Chapter 369 Pingxingquan captures the false emperor (seeking a monthly ticket)
When Liu Bago heard Li Xuan's words, he knew it was time for him to take the stage. He immediately took the initiative and said: "Your Majesty, the whole cabinet will do their best to ensure the logistics of the army!"
This sentence is the purpose of the cabinet ministries attending the meeting today. This war, how to fight it, and where to fight it, naturally has nothing to do with civilian officials like Liu Bagou.
The Tang Dynasty was different from the Ming Dynasty. Civil servants in the Tang Dynasty did not have the power to mobilize troops and punish generals. The power to mobilize troops was in the Privy Council, more precisely in the hands of the War Department.
The cabinet's military power or responsibility is to provide various logistical support such as soldiers, food and wages, ordnance.
Therefore, the first sentence Liu Bagou said was an opinion expressed on behalf of the cabinet, that is, the cabinet would do its best to ensure the logistics of the army, just like they did before.
After Liu Bagou spoke, Qian Mengjiu, Minister of the Ministry of War, also said immediately: "Xueshi Liu is absolutely right. Our Ministry of War will definitely try every means to increase the recruitment of troops and strive to recruit more troops than originally planned within half a month."
Plan to more than double that!”
Qian Mengjiu from the Ministry of War has already boasted about Haikou, and people from several other departments have also expressed their opinions one after another with chests beating!
People from the Ministry of Industry said that major workshops have begun to fully implement the flow production model and will work day and night at all costs. The output of various ordnance will definitely continue to increase significantly, and they will strive to double the output within half a month.
Doubling, output triples within a month.
Well, the premise is that the raw materials can be supplied in sufficient quantity!
The Ministry of Household Affairs and even the Ministry of Rites and other departments also said that they would support the military's operations as much as possible and would not delay the military's retreat!
But looking at people from various departments patting their chests and making various guarantees, only Yang Xiucai, the Minister of Taxation, and Yang Duwei looked a little embarrassed, and at the same time they kept blaming these colleagues in their hearts.
Damn it, you are all making such a big noise, but in the end it’s not our tax department that comes out with the money and food.
What, your Ministry of Industry’s ordnance output is going to double, hell, where do the raw materials come from? You don’t need our Tax Department to spend money to purchase them.
Who pays the wages to workshop workers? It’s not from our tax department!
What? Your Qian Mengjiu Military Department also needs to double the number of soldiers it recruits. Damn it, who will provide the resettlement expenses needed to recruit new soldiers? Their tax department.
Who pays for food, drink and even salary for recruits? It’s not their tax department!
All of them are shameless boasters, and in the end they all count on our tax department, but our tax department doesn’t know how to do magic tricks, and it’s impossible to turn a pile of rocks into gold!
The tax inspection team has been running around every town and village day and night, but no matter how efficient the tax inspection team is, it is impossible to collect much money from the already barren Xingquan and Liping mansions.
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Xingquan Prefecture and Liping Prefecture have a limited population and wealth. It is impossible to say that the tax department can levy as much as they want, even if the tax department forcibly raises the tax rate regardless of the lives of the people.
Tax, but it is still difficult to support a new army of the Tang Dynasty that has reached 10,000 people and will soon reach more than 15,000 people!
In ancient times, it was relatively difficult for a hundred people to support one full-time soldier, but now, the total population and the number of troops under the Tang Dynasty have reached thirty to one, which means that the average number is thirty to one.
One person has to support a professional soldier. This ratio is almost impossible for a feudal agricultural society.
But when he saw His Majesty Li Xuan's gaze, Yang Duwei could only bite his teeth and swallow it, and then said: "The tax department will do its best to raise money and grain, and will never let the soldiers go hungry and empty-handed.
On the battlefield!"
After watching all the cabinet departments express their opinions, Li Xuan showed a satisfied look, which prompted the civil servants of the cabinet to withdraw. The following imperial strategy meeting had nothing to do with them.
The task of each cabinet ministry is to prepare soldiers, food, ordnance, and military pay, and the next step is left to the Privy Council.
The military personnel who stayed did not actually stay long, because the Operations Department had not yet come up with a combat plan, and there was no way to discuss it. All Li Xuan could do was to form the Third Infantry Regiment as soon as possible.
, let the combat department prepare a complete combat plan as soon as possible.
At the same time, it was also decided to slow down the plan to go south to Guangxi, and let the First Infantry Regiment and the Second Infantry Regiment continue to station troops in Liping Mansion. Since the Guizhou Ming Army had arrived in advance, before the other infantry regiments had not yet formed combat effectiveness,
Naturally, we need to rely on these two infantry regiments as the core force to resist the Ming army.
The staff at the Operations Department were also very efficient. In the evening, they had already come up with a preliminary strategic plan, and Zeng Ziwen took it with him to report to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan looked at the newly dry combat plan and made judgments on several preliminary plans put forward by the combat department.
The staff of the Operations Department proposed three strategic plans. One was the strategic decisive battle plan. The core of the plan was to keep the 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Regiment, and 4th Infantry Regiment stationed in the early stages, and at the same time give up the bronze drum appropriately.
The guards waited in the northern area of Liping Province and even the western area of Liping Province, trading space for time, waiting for the formation of the 5th Infantry Regiment and the formation of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and their arrival.
After half a month, the main force of the entire army was gathered together, plus a number of temporary reserve battalions. At least 13,000 people and the main force of the Ming army were engaged in a strategic decisive battle, which would determine life and death!
The advantages and disadvantages of such a plan are quite obvious. The advantage is that in half a month, the strength of the Tang Dynasty's new army in Liping Mansion will be at its peak. The strength is expected to reach 13,000 people, and the artillery battalion will be
Multiple artillery pieces can also be assembled.
According to the current progress of our artillery workshop, the new army of the Tang Dynasty is expected to participate in the battle with five 500-jin artillery pieces, six 800-jin artillery pieces, and two thousand-jin artillery pieces.
At the same time, in the case of a strategic decisive battle, these artillery can exert their maximum power by presetting the battlefield.
At the same time, large-scale strategic decisive battles, especially field battles, are the mode of warfare that the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is best at. Relatively speaking, city defense and even siege warfare are actually not what the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is good at.
And if such a strategic decisive battle can be won, it will be equivalent to defeating the main force of the Ming army in one battle. In this way, almost the entire Ming army in Guizhou Province will be annihilated, and the huge Guizhou Province will be empty by then.
Incomparably, if the new army of the Tang Dynasty wanted to, they could march into Guiyang and capture it, truly capturing a whole province.
But the risks are equally high. First of all, the Ming army will not wait for the decisive battle in half a month. The Ming army will definitely launch attacks from the north and west within this half month. If there is no resistance, it will not take a few days for everyone to be able to attack.
Killed to the gate of Liping Prefecture.
By then, the troops in Lipingfu City will be completely surrounded if they are not careful. At that time, it will not be a strategic decisive battle in the field, but a breakout operation.
Furthermore, the incoming Ming army numbered more than 50,000 people, and Zeng Ziwen and others judged that this number would be more or less. Zhu Zhihai’s assembled troops were the strength of a province. The tens of thousands were only in the early stage. As time went by,
With the increase, more young men will be recruited, and it will be possible for Zhu Zhihai to gather an army of 100,000 by then.
With such a huge disparity in military strength, it would be too risky to engage in a decisive strategic battle that would determine life and death. If this battle were defeated, the Tang Dynasty would be doomed.
In addition to the strategic decisive battle plan, the Operations Department also proposed that the 1st Infantry Regiment and 2nd Infantry Regiment, the main force already stationed in Lipingfu City, can quickly take action to attack the Ming army that entered Lipingfu in the early stage.
The advantage is that the number of Ming troops entering Liping Mansion in the early stage will not be large and they will be relatively dispersed, so they are expected to achieve relatively large results.
But there are also disadvantages, that is, it is easy for the Ming army to be wary, to figure out the combat mode and strength of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and finally act cautiously, which may cause the Ming army to unite together and fight a long-term confrontation with the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and this will affect the Great Tang New Army.
Tang Xinjun is also deadly.
Because the longer this large-scale war lasts, the more uncomfortable it will be for the Tang Dynasty. With only Xingquan Prefecture and Liping Prefecture, the Datang Dynasty cannot sustain the high-intensity combat of the Tang Dynasty's new army for too long.
If the New Army of the Tang Dynasty wants to maintain combat effectiveness and obtain sufficient resources, it must continue to expand. It must maintain the combat and expansion needs of the army by supporting war. Sooner or later, sticking to one place will mean death.
The third plan is to use a large-scale mobile warfare mode to first concentrate the troops and annihilate the 20,000 Ming troops who arrived from the north and northeast of Guizhou, and then turn around and march westward to attack the three troops who are said to be led by Zhu Zhihai himself.
Wan Mingjun.
The advantage of this is that the Ming army will be dispersed and defeated, and the pressure will not be too great. However, the Ming army is not stupid. If they cannot be defeated, they will definitely stand firm and wait for reinforcements. The 20,000 Ming army heading south from the north will most likely defend to the death.
Then wait for the source of Zhu Zhihai's 30,000 Ming army.
In this way, in the end, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty may be attacked from both front and rear, and even the logistics supply line may be cut off, and the entire army may collapse.
Moreover, this plan was a huge test for the long-distance mobile combat capabilities of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Continuous attacks put high demands on the army's logistics supply, soldiers' physical fitness, and the organization of the troops.
As for the pros and cons of the three combat plans, Li Xuan was unable to decide for a while!
After all, Li Xuan himself is not a military expert. In the early days, he was just an ordinary company employee. His greatest achievement in life was to fall in love with the front desk girl of a company that was coveted by countless people, and he developed many embarrassing postures.
Most of his understanding of military knowledge is through movies, TV dramas, and novels. If you ask him to formulate any large-scale combat plan, he really won't be able to do it.
In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the person with the most strategic vision today is not Li Xuan, a later generation, nor Hao Bainian, a frontline general, but Zeng Ziwen, a surrendered general from a family of generals. Although his ability is not very good,
After all, he systematically studied various military theories since childhood, and was familiar with all kinds of military books. Moreover, after Zeng Ziwen came into contact with muskets, artillery and line combat, he actually learned how to command a modern army, especially
In terms of strategic command, he already has more say than Li Xuan.
That night, Li Xuan personally summoned Zeng Ziwen and a group of staff from the Operations Department, and asked the staff to conduct war games on all three plans.
According to the deduction results, Li Xuan finally adopted the third plan, which was to first attack the northern Ming army, and then attack the western Ming army, using the time difference in the middle to avoid the two Ming armies from converging and annihilating them one after another.
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However, some revisions have been made to the third plan. For example, the western area of Liping Prefecture, and even the city of Liping Prefecture, are areas that can be abandoned. In the early stage, all troops will be gathered in the northern part of Liping Prefecture, and strive to
Within half a month, they completely defeated the 20,000 Ming army in the north.
Within this half month, the western area of Liping Prefecture and even the city of Liping Prefecture will be undefended. If the Ming army from the west comes fast enough, it can be easily captured.
After the strategic plan was finalized, in the middle of the night, messengers rushed to report Li Xuan's imperial edict to the generals of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty!
At the same time, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has once again entered a tense moment when the war is approaching. In the next few days, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will quickly move north, and then take the initiative to attack the 20,000 Ming Army coming from north to south!
On the same day, Zhu Zhihai also led the most powerful force in Guizhou, 6,000 people from Fubiao who were directly under his direct jurisdiction as the governor, officially left Guiyang Fucheng and marched eastward to Liping Prefecture.
At the expedition ceremony, Zhu Zhihai boasted to Haikou: Within a month, Xingquan Mansion will be conquered and the puppet emperor Li Xuan will be captured alive!
In January, the slogan of capturing the puppet emperor at Fuxingquan quickly spread throughout Guizhou, and even reached Li Xuan's ears!
You made Li Xuan so angry that he almost died, you used such a strong tone to numb Zhu Zhihai, and you want to flatten my Xingquan Mansion and kill me in a month. It depends on whether the soldiers under your command have such ability.
Of course, when Zhu Zhihai led Fubiao on the expedition, other Ming armies had actually already set off, and the northern Ming army's front had even arrived at Tongguwei.
And they have launched two tentative attacks, and the number of attacking Ming troops has only increased, from a few hundred people at the beginning to more than 2,000 people.
Fortunately, Hao Bainian sent an infantry battalion to Tongguwei to garrison from the beginning. Together with the two infantry teams originally stationed here, the Ming army did not have much time to conquer Tongguwei in a short period of time.
As for whether the Tonggu Guards can hold on after the main force of the explanation army arrives, there is no need to worry about this problem, because at this time, Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, and Wang Shanxu have already led the main force of the three infantry regiments northward.
Naturally, their destination would not be the Tonggu Guards, but the 20,000 main force of the Ming Army further north.
But in this way, the safety of Tonggu Guards is also ensured.
The day after Hao Bainian led his army to set off, many generals in Liping Prefecture received another imperial edict from Li Xuan. The imperial edict formally appointed Hao Bainian as the forward commander, with temporary full authority to command the First Infantry Regiment, Second Infantry Regiment, and Fourth Infantry Regiment.
These three infantry regiments.
Li Chunjing and Wang Shanxu are both deputy commanders-in-chief.
But the point is not this sentence. The point is that the imperial edict says that His Majesty will go on a personal expedition again. Soon, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the Eternal Saint, will lead the Guards Battalion, the Third Infantry Regiment, the Fifth Infantry Regiment, and the Artillery.
Battalions, cavalry battalions, reserve battalions and other units formed the Chinese army for the expedition.