Therefore, after arriving at Xunzhou Mansion, the main army led by Li Xuan stopped to rest, and at the same time sent the partial division troops south to control other parts of Xunzhou Mansion, such as Guixian and Hengzhou in the south of Xunzhou Mansion.

In addition, a partial division should also be sent north to assist the provisional first regiment to capture Guilin Mansion and then move east to Pingle Mansion.

At the same time, the middle and senior officers of the Tang Dynasty Division stayed with Li Xuan almost all day, constantly discussing how to carry out the battle of Wuzhou and how to take Wuzhou.

After all, Wuzhou is a hard bone, recklessly run over and directly attack the head that is very likely to hit the head and break the bloodstream, many people think that this will be a long-lasting siege war, at least Zeng Ziwen of the Operations Division and a group of operational staff officers after analyzing the situation in Wuzhou, they agreed that if they directly launch a strong attack, and wait for Wuzhou City to be taken down, the first army will almost be crippled, so they cautiously proposed a siege strategy to Li Xuan to avoid a large number of casualties in the battle!

Although Li Xuan was still a little hesitant about this, he also knew the importance of the First Army, but it could not be easily damaged.

But the siege is not a good thing either!

Because if the city is besieged, it will definitely take a lot of time, so that the Ming army will have more time to gather troops, for example, the troops on the Guangdong side may continue to reinforce over, and the Ming troops on the Huguang side, Jiangxi and even Fujian may run over.

After being held back by Wuzhou, it is very likely that the Tang Dynasty will face more and more Ming troops, and the pressure will become more and more at that time.

In addition, it is also very important that it is now the end of the first month, although the weather is still relatively cold, but the rain has obviously begun to increase, and by February, the two regions will enter the real rainy season.

February was fine, but in March and April until summer, the rain really didn't stop.

Rain naturally has a great impact on warfare, both for the army of the age of cold weapons and for the army of hot weapons.

For cold weapons troops, the bowstrings of the bows and arrows will be unable to be used due to moisture, and the march of the troops will become extremely difficult.

It is even more not a good season for the Tang Dynasty Division, which uses a large number of firearms, and half a month or even a month of rain will make the Tang Dynasty's muskets turn into burning sticks, and even the artillery cannot be used.

And this will make the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty King Division decline rapidly!

Therefore, in the previous battle plan, the attack on Wuzhou was scheduled to be from January to February, and after taking Wuzhou, a large-scale offensive would be suspended, because at that time it was already entering the real rainy season, and there might not even be a few days of sunny weather in a month.

Therefore, unless the garrison strength of the Ming army in Zhaoqing and various parts of Guangdong is not strong, and any small-scale troops can be taken down, otherwise, the troops will not carry out large-scale military operations.

The next round of large-scale military operations should be after May or even June, after the height of summer.

However, Wei Yan withdrew the Ming troops in Wuxuan and Xunzhou Mansions, and retreated to the shore of Wuzhou, so that the Ming troops on the Wuzhou side greatly increased to 50,000 or 60,000.

In this way, the difficulty of fighting Wuzhou has greatly increased!

In order to avoid heavy casualties caused by the strong attack, the attack on Wuzhou had to be delayed first, and the surrounding areas should be taken down in the next few days.

Of course, although the attack on Wuzhou City was postponed, this did not mean that the army would stay in Xunzhou Mansion without moving, in fact, the army led by Li Xuan only stayed in Xunzhou Mansion for less than three days, and after dividing two small-scale partial divisions, it set off again, first accepting Pingnan County by the way, and then officially entering the territory of Wuzhou Prefecture, and continuing to advance eastward along the Xunjiang River.

In the end, he arrived all the way to Teng County, this Teng County was obviously abandoned by the Ming army, and there was no force to defend it at all, and after taking Teng County effortlessly, Li Xuan found that this Teng County was also empty.

After taking Teng County, Li Xuan ordered the First Baggage Regiment and the Second Baggage Regiment to use this place as a transit station to transfer materials to the front line, that is, to set this place as a front-line material supply war.

Because Tengxian County is 25 kilometers past Wuzhou, the army can arrive overnight, and the transport team of the Logistics Division, which has no self-protection force, is no longer suitable for continuing to advance, but must have an armed logistics unit in the army, that is, two baggage regiments to be responsible for the transportation of materials in the last section.

As for Li Xuan, he continued to lead the army eastward!

Li Xuan led the army to continue to advance eastward, and when he pointed to Wuzhou City, the troops of the Tang Dynasty Division's troops in other directions were also continuing to launch an offensive!

For example, after the Third Army advanced westward, the road was extremely smooth, basically every place it went to conquer a place, and it did not fight any decent battles at all, and basically easily cleaned up a small number of local Ming army defenders.

This is because there was no Ming army in the western part of Guangxi, and only a part of it was annihilated and captured when the guests came, and the remaining other state capitals naturally relied on a small number of regular troops and some young people to defend the city, how could this stop the third army of more than 8,000 people.

Therefore, the Third Army's westward march is almost an armed march, which is simpler than the Second Army's military operations in Guizhou, after all, there is still a Guiyang in Guizhou!

Now the Second Army is also stationed under Guiyang City, but it is estimated that it will not be able to take it for a while and a half!

The west is moving smoothly, and it is expected that it will not be long before it will be able to take many prefectures and counties, and even kill all the way to Lianzhou Mansion.

The operation in the north was relatively smooth, the first regiment of the provisional army had already controlled many places in Guilin Prefecture, and only one Guilin Mansion City was left uncaptured, and then waited for a main infantry battalion and a garrison regiment sent by the First Army, with a total of about 3,400 troops to reinforce, and was already preparing to launch a general attack on Guilin Prefecture.

Generally speaking, except for the hard bone of Wuzhou in the east, which is not easy to gnaw, the rest of Guangxi is facing the attack of the Tang Dynasty, and there is basically no resistance.

However, the actions in other directions went smoothly, but they failed to make Li Xuan and many middle and senior generals of the First Army happy.

Because when they finally arrived at Wuzhou City, they couldn't laugh when they looked at Wuzhou City, which was extremely tall and had all kinds of fortifications built like hedgehogs!

Seeing the dense and perfect fortifications of Wuzhou City, Li Xuan was a little depressed, these Ming troops were all craftsmen? How did they turn Wuzhou City into this ghost in just a few months?

Looking from afar, you can see that the Ming army has used the pontoon bridge as the core, arranged iron chains, and directly blocked the Xijiang River, and through the telescope, you can vaguely see the side of the city wall facing the river, and the cannons are placed.

Yes, it is not the kind of small-caliber bowl cannon that is common in the Ming army, but a cannon, and the preliminary judgment is at least 500 catties or more.

Then there were many fortifications above and below the walls of the entire city of Wuzhou, which were obviously temporarily arranged!

For example, under the city wall, there are sharp bamboo chips, and there are obviously cannon emplacements on the city wall, and obvious sandbags can be seen in front of these cannon emplacements.

Standing on the top of the city, the Ming army is not a young man at first glance, but a regular army, and it may even be a more elite regular army, because many people in it are wearing armor.

Where did the Ming army in Wuzhou get so much artillery, and there are also a lot of heavy artillery? Could it be that they moved all the naval guns of the naval division over there in Guangdong to the city?

Looking at the heavily guarded Wuzhou City, not only Li Xuan frowned, but also a group of middle and senior officers of the Tang Dynasty Division around him also frowned.

Just by looking at these city fortifications, you know that this Wuzhou city is not easy to fight!

"Tell me to go down and let the army build a camp!" Li Xuan is now completely dead to the idea of defeating Wuzhou City in a quick way, since he can't make a quick decision, he naturally has to make preparations in other aspects, at least this camp must be repaired, so as not to attack the Ming army out of the city.

According to rumors, Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, claimed that there were 100,000 troops in Wuzhou City, and Li Xuan would definitely not believe this number, and he would not even believe it if he folded it in half.

Although the intelligence said that there may be sixty or seventy thousand defenders in the city, there are not so many regular Ming troops in the entire Liangguang region!

There must be a lot of young men and people who are temporarily recruited, and these generals of the Ming army always like to include young men and people in the total strength.

He estimated that the real regular army in the city was estimated to be 50,000 at most!

In fact, Li Xuan still thinks too much about the defenders in Wuzhou City, in fact, the total strength in Wuzhou City is now more than 50,000 people, of which about 20,000 are still young men who were temporarily recruited, although these young men also distributed weapons, but the weapons in their hands are only simple spears, swords and the like, and their combat effectiveness is slightly stronger than that of the homeless.

In other words, the regular army under Wang Yue was only more than 30,000 people!

30,000 regular troops and 20,000 young and strong, the combined strength is actually similar to the army assembled by Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, the only difference is that these armies of Zhu Zhihai were divided into the North Road and the West Road, and the 50,000 people under Wang Yue's hands shrank in Wuzhou City!

Of the 30,000 regular troops under Wang Yue, about 15,000 of them were brought back by Wei Yan from Wuxuan, Xunzhou and other places, and the remaining thousands were originally in Wuzhou's defenders, and the remaining 10,000 people and even Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, were transferred from Guangdong, led by Shen Xiyi, deputy commander of Guangdong.

Among the 10,000 Guangdong guest soldiers under Shen Xiyi's command, 3,000 were specially recruited from the coastal areas of Guangzhou, and their commander was Yu Dayou, the commander of the Guangdong capital and the general of the staff!