(The commander of the 7th Infantry Division in the previous chapter was adjusted to Gu Shizhong, which has been revised above)

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Nanchang in midsummer, the same heat as other places, Gu Shizhong has also been to Nanchang before, but that was also last year, this time I will inevitably take a few more looks, and it turned out that this city is the same as Changsha, it is said to be a big city, but the actual residents in the city are not much, and more are still the army.

The two cities of Changsha and Nanchang are very similar, both of which once existed as strategic support points for the direction of the Ming army, and Nanchang has more ups and downs than Changsha.

Because after the Second Army of the Tang Dynasty conquered Nanchang last year, after the main force of the Second Army advanced westward, Nanchang ushered in the siege of 60,000 or 70,000 people of the Ming Army, and launched a fierce battle with the Sixth Infantry Division defending the city.

Because of this, all kinds of city fortifications in Nanchang City are quite perfect, and the traces of the war are very obvious, the outer walls of the city wall, the battlements and the city gate tower are still in tatters and no one repairs.

The long-term war has also made the city not many residents, and now there are only 30,000 or 40,000 residents in the city, but the army stationed in the city is almost 20,000.

Nanchang is now home to the newly formed 7th Infantry Division, as well as the newly formed 7th Supplementary Brigade, in addition to the 3rd Heavy Artillery Battalion, which has just arrived in Jiangxi.

Although none of the above-mentioned troops are the main force, and most of them are recruits, the large number of soldiers is real.

Although there are some orders for the people's livelihood, but now that the war is finally over, the people in the city finally do not have to worry about being besieged, and they do not have to worry about shells falling into the city every day.

Some of the people who had run outside the city before also returned to the city one after another, and then looked at the large number of garrisons in the city with various curious eyes.

Compared with these people who ran outside the city to escape the war before the war, in fact, the Datang Army is very unfamiliar, although I have heard a lot of rumors about the Datang Army, but I am far from seeing the reality with my own eyes.

However, there is a rumor that is the same as the reality, that is, the Tang Army does not disturb the people!

Of course, there is no such thing as not disturbing the people at all, it can only be said that the phenomenon of disturbing the people is much less than that of the Ming army, and this is mainly focused on requisitioning food and materials, and at the same time recruiting people to build all kinds of city fortifications.

But compared to the burning, killing and looting of the Ming army, these are much stronger!

Although they are all requisitioned grain, the Tang Dynasty is much more civilized than the Ming army, at least the Tang Dynasty will leave an IOU, and the Ming army directly snatched it, and it is also very common to spoil a few yellow flower girls while grabbing grain.

And the Tang Dynasty Wangshi, at least he won't spoil the woman!

This alone is to make the people's senses of the Tang Dynasty King very good!

However, this is only limited to the common people, and the gentry class has never welcomed the Tang Dynasty Wangshi, because every place the Tang Dynasty Wangshi goes, he will directly implement the local gentry to pay taxes as a whole, apportionment into the mu, and collect commercial taxes at the same time.

These are the things that cost them their lives!

However, even if it is dissatisfied, there is no way, after all, the Tang Dynasty is not only doing this in Nanchang, people have already done this in the Xingquanfu era, in recent years, Guizhou, Liangguang, Huguang, Jiangxi region is not no one to resist, and even the landlords and gentry who resist are quite a lot, but they are all without exception, and in the end they all ended up being exterminated.

And this kind of thing happens a lot, without absolute certainty and extraordinary self-confidence, there are already very few landlords and gentry who dare to raise the banner of anti-tax resistance!

Anyway, they also know that if they just pay taxes obediently, these pseudo-Tang thieves will not embarrass them, the gentry and landlords, and besides, the current Tang Dynasty has become a hegemon, and the Tang Dynasty, which occupies the southern provinces, is no longer something that the imperial court can exterminate overnight, and even whether it can be exterminated is still two different things.

Now that Nanchang has fallen into the hands of the pseudo-Tang thief army, what they can do is to save their lives and wait for the useful body to wait for the Ming Dynasty to be able to return to Nanchang one day!

Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi just took control of the northern part of Jiangxi, most of the gentry were very cooperative in paying various taxes, and there were even some people who took the initiative to file tax returns at the tax department.

For this situation, Jiangxi Governor Chen Jingyun is quite pleased, these gentry are so knowledgeable, his life this year should be better than last year.

The gentry paid a lot of taxes, although most of them would be handed over to the state treasury, but there were still a lot left to them in the local yamen of Jiangxi, and with this money, many of his governance plans could be carried out.

Especially because Jiangxi has been one of the main battlefields of both sides in the past two years, and the people's livelihood has been greatly persecuted, and it is urgent to organize the people to resume agricultural production, so as to avoid famine.

At the beginning of this year, there was a small-scale famine in southern Jiangxi, and although the scale of the disaster was only a few counties, it also caused nearly 100,000 people to be unable to eat.

This matter made Chen Jingyun, who had just taken office as the governor of Jiangxi, anxious, and at the same time to help the victims, he also needed to cooperate with the military to carry out bomb pressure to prevent large-scale homeless riots.

He also lost face and asked for assistance from the governors of Hunan and Guangxi provinces, and relied on the help of many parties, so that this famine was survived and there was no large-scale riot.

The relief of this famine also allowed him to get Li Xuan's comment on the word 'diligence'.

However, although the famine has passed, at that time, the central and northern parts of Jiangxi thought that the long-term confrontation between the two armies had greatly damaged the people's livelihood, and it was not easy to restore production.

Now the landlords and gentry are more cooperative, after the tax is collected, the local government also has money and grain to restore the people's livelihood, and then they will pull down a few folds on the old face to complain, and strive to get some money and grain support from the central government, as long as they survive this year, it will be easy to wait until next year.

When Jiangxi Governor Chen Jingyun was busy with civil affairs, Li Chunjing and other generals of the military were also busy reorganizing the army!

The Second Army on the Jiangxi side will expand a Seventh Infantry Division, and at the same time, the Sixth Infantry Division will be reorganized, so that this meritorious unit that has been holding Nanchang for several months can become a standard unit like the Fifth Infantry Division and the First Infantry Division.

After the reorganization of the 6th Infantry Division and the formation of the 7th Infantry Division, the 2nd Army will have a huge strength of three infantry divisions, two mixed regiments, and three heavy artillery battalions.

Although the Sixth Infantry Division will enter Fujian and will not be able to participate in the battles in Jiangxi and Nanzhili in the future, there will also be two infantry divisions and two mixed regiments to participate in the battle, which is barely enough.

Compared with the situation on the side of the Second Army, the situation of the First Army is slightly worse, because after the end of the Changsha Campaign in the autumn and winter offensive, the First Army directly transferred a large amount of equipment and some soldiers to the Second Army, so that the Second Army could recover a certain combat effectiveness in advance and continue to fight, so the Second Army was seriously lacking in personnel and equipment.

To put it bluntly, after the end of the Battle of Changsha, in fact, the Second Army had already lost its main combat effectiveness.

In the following months, because the strategic focus of the army was on the side of the Second Army in northern Jiangxi, the replenishment of the First Army was relatively small, and even the First Infantry Division was still short of equipment.

This situation also made Hao Bonian deeply uneasy, the current Second Army can be said to be the weakest time from last year to now, and there is no need to count on crossing the river to attack Hanyang, even the defense is more difficult.

But Hao Bonian has no way to do this, as a lieutenant general of the army, he knows better than others where the strategic center of gravity of the Tang Army is now, there is no doubt that it is Nanzhili and even the entire Jiangnan region.

On the Huguang side, after taking Changsha and Wuchang, the Tang Dynasty has basically given up launching a large-scale offensive in this direction, and the overall strategy will turn from offensive to defensive.

Now for the Tang Dynasty, nothing is more important than taking Jiangnan!

This will not only improve the strength of the Tang Dynasty itself, obtain a large number of soldiers and taxes brought by the population and fertile land, but also cut off the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Hao Bonian is not in the center, he has also guessed the plan of the Privy Council!

In mid-July, Li Xuan ordered the establishment of the Third Army, under the jurisdiction of the first mixed regiment, the ninth mixed regiment, and the sixth infantry division, the three troops, and the commander was Lieutenant General Wang Chaohong, who made outstanding achievements in the second autumn and winter offensive, as the chief of staff of the first army, he also served as the commander of the forward troops, and led the forward troops to make great contributions to the total annihilation of the Hengyang Ming Army, and then commanded the troops to fight in the northwest of Hunan, severely damaged the local superintendent, trained more than 20,000 troops, and completely drove the troops of Zhang Yue's department out of the area south of the Yangtze River.

After the autumn and winter offensive, this person was promoted to lieutenant general because of his outstanding military achievements and old qualifications, and then he was transferred back to Zhaoqing.

So no one thinks that he is a member of power, or a master of great merit or anything like that, but everyone knows that this person is going to be reused.

Sure enough, after Li Xuan ordered the establishment of the Third Army, Lieutenant General Wang Chaohong became the first commander of the army with an absolute advantage.

The establishment of the Third Army, the frequent changes and transfers of troops in various departments near Fujian, it can also be seen that the Tang Dynasty's offensive against Fujian is about to be launched.

In this case, Yu Dayou, who is in Fuzhou, feels even more profound!