In Chenzhou City, several civil and military officials of the Ming Army gathered together were all in a panic!

"What should I do, the puppet Tang thief army is about to attack, if we can't stop it, I'm afraid that our soldiers and civilians all over the city will encounter accidents!" A short, round middle-aged official with deep sorrow.

An envoy with a guard commander comforted: "Master Li, don't panic, now there are only 4,000 thieves outside the city, but there are 13,000 soldiers in my Chenzhou city, and there are strong cities to rely on, and there are also a lot of artillery, if the puppet Tang thief army dares to attack, they will definitely have no return!" ”

Short and round, but still not at ease: "But the pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city has a lot of artillery, and they are all thousand-pound cannons, can we really hold Chenzhou when it comes to fighting?" ”

His worries did not come out of thin air, although he did not come to the last time the Chenzhou defenders went to battle, but he also watched the battle in the rear, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers rushed to kill the past, but not to mention the four thousand pseudo-Tang thieves on the opposite side, and the bombed people turned on their backs, and in the end, the army was already defeated before it reached the front of the puppet Tang thief army.

That scene that day really made this prefect of Chenzhou Mansion see the true combat effectiveness of the puppet Tang thief army!

And he heard from the mouth of others that the puppet Tang thief army outside the city was just a partial division, and it was not equipped with many firearms, but such a partial division was already so capable of fighting, you can imagine how strong the main force of the puppet Tang thief army is!

Honestly speaking, although the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army is much stronger than that of the Ming Army, it is also limited, and there is no messy belief bonus here, although the weapon occupies a certain advantage, it is only a certain advantage.

Today's Tang Army is at most at the level of the middle and lower levels in the modern army, the reason is naturally simple, the training time is insufficient and the equipment level is slightly poor, especially the proportion of artillery and musket equipment is not high.

The only powerful European counterpart of the Datang Army, that is, the Datang Army, has rich experience in large-scale battles, and frequent wars have allowed the Datang Army to accumulate rich war experience, and these experiences are not small cerebellar war experiences, they are all large-scale campaign experiences fought by thousands or even tens of thousands of people.

The Tang Army also has a tradition of post-war discussions, and detailed battle reports and discussions at post-war meetings of front-line generals will be submitted to the Privy Council in detail for reference, providing advice on various improvements in equipment and tactics of the Tang Army.

But in any case, the Tang Army is an army with the characteristics of a typical modern army, a professional army, and this alone is already too many guards beyond the Ming army.

That's why it will cause several times the situation that the Ming Army can't defeat the Tang Army!

What causes this? Eight out of ten Ming army generals thought that the puppet Tang thief army was sharp in firearms, so the Ming Dynasty also made a countermeasure: imitating guns and training firearms army.

However, some of the core things of the Tang Army, such as the brutal military obedience training, high-intensity physical fitness and live-fire training, were intentionally or unintentionally ignored by the generals of the Ming Army.

The reason is also very simple, strict military law is not something that every army can do, first of all, you have to let the soldiers accept these rigorous training willingly, and this involves a soldier's personal treatment, you don't give him a full meal, pay a high salary, divide the field, why should people be beaten with your whip and stick and not deserter? Or to put it more bluntly: why do people want to be soldiers and sell your lives?

Loyal and patriotic?

! If you don't have any money or land, they won't come to you as a soldier if you shout at your throat!

And high-intensity physical fitness and live-fire training, which also involves the silver of white flowers, the musket used for live-fire training will be consumed, and the ammunition also needs to be consumed, these are all money, high-intensity physical training, it is necessary to provide sufficient nutrition for the soldiers, otherwise the soldiers will be trained to be skinny and skinny, and eating is expensive, and it is very expensive!

If you want to train the soldiers to be extremely strong and physically strong, you need to pile up a lot of food, and the food in this year is much more expensive than in later generations, because this kind of cost is more expensive than live-fire training

The Tang Dynasty spent tens of millions of taels of silver every year, barely supporting an army of less than 100,000 people, but Zhang Yue had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, and Xuanping only spent millions of taels of silver a year in the second year.

Even if it is the superintendent under Zhang Yue, he can only do a small exercise every three days and a big exercise in half a month, not because he doesn't want to make the training more frequent and intensive, but behind the training is the need for countless money.

However, the army of the Tang Dynasty, except for fighting, basically trained every day at other times, and the recruits in the recruit camp would begin to conduct a small amount of live firing, and after arriving at the supplementary brigade, they would frequently conduct live firing.

After a recruit is added to the regular army units such as infantry divisions and mixed regiments, this recruit basically already has basic physical fitness, tactical skills, a lot of experience in live ammunition shooting, and also has experience in performing light-intensity missions.

Where did the Tang Dynasty's money go? A lot of it is spent on training and training-related things.

In this case, if the Tang Army still can't defeat the Ming Army, then I'm sorry for the annual cost of tens of millions of taels of silver!

The officials of the Ming army naturally did not delve into the logic behind these, they just knew that their own army could not defeat the puppet Tang thief army!

Even if there are only more than 4,000 puppet Tang thief troops outside Chenzhou City, they are still extremely worried, and this worry has reached a peak after the Third Infantry Regiment of the Tang Army arrived outside Chenzhou City!

When the civil and military officials of the Ming army at the head of the city saw that there were another 3,000 puppet Tang thief army, and the strength of the puppet Tang thief army gathered outside Chenzhou City was already more than 7,000 people, many people's hearts were broken!

There are more than 4,000 thieves and they don't have the confidence to stop it, and now there are 3,000 people, a total of more than 7,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops, how can this be fought!

At this time, even the most optimistic generals of the Ming army believed that the situation had become quite dangerous, and they must request reinforcements as soon as possible, especially the officers and soldiers of Guiyang Prefecture, which was not far from Chenzhou, for rescue.

Taking advantage of the fact that the puppet Tang thief army had not completely surrounded Chenzhou City, the Ming army in the city sent many batches of fast horses to rush out of the city, and the fast horses whipped to Guiyang City for help!

The distance between the two places is not far, and the fast horse gallops all the way, and it takes half a day to reach Guiyang Prefecture and send a letter of help to Guiyang Prefecture.

But the officials of Guiyang Prefecture City also frowned when they received the rescue letter!

Rescue Chenzhou City, they have to get by!

There are also thousands of pseudo-Tang thief troops outside the city of Guiyang Prefecture, and the number is 2,000 more than the previous two days, and the five thousand pseudo-Tang thief army is entrenched in a few miles outside the city, as long as their own army leaves the city, I am afraid that they will be intercepted and killed immediately.

At that time, wouldn't you fall into the trap of the other party's encirclement and reinforcements!

If that's the case, it's hard to say whether Chenzhou City will be finished, but the reinforcements from Guiyang Prefecture will be 100% finished.

Some time ago, more than 10,000 of them went out of the city, and it was not the people who were killed who turned on their backs, and only half of the troops were returned, and now although there are more than 10,000 people in the city, they really want to go out of the city and fight with the 5,000 real thieves of the pseudo-Tang thief army, to be honest, they really don't have the courage.

However, it is not politically correct to be indifferent in the face of a call for help, but it is also not good for the main force to pour out of the nest, so they only cautiously sent a thousand people out of the city.

The performance of these thousand people after leaving the city is also quite interesting, only about a few miles out of the city, they were intercepted by the cavalry battalion of the first supplementary brigade that came here!

Well, this supplementary cavalry battalion is also a barely combat-effective unit in the first supplementary brigade, that is, the Ming army has few troops out of the city, so it will go to war, and the idea is to fight if it can, and if it can't be beaten, it will retreat directly with the high mobility of the cavalry.

But the next result is quite interesting, the more than 1,000 Ming troops went out of the city a few miles away, and found that there were more than 300 pseudo-Tang cavalry in front, and they dared to continue to move forward, and they didn't even dare to stay, they just turned around and fled back to the city, and they didn't even have the courage to fight.

After more than 1,000 people fled back to the city in a panic, the Ming army officials defending the city immediately reported to Xu Xinchang, who sent fast horses to the direction of Hengyang: The thieves are besieging Chenzhou, and our defenders tried to send troops to rescue, but they were blocked by the heavy troops of the thieves outside the city, and sent a large army to help in the direction of Hengyang!

Asking for reinforcements, they naturally don't count on it, now everyone knows that there are tens of thousands of main forces of the pseudo-Tang thief army in the direction of Hengyang, and the Ming army in the direction of Hengyang is the same as the Ming army in the direction of Guiyang Prefecture.

The key to this report is to clear up the responsibility, the Ming army in Guiyang Prefecture did not see and did not save it, but worked hard and struggled, but the thief army was too strong to save Chenzhou!

When these actions were being carried out in the direction of Guiyang Prefecture, Major General An Zihe had already begun to command the troops to launch a general attack on Chenzhou!

It is still the same old-fashioned siege routine, digging tunnels and blasting, artillery bombardment, musketeers and archers covering, with heavy infantry as the core, light armor sword and shield soldiers, and grenadiers as the auxiliary to force the city to the top of the city!

The Ming army in the city was already in despair, with no morale, and there was not much resistance at all, even if a few Ming generals on the front line commanded the troops to resist desperately, but they could not stop the surrender of the soldiers and civilians in the city!

Two days after the launch of the general offensive, the Tang Army has successfully conquered the southern city wall, and on the same day, the Ming army in the city was led by the prefect of Chenzhou, and a large number of civil and military generals led the remnants of the army to surrender!

After conquering Chenzhou, Anzihe did not stop, and quickly entered Guiyang Prefecture City in the west, only by taking Guiyang Prefecture City can it be regarded as completely laying the battle situation in the south of Hengyang and preparing for the subsequent Hengyang and Shaoyang offensives!