If it weren't for the coincidence that he happened to be the deputy commander of the 15th Infantry Division, and the 15th Infantry Division happened to be preparing to enter the Korean Peninsula to fight, he would never have had the chance to become the commander of a main infantry division.
Kang Gaozhi, who had taken a shortcut to get up, was naturally unwilling to serve as the commander of the main infantry division for a few months, and then was relegated to the sidelines!
To avoid this, he must fight well in the Peninsula War. It is not enough to fight well in the battle. He must also do some other options that can add points to himself, such as the subsequent elimination of the remaining resistance forces.
Otherwise, even if he led the troops to defeat the remnants of the puppet King Minghui, but to be honest, this is actually not much credit, because based on the strength of the Tang Army, if a main infantry division came on stage, if it could not defeat the puppet
King Minghui's 20,000 remnant troops, then he, the division commander, can commit suicide.
Winning the battle is his duty, and it is not a bonus. The superiors will never give him a high look because of this, because in this kind of battle, any general who came from the Royal Academy will be defeated.
Can win!
If you want to win, you have to win beautifully and get bonus points!
For this reason, Kang Gaozhi has been busy reorganizing his troops and discussing follow-up combat plans in recent days, while also preparing a follow-up clearing plan.
The expected battle of crossing the river and Liujing was prepared by the division staff team and other mid-level and senior officers. As long as Kang Gaozhi did not act stupidly, there would be basically no problems, so he also focused more on how to do it.
Solve the encirclement and suppress local resistance forces.
After several days of hard thinking, he finally designed the plan and submitted it to the military department.
Strictly speaking, the plan he formulated is not a purely military plan, because it also corresponds to the policies of the cabinet!
In the plan, he put forward several points. The first was the issue of the disposal of prisoners. He suggested that after the battle, if the prisoners were the remnants of the pseudo-King Myunghye, then after being reorganized and dealt with, ordinary prisoners could organize local settlements.
, serving as an important component of future immigrants.
However, if the captives were local indigenous prisoners, then he suggested that all these prisoners be escorted to the northeastern border for cultivation and avoid being released on the spot.
In addition, organized immigrants from the country should be allowed to immigrate, and the early immigrants should be mainly young and strong men. In this way, these early immigrants can serve as an important part of the local militia, allowing the militia organizations of the four prefectures on the Koryo Peninsula to be quickly completed.
Subsequently, in order to ease the relationship with the local indigenous people, to strengthen the indigenous people's sense of identification with the Tang Empire, and to further reduce the number of local indigenous young adults, he established a plan to subsequently recruit a large number of indigenous young adults to join the army.
Together with the reserve division soldiers recruited from the mainland, Zhuang formed two or three reserve divisions, and then sent these reserve divisions to the deep defense lines in Hebei and Shanxi to switch defenses with the local reserve divisions, striving to replace the two reserve divisions from the mainland.
Entered the Koryo Peninsula.
The reason why the reserve divisions are stationed in the Korean Peninsula is because the Tang Army's main infantry divisions only have sixteen in total, and it is impossible to be stationed in the Korean Peninsula all the time to perform local suppression tasks.
Every main infantry division of the Tang Dynasty Army is a strategic mobile force. It is not their task to suppress the local area, that is the task of the reserve divisions.
With two reserve divisions, the militia formed by immigrants from the mainland, and the reclamation regiment composed of the remaining prisoners of the puppet King Myeonghye, it is expected that the army will be able to maintain a considerable local suppression force on the Korean Peninsula within the next three years.
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At the same time, in order to respond to the cabinet policy, soldiers should be encouraged to marry local wives as much as possible, and strive to allow them to settle down directly on the Korean Peninsula after retirement.
These are actually the follow-up military disposal plans. As for the early encirclement and suppression work, he did not mention it much. Instead, he unified the opinions with the military department. After the two important cities of Ryugyong and Seoul were captured, the follow-up was to divide the troops.
Capture all the cities and then garrison them on the spot to ensure that there are troops stationed in every major city.
When attacking cities in various places, you should try to annihilate or capture the local indigenous garrison as much as possible to avoid leaving them alone after being defeated.
At the same time, we are waiting for the arrival of the domestic reserve division troops!
After the reserve division troops arrived, they began to go to the countryside to clean up. At the same time, they cooperated with the cabinet to establish local yamen at the town and village levels, organize immigrants, and prepare for the establishment of local militia, etc., to ensure that the Tang Empire's run on the rocks extended to every corner of the Koryo Peninsula.
This report by Kang Gaozhi was very detailed. Although it did not talk much about pure military issues and talked more about political issues, this report quickly attracted the attention of the Sixth Army Headquarters.
It didn't take long for this report to start heading straight for Jinling on a communication ship.
This report will be sent back to the Privy Council as a reference for military bosses!
However, Kang Gaozhi did not know that the last person to read this report would be the Holy Emperor Li Xuan!
It’s just that when Li Xuan saw this report, it was already half a month later, let’s not mention it for now!
Besides, after Kang Gaozhi finished writing the report, his troops were also ready.
Seeing that the preparations were completed and the time was almost up, he finally ordered the troops to set off and go straight to the Yalu River!
Along the way, in addition to numerous military supplies such as ordnance, weapons, and food, his troops also carried a large number of tools needed to build pontoon bridges from the Zhouqiao Battalion and Engineer Battalion.
Behind him, more than 15,000 people, was followed by a civilian army of more than 20,000 people!
These civilian husbands were recruited directly from the local area, but even though they were recruited, these civilian husbands were very happy because the Tang Dynasty's financial situation had greatly improved since it occupied Jiangnan, and it was about to unify the world.
, some of the bad habits in the past naturally need to be changed, such as recruiting civilians. In the past, they didn't care so much, they just dragged people with bayonets and didn't pay them. If there was enough food, they would give them some food. If the military rations were
If there is not enough, then the peasants will have to bring their own dry food. Anyway, they will work for free without any money or food!
Naturally, there are many complaints caused by this!
But now, the Holy King is in power, and the Tang Dynasty governs the country based on the basic creed of benevolence, justice, loyalty and filial piety. Naturally, it must reflect the benevolence side. Therefore, the people who are recruited now are provided with food and drink. Sometimes the military
When you have a lot of money, or when it is busy farming season, you will be paid a certain amount of wages.
Nowadays, the more than 20,000 civilians following the 15th Infantry Division are provided with food and drink, and they can also receive additional rice grains as wages.
These days, it is actually not easy for ordinary people to have enough to eat. Every year, countless poor people try to join the army just to have enough food every day.
These peasants heard that they were provided with food and drinks, and additional rice grains were given to them every month so that they could take them home. There was a reason for their reluctance!
The more than 20,000 civilians will be responsible for the main material transportation tasks of the 15th Infantry Division entering the peninsula in the future. However, after entering the peninsula, Kang Gaozhi will consider letting the more than 20,000 civilians go home, and he will directly go to the peninsula.
Recruit local indigenous people to transport supplies.
The reason is very simple. It costs money to recruit domestic civilians, but it is much cheaper to recruit indigenous people for transportation. At most, they can be given one ton of food a day.
Although the army's military expenditure is more than 20 million, the funds to maintain a large regular army and reserve divisions are also quite tight, so we can save as much as we can.
More than 15,000 troops and 20,000 civilians set out. If this were written in the traditional Spring and Autumn style, it would be an army of 30,000. After rounding up, it would be an army of 50,000!
Therefore, when Kang Gaozhi's army set off, they were always worried about the Tang Army coming, and sent the Puppet Ming Hui King to scout the other side of the Yalu River. Soon they learned from spies on the front line that the Puppet Tang Army was attacking.
Here we come, a total of 50,000 troops!
After hearing the news, the young man named King Minghui was not too surprised!
When he came to the Korean Peninsula from Liaodong, he had expected that the puppet Tang rebel army would come. The only remaining suspense was when and how many people would come.
The 50,000-strong army seems to be much less than when they attacked Liaodong. In the first battle of Liaodong, the puppet Tang rebel army had tens of thousands of regular troops alone, plus the civilians who provided logistics and supplies, the number was more than 100,000.
However, although there were 50,000 people, it still frightened the remaining generals of the puppet King Minghui. Although the puppet Tang bandit army came this time was 50,000, which was much less than the original attack on Liaodong, but they themselves are now also
There weren't many people, a full dozen was only 20,000. The only thing that could comfort them was that when they escaped, they took more cavalry with them, a total of 3,000.
However, it was impossible to resist the attack of the puppet Tang rebels by relying solely on cavalry. This has been confirmed in the Liaodong Campaign.
When the puppet Tang rebels attacked Liaodong, in addition to his own troops of 5,000 cavalry, the puppet King Minghui also had 15,000 cavalry from the Duoyan Three Guards, Chahar Tribe and other Mongolians to assist in the battle!
As a result, the puppet Tang thief army fought steadily all the way to Liaodong Town, that is, there was a cavalry battle in the Liaohetao area. As a result, the cavalry of 5,000 Tatars assisting the battle was defeated by 2,000 of the puppet Tang thief army.
The cavalry fell down. After this battle, the Tatar cavalry saw the puppet Tang rebels and ran away!
And the most annoying thing is that in the original cavalry confrontation, the cavalry on both sides did not engage in the kind of hedging operations in the past. Those pseudo-Tang cavalry were particularly insidious. When the Tatar general thought that both sides would
When engaging in a formal, brave saber clash!
The cavalrymen of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army actually dismounted to fight, then pulled out their artillery, and used cavalry field cannons, flintlock guns and pistols to knock down the charging five thousand Tatar cavalry, and then got back on their horses to pursue.
, killed 5,000 Tatar cavalry and injured more than a third of them!