When Li Xuan led the main force of nearly 30,000 people to Wuzhou City, Wang Yue immediately led a group of senior civil and military officials of the Ming Army to the city gate tower of the West City Gate.

The city wall of Wuzhou City was originally more than seven meters high, and the city gate tower was higher than the city wall, when standing on the top of the city gate tower that was more than ten meters high from the ground and looking down, they could clearly see the dense pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city.

In order to prevent being attacked by the Ming army's naval division, Li Xuan led his troops to disembark early, and then walked by land to Wuzhou to adulthood, at this time the fleet had already returned and began to carry out logistics and transportation tasks.

Wang Yue watched the puppet Tang thieves under the city start to build the camp unhurriedly, and asked the others while frowning: "Those who are dressed strangely are the puppet Tang real thieves?" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city, and the unit he was pointing at was the First Infantry Brigade!

Wei Yan next to him immediately said: "Yes, those who wear blue clothes and red pants are pseudo-Tang real thieves, and those who are dressed the same as our soldiers are rebels who surrender to thieves!" ”

Wang Yue's brows furrowed even tighter when he saw this!

Why, because he saw that there were at most half of the real thieves wearing blue clothes and red pants outside the city, but there were as many as half of the rebels wearing Ming army uniforms.

What does this mean, this shows that there are many officers and soldiers who have defected to thieves!

"When the puppet Tang thief army is exterminated, these traitors who defect to thieves must be dealt with seriously, whether they are generals or soldiers who surrender to thieves, they must all be dealt with seriously, if they are not exterminated, how to deter latecomers!" Wang Yue's hatred for the rebels outside the city was even greater than his hatred for the thief army.

Based on the traditional thinking of the East, traitors, especially those who defect to the enemy, are despised.

Sometimes, traitors are even more hated than enemies!

Hearing Wang Yue say this, many people next to him looked a little embarrassed!

Most of them are generals from Guangxi, and many of the rebels outside the city were their subordinates earlier, and even many of the generals who defected to the thieves are still inextricably linked to them.

There is no way, as the scale of the puppet Tang thief army grows larger and larger, more and more places are occupied, and more and more Ming troops are defeated, and it is inevitable that the Ming army and even officials will surrender in this process.

In the past, if the puppet Tang thief army was nested in the ravines, those Ming troops and officials were still quite reluctant to surrender, even low-level officials were unwilling to surrender.

But with the puppet Tang thief army entrenched in the two provinces and 100,000 troops, in fact, many people have changed their minds, although there are still no senior generals and civilian officials who will surrender, but many middle-level generals of about 1,000 households will already take surrender as the first option when the situation is not good.

Even if they are Wei Commander and Wei Commander Servants, these high-ranking generals will not take the initiative to surrender to the thieves after being captured, but most of them will not continue to resist, but will obediently become a prisoner of war.

Even civil officials with harder bones have begun to appear at the level of county orders and even prefects to surrender!

When the Tang Dynasty swept through Guizhou and the central and western parts of Guangxi, and conquered so many state capitals, there would always be one or two civil officials who surrendered, after all, not everyone dared to commit suicide, and in the case of not being able to run, even if they ran away, they would be beheaded by the imperial court, and it was not unacceptable to be a thief.

Therefore, during this period of time, the Tang Dynasty has cumulatively accepted the surrender of two prefects of the Ming Dynasty and several county orders.

For these middle and high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered, the Tang Dynasty naturally gave them very preferential treatment, after all, their surrender was of great political significance, even if they were all a group of wrecks, Li Xuan had to put on a posture of buying money and buying horse bones to hold them high.

For example, Zhang Chengyue, the prefect of Si'en Mansion, who took the initiative to lead the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender some time ago, Li Xuan was very generous and continued to let him stay as the prefect of Si'en Mansion, and soon promoted him to be the political envoy of Gui Xibu.

Most of the other civil officials who surrendered to Cheng were also given preferential treatment, and the lowest ones were retained, had a good attitude, and were barely able to get by, and those who were promoted to prefect or Tongzhi were promoted to prefect or Tongzhi.

Especially a high-ranking official like Zhang Chengyue in a red robe and a fourth-grade high-ranking official, he is even more high-minded, and he can't wait to let people all over the world know that if he is honest with me Li Xuan, it is not a problem to be promoted to become rich, and it is easy to be prosperous and rich.

Li Xuan's preferential treatment of demoted officials, and even the attitude of reusing demotion to lower officials, intensified the surrender trend of civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty, especially many middle and low-level officials surrendered.

So many middle and low-level officials who surrendered will more or less have some contact with the senior civil and military officials here in Wuzhou City, such as the seat teacher, the same year, the same country, and even the same clan.

If all the officials who were demoted were to be exterminated, at least half of the high-ranking officials in Wuzhou City would be implicated.

And Wang Yue also reacted quickly, it was not appropriate for him to speak at this time, although he really thought so, and he also wanted to do so.

So he quickly staggered the topic and began to discuss the defense of the city with his subordinates.

Just when Wang Yue took a group of civil and military officials to observe the puppet Tang thief army outside the city, Li Xuan also took a group of senior generals to climb a small mountain outside the city and continue to observe the city defense of Wuzhou with binoculars.

Now the group of high-ranking officials led by Li Xuan has changed their guns, and many of them are holding a telescope, Li Xuan himself, Zeng Ziwen, director of the Operations Department, Hao Bonian, commander of the First Infantry Brigade, Chen Keqiao, commander of the Third Infantry Brigade, and others are all holding binoculars.

Since the Royal Academy of Sciences built the first monocular, those craftsmen also found the trick, and then continued to polish a batch of crystal lenses by hand, so far seven or eight have been built and distributed to high-ranking generals.

However, it is only limited to the distribution of senior generals, even if the success rate of polishing the lens has come up now, but the raw material of this lens is crystal, and since there is a success rate, there must be scrapped, which is converted, each telescope is expensive.

So it can only be distributed to senior generals!

They used binoculars to observe the city defense of Wuzhou in the distance, and at the same time discussed in a low voice from time to time.

The staff officers of the Operations Division began to draw out the city defense system of Wuzhou in detail to provide a basis for subsequent offensive operations.

In fact, the staff officers of the Operations Division are not only observing in the west city wall, but have actually begun to revolve around the entire Wuzhou City, and at the same time, the surrounding areas are also indispensable for the combat staff officers.

They needed to draw a detailed topographical map of Wuzhou City and the surrounding area!

After Li Xuan discussed with everyone for a long time, he couldn't come up with a better way.

There's no way, whoever makes this Wuzhou City like a hedgehog, it's hard to speak, even if it's a strong attack, it's not easy to attack.

In the end, the camp could only be built first, and then the east and west passages of Wuzhou City were blocked, since I didn't know how to enter it for a while, then I could only besiege the city first.

There are more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in this city, and the food consumed every day is an astronomical amount, and when their food is eaten up, they will not be able to get supplies, not to mention fighting, they will starve to death!

So although Wuzhou City is like a hedgehog, including Li Xuan, the high-level leaders of the Tang Dynasty King Division all feel that sooner or later they will be able to take Wuzhou City, the only question is, how long will it take?

How long this is is very important, if the time drags on for too long, it will have a great negative impact on the strategic development of the follow-up Tang Dynasty Wangshi.

The Ming army in Wuzhou City did not take the initiative to attack, and the Tang Dynasty Division outside the city did not attack, so the first day of the Tang Dynasty's arrival at Wuzhou City passed peacefully.

However, since the next day, some changes have taken place in Wuzhou City, because the heavy artillery of the two artillery battalions of the Tang Dynasty Division's division has already built an artillery position, and it is shelling Wuzhou City.

And because the initial goal was to face the city gate tower, it didn't take long for the west city gate tower to collapse, and it also caused a small number of Ming soldiers to be killed and injured.

But this shelling is also close to this!

The city wall of Wuzhou City is more than seven meters high, and the thickness is not comparable to Liuzhou City and Liping Mansion City.

So after a day of fighting, the heavy artillery troops of the Tang Dynasty Division stopped the shelling very decisively, and the city wall couldn't move!

So much so that Butcher Chen ran to Li Xuan and said, "Your Majesty, we must have a more powerful cannon, preferably a heavy cannon of more than ten catties, otherwise we won't be able to defeat these fortified cities!" ”

In the face of Butcher Chen's words, what can Li Xuan do, there is a hairy way!

Ten pounds of heavy artillery, this is a twelve-pound cannon, with the level of those craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty, it is not easy to make a nine-pound cannon, and if you want a twelve-pound cannon, don't expect it for a while.

The artillery bombardment did not move, the infantry forcibly rushed up, and in the face of the wall more than seven meters high, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties, and in the end there is no choice but to dig trenches and tunnels in a stupid way!

Of course, the Ming army is not stupid, and they will take corresponding measures to block and destroy the tunnel, so this tunnel is not so easy to dig, so you can only take your time.

Just when Li Xuan was stopped under the city of Wuzhou, he went all the way along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then along the Yangtze River to Changsha all the way.

The first thing Zhang Yue did when he arrived in Huguang was to put several high-ranking officials in Huguang out of the air.

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have enough power, he would definitely arrest the senior officials on Huguang's side one by one as soon as possible.

How long has this pseudo-Tang thief army been making trouble, the thief army has taken Guizhou and most of Guangxi, and the neighboring Huguang still hasn't sent troops to Guizhou, which is simply intolerable.

Of course, he definitely does not have the power to directly remove these high-ranking officials such as the prefect or even the governor, but he, the superintendent, came with the Jingying and even the holy decree of Zhengde, and there is a sentence in this holy decree to act cheaply, so he did not mean to directly remove these officials from their positions, but to put them in the air, and directly took charge of the military power of Huguang Zhudi.

After taking power initially, Zhang Yue immediately sent an army of 30,000 gathered from Huguang to march into Guizhou, and his troops were directed at the land of Longxing of the puppet Tang thief army: Xingquan Mansion!

After the Tang Dynasty captured Guizhou for many months, the Ming army on the Huguang side was finally killed!