Chapter three hundred and seventy seventh destined opponent
As the forward commander, Hao Bainian’s opinions are crucial!
When Li Xuan received Hao Bainian's letter, he quickly brought Zeng Ziwen and others over to discuss the pros and cons of Hao Bainian's proposal to move the predetermined battlefield thirty miles north to the Tonggu Acropolis.
During the discussion, Zeng Ziwen was quite critical of Hao Bainian's proposal and raised several concerns. On the one hand, he was worried that the Chinese army would be able to arrive in time if the preset battlefield was changed. On the other hand, according to the original plan, the Tonggu Guards
The city has been abandoned, and now it has fallen into the hands of the Ming army. At this time, the decisive battlefield is placed in the Tonggu Acropolis. The Ming army will definitely rely on the Tonggu Acropolis for defense. Will it turn into a tough battle by then?
Will the emergence of a fortified battle lead to a protracted battle? When the Ming Army's Western Route Army comes over, will the army be trapped in a situation where it will be attacked from both front and rear?
Even if there is no chance of being flanked by front and rear, in a tough battle, even if it is a victory, the casualties will definitely be relatively large. If the casualties are too large, will it affect the subsequent plan to face the Ming Army's West Route Army?
You must know that the enemies that the new army of the Tang Dynasty had to face were not only the Ming Army's North Route Army of more than 20,000 people, but also the West Route Army of more than 30,000 people from the west.
If there are too many casualties in the attack on the Mingbei Route Army, it will definitely affect the subsequent battle against the Mingxi Route Army!
If one person fails, he may suffer disaster!
Li Xuan naturally knew about Zeng Ziwen's worries, and he also had the same worries himself. Reason alone told him that at this time, he must not imitate Bald Jiang, who didn't know how to fight and gave blind orders!
Li Xuan is still self-aware. He has only a few abilities. Even if he has a vision that surpasses that of contemporary people, these prophets can only give him an advantage in the grand strategic direction. Once it comes to specific wars, especially tactical choices
In fact, he is no stronger than ordinary people today.
To put it bluntly, if Li Xuan and Hao Bainian were to lead the same troops to fight, Li Xuan would definitely lose miserably!
Hao Bainian was able to become the commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, and even now the commander of the vanguard, because of his outstanding ability and Li Xuan's trust in him.
Since he has confidence in his abilities and trusts him, he is more inclined to Hao Bainian's choice in this strategic choice.
After all, in reality, on the surface, he personally led the army to command the battle, but in fact, he was not the actual commander of the battle. Li Xuan himself was actually just a flag, and his only role in this battle was
It is used to boost morale and at the same time suppress the many generals below, telling them to stop messing around and be more honest.
The actual commander of this battle was undoubtedly Hao Bainian!
This can be seen from Hao Bainian's so-called forward commander. His forward commander is actually completely different from Qiu Yu, the forward commander of the Ming Army's North Route Army.
Qiu Yu only led two thousand Ming troops, and the main force of the Ming army in the north was still behind.
But as for Hao Bainian, the three infantry regiments under his command are the main infantry regiments of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and their strength accounts for more than half of the existing troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that the three infantry regiments under Hao Bainian are the main infantry regiments of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Absolutely the main force.
Whether this battle can be won and the strategy of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty can be successfully completed depends on the performance of the three infantry regiments under Hao Bainian.
Although other troops will also play a certain role, to be honest, their role is limited.
At present, the expansion plan of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has not been completed. Only the First Infantry Regiment, the Second Infantry Regiment, and the Fourth Infantry Regiment have completed the expansion plan, and these three infantry regiments are all under the command of Hao Bainian.
As for the Third Infantry Regiment, although it was fully staffed, it was short of guns and artillery, and most of the soldiers were new recruits, so they were marching and training all the way while receiving equipment at the same time.
It is foreseeable that after the Third Infantry Regiment arrives on the battlefield, it will still be short of guns and artillery and lack of training.
As for the Fifth Infantry Regiment, the situation is even worse. According to the scheduled plan, they will accept all the recruits after half a month. However, due to the emergency, the recruit camp even sent soldiers who have not completed recruit training.
It was given to the 5th Infantry Regiment.
As for the equipment, I'm sorry, there are only a few dozen muskets that are expected to be used for training and a few bowl-mouth cannons that are also intended for training. Well, the bowl-mouth cannons were captured from the Ming Army.
As a result, the Fifth Infantry Regiment had to be reduced to a cold weapon unit, and a large number of musketeers picked up swords, shields and spears.
Can the Fifth Infantry Regiment fight like this?
What nonsense!
Among the Chinese army led by Li Xuan himself, the most effective ones were not the two infantry regiments, but the artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, baggage regiment and guard battalion.
The artillery battalion already has an 800-pound artillery team, the cavalry battalion also has nearly 200 cavalry, and the guard battalion also has more than 400 people.
Li Xuan's personal guard battalion, as the personal guard unit that protects Li Xuan, has the highest quality soldiers and the best weapons and equipment. Its troop configuration is also quite special, which is different from the regular infantry battalion.
There are four teams in total, three of which are mixed large-formation infantry teams, with ninety-six grenadiers and thirty-six heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers, and the grenadiers in them are all based on the strongest.
The grenadiers were selected and trained according to standards, and were equipped with grenades. One of the teams was left in Xingquan Mansion to protect Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun, Ye Shi and others.
The fourth team is a pure cavalry team with ninety-six cavalrymen.
It can be seen from the configuration of the guard battalion that this unit is not used to fight, but to protect Li Xuan from escaping. Otherwise, what else would the cavalry do? These cavalry are just to lead Li Xuan on the battlefield.
Xuan escaped.
However, although the organization is nondescript, it is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the Guards Battalion is not weak. Putting aside everything else, the hundreds of grenadiers in the Guards Battalion alone are a powerful force, not to mention the people inside.
There is an elite armored cavalry.
You must know that a cavalry battalion only has less than 200 cavalry. The cavalry teams of major infantry regiments are called cavalry, but even the cavalry team in the First Infantry Regiment only has more than 50 cavalry.
In addition to the guard battalion, the baggage regiment must also be highlighted. The baggage troops in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty have never simply transported logistics baggage. Although they are also responsible for logistics transportation tasks, their main task is actually
It's not about transporting logistical baggage, but protecting logistical baggage.
At the same time, there will also be engineering troops in the baggage troops, which are mainly used to build bridges and open roads.
For a large-scale battle like this, the military supplies required to supply the army are huge. The new army of the Tang Dynasty temporarily recruited a large number of young and strong civilians to transport them, and the baggage regiments were used to protect the transport teams.
The advantage of this is that there is no need to allocate precious main force forces to protect the logistics and transportation troops, and all the main force can be devoted to the frontal battlefield.
In this way, the baggage troops can go to the battlefield to participate in decisive battles like the main troops at critical moments.
It's just that the baggage troops don't have many guns and artillery, and most of them are cold weapon troops, so Li Xuan won't use them like this unless necessary.
But now that a large-scale decisive battle is imminent, one more soldier means more hope of victory, so Li Xuan has already decided to send more than a thousand baggage regiments to the battlefield for the decisive battle.
Calculated in this way, the Chinese army led by Li Xuan personally could gather several thousand people to participate in the decisive battle, but the combat effectiveness was uneven. Compared with the main forward force of the three infantry regiments led by Hao Bainian, it was not a bit worse.
Half a point.
Li Xuan approved the new combat plan proposed by Hao Bainian that day and led the Chinese army to continue heading north!
Thanks to the messengers galloping on horseback, it may take two or three days for the army to travel dozens of miles, but for the messengers who are constantly changing horses and galloping, it actually only takes a few hours.
The next morning, I received a reply from Li Xuan approving the plan.
Immediately, Hao Bainian officially issued a series of orders. He ordered the 2nd Infantry Regiment to continue northward as the leading force, and the 1st Infantry Regiment to accompany the left wing. He himself continued to lead the 4th Infantry Regiment and baggage and other auxiliaries to follow the 2nd Infantry Regiment.
These three armies were basically advancing in the shape of a "pin", and the distance between each other was about five or six miles. When converted into distance units in later generations, it was only more than two kilometers. Even if you stood a little higher, you could see each other.
This kind of separation distance is conducive to expanding the search range, avoiding turning into the ambush circle of the Ming army, and at the same time, when a battle occurs, they can support each other in time.
While Hao Bainian and the others continued to lead their troops northward, their vanguard, which had withdrawn from the Bronze Drum Acropolis three days ago, the Fifth Infantry Battalion, which had just rested for two days, also turned around and returned north, heading towards the Bronze Drum Acropolis again.
go.
To be honest, Wang Chaofeng is still a bit complaining. What does this mean? He is defending the Bronze Drum Acropolis well. Although it is a bit difficult, as long as reinforcements arrive and there are ammunition, it is absolutely nothing to continue to defend the Bronze Drum Acropolis.
question.
But the superiors asked him to retreat!
However, within a few days, the superiors asked him to lead his headquarters back to the Tonggu Acropolis and make a gesture of attacking the Tonggu Acropolis in order to attract the main force of the Ming army in the north to speed up the southward movement. What the hell!
If he had known this, why bother? If he had continued to guard the Tonggu Acropolis, the Ming army would not have been able to defeat the Tonggu Acropolis, and they would have been forced to speed up the southward reinforcements!
It's good now, I've gone full circle and returned to the old road.
However, although there were complaints in his heart, as a soldier, and a soldier who was educated in the Royal Academy and was literate, he naturally led the army to set off as soon as he received the order.
At this time, whether it was Qiu Yu or Wang Chaofeng, these two opponents who had already fought against each other in the Tonggu Acropolis did not know that their opponents were not far ahead.
Destiny seems to make them destined to become each other's opponents!