Valley Emperor

Although the overall strength of the Tang Dynasty today is still very weak, it is completely different from the previous situation of only a few hundred people.

With thousands of troops, Li Xuan has more room for strategic choices. The most intuitive manifestation is that if hundreds of people were killed or injured in a battle in the past, then the entire Tang Dynasty would be abolished.

However, in the second battle of Lanjiang this time, more than 200 soldiers and soldiers were killed on the spot and seriously wounded by the Datang New Army. There were also more than 300 injured, and the total casualties exceeded 500.

However, this number of casualties was not taken seriously by Li Xuan. Even when the post-war meeting concluded, everyone did not show much surprise when they heard the number of casualties.

Because the current Datang New Army is already enough to withstand hundreds of casualties.

After the increase in size, the new army of the Tang Dynasty does not need to take extreme risks every time when carrying out some strategic planning, and it will either succeed or fail miserably.

However, now, the river crossing operation plan proposed by Hao Bainian is still a very risky plan.

Naturally, everything is easy to say if it succeeds. Not only can it annihilate the thousands of remnants of the Ming army on the east bank of the Lanjiang River, but it can also conquer Xingquanfu City with the most relaxed attitude, so there is no need to worry about facing a large number of Ming troops on Xingquanfu City.

However, if it fails, the end will be very bad. If one fails, the main force crossing the river from No. 3 ferry may be wiped out.

And for the Tang Dynasty, the negative impact is very big!

The hesitant Li Xuan summoned Hao Bainian and other generals in succession, especially the young generals from the Imperial Academy, to listen to their opinions.

Even Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu and other generals who were former bandit chiefs, Li Xuan listened to them without missing a beat.

At the same time, Li Xuan also let them continue to plan other combat plans.

No matter whether or not this adventure plan is finally determined, it is always necessary to compare other combat plans, and only after comparison can we draw the pros and cons.

After two days of intensive discussions, at the new round of the Imperial War Conference!

Zeng Ziwen stood in front of the large map next to him, pointed at the map with a small wooden stick and said: "Our No. 1 plan, the most critical point is to establish a beachhead after crossing the river frontally, and then start to advance step by step. !"

"According to our observations and the feedback from the scouts, the Puppet Ming Bandit Army has also built a large number of fortifications on the east bank of the river, including low walls, arrow towers, and horses. It is difficult to destroy the enemy's defense in a short time.

To this end, we have developed the use of grenadiers to rush forward and bombard the enemy's low wall with intensive grenade bombing. As long as we break through their low wall, we will rush up and use intensive hand-to-hand combat to completely destroy the enemy's defense line! "

At this moment, Li Xuan said, "Where's our artillery? Is there no plan for the artillery team to cross the river?"

Hearing Li Xuan's question, Zeng Ziwen immediately said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, our artillery is too heavy, and the ships we have prepared are not large, it is possible to cross the river, but boarding and disembarking, plus the construction of artillery positions, I am afraid that it will be difficult to put into actual combat in a short period of time, and our artillery is powerful, if it is fired from the bow of a small boat, the small boat will not be able to withstand it!"

"It will take at least an hour to transport the artillery across the river and then put it into battle!"

Li Xuan frowned slightly when he heard this. If the artillery took an hour to go into battle, let alone supporting infantry in combat, the cucumbers and vegetables would be cold at that time.

It can be expected that once their troops start to land, the Ming army will definitely fight to the death on the beachhead, and the battle between the two sides will definitely be very fierce. Considering the morale and training quality of both sides, this kind of tragic battle is not necessary. may last too long.

Maybe a quarter of an hour, maybe half an hour, the battle can be decided, either the new army of the Tang Dynasty is repelled, or the Ming army can't resist and collapse.

The artillery team is destined to be unable to enter the battle in time.

At this time, Li Xuan wants to have a light infantry support artillery!

Ma Dan, the workshop of the Ministry of Industry must immediately start designing and building a light artillery. Let's not talk about the power first, we have to talk about it.

Otherwise, in the event of river crossing operations or emergency maneuver operations, the infantry would not be able to get the support of artillery.

Li Xuan waved his hand and motioned Zeng Ziwen to continue!

Only then did Zeng Ziwen continue: "After the main front line broke through the enemy's beachhead, the follow-up troops immediately rushed through this gap and completely defeated the enemy's remnants on the east bank of the Lanjiang River.

At the same time, in order to prevent the fleeing enemy troops from fleeing to Xingquan City, which would cause trouble when we attack Xingquan City in the future, the troops crossing the river had to march lightly to pursue them, so that they would not have the opportunity to reorganize their forces. Let alone let them escape back to Xingquan City.

Once our army reaches Xingquan City, we will immediately launch a large-scale attack on Xingquan City~www.wuxiaspot.com~ strive to take Xingquan City in one go before the city reacts, thus laying the foundation for this victory! "

Li Xuan said: "How many casualties are expected?"

Hearing Li Xuan's question, Zeng Ziwen couldn't help but lower his voice: "In the stage of crossing the river, if it goes well, it is expected that the casualties will reach between 500 and 800 people, and we expect the casualties will mainly come from the shooting of the Ming army's archers. , during the landing stage of our army, the soldiers were crowded on the beachhead, just within the best effective range of the Ming army archers, while the musketeers and most of the spearmen of our army had no armor protection, defense against bows and arrows Poor ability!

In the siege stage, if there is no Ming army defending the city, the casualties are expected to be between 100 and 300 people! "

Hearing this, Li Xuan frowned: "What if crossing the river doesn't go well, what if the remnants of the Ming army escaped back to Xingquan City to resist?"

Zeng Ziwen's voice was even lower at this time: "If the river crossing stage is not smooth, it is expected that the casualties will further increase to about 1,000 people. If the remnants of the Ming army escaped back to Xingquan Mansion and mobilized the young men in the city to defend themselves, I would have I am afraid that the army will not be able to take Xingquan City in a short period of time, and must wait for the artillery troops to arrive, and the troops will rest and replenish their strength before storming.

Hearing the casualty forecast data from Zeng Ziwen, let alone Li Xuan frown, even generals like Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu frowned.

Wang Danxu said directly: "This way the casualties are too great, we will have to hurt our bones after this fight!"

Li Xuan also secretly said in his heart: It's impossible to fight like this, the casualties are so heavy, don't talk about the injury, I'm afraid you won't be able to win the fight, because when the casualties are large enough, the army will collapse directly! )

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