Chapter 511: The last drop of blood will be drained and Wuzhou will be conquered
After receiving the urgent battle report from Xingquan Mansion, Li Xuan immediately summoned the senior generals in the army and the senior civilian officials who came with the army to discuss countermeasures together!
But in the end, there were no unplanned results!
Because they had long expected that the Ming army from Huguang would come, and had already made certain arrangements in advance, such as withdrawing officials and craftsmen from Xingquan Mansion.
Today's Xingquan Mansion is no longer the political and industrial center of the Tang Dynasty. Most of the craftsmen in Xingquan Mansion have been moved to Liuzhou, and have begun to produce various weapons in Liuzhou.
In addition, in terms of military deployment, the Second Army also deployed the main forces of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Garrison Brigade in Xingquan Prefecture and Liping Prefecture. However, only part of the troops were left in northeastern Guizhou, and many of them were left behind.
In fact, the state capital only relies on the capture and robbery camps to maintain the basic situation and public order.
There is no way, who made the Tang Dynasty have fewer troops, and the control area is getting larger and larger. This military strength is definitely not enough.
After a discussion that did not have much practical significance, Li Xuan quickly wrote an imperial edict, asking the military messenger to rush to Liuzhou Mansion, and asked the cabinet officials staying in Liuzhou Mansion to immediately organize forces to speed up the withdrawal from Xingquan Mansion.
Out of the remaining craftsmen.
The Huguang Ming Army is coming with force. The Second Army has not many troops left in eastern Guizhou. Only about 10,000 people can survive, and only about 2,000 people are the main force of the regular army. The rest are either garrison troops or newly formed
The combat effectiveness of the troops is worrying.
Therefore, Colonel Song Tianbiao, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment stationed in eastern Guizhou, vowed that he would be able to defend Xingquan Mansion. However, Li Xuan felt that it would be better to believe half of what the following generals said, and it would be best if they could defend it.
, What if we can't hold it? If Xingquan Mansion itself is lost, it will be lost. It is a poor place anyway, so there is nothing to regret.
But those workshops in Xingquan Mansion, especially the craftsmen, cannot be lost. The craftsmen in Xingquan Mansion searched almost all of eastern Guizhou to find so many craftsmen. If they were lost, Li Xuan would be heartbroken.
Not to mention, it may also be used by the Ming army. When the time comes, the Ming army will directly use these craftsmen to make guns and cannons. In the future, the Tang Dynasty will have to face an army with equipment that is not inferior to its own, even guns and cannons.
The Ming army was more numerous than myself?
It’s terrifying to imagine that situation!
Therefore, Xingquan Prefecture can be lost, but the craftsmen in the workshop must evacuate, and they cannot go to Guiyang, which was originally planned, because Guiyang has not been conquered yet, and they must first withdraw to Liuzhou.
Li Xuan still doesn't know that Wang Yue and Wei Yan in Wuzhou City, a few kilometers away from him, have already sent several muskets obtained from the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi to Guangzhou and nearby Foshan, so that the craftsmen can
They imitated the muskets of the puppet Tang rebel army.
If we wait a few months, maybe the Ming army in Guangdong will be equipped with muskets copied from the puppet Tang rebel army.
In addition to immediately evacuating the craftsmen from Xingquan Mansion, Li Xuan's imperial edict also issued a new strategic order to the Second Army, ordering the Second Army to abandon Guiyang first and turn back east if it was unable to capture Guiyang in the near future.
Intercepted the Ming army in Huguang.
If eastern Guizhou cannot be defended, that is, if Xingquan Prefecture is lost, then Liping Prefecture must be defended, because Liping Prefecture is basically the bridgehead from Guizhou to Liuzhou. Only by guarding Liping Prefecture can Liuzhou be better defended.
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If the Second Army is finished and the Liping Mansion is finished, then there is no need for Li Xuan to talk about advancing eastward. He will immediately send troops back to Liuzhou to resist the Huguang Ming Army's southward march.
Otherwise, the Huguang Ming Army could copy their original southward route, attack Liuzhou, Wuxuan and others along the way, and follow the Xijiang River to their rear.
Li Xuan's imperial edict was quickly taken away by military messengers and passed through the military's post system at an accelerated speed of 500 miles to Liuzhou, Xingquan Prefecture and even Guiyang.
The post station system of the Tang Dynasty was actually based on the post station system of the Ming Dynasty, and was strengthened at the same time. Basically, a post station was set up ten kilometers apart. The military messengers rode on horseback with the military reports, and changed their posts every time they arrived at a post station.
People change horses and the relay is passed quickly.
With this speed of transmission, it can travel about three hundred miles in one day, and this is just an ordinary expediting!
If it is an emergency military situation, it can even be transmitted five hundred or even eight hundred kilometers a day. Of course, if it is to be transmitted three hundred miles a day, then the horses in the station can still persist. If it is five hundred miles, then
The horses in the inn have to rest for a period of time after performing a mission. If it is an eight-hundred-mile emergency, then the horses will basically be useless.
In extreme cases that are not particularly urgent, you will not use the 800-mile express, or even the 500-mile express. At most, you will use the 300-mile express.
In addition, this mode of post transfer is also very expensive. At present, the Tang Dynasty relies on the support of the military to set up dense stations on the main route from Xingquan Prefecture to Liping Prefecture, then to Liuzhou Prefecture, and then to Wuzhou.
Except for the express station system, which can cover 800 miles, the express route in other places is generally 300 miles, and a few routes can cover 500 miles.
Li Xuan attached great importance to the transmission of information. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, which despised the soldiers at the post station, Li Xuan directly incorporated the post station system into the military system, with active soldiers acting as military messengers, and granting these military messengers higher
rank and authority.
Usually military messengers have the rank of non-commissioned officers, and if they encounter someone intervening to block the way forward, they can be killed directly.
As for the section near the front line, the military messengers are responsible for delivering military reports. These are real cavalry. If ordinary people dare to stop them, they will not hesitate to draw their swords and kill them!
After the imperial edict was sent away, Li Xuan continued to look at the map, then gritted his teeth and made up his mind!
The city of Wuzhou cannot be delayed any longer, and it is not feasible to go around it. The only way is to fight. Even if it costs heavy casualties, Wuzhou must be defeated. This not only means that we can pull out the most powerful enemy in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions.
At the same time, it can clear the way to continue eastward to Guangdong without worrying about being stabbed in the back.
In addition, after solving Wuzhou, when the time comes to send troops eastward to Guangdong, I will also be able to free up some of my troops to go north to Liuzhou to reinforce eastern Guizhou, or even directly enter Huguang to threaten southern Huguang. Starting from Guilin and fighting to Huguang, it will take a long time.
It is much more convenient to go to Huguang than Xingquan Prefecture, and it can even directly threaten Huguang Yongzhou Prefecture, Baoqing Prefecture, and especially Jingzhou.
The Huguang Ming Army wants to go to Xingquan Prefecture. They need to start from Jingzhou and then go to Xingquan Prefecture. If their army goes up from Guilin to Jingzhou, they can directly cut off the food route of the Ming Army entering Xingquan Prefecture.
, when the time comes, it is not impossible to annihilate the tens of thousands of Ming troops in Huguang.
As long as Wuzhou is captured, as long as the tens of thousands of Ming troops in Wuzhou are eliminated, then the whole chess game can be revived, instead of being controlled by others like now.
This Wuzhou must be captured even if all the soldiers of the First Army are killed. No, it should be said: even if the last soldier of the garrison is killed, Wuzhou must be captured!
The regular army cannot be dead, at most half of them will be killed. If they are all dead, he, the emperor, will still be nothing!
After making up his mind, Li Xuan quickly called several generals to discuss it!
As an emperor, even if he has made a decision himself, he cannot speak out and force it forward!
Li Xuan has always positioned himself as a referee, not a player, so that he can maintain the aloof status of the emperor as always.
Let others propose it, and then agree with it yourself. This victory is naturally due to his bright and great emperor. If it is not hard to attack Wuzhou and fail to defeat it, but also loses troops and generals, then it is naturally the fault of the general who made this suggestion, and he
Li Xuan just mistakenly believed the slander!
As the emperor, Li Xuan will never make mistakes!
The only ones who make mistakes are the ministers under my command!
Based on this need, Li Xuan found several other generals who originally supported the force attack. After hinting that the force attack method was very satisfactory to me, these generals were naturally able to understand what Li Xuan meant.
Therefore, at the imperial strategy meeting the next day, these generals who had received hints from Li Xuan, including Major General Chen Keqiao, commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and Lieutenant Colonel Li Xin, chief of staff of the 1st Infantry Brigade, once again proposed the storming of Wuzhou.
, and a detailed combat plan was prepared for this purpose.
However, before everyone could object, Li Xuan said: "Oh, what is the specific plan for this forceful attack?"
Unusually for Li Xuan, he rarely intervened when the strategic debate was unclear. The generals below were all smart people, so they naturally saw this abnormality and understood the meaning behind it.
Because this means that Li Xuan is already leaning towards a strong attack plan.
So although Hao Bainian and the others still disagreed with the attack, they still listened patiently to Chen Keqiao's plan for the attack!
"The purpose of this case is to completely conquer Wuzhou and annihilate the enemy forces in the city within ten days to half a month!"
As Chen Keqiao spoke, he pointed at the Wuzhou city defense map with a small wooden command list: "Although this case is a force attack, a force attack is the last resort, and early preparations are still indispensable!"
"Before the troops launch a strong attack, the troops should continue to dig trenches and tunnels, strive to advance the trenches to about thirty meters away from the city wall, dig the tunnels below the city wall, and then blast them!"
"Explosion?" This word is a bit unfamiliar!
It's not like they have never dug tunnels before, but the previous tunnel digging was used as a troop transport channel. They wanted to dig tunnels through the city wall, and then suddenly appear from inside the city, causing chaos and even assisting the troops to seize the city gate or city wall, but this time
Once, Chen Keqiao was talking about blasting!
And what is blasting? I have never heard of this word and I don’t understand it!