Valley Emperor

Facts have proved that bombarding the guest city wall with a seven-pound heavy artillery, which is only a county scale, is still very effective. In the entire Tang Dynasty, there were only three seven-jin heavy artillery bombarding the guest city wall continuously, plus the help of the five-jin field artillery , It didn't take long for the guest's city wall to collapse for a while!

The next step is to charge without too much technical content and new ideas. According to the past habits, it is still the heavy armored infantry who takes the lead in the charge and establishes forward positions for the troops in the rear.

Then came the influx of ordinary infantry!

In the previous many fortified battles, the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty successively set up temporary commandos as the main force of the siege, and the effects were very significant.

Although the scale of the guest battle was small, the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty still dispatched some elite infantry to charge into battle.

And in this process, Li Xuan found that the standing soldiers contributed by the chieftains are generally strong in personal martial arts, and the most important thing is that they are not afraid of death, and they will not retreat in battle, which makes him deeply touched. .

I am even more looking forward to the Fourth Infantry Brigade with the source of soldiers as the core!

However, it is not a matter of a day or two for the Fourth Infantry Brigade to form an army. Today, the soldiers that can be used in the King Division of the Tang Dynasty are still the Liuzhou Independence Regiment put together by the chieftains!

After watching their battles, Li Xuan already had the intention to recruit the elite soldiers from the Liuzhou Independence Regiment, and then select some elite soldiers from other units to create a team with heavy armored infantry as the core, which can be used to attack fortifications, The troops on the offensive.

Anyway, the equipment required by the heavy armored infantry is only swords and armor, and although there is a lack of armor in the Tang Dynasty, it is better than guns and artillery. After all, as long as you defeat the Ming army, you can always get a lot of cold weapons.

Moreover, in his opinion, it is a pity that this kind of elite soldier with excellent martial arts and full of fighting courage is directly used as cannon fodder.

Moreover, due to their characteristics, it is not suitable for them to strictly implement the phalanx mode of operations. It is most suitable for them to be the commando mode. Maybe they can come up with a Datang version of the heavy armored infantry battalion!

As the commandos rushed to the head of Laibin City and began to meet the follow-up troops to enter the city, they were used as a defensive barrier in western Guangxi by the Ming Dynasty. The guests who gathered tens of thousands of troops could even hold it for half a day. was breached.

When the guests are completely won, it will be time to sweep across the central and western Guangxi!

Li Xuan, who had watched the siege battle for a long time outside the city, learned that the troops had completely controlled the city walls and started to clear the remaining enemies in the city.

He went straight down the mountain, and then returned to his boat. An official ship captured from the Ming army was naturally scumbag, but it was spacious and comfortable enough to be used as Li Xuan's ship. This kind of thing is too tiring, and it is naturally a good thing to have such a comfortable boat ride.

That afternoon, a group of high-ranking generals joined Li Xuan on the boat for a routine post-war meeting. This post-war meeting was the same as before, and it was all about the advantages and disadvantages.

In addition, there are reports on the loss and capture of the enemy and the enemy. In this battle of the guests, although there are many troops on both sides participating in the war, there are more than 10,000 troops in the Ming army and more than 20,000 in the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the casualties on both sides in this battle were very small. The Ming army suffered more than 500 casualties before and after, while the Datang 6th Army suffered fewer casualties, less than 100, most of them were soldiers and garrison troops.

Although the casualties on both sides were not large, there were quite a few captured!

Because before the siege of the city, the Master of the Tang Dynasty had already surrounded the entire guest. After the guest was attacked, except for a few casualties, most of the Ming army in the city chose to surrender under the hopelessness of doing nothing.

Therefore, the number of prisoners captured this time is quite large, much more than those captured during the Liuzhou City Battle. A total of more than 8,000 prisoners were captured!

It is a pity that the quality of these prisoners is not very good, because many of them are young men recruited temporarily, and some are soldiers of the guards.

However, although the quality is a little worse, it can't be let go. Li Xuan personally made arrangements for these prisoners of war. The elite part of these people and people with skills and expertise, such as artillery, cavalry, etc., are naturally added to the regular army. The rest of the brain was added to the garrison.

The 3rd garrison brigade added a few hundred people, then the fourth garrison brigade and the fifth garrison brigade. With the addition of these prisoners and the captured cold weapons and equipment, these two garrison brigades were finally fully loaded for the first time. !

Of course, as for the combat power, it is only natural, but no matter how bad it is, it is still okay to be used as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's bow, arrows and shells!

In the other seizures, there is more food. After all, in the eyes of the Ming army, this guest is a barrier to defend the central and western Guangxi. Therefore, a large amount of food and other supplies were hoarded in the guests.

Therefore, after the guest was captured, the food seized was relatively large, but apart from the food, there was nothing else, especially the war horses. In the tens of thousands of Ming Army, they only seized twenty or thirty batches of horses that could be ridden!

This number is unbelievably small!

No way, Guangxi was already short of horses, and the Ming army didn't have any horses. Naturally, the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty could not capture any horses. Now, most of the horses in the new army of the Tang Dynasty were brought from Guizhou. Moreover, there is still a continuous search for horses in Guizhou. Although the southwest horses are short, they can still be used.

There are also a small number of horses in the Ming army and civilians in Guangxi, and basically all that can be found are requisitioned.

But even so, the cavalry units of the King's Division of the Tang Dynasty are still seriously understaffed, not to mention the reconnaissance cavalry teams under the infantry regiments are seriously understaffed, even the first cavalry battalion and the second cavalry battalion are seriously understaffed.

If it is based on the establishment, a cavalry battalion should have four cavalry teams, and each team also has a hundred cavalrymen following the logo of the infantry. Such a battalion should have more than 500 cavalry, but in fact, the largest number of cavalry is The first cavalry battalion has three hundred cavalry, and the second cavalry battalion is now less than two hundred cavalry.

The only fully-staffed cavalry unit was Li Xuan's Guards Battalion cavalry unit.

But in the future, this Guards battalion will be changed to the first battalion of the Guards, and its subordinate cavalry will also be independent of the Guards cavalry battalion, so looking at it this way, the cavalry of the Guards is also seriously lacking. .

As for the reconnaissance cavalry in the infantry regiments of the regular army, there are only 20 or 30 cavalrymen, and only more than 50 people. The cavalry team only has more than fifty cavalry, and half of them are missing.

In addition, after the establishment of the infantry brigades, in fact, these missing reconnaissance cavalry teams of each infantry regiment are concentrated under the direct jurisdiction of the infantry brigades. Like the battalion artillery teams of the infantry regiments, they are actually under the direct jurisdiction of the brigades during battles. .

As for the garrison, there is not even a cavalry, but at most a few horse-riding messengers!

In fact, the system of the kings of the Tang Dynasty had a very large demand for horses. If nothing else, the number of horses used by officers was not a small number, and the number of horses used by artillerymen and cavalrymen was even greater.

Fortunately, they started in Guizhou, and Guizhou still has Southwest Horses. If they started in Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, or Jiangnan, it is estimated that they can only use donkeys and mules instead, because these places are not the origin of horses.

Now in this area of ​​the southwest, although it is said that the horses in the southwest are not very good, and there are not many people who will meet for a while, but at least there are.

After the guest was defeated, Li Xuan did not intend to continue westward with the army. Now, there is basically no large-scale Ming army west of the guest, and the rest are small fish, leaving the fourth infantry that has not yet formed an army. The brigade and the fully-staffed Fifth Garrison Brigade continued westward and were basically able to meet the needs of the battle.

And these two troops are the troops under the jurisdiction of the Third Army!

The day after capturing the guests, Li Xuan summoned Major General Li Chunjing, commander of the Third Army and commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade, to discuss the future foray into the central and western regions of Guangxi, and instructed Li Chunjing to follow-up westwards, except for After winning other prefectures in western Guangxi, we should dispatch troops to the south to capture Lianzhou in Guangdong.

At the same time, it is necessary to deter and even enter Yunnan, but entering Yunnan is a matter of the future. For the time being, it can be ignored. It does not even matter if Li Chunjing can maintain the western part of Guangxi. In this situation, to ensure that when the army moves eastward, the back road will not be harassed and attacked~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Then basically the strategic task is completed.

In addition, Li Xuan also said that once the eastward march of the army goes smoothly, the subsequent defense of the entire Guangxi will be undertaken by the Third Army, and the First Army will naturally go eastward to Guangdong.

Li Chunjing naturally obeyed Li Xuan's advice very respectfully, saying that he would definitely defend the rear for the army, so that His Majesty could rest assured to advance eastward!

On the third day after conquering the guests, after the initial rest, the main force of the Datang King Division led by Li Xuan himself was divided into two parts. Li Xuan led the main force eastward, preparing to return to Xiangzhou to join the left-behind troops, and then continue eastward to Wuxuan.

And Li Chunjing led the 4th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Army with more than 2,000 people and the Fifth Guards Brigade with more than 6,000 people to continue westward.

These units of the follow-up Third Army will cooperate with the temporary second regiment that has entered Qingyuan Mansion, and take Qingyuan Mansion, Si'en Mansion, and Nanning Mansion.

After completing the above-mentioned first-phase strategic tasks, it will continue to attack Ketian Prefecture, Sicheng Prefecture, Zhen'an Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture and other places to the west, and at the same time, it will also go south to Qinzhou, Yonganzhou and other places in Lianzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province. All the way to the Beibu Gulf.

The reason why Li Xuan specially instructed Li Chunjing to send troops south to capture Lianzhou Mansion is because this mansion is on the western coast of Guangdong and has many natural ports. is already enabled.

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