After receiving the urgent battle report from Xingquan Mansion, Li Xuan immediately summoned the senior generals in the army and the senior civilian officials who came with the army to discuss countermeasures!

But in the end, nothing unplanned!

Because they had long expected that the Ming army on the Huguang side would come, and they had already made certain arrangements in advance, such as withdrawing officials and craftsmen from Xingquan Mansion.

Today's Xingquan Mansion is no longer the political and industrial center of the Tang Dynasty, and most of the craftsmen in Xingquan Mansion have been moved to Liuzhou, and they have begun to produce various weapons in Liuzhou.

In addition, in terms of military deployment, the Second Army also deployed the main forces of the Third Infantry Regiment and the Second Garrison Brigade in Xingquan Province and Liping Province, but only part of the troops were left in the northeastern part of Guizhou, and many state capitals actually only relied on the capture camps to maintain the basic situation and law and order.

There's no way, who made the Tang Dynasty's troops small, and the control area is getting bigger and bigger, this force is not enough, it's for sure.

After a discussion that did not have much practical significance, Li Xuan quickly wrote a holy decree in his own hand, asking the military messenger to hurry to Liuzhou Mansion, and asking the cabinet officials who remained in Liuzhou Mansion to immediately organize forces to speed up the withdrawal of the remaining craftsmen from Xingquan Mansion.

The Huguangming Army was menacing, and the strength of the Second Army in eastern Guizhou was not much, and there were only about 10,000 people who survived, and only about 2,000 people were the main force of the regular army, and the rest were either garrison troops or newly formed troops, and their combat effectiveness was worrying.

Therefore, Colonel Song Tianbiao, the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment stationed in eastern Guizhou, swore that he would be able to hold Xingquan Mansion Yunyun, but Li Xuan felt that it was good to believe half of the words of the following generals, and it was naturally best to hold it, what if it couldn't be held? If this Xingquan Mansion itself is lost, it will be lost, and it is a poor place anyway, so there is nothing to pity.

But those workshops in Xingquan Mansion, especially those craftsmen, can't be lost, the craftsmen in Xingquan Mansion have collected almost the entire eastern part of Guizhou, and they are so many craftsmen who have been found, if Li Xuan is lost, he will die of heartache, and it may be used by the Ming army, and then the Ming army will directly use these craftsmen to make guns and cannons, and he will not face a Ming army with equipment not inferior to his own, and even more guns than himself in the future?

It's terrifying!

Therefore, Xingquan Mansion can be lost, but the craftsmen in the workshop must be withdrawn, and they cannot go to the original Guiyang, because the current Guiyang has not been defeated, and it must be withdrawn to Liuzhou first.

Now Li Xuan didn't know that Wang Yue and Wei Yan in Wuzhou City, who were not a few kilometers away from him, had already sent a few muskets from the hands of the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi to Guangzhou and neighboring Foshan, so that those craftsmen could imitate the muskets of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

If this is a few months long, maybe the Ming army on the Guangdong side will be able to be equipped with muskets imitated from the puppet Tang thief army.

In addition to immediately evacuating the craftsmen from Xingquan Mansion, Li Xuan's holy decree also issued a new strategic order to the Second Army, ordering that if the Second Army could not conquer Guiyang in the near future, then abandon Guiyang first, and be sure to turn around and return east to intercept the Ming army in Huguang.

In case the eastern part of Guizhou cannot be saved, that is, if Xingquan Mansion is lost, then it is necessary to defend Liping Mansion, because Liping Mansion is basically a bridgehead from Guizhou to Liuzhou, and only by holding Liping Mansion can we better defend Liuzhou.

If the Second Army is finished, and Liping Mansion is also finished, then Li Xuan is still talking about eastward expansion, and he will immediately have to send troops back to Liuzhou to resist Hu Guangming's army moving south.

Otherwise, Hu Guangming's army would have been able to copy its original southward route, attack Liuzhou, Wuxuan, etc., all the way, and kill along the Xijiang River to the back of their ass.

Li Xuan's holy decree was quickly taken away by the military messenger and transmitted to Liuzhou, Xingquanfu and even Guiyang at an expedited speed of five hundred miles through the military's post station system.

The post station system of the Tang Dynasty is actually built on the post station system of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time strengthened, basically setting up a post station at intervals of ten kilometers, and the military messengers rode horses with the military newspaper, and changed people and horses every time they arrived at a post station, and carried out rapid transmission in the form of relays.

With this speed of transmission, it can travel about 300 miles in a day, and this is just an ordinary rush!

If it is an emergency military situation, it can even be transmitted 500 miles or even 800 kilometers a day, of course, if it is to transmit 300 miles a day, then the horses in the post station can still hold on, if it is 500 miles, then the horses in the post station have to recuperate for a period of time after performing a mission, and if it is 800 miles in an emergency, then basically the horses will be scrapped.

In extreme cases where it is not particularly urgent, it will not be expedited by 800 miles, or even 500 miles, at most it will be expedited by 300 miles.

At present, the Tang Dynasty is in Xingquan Mansion to Liping Mansion, and then to Liuzhou Mansion, and then to Wuzhou on this main route relying on the military support to set up a dense post station system, which can be done 800 miles expedited, other places are generally 300 miles, and a few routes can do 500 miles.

Li Xuan attached great importance to the transmission of information, and unlike the Ming Dynasty's great contempt for the soldiers of the post station, Li Xuan directly incorporated the post station system into the military system, with active soldiers acting as messengers for military reports, and granting these soldiers higher ranks and powers.

Usually the messenger is a non-commissioned officer, and if someone intervenes to block the way, they can be killed directly.

And near the front line, the heralds in the army are responsible for the delivery of military reports, these are real cavalry, if ordinary people dare to stop them, they will not hesitate to directly draw their swords and cut people!

After the holy decree was sent away, Li Xuan continued to glance at the map, and then gritted his teeth and made up his mind!

The only way is to fight, even if it is to pay heavy casualties, to knock Wuzhou down, which not only means that the hardest nail in the Liangguang region can be pulled, but also can clear the way to continue eastward into Guangdong, without worrying about being stabbed in the back.

In addition, after solving Wuzhou, when the time comes to send troops east to Guangdong, he can also free up part of his troops to go north to Liuzhou to reinforce the eastern part of Guizhou, and even directly enter Huguang, threatening the southern part of Huguang, starting from Guilin and killing Huguang, but it is much more convenient than Xingquanfu to go to Huguang, and even directly threaten Huguang Yongzhou Mansion, Baoqing Mansion, especially Jingzhou at that time.

If the Huguang Ming army wants to go to Xingquan Mansion, they need to start from Jingzhou, and then go to Xingquan Mansion, and when their army goes to Jingzhou from Guilin, then they can directly cut off the grain route into the Ming army of Xingquan Mansion, and when the time comes, it is not impossible to annihilate the tens of thousands of Ming troops in Huguang.

As long as Wuzhou is won, as long as the tens of thousands of Ming troops in Wuzhou are solved, then the whole game of chess can be brought back to life, instead of being controlled by others everywhere like now.

This Wuzhou, even if all the soldiers of the First Army are dead, they must be taken down, no, it should be said: Even if the last soldiers of the garrison are dead, they must take Wuzhou!

The regular army can't die all, at most half of them will die, and if they all die, he, the emperor, will still be a hair!

After making up his mind, Li Xuan quickly found a few generals to discuss!

As an emperor, even if he has made a decision himself, he can't say it himself and forcibly push it!

Li Xuan has always positioned himself as a referee, not a player, so that he can maintain the transcendent status of the emperor as always.

Let others put it forward, and then agree to it yourself, this victory, naturally it is he, the emperor, who is bright and great, if it is said that it is very hard, the attack on Wuzhou cannot be defeated, and the soldiers are lost, then it is naturally the fault of the general who made this suggestion, and he Li Xuan just misbelieved the slander!

As the emperor, Li Xuan will never make a mistake!

It is only the ministers under him who make mistakes!

Based on this need, Li Xuan found several other generals who originally supported the attack, and hinted that after the method of attacking was deeply desired, these generals were naturally able to understand Li Xuan's meaning.

Therefore, at the strategic meeting in front of the imperial front the next day, these generals who had received Li Xuan's hints, including Major General Chen Keqiao, commander of the Third Infantry Brigade, and Lieutenant Colonel Li Xin, chief of staff of the First Infantry Brigade, once again proposed to storm Wuzhou, and came up with a detailed combat plan for this purpose.

However, before everyone could open their mouths to object, Li Xuan just spoke: "Oh, what is the specific plan for this strong attack?" ”

Li Xuan rarely interjected when the strategic debate was not clear, and the generals below him were all smart people, so they naturally saw this abnormality and understood the meaning behind this abnormality.

Because this means that Li Xuan is already inclined to attack the plan

So although Hao Bonian and the others still didn't agree to the attack, they still patiently listened to Chen Keqiao talk about his attack plan!

"The intention of this case is to completely conquer Wuzhou in ten days to half a month, and annihilate the enemy army in the city!"

Chen Keqiao said as he pointed at the Wuzhou city defense map with a small wooden command list: "Although this case is a strong attack, a strong attack is the last resort, and the preliminary preparation is still indispensable!" ”

"Before the troops launch a strong attack, the troops should continue to dig trenches, tunnels, and strive to advance the trenches to about thirty meters from the city wall, dig the tunnels under the city wall, and then blast them!"

"Blasting?" It's a strange word!

It's not that they haven't done this tunnel, but the previous tunnels were used as a troop transportation channel, and they wanted to dig tunnels through the city walls, and then suddenly appear from within the city, creating chaos and even assisting the troops to seize the city gate or city wall, but this time, Chen Keqiao said that it was blasting!

And what is blasting? I've never heard of this word, I don't understand it!