After going south, the capital was moved to Zhaoqing, which was decided before going south to Guangxi, so even when Zhaoqing was not taken before, the officials of the Tang Dynasty began to prepare for this.

After Hao Bonian took down Zhaoqing, the entire Tang Dynasty set off a wave of moving the capital!

Major General Li Chunjing, commander of the Third Army, who led the army to fight in the western part of Guangxi, specially returned to Wuzhou on the navy's return transport ship, so that he could accompany His Majesty into Zhaoqing when the capital was officially moved.

However, it was naturally impossible for many generals below Major General Fang Xitong who fought in Guizhou to return to Wuzhou, and the fighting in Guizhou was relatively frequent and the fighting was relatively difficult.

According to the battle report of the Second Army, after a large number of Ming troops in the direction of Huguang entered Guizhou, they have successively conquered many places, including Zhengtai County, the land of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tonggu Acropolis and other cities where large-scale battles broke out. The Ming army conquered Shiqian Mansion without a fight, making Fang Xi angry to death.

Now the situation in the northeast of Guizhou is quite bad, the territory in the northeast has basically been lost, only the remnants of the second garrison regiment and a number of above-mentioned prefectures and counties of about 4,000 people are holding the town of Yuanfu, but this force composed of the remnants of the garrison regiment and the remnants of the hunting camp can imagine how low its combat effectiveness is, and it is still unknown whether this can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of Ming troops.

As for Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, it is the core offensive area of the Ming army, and the 30,000 army is in this area, although Xingquan Mansion City is still holding on, and most of Liping Mansion is still safe, but it is still very hard.

The regular army, which is the main force, has suffered no less than hundreds of casualties, and at present, in eastern Guizhou, the regular army is only a few thousand.

Although the reason why the Ming army was able to conquer the above places so quickly was because the second army took the initiative to abandon these places in order to shrink its forces to defend Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, but in any case, the Ming army was progressing smoothly and recovered many places.

It's just that I don't know how Zhang Yue will feel after knowing that Wuzhou and even Zhaoqing have been lost, and whether those bigwigs in the Beijing division will have doubts about Zhang Yue's strategy of attacking Guizhou first and then Guangxi after knowing that Wuzhou and Zhaoqing have fallen.

These are unknown to outsiders, at least not on the side of the Tang Dynasty.

Now from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty itself, the eastern part of Guizhou is fighting extremely hard, and the commander of the Second Army, Major General Fang Xitong, has now given up the siege of Guiyang, leaving only a garrison regiment and a number of thieves outside Guiyang City, in order to contain the Ming army in Guiyang City, so as not to chase them over.

However, he had already led the main force to rush all the way to the east for several days, but the distance was too far, and the mountain road was rugged and difficult to travel, and when Fang Xitong and the rest of the Second Army rushed back to Liping and Xingquan Mansion, I am afraid they would have to go in March.

Because now and even in the next month, Xingquan Province and Liping Province will still have to rely on the existing troops to fight.

The situation is quite crisis.

In this case, the generals of the Second Army naturally couldn't take the time to participate in the capital relocation ceremony, but there would definitely be no shortage of congratulations.

The senior generals of the Second Army did not come back to participate in the ceremony of moving the capital to the city, but this did not affect the grandeur of the upcoming ceremony of moving the capital to the city.

At the same time, the preparations in Zhaoqing have also entered the final stage, the officials responsible for presiding over the welcoming ceremony in Zhaoqing dressed up the entire Zhaoqing Mansion, the main streets are paved with loess, and a large number of royal flags of the Tang Dynasty are hung in the city, and at the same time, it is also an unofficial national flag 'green dragon flag on a yellow background', and there is also a common military flag of the navy and army 'red dragon holding sword flag'.

The defeated soldiers and idle people in the city have already been cleared in advance, but Zhaoqing is scheduled to be the city of the capital, and it is natural that it cannot be treated sloppily in terms of safety, not only the defeated soldiers and the green-skinned hooligans have been cleaned up, but all the gentry families whose families are officials in the Ming Dynasty have also been forcibly relocated.

Now the people in the city are only ordinary people, and there is basically no trace of the gentry.

Maybe it will be said that in this way, won't Zhaoqing City be adjusted to zero?

How can it be!

With Li Xuan's relocation of the capital here, a large number of officials and their families will come together, just this group of people will be at least more than 5,000 people, the guards will also be stationed in the city, and the army and navy units will also be stationed near the outside of the city, and Zhaoqing will definitely be more lively than before.

And this is the enormous influence brought by the administrative center of an empire.

After all this was ready, Li Xuan also officially led the hundred officials, the Guards and the Sixth Infantry Regiment and other troops to the east, in addition to these officials, there were also many officials, the families of soldiers, and at the same time businessmen, gentry, landlords and others who were close to the Tang Dynasty, they would also accompany Li Xuan's team to the east.

The procession numbered nearly 20,000 men, some of whom traveled by boat and others on the shore for safety.

And Li Xuan took the Xingquan, the largest ship in the Tang Dynasty and the largest warship in the navy, to Zhaoqing.

Xingquan is a very typical sand ship, the largest warship in the Tang Navy, its predecessor was not a gunboat in the hands of the Ming army, on the contrary, he was just an ordinary merchant ship before, and it was not captured from the hands of the Ming army, but the trophies of the tax inspection team.

When the tax inspection team first arrived in Wuzhou, they found that a shipping company did not pay taxes, and what else is there to say, and it happened that this shipping company had a large ship returning from Guangzhou, so this 130-ton sand ship became the trophy of the tax inspection team.

Because of its large tonnage and the fact that it is a new ship, it is naturally impossible for the navy to let it go, so it is directly asked to come over and install a few guns to serve as the new flagship of the Datang Navy.

Although the Xijiang waterway is only an inland river, and the water depth is relatively shallow, the traditional type of sand boat has the characteristics of shallow draft, so if you are careful, you can barely use it.

Now that Li Xuan is going to Zhaoqing, he is naturally taking the largest and safest Xingquan, to put it mildly, this ship is big enough, even if it is accidentally sunk, there is enough time for him to escape.

The Xingquan was accompanied by a number of other warships and numerous transports of the Navy, in addition to a large number of ordinary ships belonging to the Logistics Division.

Because these ships are generally very small, although they carry not many goods and people, the number of ships is quite large, and the whole fleet has more than a hundred ships.

Of course, most of them are small wooden boats, the kind that can only carry a dozen or twenty people!

There was a fleet of boats in the river, and a large number of troops and other personnel accompanied them on the shore, including the cavalry battalion of the Guards.

The speed of the fleet's eastward advance was not too fast, and it could even be called slow, and it was not until the second day of the first month of March that it arrived outside Zhaoqing!

After arriving outside the city of Zhaoqing, Li Xuan and the hundred officials changed into ceremonial uniforms, and even the ordinary soldiers in the army changed into washed and clean military uniforms, so they must show their best appearance when entering the city.

When he first entered Liuzhou City, this time Li Xuan once again refused the dragon sedan chair arranged by the Ministry of Rites for thirty-six people, but insisted on riding a war horse into the city.

Although a group of civil officials, especially the officials of the Ministry of Rites, said that this was not in line with the etiquette system and damaged the majesty of His Majesty, Li Xuan had already made up his mind to pay attention to it, and wanted the world to know that he, Li Xuan, was an immediate emperor, and he personally led the army to conquer the huge world by commanding the army, not the country that was laid down by sitting on a sedan chair carried by 36 people.

Therefore, Li Xuan insisted on riding a war horse into the city, and the other officials naturally objected to it and could only obediently follow it after it was invalid.

This time the ceremony of entering the city basically replicated the ceremony of entering Liuzhou City last time, but the scale was much larger and took longer.

On this day, Li Xuan rode a pure white war horse, wearing a dragon-patterned military uniform, a sword hanging from his waist, and black leather gloves on his hands, and set foot on Zhaoqing City surrounded by the cavalry battalion of the Guards.

He announced his arrival to the whole city of Zhaoqing with the sound of horses' hooves!

He announced his arrival to the Liangguang region with a loud salute!

He used the footsteps of tens of thousands of troops entering the city to announce his arrival to the land of China!

Here he came, with swords and spears, muskets and cannons, with an army of 100,000!

He came, brought death and new life, brought destruction and construction!

After Li Xuan rode into the city, he stopped in the streets of the city and then turned over and dismounted, the long leather boots under his feet stepped on the streets of Zhaoqing City, and then saw him squat down slightly and then stretched out his hand wearing black leather gloves, grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground, and then stood up and faced the civil and military officials behind him, raised his hand, let the dirt flow down from his fingers, and then turned around and got on the horse again, urging the horse to step forward, and at the same time muttered: "I come to see me conquer!" ”