Wuchang, a place that was just an ordinary city a few years ago, has become different in the last two years, with many soldiers often walking through the streets, and a corner of the city being filled with smoke all day long.

The city, which was originally only tens of thousands of people, is now squeezed out of seventy or eighty thousand people, and even the original urban area cannot be lived, but has to be expanded beyond the city wall.

The reason for all this is naturally because Zhang Yue regards Wuchang as a rear base camp!

He ordered Song Zhiwen to build guns and artillery here to train the new army, and Song Zhiwen recruited a large number of craftsmen from all over the country and began to build guns and many other ordnance day and night.

There are more than 5,000 artisans of all kinds in this place alone, and the artisans and their families have caused the population of this place to increase dramatically, and even caused a certain abnormal prosperity.

In addition, the population of the city is not only the natives and the conscripted artisans and their families, but also a large army!

There were more than 10,000 people in the supervising bidding army, and a large number of them were withdrawn from the front line by Zhang Yue, and then sent to Wuchang to serve as guards for ordinary workers.

The population of Wuchang Mansion City reached 70,000 or 80,000 people, and the population of this scale was actually not small in ancient times.

In a luxurious mansion in the center of Wuchang City in the midst of the noise, Zhang Yue sat in the side hall, looking at the battle report urgently sent by the herald!

"Let's take a look!" After a while, Zhang Yue put down the battle report, and then handed the battle report in his hand to Song Zhiwen next to him.

After Song Zhiwen read it, he also passed it on to others, and after a while, the five or six people in the side hall had already circulated it!

"My lord, the puppet Tang thief army is going to Yuezhou, and our army has only 3,000 troops in Yuezhou, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the thief army, so we need to plan early!"

The man continued: "Once Yuezhou is captured by the thief army, the connection between my Wuchang and Changsha will be cut off, and not only will it be impossible to get in touch with Changsha at that time, and send supplementary troops and military supplies, but the thief army is more likely to go south directly from Yuezhou and cooperate with the first army of Hao Thief to besiege Changsha and Hengyang, so that the land south of the Yangtze River will be in danger!" ”

However, at this time, Song Zhiwen spoke: "But if our army rashly reinforces Yuezhou, then it is very likely to fall into the conspiracy of the Li thief!" ”

"The leader of the second army thief is Li Chunjing, and Li thief is a scheming person, often tricking the mystery, striking the west, some time ago Li thief said that he was coming to Wuchang, but now he is going to Yuezhou, who knows whether his purpose is Yuezhou or wants to take the opportunity to intercept and kill our army reinforcements? Or is it that after luring my Wuchang troops to Yuezhou, I went north to Wuchang with a false shot? ”

Song Zhiwen's words immediately caused many people to frown!

Yes, this Li Chunjing is scheming, and there is no common sense to follow, who knows what his real purpose is!

But when everyone frowned, there was a humane: "It's just that no matter what Li Chunjing really wants to do, but with the current situation in Yuezhou, it can't stop Li Chunjing's department!" ”

Listening to everyone's discussion, Zhang Yue was also a little irritable, since he supervised the south, the suppression of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty has not been smooth, and the city will be lost if the army is lost, otherwise, there would not be so many people in the court to impeach him.

But what can he do? He's also helpless!

The guards are unusable, almost all of them must lose in battle, often several times the number of troops are unable to hold a city, the only thing Zhang Yue can rely on is the supervision standard that he has cultivated, but the number of supervision standards is not much!

Zhang Yue's supervision, although the cost is not as good as the Tang Army, but the cost is not small, but fortunately, although Huguang has not yet developed to the peak of Huguang, but after nearly two hundred years of development, Huguang's population has reached an extremely considerable state.

In this way, Zhang Yue can afford to support the new army under his command.

But in the end, the number of troops is still less, and there are too many places that need to be defended, and now, if Zhang Yue simply relies on supervising the standard, in fact, he can not occupy the advantage of troops, only with the addition of various local training troops, can he occupy a certain advantage in troops, but this advantage is not very obvious.

The most obvious example is that in the direction of Huguang, Zhang Yue deployed a total of about 25,000 superintendents and almost 20,000 training troops, which is only 45,000 when the total force is full.

As for the local guards and young men, who will count them in the war now!

However, as for the puppet Tang thief army in Huguang, Hao Bonian's First Army now has the First Infantry Division, the Second Infantry Division, the Third Infantry Division and a mixed regiment, with a total strength of about 40,000 people.

In other words, in fact, in Huguang and Guangzhou, in fact, the comparison of the strength of the main forces of the two sides is already about the same.

And this also caused Zhang Yue to feel that the troops were insufficient.

But even so, in fact, the strength of the Ming army under Zhang Yue's command is much higher than in the past, the past two or three hundred thousand local guards and temporarily recruited young people, except for wasting food, there is no use, now Zhang Yue has changed his strategy, and basically does not use guards and temporary young men to fight, but sends them to the workshop to work, or simply rushes to farm, and some of the useful ones are used as ordinary people.

Although the number of troops is not as large as before, in fact, the combat effectiveness of the army under Zhang Yue's command is better than before, otherwise, Zhang Yue would not have the confidence to kick the guards aside!

But in any case, the lack of troops is the biggest problem facing Zhang Yue now!

Now facing the thief army rushing to Yuezhou, Zhang Yue couldn't think of where to transfer troops to strengthen the defense of Yuezhou for a while, if the troops were transferred from Wuchang, Wuchang's defense would also be weakened, and Changsha and Hengyang had already been transferred by him before.

Can't Yuezhou be saved? Can only watch the puppet Tang thief army take Yuezhou?

After a while, Song Zhiwen suddenly spoke: "Why don't you send the main force from Hengyang to the north to garrison Yuezhou?" ”

After Song Zhiwen said this, the group of people below immediately shook their heads and said: "Hengyang is a place to prevent thieves, how can it be easy to transfer troops to the north, and Hengyang is so far away from Yuezhou, it can't be arrived in time!" ”

When other groups of people objected, Zhang Yue looked at Song Zhiwen, and then saw Song Zhiwen showing a wry smile, others may not know why Song Zhiwen said this, but as a single-handedly re-enabled Song Zhiwen, and Zhang Yue, who had been entrusted with important tasks for two years, heard Song Zhiwen's words.

When Song Zhiwen said this, he was not just planning to transfer Hengyang's troops, but preparing to completely abandon Hengyang, maybe the entire south of Changsha!

Now Zhang Yue's trouble is not small, there are not many troops, but there are too many places that need to be garrisoned, at this time, if you need to avoid being broken by each and tired of being killed, the best way is actually to give up some salient parts, and then shrink the troops.

And now Hengyang is such a protrusion.

If you can take the initiative to abandon Hengyang, you can transfer the main force of about 30,000 people in Hengyang City to Changsha, and relatively you can transfer troops from Changsha to reinforce Yuezhou.

In this way, Changsha, Yuezhou, Wuchang and Jiujiang can be connected in a straight line, support each other, and prevent the thief army from entering the northern part of Huguang!

This idea, in fact, Song Zhiwen mentioned it to him a long time ago, but Zhang Yue dared to kick the guards aside without hesitation, and he also dared to risk infamy to levy the salary of the thief, but Zhang Yue did not dare to take the initiative to give up Hengyang!

So Zhang Yue refused without hesitation, but he didn't expect that Song Zhiwen would come out in front of everyone today, but as he expected, everyone also raised objections without hesitation!

After hearing this, Song Zhiwen sighed slightly, and then said: "Since it is impossible to transfer troops from Hengyang and Changsha to the north to defend Yuezhou, then we need to be prepared for the loss of Yuezhou, and it is best to hurry up and send a batch of ordnance and food to Changsha and Hengyang!" ”

Why Song Zhiwen said this, everyone can understand, because once Yuezhou is lost, the follow-up Changsha and Hengyang will basically be deep behind the enemy, if you don't want to take the initiative to break through, you can only defend to the death, and how to defend without ordnance and grain and grass!

At this time, Song Zhiwen continued: "In addition, since the main force of the thief army is advancing westward, then we can also take the opportunity to recover Nanchang and even Ganzhou!" ”

Hearing Song Zhiwen's words, everyone suddenly realized, and immediately there was a humane: "Yes, they beat them, we beat ours, they go to fight Yuezhou, then we will go directly to fight Nanchang, and after recovering Nanchang, we will seize Ganzhou, so that it is possible to recover most of Jiangxi!" ”

However, Zhang Yue also has some doubts about this, Nanchang is not easy to fight, and if it can't be attacked for a long time, it will be a big trouble!

But now, Zhang Yue feels that he doesn't seem to have a good choice, this reinforcement of Yuezhou is not, not reinforcement, not to fight Nanchang, not to fight.

In the end, he let everyone retreat in a dull mood, but in the end, he still didn't make any decisions, just asked people to step up to send a batch of ordnance, ammunition, grain and grass to Changsha and Hengyang, and at the same time, he also sent 10,000 people to Yuezhou who were useless, but whether these tens of thousands of guards were useful or not, that was something that everyone knew, this was at most a comfort in his heart, in fact, it was useless.

As for sending the main force to Yuezhou, it was shelved!

Anyway, he still has time now, and it will take time for the puppet Tang thief army to attack Yuezhou, and if he, Zhang Yue, sends reinforcements from Wuchang, he can directly take a boat to go over, and the journey is much shorter, so he still has time!

The Ming army was still as steady as Mount Tai, and Li Chunjing was also unmoved, but continued to move towards Yuezhou, putting on a posture of wanting to march into Yuezhou!