With the contribution of the puppet Tang thief army in Fujian, the thief army even penetrated deep into the south of Zhejiang, and the situation in this prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River instantly became tense.

And this tension is not a vacuumous worry of Jiangnan officials and gentry, but real, because the pseudo-Tang thief army did not only appear in southern Zhejiang.

At the same time, Chizhou Mansion can frequently see the small-scale reconnaissance troops of the thief army, and even near Yingtianfu, there are traces of the thief army's reconnaissance cavalry, even in Anqing Mansion on the north bank of the Yangtze River, there are also traces of the thief army.

And all this, people with a little military common sense know that the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side is already preparing for a large-scale attack.

Once this fights start, I am afraid that the entire Jiangnan will be plunged into war.

The people are panicked, this is the best portrayal of the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

Especially in the two cities of Jinling and Hangzhou, the officials and gentry in the city were even more frightened, because they also knew that once the war started, it would be difficult to say about other places, but these two cities would definitely be the key attack places of the puppet Tang thief army.

Especially Jinling, this city has great political, economic, and cultural significance in Jiangnan and even the entire southern region, and if the thief army wants to live in Jiangnan, Jinling City must be defeated.

As the supreme person in charge of the Jiangnan house, the crown prince Taibao, Shang Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, and Wang Yiqi, who supervised the military affairs of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, have not slept well recently.

Ordinary people all felt that the situation was unusual, and the storm was coming, and Wang Yiqi, who had more information, knew that the large-scale attack of the thief army was imminent.

According to the feedback from the troops in Anqing and Chizhou, the various reconnaissance units of the thief army are frequently active, which clearly shows that they want to reconnoiter the terrain and the deployment of the Ming army in advance, and formulate an offensive route for the subsequent large-scale offensive.

And the situation from Jiangxi also shows that the puppet Tang thief army ships full of ordnance and ammunition are not transported to Nanchang and other places one by one, but one fleet after another to Nanchang.

A certain businessman even saw with his own eyes in the wharf outside Nanchang City, and the cannonballs carried by many ships were piled up on the wharf, as tall as a hill!

The mountain rain is coming!

In order to defend the south of the Yangtze River, Wang Yiqi also used all the methods he could think of to turn the fortress of Anqing into a fortress, and at the same time built fortifications in Jinling City, recruited countless young people to build forts, thickened and heightened the city walls, and cleaned and deepened the moat.

At the same time, 30,000 new troops from Jiangnan were also sent to Zhejiang to reinforce Yu Dayou.

In the area of Yingtianfu, he gathered most of the main forces in his hands, more than 60,000 Jiangnan New Army, 20,000 elite border troops, and even 4,000 cavalry!

In Anqing, he dispatched 20,000 new troops south of the Yangtze River, and also built a super-large Jiangfang fort.

On the front line of Anqing, Yingtianfu, and Chizhoufu, there were more than 100,000 main forces such as the border army and the Jiangnan New Army alone, and there were also miscellaneous guards and more than 50,000 young and strong people who were temporarily conscripted.

A full 150,000 army is ready for battle!

However, even so, he still doesn't have much confidence, now he is not the same as he just came to Jiangnan last year, when he first arrived in Jiangnan last year, he thought that the pseudo-Tang thief army could certainly fight a little, but as long as he was cautious, there should not be too many problems.

But in last year's Jiangxi Campaign, especially the battle of the Ming army besieging Nanchang, he was personally present and truly saw the difficulty of the puppet Tang thief army.

If you want to fight with the puppet Tang thief army, even if you rely on a strong city to defend it, you can't hold it at all without two or three times the strength of the army and a large number of artillery.

And these troops must be all new troops or border troops, and no matter how many guards in the south there are, they are useless.

Lacking confidence, on the one hand, he strengthened his own defense, and on the other hand, he urgently asked for help from the northern court, and at the same time asked Zhang Yue for assistance.

However, at this time, even if Emperor Zhengde was to reinforce Wang Yiqi, he was actually powerless, and the northern provinces of Shandong, Beizhili, and Henan had already begun to train the new army, and together with the Beijing camp, there were tens of thousands of new troops.

However, before that, nearly 20,000 people were successively dispatched south to reinforce Wang Yiqi, and became part of the Jiangnan New Army under Wang Yiqi.

At the same time, it is also necessary to guard against Altan Khan in the north, who is also a generation of heroes, leading his tribes to fight for decades, and successfully expelled the Mongol Great Khan Dalai Sun Kuden Khan to the east of the Xing'an Mountains, completing the unification of Mongolia to a certain extent.

And the Tatars commanded by this person are a great threat to the Ming Dynasty, and there was a war with the Ming Dynasty in the early years, and in the last two years, the Ming Dynasty suffered a great loss because of the rise of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, so Altan Khan also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to enter, and tried to attack Datong Mansion last year, but the result was quite funny.

Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the situation, but I didn't expect that the border army on the side of Datong Mansion had been upgraded and equipped with a large number of guns.

Although the Ming army could not defeat the puppet Tang thief army, it was still quite good at suppressing all kinds of rebellions and Tatar invasions.

However, even if it can be defended, it is still pinned down by a large number of troops in the border town.

In the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has actually built a large number of guns in the northern provinces, but half of them are equipped with border troops, and the remaining half are equipped with new armies in Beijing and northern provinces.

However, although he lost a game last year, Altan Khan did not give up, the weak Ming Dynasty could not be met at any time, and now he can't take the opportunity to make a wave, he can't help himself, so the border troops around the country have been under great pressure recently.

Now, the Ming Dynasty's troops in the northern provinces are tight, otherwise, Emperor Zhengde would have sent more troops south.

However, even if it was difficult, Emperor Zhengde still knew that the important land in Jiangnan could not be lost, so he still searched for troops everywhere, and finally gathered 20,000 reinforcements to prepare to go south to reinforce Wang Yiqi, but when they arrived in Jiangnan, I am afraid it will be a few months later.

Now the only person who can give Wang Yiqi practical support is actually Zhang Yue, this support does not mean that Zhang Yue should directly send reinforcements to Jiangnan, this road is too far, and there is a pseudo-Tang thief army in the middle, it is difficult for Zhang Yue's troops to reinforce Jiangnan.

But they can directly launch a counteroffensive and contain the strength of the puppet Tang thief army.

As long as Zhang Yue can contain more of the puppet Tang thief army, relatively speaking, it will also reduce the pressure on Wang Yiqi.

But did Zhang Yue dare to counterattack?

Counterattack is a fart, after Zhang Yue received Wang Yiqi's letter asking him to launch a counteroffensive, he directly burned the letter, what a joke, now he relies on the Yangtze River moat to defend it, but let him cross the river to counterattack, that is not to let him counterattack, but to let him go to death!

The puppet Tang thief army has hoarded heavy troops in Yuezhou, Wuchang, Jiujiang and other places, and whether their own army can cross the river is not to say, even if they can cross the river successfully, but how many people do they need to succeed in the counterattack? Can I come back if I go here?

Zhang Yue has little confidence in this.

It's not that he was scared of the puppet Tang thief army, but that he has been fighting with the puppet Tang thief army for several years, although he has been defeating the war, but when it comes to understanding the puppet Tang thief army, he is the only one who knows best in the entire Ming Dynasty.

If you want to counterattack, you can't count on it without more than three times the troops, and this is still the most elite superintendent under his command.

With the gradual increase in the ruling area of the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, the number of troops is also increasing, and the current Ming Dynasty is actually getting older and more difficult, and it was able to hold Huguang and Jiangxi two years earlier, but after these two places were captured by the puppet Tang thief army, if you want to defend again, in fact, you can only rely on the Yangtze River moat.

As for Jiangnan, Zhang Yue didn't think it could be defended!

Although he knew that once Jiangnan was lost, it would cause a great chain reaction, but if he really had to talk about it carefully, it would actually have little impact on his supervision and training, because his supervision and training basically did not rely on the supply of the imperial court, and Jiangnan lost his business.

Now it is still Sichuan and Hubei that support the army under his command, so these two places are also his key defense areas.

Sichuan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but he sent a full 20,000 troops to garrison Chongqing Mansion and Banzhou as early as possible.

Because the terrain is quite complicated, and the supply of both sides is very difficult, so the battle between the two sides has gradually evolved into the same as the Yunnan side, small-scale battles are very frequent, but the big battle is not fought, this kind of battle, whether it is the pseudo-Tang thief army or his superintendent to train the army, it is quite difficult to fight.

Of course, the reason why the battles in Yunnan and Sichuan are deadlocked, in addition to the limitations of the terrain and the objective reasons of supply difficulties, in fact, the main reason is that these two places are not the main offensive direction of the Tang Dynasty.

Although there is a Fourth Infantry Division in Yunnan, this Fourth Infantry Division has not been able to complete the reorganization until now, there is a lack of guns, and the replenishment of ammunition is also intermittent, even if it is difficult to replenish new soldiers, the strength of the Fourth Infantry Division has never been full since the march into Yunnan. After all, the supply priority of the Fourth Infantry Division has always been very low within the Datang Army.

Now there are not many troops marching into Sichuan, only the 7th Mixed Regiment and a regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division, and their supply priority is also very low.

You must know that the supply priority of the Tang Army to the First Army is not high, and most of the ammunition supply is given priority to the Second Army and the Third Army.

The lack of ammunition supplies, and even the lack of personnel, naturally made a war a retreat, and there was little progress.

And this is also a major disadvantage of the Datang Army, that is, it relies on guns and artillery in the process of combat, and once the supply is not smooth, the combat effectiveness of the war will be reduced instantly.

The puppet Tang thief army was not active in attacking Yunnan and Sichuan, which allowed Zhang Yue to always ensure the control of these two places, and now, when he realized that Jiangnan might not be able to be saved, he cared even more about the safety of Sichuan, and began to send a large number of henchmen into Sichuan.

Among them is Song Zhiwen!

Song Zhiwen went to Sichuan, naturally not to fight, in Zhang Yue's opinion, Song Zhiwen's ability to fight a war is average, but his ability to build guns and train soldiers is not bad, so he asked Song Zhiwen to go to Sichuan to build guns and train soldiers.