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In addition to the 1st Supplementary Brigade, which can free up the 1st Infantry Division, the same is true for the 2nd Supplementary Brigade based in Liping and Xingquan. The 2nd Infantry Division can also be freed from the arduous task of maintaining security in the rear and supply lines. Come, focus on the battle with the main force of the Ming army.

The 3rd Supplementary Brigade also frees up the 4th Infantry Division to focus on the battles in Yunnan and western Guizhou.

Therefore, although these three supplementary brigades are not yet able to go to the battlefield, they can allow more main troops to go to the battlefield, so their value far exceeds that of a few recruit battalions, and this is why Li Xuan wants to do it. One of the main reasons to supplement the brigade.

However, although Li Xuan has high hopes for the supplementary brigade, the army's top executives are not very optimistic about the supplementary brigade. In their opinion, to expand the army, it is best to follow the model of two mixed regiments and directly from the main force. In the established system, a part of the troops is transferred, and then a part of the recruits are replenished. By using the old and the new method, they can directly pull into the battlefield. After a few battles, the recruits will naturally become veterans.

The old troops that have recruited veterans can also directly replenish new recruits. Although it will temporarily affect the combat effectiveness of the old troops, the actual impact is not large.

Now this kind of supplementary brigade is purely superfluous!

Li Xuan is speechless. The main purpose of this supplementary brigade is not to expand the army, but to train new recruits. The expansion of the army is only a side effect. If it is purely to free up the main force, he might as well directly establish a second-line force, such as The former garrison, robbery camp, etc.

Moreover, the cost of the main force and the cost of the supplementary brigade are also very different, whether it is personnel salaries or equipment costs. This can also save a lot of money.

The second is personnel salaries. The soldiers of the supplementary brigade are all recruits, and their ranks are only second-class soldiers. There are not many non-commissioned officers, and they are all recruited from the main force to serve as instructors. Officers are mainly warrant officers and second lieutenants, and middle and senior officers are the same as non-commissioned officers, and they are mainly responsible for teaching tasks.

Therefore, the number of high-level soldiers in the supplementary brigade is much lower than that of the regular army, which can save a lot of personnel salaries. Although the first-class soldiers, second-class soldiers and non-commissioned officers at all levels are all at the same level as soldiers, the difference between them Salaries vary greatly.

After the reorganization and reform of the Datang Army, a second-class soldier's monthly salary is one or two or eight dollars. This money is all they can get. As for his other living expenses in the army, including food, clothing, and combat expenses tools, etc., but the troops are all-inclusive. If these are counted, in fact, the expenses provided by the Datang Army for each soldier can basically get about four taels of silver.

Well, the cost of food is the bulk of it!

And the salary of the first class can be raised to two taels of silver every month. As for the salary of the non-commissioned officers, the salary of the corporal is higher, and the corporal needs four taels of silver.

In the regular army, the proportion of first-class soldiers is very high. After basically completing the training of recruits, after participating in a battle in the army, they can basically be promoted from second-class soldiers to first-class soldiers.

Even the proportion of non-commissioned officers is very high. For example, in an infantry platoon, there will also be more than one non-commissioned officer, and some are two non-commissioned officers.

As for the technical arms, such as artillery, the proportion of non-commissioned officers is higher. As for the cavalry, it is all non-commissioned officers. At present, a qualified regular cavalry in the Tang Dynasty has the lowest rank of non-commissioned officers, while the ranks of second-class and first-class soldiers, It is often the rank of cavalry in the recruit training stage. After officially entering the regular cavalry battalion, it is basically a corporal to start.

The supplementary brigade model will undoubtedly save a lot of military expenses compared to the regular army, which is why Li Xuan wants to engage in supplementary brigades.

With the supplementary brigades as a supplement, several main infantry divisions on the front line also got rid of the original messy tasks one after another, began to gather on a large scale, and prepared for the large-scale offensive this winter!

In the second year of Xuanping, in late November, although Zhaoqing and Guangzhou were still as warm as autumn, Shaozhou Prefecture, especially the northernmost area near Shaozhou Prefecture and the front-line confrontation area near Huguang and Yichang, was already relatively cold. Whether it's the people or the soldiers of the King's Division of the Tang Dynasty stationed here, they have already changed into winter clothes.

At the gate of Shaozhou Mansion, Hao Bainian looked at the somewhat gloomy sky, then wrapped his black satin army coat tightly, looked back at Shaozhou Mansion, and then turned his head decisively: "Let's go!"

As he stepped onto his horse, a group of officers behind him also got on his horse, and more soldiers were already carrying their muskets, and the spears began to head north on both sides of the road.

Hao Bainian, the former brigade commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade and also the commander of the 1st Army, has not changed much after the army reorganization in the second half of this year. He has changed from the 1st Infantry Brigade to the commander of the 1st Infantry Division. , and he was still the commander of the First Army.

However, the current First Army is different from the previous First Army. The current First Army naturally has no messy garrison army, only one 1st Infantry Division. In addition, the 3rd Infantry Division under Major General Chen Keqiao is also directly under his command. Under the jurisdiction of the First Army, in addition to the two main infantry divisions, the First Army also has a temporary first regiment and a temporary fourth regiment.

The two fully-staffed divisions and two temporary regiments allowed the main force under Hao Bainian's command to gain an unprecedented number of more than 30,000 people. Among them, the two infantry divisions had 25,000 full-staff members, plus two more. There are nearly 3,000 people in a temporary regiment, and the total strength is not much or not, just 31,000 people!

The First Army, with two divisions and two temporary formations, was the main force in the Beishang Huguang battle.

This is also a unit that he can command, Hao Bainian. He is very clear that although the Datang Army has a large number of troops, there are more places to use troops. Almost all directions need to garrison a lot of troops, even if it is the overall northbound force and other Army, but he knew that it would be up to his own First Army to win the southern part of Huguang and create a new situation.

Secondly, there will be the Second Infantry Division who will participate in the Huguang operation. However, this Second Infantry Division will not be under the jurisdiction of the First Army for the time being, but will operate independently. The southern part of Guangxi mainly cooperates with the First Army.

That is to say, the troops of the Datang Army prepared to participate in the Huguang operation consisted of three divisions plus two temporary regiments, with a total strength of about 43,000 people.

As for other directions, there are not too many troops deployed. The 6th Infantry Division is still stationed in the entire Pearl River Delta region. Before the threat of the Ming Army Navy is eliminated, the Tang Dynasty must be in the Pearl River Delta all the time. Deploy heavy troops in the triangle area.

The 5th Infantry Division, which had not been in the army for a long time, finally fought for the first time after more than half a year of training. Their combat direction was to go to the northeastern part of Guangdong, that is, the northern part of Huizhou Prefecture. The main direction of the follow-up operation is Jiangxi. From a strategic point of view, the Fifth Infantry Division is still fighting to cooperate with the First Army.

The first mixed regiment, after being supplemented, continued to garrison the Chaozhou Prefecture area and confronted the Ming army in the direction of Nan'ao Island and Fujian. Their main task was not to attack Fujian or Nan'ao Island, but to prevent the Ming army from attacking this area. The direction is killing them, so their task is actually strategic defense, and there is also a temporary fifth regiment to cooperate with them.

The defense area of ​​the Fourth Infantry Division in the Guangxi direction has become relatively large. The entire Guangxi, as well as part of the southwestern part of Yunnan and Guizhou, belong to the defense area of ​​the Fourth Infantry Division. Because the control area is too large, the Now the 4th Infantry Division has been difficult to concentrate, often a battalion in this place, a battalion in that place, and even the strength of an infantry regiment is difficult to concentrate.

However, there were not many Ming troops on the western front, and they were relatively scattered, so the impact was not too great.

In order to cooperate with the 4th Infantry Division to garrison the huge Guangxi and southwestern Guizhou, and at the same time to free up the 4th Infantry Division to continue to attack Yunnan and even Sichuan, so there are more temporary formations in this direction, and the second formation is temporarily formed. , The temporary third regiment is here.

It is worth mentioning that Guiyang, which had been under siege for many months, finally could not hold on, and was captured by the Master of the Tang Dynasty in October.

The last tentative fifth regiment was Lianzhoufu stationed in Beibu Gulf. The main response direction was Vietnam. The main task was to cooperate with the second mixed regiment to consolidate the defense of the Beibu Gulf surrounding sea area.

The above-mentioned units~www.wuxiaspot.com~, including the 6th Infantry Division, the 3rd Infantry Division, and two mixed regiments and temporary regiments, also need to undertake the task of the strategic reserve of the Datang King Division.

As for the Guards in the King's Division of the Tang Dynasty, they have never participated in the army's deployment. Although the Guards has now reached a scale of more than 6,000 people, and it is still increasing, this Guards is not unexpected. If so, he should have been stationed in Zhaoqing City all the time, unless Li Xuan once again led the army to personally go to the front line again.

On November 28, Hao Bainian, who arrived at the front line in Yichang, accepted the decree of the angel, and then decisively issued an order for the 1st Infantry Division to attack.

Due to the relatively poor communication capabilities of this year, Li Xuan wrote the battle plan to capture the southern part of Huguang and Changsha as the core goal in advance, and sent special messengers to carry them to various places, mainly to bring orders to Hao Bainian and Fang. Xitong, Chen Keqiao and other senior generals agreed to launch an attack on November 28 at the same time.

So today, not only the 1st Infantry Division launched an attack, the 2nd Infantry Division, the 3rd Infantry Division and the two provisional regiments all launched a fierce attack on the face-to-face Ming army on the same day!

One day, just one day, the Huguang Ming Army declared an emergency across the board!