Zhang Yue was not worried about the situation in Jingzhou and Anlu Prefecture, so he soon sent people to Chuyang Prefecture in Anlu Prefecture, and asked Fei Qinxiang to strictly guard against it, and he must not let the puppet Tang thief army take advantage of the loopholes, whether it is Anlu Prefecture or Jingzhou Mansion, there is no room for loss!

However, the envoy he had just sent had not yet arrived at Fei Qinxiang's side for two days, but he had received another urgent letter from Fei Qinxiang, saying that their scouts were riding on the Yangtze River in Jianli, Anlu Prefecture, and had found a large number of puppet Tang thief army fleets heading up the river.

And when Zhang Yue saw this letter, it had actually been a full five days since their scouts discovered that the fleet of the puppet Tang thief army was heading up the river!

This is the reality of backward communications.

Even if there are many heralds galloping on fast horses, there is still a great lag in the transmission of news!

Anluzhou is not far from Hanyang, but from the reconnaissance cavalry found that the fleet of the puppet Tang thief army is heading up the Yangjiang River, they have to report the news to their boss first, and then the boss will report to Fei Qinxiang, and then send someone to Zhang Yue's side.

In five days, it was actually not easy to get the news to Zhang Yue.

And when Zhang Yue saw this letter, he felt a little tightness in his chest for a while!

The fleet of the puppet Tang thief army is heading west along the river, where are they going? Fools can see that they are going to Jingzhou, and the puppet Tang thief army carried by the fleet is the second infantry division of the puppet Tang thief army.

The previous speculation is really about to become a reality now, and the puppet Tang thief army has made a bloody investment, and it really sent the Second Infantry Division to Jingzhou, instead of transferring it to Anlu Prefecture or Hanyang.

What are they going to do?

They want to conquer Jingzhou, but what are they doing when they capture Jingzhou?

Jingzhou, the geographical location of this city is naturally very important, it is an important town in the west of Huguang, and it is also an important front station for entering Sichuan, well, it is also an important bridgehead to prevent the enemy from Sichuan to occupy the hinterland of Huguang.

But what was the purpose of the thief army to capture Jingzhou?

Do you want to enter Sichuan?

It's impossible, I'm all fine in Hanyang, Huguang has at least 100,000 main forces, even if the puppet Tang thief army really wants to enter Sichuan, they have to kill their 100,000 main forces before they can enter Sichuan.

In order to block the governor of Sichuan, do you want to reinforce Sichuan?

This is a big possibility!

Zhang Yue thought of many possibilities, but he just didn't expect that in fact, this move of the Tang Army was to prevent him from leading the main force of 100,000 to escape into Sichuan!

Why didn't Zhang Yue think of this possibility!

Because he didn't think about escaping into Sichuan with an army of 100,000, not that he didn't want to, but that he couldn't!

To be more precise, it is impossible for these 100,000 governors to escape into Sichuan with him!

As the commander of the superintendent, he knows very well what the superintendents under him are like, what strengths and weaknesses they have.

The advantage is that in order to defend Hubei and defend their hometown, they will fight desperately, well, the main thing here is the generals who supervise the standard, because they don't want to see themselves like the gentry in the Jiangnan region, forced to pay a lot of taxes in the future!

As the gentry of the Ming Dynasty, they never paid taxes, they didn't pay before, they don't pay now, and they don't want to pay in the future!

As for ordinary soldiers, this will not be discussed, it is just a soldier to eat food!

You let the local gentry of Huguang and the generals of the governor lead the army into Sichuan, fight for Zhang Yue, and fight for King Jing? Throw your hometown to the pseudo-Tang, nonsense!

How is this possible, they paid money and strength to resist the pseudo-Tang, but not for Zhang Yue, let alone for King Jing, they were for themselves!

If Zhang Yue wants to take them into Sichuan, they might as well simply surrender to the puppet Tang thief army!

Therefore, Zhang Yue never said that he had the intention of entering Sichuan with this 100,000 Lake Guangdu!

Of course, if things really reach the point of no return, he himself may enter Sichuan, after all, where is there another army of his in Sichuan, the army behind the supervision, which is formed with the children of the local gentry in Sichuan as the core, and the Huguang supervision standard is two different things.

But before the whole army is defeated, he will not go!

Zhang Yue didn't plan to take the Huguang Governor to Sichuan, so naturally he wouldn't think about it!

And if you really want to talk about it, in fact, Li Xuan and many generals of the Tang Army are worried about Zhang Yue leading 100,000 Huguang Governors to enter Sichuan, which is redundant!

But how to say it, Li Xuan is not Zhang Yue, and the Tang Dynasty is not the superintendent, the difference between the two is too big, and purely from a military point of view, the choice of the Tang Dynasty is correct.

So they chose to attack Jingzhou, preparing to completely block the 100,000 governors in Huguang in Huguang, and then gather and annihilate them!

Zhang Yue couldn't figure out for a while the deep sub-meaning of the puppet Tang thief army's capture of Jingzhou, but this also did not mean that he would sit back and watch the puppet Tang thief army capture Jingzhou, no matter what, Jingzhou is an important town in the west of Huxi.

He immediately sent someone to send a message to Fei Qinxiang, telling him to be sure to hold Jingzhou!

In fact, there is no need for Zhang Yue to send someone to give this order, Fei Qinxiang, the commander of the right army of the superintendent, has already done so!

He didn't think as much as Zhang Yue, he just thought that Jingzhou was the area he wanted to defend, and the thief army seemed to have at least 10,000 people, so the 7,000 people on the Jingzhou side might not be safe, so he immediately sent people to send troops from Jingmen and Dangyang to reinforce Jingzhou.

In addition, he personally led the troops left behind in Qianjiang to send 3,000 people to reinforce Jingzhou.

He personally led 6,000 people to reinforce Jingzhou, plus 7,000 defenders in Jingzhou, there were 13,000 people, so he should be able to hold it, right?

Fei Qinxiang thought so, and did so, only on the side of Chuyang Prefecture, there were only 5,000 people in the third mixed regiment of the thief army, and it was almost the same to leave 5,000 people to defend.

When Fei Qinxiang quickly reinforced Jingzhou, the Second Infantry Division of the Tang Army, which caused all this, also arrived on the edge of the Yangtze River outside Jingzhou!

After a long journey, they arrived outside Jingzhou City, and then landed!

There is nothing to say about the landing, the Datang Navy has an absolute advantage, easily crushed the resistance of some local Ming army sailors, and then covered the ships carrying many soldiers and equipment of the army to directly rush to the beach and land!

Dozens of river warships lined up along the river, and after hundreds of naval guns fired several rounds of covering fire on the shore, they directly attacked a Ming army of about 1,000 people who did not know whether to say it was reckless or bold!

Standing on the bow of the ship, watching the Ming army fleeing in embarrassment hundreds of meters ahead, Major General Song Tianbiao, the commander of the Second Infantry Division, was a little speechless1

To be honest, it was the first time he had seen such a stupid superintendent!

Didn't you see that when your own fleet landed, the rows of dense naval warships behind showed their guns!

Without the cover of the navy's naval guns, he would not have landed so blatantly and directly landed one kilometer away from Jingzhou City!

Well, before they could rush over, a couple of covered salvos from the Navy drove them away!

To tell the truth, in fact, because the distance was too far, the navy's naval guns did not achieve many effective hits, and the other side only killed or wounded about 100 people at most, but just such a hundred or so casualties were enough to collapse the thousand-strong Ming army on the opposite side.

An army of 1,000 people, with 100 casualties and a casualty rate of more than 10 percent, this casualty rate is not small even if it is placed in his second infantry division, and it will not collapse directly, but it will definitely reduce its combat effectiveness greatly!

Seeing that the opposite side had been pushed more than 500 meters away, and there was no intention of stepping forward again, Rear Admiral Song Tianbiao turned to a naval colonel and said, "This way, thanks to the assistance of the navy!" ”

This rear admiral is Zhang Chenhui, commander of the Xiangjiang detachment of the Yangtze River Fleet, although his military rank is not low, but even within the navy, he is just an ordinary senior general, and his military rank is really boiled out, otherwise, he should be the commander of the detachment in the ocean-going fleet, not the commander of the detachment of the river fleet.

Speaking of fame, it must be far inferior to Song Tianbiao, who is also a major general!

So he spoke quite politely: "There, cover the army's march and landing, that's what our navy should do, and along the way, it can be regarded as a blessing to your army, let us eat for half a month!" ”

Song Tianbiao said: "It's just a few tons of supplies, it's nothing, and this is also a little caution on the part of our army!" ”

In order to make the navy of the Xiangjiang detachment more attentive in the process of covering, Song Tianbiao also made a bloody investment before setting off, and directly transferred a batch of good supplies from the supply to these naval turtles, otherwise, if they were not careful when escorting, their troop transport ship would sink casually, and it would be dozens or even hundreds of casualties.

The right is to spend money to buy peace, no, after throwing out a few tons of food supplies, Zhang Chenhui and they were much more attentive along the way, and when they covered the landing of their own troops just now, they were also extremely attentive, not to mention anything else, just a few rounds of naval artillery salvo just now are worth the price of those food supplies, not to mention that they need to continue to give their own naval artillery fire support in the future!

The cost of ammunition for the cover provided by the naval guns alone is more than the price of those food supplies!

In this transaction, Song Tianbiao boasted that he did not lose money, but on the contrary, he made a small profit!

Although there are some good things in those supplies that everyone in the army is jealous of, such as canned fish from the Erjiu brand, and then canned meat made by the military grain company directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, Song Tianbiao thinks that everything is the same as eating ordinary rice, and it is not that eating canned fish and canned meat will make the combat effectiveness higher.

When Jingzhou is defeated, they will directly collect grain on the spot, and when the time comes, they will kill pigs and sheep, and then make some fresh fruits and vegetables, which is much better than eating dry food and eating broken canned food!