After Zeng Ziwen finished speaking, Wang Shanxu on the side frowned slightly and said: "If a new infantry regiment is to be established and additional main forces will be assigned, where will these main forces come from and how will their equipment be solved?"
"In addition, if the main infantry regiment adopts the configuration of regular infantry battalions and reserve battalions, then what to do with the two existing garrison battalions of the Third Infantry Regiment? Should they be replaced with regular infantry battalions?"
As soon as Wang Shanxu's words came out, several people immediately pondered!
The problem Wang Shanxu mentioned can be said to be something that the New Army of the Tang Dynasty cannot get around at present. Forming a garrison battalion is nothing, but it is extremely difficult to add a main force to be equipped with a new infantry regiment.
At this time, Zeng Ziwen said: "My plan is not to add new main infantry battalions, but to draw a small number of troops from the existing main infantry battalions, and configure two teams of main troops for each new infantry regiment, and
These main forces are cold weapon troops such as spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, and no musketeers will be deployed!"
"The difficulty in expanding the main force of our army is due to the difficulty in expanding the musketeers, not the difficulty in expanding the traditional cold weapons!"
Speaking of this, he continued: "The new infantry regiment will be a force with pure cold weapons. Their task is not to act as the main force in decisive battles, but to fight on the secondary front. A force with pure cold weapons is enough to handle it.
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Hearing what Zeng Ziwen said, Wang Shanxu nodded slightly. As long as the new infantry regiment does not add musketeers, there will indeed not be much difficulty. A pure cold weapon unit, even if it is the main force, will not be mobilized.
What a big problem!
Then other generals and civilian officers also raised many questions about the new troops one by one. In the end, Zeng Ziwen answered them one by one, although some of the answers were not satisfactory. For example, someone from the Logistics Department of the Privy Council asked, next time
With the addition of so many more garrison battalion troops, and the rapid expansion of reserve battalion troops, this means that in the next month, the number of troops in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will increase by more than 10,000, which will cause great harm to the logistics of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Tests, among which the food problem alone is difficult to solve.
Moreover, these newly added 10,000 people are still cold weapon troops and not the main force. This will give people the illusion that so much food is wasted to support a second-rate army.
Zeng Ziwen's answer was very simple. He just said that he would try his best to raise money and feed the enemy. This was basically useless, because the new army of the Tang Dynasty was currently doing these things, and it could only barely supply the needs of the army.
At this time, the consumption of military rations and other military supplies has more than doubled. Xingquan Prefecture and Liping Prefecture have been robbed and they can't even get enough food!
However, although there is actually no satisfactory answer to many questions, this still cannot stop the determination of the new army of the Tang Dynasty to take these Ming army prisoners for their own use.
That night, Li Xuan officially issued an imperial decree to prepare for the establishment of the Sixth Infantry Regiment, the Seventh Infantry Regiment, and the Eighth Infantry Regiment. These three infantry regiments will be typical pure cold weapon infantry regiments. In terms of troop allocation, the regiments are directly under the
It is equipped with one team of spearmen, one team of sword, shield, and bow and arrow mixed teams drawn from the regular infantry battalion, one team of cavalry, and one team of Wankou artillery team.
There are five garrison battalions under the regiment. Each garrison battalion is organized according to the standard and has five teams of about 550 people. Such an infantry regiment will have nearly 3,000 people.
A cold weapon troop of 3,000 people would not suffer too much against an equal number or even more Ming army troops.
At the same time, the two garrison battalions in the Third Infantry Regiment were officially transferred to the Sixth Infantry Regiment, the Seventh Infantry Regiment, and the Eighth Infantry Regiment. These two mature garrison battalions were used as the skeleton to incorporate the newly added Ming army prisoners to form
Get out of each infantry battalion.
In addition, considering that the new army of the Tang Dynasty was extremely short of officers, both senior officers and junior officers, three new infantry regiments were established, and the officers of these two levels were basically replaced by the original two garrison battalions.
He was promoted among the soldiers there.
Battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders are drawn from various units. They are thought to be drawn from the main force to serve in the second-line units. In principle, they are mainly promoted through special promotions. Basically, a deputy captain of the main force can be the battalion commander in the past.
, the captain can be the deputy captain in the past.
As for those at the battalion commander level, if this is to pass, they will at least have the position of regiment leader. However, even so, many people are not willing to do so.
Because the main force is also expanding its army, it won't be long before these battalion commanders may actually become the commanders of the main infantry regiment. If you go to the garrison at this time, you will lose a lot of promotion opportunities.
Originally, Li Xuan was thinking that the battalion commander would take the initiative to sign up to serve in the three garrison infantry regiments, but after a day, no one came to take the initiative to fight, and he also knew that although it would be possible to send them forcibly, it would not be very good after all.
Well, in the end we could only transfer three deputy battalion commanders to serve as commanders of the main infantry regiment.
The two regular army units directly under the three garrison infantry regiments were pieced together from each infantry regiment. One platoon was allocated from this battalion, and a platoon was allocated from that battalion. Finally, three platoons of spearmen and three sword shields were made up.
Archer mixed platoon attached unit.
As for the Wankou artillery unit and the cavalry unit, they were all Ming army prisoners like the garrison camp. Many of these Ming army prisoners were cavalry and artillerymen.
At the same time, in order to reduce the resistance of the surrendered Ming army officers, and also to allow more Ming troops to surrender in the future, Li Xuan generously gave several positions such as deputy Qianhu deputy battalion commanders to several higher-ranking Ming army officers.
One of them took the initiative to lead thousands of people to surrender to the Ming army, and was even awarded the position of deputy commander.
In the two days after the end of the Tonggu Acropolis, Li Xuan had been busy resting and reorganizing his troops, taking in and reorganizing Ming army prisoners, and preparing to build three new garrison infantry regiments. It could be said that he was busy.
While Li Xuan and others were busy, Hao Bainian on the front line finally led the main force of the vanguard back south. Before returning south, Hao Bainian seized the time to pursue the Ming army fiercely. Although he did not kill many Ming troops later, he successfully killed thousands of Ming troops.
The remnants of the Ming army were forced to the north of Liping Mansion. Now these remnants of the Ming army did not dare to stay in Liping Mansion. Even though Hao Bainian stopped chasing them, they continued to retreat north and were probably running out of Liping Mansion now.
Although the Battle of Tonggu Acropolis and the following two days of pursuit operations failed to completely annihilate the Ming army on the North Road, it can still be said to have completely defeated this Ming army of more than 20,000 people.
In the end, only three to four thousand people were left in the army and fled back.
Thousands of people were killed and wounded, more than 6,000 were captured, and thousands more were missing. Well, these missing soldiers can basically be judged as being defeated. It is not that easy to gather them up, because of these
After the defeated troops lose their organization, not many people will take the initiative to run back to the military camp. Some people will simply become bandits, some will run all the way home, and most of them will wander around aimlessly.
If the Ming army wants to collect these defeated troops, it will be extremely difficult in heavy rain. It will be a miracle that twenty-three out of ten of the defeated troops can be collected by then.
After initially stabilizing the northern front, Hao Bainian left an infantry battalion to continue tracking and monitoring these Ming troops. However, the infantry battalion of this main force could not stay in the north for long, as long as the Ming troops in the north did not show signs of gathering here in a short time.
If the troops move south, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will not have time to deal with the remnants of the Ming Army in the north for the time being.
So in two days, this infantry battalion will also return south!
As for Hao Bainian himself, he led the main forward force back south in advance!
After hurriedly and slowly returning to the Bronze Drum Acropolis, he led several other senior officers to report the military situation to the Holy Spirit. At the same time, the temporary establishment of the forward troops was completely disbanded.
The forward force, as a temporary large-scale force originally established for the purpose of capturing Liping Mansion, is no longer suitable for the current needs of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
On the one hand, Li Xuan is now leading the army to conquer personally, and on the other hand, the forward troops are too concentrated with the best of the Tang Dynasty's new army. To be honest, it is difficult for Li Xuan to trust this army to be commanded by one person for a long time, even if that person is him
Neither can Hao Bainian, who I trust very much.
As soon as he returned to Tonggu Acropolis, Li Xuan canceled the establishment of the forward troops. Although Hao Bainian felt a little uncomfortable, this was what he had expected. He, the forward commander, was too eye-catching. There were many senior officers in the army.
The generals are all staring at him, how can he stay in the position of vanguard commander? Even if His Majesty does not have this intention, others will probably bring it up.
What's more, the previously formed Chinese commando force was disbanded immediately after the war, so there was no reason for his forward force to be maintained.
After the forward establishment was abolished, Hao Bainian was still the commander of the First Infantry Regiment, and the infantry regiments returned to the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council.
However, just when everyone thought it was best for Hao Bainian to settle down for a while, and His Majesty would not let Hao Bainian continue to be in the spotlight, on the first day Hao Bainian came back, Li Xuan discussed strategy with him and exchanged opinions on establishing brigade-level troops.
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The soldiers outside could hear the quarrels in the conference room from time to time. Several soldiers couldn't help being shocked when they heard it. This Hao Bainian was indeed the highest-ranking general in the new army of the Tang Dynasty. He was also too courageous. He actually dared to fight with
His Majesty had a direct quarrel!
But what shocked them even more was what happened next!
After Li Xuan and Hao Bainian discussed in the conference room for a whole day, Li Xuan summoned the ministers and formally issued the edict to establish the first brigade directly at the strategic meeting in front of the imperial court without going through the discussion of the Operations Department, and at the same time awarded Hao Bainian the rank of Major General.
Serve as brigade commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade!