Huaiyuan County, Liuzhou Prefecture, located in the north of Liuzhou Prefecture, the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, its most famous feature is that it happens to be the confluence of the Hejiang River, the Xunjiang River and the Rongjiang River, where the Hejiang River, the Xunjiang River and the Miao River converge, and then merge together to form the Rongjiang River.

The Rongjiang River goes down further and merges into the Wuyang River and other rivers and merges into the Liujiang River!

The Liujiang River is an important traffic river in contemporary Guangxi, and Huaiyuan County, located in the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, is also extremely important because of its important geographical location.

If the Tang Army wants to go south to Liuzhou, especially if it wants to go south to Liuzhou along the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, it must conquer Huaiyuan County!

In this way, it is not surprising that after Hao Bonian entered Guangxi, he didn't go, but made a small circle and went straight to Huaiyuan County.

In order to open up the transportation connection of the upper reaches of the Liujiang River after taking Huaiyuan County!

Hao Bonian's army has too much demand for military supplies, especially ammunition materials, which are very dependent on logistics, and Guizhou and Guangxi have many mountainous areas, and these logistics materials are too troublesome and costly if they rely solely on land transportation.

So if you can use Liujiang as a logistics transportation supply line, then it will be much easier!

In order to open up the supply line of Liujiang, Hao Bonian preferred Huaiyuan as the target of the attack, and even did not hesitate to put on a posture of killing chickens with a knife, bringing more than 5,000 people from his tens of thousands of troops over, and personally arranged for the troops to attack the small county town of Huaiyuan County!

The puppet Tang thief army is here, and there are 5,000 people who come, which frightened the local Ming Dynasty officials in Huaiyuan!

Although Huaiyuan County was established as a county because of its important geographical location, it was more of a service for water transportation, and by the way it deterred the surrounding toasts.

However, when there was a big city of Liuzhou in the south that could hold the passage of the Liujiang River, the Ming Dynasty naturally would not station heavy troops here, and only a few hundred soldiers were stationed here in normal times.

In the past six months, the puppet Tang thief army in Xingquanfu in the north has become more and more intense, and even after conquering Xingquanfu City and Liping Mansion City, it has also made Guangxi officials in the south a little worried.

Therefore, a lot of soldiers were stationed in the north, but there were not many of these additional soldiers, there were only more than 2,000 people in total, and most of them were stationed in the capital of Liuzhou, but only 500 people were sent to Huaiyuan County.

In other words, when Hao Bonian led an army of 5,000 to Huaiyuan County, the Ming army here was only a thousand people!

In this case, the officials on the side of Huaiyuan County looked at the 5,000 troops outside the city, and there were still many artillery pieces in these armies, and they were still bombarding the weak Huaiyuan County with artillery. It's hard for them not to despair.

In this battle, there was no Boze at all, the first wave of the 5,000 army, even if not all of the 5,000 people fought, the first wave of attack was only the Ming army in the three garrison battalions, and the first corps of the first infantry brigade, the core main force under Hao Bonian, did not fight at all, but the Ming army in the city could not resist it at all.

They only put up a symbolic resistance, and then they completely collapsed!

Most fled, a few stubbornly resisted and were killed, and some surrendered!

And the officials of the Ming Dynasty in the city committed suicide by the county order, and the other officials also fled, surrendered!

It's only half a day before and after, and Hao Bonian has already stepped into the small county town of Huaiyuan County!

However, after conquering Huaiyuan County, it did not make Hao Bonian feel too much joy, because this is a normal thing, and it is strange that he can't fight, and it is logical to beat it.

It is naturally impossible for the 5,000 army to pour into the small Huaiyuan county town, in fact, only more than 1,000 people have entered the city, and more troops are still stationed outside the city.

That night, Hao Bonian gathered the generals in accordance with the tradition of the Tang Dynasty and began to arrange the next strategy!

Since the general battle plan had been drawn up before I came, the strategy meeting that night did not say much, but just issued the plan that had been made in advance.

According to the original plan, the southward army led by Hao Bonian will divide its troops after entering Guangxi, and a small number of troops will continue to move westward into Guilin, but this army is only a partial division, and the troops under its jurisdiction only have a reserve battalion in the regular army, that is, the second reserve battalion of the second infantry regiment, and a thirteenth garrison battalion composed of Ming troops, with a total strength of about 1,200 people.

Their mission is not to say that they have to conquer Guilin, as long as they can contain part of the Ming army, of course, if they can, they can still take Guilin by the way.

And the real main force of the Tang Dynasty will continue to go south!

Before Hao Bonian led the army to attack Huaiyuan County, he had actually sent the main forward south to Rongxian!

If Huaiyuan County is an important transportation hub related to Liujiang water transportation, then Rong County is the north gate of Liuzhou.

And Liuzhou is their first strategic goal to go south to Guangxi this time!

After taking Liuzhou, it can basically be announced that the Tang Dynasty has gained a firm foothold on the Guangxi side, and can integrate local forces to prepare for the next step of controlling the entire territory of Guangxi and even conquering Wuzhou.

It is expected that by that time, the political center and industrial center of the Tang Dynasty will gradually shift to Guangxi!

In order to take Liuzhou before the Ming army reacted, Hao Bonian had already sent the main forward south to Rong County before leading the army to Huaiyuan County.

In this way, the more than 10,000 southbound troops led by Hao Bonian have actually been divided into three parts!

The 2nd Reserve Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 13th Garrison Battalion marched eastward to Guilin as a partial division, led by Lieutenant Colonel Xu Ke, the deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment!

The second part is the main striker, the main striker was already the first to go south yesterday, and the number and combat effectiveness of this forward force are much stronger than the westward division led by Lieutenant Colonel Xu Ke!

Because the composition of this forward is composed of the remaining three main battalions of the Second Infantry Regiment, the first reserve battalion, in addition to the second cavalry battalion, and the eleventh garrison battalion to which the third garrison brigade belongs, with a total strength of nearly 3,000 men!

The unit was personally led by the commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, Colonel Li Chunjing.

His task is to capture Rongxian before the Ming army reacts, if the main force of the Ming army arrives in Rongxian first, then bypass Rongxian first, intercept the reinforcements from Liuzhou to the Ming army, and provide cover for the follow-up troops led by Hao Bonian to attack Rongxian.

In fact, when Hao Bonian led the troops to leave Huaiyuan County, Li Chunjing had already arrived at Rongxian County with the forward troops.

After briefly observing the situation in the city, Li Chunjing made a preliminary judgment that the Ming army on the side of Rongxian had a lot of troops, and the total number was probably no less than 3,000, and according to the information revealed by the locals, many of the soldiers and horses in Rongxian had just arrived in Rongxian a few days ago.

Obviously, the Ming army on this side of Guangxi has discovered the southward movement of the puppet Tang thief army and began to make corresponding deployments, otherwise, they would not have temporarily sent more than 2,000 troops and horses to Rongxian.

There were 3,000 Ming troops in the city, but this did not make Li Chunjing retreat, as soon as he arrived outside Rongxian County, he immediately arranged troops to prepare to attack the city.

But what surprised him was that the Ming army on the side of Rongxian was not small, and they dared to go out of the city to face the battle!

Li Chunjing hadn't seen the Ming army dare to take the initiative to meet his own troops in the field for a long time, didn't they know that what their own Tang Dynasty Wang Division was best at was a frontal battle in the field?

In fact, they really don't know, because because of the lack of news, the Ming army on the Guangxi side really doesn't know much about the specific tactics of the pseudo-Tang thief army in Guizhou.

If it was replaced by Song Zhiwen or Zhu Zhihai, they would definitely not have done such a stupid thing, which may not be able to hold it with the defense of the fortified city, and they still play field warfare, isn't this self-defeating?

But at this time, it was obviously not Zhu Zhihai or Song Zhiwen who was in charge of the defense of Rongxian County, so the Ming army came out, and the three thousand Ming army launched an attack on the three thousand Tang Army outside the city with fearless courage!

Seeing the Ming army rushing over, even Li Chunjing had to admire them!

This kind of courage is something that even our own troops have never had!

In the face of the Ming army that he sent to find death, Li Chunjing was naturally not polite, and he was not prepared to attack the city, so he directly ordered the troops to line up to meet the enemy!

According to the Tang Dynasty, each battalion formed a tight infantry phalanx, and more than 150 cavalrymen under the second infantry battalion swept the formation in the rear!

When the Datang Army lined up to meet the enemy, many battalion commanders and captain-level officers in the Second Infantry Regiment looked at the Ming troops rushing over with puzzled expressions, not to mention the officers in these regular troops!

Even the Ming soldiers in the 11th Garrison Battalion under the 13th Garrison Brigade looked like fools watching those Ming troops rush over!

Just like you, you dare to attack their pseudo-Tang thief army, oh, no, it's the military formation of our Tang Dynasty King Division, it's just impatient.

Immediately, there was a former Ming army hundred households outside the city who surrendered to the Tang Army garrison, and a sergeant platoon commander in the garrison of the Tang Army, just said to the soldiers around him with a look of disdain: "These fools, when we were in Liping Mansion City, more than 30,000 of us were defeated, and they were only 3,000 people, so they dared to attack the main force of our Wang Division, it was a joke!" ”

Yes, Lao Tzu was defeated at the beginning, how could you not be defeated?

Doesn't that mean that you are better than Lao Tzu?

How is this possible, absolutely impossible!

Many people in the Tang Army were shocked, looking at the 3,000 Ming army rushing up like fools, and Cen Xiong, who led the army to attack in the Ming army array, also looked at these pseudo-Tang thief troops in front of them with a puzzled expression: In the face of the charge of their own army, why didn't they run away like other thief troops?

Haven't they heard of the undefeatable prestige of these soldiers?

Three thousand soldiers are enough to destroy the pseudo-Tang!

With doubts, Cen Xiong led three thousand soldiers to rush to the queue of the Second Infantry Regiment like a tide!