After Wang Danxu surrounded Ganzhou, he was lucky, and there were really Ming troops from other places who stupidly ran to Ganzhou to send them to death, so he played a few rounds to send reinforcements, and after cleaning up a few Ming army reinforcements with a scale of 1,000 people.

The Ming army in other places will no longer come to Ganzhou for reinforcements stupidly!

After discovering that the Ming army was no longer stupid to come and send him to death, Wang Danxu was not hypocritical, and it was no good to continue to wait, so he officially launched an onslaught on Ganzhou!

There are not many Ming troops in the city of Ganzhou, and there are not too many artillery and other firearms, and the fall is inevitable!

On the eighth day of the first month of March, the Fifth Infantry Division led by Wang Danxu broke through Ganzhou City after paying the price of nearly 1,000 casualties!

After the news of the fall of Ganzhou spread, the world shook!

Because after Ganzhou is taken by the puppet Tang thief army, Nanchang will face a threat, and the importance of Nanchang is no less than that of Changsha!

There was no need for the imperial court to send someone to deliver the decree, Zhang Yue himself had already issued several orders in a row, almost exhausting the reserve forces in the Jiujiang and Nanchang areas, and at the same time requesting the Nanzhili region to send troops to assist in the defense.

Then he himself left Changsha and went to Nanchang in person!

At the same time, the Ming army on the side of Nanzhili also got the will of the imperial court early and began to draw a large number of troops to the south, first of all, Ji'an, the southern gate of Nanchang!

This is the kind of person who hurriedly dared to accumulate at least 50,000 troops in the city before the puppet Tang thief army entered the city of Ji'an, and at the same time prepared a large number of troops in Nanchang and Fuzhou in the rear.

This is the hasty creation of a new line of defense.

Wang Danxu led his troops all the way in March, and at the same time forcibly conquered Ganzhou, resulting in his Fifth Infantry Division being poor because of continuous fighting in recent months, and at the same time, the loss of soldiers and ammunition was also relatively large.

And send someone back to Ganzhou to ask for the next strategic instructions!

On March 29, after Li Xuan received the report from Wang Danxu, he was not embarrassed, and asked Wang Danxu to continue to attack northward regardless of casualties, but agreed to Wang Danxu's request.

Li Xuan agreed with Wang Danxu to stop the large-scale northward offensive, on the one hand, the Fifth Infantry Division needed to be corrected, and on the other hand, he did not want the Fifth Infantry Division to be too lonely.

It is also important to note that as the rain begins to increase as we enter April, this will not only affect the use of firearms such as guns, but will also make the roads muddy and make it more difficult to transport supplies.

Therefore, not only on the side of the Fifth Infantry Division, but in fact, after entering April, whether it was the First Army in the Huguang area, the Second Infantry Division in northeastern Guizhou, or the Fourth Infantry Division fighting in the direction of Yunnan and Sichuan, they actually stopped their large-scale offensives one after another, preparing to build a defensive line on the spot to tide over the rainy season.

Ensure that in the months when the rain is falling, the weather is humid, and the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army has declined, it can not be found by the Ming army to break through, and avoid capsizing in the gutter!

The suspension of the large-scale offensive on the whole front can also make the Tang Dynasty, which is already extremely nervous, breathe a sigh of relief, and have time to send all kinds of ordnance and ammunition and even recruits to the front line to replenish, and at the same time, after suspending the large-scale offensive, it can also ease the financial situation that is already on the verge of bankruptcy.

After all, although the expenses of the Tang Army are also high in peacetime, they are higher when they are fighting, and suspending the offensive can also effectively reduce the financial pressure.

After the Fifth Infantry Division and even the puppet Tang thief army on the Huguang side suspended the offensive one after another, Zhang Yue and many officials in the six provinces and even the officials of the Ming Dynasty in the Jiangnan region were a little relieved, although they were embarrassed, but they finally blocked the northward offensive of the puppet Tang thief army.

This large-scale northward offensive of the puppet Tang thief army, to be precise, should be the beginning of the Huguang offensive in December, and the offensive on the Huguang side was suspended for a period of time after February, but in March, the Jiangxi offensive was set off, which lasted for four months.

In the past four months, the Tang Army has mobilized four infantry divisions and three temporary regiments, and more than 60,000 troops have launched fierce offensives in Huguang, northeastern Guizhou, and Jiangxi.

On the side of the Ming army, a total of no less than 300,000 troops were successively dispatched to participate in the war, including troops in Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili and even Fujian!

As for the victory, from a tactical point of view, it must have been an undisputed victory for the Tang Dynasty, and in several battles, they captured the southern part of Huguang and the southern part of Jiangxi, occupied Shaoyang, Ganzhou and other strategically important cities, and actually surrounded Hengyang, coercing Changsha and Nanchang, two cities that no Ming Dynasty could lose.

At the same time, the Tang Army successively killed more than 20,000 Ming troops, captured more than 40,000 people, and countless lighter ones, but because of this, the Ming army completely collapsed and lost its organization at least more than 100,000 troops.

As for the Datang Army, about 1,500 people were killed and about 2,000 wounded!

But strategically speaking, the strategy that the Tang Dynasty began to plan last year was a failure, because the Tang Army not only failed to conquer Changsha, but also did not even take Hengyang, and the strategic target Nanchang in March was not taken.

In other words, none of the specific important strategic goals have been achieved, let alone the strategic concept of following the Yangtze River and then going south along the Yangtze River.

Although the Ming Dynasty lost troops and lost a lot of cities, it was better to say that it blocked the large-scale northward offensive of the puppet Tang thief army, although it was still a heavy loss, but if compared with the defeat of the Ming army from the Liangguang region in the second year of Xuanping, the performance of the Ming army this time was actually much better.

At the same time, their tactical idea of trying to hold on to the big city and avoid fighting head-on with the pseudo-Tang thief army in the field has also been realized!

Although the puppet Tang thief army is strong, in the face of strong cities like Hengyang, Changsha, and Nanchang, don't expect to be able to take it easily, so this makes Zhang Yue breathe a sigh of relief, and he also pays more attention to Song Zhiwen, who advised him to give up the field battle and stick to the city.

After entering April, Song Zhiwen was recommended by Zhang Yue because of his meritorious service as a counselor in the military aircraft, and Song Zhiwen was also added to the rank of "Right Governor Yushi", but although Song Zhiwen was promoted, his work remained unchanged, and he was still responsible for making firearms and recruiting soldiers.

Now, Zhang Yue has regarded Song Zhiwen as the most powerful henchman under his command, and almost delivered all the affairs of recruitment, training, and gun making in the rear.

Song Zhiwen also lived up to his expectations, and did a good job under Zhang Yue, in the past year, he has recruited and trained at least tens of thousands of recruits for Zhang Yue, and made a large number of guns.

However, although the pseudo-Tang thief army has suspended its offensive, it does not mean that they are already at the end of their strong crossbows, and they have no combat effectiveness, so they can fight a big counteroffensive.

In fact, the puppet Tang thief army that went north to Jiangxi and Huguang was still strong and strong, and it was not possible to attack the fortified city, but it was not a big problem to hold it!

Because this involves an unavoidable problem, that is, the Ming army has no strength, and it does not even dare to fight a field battle with the pseudo-Tang thief army, and once it leaves the city, it is basically a fate.

Therefore, when the rain began to fall in April, Zhang Yue's strategy to the Beijing division was to still stick to Changsha, Hengyang, and Nanchang, strengthen the recruitment of troops, build guns and train the new army, and use the existing supervision standard and musket army as the standard to organize and train at least 100,000 new troops, and after training 100,000 new troops, he would fight to the death with the puppet Tang thief army, and tried to propose to eliminate the old army of the local guard station, and divert military funds to build more guns.

Then he appealed to the imperial court for more military expenditures, and asked for the rectification of the salt affairs to raise military expenses, and set up a 'merchant donation' to collect the military expenses needed by the vast number of merchants to quell the thieves.

In addition, please strengthen the strength of the naval division in the Yangtze River basin, and transfer the naval division in the Jiangnan region into the Huguang and Jiangxi basins to build ships and train troops, the ostensible reason is to prevent the thief army from using the Xiangjiang River, but everyone knows that Zhang Yue is to prevent the thief army from taking advantage of the Xiangjiang River, if this is after the rainy season passes, the puppet Tang thief army marches north, and after Changsha and Nanchang are lost, the imperial court can still rely on the strength of the naval division to block the puppet Tang thief army south of the Yangtze River, and block the road of the thief army along the Yangtze River east into the south of the Yangtze River.

This is also the innovative efforts made by Zhang Yue, the feudal official in this place, in response to the dilemma in front of him!

However, not all of the many innovations proposed by Zhang Yue were approved by the imperial court, which recognized his strategy of training a new army and holding the city, and was also ready to send sailors to the Yangtze River, but it directly rejected his idea of reducing the strength of the local guard and levying 'peace thieves and donations'!

The local guards can't fight, this is something everyone knows, and the imperial court didn't expect these local guards to be able to fight, but now the situation in the world is unstable, and if the huge local guards are eliminated, maybe something will happen.

And the world is becoming more and more unpeaceful, the pseudo-Tang thief army in the south is so fierce, and careerists in many places are also following the same example, and the rebellions reported in various places last year have increased by at least ten times more than in previous years!

In Shaanxi alone, the local government has suppressed more than 20 small and medium-sized rebellions.

Even on the southern front, such as Huguang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and even the prosperous places in Jiangnan, there were small and medium-sized rebellions!

Although the strength of the local guard station could not defeat the puppet Tang thief army, it was still a powerful tool to suppress rebellions in various places and maintain the local rule of the Ming Dynasty!

As for the problem of insufficient troops on the front line, Emperor Zhengde had already decided to send 20,000 border troops south to reinforce Zhang Yue!

The Ming Dynasty's many responses, Li Xuan can also see some Ni Duan, but Li Xuan did not overreact to this, although a series of offensives in the winter and spring did not finally achieve the strategic goals they wanted, but it was also a big gain, and now the Tang Dynasty needs to digest the fruits of these victories and prepare for the autumn and winter offensive after the rainy season!

Although the war has come to an end, it does not mean the end of the war, but the most adequate preparation for the next war!