Valley Emperor

Faced with the death of the Ming army in Kaifeng City, they have to defend the city, and even use the many houses in the city as the battlefield. Fang Xitong is a little angry!

After arriving in Kaifeng City, the first day of temptation to attack was to lose more than 200 people. Although more than 200 people are nothing to the tens of thousands of people in the Fourth Army, to be honest, Fang Xitong I've never fought such an awkward battle.

In the past, it was either a decisive battle in the field, an encounter, or a siege battle, and a siege battle was usually born at the head of the city. Often, after one side captured the head of the city, the defenders in the city collapsed, but this time, The Ming army in Kaifeng City did not give you the focus of resistance at all, but placed it in the urban area.

This made Tang Jun, who was accustomed to open and close, fight, and he was shy, the vital heavy artillery firepower was useless at all, and the musket was of little use, because the Ming army was not confrontation at all, they all ambushed and fought. The scale is also relatively small, all of which are small-scale battles between dozens or hundreds of people.

However, although it was a bit awkward to fight, Fang Xitong would not give up, and he would not be reckless. Although the soldiers of the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty were also cannon fodder in the eyes of high-level generals, cannon fodder could not be sacrificed casually.

Therefore, Fang Xitong directly pulled all the artillery outside the city into the city, and directly assigned grenades to the front-line troops on a large scale, regardless of whether these ordinary soldiers were not grenadiers, and directly assigned them on a large scale.

Then a steadily advancing tactic was arranged!

Instead of taking the risk of going directly through those streets, trying to force the surrender of the Ming army in the city by controlling the main passage, but advancing step by step, compressing the activity space of the Ming army in the city, and then gathering and annihilating it.

Fang Xitong couldn't believe it. The city of Kaifeng was so big, and he was advancing step by step with heavy firepower, and they could still stop the Ming army!

So from the next day, the sound of cannons rumbled in Kaifeng City, and it was accompanied by very dense explosions!

At this time, the long-barreled field artillery was used by Fang Xitong as a direct-aiming artillery, which was used for demolition!

Now, when the Ming army was hiding in certain houses, without saying a word, they directly pulled out the field artillery and blasted open the courtyard walls and doors, and then the infantrymen also lined up and rushed forward without being stupid, but relying on the houses on both sides as cover, and then approached Throw a grenade after tens of meters.

At the same time, the short-barreled howitzer is also used as a long-range artillery for deep strikes. Its curved trajectory is quite useful in this kind of street battle with complex terrain, but it is still a little inconvenient to use because of its heavy weight. When Fang Xitong commanded the troops to attack the city, it was already a handwritten letter, strongly requesting the rear to develop and provide a light-weight howitzer with moderate power. And it needs to be able to move fast.

This kind of requirement is actually the requirement of later generations for mortars!

A large number of artillery and grenades, coupled with the attack of small teams, will use fire attacks when they are stubbornly resisted, and finally let the Fourth Army open up the situation!

In particular, the bombardment of artillery made the buildings in the city like paper, and could not be used as a defensive place for the Ming army at all. It must be mentioned here that most of the buildings in the cities of Huaxia land are brick and wood structures, which are easy to catch fire. Not to mention, and the defense against shells is almost zero.

The Fourth Army did not dispatch a large number of heavily armored troops to carry out hand-to-hand clean-up operations as expected by the Ming Army, but directly used a large number of firearms such as artillery and grenades as the main attack firepower, and the main force of the offensive operation was not the assault battalion. Not even spearmen, but those ordinary musketeers, especially grenadiers!

This kind of attack method was also not expected by the Ming army, and it has never been seen before!

As a result, their recalcitrant strategy was inevitably defeated!

As one block by block was captured, more and more Ming troops were killed and wounded. In the end, the remaining thousands of Ming troops were compressed into a few small blocks.

After another two days of attack, Fang Xitong finally became impatient. He directly ordered the troops to launch a large-scale fire attack. That night, a large number of rockets were fired at the many buildings where the Ming army was hiding.

This time, the Ming army hiding here was finally unable to hide, and began to break through, and then crashed into the encirclement of the Fourth Army!

It took the Fourth Army five days to capture the entire city of Kaifeng, with more than 1,000 casualties, while nearly 20,000 Ming troops in the city, including thousands of new troops, were killed by 5,000. Many, the rest are prisoners.

Although he won Kaifeng City, Fang Xitong frowned at the death and injury of up to 1,000 people. If possible, he would rather adopt a siege method to solve the battle. In this way, in a month or two, he would be able to All the Ming troops in the city starved to death, and their own casualties were enough to control less than 100 people.

It's a pity that he didn't have so much time. Li Xuan's order to him was to take Kaifeng, take Luoyang, control the entire Henan, and then march into Shanxi and Shaanxi.

He couldn't waste several months in a mere Kaifeng city!

But anyway, I finally got it!

After the capture of Kaifeng, Fang Xitong continued to lead the main force of the Fourth Army westward. His next target was undoubtedly Luoyang, Henan Prefecture. , is also his attack target, but not the main target.

Today, for the Datang Dynasty, the important thing is to quickly control the important cities in Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi, especially strategic points, such as Kaifeng, Luoyang, Chang'an, Tongguan, and then go north to Shanxi along the tributaries such as the Fen River to control Pingyang and Taiyuan. and so on.

In such a huge area, there is only one Fourth Army, and now the Fourth Army is no more than two infantry divisions with less than 30,000 troops, so the pressure is still not small.

What Fang Xitong hopes now is that the rear can replenish him with new recruits as soon as possible, and then send a certain amount of garrison troops to Henan.

In addition, he also hoped that the Third Army, which went north to Zhili, could solve the battle in Youzhou as soon as possible, and then divide troops to support him.

The more he waited, the more scattered his Fourth Army would be. Maybe after Tongguan was taken, he would be able to draw troops to go north. There would be only one division at most, and by the time he reached Datong, it was estimated that there would be five thousand. There are a lot of troops.

Where did the rest of the troops go, you ask?

You have to stay behind the city, and you have to leave a certain amount of troops to garrison the city that you have captured. Otherwise, you can capture it with a little cat and dog. There are a lot of ambitious people these days, especially in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, which have appeared in recent years. many riots.

In the past, the Ming army dealt with the various rebellions set off by these careerists, but now, this kind of task falls on the Tang army!

So the further back you go, the fewer troops Fang Xitong can use to fight on the front line. To solve this problem, there is only one problem, and that is to send more troops to him. One mixed regiment is not enough, and two are not enough. To control such a large area, it is impossible to get at least three or four mixed groups.

Not to mention the rest, in this area of ​​Shaanxi alone, all kinds of rebellions are overwhelming. To maintain the local situation, at least two groups must be mixed up and garrisoned separately. Otherwise, there will be troubles if you are not careful. big.

Suppressing places requires too many troops, which has always been the reason for restricting the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty. The 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty has fewer troops, and when the suppression places need a lot of troops, fewer troops can be drawn to participate in frontline operations. .

But this is also impossible. What Li Xuan can do is to continue to expand the number of mixed regiments, and to ask the Privy Council to vigorously expand the militia organization.

Li Xuan's expectation is that for ordinary local bombing tasks, such as dealing with small-scale riots, it is best to let the militia come, while the mixed regiment is to disperse and garrison various important places, such as strategic places and transportation hubs.

In this way, when the regular army has relatively few troops, it can be bombarded everywhere, and more main troops can be dispatched to participate in front-line battles.

It's just that the current Datang militia organization, although it has been developed for a few years, is still not a climate. In a province in the south, especially in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou, the three provinces controlled by the Tang Dynasty for the longest time are better. Because there are many retired soldiers in these three places!

The Tang Dynasty and the Ming Army have been at war for many years. Now it has been six years since Xuanping. Many soldiers have been in the army for many years, and it is impossible for the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty to keep the soldiers fighting and not let them retire.

In the past few years, there was no way to do it. There were few troops and there was a shortage of troops. But in the past two years, the control area of ​​the Datang Dynasty has become larger and larger, and the treatment of joining the army under King Datang is quite good, so the source of recruits has always been No worries, every day a large number of recruits are recruited into the army.

Therefore, after entering Jiangnan ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Datang Wang Shi has officially determined the retirement and demobilization system!

First Class and Second Class retired from the army after three years of service. Of course, they are currently at war, so the retirement time is delayed by one year, which means the soldier's service period is four years.

The non-commissioned officer's service period is five years, and he will retire after five years. Now it is a war period, and the non-commissioned officer is the backbone, so although there is a retirement system, unless you apply for it, you will not voluntarily arrange for retirement.

As for officers, although the retirement and demobilization system has also been determined, it has not been implemented at present, and the retirement system is of no practical significance, because it is stipulated that lieutenants will not retire until they are fifty years old, and school officers are sixty years old. As for generals, seventy years old.

God is pitiful, the average age of the officers in the Wang Shili of the Tang Dynasty is only in their twenties, and they want to retire decades later. ...

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