Valley Emperor

Huaiyuan County, Liuzhou Prefecture, is located in the north of Liuzhou Prefecture City, the upper reaches of Liujiang River. Its most famous feature is that it happens to be the intersection of Hejiang, Xunjiang and Rongjiang. Merged into Rongjiang.

The Rongjiang River goes further down, merges into the Wuyang River and other rivers and merges into the Liujiang River!

The Liujiang River is an important transportation river in the contemporary Guangxi region, and Huaiyuan County, located in the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, is also extremely important because of its important geographical location.

If the Tang Army wants to go south to Liuzhou, especially if it wants to go south to Liuzhou along the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, it must conquer Huaiyuan County!

It's not surprising that after entering Guangxi, Hao Bainian didn't go there, but instead went straight to Huaiyuan County in a small circle.

In order to get through the transportation link of the upper reaches of Liujiang River after winning Huaiyuan County!

Hao Bainian's army had a huge demand for military supplies, especially ammunition supplies, which were very dependent on logistics. Guizhou and Guangxi had many mountainous areas. It would be too troublesome and expensive to rely solely on land transportation for these logistics supplies.

So if you can use the Liujiang River as a logistics transportation supply line, then it will be much easier!

In order to get through the supply line of Liujiang River, Hao Bainian chose Huaiyuan as the attack target, and even took the attitude of killing chickens with a bull’s knife, bringing more than 5,000 people from his army of tens of thousands, and personally arranged the troops to attack Huaiyuan County. Small county town!

The pseudo-Tang thief army came, and there were 5,000 people, which scared the local officials of the Ming Dynasty in Huaiyuan!

Although Huaiyuan County was established as a county because of its important geographical location, it was more for water transportation, and it also served as a deterrent to the surrounding chieftains.

However, when there was still a big city of Liuzhou in the south that could guard the Liujiang channel, the Ming Dynasty would naturally not station heavy troops here, and only a few hundred soldiers were stationed here in normal times.

In the past six months, the pseudo-Tang thief army in Xingquan Mansion in the north has become more and more violent. Even after conquering Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, Guangxi officials in the south are a little worried.

Therefore, a lot of soldiers were sent to the north to be stationed, but there are not many soldiers sent to the north. There are only more than 2,000 soldiers in total, and most of them are stationed in Liuzhou City, but they are only sent to Huaiyuan County. Only five hundred people.

That is to say, when Hao Bainian brought 5,000 troops to Huaiyuan County, there were only 1,000 Ming troops here!

Under such circumstances, the officials in Huaiyuan County looked at the 5,000-strong army outside the city, and there were many artillery pieces in these armies, and they were still bombarding the weak Huaiyuan County with artillery pieces. It is difficult for them not to despair.

In this battle, there was no wave at all. The first wave of the attack of the 5,000 army, even if not all of these 5,000 people fought, the first wave of attack was only the descendants of the Ming army in the three garrison battalions. The 1st Infantry Regiment under Hao Bainian's core main 1st Infantry Brigade did not fight at all, but the Ming army in the city couldn't resist it at all.

After they made only a symbolic resistance, they collapsed completely!

Most of them fled, a few stubbornly resisted and were killed, and some surrendered!

As for the Ming Dynasty officials in the city, the magistrate committed suicide, and other officials also fled, surrendered and surrendered!

It was only half a day before and after, and Hao Bainian had already stepped into the small county town of Huaiyuan!

However, after conquering Huaiyuan County, Hao Bainian did not have too much joy, because this is a normal thing, and it is surprising that it cannot be defeated, and it is logical to do so.

Naturally, it was impossible for the 5,000 troops to pour into the small Huaiyuan county all at once. In fact, only a thousand people entered the city, and more troops were stationed outside the city.

That night, Hao Bainian summoned the generals in accordance with the tradition of the Great Tang Emperor, and began to arrange the next step of the strategy!

Because the general battle plan was basically formulated before coming here, the strategy meeting that night did not say much, but just issued the plan formulated in advance.

According to the original plan, the southward army led by Hao Bainian would divide its troops after entering Guangxi, and a small number of troops would continue to move westward to Guilin. The battalion, that is, the second reserve battalion to which the second infantry regiment belongs, and the thirteenth garrison battalion composed of the descendants of the Ming army, with a total strength of about 1,200 people.

Their mission does not mean that they have to conquer Guilin, as long as they can contain part of the Ming army. Of course, if they can, it is still possible to take Guilin by the way.

And the real main force of the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty will continue to go south!

Before Hao Bainian led the army to attack Huaiyuan County, he had actually dispatched the main striker south to Rong County!

If Huaiyuan County is an important transportation hub related to the water transportation of Liujiang River, then Rong County is the north gate of Liuzhou.

And Liuzhou is their first strategic goal of going south to Guangxi this time!

After winning Liuzhou, it can basically declare that the Tang Dynasty has gained a firm foothold in Guangxi, and can integrate local forces to prepare for the next step to control the entire territory of Guangxi and even conquer Wuzhou.

It is expected that by that time, the political center and industrial center of the Tang Dynasty will gradually shift to Guangxi!

In order to take Liuzhou before the Ming army reacted, Hao Bainian dispatched the main striker to Rongxian County before leading his army to Huaiyuan County.

In this way, the army of more than 10,000 people led by Hao Bainian has actually been divided into three parts!

The 2nd Reserve Battalion and the 13th Garrison Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment moved eastward to Guilin as a partial division, led by Lieutenant Colonel Xu Ke, the deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment!

The second part is the main striker. The main striker had already moved south yesterday. The number and combat effectiveness of this striker are much stronger than the westward division led by Lieutenant Colonel Xu Ke!

Because this striker is composed of the remaining three main battalions of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the 1st Reserve Battalion, in addition to the 2nd Cavalry Battalion and the 11th Garrison Battalion belonging to the 3rd Garrison Brigade, the total strength is nearly three Thousands!

The unit was personally led by Colonel Li Chunjing, head of the 2nd Infantry Regiment.

His task was to capture Rongxian before the Ming army reacted. If the main force of the army arrived in Rongxian first, then he would bypass Rongxian first, intercept the reinforcements from Liuzhou, and lead the follow-up Hao Bainian himself. The troops attacked Rong County to provide cover.

In fact, when Hao Bainian led his troops to leave Huaiyuan County, Li Chunjing had already arrived at Rong County with the vanguard troops.

After a brief observation of the situation in the city, Li Chunjing made a preliminary judgment. The Ming army in Rongxian County has a lot of troops, and the total number is probably no less than 3,000. According to the information disclosed by local people, there are many soldiers in Rongxian County. The horses just arrived in Rong County a few days ago.

Obviously, the Ming army on this side of Guangxi has discovered the southward movement of the pseudo-Tang thief army and began to make corresponding arrangements. Otherwise, they would not have temporarily dispatched more than 2,000 troops to Rong County. of.

There were three thousand Ming troops in the city, but this did not make Li Chunjing flinch. As soon as he arrived outside Rong County, he immediately arranged for troops to attack the city.

But what surprised him was that the Ming army on Rongxian's side was not small and dared to go out of the city to fight!

But Li Chunjing has not seen the Ming army dare to take the initiative to fight against his own troops in the field for a long time. Don't they know that after fighting for so long, what his master of the Tang Dynasty is best at is head-to-head battles in the field?

In fact, they really don't know, because because of the lack of information, the Ming army on the Guangxi side really doesn't know much about the specific tactics of the pseudo-Tang bandit army on the Guizhou side.

If it was Song Zhiwen or Zhu Zhihai, they would definitely not have done such a stupid thing. They might not be able to hold on to the defense of the strong city, and they are still playing field battles. Isn't this self-defeating?

But at this time, it was clear that neither Zhu Zhihai nor Song Zhiwen was in charge of the city defense of Rongxian County, so the Ming army came out, and the three thousand Ming army launched an attack on the three thousand Tang army outside the city with fearless courage!

Seeing the Ming army rushing over, even Li Chunjing had to admire them!

This kind of courage, even his own troops have never had it!

In the face of the Ming army that he sent to court death, Li Chunjing was naturally not polite, and he was not ready to attack the city, so he directly ordered his troops to line up to meet the enemy!

According to the traditions of the Tang Dynasty, each battalion formed a tight infantry phalanx, and the more than 150 cavalry under the second infantry battalion were swept in the rear!

When the Datang Army lined up to meet the enemy, many battalion commanders and captain-level officers in the Second Infantry Regiment looked at the Ming army rushing over with puzzled expressions, not to mention the officers in the regular army!

Even the descendants of the Ming army in the eleventh garrison battalion under the thirteenth garrison brigade watched the Ming army rush over with the appearance of a fool!

Just like you birds, you dare to attack their pseudo-Tang bandit army, oh, no, it's the army formation of our Great Tang Wangshi, it's just getting impatient.

Immediately, there was a former Ming army sergeant and platoon leader in the Datang Army garrison outside the city after surrendering, and he said to the surrendering soldiers around him with a look of disdain: "These Stupid, when we were in Liping Mansion City, more than 30,000 of us were defeated, they were only 3,000, and they dared to attack the main force of our Master Wang, which is a joke!"

Yes, when Lao Tzu was defeated, how could you be undefeated?

Doesn't that mean that you are more arrogant than Lao Tzu?

How is this possible, absolutely impossible!

Many people in the Tang Army were full of shock. They looked at the three thousand Ming army rushing up like a fool. Cen Xiong, who led the attack in the Ming army, also looked at the fake Tang thieves ahead with a puzzled expression: Facing the charge of their own army of soldiers, why didn't they run away like the other thieves?

Haven't they heard of the undefeated and invincible prestige of these soldiers?

Three thousand soldiers, enough to destroy the pseudo-Tang Dynasty!

With doubts, Cen Xiong led the 3,000 soldiers toward the second infantry regiment like a tide!