In July, Wang Danxu, who led the troops to continue fighting on the front line of Xingquan Mansion, received a commendation decree from the palace, which said that Colonel Wang Danxu was loyal to the monarch in the battle of the encirclement of Xingquan Mansion, fought bravely, and was very relieved and awarded the rank of major general.

Later, he issued another decree, removing Wang Danxu from the post of commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, transferring the Fifth Infantry Division as the division commander, and allowing Wang Danxu to return to Beijing to take up his post.

When he heard the decree and read the decree, Wang Shan Xu, who was already a middle-aged man, cried with joy: Nima's, after suffering so much anger and white eyes, Lao Tzu finally came out!

Speaking of which, Wang Danxu is also quite unlucky, he was the commander of the Guards at the earliest, but after the formation of the Guards, he was gradually marginalized in the great expansion of the army, and the commander of a fourth infantry regiment was the commander for a long time, and Hao Bonian, Fang Xitong, Li Chunjing and others who were originally only under him were gradually promoted, and served as brigade commanders and army commanders, and became his top boss.

This is naturally psychologically difficult to accept for Wang Danxu, but he did not serve as the deputy brigade commander like Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan, and then went to the garrison brigade to serve as the brigade commander, so although he withdrew from the ranks of the regular army, he was also the commander of the first brigade, and he did not have Cai Erhu's good luck, because he dared to fight, and finally gradually rose up in the third garrison brigade and became a major general.

He was dedicated to the position of commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment, and at the same time, he continued to learn and strive to master the various tactics of the musket unit.

In the battle of Xingquanfu City, he faced the encirclement of almost ten times the number of troops, and he was determined to support the arrival of reinforcements, and after being surrounded for several months, the whole person was hungry and lost more than ten pounds.

But the hard work paid off, and all these efforts finally paid off, because of his outstanding performance in the Battle of Xingquan Fucheng, Wang Danxu also re-entered Li Xuan's field of vision.

Li Xuan felt that although this Wang Danxu's ability was not outstanding, he was loyal enough, and he was also diligent, and his ability was average, and he also had rich experience in serving in the regular army for a long time and commanding infantry regiments.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that Li Xuan can't find more qualified senior generals in a short period of time, so he brought Wang Danxu up again, and first let him serve as the commander of the Fifth Infantry Division for a period of time, to see if he can lead this main force with a total strength of more than 12,000 people in the process of expanding the Fifth Infantry Division.

If he can't bring it well, then Li Xuan will not be soft-hearted, and then he will transfer Wang Danxu to serve in the Privy Council, and then let another person be selected to serve as the commander of the Fifth Infantry Division.

If he can bring it, then let him keep going.

With the joy of promotion, Wang Danxu hurriedly handed over to the new commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, and immediately rushed to Zhaoqing, where he would make a detour through Jingzhou, then go south to Guilin, and finally take a navy ship down the river to return to Wuzhou and then to Zhaoqing.

A Fifth Infantry Division is still waiting for him to take over!

And when Wang Danxu rushed towards Zhaoqing, the departments of the First Army led by Hao Bonian also launched the final general attack on Shaozhou Mansion, and after preparing for more than a month, Hao Bonian finally launched a general attack on Shaozhou Mansion with a cautious attitude.

Before launching the general offensive, Hao Bonian had actually commanded his troops to carry out an almost devastating blow to the Ming army in the entire northern part of Guangdong, and successively conquered Lianzhou, Lechang, Renhua, Shixing, Baochang and other places.

Almost swept away the Ming army except for the Shaozhou Mansion, and finally surrounded the nearly 10,000 Ming troops in the Shaozhou Mansion from all sides.

The Ming army in the city has already been panicked, the morale of the army almost fell to the bottom, when Hao Bonian launched a general offensive on the third day, the defenders in the city finally could not resist this huge pressure, part of the Ming army in the city took the lead in rebellion, turned into the Tang army, and captured the city gate and received the Tang army into the city.

This battle is also the smallest casualty in the previous battles of the Tang Dynasty, the shortest battle, only three days before and after, the casualties are only 200, and the fortified city defended by nearly 10,000 people was taken.

Of course, the casualties of the Ming army themselves were not much, with only more than 1,000 casualties before and after, more than 2,000 people surrendered before the battle, and nearly 7,000 surrendered as prisoners.

In Hao Bai's words, in the words of Hao Bai's victory, the battle of Shaozhou, the enemy army was wiped out!

The recovery of Shaozhou Mansion is in the process of being cleaned up, when the Tang Dynasty Wang Division conquered Guangzhou and vacated the main force of the First Army, the capture of Shaozhou Mansion was basically a certainty, no matter how Zhang Yue gave the order to let the defenders in Shaozhou Mansion defend it was useless, even Zhang Yue himself knew that Shaozhou Mansion could not do anything, and had already deployed a new defense line in Yizhang at the southern end of Huguang in advance, and even transferred troops from all over Shaozhou Mansion to retreat to Yizhang.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Shaozhou to defend with less than 10,000 troops.

Withdrawing from Guangdong and returning to the south of Huguang was also a practice of the Ming army in order to shorten the battle line, reduce the logistical pressure, and at the same time extend the supply line of the puppet Tang thief army, exchanging space for time.

Because he had been fighting with the puppet Tang thief army for so long, he also found that although the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army were sharp, they also consumed a lot of various materials, and these ammunition needed to be transported from the Liangguang region thousands of miles away.

If they stay in Guangdong to fight against the puppet Tang Dynasty, these puppet Tang thief armies will be able to get sufficient supplies, but if they retreat to Huguang to fight, these puppet Tang thief armies will be short of all kinds of combat materials.

He had already seen this in the battles in the northeast of Guizhou and Jingzhou.

Therefore, the loss of Shaozhou Mansion, although it was due to the strength of the puppet Tang thief army, in fact, there was also the reason why Zhang Yue took the initiative to give up, if it wasn't for the political influence, he even withdrew the troops in Shaozhou Mansion.

However, in order to avoid outsiders saying that he fled without a fight, he put nearly 10,000 troops in Shaozhou Mansion, all of them old and young are disabled, and there is no elite recruit.

This is also the reason why the First Army was able to quickly take Shaozhou Mansion with small casualties, and after checking the strength of these prisoners, the people from the former Military Department and the current Recruitment Department of the War Department looked at the connection and shook their heads, the quality of this batch of Ming army surrenders is simply the most in the history of the Ming army!

It's the worst kind!

Either they are lazy veterans, or they are thirteen or fourteen-year-old child soldiers, or they are thirty or forty years old, and there are not many young people around twenty years old.

Even if there is, it's the kind of quality that is not good in all aspects.

If we follow the previous practice, although the quality of these surrendered troops is poor, but after picking and choosing, they will still be incorporated into the garrison army in one go, but now that the garrison army has to be reformed, the way of dealing with the surrender of troops will naturally be changed accordingly.

In the end, after the selection of the personnel of the recruitment department, only 300 soldiers were selected, and these people were first of all soldiers who were barely passable in quality, and they were also willing to continue to serve as soldiers and eat food.

As for the rest, it is naturally impossible to let them go directly, and those with a good attitude and willing to take the initiative to surrender are incorporated into the reclamation group!

The cantonment regiment is mainly a military cantonment, and after one year of service, it will be free, and a small amount of travel subsidies will be given, and those who are willing to stay can continue to farm, but it will become a salary.

Of course, there is no such thing as a free land distribution policy, which is the treatment of regular army soldiers!

Those soldiers of the regular army are fighting desperately on the front line, many of them are just to be able to divide the field, you want to divide the field as soon as you are captured and you are still an unqualified prisoner, how can there be such a good thing!

As for the bad attitude, those who are unwilling to surrender will not be let go, but will be sent directly to the Ministry of Industry as in the past to dig and repair the road, and now the Ministry of Industry is mining in the two Guangxi areas, iron ore, coal mine, copper mine, but all the minerals that can be used are vigorously exploited, and the gap in labor is very large.

However, now the living conditions of the prisoners of war have been improved, food will still be given, and as long as they work for three years, they can leave the prisoner of war camp and be free.

However, now many people's attitudes are actually relatively soft, many of them are willing to surrender, anyway, they don't have to go to the battlefield, just plant for a year, a little tired but don't have to give away their lives, and after a year, they can also get a batch of not too small travel expenses, which can actually be regarded as their wages in the past year.

But the prisoner of war camp is not so easy to treat, although now the Tang Dynasty has improved the treatment of prisoners, but the labor intensity is still very large, the food is also very average, and the poor health is actually easy to give up their lives in the three years of high-intensity labor.

The new treatment of prisoners of war deprived the garrison of its source, but it increased the strength of the regular army.

And with such an increase and a decrease, in fact, the strength of the First Army was neither more nor less.

After taking Shaozhou Mansion, the First Army did not continue to go north, because continuing to go north was Huguang, which had already deployed heavy troops in Yizhang and guarded many critical passes.

In addition, after such a long period of continuous fighting, after the battles of Guangzhou and Shaozhoufu, the First Army suffered great losses from top to bottom, and the soldiers were exhausted, and they also needed time to rest.

At the same time, it was also necessary to use a period of rest to complete the reorganization task of the First Infantry Division, so after taking Shaozhou Mansion, all units of the First Army suspended the large-scale northward offensive and began to rest and reorganize.

After the rest and reorganization, the 1st Infantry Brigade will be expanded into the 1st Infantry Division, the garrison brigades will be directly dismantled, and the 4th Infantry Regiment will also be reorganized.

However, the actions of the various units of the First Army stopped, but after the Battle of Guangzhou, the First Mixed Regiment, which was formed by drawing troops from various units of the First Army, did not stop, but instead intensified its offensive, and after conquering all parts of Huizhou Prefecture, the First Mixed Regiment quickly conquered Chaozhou Prefecture with the cooperation of nearly 10,000 garrison troops.

The remnants led by Wang Yue suffered continuous defeats in Huizhou, even if they retreated to Chaozhou, they still couldn't hold it, and in the end, Wang Yue had no choice but to retreat to Nanao Island with thousands of remnants, relying on the sea and the sailor to stop the situation of fleeing all the way, and gain a firm foothold on Nanao Island!

It's not that Wang Yue is willing to go to Nanao Island, but he has no choice, as the governor of Liangguang, if he continues to retreat to the northeast, he will retreat to Fujian, and run to Wang Yue in Fujian, is that still the governor of Liangguang?