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The military command system of the Tang Dynasty was different from the traditional feudal dynasties, but it was also very different from the modern countries of later generations, even compared with the modern countries, it was also very different.

Datang's military command system is a command system under comprehensive consideration based on Datang's own characteristics and the limitations of the times.

This kind of command system, on the one hand, increases the authority of the central government, and on the other hand increases the personal authority of the emperor in order to guard against the ambitions of military generals. On this basis, the command efficiency of the troops is improved as much as possible.

Therefore, the command system of today's Datang Empire emerged.

This kind of system is neither good nor bad, but it is undoubtedly a command system that is more suitable for the Tang Empire at present, and it is also a command system that Li Xuan can accept.

The best choice under the balance!

Under this command system, Admiral Chen Pengming had great authority in the Malacca campaign, but there were also many restrictions.

In terms of tactics, Admiral Chen Pengming has great authority, but it is only limited to this. He has no authority to decide things other than tactics, and he has no authority to decide things other than military.

Luo Yuanjian, the first secretary of the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy who accompanied the army, was entrusted with supervising the army to ensure that Chen Pengming's authority was limited to the war in Southeast Asia and India, and could not be involved in other areas.

However, Admiral Chen Pengming did not feel any restraint because of the existence of the supervising army, because Luo Yuanjian would not make any suggestions to Chen Pengming on military issues.

In other words, as long as Admiral Chen Pengming honestly leads his troops to fight, fights the South Seas, and prints India, then basically there will be nothing for Luo Yuanjian.

Only when Chen Pengming disobeyed the decree and disobeyed the order, Luo Yuanjian would use his power to restrain Admiral Chen Pengming: forcibly **** Chen Pengming back to Beijing to report his duties.

However, it is also to prevent the possibility of civilian interference in the military, so Luo Yuanjian's authority is limited to this. Even if Chen Pengming disobeyed the order and disobeyed the order, Luo Yuanjian used his envoy authority to restrict Chen Pengming. , the command of the Nanyang Army is not his turn to intervene. At that time, he must **** Chen Pengming to return to Jinling City to report his duties.

Luo Yuanjian did not have the authority to directly convict Chen Pengming or even any soldier. He only had the authority to take Chen Pengming back to Jinling City to report his duties according to the authority granted to him by the imperial edict.

As for whether Chen Pengming is guilty or not, it will not be his turn to decide, but Li Xuan to decide!

After Luo Yuanjian brought Chen Pengming back to Beijing to report on his duties, the command of the Nanyang troops will be extended in accordance with the tradition of the Datang military.

It will be postponed according to the level of military rank and position!

In the Tang Dynasty, it was never possible for a civilian to command troops, and it would never be possible for a civilian to directly convict a soldier of any crime.

Therefore, as long as Chen Pengming doesn't do anything diabolical, in fact, Luo Yuanjian's imperial envoy is just air, and he won't even appear at the battle meeting.

When Chen Pengming waited for the Joint Landing Fleet, he ordered the Joint Landing Fleet to prepare for the official landing tomorrow. In order to ensure the smooth landing operation, the main fleet of the Indian Ocean Fleet will venture close to the port of Malacca, and block the port of Malacca nearby to avoid the port. The Portuguese fleet rushed out and interfered with the landing operations of the landing fleet.

Early the next morning, on the coast several kilometers north of the port of Malacca, a large number of ships of the Datang Joint Landing Fleet gradually sailed to the beach. This beach is a specially selected beach, and the landing conditions are relatively good. .

However, this kind of landing is also troublesome, that is, if the beach is directly washed, large ships cannot dock at all, and heavy equipment cannot dock. You can only wait for the pontoon to be built before docking and unloading heavy equipment, especially Is a lot of artillery.

Therefore, the early landings were actually very primitive, that is, many small boats were dropped from the Daxing transport ship, and then these small boats carried soldiers for beach landings.

This kind of primitive landing, it is almost impossible for the landing troops to bring artillery and too many supplies ashore for the first time. They can only go ashore lightly. For this reason, the fire protection at the landing site is all relying on the naval guns of the fleet. provided.

In order to provide fire cover for the landing troops nearby, the two frigates risked running aground, forcibly approached, and rushed to a place more than 100 meters away from the coastline.

And there are many battleships, cruisers, frigates in the rear, anchoring at a distance of two or three hundred meters to provide fire support for the landing troops. At this distance, when their artillery fires, its range must be increased to Above the daily effective range, at least 500 meters or even 600 meters are required to be able to barely provide fire support.

The shelling at this distance basically does not expect any hit rate, so the fire support fleet does not expect any hit rate. They are going to use dense barrage to make up for the lack of hit rate. When hundreds of artillery shells are shelling At that time, the hit rate of a single artillery gun was actually unimportant.

In addition, there are three coastal transport ships that arrived with the fleet. Because of their shallower draft and smaller tonnage, even if they are stranded, they can easily break free at high tide. For this reason, they carry soldiers directly to rush. Beach, when the Joint Landing Fleet brought these three coastal transport ships, it was because of their shallow draught that they were prepared to forcibly flush the beach.

In order to allow the three coastal transport ships to become the fire support points for the landing fleet after they washed the beach, the three beached ships carried a large number of naval guns in addition to a large number of soldiers ready to land.

Because it was going to run aground directly on the beach, there was no need to consider the recoil and stability of the artillery fire. It was all about piling up artillery on the deck.

In this way, these three coastal transport ships with a tonnage of only a hundred tons were equipped with a total of more than 20 artillery pieces, and these artillery pieces were basically deployed on the deck and could fire on the beachhead.

The number of artillery pieces carried by these three beach transport ships alone is even stronger than the firepower provided by the two frigates that risked running aground when supporting land.

It is worth noting that the officers and soldiers on these three transport ships, even sailors, do not belong to the navy, but to the army!

The sailors and officers on the transport ship are the officers and soldiers of the army's maritime transport unit, and the artillery and gunners stacked on the deck are not naval guns or naval gunners, but the artillery and gunners of the 19th Infantry Division Artillery Regiment. .

After the landing force is deployed and the preliminary pontoon bridges and other facilities are built, the artillery of the 19th Infantry Division Artillery Regiment on these three transport ships will be the first batch of artillery units to be unloaded ashore.

Sixty or seventy ships of the United Landing Fleet landed at a place about five kilometers away from the city of Malacca. As long as the people in the city of Malacca were not stupid, they could see countless ships on the north coast on the city wall.

However, when the many preparations for the landing troops were useless, the Portuguese in the city of Malacca had no intention of going out of the city to block the beachhead, and they still hid in the city.

Even Admiral Chen Pengming can already see through the high-power telescope that the Portuguese fleet in the port is removing a large number of artillery pieces from the ship and preparing to go ashore for defense.

Did they give up the breakout?

Move the naval guns directly into the city, and then evacuate the gunners and sailors in the fleet to the city, and rely on the strong city defense of Malacca for defense?

Chen Pengming frowned slightly after seeing this scene. This is certainly a good thing for the navy, because all the enemies gave up breaking out and waited to die in the port, but for the army, this is probably not a good thing.

The Portuguese in Malacca originally had 3,000 local ground combat troops and 5,000 indigenous troops, and the fleet in the port also had a large number of sailors, and more importantly, there were a lot of artillery in the fleet!

If the Portuguese moved all the artillery in the fleet to the shore to act as city fire cannons, then the number of artillery in the city of Malacca would be terrifying.

Originally, they had only dozens of artillery pieces in the city and on the fort, and at most this number was the same as the number of artillery pieces on a thousand-ton battleship.

However, if the Portuguese were to remove all the artillery pieces in the fleet, the number could be increased to several hundred in an instant.

The Portuguese fleet has at least two battleships and many medium-sized battleships. The total number of artillery pieces is at least two or three hundred guns~www.wuxiaspot.com~ All of them will be moved ashore, and the army group will probably have to jump. .

Sure enough, a liaison officer of the army soon walked up to Chen Pengming. This was an army brigadier general and the deputy chief of staff of the Army's Seventh Army Headquarters, but at this time he was on the flagship of the Indian Ocean Fleet, serving as the army liaison officer. , to coordinate operations between the Army and the Navy.

I saw him in a tone of deep concern: "The Portuguese are removing a large number of artillery pieces from the fleet and preparing to deploy them on land. There are too many of these artillery pieces. If they are all successfully deployed at the head of the city of Malacca It will pose a major threat to our army's follow-up siege!

Hopefully the Navy can stop this from happening, the Army would appreciate it! "

The city of Malacca, which the army needs to conquer, was originally a sturdy bastion. If hundreds of naval guns were brought in by the Portuguese, it would be a shit. Under the siege, there will definitely be heavy casualties.

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