Valley Emperor

If the Fourth Army wants to contain more Ming troops, it needs to cut off the logistics supply line of the 50,000 Ming troops in Xingquan Mansion. That is 50,000 troops. Once the food and wages are cut off, the scene should not be too beautiful.

The military turmoil is certain, and it may usher in a major defeat, but anyone with a little military common sense will act cautiously.

If the Ming army in Xingquan Mansion insisted on not returning to Jingzhou, then Chen Keqiao would not mind cutting off the supply line of the Ming army in Xingquan Mansion, starving them to half death, and cooperating with the Second Army to completely annihilate this Ming army. military.

In order to cut off the supply line of the Ming army, it is not necessarily necessary to attack the city of Jingzhou, which is full of heavy troops. If he can find a place to station, he can cut off the supply line between the two places. If the Ming army wants to go out of the city to fight, fewer people will come He just swallowed it in one gulp, and if it came too much, he ran away!

The more important point is, what is the tactical advantage of Datang Wang Shi? It's a field battle.

Although the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty also fought several tough battles before and after, and they were all successfully won, but the casualties were relatively large, and the battles were not very smooth.

Compared with the tough battle, the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty is better at fighting in the field, especially the frontal battle in which both sides are fighting in the field!

The line tactics of the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty were born for this kind of decisive battle in the wild!

As long as the Ming army dares to go out of the city to fight, Chen Keqiao is sure to defeat more than 10,000 or even 20,000 or more of the Ming army, and there is no doubt that they can gnaw at the hard bone of Jingzhou!

This time he went north and brought with him most of the main force of the Fourth Army and most of the Third Infantry Brigade, including five regular infantry battalions, three reserve battalions, and an artillery battalion with more than ten artillery pieces. , a cavalry battalion with more than 100 cavalrymen, and a baggage regiment of more than 1,000 people.

Plus a garrison support.

The total number of troops has reached more than 7,000!

With such a large army, it is absolutely possible to kill tens of thousands of Ming troops in field operations. Even if there are more than 20,000 Ming troops, Chen Keqiao will dare to fight!

And this, he believes that the Ming army also knows, after all, although the enemy's combat effectiveness is inferior, but it is not a fool, and it will not be foolish to send thousands of people to try to get through the supply line.

And the fact also proved his conjecture!

When the defenders in Jingzhou City discovered that the pseudo-Tang bandit army had captured Suining, they did not continue to move towards Jingzhou City. Instead, they circled to the west of Jingzhou City and had no plans to surround Jingzhou City. In a village about twenty miles away from Jingzhou City.

At first, after the Ming army in the city got the news, they still didn't understand why this band of thieves didn't come to attack Jingzhou City, but they quickly reacted.

Because that day, the defenders in the city received a report that a baggage team heading to Xingquan Mansion was intercepted by the pseudo-Tang thief army. This baggage force, which had more than 500 people and was protected by more than 100 guards, did not have a moment. If it can be sustained, it will completely collapse the first time the pseudo-Tang thief army comes to attack.

After learning the news, the Ming army generals in the city were all saddened.

The loss of the baggage troop is not much, but only more than a hundred guards. As for the loss of the people, it is not worth mentioning. It's just weapons and supplies, and there are still many of these supplies in Jingzhou City.

But what makes them troublesome is that the loss of the baggage troop does not only represent the loss of a little material and personnel, but more importantly, it means that Jingzhou has no way to continue to supply the army on the front line of Xingquan Prefecture. Food is paid.

And this is a very fatal thing!

Although the front-line army has reserves of food, it is not too much. It needs a steady stream of supplies from the rear. Otherwise, the 50,000 army will not be able to maintain it for long by relying on its own reserves.

More importantly, on the one end of food and salaries, it will greatly shake the hearts of the army!

But they were troubled because they had no way to do anything about it, because they already knew that there were 7,000 fake Tang thieves outside the city, and most of them were real thieves.

The pseudo-Tang bandit army has been on the rise for a long time, and the Ming Dynasty also had a general understanding of the military system of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, knowing that not every bandit army in the pseudo-Tang bandit army could fight like this.

Only those pseudo-Tang thieves who were called infantry brigade, infantry regiment, etc. could fight. These were the real thieves in the mouth of the Ming army.

As for the garrison brigades that the Ming army had changed from descending troops, the Ming army called them fake thieves!

Because at the beginning, many Ming army descendants were still wearing Ming army uniforms, so it was easy to tell the difference between the two at the beginning, but the garrison brigade continued to wear Ming army uniforms, because at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty The poor clanked, and there was simply no extra fabric for them to make military uniforms.

After winning Guangxi, the Tang Dynasty, which was a little looser on hand, also successively provided new military uniforms to these garrison brigade troops. In order to distinguish it from the regular army, the military uniform of the garrison brigade was based on gray.

Therefore, the color of the military uniform can be easily distinguished, and it can also be distinguished from their weapons. In fact, this is also the best way to distinguish. The regular army is equipped with muskets, while the garrison brigade is not equipped with muskets.

So to determine whether a pseudo-Tang thief army is a real thief, whether it is their main force, it is enough to see if they have muskets.

Judging from the report of the reconnaissance cavalry, these pseudo-Tang thieves have a large number of musketeers. If this is not the main force of the real thieves of the pseudo-Tang thieves, then no one will believe it.

The combat effectiveness of the real thieves of the fake Tang Dynasty is very strong, which is basically the common understanding of the front-line Ming army generals. The long and large-scale fiasco in Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong and other places are basically defeated by these real thieves.

So much so that Guangxi Governor Wei Yan said that Tang thieves are invincible.

And the Tang thief who said this, is not talking about the Ming army who surrendered, but the real thieves!

In the face of these seven thousand fake Tang thieves troops, and most of them are real thieves, no matter how arrogant the generals of the Ming army in the city are, they would not dare to go out of the city to fight easily.

Because even if tens of thousands of soldiers from the whole city rushed out, I am afraid they would not be able to defeat the thieves in person.

Therefore, what they can do is to suspend the transportation of materials. Anyway, they cannot break through the blockade of the pseudo-Tang thief army. There is no need to continue to waste precious troops and various materials.

The next thing they have to do is to stick to the city, and then wait for reinforcements from the hinterland of Huguang and Xingquan Prefecture to return.

The pseudo-Tang thieves invaded Jingzhou and cut off the supply channel of Jingzhou and Xingquan Mansion. This news was quickly learned by the Huguang Ming Army on the front line. After learning the news, several core generals sat together. .

In order to prevent the news from leaking and causing the army's heart to be shaken, in the tent of the central army, not to mention the idle people waiting, even generals of the level of commander Wei are not qualified to enter.

The people present are real senior generals and officials, headed by Tan Rong, the new commander of Huguang Metropolitan Government. Very experienced.

Before he took office as the commander of Huguang Metropolis, he originally served in Nanzhili, but he was invited and recommended by Zhang Yue, and then he was appointed as the new commander of Huguang Metropolis.

The 50,000 troops that entered Xingquan Mansion belonged to him!

And this time, in order to make the front-line generals fight better, without any worries, Zhang Yue did not send another governor to hold him down, but let him lead the army to fight, even Zhang Yue himself They also did not point fingers, but did their best to raise and train troops in the rear and raise various combat supplies.

In this mode, Zhang Yue basically coordinates the overall situation in the rear, and provides guarantees for the army to go to the front line, and the army on the front line only needs to fight and win the battle.

And this is Zhang Yue. If it is Wang Yue, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he will not worry about handing over the entire army to those warriors. If the tens of thousands of troops do not personally lead the formation, he will not be relieved no matter what, even if he does not personally Go into battle, but you will also have high-level civilian officials such as the governor, political envoy, and prefect to supervise the battle.

It can be said that Zhang Yue and Wang Yue are two extremes when it comes to suppressing the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

As for who's method is more effective and correct, it's hard to tell at the moment.

And don't think that Wang Yue is unprofessional to lead troops in person. As a governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he has military power, and it is his responsibility to lead troops to fight. Many senior civil servants who hold such positions are more or less knowledgeable. Soldiers, even if they didn't actually lead troops to fight, they still read a few books on the military.

Not to mention the rest, but the Thirty-Six Stratagems can definitely be recited!

Tan Rong, who was fully trusted, did not fail Zhang Yue's trust~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After leading the army into Xingquan Mansion, they quickly captured most of Xingquan Mansion, and then besieged and attacked the pseudo-Tang thief army. The remnants of the enemy were in Xingquan Mansion, and they originally sent troops to enter Liping Mansion, but after the arrival of reinforcements from the pseudo-Tang thief army, the army that entered Liping Mansion had to return to Xingquan Mansion.

In this process, he can proudly say that he has killed and wounded thousands of thieves, including at least 1,000 real thieves. These results are real, not the same as Wang Yue's boasted Guilin Victory. In fact, there were few results.

Even though there were some victories in the first battle of Guilin, the specific victories could not be confirmed because they were defeated, but Tan Rong led the army to fight, and most of them were victorious, so the victories could be confirmed.

Originally, he thought that in ten days and a half months, the Xingquan Mansion would be able to be taken down, and then he would continue to lead his army into Liping Mansion, which would not only damage the bandit army, but also win the battle to the south. The passage of Liuzhou, entered the hinterland of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty.

However, he hadn't been able to capture Xingquan Mansion. He just learned that his back path had been cut off by the pseudo-Tang thief army. After learning this news, his first reaction was: This is a big trouble!