Valley Emperor

Originally, Huang Xueren just wanted to let his youngest son train in the artillery battalion for two or three months, and then arrange for him to enter the combat department as a staff officer. This is not only safe, but also has more room for promotion in the follow-up. Maybe Luzi is better than him. The eldest brother is even wider!

But even if it was distressed and even unbearable, Huang Xueren still clenched his teeth and said nothing.

Because he knew very well that among the many people present, almost everyone would have nephews and nephews serving in the army. Even Butcher Chen, who did not have a biological son, had a nephew who served in the Fourth Infantry Regiment.

And in this massive battle, the Datang New Army killed only one officer, a major, and thirty lieutenants, and many were injured. Among the people present, several nephews and nephews were killed or injured.

What's more, how could there be no threat to fight in the army, even when he was a bandit in the past, the danger was great, these people, who were originally seeking a life at the edge of the knife, now die in the battlefield, it is a death well deserved.

It's just a pity that after his youngest son got married last year, he just gave birth to a son last month, and it will be difficult for orphans and widows in the future!

However, there is still his grandfather and uncle. As long as the Tang Dynasty does not fall, they can always make their mother and child live without worries, and the future of this child can also be guaranteed.

Huang Xueren gritted his teeth, and most of the other senior generals present were also in a bad mood. There were many casualties in this war, and it was also the heaviest casualty since the founding of the Datang New Army.

The officers alone killed and wounded dozens of people, and the soldiers also killed and wounded nearly 900 people. If they add up, the casualties of nearly 1,000 people accounted for about 10% of the total strength of the Datang New Army.

This number of casualties is more than all the new Datang Army a few months ago.

But on the other hand, this number and proportion of casualties, to a certain extent, also reflects that the scale of the Datang New Army has far exceeded the past.

Thousands of people were killed and wounded, but the new army of the Tang Dynasty was still unable to be injured, and they even maintained their core combat effectiveness.

If it was before, the death and injury of thousands of people would have completely destroyed the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, among these thousand casualties, at most half of them were killed. Compared with the results they achieved, this is not worth mentioning. You must know that the Ming army alone killed more than 3,000 people, and also captured five More than a thousand people, and the rest fled.

They exchanged nearly 1,000 casualties for the defeat of more than 20,000 Ming troops, and among the more than 20,000 Ming troops, there were still 1,500 cavalry!

Such a victory cannot be overstated!

After reporting the battle damage, Li Xuan personally arranged the related issues of post-war pensions. The injured should arrange medical treatment as much as possible, especially the officers and non-commissioned officers must be carefully treated, because these people are the valuable wealth of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the treatment of soldiers should also be done with care, because unless these soldiers are disabled, they can return to the battlefield after being injured, and these veterans who have returned to the battlefield are extremely valuable to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if the atmosphere was a bit dull, the focus of everyone's attention soon was not on casualties, because after talking about the results and battle losses, it was about the follow-up strategic issues.

Although the decisive battle on the side of the Bronze Drum Acropolis is over, the battle with the Ming Army on the North Road is still not over!

"Colonel Hao just sent someone to deliver a letter back, saying that the second infantry regiment of the vanguard had already caught up with the first part of the Ming army that had fled. The Ming army that had caught up was about a thousand people. At present, there are less than 3,000 Ming troops who are still in the form of fleeing, so do you want to continue the pursuit?"

At this time, Zeng Ziwen also picked up the grief that he thought his cousin died in battle, took Hao Bainian and wrote it himself, and let the messenger quickly bring back the letter to Li Xuan.

After reading the letter, Li Xuan pondered for a moment, and then said, "Send Hao Bainian to send a small number of troops to pursue the fleeing enemy. The main force should be rested and replenished in time, and it is not advisable to use too much force!"

Although it is said that if we continue to chase, we can still achieve certain results, but this is not important anymore. The most important thing is that the forward troops have been fighting hard for a day, and the soldiers are tired. To keep them in an optimal state, it is more important to rest and replenish in time.

The fact is that there were already less than 3,000 Ming troops who were organized to flee, and they were no longer able to pose too much effective threat to the new army of the Tang Dynasty. In the future, as long as they kept about a thousand troops in the north, they could continue to pursue and even conquer several northern palaces along the way. county.

As for the main force, it is better to rest and replenish in time, so as to meet the Ming army coming from the capital of Guizhou in the future.

The more than 30,000 or more Ming troops brought by the governor of Guizhou, Zhu Zhihai, are on the way. From now on, the main force of the Datang New Army must begin to prepare for this Ming army.

And this preparation time is not expected to be long.

After all, the Ming army would not be foolish to wait for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to rest and replenish, or even continue to expand. They must have come all the way, and then began to attack Liping House.

In fact, Li Xuan's worries were not wrong at all. After the new army of the Tang Dynasty defeated the main force of the Ming army on the north road under the Tonggu Guard City, the forward of the Ming army on the west road had already entered the territory of Liping Mansion, and it would not take a few days. Arrive at Liping City.

The forwards of the Ming army are here, will their main force be far behind?

"In addition, not only the vanguard troops, but also the various divisions of the Chinese army need to rest and replenish in time!" When Li Xuan said this, he turned his attention to Qian Mengjiu, the minister of the Ministry of War, and said: "The Ministry of War is here, prepare for new recruits. How's it going?"

When Qian Mengjiu heard this, he immediately went out and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has already opened recruitment points in all parts of Liping Mansion. Recently, hundreds of people have been recruited every day, and it can definitely maintain the replenishment of soldiers! "

Hearing this, Li Xuan nodded slightly, then looked at the officer in charge of the training department: "What do you think about the boot camp?"

The director of the training department of the Privy Council is actually not a military general, but a civilian. It was just a coincidence that he served in the Privy Council in the early days, and he became one of the many civilian officers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Still a major.

This man is relatively old, and he said with a bitter face at this time: "Although there are more than 2,000 recruits in the recruit battalion, and there are more than 1,000 people in Liping House, most of the training time is relatively short, generally only five days of training. No, in a short period of time, I am afraid that we will not be able to replenish qualified recruits for the army!"

The recruits in this recruit battalion are not the ones that he can use to supplement the troops if he wants to. According to the rules of the Datang New Army, the recruits in the recruit battalion must be trained for a month before they can be added to the troops.

Previously, due to the emergency of the battle, many recruits who had only been trained for half a month or even ten days were made an exception to be replenished to each unit.

At present, the recruits in the recruit battalion have only been trained for six or seven days for the longest time. Such soldiers cannot even form a basic formation, and it is useless to supplement each unit.

Li Xuan also knew the difficulties in the boot camp, so he had no intention of embarrassing others, he just wanted a solution.

The director of the training department was a civilian officer. He was a literati who was instinctive to observe his words and expressions when he was an official. Seeing Li Xuan's expression, he probably knew what he was going to say, and immediately said: "We will follow up with the new barracks. Prepare to strengthen the training of recruits, and at the same time approach the troops, and once the recruits meet the basic requirements, they will be replenished to each unit immediately!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly after listening. Although he said that the training of recruits takes a month, it is not impossible to shorten this time. In the past, he trained for four hours a day, and now he will train for six hours, and there are some tactical moves and so on. It is also possible to wait until the recruits arrive in the unit before training, as long as the most basic formation, obeying orders and other meetings will do.

In the follow-up, it is completely possible to train while fighting. Anyway, after these recruits arrive in the army, they all need to go through a period of adaptation training.

At this time, Ma Wei, the left servant of the Ministry of War, also said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the soldiers of the army can be replenished, and some prisoners of the Ming army can be appropriately replenished!

There were many prisoners of our army in this battle, although most of them could not be reused, but after selection, some people should be able to be selected to be added to the main force!

Some other troops that cannot be supplemented to the main force should also be able to be supplemented to the garrison regiment, or even establish a new garrison regiment, which should greatly alleviate the current shortage of our army! "

The matter of recruiting and arranging prisoners has always been in charge of Bai Yunqi in the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xuan immediately turned around and asked Bai Yunqi, "How is the quality of this group of prisoners~www.wuxiaspot.com~ How many are useful? ?"

Bai Yunqi immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the quality of this group of prisoners is relatively average, not as good as the group of prisoners we added during the Lanjiang Battle, but after detailed selection, we should be able to select five hundred to six Hundreds of people will be added to the main infantry battalion, and about a thousand people can be selected to be added to the garrison!"

Recruitment of troops is difficult and easy to say. It is easier to simply recruit troops, but it is difficult to obtain a large number of well-trained troops.

Compared with the replenishment of soldiers, the replenishment of weapons is a big trouble!

The Datang New Army was already in short supply of weapons. Many troops, such as the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Infantry Regiment, did not have enough guns. Because of the shortage of guns, the Datang New Army even began to prepare to form a reserve battalion that only used cold weapons. .

After a big battle, the troops' weapons and ammunition will be depleted a lot, and the ammunition is okay. After so long in storage, the troops can still support the troops to fight one or two more large-scale battles, but the damaged guns are not so bad. Well added.

No way, in the process of combat, the loss of weapons is inevitable, especially the musket, which is actually very easy to damage when it is motivated to fight.

Although according to military regulations, each unit should have a batch of spare muskets, but in fact, many units of the Datang New Army are waiting for muskets to be used.

Therefore, it is very difficult. The muskets lost by the infantry regiments can only be replenished slowly in the future!

As for the replenishment directly delivered from the rear, crap, the officials of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty have to be scolded, what are we, a nanny, you can milk when you squeeze it, and you can squeeze the same output, one more shot. nothing!