After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the atmosphere in the harem of the Tang Dynasty became a little tense because Concubine Ye's concubine and Wang's concubine were about to give birth.
Even outside the palace, the few ministers who knew about this matter were very concerned about it!
Just like the last time Queen Dong Yunyun gave birth!
The reason why the ministers are so concerned is naturally because the currently huge Tang Dynasty does not even have an heir, not even a spare clan.
Who said that Li Xuan's father was so incompetent that he only gave birth to a son like Li Xuan, and Li Xuan's grandfather was also incompetent and only had a son like Li Erbi. In the Li family that has been passed down for several generations, only Li Xuan was left.
A single root.
But Li Xuan is now the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!
If Li Xuan had any chance, this huge Tang Dynasty would not even be able to find an heir!
There is no heir. This is actually an important reason why the ministers in the Tang Dynasty did not complain about Li Xuan being addicted to the thigh era for three days and two days. Instead, they went everywhere to recruit stunning women for Li Xuan!
Datang needs a successor!
The last time the Queen was pregnant and gave birth, many people were looking forward to it. However, the Queen gave birth to a princess, so whether it was Queen Mother Bai or the courtiers outside, they threw Dong Yunyun aside with a hiss, and then
His eyes turned to Concubine Ye's concubine and Wang's concubine.
Nowadays, the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty no longer care about the trouble of establishing a heir if other concubines give birth to princes but the queen does not have a prince.
Now, their extravagant hope is actually very simple. They just want Datang to have an heir!
As for the many troubles that may arise when there are too many heirs, we will talk about it later!
Now we have to solve the problem of whether or not, and everything else is just a side issue.
Just here in Zhaoqing, when the atmosphere seemed a little different because the two concubines were about to give birth, the battle on the northern front was still going on.
The Sixth Infantry Division in Nanchang is still holding on, but the Ming army's siege is getting stronger and stronger.
While Li Xuan's edict to confer the title of marquis to Cai Erhu was still on the way, Nanchang ushered in another large-scale attack by the Ming army.
This time, the Jiangxi Ming Army assembled more than 60 field guns weighing more than five kilograms, and hundreds of other small and medium-caliber shotguns to bombard Nanchang City. At the same time, they also sent out a strong attack force composed of elite border troops and governors.
There are more than 20,000 troops.
After some fighting, although the 6th Infantry Division blocked the Ming army's attack, its own casualties were not small, and more importantly, the 6th Infantry Division's ammunition consumption continued to be extremely high.
The situation in Nanchang has become increasingly dangerous, especially when Zhang Yue learned that the entire Ming army in Hengyang was annihilated, and even gave a death order to the Ming army in Jiangxi. Within half a month, they must
To capture Nanchang, the Ming army in Jiangxi must dare to conquer Nanchang first before the puppet Tang rebel army captures Changsha City, and then can allocate manpower to defend Huguang.
Otherwise, they will have no choice but to retreat in despair and return to defend Wuchang!
The Hengyang Ming Army was finished, and seeing that Changsha could no longer be defended, Zhang Yue couldn't wait any longer!
But no matter what, the 6th Infantry Division of the puppet Tang rebel army fought tooth and nail to defend, but was stunned by multiple general attacks by the Ming army!
As of January 20, the Jiangxi Ming army had suffered no less than 5,000 casualties under Nanchang City, but they still had not reached the top of the city!
At the same time, Changsha was finally besieged by the Tang Dynasty King!
In fact, the Tang Dynasty King's Division had already arrived outside Changsha City as early as the Lantern Festival, but the only troops arriving outside the city at that time were the 5th Infantry Division of the Second Army, the 5th Mixed Regiment and other units that had marched south from Yuezhou.
It is almost impossible to capture Changsha, which has been managed by the Ming army for two years and built almost like Tietong with these troops alone. Even if it can be captured, the Second Army will probably suffer casualties.
heavy.
Therefore, after the Second Army arrived in Nanchang, it did not launch an attack, but was stationed in the northwest of Changsha!
Li Chunjing has to wait for the arrival of the main force of the First Army!
The main force of the First Army had to pursue the Hengyang Ming Army, so its arrival in Changsha was delayed for a long time. It was originally agreed to meet during the Lantern Festival, but by the 20th, the main force of the First Army had not yet arrived.
Woolen cloth.
The first to arrive was a regiment of the First Infantry Division that directly belonged to the First Army, led by the new division commander of the First Infantry Division, Major General Chen Keqiao.
Army Major General Chen Keqiao was originally the commander of the Third Infantry Division and the commander of the Fourth Army. However, during the reorganization process, the Fourth Army was directly abolished, and he became simply the commander of the Third Infantry Division.
However, in order to make up for him, when Hao Bainian became the commander of the reorganized First Army, Chen Keqiao also took over as the commander of the First Infantry Division.
Although he is still the division commander, the position of commander of the 1st Infantry Division cannot be compared with that of the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division.
After Chen Keqiao led the vanguard of the 1st Infantry Division to Changsha, it was naturally impossible to rush into the attack in a panic. Instead, after settling the troops, he went to see Li Chunjing.
When Li Chunjing saw Chen Keqiao, he laughed: "Brother Chen, you won the battle this time. The main force of more than 30,000 enemy troops was defeated so cleanly!"
Chen Keqiao said: "It's nothing. This is all the credit of Commander Hao. I was just following behind and obeying orders. But Commander Li, this series of strategic maneuvers can be said to be extremely exquisite. If Commander Li hadn't diverted the enemy's attention,
, resulting in a strategic disadvantage for the enemy, I am afraid that the enemy is still hiding in Hengyang and cannot come out!"
Li Chunjing laughed again: "I just took the troops for a walk, it's nothing!"
Although Li Chunjing said it simply, Chen Keqiao knew that it was not so easy to lead 30,000 main troops and 40,000 civilians to maneuver hundreds of kilometers continuously under the eyes of the Ming army. What was even more rare was that,
Just through such a maneuver, the strategic situation of both sides was completely changed, making the Ming army's disadvantages fully exposed.
And it gave the Tang Dynasty the opportunity to completely conquer Hengyang and Changsha!
Chen Keqiao asked himself that he couldn't do this kind of thing.
Even if he thought of this tactic, he would not dare to do it, because it would be too risky, and someone might die on the way to "walking".
Chen Keqiao fought under Hao Bainian for a long time in his early years, and his tactical style was also greatly influenced by Hao Bainian. He was relatively prudent in commanding operations and would never fight an uncertain battle.
If this were replaced by him as the commander of the Second Army, to be honest, Chen Keqiao was not sure that like Li Chunjing, he would dare to attack Yuezhou under the nose of the main force of the Ming army.
After the two people were polite, Li Chunjing asked about Hao Bainian's situation: "How is Brother Hao? When can he arrive?"
Li Chunjing naturally didn't care about Hao Bainian's personal situation. What he cared about was when the main force of the First Army would arrive.
We must know that whether we can capture Changsha cannot rely on his second army. We must also add a first army.
Moreover, although his Second Army did not fight many battles along the way and only fought a fortified battle in Yuezhou, the consumption of food and grass was quite large. It was not easy to solve the problem by just feeding the enemy. Now he is waiting for the First Army
It brought a lot of logistical supplies.
Chen Keqiao said immediately: "Commander Hao, everything is fine. After we ended the battle with the enemy in Hengyang, the troops need to rest and reorganize. We also captured tens of thousands of prisoners. These tens of thousands of prisoners are for supervising standards and training troops."
, it’s not easy to just disarm and release them, it will take a certain amount of time to deal with them!
After we have dealt with the prisoners and received new supplies, our main force will head north again. It’s not far away now. Troops will arrive one after another tomorrow, and the heavy artillery and baggage troops will also arrive the day after tomorrow!”
"Oh, why did it take so long? Didn't Hengyang get it? Why didn't it be transported by river?" When Li Chunjing said this, he frowned slightly.
The first army came too slowly, and the subsequent attack on Changsha may be delayed for too long. If it is delayed too long on the Huguang side, Nanchang may be really dangerous.
Perhaps seeing Li Chunjing's frown, Chen Keqiao immediately said: "Although Hengyang has been taken, the navy can also control the lanes of the Xiangjiang River, but the ships from Hengyang to Shenjia Ferry have been handcuffed by Cheng Hong'an.
The fire is burning, so even if we control the Xiangjiang River channel, there will be no ships available for a while!"
After hearing this, Li Chunjing nodded slightly, and then continued to chat with Chen Keqiao. The conversation was naturally about the recent battle with the Hengyang enemy.
You must know that this is the first real large-scale queuing and killing battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Army so far. It is of great significance. Naturally, the Tang Army will study this battle example repeatedly, and then learn from it.
Learn lessons, improve shortcomings, and give full play to strengths.
After chatting for a long time, they dispersed and went about their business.
They also had to prepare for the attack on Changsha. Artillery positions needed to be set up in advance, and the equipment used to attack the city also needed to be prepared in advance. Many preparations were quite complicated.
Two days later, Hao Bainian led the main force of the First Army to Changsha, and launched the siege of Changsha the next day.
And if you don't want to pay huge casualties and use your lives to fill up the Changsha city defense, the siege of the city cannot be rushed. It has to be done slowly. At least, it must first use heavy howitzers and the Ming army's artillery positions on the top of the city.
Once again!
The siege of Changsha could not see results in a day or two. Although the defense of Nanchang was more difficult, it was not easy for the Ming army to completely defeat the 6th Infantry Division and capture Nanchang.
On the surface, the war in the north seems to have stalled, but everyone knows that this stagnation will not last long. Once the city of Changsha or Nanchang is breached, there will be a bloody storm again!
Against this background, the Tang Dynasty finally ushered in an heir!
And it’s not just one, but two!
In the late first month of the first month, Concubine Ye's concubine and Wang's concubine gave birth to a prince for Li Xuan. The two princes were born only one day apart!
When the two princes were successfully born, the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty cheered, and Queen Mother Bai even laughed at everyone for many days.
However, amidst such cheers, Dong Yunyun 'accidentally' broke several vases. Most of the other concubines in the harem were extremely happy on the surface and secretly cursed the two bitches Ye and Wang.
Kneel down and worship the gods and Buddhas all over the sky, praying that these two princes will die soon!