Chapter 302 What if the Tang ship is going to sink?
Li Xuan pondered for a long time, and when others saw Li Xuan's appearance, they didn't dare to disturb him for a while. As for asking them to come up with any good strategies, to be honest, they couldn't come up with any good strategies.
Normally when fighting small battles, Fang Dongquan and Chen Tufu could still say a few words, but today on such an important strategic direction choice, they all kept their mouths shut.
Even though they have led their troops to fight many victorious battles before, they are still self-aware. They don't even know how to type. As for military theories and tactics, they know nothing about it. In the past, they mostly relied on instinct when fighting.
However, the new army of the Tang Dynasty had developed to this day and had thousands of troops. It also placed great demands on the generals' command capabilities. To be honest, Fang Dongquan and Chen Tufu could not meet such demands.
Even Zeng Ziwen, a former Ming army general with thousands of households, who had been influenced by various military theories since childhood, actually knew nothing about how to command the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, a semi-modern army with hot weapons as the core and cold weapons as the supplement.
Compared with them, Hao Bainian and other young officers from the Guards were young and not very experienced, and none of them even looked hairy, but from the first day they joined the army, they played with muskets.
, later learned to read and write, and entered the Royal Academy to receive personal instruction from Li Xuan.
Although the things Li Xuan taught them were messy, and most of them were things they had seen from various movies, TV series, novels, etc., no matter how messy they were, there was only one core concept that Li Xuan instilled in them, and that was the new era.
The war is a line war.
The musketeers will completely eliminate other infantry types. Whether they are archers, spearmen, sword-shielders, or any other mess of infantry, they will be swept into the garbage heap of history by the musketeers.
Hao Bainian and others, who had been listening to Li Xuan's words for three days, naturally established the concept that line combat is the foundation of all tactics, and musketeers are the only infantry.
Because these people have taken the position of team officer or battalion officer, they will naturally be more comfortable commanding a unit where more than half of the main force is equipped with matchlocks.
However, this is limited to tactical capabilities, while strategic capabilities are slightly lacking.
Li Xuan pondered for a long time, and finally looked around at everyone present, but he couldn't find any generals who could help him share the strategic pressure.
Finally, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: It's easy to get a thousand armies, but it's hard to find one general!
After sighing secretly, Li Xuan spoke: "Inform Fang Xitong immediately and have the first mixed battalion return to the No. 2 ferry to seize the opportunity to snipe the enemy troops crossing the river.
Also, deploy the 4th Infantry Battalion to reinforce Ferry No. 2 and No. 3!"
At this time, he glanced at Hao Bainian again, and then continued: "Hao Bainian, you lead a team of musketeers and a team of spearmen from your headquarters to reinforce the No. 2 Ferry. After arriving, the first mixed battalion will also be under your command. Be sure to take over the No. 2 Ferry.
The Ming army stopped us!"
Then he surrendered his eyes to Zhao Jingyun, the deputy battalion officer of the 4th Infantry Battalion: "Zhao Jingyun led another team of musketeers and spearmen of the 4th Battalion to reinforce the No. 3 ferry. After arriving, he followed the instructions of Li Chunjing of the 2nd Mixed Battalion.
command!"
As soon as everyone heard about Li Xuan's arrangement, they all knew that Li Xuan was dissatisfied with Fang Xitong's conservativeness and hesitation.
Fang Xitong and Li Chunjing were both recently promoted major officers. Their status was equivalent, but now Li Xuan sent Hao Bainian to Ferry No. 2. Obviously, Fang Xitong's command ability was not as good as that of Fang Xitong.
not agree.
But Li Chunjing's decisiveness and determination made Li Xuan choose to continue to reuse him.
Otherwise, Hao Bainian would have gone to the disobedient Li Chunjing instead of Fang Xitong.
Hao Bainian and many other generals were not stupid, so they naturally understood the reason for Li Xuan's arrangement immediately.
However, many people are asking themselves at this time, if they were faced with the same choice as Fang Xitong, I am afraid that like Fang Xitong, they would choose to remain conservative and do nothing. Please make a decision!
After all, being conservative can only be said to be a matter of character and ability, but with Li Chunjing, it is a matter of loyalty.
After this battle is over, whether His Majesty will continue to be important to Li Chunjing is a question.
After making arrangements to reinforce the No. 2 and No. 3 ferries, Li Xuan did not stop the meeting, but continued: "Immediately send people back to Zhengtai County and ask the troops staying outside Zhengtai County to guard against death. We must not let Zhengtai County
The enemy comes out of the city!"
Earlier, the Second Mixed Battalion was stationed in Zhengtai County and Longhua Town. Later, troops from the 3rd and 4th Infantry Battalions were transferred and stationed in rotation. However, since the Ming army arrived at the Lanjiang Ferry a few days ago, it is still on the way.
After ten thousand people.
Li Xuan transferred all the main troops in the rear to the front line, and handed over the task of monitoring and guarding against enemies in Zhengtai County to the pirate battalion.
Although the bandit camp is not the main force and does not even have a regular army, they are also equipped with a full range of cold weapons. It may be difficult for them to attack Zhengtai County, but if they want to prevent the Ming army from Zhengtai County from rushing out, it can still be done.
of.
At this time, Li Xuan continued: "Send people back to Xikou Village immediately and ask the Ministry of War to increase the recruitment of new soldiers. The more people, the better!"
After saying that, he looked at Zeng Ziwen again, and then said: "The Operations Department wants to speed up the training of new recruits. It can appropriately increase the training intensity to shorten the training time. The already trained soldiers will be replenished to each department as soon as possible.
force!"
It is foreseeable that a war is about to break out, and regardless of victory or defeat, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will inevitably suffer a large number of casualties.
In war, there are always casualties, and this time, Li Xuan is probably going to die and injure many, many people!
Therefore, he needs to prepare in advance so that after casualties occur in the troops, there will be enough recruits in the rear who have completed one month of basic training to supplement the damaged troops to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the troops can be maintained.
After Li Xuan made many arrangements, many generals also retreated one after another. Li Xuan had no idea of going back to sleep at this time. It was already past four in the morning, and in an hour, the sky would be bright.
He can't sleep for long, not to mention that Li Xuan can't sleep now either!
Tonight, the Tang Dynasty's ship had begun to leak. As for whether it would sink, he didn't know!
If the ship of the Tang Dynasty was really going to sink, what should he do?
Facing the crisis of shipwreck, he couldn't sleep at all!
It wasn't just him and the generals of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who couldn't sleep, a group of civil and military officials of the Ming Army on the east bank of the Lanjiang River also couldn't sleep.
However, unlike the worried Li Xuan and other civil and military officials of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the civil and military officials of the Ming Army seemed very excited.