In order to keep Jiangnan, Wang Yiqi also took great pains, in addition to organizing and training the new army in Jiangnan by himself and requesting support from the Ming army in the north, he also wanted to transfer the thief army with Yu Dayou to Jiangnan.

But Wang Yiqi wanted to transfer Yu Dayou's thief army to Jiangnan, but it was not so easy, because if Yu Dayou's thief army was transferred north to Jiangnan, then it would almost be possible to announce that Fujian would be surrendered to the puppet Tang thief army.

Although Fujian has few people and little land, and its strategic position is far less important than that of Jiangnan, it is also the land of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, Wang Yiqi would never explicitly say that the thief army would go north, let alone give up Fujian.

Yu Dayou naturally knew Wang Yiqi's thoughts, but he didn't fight or fight, and directly gave up his plan to flee north from Fujian.

In this way, he is not reconciled!

He has been training for many years, in order to fight against the puppet Tang thief army, and in the past two years, he has indeed done so, and he has done well, when Jiangxi and Hunan fell one after another, only his Fujian is still as stable as Mount Tai.

Of course, there is a reason why the Tang Dynasty did not pay too much attention to Fujian before and did not invest heavily in this direction, but Yu Dayou's credit cannot be erased.

At this time, you asked him to give up Fujian directly and give up the achievements he had adhered to in the past two years, Yu Dayou was unwilling!

Therefore, although he obviously guessed Wang Yiqi's thoughts, he still had a trace of illusion, trying to rely on the geographical advantages of Fujian's rugged mountainous terrain, with his own 15,000 thief army and more than 20,000 guards.

He asked himself, if he was dedicated to defense and did not fight easily, it was still possible to block the puppet Tang thief army of 10,000 or 20,000 people, as for whether the puppet Tang thief army would send more than 30,000 or even more thief troops, Yu Dayou thought it was unlikely.

Because he himself knows that even if the puppet Tang thief army sends a large army into Fujian, it is absolutely impossible to draw too many main forces, after all, the main front of the puppet Tang thief army is not Fujian, but the line of the Yangtze River.

There, the puppet Tang thief army still has Zhang Yue and Wang Yiqi, the two places of life and death, if too many troops are drawn in the above places, then it is possible to fall short, and Zhang Yue and Wang Yiqi seize the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

According to various intelligence realities, the total strength of the puppet Tang thief army is only more than 100,000 people, and at least half of the troops have been invested in the front line of Huguang and Jiangxi, in addition to 20,000 or 30,000 people in Guizhou and Yunnan.

Therefore, he estimated that the puppet Tang thief army would also send 10,000 or 20,000 people to attack Fujian.

Yu Dayou's guess can't be wrong, but it can't be said to be right!

It is true that Fujian is not the main strategic direction of the Tang Dynasty, and it is true that the Tang Dynasty lacks troops, but he did not expect that the fundamental purpose of the Tang Army to launch the Fujian offensive is not for Fujian itself, but to obtain a passage from the eastern coastal areas into Zhejiang, and cooperate with the Second Army on the front line of Anqing and Jinling to launch the Jiangnan Attack.

The military operation on the Fujian side was finally prepared for the third autumn and winter offensive in the autumn and winter of this year, and the planned Jiangnan attack.

In order to carry out the Jiangnan strategy smoothly and avoid a long-term confrontation and battle in Anqing and Jinling like Changsha and Hengyang before, this time the Tang Army also changed its thinking, and it was safe to rely on strong strength to move forward all the way, but it took too long, and the casualties and ammunition consumed were too much.

If the war in the Jiangnan region turns into a long-term confrontation war or a tug-of-war, then it is possible to turn the prosperous land of Jiangnan into ruins, and the people's livelihood will wither, and no matter how bad it is, it will leave a lot of time for the gentry and landlords in the Jiangnan area to transfer their family wealth, and this is not in the interests of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Xuan and the important ministers of the first vote, but they are killing and looting in Jiangnan, well, you can't do this now, the Tang Dynasty is no longer a bandit, it should be said that they are waiting to enter Jiangnan to collect taxes.

Li Xuan and the cabinet officials think so, and the generals of the military are actually no exception, after all, the money and grain collected will eventually be in the pockets of the military and become military expenses, so it is the unanimous opinion of the Tang Dynasty to maintain the vitality of the Jiangnan region as much as possible, and the opinions of the cabinet and the military on this matter are also highly unified.

That is, either not to fight, or to completely take over the Jiangnan region in a short period of time as much as possible, and then pocket all the money and grain in the Jiangnan area.

And if you want to do this, it is more difficult to go east along the Yangtze River alone!

And this is also the main reason why the army proposed a strategic plan to recover Fujian and then go north from Fujian to Zhejiang.

The newly formed Third Army had one infantry division, two mixed regiments, and an expected heavy artillery battalion.

At the same time, the navy has also made a promise that before the campaign is launched, the navy will send its main fleet to completely blockade the coastal areas of Fujian and make every effort to ensure the safety of the sea transportation routes.

Even if necessary, the Navy will send at least two Marine battalions to cooperate in the operation!

At the same time, the navy will be able to directly remove a large number of guns from warships and move them to land, providing sufficient artillery cover for the army!

Yu Dayou didn't know that in order to seize Fujian and eliminate his thief army, the Tang Dynasty had put a lot of effort into it, but it was not a whim to send a few troops into Fujian.

At the beginning of August, Vice Admiral Wang Chaohong, commander of the Third Army, arrived on Nanao Island with the Fifth Heavy Artillery Battalion on a naval warship, but he did not stay on Nanao Island for long, and soon arrived at Chaozhou Mansion on a navy ship to formally take over the command of the First Mixed Regiment and the Ninth Mixed Regiment.

In fact, most of the backbone of the 9th Mixed Regiment was drawn from the 1st Mixed Regiment, and a small part was drawn from several fortress battalions stationed along the coast and along the river.

Therefore, the first mixed group and the ninth mixed group are, to some extent, homologous.

Although the combat effectiveness of the First Mixed Regiment has declined due to the transfer of a large number of backbones, this also makes the Ninth Mixed Regiment have initial combat effectiveness as soon as it is established.

Just when Lieutenant General Wang Chaohong arrived at Chaozhou Mansion and led two mixed regiments and another heavy artillery battalion to Zhangzhou Mansion, Cai Erhu, commander of the Sixth Infantry Division, also received an order from Lieutenant General Wang Chaohong.

The Sixth Infantry Division is currently stationed in Jianchangfu in eastern Jiangxi, and its division headquarters is set up in the palace of the puppet king of Mingyi.

However, it is worth noting that the division headquarters of the 6th Infantry Division is located in Yiwangfu, which is only temporarily borrowed, because this Yiwangfu, like several other palaces of the former Ming feudal kings, was directly remade as the private property of the royal family.

This is the beginning of the Jingwang Mansion, at that time Li Xuan was the private property of the royal family and prepared to use it as a palace, but unfortunately, this former palace that was used as a palace, Li Xuan has not been to it once.

After opening this head, later the Tang Dynasty royal division successively conquered several feudal palaces occupied by Jiangxi and Hunan, and they were also directly incorporated into the private property of the royal family by the people below.

However, although it is the private property of the royal family, it is often diverted for other purposes, for example, Hengyang side, because of a fire, many buildings such as Hengyang Mansion were also burned, but one in the city has been abandoned, the palace of King Anxu of the former Ming Dynasty is good, although King Anxu has died, his feudal country has been abolished, and the palace is also in tatters.

But it is precisely because of this that it was able to survive that fire, and in the end, this palace was ordered by Li Xuan to be used as the school building of Hengyang College of Higher Education and Hengyang Juvenile College.

The Yiwang Mansion in Jianchang Mansion was temporarily used as the division headquarters of the Sixth Infantry Division.

Although Cai Erhu took the people from the division to live in the Yiwang Mansion, he naturally did not dare to live in the main hall, but only lived in the side hall and worked.

At this time, Cai Erhu was discussing military affairs with a group of officers of the Sixth Infantry Division, because Cai Erhu had already received an order from his immediate superior, Lieutenant General Wang Chaohong, ordering him to launch an offensive, attack Shaowufu, march east along the Min River, and kill Fuzhou.

The military order was like a mountain, Cai Erhu naturally didn't dare to have any slackness, and hurriedly convened the officers of the Sixth Infantry Division to discuss how to march, but when the people below were discussing, he consciously closed his mouth.

Cai Erhu is still very self-aware, although he is the commander of the Sixth Infantry Division, but he lacks the necessary military literacy, there is no problem for you to let him go into battle to fight, but you let the Sixth Infantry Division, which has a huge scale of wisdom, is actually very reluctant.

Whether it was the previous Nanchang Battle or the previous battles, Cai Erhu's command of the troops relied more on the advice of the staff officers, basically as long as the officers below formed a unified opinion, it was when he gave orders.

The purpose of marching into Shaowu Mansion is very simple, but the specific march and operation is a huge and complex project, the chief of staff of the Sixth Infantry Division and many staff officers and several regiment commanders have discussed for a long time, this is to come up with a detailed battle plan, and finally Cai Erhu officially ordered the army to pull out!

Cai Erhu's Sixth Infantry Division has not yet entered the territory of Fujian, but the two mixed regiments led by Wang Chaohong himself have already forcibly launched an attack, tens of thousands of troops went straight to Zhangzhou, and the second fleet of the Navy set off from Nanao Island to act together, and the huge fleet went straight to Fuzhou!

For a time, the Ming army in Fujian felt the huge pressure of the mountain rain!