Valley Emperor

Just when the Ninth Army in the north was fighting to death with the Tatars, the Jinling City was still singing and dancing, as if they could not see the slightest impact of the war.

Actually it is!

Although the Hetao battle formulated by the Tang Dynasty was very important, it was a strategic battle at best, far from being able to completely wipe out the Tartars all at once.

The army used by the Tang Empire was only 40,000 infantry and 15,000 cavalry, and even if the young and strong people were counted, the total was only 60,000 or 70,000.

This number of troops seems to be not small, but it is not as large as the troops that marched into Liaodong back then.

For today's Datang Empire, this force is only a small force!

Today, the 6th Army of the Datang Empire has twenty main infantry divisions, five cavalry divisions, more than ten cavalry regiments, and more than a dozen other independent artillery, infantry and other units. more than ten thousand.

This refers to the situation without mobilization, because in order to save military expenses, even the main front-line troops are divided into two kinds of formations.

The other is a peaceful establishment. In the case of a peaceful establishment, the combatants are retained, but the auxiliary force only retains the backbone. At the same time, the establishment of some troops is incomplete. On the whole, the peace establishment is only % of the full personnel. About eighty troops.

However, even if it is a peaceful establishment, the number of fighters and weapons and equipment is complete, and what is lacking is only some capabilities such as long-distance maneuvering, but it does not affect the main combat tasks.

If the above-mentioned troops are all mobilized and reach a complete establishment, the total force will exceed 400,000!

In addition, reserve divisions must be added. The number of reserve divisions belonging to the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty has already been arranged to more than 50. Although these reserve divisions are strong or weak, the strong ones can have seven or eight thousand or even tens of thousands of troops. There may be only four or five thousand troops.

The shortage of reserve divisions is more serious than that of regular troops!

The reserve division and the main force combined, the strength of the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty alone has reached five or sixty thousand.

The 50,000-60,000-strong army only accounted for one-tenth of that.

At the same time, this has not been included in the Navy and the Guards.

The navy has a lot of troops. The navy, which has many combat warships, has a total of about 60,000 troops, of which more than 10,000 are the 6th clan, and the rest are sailors and artillery.

The strength of the Guards is smaller, and it is currently maintained at the scale of 40,000 people. Although the Guards has only two divisions, these two divisions belong to a large establishment, and they maintain a state of combat readiness all year round. Full of staff.

The above-mentioned three armies, the total active military strength has reached nearly 700,000!

This is quite a terrifying number, at least for any neighboring countries in East Asia, this is a very terrifying number.

It's a pity that most of this huge army is actually used internally!

Yes, you read that right!

For the millions of troops of the Tang Empire, their real enemies are not foreign races, but internal rebels.

Internal rebellion was more deadly than the Tatar threat.

Therefore, no matter how lively the fighting in the north is, the imperial army in the Zhili area has never been mobilized, and at most it is just sending troops to participate in the war on a rotational basis.

These tens of thousands of people from the Ninth Army, placed inside the empire, are actually nothing.

Otherwise, why would Liu Mengyang, the head of the 13th Carriage Regiment, have the idea of ​​fighting a war of attrition?

It is because he is very clear about how powerful the empire is. Losing a few thousand people is a piece of shit, and it will be replenished in minutes. He has heard that the recruitment scale of the 6th military department this year is much larger than in previous years, and the number has reached 150,000 people.

From the number of troops recruited by the 6th Army, it can basically be judged that the Datang 6th Army either wants to expand its army or is ready to fight.

The ordinary soldiers of the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty had three years of service in the early days, and then increased to four years. The reason for the additional one year is that the military wants to give the time for recruit training and replenishment of soldiers. To add it back, this period will take at least half a year.

If it is not replenished, then when the 6th Army of Datang has worked hard to train new recruits and send them to the army, their remaining years of service will only be two and a half years. The 6th Army feels a little disadvantaged, so later The term of service was extended by one year.

In this case, it also means that the 6th Army needs to recruit more than 100,000 new soldiers every year to supplement the troops and reserve troops to supplement the vacancies of the veterans in the troops after they are discharged.

But as of this fall, the number of recruits from the 6th Military Department has exceeded 200,000!

This is the personnel gap caused by the normal retirement of the troops.

What are the extra troops for?

Expand the army?

Without the designation of the new troops, the expansion of the army is unlikely.

Then the only explanation is to mobilize to fight. These extra soldiers are supplemented to the participating troops, so that the participating troops are fully filled, and they are also used as supplementary soldiers. After the troops fighting in front suffer casualties, these aftermath Trained recruits will be able to top it.

As an officer of the 6th Army of the Empire, Liu Mengyang is only a lieutenant colonel, but he is also very aware of the operation mode of the 6th Army. He knows even more that the staff of the Privy Council's Operations Department has already prepared tens of thousands of recruits in Taiyuan and Datong. force.

What are these recruits used for? I can only use my brain to know that they are used to prepare for battle damage.

Dead people, the Tang Empire has never been afraid!

Liu Mengyang is even more afraid!

Liu Mengyang would be very happy if he could wipe out this transport force and then hit the Tatar cavalry.

It is a pity that these Tatars in front of them seem to have noticed it, and this turned out to be a retreat!

Seeing the Tatars running away, Liu Mengyang felt a pity, but unfortunately his troops were not cavalry troops, but a transport force, and they did not have enough mobility to pursue the enemy.

Otherwise, every minute would be a great victory in chasing and killing the fleeing enemy!

Unfortunately, his troops were not cavalry, so he could only watch Xin Ai Huang Taiji whizzing away with the remaining 3,000 cavalry.

After the war, this transport force did not move forward immediately, but was stationed in place in this chaotic stone formation. If they continued to move forward, with the remaining more than 1,000 troops, it was already difficult to cover such a huge convoy. It is very likely that the Tatars will take the opportunity to attack.

At the same time, it is also for the consideration of the wounded.

Although Liu Mengyang didn't care about the life and death of the soldiers and regarded them as cold numbers, this did not affect his concern for the injuries of the wounded soldiers.

Because his troops have been severely reduced, some of these wounded soldiers, if they can be treated properly, can fight with injuries, which can greatly supplement his current strength gap.

Well, after all, he still thinks about things from a purely military point of view!

In this battle, the main force of the transport force, the 13th Transport Regiment, had attritioned to the scale of 1,000 people. About 140 people were killed on the spot, more than 400 were seriously injured, and hundreds of others were slightly injured.

Needless to say, death in battle, there is a high probability of being seriously injured and unable to survive. For the minor injuries, after some simple treatment, they can still reluctantly return to the battle sequence. Liu Mengyang needs these people.

As for the others, it is their responsibility and honor to die for the Empire and the Son of God.

Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even officers, even middle and senior officers, must have the consciousness of dying in battle when they go to the battlefield.

However, even if it is a certain supplement of the wounded, there are still too few troops available for combat. In desperation, Liu Mengyang can only let those civilians undertake certain combat tasks.

Although these civilian husbands are all temporarily recruited civilian husbands, they have undergone several days of military training before leaving. At least they know how to load and how to pull the trigger to shoot.

Cruel hand-to-hand combat, of course, can't be counted on them, but if they just pick up muskets and shoot at the enemy, it's still okay.

When relying on the vehicle formation to fight before, these civilians played a certain role. After all, they had thousands of people and thousands of muskets. No matter how bad their marksmanship was, the bullets they fired would be deadly.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that Liu Mengyang used these civilians as fighters.

However, Liu Mengyang is also very clear that these civilians can only be used under certain circumstances. If they are ignored and used as ordinary soldiers, the ending will be very beautiful.

After all, these civilians have not undergone complete military training. Their physical fitness, their combat skills and professional soldiers are completely incomparable. These are actually secondary, and the most important thing is military discipline!

During the three-month recruit period, the soldiers of the 6th Army of the Datang Army have three most important training items. One is physical training.

The second kind of training is discipline training, brainwashing in various ways every day, so that they know the importance of obeying orders, and let them form the instinct to obey orders.

The rest is naturally the training of combat skills, loading, aiming, shooting, fighting with bayonets, these are the most basic combat skills that need training.

Generally speaking, the above three projects are combined training!

The recruits who have undergone three months of training are completely different from ordinary people in terms of mental outlook and personal qualities, and these soldiers also laid the foundation for the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty.

These civilians have not undergone military training, and their quality in all aspects is naturally not enough. They can only be used in specific situations and on specific occasions, but they must not be used as ordinary soldiers.

Rescue the wounded~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It took them a lot of time to clean the battlefield. It is worth noting that when they cleaned the battlefield, they also harvested hundreds of intact horses, all of which were left by the Tatars. .

As for the wounded and dead horses that can be used as military rations, there are more.

The Tartars left thousands of cavalry in this place, and the horses they rode were either dead or wounded, left on the battlefield, or simply ran away.

It's just a pity that, apart from the officers, among the soldiers under Liu Mengyang's command, very few ordinary soldiers can ride horses.

Don't think that a draught horse is not a horse anymore, it is a four-legged cavalry when you ride it!

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