Chapter 464 awesme rivers and lakes

Wuchang Prefecture City is bright and cool in autumn.Under the clear sky of thousands of miles today, the north wind surrounds, and the water on the river is misty.

Zhang Fu, the British Duke of England, was riding on the Ma River.

At this moment, he couldn't help but look in the wind and look at the vast fleet of ships on the river.

The main fleet of the Ming Navy, transferred from the upper reaches of the river, went south from Wuchang Prefecture with the wind; the bulging sails were erect, like white clouds.

The sound of drums and military music came from the water, mixed with the sound of the rushing water of the wheels and boats, and it was very majestic.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, on the wide plain between the river and the lake, the infantry and cavalry were advancing south in several parallel routes.From a distance, several armies are like long dragons on the earth.

When Zhang Fu looked back at Wuchang City, he could still see that there were people marching east outside the city gate; those were all the people transferred to Jiujiang Prefecture and joined forces with reinforcements from the capital to travel south to Nanchang Prefecture.

The emperor granted General Zhang a million soldiers, and the general must awesme Huguang. In the blink of an eye, the rebels will be destroyed in the ashes!The general flatters the way.

Zhang Fu made a voice to say that he had heard it, but he didn't say anything, and was still looking at the situation of the water and land armies.

However, he did not blame his subordinates for flattering. Perhaps he was just relaxed and did not pay attention to revealing his expression to his face.

The millions of soldiers are a bit exaggerated, but they are not much worse!

After Zhang Fu arrived at Wuchang Prefecture, the capital of Huguang Province, it took him a while to understand where and how many soldiers he controlled were.

Including the southern troops led by Wu Gao, the Ming army stationed in Jiaozhi Province, and the main fleet of the Ming Navy, Zhang Fu's total naval and land forces were about 700,000!

No matter what, Zhang Fu finally got his wish and obtained the military power of the General Pinghan.

Now the Ming Dynasty can mobilize most of the troops and horses that can be mobilized to Huguang and other places are in his hands.

As long as he wins this battle, he will be the first military official in the court today, and there is no second one to compete with!

And his opponent was Zhu Gaoxu, the prince of the Ming Dynasty and the prince's younger brother.Before Zhang Fu took office as the commander of the suppression of rebellion, Zhu Gaoxu had swept across the three southwestern provinces with a total of 300,000 troops.

Very familiar opponent.

That was his own person who fought side by side with Zhang Fu in the Battle of Jingnan and the Battle of Annan... he was his own person.

It is also clear how many troops the King of Han had; the number of military households in various parts of the Ming Dynasty was available for checking, and you can know it clearly by calculating and inference.

If the King of Han advances eastward, he can mobilize up to more than 200,000 people.

At this time, the Ming army, whether it was the Beijing camp or the main army of the garrison, had considerable combat power. It could enter high mountains and jungles in the south to pacify the barbarian rebellion and attack the Mongolian cavalry in the north. It was definitely not comparable to the corrupt army at the end of previous dynasties.

At least it is not a force that can be fought against by temporarily recruiting refugees and strong people.

Therefore, Zhang Fu concluded that the power of the official army in this battle would be two to three times that of the King of Han!Zhang Fu thought in his heart that King Han was good at fighting, but the military strength of the two sides was more than twice, and he felt that his chances of winning were very high.

After Zhang Fu arrived in Wuchang Prefecture, he gradually figured out the specific deployment of the army, and began to arrange according to his own ideas.

The official troops in Huguang and other places were intervened several times before this. After the early mobilization and the Ministry of War, it was obviously not in line with Zhang Fu's ideas.

He quickly made new deployments within a few days.

Zhang Fu deployed all the land armies and land armies into five land armies and two naval divisions, totaling seven armies; the battlefield was divided into four regions.

He is now rectifying the army of up to 700,000 people so that each unit can reach the designated location in advance, which is four general territories; and form a seven-way naval and army that is convenient for mobilizing command.

The main force of the official army is gathering in the area south of Dongting Lake, where most of the Pinghan army will be deployed.

There is a main force of the navy, deployed on the waters of Dongting Lake and nearby Dajiang and Xiangjiang River; there are 100,000 Liu Sheng's army in Changde Prefecture; there will be 100,000 left deputy general He Fu's army who will arrive in Changsha Prefecture and Tanzhou Prefecture one after another; there are 100,000 right deputy general Xue Lu's army who are gathering in Yuezhou.

The total water and land force is more than 300,000!

The second territory is in Jingzhou, with 50,000 troops from the Land and the Navy.

The third place is in Nanchang Prefecture, with Chen Mao and Tan Zhongjun a total of 100,000 people.

The fourth is located in Nanning Prefecture and Jiaozhi Province, with more than 100,000 Wu Gao's army and more than 80,000 Jiaozhi army in Huangzhong.

The deployment of these men is just preliminary preparations.Only before the battle could Zhang Fu carry out the next step of combat deployment, which was the general principle of the joint army battle agreed by the emperor and the court!

Zhang Fu could control his total force of nearly 700,000, but he also knew that some of them were useless.

For example, Huang Zhongjun in Jiaozhi Province, Huang Zhong was the person who was personally harvested and promoted by Zhang Fu from the imperial prison, and there was no problem with the main general; the problem was that the 50,000 troops that were once affiliated with the Guizhou Dusi, and the Guizhou army that retreated from Kunming City mutiny and only 50,000 were left after they were separated. The morale was low and the loyalty was poor... As long as they did not surrender to the enemy, Zhang Fu would thank God and did not think they could help.

Zhang Fu has ordered the Fujian Guangdong and Guangxi Navy to move the troops to the west of Qiongzhou Prefecture (Hainan Island) to be responsible for the water defense of the Jiaozhi River.

He also sent someone to pass on orders to Huang Zhong and issued military orders to Jiaozhi Army. Anyone who finds to surrender to the enemy, sue or wins the head of a traitor, will be rewarded. Also called Huang Zhong, the soldiers of the Han King, only wanted to drive away the brothers to rebel and die, and told the brothers not to be deceived and sacrifice their lives in vain...

At this moment, Zhang Fu heard a rapid sound of horse hooves coming from the north.He and his generals turned around and saw several riders running towards this side.

After the horse approached, he stopped the horse. While turning over and dismounting, the man shouted: The young men came to deliver the report on the order of the Marquis of Jiangyin. He first arrived at the Huguang Dusi Yamen. He heard that the general had just left the city, so he asked someone to lead the way to catch up.

Take it up.Zhang Fu said.

The visitor quickly stepped forward, knelt on one knee, and presented the lacquered letter with both hands to the mount.

Zhang Fu pulled it apart and looked at it.

Wu Gao wrote that in mid-June, the Guizhou rebels captured Libo County; the late days of the generals learned that there was a village in Miaojiang west of Tianzhou and a new rebel granary was set up; our department also found out that the rebels were gathering troops to Kunming and Guizhou.

Judging from all the signs, the last general thought that the main force of the rebels would march from the second part of Yunnan and Guizhou to Guangxi.

At the end, the general will be in Nanning Prefecture, with weak power and difficulty in obtaining reinforcements. He will wait for the opportunity to temporarily avoid Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Dushi, or Guangdong, waiting for the deployment of the general.

The rebels of the Han King indeed marched from Guangxi!There was far away from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, because the government army was very slow to mobilize, and it was indeed a place where rebels were more likely to come out.

Wu Gao has always been calm and cautious, and has insufficient progress; he is indeed like this again, and when he encounters an enemy with superiority, he will not easily go up and fight to the death.

However, Wu Gao's request at this time was deeply appreciated by Zhang Fu.

Fortunately, Wu Gao was in Guangxi, otherwise if Xue Lu was like in Sichuan, he would go up to fight first, and then Zhang Fu would have a headache!

At this time, Zhang Fu believed that it was not entirely necessary to carry out a decisive battle in Guangxi.The total strength of the official army is very sufficient, and there is no need to engage in a battle with fewer attacks on the crowd and little chance of winning.

Zhang Fu's initial plan was to gather superior forces and then engage in a more confident decisive battle after the camera was added!

He thought for a while, considering that Wu Gao's report was sent from Nanning Mansion for a long distance, it would take some time to pass the letters back and forth.I have to hurry up to write back to Wu Gao!

Zhang Fu immediately jumped off the horse's back and asked someone to take out the paper and pen from the bag.

The personal soldier immediately lay on the ground, holding a piece of white paper on his back. Zhang Fu picked up the brush and waited for the guard to pick up a roar of water from the water bag. He dipped it twice, and then he quickly wrote and started writing as if flying.

Zhang Fu agreed with Wu Gao's approach and suggested that Wu Gao's army try to move towards Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi.

His reply was based on the judgment of the situation and speculation of the rebels' attempts.

Zhang Fu speculated that the place where Zhu Gaoxu chose to fight was most likely in northern Guangxi or west of Huguang; the possibility of rebels marching eastward to Fujian, Guangdong or attacking southward to annex Jiaozhi Army was relatively small.

That's why Zhang Fu gathered heavily in the area south of Dongting Lake first.

Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, only 100,000 people were deployed. One reason was that the troops from the capital were closer to Nanchang Prefecture, and they could be rectified more quickly.

Second, we can also keep a hand in the east, just in case Zhu Gaoxu advances alone and make some preparations for future wars; not to mention that the army advances west from Nanchang Prefecture, the Nanchang Army can quickly join the ranks of Huguang's heavy troops.

At this time, it is recommended that the Wu Gao army wait for an opportunity to march towards Guilin as much as possible, so that the Wu Gao army can participate in the upcoming decisive battle from closer places...

Now that the rebels of the King of Han are about to go south, Zhang Fu decided to abandon the Nanning Prefecture barrier in the north of Jiaozhi Province; only use the navy to advance westward and reinforce the Jiaozhi defense war, which has very few opportunities.

Zhang Fu wrote a brief reply, stamped the seal of the General of Pinghan on it, and handed it to the follower beside him, saying: Take my handsome man's large seal and paint seal, and join the messenger, and quickly deliver it to the Marquis of Jiangyin.

The villain obeys the order!

Since Zhang Fu was ordered to pacify the Han general, he has been thinking about how to deal with the rebels day and night, and many strategies are in his heart.

Now that he learned that the rebels might go south, he immediately issued another military order!

Writing military orders is still completed on the back of personal soldiers.

Zhang Fu ordered that the water and land armies that had gathered in Jingzhou would advance westward and along the river and land to attack the Sichuan Provincial Administration Commission!

Although the Jingzhou army had the smallest number, Zhang Fu did not ask them to attack, but used the words of trying to break through Kuizhou and forcing Chongqing Prefecture.

Because Zhang Fu's understanding of King Han, it was impossible for the King of Han to divide the troops into two sides of the north and south, and Sichuan must be very empty.

The terrain of Kuizhou and other places is dangerous, and it is difficult for navy to drive in some river waters without a boatman.

The Jingzhou Army had tens of thousands of naval and land armies, and it was difficult to break through the eastern gate of Sichuan; however, Zhang Fu's intention was to ask the Jingzhou Army to give Sichuan a fierce enough offensive so that the Han King could feel the pressure of being under the enemy from both sides.