Du Danqing, who knew that he was caught in a strategic encirclement, was not too worried!

Because he knew that with the Huangzhou defense line, the 50,000 troops in his hands, and the large amount of ammunition and food stored in advance in the city, he was absolutely sure that he would be able to hold it for at least one month, and if the situation was good, it was possible to hold it for two or even three months.

Even if he needs to face the front and rear attacks, the total number of puppet Tang thieves is more than 80,000 people besieged!

As long as you can hold the Huangzhou defense line, then you can give the Supervisor on the front line of Hanyang in the rear time time to calmly deploy troops!

When the Governor personally led the army east into Huangzhou, it was time for him to launch a counterattack against the puppet Tang thief army on the front line of Tuanfeng, and at that time, it was very likely that all the puppet Tang thief army who dared to land in Tuanfeng would be annihilated, so as to achieve a great victory that the Governor had never achieved in the past few years!

Du Danqing has his own strategic concept, but unfortunately, Li Xuan also has his own plan!

And the battle plan of the Tang Dynasty Royal Division is naturally impossible to follow Du Danqing's plan!

Du Danqing, he still underestimated the determination of the Tang Dynasty Division, underestimated Li Xuan's determination, he never thought that in this Southwest Campaign, the goal of the Tang Dynasty Division's goal was not only to conquer a certain place, but to annihilate the Governor as the main purpose.

Therefore, when the Fifth Army landed in Tuanfeng and defeated the 3,000 men of the Dubiao Division stationed in Tuanfeng, and the Dubiao Left Army contracted on the whole line under the leadership of Du Danqing, the envoys he sent to ask Zhang Yue to send troops were still galloping on horseback.

In the Jiangxia area on the other side of Hanyang Fucheng, the 1st Infantry Division, the 10th Mixed Regiment, the 1st Lancer Regiment, and two heavy artillery battalions of the First Army have already begun to board ships on a large scale.

If nothing else, they will start crossing the river at dawn tomorrow!

The total strength of the troops crossing the river was not too much, only about 25,000 men, and on the other side of the Yangtze River, in the Hanyang area, there were at least 20,000 Chinese troops stationed in the Governor Biao, and they also relied on numerous fortifications.

If you want to rely on this part of the First Army, it is almost impossible to conquer Hanyang.

However, Zhang Yue did not know that the landing of the First Army on the west side of Hanyang was not to conquer Hanyang, their core goal was to intercept Zhang Yue's westward escape, and the second purpose was to contain the Governor Biao Chinese Army in the Hanyang area and prevent them from reinforcing the Huangzhou line.

Now that the Fifth Army and the Second Army are attacking the front line of Huangzhou before and after, as long as the Ming Army in the Hanyang area is delayed, then the Second Army and the Fifth Army together will have a considerable degree of certainty to annihilate the Left Army of Dubiao in one fell swoop.

The main force of the First Army is about to cross the river, and the superintendent on the other side of the Yangtze River is not blind, he has already seen the puppet Tang thief army on the other side of the Yangtze River making a big move, and for this reason, they are also nervous, and the troops of the superintendent of the Chinese army here have all been mobilized.

At the same time, the young men who were recruited also continued to seize the time to build a defensive line and build many fortifications more solidly.

In the early morning of the next day, the long-prepared river-crossing operation officially began, and it was a river-crossing operation that both sides knew.

The superintendent on the opposite side had long expected that they would cross the river, so they had already made a lot of preparations in advance, and as for the First Army, they did not hide it, but they were ready to forcibly cross the river and land.

The reliance of the First Army is not so much about how strong their own combat effectiveness is, but about the guns on the battleships of the Yangtze River Fleet.

In order to support the First Army's river-crossing operations, the Yangtze River Fleet sent a total of about 80 river warships, and these river warships will always be cruising in this section of the river and will be close to the shore at any time to provide fire support for the First Army.

These eighty river warships, although their firepower is not very powerful, but they add up to more than two hundred guns!

Moreover, in this kind of operation to support the landing, the navy has never spared the losses of these river warships, and when necessary, they will even directly rush to the beach in order to close the distance and open artillery to cover the landing force.

After the beach ran aground, they sometimes didn't even care about the hull of the ship, directly pulled down the artillery on it, and then formed an artillery unit of the Marine Corps, and went directly ashore to support the army in the operation.

After all, running aground on a beach does not mean that the ship will be damaged, not to mention that even if it is really damaged, the hull is actually not worth a few dollars.

The inland river warships of the Datang Navy are generally only a few dozen tons, the price is quite cheap, and the construction is also very convenient and fast, otherwise, the Datang Navy would not be able to build hundreds of inland river warships in just a few years.

Even when it was originally designed, it was to take into account the temporary emergency, and after the reunification of the country, it seems that most of these inland river warships will be retired from active service, or transformed into military ships with other roles, or simply converted into cargo ships for sale.

To put it bluntly, the hundreds of inland river warships are basically emergency products, which can be used for a few years, and many processes are actually based on the standards of civilian ships.

Unlike those ocean-going warships, the service life of those ocean-going warships is more than ten or twenty years or even longer, so the standards of materials and craftsmanship are higher.

The First Army crossed the river, and under the cover of more than 80 naval river warships, the remaining troops tried to resist and sent only more than 30 warships, but it didn't take long for half of them to be annihilated by the navy, and the rest fled in a hurry!

In the face of absolute superiority, the superintendent has almost no resistance!

Immediately afterwards, many ships began to rush to the beach and act as temporary trestle bridges, but this was not over, more ships began to anchor directly on the surface of the Yangtze River, one after another to connect.

Tang Wangshi, this is to erect a pontoon bridge!

Different from the previous many river crossing operations, this time the Tang Dynasty Wang Division tried to directly erect a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River to land.

In the previous landing operations in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, because the river was too wide, it was too difficult to erect pontoon bridges, and the time was tight at that time, so they simply used the method of ship transportation to carry out the landing.

In the previous two Huangzhou landing operations, there was no pontoon bridge erected, because it was not needed.

However, this time when I landed on the west side of Hanyang, considering that after the landing of the First Army, the resistance would be more intense, the logistical requirements were relatively high, and the navy had an absolute advantage in this place, so I also tried to erect a pontoon bridge.

Although there are enough ships in the Tang Dynasty, but in the face of multi-front operations, this ship is also quite tense to use, if there is a pontoon bridge as a river crossing operation and subsequent material supply channel, then it must be much more convenient.

The First Army crossed the river, and the Inspector Sailor desperately resisted, but the resistance of the Inspector Sailor was meaningless, because they suffered an inevitable incident, and they did not even bring the slightest loss to the troops of the First Army who crossed the river.

However, if the Supervising Sailor Division can't resist, it doesn't mean that the Supervising Army on the shore can't resist!

It's just that this resistance does not mean beachhead resistance, but is ready to rely on fortifications to resist the Tang Army's attack on Hanyang!

However, Zhang Yue waited for a full day, and he didn't see the preparations of these pseudo-Tang thief armies to come over and capture Hanyang!

They did not approach and then began to dig trenches or make all kinds of siege preparations, but after a successful landing, they began to build fortifications outside the city.

If you didn't know, you would have thought that the people of the First Army were going to build a new city outside of Hanyang City!

What do these pseudo-Tang thieves want to do?

Instead of crossing the river to attack Hanyang, they set up camp and build a defensive fortress a few miles outside the city, near the river, which is not normal!

It didn't take long for him to understand why this abnormal situation was happening.

Because he finally received an urgent report from Du Danqing!

A puppet Tang thief army of about 30,000 people, Tuanfengdeng behind Huangzhou City, and 50,000 puppet Tang thief troops in front of Huangzhou City, formed a strategic encirclement posture of flanking and attacking.

It's bad, these pseudo-Tang thief armies crossed the river, not to attack Hanyang, but to contain themselves.

Zhang Yue has supervised the southern provinces for so many years, and he has been dealing with the puppet Tang thief army for a long time, although he is still a civilian official, but the basic strategic issues can still be thought out clearly.

The thief army landed on the west side of Tuanphong and Hanyang at the same time, why?

They are trying to contain themselves while surround and annihilate Du Danqing's Zuo Army!

The situation seems to be a little bad!

However, this was just the beginning, and then, before he could make a decision on whether to reinforce Huangzhou, or to hold Hanyang to avoid being attacked by the thief army Li Chunjing's troops, he received another piece of news.

This news was sent by Fei Qinxiang, the commander of the right army of the overseer army stationed in Anlu Prefecture, saying that a puppet Tang thief army of about 5,000 people crossed the river and landed in Anlu Prefecture, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chuyang Prefecture.

Although Fei Qinxiang said in the letter, he said with confidence that he was ready to personally lead the main force from Qianjiang to reinforce the Canyang Prefecture, and at that time there would be at least 5,000 people in the superintendent and standard defenders of the Cangyang Prefecture, and it was possible to drive the puppet Tang thief army who crossed the river off the Yangtze River, but it was still possible to hold the Cangyang Prefecture.

He also said that if necessary, he would also send troops from other directions to reinforce Chuyang Prefecture, so that Lord Zhang Yue would not have to worry, Anlu Prefecture would be as stable as Mount Tai!

But after seeing this news, Zhang Yue's eyebrows wrinkled even more!

What exactly do these pseudo-Tang thieves want to do?

It turned out to be attacking from multiple directions at the same time, and the time before and after was almost the same, was this the various generals of the pseudo-Tang Thief Army doing their own thing, or was it a unified plan?

If it's a unified scheme? What does the puppet Tang thief army want to do?

He had a very bad premonition at this time!

Frowning, he suddenly remembered something, and then called his staff in: "What are the various units of the thief army that invaded Huguang now?" ”

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