Of course, Bao Yifen said: "In this regard, our navy has two plans, one is to launch a companion attack in other places to attract the attention of the Ming army and naval divisions in the Pearl River Estuary and Qiongzhou area, and attract them to other places, and then our navy will cover the large-scale landing of the army, and strive to successfully land before the Ming naval division reacts, and rush to transport a batch of ammunition supplies." ”

"What's next?" Zeng Ziwen said: "Once the puppet Ming sailor reacts and blocks the Qiongzhou Strait, what about the follow-up supply transportation?"

Bao Yifen was a little embarrassed at this time and said: "This, the army will need to solve the difficulties on its own in the later operations, and this will be eaten by the enemy!" Of course, our navy will still do its best to transport supplies for the army in subsequent operations."

Hearing this, Zeng Ziwen wanted to scold his mother, and the feeling of the navy was to send his own army to the island and didn't care, and whether there were any follow-up replenishment of troops and ammunition and materials completely depended on luck!

However, at this time, there was a humanitarian: "What if the Ming army's sailors are not attracted by our army's accompanying attack?" ”

At this time, Bao Yifen said in a cautious tone: "If the Ming Army's naval division is unmoved, then the sea-crossing fleet will be divided into two, one team of empty ships disguised as the main force of the sea-crossing and landing to attract the attention of the pseudo-Ming naval division, and the other team will choose the opportunity to cross the sea and land!" ”

Everyone understood this plan, and one was to send a part of the fleet to take the initiative to die to cover the landing of the other fleet.

This is simple, but what is represented after preparation is a bloody and cruel truth, because if you really want to do this, you don't know how many people will die, even if there is no landing force of the army on these ships, but there are a lot of sailors.

The Navy is going to sacrifice itself to cover the landing of the army!

So at this time, Zeng Ziwen said: "The navy understands the righteousness, and the army admires it!" ”

Li Xuan, who was sitting at the top, listened to this, and nodded slightly, Bao Yifen made such a plan, which shows that this person still has a sense of the overall situation, and does not simply consider the interests of the navy itself, but from the interests of the entire Tang Dynasty.

Otherwise, there would be no need for the Navy to make such a plan!

Towards the end of the meeting, the army and navy were considered to have completed the coordination and put forward the overall Qiongzhou operational policy, and Li Xuan approved the plan on the spot.

The next step is to prepare the troops and prepare for the sea-crossing and landing campaign.

In the future, the army and navy still have a lot to do, the army side must prepare the forces for the sea-crossing operation, and the navy side must prepare ships, and when everything is ready, the final sea-crossing and landing operation will be.

And these preparations include the accompanying attack!

Through the coordination of the navy and the army, the accompanying attack site was placed on Nanao Island, because from a military strategy and political point of view, there were still thousands of remnants on Nanao Island, and Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, was still here.

After all, this Guangdong Navy Division is also a military force under the command of Wang Yue, and once Wang Yue gives the order, the Guangdong Navy Division will definitely focus on defending Nanao Island.

At that time, it is true that the Guangdong Navy Division may still leave a certain fleet in the Pearl River Estuary and other places, but I am afraid that there will not be many sailors left in Qiongzhou Mansion.

After all, the Guangdong sailors are not endless, and it is impossible to defend all the places in the huge coastal zone of Guangdong.

In order to make a gesture of attacking Nan'ao Island, the 1st Mixed Regiment and other troops in Chaozhou Province were vigorously collecting ships and hoarding them at several piers along the sea.

The Ming army on Nanao Island naturally quickly discovered that something was wrong, and as expected by the Tang Army and Navy, the Ming army on the island was extremely nervous, and frequently sent ships to patrol the sea, and at the same time sent fast boats to the mouth of the Pearl River, preparing to transfer the fleet back to defend Nanao Island.

Seeing that time had passed, when Li Xuan received a report from the Fourth Army, saying that after two months of siege and operation, the Ming army in Jingzhou City was finally unable to resist the attack of the Fourth Army, and finally the city was destroyed.

Of course, although there are only a few simple sentences in the battle report, the entire Jingzhou Campaign was not a single siege battle, but a series of battles.

Although Zhang Yue had already given up Jingzhou, and he also knew that the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side was trying to play encirclement and send reinforcements, he did not give up Jingzhou easily, on the one hand, he strictly ordered the defenders of Jingzhou to defend it strictly, and on the other hand, he tried to transfer troops to Jingzhou.

What to do in Jingzhou? It was not simply to rescue Jingzhou, but to use Jingzhou City to consume the strength of the puppet Tang thief army.

Zhang Yue drew a lot of troops, but several attempts to enter Jingzhou failed, because the combat strength of the Fourth Army far exceeded their expectations.

After investing more than 20,000 troops before and after, they failed to kill the scope of Jingzhou City, but lost thousands of people, and then Zhang Yue completely died of the idea of counterattacking and waited for Jingzhou to fend for itself.

Under such circumstances, although there was no shortage of food and military salaries in Jingzhou City, and there was no need to worry about starvation or lack of armaments, the morale of the troops was very low, and they could not stop the attack of the Fourth Army at all.

And this, in order to avoid a large number of casualties, Chen Keqiao's cautious style of play, did not launch a large-scale attack, but continued to attack through artillery and small-scale tentative attacks.

Under such suffering, the defenders of the city finally collapsed completely after being besieged for two months.

After the capture of Jingzhou City, it also represented the end of a series of battles between the Fourth Army and the Huguangming Army in Jingzhou.

If it was from the beginning of the Fourth Army's entry into Jingzhou, then the Fourth Army had already defeated 50,000 enemy troops, killed more than 5,000 enemy troops in total, and captured nearly 30,000 people.

In the early stage, there were only three garrison brigades formed on the spot by using these prisoners, of course, these garrison brigades did not have official names, and they were soon withdrawn, and these soldiers were reorganized in accordance with the new round of reorganization plan of the Tang Dynasty.

After several months of fighting, the Fourth Army also ushered in a rare time to recuperate, and at the same time freed up its hands to clear and transfer the remnants of the Ming army in Guilin.

By the time the war on the side of the Fourth Army came to an end, in fact, so far, the large-scale operations of the Tang Dynasty in the northeast of Guizhou, the northeast of Guangdong, and the Huguang region had come to an end, and it had entered a time of recuperation.

After all, it is impossible for the army to continue high-intensity combat all the time, and it needs time to rest and recuperate, replenish troops and equipment, otherwise the troops will be exhausted while fighting.

As for the area from Guangxi to Yunnan, because the mountain road is difficult to travel, and there are not many strong Ming troops on the opposite side, so the Tang Dynasty has not invested many troops, and it has always been a small fight, which cannot affect the overall situation.

Under these circumstances, the army of the Tang Dynasty Division began to focus its main efforts on reorganization, striving to completely complete the reorganization of all infantry divisions in September, and at the same time to complete the replenishment of guns and ammunition for the above-mentioned units.

Of course, when the main force of the army was being reorganized and replenished, the navy and some of the army forces were still not idle, and they were preparing for the attack on Qiongzhou Mansion.

When the troops stationed at the mouth of the Pearl River reported that the activities of the Ming army's naval divisions entrenched in the area of the Pearl River estuary had been greatly reduced, and that the Ming army's naval divisions on the other side of the Qiongzhou Strait were also much less, the high-level army and sea leaders knew that the time had come to launch the Qiongzhou Campaign.

At the beginning of August, the Second Mixed Regiment of the Tang Army, which was specially formed for the Qiongzhou Campaign, arrived in Leizhou Mansion and carried out adaptive training.

The 2nd Mixed Regiment, like the 1st Mixed Regiment, was drawn from the existing units, mainly from the 1st Infantry Division and the 6th Infantry Division, which had an infantry battalion, a reserve battalion, a grenadier brigade, a scattered artillery unit, a cavalry detachment, and a baggage battalion.

The total strength is about 1,800 men, and it is rare to have a grenadier team.

After the 1st Infantry Division and the 6th Infantry Division are transferred to the above-mentioned units, they will form corresponding units on their own to fill the vacancies, which will inevitably affect the combat effectiveness of these two units in a short period of time, but the actual impact will not be great.

As the reorganization of the Tang Army continued, the Sixth Infantry Division took the lead in completing the reorganization, and the Fifth Infantry Division was also fully reorganized and had complete strength, but both units still lacked enough guns, especially artillery.

Therefore, according to the predetermined plan, the Sixth Infantry Division should have gone north to Huguang at this time, but it has been dragging its feet and continuing to assist the Fifth Infantry Division in consolidating the defenses of various parts of Guangdong.

After all, the Fifth Infantry Division has not yet achieved combat strength, and it is difficult for it to support the heavy task of defending a huge Guangdong Province on its own.

At present, all parts of Guangdong are garrisoned by a number of troops, and the 15 th Infantry Regiment belonging to the Fifth Infantry Division, which is stationed in Lianzhou Mansion and Leizhou Prefecture, is a spear regiment with pure cold weapons.

After the downsizing, the unit was assigned to the 5th Infantry Division and awarded the new 15th Infantry Regiment.

With the preparation of each infantry division, the numbers of the original regiments have also been changed to a certain extent, such as the original Third Infantry Regiment, which is now renamed the Fourth Infantry Regiment, because after the new reorganization, not only the reorganization of the establishment, but also the number will remain unified.

The change was made in accordance with the principle of three infantry regiments per division, and the number was postponed.

As for the new 3rd Infantry Regiment, it will be downsized from the 4th Garrison Brigade, and it will eventually be a spear regiment with pure cold weapons.

The garrison brigades of other departments will also be downsized according to the regulations, and most of the garrison brigades will be reduced to regiments, and half of the strength will be directly cut.

However, some garrison brigades are weak and do not have enough troops for even one regiment after being downsized, so these troops will be arranged to be assigned to supplement the temporary regiments, or to fill the infantry regiments with vacancies.

Now, except for a very small number, such as the Ninth Garrison Brigade that performs combat missions on Nanao Island, all other garrison brigades have been withdrawn, and now the selected qualified soldiers are undergoing intensive training after being downsized.

When the various divisions of the Tang Dynasty were being reorganized, in mid-August, that is, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Battle of Qiongzhou was officially launched.