Since the Battle of Anping, the Tang army in the north has been divided into three routes, and all of them are progressing very smoothly!

When the Fifth Mixed Regiment of the eastward advance attacked Jinan, it almost did not encounter any resistance, and the thousands of Ming troops left behind in the city chose to surrender at the first time, not only these Ming troops, but also most of the civilian and military generals in the city chose to surrender on the spot.

And the Qingzhou Mansion is even more peculiar, the Fifth Mixed Regiment of the Eastward Advance has not yet gone to the Qingzhou Mansion, and the local officials and generals have jointly signed a table, announcing that they will change their doors and allegiance to the glorious and great, greater than the sun!

Laizhou and Dengzhou are relatively difficult, especially the local officials in Dengzhou, who actually chose to resist, and the fifth mixed regiment did not hesitate at all, and directly launched a fierce attack, and after three days of fierce fighting, successfully conquered Dengcheng Fucheng.

As a result, Datang has completely brought the entire Shandong and Shandong under control!

Immediately, the Fifth Mixed Regiment began to garrison Shandong, suppress the localities, clear the local routs, and stabilize the rule of the Tang Dynasty here.

The troops that went north to Youzhou were the main forces of the Third Army, including the Fifth Infantry Division, the Sixth Infantry Division, and some infantry units directly under the division headquarters of the Third Army, such as the Third Cavalry Detachment.

Originally, the Fifth Mixed Regiment was also scheduled to go north to Zhili, but now Shandong has just been taken, the place is still unstable, and there are too many routs in Shandong, which need to be cleared one by one, otherwise it will cause big trouble.

Therefore, now that the Fifth Mixed Regiment is still on the Shandong Peninsula, it is estimated that it will be difficult to enter Beizhili for a while, so the troops fighting in Beizhili are still only these two infantry divisions.

Although these two infantry divisions are the main forces of the Third Army, especially the Fifth Infantry Division, they are the main force in the main force, and they are currently the well-deserved first trump card in the Tang Army.

After the Battle of Liangshanji, the Fifth Infantry Division continued to control and defend the defensive line in the rear, and at the same time began to accept new recruits from the rear to supplement the losses, after all, in the Battle of Liangshanji, the Fifth Infantry Division actually suffered a lot of losses, with 1,000 killed and almost 2,000 wounded, and the total casualties were roughly the same as those of the Tatar cavalry, which were about 3,000 people.

However, the time left for the Fifth Infantry Division to rest and replenish was relatively short, and it only rested in a hurry for a few days, and then after accepting about 2,000 recruits, it went straight to Beizhili.

The Sixth Infantry Division also lost more than 1,000 men in the Battle of Anping, but because of the difficulty of replenishment and the tight time, the Sixth Infantry Division began to move north without replenishing its troops.

Although the two infantry divisions are currently understaffed, each lacking 1,000 men, and there are still 2,000 recruits in the 5th Infantry Division, their combat effectiveness has decreased compared with the pre-war period.

But the northward offensive launched by these two forces was still unable to resist by the Ming army!

Or to put it more simply, there was no resistance from the Ming army at all!

The remnants of the Ming army in many cities along the way either fled from the wind or surrendered directly, and the main force of the Third Army in the north did not fight a few battles, but the prisoners of war accepted more than 30,000 people, well, part of them were the Ming troops who had fled from the Battle of Anping, and some of them were local guards, who would rather choose to surrender than resist in the face of the Tang army's attack.

And those who are unwilling to surrender basically know that they can't fight, so they simply continue to flee north, they fled there, naturally to Youzhou, where it will be the last fortress of the Ming army in the north!

In the face of the collapse of the Ming army, Hao Bonian, who led the Third Army, was not in a hurry, and still commanded the troops to come at their own pace.

The army on the front line keeps advancing, and the supply troops in the rear also maintain the supply of troops at any time!

Now that the situation has been decided, there is no need for Hao Bonian to take any more risks, even Li Xuan warned Hao Bonian in advance, saying that after winning the war, let him pay attention to the arrogant phenomenon in the army, not only to maintain the high morale of the troops, but also to maintain stability, especially when going north in the follow-up, you can't be in a hurry, take your time, Youzhou City is in the north, it can't fly away!

If it was said that it was delayed for a few days, and then there were other places, such as Liaodong, or simply the Tatars, and the Ming army or Tatar cavalry ran to Youzhou City, increasing the defense of Youzhou, so that the heavy troops gathered here.

If this really happens, don't care, even Li Xuan feels that this is still a good opportunity, take advantage of this opportunity to clean them all up!

Now the chaotic Ming army scattered all over the north is easy to fight, but it takes time, and it will also have a relatively large impact on the local people's livelihood and economy.

As for the Tatar cavalry, it is even more so, these Tatar cavalry, with their mobile advantages, in the northern plains and even the Mongolian steppe, can be said to come as they want, and go as they want, if they do not take the initiative to pounce, in fact, with the current serious lack of cavalry in the Tang army, if you want to find and catch up with them and annihilate them, it is almost an impossible task.

In the end, it is estimated that it will still follow the strategy of the early years of the Ming Dynasty, stabilize the border towns with infantry, build cities and reclaim, and gradually advance to the north, compressing the living space of nomadic cavalry, on the other hand, vigorously develop cavalry, and the cavalry will take the initiative to kill the grassland after reaching a certain scale, and this timetable is estimated to be calculated in ten years.

If there is a chance to annihilate another group of Tatar cavalry now, Li Xuan is very willing, but unfortunately Altan Khan is very cunning, after the Anping Battle was hit hard, the people ran back to the grassland directly, except for still controlling those border towns, basically no longer set foot in the Central Plains.

The situation in the north is stable, Youzhou City is a peach, and when the Tang army kills Youzhou City, this peach will be ripe, just picked.

After the completion of the Anping Campaign, the units of the Fourth Army began to assemble, and an infantry regiment of the Ninth Infantry Division also returned, although they were the same as many troops, they did not have time to replenish new recruits, and their strength decreased compared with before the war, but this still will not affect the strategy of the Fourth Army in Henan!

After the Fourth Army arrived in Henan, it quickly took over the task of the Second Army, and quickly launched the Kaifeng Campaign, which launched a fierce attack on the defenders of Kaifeng City, while the Second Army began to move south to Runing Province and northern Anhui.

Compared with the Ming army in other places, the Ming army in Kaifeng City resisted very tenaciously, otherwise, the previous Second Army would not have dragged to the Fourth Army, and it was not able to defeat Kaifeng City.

The Ming army in the city, although there is not much main force, but there is still a new army of 8,000, which belongs to the new army trained locally in Henan, in addition to a large number of guard troops and young people.

The Ming army officials and generals in the city were also very tenacious, they knew that they could not match the Tang army in guns, but they started the idea of hand-to-hand combat on the city wall and in the city.

When the Second Army launched its first attack before, it seemed smooth sailing on the surface, and the artillery and muskets completely suppressed the Ming army at the head of the city, but after the assault battalion reached the head of the city, it was strangled by the premeditated Ming troops!

And not the heavy infantry of the Ming army, but their firearms units!

This time, the Ming army in Kaifeng City did not use musketeers and shotguns as medium and long-range interception firepower as the Ming army in other places when defending the city, but used them as melee assault fire!

They waited until the assault battalion reached the top of the city, and even after they had entered part of the city wall against the wall, they came out and opened their guns and opened fire, and they were shot and killed by a platoon of guns at a distance of more than ten or twenty meters, but the Ming army also hid those shotguns in the streets and alleys.

Under this volley of guns, the assault battalion of the Second Army was an infantry regiment that followed in, and there were many casualties in an instant, because the situation was unknown, and it was the first time to suffer this tactic, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the Second Army decided to withdraw from the city first, but the occupied wall would not be handed over.

Just when the Second Army was preparing to change its tactics and launch a second attack, when it was time to completely conquer the city, it received a new task, and the Ancient Sage Monarch ordered them to go south, and as for the occupation of Kaifeng and the subsequent Henan Mansion and other places, it was handed over to the Fourth Army.

Therefore, this is to leave Kaifeng with reluctance and hand over Kaifeng to the Fourth Army to solve.

After the Fourth Army came to Kaifeng City, when the Second Army learned about the defensive tactics of the Ming Army, it also felt a little headache!

These Ming troops made it clear that they would not play against the Tang army, they even gave up the city wall semi-voluntarily, but withdrew most of the troops from the city, and then relied on the many buildings and complex terrain in the city to resist, they did not even aim to defend or recapture a certain building, but to kill and injure the Tang soldiers.

When the Fourth Army first arrived, it was still a little careless, so that on the first day, it lost more than 200 men, and this loss was caused by the ambush of Ming firearms from ambushes on both sides of the street when the troops were advancing in formation.

This situation made Fang Xitong, the commander of the Fourth Army, quite annoyed, and he naturally saw at a glance what the tactics of these Ming troops were, this is street fighting.

When His Majesty was teaching in the Imperial Academy, he emphasized many times that when attacking a certain city, avoid street fighting as much as possible, and be able to solve the battle outside the city, just outside the city, if you can solve the battle at the head of the city, then at the head of the city, and try not to fight with the enemy in the city with complex terrain unless you have to.

Street fighting is quite troublesome for the attacker!

However, Fang Xitong has his own ideas, your Ming army wants to fight in the streets? Okay, Lao Tzu demolished the city, see how your Ming army still fights!