In just one hour after Yu Dayou led the army to withdraw, the guards in Fuzhou City directly surrendered to the city, and there was no delay for a certain amount of time for the puppet Tang thief army as he expected, even if it was only for three or two days!

Yu Dayou, who had just fled, learned from the scout that Fuzhou City had surrendered without a fight, but he was not furious, because he had long expected this kind of thing to happen, and he had withdrawn, and the fall of Fuzhou City was only a matter of time, and this time was at least two or three days, and at most it would not exceed four or five days, and it was absolutely impossible for the 10,000 guards in the city to block the attack of the puppet Tang thief army, and it was impossible to expect the guards to fight to the death without surrendering, so surrendering or even surrendering to the thieves anyway, Yu Dayou was psychologically prepared.

But he still didn't expect that the defenders in the city would surrender to the thieves so quickly, according to his expectations, even if they wanted to surrender to the thieves, there would have to be a certain amount of negotiation time before and after, and it could not be said that if they decided to surrender to the thieves, they would directly open the city gate to welcome the thieves into the city.

At that time, he couldn't understand the mentality of those guards and generals, since they had all decided to surrender, it was naturally getting faster and faster, and they were also very self-aware about the negotiation conditions, and the negotiation was useless.

What's more, the puppet Tang thief army has always given preferential treatment to the Ming army who surrendered anyway, and most of the Ming army generals know about this kind of thing, not to mention it, Qin Zhifu, the chief soldier of Nanao Island, and Bing Linxun, the commander of Wei, are the most typical examples.

People have surrendered, this treatment is not low!

That's why the generals of the Ming army in the city will surrender so simply, just send people out of the city to negotiate a little, that is, open the city gate, and then the guards in the city will go out of the city one after another to disarm and wait for processing.

The Third Army, once again, took a city without blood!

However, even if Yu Dayou wanted to accuse the generals of the Chengming Army in Fuzhou City for not giving him enough time to escape, he was also in no mood and time, and the Sixth Infantry Division of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army behind him had been in hot pursuit, if he was not careful, the retreat would turn into a rout or even the annihilation of the entire army.

Fortunately, Yu Dayou retreated early, and he was well prepared, a large number of baggage had already begun to be transported north a few days ago, and even those heavy artillery had already prepared a large number of horses and livestock in advance and left in advance.

So the retreat was very smooth.

The only thing that is more troublesome is that the hundreds of cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army behind him will occasionally harass his troops, and at this time, the more than 200 cavalry in the thief army are also desperately resisting, and finally they did not let the hundreds of cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army drag the army to flee north.

Watching Yu Dayou lead the army all the way to the north, Cai Erhu was also a little depressed!

The level of escape of these Ming troops is getting higher and higher.

I already knew that the food, grass and artillery should be evacuated in advance, and the final evacuation was only for the infantry to flee lightly, and my own troops were equipped with a large number of artillery and other baggage, so the pursuit was somewhat unable to catch up.

If he just rashly sent some infantry to pursue lightly, it would be easy for them to kill a horse gun, and in the end, at the suggestion of his subordinate staff officer, he still decided to fight steadily and steadily, and followed all the way behind, without taking risks.

Anyway, it is impossible for Yu Dayou in front of him to run all the time, they always have to stop, and when the time comes, it will be the opportunity of the Sixth Infantry Division.

It's not just Cai Erhu who is depressed, Wang Chaohong is actually in a bad mood, he led the army to Fujian along the way, his troops have never fought a real big war at all, it is naturally a good thing that they can conquer the city without having to fight hard battles, but on the other hand, they did not leave all the thief army of Yu Dayou.

This time, there were at least 8,000 thieves who withdrew, accounting for almost half of the total strength of the thief army, and the artillery, a large amount of baggage, and even food, gold and silver were packed and taken away by them in advance.

In this Fuzhou city, there is basically nothing left except for the people, and there is not much food left, and the Tang Army has to share part of the military rations, otherwise the more than 10,000 Ming troops and tens of thousands of people in the city will starve to death.

Although he captured a city, he did not catch any of the spoils, and there were tens of thousands of mouths that lacked food, and after the military rations were divided, he had to ask the navy to urgently transfer a batch of them, otherwise, his third army would have to run out of food.

However, although he was depressed and depressed, it was still a good thing to take Fuzhou without blood, and it was also a great thing, which was greatly conducive to the development of the Jiangnan strategy in the autumn and winter, so he also quickly transmitted the news of the recovery of Fuzhou City to the Second Army in Jiangxi and Zhaoqing with an expedited 500 miles.

And he himself still did not stay in Fuzhou for long, and after cooperating with the navy to persuade the Fujian naval division hiding under the jurisdiction of the Minjiang River to surrender, he led the main force of the Third Army to continue northward, and as for the town guard of Fujian, he had already handed over to the navy.

This time, the navy also brought two marine battalions over, but they were not able to use them along the way, and now they are just used to garrison Fujian.

At the same time, the First Fleet of the Navy also began to anchor and rest on the Minjiang River!

After looking at the hydrological situation of the Minjiang River, the navy found that the situation of Mawei Port was quite good, and the geographical location was quite critical, so it was used as a temporary naval base.

However, the navy already has a plan to build this port into a real military port, and use it as a base to control the Taiwan Strait and the base before going out to the East China Sea.

Of course, this is all for the future, and now it is just a temporary anchorage for the navy.

The news of taking Fuzhou was reported through Kuaima Express, and it soon spread to Zhaoqing, and Li Xuan did not show too much surprise and surprise after learning the news.

The total strength of the Third Army is more than 25,000 people, and there is also the cooperation of the First Fleet of the Navy, if this can't take Fujian, then he is wrong about Wang Chaohong.

The war on the Fujian side is just a prelude to this year's autumn and winter offensive, and it is only one of the links in the future Jiangnan strategy, which is important and definitely important, but it is not to the extent that Li Xuan can be easily moved.

However, according to the usual practice, it is still necessary to send angels to Fujian to encourage and condole.

Subsequently, he convened the army and navy for a strategic meeting in front of the Imperial Palace, mainly to inquire about the preparations for the Jiangnan strategy, which is expected to be launched in the autumn and winter of this year.

The Navy reported that although the time was urgent, the Yangtze River Fleet was already small, and the Yangtze River Fleet might not be able to directly win a large-scale naval decisive battle, but it could still cover the army's operations.

Of course, the premise is that the army does not cross the Yangtze River, otherwise, the navy will not be able to guarantee the safety of the army crossing the river and the subsequent supply security.

However, the navy is also trying to find a way to let the First Fleet directly enter the Yangtze River valley at that time to contain the Ming naval division in the Yangtze River, and at least to ensure that the big ships of the Ming Jiangnan naval division cannot easily go to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to interfere with the actions of the Yangtze River fleet.

The army reported that the Second Army was fully prepared, and all units were fully equipped and were currently undergoing final adaptation training.

At the same time, the First Army was also ready to take over the defense of Jiujiang and Nanchang, so that the Second Army could free up all its main forces to enter Jinling along the east of the Yangtze River.

However, Zeng Ziwen also pointed out that although the First Army and the Second Army have made preparations in terms of personnel and weapons, their ammunition reserves are still slightly insufficient, and the Third Army also needs to rest and replenish after a long period of rushing operations.

So it's a question of whether we can postpone the launch of this year's autumn/winter offensive!

The delay was not much, it was only half a month, and the time for the general offensive was to be postponed from 15 September to 1 October.

Li Xuan saw that Zeng Ziwen put forward the matter so solemnly, and he also knew that the army's side was indeed in great difficulty, and if they were forced to launch a battle according to the original schedule, although there might be no problems in the early stage, but after fighting a few large-scale battles, I am afraid that the problem of ammunition shortage would be very serious.

Anyway, at present, his own side occupies a strategic advantage, and he is naturally willing to postpone it for half a month in exchange for more stable pre-war preparations, so he approves it

Although the planned autumn-winter offensive was postponed to October 1, as time passed, almost everyone who cared about the affairs of the world could feel good, another big war was about to break out, and it would still be in the prosperous Jiangnan, Jiangnan was in danger!

Boatloads of supplies of all kinds went north along the Gan River, where they were transported to Nanchang and then distributed to the hands of various units for hoarding.

The two supplementary brigades have directly moved their garrisons forward, and in addition to protecting the supply lines and bombing the rear, they are also always ready to replenish new recruits for the main forces in the front.

In the many recruit camps in Jiangxi and Huguang, those recruits who had completed a month were hurriedly sent to various supplementary brigades for intensive training.

The main forces of the Second Army conduct all kinds of training every day.

At the forefront of the confrontation between the two sides, that is, in the area of Chizhou Mansion, the reconnaissance cavalry and small-scale troops on both sides acted more frequently, and from time to time there would be small estimates, but the battle was extremely tragic.

And in this kind of small-scale battle, the Ming army's reconnaissance cavalry and small-scale reconnaissance troops with the elite of the border army as the core have quite good combat effectiveness, although they still lose more and win less, but they are not too ugly.

But this situation is extremely special, only those elite border troops, and they have to have a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to cooperate, and it is not good to replace it with other Ming troops.

What's more critical is that in these years, this kind of small-scale battle does not have a great impact on the battle situation, and what can determine the outcome is still that kind of large-scale strategic decisive battle, regardless of whether it is a head-to-head battle in the field or an urban offensive and defensive battle, it has a huge impact.

However, in this kind of large-scale battle, the advantage of the Tang Army is too great, whether it is a variety of new armies, border armies, or guard soldiers, they can't be defeated!