The Tang Dynasty began to expand its artillery and further expand its troops in the rear, but this will not affect the troops on the Huguang front, although the troops under Hao Bonian will continue to receive all kinds of ordnance supplies from the rear, with the increase in muskets and even artillery, the guns attached to the troops are also more than the rated establishment, but the reorganization plan of the army is still not the first army units.

The current Hao Bonian doesn't pay attention to these, the places he pays attention to are still in Huguang, or in Hengyang City and Changsha!

After arriving in Hengyang City, Hao Bonian once launched a small-scale tentative attack on Hengyang City, mainly focusing on artillery attacks, but what people didn't expect was that the Ming army on the head of the city also moved out a large number of artillery, and these artillery also had a large number of large-caliber artillery!

Through the telescope, Hao Bonian saw no less than 20 large-caliber artillery pieces with his own eyes, and these guns knew at a glance that they were all five-pound guns.

Why?

Because of this, the large-caliber artillery of the Ming army on the head of Hengyang City is almost the same as the Tang army's own five-pound artillery length, and when it comes to the Ming army's large-scale imitation of the Tang army's artillery, it can be judged that these artillery pieces must also be the Ming army's imitation of the Tang army's artillery.

Even the name is the same, they are all called five-pound artillery!

These Ming troops moved out more than 20 five-pound artillery pieces and placed them in the city, and there were at least hundreds of bowl cannons, Buddha machine guns, etc., all of which proved that the defensive strength of Hengyang City was definitely the most powerful one in the Ming army city encountered by the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Hao Bonian just carried out an artillery fire test, and after being counterattacked by the Ming army's artillery fire, he decisively gave up his plan to storm Hengyang City!

It's not that I'm worried that I won't be able to defeat Hengyang City, but I'm worried that it will take a long time and there will be heavy casualties at the same time!

In this case, after Hao Bonian hesitated for a day, he decisively chose to withdraw his troops!

Hengyang City is a hard bone, you can't gnaw hard!

Or take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army to shrink in Hengyang City and not come out, first go west to take Shaoyang down, although there are a lot of Ming troops in this place, but in the end there are not so many main forces of the Ming army, they are just some guard troops, the main force of the first army is killed, and it is not a big problem to seize Shaoyang.

As for saying that if the Ming army in Hengyang City dares to come out and try to play a front and back attack, then Hao Bonian doesn't mind playing a siege point to send reinforcements!

As long as the Ming army in Hengyang City comes out of the city, and he is not surrounded by more than 100,000 troops, then Hao Bonian is fearless, and even he hopes that the Ming army in Hengyang City can come out, so that he can eliminate the main force of the Ming army through field battles.

While marching west to seize Shaoyang, Hao Bonian still ordered the provisional Fourth Regiment and the Third Infantry Regiment left behind in the rear to cooperate and take Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture.

The Ming army in these two places has already lost its troops, and it has been besieged for nearly a month, so it is still possible to defeat it, even if it costs some casualties, it is like letting these two troops of nearly 10,000 people be dragged there.

At the same time, Hao Bonian also asked the First Supplementary Brigade to cooperate in the operation, of course, the First Supplementary Brigade will never go to the battlefield unless it is absolutely necessary, it is all some recruits, and they will go directly to fight a tough battle, and the losses are too great to outweigh the losses.

Asking the 1st Supplementary Brigade for assistance is to ask the 1st Supplementary Brigade to help them maintain the supply line, and give them some cover!

In a small village outside Chenzhou, more than a dozen middle- and high-ranking officers of the Tang Army sat together, led by a middle-aged man with the rank of major general.

This person is the deputy commander of the First Infantry Division, Major General An Zihe, although the infantry divisions have been expanded one after another, and some officers have made frequent meritorious contributions, so Li Xuan has also been promoted to a group of major generals one after another!

And An Zihe was officially promoted only a week ago, he was the deputy commander of the First Infantry Division, but Hao Bonian, as the commander of the First Army, although he was also the commander of the First Infantry Division, but in fact, the daily work had been handed over to An Zihe.

Not long ago, in the battle of Guiyang Prefecture, An Zihe actually commanded the main force of the First Infantry Division to defeat more than 10,000 enemy troops from Guiyang Prefecture and won a great victory.

In addition to An Zihe, a major general in the army, Li Xuan was still promoted to a group of major generals, but so far, Li Xuan still has not rewarded the rank of lieutenant general, Li Xuan regards the rank of lieutenant general as a reward, and whoever has made great contributions in the follow-up, he will give it to whoever has made great contributions first, and Hao Bonian, Chen Keqiao, Fang Xitong, Li Chunjing and others have a chance.

Of course, with An Zihe's qualifications and military exploits, he is naturally far from the rank of lieutenant general!

Below the Anzi River, the commanders of each unit sat separately, including Colonel Gu Shizhong, the commander of the provisional Fourth Regiment, and Colonel the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, as well as Colonel Kang Yilin, deputy commander of the First Supplementary Brigade, and then several lieutenant colonels and more than a dozen majors.

Such a group of people dare not say that they will gather stars, but they are also the core middle and high-level in the Tang Army!

An Zihe's age is a little old, this person is in his forties, he was born in the Ming army before, but that was when he was in Zhengtai County, he followed Zeng Ziwen to surrender to Cheng, if you really want to talk about it, it is also the earliest group of senior generals from Long.

I only heard his expression flat, and listened to the deputy brigade commander of the First Supplementary Brigade, Kang Yilin, talking: "There are not many troops in my supplementary brigade in Huguang, there is only one supplementary regiment, even if all of them are transferred, I am afraid it will be difficult to encircle the rear of the army!" ”

When he said this, Kang Yilin didn't have an embarrassed expression on his face, after all, everyone was him, and the troops under him were just a group of recruits, and the supplementary brigade was strictly speaking, just a recruit training camp.

And you can't expect a group of recruits to shoulder the actual combat mission!

At this time, he only listened to Anzi River: "Only relying on the supplementary brigade, it is indeed difficult to block the tens of thousands of pseudo-Ming thieves in Guiyang Prefecture, but this official does not need you to defend it, you only need to let the puppet Ming thief army on the opposite side know that there are 3,000 troops in front of them!" ”

"Bluffing?" Immediately, Kang Yilin said: "If it is just a bluff and let the enemy miscalculate, my supplementary brigade can complete the task, but since it is a bluff, then can we also transfer some people in the transport regiment over, let them wear military uniforms, and then take swords, I believe that the Ming army will not be able to judge for a while!" ”

Hearing Kang Yilin say this, An Zihe also nodded slightly and said: "This method is good, pull in two thousand people, gather five thousand people and put them outside the city of Guiyang Prefecture, the official doesn't believe that they dare to come out to reinforce Chenzhou!" ”

"Why don't you just have more? There are a lot of people in the transport regiment, and there are also a lot of military uniforms and swords! Kang Yilin continued: "It's not a big problem to get tens of thousands of people! ”

However, An Zihe shook his head and said: "No, there are many people, and it is easy for the other party to see the flaws!" ”

"Our Tang Dynasty King Division has few troops, this is a well-known thing, and the puppet Ming thief army naturally knows it, if there are tens of thousands of troops, this puppet Ming thief army is afraid that it will be suspicious at the first time.

You can't let them think about it, you can't let them think about it, and if you think about it, it's easy for them to have doubts! ”

An Zihe continued: "Three thousand supplementary soldiers plus two thousand people are no more, no less, just right, the Ming army in Guiyang Prefecture should not be able to find it in a short period of time, and it is estimated that they will not have the courage to come out and try to fight a battle!" ”

At this time, he paused slightly and said, "Five thousand real thieves, enough for them to weigh it!" ”

Hearing An Zihe say five thousand real thieves, everyone laughed, for the pseudo-Ming thief army's contempt for their own side, and also divided their own side into real thieves and fake thieves, these front-line generals naturally also know, sometimes they will be angry, but sometimes they will laugh when they hear it.

Now, naturally, is the time to laugh!

At this time, Gu Shizhong, the commander of the provisional fourth regiment, said: "With the brother of the supplementary brigade, then we will be able to gather the main forces of the two regiments, plus those artillery and muskets sent by the Privy Council, this Chenzhou can fight!" ”

Although the Privy Council has no plans to reorganize the existing infantry divisions, the reorganization of the provisional regiments has already begun, and the 4th Provisional Regiment is also the first provisional regiment to receive equipment.

At present, the regiment has successively received about 500 rifles, six five-pound guns and three seven-pound guns.

The acceptance of this batch of muskets directly expanded the size of the musketeers of the provisional fourth regiment to 700 people, plus 100 grenadiers, that is 800 people, slightly more than the musket regiment.

At the same time, after accepting this batch of artillery, the artillery team under the Fourth Regiment was also directly expanded into a battalion, with nine five-pound artillery pieces and three seven-pound artillery pieces under its jurisdiction.

In addition, there will be three three-pound shotguns and six two-pound shotguns.

The provisional fourth regiment, whose strength has been greatly increased, is also the main force attacking Chenzhou City!

However, the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, Colonel Ying Songbai, was not to be outdone, and said directly: "Yes, my Third Infantry Regiment is already ready, and the first wave of siege will be handed over to us!" ”

Hearing that everyone under his command was full of confidence, An Zihe said: "Well, it seems that everyone is very confident, and taking Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture is just around the corner!" ”

Then he stood up and said with a serious expression: "All departments listen to orders!" ”