Chapter 549 The third garrison brigade has changed greatly
The Fifth Infantry Brigade is a new main brigade that was started to be established after the Tang Dynasty moved its capital to Zhaoqing. The brigade's sources of troops are expected to be mainly recruits recruited locally in Guangdong, but the brigade only exists on paper for the time being.
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The Tang Dynasty's military expansion has never stopped, and the limitation of the Tang Dynasty's regular army expansion is not the source of troops, but the production of weapons, especially guns. In many cases, the troops are full, but the weapons
If it is not enough, there will be situations where people are waiting for equipment.
The Sixth Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Infantry Brigade are very typical examples. The Sixth Infantry Regiment has been fully staffed for a long time, but it has never been able to get the guns and artillery it should have. It can only be equipped with cold weapons.
However, the Sixth Infantry Regiment, which is trained as a firearms unit, to be honest, when using pure cold weapons, its combat effectiveness is not as good as any garrison regiment under the Third Guard Brigade, let alone the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, a heavy armored infantry regiment.
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However, although these troops do not yet have guns and other equipment, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced, the recruitment of new soldiers in the Tang Dynasty will not stop. In addition to supplementing the existing troops, the extra soldiers will naturally be
Used to form new troops.
In addition to the urgent need to expand the army, the establishment of the Fifth Infantry Brigade is also related to the soldiers themselves.
Because the new recruits recruited by the Ministry of War cannot be replenished randomly, because this will cause problems such as language barriers and even different living habits.
This difference caused great trouble for the army troops of the Tang Dynasty King Division to replenish their troops!
Recruitment for many units can only be done in fixed areas.
At present, the soldiers recruited in Guizhou are basically only supplemented by the troops under the Second Army, especially the Second Infantry Brigade. They are all Guizhou soldiers. If the Guangxi soldiers serve in this army, they will basically be acclimatized and speak different languages.
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The soldiers recruited in Guangxi are divided into two categories. One part is the Han recruits, who are supplemented to the 4th Infantry Brigade, while the ordinary Han recruits are supplemented to the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the 1st Infantry Brigade.
Among them, the source of recruits for the First Army was more complicated. At the beginning, they were all Guizhou soldiers. Later, as the war progressed and a large number of wounded appeared, a large number of Guangxi Han soldiers were added. This resulted in the formation of the First Army.
Basically, half are Guizhou soldiers and half are Guangxi soldiers.
Even so, in fact, soldiers in many units still speak different languages. In order to completely solve this problem, when the Ministry of War recruits new soldiers, the Training Department trains new soldiers, and the Operations Department replenishes new soldiers, they often classify the new soldiers into the same county and the same area.
The government is organized.
Therefore, this situation occurs in many troops. The soldiers in a team are often from the same county, and the troops in a battalion are often from the same government. It is rare to say that soldiers from different counties are present in a team at the same time.
Although this would inevitably lead to the phenomenon of mountaineering, Li Xuan was not stupid. Naturally, he was prepared to prevent this from happening from the beginning, and this defense was the literacy class in the army.
Literacy classes teach literacy in Mandarin. Originally, Li Xuan wanted to directly use the Mandarin of later generations. However, considering that Nanjing Mandarin is now the standard Mandarin spoken in China, let alone others, even Li Xuan and
Liu Bagou and the others all used Nanjing Mandarin in their conversations.
There is no way, scholars all over the world use Nanjing Mandarin to communicate. If you, Li Xuan, suddenly come up with a Mandarin that is the fusion of Beijing dialect and Nanjing Mandarin from the Yuan Dynasty, who in the world can understand it except Li Xuan?
This bird's song...
This literacy class teaches literacy and Mandarin, and coupled with the forced promotion of Mandarin in the military, many veterans who have served for a long time can speak some simple Mandarin.
After these soldiers can all speak Mandarin, they won't have to worry about different languages in the future, and then Li Xuan can play mixed games.
Differences in language and living habits caused great troubles when the Tang Dynasty Wangshi organized various troops. On the contrary, the Ming army did not have this problem, because their guard army was originally a field army, and the soldiers
They're all from the same place.
Even if it is recruiting soldiers, it is to recruit soldiers from one place and then organize them into a unit and send them to the battlefield. There is basically no problem of piecemeal supplementation.
But this was not possible for the Tang Dynasty, because the troop numbers of the Tang Dynasty were fixed, and personnel had to be replenished after the troops suffered losses in combat.
It is obvious that the soldiers recruited in the Guangdong area cannot be replenished to other units. Except for some that can be replenished to the First Army, the rest are used to form new units, and this is the source of the Fifth Infantry Brigade.
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Nowadays, the recruits of the 5th Infantry Brigade are still in the recruit camp of the Training Department. Recently, as the situation in Guangdong initially stabilized, Li Xuan asked the Training Department to extend the training time for recruits of the 5th Infantry Brigade.
Extend one month to two months.
This time Li Xuan was determined to build a new main force, one that could be on par with the 1st Infantry Brigade.
Because in the previous military expansion operations, whether it was the 2nd Infantry Brigade, the 3rd Infantry Brigade or the 4th Infantry Brigade, they were all in a hurry. Many soldiers in the army were added to the army after training for less than a month.
Combat.
Although these new recruits can continue to train after entering the army, and can be trained during combat, and grow into veterans faster.
But under such circumstances, the combat effectiveness of the new recruits is not strong enough, which will not only cause the casualty rate of these recruits to be relatively high, but more importantly, the combat effectiveness of the troops will not be improved.
Troop casualties need to be controlled, and combat effectiveness also needs to be improved.
Taking advantage of the fact that Guangdong was now captured, and there was still a First Army stationed in Guangdong, and the situation was relatively calm, Li Xuan decided to build the Fifth Infantry Brigade as the main force.
The new recruits scheduled for the brigade were recruited one after another and then entered the recruit camp for training. The training lasted only a few days, and the training lasted for a month.
In one month's time, the first batch of soldiers who have completed basic training will be able to serve in the 5th Infantry Brigade.
In order to ensure that the Fifth Infantry Brigade successfully formed an army and had considerable combat effectiveness after forming an army, Li Xuan even prepared weapons for them in advance. Not to mention cold weapons, many Ming army cold weapons were captured in the Tang Dynasty.
weapon.
Although generally many of them are used by the garrison, the main force will still not lack these cold weapons. Even cold weapons such as armor can be fully rationed.
As for guns and artillery, he has also prepared them in advance, especially new weapons built in Wuzhou, Zhaoqing and other places, which will be given priority to the brigade.
Strive to have the 5th Infantry Brigade formally formed and combat effectiveness within the next three months.
Then, together with the First Infantry Brigade, they supported a new round of expansion of the Tang Dynasty.
After arriving in Zhaoqing, in addition to ordinary government affairs and imperial examinations, in addition to caring about other aspects of military operations, he spent most of his time on the preparations for the establishment of the Fifth Infantry Brigade.
The first batch of new recruits have not yet arrived, and he has already asked the Privy Council's Quanxu Department to start selecting officers at all levels from the entire army, as well as deploying senior non-commissioned officers.
Li Xuan naturally did not care about the appointments of middle and low-level officers, but he still personally took charge of the appointments of senior officers. Among them, he reported to the brigade commander, deputy brigade commander, brigade chief of staff, and two regiment commanders, among other senior positions, especially the brigade commander.
The selection of the commander is a top priority, because according to the current constitution of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, an infantry brigade is often combined with several garrison brigades to form an army, and the commander of the infantry brigade also serves as the commander of the army.
The commander of the Fifth Infantry Brigade will also be the commander of the Fifth Army. Currently, there are only a handful of people in the Tang Dynasty who are qualified for this position, and most of them are already army commanders. If you want to appoint a new army
As the principal, Li Xuan had to inspect and select from a group of school officials.
When the Fifth Infantry Brigade had not yet formed an army, Li Xuan was unable to continue to expand the main force. At that time, the strength of the troops was tight, and he had to reuse the garrison again.
The garrison Li Xuan planned to reuse was the Third Garrison Brigade.
The brigade performed well in the Battle of Wuzhou, and its combat effectiveness was regarded as an ace unit among a large number of garrison troops in the Tang Army. Li Xuan was prepared to continue to strengthen the strength of the brigade.
This garrison brigade is not required to have the same strength as a regular infantry brigade, but it must at least be able to undertake independent combat tasks on secondary fronts.
Therefore, he planned to strengthen the Third Guard Brigade to a certain extent. This kind of reinforcement naturally cannot be equipped with muskets for this unit, because the Third Guard Brigade is a typical cold weapon unit. Although the establishment designation looks the same as that of the regular army, the daily
The training and tactics are completely different from those of the regular army.
Even if you give them muskets, they may not be better than using bows and arrows.
Therefore, Li Xuan's strengthening of the Third Guard Brigade was to improve the quality of the cold weapons they were equipped with.
In the past, many cold weapons in the Tang Dynasty, with good quality, were given priority to equip the regular army. The garrison equipment was generally cold weapons that the regular army did not need.
This is true even for the Third Guard Brigade. This time Li Xuan decided to equip them with cold weapons of the same quality as the regular army.
For example, the waist knives of ordinary light armor, sword and shield soldiers are no longer the rusty iron swords of the past, but are equipped with iron body and steel-clad waist knives. The waist knives of heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers have also been replaced with all-steel ones.
knife.
They were equipped with enough heavy armored sword and shield soldiers and heavy armored spearmen.
Bows and arrows have also been replaced to a certain extent, and some low-quality bows and arrows have been replaced with standard bows.
Finally, after careful consideration, Li Xuan decided to assign a shotgun team to this infantry brigade. Although the third garrison brigade is a traditional cold weapon unit and it is inconvenient to use muskets, it is possible to use artillery. The Ming Army
It's the same with artillery.
And these artillery pieces were simply bowl-mouth cannons captured from the Ming Army.
In addition, a small cavalry unit was assigned to the brigade, along with a baggage regiment of about 2,000 people.
In this case, the brigade's strength will skyrocket to nearly 9,000 people, and it will become a force with comprehensive and independent combat capabilities.
After the brigade is strengthened, the rank of the brigade commander Cai Erhu will also be raised to the rank of major general.
Li Xuan wanted to tell the officers of the various garrison troops below that even if they serve in the garrison, they still have the opportunity to be promoted and even squeeze into the general rank.
The reorganized and strengthened Third Guard Brigade will be completely different, and Li Xuan is looking forward to the performance of the Third Guard Brigade. Even the combat mission arranged for it is not to reinforce Guizhou, nor to Guangxi, but to go south to Guangzhou.
, is expected to cooperate with the First Army to seize Guangzhou and completely bring the entire Guangdong under the control of Datang.
It can be seen from this that even though Guizhou is already facing a major crisis, and even Liuzhou is facing a crisis, Li Xuan still has not stopped his strategic determination to seize the entire Guangdong and separate the two Guangxi!
He would rather lose the entire Guizhou and even the Second Army than completely capture Guangdong and Guangxi!
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