On the sixteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Xuanping, Zhaoqing Palace.

Li Xuan stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking at the cold rain outside the window constantly beating on the branches and leaves, but now he did not feel the slightest sadness in the mood of spring and autumn, and now he was still thinking about the war in the north.

Because recently, the war in the north is in full swing, and 780,000 soldiers in Huguang and Jiangxi are fighting with the Ming army.

Not only Li Xuan is paying attention, but also the ministers in the court and even the gentry and merchants who have close ties with the Tang Dynasty are also paying attention, even those ordinary people are also paying attention.

The outbreak of such a large-scale war in the north is something that can be predicted by anyone, this will be a battle with important strategic influence, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a decisive battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty!

And this battle will not only affect Li Xuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but also affect many people, the officials of the Tang Dynasty, the gentry families who threw themselves into the Tang Dynasty, the peasants who divided the land and were exempted from taxes, they are all part of the carriage of the Tang Dynasty, they are all grasshoppers on a rope, once the front line is defeated, no one can escape.

In the same way, if the front line wins, then it will bring them benefits!

Li Xuan is expected to truly lead the Tang Dynasty to unify China, no matter how bad it is, it can also rule with the Ming Dynasty, and those courtiers of the Tang Dynasty will become real founding heroes, enjoy glory and wealth, and benefit their descendants for a hundred years, and ordinary people can also keep their land and continue to enjoy the preferential agricultural tax policy of the Tang Dynasty.

There is such a major war breaking out on the front line, so even if it is the Spring Festival, although the officials of the entire Tang Dynasty have also carried out certain activities, Li Xuan presided over the ancestor worship and held a great court meeting to accept the courtiers to pay New Year's greetings.

But whether it is Li Xuan or the courtiers, few people put their minds on these activities during the Spring Festival!

However, many people are quite concerned about the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper during the New Year, because this issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper published the news that the Tang Dynasty soldiers regained Hengyang Mansion without blood.

On the one hand, it is to praise the invincible Tang Dynasty in the world, and the enemy army is scared to collapse without a fight, and at the same time, it also praises the Tang Dynasty when the Tang Dynasty accepted Hengyang City, launched an efficient fire fighting and disaster relief operation on Hengyang City, and even highlighted that in order to extinguish the fire, countless heroic Tang Dynasty soldiers disregarded their own safety and worked hard to extinguish the fire and save people, and a number of people died for this and so on.

On the other hand, it was to criticize the Ming Dynasty's act of setting fire to the city, and elevated the matter from a purely military issue to a systemic issue, thus drawing a conclusion that the puppet Ming regime did not care about the lives of the people.

In short, the Ming Dynasty was scolded again!

Some people who are not well-informed, after seeing such an article, naturally think that our Datang is good, and Daming is bad!

Some people with independent insight are just a glimpse of praise or criticism, and they only care about the truth of the matter and the chain reaction behind it.

The puppet Ming thief army took the initiative to give up Hengyang, what does this mean, this represents that the Tang Dynasty Wang Division has achieved a strategic advantage in this autumn and winter offensive that lasted for several months.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty newspaper also used a page smaller than a tofu block to report the Nanchang war, saying in painless words, my Wang Shi is fighting with the enemy in Nanchang, and one day he thwarted an attack by the puppet Ming thief army, killing and wounding many thief troops, and a certain heroic deed and the like.

However, the dilemma that Nanchang has been encircled by the enemy and the Sixth Infantry Division can only be supported alone is not mentioned at all!

For bad news, the Tang Dynasty newspaper has always avoided the important and trivialized, or simply combined with other good news and released it together.

In short, the task of the Tang Dynasty newspaper is to let people see and feel: Datang is good everywhere, and the false and bad pus are vulnerable and vulnerable!

However, there is no shortage of smart people in this world, and a very small number of people can also find clues from the court newspapers, and then deduce that the situation in Nanchang is not good.

However, it is useless to simply care, because they in the rear cannot decide the battle on the front line at all, and they can only do it in a hurry.

Not to mention them, even Li Xuan himself could only be in a hurry, passively waiting for news from the front line.

In the rear, the only thing he can do is to provide all kinds of resources to the front-line troops as much as possible!

Military salaries are not less than a penny, and they are paid on time every month, and the promotions and rewards of meritorious soldiers are approved as soon as possible

All kinds of supplies are also as satisfied as possible, often the major arsenals have just produced ammunition, directly loaded on ships, and then transported by inland waterways, land transportation, and sent to the front line.

Even if it was a strategic decision, Li Xuan did not interfere with the choice of Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing in the slightest!

Li Chunjing said that he wanted to fight Wuchang!

He said yes!

Li Chunjing went to fight Yuezhou instead of Wuchang, and then went to Changsha after Yuezhou!

Li Xuan not only said yes, but also gave an edict, encouraging Li Chunjing not to be burdened, let go of his hands and fight, even if he loses, it doesn't matter, I will personally support you later.

Later, news came that Hao Bonian did not go to Changsha, but changed his route to intercept and pursue the Hengyang Ming army, and abandoned the artillery and simply pursued it with infantry and cavalry.

Regarding the recent military reports submitted by the military, Li Xuan's review was only simple words such as "I know" and "I have read".

He gave these generals full power!

As long as these generals can bring him satisfactory results, he doesn't mind supporting them!

However, if they are defeated, if they are really defeated, then don't expect Li Xuan to trust them anymore.

Although there are impermanence generals in the world, in such a large-scale decisive battle, Datang can't afford to lose, and he Li Xuan can't afford to lose!

In the future, I'm afraid that he, Li Xuan, will personally lead the army to conquer in person!

Li Xuan, who was meditating in front of the window, watched the rain outside the window grow from small to large, and then from large to small, and then stopped, and at this time, there was also a knock on the door outside: "Your Majesty, Minister Zeng of the Privy Council has asked for an audience!" ”

Li Xuan didn't have a head, but just said, "Let him in!" ”

After a while, the door of the office was pushed open, and after a lecturer brought Zeng Ziwen in, he bowed down and went out, but Zeng Ziwen was not the same as usual, although he pretended to be calm, but the joy on his face could not be hidden.

At this time, I only heard him say: "Your Majesty, a great victory, a great victory for the first army!" ”

Hearing this, Li Xuan sighed and turned around, and after hearing the word "great victory", he smiled, and said while stepping forward to sit down on his dragon chair; "What a big victory, make Aiqing happy like this!"

Zeng Ziwen stepped forward in small steps at this time, and then took out a notebook: "General Hao led the First Army to annihilate the Hengyang Ming Army, and Cheng Hongan, the commander of the former army of the thief army, was defeated and died of poison!" ”

"This is General Hao's handwritten battle report, please read it!"

When Li Xuan heard the words, his heart jumped twice, and his breathing was inevitably a little short, but his expression remained calm, he just took the battle report with a smile on his face, and then unfolded it.

This letter knew at a glance that it was Hao Bonian's handwriting, and even Li Xuan could feel the joy and excitement of Hao Bonian when he wrote this war report from Hao Bonian's handwriting and words!

In this pursuit operation, Hao Bonian pursued nearly 23,000 people from Cheng Hong'an's headquarters of the Hengyang Ming Army with the main force of 14,000 people of the First Army and nearly 4,000 people from the forward department, with a total strength of 18,000.

With neither side supported by heavy artillery such as field artillery, the two sides had a field duel between cavalry and infantry against infantry!

It took most of the day before and after, and the actual battle process only lasted about half an hour, which was to annihilate Cheng Hongan's troops in one fell swoop!

In the end, Hao Bonian said that in the frontal decisive stage of this battle, the First Army killed and wounded at least 5,000 enemy troops, and in the subsequent pursuit stage, it successively annihilated more than 2,000 enemy troops, and captured nearly 10,000 people, and thousands of Ming troops fled without a trace.

Although its own casualties are not small, reaching nearly 2,000 people, compared with the total casualties of the Ming army of more than 8,000 people, its ratio is still 1 to 4!

And more importantly, these casualties brought about not only the casualties of these 8,000 enemy troops, but the destruction of the entire Hengyang Ming army!

If you add more than 5,000 people who were killed and wounded by the strikers of the First Army at Shenjia Ferry, then the 30,000 soldiers and horses brought out by Cheng Hongan from Hengyang were all wiped out after these two battles.

Even if there are still thousands of remnants of soldiers who have escaped, they have lost their organization and can no longer pose a threat to the Tang Dynasty!

The total casualties in these two battles of the First Army were less than 3,000, but they were exchanged for the destruction of 30,000 of the Ming army, and these 30,000 people were not the previous guards, but the elite new army of the Ming army and the local training army.

These 30,000 results are of more strategic significance than the previous 100,000 results!

After watching it, Li Xuan finally changed from smiling to laughing, and then said: "Okay, the first army fought well, and the second army fought well!" ”

The fall of the Hengyang Ming Army will have a huge impact, the Hengyang Ming Army is destroyed, and Changsha can still hold it? Li Xuan didn't think so, even if the Ming army could spend so much on city defense for a month or two, it would eventually be conquered by the main forces of the first and second armies.

After taking Changsha, it is time to march into Wuchang and aid Nanchang!

Li Xuan read the battle report again, and then said: "The victory in this battle depends on the hard work of the front-line soldiers, and the meritorious soldiers must be rewarded!" ”

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