According to the information they had obtained before, this Wuxuan had been operated by the Ming army for two months, and from a distance, it could be seen that there were many newly built fortifications near the city wall.

There are also a lot of Ming troops in the city, according to many intelligence, the number of defenders in the city has exceeded 20,000, and may even reach 30,000.

All this shows that Wuxuan's city defense force is still very strong, even if it is not as good as Liuzhou Fucheng, but it should not be worse there.

Therefore, after the Fifth Infantry Regiment of the Pioneer of the Tang Army arrived in Wuxuancheng, it did not launch an attack at the first time, but guarded the surrounding area, and at the same time sent troops to search the surrounding area, so as to avoid an ambush by the Ming army nearby.

However, in the afternoon of the same day, they found that something seemed to be wrong with the Ming army at the head of the city, and the Ming army at the head of the city seemed to be carrying out a large-scale rotation and transfer.

However, it is separated by a city wall, and the distance is also a little far, so although the Fifth Infantry Regiment is aware of the movement of the Ming army at the head of the city, it is impossible to know the specific situation.

On the contrary, the Fifth Infantry Regiment was also worried that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack out of the city, and take advantage of the arrival of its main force to defeat its own vanguard force.

Therefore, in the evening of the same day, instead of approaching the city wall, the Fifth Infantry Regiment retreated about 500 meters and stationed on a gentle hill about a kilometer away from Wuxuan City, still in a defensive posture.

In the evening, they saw that the torches in the city were still bright, and it seemed that they were being moved, and the officers and men of the Fifth Infantry Regiment were a little nervous, and the troops on duty were on high alert, and constantly sent peripheral troops to patrol, so as to prevent the Ming army from playing night attacks.

But in the second half of the night, the Fifth Infantry Regiment still did not wait for a possible night attack by the Ming army, but the torches in Wuxuan City were still bright, and this situation did not seem normal.

However, because it was night, the Fifth Infantry Regiment was also afraid of the Ming army's deception, and did not dare to attack rashly, and after discussing it for a while, several major officers and staff officers felt that it would be better to wait a few more hours and wait until dawn to see the situation.

Otherwise, if you rush out at night, it will be easy to capsize in the gutter!

So they waited and waited until the sky began to show white, and then they sent detectives to check the situation under Wuxuan City.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but this look is a big surprise, because they didn't see many Ming soldiers on the west wall of Wuxuan, you must know that there was a dense Ming army on the city yesterday, but today although you can also see the defenders on the city, but the number is not much, and it can even be said to be rare.

There were even a few brave cavalrymen who approached only a few dozen meters away from the city wall, but there were still no Ming troops on the city to bend bows and shoot arrows to attack them.

This is not the normal situation!

The cavalry platoon commander who led the scout cavalry decisively made it clear that the scout rode around the western wall, and then headed towards several other walls, only to see a strange situation, although they saw a few defenders in other directions, but there were fewer defenders on the city head than on the west wall.

There is no Ming army in the city? Did you hide behind the walls or did you go there?

The scout cavalry is a little confused!

The platoon commander who led the cavalry thought hard for a while, and then four or five cavalry under his command headed towards the river!

When they ran all the way to the river, they saw a scene that surprised them!

There are many ships moored along the river, and most of these ships have set sail, and the few ships that have not set sail have many people on board!

Seeing this scene, these cavalrymen still couldn't understand what was going on, the Ming army in the city must have wanted to run, and they had already run.

Soon, the scouts reported the situation, and the Fifth Infantry Regiment quickly responded, and the army immediately set out and immediately began to attack the city.

However, as soon as they moved, those Ming soldiers ran faster, the ships started quickly, and the Ming soldiers who did not board the ships also rushed directly to the east!

In the blink of an eye, dozens of ships on the Qianjiang River were already running down the river, and at the same time, thousands of Ming troops on the shore were also running away, and the speed was very fast.

Although the commander of the Fifth Infantry Regiment at that time urgently ordered an attack, the guards were also prepared, leaving thousands of young men to confuse the thief army, and by the way, he slightly resisted, while he himself fled directly east with more than 10,000 troops!

As a result, the Wuxuan battle plan prepared by a group of operational staff officers and officers of the Privy Council of the Tang Dynasty has not yet been used, and it has been completely abandoned.

Because the Ming army had no intention of defending Wuxuan at all, they fled all the way east!

By the time the Fifth Infantry Regiment had taken the almost undefended Wuxuan City, the guards had already run away with all the regular troops and some of the young men, officials, gentry and family members.

The second cavalry battalion of the Tang Dynasty division was also tracked behind, and found that these Ming troops did not stop when they entered the territory of Xunzhou Prefecture, but directly crossed the Xunzhou Mansion and continued down the river.

The cavalry of the follow-up Tang Dynasty Division did not continue to follow, but from the news that came from the east, it seems that the fleeing army composed of more than 10,000 Ming troops and officials and gentry marched all the way east along the Xunjiang section of the Xijiang River Basin, passing through Pingnan and Tengxian without entering, and went straight to Wuzhou!

Moreover, the scale of the eastward escape is getting bigger and bigger, there were only more than 15,000 people when they fled from Wuxuan, but when Wei Yan arrived in Wuzhou with the eastward fleeing army, it is said that the headquarters has reached more than 20,000 people, not including the officials, gentry and their families who fled with the army, if this part of the people is also added, I am afraid that it can reach 30,000.

Wei Yan's run is called a clean and neat one, quite like the style of the Tang Dynasty King Shi in the mountains!

From the perspective of military strategy, Wei Yan's hand is quite beautiful, he successfully preserved the precious vitality of the Ming army, and strengthened the defensive force of Wuzhou, making it easier for the puppet Tang thief army to attack Wuzhou!

Therefore, this great retreat of Wei Yan can be called a 'victory turn', well, not a mockery, but a praise!

Because in this way, many of the Tang Dynasty's planned battle plans came to naught, and Li Xuan's plan was to gradually defeat the Ming army, and first defeat the 20,000 Ming troops in Wuxuan, and it would be better if by the way he defeated the reinforcements of thousands of people from Wuzhou.

In this way, the number of defenders on the Wuzhou side will be less, so that it will be easier and more convenient to fight Wuzhou in the future.

But the Ming army ran away, and it ran directly to Wuzhou, so of course Xunzhou Mansion and even most of Guangxi gave up, but they also correspondingly gathered more than 50,000 or 60,000 troops in Wuzhou, and possibly even more.

Wuzhou is originally a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are many defenders in the city, so I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to fight in the future.

When Li Xuan rushed to Wuxuan with the main force, looking at Wu Xuan, who had no traces of war, he was a little depressed and angry, and he knew that he would not send the forward troops, but directly rushed over with the main force, in this way, even if the Ming army escaped, it would be impossible for them all to run away.

Li Xuan, who was a little depressed, didn't even bother to enter Wu Xuancheng!

Wuxuan, which did not have a large number of Ming troops, was actually just an ordinary small county town, and it did not have any major strategic value, so there was no need for the army to stay in Wuxuan, and continued to go down the river to Xunzhou Mansion.

When Li Xuan and the others felt the Xunzhou Mansion, the situation they saw was similar to that of Wu Xuan, although there were hundreds of Ming troops left in the Xunzhou Mansion City, but they were almost undefended in front of the 30,000 army, and the defenders in the city composed of the county government and Qingzhuang did not even resist at all, and surrendered directly under the leadership of a few low-level officials who did not escape.

Several other counties in Xunzhou Prefecture can even be said to be rumored, and they just accepted it if they sent hundreds of people over.

But the more it went smoothly, the more depressed Li Xuan became!

Because when Li Xuan arrived in Xunzhou Prefecture, he had already received news that Wei Yan had fled all the way back to Wuzhou with an army of 30,000, and at this time, there were at least 60,000 or 70,000 troops in Wuzhou City!

This Wei Yan ran away with people, but also took away everything that could be taken away, the grain and silver in the official warehouse were not left at all, and they were all taken away, and secondly, many big families also ran away with Wei Yan.

Not to mention Wu Xuan, even the capital city of Xunzhou is almost the same as an empty city.

As a result, although the army marched eastward without fighting, it failed to capture many booty and prisoners.

And for the Tang Dynasty Division, which was extremely short of internal materials and needed to rely on a large number of captures to maintain the supply of troops, it was quite uncomfortable to not be able to obtain the spoils of war.

Especially when he saw that the grain and grass in the army were decreasing day by day and could not be replenished, Li Xuan had no other way but to let the Ministry of Taxation collect as much grain and grass as possible to supply the army.

Especially in the newly occupied Xunzhou capital, it is necessary to increase the intensity of tax collection and grain collection, why?

Because this Xunzhou Mansion is one of the most important grain producing areas in Guangxi, there will still be some grain reserves in this people, especially the grain in the hands of those grain merchants.

And after arriving in Xunzhou, the Tang Dynasty Wangshi, who had been running all the way for a long time, also stopped and began to rest, because if he continued to go east, it would be Wuzhou Mansion.

In order to avoid accidents after entering Wuzhou Mansion, Li Xuan specially ordered the troops to rest in Xunzhou Mansion for three days, on the one hand, to let the main force rest and recuperate, and on the other hand, to prepare to send partial division troops to control the surrounding areas.

This Xunzhou Mansion is the heavy granary of Guangxi, and Li Xuan is still counting on relying on the grain of this mansion to maintain the subsequent war.

Therefore, Xunzhou Mansion cannot afford to lose!