After Xiao Tianjian's words, the controversy in the army immediately came to an abrupt end, and their arguments were arguments, but in the end, they still had to listen to Xiao Tianjian's wishes. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian is the master of all, and his will can determine the will of everyone.

What's more, at this time, Luo Rucai also sent someone to send the news of Huguang's urgency, Ding Qirui Qinan Zhili and all the soldiers and horses in Zhejiang and Jiangxi invaded Huguang, trying to recover Huguang for the imperial court, although the progress was not very good under the desperate resistance of the Xingtian army who stayed in Huguang, but for Luo Rucai and the generals stationed in Huguang, the pressure was also very great, especially after the news that Yang Kunshan died in the Yangtze River in the Yangtze River water battle came later, the generals who advocated fighting the Beijing division first had nothing to say.

Huguang is very important to them, everyone is very clear, earlier when they failed to take Huguang, the Xingtian Army has been in a very tight state of food, every time the soldiers are always troubled by the difficulty of raising grain, but after taking Huguang last year, in just one year, the logistics of the Xingtian Army at least in terms of food problems have been alleviated a lot, this time at the same time mobilized so many people to go north, the logistics department still met their needs for soldiers' food.

If the Beijing division is defeated, then everyone knows that the Xingtian Army must mobilize all the elites to go north, and Huguang can be said to be their granary.

So at this time, the opinion that the army wanted to fight the Beijing division first suddenly died down, and basically the generals were unified.

Now that the opinions are unified, then the next question is how to fight, this time to deal with the officers and troops going south, most of the main force of the Xingtian Army has moved north to the north of Henan, if according to last year's established plan to attack Nanzhili, it is necessary to transfer a large number of soldiers and horses back to Wuchang to assemble again, and then along the Yangtze River line towards Nanzhili attack, the advantage of this is obvious, that is, it is very convenient to obtain grain supplies and other material supplies from Huguang, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the time required to prepare will be quite longWithout two or three months of preparation, it is impossible to carry out the operation.

Therefore, after careful discussion between Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin and other personnel of the General Staff, they changed the plan made last year and readjusted, this plan is very simple, that is, directly from Henan, assemble in the Suzhou area, and then the troops will start to attack directly in the direction of Nanjing, as for the problem of replenishing grain and straw, the Xingtian Army will mainly rely on the seizure along the way to solve it, so that the supply pressure on logistics is much less, and at the same time, it is more convenient to supply all kinds of ammunition and materials.

The generals also agreed to this plan, after all, they were now heading south with the power of a great victory, and they were strong soldiers, so there was no big problem in fighting Nanjing.

So after the end of the battle against Sun Chuanting, Xiao Tianjian soon made corresponding adjustments to his subordinates, Liu Bao suspended the offensive on Jining, and turned to the defensive in the areas of Juye, Dingtao, Shanxian, and Chengwu, first digesting and absorbing the newly captured territory in this area, and then seeking to infiltrate the hinterland of Shandong, and contain the officers and troops of Shandong to move south to respond to Nanzhili.

The elite troops of Zhulu who participated in this battle began to march towards the Suzhou area, leaving Diao Zheng's troops stationed in the area north of the Yellow River to resist the offensive of the northern official army against the Xingtian army.

In fact, after so many years of operation, the Xingtian Army not only controlled the entire territory of Henan, but also through continuous outward expansion, now the Xingtian Army has controlled a considerable area in the northwest of Nanzhili as early as the twelfth year of Chongzhen, and Suzhou and Bozhou, which are under the jurisdiction of Fengyang Mansion, have already been included in the pocket of the Xingtian Army at this time, and have become the bridgehead for the Xingtian Army to attack Nanzhili. Therefore, to a large extent, the strength of the officers and troops on the southern Zhili side was contained, so that it could not cooperate with the officers and troops from the north and south to form a direct attack on the Xingtian army.

At present, the chief general of the Xingtian Army who is responsible for garrisoning Suzhou and Bozhou is the Dongshan Tiger Han Fang under Luo Rucai, and the one who cooperates with him is Geli Yanhe Yilong, who was in the fifth battalion of the original Revolution.

At the beginning of last year, when Xiao Tianjian opened the seal, the fifth battalion of the left side returned, and He Yilong put himself into the work under Xiao Tianjian, after several transfers, the generals of the fifth battalion of the left were also scattered by Xiao Tianjian, and now it can be said that the five battalions of the left have become a thing of the past, and there is no foundation for self-reliance in the Xingtian army, so this He Yilong has changed his original fate and will not be killed by Li Zicheng again.

When Xiao Tianjian led his troops north, Xiao Tianjian integrated the Korean forces in Suzhou and Bozhou into a division, and promoted the Korean side to the capital, He Yilong and another old general named Zhao Xi of the Xingtian Army were the deputy commanders, acting as the deputy of the Korean side, and now the Suzhou and Bozhou areas are firmly controlled in the hands of the Xingtian Army, like a wedge nailed into the chest and abdomen of Nanzhili.

After Ding Qirui arrived, he also dispatched the officers and troops of Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion many times to counterattack Suzhou and Bozhou, but under the will of the people, although the officers and troops repeatedly attacked Bozhou and Suzhou City, but in the end, they were all under the fierce resistance and counterattack of Han Fang and He Yilong, Zhao Xi and others, and returned in vain, and until now they have not been able to pull out the two nails of Suzhou and Bozhou from between the chest and abdomen of Nanzhili.

So this time Suzhou has become a bridgehead for Xiao Tianjian to wave his army south to Nanzhili, and as soon as the military order was given, people from all walks of life walked from the north of Henan to Kaifeng and Guide Mansion towards Suzhou, and a large number of materials began to be transported by the barracks and the people who helped the war, passing through the military stations around the country, and rolling like a tide to Bozhou and Suzhou.

At this point, the government and the imperial court have already figured out the previous arrangements of the Xingtian Army, what to gather heavy troops to attack Xuzhou and Jining! In these two aspects, the Xingtian Army was completely using a suspicious tactic, and the limited number of people and horses in these two places were constantly transferred, and a large number of people and horses were recruited indiscriminately, and they were disguised as the illusion that the Xingtian Army had gathered more than 100,000 horses in these two directions, which frightened the imperial court and local officials at a loss, and put all their attention on Jining and Xuzhou, resulting in the result that Sun Chuanting's lone army and Wu Sangui were ambushed and defeated in Yanggu County.

For Nan Zhili, Xuzhou is temporarily safe for now, with the destruction of Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui's department, the Xingtian soldiers and horses and the people who helped the war in the Xuzhou area quickly withdrew to Suzhou and Bozhou, and a large number of people also disbanded and returned to their homes to continue farming, which made Fengyang Mansion breathe a sigh of relief at the beginning.

However, the Fengyang prefect's breath was relieved for a few days, and it was immediately brought up by the news that came immediately, and the Xingtian Army, which had just withdrawn its troops, began to assemble in Suzhou and Bozhou again, and a large number of soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army began to enter Bozhou and Suzhou one after another, and all kinds of materials began to flow into these two places again, so the officials of Fengyang Mansion immediately knew that their unlucky days had come.

Xiao Tianjian arrived at the Suzhou camp on April 12, before Xiao Tianjian arrived at the Suzhou camp, Liu Yaoben's guard division had basically rushed to Suzhou, and set up camp on the south bank of the Hun River in the south of Suzhou, waiting here for the arrival of follow-up men and materials.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian chose the starting point of the attack here is because the Huhe River has been in use since ancient times from the beginning of the Sui Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it is a canal that has been in use since ancient times, and it is a canal connecting the Yellow River, the Huai River and the Yangtze River dug out by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. It is necessary to mobilize too many people and soldiers to complete the replenishment of the soldiers, so the advantages of water transportation of the Huhe River are reflected.

A large number of materials can be gathered in the area of Guide Province first, where they can be loaded on ships, and transported directly down the river to Suzhou for unloading, so that the required materials can be transported to the front line in a relatively short time and replenished to the armies.

As close to the modern army, the demand for logistics is naturally beyond the old-style army, the large number of applications of hot weapons, but also increase the difficulty of logistics supply, when the soldiers are no longer just full stomach with cold weapons can fight, their combat effectiveness to a large extent depends on the output intensity of firepower, once the supply of ammunition is not available, it will have a very big impact on the combat capability of the criminal army, and may even make them lose their combat capability, so this is also the time when the criminal army often has to organize a large-scale operation, the reason for the long time to prepare.

Fortunately, the implementation of the military station system has enabled the Xingtian Army to gradually build up a logistics supply network, so that the Xingtian Army can transfer all kinds of materials relatively quickly within a limited range to ensure the use of operations, which has enabled the Xingtian Army to continue to expand its territory in the past few years, and in the previous wars against the official army, one of the reasons for repeated victories.

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