Ever since he learned that Wang Bianyi's cavalry had failed to intercept and lost more than half of it, Zhang Yue already knew that Nanchang was dangerous!

Without the delay of the cavalry, the puppet Tang thief army can quickly march to Nanchang City and launch an attack, and the tens of thousands of infantry he sent back to Nanchang will not be able to rush back in time, with the existing 10,000 guards in Nanchang City, it is basically impossible to stop the puppet Tang thief army.

So the loss of Nanchang was already expected two days ago!

But although he had already expected it, he was still a little unacceptable after he really learned that Nanchang was lost!

That's Nanchang!

Without Nanchang, the subsequent war in the Jiangxi direction will be even more passive, and the puppet Tang thief army can even directly enter Poyang Lake through Nanchang, and then enter the Yangtze River.

However, although he sighed, Zhang Yue did not give up his confidence, although Nanchang was lost, but he still had a chance to annihilate the main force of the second army of the puppet Tang thief army under the city of Fuzhou.

As long as the second army of the puppet Tang can be annihilated, even if Nanchang is lost, it is not a big problem!

Because as long as the second army of the puppet Tang Dynasty is solved, the battle situation in the entire Jiangxi will be revitalized!

In the follow-up, he Zhang Yue could lead the army to counterattack Nanchang and recapture Nanchang, and he could also counterattack Ji'an and even Ganzhou in the follow-up, and re-advance the front to northern Guangdong.

This is also the reason why he knew that Nanchang might face a situation of great danger, but still did not lead the main force to come back, but continued to pursue the second army of the puppet Tang Dynasty.

In his opinion, the criterion for judging the victory or defeat of this battle is not the gains or losses of Nanchang or one or two important cities, but more importantly, whether the second army of the puppet Tang can be annihilated.

As long as the second army of the puppet Tang is destroyed, then it will be a victory!

Taking a step back, then it is impossible to destroy the second army of the puppet Tang Dynasty under the city of Fuzhou, but he can also lead the main force to counterattack Nanchang in the future, and now there are only thousands of puppet Tang thieves in Nanchang City, is it possible that he can still block the counterattack of his 80,000 army?

But the development of the situation was soon out of Zhang Yue's control!

Because when Zhang Yue learned the news of the loss of Nanchang, Li Chunjing also learned the news later, and after learning that the Fourth Mixed Regiment had taken Nanchang, Li Chunjing immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops from Fuzhou City.

Nanchang has already been laid, what is he still doing under the city of Fuzhou, waiting for death!

Besides, although his Second Army was the main force, it actually lacked part of the ability to attack fortifications, and the First Heavy Artillery Battalion, which was the core of the siege, had been transferred to the Fourth Mixed Regiment, and even a field artillery battalion of the Fifth Artillery Regiment had been strengthened to the Fourth Mixed Regiment.

Therefore, for the current main force of the Second Army, the ability to attack fortified positions has been greatly weakened, and it is difficult to conquer Fuzhou in just one or two days.

At the same time, Zhang Yue's main force is behind his ass, if he continues to stay in Fuzhou, Zhang Yue will be able to kill with an army of 100,000 in less than two days.

At that time, it will be really attacked by the enemy, facing the danger of being attacked, and it will be difficult to leave.

Besides, Li Chunjing didn't plan to really take Fuzhou at the beginning, so after learning that the Fourth Mixed Regiment was successful, he did not hesitate to retreat quickly with the Second Army.

When Zhang Yue learned that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army had withdrawn from Fuzhou City, he was also stunned for a while.

The puppet Tang thief army is no longer fighting Fuzhou?

Do you continue to pursue the main force of the puppet Tang thief army?

But if you continue to pursue, what will you do in Nanchang?

In the end, gritting his teeth, Zhang Yue chose to lead the army back to Nanchang!

But at this time, the thing that made Zhang Yue vomit blood came again, he just tried to return to Nanchang with his troops, and the puppet Tang thief army behind him ran back again, putting on a posture of attacking Fuzhou.

At this time, Zhang Yue really felt a dilemma, this is not going, not going!

Because if there are fewer troops to return this time, there is no possibility of counterattacking Nanchang at all, and it is even possible to be bitten back.

In the face of Nanchang City, which was defended by five or six thousand people, Zhang Yue judged that it would take at least 20,000 people to be able to counterattack, and these 20,000 people had to be the main force of the Governor or the border army, but in his main force, the Governor and the border army were only more than 30,000 people in total.

If there are fewer reinforcements sent back to Nanchang, the puppet Tang thief army will run over to attack Fuzhou again!

In the end, Zhang Yue simply gave up the plan to counterattack Nanchang, but directly stationed in Fuzhou, and at the same time sent 3,000 cavalry of the border army to continue to track and harass the main force of the second army of the puppet Tang thief army.

Zhang Yue did not return to Nanchang, Li Chunjing simply went directly from Fuzhou City, and then withdrew to Fengcheng to garrison.

After Li Chunjing led the main force of the Second Army back to Fengcheng, it was even more impossible for Zhang Yue's troops to counterattack Nanchang, and if they wanted to counterattack Nanchang, then they would need to face the danger of being cut off by the main force of the Second Army at any time, and it was possible to take Fuzhou back when they took a step back.

Now that Nanchang is finished, Fuzhou can't be lost anymore!

Now Zhang Yue's mind is no longer on the counterattack on Nanchang, or on the pursuit and annihilation of the main force of the puppet Tang Second Army, his mind is already on the deployment of Fuzhou and the subsequent deployment of Jiujiang.

He left a large number of troops in Fuzhou, and even left all the border troops behind, and then there were thousands of local recruits, and the governor also left 5,000 people, forming a total of 20,000 main forces, in addition to about 40,000 guards, young and strong, and a large number of artillery.

Among the 20,000 main forces, there were also 3,000 cavalry of the border army.

With 20,000 main forces, especially these 3,000 border army cavalry, it is quite difficult for the puppet Tang thief army to conquer Fuzhou!

Immediately, he quickly retreated north with the remaining main force of the superintendent and a small number of guards, where did he go?

He led his army to retreat north from Poyang Lake, and then retreated directly to Nankang Mansion north of Nanchang.

Nanchang has been lost, which means that the naval army of the puppet Tang thief army can enter Poyang Lake, and then enter the Yangtze River through Poyang Lake.

At this time, in addition to firmly planting a nail in Fuzhou, he even needed to hold the entrance of Poyang Lake into and out of the Yangtze River, that is, Nankang Mansion.

He must adjust the new defense line in the shortest possible time to ensure that the entire defense line will not completely collapse due to the loss of Nanchang.

Although Nanchang is finished, in fact, the main force of the Jiangxi Ming Army is lost, and it also keeps such an important strategic bridgehead as Fuzhou!

If the puppet Tang thief army dared to leave Nanchang and continue northward, the Ming army in Fuzhou would be able to advance westward at any time, and then cut off the supply line of the puppet Tang thief army, and besiege the puppet Tang thief army that went north alone.

And this is actually why Li Chunjing led the army back to Fengcheng, because Li Chunjing needed to maintain a large number of troops in this area to contain and threaten the main force of the Ming army in Fuzhou to ensure that they would not threaten Nanchang.

But what gave Zhang Yue a headache was that Nanchang was lost, how should he explain it to the imperial court?

Could it be that the loss of Nanchang was just a small accident?

But how to report to the imperial court is just a small headache for him, and he has been in the six provinces of the southern superintendent for two years, and he has not been idle in the past two years, but he has been doing it all the time to build guns and train the new army.

Although he Zhang Yue is still extremely loyal to the imperial court, he also believes that the princes and His Majesty in the court can clearly see the difficulties of today's situation, and will not do anything from destroying the Great Wall.

Yes, even Zhang Yue is still extremely loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and he is extremely loyal to Emperor Zhengde, who appreciates and reuses him, but this does not mean that he does not know how much energy he has, on the contrary, he knows better than anyone else!

The 50,000 governors with complete guns and cannons, hundreds of thousands of guards, and young and strong men under his command are all factors that the imperial court cannot ignore him!

Otherwise, when someone in the imperial court impeached him for supporting the army and respecting himself at the beginning of the year, Emperor Zhengde would not have stayed in the middle, and in the end he just gave Yu Dayou the power to act cheaply and Shang Fang's sword to contain himself, but would directly remove himself.

Now the situation in the south is already tied to Zhang Yue, without his supervision, without his hard work to maintain the defense line in the south, the puppet Tang thief army would have entered Nanzhili a long time ago.

And this point, the princes in the court see it very clearly!

This is also the reason why not a single gun or cannon made by the imperial court in the northern provinces was transported to Huguang and Jiangxi, but was equipped with the northern army on the spot.

Even the guns made in the Jiangnan region such as Nanzhili actually did not flow into Zhang Yue's hands at all, but were equipped with the border troops sent by the south and the guards of Nanzhili.

As for the equipment of the thief army to which Yu Dayou belongs, it was also made by Yu Dayou himself, and the other part was purchased from foreigners!

From the specific attitude of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years in military deployment, gun and artillery training of the new army, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty has a certain suspicion and defense of Zhang Yue, but now Huguang and Jiangxi are inseparable from Zhang Yue and his supervision, so they will continue to endure it, and even continue to promote him to the knighthood.

In July this year, after Zhang Yue forced back Hao Bonian's assault on Changsha, the Ming Dynasty added a title of Zuodu Yushi to him because of his meritorious service in defending the land.

You must know that in the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, the supervisor can usually only add the title of the right capital imperial history, which is an extra gift for him to add a left capital imperial history.

But after reaching this point, as a feudal minister, in fact, Zhang Yue can no longer be promoted, and if he continues to be promoted, he will have to become a secretary of various ministries or enter the cabinet.

However, with Zhang Yue's current power and status, if he is transferred to the Beijing Division to serve as a scholar or even enter the cabinet, he will inevitably be promoted on the surface, but in fact take the opportunity to seize power and military power.

This kind of thing can not be done at any time with a glass of wine and military power, and if you don't do it well, you will become a yellow robe!