Coalition Command, in front of the Great Sand Table.

The staff officers pulled out the banners of the Ming army in Shaozhou and Qingyuanwei, planted the Tatar battle flags, and the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Yild, which had arrived at Beijiang from Hunan via Lianzhou, occupied the section of Beijiang from Qingyuan in the south to Shaozhou in the north.

Ilde was a partial division sent by Yue Le, and after the capture of Qingyuan, he had established a solid ground connection with the main enemy forces on the Xijiang River. However, since Sanshui was stuck at the confluence of the two rivers, there was no water transportation behind Ilde, and he had to get supplies through the sheep intestine trail in Lianzhou or the land route in Qingyuan.

Lian Chengqiang retreated to Nanxiong Mansion, where he defended to the death, repelling several Tatar attacks. The commander of the Ming army, Lian Chengbi, guarded a piece of land in the cape for China for ten years in Wang Xing's small village, with a strong will and undoubted determination.

As soon as the intensity of the battle increased, Ilde, who lacked water supplies, showed his weakness, and he had to stock up on supplies for a long time before he could launch a powerful siege.

The partial division sent by Yue Le cut off the Beijiang River and blocked the direct waterway connection between Guangzhou and the Ming army in northern Guangdong, if it was in the past, this would definitely cause a great collapse of the Ming army, but now, because the Ming army itself did not invest too many troops in the middle of the prefecture and county, the order was pleased to see that although the Ming army continued to suffer small defeats and the main force suffered little losses, it was still persistent.

Shou Xian was lying on the railing on the second floor, and from here, the changes on the sand table were even more obvious.

"Where did Xiao Guolong's troops go?"

"It's almost time to Jiangxi, and they have military reports every day."

"Very good, send someone to his army again and tell Xiao Guolong. The 25,000 soldiers in northern Guangdong and southern Jiangxi are watching his troops, and they must open up the east road to Ganzhou. ”

"Yes, Führer."

There were six land links from Lingbei to Liangguang, Yue Le's troops controlled the main road Lingqu and Hezhou Ancient Road, and Yierde controlled the Jiulong Eighteen Beaches along the Wushui River between Yizhang and Shaozhou Prefecture in Hunan, and Yangshan Pass and Huangxi Pass between Chenzhou and Lianzhou.

Guangzhou must keep the last road, that is, starting from Huizhou, through Heyuan, Longchuan, along the Dongjiang River to Jiangxi Dingnanshui, Xunwushui, and then enter the Ganjiang River water system in Xinfeng County, Ganzhou Prefecture, and connect with Ganzhou.

Lanqin top in Ganzhou City, connected into a wall top in Nanxiong, located between the two armies of Nan'an and other 3 prefectures and 7 counties became the rear of the Ming army, although the Ming army was attacked by Ilde and Luo Keduo from the north and south, but the area of the occupied area is still very large, the situation is not too bad. As long as Xiao Guolong stabilizes the Dongjiang River, the Ming army in northern Guangdong and southern Jiangxi still has rear support, which will greatly stabilize the morale of the army.

The Dongjiang River is located between the main force of the coalition army of Zheng Chenggong in Fujian and Guangzhou, and will not be attacked by the main force of the Tatars for the time being.

There were 5,000 soldiers in the Huizhou General Army, Xiao Guolong, who was Wang Xing's deputy general, and he had fought bloody battles with the Tatars in the mountains behind enemy lines for ten years, and there was no need to doubt his determination to fight. The green battalion equipment captured in Guangzhou was distributed to all Ming troops, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of all units of the Ming army, and guarded the communication lines, even if there were many recruits in Xiao Guolong's troops, it should not be difficult to do a good job.

Shou Xuan held the teacup and looked at the Qinlian war zone.

"Has the report from Guangxi arrived?"

"Here we are, Führer."

Orderly took it and opened it.

The situation in Guangxi was not very good, Yue Le's army moved south from Lingqu and Guilin, and gave a shot of chicken blood to the troops of the Dingvan in Guangxi, and the morale and determination of the enemy army were greatly enhanced.

Yue Le used the Manchurian Zhenghong Banner to consolidate the mountains and Zhenji Xiha to hang the seal of the southern general, and unified the command of all the Eight Banners, Dingfan soldiers and Green Battalion soldiers in Guangxi.

Ji Xiha himself led 18,000 troops to break through Tianmen Pass, and Zhang Shijie's 4th town of training and the rest of Xiong Zhaozuo and Zhou Jintang's 5th town of training were surrounded in Yulin Fortress. Line Guoan set out from Nanning and led 10,000 troops to break through Lingshan County and besiege Li Yuanyin's Qinzhou City.

Guangxi Governor Xie Yuanbian led the Fu pacesetters to hold Bobai County, Li Laiheng of Lianzhou sent infantry to support him, the Ming army stuck the Nanliujiang Avenue, and it was impossible for Ji Xiha to send the main force to take the small road to bypass the two fortresses of Yulin and Bobai in succession and enter the Nanliujiang Plain, so the battle on the Nanliujiang front became a siege and fragmented skirmish.

The Ming army and the Tatars fought in the mountains in a dark place, and the combat effectiveness of the full army of Jixiha was indeed stronger than that of the Ming army, but the time had entered the height of summer, the rain was frequent, the bow body was glued, and the bow and arrow skills of the Tatars were abolished, and the two armies fought with muskets. Under this mountainous terrain, the Ming army was familiar with geography and was accustomed to climbing mountains, and did not fall behind in small-scale field battles. Some units of the training army purchased a small number of rifled guns, and the artifact of cold guns in the mountainous areas made the Tatars miserable.

There is another point on the Yulin front that is very beneficial to the Ming army.

Yulin is located in the center of a mountainous basin, and when it rains heavily in summer, the whole city and its surroundings will be flooded. Originally, soaking in water in the city was not a good thing for the guard, but Xie Yuanbian had been engaged in infrastructure construction in Yulin all these years, and the granary and ammunition depot were built on the second floor of the volcanic ash cement building, and the local soldiers were accustomed to soaking in water on the first floor, and there were small boats in the city that connected with each other along the streets.

The Eight Banners soldiers outside the city are not good, and a camp soaked in water will damage more combat effectiveness and troops than a major defeat. The ammunition failed, the grain grew moldy, the soldiers fell ill in a large area, and every day, the corpses of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion soldiers were thrown into the Nanliu River to feed the fish.

Qinzhou was surrounded, Li Yuanyin fortified the wall and cleared the wilderness, retreating the people, the Ming army had a plan in the face of this situation, and it had been drilled countless times over the years, and it was relatively smooth.

Li Yuanyin has been digging the earth desperately in Qinzhou in recent years, building a series of fortress forts along the state city to the port, backed by the sea lifeline, Li Yuanyin's cannons are more than the line of national security besieging the city, and the troops of the Dingfan can only stare at Qinzhou.

Li Laiheng's main force rested in Lianzhou City, and he constantly sent small forces to attack the line Guoan, forcing the enemy army to never be able to attack the city with all its strength.

On the whole, although the situation in Guangxi has deteriorated, it can still persevere.

In the past, one of the key problems of the Ming army's repeated defeats was that their gunpowder was always relatively tight, and the Ming army in various departments repeatedly ran out of gunpowder before they ran out of food.

In autumn and winter, the Tatars can sweep nitrate in a large area in the whole of northern China, and can also obtain cave saltpeter from Sichuan, and the amount of gunpowder used every year is millions of catties, and the southern climate is humid, and the Ming army cannot sweep the nitrate, and is always suppressed by enemy firepower.

This kind of thing no longer exists after the Federation fully intervenes in the mainland, the coalition forces have captured 1 million catties of gunpowder in Guangdong, and in the short term, all the Ming troops do not have to worry about the gunpowder problem, isn't it just hiding on the city wall, lying in ambush in the mountains and old forests to fight openly, who is afraid of whom.

Put down the Guangxi report in an orderly manner.

With hot and humid weather, complex terrain, strong city walls, and hundreds of cannons, the Ming army in Guangxi constantly consumed the offensive kinetic energy of the Tatars in the mountains and seashores at the cost of retreating.

Li Laiheng's main cavalry was resting and standby, and the Qiongzhou Mixed Brigade was watching coldly in Leizhou, separated by several fronts, and the Tatars did not seem to know that this army existed.

Shou Xiang looked at Zhaoqing.

On the main battlefield of Xijiang, Yue Le sat in Wuzhou Mansion with Du Lan, the minister of the Council of Governors, and was responsible for the supply of the whole army, and he himself was stationed in Zhaoqing Mansion.

Beijing dispatched half of the flag battalion soldiers to march in three directions, and if the stock of eight flag soldiers on each front is counted, the mobilization rate is quite high.

The troops commanded by Yue Le included 12,000 Eight Banner soldiers, 3,000 Mongolian soldiers from the Outer Domain, 3,000 soldiers from the Xushun Clan, and 30,000 soldiers from the Green Battalion of various provinces, of which the most effective unit was the Northwest Green Battalion of Daniel Zhang, the governor of Gansu.

These 50,000 troops were deployed on the line from Sanshui to Wuzhou, and the main force was assembled in Zhaoqing, if you count the green camp in Guangxi and the Yild in northern Guangdong, the number of troops controlled by Yue Le was about 95,000, which was really a lot.

Yue Le brought many inland water divisions and soldiers from the interior, built warships in Guangxi, and controlled the Pearl River above the Antelope Gorge.

After Yue Le's troops arrived in Xijiang, the Ming army on the front line of Luoding and Xinxing in the mountainous area on the right bank of the Xijiang River evacuated the people, creating a large mountainous and uninhabited area, and in the vast mountainous area of southwest Guangdong, there were only troops and no people. As in Guangxi, the Ming army and armed militias armed with birds, tiger guns, and light Francophone planes fired at the Tatars on a mountainous front hundreds of kilometers long.

Shou Xuan didn't know how many troops there were in the mountains, he only knew that he had sent enough equipment for the green battalion to arm 20,000 people, more than 10,000 bird guns, hundreds of tiger squat cannons, light Fran machines, and 200,000 catties of gunpowder.

The Eight Banners have fought to this age, and the march has become very cautious, and the two battles of Hengzhou and Mopanshan have taught them a bloody lesson, unlike more than ten years ago, hundreds of people dared to go deep into the Ming army's position to fool around.

Yue Le himself was also a very serious commander, and the main force of the Tatars never crossed the Antelope Gorge, which made the order very dissatisfied. It is easy for the boat to carry its baggage down the Antelope Canyon, but it is very troublesome to cross the Antelope Gorge against the current.

Of course, after capturing Guangzhou, he could capture Zhaoqing in one go, but he did not do so, leaving Zhaoqing to give the Tatars the hope of quickly recovering Guangzhou, Antelope Gorge is the pit left for Yue Le, and the key now is to bring the main force and baggage of the Tatars over.