Valley Emperor

The Tang Dynasty began to expand the artillery and the further expansion of the troops in the rear, but this would not affect the troops on the front line of Huguang. Although Hao Bainian's troops would continue to receive all kinds of ordnance supplies from the rear, with the muskets and even the troops. With the increase in artillery, the firearms attached to the troops have also exceeded the rated establishment, but the army's reorganization plan still has nothing to do with the units of the First Army.

Now Hao Bainian doesn't pay attention to these either. The places he pays attention to are still Huguang, Hengyang City and Changsha!

After arriving in Hengyang City, Hao Bainian once launched a small-scale tentative attack on Hengyang City, mainly focusing on artillery attacks, but what people did not expect was that the Ming army on the top of the city also moved out a lot of artillery, and These guns also have a large number of large-caliber guns!

Through the telescope, Hao Bainian saw no less than twenty large-caliber artillery pieces with his own eyes. At a glance, he knew that these artillery pieces were all five jins of artillery.

why?

Because of this, the large-caliber artillery of the Ming army on the top of the city of Hengyang is almost the same as the five-jin artillery of the Tang army itself. When I think that the Ming army has already begun to copy the artillery of the Tang army on a large scale, then it can be judged. These artillery pieces must also be imitations of the Tang army's artillery by the Ming army.

Even the names are exactly the same, they are called five-jin artillery!

These Ming troops moved out more than 20 five-jin artillery pieces and placed them at the front of the city, and there were at least hundreds of Wankou cannons and Folang cannons. The most powerful city in the Ming army that the Tang Dynasty encountered.

So Hao Bainian just conducted some artillery tests, and after being counterattacked by Ming army artillery fire, he decisively gave up his plan to attack Hengyang City!

It's not that I'm worried about not being able to defeat Hengyang City, but I'm worried that it will take a long time and suffer heavy casualties!

Under such circumstances, Hao Bainian decided to withdraw after hesitating for a day!

Hengyang City is a hard bone, you can't bite it hard!

Or take advantage of the opportunity that the Ming army was shrunk in Hengyang City and could not come out, to go west first and take Shaoyang down. Although there are a lot of Ming troops in this place, there are not so many main Ming troops in the end, they are just a few. The guards were just troops. The main force of the First Army was killed, and it was not a big problem to capture Shaoyang.

As for the Ming army in Hengyang City, if they dare to come out and try to play a front and back attack, then Hao Bainian doesn't mind playing a surrounding point to help!

As long as the Ming army in Hengyang city comes out of the city, and his side is not surrounded by more than 100,000 troops, then Hao Bainian has nothing to fear, and even he hopes that the Ming army in Hengyang city can come out. The Ming army is the main force.

While advancing westward to capture Shaoyang, Hao Bainian ordered the temporarily formed Fourth Regiment and the Third Infantry Regiment, who stayed behind, to cooperate well and take Chenzhou and Guiyang prefectures.

The Ming armies in these two places have already lost their soldiers, and they have been besieged for nearly a month. It is still possible to defeat them. Even if they pay some casualties, it is like dragging nearly 10,000 troops between these two troops. There.

At the same time, Hao Bainian also asked the 1st Supplementary Brigade to fight together. Of course, the 1st Supplementary Brigade would never go to the battlefield unless it was a last resort. They were all recruits who went directly to fight the tough battle. .

Asking for the assistance of the 1st Supplementary Brigade is to let the 1st Supplementary Brigade help them maintain the supply line and give them some cover!

In a small village outside the city of Chenzhou, more than a dozen middle and senior officers of the Datang Army were sitting together, and the leader was a middle-aged man with the rank of Major General of the Army.

This person is the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Division, Major General An Zihe. Although the infantry divisions have been expanded one after another, and some officers have made frequent contributions, Li Xuan has also been promoted to a group of major generals!

And An Zihe was officially promoted a week ago. He is the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Division, but Hao Bainian is the commander of the 1st Infantry Division. The work has already been handed over to An Zihe.

In the battle of Guiyang Prefecture not long ago, An Zihe actually commanded the main force of the 1st Infantry Division to defeat more than 10,000 enemy troops from Guiyang Prefecture and won a great victory. Then he did not follow Hao Bainian to continue northwards, but was captured. Hao Bainian stayed and commanded the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 4th Regiment to besiege Chenzhou and Guiyang.

In addition to the army major general An Zihe, Li Xuan has been promoted to a group of major generals, but so far, Li Xuan has not rewarded the rank of lieutenant general of the army. Li Xuan regards the rank of lieutenant general as a reward. Whoever has made a great contribution, he will give it to whoever, and Hao Bainian, Chen Keqiao, Fang Xitong, Li Chunjing and others have a chance.

Of course, with An Zihe's qualifications and military exploits, he is naturally a long way from the rank of lieutenant general!

Below An Zihe are the officers of each unit, including Colonel Gu Shizhong, the head of the temporary 4th Regiment, Colonel Gu Shizhong, the head of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and Colonel Kang Yilin, the Deputy Brigade Commander of the 1st Supplementary Brigade. , then a few lieutenant colonels and more than a dozen majors.

Such a group of people dare not say that they will gather stars, but they are also the core middle and high-level people in the Datang Army!

An Zihe is a little old. This person is in his forties. He was born in the Ming army who surrendered to the army, but that was when he was in Zhengtai County. Back then, he surrendered with Zeng Ziwen. Up, that was also the earliest group of senior generals from Cong Long.

I just listened to his indifferent expression, and listened to Kang Yilin, the deputy brigade commander of the 1st Supplementary Brigade, talking: "My supplementary brigade has not many troops in Huguang, only one supplementary regiment, even if all of them are recruited, I am afraid it will be difficult to surround the army. Back way!"

When he said this, there was no embarrassed expression on Kang Yilin's face. After all, everyone was him. The troops under his command were just a group of recruits. Strictly speaking, the supplementary brigade was just a boot camp.

And we can't expect a group of recruits to be able to shoulder actual combat missions!

At this time, I only listened to An Zihe Road: "It is indeed a little more difficult to stop the tens of thousands of puppet thieves in Guiyang Prefecture only by replenishing the brigade, but this officer does not need you to guard it, you only need to let the puppet thieves on the opposite side. The army knows that it is enough to have three thousand troops in front of them!"

"A bluff?" Kang Yilin said immediately: "If it's just a bluff, and the enemy misjudged, I supplement the brigade to complete the task, but since it's a bluff, can you also transfer some civilians in the transportation group? , if they put on military uniforms and take up swords, I believe that the Ming army will not be able to judge for a while!"

Hearing Kang Yilin's words, An Zihe nodded slightly and said, "This is a good idea. Let's get another 2,000 people together and put 5,000 people outside the city of Guiyang. If I don't believe them, they dare to come out to reinforce Chenzhou!"

"Would you like to have more? There are a lot of civilians in the transport group, and there are also many military uniforms and swords!" Kang Yilin continued: "It's not a big problem to have tens of thousands of people!"

However, An Zihe shook his head and said, "No, there are too many people, and it is easy for the opponent to see the flaws!"

"Our Datang King Division has few troops. This is a well-known fact, and the Puppet Ming Bandit Army naturally knows it. If there are tens of thousands of troops, this Puppet Ming Bandit Army will probably be suspicious at the first time.

You can't let them think about it carefully, you can't let them think about it, and after thinking about it, it's easy to make them doubt! "

An Zihe continued: "Three thousand additional soldiers plus two thousand civilians is not much or not, just right, the Ming army in Guiyang Prefecture should not be able to find it in a short time, and it is estimated that they did not come out to test the courage to fight a battle! "

At this moment, he paused for a while and said, "Five thousand real thieves, enough for them to weigh it!"

Hearing that An Zihe said five thousand real thieves, everyone burst into laughter. For the slanderous name given to them by the fake Ming thief army, and what kind of real thieves and fake thieves they divide themselves into, these front-line generals naturally know it, and sometimes they are quite I get angry, but sometimes I laugh when I hear it.

Now, of course, is the time to laugh!

At this time, Gu Shizhong, the head of the temporary fourth regiment, said: "With the help of the brothers in the supplementary brigade, then we can bring together the main forces of the two regiments, plus the artillery and muskets sent by the Privy Council, this Chenzhou You can fight!"

Although the Privy Council has no plans to reorganize the existing infantry divisions, the reorganization plan for the provisional regiment has already begun, and the fourth provisional regiment is also the first provisional regiment to receive equipment.

At present, the regiment has successively received about 500 rifles, six five-jin artillery pieces and three seven-jin artillery pieces.

The accepted batch of muskets~www.wuxiaspot.com~ allowed the musketeers of the 4th regiment to be directly expanded to 700 people, plus 100 grenadiers, that is 800 people, more than the musketeer regiment. A little more.

At the same time, after accepting this batch of artillery pieces, the artillery team under the temporary formation of the fourth regiment was also directly expanded into a battalion, with nine five-jin artillery pieces and three seven-jin artillery pieces under its jurisdiction. Organization, this mixed regiment should have six nine-jin artillery pieces and twelve five-jin artillery pieces.

There will also be three three-jin shotguns and six two-jin shotguns.

The temporary fourth regiment, whose strength has been greatly increased, is also the main force for attacking Chenzhou City!

However, Colonel Ying Songbai, the head of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, was not to be outdone, and said directly: "Yes, my 3rd Infantry Regiment has already made preparations, and the first wave of siege will be handed over to us!"

Hearing that everyone under his command was full of confidence, An Zihe said: "Well, it seems that everyone is very confident. It is just around the corner to win Chenzhou and Guiyang Prefecture!"

Immediately, he stood up and said with a serious expression: "All ministries obey orders!"