Zhang Yue didn't want to stick to Nanchang, it wasn't that he was arrogant, but he was forced to be helpless, why?

Because if you only defend the city, there is no problem in Nanchang, and the 80,000 army is here, and the pseudo-Tang thief army wants to gnaw it down, so you have to transfer 70,000 or 80,000 troops.

But Nanchang is kept, Fuzhou is definitely going to be finished, there are only less than 30,000 troops there, and only 2,000 people are border troops, the rest are local recruits and guards, young and strong, the puppet Tang thief army was able to conquer Ji'an in a short time, and Fuzhou was even more impossible to hold.

And once Fuzhou is conquered, the puppet Tang thief army may bypass Nanchang and directly enter Panyang Lake, or enter the Nanzhili territory from the east of Panyang Lake.

Who dares to guarantee that the puppet Tang thief army will stupidly come to Nanchang City to fight a tough battle, people have feet, they can walk, they will bypass Nanchang and enter Nanzhili directly.

Once the puppet Tang thief army entered Nanzhili, he could hardly imagine the scene!

He doesn't know if the world is shaking or not, but Emperor Zhengde and those cabinet bigwigs are definitely going to hate him to death, and then it is possible to lose his official position and destroy his family, well, provided that he Zhang Yue is stupid and does not resist!

If he resists, in fact, the court can't do anything about him now!

But as a last resort, he is still willing to let the puppet Tang thief army conquer Fuzhou and then enter Nanzhili, so he must find out where the main force of the puppet Tang thief army is, and then directly lead the army to intercept the operation!

There are 4,000 cavalry and the governor and the border army, with a total strength of more than 80,000, this field battle can barely be fought a dozen, even if it can't get a big victory but only a draw, then Zhang Yue thinks it's enough.

But this premise is that he must know where the main force of the Puppet Tang Thief Army is, and he also needs to know how much the total strength of the Puppet Tang Thief Army is.

If the puppet Tang thief army exceeds 50,000 people, then don't expect to take the initiative to attack, how long can you hold it, and at the same time prepare to defend it in Jiujiang and Anqing!

In order to find the location and accurate number of the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, Zhang Yue also made a bloody investment and directly used a large number of cavalry to go out to investigate!

Three days later, the reconnaissance cavalry reported that a large number of traces of the puppet Tang thief army were found in the Xiaojiangkou area east of Fengcheng, and the preliminary judgment was no less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and there was a fierce battle with the peripheral cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army.

And it didn't take long for the cavalry to report that it had already identified the headquarters of the puppet Tang thief army in the direction of Xiaojiangkou, with an accurate strength of between 25,000 people, including a large number of artillery and baggage.

And in several other directions, although some pseudo-Tang thief armies were also found, the scale of a thousand or two or three thousand people!

At this time, Zhang Yue was already sure that this pseudo-Tang thief army was their main force!

Because of the current investigation report, the total strength of the puppet Tang thief army found is about 25,000 people, of course, there may be a puppet Tang thief army that has not been discovered, but the number should not be too much.

The total strength of the puppet Tang thief army should be between 35,000 and 40,000, which is comparable to his estimate.

Zhang Yue judged the total strength of the puppet Tang thief army in the north, not by how many people were found, but from the total strength of the puppet Tang Dynasty, he didn't know how many puppet Tang thief troops went north to Jiangxi, but he could guess that the total strength of the puppet Tang thief army would not exceed 150,000, and the troops that could be used in the direction of Jiangxi would be about 50,000 if the sky was broken.

Because on other fronts, the puppet Tang thief army also needs to leave a large number of troops to defend!

This is the same as the total number of troops under his command is hundreds of thousands, but he can only concentrate 80,000 troops in Nanchang and 30,000 troops in Fuzhou, because in Huguang and other places, he still has to leave a large number of troops.

If all the troops are concentrated in Jiangxi, Huguang will be gone, Fujian will be gone, and Sichuan will be gone!

The main force of the puppet Tang thief army is east of Fengcheng, what are you going to do?

Do you want to continue east to Fuzhou? Or are you ready to turn to Nanchang?

The question that Zhang Yue guessed is also the question that Li Chunjing is thinking about at present!

Zhang Yue's judgment was not much wrong, Li Chunjing was indeed taking the main force of the Second Army to the east of Fengcheng!

His plan at the beginning was very simple, first cut off the land communication between Fuzhou and Nanchang, and then choose the opportunity to eat the reinforcements of these two cities, and then attack Nanchang!

At this point, in fact, Zhang Yue did not guess Li Chunjing's strategy correctly!

The strategic goal of the Second Army led by Li Chunjing is not to go to Nanzhili, but in fact the strategic goal is to seize Nanchang, even if Nanchang is a hard bone, the Second Army must gnaw down.

Because only by taking Nanchang can we open up the water transportation channel from the Ganjiang River to Panyang Lake and then into the Yangtze River!

The direction of the Tang Army's march, because of the great consumption of ammunition and other supplies, it is now difficult to get out of the waterway for a large-scale march, and Zhang Yue didn't know this, he saw this situation, but he didn't expect the Tang Army's dependence on water transportation at all!

Because although Zhang Yue has already built a new army of guns and artillery, in fact, the Ming army still can't imagine: in a battle, tens of thousands of shells will be fired!

I can't even understand how difficult it is to get the supply of the Datang Army!

Because the Ming army has been on the defensive for the past two years, although the supply line also exists, it is basically negligible!

At present, many of the ordnance manufacturing of the Ming army in the south are made locally, and the Huguang Ming army is mainly produced on a large scale in Wuchang Mansion, and the supply is quite smooth, and there is no need to transport it from the distant Liangguang region like the Tang Army.

Therefore, Nanzhili can not go, but Nanchang must be taken!

But when Li Chunjing found that the Ming army on the Nanchang side had increased rapidly to 80,000 or 90,000 in a short period of time, and even claimed to be a 100,000 army, and there were tens of thousands of governors and border troops in it, it made Li Chunjing retreat!

Although he fights aggressively, it doesn't mean that he is stupid!

Take the second army to gnaw at the current Nanchang, and it is very likely that the head will be broken and bleeding!

But Nanchang can't fight if you don't fight!

So after thinking about it for two days, Li Chunjing decided to see if he could lure the snake out of the hole, first go to Fuzhou to fight a dozen of them, see if he could attract some of the Ming troops from Nanchang, and then surround the point to send reinforcements to weaken the defenders in Nanchang City.

But he didn't expect that he had just led the army east into Fuzhou, and after Zhang Yue in Nanchang City learned the news, he immediately frowned, and then after struggling for a full hour, he gave the order to exhaust the whole army!

Fuzhou can't be lost, Fuzhou is lost, even if he holds Nanchang, but Nanzhili will also face the pseudo-Tang thief army.

Since the puppet Tang thief army went to Fuzhou, then he had to lead the army out of the city, preparing to fight with the defenders of Fuzhou to fight back and forth, and strive to annihilate the main force of the puppet Tang thief army of more than 20,000 people under the city of Fuzhou, even if it could not annihilate the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, but it was necessary to force back than the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, so as to protect the safety of Fuzhou.

At this time, a large number of scouts on both sides were dispatched in unison, and the movements of the two sides could not even be kept secret.

"The 100,000 thieves of the Puppet Ming have all left the city?" After Li Chunjing learned the news, he couldn't help frowning, this Zhang Yue is here again!

He knew that when Hao Bonian led the first army to attack Changsha in July, Zhang Yue sent all the defenders of Hengyang out, and finally forced Hao Bonian to return in vain to avoid falling into a heavy siege.

Now, he's doing it again?

"What do we do now? Do you still want to go to Fuzhou? Wang Danxu also saw that the situation was not good, and he showed a worried look when he spoke.

Li Chunjing did not answer his words, but said, "Bring the map!" ”

After the map was brought in, Li Chunjing personally marked the map with the marks of the armies of both sides.

At the same time, he also asked the staff officers around him: "When the Ming army in Nanchang went out of the city, how many roads were divided?" ”

The staff officer replied: "The enemy army has no division of troops, only a few forward and broken rear troops, and whether it is a forward or broken rear unit, it is a cavalry unit, and the infantry of the brigade is concentrated and marches together!" ”

"These Ming soldiers have learned wisely, and they know that dividing troops is a big taboo!" When Li Chunjing said this, he remembered that when Hao Bonian fought in Huguang before, those Ming troops attacked from all over the country separately, and were finally defeated by Hao Bonian separately.

Now, Zhang Yue has no division of troops, and 80,000 people are coming in a group!

Li Chunjing looked at the battle map for a long time, and then said: "Order the fourth mixed regiment to return to Fengcheng!" ”

"What about us?" Wang Danxu continued to ask.

"Let's continue to Fuzhou!"

"Still going to Fuzhou? Even if Fuzhou is defeated, it will not have much positive impact on our army's strategy! ”

Li Chunjing said: "Although taking Fuzhou has little effect on our army, but as soon as we marched into Fuzhou, Zhang Yue exhausted his army, and he has already told the official that Fuzhou is very important to them, and the art of war is cloudy: attacking it will save it!" ”

"What if our army is caught in a situation where they are caught in the front and back? Zhang Yue's department has 80,000 people, if this is killed from the back when we attack the city, I'm afraid it will ......."

Li Chunjing said again: "Who said that this official is going to fight Fuzhou!" ”

At this time, Wang Danxu also pondered, went to Fuzhou instead of Fuzhou, and then looked at the map on the table, and seemed to think of something after a long time, and then muttered: "Could it be that you want to return to the division halfway, and then defeat Zhang Yue's department?" ”

But after thinking about it, Wang Danxu shook his head: "Zhang Yue's department has 100,000 soldiers, and they came in groups, and there are 4,000 cavalry to help in the battle, although our army has strong field combat capabilities, but with 25,000 troops against the enemy's 100,000 troops, the outcome is still unpredictable, even if it wins, I'm afraid the casualties will be great!" ”

At this time, he turned his gaze to Fengcheng, and then showed a look of sudden realization: "Could it be that your target is Nanchang?" ”