With the development of technology and the large-scale application of guns, the consumption level of the same number of troops has been correspondingly increased to, if it is the era of cold weapons, only need to provide basic survival materials such as food and clothing, and it is a big deal to supply arrows, replacement swords and other cold weapons, and many of these materials can be taken locally and eaten by the enemy

But in the age of firearms, the consumption level of materials has increased significantly, and the ammunition required for guns and cannons is a huge number, and the shells are still iron lumps and heavy.

Moreover, guns and ammunition cannot be taken locally, and they need to be transported from the far rear.

If transportation technology is not developed accordingly, in fact, the higher the degree of firearms, the lower the mobility of the modern army.

This is also a series of battles launched by the Tang Army, especially large-scale battles, which are often carried out along rivers, not because they are willing to go along the waterway, but because the pressure of logistics forces them to not be able to leave the waterway too far.

But these are naturally not much felt by the Ming army, because they are all on the defensive, and the logistics problem is not too big a problem for them, they often hoard a large amount of food and ammunition in advance in the city they are preparing to hold, and there is no need to carry out temporary transportation at all.

Therefore, when they found out that the Puppet Tang Thief Army sent an army of 5,000 people to the northwest, they did not immediately consider whether the logistics supply capacity of the Puppet Tang Thief Army could support this army for a long-distance attack.

If the puppet Tang thief army rushed to Fuzhou, wouldn't it be very bad?

In an instant, they sent fast horses to transmit emergency military information to the rear, so that the friendly troops in the direction of Fuzhou could be prepared.

As for sending a large army to intercept it?

I'm sorry, they didn't think about it from start to finish!

To intercept the 5,000 army of the puppet Tang thief army, how many people do they need to send? If the local guards are soldiers, I am afraid that it is enough to send twenty or thirty thousand, as for the superintendent and the border army, it will not work if there are fewer of them, and if they send more, they will not want this Ji'an, you know, there are tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang thieves in Taihe, which is not far away.

The 5,000 governors and 3,000 border troops are where their confidence lies in defending Ji'an, and they must not be used lightly!

Once it is used, this Ji'an will be in danger, and Ji'an is lost, if the main force of the puppet Tang thief army goes north, Nanchang may still be able to hold it, but Fuzhou will definitely be finished.

Once Fuzhou is also finished, then Nanzhili will also be in danger.

Needless to say, the importance of Nanzhili to the Ming Dynasty is needless to say, the puppet Tang thief army occupied Liangguang Guizhou, and entered the southern part of Huguang and Jiangxi, although these are uncomfortable, but it will not knock off the foundation of the puppet Ming Dynasty at once, but if the puppet Tang thief army enters Nanzhili, even if the puppet Tang thief army cannot completely occupy Nanzhili, but as long as there is wind and rain in Nanzhili, then it will completely shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule

For the Ming Dynasty, the importance of Ji'an even surpassed that of Nanchang!

As long as Ji'an is not lost, then Nanchang is safe, and the relative Fuzhou is also safe, after all, it is impossible for the puppet Tang thief army to turn a blind eye to the fifty or sixty thousand Ming troops in Ji'an, and directly bypass and attack Fuzhou or Nanchang.

If the pseudo-Tang thief army really did this, then they wouldn't mind a front and back attack!

Several fortified cities defended and supported each other, so as to contain the attack of the puppet Tang thief army, but they were broken individually, which had been proved feasible by Zhang Yue in Changsha and Hengyang.

In July, the puppet Tang thief army also wanted to lead the main force to bypass Hengyang and attack Changsha, but at that time, the Ming army in Hengyang City made a decisive attack, that is, it was ready to fight with the Changsha defenders, and finally the leader of the thief army, Hao Bonian, did not obediently take the initiative to retreat, and fled back to Shaoyang in embarrassment.

These Ming troops believed that such a successful strategy could also be replicated in Jiangxi!

Although it sounds like such a tactic is a bit stupid and will be very passive, it is also a helpless choice made by the Ming army in the face of the strong combat effectiveness of the puppet Tang thief army, especially its strong field combat ability.

As long as they persist in this way for a few years, when they have built enough guns and cannons and trained a large number of firearms, it will be the time for a large-scale counteroffensive, sweeping through the three provinces, and exterminating the puppet Tang Dynasty.

In this regard, Zhang Yue and a group of high-level civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were convinced!

The difficulties of the present are only temporary, while the future is bright!

Just a ravine thief, dare me to compete? I'm so impatient!

Even if the pseudo-Tang Dynasty relied on the advantage of firearms to run rampant for a while, as long as I let Daming have a few years, it will still be easy to destroy them!

But they still don't know that now the puppet Tang thief army has got a new toy, and it is also an oversized toy 'heavy howitzer', commonly known as: mortar.

When the Fourth Mixed Regiment marched in the northeast direction, the main force of the Second Army in Taihe City was also dispatched, not only the first infantry division in the Tang Dynasty to complete the reorganization: the Fifth Infantry Division, but also the Fifth Mixed Regiment drawn from the rear, as well as the corresponding auxiliary forces such as the First Heavy Artillery Battalion.

In addition to the army, the Ganjiang detachment of the navy is also pouring out, and more than 30 small and medium-tonnage river warships will assist the army in launching the Ji'an campaign.

The main force of the Second Army moved, and the Ming army spies who had been monitoring the movement of the main force of the Second Army immediately reported the situation to the Ming army generals in Ji'an Prefecture.

In this case, they did not dare to act rashly, even when they learned that the 5,000 pseudo-Tang thief army in the northeast was attacking Yongfeng and took Yongfeng in just one day, it only made the 10,000 Ming troops in the direction of Jishui strengthen their defenses, but strictly ordered them not to attack.

Taihe was not long away from Luling City, the capital city of Ji'an, and although the main action of the Second Army was limited by the large number of baggage, and the heavy artillery was difficult to march quickly, it took three days to reach the city of Ji'an!

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Chunjing led a vote of the middle and high-level generals of the Second Army to the front line and observed the city in front.

"It seems that the puppet thief army is not lazy, this city fortification is really good!" Li Chunjing used the telescope with great interest to watch the Luling City thousands of kilometers away.

"No matter how strong this fortification is, at most, it will withstand a few more rounds of shelling from our siege artillery, and in this battle, our army will definitely be able to pry open this turtle shell!" Wang Danxu on the side said with confidence.

In the first half of the year, Wang Danxu led the Fifth Infantry Division, which stopped at Luling City, at that time because of the fatigue of the soldiers, a step late, and when they arrived at Luling City, the Ming army was already stationed in the city of tens of thousands of people, and he gave up the plan to attack after a tentative attack.

In the following months, he almost watched the Ming army requisition a large number of people to strengthen and thicken the city, and also laid a large number of fortifications outside the city, needless to say, the moat alone widened several meters, and also built a large number of obstacles composed of sharpened trees and bamboo pieces.

There are many artillery pieces on the city, including many large, long-barreled artillery, these cannons can be seen at a glance, which are imitations of the Ming army's five-pound and even seven-level artillery from the Tang army.

In the past year or two, the Ming Dynasty was stunned to use huge resources to imitate the firearms of the Tang Army on a large scale, and it is rumored that tens of thousands of muskets have been made, and there are many imitations of five-pound and seven-pound artillery.

These firearms made by the Ming army also made it more difficult for the Tang army to attack the fortified city, which directly led to the failure of the offensive in the autumn and winter of last year!

And in this year's autumn and winter offensive, the Tang army is also facing, or even more trouble, relying on the many artillery pieces on the head of Luling City, and the looming musketeers, even Li Chunjing feels a little headache.

If there was no siege artillery to rely on, to be honest, he would not have come to gnaw on this hard bone anyway.

But now, with siege artillery, especially grenades that can explode, this gives Li Chunjing the confidence to take this city!

After the inspection was completed, Li Chunjing successively issued a number of orders, and he ordered the Fifth Mixed Regiment to immediately march eastward to Jishui, and cooperate with the Fourth Mixed Regiment to seize Jishui.

If you want to gnaw the hard bone of Luling City, you must first clear the Ming army that is in the way of the eyes, and at the same time, you need to put an end to the reinforcements of the Ming army in the direction of Fuzhou and Nanchang.

The strategic plan of the Second Army has already been determined, because at the same time, the Fourth Mixed Regiment in Yongfeng has already begun to turn, and Brigadier General Gu Shizhong has already received an order to march into Jishui today after taking Yongfeng.

According to the calculation of time, the fourth mixed group and the fifth mixed group will arrive in Jishui at the same time.

These two mixed regiments attack a mere Jishui together, and it's not a big problem!

And leaving a Fifth Infantry Division and the auxiliary troops of the military headquarters stationed outside Luling City, the problem is also not big, anyway, the puppet Ming thief army will not dare to come out, if they dare to come out and fight the Fifth Infantry Division in the field, Li Chunjing can wake up with a smile in his dreams!

A reorganized Fifth Infantry Division has a huge strength of 14,000 men, and the total number of ordinary musketeers has reached more than 3,000, in addition to more than 300 grenadiers, and 300 auxiliary musketeers in the baggage and artillery, and almost 4,000 muskets alone!

More importantly, they also had 54 field guns of 5 jin, 7 jin, and 12 jin divisions; Thirty-six two- and three-pound shotguns.

There is also a cavalry battalion with a full strength of more than 400 people!

In addition, there is a heavy artillery battalion to help in the battle!

At this time, outside Luling City, the total strength of the Second Army reached 18,000 people, and there were more than 100 large and small artillery!

If the Ming army dared to come out, Li Chunjing would have a hundred confidence to completely defeat or even annihilate the enemy army in the field!

It's a pity that the Ming army doesn't come out!