Seven hundred and fortieth chapters draw the river and rule
After the news of Wang Shike's victory in Changsha reached Zhaoqing, almost the entire Zhaoqing was immersed in a sea of cheers, especially among the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty. After hearing the news, everyone had a smile on their face!
Anyone who has a little understanding of the frontline battle situation can know how important it is for Wang Division to conquer Changsha!
The Tang Dynasty's imperial army conquered Changsha, which represented not only the simple victory of a city, but more importantly, the series of reactions behind it!
After World War I, it can almost be declared that the Huguang area south of the Yangtze River, except for Wuchang, will all fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty.
At the same time, what is more important is that after the Tang Dynasty Wangshi captured Changsha, he could then return to defend Yuezhou, then use Yuezhou as the front base to go straight to Wuchang, march eastward along the Yangtze River, and enter Jiujiang and even Anqing Prefecture.
Chen Bing was at the foot of Jinling City, and it was no longer a dream to conquer the river, but a fact that was about to happen!
And in this way, as long as the Ming army does not act stupidly, they will not continue to besiege Nanchang, because when the main forces of the First Army and the Second Army arrive in Jiangxi, they will form a counter-siege posture against the more than 60,000 Ming army here.
, and if this group of Ming army is also destroyed, what will the Ming army use to continue to defend Jiangnan in the future?
After the news of the fall of Changsha came out, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was in jubilation, while the Ming army was in panic. Even Zhang Yue, who had long expected such a result, stayed up all night after receiving the news.
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Then he ordered all the workshops, craftsmen and even ordinary people in Wuchang City on the south bank of the Yangtze River to be evacuated to Hanyang Mansion on the north bank. At the same time, he began to use all methods to mobilize ships to prepare to block the entrance of Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River.
At the same time, Pegasus gave an order to the Ming army besieging Nanchang, telling them to give up the siege of Nanchang as soon as possible and then return to defend Jiujiang!
But when this order was passed to the city of Nanchang, it caused disagreements within the Ming army, because the Ming army besieging Nanchang was divided into two parts, namely the governor Biao and Lianjun who belonged to Zhang Yue, and in addition to Wang Yiqi.
The frontier army and the Jiangnan New Army under his command.
Naturally, the border troops under Wang Yiqi and the Jiangnan New Army refused to go to Jiujiang. They wanted to return to Fuzhou and redefine their defenses!
In the end, there was no other choice. The two Ming armies went back to their respective homes. Du Biao and Lian Jun returned to Jiujiang, while the frontier army and the Jiangnan New Army returned to Fuzhou!
However, Du Biao and Lian Jun had not yet returned to Jiujiang. They had received an urgent order from Zhang Yue, asking them to leave some troops in Jiujiang and quickly return to defend Wuchang.
Compared with the safety of Jiangnan, Zhang Yue was more concerned about the safety of Wuchang, and was even more afraid that the puppet Tang rebel army would cross the Yangtze River, kill directly to the north of Huguang, and then go all the way north to Henan.
As for Jiangnan, that is Wang Yiqi's business. After all, he has more than 20,000 frontier troops and a so-called hundreds of thousands of Jiangnan new troops. It is their business to defend Jiangnan.
When Zhang Yue made emergency adjustments to his defenses, Wang Yiqi also scolded Zhang Yue while dispatching more troops to Jiujiang. At the same time, he strategically abandoned Fuzhou and then dispatched troops back to defend Anqing!
Wang Yiqi now knows that these puppet Tang rebels rely heavily on logistical supplies to fight. If he wants to prevent the puppet Tang rebels from marching eastward to the south of the Yangtze River, they must not defend Fuzhou, but the Yangtze River!
As long as the Yangtze River is defended, even if the puppet Tang rebels can march into the south of the Yangtze River from the land south of the Yangtze River, they will be trapped in the supply shortage and unable to mobilize more troops.
And as long as the Yangtze River is defended, they can counterattack Nanchang at any time. If the puppet Tang rebels dare to bypass the Yangtze River and attack Jiangnan directly by land, then the Ming army can directly enter Nanchang through the navy, and even seize it along the Ganjiang River.
Ji'an, Ganzhou.
While Wang Yiqi was urgently deploying his defenses, he also flew five hundred miles to the capital to inform him of the fall of Changsha. He also requested the imperial court for reinforcements and designated the frontier army and the newly trained musketeers from the northern provinces.
Within a few days, Changsha fell, and the news that caused the entire southern strategy to be passive spread throughout the capital. When Emperor Zhengde learned about this, he was so angry that he finally got better and could occasionally get out of bed. He fainted again.
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Finally, after some discussion, the ministers decided to mobilize 10,000 border troops and 10,000 new troops from the northern provinces to go south to support Wang Yiqi. This means that Jiangnan, a prosperous place, must be preserved. Otherwise, the foundation of the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed.
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The Ming army was shocked and tried to save the situation, but Li Chunjing and Hao Bainian were unreasonable and thought they would take advantage of this rare period to expand their results.
But now all the troops have suffered certain losses and consumed a lot of ammunition. In addition, after continuous battles, there are still a large number of Ming army stragglers in Changsha and Hengyang. At the same time, the northwestern part of Huguang also needs to be captured.
Therefore, after discussion, the First Army gave priority to replenishing some of its technical equipment, ammunition, and even personnel to the Second Army, allowing the Second Army to regain its peak combat effectiveness, and then quickly move north to Yuezhou and then to Wuchang.
As a result, the various units of the Second Army, which had been short of more than 3,000 men, were restored to full strength. Then the main force of the Second Army quickly moved north to Yuezhou, joined the Fourth Mixed Regiment, and continued to attack north.
Hao Bainian's First Army temporarily stayed in Huguang. On the one hand, it was waiting for the supply of new soldiers, ammunition, artillery and other equipment from the rear. On the other hand, it also needed to clear out the remaining Ming army stragglers and launch operations in the northwest of Huguang.
And stick to the bridgehead of Yuezhou to ensure the stability of the Second Army's logistics supply line.
The First Army is currently severely short of personnel and has a serious shortage of artillery and ammunition and other technical equipment. It is no longer capable of launching large-scale offensives like the Second Army. However, it can defend Huguang and at the same time drive out the Ming army in the northwest of Huguang.
It can still be done.
After the army was divided into two groups, the various units of the strong Second Army quickly rushed all the way along the Yangtze River to Wuchang!
After Zhang Yue learned that a large group of puppet Tang rebels was about to attack, on the one hand, he speeded up the transfer of workshops, people and materials on the south bank to the north bank. On the other hand, he also strictly ordered Jiangxi direction supervisors and training troops to quickly return for reinforcements.
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On March 16, after a ten-day attack, the forward troops of the Second Army of the Tang Dynasty arrived outside Wuchang City. However, what surprised them was that Wuchang City on the south bank of the Yangtze River was deserted. Even the city was empty.
It was burned!
But on the other side of Wuchang, in Hanyang Mansion, there were countless Ming troops, and there were also a large number of ships on the other side of the river.
After discovering this situation, Li Chunjing, a general who fought quite casually, did not stop for even a moment. Except for leaving a fifth mixed regiment to guard the ruins of Wuchangfu City, the main force continued to advance eastward. At the same time, he also sent someone to inform Hao Bainian.
Let the First Army take over Wuchang City!
He is going to Jiujiang!
On March 29, the main force of the Second Army arrived outside Jiujiang City, along with two infantry regiments of the Sixth Infantry Division originally stationed in Nanchang!
Three days later, the Fifth Mixed Regiment that originally stayed in Nanchang also took over the defense with the troops of the First Army, and pursued them through forced marches and rushed outside Jiujiang City!
Facing the Second Army, which gathered almost all the main forces, the Ming army in Jiujiang City simply couldn't resist!
Because there is no comparison in strength, and the Ming army in the city is still a mixed bag, there are more than 2,000 supervisors, more than 5,000 soldiers, more than 5,000 frontier troops, more than 10,000 Jiangnan new troops, and local guards
He has more than 10,000 soldiers.
It seems that the total force is quite large, but in fact only more than 10,000 people can fight!
On the first day after the Second Army launched the general offensive, the occupation was almost established. Although the Ming Army resisted bravely, they were still unable to resist in the face of absolute strength.
Three days later, the defenders of Jiujiang saw that they could not hold on and were forced to abandon the city and break out of the siege.
The direction of withdrawal is also very interesting. The supervisors and drill troops crossed the river directly and then ran back towards Hanyang, while the remaining frontier troops and the Jiangnan New Army went directly east of the river to Anqing.
After this tough battle, the Second Army captured Jiujiang, but it also exhausted the Second Army's last ammunition reserves!
Throughout the entire army, there were only 500 rounds of grenades left, and only 3,000 rounds of solid ammunition!
And this can actually be declared that the Second Army, like the First Army, has lost the ability to launch large-scale attacks and needs a long period of rest and replenishment before it can recover.
Thus, the second autumn and winter offensive that spanned the three years of Xuanping and the fourth year of Xuanping was officially ended!
If the Tang army wanted to launch such a large-scale offensive again, it would take at least half a year of preparation. Before that, the Ming army finally got a precious breathing space.
But this is not important anymore. What is important is that through the second autumn and winter offensive, the Tang Dynasty finally captured southern Huguang and Jiangxi in one fell swoop, establishing a great strategic advantage.
Next, if the King of the Tang Dynasty wants to go north, he can go north, if he wants to go east, he can go east, if he wants to go west, he can go west. There is a lot of room for strategic maneuvering!
Under the influence of the great success of the second autumn and winter offensive, the scale of the spring examination in the fourth year of Xuanping was even greater than in previous years. This time, the number of scholars who participated in the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty in the fourth year of Xuanping reached a full four
Thousands of people, and a very noteworthy phenomenon is that the scholars who came to participate in the imperial examination this time were not only the traditional scholars from Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou, but also scholars from Yunnan, Huguang, and Jiangxi.
Because it received news that a large number of scholars from the above-mentioned provinces would come to Zhaoqing to take the exam, and a considerable number of these scholars were candidates from the former Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites had previously made a special request to postpone the meeting originally scheduled for February.
The trial was postponed to April, so Li Xuan was of course ready to take part.
In April, four thousand scholars gathered in Zhaoqing, and more than a thousand of them were former Ming Dynasty candidates. Some of them even had family members who were officials in the Ming Dynasty, but they came to the Tang Dynasty to take the imperial examination. Of course,
However, they either came in secret and concealed their names, or they publicly severed ties with their father and brother who were officials in the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing this scene, Li Xuan smiled: "It seems that I am worthy of their bet!"
After laughing, he turned around and continued teasing Princess Weier, who was crawling around the room, making her giggle!
Dong Yunyun on the side looked at Li Xuan and Princess Wei'er crawling and playing around the house, and she also pursed her lips and smiled. The happy look of the family made her feel happy in her heart.
Well, it would be best if the two bitches Ye and Wang and the two scoundrels who lived in the prince's mansion died!