The first thousand and forty-fifth chapters will sparkle
Li Xuan walked into the conference room with steady steps. The moment he entered the conference room, he could clearly see that all the civil and military officials in the conference room had their eyes on him.
Of course, these ministers did not dare to stare at Li Xuan for too long, just for a moment.
There were courtiers who dared to stare at Li Xuan for a long time. That was already in the Huang Zhushan era. At that time, any cat or dog would dare to be rude to him and call him "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty," but not many of them had true love for him.
Respect him and regard him as the real emperor, well, except Liu Bagou!
But now, it is different. Not only has he become an emperor with real power, but he has also led the empire to create a huge foundation and unified China. His prestige is not inferior to that of the founding emperors of the previous dynasties, and even exceeds it.
In the past, the Eternal Saint King was just the opinion of Liu Bagou's family, but later it was recognized. Until now, the Eternal Saint King has become the Eternal Saint King. These changes in title are enough to prove the changes in Li Xuan's status.
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The courtiers in the conference room looked at Li Xuan the moment he came in, and quickly lowered their heads again. Then they all bent down and said in unison, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
Li Xuan stretched out his hand slightly and said at the same time, "Everyone loves me!"
As he spoke, he did not stop, but passed the crowd and walked directly to his special seat on the dragon chair. After sitting down, he said again, "Give me a seat!"
Although there are many chairs in the conference room, if they want to get a seat in front of Li Xuan, they still need Li Xuan to say something like a seat or something similar. It would be disrespectful to sit down regardless of themselves.
Although Li Xuan would ask his ministers to sit down almost every time he held a meeting, there was never an exception. Li Xuan needed to give him a seat every time.
After Li Xuan gave him a seat, many ministers took their seats one after another. Everyone was very particular about where they sat.
Those from the Army are on the left and those from the Navy are on the right. They are seated according to their military rank and seniority. The seats are not arranged by them, but by the Secretariat.
Sitting first on the left is the real boss of the current army, Lieutenant General Lei Wan, the duty minister of the Royal Study. Although this person has never led a field army to fight in any battle, as the Minister of Operations, this person is the Chief of Staff of the Royal Study.
The minister on duty may not have as outstanding a military talent as Hao Bainian and others, but his political status is higher than them.
More often than not, Lieutenant General Lei Wan is not a pure military general, he is more like an official and politician.
Lieutenant General Lei Wan came down with several generals who were also lieutenant generals in the army, including Li Chunjing, Commander of the First Army, Wang Chaohong, Commander of the Second Army, Hao Bainian, Commander of the Third Army, Wang Chaohong and Hao Bainian, all of whom made a special trip from
The generals of the field army who came back by ship from Sichuan and Tianjin to report their duties and attend the meeting, but the others did not come back because they were too far away or had military missions.
Then there are the ministers and deputy ministers of various departments of the Army Privy Council, the commanders of some field divisions, etc. There are more than twenty people in total, all major generals and lieutenant generals.
Coupled with a dozen generals from the Navy, there are real generals shining in this conference room today!
The naval generals sitting opposite the army generals were led by Vice Admiral Bao Yifen. As the director of the Military Command Department under the Naval Command and the duty minister of the Imperial Study Room, his status in the navy was similar to that of Lei Wan in the army.
They have all served in the central government for a long time and have not participated in any actual wars.
After him were Vice Admiral Song Binglin, Chief of the Naval Staff, Commander of the First Fleet, Commander of the Second Fleet, Commander of the Yangtze Fleet, and ministers from the Naval Logistics Department, Ship Administration Department, Military Administration Department and other departments.
Under the rectangular table, according to the old rules, that is the position of the Guards. The four generals of the Guards sit there.
Although Li Daobing and others from the Hanlin Academy, as well as Qian Mengjiu and others from the Cabinet Army Department, although their status and power are not bad, in today's strategic meeting, they are just observers, so they are not sitting at the rectangular table.
Instead, sit on the chairs on either side of the conference room.
In this meeting, if nothing else happened, they would just have to wear their ears and there would be basically no chance to speak. Even if they did speak, the military bosses present would probably pretend they didn't hear them.
Although they are the top leaders in their respective departments and have great power in the outside world, they are still not enough in front of the real bosses and generals of the army and navy.
Not to mention anything else, even if it is a title, all the army and navy generals present today have a title, and the worst one is a viscount, most are counts, and a few are marquises.
No one else has to say anything. Hao Bainian and Li Chunjing, two army bosses, are sitting here today. When others speak, they probably have to keep their voices down.
There is no other reason than that his merits are great enough and his title is high enough!
After the ministers sat down, Li Xuan didn't care what everyone's inner thoughts were. He had a very busy day and held meetings immediately. He didn't have much time to be polite to them, so he just spoke first!
"let's start!"
Li Xuan first said this briefly, and then continued, "Let's talk about Liaodong first!"
The Liaodong War is the most important in the Tang Dynasty in recent months, and it can be regarded as the only large-scale war. Although Li Xuan did not pay much attention to it before, it does not mean that it is not important, and Li Xuan does not pay attention to it.
It's not because he really doesn't care anymore, it's just because the war in Liaodong has been going smoothly and Li Xuan doesn't need to worry about it.
The Privy Council and the Naval Command completed their work very efficiently, without Li Xuan having to worry about it.
At this time, Lieutenant General Lei Wan stood up and spoke first, "Your Majesty, since the offensive was launched in the autumn, all departments in Liaodong have made good progress!"
"Our army's Sixth Army took the lead in launching the Shanhaiguan Battle. With its artillery superiority and the bravery of its soldiers, it finally broke through the Shanhaiguan defense line and entered the Liaoxi Corridor after ten days. It then successively captured Ningyuan in the Liaoxi Corridor and sent troops to Guangning. During this period, our army
The First Cavalry Brigade, a cavalry force of about 10,000 cavalry composed of various cavalry regiments, roamed and guarded the logistics defense line in western Liaoning, and engaged in many fierce battles with Duoyan Sanwei and other Liaodong cavalry. There were victories and defeats for each other, but they remained firm.
Firmly guard the logistics line in western Liaoning."
"In November, our army reinforced an infantry regiment to Jinzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula. Then, together with the Liaodong mixed regiment, they formed a temporary Liaodong brigade. They went north from Jinzhou and captured Fuzhou one after another, and sent troops to Gaizhou."
"As a result, our army has formed a two-sided attack in the Liaodong area, one from the south and the other from the north. According to the battle report of the Sixth Army on the front line, the main force of their Sixth Army will subsequently adopt a frontal siege in Guangning and exert pressure.
, at the same time, the Liaodong temporary brigade will continue to move north to seize Haizhou, then control the Liaohetao area, and finally encircle and annihilate the 50,000 enemy troops defending Guangning!"
Because the winter in Liaodong was too cold, although the Tang army actually launched an offensive in the autumn, the offensive did not last long. After reaching Guangning and Gaizhou, it basically stopped continuing the offensive.
Because the weather was so cold, even though the Tang Army had already prepared all kinds of cold and warm things, it was still not used to this severe cold weather.
In particular, the troops participating in the Liaodong War were mainly composed of the Sixth Army, and the soldiers of the Sixth Army mainly came from the Huaihe River Basin in the north of the Yangtze River. Although the Huaihe River Basin is also cold in winter, there is still no place like Liaodong.
cold.
It's still snowing, but a few degrees below zero and dozens of degrees below zero are not the same concept.
During the Jiangbei Campaign in the past, although the Datang Army was also affected by the severe cold weather in autumn and winter, because the Datang Army always liked to launch offensives in autumn and winter, it was not greatly affected. The subsequent Northern Expedition campaign,
It was done in the summer, and it was also not affected.
However, the Liaodong Campaign was launched in autumn and winter. This is not to say that the Tang Army deliberately chose such a time, but in the summer of the seventh year of Xuanping last year, the Datang Army had just concluded the Southwest Campaign, and the follow-up forces
The mobilization also took several months. By the time the Tang Army was ready, it would already be October.
But we are all ready. It cannot be said that we stop fighting in late autumn. Many people thought at that time that it snowed in the winter in Liaodong and in Jiangbei. It made no sense that the Tang Army could fight in autumn and winter in Jiangbei.
The battle cannot be fought in Liaodong.
Moreover, they also have an extremely powerful shipping force, and have prepared numerous supplies to keep out the cold and warm, which can be easily transported from southern ports to northern ports. Every soldier will receive thick cotton-padded jackets.
However, God's power is greater than they imagined!
Although the logistics power of the Tang Dynasty was quite impressive, and the shipping was even more powerful, when it really started to snow, the logistics generals of the Tang Dynasty knew how powerful the snow was!
How big? Why? Because the road is blocked due to heavy snow!
The four-wheeled transport carriages of the Tang Army, which had made many achievements in many battlefields, were almost useless in the snow, because such carriages could not move at all in the snow.
This has resulted in ports such as Lushun, and even logistics transfer ports close to the front line, where various logistics materials are piled up, but they cannot be transported to the front line.
In the end, they had no choice but to improvise some sleds and other tools to transport supplies, or simply mobilize manpower for transportation, but this obviously caused a supply shortage!
As a result, by December, the fighting was basically unstoppable, because at that time, there were only a few battle casualties, but there were countless people suffering from frostbite.
From October to December, more than 5,000 soldiers suffered varying degrees of frostbite in two months, and their battle casualties were only a thousand people.
In the end, the Sixth Army simply suspended its large-scale offensive and switched to on-site garrison to survive the winter first.