Among them, the officers of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment have carried the imperial edict south to Liuzhou and are currently recruiting new soldiers in Huaiyuan and Rongxian areas. The officers of the 9th and 10th Guards Regiments are also continuing to go south and are expected to be there within three days.
Able to arrive here to accept these prisoners of war!"
Hao Bainian said: "So, this time, two infantry regiments and three garrison regiments have been established in one go. In this case, I am afraid that there will be an additional fourth infantry brigade and two garrison brigades! The expansion of our army in Datang has gone smoothly.
, ZTE is just around the corner!”
When everyone heard this, they nodded slightly!
As members of the Tang Dynasty, they put their heads on their belts to fight with He Mingjun. What they want is glory and wealth. The Tang Dynasty is getting more and more prosperous, and they are the heroes who conquer the world with His Majesty.
You will enjoy better glory and wealth!
So this military expansion is a good thing!
The larger the army is, the more opportunities they have for promotion!
Now the military is preparing to establish three infantry regiments. Where should the officers of all levels of these infantry regiments come from? Isn't it that they must be drawn from veteran officers like them?
However, these people obviously don't think about how to deal with the guns and artillery needed to build the 6th Infantry Regiment, the 7th Infantry Regiment, and the 8th Infantry Regiment.
Because they are all officers in the field force, and matters such as ordnance are the matter of the Ministry of Industry of the Cabinet and the Ordnance Department of the Privy Council. They are only responsible for fighting, and they have nothing to do with the supply of ordnance.
Besides, they also heard that the Ministry of Industry of the Cabinet had planned to build a new workshop base in Liuzhou City. Although Liuzhou City had not been taken over yet, they officers had already regarded Liuzhou City as a
It's just a matter of time to get what's in the bag, sooner or later.
If they hadn't used Liuzhou City as a bait to attract reinforcements from the Ming army, and then surrounded the area to mobilize reinforcements and annihilate as many Ming troops as possible through field battles, they would have captured Liuzhou City long ago.
Even if the Ming army in Liuzhou City cannot retreat and the first tentative attack fails, as long as they put some thought into it and are willing to pay a certain price, it is definitely possible to take out Liuzhou City.
Big deal!
The worst case scenario is to let those Ming troops surrender and be used as cannon fodder, just like the original Battle of Liping Mansion!
At the beginning, more than 20,000 Ming troops in Liping City, including many Guizhou Fubiao soldiers, could not stop the attack of our own army. How can Liuzhou City be able to stop it? Are you kidding!
Once Liuzhou City is captured, people from the Ministry of Industry will be able to produce guns and ammunition nearby in Liuzhou, but it will be more convenient to supply them by ourselves.
Well, when they think this way, they also don't consider that the production of guns also requires a large number of craftsmen and ordinary workers, and a large amount of gold and silver is needed to purchase raw materials.
Since they are soldiers, they naturally cannot and do not care about money and production matters. They are only responsible for fighting the war.
And if they don't have guns and cannons for them to fight, that's naturally a matter for the Ministry of Works and the Ordnance Department, and has nothing to do with them.
After everyone talked about the bright prospects for the future, the meeting continued. This was serious business, mainly discussing the gains and losses in this battle.
After the battle, a post-war meeting is held to summarize the advantages and disadvantages, and a paper report is submitted to the superior for a final summary report to the Operations Department. This has been a long-standing tradition of the Tang Army.
This is true regardless of victory or defeat. The advantages should be summarized and maintained and carried forward in the future. The shortcomings should also be summarized and avoided in the future.
The focus of this discussion is the first-ever Z-shaped regiment-level phalanx used by the Tang Army!
In the past, the basic tactical formations of the Tang Army were limited to the battalion level. During battles, even large-scale battles involving tens of thousands of people, each infantry battalion formed its own formation. Although the regiment-level troops also coordinated the subordinates'
Infantry battalions fight, but in fact, these infantry battalions can be said to fight independently, but they can only cooperate.
But this time, the First Infantry Brigade of the Tang Dynasty Army adopted the regiment-level square formation tactic proposed by Hao Bainian for the first time. As for whether it is effective or not, and whether it will be continued to be used or even extended to the entire army in the future, this is all a matter of need.
After careful consideration.
Even though they won this battle, to be honest, the victory of this battle was not directly related to the tactics of the regiment-level square formation, because the Ming army had already retreated on its own before the hand-to-hand phase.
Later, the role of the infantry was to charge and pursue. After the charge and pursuit, the formation of the troops could not be maintained. In the end, I dare not say that it was a mess, but in fact the huge regiment-level phalanx had ceased to exist in name only.
At this time, Li Chunjing was the first to speak: "Li was the first to throw some light. Everyone knows the advantage of the regiment-level phalanx, which is that it can organize a wider front in large-scale battles. Although the depth is a bit deeper than the previous phalanx.
It's shallow, but through cross fire, it can exert more massive musket fire and form cross fire on some fronts. The mobility is also quite excellent, and it can effectively maintain the unified and rapid maneuver of the entire infantry regiment while defending against the enemy.
Charge can also have excellent defensive flexibility, which has a very positive effect on our army with too few troops!
But through this battle, Li also discovered some flaws of this square formation that cannot be regarded as flaws, that is, this formation requires too high quality of troops!
The quality of the soldiers of our Second Infantry Regiment is considered acceptable in terms of the entire army, but it is still insufficient to implement this regiment-level square formation. The troops were acceptable in the early formation, but when they were attacked by the enemy's bows and arrows,
During the projectile attack, the first battalion in the front row was too far forward and suffered a large amount of enemy firepower alone, resulting in heavy casualties and the formation was shaken!
This also means that once the enemy uses long-range firepower equivalent to that of our army, the first battalion acting as an arrow may not be able to withstand the concentrated firepower of the enemy and may collapse after suffering a large number of casualties!
In order to maintain such a formation, the quality requirements for the troops, especially the front row troops, are very high. Personally, I estimate that a force that can withstand a casualty rate of more than 30% is needed to serve as the front row square formation.
Otherwise, once encountering an enemy with strong firepower, the front row phalanx will inevitably collapse!
And looking at our Datang King's Division, I'm afraid there is only one First Infantry Battalion that can shoulder such a heavy task, the Second Infantry Battalion is still slightly inferior, and the Third Infantry Battalion includes the three infantrymen below me.
The camp is even worse!"
Although Li Chunjing said that he was just trying to attract good news, he did not stop talking and continued: "In addition to the very high quality requirements for the troops, the original goal of our establishment of this regiment-level square formation was to use shallow depth.
To expand the front line and concentrate crossfire, and hope to strengthen the defense capabilities of the troops, but I don’t know if you have noticed that when our troops launched a counterattack today, the quality requirements for the soldiers were too high when the formation was mobilized, which would lead to the formation of the troops.
It is chaotic. After launching a counterattack at the same time, we need to mobilize the troops in the front row, so that the defense depth of the remaining troops behind will be even shallower. Once the enemy launches a counterattack, our army's defense capability will be worrying!"
Li Chunjing is the commander of the Second Infantry Regiment, but his status in the southward army is far more than the commander of an infantry regiment, because he is also the deputy commander of the southward detachment, and is a veritable leader in the southward detachment.
The second person.
His status is to surpass Fang Dongquan, the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, and Chen Keqiao, the commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment. Everyone knows that his promotion to brigade commander and becoming an army major general is just around the corner. The 3rd Infantry Brigade or the 4th Infantry Regiment
When the infantry brigade is officially formed into an army, it is very likely that one of the two major general and brigade commander positions in the regular army will be filled by him.
Therefore, everyone naturally did not dare to take his words lightly. On the contrary, they listened very carefully. Even Hao Bainian, who was sitting at the top, attached great importance to this person who, like himself, was from the Guards back then and was one of the first batch of Imperial Academy members.
Colleagues of students.
Although he was promoted to Army Major General ahead of Li Chunjing, it did not mean that he had too many advantages over him, so he listened very carefully and wrote down Li Chunjing's words directly on the paper with a pen.
The key points: the depth is too shallow and the quality requirements are too high.
After Li Chunjing finished speaking, others naturally spoke one after another. In this post-war meeting of the army going south, all those above the rank of colonel officer were involved. And this kind of meeting has always had a tradition of not paying attention to military rank or position.
, everyone can speak freely, even if they say the wrong thing, no one will hold them accountable.
Of course, if you are blaming others, you still need to at least pay attention to the art of speaking. If you talk randomly, it is not a discussion of tactics, but a curse.
Li Chunjing spoke next to Chen Keqiao, the commander of the First Infantry Regiment. This man had always served under Hao Bainian. It can be said that the reason why he knew how to lead an army in war was entirely taught by Hao Bainian himself.
The conducting style was naturally greatly influenced by Hao Bainian.
Just listen to him say: "What Commander Li said is very reasonable. The current regiment-level phalanx does have many flaws, but Chen believes that these flaws can be improved and eventually solved!"
Whether it is the requirement for high quality of the troops, or the problem that the troops are weakened in depth during the attack, resulting in weakened defensive capabilities, there is a way to solve it, and this solution is also very simple!"
When Chen Keqiao said that there were ways to solve the shortcomings of the current regiment-level phalanx, Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing and everyone pricked up their ears and listened!
The advantages and disadvantages of this regiment-level phalanx are quite obvious. If the shortcomings can be solved, then this regiment-level phalanx will be suitable for use by the current Datang Army, especially in frontal decisive battles in the field. If it can be used
The improved regiment-level tactics will improve the unit's frontal field combat capabilities to a new level!