The southern provinces have always lacked cavalry strength, and the Liangguang region is even more miserable than the Yunnan-Guizhou region.

However, there was no place to produce horses in the Liangguang region, and the Liangguang region had never been the key defense area of the central dynasty, and it was impossible for the imperial court to spend great efforts to transfer the Mongolian horses from the north and the southwest horses to the Liangguang region, and then form cavalry.

The elite cavalry force of the Ming Dynasty was generally deployed in the northwest, north China, northeast and other regions, and even the prosperous Jiangnan region did not have much cavalry strength, let alone the southeast and west of Guangzhou.

The cavalry of the Tang Army was slowly accumulated one by one, and almost the horses in the entire Guizhou and Liuzhou areas of Guangxi were collected, whether it was the military horses captured from the Ming Army or the civilian horses, almost all of them had been requisitioned.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Tang Army to organize today's cavalry troops, even if the two cavalry battalions, the cavalry team of the personal guard battalion and the reconnaissance cavalry of each infantry regiment add up to seven or eight hundred cavalry, but this is also extremely difficult.

Don't you dare to fight, you can't stand in vain and be beaten so much, do you really want to run away in embarrassment?

Retreat, in fact, is possible, these Ming troops came by boat, and these ships are still moored at Anjia Wharf, if they want to retreat, they can directly get on the ship and leave!

But after such a gray retreat, how will others think of him in the future? Especially what does his immediate boss, Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, think of him?

Wei Yan didn't want to retreat, even if many generals had already hinted at him in very obvious language, and the thirty-six plans were taken as a note.

But he still didn't want to retreat!

Seeing that many of the generals under his command had no choice, Wei Yan turned his head to look at his newly recruited master, Wu Nuanzhi: "Mr. Wu, you are proficient in pseudo-Tang affairs, and you have personally fought against the pseudo-Tang thief army, in the opinion of Mr., what should we do?" ”

Wu Nuanzhi touched his goatee, then spread out the folding fan in his hand and said: "Lord Hui, Wu has been dealing with this pseudo-Tang thief army for more than a year, and he even personally led people into the mountains to encircle and suppress these pseudo-Tang thief army last year, and he knows a little about this pseudo-Tang thief army."

The biggest reliance of this pseudo-Tang thief army is that the firearms are sharp, there are thousands of pounds of heavy artillery in long-range battles, and muskets in close combat, and their musketeers often put their guns first, and then use muskets to fight hand-to-hand, which can be said to be able to attack and defend!

But this pseudo-Tang thief army is not without weaknesses, this weakness is that their soldiers have just been recruited, most of them have only been in the army for a few months, and they are fighting on the field, which is nothing more than relying on strict military discipline!

And the reason why those surrendered troops worked hard for the pseudo-Tang thief army was just to survive, to deal with this pseudo-Tang thief army, they could not be defeated, they could only outwit! “

"How to outwit?" Wei Yan played the role of a lord very well, and asked shamelessly: "Please also teach me!" ”

Wu Nuanzhi said: "It's very simple, two words, appease, as long as you promise Hao Bonian, a high-ranking official of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the other side, it is very possible to surrender to my Ming Dynasty!" ”

Hearing Wu Nuanzhi say this, Wei Yan hesitated and appeased? How is this possible!

The puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side is not an ordinary bandit and thief, or even an ordinary rebellion, their puppet Tang is officially established as the emperor.

The adults in the capital have already made up their minds, this pseudo-Tang is bold, not only rebelling, but also daring to be the emperor, this is simply impatient, it must be suppressed, it must be exterminated and then all the pseudo-Tang thieves army killed!

In this way, we can deter future generations and prevent anyone from following Li Xuan's father and son!

There can be no two days in the sky, and there can only be one son of heaven in the land of Kyushu!

So the puppet Tang thief army must die, and Li Xuan must die!

Fund, that's absolutely impossible!

If it is said that the establishment claims that the emperor can surrender after rebellion, and even get preferential treatment from the imperial court, doesn't this encourage later people to claim the emperor to rebel?

In the future, there will be a few puppet emperors in the world every year!

Therefore, Wei Yan thought about it for a while, and then said: "The matter of appeasement is very important, and it is not something that this official can decide, so let's discuss it later!" ”

However, if you don't take into account the political influence, this appeasement is actually very attractive to the civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty, who are all a group of careerists, and the people who defected in the middle and late stages in the later period are basically holding the idea of being promoted to make a fortune and seeking a lifetime of wealth.

If it shows that the dynasty began to recruit civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty, for example, to give several major generals of the Tang Dynasty the title of hereditary commander, and then to give a general soldier, general, guerrilla and other generals, some people may surrender.

As long as the price is high enough, for example, to a duke, marquis, etc., even Hao Bonian is likely to surrender!

But can the current Ming Dynasty come up with these conditions to recruit the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty?

No way!

Because even if the puppet Tang thief army has swept through Guizhou and gone south to Guangxi, but in the eyes of the court bigwigs, and even in Wei Yan's own opinion, the strength of the puppet Tang thief army is only temporary, they just took advantage of the chaos and caught the court officials and soldiers off guard.

However, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is thousands of miles and has millions of soldiers, as long as the imperial court is serious, it is not a matter of minutes to exterminate this pseudo-Tang thief army.

Wei Yan had already received news from the Beijing Division, saying that in view of the fact that the puppet Tang thief army had plagued Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, the imperial court had already issued a holy decree to let Huguang, Guangzhou, Guangxi and Yungui jointly send troops to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang thief army.

Huguang has already begun to recruit young and strong people, claiming to send 100,000 troops west to Guizhou, and on the Liangguang side, his top boss Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, also began to gather troops from Liangguang, and the troops from Guangdong also began to move westward into Wuzhou.

It won't be long before Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, will personally lead his troops north from Wuzhou!

The 8,000 soldiers he led are just forwards!

In such a situation, Wei Yan didn't think that the puppet Tang thief army would be able to resist the suppression of the imperial army!

This puppet Tang thief army will be defeated sooner or later, maybe two or three months later, maybe half a year later, but he definitely doesn't think that the puppet Tang thief army will be able to survive under the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of troops in several provinces of the imperial court.

In this way, do you still need to use high-ranking officials to recruit these pseudo-Tang thief army?

Not at all!

Although the imperial court often recruits bandits and thieves, it is only limited to ordinary thieves, and even ordinary rebellions can be surrendered, but for the pseudo-Tang Dynasty that is called the emperor, it must be killed cleanly!

Even if it is a pseudo-Tang thief army that surrenders, it must be killed, otherwise how can future generations be warned?

It is not advisable to surrender, and it is rumored that Hao Bonian, the leader of the puppet Tang thief army opposite, and even the first general of the puppet Tang thief army, is even more unlikely to be easily surrendered, so in this case, it is necessary to consider continuing this battle.

Running away, no, surrendering in battle, no, even less passively beaten!

The only way to do this is to try to take the initiative to launch a counterattack, I hope that these pseudo-Tang thief troops on the other side are not as strong as rumored!

Hopefully, your counterattack will succeed!

Wei Yan, who had made a decision in his heart, no longer cared about the retreat hints of the generals under his command, and immediately ordered: "The thief army is current, how can we, as an officer and soldier, easily retreat, and prepare to launch a counterattack!" ”

"We still have 4,000 soldiers, 8,000 troops, and the number of puppet Tang thief troops on the opposite side is only the same as ours, so there is absolutely no reason to retreat!"

"After this battle is won, this official will personally ask for credit for you!"

"The soldiers are the most elite force of our army, whether this battle can be won or not, it depends on the soldiers, pass the order, let the soldiers be the Chinese army!"

Wei Yan made up his mind to fight to the death, but when the generals below heard this, they were all terrified!

Immediately, someone said: "Adults think twice! ”

"The pseudo-Tang Bu team in front of them are all the elite of the thief army, and I am afraid that this fight will be...... I'm afraid it's ......."

"The official has made up his mind!" Wei Yan also showed his prestige as a governor at this time, if these generals dared to disobey the order, he would have to kill a personal sacrifice flag!

However, in order to appease these generals and give them hope, Wei Yan immediately said: "When we counterattack, we can slow down appropriately, if we really can't rush through, then we will plan more!" ”

As soon as they heard Wei Yan's words, many Ming army generals breathed a sigh of relief, and Wei Yan's plan was naturally to retreat.

If you can't fight, you can retreat, which is okay, but if you are afraid that you will fight to the death and not retreat, it will be completely finished at that time.

Immediately, many generals have already made up their minds to pay attention, in that case, wait for a little bit of meaning to bring someone by themselves, rush a little and then retreat.

Wei Yan naturally didn't want to force them to die!

No matter what, he Wei Yan is going to fight with the pseudo-Tang thief army after all, even if he is defeated in the end!

In this way, he will be able to hold his head up in front of Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang in the future!

said that his retreat was not because he was afraid of the thief army, but because his strength was not as good as others.

That way, you don't have to bear the stigma of running away without a fight!

That's right, at this time, Wei Yan's first consideration was not victory or defeat, but that he couldn't bear the infamy of running away without a fight.

And this decision and idea of his, whether it succeeds in the end or not, will make many Ming soldiers lose their lives in vain!

Wei Yan, as the governor of Guangxi, the actual commander of this large army, after he personally gave the order, whether those generals wanted it or not, they needed to follow it.

With the delivery of the order, soon, the Ming army in the camp began to move, and groups of Ming soldiers began to line up, facing the continuous shelling of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

However, in another corner of the camp, hundreds of Ming soldiers had already rushed to the shore and began to board the boats, and they would control the ships and be ready to retreat at any time.

And Wei Yan's personal soldiers have also brought their own horses, and at the same time prepared a batch of the best horses for Wei Yan, ready to retreat with Wei Yan at any time!

The Ming army is out!

This situation was naturally discovered by the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army for the first time, and in the position of the Second Artillery Battalion in the rear, Butcher Chen was already starting to get excited, and immediately said: "Shoot quickly, hit the fuck hard!" ”

On the hillside in the rear, Hao Bonian also smiled faintly and said: "Look, they can't help it, let the infantry start, let them know what the end of the field battle with our Tang Dynasty King Division will be!" ”