to sending cavalry to attack the main grain road of the puppet Tang rebel army, he also sent men to contact Fuzhou and asked Fuzhou to try to send out a large army to attack Fengcheng or even Nanchang.
The main force of the puppet Tang rebel army moves north, and Nanchang will definitely be empty!
My left army has a heavy responsibility and dare not move easily, but the army in Fuzhou can move!
I dare not say that I will take advantage of the opportunity to capture Nanchang or Fengcheng, but just making this gesture will be enough to make the puppet Tang rebels take advantage of them.
But what Du Danqing didn't expect was that the defenders in Fuzhou were more timid than him. After receiving the letter from Du Danqing, the Ming generals who guarded the city just glanced at it and then silently burned the letter.
What a joke, let us Fuzhou garrison attack Fengcheng or even Nanchang, we are going to die!
We do know that there are thousands of puppet Tang rebels in Fengcheng and tens of thousands of troops in Nanchang. Whether they attack Fengcheng or Nanchang, it is very dangerous.
Once the troops leaving the city encounter something unexpected, can Fuzhou be able to defend it?
Fuzhou could no longer defend, and the Southern Zhili would have to directly face the troops of the puppet Tang rebels. At that time, the Minister of War in Nanjing and the Crown Prince Taibao Wang Yiqi would dare to directly kill the heads of these guarding generals.
After Wang Yiqi arrived in Jiangnan, he killed many civilians and military generals, which greatly intimidated the Jiangnan officialdom. Now, the troops stationed in Fuzhou are all under Wang Yiqi's command.
Wang Yiqi gave them only one order: defend Fuzhou to the death!
If you can defend it, you will be promoted to a higher position; if you cannot defend it, your family will be confiscated and your clan will be destroyed!
For Wang Yiqi, guarding Fuzhou and Anqing and preventing the puppet Tang rebels from entering South Zhili are the top priorities. As for the life and death of Wuchang, it is actually not important to Wang Yiqi. That is Zhang Yue's business and has nothing to do with him.
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So this created a very interesting scene. Li Chunjing led the main force of the Second Army of about 30,000 people to attack, accompanied by nearly 40,000 civilians to transport the baggage. At a glance, he knew that the coming force was not easy to mess with.
However, the Ming army did not make any large-scale response to this. Du Danqing only sent a thousand cavalry out of the city to prepare to attack the grain road, while the main force and the garrison were stationed in Jiujiang and Ankang. He was even afraid of a false shot by the puppet Tang rebels and refused to go.
After attacking Wuchang, we went to Jiujiang, so we are still stepping up efforts to consolidate the city's defense during this period.
The Ming army in Fuzhou acted as if they had not seen it. They did not leave the city and just stayed in Fuzhou city!
In short, no matter which direction the Ming army is, they are motionless!
To be honest, these reactions of the Ming army actually exceeded Li Chunjing's expectations!
He didn't expect that even though he had made such a big noise, the Ming army was still unmoved. Damn, this is looking down on me. I really don't dare to attack Wuchang!
Well, in fact, Li Chunjing didn't really plan to attack Wuchang. In the past two days, he had been receiving intelligence from Wuchang and learned that there were already tens of thousands of Ming army supervisors in Wuchang City, and there were a large number of
With many young men and women available to assist in defense, Wuchang seems to have become a stronghold.
Now, the Ming army was unmoved, and Li Chunjing's strategic idea of taking the opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Ming army came to nothing. However, Li Chunjing did not give up and took the army out for a few days to travel and then returned to the city in despair!
On the one hand, they sent messengers to Hunan quickly, and at the same time they sent people back to Nanchang to ask Cai Erhu to be prepared to hoard supplies and hold on for a long time!
Three days later, Li Chunjing suddenly ordered the main force to speed up and suddenly turn westward in the direction of Jing'an!
When Cai Erhu in Nanchang was suddenly accelerated westward by Li Chunjing's army, it was already two days later. After learning the news, he finally understood why Li Chunjing asked him to be prepared to stick to Nanchang for a long time.
Li Chunjing actually wanted to lead his army to the south of Huguang. He was going to Yuezhou.