When the will of the Qing court reached the Tan Tai army in Nanchang, it was already the end of November. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After receiving the order, Tan Tai's expression suddenly became grim, and the generals under his command were also full of heaviness.

It has been a month since Huguang Town relieved the siege of Nanchang last month and completed the rendezvous with Jin Shenghuan's army. In the course of a month, the two armies fought no less than 20 battles. Huguangzhen wanted to completely drive the Qing army away from the surrounding area of Nanchang, and Tan Tai naturally refused to withdraw his army, because that would mean that the battle for Jiangxi would end in complete failure, and he would not be able to explain to the Qing court no matter what. As a result, the two armies refused to give in to each other, and the flames of war around Nanchang burned intermittently for more than a month.

But overall, it was Huguang Town that had the upper hand.

At the beginning of this month, Pang Yue took advantage of his own naval division, and while launching an attack on the Qing army's land division with the main force, he asked the Fubo battalion to escort more than 3,000 people of the Nanchang army led by Guo Tiancai to arrive outside Jiujiang City by water. Before Tan Tai waved his army to Nanchang, he left more than 2,000 people in Linqing Town, Shandong Green Camp and more than 1,000 troops from Wu Gaobu, a staff general under the command of the former Jin Shenghuan, to garrison Jiujiang, and the defensive force was not very sufficient. The Qing army stationed in Jiujiang did not expect that a soldier and horse of the Ming army would bypass their main force and appear under Jiujiang City, and they were immediately frightened.

Pang Yue's original intention was to let Guo Tiancai's department contact Neiying in Jiujiang City, and Liying and Wai should join forces to take the city and completely cut off the grain route and the road back to the north of Tan Tai's army. However, the top general of the Jiujiang Qing Army, the chief soldier of Linqing Town, Shandong Green Battalion, was obviously not easy to follow, and soon discovered the internal response in the city and decisively cut the grass and eradicated the roots, and all the troops were also broken up, and the original establishment was dispersed to various battalions, cutting off the road of the Ming army outside the city.

However, Guo Tiancai's troops did not have an absolute advantage in terms of troops, and they lacked heavy weapons to attack the city, so it would not be so easy to attack Jiujiang again. Therefore, he retreated to the second place, and built a camp in the south of Jiujiang City, somewhere where to hold the official road, cutting off the land artery from Jiujiang to Nanchang to provide grain and grass supplies to the main force of the Qing army. The Fubo battalion also departed a part of its forces to cruise along the waterway from Nankang to Changyi in the west of Poyang Lake, which was equivalent to cutting off the water channel for the supply of grain and grass for the Qing army.

After learning this news, Tan Tai originally wanted to send some troops back to reopen the grain and grass supply line, but the continuous pressure from the army of Huguang Town on the opposite side made him unable to spare much energy. As for the sailors under his command, after the Jiujiang Sailors defected, the remaining strength was no longer enough in front of the Huguang Town Sailors, and they couldn't solve many problems. Fortunately, the grain and grass carried in the army were quite sufficient, and there was no danger of running out of food for a while. As long as he led his army back to the north, the little troops that the Ming army threw to the north through the waterway would definitely not be enough to stop him.

Tan Tai originally wanted to respond to all changes with the same. After all, at present, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming have led their troops into the southern part of Huguang and directly took Changsha and Hengzhou, and Huguangming's army does not have many available troops, Tan Tai does not believe that Pang Yue can afford it more than himself.

But now the situation is different, the western part of Henan and the whole of Shanxi are almost all under the banner of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, and Dolgon's will is harshly worded, and there is no room for Tan Tai to procrastinate. In this way, I am afraid that only by having a decisive battle with Huguang Town as soon as possible and completely deciding the winner can we end the war as soon as possible and lead the army back north.

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In the big tent of the Central Military Department in Huguang Town, outside Nanchang City, Pang Yue was convening the commanders of all departments of the Central Military Department and the commanders of each battalion to hold a military discussion.

Previously, after the news that Jiang Hao raised troops in Datong to oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty and most of Shanxi set off an anti-Qing wave, all the soldiers in Huguang Town were overjoyed. And Pang Yue understood that this news also meant that the decisive day of the decisive battle between Huguang Town and Tan Tai's army was not far away.

In order to calm the chaos in the north as soon as possible, Dolgon will definitely let Tan Tai lead his army north as soon as possible. And no matter what the considerations are, it is impossible for Huguang Town to let it retreat calmly. The two opposing armies had two diametrically opposed aims, and only a decisive battle could be achieved.

Therefore, since the news of Jiang Hao's army came, Pang Yue instructed the General Staff Department to start planning around the final decisive battle. Today's military debate is also related to this.

In the tent of the Chinese army, all the generals sat solemnly and listened to Zhang Yunli, the chief of the general staff, personally read out the order: "...... The first and second thousand corps of the Flying Tiger Battalion and the cavalry of the Ganzhou and Nan'an armies were temporarily organized into the first cavalry battalion, and the battalion officer Shi Youliang; The 3rd and 4th Cavalry Corps of the Flying Tiger Battalion and the cavalry of the Nanchang Army were temporarily organized into the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, and the battalion officer Zhang Youyi ......"

Huguang Town won a complete victory in the Jingzhou Campaign last year, capturing many war horses, so the strength of the Flying Tiger Battalion was also expanded, with a total of 4,000 troops and nearly 5,000 people. Hao Yongzhong's Ganzhou Army, Zhang Xianbi's Nan'an Army did not have many cavalry, and Jin Shenghuan's Nanchang Army also lost most of the cavalry after the attack, but they were still able to make up more than 1,000 cavalry, and together with the Flying Tiger Battalion, there were more than 6,300 people. By temporarily organizing all the cavalry into two cavalry battalions, it will be possible to take care of the entire battlefield more effectively.

“…… The broken barracks and Huashan battalions were temporarily organized as the first brigade, and the brigade headquarters was concurrently served by the battalion headquarters of the broken barracks, and the brigade officer Liu Renjun; The Huben Battalion and the Yuezhou Battalion were temporarily reorganized into the Second Brigade, and the brigade headquarters was concurrently served by the Huben Battalion Battalion Headquarters, and the brigade officer He Zhenting; The Gangfeng Battalion and the Yongding Battalion were temporarily organized into the Third Brigade, and the brigade headquarters was concurrently served by the Gangfeng Battalion Battalion Headquarters, and the brigade officer Lu Qiwu; The trapping camp and Taishan battalion were temporarily organized into the fourth brigade, and the brigade headquarters was concurrently served by the trapping camp battalion headquarters, and the brigade officer Cui Shoucheng; The Agni Battalion is under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Military Department. In addition, from now on, the former Nan'an, Ganzhou, and Nanchang armies will temporarily use the numbers of Nan'an Battalion, Ganzhou Battalion, and Nanchang Battalion, and they will also be directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Military Department......"

In the event of a decisive battle, the width and depth of the battlefield will inevitably be greater than before. Moreover, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is impossible for the Central Military Department to always take into account the battalion-level units. Therefore, in order to facilitate command at that time, Pang Yue decided to add a temporary establishment of the "brigade" level after discussing with Zhang Yunli and others, as a hub between the Central Military Department and the battalions.

As for using the Taishan Battalion and the Huashan Battalion as war barracks, there is no problem. Since the beginning of this year, in the army building plan of Huguang Town, the Taishan Battalion and the Huashan Battalion are no longer only built as baggage battalions and engineering battalions, but have taken into account the functions of the combat battalion, the baggage battalion, and the engineering battalion. In peacetime, it is a baggage battalion and an engineering battalion, and in wartime, it can be converted into a combat battalion immediately after the relevant technical units are replenished. Therefore, although the combat effectiveness of the Taishan Battalion and the Huashan Battalion is not as good as the veteran battalions of the Gangfeng Battalion and the Trap Camp, it is not a problem to defeat the ordinary Qing Army's Green Battalion.

After such a long run-in between the Yuezhou Battalion and the Yongding Battalion, and the addition of a large number of combat backbones and grassroots officers trained by the training battalion, the influence of Wang Guangtai and Zheng Siwei is already negligible, and they can already be regarded as the real Huguang Town Combat Battalion. Wang Guangtai and Zheng Siwei are also self-aware, and they still occupy the position of battalion officers on the surface, but in fact, they have already been thrown off the command to the deputy battalion officer and staff officer from the Huguang Town, so they are waiting for the battle to find a suitable opportunity to formally resign from Pang Yue and go to Guangzhou to live the kind of fairy life they dream of.

After Zhang Yunli read out the order, Pang Yue asked the generals present loudly: "Do you understand?"

"Understood!!" The generals in the tent answered with a loud voice.