After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the atmosphere in the Tang harem was a little tense because of the Ye's concubine and the Wang's concubine who were about to give birth.

Even outside the palace, the few ministers who know about this matter are quite concerned about this!

It's the same as the last time Queen Dong Yunyun gave birth!

The reason why the ministers are so concerned is naturally because the current huge Tang Dynasty does not even have an heir, not even a clan used as a spare tire.

Who let Li Xuan's father not give up, only gave birth to a son like Li Xuan, and Li Xuan's grandfather was also not strong, only Li Erbi was such a son, and the Li family, which had been passed down for several generations, was left with such a lone seedling as Li Xuan.

It's just Li Xuan, but now he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty!

If Li Xuan has a case, this huge Tang Dynasty can't even find an heir!

There is no heir, this is actually an important reason why the ministers in the Tang Dynasty did not complain about Li Xuan's indulgence in the thigh era for three days and two days, but instead of collecting stunning women everywhere for Li Xuan!

Datang, an heir is needed!

The last time the queen was pregnant and gave birth, many people were looking forward to it, but the queen gave birth to a princess, so whether it was the Empress Dowager Bai or the courtiers outside, they threw Dong Yunyun aside with a sigh, and then set their eyes on Concubine Ye and Concubine Wang.

The current Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers no longer care about what to think about, if other concubines give birth to a prince, but the queen has no prince, it will cause trouble for the prince in the future.

Now they have a simple hope, they just want Datang to have an heir!

As for the many troubles that may arise after there are more heirs, we will talk about it later!

Now it's a matter of whether there's or isn't, and everything else is a side story.

Just when the atmosphere was a little different because the two concubines were about to give birth, the battle on the northern front was still going on.

The Sixth Infantry Division in Nanchang was still holding on, but the siege on the Ming side was getting stronger and stronger.

When Li Xuan's edict to Cai Erhu to make a marquis was still on the way, Nanchang ushered in a large-scale attack by the Ming army.

This time, the Ming army in Jiangxi brought together as many as 60 field guns of more than 5 catties, and hundreds of other small and medium-caliber shotguns to bombard Nanchang City, and at the same time sent more than 20,000 strong attack troops composed of elite and superintendent troops of the border army.

After some fighting, although the Sixth Infantry Division blocked the attack of the Ming army, its own casualties were not small, and more importantly, the ammunition consumption of the Sixth Infantry Division continued to be extremely large.

The situation in Nanchang is becoming more and more dangerous, especially when Zhang Yue learned that the Ming army in Hengyang was annihilated, and gave a death order to the Ming army in Jiangxi, within half a month, Nanchang must be taken, and the Ming army in Jiangxi must dare to conquer Nanchang before the puppet Tang thief army captures Changsha City, and then be able to send people back to defend Huguang.

Otherwise, they can only retreat in disgrace, and then return to Wuchang!

The Hengyang Ming Army is finished, and seeing that Changsha is also going to be unable to hold it, Zhang Yue can't do it if he's not in a hurry!

However, the Sixth Infantry Division of the puppet Tang Thief Army desperately defended it, and was stunned by the Ming army's many general attacks!

As of January 20, the Jiangxi Ming army had suffered no less than 5,000 casualties under the city of Nanchang, but they still did not reach the top of the city!

At the same time, Changsha finally ushered in the siege of the Tang Dynasty!

In fact, the Tang Dynasty King Division had already arrived outside Changsha as early as the Lantern Festival, but at that time, only the Fifth Infantry Division and the Fifth Mixed Regiment of the Second Army from Yuezhou to the south arrived outside the city.

It is almost impossible to take Changsha, which has been run by the Ming army for two years and built almost the same as Tietong, with these troops alone, even if it can be taken, but the second army is estimated to suffer heavy casualties.

So after the Second Army arrived in Nanchang, it did not launch an offensive, but was only stationed in the northwest direction of Changsha!

Li Chunjing has to wait for the arrival of the main force of the First Army!

The main force of the First Army was to pursue the Hengyang Ming Army, so the time to come to Changsha was delayed for a long time, and it was originally agreed to meet during the Lantern Festival, but by the time it was the 20th, the main force of the First Army had not yet arrived.

The first to arrive was a regiment of the First Infantry Division of the First Army, which was personally led by Major General Chen Keqiao, the new commander of the First Infantry Division.

Major General Chen Keqiao was originally the commander of the Third Infantry Division and the commander of the Fourth Army, but in the process of reorganization, the Fourth Army was directly abolished, and he became a simple commander of the Third Infantry Division.

However, in order to make up for him, when Hao Bonian served as the commander of the reorganized First Army, Chen Keqiao also took over as the commander of the First Infantry Division.

Although he is still the commander of the division, the position of the commander of the 1st Infantry Division cannot be compared with the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division.

After Chen Keqiao led the vanguard of the First Infantry Division to Changsha, it was naturally impossible to rush into the attack in a panic, but after settling the troops, it was time to meet Li Chunjing.

When Li Chunjing saw Chen Keqiao, he smiled: "Brother Chen, this time you have won a battle, and the main force of more than 30,000 enemy troops has been defeated so cleanly!" ”

Chen Keqiao said: "It's nothing, it's all the credit of Commander Hao, I'm just following behind and obeying orders, but Commander Li, this series of strategic maneuvers can be described as exquisite, if it weren't for Commander Li to contain the enemy's attention and cause the enemy's strategic disadvantage, I'm afraid those enemy troops are still hiding in Hengyang and can't come out!" ”

Li Chunjing laughed again: "I just walked around with the troops, it's nothing!" ”

Although Li Chunjing said it simply, Chen Keqiao knew that it was not so easy to maneuver hundreds of kilometers continuously under the nose of the Ming army with 30,000 main forces and 40,000 people, and what was even more rare was that just through such a maneuver, the strategic situation of the two sides was completely changed, and the disadvantages of the Ming army were fully revealed.

And let the Tang Dynasty get the opportunity to completely conquer Hengyang and Changsha!

This kind of thing, he Chen Keqiao asked himself that he couldn't do it.

Even if he thought of this tactic, he didn't dare to do it, because it was too risky, and if he didn't do it well, he would die on the road of 'wandering'.

Chen Keqiao fought under Hao Bonian for a long time in his early years, and his tactical style was also greatly influenced by Hao Bonian.

This was replaced by the words of him to be the commander of the Second Army, to be honest, Chen Keqiao was not sure that he would dare to attack Yuezhou under the nose of the main force of the Ming army like Li Chunjing.

After the two of them exchanged polite words, Li Chunjing asked about Hao Bonian's situation: "How is Brother Hao, when will he arrive?" ”

Li Chunjing naturally didn't care about Hao Bonian's personal situation, he cared about when the main force of the First Army would arrive.

You know, whether you can take Changsha or not, you can't rely on his second army, you have to add a first army.

And although his Second Army didn't fight much along the way, only fought a battle in Yuezhou, but the consumption of grain and grass was quite large, and it was not so easy to solve the problem of eating the enemy, and now he was waiting for the First Army to bring a large number of logistics supplies.

Chen Keqiao immediately said: "Commander Hao is all right, after we finished the battle with the enemy army in Hengyang, the troops need to rest, and they have also captured tens of thousands of prisoners, these tens of thousands of prisoners are all supervising and training the army, but it is not easy to disarm them directly, and it will take a certain amount of time to deal with them!"

After the prisoners have been dealt with and new supplies have been received, our main force will go north again, and this will not be far off, tomorrow will be the arrival of troops one after another, and the day after tomorrow heavy artillery and baggage troops will also be able to arrive! ”

"Oh, why is it so long, didn't Hengyang take it down, why didn't you use the river to transport it?" When Li Chunjing said this, he frowned slightly.

The first army came too slowly, and the follow-up attack on Changsha may have to drag on for too long, and if it drags on too long on the Huguang side, I am afraid that the Nanchang side will be really dangerous.

Perhaps seeing Li Chunjing's frown, Chen Keqiao immediately said: "Although Hengyang has been taken, the navy can also control the lanes of the Xiangjiang River, but the ships from Hengyang all the way to the Shenjia ferry port have been burned by Cheng Hongan, so even if the Xiangjiang channel is controlled, there will be no ships available for a while!" ”

Hearing this, Li Chunjing nodded slightly, and then continued to chat with Chen Keqiao, which was naturally the battle with the enemy army in Hengyang not long ago.

You know, this is so far, between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Army, the first real large-scale queue to shoot battle, its significance is quite significant, the Tang Army is naturally to repeatedly study this example, and then learn from it, improve the shortcomings, and give full play to the advantages.

After chatting for a long time, they dispersed, and then they went their separate ways.

They also had to prepare for the attack on Changsha, the artillery positions needed to be set up in advance, and the equipment used in the siege also needed to be prepared in advance, and many preparations were quite complicated.

Two days later, Hao Bonian led the main force of the First Army to Changsha, and the next day he launched a siege of Changsha.

And if you don't want to pay huge casualties and use your life to fill the defense of Changsha City, this siege will naturally not be in a hurry, and you have to grind slowly, at least, you have to use heavy howitzers and the Ming artillery positions on the head of the city to take turns again!

The siege of Changsha could not see the results in a day or two, and although the Nanchang side was defending more difficult, it was not so easy for the Ming army to completely defeat the Sixth Infantry Division and seize Nanchang.

The war in the north seems to have stagnated on the surface, but everyone knows that this stagnation will not last long, once the city of Changsha or the city of Nanchang is broken, it will set off a bloody storm again!

In such a big back, the Tang Dynasty finally ushered in an heir!

And one is not one, but two!

In the second half of the first month, Concubine Ye and Concubine Wang gave birth to princes for Li Xuan, and the birth time of these two princes was only one day apart!

When the two princes were born successfully, the Tang monarchs and ministers were cheering, and the Empress Dowager Bai was smiling when she saw people for many days.

However, in such a cheer, Dong Yunyun 'missed' and broke a number of vases, and most of the other concubines in the harem were also overjoyed on the surface, secretly cursing the two sluts of the Ye family and the Wang family, and at the same time knelt down to worship the gods and Buddhas of the sky, praying that the two princes would die as soon as possible!