After conquering the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum, the Ming general Qiu Yu sent good news to the adults in the rear that day, saying that after three days and three nights of hard fighting, the soldiers fought hard to launch a decisive charge, and finally lived up to expectations and successfully conquered the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum.

And said that the thief army suffered many casualties, and the remnants fled in a hurry!

Of course, in order to avoid the adults in the back from saying that he exaggerated his exploits in the war, concealed the report, etc., he did not directly use accurate numbers to describe the number of beheadings, but used the Spring and Autumn penmanship of the thief army, which killed and injured a lot of people, and was afraid that there were no less than 100 people.

To a certain extent, Qiu Yu's battle report is not false, because the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum was indeed taken by him, even if it was taken after the thief army took the initiative to retreat, but it was also taken.

And why did the thief army take the initiative to escape, it was not because Qiu Yu hurt the thief army and was afraid, those thief soldiers were unwilling to stay in the Tonggu Acropolis and wait for death, so they fled.

The capture of the Tonggu Acropolis is of great strategic significance for the more than 20,000 Ming troops who went south from the north, because it means that the Ming Dynasty has finally recovered the first city captured by the puppet Tang thief army, even if it is only a small earthen city.

Instead of being the same as before, I only heard that the puppet Tang thief army captured Xingquan Mansion and captured Liping Mansion and other bad news, and recovered the Tonggu Acropolis, which not only represents that the Ming army has recovered the first city, but also represents that the offensive of the puppet Tang thief army has been stifled.

In the follow-up, the Ming Dynasty will enter the strategic counteroffensive stage in an all-round way, continue to take and seize the city of Lipingfu, and then enter Xingquanfu in the east, collect Fuxingquanfu City, Zhengtai, Lianhe and other counties, completely recover the land of the two provinces, and annihilate the puppet Tang thief army.

Yes, when Qiu Yu's battle report reached the high-ranking generals of the Ming army, they thought so!

Therefore, the adults above quickly replied to Qiu Yu, and said that Qiu Yu should make persistent efforts and continue to lead the vanguard south to pursue the remnants of the puppet Tang thief army, and be sure to annihilate more puppet Tang thief army.

At the same time, he did not forget to give rich prizes to the strikers of Qiu Yu's department, as a reward for the strikers to capture the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum.

After Qiu Yu received this new order, he didn't know whether to be happy or worried for a while, but what made him happy was that a large amount of food and salary was pulled out from above, even if it was half of it was drifted away according to the custom, it could still let his forward troops get a lot of silver grain.

But what worried him was that the boss actually let him continue to lead the forward to pursue the remnants of the puppet Tang thief army south.

This pursuit is not so easy to pursue!

Who is not allowed to run headlong into the main force of the puppet Tang thief army.

Everyone knows that there are at least several thousand people in the puppet Tang thief army, and this number is still the number where the puppet Tang thief army captured Xingquan Mansion in the first place, and now that so much time has passed, who knows how many people there are in the puppet Tang thief army.

And after the battle of the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum, he also deeply felt Song Zhiwen's feelings at the beginning, those pseudo-Tang thief armies are really not easy to fight!

There were only more than 500 puppet Tang thieves in the Bronze Drum Acropolis before, but more than 2,000 people on his side were unable to fight, and in the end, because the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army took the initiative to retreat, he picked up a bargain and recovered the Bronze Drum Acropolis.

If you continue to go south, you will definitely encounter more puppet Tang thief army, and if you run headlong into the main force of the puppet Tang thief army with thousands of people, then the situation will become very, very bad.

But since the boss has already given him an order, he can't be indifferent and do nothing, so it's easy to be ginseng, or simply because of the negative slackness of the battle, the official said: "Pull it out, cut it!" ”

So even if he was reluctant, he was still ready to continue to go south with his headquarters, but the speed of going south was inevitably a little slow.

He stayed in the Tonggu Acropolis for two days under the pretext of resting, consolidating the city defense, and preventing the counterattack of the puppet Tang thief army, until the third day, when more than 1,000 people sent by the main force of the Chinese army in the north arrived at the Tonggu Acropolis and handed over the defense to them, and then he led the army to leave.

But this walk, it is one step and three turns, and a day has passed, and they have only walked a total of ten miles.

The reason why they walked such a short distance was that they did not officially set off until near noon, and when it was about two o'clock in the afternoon, they stopped, and then set up camp to prepare for the night.

In other words, they had been gone for less than two hours!

Of course, Qiu Yu did this, and others couldn't find his fault, because in these years, everyone's march is basically the same, they all set off very late in the morning, and they basically stopped in the afternoon, it is normal to walk fifteen miles a day, twenty miles is more, as for thirty miles, what, you actually walked thirty miles, you don't want to die!

The slow march of the army was not only due to the slow pace of walking due to the large amount of baggage it carried, but also to prevent accidents.

From morning to night, you can indeed easily walk dozens of miles, but after walking down this day, the soldier's physical strength is basically exhausted, and what kind of battle does the soldier have without physical strength, and he was rushed out of an ambush by the enemy, and the fiasco was almost 100%.

In addition, it is necessary to stop early to allow enough time to build a camp, the ancient army had to spend the night, not just find a leeward valley and go to the ground to sleep, but to prepare the camp, this camp must have a defensive function, and the position of the troops camping is also quite particular.

What would have happened otherwise?

Bomb the camp!

If the overnight camp is not stable and properly arranged, then at night when the night is dark and windy, there is a great chance that any movement will lead to chaos, and once the chaos occurs, the soldiers do not know whether it is an enemy attack or something, and it is possible to finally become their own people.

From ancient times to the present, I don't know how many armies have collapsed in the dark and windy nights!

Therefore, the ancient generals paid special attention to camping at night, and the camp used for overnight was not firm, and the deployment of troops was unreasonable, which was also a reference condition for measuring the basic ability of a general.

Qiu Yu walked slowly on the grounds of prudence, and it was naturally difficult for others to find fault!

In fact, not only Qiu Yu walked slowly, but the main force of the Ming army in the north behind him also walked slowly, how many days have passed, and the main force of the Ming army has not yet reached the Tonggu Acropolis.

This made the generals of the Tang New Army led by Hao Bonian look at it, and they couldn't help but be speechless!

At first, they thought that the Ming army would be able to kill the city of Liping Mansion in a few days, but they were still extremely nervous, and several main infantry regiments were in a hurry for several days, so they hurried to the north of Liping Mansion to prepare to intercept the Ming army south.

In the rear, Li Xuan led several other troops day and night, in order to arrive early to join the forward troops led by Hao Bonian.

But the Ming army moved south much slower than they expected.

At the beginning, Hao Bonian and the others expected to make contact with the main force of the Ming army within five days, and the decisive battle between the two sides would completely break out within ten days.

But now, half of the ten days have passed, but the main force of the Ming army on the north road has not yet reached the Acropolis of Tonggu, and only a 2,000-strong Ming army forward is dangling in front of him.

"You say, did these Ming troops deliberately delay the pace of moving south, so as to wait for Zhu Zhihai to bring people from the west to meet him?" Li Chunjing said with a worried face: "If that's the case, I'm afraid it won't be easy to fight at that time!" ”

"If we let these two Ming armies converge, we won't be able to separate them and fight!" Wang Danxu is also quite worried.

"Why don't we take the initiative? Go north first and eat the Ming army on the North Road? Right now, someone suggested.

However, Li Chunjing said at this time: "Take the initiative to go north? This is not in line with the original plan, and if we go north now, we will leave our preset battlefield, and the Chinese army led by His Majesty will not be able to catch up in a short time, relying on our three infantry regiments alone, to deal with more than 20,000 Ming troops, I am afraid it will be a little difficult! ”

The original strategic plan was to attack the Ming army on the northern road first, but this attack was not to take the initiative, but to intercept the operation at a position about twenty miles south of Tongguwei, so as to meet the Ming army at ease.

The location of this decisive battle was carefully considered by many people, and the preset battlefield was located in a small plain twenty miles south of the Acropolis of Tonggu, which was not very large, and this small plain was surrounded by mountains on both sides, and it was a necessary place for north-south passage.

And this small plain is not a dangerous place, on the contrary, it is still a flat river, and the width is five or six miles, there is no way to ambush, but it is precisely because of the open terrain that the generals of the Ming army dare to lead the army into and fight a decisive battle with the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

After all, everyone is not stupid, if you want to hide in an insidious place for an ambush, you have to ask others if the Ming army will come.

At the same time, the place is also large enough to allow a large number of troops to deploy, and your own troops, as well as artillery units, also have enough room to operate.

If it is a mountainous area, the reuse of many heavy artillery in the new army of the Tang Dynasty is not large.

Artillery, especially this year's artillery, works better on flat terrain.

At the same time, in addition to the terrain suitable for the decisive battle, the distance of this place is also moderate, and the Chinese army led by His Majesty himself has enough time to arrive.

However, if you take the initiative to go north, it is equivalent to moving the battlefield of the predetermined decisive battle to the north, and in this way, the geographical advantage will be completely lost, and it is also a question whether the Chinese army led by His Majesty can arrive in time.

Hao Bonian also stared at the map spread on the table for a long time at this time, and then said: "These Ming troops are too slow to come, wait for another half a month, the Ming army on the west road is afraid that the forward will be killed to Liping Mansion City, we can't let the Ming army on the north road slowly move south, let the fifth battalion turn around, make a gesture of counterattacking the copper drum acropolis, and attract the main force of the Ming army to accelerate to the copper drum acropolis!" ”

Then, after pondering for a while, he said: "Send another envoy to the Chinese army, and ask Your Majesty for permission to move the preset battlefield thirty miles north, and we will have a decisive battle with them here!" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum on the map!