When the guards around him heard Li Xuan's words, they habitually said: "I obey your order!"
But after saying that he obeyed the order, he was stunned. After hesitating for a moment, he still made no move. Perhaps after hesitating for a long time, the guard said with anxiety: "Your Majesty, I am stupid, what is this Italian cannon?"
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"Italian cannon?" After Li Xuan heard this, he realized that he had just let it slip.
Even though I have been living in this era for more than a year, I have become accustomed to this era in many aspects. For example, the paper used to wipe the buttocks is not soft toilet paper but straw paper. For example, there is no toothpaste but green salt for brushing your teeth. For example, I have seen in the past
People cannot remain calm when they are injured or dead, but now they can ignore the corpses on the battlefield and the wailing wounded.
But although many habits have been changed, the depth of his soul cannot be changed. He still has the soul of a modern person. When he speaks, he will inadvertently say one or two things that people of this era cannot understand.
vocabulary.
Most of the time, because of his status as emperor, Liu Bagou and the others were either forced to get used to the vocabulary Li Xuan said, such as calling a handgun a musket, or they simply ignored the vocabulary Li Xuan said.
But now, the guard next to him is hard to ignore, because he is going to pull this Italian cannon over, but what is an Italian cannon?
Fortunately, Li Xuan did not embarrass him. After realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Li Xuan immediately said: "It's the artillery made in the workshop. Didn't I say that I had already built one on trial? Bring it over. Well, I want it."
quick!"
Hearing what Li Xuan said, the guard realized that large blunderbuss were being made in the workshop of the Ministry of Industry. Oh, no, he knew it was an artillery piece.
And he has gone to see it many times with Li Xuan, although he still can't figure out why His Majesty called the big guns into artillery, and today he changed them to Italian cannons.
But this is not important. What is important is that he knows the specific mission of returning to Huangzhu Mountain this time.
He immediately said: "I will bring this artillery, oh, Italian artillery, as quickly as possible!"
Hearing that his guard also called out the Italian cannon, Li Xuan was too lazy to explain. He casually waved his hand and asked him to go about his business. He turned around and continued to observe the Ming army on the other side of the river.
The Ming army on the other side of the river obviously had no intention of risking crossing the river this evening, because the Ming army had already begun to build a camp.
But think about it, there are not many small boats that can cross the river on the other side of the river, and the ropeway has been cut off. They rely on these small boats to send at most dozens of people over at a time. This round trip may be very difficult.
It's half an hour shorter.
If they wanted to risk crossing the river like this, they would basically be sending meat to the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and they would eat as much as they sent to them.
If they want to cross the river, they have to make a large number of rafts or bamboo rafts, and at least they need to send five hundred or even thousands of people across the river at one time. Otherwise, if they risk crossing the river, they will only die.
Seeing that the Ming army began to build a camp, Li Xuan was not interested in continuing to observe personally on the top of the mountain. Anyway, there were people from his own side on the top of the mountain observing the movements of the Ming army on the opposite side at any time. If there was any slight movement, they could report it to him.
There was no need for him to watch it himself.
After descending the mountain and returning to the Chinese army's camp, Li Xuan summoned Zeng Ziwen and several other senior generals to talk about the gains and losses of today's ambush.
This kind of post-war discussion has almost become a habit of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty!
This kind of post-war discussion meeting is simply to summarize the advantages and disadvantages, and continue to carry forward the advantages in the future, while trying to avoid the disadvantages.
In this way, the new army of the Tang Dynasty could gradually become formalized despite the lack of a large number of professional generals.
If theory is not enough, it can be made up for by experience. If they fight too many battles, what the new army of the Tang Dynasty can gain will definitely not be less than the various experiences brought by a group of professional generals.
After a meeting to find fault, Li Xuan asked Bai Yunqi in detail about the logistics situation.
This time they went to battle at the Lanjiang Ferry, but they were preparing for a long-term confrontation with the Ming army. The food for these more than a thousand people was not a small amount, and there were no big villages around where they could feed the enemy.
The only option is to collect grain from Xikou Village or simply send a grain collection team to other places to collect it from both places and then transport it over.
The journey along the way is not short, especially coming here from Xikou Village. The baggage transport troops may be attacked by the Ming army in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County.
Therefore, this logistical task can be said to be very arduous!
The main force also has heavy combat tasks. It is unlikely that too many main forces will be dispatched to escort the food. It can only be a symbolic number of dozens of people, and the main force to escort the food will have to support the supply camp itself.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Calculating the time, the second batch of food should have passed the dangerous area in Longhua Town. If nothing unexpected happens, it will arrive tomorrow afternoon!" Bai Yunqi said: "Although the combat strength of our supply camp is not as good as that of the second batch.
There is an infantry battalion, but most of them are good soldiers. Many of them were soldiers in the Ming army before, so escorting food is not a problem!"
Li Xuan nodded and said: "You must know the importance of logistics if I don't say it. I won't say anything unnecessary. As long as the logistics supply is continuous, the credit will be indispensable to your supply camp. But if there is a problem, by then
Military law is ruthless!”
Although Bai Yunqi is his uncle, if something unexpected happened, Li Xuan would not be able to cut off his arm and kick Bai Yunqi out, but today is a formal meeting, and the proper attitude must be shown, otherwise, other
People will have opinions.
Logistics is important. Li Xuan knows it, and Bai Yunqi himself knows it. After the expansion, the supply camp has become the largest battalion-level unit, with not only more than 300 people, but also numerous livestock and vehicles.
This time when the army went on an expedition, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty also temporarily recruited more than 300 civilians from Xikou Village to transport supplies.
This is mainly to free up the soldiers in the supply camp to perform escort tasks. After all, although the people in the supply camp are used as auxiliary personnel, as Bai Yunqi said, most of the people in the supply camp are actually
They are combatants. Nowadays, they have to maintain such a long-distance and dangerous supply line. The main task of the soldiers in these supply camps is not to transport supplies, but to escort them.
Between the soldiers of the supply camp and the temporarily recruited civilians, the number of personnel maintaining the supply line of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty reached more than 600 people.
Moreover, nearly a hundred Ming soldiers were captured today. If nothing else happens, these Ming soldiers will also be organized into the supply camp. In this case, the supply camp can be expanded into four teams. The number of combatants has already been
It is equivalent to an infantry battalion.
However, even with so many people escorting the supplies, Li Xuan still received bad news the next day.
In the afternoon of that day, when Li Xuan was watching the Ming army on the opposite side logging wood and building rafts, a scout came to report that the infantry team sent out by the third infantry battalion in the morning to 'collect grain' in the nearby area was attacked by the Ming army, and the enemy
The scale reached more than one hundred people.
As soon as he heard the news, Li Xuan's first reaction was, damn, when did the Ming army on the opposite side get their wings and fly over?