Before Li Xuan led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians south to Liuzhou City, the more than 10,000 troops led by Hao Bainian could not wait idle in Liuzhou City.
Although they also need time to rest and replenish, it may take a month or two!
In the battle to attack Liuzhou Fucheng, the army going south suffered losses, but it still took such a long time to rest and replenish.
In the Battle of Liuzhou City, the third garrison brigade and the chieftain soldiers suffered the greater casualties among the troops going south, while the casualties of the first infantry brigade and the affiliated regular armies were relatively small.
Among them, the 3rd garrison brigade suffered about more than 500 casualties, the chieftain soldiers suffered more than 300 casualties, and the 1st infantry brigade, artillery, baggage and other troops together suffered about 300 casualties.
The total number of casualties is about a thousand!
But compared to a siege force of more than 10,000 people, especially for such a tough battle, such casualties are actually acceptable.
You must know that they not only captured Liuzhou Fucheng, but also annihilated all the tens of thousands of Ming army defenders in the city.
Thanks to the Liuzhou Fucheng facing the Liujiang River on three sides, and the north side not facing the river being the main attack direction of the Tang Dynasty's army, after the city was broken, the Ming army in the city had no way to escape, and more than 3,000 of them died in the battle.
Or died after being seriously injured. More than 4,000 people surrendered one after another, and some were scattered throughout the city. They took off their military uniforms, threw away their weapons and returned home.
At present, the Tang Dynasty King's Division is continuing to carry out a clearing campaign in the city.
After the army marching south ended the Battle of Liuzhou City, on the one hand they cleared Liuzhou City, and on the other hand they also began to rest and replenish on the spot.
Among them, the third garrison brigade was the simplest to replenish. More than 500 people were directly selected from the surrendered Ming army to replenish it on the spot. In less than two days, the third garrison brigade, which had suffered heavy losses, became the first unit to be restored to full strength.
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The personnel recruitment of the First Infantry Brigade and other units was also simple. The Training Department directly added more than 200 newly trained people. In addition, some personnel were selected from the surrendered Ming army.
However, it is more troublesome to replenish the chieftain soldiers. Strictly speaking, these chieftain soldiers are not part of the Tang Army. They are composed of local chieftains who sent varying numbers of soldiers to express their sincerity to the Tang Dynasty.
Yes, the Tang Dynasty King Division will naturally not care about the subsequent replenishment of soldiers, and each chieftain will need to replenish them on their own.
Moreover, in the critical battle of Liuzhou City, the combat effectiveness of these chieftain warriors was still good. Although the casualties were not small, they effectively reduced the pressure on the Tang Army.
Therefore, after the war, Hao Bainian asked the chieftains in Liuzhou to continue to replenish their troops and restore the strength to the previous 1,500 people. He also gave this chieftain soldier an official designation: Liuzhou Independent Regiment, which will be divided into
There are three infantry battalions.
Although the officers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment were still not officers of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, but chieftains, the Tang Dynasty sent some of its troops to this unit on the grounds that they wanted to better cooperate with the Tang Army's operations.
The so-called liaison officers, and these liaison officers will serve as deputy positions for regiments, battalions, and teams.
The King of the Tang Dynasty did this, naturally with the intention of completely incorporating these chieftain soldiers into the Tang Army in the future. However, the Tang Dynasty still needs to win over these local chieftains, and it is not good to go too far.
Maybe take your time.
Although the various units of the army going south have not been fully replenished, they have not stayed in Liuzhou any longer. The 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Garrison Brigade and 2nd Cavalry Battalion of the 1st Infantry Brigade have already moved south to Xiangzhou first.
And Hao Bainian stayed in Liuzhou City with the other parts, waiting for Li Xuan's arrival!
And Li Xuan also led the Fifth Infantry Regiment, the Guards Battalion, the First Cavalry Battalion and the main senior civil and military officials to go south first. When the soldiers and civilians from the rear just entered Guangxi, the troops led by Li Xuan had already arrived.
Huaiyuan.
Then we directly took the boat prepared by the Navy and the Logistics Department and went down the river. We expected to arrive at Liuzhou Fucheng in three days!
The holy driver is about to arrive in the capital of Liuzhou, and Hao Bainian and other civil and military officials in Liuzhou are also preparing to welcome the holy driver's arrival.
For example, a large number of civilians were recruited to repair the damaged city walls, clean up the corpses in the war, and then clean up the main streets in the city and cover them with loess. Households were ordered not to dump garbage directly on the streets in front of their homes.
If you are caught, you will be fined, and it will be a heavy fine!
Except for a handful of streets these days, not many have bluestone roads. Most of them are dirt roads. This is true even in big cities like Nanjing and Beijing. When it rains, the streets are full of dirt.
mud.
Moreover, no one pays much attention to hygiene these days. Horses and other animals poop freely, and no one cleans it up. So if you step on a puddle of poop while walking on the bustling streets, don't be careful if you smell the smell of feces and urine.
Surprised, that's normal.
If you didn't step on such a piece of shit, you would be embarrassed to say that this is a lively and bustling street!
When Li Xuan settled in Xingquan Fucheng before, he was surprised and deeply disgusted by the urban sanitary environment of this era.
Extremely strict health management measures have been implemented in Xingquan Prefecture. People are strictly prohibited from urinating and urinating anywhere, and people are not allowed to defecate or urinate on the streets.
Each one caught will be punished!
To this end, Li Xuan also piloted the establishment of an urban management office in Xingquan Prefecture, which is directly affiliated with the Xingquan Prefecture Patrol Bureau. Their responsibility is to manage the sanitation, construction and other messy things in the city, which is generally similar to the urban management of later generations.
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Since the day it was established, the Xingquan Prefecture City Management Office has displayed extremely powerful combat effectiveness. Its combat effectiveness is as outstanding as that of the Tang Dynasty Tax Inspection Team. Countless City Management Office personnel wearing "urban management" armbands are here.
Walking around the streets, closely monitoring the entire city, allowing the many criminal traffickers who defecate and take out garbage everywhere to hide, and obediently pay the fines!
Through the strict management of the city management office, especially heavy fines, the city appearance of Xingquan Prefecture has undergone great changes. At least open defecation, garbage on the floor, and feces and urine no longer occur.
The following officials also knew that Li Xuan hated the mess in the city. In order to let His Majesty see a clean and tidy Liuzhou City after arriving in Liuzhou City, Ma Wei, the prefect of Liuzhou Prefecture, personally led a team to tidy up Liuzhou Prefecture.
In just a few days, thousands of people were fined, and more than a thousand taels of fines were collected. This not only gave Liuzhou City a new look, but also contributed more than a thousand taels of silver to the establishment of the newly established patrol station.
Funding.
In addition to these, it is also necessary to prepare palaces, offices of various ministries, and even the residences of senior officials.
Li Xuan did not come with an army alone when he went south, but with the entire royal family, all the officials from the Tang Dynasty, including the cabinet, the Privy Council, and their family members.
After these people come, they must have an office and a place to live!
Li Xuan's palace was originally planned to be built in Liuzhou Prefecture, but the previous prefects of Liuzhou Prefecture probably refused to bear the reputation of extravagance and waste, and they probably haven't built a government office in decades.
, causing this government office to be dilapidated. If it needs to be repaired, it will probably be almost as much as the reconstruction project. But if it is not repaired, do you dare to let the emperor, the queen mother, and the empress live here? What if the house collapses one day?
What to do?
At this time, everyone searched around Liuzhou City and found that the house they had seized turned out to be a large salt merchant's house. It was quite good in terms of the size of the land and the level of luxury. It was hundreds of blocks away from the government office. In addition, this
The salt merchant's house happened to be near the government office, and there were also many former government offices of the Ming Dynasty and the residences of some wealthy families nearby.
It just happened that a political center could be established around this salt merchant's house.
He arrived in Liuzhou City with the army first to start work, and after discussing with the civil officials who were welcoming the emperor, they all agreed that the sealed salt merchant's house was more suitable as a palace than the government office.
So even if they sent people back north to report to Li Xuan, after all, they were looking for a place for Li Xuan to live, and they couldn't decide on their own.
Li Xuan didn't think it mattered much. He regarded himself as a person with great ideals!
When he led his army on an expedition, he could even sleep in a tent, and he had lived in the shabby government office in Xingquanfu City for so long. The temporary palace that everyone found for him must be better than a tent, so with a stroke of his pen
It was immediately approved.
After Li Xuanren, who was still far away in Huaiyuan, approved, many officials who arrived first began to make preparations, and then the female officials from the palace who arrived a day in advance also arrived in Liuzhou City with some extremely strong women.
, and then start to sort it out in detail.
After returning to Xingquan Mansion from Liping Mansion, Li Xuan felt that there were so many people in the palace that it became more troublesome to manage them.
So he formally established the Imperial Household Institution, but unlike outside institutions, the personnel in this institution were all women.
Its organization is similar to the eunuch organization of the Ming Dynasty, but the purpose of this palace courtyard is very pure, that is, to take care of the daily life of the royal family members, and is limited to this.
At present, there are more than one hundred female officials and maids in the palace who are directly under the management of the palace.
Li Xuan established the palace courtyard and the female official system to replace the eunuchs in previous dynasties!
Eunuchs, a product that goes against human nature, are obviously not in line with the Tang Dynasty, the greatest and most advanced industrial country in the world, which represents the new direction of human development!
Although the Tang Dynasty followed tradition in terms of etiquette and even rigidly followed the Zhou Rites, for example, the names of the troops "division and brigade" were actually derived from the Zhou Rites. This was not an imitation of modern Western armies, but a Chinese practice since ancient times.
Some titles!
But while adhering to tradition, it also deepened reforms. Otherwise, how could the Tang Dynasty lead mankind to conquer the stars?