After Zhang Yue went south, he did not go directly to the Liangguang area, where the confrontation against the Tang thieves was most fierce, but came directly to Huguang.

This is not to say that Zhang Yue did not know that the heavy troops of the puppet Tang thief army had entered Guangxi, and Wuzhou was under great pressure, and even Guangdong might not be able to hold it.

It is precisely because of knowing these that Zhang Yue did not choose to go to the Liangguang area, but came to Huguang!

Why?

Because even if he Zhang Yue went to the Liangguang region, it would be impossible to bring much help to the Ming army in the Liangguang region, and there was only so much for a Ming army in the Liangguang region, and he Zhang Yue couldn't conjure up tens of thousands of people out of thin air!

What's more, in the Liangguang region, Guangxi's military strength is stronger, and Guangdong's side is relatively much weaker, and now Guangxi is already in addition to a slippery Wuzhou, other places have almost fallen, and Guangdong at the back is also Wu'an is gathering too many troops, otherwise, without Zhang Yue to go, Wang Yue will directly transfer a large number of troops from Guangdong.

But what is the reality, Wang Yue spent a lot of effort to transfer 10,000 troops from Guangdong.

And this situation will not be changed because Zhang Yue went to Guangdong.

If you want to resist the eastward advance of the puppet Tang thief army, it is impossible to rely on Liangguang's own strength, and you must need the help of other provinces.

And what is this province?

Naturally, the lake is wide!

As long as he Zhang Yue went to Huguang, he would be able to mobilize the Ming army in Huguang, and then part of it would march into Guizhou to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, and on the other hand, he could directly send troops south to Guangxi and Guangdong to reinforce Wang Yue.

Therefore, Zhang Yue did not go to Liangguang, where the situation was most dangerous, but ran to Huguang, which had not yet been invaded by the puppet Tang thief army.

After Zhang Yue went to Huguang, he quickly integrated the Ming army in Huguang Province, and quickly sent 30,000 people to march into Guizhou, aiming at Xingquan Mansion, the land of Longxing, the puppet Tang thief army.

And this news, Li Xuan, who was far away in Wuzhou, naturally didn't know.

Today's means of communication are so backward, how can he know what is hundreds of kilometers away, and now he is thinking about how to conquer Wuzhou City!

After building a camp outside Wuzhou City and besieging Wuzhou City, a group of middle and senior generals and combat staff officers of the Tang Dynasty Division were thinking about how to conquer Wuzhou City every day.

All kinds of messy plans were proposed, and then they were vetoed, what a night attack, what a fraudulent surrender, or something pretending to be a puppet thief army to enter the city, listening to the various plans put forward by these generals, Li Xuan also found for the first time that the people under his command still had such a high sense of humor!

Night Raid? Fraud? Pretending to be a Ming army? You can also figure it out, are you taking the Ming army as a fool or taking me as a fool?

This kind of battle, which involves tens of thousands of people and is enough to affect the situation in the two provinces, how can it be able to play this kind of trail, and the Ming army is not stupid, how can it be defenseless.

All kinds of messy plans were proposed, but most of them were vetoed by Li Xuan personally, what kind of thing is this, it is better to attack directly!

But in the end, a plan put forward by Zeng Ziwen made him move!

Zeng Ziwen said: "Since Wuzhou cannot be taken in the short term, and the rainy season is approaching, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for us, we might as well leave a part of the troops to continue to besiege the enemy army, and send a part of the partial division to continue to march east to Zhaoqing!" ”

When he said this, he pointed to Zhaoqing on the large map on the wall and said: "According to the information we have recently collected, most of the troops on the Guangdong side have been transferred to Wuzhou, and I am afraid that there are only a few thousand people left in the whole of Guangdong to defend, and here in Zhaoqing, there are only 3,000 people stationed at most, and our army only needs to send 10,000 people, no, only 5,000 people need to be sent, which is enough to go south to Zhaoqing, and then march all the way to the east along the Xijiang River to conquer Guangzhou and Foshan and other places!" ”

Zeng Ziwen's words immediately opened a door for Li Xuan, who was worried about how to conquer Wuzhou, although the door was only half open, and he didn't know if there would be danger behind the door, but this did put forward another feasible strategic plan for himself.

Wuzhou is a hard bone, it is not easy to gnaw, if you want to gnaw down, it will either take a lot of time to slowly besiege, or you will attack regardless of casualties, and no matter which of these two methods is unacceptable to Li Xuan.

However, if you want to bypass Wuzhou and continue to advance eastward, although you can continue to implement the eastward strategy, there is also a great risk, not to mention that because of the existence of Wuzhou, the Xijiang River transportation will be interrupted, just the fifty or sixty thousand Ming troops in Wuzhou are like a steel thorn, stuck in the throat of the Tang Dynasty, if this is not done well, it will be stuck.

No, as soon as Zeng Ziwen's words fell, Hao Bonian said: "If you bypass Wuzhou and continue to advance eastward, if the Ming army in Wuzhou goes out of the city to attack our army's logistics line, I am afraid that the materials needed by the front-line army will be difficult to guarantee, and our army continues to advance eastward, and it is necessary to leave troops to continue to besiege Wuzhou, which is equivalent to dividing the troops, and if the troops are divided, the troops besieging Wuzhou will be relatively weak, and it is difficult to ensure that the enemy army in the city will not take the initiative to attack, and can it be resisted at that time?" ”

Hao Bonian's words also caused a nod from everyone!

Dividing troops has always been a taboo for soldiers, and the Tang Dynasty has always avoided doing this!

Don't look at the Tang Dynasty Division, which is now divided into three armies, fighting in Guizhou, Guixi, and Guidong, but in fact, the main force of the Tang Dynasty Wang's Division has always been in the First Army, in Guidong!

The Second Army in Guizhou and the Third Army in Guixi were actually not the main forces of the Tang Dynasty's division.

This can be seen from the fact that the two artillery battalions and two cavalry battalions and even the two baggage regiments of the Tang Dynasty Division are all on the Wuzhou front line, and the main forces of the Tang Dynasty Division's division have actually been staying together.

But if you want to bypass Wuzhou, it is definitely not possible to bypass Wuzhou directly, so that the defenders in Wuzhou City will cut off the supply line and even pierce the chrysanthemum.

Therefore, they still need to leave a part of their troops in Wuzhou, and they must also be the main force to continue the siege and monitor the Ming army in the city to prevent them from making any changes.

This part of the army must not be a small number of 20,000, and even this number is a little insufficient.

After all, the Tang Dynasty is to besiege Wuzhou, not just to siege the city, this siege, at least the east and west sides to block it, this is originally less to encircle more, the troops are a little insufficient, continue to draw troops to the east, this siege of Wuzhou will be more difficult.

But if you don't draw enough troops, then continuing to go east into Guangdong will become a joke, Zhaoqing and Guangzhou and the whole of Guangdong, such a big place, even if they don't have many defensive forces now, but it is not two or three thousand people can take it, just to fight one Zhaoqing, at least four or five thousand people, and then have to fight Guangzhou, and even control the whole of Guangdong, not to mention there must be tens of thousands of troops!

This time, because of Zeng Ziwen's strategy of dividing troops to the east, it was spent in a quarrel, which made Li Xuan feel helpless and tired!

The scale of the Tang Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more troops, but the more difficult it is for him to feel the rebellion!

Not to mention anything else, now just a Wuzhou alone is a place where you can't advance or retreat!

After everyone left, Li Xuan stayed alone in the tent of the Chinese army, meditating on the map, carefully considering how to go next.

This look up can also see Wuzhou City in the distance!

After thinking about it for a long time, he sighed and said to himself: This gun is still missing, if he has hundreds of heavy artillery, this mere Wuzhou City is nothing, and it will collapse in minutes! ”

Damn, you have to build cannons, build more, build bigger cannons!

There are too few muskets, only a few thousand, which is not enough to stuff the teeth, if there are tens of thousands of guns, I am afraid that this only tens of thousands of Ming troops can be leveled by attacking them.

And this arquebus is not easy to use, if there was a flintlock pistol, it would have been swept through the two wide!

The next day, Li Xuan spent another meaningless quarrel among a group of middle and senior generals, some people wanted to immediately storm Wuzhou, some people wanted to besiege Wuzhou, and some people wanted to divide their troops to march eastward, which no one could convince anyone, and in the end, the big guys who had quarreled for a day went back to their respective homes, ready to raise their spirits and continue to quarrel tomorrow!

But that night, Li Xuan received an urgent military report from the messenger of the military newspaper!

"More than 30,000 thieves have invaded Xingquan Mansion from Huguang, the forward 3,000 have already arrived in Xingquan Mansion, and some troops of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Garrison Brigade stationed in Xingquan Mansion have resisted hard!"

The military messenger in front of him was almost tired and collapsed because he rode a horse for a day, and after sending the military report, he was helped out.

And Li Xuan looked at this military report, although the Ming army in Huguang was already expected to advance westward, and it was also prepared for this, there were three troops under the Second Army in Guizhou, namely the Second Infantry Brigade, the First Garrison Brigade, and the Second Garrison Brigade, and in addition, a provisional third regiment was established in the central and western parts of Guizhou, with a total strength of no less than 20,000 people.

But when the Ming army really moved west, Li Xuan was still a little worried, especially when he heard that the Ming army was 30,000 people, he was even more worried.

Although the three units of the Second Army in Guizhou are not weak, they are not such units as the First Infantry Brigade, and many units of the Second Army are still besieging Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou, in the eastern part of Guizhou, there is only one Third Infantry Regiment and the Second Garrison Brigade, as well as the Fourth Artillery Battalion, which has just been established and has few artillery pieces, the Fourth Cavalry Battalion, which has only a few dozen cavalry, and the Fourth Baggage Regiment, which is still a group of new recruits.

And these troops are not only stationed in Xingquan Mansion, but also have to defend several state capitals in the northeast of Guizhou!

Now that the Ming army is advancing westward, the second army may have a hard time fighting!

Now the situation of the Tang Dynasty is not optimistic!

The main force of the first army led by himself was blocked in Wuzhou City and was not allowed to enter, the second army on the Guizhou side had not even taken Guiyang, and tens of thousands of Ming troops in Huguang were killed in Xingquan Mansion.

It's hard to rebel!