Originally, Huang Xueren just wanted to let his youngest son experience in the artillery battalion for two or three months, and then arrange for him to join the combat department as a staff officer. This would not only be safer, but also have more room for subsequent promotion. Maybe there would be a better path than him.
The eldest brother is even wider!
But even though he was distressed and even unbearable, Huang Xueren still gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Because he knew very well that among the many people present, almost everyone had a nephew serving in the military. Even Butcher Chen, who had no biological son, had a nephew serving in the Fourth Infantry Regiment.
In this massive battle, one of the officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty was killed, including a major, and thirty lieutenants. There were also many injured. Among the people present, several of them had their nephews killed or injured.
What's more, joining the army and fighting in the war is not a threat. Even when he was a bandit, the danger was great. People like them originally lived on the edge of the knife, but now they die on the battlefield, which is considered a worthy death.
It's just a pity that his youngest son just gave birth to a son last month after getting married last year. I'm afraid it will be difficult for orphans and widowers in the future!
But there is still his grandfather here, and there is also his uncle. As long as the Tang Dynasty does not fall in the future, the mother and son can always live a worry-free life, and the child's future future can also be guaranteed.
Huang Xueren gritted his teeth. Most of the other senior generals present were also feeling bad. This battle had many casualties, and it was also the heaviest casualty since the founding of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
The officers alone suffered dozens of casualties, while the soldiers also suffered nearly 900 casualties. If added together, the casualties amounted to nearly a thousand casualties, accounting for about 10% of the total strength of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
This number of casualties was higher than that of the entire Datang New Army a few months ago.
But on the other hand, the number and proportion of casualties also reflect to a certain extent that the scale of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has far exceeded that of the past.
Thousands of people were killed and wounded, but the new army of the Tang Dynasty was still not injured, and it even maintained its core combat effectiveness.
If it were the past, thousands of casualties would have completely destroyed the Tang Dynasty's new army.
At the same time, of these thousand casualties, at most half of them were killed in battle. Compared with the results they achieved, this is nothing to mention. You must know that the Ming army lost more than 3,000 people directly killed in battle, and also captured five people.
There were more than a thousand people, and the rest all fled.
What they exchanged for nearly a thousand casualties was the defeat of more than 20,000 Ming troops, and among the more than 20,000 Ming troops, there were 1,500 cavalry!
Such a victory cannot be overstated!
After reporting the battle damage, Li Xuan personally arranged issues related to post-war pensions. The injured should be treated with medical treatment as much as possible, especially officers and non-commissioned officers, who must be treated with care, because these people are the precious wealth of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, the treatment of soldiers must also be done carefully, because unless these soldiers are disabled, they can return to the battlefield after recovering from their injuries, and these veterans who have returned to the battlefield are extremely valuable to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
Even though the atmosphere was a bit dull, the focus of everyone's attention soon was not on the casualties, because after talking about the results and battle losses, they talked about the follow-up strategic issues.
Although the decisive battle on the Tonggu Acropolis side is over, the battle with the North Road Ming Army is still not over!
"Colonel Hao just sent a message back, saying that the forward Second Infantry Regiment has caught up with the defeated Ming Army. The Ming Army that caught up has about a thousand people. They have been defeated and most of them have been captured by our army.
At present, the number of Ming troops who are still organized and on the run is less than 3,000. I would like to ask for instructions whether to continue the pursuit?"
At this time, Zeng Ziwen also put away the grief of thinking that his cousin had been killed in battle, and handed it to Li Xuan with the letter that Hao Bainian had written himself and asked the messenger to bring it back quickly.
After Li Xuan opened the letter and read it, he thought for a moment, and then said: "Instruct Hao Bainian to send a small number of troops to pursue the retreating enemy troops. The main force should rest and replenish in time, and it is not appropriate to use excessive force!"
Although if we continue to chase, we can still achieve certain results, but this is no longer important. The most important thing is that the forward troops have fought hard for a day, and the soldiers are mostly tired. The third regiment of the forward troops and the Chinese commando team are the most important members of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
It is more important to maintain their core combat strength in an optimal state and to rest and replenish in time.
Moreover, the organized retreat of the Ming army was already less than 3,000 men, and they were no longer able to pose much of an effective threat to the new Tang Dynasty army. As long as they maintained a force of about 1,000 men in the north, they could continue to pursue and even capture several northern prefectures along the way.
county.
As for the main force, it is better to rest and replenish it in time in order to face the Ming army coming from Guizhou provincial capital in the future.
More than 30,000 or more Ming troops brought by Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, are on the way. From now on, the main force of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty must prepare to face this Ming army.
And the preparation time is probably not long.
After all, the Ming army would not foolishly wait for the Tang Dynasty's new army to rest and replenish, or even continue to expand before coming over. They must have come all the way and then started to attack Liping Mansion.
In fact, Li Xuan's worries were not wrong at all. Just after the new army of the Tang Dynasty defeated the main force of the Ming Army of the North Road under the Tonggu Guard City, the forwards of the Ming Army of the West Road had already entered the territory of Liping Mansion. In a few days, they would probably
Arrive at Lipingfu City.
The vanguard of the Ming army has arrived, can their main force be far behind?
"In addition, not only the forward troops, but also the various departments of the Chinese Army need to rest and replenish in time!" When Li Xuan said this, he turned his attention to Qian Mengjiu, Minister of the Ministry of War, and then said: "At the Ministry of War, the new recruits are ready
How's it going?"
When Qian Mengjiu heard this, he immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has opened recruitment points all over Liping Prefecture. Recently, hundreds of people have been recruited every day. We can definitely maintain the recruitment of soldiers!
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Hearing this, Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then looked at the official in charge of the training department: "What do you think about the new barracks?"
The director of the Training Department of the Privy Council is not actually a military general, but a civilian official. He just happened to serve in the Privy Council in the early days by chance, and thus became one of the many civilian officers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
Still a major.
This man was older and said with a grimace: "Although there are currently more than 2,000 new recruits being trained in the new military camp, and there are also more than 1,000 new recruits in Liping Prefecture, most of the training time is relatively short, generally only five days.
In less than a short period of time, I’m afraid we won’t be able to replenish the army with qualified recruits!”
The new recruits in the new barracks cannot be replenished to the army just by him. According to the rules of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the new soldiers in the new barracks must be trained for a month before they can be replenished to each army.
In the past, due to the emergency of the war situation, many new recruits who had only been trained for half a month or even ten days had been made an exception to be added to various units.
Nowadays, the longest training for new recruits in the new military camp is only six or seven days. Such soldiers cannot even form a basic formation, and it is useless to replenish them to each unit.
Li Xuan also knew about the difficulties in the recruit camp, so he had no intention of making things difficult for others, he just wanted a solution.
The director of the training department was a civilian officer. As a civilian, he had instinctive knowledge of what he was doing when he was an officer. Seeing Li Xuan's expression, he roughly knew what he was going to say, and immediately said: "We will follow up on our new military camp."
Prepare to strengthen the training of new recruits, and at the same time stay close to the troops. Once the new recruits meet the basic requirements, they will be immediately added to the troops!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly after hearing this. Although it is said that the training of new recruits takes a month, it is not impossible to shorten this time. In the past, they trained for four hours a day, but now they train for six hours, as well as some tactical movements.
You can also train the new recruits after they arrive in the army, as long as the most basic skills such as lining up and following orders are enough.
You can train while fighting in the future. Anyway, after these recruits arrive in the army, they need to go through a period of adaptation training.
At this time, Ma Wei, the left minister of the Ministry of War, also spoke: "Your Majesty, to replenish the troops, we can also appropriately supplement some Ming army prisoners!
Our army captured many prisoners in this battle. Although most of them cannot be reused, after selection, we should still be able to select some of them to add to the main force!
Other forces that cannot be supplemented to the main force should also be able to supplement the garrison regiment, or even establish a new garrison regiment, which should be able to greatly alleviate the current shortage of troops in our army!"
Bai Yunqi had always been responsible for recruiting and arranging prisoners in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xuan immediately turned to Bai Yunqi and asked: "What is the quality of this batch of prisoners? How many of them are worthy of use?"
Bai Yunqi immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the quality of this batch of prisoners is relatively average, not as good as the batch of prisoners we supplemented during the Battle of Lanjiang. However, after detailed selection, we should be able to select between five hundred and six hundred
A hundred people will be added to the main infantry battalion, and in addition, about a thousand people can be selected to be added to the garrison!"
Replenishing soldiers can be difficult or easy. Simply replenishing soldiers is relatively easy. What is difficult is obtaining a large number of well-trained soldiers.
Compared with the replenishment of soldiers, the replenishment of weapons is a big trouble!
The New Army of the Tang Dynasty was already short of weapons. Many units, such as the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 5th Infantry Regiment, did not have enough guns and artillery. Because of the shortage of guns and artillery, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty even began to prepare to form reserve battalions that would only use cold weapons.
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After a big battle, the troops' weapons and ammunition were depleted a lot. The ammunition was fine. After being stored for so long, it could still support the troops in one or two more large-scale battles. However, the damaged guns and cannons were not so good.
What a great addition.
There is no way, during the battle process of troops, the loss of weapons is inevitable, especially muskets, which are actually very easy to be damaged when fighting.
Although according to military regulations, each army should have a batch of spare muskets, in fact, many troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty are waiting for the use of muskets, and it is simply impossible for the troops already equipped with muskets to stockpile a batch of spare muskets.
Therefore, it is very unfortunate that the muskets lost by each infantry regiment now can only be replenished slowly in the future!
As for the replenishment delivered directly from the rear, damn, the officials of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty have to scold their mothers, what do we think we are, wet nurses, we will get milk as soon as we squeeze it, if you squeeze it again, the output will be this, one more shot