Anzihe's offensive was quite sharp, and the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Division, who had experienced almost all the battles of the 1st Infantry Division, had extremely rich experience in siege operations.

In particular, when Hao Bonian served as the commander of the First Army for a long time, commanding the entire First Army, and often the detailed tactical command of the First Infantry Division was represented by An Zihe, An Zihe's combat experience can be said to be quite rich.

Having participated in many battles in Wuzhou, Guangzhou, Zhaoqing, etc., he knew that if he wanted to break the city quickly, he must completely crush the enemy's morale as soon as possible!

Through the intensive killing and wounding in the early stage, especially the all-important battle of ascending the city, he ascended to the top of the city in one go.

In this way, it will be possible to shake the morale of the enemy army in the shortest possible time, and thus cause the collapse of the enemy's entire army.

If it is a slow trial, it will often wear out the morale of its own side, and finally cause the war to be prolonged, or even unable to attack for a long time, and can only rely on the siege of the city to break the city, just like the second army attacked Guiyang at the beginning, because the first time failed to conquer, in the end can only rely on the long-term siege, it took more than half a year to conquer Guiyang City.

Therefore, whether it was attacking Chenzhou or Guiyang Prefecture, he took a decisive and rapid offensive, and often after a wave of tentative attacks, he immediately invested heavy troops to launch a fierce attack.

And this kind of tactic is quite effective for attacking small and medium-sized cities such as Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture, and the defenders still have no will to fight.

Three days later, An Zihe led his army to successfully conquer the city of Guiyang again, and the defenders of the city were defeated, except for thousands of people who fled, the rest were either killed or captured or voluntarily surrendered!

It only took less than seven days for Anzihe to completely conquer the two cities of Chenzhou and Guiyang, and completely purge the Ming army south of Hengyang City!

In the two battles before and after, Anzihe's subordinates annihilated more than 3,000 Ming troops and captured (including those who voluntarily surrendered) more than 10,000 Ming troops.

However, with such an outstanding success, the casualties of the Anzihe headquarters were not small, with more than 300 killed and hundreds of minor wounded.

But when An Zihe handed over the prisoners to the rear, and after receiving supplies, he led his army north, but his troops were once again fully loaded!

Because the 1st Supplementary Brigade directly transferred new recruits, it was replenished to the 4th Provisional Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Regiment as soon as possible!

Therefore, when An Zihe led the troops north, although the combat effectiveness of his troops inevitably decreased, they were still fully loaded, as long as they went through a period of adaptive training, so that the recruits and veterans who were replenished were well tempered, then it would not take long to recover the combat effectiveness of the peak.

After An Zihe led the army to the north, the protection south of Hengyang City was handed over to the First Supplementary Brigade, and the brigade headquarters of the First Supplementary Brigade was also moved from Zhaoqing to Chenzhou, and more than 6,000 people of the brigade were stationed in Yizhang, Chenzhou, Guiyang and other places.

At the same time, officials from various cabinet ministries quickly followed suit and began to organize local governments in these places and bring them under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Patrol police were formed to maintain law and order in the local area, tax inspection teams were formed to collect taxes to fill the gap in military spending, and administrative officials were the first to reassure the people, telling them that the war was far away from them and that everyone could return to normal life in the future.

The main and even only job of these local officials is to maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and let the local area resume normal production as soon as possible, and contribute money and food to the Tang Dynasty!

The Tang Dynasty is not a rogue power, and the Tang Army is not a rogue either, well, at least not anymore.

Now they will not play the next place to loot and leave, and then regardless of the life or death of the local people, the current Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are fighting for hegemony, occupying a place is not to loot a place, but to occupy this place, implement rule, and collect taxes.

This can be seen from the many strategies of the Tang Army, if it is not necessary to consolidate the occupied areas and maintain the existing ruling areas, the 100,000 troops of the Tang Army cannot go there, even if Hengyang and Changsha cannot be defeated, but they can bypass these big cities in minutes and go to other places, and even as long as Li Xuan is willing, the current First Army can go all the way to Jiangnan.

Of course, whether you can come back is another matter!

Destruction is not what Li Xuan wants, what he wants is to snatch control of these places from the Ming army!

And this is also an important feature that distinguishes the Tang Dynasty from other thieves in history, and it is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty is so afraid of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty!

If the puppet Tang thief army spreads everywhere and loots a place when it is captured, although it will cause great trouble to the Min Dynasty in such a short period of time, as long as it is slowly encircled and suppressed, it will be able to exterminate the puppet Tang thief army, a rogue army that has no stable rear.

But now, the puppet Tang thief army is not like this, they capture a place and occupy a place, and now, the land of the three provinces has all fallen into the hands of the puppet Tang thief army, and more importantly, the puppet Tang thief army uses the continuous armed army of these three provinces.

And such a pseudo-Tang Dynasty will not only shake the Ming Dynasty, but will completely seize the Ming Dynasty!

After An Zihe led the army north, he did not go to Hengyang, because Hao Bonian had already led the army to leave Hengyang at this time!

There are a lot of Ming troops in Hengyang City, and there are a lot of guns, so Hao Bonian has already set his sights on Shaoyang!

However, An Zihe did not go to Shaoyang like Hao Bonian, but went to Qiyang west of Changning according to Hao Bonian's order, first helped the temporary first regiment to take Qiyang, and then transferred to the northeast to garrison in the Paishan area.

Let them finally go to Paishan to garrison, this is to prevent the enemy army in Hengyang from moving south to Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture, and on the other hand, once the enemy army in Hengyang enters Shaoyang in the west, then Anzihe will have time to outflank their retreat and cut off their supply lines.

As a result, the more than 7,000 people under the Anzihe Department will not directly participate in the Shaoyang Campaign, but will serve as peripheral troops.

Before that, An Zihe had to respond to and cooperate with the provisional first regiment in Yongzhou Mansion to attack Qiyang.

The northward battle of the provisional first regiment was not smooth, the strength of the department was not strong, and it did not accept the expansion like the provisional fourth regiment, they first tried to attack Lingling, but found that the Ming army was too much to gnaw, so they shook a shot and made a gesture of going directly north to Qiuyang, which attracted the Ming army in Lingling, and finally annihilated a large number of Ming troops through field battles, and finally captured Lingling.

After taking Lingling, he went north to Qiyang, and now the first regiment of the provisional regiment has lost some soldiers, ammunition is also insufficient, and the soldiers are poor, so they can't take Qiyang independently, and they asked Hao Bonian for support.

Hao Bonian also handed over the task of assisting the first provisional regiment to An Zihe!

The reason is also simple, now Hao Bonian's department, only Anzihe's unit is free, so Anzihe is leading the troops to support the battle of the provisional first regiment.

The battle on the Huguang front line is still continuing, and the war has not broken out, but such a similar small and medium-sized scale battle is continuing, not only in the southern area of Huguang, but also in the northeast of Guizhou, including the area around Huguangchen Prefecture, and the Tang Army with the Second Infantry Division as the core is also continuing to fight with the Ming army.

The Ming army in this place was equally cunning, not only holding the city, but also using various small-scale troops to attack the logistics supply lines and rear places of the Tang Army, forcing the Second Infantry Division to give up the tactics of opening and closing, and also dispersed many small forces to encircle and suppress these Ming troops, although the results were also rich, and the Ming army of several thousand was annihilated in a month.

But it also succeeded in delaying the large-scale eastward advance of the Second Infantry Division!

After all, the Ming Dynasty is not stupid now, and it will not give the Tang Army a chance casually, and the tactics are mainly to stick to the city and small-scale attacks, and it will not give the Tang Army the opportunity to fight a frontal battle in the field on a large scale.

The battle on the Huguang front line is still stalemate, and the reaction to Li Xuan's side also makes Li Xuan a little upset!

Since the Tang Dynasty was on the right track, although there were more and more troops, as the Ming Dynasty paid more and more attention to it, there were more and more troops encircling and suppressing the Tang Dynasty, which became more and more troublesome and time-consuming.

Especially in the battle of Huguang, although the connection achieved a small and medium-sized victory, it was still far from laying the battle situation.

This is not good, when Li Xuan is worried that it will enter the stage of stalemate and consumption, and this is not what Li Xuan wants, but he wants to take Changsha before the rainy season comes, drink Ma Dongting Lake, and enter the Yangtze River Basin.

But the front line is not going well, and it is useless for Li Xuan to be anxious in the rear, what he can do now is to give more support to the front-line troops, especially the replenishment of troops or ordnance.

Therefore, this also made Li Xuan almost three days and two days to inquire about the affairs of the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of the Army, because these three departments, one is responsible for raising military spending, one is responsible for producing ordnance, and the other is responsible for recruiting soldiers, all of which are important departments directly related to the victory or defeat of the front.

Li Xuan stared at it every day, and these officials below did not dare to be the slightest slack, because once things were not done well, Li Xuan would not hesitate to remove or even kill people.

In the past two years, there have been many changes in the officials of these departments, especially the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Industry, especially the middle-level officials in charge of specific affairs, and some important positions have been changed several times.

Li Xuan personally stared at it, although the work efficiency of these three departments was greatly improved, but Li Xuan himself was so tired that he didn't even have time to watch the dance in the thigh era.