If the Fourth Army wants to contain more Ming troops, it needs to cut off the logistics supply line of 50,000 Ming troops in Xingquan Mansion, which is 50,000 troops.

It is certain that the army will be in turmoil, and it may usher in a major defeat, but anyone with a little military knowledge will act cautiously.

If the Ming army in Xingquanfu insisted on not returning to Jingzhou, then Chen Keqiao did not mind cutting off the supply line of the Ming army in Xingquanfu and starving them to death, and then cooperated with the second army to completely annihilate this Ming army.

And to cut off the supply line of the Ming army, it is not necessary to attack the heavy army of Jingzhou Prefecture, he can find a place to station to cut off the supply line of the two places, if the Ming army wants to go out of the city to fight, he will swallow it directly if there is less, and if there is more, it will be a big deal to run!

More importantly, what is the tactical advantage of the Tang Dynasty? It's a field battle.

Although the Tang Dynasty Division has also fought several battles before and after, and they have all been successfully won, the casualties are relatively large, and the fight is not very easy.

Compared with the battle of tough battles, the Tang Dynasty Wang Division is better at field combat, especially the head-on battle where both sides are in the field!

The line tactics of the Tang Dynasty King Division were born for this kind of field decisive battle!

As long as the Ming army dares to go out of the city to face the battle, Chen Keqiao is sure to defeat more than 10,000 or even 20,000 or more Ming troops, and there is a hard bone to gnaw at Jingzhou!

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

Plus a garrison regiment auxiliary.

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

With such a large army, it is absolutely possible to kill tens of thousands of Ming troops in field operations, and if the Ming army comes a little more, even if it is 20,000 people, Chen Keqiao will dare to fight a dozen!

And this, he believes that the Ming army also knows, after all, although the enemy's combat effectiveness is poor, but he is not stupid, and he will not stupidly send thousands of people to try to open up the supply line.

And the facts also proved his conjecture!

When the defenders in Jingzhou City discovered that the puppet Tang thief army had captured Suining, they did not continue to come towards Jingzhou City, but instead went around to the west of Jingzhou City, and had no intention of besieging Jingzhou City, so they stationed their troops in a village about 20 miles away from Jingzhou City.

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

Because on the same day, the defenders in the city got a report that a baggage team going to Xingquan Mansion was intercepted by the puppet Tang thief army, which had more than 500 people and more than 100 guards to protect the baggage force could not support it for a moment, and it completely collapsed in the first time when the puppet Tang thief army came to attack.

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

The loss of this heavy army did not lose much, but it was only more than 100 guards, and the loss of the people was not worth mentioning, and the loss of materials was actually not much, it was nothing more than a part of the food and ordnance materials, and these materials were still more in Jingzhou City.

But what made them feel tricky was that the loss of this baggage force definitely represented not only the loss of some materials and personnel, but more importantly, it meant that there was no way for Jingzhou to continue to supply food and salary to the army on the front line of Xingquanfu.

And this kind of thing is a very fatal thing!

Although the front-line army has a reserve of food, it will not be too much, and it needs a steady stream of supplies from the rear, otherwise, the 50,000 army will not be able to last long by relying on its own reserves.

More importantly, the end of the food and salary will greatly shake the morale of the army!

But they felt that they had no way to deal with it, because they already knew that there were 7,000 pseudo-Tang thieves outside the city, and most of them were still real thieves.

The puppet Tang thief army has been on the rise for a long time, and the Ming Dynasty also has a general understanding of the military system of the puppet Tang thief army, and knows that not every thief army in the puppet Tang thief army is so capable of fighting.

The only ones who can fight are the pseudo-Tang thief army called the infantry brigade and the infantry regiment, and these are the real thieves in the mouth of the Ming army.

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

Because at the beginning, many Ming soldiers wore the military uniforms of the Ming army, so it was easy to distinguish the difference between the two at the beginning, but the garrison brigade continued to wear the military uniforms of the Ming army, because at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the poor jingle sounded, and there was no extra cloth for them to make military uniforms.

After taking Guangxi, the Tang Dynasty, which was slightly looser on hand, also successively provided these garrison brigade troops with new military uniforms, in order to distinguish them from the regular army, the military uniforms of the garrison brigades were based on gray.

Therefore, it can be easily distinguished by the color of the uniforms, and 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 brigades are not equipped with muskets.

Therefore, to determine whether a pseudo-Tang thief army is a real thief or not, or whether it is their main force, just see if they have muskets or not.

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

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

So much so that Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi, said that the Tang thief was invincible.

And the Tang thieves who said this should not be those Ming army surrendering troops, but those real thieves!

In the face of these 7,000 pseudo-Tang thief army, and most of them are still real thieves, no matter how arrogant the generals of the Ming army in the city are, they dare not easily go out of the city to fight.

Because even if tens of thousands of soldiers in the whole city pour out of the city, I am afraid that they will not be able to defeat the thief army in person.

So they have no choice, what they can do is to suspend the transportation of materials, anyway, they can't break through the blockade of the puppet Tang thief army, and there is no need to continue to waste valuable troops and various materials.

The next thing they had to do was to hold on to the city, and then wait for reinforcements from the hinterland of Huguang and the army of Xingquan Mansion to come back.

The puppet Tang thief army entered Jingzhou and cut off the supply channel between Jingzhou and Xingquanfu, and this news was quickly learned by the Huguangming army on the front line.

In order to avoid the leakage of news and cause the morale of the army to be shaken, in this tent of the Chinese army, not to mention the idle people waiting, even the generals of this level under the command of Wei are not qualified to enter.

The people present here are all real high-ranking generals and officials, and the leader is Tan Rong, the new commander of Huguangdu, who has previously served as the commander of the Guizhou Metropolitan and is familiar with the situation in Guizhou, and then he has led troops to suppress rebellions many times, and has extremely rich experience in leading troops.

Before taking up the post of commander of Huguangdu, he originally served in Nanzhili, but was invited and recommended by Zhang Yue, so he was appointed as the new commander of Huguangdu.

The 50,000 troops who entered Xingquan Mansion belonged to his commander!

And this time, in order to let the front-line generals fight better and have no worries, Zhang Yue did not send another governor to Tan Rong to pressure him, but let him lead the army to fight, and even Zhang Yue himself did not point fingers, but did his best to raise and train troops in the rear and raise various combat materials.

In this mode, Zhang Yue basically coordinates the overall situation in the rear and provides a good guarantee for the army on the front line, while the army on the front line only needs to fight and win.

And this is Zhang Yue, if it is Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, he is not at ease to hand over all the army to those martial artists, if tens of thousands of troops do not personally suppress the formation and command, he will not be at ease anyway, even if he does not personally go into battle, but he will let the governor, political envoy, prefect and other senior civil officials supervise the war.

It can be said that in the suppression of the puppet Tang thief army, Zhang Yue and Wang Yue are two extremes, one is firmly in the rear to co-ordinate, and the other personally leads the troops to the front line.

As for whose way is more effective and correct, it is difficult to conclude at present, after all, it is difficult to figure out that the public says that the public is justified and the mother says that the mother is reasonable.

And don't think that Wang Yue is unprofessional to lead the troops in person, as a governor of Liangguang, he originally had military power, and it was his duty to lead the troops to fight, and many senior civilian officials who held this kind of position were more or less knowledgeable soldiers, even if they had not actually led the troops to fight, but they had always read a few books of war.

Don't talk about anything else, but the thirty-six strategies will definitely be able to be memorized!

Tan Rong, who was fully trusted, did not live up to Zhang Yue's trust, and after leading the army into Xingquan Mansion, he quickly captured most of Xingquan Mansion, and then besieged the remnants of the puppet Tang thief army in the city of Xingquan Mansion, and originally sent troops to kill Liping Mansion, but after the arrival of reinforcements from the puppet Tang Thief Army, the army that entered Liping Mansion had to retreat to Xingquan Mansion.

In this process, he can proudly say that he has killed and injured thousands of thieves, including at least 1,000 real thieves.

Even if there are some results in the first battle of Guilin, but because they are defeated and retreated, it is impossible to confirm the specific results, but Tan Rong led the army to fight, and most of them were victorious, so the results can be confirmed.

Originally, he thought that after another ten days and half a month, this Xingquan Mansion was estimated to be able to take down, and then he continued to lead the army into Liping Mansion, so that not only could the thief army be severely damaged, but also could seize the passage to Liuzhou in the south and enter the hinterland of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty.

However, before he could capture Xingquan Mansion, he learned that his back road had been cut off by the pseudo-Tang thief army, and his first reaction after learning the news was: This is a big trouble!