Chapter 1644: Without Butcher Zhang, the hairy pigs will also be eaten
On the front line, there were directly leading troops to fight, including lieutenant generals like Dai Yaxin, and major generals and division commanders such as Deng Weifang, not to mention a large number of brigadiers, colonels, etc.
There is no need for an army general to personally lead the troops into battle. If he does, the Tatars will laugh to death because they have no one in the Tang Dynasty.
The role of a big boss like an army general is to sit in the rear, formulate the grand strategic direction, and get enough supplies and support from the rear. As for the people who implement difficult tactics, they are naturally the ones leading Yaxi and Deng Weifang.
As for Lu Yuzhi before, he was more inclined to lead troops to fight rather than sit in the rear.
This kind of behavior, to put it mildly, is actually taking credit from your subordinates.
Moreover, he did not do his job properly and did not receive enough support from the rear. Therefore, during the years when General Lu Yu served as the commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army, many frontline generals were quite resentful.
You are already an army general, and you still want to steal the limelight from us major generals and lieutenant generals. How shameless are you?
Moreover, as the commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army, he was unable to obtain enough support from the rear, resulting in poor supplies for the frontline troops, and sometimes even lack of troops and food.
Therefore, during the years when General Lu Yu was in the Western Regions, although he was in the limelight and his military achievements seemed to be great, he was eventually transferred back to Jinling City to retire.
The main reason was that the army had too many opinions on him and impeached him every three days. Li Xuan saw this and followed the trend. Anyway, Li Xuan wanted to balance the army, and also to avoid letting an army boss sit outside the Great Wall and control the army for a long time.
Therefore, after taking over the Western Region, General Lu Yu was forced by the internal pressure of the army, and the Holy Emperor had no intention of retaining him, so he consciously resigned and returned to Beijing to recuperate.
Then there was the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, the army boss General Fang Xitong, who served as the second commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army. However, Fang Xitong was relatively low-key and quite satisfactory in his tenure. His main achievement was to lead his army to win the Central Asian War.
the southwest region.
Later, General Gu Zhishu was transferred to serve as the third commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army.
General Gu Zhishu is the completely opposite type to General Lu Yu. He has never led troops to fight in person since he arrived. Instead, he sits in the rear. In addition to formulating strategies, he also runs to Jinling City every two days.
As soon as there is something good in the rear, I want to get it to the Western Expeditionary Army.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Western Expeditionary Army to become the first unit in the army to be equipped with Mini rifles and 100mm front-loading rifled guns.
In this regard, the generals in the Western Expedition Army have a great impression of General Gu Zhishu!
When I speak these words, I can't help but be respectful.
A superior is a good superior who doesn't take credit for his actions, doesn't meddle in the detailed tactics of the frontline troops, and instead brings things from the rear to the front.
Dai Yaxin and others naturally had a great affection for General Gu Zhishu and reciprocated his favor. They worked very hard during the war and often deliberately supported General Gu Zhishu. Whenever there was any achievement, they would say that Gu Zhishu had led the army well.
Therefore, although Gu Zhishu ran to Jinling City every three days, his military exploits were not considerable at all, and he was highly regarded within the army.
At least it didn't happen before that when Lu Yuzhi and Fang Xitong served as commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army, there were always continuous impeachments.
Lu Yuzhi was impeached because he was taking credit from his subordinates and not doing his job properly, which made the Western Expedition Army's life miserable.
Fang Xitong was impeached simply because of his poor ability. No one in the army knew that this man could get up by kneeling and licking the Holy Emperor.
When I got to the front line, I didn't do anything all day long. I only knew how to write excerpts and go back to Jinling City to praise the Holy Emperor. I was not good at formulating strategies. I completely relied on the staff team without talking about it. Moreover, I also liked to intervene randomly and command remotely.
I almost suffered a few losses.
After this, the frontline generals naturally disliked him.
As for the generals who can lead troops on the front lines in Central Asia, regardless of whether they are generals or field officers, they all have backgrounds.
For example, Major General Ying Yikang, who has been leading the frontline operations for a long time and is currently the deputy chief of staff of the Western Expeditionary Army, previously served as the commander of the 31st Infantry Division, but after the 31st Infantry Division was rotated back, he continued to stay.
Served in the Northwest.
First, he served as the division commander of the rotated 9th Infantry Division, and then he was transferred to the Western Expeditionary Army as deputy chief of staff.
Although the military rank has not changed, even people without political acumen can see that they are steadily accumulating qualifications and climbing up the ranks step by step.
Is it possible for such a person to have no one to support him?
Hao Bainian is his biggest supporter. Not only Hao Bainian, but also Li Chunjing also admires him.
You must know that Hao Bainian and Li Chunjing have always been sworn enemies. It is not easy to be praised and supported by these two sworn enemies at the same time.
And without the personal support of these two big guys, he would not have been able to stay in the northwest and fight in the past few years, and climb higher and higher.
Regardless of whether they performed meritorious service or not, everyone else was basically transferred back within a year or two.
After all, the frontline positions are limited, and you can't come if you occupy others. And a large number of generals within the army are waiting to come to the Central Asian frontline to gain credit for their qualifications.
Therefore, the frontline generals who can fight in Central Asia for a long time basically have someone behind them. Even if they are just rotated, they are not ordinary generals. Ordinary generals have no chance of gold-plating on the frontline.
Therefore, the dissatisfaction of the frontline generals was actually easily reflected and was learned by the army bosses in Jinling City.
General Lu Yu and General Fang Xitong were both killed in this way, but now Gu Zhishu is quite popular with the frontline generals.
Dai Yaxin also knew that Mr. Gu had been struggling recently to get a batch of breech-loading rifled cannons.
Now that the Navy has taken the lead in equipping breech-loading rifled cannons, the Army will naturally not lag behind. It is already the official artillery manufacturer of the Army. The Tianjin Gun Factory has stepped up its research and development of breech-loading rifled cannons for the Army.
Especially medium-caliber field guns are a top priority. The Tianjin Gun Factory has already deployed 75mm field guns, 85mm breech-mounted field guns, 100mm breech-mounted field guns, etc.
The research and development work on a breech-loading rifled artillery for the army of 3 calibers was carried out.
Cannons with larger calibers are more difficult to acquire and may not be available in a short period of time.
However, short-barreled howitzers with smaller calibers are relatively simple to develop and produce. Among them, the design of the 75mm and 16-fold barrel howitzer has been completed, and small-scale trial production has now begun.
According to the old rules, the first batch of artillery must be used by the Guards first, followed by army equipment.
Mr. Gu is eyeing this 75mm howitzer that has begun small-scale trial production, and wants to get it to Central Asia as soon as the army starts equipping it.
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There are also many troops in the Western Expeditionary Army, not to mention that this is originally a divisional artillery for the infantry division. It is still difficult for the cavalry troops to equip it.
But Dai Yaxin was thinking that he would see if he could get a batch of them for use when the time came. It didn’t take much, just a battalion with eighteen gates would be enough.
But breech-loaded rifled guns will be a thing of the future. Now, they can only use front-loaded rifled guns, and even the front-loaded rifled guns are not many, only two battalions in total.
It has to be said that because the front-loading rifled cannon appeared relatively late, and the technical gap between the front-loading rifled cannon and the breech-loading rifled cannon is not large, the breech-loading rifled cannon appeared just a few years after the front-loading rifled cannon appeared. Cannons became a transitional product and were not equipped at all.
If there is too much of this equipment, I am afraid it will have to be eliminated and replaced within a few years. Therefore, the Army is quite conflicted about front-loaded rifled guns, and in the end only equips some of them as transitional weapons.
As a result, in fact, a large number of artillery in the army are still old-style front-loading smoothbore guns.
Fortunately, the artillery of the Tatars are also smoothbore cannons, and their number is not as large as theirs, and their performance is not as good as theirs. Therefore, in terms of artillery, the Tang Army still has an absolute advantage.
Not to mention, there are more than thirty front-loaded rifled guns stationed at all costs.
Lieutenant General Dai Yaxin has decided to teach these Tatars a lesson on how cavalry should fight on foot!
And before giving lessons to these Tatars, he himself also learned how to fight on foot in a surprise attack!
Because he only half understands it!
At this time, the staff system of the Tang Army played a huge role.
What should I do if Dai Yaxin and a large number of cavalry division commanders and regimental commanders are not good at it and don't even know how to fight infantry?
There is a counselor!
The staff system of the Datang Army is very complete. The military headquarters, division headquarters, and regiment headquarters all have complete staff teams, and the staff teams are supposed to provide various tactical suggestions, so they often do not only arrange the same type of staff personnel. , different types of staff will be arranged.
Some are good at artillery warfare, some are good at cavalry warfare, some are good at mobile warfare, some are good at baggage supply, some are good at engineering, and some are good at infantry tactics.
Although many staff officers in the First Cavalry Corps are good at infantry warfare and artillery warfare, there are not many engineering staff officers, but there are some.
Dai Yaxin also transferred several of the more outstanding ones to the military staff to formulate detailed defensive tactics, and he himself also took the opportunity to learn how to fight infantry battles.
Dai Yaxin can still temporarily hold the Buddha's hand, but Wulihan will have to catch him blindly.
It’s not that they don’t have infantry and artillery in the Tatar Kingdom, and it’s not that they don’t have all kinds of talents who are good at infantry warfare, artillery warfare, and defensive operations, but to be honest, most of these talents are concentrated on the Western and Southwest Fronts fighting against the Europeans.
Here in Central Asia, cavalry is the main force, and there are not even many infantry and artillery. Naturally, these generals are all cavalry generals.
The few Tatar generals who were good at infantry and artillery warfare were all stationed in the rear area with 20,000 to 30,000 infantry and artillery troops, and did not follow them.
The maneuverable distance would be hundreds of kilometers, which was too far for the infantry and artillery. They would probably be discovered by the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty halfway through, and then they would send cavalry to surprise them.
What to do if there are no relevant talents?
Nonsense, of course I have to bite the bullet!
You can't stop eating pork without Butcher Zhang, right? They don't dislike even pigs with hair on them.
So Wulihan and other cavalry generals from the Tatar Kingdom began to meditate hard on the situation where the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty were building defensive positions on the edge of the nameless lake four or five kilometers ahead.
Thinking about how to conquer their defensive positions and then annihilate the First Cavalry Army of the Tang Dynasty who did not follow common sense.