With these reinforcements, it became possible for him to continue northward, because he was able to use the new reinforcements to contain the Ming army scattered in the direction of Guilin, and then draw the main force to quickly advance northward.

Without waiting for these reinforcements to arrive, Chen Keqiao calculated the troops under his command, that is, he immediately personally led the troops with the Fifth Infantry Regiment as the core to quickly go north, and even Guilin Fucheng was too lazy to leave the main force to defend, leaving only a battalion of garrison.

As for what the Ming army wants, let it be taken away, anyway, the Sixth Infantry Regiment led by Colonel Zhou Yibao, deputy commander of the Third Infantry Brigade, the Sixth Garrison Brigade, and the First Battalion of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment will teach them how to behave.

He took the 5th Infantry Regiment and the 1st Provisional Regiment with a small garrison, leaving several battalions of garrison to garrison Guilin and other important locations.

At the same time, it is also an order for the follow-up reinforcements to go north, so that they can go north to clear the Ming army in Guilin, although these Ming troops are only 10,000 people, and they are divided into several activities, if they meet head-on, Chen Keqiao is confident that they will completely annihilate them, but they are hiding, only attacking the grain road of the Tang Dynasty Division, attacking the small city, and not facing the Fourth Army head-on.

Therefore, these people are also a great threat to the Fourth Army, although Chen Keqiao himself plans to leave, but he still lets the follow-up troops from Wuzhou go north to encircle and suppress these Ming troops.

If these Ming troops are not eliminated, the logistics supply lines of the Fourth Army will not be completely secured.

Chen Keqiao led the Fifth Infantry Regiment and the Provisional First Regiment to the north, and Li Chunjing's Third Army also transferred troops to concentrate in Liuzhou, and at the same time sent a garrison regiment stationed in Liuzhou to Liping Province.

The 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Second Army and other units in Ri Binh Province also seized the time to rest and replenish, replenish new troops, and replenish ammunition in order to restore their combat effectiveness.

These were all to rescue the Fourth Infantry Regiment and other troops who were besieged in the city of Xingquanfu.

Just when many troops on the periphery were working hard to rescue the Fourth Infantry Regiment, inside the city of Xingquanfu, Wang Danxu stood on the head of the city with a tired look and observed the Ming army outside the city.

His tired face was naturally not because of fighting with the Ming army, Wang Danxu was the regiment commander, with the rank of colonel, and he had already left the level of personally going into battle to fight with enemy soldiers, let alone being exhausted because of the siege of the Ming army.

It's been two months of siege, and I've experienced everything I should have experienced, and I've gotten used to a lot of things under this long siege.

The reason why he had a tired look on his face was because he was too late yesterday when he was discussing military affairs, and today he got up early in the morning to inspect the troops in the city.

When inspecting various places in the city, he naturally couldn't forget to observe the Ming army outside the city.

From his point of sight, the Ming army outside the city seemed to be about to settle down in Xingquanfu City, building a huge and solid camp, and it was layer after layer.

"The camp of these thieves is getting stronger and stronger, I'm afraid there is no way to go out of the city to fight them by surprise like at the beginning!" Seeing this scene, Wang Danxu showed pity on his face.

"These thieves have fought us many times, and now they are also learning to be smart!" At this time, the subordinate officers next to him also echoed his words.

"That is, when they first arrived outside the city, they were beaten by us, and there were hundreds of casualties, if they didn't know how to strengthen the camp, these thieves would have been defeated by us a long time ago!"

When the Huguang Ming army outside the city first arrived outside the city of Xingquanfu, because they were not familiar with the combat mode of the Tang Dynasty Wang Division, and the defense was not strict enough, they were led by Wang Danxu to take the initiative to go out of the city and fight a small counterattack, killing and wounding at least 500 people of the Ming army.

But then the Ming army learned to be smart and very well-guarded.

"I don't know when the reinforcements will arrive, although we can still hold the city wall now, but we can't last long, now the food in the city is less than five days to eat, even if it is saved, at most it will support ten days, ten days later, I am afraid that the food will be out of food!"

"Is it only ten days? Didn't we requisition the food in the city, why wasn't it enough? Wang Danxu said.

The bystander immediately replied: "Although we have requisitioned the grain of various grain merchants in the city, but the city has been besieged for many days, and we have strictly ordered that grain merchants are not allowed to hoard and sell, and there is not much grain in this grain merchant!" ”

Wang Danxu said: "There must be food in the city, especially those big families, send troops to go and buy all the excess food in the hands of the people, well, give money, don't make a note!" ”

After being besieged for two months, the food in Xingquanfu City was already insufficient, although the second army had hoarded a lot of food in Xingquanfu City before, but there were not only troops in the city, but also more than 20,000 people, and these people did not have so much food.

When the people's food was exhausted, in order to avoid starving to death, Wang Danxu and the official governor of Xingquan Prefecture discussed and decided to take out a part of the military food to relieve the people.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty has never done business to return to the basics, and this relief grain is not sent for free, but in exchange for work!

To defend the city, it is necessary to build a large number of fortifications, such as the city wall is heightened and thickened, and the anti-artillery fortifications that can avoid the Ming army's bowl mouth cannon are built at the head of the city.

In traditional city defense warfare, there has always been no shortage of young and strong laborers to help.

Even after the military took decisive measures to directly give money and forcibly requisition the grain of all the grain merchants in the city, it was still impossible to prevent the rapid decline of the military food reserves.

By now, Wang Danxu, who had no choice, was already planning to forcibly requisition grain from those who had surplus grain in the city.

But Wang Danxu understands very well that even so, he can't last long, because the grain reserves in the city are always limited, whether it is the grain of the military, the people, or the government, it is always limited.

And this upper limit will not exceed three months at most!

In other words, in less than a month, I am afraid that the whole city will be completely short of food.

The thought of this terrifying scene made his scalp tingle!

If there is enough food, he still has the confidence to continue to defend it, because after defending the city for two months, the Ming army has not tried to attack Xingquanfu City, but under his own resistance, no matter how strong the city defense system is, every time he can only throw a large number of corpses and flee in embarrassment.

Therefore, from the military point of view of a single village, if the Ming army did not pay at least tens of thousands of casualties or even more, it would be impossible to take Xingquanfu City.

And at least tens of thousands of casualties or even more, even Zhang Yue, the governor of the four provinces, has to think carefully, this is not to say that he is reluctant to pay tens of thousands of casualties, on the contrary, if possible, Zhang Yue would rather sacrifice more than 10,000 or even more, because these soldiers are just a number in Zhang Yue's opinion.

Now he is recruiting a large number of soldiers in the vast area of Huguang, drawing more guards, and at the same time, he also asks the imperial court to transfer reinforcements from Nanzhili, Yunnan, Sichuan and other provinces.

This soldier, what he has in his hand, give him a month's work, and he will be able to raise another twenty or thirty thousand men.

But these soldiers are cannon fodder that can be sacrificed in Zhang Yue's opinion, but this is not the case for the Ming generals on the front line and the cannon fodder soldiers themselves.

For soldiers, nature is the most important thing in their own lives, let us go to death and think beautifully.

For the generals, these soldiers, especially their descendants and recruits, are the cornerstone of their promotion and wealth, and they can defeat the battle, but they must not let their soldiers die.

If all the soldiers under his hands died in order to defeat Xingquan Mansion, Zhang Yue would naturally have made a huge contribution, but they would have become the commander of the light pole by themselves, and they knew with their butts that it would be absolutely impossible for Zhang Yue to give them new recruits and let them lead the troops.

There are generals, and the soldiers recruited by Zhang Yue now are all Zhang Yue's Zhang family army, but they have nothing to do with the generals of the guard army under the city of Xingquan Mansion.

So even if Zhang Yue wanted to simply pay the cost of tens of thousands of people to attack, he would not have the support of the front-line generals, otherwise, the Ming army would have launched a general attack long ago, and there would be no need to besiege the city.

How good it is to besiege the city, he starved the pseudo-Tang thief army to death without having to die, and then got the credit of reviving Quanfu City for nothing, they are indeed right to think so, and now Wang Danxu in the city is indeed very embarrassed by the siege.

Xingquanfu City is the same as before, Wang Danxu and they can't break through, and the Ming army doesn't attack, and the follow-up variables can only look at the performance of more than 4,000 troops led by Fang Xitong of the Second Army and the troops led by Chen Keqiao from Guilin to the north.

The war in Guizhou also deeply stimulated Li Xuan, looking at the besieged Xingquan Mansion on the map, Li Xuan just felt that the scale of this rebellion was getting bigger and bigger, but it was also getting more and more difficult.

As early as the era of Huangzhushan, and even the era of occupying Zhengtai County, he did not feel that it was more difficult than now, on the contrary, it was easier.

After occupying the territory of the three provinces and supporting 100,000 troops, Li Xuan found that his strength had grown, but with more territory and more troops, it was even more difficult to fight.

In the end, he thought about it and came to a conclusion: it was not that he was not good enough, nor that the Ming army was very good, but because his army was not enough.

The Huguang Ming Army was sixty or seventy thousand people when it came over, while the regular army of the Second Army in the direction of Guizhou was only five or six thousand, and the garrison army was ten thousand.

If there are not enough troops, we will continue to expand the army, but the expansion of the army is also difficult!

Not to mention other expansion plans, just one Fifth Infantry Brigade broke his heart.