Chapter two hundred and sixty-two, novice driving, please swipe the card
To this end, he sent Cao Mingda's cavalry team of more than 30 people to investigate the situation. To avoid emergencies, he also temporarily transferred a number of troops from other troops to form a temporary mixed force.
This pioneering mixed force has great historical significance and is of great significance in the military development history of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Its specific composition includes three platoons of musketeers drawn from the First Infantry Battalion, as well as three platoons of musketeers from the Third Infantry Battalion.
Four platoons of spearmen were drawn from the corps, and a platoon of archers were drawn from the archers' corps. The swords and shields corps also sent a platoon of swordsmen and shields.
If you include Cao Mingda's cavalry, the total number reaches about two hundred. If you look carefully at the composition of this temporary mixed force, you will find that it is quite familiar with the early New Army of the Tang Dynasty, both in terms of types of arms and number of personnel.
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The only difference is that in the early days of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan personally commanded them, but now the two hundred people are temporarily commanded by Captain Hao Bainian, who is the deputy battalion officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion and also the officer of the first team.
This appointment, like the establishment of this search team, has great historical significance, because this Hao Bainian is only nineteen years old this year.
Of course, the point is not his youth, but his identity. He was born in the Guards, and later received personal instruction from Li Xuan. He was the first batch of the new army of the Tang Dynasty to receive cultural education, and he also received the most basic military training.
Educated professional military officer.
Although their education level is still not high, only at the stage of literacy, and although the military education they received is so messy that even Li Xuan himself cannot understand what he has taught them, at least on the surface, Hao Bainian and this group of teenagers
The officers have shown a completely different temperament from the generals who were former bandit leaders.
At least on the surface, these young officers, Fang Dongquan, Chen Butcher and the others look more like soldiers and professional officers!
Hao Bainian is one of the best. He is smart, good at learning, and diligent in learning. He was already favored by Li Xuan last year.
And this person did not disappoint Li Xuan. He performed very well when he served as the commander of the musketeers in the early days, and later served as the deputy officer of the first musketeers. Although Wang Shanxu was the officer of the first musketeers at that time, he actually
At that time, Shang Wang Shanxu was commanding all the musketeers of the two teams, so the actual command of the first musketeer team has always been the responsibility of Hao Bainian.
So despite his young age, he seems to be obviously insignificant in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact he is already a senior officer in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of commanding the musketeers in combat, Wang Shanxu is actually not as good as him.
Naturally, Li Xuan would not let such a person go. When Liusha Village expanded the army some time ago, he established the First Infantry Battalion and expanded the size of each team to a hundred people. Li Xuan made people serve as the first musketeers.
He is the team officer of the team and also serves as the deputy battalion officer of the 1st Infantry Battalion.
After such a transition as deputy battalion officer, it will be more convenient and easier to arrange for his subsequent promotion.
After all, in the army, things like prestige and seniority need to be paid attention to. It is impossible for Li Xuan to say that he will rise to the top in one step and directly climb from the position of captain and team officer to the position of infantry battalion officer. This will cause a lot of dissatisfaction.
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After the transition of deputy battalion officer, and the experience of being a commander of a temporary mixed unit, it was natural for Li Xuan to mention him as the battalion officer of the formal infantry battalion.
Hao Bainian's rise to power made him appear for the first time in front of many soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, letting those soldiers, especially ordinary soldiers, know that the senior generals in their New Army of the Tang Dynasty were not only Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu, but also Hao Bainian.
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This aroused a lot of discussion. The comments from ordinary soldiers were fine. They were just out of curiosity at most. However, this was a shock to the other twenty or thirty young officers who were also from the Guards.
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Half a month ago, they were promoted collectively, but this promotion was only due to the expansion of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and everyone was promoted together, and no one could distinguish obvious advantages and disadvantages.
But now, Hao Bainian suddenly served as the actual commander of a mixed force and began to lead the army in combat on his own. This made many people feel itchy.
They also wanted such an opportunity. Even if this mixed force was only temporary, the temptation to lead the troops independently was still too great. In the following days, many young officers came to Li Xuan when they had nothing to do and seemed to say: "
Hao Bainian is not the only one who can lead troops to fight, there are also us. When I fight, I am also very capable. I am scared to see it myself, let alone the enemy!"
Seeing them wandering around in front of him, Li Xuan was a little dumbfounded. Why were they joining in the fun? Even if they didn't do this, Li Xuan had a plan to promote these people.
Promoting the young professional officers he personally trained is what he has always wanted to do and is doing now. As long as it can be completed, the replacement of new and old generals in the new army of the Tang Dynasty can be completed.
In order to make the officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty embark on a path of professionalism and quality, he has spent a lot of thought and has been preparing for more than half a year. It can take as short as a few months or as little as a year. He will completely complete this plan.
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When he completes his plan, the mid-level and senior generals in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will all be disciples of the Emperor and professional officers who have received cultural and military education.
Otherwise, why would he bother to be a teacher himself and teach these young officers? If he wrote out the content to be taught and then randomly found a literate person to teach them, the effect would be the same.
He personally taught, didn't he just want to learn from Bald Jiang's addiction of being a teacher-student leader?
Baldhead had students from Huangpu, and Li Xuan also had disciples from the Emperor. Moreover, in this sixteenth century where the relationship between teacher and student was highly valued, Li Xuan's students were more reliable than Bald Jiang's students.
After completing his plan to replace the old with the new, if Huang Xueren, Fang Dongquan, Wang Shanxu and other bandit-born generals are still unwilling to make progress, then don't expect to continue to lead the army. Later, Li Xuan will give these old people some idle work to support them.
They are indispensable for glory and wealth, but if you want to lead troops, don't expect them.
Li Xuan has been moving forward. What he needs is people who can keep up with him. Once someone falls behind, Li Xuan will abandon them without hesitation. He will not slow down and wait for them to catch up again.
This is not because Li Xuan is ruthless, but because the Ming army did not give him a chance to slow down!
The Tang Dynasty is now on the verge of collapse at any time, and Li Xuan's life can be thrown away at any time. Now he can't even predict how long his new army of the Tang Dynasty can sustain it, or how long he can survive. Maybe
Three months or half a year, maybe a year or two, or maybe he will be defeated in just a few days. By then, Li Xuan will naturally not be able to survive.
On the road of rebellion, Li Xuan was destined to drive the chariot of the Tang Dynasty faster and faster, and those who could not keep up with the speed of the chariot would be left behind.
Only God knows whether this chariot, which is getting faster and faster, only has an accelerator and no brakes, and is traveling on a winding downhill road, will it overturn midway.
But anyone with a little sense knows that the possibility of the Tang Dynasty’s chariot overturning is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very large. If you have to say how many, it is an uncertain number, because no one knows
I know.
After all, the person driving the chariot of the Tang Dynasty was Li Xuan, a novice rebel, and not a skilled veteran driver like Zhu Yuanzhang. Li Xuan didn't even have a rebel license, and he was driving without a license. How could he hold the steering wheel and step on the accelerator?
I learned it while driving.
Such a person drives such a shabby car that doesn't even have brakes. If he wants to prevent the car from overturning, he really has to pray to all the gods and Buddhas in the East and the West!
It's a pity that Li Xuan is a staunch communist successor and never believes in gods and Buddhas!
When he was very young, the teacher told him that you were the successor of communism. At that time, he naively thought that there was a country waiting for him to inherit. He had been proud of this for many years. Whenever someone asked him:
Sometimes, he would proudly say that I am the successor of communism, and his tone was basically the same as "the lonely prince".
Whenever someone looked at him like an idiot, he would still be confused. Only when he grew up did he realize that there were more than a billion people who were successors to communism like him!
Moreover, there are some different words in front of everyone’s successor names, such as ‘leader’s successor’, ‘worker’s successor’ and ‘peasant’s successor’.
However, although he did not become the successor of the communist leadership, he did not expect that he would inherit a Tang dynasty after having his soul pierced once.
Sometimes Li Xuan thinks that his teacher really didn't lie to him, and there really is a country waiting for him to inherit!
Thinking about it this way, when he foolishly said that he was the successor in a "lonely prince" tone, it was not too wrong.
At least, he still has a country to inherit, but billions of other people are not so lucky.
But now the country he inherited is facing a new round of crisis. The Ming army active in their rear suddenly appeared two days ago and disappeared for two consecutive days. Cao Mingda led the reconnaissance cavalry to control the surrounding areas.
I searched all over and couldn't find it.
Just when Cao Mingda thought that the Ming army had fled far away, on the third day, news came again that the baggage troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had been attacked.
This time, the Ming army was so bold as to attack the main grain transport team of the baggage camp. The grain transport team contained a team of baggage soldiers and more than a hundred civilians.
The attacking Ming army had just rushed over, and an officer from the baggage battalion of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, who was leading the team, formed a tight formation.
Seeing that there was no advantage to be gained, those Ming troops quickly retreated.
This attack, which did not involve actual combat, also allowed the new army of the Tang Dynasty to know for the first time who they needed to deal with. The general leading the army was very young and looked like he was still young, and he was supported by a veteran general.
At the same time, this Ming army also hung a banner representing the general, with a big letter: Zeng!
When Zeng Ziwen heard the detailed report from the frontline soldiers, he felt as if he had been yelled at by a dog: Damn, that's my brother, and he's my own brother!