Chapter 138 Soldiers stationed in Wuchang

At this time, because Xing Tianjun has completely shown strong strength, in contrast, the performance of the court has disappointed everyone, which makes many people feel that Xing Tianjun has come to this point and has become a huge force that the court can no longer control! Coupled with the detailed agitation of Xing Tianjun spread all over the country, in many parts of the country, the lowest-level people have begun to respond spontaneously to the situation of Xing Tianjun. Many people can be said to be looking forward to Xing Tianjun, hoping that Xing Tianjun will go to their place quickly and get rid of the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes they bear on them, but Live better. This momentum can be said to be a surge of wind and clouds. The Xingtian Army has hardly gone anywhere, and can be welcomed by a large number of people. There are many followers. Every time they attack the city, a large number of local people will come to help fight, carry materials for the Xingtian Army, build equipment, and even directly participate in the siege of the city for the Xingtian Army. Many people died on the battlefield because of the trenches dug by the defenders and removed all kinds of obstacles to defense, but more people still joined in.

So much so that now every attack by Xing Tianjun is much easier than before, and even has the effect of dominoes, which induces the defenders in many places to simply surrender to the Xing Tianjun, making the territory of Xing Tianjun expand almost every day, and the states and counties are successively punished by the Tianjun. The break made Xiao Tianjian a little overwhelmed by this. He didn't even know how much new territory he had controlled at the moment. Anyway, almost every now, his subordinates would send people to send letters to tell him where he had taken down. Later, Xiao Tianjian simply ordered the personnel of the staff to draw a huge bright land. Picture, whenever you receive the news, you will immediately paint the newly occupied territory, and at the same time, the main forces of each army and horse are also marked on the map, so that the situation is clear at a glance.

During this period, Li Shuanzhu's department was relatively much easier. After attacking Yunyang, because Xiao Tianjian had no plan to attack Shaanxi for the time being, Li Shuanzhu's department was a little more relaxed. The main focus was on consolidating the northern part of Huguang, taking over the defense of Jingzhou, Chengtianfu and other places. It turned out that the guard division stayed. The people rushed to Wuchang to meet with Xiao Tianjian, which made Xiao Tianjian's guard group stronger, and also avoided Xiao Tianjian's worries about the western Sichuan officials and army. Moreover, Li Shuanzhu was ordered by Xiao Tianjian to lead his troops to capture Dangyang, and then marched into Yilingzhou, and began to prepare for the forced entry into Sichuan in the future. At present, Xiao Tianjian's main energy is on Nanzhili, so he is not in a hurry to enter Sichuan for the time being. As long as he can control Huguang and Jiangxi and free his hands in the future, entering Sichuan will not be a problem at all.

On the whole, after Xiao Tianjian controlled Wuchang Mansion, the focus of the battle began to be biased towards the area of Nanzhili. From his previous plan, after taking off Huguang, the next step was to attack Nanzhili. As long as Nanjing was captured, the capital division alone in the north would be cut off from all material support. This Even if Daming is completely finished, it is up to him to decide how to capture the capital.

After October, Huguang was basically controlled by Xing Tianjun, and Li Xin was still leading his troops to attack in the south of Huguang. By November, the whole southern part of Huguang was basically controlled by Li Xin's troops in the hands of Xing Tianjun. Even in Jiangxi, there were large-scale uprisings in several places. After the criticized people learned that Xing Tianjun had captured Huguang, they began to take action in Jiangxi. Under the leadership of some bold people, they began to take the initiative to capture the Zhuangbao and villages of some local officials and gentry, and sent people to Huguang to contact Xing Tianjun, asking Xing Tianjun to join them as soon as possible. They were willing to join the Xingtian Army.

And the officials in Jiangxi can be said to have already become frightened birds. They were scared all day long. They hurriedly gathered the rich gentry and rich households in the local area and stepped up the organization of some township soldiers. On the one hand, they stepped up the pout of the local uprising rebels, and on the other hand, they also stepped up their defense.

At such a good time, Li Xin sent people to tell Xiao Tianjian that he could not miss the opportunity. He was willing to lead his troops to directly attack Jiangxi. If it goes well, he could cooperate with Xiao Tianjian from the south to form an encirclement of Nanzhili after the Spring Festival. At the same time, he could also contain the officers and soldiers in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong to support Nanzhili.

Xiao Tianjian considered Li Xin's proposal in Wuchang and felt that it would be relatively safer to attack Nan Zhili in the future. He approved Li Xin's request, and Li Xin's strategic considerations were indeed very good, and he really lived up to Xiao Tianjian's expectations of him.

In order to strengthen Li Xin's strength, Xiao Tianjian thought about it and pulled out some of Li Dingguo's headquarters, which had been changed and reorganized, so that he immediately rushed to Changsha to support Li Xin's use of troops in Jiangxi.

After Li Xin was ordered, he immediately led his troops into Jiangxi with Gao Jian, and went straight to Yuanzhou (now Yichun), an important town in western Jiangxi. At the end of November, with the support of a local righteous people in Yuanzhou, and with the assistance of Yuanzhou, he easily captured Yuanzhou, and then opened At the beginning, he divided his troops and attacked Wanzai and other counties, pointing the front of the soldiers to Jizhou.

Xiao Tianjian sat in Wuchang Prefecture. It took Luo Li and Liu Yao for two months to basically control the boundary of the lake and Guangdong Province connected to the Nanzhili area in the hands of Xing Tianjun. In these places, they basically did not encounter strong resistance from the officers and soldiers. The march was very smooth. After fighting Daye, Luo Li took a rest for a while. He and Liu Yaoben sent troops to the northern part of Jiangxi and captured Ningzhou in early November. The combined force directly threatened Jiujiang Prefecture, an important town of the Yangtze River, and also put pressure on Nanchang Prefecture, the capital of Jiangxi.

In this way, Ding Qirui had to rush to increase troops to Nanchang Prefecture and Jiujiang Prefecture. Sun Yingyuan, the general, and Wu Xueli, the deputy general, led troops to Jiujiang Prefecture and Nanchang Prefecture, in order to prevent the Xing Tian Army from continuing to occupy these two places, which put pressure on Nanjing.

At the same time, Ding Qirui also sent the superintendent 10,000 yuan to sit in the Luzhou government to resist the offensive of a criminal army against Nanzhili by Liu Bao, Henan. So far, the officers and troops in the whole south have completely lost the ability to attack actively. They can only take a passive defensive approach to stop the Xing Tianjun's threat to Nan Zhili.

Xiao Tianjian was in Wuchang Mansion, constantly observing the actions of his subordinates and devised the next steps. After the rest and replenishment of materials and retraining in October and November after the fall of Wuchang Mansion, Xiao Tianjian was alone around Wuchang Mansion, and there were more than 20,000 soldiers, and more than 20,000 people were temporarily It was organized into the Guards Group, and it was organized into nearly ten battle battalions and cavalry battalions, including three A battalions, three B battalions, two C battalions, plus two cavalry battalions. In addition, there are three water battalions, two heavy artillery battalions, two barracks, and one engineering battalion. Basically, each battalion is full of personnel, which does not include Luo. Of course, more than 10,000 horses of the second division and more than 5,000 guards led by Liu Yaoben cannot be counted as more than 20,000 horses that Li Xin is in the south of Huguang and south of Jiangxi.

And Xiao Tianjian's current subordinates gathered dozens of generals such as Luo Rucai, Situ Liang, Shi Ran, Lin Luo, Lao Hui, etc. It can be said that the soldiers are strong and the horses are full.

Now if the Guards Division is also called a division, then this division is really a little too big. In fact, at this time, the Guards Division can already be called a regiment. For the convenience of command, Xiao Tianjian temporarily divided it into three divisions, except for the water battalion and heavy artillery battalion and In addition to the iron-headed guard battalion, the other dozen battalions Xiao Tianjian divided it into three guard divisions. Liu Yaoben served as the first guard division, Situ Liang served as the second guard division, and the old back as the third guard division. Shi Ran and Lin Luo directly returned to Xiao Tianjian, who were directly led the personnel of Xiao Tianjian. Shi Ran hangs the title of capital, while Lin Luo temporarily holds the title of deputy capital.

And after two consecutive months of replenishment and high-intensity training, the soldiers and horses of all departments can now be said to have changed. Most of these new battalions are new recruits. Some of the unqualified soldiers have been eliminated, and some of them have been severely purged. They have killed some top crimes by cutting their heads. At the same time, a group of military generals were promoted by means of commendation and promotion. Under the strict training of carrots and sticks, the appearance of these newly-organised battalions and generals has also changed a lot. Everyone has realized that the military law of Xing Tianjun is ruthless and knows that the military law of Xing Tianjun is not noisy. It's fun, and the high-intensity drills have made them quickly adapt to the new combat tactics and methods. The overall combat effectiveness has improved a lot in the past two months.

Even the worst C battalion is not willing to be left behind. Although the equipment is a little poor, the morale is not bad. The soldiers and generals are full of energy to erase the classification of their C battalion and upgrade it to Class A battalion, and the worst should be changed to B battalion. Therefore, when training, the officers are more strict, and the soldiers are also very They worked hard, so they actually put a lot of pressure on the A and B war camps that surpassed them. No one wanted to be demoted to the C battalion in the future, so they secretly competed with each other and set off an upsurge of training in the station.

Even some new recruits used to be careless officers and soldiers. After joining the Xingtian Army, they also put away their looseness. They gradually adapted to this kind of life and began to become morale. Those bad habits that had been developed in the officers and soldiers in the past also restrained as much as possible and did not dare to commit it again.

In a word, in December, Xiao Tianjian personally gathered these soldiers outside Wuchang City and had a large-scale exercise. He divided the two divisions into the Honglan armies and carried out a large-scale confrontation drill similar to actual combat. In addition to the exercise in the field, he also took Wuchang County as the exercise venue. Tactics of attacking and defending the city.

Although the training time is only more than two months, all the departments have shown high fighting spirit. Unfortunately, the time for these new battalions to form troops is still a little shorter, and they are not mature in many tactics. In the confrontation exercises, a lot of mistakes have been made, which made Xiao Tianjian somewhat dissatisfied, but recall Xing Tian Isn't the history of the army and the rest of the main forces of the old army also gradually tempered in previous battles? If you want more than two months, these new battalions will be tempered like those old subordinates. Obviously, it is a little too difficult for them. A real elite soldier and horse can only be tempered through repeated battles. Xiao Tianjian is still very clear about this. He didn't have more than a year to fight several times. It is impossible to make these new battalions become real elites. Now that this step can be achieved, it can be said that the generals in the army have made their best efforts.

Over time, Xiao Tianjian believes that these newly formed soldiers and horses will also become real elite soldiers. At least now that he has branded the seal of Xing Tianjun on them, he will not worry that they will not be able to become elite soldiers in the future, not to mention that these new soldiers have been framed. The backbone of the battalion is still the old subordinates he transferred from everywhere. As long as they are there, there will be no big problem.

This point is just to look at the old subordinates brought out by Lao Hui. You can see that when you first saw Lao Hui and his subordinates, these people were either depressed or arrogant soldiers and seven unconvinced. No one can put them in their eyes, but after nearly a year of training, They also integrated into Xing Tianjun and began to become no different from other Xiao Tianjian's old troops. There was a proud look on their faces, which only Xing Tianjun could do this.

In addition to these marching drills, including the water camp led by Water Duck Zhang Chi and Liu Jiang, they also conducted a confrontational drill on the river. The two battleship battalions practiced tactics such as water attack and cover, and the cargo ship camp specializing in the transfer of materials and horses was also practiced at the dock. The overall combat effectiveness of loading and unloading personnel, horses and materials has also improved a lot. At least it is not like before coming to Wuchang, it was a mess on the river. Hundreds of various boats are neatly lined up on the river, and the high masts are full of all kinds of flags, which makes people shake their hearts. , sighed repeatedly.

So don't look at that they only have more than 20,000 people, but Xiao Tianjian believes that the combat effectiveness they can exert is far more than several times that of their officers and soldiers. In addition, Luo Li and Liu Yaoben's old departments, with the cooperation of Liu Bao's department, the conditions are basically ripe to fight Nan Zhili.

So Xiao Tianjian made up his mind at this time. After stepping up the training for another month, he began to go down the river and send troops to Nanjing City after the Spring Festival.