After this failed tentative attack, Hao Bonian also confirmed that the defensive strength in Liuzhou City was not weak, and it was conservatively estimated that the defenders should be more than 10,000 people.

Ten thousand troops are actually nothing, the key is that the Ming Dynasty officials in Liuzhou are also too cautious, shrinking from beginning to end, not taking the initiative to go out to fight, and even hiding from the city.

In this case, if you want to attack rashly, I am afraid that the casualties will be not small, so he simply suspended the general attack on Liuzhou City, anyway, this Liuzhou is the turtle in the urn, with the strength of the army under his command, he really has to make up his mind to pay a certain number of casualties, and he will take it.

There is no need to be in a hurry, take a look at the situation first, but when he was stationed under the city of Liuzhou, he quickly heard the news of the reinforcements of the Ming army, according to some unreliable intelligence: Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, heard that after the puppet Tang thief army went south to Liuzhou, he had already gathered troops and horses to enter Liuzhou, preparing to gather with the Ming army in Liuzhou to encircle and suppress the puppet Tang thief army!

Since the Ming army on the Wuzhou side took the initiative to come to Liuzhou, Hao Bonian naturally would not let go of this opportunity, as soon as he got the news, Hao Bonian immediately left Liuzhou behind.

So soon, the 1st Infantry Corps and most of the 2nd Infantry Regiment under the jurisdiction of the most elite 1st Infantry Brigade under Hao Bonian quickly bypassed Liuzhou Mansion and continued south, all the way to Xiangzhou!

And what is Xiangzhou?

The south gate of Liuzhou City, the only place for the Ming army to reinforce Liuzhou in Wuzhou and other places!

Xiangzhou is located in the south of Liuzhou, and Xiangzhou is the confluence point of the Liujiang River into the Qianjiang River, and Huaiyuan County, all belong to the confluence of the river, strategic transportation arteries.

If the Ming army on the Wuzhou side wants to go west to reinforce Liuzhou, then this Xiangzhou is the place where it must pass, well, this point is the same regardless of whether their Ming army takes the land route or the river route.

Hao Bonian did not let Liuzhou City fight at this time, but sent the most elite First Infantry Corps to Xiangzhou, and at the same time sent the Second Infantry Regiment to the south of Liuzhou Fucheng, ready to support the First Infantry Corps at any time.

His target was the reinforcements of the Ming army on the Wuzhou side,

For Hao Bonian, Liuzhou City is now a roadblock, and it must be knocked out!

But if Liuzhou is just a roadblock, then Wuzhou is equivalent to a mountain!

Wuzhou as the Liangguang Governor's Palace, the fortification of the city defense is incomparable to Liuzhou, if you do nothing now, if you directly attack Wuzhou in the future, then it is equivalent to hitting the iron plate head-on.

It is very likely that the troops will be lost under Wuzhou City, and the casualties will be heavy!

In order to make the follow-up attack on Wuzhou smoother and be able to annihilate the Ming army in the wild, Hao Bonian will naturally not let go of this opportunity!

The Tang Army, which was originally besieging Liuzhou City, suddenly stopped besieging Liuzhou City, but left more than 3,000 horses near the southern city gate, which made the Liuzhou Ming Army in the city a little puzzled, where did these pseudo-Tang thief army go?

You must know that the puppet Tang thief army besieging the city a few days ago has more than 10,000 people, and the firearms are extremely sharp, if it is not for the defenders in the city to defend the city, I am afraid that the city gate will be broken when the puppet Tang thief army attacks for the first time.

However, although it was defended, the Ming army in the city did not despise the pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city at all!

Why?

Because not long ago, the annihilation of the entire army of 3,000 soldiers in Rongxian County reminded them of what would happen if they despised the puppet Tang thief army!

The Ming army in Liuzhou City is naturally impossible, the puppet Tang thief army that came and roared away did not go far, Hao Bonian left a garrison infantry regiment outside Liuzhou City to prevent accidents, and the remaining main forces were all taken away by him, in order to prevent the logistics route from being cut off, he also asked the baggage troops to bring all the food and ammunition that could be brought.

The main force was exhausted, carrying a lot of food, grass and ammunition, and the 2nd Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Cavalry Battalion also marched with the army.

This posture, people with a little military common sense will know that Hao Bonian is preparing to fight a large-scale decisive battle even longer!

And Xiangzhou is the battlefield preliminarily selected by Hao Bonian!

When Hao Bonian bypassed Liuzhou and headed to Xiangzhou with the main force of the First Infantry Brigade, dozens of ships were sailing upstream!

Although most of these ships are small wooden boats, there are a lot of them, and it still looks quite spectacular.

Among these small ships, there are a few of them that are relatively tall!

On one of the largest ships, several civil officials of the Ming Dynasty wearing civilian robes were drinking, and in front of them, there were several dancing girls who were still wearing light veils in the cold weather and writhing their bodies.

"Lord Wei, this time we will go to exterminate the puppet Tang thief army, it will definitely be able to fight in one battle, and the lower official wishes Lord Wei success in advance!" An official walked up with a wine glass!

Guangxi Governor Wei Yan just nodded slightly, and then took a sip!

Then to: "Although the puppet Tang thief army is not to worry, but since the puppet Tang thief army can cause so many incidents in Guizhou, it has always had some advantages, and I still have to be careful when I go to Liuzhou!" ”

"Lord Wei, you are too worried, this time our army has 8,000 soldiers, and there are more than 10,000 troops in Liuzhou City, which adds up to almost 20,000 soldiers and horses, and those pseudo-Tang thieves who have committed my Guangxi are only more than 10,000 people, even if they are three heads and six arms, they can't stop our army of more than 20,000!"

"However, after defeating the puppet Tang thief army under Liuzhou City, I am afraid that the puppet Tang thief army will draw more troops from Guizhou to the south, in that case, it will be more troublesome to fight!"

"Now that the puppet Tang thief army is already powerful in Guizhou, it is not easy to easily exterminate it, but the only way to do this is to suppress it slowly, and Liuzhou is the first step for us to drag down the puppet Tang thief army!"

These people are all high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty in Guangxi, and the leader of them is the governor of Guangxi, Wei Yan, and another important person on the border of Guangxi, that is, the commander of Guangxi, is now guarding the city in Liuzhou.

From their conversation, it can also be confirmed that the news of Zhu Zhihai's defeat and death has basically spread!

In fact, he didn't know that on the day of Zhu Zhihai's defeat in Liping Mansion, the news was transmitted all the way north through an eight-hundred-mile expedited route, and the Zhengde Lao'er in the Beijing Division only got the news of Zhu Zhihai's defeat and death ten days later.

Let's not mention how the Ming Dynasty's Jingshi shook and how to arrange it in the future, but the strong rise of the puppet Tang thief army also made the Ming Dynasty officials in nearby provinces see the threat.

Although there was no order from the imperial court, they had no way to send soldiers and horses from their province into Guizhou to exterminate the puppet Tang thief army, but they were unanimously regrouped for war.

This is even more true in Guangxi, otherwise, Hao Bonian would not have encountered 3,000 soldiers in Rongxian, let alone tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Liuzhou.

These are all made by Guangxi in advance after receiving the news that the puppet Tang thief army defeated the officers and soldiers of Guizhou!

After learning that the puppet Tang thief army had officially invaded Guangxi, the officials in the Liangguang region naturally couldn't sit still, and immediately sent 8,000 reinforcements to Liuzhou on the inland river.

In the hearts of these Ming Dynasty officials, Liuzhou will become a fortress to restrain the pseudo-Tang thief army from going south!

Well, in fact, it is true, if Liuzhou is not taken, the Tang Dynasty will naturally not be able to attack Wuzhou or even occupy the whole of Guangxi.

However, they probably didn't expect that the current Hao Bonian didn't care about how to conquer Liuzhou City, he was more concerned about how to eat their 8,000 army!

After the reinforcements sent by Wuzhou arrived in Wuxuan County, it didn't take long for them to enter the territory of Xiangzhou.

At this time, the reconnaissance cavalry of the Tang Dynasty Division also confirmed the existence and approximate location of these Ming army reinforcements for the first time.

"They are in the area of Jinji Township, and it is expected that they will continue to go north along the Liujiang River in the future!"

"According to the accurate information obtained by the reconnaissance cavalry at present, the total strength of this Ming army is about 8,000 people, it is worth noting that there are no young people, people, etc., among these 8,000 people, but they are all regular soldiers, and according to unconfirmed information, at least more than half of these 8,000 people are soldiers!"

It was Lieutenant Colonel Li Xin, chief of staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade, who did not look like a soldier, for he looked weak, as if a gust of wind could blow him away.

But if you know his past history, you can understand why this person was able to hold the position of chief of staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade.

Before this person joined the army, he was also a hopeless scholar in the imperial examination, he did not choose to be a civilian official, but chose to join the army, studied from the martial arts school, and then studied in the imperial school, and the first time he commanded the troops to fight was the captain of the captain.

As far as the facts are concerned, this person's physical condition is indeed not very good, and his thin body makes it difficult for him to fight with his parents.

Any sword and shield soldier from the enemy army can probably cut him down!

But how to say it, the leader of the scholar is actually sometimes more bloody than the leader of the general!

Li Xin's favorite thing when he fought was to ride a tall horse and hold a command knife to the front, and when his subordinates did not rush up with him, then he would not hesitate to enforce military law.

And this man has killed prisoners!

Captain, and then battalion commander, his promotion path was relatively smooth, and later after serving as a staff officer for a month on the side of the Operations Division, he was transferred to the First Infantry Brigade as the chief of staff of the First Infantry Brigade, and became Hao Bonian's right and left hand.

I saw him continue: "In addition, there is also an intelligence reality, there are also Ming troops coming from other directions, Qingyuan, Sien and other Ming troops have already begun to move, if nothing else, they will rush to Liuzhou City one after another!" ”

"And what we have to do is stop them one by one and defeat them one by one!"