Valley Emperor

Hao Bainian, as the forward commander, his opinion is very important!

When Li Xuan received Hao Bainian's letter, he soon brought Zeng Ziwen and others over to discuss it together, discussing the gains and losses of Hao Bainian's proposal to move the preset decisive battle field 30 miles north and put it in the Bronze Drum Fortress.

During the discussion, Zeng Ziwen was quite critical of Hao Bainian's proposal, and raised several concerns. On the one hand, he was worried about changing the preset battlefield so that the Chinese troops could arrive in time. On the other hand, according to the original plan, the bronze drum guards The city has already been abandoned, and now it has fallen into the hands of the Ming army. At this time, the decisive battlefield is placed on the Tonggu Weicheng. The Ming army will definitely rely on the Tonggu Weicheng for defense. Will it turn into a tough battle?

The emergence of the fortified battle will lead to a long-term battle, and when the West Route Army of the Ming army comes over, will the army fall into the situation of being attacked by front and rear.

Even if there is no chance of being attacked by the front and rear, but in a tough battle, even if it is won, the casualties will definitely be relatively large. If the casualties are too large, will it affect the subsequent plan to fight against the Ming Army's West Route Army?

You must know that the enemies that the new army of the Tang Dynasty need to face are not only the more than 20,000 people of the North Route Army of the Ming Army, but also the more than 30,000 people of the West Route Army from the west.

If the casualties of attacking the North Ming Route Army are too large, it will inevitably affect the subsequent battle against the Ming West Route Army!

If one does not do well, it may be destroyed!

Li Xuan is naturally aware of Zeng Ziwen's concerns, and he has the same concerns himself, just telling him rationally, don't imitate Jiang's bald head at this time, don't know how to fight and be blind to command!

Li Xuan still has self-knowledge, and he is so capable, even if he has a vision that surpasses that of contemporary people, but these prophets can only give him an advantage in the direction of grand strategy. Once it comes to specific wars, especially tactical choices In fact, he is no stronger than the ordinary people of today.

You're welcome to say, if Li Xuan and Hao Bainian are both led by the same troops to fight, Li Xuan will definitely lose miserably!

Hao Bainian was able to become the commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, and even now he is the commander of the striker because of his outstanding ability and Li Xuan's trust in him.

Since he has confidence in his ability and trusts him, in this strategic choice, he prefers Hao Bainian's choice.

After all, realistically speaking, he personally led the army to command the battle in this battle, but in fact the actual commander of this battle was not him. Li Xuan himself was actually just a flag, and his only role in this battle was It is used to motivate morale, and at the same time suppress the many generals below, so that they don't mess around, and let me be honest.

The actual commander of this battle is undoubtedly Hao Bainian!

This can be seen from Hao Bainian's so-called forward commander. His forward commander is actually quite different from Qiu Yu, the forward commander of the Ming Army North Route Army.

Qiu Yu only led two thousand Ming troops, and the main force of the Ming army on the North Road was still behind.

But Hao Bainian, the three infantry regiments under his command are the main infantry regiments of the Datang New Army, and they occupy more than half of the existing troops of the Datang New Army. It can be said that the three infantry regiments under Hao Bainian are the Datang New Army. Absolute main force.

Whether this battle can be won and successfully completed the strategy of the Datang New Army depends on the performance of the three infantry regiments under Hao Bainian.

Although other troops will also play a certain role, but to be honest, their role is limited.

At present, the expansion plan of the Datang New Army has not been completed. Only the 1st Infantry Regiment, the 2nd Infantry Regiment, and the 4th Infantry Regiment have completed the expansion plan, and these three infantry regiments are all under the command of Hao Bainian.

The 3rd Infantry Regiment, although it is fully staffed, lacks guns and artillery, and most of the soldiers are recruits, so that they march all the way to train and receive equipment at the same time.

It is foreseeable that after the 3rd Infantry Regiment arrives on the battlefield, it will still be in a situation of lack of guns and artillery and insufficient training.

As for the situation of the 5th Infantry Regiment, the situation is even worse. According to the plan, they will not accept all the recruits until half a month later. However, because of the emergency, the recruit battalion even recruits soldiers who have not completed recruit training. It was assigned to the 5th Infantry Regiment.

As for equipment, I'm sorry, there are only a few dozen muskets that are expected to be used for training and a few Wankou guns that are also prepared for training. Well, the Wankou guns were captured from the Ming army.

So much so that the Fifth Infantry Regiment had to be reduced to a cold weapon force, and a large number of musketeers took up swords, shields and spears.

Such a fifth infantry regiment can fight?

Bullshit!

Among the Chinese army led by Li Xuan personally, it was not these two infantry regiments that had combat effectiveness, but the artillery battalion, the cavalry battalion, the baggage regiment and the guard battalion.

The artillery battalion already has an 800-jin artillery team, the cavalry battalion also has nearly 200 cavalrymen, and the guard battalion has more than 400 people.

Li Xuan's personal guard battalion, as a personal guard unit to protect Li Xuan, has the highest quality soldiers and the best weapons and equipment.

There are four teams in total, three of which are mixed large-scale infantry teams, with ninety-six grenadiers and thirty-six heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, and the grenadiers in them are based on the strongest They were selected and trained according to the standard of grenadiers, and were equipped with grenades. One of the teams was left in Xingquan Mansion to protect the Queen Mother Bai, Dong Yunyun, Ye Shi and others.

The fourth team was a pure cavalry team, with ninety-six cavalrymen under its jurisdiction.

It can be seen from the configuration of the Guard Battalion. In fact, this unit is not used to fight, but to protect Li Xuan from fleeing. Xuan escaped.

However, although the organization is nondescript, it is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the guard battalion is not weak. Let alone the other hundreds of grenadiers in the guard battalion, it is a powerful force, not to mention the inside There is an elite cavalry in armor.

You must know that the cavalry battalion is only less than two hundred cavalry. The cavalry teams of the major infantry regiments are called cavalry teams, but even the cavalry teams in the 1st Infantry Regiment are only more than fifty cavalry.

In addition to the personal guard battalion, the troop of the baggage regiment also has to focus on saying that the baggage troop in the Datang New Army has never been simply transporting logistics baggage. Although they are also responsible for the logistics transportation task, their main task is actually It is not the transport of logistics baggage, but the protection of logistics baggage.

At the same time, there will also be engineering units in the baggage unit, which are mainly used to build bridges and open roads.

For such a large-scale battle now, the amount of military supplies to supply the army is a huge number. The Datang New Army used a temporary recruitment of a large number of young men and women to transport them, and the baggage regiment was to protect the transport team.

The advantage of this is that all the main force can be put into the frontal battlefield without having to divide the precious main force to protect the logistics transport force.

In this way, the baggage troop can participate in the decisive battle on the battlefield like the main force at the critical moment.

It's just that there are not many guns and guns in the baggage unit, and most of them are cold weapon units, so Li Xuan will not use it unless necessary.

But now that a large-scale decisive battle is imminent, one more soldier means one more hope of victory, so Li Xuan has already decided to send a baggage regiment of more than 1,000 people to the decisive battle field.

In this way, the Chinese army troops led by Li Xuan himself could also gather several thousand people to participate in the decisive battle, but the combat effectiveness was not uniform. Compared with the main strikers of the three infantry regiments led by Hao Bainian, they were not a little worse. half o'clock.

Li Xuan approved the new battle plan proposed by Hao Bainian on the same day, and led the Chinese army to continue northward!

Thanks to the messengers galloping on horseback, it may take two or three days for the army to travel dozens of miles, but for the messengers who constantly change horses and gallop, it only takes a few hours, so Hao Bainian in the first In the morning of the next day, he had already received a reply from Li Xuan to approve the plan.

Immediately, Hao Bainian officially issued a series of orders. He ordered the 2nd Infantry Regiment as the leading force to continue northward, the 1st Infantry Regiment followed to cover the left flank, and he continued to lead the 4th Infantry Regiment and the baggage and other auxiliaries to follow behind the 2nd Infantry Regiment.

These three troops are basically advancing in a zigzag shape, and the distance from each other is about five or six miles. Converted to the distance unit of later generations, it is only more than two kilometers. If you stand a little higher, you can see each other.

Such a separation distance is conducive to expanding the search range, avoiding turning into the ambush of the Ming army, and being able to support each other in time when a battle occurs.

And when Hao Bainian and the others continued to lead their army northward, their vanguard withdrew from Tonggu Acropolis three days ago. The Fifth Infantry Battalion, which had just rested for two days, also turned north and headed towards Tonggu Acropolis again. go.

To be honest, Wang Chaofeng is still a little bit complaining, what's the matter~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He is defending well in the Bronze Drum Fortress, although it is a bit difficult, but as long as reinforcements arrive and there is ammunition, continue to defend The Bronze Drum Acropolis is definitely not a problem.

But the top made him retreat!

However, within a few days, he was asked to lead the headquarters back to the Bronze Drum Acropolis, and make a gesture of attacking the Bronze Drum Acropolis, in order to attract the main force of the Ming army in the north to speed up the south, what's the matter!

If I had known today, why was it in the first place, if he had continued to defend the Bronze Drum Acropolis, the Ming army would not have been able to defeat the Bronze Drum Acropolis, so they would not have to speed up their southward reinforcements!

It's better now, and after a round trip, I'm back on the old road.

However, although there was a complaint in his heart, as a soldier, and he was a soldier from a royal school who knew how to read and write, he naturally led the army to set off as soon as he received the order.

At this time, whether it was Qiu Yu or Wang Chaofeng, these two opponents who had already played against each other in Tonggu Acropolis did not know that their opponent was not far ahead.

Fate seems to make them destined to become each other's opponents!