Valley Emperor

"According to the strategy formulated in advance by our Privy Council, although something went wrong in the current first stage, the First Army failed to successfully attack Huangzhou, but it did not hide its flaws. The sneak attack on Huangzhou was originally an additional combat mission in the first stage. If we can achieve the best, it can greatly speed up the process of the Southwest Campaign, if we can’t achieve it, we can continue to follow the original plan!”

In Jiujiang, in the huge combat conference room in the temporary palace, Li Xuan sat on the dragon chair at the top like the usual imperial conferences, and the rectangular table below was divided into more than ten high-level military generals!

The seats for these more than ten senior generals are also clearly distinguished. On the left is the army general headed by Lieutenant General Lei Wan, Minister of Operations of the Privy Council. After him, he temporarily took the naval communication ship from Susong back to Jiujiang to participate. Wang Chaohong, commander of the Second Army at the Imperial Strategic Conference, and Li Chunjing, commander of the First Army, returned from Wuchang.

The remaining few are other important generals of the Privy Council, including the Deputy Chief of Operations of the Department of Operations who concurrently serves as the Chief of the Staff Department, the Chief of the Logistics Department, the Chief of the Ordnance Department, and the Chief of the Military Intelligence Department.

These army generals occupy the left side of the rectangular table.

Opposite them are Vice Admiral Bao Yifen, Minister of the Military Command of the Naval Command, Rear Admiral Chen Pingyang, Commander of the Yangtze River Fleet, and several other admirals.

Sitting on the right side with the admirals, below the admirals are the three chiefs of staff of the Guards.

This is an imperial strategic meeting that brings together senior generals of the army, navy, and guards. Among the generals present, the lowest rank is a major general, and brigadier generals are not eligible to appear in such an imperial strategic meeting.

However, in such a high-level imperial strategic meeting, there are no people below the rank of brigadier generals, no people from the cabinet, but there are people from the Hanlin Academy.

The chiefs of the Army Section, the Chiefs of the Naval Section, the Chiefs of the Survey and Statistics Section, and the Chiefs of the Secretariat of the Imperial Academy are all present.

Of course, in this meeting, these people from the Hanlin Academy were just sitting on the sidelines, and they were not qualified to speak at all. The director of the Secretariat, a senior official of the fourth rank, was to some extent the head of the Hanlin Academy. A person with a bachelor's degree can only act as a meeting recorder in this situation.

The Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty was different from the Hanlin Academy in the past dynasties. More strictly speaking, it only had the name of the Hanlin Academy, but it was the emperor's private secretary agency.

It has a secretariat and various departments, with a total of more than 20 departments. Except for the special secretariat, the section chiefs of other departments are all five-grade serving bachelors, and the deputy section chiefs are Cong five-grade serving bachelors. , staff at all levels read for the sixth grade, lecture from the sixth grade, write for the seventh grade, and edit from the seventh grade.

The secretariat is quite special. The director is the fourth-rank Hanlin bachelor, the deputy director is the fifth-rank reading bachelor, and there are four lecturers who are responsible for 24-hour rotation. In addition, there are reading, A secretary at all levels of the rank of clerk.

Because the director of the secretariat is a fourth-rank Hanlin bachelor, and his grade is higher than that of other department heads, so sometimes, people will also regard the director of the secretariat as the master of the Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty version on the spot. But this is just what outsiders see. In fact, the various departments in the Hanlin Academy, including the secretariat, have no governing relationship with each other, and each is independent of each other.

Speaking of who is more powerful in the Hanlin Academy, there is no need to ask, it must be the head of the investigation and statistics department of the Hanlin Academy, Mr. Li Daobing. Although he is only a fifth-ranking person, he controls more than 10,000 Hantong eagle dogs. Knowing whether he has any evidence of his own corruption and perversion of the law, basically, it was an official who saw Li Daobing, and it was not a good face, why?

They are afraid!

However, Li Daobing has always been low-key. As the head of Hantong, he basically does not deal with other officials. He has always abide by his duty as a retainer and never form a party for personal gain. Except for Li Xuan, he ignores everyone!

Li Daobing knew that he was completely different from other courtiers. He was from the Li family village. He was a tenant of Li Xuan's family back then, and he was also a distant relative of the Li family. Although this level of relationship was nothing, it was sometimes is very useful.

And this prudence has also allowed him to sit firmly in the position of the head of the survey and statistics section of the Hanlin Academy for the past few years!

Today, Li Daobing naturally can't say a word, and he doesn't even look at it. Today, he came to listen, it was a routine matter. After all, such a big battle in the Southwest Campaign is inseparable from intelligence support.

In addition to the Ministry of Military Intelligence, the one who provided information was naturally his Han Tong!

Not only Li Daobing, but several other members of the Hanlin Academy acted as if they were not there, and didn't say a word. They didn't have the qualifications to intervene in today's matters related to the empire's strategy for the next few years.

The senior military generals such as Lei Wan are also these people from the Hanlin Academy, especially Li Daobing does not exist. Anyway, every such large-scale strategic meeting of the imperial front, these people from the Hanlin Academy are indispensable. got used to.

Listening to Lei Wan, he continued: "The first stage has ended successfully. After the Second Army captured Susong, they are replenishing ammunition for the second stage of combat missions!"

"In the second stage of the Southwest Campaign, our strategic goal is not to capture Hanyang, because according to our information, Zhang Yue has already built Hanyang into a solid foundation in the past few years. However, Hanyang has already been turned into a fortress, and many artillery pieces have been deployed, and once our army advances to the vicinity of Hanyang, the enemy can always draw troops from the surrounding areas to come back to help, and they may be attacked by front and rear!

Because our plan in the second stage is not to fight Hanyang, but to cut off the links between the supervision ministries in the entire southwest region, especially the link between Hubei and Sichuan.

At present, there are more than 50,000 troops in the Huangzhou Prefecture and Qizhou fronts, about 10,000 troops in De'an Prefecture and Xinyang, and about 20,000 troops in Hanyang City. There are about 10,000 troops in Anlu Prefecture, about 5,000 troops in Xiangyang Prefecture, and 10,000 troops in Jingzhou.

According to our estimates, there are about 110,000 people in the entire Hubei region north of the Yangtze River.

In addition to Hubei, there should be 30,000 puppet superintendents in Sichuan, and there are more than 20,000 puppet troops from other factions.

In the Yunnan area, there were about 10,000 supervisors and about 20,000 soldiers of King Mu.

That is to say, the main force of the pseudo-intellectuals are all gathered in the Hubei area, and the leader of the thief Zhang Yue is also in Hanyang himself!

As long as we annihilate the Ming army in Hubei, the remaining Ming army in Sichuan and Yunnan will be nothing more than clowns!

In order to annihilate the Ming Army in Hubei and prevent them from escaping into Sichuan, our main target in the second stage is here! "

Speaking of which, Lieutenant General Lei Wan pointed directly to a city on the map: Jingzhou!

Although many people present have actually seen the Southwest Strategy proposed by the Privy Council's Operations Department, and also know that the main target of the second stage is Jingzhou, but now listening to Lei Wan, they can't help but turn their attention to the map on the map. Jingzhou.

This place was one of the ancient nine states. It was the capital of Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was also used as the capital by various regimes in later generations. It was the political center of the south for a long time, but later with the economic development of China After the center gradually moved south to the south of the Yangtze River, Jingzhou began to wither like the other regions in the Central Plains.

Now, even in Huguang, its political and economic center is not in Jingzhou, but in Wuchang and Hanyang.

This is known from Zhang Yue's choice. Before, his base camp was in Wuchang, and after the fall of Wuchang, he directly crossed the river to Hanyang.

However, this does not mean that Jingzhou is not important anymore. On the contrary, it is still very important, at least for the current southwest strategy of the Tang Dynasty.

Because this place is the connection point between Sichuan and the central and eastern part of Hubei, if the Datang Army can capture this place, then it can completely divide the Ming army in Sichuan and Huguang, and then destroy them individually.

This is also why the main goal of the second stage of the Southwest Strategy will be this Jingzhou.

"In order to ensure that Jingzhou can be conquered, we plan to use the second division of the first army as the main force to attack Jingzhou city, and the third mixed regiment will launch a containment attack on the land of Anluzhou.

The 1st Infantry Division and the 10th Mixed Regiment of the 1st Army will land across the river in the west of Hanyang and make an attack on Hanyang to confuse the enemy's line of sight and at the same time intercept the enemy's possible westward escape. "

The First Army has a total of four main units, the 1st Infantry Division, the 2nd Infantry Division, the 3rd Mixed Regiment, and the 10th Mixed Regiment, but this time it was used in a decentralized manner, and not all of them were concentrated together like the Second Army! "

"At the same time, due to the lack of sufficient troops, our army has already dispatched the seventh mixed regiment, and it is expected to launch an attack on the Badong area from the front line of Shizhou to intercept the puppet army that may come out of Sichuan to aid!"

"The various departments of the Second Army will continue to launch a fierce attack on Huangzhou Prefecture from the front line of Qizhou, contain the main force of the Ming army, and shake the defense line of the Ming army here!"

After Lei Wan finished speaking, basically the tactical arrangement of the entire second stage was fully revealed. The core purpose was to capture Jingzhou. In order to capture Jingzhou, the other troops also cooperated and launched their own attacks.

Revan's tactical stuff, but a massive battle. Naturally, it is impossible to have only one combat department. In fact, several other departments are also very important, especially the logistics department.

The people in the logistics department did not have as much as Lei Wan said, but simply said that the logistics department has now hoarded enough ammunition and other materials for 30,000 people to launch three large-scale battles in Yuezhou. Among them, only food is enough for three. 10,000 people eat it for more than half a year.

It is used to support the related operations of the 2nd Infantry Division, the 7th Mixed Regiment, and the Third Mixed Regiment, which is completely sufficient!

As for the ammunition and other supplies needed by the other units of the First Army and the Second Army~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are replenished from Wuchang nearby, and the bulk is continuously transported from Jiujiang!

People from the logistics department are proud to say that they have prepared thousands of large and small transport ships on the front line of Jiujiang. Almost all civilian ships in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River have been recruited, and a large number of civilian ships have also been recruited from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, the navy has also sent a large number of large-tonnage transport ships, but the navy's transport ships are relatively large, and undertake the transportation tasks in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The transportation tasks after Jiujiang are undertaken by small and medium-sized ships of the Logistics Department .

They have great confidence to complete the logistical support of the troops!

The battle plan is in place, the troops are ready, and the logistical supplies are on the way, so what are you waiting for, let's start the fight!

After the imperial battle meeting was over, Li Xuan officially ordered the second stage of the operation to capture Jingzhou and lock up the 100,000 supervisors in Hubei in the cage of Hubei, so that they would not have the opportunity to escape into Sichuan!

It's just that when Master Wang of the Tang Dynasty did this, they didn't ask if Zhang Yue would run, let alone if he would run!