If it is an elite army, after the logistics line is broken, the morale of the army will be shaken, and even lead to the collapse of the whole army, which has little to do with the combat effectiveness of the army, because after the logistics line is broken, how can we fight without food and ordnance?

There are too many battle columns in history that have led to the collapse of the army because the logistics line has been cut off, and Tan Rong doesn't want to be one of them.

So he immediately was anxious about several senior generals in the army, and after hearing the news, most of these generals were as nervous as Tan Rong, and they naturally knew the risk of the logistics line being cut off.

This risk is enough to collapse the whole army!

So it was soon said, some people want to say that while there is still time, immediately launch a general attack on Xingquan Fucheng, they don't believe that the thousands of pseudo-Tang remnants in the city can resist, and after taking Xingquanfu City, the army will return to Jingzhou Fucheng, and strive to cooperate with the defenders in Jingzhou City, and eat the pseudo-Tang thief army that entered Jingzhou.

As long as these two puppet Tang thief armies are killed, then the entire strategic situation will be greatly improved, and whether it is to continue westward into Guizhou or directly along Guilin to the south, it will be possible.

But some people say that regardless of the remnants of the city of Xingquanfu, they have been besieged for so long anyway, and the thief army in the city is estimated to have already eaten the food, and if they wait for another ten days and half a month, it is estimated that they themselves will starve to death, and they will not be able to attack.

Their reasons are also very sufficient, this Xingquanfu City has not been fought, they have tried two general attacks before and after, but each time they have failed, and they have lost their troops.

If the first general attack failed because it was a newcomer and the troops were insufficient, then in the second attack, they used 30,000 troops to launch a general attack on the enemy in Xingquan with nearly ten times the strength, but the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army were too sharp.

This has not yet rushed to the city, it has already suffered heavy casualties, and when it rushed to the city, it was even worse, and the pseudo-Tang thief army at the head of the city threw down a large number of flowering bombs, and suffered heavy casualties on the spot.

With heavy casualties, it is naturally impossible to attack the city, after all, the Ming army has 30,000 troops, but it is impossible for all of them to rush up, not to mention the reserves, just the small place under the city cannot accommodate so many troops.

Therefore, when the front-line siege troops collapsed due to heavy casualties, even the troops in the rear could not continue to attack, and in the end they could only stop the siege operation.

The two strong attacks before and after caused the Ming army to lose almost 3,000 people, especially the second attack, which killed and wounded more than 2,000 people at one time, and the battle loss rate exceeded 7%.

This is almost the limit for the Ming army's casualty capacity.

So it was changed to a siege later, otherwise, they would have already stormed and taken Xingquan Mansion, and they would have used the siege!

As for the deployment of more troops for a strong attack, this is also a troublesome matter!

Their enemy is not only the puppet Tang thief army in Xingquan Mansion City, there are thousands of thief troops on the side of Liping Mansion, the last time in order to block their eastward advance, Tan Rong and they sent more than 20,000 troops to intercept them, and paid nearly 3,000 casualties to repel them.

So even if there are still 50,000 troops on hand, but in fact, when they are used, the troops still feel that they are not enough, there must be 20,000 people to besiege Xingquanfu City, and there must be 10,000 or 20,000 people to block the thief army in front of him on the front line of Liping Mansion, and then he has to leave some troops on hand as a strategic reserve.

In this case, it was almost impossible to storm Xingquanfu City head-on, unless they were desperate to kill and wound thousands or even tens of thousands of people again.

But whether it is Tan Rong or several other senior generals, they don't have this determination!

Therefore, they proposed that it was not advisable to storm Xingquanfu City, and the best way was to transfer about 10,000 troops back to Jingzhou, so that with the more than 10,000 defenders on the Jingzhou side, they could make up more than 20,000 troops to deal with the puppet Tang thief army of only 7,000 people, even if they couldn't beat it, but at least they should be able to maintain the supply line.

As long as they wait for another ten days and half a month, the thief army in Xingquan Mansion City is estimated to starve to death, and they will be able to free up at least 20,000 troops at hand at that time.

When the time comes, you can first march west to defeat the thief army in Lipingfu, or you can return east to defeat the thief army in Jingzhou, and the whole game of chess can be revitalized.

After Tan Rong discussed with these people, he finally made a decision to transfer 5,000 people from the besieging troops, and then add the 10,000 reserves he had on hand, a total of 15,000 people returned to Jingzhou.

Although everyone said that it was enough to send 10,000 people, Tan Rong felt that it was better to be safe, anyway, the pseudo-Tang thief army in Xingquan Mansion City was already at the end of the crossbow, and even if the troops he used for the siege were less, there would not be too much of a problem.

On the contrary, the Jingzhou side is a new force, and the intelligence says that most of the 7,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops are real thieves.

As a general who has fought many times with the pseudo-Tang thief army, he is even in the pseudo-Tang thief army, the combat effectiveness of real thieves and fake thieves is very different, although those fake thieves can be regarded as able to fight, one-on-one situation may not be an opponent, but it is possible to send a little more troops, there is no need to send more, there is a point of five times the number of troops, or send a little more elite soldiers and other troops, basically you can win.

But the real thief in the pseudo-Tang thief army, that is a real hard bone, there is no three or four times the strength in the field, don't expect to fight head-on, as for the offensive battle, ten times the strength is enough.

Of course, ambushes and the like are not among them, even if the real thief of the pseudo-Tang is strong, but if he is ambushed, it will still cause the army to be disturbed.

When he fought the puppet Tang thief army in Liping Mansion, he used a trick to ambush him, and the troops used were not much, and he achieved a lot of results, this is still the puppet Tang thief army running fast, if it runs slowly, he estimates that it is possible to annihilate this puppet Tang thief army.

Considering that most of the thieves on the Jingzhou side were real thieves and had a lot of combat power, for the sake of stability, he deliberately sent a few thousand more people, so that the number of troops who returned to the reinforcements reached 15,000.

And as a result, he basically has no reserve troops on hand.

can only barely maintain the situation on the side of Xingquan Mansion!

When he watched the army of returning reinforcements slowly set off, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the combat effectiveness of the real thieves in this pseudo-Tang thief army was too strong, especially the sharpness of their firearms, which was simply at a loss.

I don't know when my army will be able to use these firearms!

As a high-ranking general, he already knew that his top boss, Zhang Yue, the governor of the four provinces, had already ordered the craftsmen to start copying the firearms of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and he also heard that Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang in Guangdong, also asked the craftsmen to imitate the firearms of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

And also reported to the imperial court, so that the imperial court vigorously made firearms!

In the face of the report of the local officials, the court bigwigs did not dare to despise it, and now they have begun to imitate the firearms of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, and even plan to purchase them from those foreigners for emergency purposes.

From the imitation and purchase of ordnance by the Ming army, it can also be seen that the Ming army has begun to learn some of the advantages of the puppet Tang thief army intentionally or unintentionally, but in addition to ordnance, other aspects of learning are not very successful.

There are too many aspects to see here, such as military discipline, which is very simple to say, but to form absolute military discipline, it is still relatively difficult.

And most importantly, this kind of discipline is not enough for the team alone, it requires a long period of rigorous training.

The system of the Ming army determined that it was impossible for them to achieve this level of training, let alone discipline training, and even physical training could not be learned.

Because the vast majority of the soldiers of the Ming army can't even eat enough, how can they conduct intensive training, this practice can directly train the soldiers to death.

Even though under the military pressure of the Tang Dynasty, a small number of Ming army generals and officials already wanted to reform the military to enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, but this reform was one-sided, even superficial.

Even the imitation and the plan to purchase firearms that even the cabinet bigwigs agree with are still in the initial stage, at least until the current position, except for a very small number of muskets captured from the puppet Tang thief army, the individual firearms used by Tan Rong's 50,000 Hu Guangming Army are still old handcuffs in the early years, and it is impossible to form musketeers on a scale for the time being.

However, Tan Rong heard that Wang Yue, who had retreated to Guangzhou, had already obtained hundreds of muskets through imitation and purchase from foreigners, and it was rumored that he was going to train a musket battalion, but he didn't know if it was true.

Not to mention, the rumors Tan Rong heard are indeed true!

After the rout from Wuzhou all the way to Guangzhou, and even Zhaoqing was lost, Wang Yue was calm and painful, he thought that all the fiascos were because the firearms of the puppet Tang Dynasty were too sharp, and the simplest and most direct way to defeat the puppet Tang thief army was to have a large number of firearms, and it could not be those bowls and guns in the past.

It must be the same as the puppet Tang thief army, or even better with long guns and heavy artillery!

So after arriving in Guangzhou, on the one hand, he asked the craftsmen to imitate as much as possible, but imitation is not not a while, and Guangzhou is not an industrial base, after Foshan was captured by the puppet Tang thief army, Guangzhou even the supply of steel is insufficient.

So he still bought directly from those foreigners, this year there were already Western foreigners to trade along the coast of China, they brought arquebuses and artillery commonly equipped in the West at this time, but in the past, the Ming Dynasty in addition to the Franc machine gun, other muskets and front-loading artillery are not very cold.

But that was all in the past, and now, Wang Yue bought arquebuses and cannons when he saw them, and even paid a lot of money to directly buy half of the naval guns on a Portuguese armed merchant ship, and there were even two twelve-pound heavy cannons in it, which were bigger than the nine-pounder cannons of the Tang Dynasty!

In this way, he really got a lot of artillery and hundreds of arquebuses, and these firearms also gave him the confidence to stick to the city of Guangzhou!

Otherwise, he really didn't know how to continue to defend Guangzhou City, after all, as time passed, the puppet Tang thief army had gradually captured many peripheral areas of Guangzhou, and then completely surrounded Guangzhou City from the land.

Facing the threat of nearly 10,000 thieves, if there were no artillery and muskets in hand, maybe Wang Yue would have led his army to escape from the Pearl River!

Chapter 560