Chapter 710: The Ming Army That Doesn't Move Like a Mountain

Many of the civilian generals under Zhang Yue were specially invited by him to add titles, and the senior civilian generals were basically based on the titles of the Inspectorate, for example, the commander of the first army in the new army of the Inspectorate was mainly based on the imperial history of the left and right.

For example, some commanders of the First Guard are already highly qualified and famous, and it is possible to add a general secretary to the council, while some are ordinary civil officials, most of whom have the rank of local official.

Most of the local official titles are the titles of prefects, governors, tongzhi, and even political envoys in the Liangguang and Guizhou regions that have been lost.

The civilian generals in the training army are simple, because they were originally recruited by local officials themselves, and now although they have been reorganized into the training army by Zhang Yue, it is still the original local officials who command these training troops.

Du Danqing is not very old, he is only in his forties this year, his career is quite smooth, he was a Jinshi at a young age, and he also entered Hanlin when he was elected, and served as a local prefect after being released, and also served as the governor of Nanjiang and Fengyang, and he was very good at suppressing bandits when he was a local official.

However, in the early years, he was suppressed by political opponents, and finally ended up with a resignation and township, it was Zhang Yue who personally wrote to him to come to Huguang and asked for revenge for him.

After coming, he served as the political envoy of Jiangxi, and later served as the commander of the left army of the new army, commanding a total of 20,000 new troops in Jiujiang and Nankang, and a total of more than 8,000 troops in Jiujiang and Nankang were also under his command.

Zhang Yue's new army under the command of the superintendent, there are a total of five armies, these five armies are basically deployed in a certain place alone, such as Hengyang's is the front army, Changsha's is the right army, and the Chenzhou Mansion and Yuezhou Mansion are the rear army.

The Chinese army is deployed in Wuchang, but because the Chinese army has been stationed in the rear for a long time, the early strength is not strong, only more than 5,000 people, and now it is expanding rapidly, and it is currently commanded by Zhang Yue himself.

At present, among the more than 50,000 people in the new army of Dubiao, the most powerful is actually the left army under Du Danqing, and even the left and right armies stationed in Changsha and Hengyang are only more than 10,000 people.

Only Du Danqing's left army has a strength of more than 20,000 people!

When he learned that the puppet Tang thief army in Nanchang City marched out of the city and headed towards Wuchang, Du Danqing instantly sensed that something was wrong!

What kind of place is Wuchang? That is almost the entire rear of the new army, more than eighty percent of the guns used by the new army are built in Wuchang, and now Wuchang is garrisoned by the Chinese army, but the strength of the Chinese army is not too strong.

Earlier this year, the Chinese army was only more than 5,000 people, although in the past month or so, when Zhang Yue was cut and trained in the new army, he began to expand the new army on a large scale, and now the Chinese army is already more than 10,000 people, but the newly increased troops are all new soldiers, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Under such circumstances, can Wuchang hold off the attack of tens of thousands of main forces of the pseudo-Tang thief army?

In this regard, he is pessimistic!

And he was not the only pessimistic person, and soon, Zhang Yue on the Wuchang side also learned the relevant news, and then sent a fast horse to Du Danqing to send a message, asking Du Danqing to immediately launch corresponding actions to respond to Wuchang's defensive operations.

Although Zhang Yue did not clearly say what to do with Du Danqing, the meaning was obvious, that is, the puppet Tang thief army could not be allowed to run to Wuchang City smoothly.

Directly lead the main force out of the city, and then fight with the pseudo-Tang thief army in the wilderness?

Don't be kidding, if someone said this a year or two ago, it would have been recognized by a large number of people, but now, if anyone dares to say that they fought a field battle with a comparable number of pseudo-Tang thieves in the field, they would be labeled as traitors every minute.

Because this is not an interception operation, but to send to death!

If you are fighting defensively, you can barely do it, and if you attack in the field, you are looking for death!

After Du Danqing pondered for a long time, he summoned many staff members to discuss together, and finally decided to stay still!

Although the strength of Wuchang's superintendent army is weaker, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and there are a large number of newly recruited recruits in Wuchang who are training, and they can also pull up to the city for defensive operations when necessary.

Even the workers in those workshops can actually be pulled out to fight.

The current Wuchang, in Du Danqing's view, lacks the ability to take the initiative, but simply defending the city still has a great hope of success.

Moreover, the puppet Tang thief army is going to attack Wuchang, such a long way, and there are many materials needed by the puppet Tang thief army to fight, can they maintain such a long supply line under their noses?

Just kidding, when he Du Danqing's left army is fake!

The army poured out, it was unnecessary, a bad one would repeat the fate of the fall of Nanchang, now Du Danqing has to do very simple, stick to the city defense, and then send a small division to attack the grain route of the puppet Tang thief army.

It doesn't take much, just send a team of 1,000 cavalry!

Since the last time the cavalry of the new army outside Nanchang City was defeated, Zhang Yue was also calm and painful, and began to revitalize the cavalry, of course, the heavy training is naturally not good, Zhang Yue expanded the method of the new army is simple and efficient, he directly gathered a small number of cavalry in the original guards, and then trained in the way of the new army.

When Zhang Yue rectified the guards, although the infantry was driven into the workshops to work or farm, some of the backbone of the guards and cavalry were retained.

Now, under the command of the left army, there is a cavalry force of about 1,000 people, although the quality of this cavalry is worse than the previous supervising cavalry, but it is four-legged, this charge is not good, but it is not a big problem to attack the grain route of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

In addition to sending cavalry to prepare to attack the main grain route of the puppet Tang thief army, he also sent people to contact the Fuzhou side, so that the Fuzhou side could try to send a large army to attack Fengcheng and even Nanchang.

The main force of the puppet Tang thief army is going north, and Nanchang must be empty!

His left army has a heavy responsibility and does not dare to move easily, but the army on the Fuzhou side can move!

I don't dare to say that I will take the opportunity to take Nanchang or Fengcheng, but as long as I make this gesture, it will be enough to make the pseudo-Tang thief army throw a mouse.

But what Du Danqing didn't expect was that the defenders in Fuzhou were less courageous than him, and after receiving the letter from Du Danqing, the Ming army general defending the city just glanced at it, and then silently burned the letter.

What are you kidding, let's let the defenders of Fuzhou attack Fengcheng and even Nanchang, this is to let us go to death!

We know that the puppet Tang thief army still has thousands of people in Fengcheng, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Nanchang, whether it is to attack Fengcheng or Nanchang, it is very dangerous.

Once the army out of the city encounters an accident, can this Fuzhou still hold on?

Fuzhou can't hold it, this Nanzhili will have to directly face the soldiers of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and when the time comes, the Nanjing military department is still in the book, and the prince Taibao Wang Yiqi will dare to directly kill the heads of these guards.

After Wang Yiqi arrived in Jiangnan before, there were not a few civilian and military generals killed, which deterred Jiangnan officialdom, and now the troops stationed in Fuzhou are all under the command of Wang Yiqi.

There is only one order given to them by the king of the people: to defend Fuzhou!

If you keep it, you will be promoted to a knight, but if you can't keep it, you will destroy your family!

For Wang Yiqi, holding Fuzhou and Anqing, and stifling the puppet Tang thief army into Nanzhili is the top priority, as for the life or death of Wuchang, it is actually not important to Wang Yiqi, it is Zhang Yue's business, and it has nothing to do with him.

So this created a very interesting scene, Li Chunjing led the main force of about 30,000 people of the Second Army to attack, accompanied by nearly 40,000 people to transport baggage, at a glance you know that it is menacing and difficult to provoke.

But the Ming army did not make any large-scale response to this, Du Danqing only sent a thousand cavalry out of the city to prepare to attack the grain road, and the main force and garrison in Jiujiang and Ankang, and even feared that the pseudo-Tang thief army would make a false shot, not to fight Wuchang and run to Jiujiang, so during this time it was still stepping up to consolidate the city defense.

The Ming army of Fuzhou, even if they didn't see it, didn't leave the city, they stayed honestly in Fuzhou City!

In short, no matter which direction the Ming army is, it is as immobile as a mountain!

And to be honest, these reactions of the Ming army were actually beyond Li Chunjing's expectations!

He didn't expect that he had made such a big move, and the Ming army was unmoved, damn, this is looking down on the official, and the real official didn't dare to fight Wuchang!

Well, in fact, Li Chunjing really didn't plan to really attack Wuchang in the past, in the past two days, he has continued to receive information from Wuchang, and learned that there are tens of thousands of Ming army superintendents in Wuchang City, and there are still a large number of young people available for defense, this Wuchang seems to have become a hard bone.

Now it's okay, the Ming army is unmoved, and Li Chunjing's strategic idea of taking the opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Ming army has failed, but Li Chunjing is not dead set on taking the army out to travel for a few days and then return to the city in disgrace!

On the one hand, he sent a herald to hurry to Hunan, and at the same time, he sent people back to Nanchang, so that Cai Erhu was ready to hoard materials and hold on for a long time!

Three days later, Li Chunjing suddenly ordered the main force to speed up, and suddenly turned west in the direction of Jing'an!

When Cai Erhu in Nanchang was suddenly accelerated westward by Li Chunjing's army, it was already two days later, and after learning the news, he finally knew why Li Chunjing asked him to be prepared to stick to Nanchang for a long time.

Li Chunjing was going to lead the army to the south of Huguang, and he was going to Yuezhou.