In a few days, the news of the tens of thousands of troops of the puppet Tang thief army going south spread throughout Liuzhou Mansion, and it is still spreading to the entire Guangxi!

This is a troop transfer of 20,000 or 30,000 people, and Liuzhou City is so big, how can it be concealed, just go to the Liujiang River, you can see the dense boats on the river, full of soldiers and supplies.

The news that the main force of the puppet Tang thief army was going south through the fast horse, and it soon reached the ears of Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi who was in Wuxuan!

"The main force of the puppet Tang thief army has gone south?"

"How many people? Who is leading the army? How many heavy artillery do they have? ”

After Wei Yan heard the news, he immediately asked a series of news, but the Ming soldiers who came back from the news knew this, they just saw a large group of pseudo-Tang thief soldiers on the boat from a distance, and countless boats went down the river.

I don't know the detailed troop configuration of the puppet Tang thief army!

However, he still knows who is the leader, because this matter is not a secret, and it is easy to find out!

That is, it was the puppet emperor Li Xuan who led the main force of the puppet Tang thief army to the south!

"Are you sure that the army of Tang thieves going south was led by Li Thief himself?" After Wei Yan heard the news, he still couldn't believe it.

Although this Tang thief is said to be a group of anti-thieves, but now the scale is not small, and the Tang thieves who crisscross Guizhou and Guangxi provinces can also be regarded as a separatist force, and its leader, that is, the pseudo-Tang Li thief, is also a character, how can he easily lead the army to conquer in person?

And the puppet Tang and Li thieves have already been recruited in person, I'm afraid that this time the puppet Tang thief army is menacing, it's not good, I really can't stop them in Wuxuan County.

After asking in detail about the information of the puppet Tang thief army, Wei Yan fell into deep contemplation!

This time the puppet Tang thief army is menacing, according to intelligence, this time the puppet Tang thief army going south claims to have 50,000 people, even if this number is reduced, it is estimated that there are 20,000 or 30,000 people.

However, the pseudo-Tang thief army that defeated him last time was only more than 10,000 people, and this time there were 20,000 or 30,000 people, and it was even more difficult to fight.

Although he also has nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses on the Wuxuan side, but his family knows his own affairs, the last Xiangzhou fiasco, he lost most of the 8,000 regular army, only more than 2,000 people fled back, and later in order to strengthen the city defense of Wuxuan, on the one hand, he asked for help from Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, and on the other hand, he also recruited other guards in Guangxi Province and Qingzhuang.

However, at this time, the regular guard army he assembled was only more than 8,000 people, and Wang Yue sent 3,000 people to reinforce, and this 11,000 people was all the trump cards in his hands, as for Qingzhuang, although he was also recruited, but he was different from the officials in Guizhou, he didn't like to count these young and strong people when counting the troops, because Guizhou and Liuzhou and many other battles with the puppet Tang thief army have shown that fighting with the puppet Tang thief army, the temporarily recruited young Zhuang is useless at all, On the contrary, it will be the first to collapse on the battlefield, which will cause a great rout of the whole army.

In the past, the many fiascos of the Ming army almost all began with the collapse of the young and strong!

And if you count the young and strong, your own strength sounds like a lot, but this battle report is even more difficult to write.

There are tens of thousands of young people in this Wuxuan City, if he counts these people, his army will have more than 20,000 people, and if he is defeated by the puppet Tang thief army, or if he takes the initiative to retreat, how can he explain to the imperial court?

More than 20,000 people were defeated or did you retreat without a fight? What do you want to do, do you want this official hat, do you want this head.

But if you only count the regular army, there are not so many people, 10,000 people were defeated by 50,000 puppet Tang thief army, although it is also depressing, but this is excusable!

As the so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, no matter how awesome he is, there is no way if he doesn't have enough soldiers under his hands!

Therefore, when counting the troops, Wei Yanke did not learn from Zhu Zhihai and them, and counted the young and strong and even the people, he only counted the regular army, and those young and strong, even if they were holding weapons, were all included in the category of the people.

In fact, these young men who were temporarily conscripted could only do the work of the people, build fortifications such as city walls, transport baggage, etc., and let them go into battle to fight? Don't be kidding, being bombarded by the cannons of the puppet Tang Thief Army, these temporarily recruited young men will collapse after a few seconds.

In the last battle of Anjia Wharf in Xiangzhou, his own 8,000 regular army, half of which were elite, could not block the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army, so these young men wanted to block the cannons of these puppet Tang thief army?

Just kidding!

His own existing regular army is only 11,000 people, even if the governor has repeatedly said that he has conscripted the army in Guangdong, and at the same time started a large-scale training in Wuzhou, he will be able to lead more than 50,000 troops to the west in a few days, but when will it go, maybe at that time Wuxuan will be flattened by the artillery of the puppet Tang thief army!

As soon as he thought of the artillery of the puppet Tang thief army and their muskets, Wei Yan felt a tingling in his scalp!

The firearms of these pseudo-Tang thief army are too sharp, even if the governor can stop the 50,000-strong army at that time, I am afraid that they are not the opponent of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

After the first battle of Anjia Wharf, like the civil and military officials of the Ming army who had fought with the puppet Tang thief army before, Wei Yan was also deeply touched, so that he had a sense of fear that the Tang thieves were invincible!

During this time, he was also thinking deeply about how to defeat the puppet Tang thief army, he thought that the reason why the puppet Tang thief army was able to defeat the official army many times was just by relying on the sharpness of firearms, if you want to defeat the puppet Tang thief army, then the imperial court officials and army must have more and better firearms than the puppet Tang thief army!

Don't our court officers and soldiers have firearms? Just kidding, how could it not be, the northern border army and the coastal sailors are equipped with a large number of Franc machine guns, and these Franc machine guns are also more than 300 catties, 500 catties or even 1,000 catties.

As for the musket, this aspect is a little worse, even Wei Yan himself can't stand the Ming army's own various handguns, and it is useless at all in the previous battles with the pseudo-Tang thief army, and it is not as good as the bow and arrow.

However, he also found a few muskets used by the pseudo-Tang thief army through some means, and asked his craftsmen to try to imitate them.

The puppet Tang thief army can make muskets and use them, but it makes no sense that our court officials and soldiers can't use them!

And he also heard that the foreigners who came from Nanyang also have muskets, and I heard that the power is not bad, and I am afraid that I can't catch up with the time to make my own products, but it is also possible to buy a batch from foreigners.

For this reason, he had already written a detailed letter a few days ago and sent it to Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, hoping that the official army would also imitate the muskets and even artillery of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

And Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, also attached great importance to this, and sent craftsmen, although Wang Yue scolded Wei Yan fiercely, but Wang Yue still had the bearing of being the governor of Liangguang, and he still exonerated Wei Yan as much as possible in the performance of the court, otherwise, the court would dismiss the official and even escort Wei Yan to Beijing to await trial.

It is rumored that Wang Yue had already sent the muskets of the two pseudo-Tang thief armies obtained from various small means to the craftsmen and asked the craftsmen to imitate them.

However, the time is still relatively short, and although it is not difficult to imitate this musket, it will take a certain amount of time to produce it on a large scale.

At this time, Li Xuan didn't know that the Ming Dynasty in the Liangguang region had already begun to imitate his musket, and if he knew, he would definitely be extremely worried!

There are not many places where the Tang Dynasty is stronger than the Ming Dynasty, and one of the most important is the advantage of firearms, if it shows that the dynasty imitated and produced muskets on a large scale and equipped, the advantages brought by this musket will disappear quickly.

And since the musket can be imitated, this cannon can also be imitated.

There is no way, the muskets and artillery equipped by the Tang Dynasty are actually not much technical, the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty can make them, and the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can naturally make them.

In fact, even if there is no Tang Dynasty, in a few years in history, the Ming Dynasty will begin to imitate muskets, well, that is, bird guns, and there are tens of thousands, which is much more atmospheric than the Tang Dynasty.

However, imitating the muskets and artillery of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and even the Franco machine guns of the border army and the sailors, they are far from being able to quench their thirst.

Tens of thousands of puppet Tang thief troops have already gone south, and it won't take long to reach Wuxuan City, how can they resist when the time comes?

Wei Yan thought about it for a long time but didn't find any good way, and in the end he could only continue to strengthen the city defense, especially the city wall must be reinforced, followed by continuing to recruit young and strong, train troops, and then ask Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, for help.

Wei Yan bluntly said in the letter asking for help that more than 50,000 Tang thieves went south, and it was difficult to sustain it with more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of Wuxuan alone, and he hoped that the governor would help and send an additional 30,000 reinforcements to come.

30,000 reinforcements? It's impossible, Wei Yan also knows, but he thinks, if this request for help is not more serious, the Governor will not see the seriousness of the problem, and he will exaggerate what he said, and when the time comes, the Governor will more or less always send reinforcements, if there are not 30,000, it would be good to come with 10,000!

Even if it's just three or five thousand people, it's always better than no reinforcements!

In addition to these military preparations, Wei Yan also hoarded a large number of ordnance, grain and grass in Wuxuan City, and also arranged three iron cables on the Qianjiang River outside Wuxuan City to block the river, so that the puppet Tang thief army would bypass Wuxuan and continue to advance eastward.

Then the fleet under his command is also ready, ready to cooperate with the defenders in the city to defend the city when the time comes!

But that's all he can do, whether this Wu Xuan can hold him doesn't know, it depends on how many troops the puppet Tang thief army has to advance eastward, and what its strength is!

When the puppet Tang thief army went south and was preparing for war, the people were panicked, not only Wuxuan, but even Wuzhou!