Defending the city? This is not good, it is to be a turtle with a shrunken head!

The dignified Ming Wang Shi faced a group of rogue rebels, this can't be wiped out at once, and he even has to be a turtle with a shrunken head, if he talks about it, he has to laugh off the big teeth of others.

The courtiers don't know what to say about themselves!

At that time, Long Live Lord is estimated to be furious, won't he be unlucky at that time?

Even if he doesn't consider the reactions of outsiders, he Zhang Yue himself thinks that things are not to this extent!

Although Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi, said that the Tang thieves were invincible, Zhang Yue thought in his heart that this must be Wei Yan's attempt to shirk the responsibility for the defeat, so he said so, he didn't really think that the puppet Tang thief army was so strong.

He felt that although the pseudo-Tang thief army could not be underestimated, it would not reach the point where it could only be passively defended!

After he arrived in the south, he gathered the troops of Liangguang, Huguang and Guizhou provinces, and did not dare to say that he would destroy the puppet Tang thief army overnight, but as long as he spent some thought and paid some price, he could still annihilate these puppet Tang thief army, but he didn't expect that this Song Zhiwen would be so pessimistic.

If you can only passively defend after you go south, but you can't exterminate the puppet Tang thief army for a long time, I'm afraid that the impeachment of yourself will fly into the Forbidden City like snowflakes!

Seeing Zhang Yue's hesitant expression, Song Zhiwen increased his tone and said: "Lord Zhang, the battle of Lanjiang, the battle of the Tonggu Acropolis, the battle of Liping Mansion and even the battle in Liuzhou are lessons from the past, for the livelihood of the Li people in several provinces, I hope that Lord Zhang will act cautiously after going south, and if you can not fight with the thief army, don't fight with the thief army!" ”

Zhang Yue was still silent after hearing this, and he didn't answer, but went out with a wrinkled expression!

The conversation with Song Zhiwen made him feel the horror of the puppet Tang thief army for the first time, and he felt even more that it was not easy to go to the south to suppress the thieves this time!

That night, after thinking about it repeatedly for a night, the next day he went to the palace to face the saint, and the next day after the face saint, he took a group of staff, and at the same time, the emperor specially assigned him to use the 1,000 people in the capital camp as the superintendent's personal guards!

And not many people noticed that when Zhang Yue went south, he also brought another person, and this person was Song Zhiwen.

Under Zhang Yue's intercession, Emperor Zhengde gave Song Zhiwen a chance to make meritorious service and serve as the new prefect of Liuzhou Mansion, of course, now everyone knows that Liuzhou Mansion has fallen into the hands of thieves, so Song Zhiwen's title of prefect of Liuzhou Mansion is just an empty hat, and his real position is as Zhang Yue's staff to assist Zhang Yue in quelling the rebellion.

Song Zhiwen wandered around in the prison, and put on the crimson official robe again, and he didn't even lower his grade, but everyone didn't feel too surprised?

For the hair?

Because his teacher is Xia Yan, the head of the cabinet of the current dynasty!

Song Zhiwen is not an ordinary official, he was able to become the prefect of the fourth rank at a young age, which is enough to prove that his background is not simple!

If there was no such relationship, when he was escorted to Beijing, he was immediately exterminated, and he could be locked up in a prison pending trial!

There are many criminal officials in Guizhou, but there are not many like him who just go around in the prison and then put back on their official robes.

Zhang Yue took Song Zhiwen and a group of other staff members and a thousand Beijing battalions to leave Beijing and go south, and in order to hurry, they would directly take a boat to the south through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

After getting on the boat, Song Zhiwen stood at the bow of the boat and looked south, muttering: I, Song Zhiwen, are back!

The Ming Dynasty sent a real bigwig-level high-ranking official like Zhang Yue, the right capital of the imperial capital, to the south to supervise the division, this kind of thing Li Xuan naturally didn't know, let alone him, even the current Liangguang Governor Wang Yue and Guangxi Governor Wei Yan didn't know yet, when they wanted to know the news, it would be ten days and a half months later at the earliest.

At this time, they are still worried about the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army going south!

Although the adults in the Jingshi, even Zhang Yue, thought that it was too nonsense to defend the city to curb the expansion of the puppet Tang thief army, but in fact, Wang Yue and Wei Yan had already done so.

There's no way, I'm scared of this, I really don't dare to go out and fight any field battles with the puppet Tang thief army, let alone counterattack Liuzhou.

Today's Wei Yan even maintained an extremely pessimistic attitude towards whether he could keep Wu Xuan, and even told Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, that Wu Xuan's troops were insufficient, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hold it.

Although Wang Yue has been staying in Wuzhou and has not fought against the puppet Tang thief army, he must know the strength of the puppet Tang thief army better than others, especially the bigwigs in the Beijing Division.

Take the initiative to go out and fight? Or even a counterattack on Liuzhou?

No kidding, don't pull us if you want to die!

As long as you can hold Wuxuan and strangle Liuzhou with the puppet Tang thief army, then it will be a big victory, if the situation is not very good, Wuxuan can't hold it, but Wuzhou must also be defended, otherwise, he Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, will have nowhere to go!

These two Canton Governor's Palaces are in Wuzhou!

At this time, Zhang Yue and the bigwigs in the Beijing division didn't know that the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty on the front line, especially the senior civil and military officials, were so pessimistic.

When the people of Wuxuan and Wuzhou in Guangxi were panicking, Li Xuan led the army down the river, but he did not rush to Wuxuan as the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty thought, but turned around and went all the way to the guests.

The puppet Tang thief army marched with tens of thousands of people, partly by boat, partly by land, and also along the Liujiang River, such a huge momentum naturally could not be concealed from the Ming army's reconnaissance cavalry.

As soon as the puppet Tang thief army marched west, Wei Yan, who was in Wuxuan that day, got the news of the fast horse flying report.

"The puppet Tang thief army has gone west? Are they going to be guests? How many people went? After hearing the news, Wei Yan immediately asked the Ming army's scouts.

The scout immediately said: "Lord Hui, most of the puppet Tang thief army has entered along the west of the river, but it has also left tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Xiangzhou!" ”

Most of them went west along the river, and they didn't have to guess that they were definitely going to be guests, but they also left tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Xiangzhou, where the three rivers converged, which was probably to prevent themselves from taking the opportunity to kill them!

Do you want to take the opportunity to kill it? What a joke, whoever is stupid will go!

He only has more than 10,000 troops on Wuxuan's side, and the young man is only more than 20,000, and the strength of the puppet Tang thief army is more than his own more than 20,000 people.

Not to mention that the puppet Tang thief army still left tens of thousands of people behind, and it is estimated that they are just waiting for themselves to rush over stupidly, so that they can come to help.

The last time the puppet Tang thief army surrounded Liuzhou without fighting, wasn't it just to wait for his stupid reinforcements, the lesson at that time was extremely profound, the 8,000 army was defeated, and only more than 2,000 people fled in embarrassment.

Now Wei Yan said that he would not come again when he said anything.

If they go to fight the guests, let them fight well, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses defending the guests, maybe they can drag a pseudo-Tang thief army for ten days and a half months, this time and again, maybe they can buy themselves a month.

In this way, he will be able to have more time to strengthen Wu Xuan's defenses.

Therefore, after learning that the puppet Tang thief army came to the west, Wei Yan made the decision to continue to build the Wuxuan fortifications.

After Wang Yue learned about it, he also agreed with Wei Yan's decision.

If the guests are lost, they will be lost, and the puppet Tang thief army will kill all the way to the west of Guangxi, and the poor place in the west of Guangxi will be occupied by the puppet Tang thief army for a while, as long as Xunzhou Mansion and Wuzhou Mansion can be kept, to be honest, the loss of other places in Guangxi will not affect the overall situation.

The Ming army paid close attention to the movements of the puppet Tang thief army, and Li Xuan and the others also paid close attention to the movements of the Ming army!

Wuxuan and both sides of the Qianjiang River, but there are many scouts of the Tang Army active!

When he learned from the scout cavalry that the Ming army of Wuxuan still did not move at all, Li Xuan did not care, if the Ming army dared to go out of the city to reinforce the guests, he would be very happy, because in this way he would be able to lead the army to turn around and march eastward, and then eat these Ming army reinforcements first, as for whether the guests fought or not, it didn't matter anymore.

If the Ming army doesn't come, then it's okay, take down the guests first, solve the worries, lead the army eastward, and then have a decisive battle, I don't believe that I can't take Wuxuan.

If the Ming army does not come, Li Xuan will be relieved to lead the army to continue to come in from the west!

When the guests came from the west, because it was against the current, the speed was much slower than when they went south from Liuzhou before, but even if they went upstream, it was still much easier to walk along the Xijiang River than along those lofty mountains.

It took three days for the army to reach the city!

And the next guest siege battle will be personally commanded by Li Xuan, well, to be precise, Li Xuan is named!

Naturally, it was not him who planned the entire siege campaign, but a group of staff officers and officers such as the Operations Department jointly discussed.

In the Tang Army, the staff system has become more and more important with Li Xuan's deliberate support, and no matter whether it is a big or small battle, staff officers are basically indispensable.

And when Li Xuan promoted the officers, he also liked to promote officers from the staff officers, and this also caused a phenomenon, that is, many grassroots officers often went to be staff officers for a period of time in order to be promoted.

And this situation, Li Xuan is still relatively optimistic, the officers at the grassroots level, especially the lieutenants, have served as platoon commanders, team officers, and staff officers, so that they have more experience in leading troops in both theory and practice, and when they are further promoted to middle and senior positions such as battalion commanders and regiment commanders, they will be able to better take charge of themselves.

Under the busy green of a group of staff officers and middle and senior officers, the detailed siege plan was made in the evening of the same day, and early the next morning, the battle of Laibin opened with the fire of the artillery unit of the Tang Dynasty's division, which was the official Xuangao.

Because there are not many enemy troops in Laibin City, and most of them are still young and strong, and their own main force is exhausted, and their strength is several times that of the Ming army.

Therefore, when Li Xuan was in the siege battle, he was relatively relaxed and watched the battle with a telescope in the back!

It's not just Li Xuan who is more relaxed, but those generals are also more relaxed when making battle plans, and in order to reduce casualties, they are very careful when making battle plans.

And used many tactics that had never been used before, such as letting the navy's warships open fire and cooperate with the troops to attack the city.

In addition, he also tried to bombard the city wall with a seven-pound gun, wanting to directly collapse the city wall and then attack!