Chapter 349: The soldiers are divided into two groups
When Bai Yunqi opened his mouth, everyone already knew that His Majesty had already made a decision.
Therefore, no one was talking about the eastward or westward plan, but the southward plan was discussed in more detail.
This time, the discussion was more about tactical issues. For example, if you want to go south, you must attack Liping Mansion first. How to attack Liping Mansion?
After defeating Liping Mansion, how should we face the Ming army coming from Guiyang?
The subsequent series of strategies need to be considered in detail.
These things sound troublesome to say, but in fact they can be solved step by step, because the most difficult thing is to decide the general strategic direction. Once the general strategic direction is decided, the rest will be simple.
This is like eating. The most difficult thing to solve is what to eat. Once you decide what to eat, it won't be a problem even if you encounter a traffic jam, meet your ex-girlfriend, or the restaurant closes. If it doesn't work, you can just change to another restaurant.
After all, all roads lead to restaurants, so as long as you know what you want to eat, you can always find a place to eat it.
Therefore, the atmosphere of today's imperial strategy meeting was quite friendly. Instead of arguing about the super strategic problem of what to eat, we focused on the details of where to eat and how to get there.
Oh, no, no one was debating whether to advance eastward or westward. They started discussing how to attack Liping Prefecture, and then how to go south into Liuzhou Prefecture and fight to the seaside.
At this time, Li Xuan didn't pay much attention, but allowed these generals to discuss freely.
After all, matters involving many detailed tactics cannot be solved by one person's imagination. What is needed is the collective efforts.
Li Xuan didn't care about the follow-up battle plan, but there was still one thing he needed to do personally, which was to appoint the chief officers of the four infantry regiments.
Li Xuan already had a clue about the candidates for the leaders of the four infantry regiments. First of all, Li Xuan had already appointed Hao Bainian as the leader of the 1st Infantry Regiment.
This Hao Bainian has performed very well in recent months, and Li Xuan's cultivation of him has not been in vain.
The leader of the Second Infantry Regiment is Li Chunjing. This Li Chunjing also performed very well in the Second Battle of Lanjiang and the Battle of Crossing the River. Recently, he has become a representative figure of the new generation of senior generals together with Hao Bainian.
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As for the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, he is Fang Xitong. He is also one of the outstanding new generation generals. Although he is not as outstanding as Hao Bainian and Li Chunjing, he is still barely usable. And although this person is conservative, he is
He is loyal enough, and this aspect gives him a lot of points in Li Xuan's heart.
The leader of the Fourth Infantry Regiment is Wang Shanxu. Although Wang Shanxu is a general with a bandit background and is still illiterate, he is considered to be the more capable among the bandit leaders. Recently, he has been thinking hard.
If you want to be literate, you have to choose a regiment leader from among the bandit leaders and generals, and it can only be him.
After all, generals who came from bandits also need to be appeased. The positions of the four regiment leaders cannot be arranged for them.
But it’s only limited to Wang Shanxu.
Li Xuan is already preparing to marginalize Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren. Of course, this marginalization does not mean directly depriving them of their glory and wealth, but rather that they will no longer be allowed to command a large army alone.
This trend actually started during the Second Battle of Lanjiang. Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren still served as battalion commanders, but in fact they no longer had the opportunity to lead the army to fight alone.
After deciding on the candidates for the commanders of the four infantry regiments, Li Xuan selected several outstanding young generals to become deputy commanders.
They also selected several newly trained staff officers from Zeng Ziwen's combat department as regimental staff officers.
Li Xuan has tried to establish a staff system in the army before, but this is the first time that a staff position has been established in the army.
After the commanders, deputy commanders and staff of the four infantry regiments are determined, the battalion commanders below will also make certain personnel transfers. Most of the battalion commanders were promoted from previous team officers.
When the battalion commander changes, the team leader will naturally change as well. This creates a large-scale promotion wave from top to bottom. Officers are basically promoted by one rank, and a few are directly promoted by two ranks.
Their respective military ranks have also been improved. For example, Hao Bainian became the first colonel in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Li Chunjing, Fang Xitong, and Wang Shanxu were also promoted to lieutenant colonel. In order to appease them, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren also served as deputy regimental commanders and concurrently as battalion commanders.
In the long run, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
The only one who has not changed is Tufu Chen, because he originally had the rank of major. He used to have to work as an artilleryman in the artillery team. At that time, his rank was higher than that of Xie Ziwei, and he was in great trouble.
After the artillery team was expanded into an artillery battalion, the battalion commander Xie Ziwei was promoted to major. As the deputy battalion commander of the artillery battalion, it was naturally difficult for Chen Tufu to continue to be promoted, and then he was one level ahead of Xie Ziwei in rank, so it was not possible to maintain the rank of major.
Change.
And here, there is one person who deserves attention, and that is Bai Yunqi. In this personnel change, Bai Yunqi did not continue to serve in the field force, but was transferred to Li Xuan's personal guard unit as the battalion commander of the personal guard battalion.
Commander, the military rank was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
This Bai Yunqi is really not suitable for staying in the field army. Even compared with Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, his ability is too poor. Let alone becoming a regiment leader in the field army, even being a battalion commander is not enough.
So this time, Li Xuan simply transferred him back to serve as the battalion commander of the Guards Battalion, allowing him to continue to play his role and help Li Xuan see the Guards Battalion, a guard force that was related to his life and safety.
After the relevant appointments were issued one after another, naturally some people were happy and some were crying.
At the same time, the formal personnel appointments were issued, which also announced that the new army of the Tang Dynasty had once again entered a state of combat readiness.
According to the plan of the Operations Department, the first troops to advance into Liping Palace are the First Infantry Regiment and the Second Infantry Regiment. These two infantry regiments will attack Liping Palace in two directions, one from the south and one from the north. The First Infantry Regiment
It will penetrate directly into Lipingfu City from the middle road and eliminate all the resistance of the Ming army along the way. The Second Infantry Regiment marches from the north, first captures the Tonggu Guard, and then turns south to Lipingfu City, cooperating with the First Infantry Regiment to capture the back of Lipingfu City.
After capturing Lipingfu City, according to the predictions of the Operations Department, the 3rd and 4th Infantry Regiments should also come up. These two infantry regiments will not participate in the actual combat tasks in the early stage, but will bear the task of maintaining the logistics line in the later stage. At the same time, these two infantry regiments will be used.
Time continues to expand the army.
However, the First Infantry Regiment and the Second Infantry Regiment will go directly south to Liuzhou Prefecture in Guangxi, capture Huaiyuan, attack Guilin, an important town in northern Guangxi, and then attack Liuzhou, an important city in the hinterland of Guangxi.
What to do after these two places are captured in this way, although there is a general strategic arrangement, continue eastward to Wuzhou and south to the sea to Qinzhou, but the specific way to proceed depends on the situation at that time.
After all, plans can never keep up with changes. Who knows how the Ming army will respond when the time comes.