Valley Emperor

When Liu Bagou heard Li Xuan's words, he knew that it was time for him to appear, and immediately took the initiative to pick up the conversation and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the cabinet will make every effort to ensure the logistics of the army!"

This sentence is the purpose of the various cabinet ministries coming to the meeting today. This war, how to fight, and where to fight, naturally has nothing to do with Liu Bagou and the other civil servants.

The Tang Dynasty was different from the Ming Dynasty. The civil officials in the Tang Dynasty did not have the power to mobilize troops and condemn generals. The power to mobilize troops was in the Privy Council, or more precisely, in the hands of the Department of Warfare.

The cabinet's power or responsibility for the military is to provide various logistical support such as soldiers, rations, and ordnance.

Therefore, the first sentence Liu Bagou said was to express the opinion of the cabinet, that is, the cabinet would do their best to ensure the logistics of the army, just as they did before.

After Liu Bagou opened his mouth, Qian Mengjiu, the minister of military affairs, also followed up: "Liu Xueshi said very much, our military department will definitely do everything possible to increase the strength of recruitment, and strive to recruit soldiers as originally planned within half a month. More than double the plan!"

Qian Mengjiu of the Ministry of War has already boasted, and people from several other departments also patted their chests to express their positions!

People from the Ministry of Industry said that the major workshops have begun to fully implement the streamlined production model, and will start working day and night at all costs. Doubling it, tripled the output within a month.

Well, the premise is that the raw materials are in sufficient supply!

The Ministry of Household and even the Ministry of Rites and other departments also said that they would support the military as much as possible and would not delay the military's retreat!

But looking at the people in each department, they clapped their chests and made various guarantees. Only Yang Xiucai, the secretary of the tax department, Yang Duwei's face was a little embarrassed, and at the same time, he kept accusing these colleagues in his heart.

Nima, all of you are blowing the cowhide to the sky, and in the end, it is not our tax department that takes the money and grain.

What, your Ministry of Industry's ordnance production should be doubled, Nima, where did the raw materials come from? It's not that we want our tax department to spend money to buy it.

Who pays the workers in the workshop? Not from our tax department!

What, the number of soldiers recruited by your Qian Mengjiu Military Department will also be doubled. Nima, who will pay for the settlement fee needed to recruit new recruits? their tax department.

Who pays the food, drink and even the salary of the recruits? Not their tax department!

All of them are shameless bragging. In the end, they don't all count on our tax department, but our tax department can't do tricks. It's impossible to turn a pile of stones into gold!

The tax inspection team has been running around the towns and villages day and night, but no matter how efficient the tax inspection team is, it is impossible to **** much money from the already barren Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion. what.

Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion have a limited population and wealth. It is impossible to say that the tax department will collect as much as they want, even if the tax department forcibly raises the tax rate regardless of the life and death of the people. Taxes, but it is still difficult to support a new army of the Tang Dynasty that has reached 10,000 people and will quickly reach more than 15,000 people!

In ancient times, it was relatively difficult for a hundred people to support a full-time soldier, but now, the total population and the number of troops under the Tang Dynasty have reached thirty to one, that is to say, an average of thirty People need to support a professional soldier. This ratio is almost impossible for a feudal agricultural society.

But seeing His Majesty Li Xuan's gaze, Yang Duwei could only bite his teeth and swallow it, and then said: "The tax department will make every effort to raise silver and rations, and will never let the soldiers go hungry and empty-handed. On the battlefield!"

After seeing the positions of all the cabinet departments, Li Xuan showed a satisfied look. This was the reason why the civil servants of the cabinet were withdrawn, and the next imperial strategic meeting had nothing to do with them.

The task of the ministries of the cabinet is to prepare soldiers, food, ordnance, and military salaries, and the next thing is left to the Privy Council.

The military personnel who stayed did not stay for long, because the combat division had not come up with a battle plan, and the discussion could not be discussed. All Li Xuan could do was to make the 3rd Infantry Regiment form an army as soon as possible. , so that the Combat Division can make a complete battle plan as soon as possible.

At the same time, it was decided to delay the plan to go south to Guangxi, and let the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Infantry Regiment continue to station troops in Liping House. Since the Ming army of Guizhou has already arrived in advance, before the other infantry regiments have not yet formed combat effectiveness, Naturally, it is necessary to rely on these two infantry regiments as the core force to resist the Ming army.

The staff of the Operations Department were also efficient. In the evening, they had already come up with a preliminary strategic plan, and had been led by Zeng Ziwen to report to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan turned to look at the newly dried combat plan, and also made judgments on several preliminary plans proposed by the Department of Operations.

The staff officers from the Operations Department proposed three strategic plans. One is a strategic decisive battle plan. The core of the plan is to keep the 1st Infantry Regiment, the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 4th Infantry Regiment in the early stage, and at the same time, the bronze drums can be appropriately abandoned Wei waited for the northern area of ​​Liping Prefecture, and even the western area of ​​Liping Prefecture, to exchange space for time, waiting for the 5th Infantry Regiment to form an army and the 3rd Infantry Regiment to form an army and arrive.

After half a month, the main force of the entire army will be assembled, together with multiple temporary reserve battalions, at least 13,000 people will engage in a strategic decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army.

The advantages and disadvantages of such a plan are quite obvious. The advantage is that after half a month, the strength of the Datang New Army in Liping House will be at its peak. Can also gather multiple artillery pieces.

According to the progress of our current artillery workshop, the new army of the Tang Dynasty is expected to take part in the battle with five 500-jin artillery pieces, six 800-jin artillery pieces, and two 1000-jin artillery pieces.

At the same time, in the case of a strategic decisive battle, by presetting the battlefield, these artillery can exert the greatest power.

At the same time, large-scale strategic decisive battles, especially field battles, are the best modes of warfare for the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Relatively speaking, defense and even siege warfare are actually not what the new army of the Tang Dynasty is good at.

And if such a strategic decisive battle can be won, it will be equivalent to defeating the main force of the Ming army in the first battle, and in this way, almost the entire Ming army in Guizhou Province will be annihilated, and the huge Guizhou Province will be empty by then. Incomparably, if the new army of the Tang Dynasty wanted to, they could march into Guiyang and win it, truly capturing the enemy of a province.

But the risk is also great. First of all, the Ming army will not wait for the decisive battle in half a month. The Ming army will definitely launch an attack from the north and west within this half month. Killed under the city of Liping House.

At that time, the troops in Liping City will be completely surrounded if they are not careful. At that time, it will not be a strategic decisive battle in the field, but a breakthrough battle.

Furthermore, there were more than 50,000 troops attacking the Ming army, and Zeng Ziwen and the others judged that this number would only be more or less. As the number of people increases, more young men will be recruited, and it is possible for Zhu Zhihai to assemble an army of 100,000.

Under the disparity of troops, it is too risky to carry out a strategic decisive battle to determine life and death. If this is defeated, the Tang Dynasty will be over.

In addition to the strategic decisive battle plan, the Department of Operations also proposed that the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the main force already stationed in Liping City, could quickly start operations and attack the Ming army who had entered Liping City earlier.

The advantage is that the number of Ming troops entering Liping House in the early stage will not be many, and they will be scattered, and it is expected to achieve relatively large results.

But there are also disadvantages, that is, it is easy to make the Ming army vigilant, find out the combat mode and strength of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and act cautiously in the end, which may lead to the Ming army grouping together and fighting against the new army of the Tang Dynasty for a long time. Tang Xinjun was also lethal.

Because the longer this large-scale war lasts, the more uncomfortable it will be for the Datang Dynasty. With the district Xingquan House and Liping House, the Datang Dynasty cannot maintain the high-intensity battle of the new Tang Dynasty for too long.

If the new army of the Tang Dynasty wants to maintain its combat effectiveness and obtain sufficient resources, it must continue to expand. By means of fighting to support the war to maintain the needs of the army's operations and expansion, sticking to one place will be a dead word sooner or later.

The third plan is to use a large-scale mobile warfare mode, first concentrating troops to arrive first, annihilating the 20,000 Ming troops attacking from the north and northeast of Guizhou, and then turning west to meet the three soldiers who are rumored to be led by Zhu Zhihai himself. Wanming Army.

The advantage of this is that the Ming army will be dispersed and defeated, and the pressure will not be too great, but the Ming army is not stupid. If they can't beat them, they will definitely stick to waiting for help. Then wait for the source of Zhu Zhihai's 30,000 Ming Army.

In this way, in the end, the new army of the Tang Dynasty may be attacked from front and back, and even cut off the logistics supply line, and the collapse of the whole army is possible.

Moreover, this plan is a huge test for the long-distance mobile combat capability of the Datang New Army. The continuous raids have a very high demand for the logistics supply of the army, the physical fitness of the soldiers, and the organization of the army.

For the pros and cons of the three combat plans, Li Xuan was also difficult to decide for a while!

After all, Li Xuan himself is not a military expert. In the early stage, he was just an ordinary company employee. The biggest achievement in life was to get into the front desk girl of the company that was coveted by countless people, and developed a lot of embarrassing postures.

Most of the knowledge about the military is through movies, TV dramas, novels, etc. If you really ask him to make a large-scale battle plan, then he really can't do it.

In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the person with the most strategic vision today is not Li Xuan, a later generation, nor Hao Bainian, a front-line general, but Zeng Ziwen, a returning general from a family of generals. Although his ability is not very good, but He has systematically studied various military theories since he was a child, and he is very familiar with all kinds of military books. Moreover, after Zeng Ziwen came into contact with muskets, artillery and line combat, he was actually how to command a modern army, especially In terms of strategic command, he has more right to speak than Li Xuan.

That night, Li Xuan personally summoned Zeng Ziwen and a group of staff officers from the Department of Operations, and asked the staff officers to conduct wargames on all three plans.

According to the results of the deduction, Li Xuan finally adopted the third plan, that is, to meet the Ming army in the north first, and then go to meet the Ming army in the west, using the time difference in the middle to avoid the convergence of the two Ming armies, and annihilate them one after another. .

However, some revisions have been made to the third plan. For example, the western area of ​​Liping Prefecture, even including the city of Liping Prefecture, is an area that can be abandoned. Completely defeated the 20,000 Ming army in the north within half a month.

In the past two weeks, the western part of Liping House and even the city of Liping House will be undefended. If the Ming army from the west comes fast enough, it can be easily captured.

After the strategic plan was finalized, in the second half of the night, a messenger brought Li Xuan's imperial decree to report to the generals of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

At the same time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty has once again entered the tense moment of the war. In the next few days, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will quickly go north, and then take the initiative to attack the 20,000 Ming army from north to south!

On the same day, Zhu Zhihai also brought the most powerful troops in Guizhou. The 6,000 Fubiao people who belonged to him, the governor directly under the jurisdiction, officially left Guiyang Fucheng and entered Lipingfu east.

At the expedition ceremony, Zhu Zhihai boasted that he would go to Haikou: within a month, he will definitely step on the Xingquan Mansion and catch the fake emperor Li Xuan alive!

The slogan of the revival of the Quanzao Puppet Emperor in January quickly spread throughout Guizhou, and even reached Li Xuan's ears!

You made Li Xuan mad, you paralyzed Zhu Zhihai's big breath, and you want to smash my Xingquan Mansion and take my head in a month. It depends on whether the soldiers under your command have the ability to do so.

Of course, when Zhu Zhihai led Fubiao on the expedition, in fact other Ming troops had already left, and the soldiers of the northern Ming army had even arrived at Tongguwei.

And it has already launched two tentative attacks, and the number of Ming troops attacking has only increased, from a few hundred people at the beginning to more than 2,000 people.

Fortunately, Hao Bainian dispatched an infantry battalion to the Tonggu Guard from the very beginning~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the two infantry teams originally stationed here, the Ming army did not have much time to conquer the Tonggu Guard in a short period of time.

As for explaining whether the main force of the army can hold the bronze drum guard or not, there is no need to worry about this issue, because at this time Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, and Wang Danxu have already brought the main force of the three infantry regiments to the north.

Naturally, their destination would not be the Tongguwei, but the 20,000 main force of the Ming army further north.

But in this way, the safety of Tongguwei is also guaranteed.

On the second day after Hao Bainian and the others set off, many generals in Liping House received an imperial decree from Li Xuan. The imperial decree officially appointed Hao Bainian as the forward commander, temporarily commanding the 1st Infantry Regiment, the 2nd Infantry Regiment, and the 4th Infantry Regiment. The three infantry regiments.

Li Chunjing and Wang Danxu are both deputy commanders.

But the point is not this sentence, the point is that the imperial edict said that their majesty will be on the expedition. The battalion, cavalry battalion, reserve battalions and other units formed the Chinese army.