Qian Mengjiu and Zeng Ziwen spoke one after another, and several others did not stop and began to express their support and opposition opinions!
During this discussion, there was no winner in a short period of time. Li Xuan, who was above, listened to everyone's discussion and couldn't make a decision for a while!
The Tang Dynasty needed a large number of recruits, this is a reality!
But the soldiers needed by the Tang Dynasty King's Division are different from the soldiers. This is also a reality!
Can a werewolf with strong folk customs be trained to become a modern soldier like a wooden man? In fact, Li Xuan himself is not sure about this.
Furthermore, there is another issue that no one else has mentioned, and that is the issue of living habits and language!
China is so big, and the areas are different in different places. Now the official language of the Tang Dynasty is naturally Mandarin, and of course the local dialect in Xingquan Prefecture is also spoken.
However, for ordinary soldiers in the army, don't expect them to understand or speak Mandarin. They all speak local dialects.
In the past, the scope of activities of the Tang Dynasty King's Division was small, and most of the soldiers recruited were soldiers from Xingquan Prefecture. Later, although soldiers were also recruited from Liping Prefecture, although the dialects of the two prefectures were different,
In fact, it's almost the same. If the speaker is slower and the listener is more careful, you can still understand it.
Therefore, the soldiers from the two prefectures were mixed at that time, and there was no problem of language barrier.
However, the dialect differences between Guangxi and Guizhou are huge. If soldiers from Liuzhou are added to the existing troops, whether they are soldiers or local Han soldiers, there will be language barriers.
And this point was not noticed by the following people during the discussion.
However, despite many problems, it is also true that the Tang Dynasty King's Division lacks soldiers!
Guizhou has a small population and many mountains. The total population is not large, only a few million people in total!
With such a small total population, naturally there are not many qualified recruits to recruit from it. In addition, this population has actually been recruited by Zhu Zhihai and the others. Zhu Zhihai and the others originally raised an army of 50,000 to 60,000 people!
Fortunately, among the 50,000 to 60,000 people, more than 20,000 were taken as prisoners and joined the Tang Dynasty King's Division. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the Datang King's Division to recruit so many soldiers.
Although the population in Guangxi is not large, it is still larger than that in Guizhou. Even if the total population is not twice that of Guizhou, there are definitely more than two million, and many of them are concentrated.
In the basins on both sides of the Xijiang River.
And Liuzhou is an important area in the Xijiang River Basin, and its population is not too small!
In other words, it should be possible to recruit a lot of new soldiers here, but there is a problem here, that is, Liuzhou's population has a large number of Han people. If you don't recruit Han people to join the army, then it is equivalent to giving up.
At least half of the new recruits were obtained!
Seeing that everyone was discussing and discussing but could not come up with a mutually agreeable plan, Li Xuan was too lazy to listen to them to continue arguing, and directly softened the two plans, and then proposed a compromise plan.
Since there are not enough new soldiers, these people have to be recruited.
Since we are worried that the people and the existing parts cannot be integrated to a limited extent, then form an army separately!
In this way, everyone is happy!
After saying this, Li Xuan said to Zeng Ziwen: "Zeng Aiqing, please work harder and formulate a plan to establish the 7th Infantry Regiment!"
"The Seventh Infantry Regiment is mainly composed of local warriors. If more soldiers are recruited in the future, the new warrior soldiers recruited locally in Guangxi can also be used to form the Eighth Infantry Regiment."
The reason why we are planning to establish the 7th Infantry Regiment instead of the 6th Infantry Regiment is because the designation of the 6th Infantry Regiment is already occupied.
The Tang Army had previously decided to recruit new soldiers on the spot after taking over the northern part of Guangxi to form the Sixth Infantry Regiment.
Although the Sixth Infantry Regiment has not yet been formally established, the relevant preparations are almost complete, and even follow-up arrangements are in place.
The 6th Infantry Regiment will join the 5th Infantry Regiment to form the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Tang Army. The main subsequent combat direction will be to fight against the Ming Army in the direction of Huguang!
Therefore, if a new unit is formed in Guangxi, it can only use the designation of the 7th Infantry Regiment. In order to unify the unit numbers, Li Xuan also gave the designation of the 8th Infantry Regiment to the people in Guangxi in advance.
If you recruit enough warriors in the future, you can form a warrior infantry brigade!
However, in the process of forming a new unit, soldiers are actually relatively easy to solve. What is more difficult to solve is food and salary, and what is more difficult to solve than food and salary is equipment!
These problems are all long-standing and difficult problems that have always existed. Although it is difficult, we have to bite the bullet and do it.
When the officials at the Ministry of Industry heard that the military was preparing to form the Seventh Infantry Regiment, and that a large number of guns and artillery would be needed to equip this new unit in the next few months, they all wanted to curse!
You bastards, their people from the Ministry of Industry, from ministers of the Ministry of Industry to coolies in the workshops, never had a break from day to night and were busy making guns and cannons for them every day. However, they finally armed the First Infantry Brigade.
It is fully staffed, and I am thinking that this month I will be able to fill the gunnery gap of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, and then next month I will be able to fill the gap of the 5th Infantry Regiment, and then the 6th Infantry Regiment.
However, now they haven't even finished building the guns and cannons needed by the 2nd Infantry Brigade. The military has already proposed plans for the 7th Infantry Regiment and even the 8th Infantry Regiment.
Damn, they are really going to tire us to death!
However, despite the criticism, things still have to be done. It is said that people from the Ministry of Industry held a brief internal meeting. At the meeting, in addition to the usual criticism of the military, they were not restrained, wasted guns and ammunition, and the tax department.
When people were unable to supply money, food and raw materials in time, they also discussed the plan to establish a second military production base in Liuzhou.
When Li Xuan first returned to Xingquan Mansion, he had already approached the Ministry of Industry and proposed the idea of establishing a second military production base!
People from the Ministry of Industry naturally need to put this matter into action, especially since news has come from Guangxi that Hao Bainian's troops have conquered Huaiyuan County and Rong County one after another and are marching towards Liuzhou City.
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The people within the Datang Dynasty still trusted the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty King's Division. People from the Ministry of Industry speculated that it would not take long for the frontline troops to capture Liuzhou. At that time, the Ministry of Industry would need to be in Liuzhou as soon as possible.
Establish a large number of workshops and then produce ammunition and guns nearby to supply the army for combat.
And while people from the Ministry of Industry were preparing to build a workshop in Liuzhou, other departments of the cabinet had actually started to move.
When Li Xuan just returned to Xingquan Mansion, he said that he would move the capital to the Guangdong and Guangxi areas. This matter is not a secret, but when to move and where to move depends entirely on when Hao Bainian on the front line can conquer Liuzhou or even Wuzhou.
and Zhaoqing.
However, it would be a bit long and troublesome to wait for Hao Bainian to completely conquer Zhaoqing before moving.
According to Li Xuan's personality, he didn't like to be too far away from his own army, especially since this army was the First Infantry Brigade, which he relied on as his core pillar.
He was worried about letting the 1st Infantry Brigade, the most powerful unit, escape his control for a long time!
So when he saw that Hao Bainian said that he had marched into Liuzhou, he also ordered all cabinet departments to start preparing for the relocation. After Hao Bainian captured Liuzhou, the political center of the Tang Dynasty would be moved to Liuzhou first.
But Liuzhou is still a transition!
After the army captures Zhaoqing, Li Xuan will officially establish his capital there!
Just when Li Xuan and various cabinet departments in the rear were waiting for Hao Bainian to take Liuzhou, Hao Bainian also launched his first tentative attack under Liuzhou City!
However, this exploratory attack did not go well. The shelling of the Second Artillery Battalion failed to effectively suppress the counterattack firepower of the Ming army at the city head. As a result, a garrison battalion of the 3rd garrison brigade that launched the exploratory attack was attacked by the Ming army in the city.
The counterattack from the headcannon and other artillery fire caused considerable losses.
The Tang Dynasty's imperial army's attack on Liuzhou's capital city ended in failure. More than a hundred people died at the gate of Liuzhou City!
At that time, Li Xuan received a report from Hao Bainian about the failure of the exploratory attack under Liuzhou City. The brainless man from the Hanlin Academy came in and said, Your Majesty, it’s not good. The army was defeated in Liuzhou. Li Xuan was so frightened that he almost jumped from the dragon throne.
Get off!
Later, when he looked at the battle report and found that the casualties were only the surrender of more than a hundred Ming troops, and it was just a tentative attack, Li Xuan felt relieved, and then he punished the Hanlin who had frightened him with his nonsense to wash the Hanlin.
hospital toilet for a month!
Damn, can you speak? I'm scared to death!
Li Xuan at the rear thought it was okay to surrender more than a hundred Ming troops with casualties, but Hao Bainian at the front was a little worried about this.
Because the Ming troops on the city head seemed to have learned wisely and did not stupidly run out to fight with him in the wild. Even when they were defending on the city head, they did not stand directly on the battlements without knowing how to dodge their own artillery fire!
In this way, the effect of your own heavy artillery bombardment will not be very obvious. If you risk getting close and use the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Brigade to suppress the fire, you will also be fired back by the opponent's archers, and the casualties will definitely not be small.
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Unless it was the stage of a general attack, Hao Bainian was not willing to deploy musketeers for direct fire suppression.
After this first trial attack failed and more than a hundred people were killed or injured, Hao Bainian also changed his past practice of launching a fierce attack as soon as possible!