Zhang Yue and the puppet Tang thief army have been fighting for a long time, and they are already very clear about the puppet Tang thief army's siege routine, Zhang Yue predicts that after the puppet Tang thief army arrives at the city of Fuzhou, it is expected to rest for a day, and in this time to build simple siege equipment, build artillery positions, and start shelling the next day, and after a day of bombardment, the puppet Tang thief army will launch a general attack with heavy infantry!

And once the puppet Tang thief army uses heavy infantry to launch a general attack on the city, I am afraid that the head of Fuzhou will not be able to hold on for even an hour!

This is not an exaggeration, but a fact, most of the cities of the Ming army in the past were lost in this way, including the heavily armored garrison of Ji'an Luling City!

Therefore, Zhang Yue can't give the puppet Tang thief army so much time, he must catch up as soon as possible, no matter what, he must shorten the time to less than three days, otherwise, Fuzhou will be finished.

But now the problem is that his troops can't continue to pick up speed!

The reason why Zhang Yue's department couldn't speed up was actually very simple, that is, lack of physical fitness.

Zhang Yue's troops are not all supervising standards or border troops, if they are simple supervising standards and border troops, their physical fitness is better, and they can catch up with the pace of the main force of the second army by gritting their teeth.

However, in Zhang Yue's department, there are still tens of thousands of guards and local recruits, they are short of food and clothing on weekdays, and the old and young are many weak, and their physical fitness is not good, and it is impossible to maintain a high-intensity march with the governor and the border army at this time.

Even if they are the superintendent and the border army, their physical fitness is not as good as that of the Tang Army, not to mention the ordinary recruits and guards, young and strong.

The reason for the lack of physical fitness is simpler: the level of food is not high!

This is the army that Zhang Yue tried his best to keep supply, and he didn't dare to say that he was full of white rice every day like the Tang Army, and he had meat to eat at both ends in three days, but he could also eat two dry meals a day, which could barely be regarded as full food, and he had nutrition to maintain training every three days or five days.

The border troops that went south to fight were also elite troops, and although they still had the name of guards, they were completely different from ordinary guards in the interior, and the supplies in all aspects were relatively sufficient, and they had relatively rich combat experience.

But those ordinary recruits and guards don't have such treatment, their food standards are not even half of the superintendent's standard, and many times they can't even eat enough, which is not enough, so naturally don't expect physical training, it's good to be able to practice once in ten days and half a month.

In wartime, although Zhang Yue temporarily raised the food standards to ensure the morale and physical fitness of the soldiers, physical fitness needs to be accumulated over a long period of time, and sharpening guns in battle has no effect.

The recruits and guards can't keep up with the marching speed of the superintendent and the border army, but it is impossible for Zhang Yue to divide the troops, let the superintendent and the border army catch up first, and let the guards and ordinary recruits slowly chase behind.

Moreover, without the help of a large number of recruits and guards, Zhang Yue actually did not have much confidence that he could defeat the more than 20,000 main forces of the puppet Tang thief army by relying only on the supervision of 20,000 or 30,000 people and the border army.

To be on the safe side, his army must march in a group as before!

But you can't watch the puppet Tang thief army rush to Fuzhou first, in that case, Fuzhou will be finished!

So after thinking about it, in the end, he still sent three thousand elite cavalry of the border army to chase after him first!

He didn't expect these 3,000 elite cavalry of the border army to be able to stop the enemy's main force, he only hoped that these cavalry could delay the enemy's march!

At this time, the tactical choice made by Zhang Yue had actually deviated from Li Chunjing's previous expectations!

Zhang Yue did not directly send all the four thousand cavalry to drag them down, as Li Chunjing had expected, but only sent three thousand cavalry!

I still have a thousand Governor's Cavalry on hand!

And this thousand standard cavalry is still a huge threat to the Fourth Mixed Regiment!

And more importantly, Zhang Yue's strategy of dividing troops, Gu Shizhong, who was in Fengcheng, knew nothing about it, and when he learned from the scout cavalry that a large group of Ming cavalry had broken away from the main army and began to pursue the main force of the second army first, he also officially ordered the troops to be pulled out!

Four days after the division of the Second Army, the main force of the Fourth Mixed Regiment left Fengcheng and prepared to carry out the battle plan of attacking Nanchang!

To be on the safe side, his troops did not stupidly go directly to Nanchang, but prepared to march west first, and then turn to Nanchang.

However, after leaving Fengcheng, the traces of the reinforced Fourth Mixed Regiment were also exposed to the eyes of the Ming army's scouts, although the cavalry team to which the Fourth Mixed Regiment belonged had expanded the scope of peripheral reconnaissance as much as possible to intercept the Ming army's scouts.

However, in terms of cavalry, especially in small-scale cavalry battles, the Tang Army actually did not have an advantage over the cavalry of the Ming Army, and even had a certain disadvantage.

And the situation of the cavalry team of the fourth mixed regiment desperately intercepting the Ming army's scouts also attracted the attention of the Ming army's scouts, and it was determined that there must be a big situation ahead, so they mobilized more scouts to search for the west of Fengcheng!

In this way, the cavalry team of the Fourth Mixed Regiment had already intercepted as much as possible, but it still allowed the Ming Army's scouts to discover the traces of the Fourth Mixed Regiment, and even approached the distance of less than three miles from the main force of the Fourth Mixed Regiment for a time.

Through the binoculars, looking at the Ming army scouts running away in the distance, Gu Shizhong also sighed, this was only hidden for a day, and his troops had already been exposed.

Now, I can only hope that the main side of the Second Army can buy more time for myself!

"Order the whole army, turn to Nanchang, and speed up the march of the whole army! Within two days, we must rush to Nanchang! Brigadier General Gu Shizhong rode on his horse, watching his troops begin to turn around and start to speed up, but there was no high-spirited expression on his face, but with a strong worry!

And it didn't take long for Zhang Yue's main force, which was located in the northeast of Fengcheng and about fifty miles away, to know from the herald soldiers who were already galloping all the way and tired of several fast horses that the scouts monitoring the direction of Fengcheng had discovered that the puppet Tang thief army had left the city, and the number greatly exceeded the previous expectations, reaching a scale of at least 6,000 people.

"Isn't the thief army over there in Fengcheng just one regiment? Why did six thousand people suddenly come out again? Zhang Yue immediately said with a straight face.

A few days ago, the scout cavalry told him that although there was a pseudo-Tang thief army stationed in Fengcheng, there was only one regiment number!

And Zhang Yue is also quite familiar with the establishment and number of the puppet Tang thief army, a regiment, that is, the scale of two or three thousand people, but now six thousand people suddenly appeared.

Immediately, there was humanity: "There is indeed only one regiment, but this regiment is not an ordinary infantry regiment in the puppet Tang thief army, but a mixed regiment of theirs!" ”

"Even if it is a mixed group of pseudo-Tang thief troops, it is absolutely impossible to have six thousand people!" Zhang Yue knew very well that a mixed regiment of the puppet Tang thief army had only four or five thousand troops, and it could not be six thousand people!

At this time, it was naturally impossible for the Ming army to know that the Fourth Mixed Regiment had been strengthened!

Although Zhang Yue was angry in his heart, and the people below him were not doing things well, which led to a deviation in his strategic judgment, since the enemy army had 6,000 people leaving Fengcheng, there was no need to guess that they definitely wanted to go to Nanchang.

Now, although there are more than 10,000 soldiers in Nanchang City, their own families know their own affairs, and the defenders in Nanchang City are mostly guards and young people, and even local recruits are only two or three thousand people.

It may be possible for them to deal with a pseudo-Tang thief army of two or three thousand people, but it may be impossible to deal with a pseudo-Tang thief army of six thousand people!

What now?

Will the army return to Nanchang, or continue to Fuzhou?

If you don't defend Nanchang, then Nanchang may be lost.

But if you don't go to Fuzhou, Fuzhou will be 100% finished, you must know that he just got the information this morning, the vanguard of the puppet Tang thief army has arrived under the city of Fuzhou, if nothing else, the main force of the puppet Tang thief army will arrive at Fuzhou City tomorrow, give them three more days, and Fuzhou will be finished.

Nanchang, Fuzhou!

These two places, no matter which one you can't lose!

Zhang Yue pondered for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Supervise the standard cavalry, immediately pursue to the west, and be sure to hold off the six thousand pseudo-Tang thief army that set off from Fengcheng!" ”

At the same time, he gritted his teeth and dispatched 10,000 infantry to quickly return to Nanchang!

As long as these 1,000 governors can hold back the march of the 6,000 puppet Tang thief army, then their 10,000 infantry will be able to smoothly rush back to Nanchang to strengthen the defense, so that the safety of Nanchang can be guaranteed.

Moreover, the total strength of the puppet Tang thief army is so much, since it has been divided into 6,000 troops, it means that the puppet Tang thief army that has arrived at the head of Fuzhou City in front of it has 6,000 fewer people, and although the total strength led by himself has also decreased by 10,000, it should still be enough.

He continued to personally lead the main force, and then cooperated with the 30,000 defenders in Fuzhou, and he was still sure to fight with the main force of the puppet Tang thief army!

As long as the main force of this pseudo-Tang thief army is disabled, even if Nanchang is really lost, there is nothing, it's a big deal to go back and take it back!

"The main force of the army continues to march eastward into Fuzhou, speed up, we must rush to Fuzhou City within three days, and this official will completely annihilate the main force of the puppet Tang thief army under Fuzhou City!"

After Zhang Yue made a decision, the main force of the Ming army began to divide the troops, and a thousand Dubiao cavalry left the army as soon as possible, and then rushed towards the west without looking back.

Later, tens of thousands of infantry also turned around and returned to Nanchang, and these 10,000 infantry were still all local guards, and Zhang Yue did not send even one of the infantry of the supervision or border army to help!

Because the current Zhang Yue, his goal is no longer even to keep Fuzhou, but to become the main force of the Second Army!

So he had to bring all the overseers and the border troops!

And whether he can hold Nanchang, Zhang Yue didn't expect these 10,000 guards, he was hoping for the 1,000 standard cavalry!