Chapter nine hundred and seventy-eight decisive battle Hanyang
Counterattack on Jingzhou?
This choice was immediately abandoned by Fei Qinxiang.
Counterattack is impossible, impossible in this life, with only 6,000 troops, let alone counterattack, he doesn't even dare to go to Jingzhou for fear of being ambushed!
If you don't counterattack, then you have no choice but to leave. The key is where to go?
Return to Anluzhou?
But what will you do after you return to Anlu Prefecture?
On the way here, he got news that the puppet Tang rebel army had landed on the west side of Hanyang. Well, although he still didn't know that the supervisory left army on the Huangzhou front line was finished, but this did not hinder
He saw how bad the situation was!
Now that Jingzhou has also been captured by the puppet Tang thief army, if he continues to stay in Anlu Prefecture, won't he be attacked by the Jingzhou side and the puppet Tang thief army to the west of Hanyang?
Taking a step back, can Zhang Yue's troops in Hanyang stop the puppet Tang rebel army? Fei Qinxiang thinks it is unlikely!
If Anlu Prefecture doesn't want to go back, it's not a good idea to go north to Xiangyang. Although Xiangyang is still in the hands of the Governor, there are also puppet Tang rebels in the north.
The only way left is to go west, directly into Sichuan, which is not very good, but it is still possible to go to Badong first.
If the situation is good, then cooperate with Du Biao's rear army to counterattack Jingzhou. If the situation is not good, then Badong will guard the channel for the puppet Tang rebels to enter Sichuan.
After some consideration, Fei Qinxiang simply turned around and left when he was still twenty miles away from Jingzhou. He did not return to Anluzhou, but continued westward. Where to go, of course, was to Badong!
Fei Qinxiang almost came to Jingzhou, but Song Tianbiao of the Second Infantry Division didn't know it yet. Now he had just captured Jingzhou and was busy dealing with various affairs. Not to mention other things, even those thousands of prisoners of war
It’s also not easy to arrange.
Now his Second Infantry Division is far away from the main force, and they dare not act rashly. They are even less willing to have thousands of prisoners of war staying in the city, not only consuming food, but also an unstable factor. Finally, together with Zhang Chenhui of the Navy,
After discussion, it was decided to let the navy transport these prisoners of war first to the other side of the river, where a regiment of the 29th Reserve Division was stationed, which could serve as a guard. Once there, they would slowly reorganize the prisoners of war.
For the Reclamation Group.
Jingzhou was successfully won, which also represented the basic success of the second phase of the Tang Army's southwest campaign plan. On the whole, the task was overfulfilled, because the Fifth Army and the Second Army jointly defeated Superintendent Biao Zuo.
The army was destroyed.
Now the main remaining force in Huguang is the Chinese Army in Hanyang. As for the Right Army in Anlu Prefecture and Jingzhou Prefecture and the Front Army in Xiangyang, they are not very strong.
land!
With the victory in hand, Li Xuan continued to advance westward with the Guards. Now that he was staying in Jiujiang, it was too far from the front line. After Huangzhou was captured, he could move his headquarters forward appropriately and go directly to the front line.
Jiangxia County in Wuchang Prefecture is just opposite Hanyang Fucheng.
Li Xuan planned to command the Hanyang campaign across the Yangtze River and annihilate the Supervisory Biao Chinese Army in the Hanyang area in one fell swoop. It would be best if he could also capture Zhang Yue alive.
Li Xuan wanted to advance westward, so he naturally brought the Guards with him. In front of them, the Fifth Army had already left Huangzhou and headed towards Hanyang.
As for the Second Army, after many battles, it suffered some damage, and some of its troops and ammunition were transferred to the Fifth Army so that the Fifth Army could march westward to Hanyang in a better condition, so the Second Army
It was necessary to rest in Huangzhou for a few days, and by the way, tens of thousands of prisoners of war were also reorganized.
These matters are all trivial and trivial. Li Xuan basically does not need to handle them personally. The Privy Council can handle them properly.
When marching west to Hanyang, Li Xuan received another good news. It was said that the supervisor of Yiyang Three Passes voluntarily abandoned Yiyang Three Passes, and the troops of the Fourth Army captured Yiyang Three Passes without spending a single soldier.
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Li Xuan could also tell from this news that Zhang Yue had already begun to shrink his troops.
With the destruction of Du Biao's left army and the fall of Jingzhou, Zhang Yue himself could probably see that he wanted to keep all the 100,000 Du Biao soldiers in Huguang.
Before, they had already killed Du Biao's left army. Now, it was the turn of Du Biao's Chinese army.
But this matter is quite big to say, but the Southwest Campaign has reached this point. After the Du Biao Left Army is destroyed, it is actually only a matter of time before the Du Biao Chinese Army is finished. Li Xuan came to Wuchang not to boost the morale of the army.
They say things like "I am right behind you and I will die if you lose."
He came to Hanyang just to witness the end of Du Biao, and also to pretend to be awesome: Look, I personally led an army to kill an army again, how awesome it is!
So on the way westward, he was very calm and did not spend most of his time dealing with military affairs, because there was nothing in the military affairs that required his personal attention now. The various departments of the Privy Council were fully responsible for all the affairs of the Southwest Campaign, and there were many under his command.
Everything is in order and Li Xuan doesn't need to worry too much.
Therefore, on the way westward, Li Xuan spent more time on various government affairs, and he needed to review a lot of memorials every day.
Don't think that Li Xuan doesn't need to review memorials when he comes out to fight in person. In fact, it is still the same as before, but the number of memorials reviewed will be smaller.
Every day, a large number of memorials will be sent out from Jinling City. Depending on the importance and urgency, they will be arranged to be rushed at 500 miles, or 300 miles, or at the speed of ordinary official documents, all the way to the west, and finally sent
into the hands of Li Xuan.
So even though he was far away from Jinling City, Li Xuan still firmly controlled the military and political power of the Tang Dynasty!
On this day, Li Xuan received another report from Jinling City, and it was also a report on the Chen Lifu case. However, this report was not sent by Hantong, but by the Inspectorate.
The Chen Lifu case report sent by the Supervisory Office detailed Chen Lifu's case. Finally, with the assistance of the Patrol Department, the Supervisory Office found out that Chen Lifu had been found out and had not withheld taxes or taken bribes.
Several people who framed Chen Lifu were also found out, including the former director of the Jiangbei Province Taxation Bureau, one of the deputy directors of the Inspection Division, and the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture in Jiangnan Province. There were also a few people within the Supervisory Cloud.
A few bad apples.
They confessed that because they were dissatisfied with Chen Lifu, they jointly planned Chen Lifu's case and wanted to get rid of Chen Lifu!
Regarding the investigation report of the Inspectorate, Li Xuan threw it away after reading it!
The investigation report of the Inspectorate was quite satisfactory, and it cleared Chen Lifu and found out the mastermind behind the scenes. However, Li Xuan knew that this matter was far from as simple as the Inspectorate investigated.
The Chen Lifu case should be regarded to some extent as the first large-scale political factional struggle in the Tang Dynasty. Even people at the ministerial and ministerial levels were involved. Otherwise, it would have caused a stir and finally alarmed everyone.
Come to Li Xuan?
And this is the focus of Li Xuan's attention on this case!
For their own interests, these people gathered together and then fought over Chen Lifu's case. After the fight, they sent an investigation report to Li Xuan?
Beautiful thought!
Since you dare to collude with each other under my nose and play clique, you must be aware of being purged.
But Li Xuan is not in a hurry now. He is still waiting for Hantong's investigation report, and even if he wants to rectify the cronies, it cannot be now. Now he is leading an army to go out and attack senior officials directly, which will easily lead to trouble.
Necessary trouble.
To deal with it, we have to wait until he returns, and the way of dealing with it must be more flexible. It is not good to deal with it directly in the name of a crony. It will easily make people think that he is Zhu Yuanzhang's second.
I think that after he unified China, he started killing the heroes!
Even if it is dealt with, Li Xuan will not do it in the name of crony, but in other names and other ways.
He is the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not easy to deal with several high-ranking officials in just one sentence!
At the same time, he cannot go too far. After all, Li Xuan himself knows that factions and factions are unavoidable in any political power, and Li Xuan has no intention of completely cleaning up. What he has to do is
You have to control this kind of thing in your own hands. You and your ministers can fight each other, but it must not be for personal gain, let alone affect the development of the empire, let alone affect the imperial power.
If you want to fight, you can only fight within the framework I have drawn!
For example, every time during the budget meeting, various departments would compete with each other and even turn on Li Xuan. During the imperial budget meeting, it is normal for people from various departments to fall out, but Li Xuan did not.
I think it doesn't matter, because this is a struggle between departments. They are fighting for official affairs. No matter how fierce the fight is, Li Xuan will not interfere.
However, Li Xuan became very annoyed and disgusted with conspiracy and party fighting for personal gain.
In short, this matter needs to be handled at a certain level. How Li Xuan handles it in the end needs to be decided after seeing Han Tong's investigation report.
The Chen Lifu case may be very important to the courtiers below, but to Li Xuan, it is just a trivial matter. He does not pay as much attention to this matter as he does to the immigration settlement.
It seems that the Tang Dynasty is about to completely capture Hubei, and after it captures Hubei, the entire Huguang area will fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty. At least the Datang Dynasty can really start to organize a large number of immigrants.
Go to Huguang to colonize and completely develop Huguang and make it the granary of China!
In addition, Li Xuan is also very concerned about the reclamation of Guangdong and Guangxi. The current population of Guangdong and Guangxi is too small, adding up to only tens of millions of people, and many areas have not been fully developed, such as several small plains in Guangxi, the Pearl River
In the delta area, these are extremely fertile lands. In addition, it is located in the south, with lots of rain and plenty of sunshine. It is easy to grow rice two seasons a year, and even in some areas, it can be done year-round.
Three seasons.
More importantly, because the Guangdong and Guangxi regions are located in the south, there has been relatively little development in the past dynasties. It is a typical example of less people and more land.
Although the industry and commerce in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, especially the Pearl River Delta region, are currently relatively developed, this is still not enough, and the agricultural sector needs to be vigorously developed.
For the current Tang Dynasty, nothing is more important than sufficient food.
But immigration, even internal immigration, is not that easy. The Immigration and Reclamation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has reported more than once that the immigration and reclamation work has encountered a lot of trouble.