The development and expansion of the army in Dingguang County was only the beginning of the Taiping Army's comprehensive digestion of Songjiang County.

When the newly recruited more than 2,000 soldiers underwent initial training, the main force of the Taiping army soon made further moves. The soldiers of a wing tried their knives and suddenly launched a siege in the early morning while Baima County was defenseless. Due to the infiltration of dozens of Taiping troops disguised as merchants in advance, Baima County was lightly captured by the Taiping army after supporting two waves of tentative attacks.

As a result, the entire western half of Yuyang Province fell.

The two county towns of Baima County and Dingguang County were connected together, and then merged with Daqingguan, which completely became the sphere of influence of the Taiping Army. With the passage of Baima County, when the Taiping army wants to communicate with Dingguang County, there is no need to detour to Yuyang Fucheng.

After initially stabilizing the situation, the Taiping Army also took action in Baima County, replicating the expansion of Dingguang County.

To initially occupy Songjiang County, according to Chen Wu's estimates, at least 15,000 men are needed, which is still the minimum number to meet the demand. If you want to control the entire Songjiang more calmly, and even have extra troops to make some small moves, this number is not too doubled. The main force of the Taiping army is now only 5,000 people, which is still far from this number.

Considering that there would be a major battle to come, with many losses and casualties, it was necessary for the Taiping Army to seize any possible opportunity to expand its army from now on.

As for the money, food, and armament needed to expand the army, Songjiang can provide some of it, and the wealth of Taiping County looted by the Taiping Army is enough to support it for a long time, so there is no need to worry about it for the time being.

It is worth mentioning that after the Taiping army attacked Songjiang, Chen Wu made certain modifications to the structure of the Taiping army. The most important of these was the establishment of a special war readiness department, which included the baggage battalion of the Craftsman Bureau and the training of recruits. Before that, the feudal army replenished its troops after the battle, and each army recruited people to train new soldiers. Over time, it is easy to cause the situation that the soldiers will be there and the officers and generals will be reluctant to fight hard when they are in a big battle.

However, the unified integration of recruit training into the War Readiness Administration can effectively change this situation.

All recruits are trained in the name of the Taiping Army and Chen Wu. In the event of battle damage in each department, the War Readiness Administration will also uniformly replenish new recruits. This not only allows the officers of various units to concentrate on how to fight, without being distracted by training new soldiers, but also effectively solves the hidden danger that they are reluctant to use troops during combat.

This modern conscription supplement is one of the greatest contributors to the military revolution in Empires.

By revoking the troops' authority to recruit troops privately, this move also indirectly increased the control of the Taiping Army's top brass over various departments. Unable to recruit troops on their own, they could only rely on the supplement of the Taiping Army Combat Readiness Administration. If anyone disobeys the yin and the yang, they only need to be transferred to the front line to fight two battles, and the troops will suffer heavy losses, so they will naturally have no confidence. Supplemented by budget control for military pay and food baggage, Chen Wu had little to worry about losing control.

Institutional precautions are always more effective than other means!

Just as the progress of the Taiping Army was in full swing, the shape of the emperor inside and outside the country was also changing rapidlyreads();.

At the end of March, the army of Wudou Midao completely controlled Longxi County and truly owned the land of the three counties. A part of the main force began to be drawn to support the battle of the army on the right, and the remaining forces began to move against Nishikawa while recruiting new soldiers on the spot. Obviously, Wudou Midao is re-taking the development route in the pre-"Empire".

At the same time, Chengguo Gongqian Taizhuo was also commanding a patchwork army of 60,000 and gathering on the edge of Fufeng Mansion, trying to break the stalemate while using the resources of the empire to prepare for a one-time expansion of four new divisions, which were named the Eagle Yang Army. He had realized that quelling the rebellion in Wudou Midao would be a protracted battle.

Just three days later, on the 1st of April, the sailors of the Northern Lena Dynasty recovered from the previous battle and once again roamed south on the outskirts of Tokai County.

On the same day, 50,000 advance troops of the southern Kingdom of Oman arrived at Koi Castle, the outpost of the Kingdom of Oman in the Red River Valley.

This castle, which is only one-third the size of the South Peak Fortress, was one of the most important fulcrums of the Northern Expedition of the Kingdom of Oman. On weekdays, about 60,000 troops were stationed here to confront the Tiannan Army in the Nanfeng Fortress. On the Chiang Mai Plain, fifteen miles behind the Koi Castle, there were still 100,000 troops. Now, with the arrival of 50,000 advance troops, the total strength of the Kingdom of Oman in the Red River Valley has reached 210,000.

The most prominent one is only forty kilometers away from the South Peak Fortress!

Even if they carried a large amount of siege equipment and slowed down the march, it would only take three to four days at most.

The military intelligence bureau of the empire also has a certain amount of secret agents in the Red River Valley, so it naturally knows that the scale of the Northern Expedition of the Kingdom of Oman is unprecedented. In this case, Le Jiming knew that the loss of Daqingguan was a huge hidden danger, but he did not dare to divide his troops rashly. I can only hope that the remaining officers and troops in Songjiang County can compress the Taiping army in Songjiang County and prevent them from going south.

It was in this critical situation that the order of the Songjiang County Protector General Gundam Prefecture was finally transmitted to the Osan Prefecture and the Fortress Prefecture, and was implemented after a quarrel between the local government and Tengju.

Fifteen hundred cavalrymen, stepping on the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, waved their troops westward under the attention of various forces.

Before Chen Wu captured the Great Qingguan, he had made a deduction about the possible reaction of Songjiang County.

In his imagination, the most stupid means of the government was to transfer some troops to quell the rebellion, or to come over to strengthen the defense of Yuyang Mansion. This strategy can allow Chen Wu to stutter the living force of Songjiang County in one bite, and it will not be effortless at all.

The middle strategy is to do nothing and conserve military strength -- or sit back and wait for death.

As for the best policy, of course, this is the one used by the state of Gundam.

Abandoning the accompanying infantry and not making any attempt to recover the Daqing Pass, he only relied on the high mobility of the cavalry to threaten the Taiping army, so that they would not dare to move in the Daqing Pass until the external shape became favorable to the official army.

Although the government's action was a little slower than expected, being able to make this decision undoubtedly proves that Gao Gaozhou, the general of the Guardian Army, is still of some level, and he is by no means an incompetent rice bucket. It's a pity that Chen Wu had already taken precautions for his plan, and he also sent detectives to find out the news in advance. These 1,500 cavalrymen had just left the border of Wushan Mansion and entered the boundary of Dengzhou, more than 200 kilometers away from Daqingguan, when they were discovered by Chen Wu's reconnaissance cavalry.

The information was transmitted back to Daqingguan day and night!

It has to be said that this is a military force that poses a huge threat to the Taiping Army.

After beating Daqing Pass, all the elite main forces of the Taiping Army combined, it can only be worth 5,000 reads ();. Although the recruitment of officers and troops is being replenished one after another, and the training of new recruits is also accelerated in Baima County and Dingguang County, these are not of great use in a short period of time. What can really be used is the old foundation brought out by the 5,000 Taiping County.

Even with the addition of 400 horsemen and 200 foot archers, there is not much advantage over the 1,500 cavalry of the Shangguan army.

If they were targeted by such a group of troops with extremely strong mobility and coming and going like the wind, the Taiping army could really only shrink in the Daqing Pass and could not do anything.

Conversely, if the Taipings managed to defeat this cavalry, the only force in Songjiang that might pose a threat to him would disappear. As long as the governor of Songjiang, Wei Chichang, did not go crazy and did not transfer the first garrison brigade of Dengzhou, Chen Wu's Taiping army could almost go sideways in Songjiang.

So, how to kill these 1,500 cavalry?

In front of Chen Wu, there were two predetermined plans. But for a while, he hadn't made up his mind which one to use.

The first plan is to take the initiative to set up an ambush.

Cavalry with a size of more than 1,000 people almost inevitably relied on official ways if they wanted to act. Chen Wu's Taiping army could consider setting up an ambush near the official road, using a small group of horses as bait to trick this cavalry into a preset trap and besiege it.

However, the disadvantage of this solution is that it is difficult to do the whole thing, and there is a possibility that it can be recognized.

Chen Wu's horse team, even if it has begun to take shape, still has a long way to go if it wants to confront the imperial cavalry head-on. In other words, even if the Taiping Army's 400 horse corps is dispatched, the official army only needs to divide half of the cavalry at most to firmly occupy an absolute advantage. Moreover, with so many cavalry dispatched, there will definitely be no shortage of outposts of the officers and soldiers, and Chen Wu is worried that the ambush he preset will be discovered in advance, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

If you don't do it well, you will put yourself in an embarrassing situation.

The other plan was relatively passive, but Chen Wu felt more secure.

That is, feint to attack Yuyang!

That's right, after the last feint attack on Yuyang Mansion to deceive the Daqing Pass defenders out of the customs rescue, Chen Wu planned to repeat his old tricks and feint to attack Yuyang again.

His plan was to use a small number of elite Taiping troops to launch a symbolic attack on Yuyang Mansion with the new army recruited by Dingguang County, Baima County. I don't want to attack immediately, I just want to make a huge momentum. Knowing that the "main force" of the Taiping Army was attacking Yuyang, the 1,500 cavalry of the official army who were ordered to rush over would inevitably find an opportunity to charge the Taiping Army. If the timing is right, you can even take advantage of the Taiping army's full strength to attack the city, and a charge will directly collapse the Taiping army!

Whether it was the cavalry of Yuyang Mansion or Songjiang, they must not have imagined that Chen Wu would feint twice.

This plan, which seems to be passive, is actually active in a sense. The Taiping army waited for the rabbit, opened a net, and waited for the official cavalry to take the initiative to send ****. The only problem is that there is not much good terrain outside the city of Yuyangfu to take advantage of. With the current strength of the Taiping Army, can it stop the charge of 1,500 cavalry!

Not only do you have to block it, but you also have to be able to surround it!

After considering the two plans for a long time, considering the current situation of the Taiping army, Chen Wu finally made up his mind.

The second package!

The order spread, and the Taiping army, which had largely recovered from the previous war or even further, moved quickly. The recruits from Dingguang County, who had been trained for less than two weeks, were given a fairly good weapon and began to march towards Yuyang Mansion. At the same time, all the carpenters and blacksmiths brought by the Taiping army from Taiping County began to work overtime to make sharp weapons against the cavalry.