If you carefully analyze the examples of battles commanded by Hao Bonian in the past, then you will find that the battles commanded by Hao Bonian, unless they are extreme circumstances, are all the type that is not very risky, but they are not the type of steady and steady fighting.

He prefers to keep the risk within a certain range and then strive for as much success as possible, and at the same time, he prefers to command troops to maneuver in a wide range of areas, and then encircle or force the enemy to engage in a head-on battle with him.

One of the most typical examples is when he went south to Guangxi, he led his troops to bypass Liuzhou, but he attacked the 8,000 army of Weiyan first.

As for the offensive battle, to be honest, Hao Bonian is not good at it, whether it is the offensive in Wuzhou or Guangzhou, in fact, it is not commanded by Hao Bonian, but by the staff officers of the Operations Department in the Privy Council.

In fact, he is not good at tackling tough battles, this is not Hao Bonian's fault alone, but a common problem of the Datang Army, and it can't even be said to be the problem of the Datang Army, but the type of combat that all the armies in these years are not good at.

But if there is a choice, any general, whether ancient, modern or modern, will avoid attacking tough battles as much as possible.

But sometimes, it's necessary to fight a tough battle.

For example, Yizhang, although a group of staff officers think that Yizhang can be bypassed, Hao Bonian himself does not think so.

Yizhang, as the bridgehead of the Huguangming army to defend the Tang Dynasty, took Yizhang City as the core, supplemented by Chenzhou Prefecture, deployed a full 50,000 troops, and built a fairly complete defense line that could support each other.

Bypassing Yizhang, will the enemy army in Yizhang sit back and watch their own army pass? I will definitely use my own logistics supply line as soon as possible!

And from the perspective of distance, if even Yizhang has to go around, then the distance to attack Hengzhou will be too far.

Therefore, Yizhang's battle must be carried out, and Chenzhou's words can be kept without fighting, but if the enemy troops in the direction of Chenzhou dare to come to the rescue, Hao Bonian does not mind fighting a battle of encirclement and reinforcement.

After carefully calculating the troops at hand, Hao Bonian finally made his own decision, don't care about Chenzhou and Hengzhou first, and knock Yizhang down.

At least in this way, you can build a safe logistics supply line of at least hundreds of miles for your side!

However, it is not easy to fight Yizhang, the Ming army has not been idle for most of the past half a year, before the Tang Dynasty took Shaozhou Mansion, they have already built a defense line with Yizhang as the core, according to the intelligence reality, the Ming army has deployed at least hundreds of artillery pieces in Yizhang alone, although most of the artillery are small-caliber artillery, but there are also a lot of general artillery and Francophone guns.

If you rashly attack, it is very likely to be killed by the fire of the city!

Hao Bonian didn't want to suffer too much damage under Yizhang City, so before attacking Yizhang, he had to lure out some of Yizhang's enemy troops and destroy them.

After thinking about it for a long time, and after discussing detailed tactics with a group of staff officers, Hao Bonian finally made tactical arrangements: all units of the First Infantry Division were withdrawn from the outer front of Yizhang and immediately made a gesture of advancing rapidly to the north.

At the same time, the provisional 4th Regiment will continue to march towards Chenzhou as originally planned, but the 1st Infantry Division will also bypass Chenzhou.

And the above combat plan, which is similar to the previous second plan, is to bypass Yizhang and Chenzhou.

But the difference is that when Hao Bonian ordered the main force of the First Infantry Division to go north, he transferred the First Infantry Corps, two light artillery corps, and the First Cavalry Battalion to form a temporary mixed force, sneaked around Yizhang, and returned to Yizhang again.

What is the purpose? The purpose was to use the main force of the 1st Infantry Division and the transfer of the 4th Infantry Regiment to make the Ming army think that they would bypass Yizhang and Chenzhou.

But Hao Bonian's real goal is to let the first regiment kill a horse gun for the core mixed troops, as long as Yizhang's Ming army dares to come out to cut off their own supply lines, then the first step corps will quickly pounce over, and strive to annihilate these Yizhang Ming troops who dare to go out of the city in the field.

Among them, there are many concerns, the biggest concern is whether the provisional Fourth Regiment can successfully contain the enemy in Chenzhou, because the First Infantry Division mainly has to continue to go north, make a posture of going straight to Hengzhou, and cannot turn around with the main force, after all, the Ming army is not, they will continue to send reconnaissance cavalry to observe the movement of their main force, and the transfer of tens of thousands of people is impossible to easily conceal.

If the enemy in Chenzhou breaks through the interception of the provisional 4th Regiment, the 1st Infantry Division will not have time to return to help, and the 1st Infantry Corps may be in danger.

As for saying that the enemy army saw through Hao Bonian's plan and couldn't live or die, it didn't matter, Hao Bonian's big deal was to turn the fake into the truth, and directly take the main force of the First Infantry Division to continue north to Hengzhou, anyway, his purpose was not to conquer one city and one place, his purpose was to attack the entire southern part of Huguang, and if the Ming army did not take the initiative to attack, the logistics line would be guaranteed, so although the main force of the First Infantry Division going north was less, it was not impossible to fight.

And Hao Bonian didn't think that the Ming army would still be indifferent after seeing through it, they would definitely make corresponding transfers, and once they were mobilized, then they would have a chance.

It's a big deal not to fight Hengzhou first, not even Yizhang, and flexibly annihilate one or two units of the Ming army first.

The plan proposed by Hao Bonian, in fact, did not have a specific goal of attacking the city, and it was just a cover to attack Hengzhou, even if it was a real attack on Hengzhou, Chenzhou and Yizhang were also not his real purpose, his real purpose was only one, that is, to annihilate the main force of the Ming army.

As long as the main force of the Ming army is defeated, this Yizhang, Chenzhou and even Hengzhou are all in the bag!

Although the ultimate goal is to conquer a certain city, in the process of the battle, it is mainly to annihilate the enemy's living forces, and there is no hurry to attack a certain city.

Even in Wuzhou and Guangzhou before, the Tang Army did not attack in a hurry, but first cleared the periphery, and then besieged the enemy for a long time, and then made sufficient preparations before starting the attack.

As the commander of the First Army and also the commander of the First Infantry Division, Hao Bonian's orders were naturally carried out thoroughly, and soon, on the third day after launching the offensive on all fronts, the First Infantry Division and the Fourth Provisional Regiment began to move according to the relevant plan.

The first to move is the provisional fourth regiment, although the provisional fourth regiment with more than 3,000 people has only one infantry battalion, and the other four are reserve battalions, and the troops are all adapted from the garrison, the quality is poorer, but the number of people still seems to be quite a lot, and they are all wearing red regular army uniforms, which in the eyes of the Ming army, these are all pseudo-Tang real thieves.

In the eyes of many Ming army generals, if it is 10,000 fake thieves of the pseudo-Tang thief army, then their own troops also have 10,000 people or slightly more, then they can fight, and it is a head-on battle, so the victory or defeat is five or five, so if they are facing the previous garrison, they still have the courage to fight.

But if you encounter a real thief of the pseudo-Tang, then at least twice or even more than three times the strength is required, and it is absolutely not feasible to fight one-on-one!

There is no way, they are afraid of the regular army in the Tang Army, and many Ming army generals are inexplicably afraid when they hear the words pseudo-Tang Dynasty real thief.

Although he is not afraid of the enemy like a tiger, he does not have a two- or three-fold advantage in terms of troops, and he will not take the initiative to go out of the city to fight if he kills these Ming generals.

After the reconnaissance of the front line found that there were more than 3,000 pseudo-Tang real thieves coming, they had just come out of Chenzhou and were ready to support Yizhang's nearly 10,000 Ming troops just stopped very consciously, of course, they did not retreat to the city in one go, after all, the 3,000 pseudo-Tang thieves army just came, and this was not in front of them.

But it didn't take long for them to learn from the report of the scout cavalry that after the tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang thieves besieging Yizhang bypassed Yizhang and went north directly, they all gasped one by one, fortunately, they did not continue to go south, otherwise they would have crashed headlong into the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army, that was more than 10,000 pseudo-Tang thief army, and after their own strength of less than 10,000 people collided head-on, they had to be wiped out!

The puppet Tang thief army wants to encircle the point and send reinforcements!

This is their unified judgment, because this kind of thing has been done many times by the puppet Tang thief army, and the Ming army has also suffered many losses, the most obvious example is the Battle of Jingzhou.

At that time, when tens of thousands of puppet Tang thieves besieged Jingzhou, the Ming army of Xingquan Mansion returned to aid Jingzhou, and as a result, more than 15,000 reinforcements and tens of thousands of Ming troops who came out of Jingzhou City to respond were defeated one after another, which added up to more than 25,000 troops, and the effort was completely wiped out in a few days!

Yes, the Ming army still has not figured out how many people there were in the Fourth Army attacking Jingzhou at that time, especially after the Fourth Army captured many prisoners and temporarily incorporated them into the garrison, the strength of the Fourth Army in Jingzhou at that time had already reached more than 15,000 people, but in fact, many troops could not fight, and what could be fought was an infantry regiment plus a number of regular auxiliary troops of about 5,000 people.

The current generals of the Ming army already have a natural fear of the puppet Tang thief army's encirclement and reinforcement, and when they saw that the puppet Tang thief army let Yizhang go and did not fight, but wanted to go north, their first reaction was that this was the trap of the puppet Tang thief army, and they wanted to encircle and send reinforcements, and fight their own reinforcements from Chenzhou.

Therefore, the general of the Ming army who led the team discussed with several other subordinates, and then decided to return to Chenzhou first to see the situation.

If you continue to stay outside, it will be easy to be entangled by the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, and you won't be able to leave if you want to.

The reinforcements from Chenzhou directly retracted back to Chenzhou, but what surprised them even more was that they then found that these pseudo-Tang thief troops were still continuing to go north!

Looking at this posture, it was completely going to Hengzhou, for a while, some Ming generals were worried about the safety of Hengzhou, while some Ming generals were ecstatic!