Speaking of a certain day, alas, specifically it should be the end of August of the fourth year of Xuanping, which day is not clear, the Intelligence Department of the Tang Privy Council is still unclear, in short, it is a certain day.

After Yu Dayou led the army back to Fuzhou, he received a report from Nanping, saying that the puppet Tang thief army was less than ten miles away from Nanping City, and Nanping was in danger!

After receiving this report, Yu Dayou's face was extremely gloomy in an instant, and finally went to a military order, asking the soldiers and civilians of Nanping City to defend Nanping, and never let a thief army pass through Nanping, and at the same time, it was urgent to recruit young people inside and outside Fuzhou City to repair Fuzhou's city defense!

Although the situation is critical, he still hopes that Nanping can hold it!

At the same time, I also hope that my side can hold on.

As for not being able to hold it, he had no choice, but at this time, he still did not choose the choice given to him by Wang Yiqi: lead the army to retreat to Zhejiang.

He doesn't give up, he doesn't give up!

The terrain of Fujian is inconvenient, and if you can't stop the puppet Tang thief army by taking advantage of such a terrain, even if you withdraw to Zhejiang, you can't stop the attack of the puppet Tang thief army.

If you retreat from the south of Zhejiang, it will be the central and northern parts of Zhejiang, and this place is already Jiangnan in a broad sense.

And even if he can't stop the puppet Tang thief army in the end, and finally retreat to Zhejiang, he also needs to buy time for the deployment of the rear.

He had already sent Wang Yiqi to 500 miles to report urgently, although it was said that he wanted Wang Yiqi to reinforce Fujian, but to be honest, he did not expect Wang Yiqi to really send troops to reinforce Fujian, because when Wang Yiqi's reinforcements arrived, the cucumbers and vegetables were cold.

His true intention is believed that Wang Yiqi can also see it, he wants Wang Yiqi to prepare and redeploy in southern Zhejiang, so that even if he is defeated and retreats at that time, at least after retreating to southern Zhejiang, there will be a defensive line to block.

Yu Dayou, who thought so, actually had no hope of holding Fuzhou, so when he was preparing for the defense of Fuzhou, he was already quietly preparing for the retreat.

Originally, he was going to retreat directly from the sea, but the naval division reported that a large number of warships of the puppet Tang thief army appeared in the open sea, and the naval division on the Fujian side suffered a crushing defeat in the first battle of Nanao Island, although there are a lot of ships left, but there are not many big ships, although a large number of small boats can be used to block the warships of the puppet Tang thief army outside the Min River, and prevent them from advancing along the Min River to Fuzhou, but if they want to go to sea and flee north, it is basically not to be counted on.

Although the warships of the puppet Tang thief army can't get in, they don't expect to be able to get out!

If it is not feasible to retreat by sea, then take the land route, so he has already begun to arrange a large number of officials and gentry who are willing to go north, carrying a large number of fine and soft and so on to go north.

In addition to arranging the evacuation of his family, he also quietly prepared for the retreat of the army, prepared a large number of carriages and livestock, etc., and at the same time did not learn from the Ming army in Changsha when he was deployed, all of them were in the city wall, so if they were besieged by others, they would not be able to escape if they wanted to.

In addition to arranging a large number of guards in the city to defend the city, he also built fortifications in several small mountains outside the city, and he himself was stationed here with 7,000 thieves, forming an angle with the guards in the city.

In this way, it is possible to contain the puppet Tang thief army and make it impossible for them to attack the city with confidence, and they can also retreat directly when the situation is not good.

When Yu Dayou was painstakingly deploying defenses in Fuzhou, Wang Chaohong led his army north, and his speed of going north was not even fast, in order to ensure that the artillery and baggage troops could keep up, he deliberately slowed down the marching speed of the troops.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, anyway, he is not afraid that Fuzhou will fly away with his own legs, as for Yu Dayou escaping, he is more happy, and it is a good thing to seize Fuzhou without bloodshed.

Being able to make the enemy give up the turtle shell and go out of the city to meet or escape, this is something that the Tang Army has been pursuing hard in the past two years, they are hiding in the city, and the Tang Army may be more troublesome, but if they give up the city, what else can they do but escape? Is it possible to dare to fight with the Tang Army in the field?

Wang Chaohong is not in a hurry, and Cai Erhu, who marched into Nanping, is not in a hurry, this is not that Cai Erhu has the same strong self-confidence as Wang Chaohong, but it is not a matter of urgency to attack the city.

This time I came to Nanping City, but there was no good thing that the Ming army was in battle anyway, so it could only be a strong attack.

And this kind of thing of assault takes time to prepare, it is impossible to say that if you give an order casually, tens of thousands of people will rush up to attack, even if it is a storm, then there are tactics of assault!

Although the war on the Fujian side is still ongoing, the battle report sent back by Wang Chaohong to Zhaoqing is very optimistic, saying that Fuzhou can be taken in half a month at least and one month at most, and the Third Army will definitely be able to occupy Fujian before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then advance the front to Zhejiang, so as to create a favorable opportunity for the autumn and winter offensive on the side of the Second Army.

After Li Xuan received the battle report, he also nodded slightly, and didn't say anything!

In terms of specific tactics, he has always only interfered with the front-line generals, and even in the general direction of strategy, he has not interfered much in the plans of the Privy Council War Department.

After all, they are professional in such a thing as fighting, and Li Xuan himself is a little worse than asking himself.

However, he didn't understand the command of the war, and he didn't interfere, but he himself was still busy for the war, and the war on the front line was only an important part of the war.

In the war machine of the Tang Dynasty, the army is the fangs in front, and there is a control center in the back, a power system, a marching system, and so on.

It is the countless parts that make up the war machine of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Xuan's job is to ensure that this war machine runs smoothly and exerts greater power.

The most important components of this are still finance and military production!

On August 28, Li Xuan met with the supervisors of various important factories under the Ministry of Industry and listened to the reports on the R&D and production plans of their respective factories.

When I heard the Zhaoqing Arsenal say that they had improved the process and had begun to manually produce a small number of twenty-four catties of naval guns, the ancient sage monarch said that large-caliber naval guns are an extension of the Datang Sea Frontier, and the range of the naval guns is the Tang Sea Frontier!

I hope that all engineers can work hard to overcome the difficulties and build more and better cannons.

Then Wangu Shengjun also listened to the report of Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, the plant in order to put into operation as soon as possible, the construction staff worked overtime day and night, tired to death, disabled a number of others, etc., and finally advanced the construction period by one day, it is expected that the first batch of equipment will be installed and debugged in early September, and said that when it comes to November, it will be able to smoothly carry out small-scale production, and it will be able to start large-scale production in December.

The Ancient Sage Monarch cordially said that I will not forget the efforts and contributions of the construction personnel, and the tens of millions of subjects of the empire will not forget their contributions, and then instructed the secretary of the secretary department of the Hanlin Academy recorded on the side: turn around and send pennants to the disabled construction workers and their families in recognition of their efforts and contributions.

Dear great, greater than the sun of the ancient sage Li Xuan, highly praised the efforts of the staff of Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, and asked the factory supervisor to convey his greetings to the factory personnel, the Foshan Iron and Steel Plant supervisor on the side while holding a small notebook and charcoal pen while remembering, while leaving affectionate tears, said that His Majesty's greetings will be conveyed to every construction worker.

Immediately, when the Wuzhou Arsenal was making a work report, when the loving Eternal Sage Monarch Li Xuan learned that the Guangzhou Arsenal's five-kilogram field artillery expansion plan was not going well, the Eternal Sage Monarch Li Xuan said that it didn't matter, there must be difficulties, and it would be enough to overcome the difficulties as soon as possible and reach the scheduled output as soon as possible.

In the end, he also cordially instructed the secretary of the secretary section on the side to record that he should be dismissed from his post as the supervisor of the Wuzhou Arsenal and other main responsible persons of the expansion plan, and that he should be transferred to justice for the crime of dereliction of duty.

The dismissed Wuzhou Arsenal Supervisor shouted excitedly, and was finally happily taken away by the guards on the side.

After a military production meeting, the great, loving Ancient Sage Monarch dragged his tired body and left the conference room under the love and care of his courtiers, and then returned to the harem, but our Ancient Sage Monarch was still not idle, and he still had a lot of work to do.

He first went to visit the Tang Dynasty Court Dance Troupe, admired their recent choreography, and gave high praise, and then he had dinner with the members of the dance troupe.

During the banquet, they also worked hard to massage the members of the dance troupe to alleviate their fatigue of choreographing dance for many days, and the members of the dance troupe were excited, and they also had to massage the ancient saints.

Afterwards, he had a friendly dance competition with all the members of the dance troupe, one-on-one or one-to-two or even one-to-three or even more, in this process, the ancient saint insisted on learning with every member of the dance troupe.

So much so that it was busy until midnight, which was the end of the condolences, and I was very considerate that the members of the dance troupe would not be able to walk on the way back, so I let them stay in the dormitory.

I was afraid that they would catch a cold at night, and I warmed them with my body temperature many times!

In this way, the busy day of the Ancient Saint Monarch was over, but as the Ancient Saint Monarch who cared about all the people, Li Xuan said the next day, you have a good rest today, and I will come back to massage you in the evening!