In order to capture Jinling City before it snowed, the Chu army moved relatively quickly after capturing Hukou. Even in order to continue to advance eastward, they did not allocate the main force to attack some surrounding small cities.

These small cities were basically left to the garrison to attack, although the Chu army also sent a small number of main troops as the core backbone.

However, these main forces are mainly used to suppress the situation, prevent the garrison from being ambushed, and incidentally serve as a supervisory team.

As for the work of siege, in addition to the artillery support of the main force, the battle between infantry is still dominated by the garrison infantry.

In this way, we can just take advantage of the large number of surrendered troops collected in the campaign to advance eastwards, so that they will not be left to eat for free...

In the Eastward Campaign, a large number of surrendered soldiers were reorganized according to the Chu army's previous rules. In addition to some elites from the New Standard Army who were directly added to the main forces, some of the other New Standard Army and battalion sentries were also reorganized.

Soldiers, etc. are basically incorporated into the garrison.

In a series of battles in Jiujiang, as well as a series of subsequent battles such as the attack on Wuchang, the Chu army accepted a large number of surrendered troops and reorganized the 11th Garrison Division and the 12th Garrison Division. At the same time, half of the original troops were transferred

The 7th Garrison Division has also regained its full strength.

These three garrison divisions were also the main forces used by the Chu army to fight in Jiangxi and even Chizhou Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture and other areas to attack non-strategic places.

When the Chu army continued to advance eastward, they successively captured Chizhou Prefecture and reached Taiping Prefecture.

Luo Zhixue selected people from the surrendered troops to establish the 13th Garrison Division.

At the same time, the 14th Garrison Division was also established in the Jiangbei area with surrendered troops.

After capturing Wuhu, Luo Zhixue formally established the Anlu Governorate Area, which governed Chizhou Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture, Ningguo Prefecture, and Taiping Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River, and Anqing Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, and Hezhou in the north of the Yangtze River.

The governor's headquarters was Anqing, and the Anlu Garrison Headquarters was established, temporarily under the jurisdiction of the 13th Garrison Division and the 14th Garrison Division.

However, in the Anlu Prefecture Province, there are actually more than just these two garrison divisions fighting, there are also the Fifth Garrison Division and the Seventh Garrison Division.

It’s just that the Fifth Garrison Division belongs to the Chubei Garrison Command, and the 7th Garrison Division belongs to the Jiangxi Garrison Command.

At the same time, because these two garrison divisions are fighting abroad, they are actually directly under the command of the staff headquarters. If nothing unexpected happens, these two garrison divisions with relatively strong combat effectiveness will continue to accompany the First Army and the Second Army respectively.

Will not stay in Chubei or Jiangxi.

The combat effectiveness of the Chu army's garrison was naturally not enough in front of the main division. Both the quality of the soldiers and the level of equipment were far inferior.

But if compared with the battalion sentries in the Ming army, they are relatively capable of fighting.

After all, the garrison in the Chu army, except for a few former New Standard Army soldiers who were not selected into the main force, most of them were actually elites selected from the sentries of the Ming army camp, and were mainly combat soldiers.
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Not all prisoners of war can join the Chu army's garrison if they want to, and the overall selection ratio is about one-half or even one-third.

At the same time, even if these are garrison troops, their equipment may not be good, but their food supply is not bad.

After all, the Chu army is not short of food, and they will not treat their soldiers as harshly as the Ming army. As long as they are soldiers fighting for Luo Zhixue, they can at least have enough to eat.

The quality of this food supply may be slightly worse than that of the main force, but the quantity is definitely sufficient.

As soon as the food supply arrived, it immediately affected the morale and morale of the soldiers in the garrison.

On the one hand, there is not enough to eat every day, and on the other hand, there is enough to eat every day. Just this difference is enough for the soldiers of the Chu Army garrison to burst into stronger morale than the Ming army camp sentries.

At the same time, the equipment is generally better. Although the weapons and armor they are equipped with are all weapons and equipment captured from the Ming army, due to the large amount of captured equipment, and during the reorganization process, only a part of the surrendered soldiers were selected to be selected into the garrison. Therefore, the reorganization process was

Here, the garrison basically does not wear traditional equipment such as swords and spears.

The armor and artillery may be a little inferior, but proportionally they are much stronger than the Ming army's battalion sentries.

In addition, there is a more critical point, that is, the garrison divisions in the Chu army are also equipped with field artillery. Even if it is only two and a half kilograms of field artillery, a division only has a mere twelve field artillery battalions, but this is

Yes.

The soldiers in the traditional camp and sentry force, coupled with field artillery, this path is actually similar to the path taken by Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou also continued to use the old-style battalion sentries, and then directly paired them with new-style thieves-killing cannons, which are field guns.

Not to mention, the effect is pretty good.

The cost of building an army is low, the consumption is relatively small, and the combat effectiveness can be guaranteed.

Such a Chu army garrison was often able to attack small cities and take charge of some secondary fronts.

So much so that some of the Ming Dynasty civil and military officials opposite were greatly puzzled.

These Chu thieves were obviously part of their officers and soldiers not long ago, and their combat effectiveness was not very good.

How come when we get to the Chu bandits, the people are still the same, and even the equipment is still the same. How come the combat power suddenly soars.

This is unreasonable!

While a large number of local officials in the Ming court were puzzled and even cursed, several garrison divisions from the Chu army attacked the city and plundered the territory.

On the southern line of Jiangxi, the 11th Garrison Division first captured Ruizhou Prefecture, then Yuanzhou Prefecture, and finally successfully joined forces with the 10th Garrison Division affiliated to the Chunan Garrison Command in the Pingxiang area.

Another garrison division of the Jiangxi garrison headquarters, the 12th garrison division, is located in Raozhou Prefecture and Guangxin Prefecture. Now the troops have reached the Jiangshan area of ​​Zhejiang Province adjacent to Guangxin Prefecture.

If the fight continues like this, if the Ming army in Zhejiang is not strong enough, the 12th Garrison Division may not be able to fight all the way to Jinhua in the hinterland of Zhejiang in one go.

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These two garrison divisions continued to fight on two lines, one in the east and one in the west. This also allowed the 7th Division, the main force of the Chu army in the Jiangxi area, to free up its hands to continue attacking important cities in the Ganjiang River Basin and other areas.<

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The 7th Division first captured Fengcheng, then moved south to Linjiang, while the other brigade captured Fuzhou.

Immediately afterwards, two brigades of the 7th Division attacked Ji'an Prefecture from two directions.

There were not many Ming troops in Ji'an Prefecture, and they could not stop the Seventh Division's onslaught. In early October, as the Chu Army's Seventh Division captured Wan'an and Longquan in the southernmost part of the central Jiangxi Plain, basically

The entire Ji'an Prefecture was declared to be completely under the rule of the Chu Empire.

However, the 7th Division later took the initiative to stop and continue to move south.

This is because if you continue to go south, you will enter the Ganzhou Prefecture area, which has many mountains and rugged roads. These places are very unfriendly to troops like the 7th Division, which has a large number of artillery and ammunition and baggage.

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It is difficult to guarantee the mobile marching speed of the troops, and it is difficult to guarantee the logistics safety, and it is easy to be ambushed by the enemy.

The Chu army had encountered this kind of trouble before in the southern and western regions of southern Chu and even in eastern Sichuan.

It’s not that you can’t beat it, but it’s more troublesome and takes much longer time.

Not to mention other things, it is not easy just to pull these five-pound field cannons weighing over a thousand kilograms or even nine-pound field cannons weighing two to three thousand kilograms.

Without these powerful field artillery, the Chu army's combat effectiveness will immediately drop by at least half. If you don't want to directly risk the lives of the light infantry, you can only slowly open roads and build bridges, and wait for the field artillery to slowly

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This is also the reason why the Chu army's progress in the above-mentioned areas is very slow.

Now the Chu army's operations in the Jiangxi area have also entered this stage. They are restricted by the terrain, and at the same time, the Chu army is unwilling to inflict a large number of casualties on the main force, so naturally there is no way to achieve a quick victory.

But more importantly, after the Chu army captured Ji'an Prefecture, the Chu Empire basically controlled most of the population gathering places and grain-producing areas in central and northern Jiangxi.

As for Ganzhou Prefecture in the south and some other mountainous areas, they will not be very attractive to the Chu army in a short period of time.

Under such circumstances, most of the resources of the Chu Empire need to be supplied for the eastward campaign to maintain the army's continuous operations in the Jiangbei and Jiangnan regions.

In the case of limited resources, especially ammunition supply, the Logistics Department of the Military Academy of the Dachu Empire basically gave priority to replenishing various types of ammunition to the Jiangbei and Jiangnan regions. As for the ammunition supply in Jiangxi, with the capture of Ji'an Prefecture

Later, the Logistics Department simply cut off most of the ammunition supply to Jiangxi.

Now the Seventh Division is fighting in Jiangxi. It seems that there are a lot of artillery, but they dare not let go to fire. Otherwise, they will run out of ammunition in minutes and the artillery will become scrap metal.

Without ammunition supplies, the Chu army's main force's large-scale offensive in the Jiangxi area actually came to a halt after October.

However, the main force was unable to fight due to lack of ammunition, but the garrison with few firearms could still continue to fight.

Especially the 12th Garrison Division, even after entering October, even though it is far away from the rear supply depot, it still relies on recruiting food on the spot to strongly maintain the combat effectiveness of its cold weapon troops.

Relying on fighting with traditional cold weapons, they conquered Jiangshan and Changshan, completely opening the door to the western region of Zhejiang. This frightened the governor of Zhejiang and other officials, who began to mobilize troops from all over the province to reinforce Quzhou Prefecture.

To prevent Chu thieves from entering the hinterland of Zhejiang.

The outstanding performance of the 12th Garrison Division even attracted the attention of Luo Zhixue, the Emperor of the Chu Empire who is currently in Dangtu.

Looking at the battle report of the 12th Garrison Division sent from Jiangxi, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly and said: "It seems that Chen Yongfu was the right choice to be the division commander. He is indeed very good at fighting."

Xu Zhixian said: "His Majesty is still a wise man with a pair of wise eyes. If it weren't for Your Majesty who promoted him to be the teacher, Chen Yongfu would not be able to display his talents even if he has all kinds of abilities!"

"The same goes for He Renlong. Now he is leading the 14th Garrison Division to fight in Jiangbei with great success, and this is all due to Your Majesty's skill in employing people!"

Luo Zhixue laughed after hearing this. Although he knew that Xu Zhixian was complimenting him, Luo Zhixue was in a good mood after hearing this.

Not everyone dares to use surrendered generals so confidently and boldly, and even allows surrendered generals to directly serve as commander-in-chief of the army.

But Luo Zhixue just dares!

Although Han Tong placed a lot of An Tan around these two people, if these two people made any slight changes, they would basically be dead.

But...

Almost every senior general in the Chu army was surrounded by Han Tong's spies, so Luo Zhixue didn't treat Chen Yongfu and He Renlong specially.

They are all treated equally.

And this kind of equal treatment is not something that every superior person can give to those who have been demoted.
To be continued...