Wei Yan ran away, and before running away, he committed suicide by diving, but Hao Bainian and other Tang generals naturally didn't know whether he dived or not.
Standing on the shore and looking at the Ming deserters who had set sail, Fang Dongquan said next to him: "These pseudo-Ming rebels have left many ships behind. Should we also send people on board to pursue them?"
However, Hao Bainian did not look back and continued to look at the Ming army fleet that was far away from the shore. He said: "We are all landlubbers. There are not even many people who know how to sail. How can we chase them?"
But at this time, he turned his attention to some of the ships left by the Ming army on the shore, and then said: "But these ships have to stay and be handed over to the Logistics Department. They will also use these ships to transport baggage. Well, the Navy
It can also be used over there, and they have to waffle on how to allocate it themselves."
At this time, Fang Dongquan also came to his senses. Indeed, they were all in the army. Although there were some people in the army who knew how to swim, there were only a few who knew how to drive boats.
The navy of the Tang Dynasty was naturally just a grassroots team in the early days, with only a few small boats used for training. It did not really develop until the army went south to Guangxi.
People from the navy also followed the army and established a naval force in the upper reaches of the Liujiang River. They collected some large and small ships and recruited many private boatmen to serve as the navy. Now it has grown to a scale of two to three hundred people, with jurisdiction over
There are about a dozen ships, large and small.
Of course, these ships are all small-tonnage river vessels. The Navy only installed 150-pound shotguns used by the army as naval guns in three or five of the larger ships.
Nowadays, these naval ships are mainly responsible for escorting logistics and transportation troops. Especially this section of the river in Liuzhou Fucheng requires the escort of armed ships.
There are also many people in the Logistics Department who know how to drive boats. However, these people are not directly affiliated with the Tang Army. They are civilian boatmen temporarily recruited by the military. The nature of these boatmen is similar to that of ordinary civilians, but during the war
It's just a temporary call-up.
Nowadays, the army needs a lot of luggage to move south, and there is a river like Liujiang along the way for transportation. Therefore, the Logistics Department has collected a lot of private ships to transport logistics materials.
At this time, Hao Bainian had already looked away from the river, and then urged the horses to go back. At the same time, he said to the subordinates around him: "Let the men work harder, clean the battlefield as soon as possible, rest the camp, and then
Stationed on the spot, those prisoners must be sorted out as soon as possible and then handed over to the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War! We will spend the night here tonight!"
This place happens to be stuck in the lower reaches of the Liujiang River. I can station it just like I did on the Wangyun River to intercept and block the Ming army from moving north along the river. The surface of the Liujiang River in this section is only a few hundred meters, and it is completely within the effective range of our own artillery. As long as
If you set up artillery on the riverside, are you still afraid of those Ming army troop transport ships that move slowly upstream?
If one comes, he will ask the artillery to sink one. If the Ming army has more ships, he can also set fire to the ship upstream and go down the river.
Even if one's own side does not have naval forces, it is a very simple matter for the Tang Army to block this section of the river.
But it is lucky to say that because the artillery of the Ming army in Liucheng is not strong, and our heavy artillery troops also carried out focused bombardment on their artillery, now the Ming army in Liucheng does not have a range of more than 100 meters.
The artillery can block the river.
The Ming army in the city also tried to lay iron ropes on the river beside the city, but failed every time because the Ming army in the city did not dare to send out a large number of troops. They sent out twice a force of less than a hundred people to try to attack the Tang Dynasty King's Division.
transport fleet, but the Tang Army not only had a garrison stationed outside the city, but also a very small naval force was mainly stationed here.
Five ships loaded with shotguns were enough to deter the small Ming army that attacked the city from rash actions. However, they had to be careful every time the fleet passed. They usually passed at night to avoid the bright lights in the city.
The army jumped over the wall and dispatched a large number of troops, even moving some remaining bowl-mouth cannons in the city to the river to attack the transport fleet.
Therefore, the ship transportation in this section can only be emergency, and cannot continue like this for a long time, otherwise, something will happen sooner or later.
Therefore, Liuzhou City still needs to be captured as soon as possible!
After killing the surrounding Ming troops who came to reinforce Liuzhou City, they will consider leading their troops back north and capture Liuzhou City. Only then can they continue to move south and east with peace of mind, otherwise the Ming troops in Liuzhou City will
It's always stuck in my throat like a fish bone.
Of course, these are all follow-up matters. In the short term, his goal is to intercept the reinforcements from the Ming army. But he doesn’t know whether the Ming army will come again after this disastrous defeat. Maybe they are
I didn't dare to go further north.
Hao Bainian was not a general of the Ming Army, so he did not know what the generals of the Ming Army, especially the top generals of the Ming Army, such as Wei Yan, the governor of Guangxi, and Wang Yue, the governor of Guangxi and Guangxi, were thinking, so he planned to stay here for a few days and send out
The detective went to find out the news.
If the Ming Dynasty army no longer dares to come, then the Liuzhou City side cannot continue to drag it out. They must capture Liuzhou City and then welcome the Holy Emperor's march south!
If they do not return north within a short period of time, these captured ships will be replenished to the Navy and Logistics Department, which can appropriately alleviate the pressure on inland river logistics transportation.
After the order was given, Hao Bainian, like Wei Yan at the time, chose to stay in Anjia Villa, and convened the combat staff to continue discussing the military situation.
At the same time, they are waiting for the troops to clean up the battlefield and then hold a routine post-war meeting in the evening.
That day, the troops heading south spent their time cleaning the battlefield and dealing with prisoners of war. These tasks were busier and more complicated than during previous battles.
By night, these aftermath matters were finally roughly handled, the battlefield was cleaned, the war dead were hurriedly covered up, our own wounded were admitted, the spoils of war were packed up and disposed of in a unified manner, and the prisoners of war were gathered together and began to show off.
Select processing.
At this time, Hao Bainian finally got the details of the situation between the enemy and ourselves in this battle.
The battle report was explained to Hao Bainian and everyone by Lieutenant Colonel Li Xin, Chief of Staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade!
"In today's battle, our army's losses were not heavy. There were no casualties among the school-level officers. Three lieutenant-level officers were killed and eight were wounded. Eighty soldiers were killed and one hundred and fifty-six were wounded!" When Li Xin said this
, his expression did not show any sadness.
Because this loss is nothing to the army of nearly ten thousand people going south, and it is nothing to a battle that defeated eight thousand enemy troops!
"In addition to the loss of personnel, our army's losses in other aspects of ordnance and equipment are not significant!"
Compared with the losses of the Tang Army, the results were huge!
"At present, the results of the battle have been calculated. In today's battle, our army killed a total of 1,200 enemy troops and captured 3,600 enemy troops! About 2,000 Ming troops escaped by boat, and the remaining
The Ming army dispersed and fled without a trace, but these dispersed Ming armies have completely lost their organization and will not pose any effective threat to our army in the future!"
The reason why they were able to kill so many enemy troops and capture so many prisoners of war was simply because the Ming army retreated on their own in this battle, and then were chased and killed by the Second Cavalry Battalion of the Tang Army during the retreat. The results here were at least
One third of them were caused by cavalry!
Basically every cavalryman in the Second Cavalry Battalion has his saber covered in blood!
At the same time, it was also related to the chaos that occurred when the Ming army retreated. Many prisoners of war were unable to reach the river and boarded the boats, and were then intercepted by the Second Cavalry Battalion before being captured.
The entire Ming army was defeated. Naturally, the large amount of baggage and equipment they carried were discarded if they could be discarded, and those that could not be discarded were discarded. Therefore, the Tang Army captured quite a lot in this battle.
"During this battle, our army captured a large amount of loot from the Ming army, including two thousand shi of grain, which was enough to feed an army of tens of thousands of people for more than ten days. In addition, a large number of weapons were also seized!
Among them, there are twenty-six large and small bowl-mouth cannons. However, after inspection, most of them are bowl-mouth cannons under 100 kilograms, and only six are over 100 kilograms. Among them, only four are of sufficient quality to be used. According to the ordnance
According to the opinion of the Secretary, these four 100-pound bowl-mouth cannons can be temporarily allocated to the Fifth Guard Regiment. Most of the remaining bowl-mouth cannons have no use value and can only be recast!"
"In addition, there are 300 bows and arrows in good condition and usable, 200 sets of armor, and a total of 4,000 to 5,000 swords, spears and other cold weapons."
"We captured not many horses and livestock in this battle. There were only a dozen riding horses and a hundred draft horses. This is because this time the puppet Ming rebels all went north by boat and did not carry a large number of transports.
Not only that, they don’t even have many civilians in their army to transport supplies!”
"The above-mentioned various types of materials seized have been transferred to colleagues in the Ordnance Department, but colleagues in the Ordnance Department have promised to select high-quality weapons from this batch of materials to supplement and replace our department! The remaining
Part of it will be transported north and delivered to the newly prepared 7th Infantry Regiment for use by the 8th Guards Regiment!"
"At the same time, the surrenders among these prisoners of war will give priority to replenishing our First Infantry Brigade and Third Guard Brigade, and the remaining part will be used to form the Eighth Guard Regiment!"
At this time, Hao Bainian asked: "Has the decree to form the Seventh Infantry Regiment been issued?"
At this time, Li Xin showed an excited face and said: "Yes, according to the news from Xingquan Mansion, His Majesty has officially ordered the formation of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment, and also ordered the formation of the 8th Guards
regiment, the 9th Garrison Regiment, and the 10th Garrison Regiment.
I believe that it won’t be long before our Datang King’s Division will add two new infantry brigades and two garrison brigades, expanding the army to four brigades at once, which is equivalent to doubling the strength of our army!”