Valley Emperor

Since the last Battle of Lanjiang Ferry, Li Xuan has been preparing for the next Ming army attack. For this reason, he occupied almost the entire Zhengtai County and used all the resources he could find in Zhengtai County to expand his army.

Even at a high price, he purchased various military and strategic weapons such as iron, copper, saltpeter, sulfur, and lead from daring businessmen such as Sun Laotou, as well as other cloth, grain, and salt.

To this end, the Tang Dynasty spent nearly 20,000 taels of silver accumulated over the past year, not only the cash was spent, but also the many soft goods, calligraphy, paintings and other items obtained by raiding the house were also sold at low prices, just for the sake of Buy more strategic materials.

With such a high price paid, the materials obtained are also quite rich. Using these materials, in the past three months, the workshops of the Ministry of Industry of the Datang Dynasty have been working at their full capacity. All these materials were used up.

You must know that since the Tang Dynasty moved to Xikou Village, the Ministry of Industry's weapon workshop has expanded several times. The total number of craftsmen and ordinary workers in the period is added up, and the number has reached nearly a thousand people.

In the past three months, the weapons workshop of the Ministry of Industry, with a scale of 1,000 people, has built five artillery pieces of 500 jins, more than 800 muskets, 1,000 grenades, and three spears with steel spears for the new army of the Tang Dynasty. More than 1,000 rods were used to convert the captured cotton armor of the Ming army into more than 300 pairs of cotton iron armor.

There are also a large number of other cold weapons such as bayonets and waist knives.

There are also a large number of consumable materials such as gunpowder, bullets, shells, bows and arrows.

If you add the various weapons that existed before, three months later, the new army of the Tang Dynasty has barely completed the full force.

Each of the four infantry battalions had two fully-staffed musket teams, and each of the two mixed battalions also had a musket team under their jurisdiction. There were ten musket teams in total, with a total of 1,000 musket soldiers.

The newly formed grenadiers were also equipped with muskets and hand grenades.

The artillery team has one 800-jin Italian cannon and five 500-jin battalion artillery.

Even the baggage team used to transport baggage by hundreds more vehicles.

Only the cavalry team was not dissatisfied with the compilation, because there was no way to collect so many qualified war horses in Zhengtai County. At present, there are only about a hundred horses available for riding in the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Xuan's guards occupied more than 20 of them. Yes, Li Xuan has upgraded his guards to mounted infantry. This is not to lead them to charge, but to defeat them. You can run faster with him.

In addition, the two mixed battalions were each assigned five cavalry.

Then there are the mounts of officers above the squad.

In this way, the remaining horses for the cavalry team were less than 70, but the quality of these 70 horses was the best.

The horses used by other officers and Li Xuan's guards were at best capable of riding, and they were mainly collected from the people.

However, the more than 60 horses of the cavalry team were barely considered war horses. Most of these war horses were captured from the Ming army.

From weapons to ammunition, from soldiers to officers and troop training, Li Xuan believes that he has exhausted all his efforts, and the 3,800-strong Datang New Army looks decent now, at least During training and drills, he was still very energetic.

But most of the 3,800 people are recruits, and nearly 2,000 people have never been on the battlefield.

Whether it can be used in a real battle depends on whether God will give face to it.

If you can fight a few small battles first, let these recruits see blood and boost their morale, they should be able to use it when they fight the Ming army, but now the Ming army has tens of thousands of people, Li Xuan is a little bit Worried that these new recruits will not be able to withstand the enormous pressure on the battlefield.

When it was discovered that another 5,000 Ming troops had arrived on the east bank of the Lanjiang River, so that the total number of Ming troops on the east bank of the Lanjiang River had reached 10,000 people, Li Xuan had already strengthened the security of the entire army, and sent more scouts to sneak across the river. Twelve Shi Chen constantly monitors the movements of the Ming army on the other side of the river.

If the Ming army of tens of thousands of people wants to do something, the movement will definitely not be small, and it is almost impossible to hide from the scouts.

As for the Ming army occasionally sending small-scale troops to other places, it may be possible to hide from the surveillance of the new army scouts of the Tang Dynasty, but this is not important. The Ming army with dozens or hundreds of people sneaked away, and it would not affect the overall situation.

Even if they wanted to send hundreds of people to sneak across the river from other places, the Datang New Army deployed manpower to monitor the other ferries suitable for crossing the river, and the first mixed battalion and the second mixed battalion were upstream and downstream. Well, once the Ming army is launched to cross the river, they will directly intercept it.

It is almost impossible for the Ming army to secretly cross the river on a large scale.

Whether it is a partial division or the main force, if the Ming army wants to cross the river, it must first pass the level of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

In addition to strengthening the monitoring of the Ming army, Li Xuan also ordered the troops to step up targeted defensive combat training.

As for the fortifications, they don't need to be repaired now, because in the past three months, Li Xuan has asked the auxiliary troops, especially the more than 400 Ming troops in the garrison battalion to dig holes every day to repair the wall.

Today's Lanjiang Ferry is suitable for crossing the river and landing about 500 meters. It has been completely covered by the parapet of the Datang New Army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the parapet has been built higher and higher. It used to be only one meter. Two meters more, but now, the parapet has been repaired to more than three meters.

This is almost a wall!

On the parapet, there are also six large and small forts, as well as more than twenty arrow towers.

And in the distance of more than 30 meters from the parapet to the river, there were many obstacles that blocked the advance of the Ming army. In the brief discussion of the river, many sharpened wooden poles and bamboo poles were laid, and on the river beach were arranged Numerous distance horses, etc.

Those bamboo poles and wooden stakes are to delay the landing time of the Ming army, so that they can have more time to shoot and kill the Ming army who are still on the raft and have not yet landed.

The distance from the horses and other things was to prevent the Ming army from lining up to charge, forcing the Ming army to take the initiative to spread out the formation.

This distance of more than 30 meters is enough to become the burial place of the Ming army. Once the fight starts, the blood of the Ming army is enough to blacken the entire river beach!

The first parapet and the river beach fortifications are just the first fortifications, and there is a second annular parapet 50 meters away from the first parapet.

This is just in case, if the Ming army breaks through the first parapet defense line, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will withdraw to the second ring parapet and continue to resist.

Such fortifications, even in World War II, are not weak.

If there are a few heavy machine guns above, it is estimated that the 10,000 people of the Ming army will be knocked down by machine guns before they land on the shore.

Today's Lanjiang Ferry has become a real fortress!

However, the new army of the Tang Dynasty was fully prepared, and the Ming army on the opposite side was obviously prepared. After arriving, it was always busy, and some strange things came out.

These things can be seen at a glance, they are used to specifically target the firearms of the new army of the Tang Dynasty! ()

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