The scene of the last time Wuzhou city was destroyed was still vivid in his mind. How could Wang Yue not know that these puppet Tang rebels would use heavy armored infantry to attack after they blew down the city wall?
In the battle to defend the city, compared to the sharp firearms of the puppet Tang rebels, their heavy infantry wearing thick armor was a greater threat. If you want to defend the city of Guangzhou, you must block the gap as soon as possible.
And if you want to block the impact of those elite heavy armors, the troops sent to block the gap must not be ordinary infantry, which are just delivering food.
He shouted for people to come forward. The soldiers sent out were not ordinary guardsmen, but his direct supervisory troops!
Wang Yue couldn't help but feel reassured when he saw that the trapping camp closest to the blast point, which was directly under the supervision of the governor, rushed forward. The musketeer battalion behind them was also heading quickly.
The city wall was blasted. To be honest, this was within his expectation. A large number of heavily armored Puppet Tang rebels rushed up outside the city, which was also within his expectation. What we have to see now is whether it is the Puppet Tang rebel army.
The heavy armor soldiers are powerful, but the supervision standard that I spent a lot of effort and money to build is even more powerful.
Since the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Wuzhou, Wang Yue has been calming down and thinking hard almost day and night on how to deal with the puppet Tang rebels. To deal with the puppet Tang rebels, naturally he must first understand the puppet Tang rebels and learn from their
Wang Yue spent a lot of effort to understand the military system, tactics and even logistics, political system, etc.
From this information, combined with the many previous actual battles in Guangxi, Wang Yue believed that he had a relatively good understanding of the puppet Tang rebels.
The strength of the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty lies in its sharp firearms and fearlessness of death.
It is almost universally acknowledged that the pseudo-Tang rebels have sharp weapons. Regardless of whether anyone has fought against the pseudo-Tang rebels, they already know that the pseudo-Tang rebels have sharp weapons.
But Wang Yue himself came to the conclusion that he was brave and not afraid of death.
Everyone knows that the Puppet Tang thief army has sharp weapons, but in Wang Yue's view, the Puppet Tang thief army's fearlessness of death is even more frightening. Looking at the many battles between the official army and the Puppet Tang thief army, almost none of them was...
Defeated by the pure firearms of the puppet Tang thief army!
Regardless of whether it was a frontal decisive battle in the wild or an offensive and defensive battle in the city, almost every time the puppet Tang rebel army rushed up and fought hand-to-hand with the official army, and then the official army could not hold on, leading to a tragic defeat.
To be honest, Wang Yue still hasn't figured out why the puppet Tang thief army is so fierce and fearless of death. In the end, he can only focus on the strict military law of the puppet Tang thief army.
Because he had seen with his own eyes in Wuzhou City that when the puppet Tang thief army was attacking the city, the rows of supervisory teams behind them forcibly drove the troops to charge and fight. According to him, those who died at the hands of the puppet Tang thief army supervisor team
I'm afraid there will be no fewer people than those who died in the army.
Once he understood these advantages of the puppet Tang rebel army, Wang Yue would naturally make corresponding arrangements.
Firearms are sharp, this is the best solution, and no one stipulates that only rebels can use firearms, and the imperial army cannot use firearms. Besides, when the imperial army used firearms in combat, Li Ni and his son had not yet
The reason why we were born into today's predicament is simply that the firearms used by the officers and soldiers were old and unfit for use.
What to do if you don’t have advanced firearms? Counterfeit them, outsource them, there are so many ways!
No, after several months of his hard work, the city of Guangzhou is already covered with various artillery pieces, including the super invincible general cannon purchased from foreigners, which can be powerful for dozens of miles with one cannon.
big guy.
With one shot, the enemy camp could be destroyed for more than ten miles!
Well, the words about destroying the enemy's camp for more than ten miles are the exact words in the note he gave to the court!
But to be honest, his words actually have some credibility. The twelve-pound artillery he purchased is a ship-borne cannon. If the hit accuracy is not considered, its maximum range can reach almost four thousand meters.
This is converted into the "li" of the Ming Dynasty official army, which is seven or eight miles. If we round it up a bit, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is ten miles.
As for firing at the maximum range and where the shells will fly, only God knows.
Not only artillery, he also purchased a large number of muskets, plus a few self-imitation muskets, but he was asked to make up five or six hundred guns, and then based on the establishment of the puppet Tang thief army, he added the same number of muskets.
Spearmen, formed a musketeer battalion.
On the other hand, it was difficult to get the explosive bullets in the Puppet Tang rebel army, because he had obtained a few muskets of the Puppet Tang rebel army through various methods, but he had not yet obtained the actual explosive ammunition. He asked the foreigners if they had such weapons.
He didn't know anything about the stuff, but he had already asked the craftsmen to think about this type of explosive bullet for the Puppet Tang Thief Army, and I believe there will be one in the future.
He believed that after possessing this batch of firearms, although they were not as powerful as the firearms of the pseudo-Tang rebels outside the city, they were enough to change the embarrassing situation in the field of firearms where his side could only be beaten and unable to fight back.
However, in the artillery battle a few days ago, he discovered that after the artillery fire from both sides started, his own side suffered heavy losses, but his opponent's losses were negligible. This made him extremely angry, but there was no other way. Who could let his own gunners
I can't hit it.
Firearms can be initially solved through outsourcing and imitation, but the pseudo-Tang thieves are not afraid of death because they are not so easy to fight.
He himself knew who the warriors in the guard army were, and it was impossible to count on them. He could only rely on recruiting soldiers.
Therefore, he strongly supported Yu Dayou in renovating the Guangzhou camp, and at the same time, he also expanded his direct line of supervisors.
In order to improve the combat effectiveness of these recruits, on the one hand, he collected the best equipment for them, such as steel knives, armor, muskets, artillery, etc., and on the other hand, he also improved their treatment, in order to reward them with brave men.
As for the strict military law, he wanted to do so, but the generals under him were unwilling to do so!
Strict military law is not something that any army can handle. Without absolute prestige and a strict military system, doing so will trigger a mutiny.
You must know that even if he is the supervisor of his direct troops, strictly speaking, these troops do not belong to him, but to several generals under him. He can only control the army by controlling his direct generals.
Soldiers are the generals, and this kind of thing cannot be changed so easily.
Preparing firearms, concentrating on training the Guangzhou battalion, and supervising the standards. From these two points, Wang Yue can be said to have made great efforts and expected to achieve corresponding success. These two units are also his greatest confidence to defend the city of Guangzhou.
Where!
And now, it is time to test how effective his army reorganization operation is!
The governor's camp that he had placed high hopes on immediately headed towards the gap in the city wall that had been blown into ruins. There was no one there, and they were urgently needed to rush in as soon as possible, otherwise the puppet Tang rebels would rush in.
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As for the original guard soldiers in this section of the city wall, they were finished long ago when the city wall collapsed. Even the nearby wall defenders within tens or even hundreds of meters were either killed or injured or were scared out of their wits and are now running around.
Then, only a few guardsmen began to go to the gap under the leadership of the generals.
However, if these incomplete guard soldiers on the city wall can block the gap, then they are simply ignoring the more than a thousand Puppet Tang heavy armored infantry rushing over from outside the city.
Wang Yue never expected that these guardsmen and young men could play a powerful role at such a critical moment. As long as the defenders stationed on the city could defend the original city wall step by step,
It is considered a success if other puppet Tang bandit troops are not allowed to rush up outside the city.
After all, in addition to the heavy armored troops of the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty that rushed towards the gap, there were also more Pseudo-Tang thief troops who charged towards other intact city walls.
This is a general attack by the entire army, not a solo fight by the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and three temporary assault battalions.
It is impossible for tens of thousands of troops to sit back and watch this elite force of only 3,000 people fight alone. They will also launch larger-scale attacks in other directions.
The Third Guard Brigade and the Fourth Guard Brigade had already charged forward, while the musketeers of the First Infantry Brigade used their muskets to suppress the counterattack firepower of the Ming army at the top of the city.
This charge of more than 10,000 people was frightening. Although in the battle plan of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, they were only a companion force, if the Ming army made a mistake in their response, they could always change from a companion force to an active one.
After all, no one stipulates that you have to rush in through the gap in the city wall that has been successfully blasted, and there is no stipulation that the ones who rush to the top of the city to achieve a breakthrough must be the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and the Assault Battalion!
People are alive, and battle plans can change at any time.
Wang Yue was naturally quite aware of this truth, so even though the threat on the other side of the gap was very great, Wang Yue did not fill in all the reserves at once. He just sent a total of about 4,000 people from the trap camp and the musketeer camp to go up.
That's all.
The 3,000 Guangzhou Battalion led by Yu Dayou and the more than 1,000 remaining members of the supervisor remained motionless to prevent danger from other directions.
At the same time, Li Xuan, who was fighting outside the city, held a single-channel telescope and watched more than two thousand people from the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and the Assault Battalion rushing in quickly. When they were almost approaching the gap in the city wall, his expression did not relax at all, because he
It was discovered that Ming troops had begun to appear in the gap in the city wall. Although there were still very few Ming troops, this already meant that the Ming troops in the city had already reacted.
And next, it’s time to compare the hard power of both sides!
Outside the gap in the city wall, the First Grenadier Group, which originally belonged to the First Infantry Regiment but was temporarily incorporated into the First Assault Battalion, is on the right side of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment. They advance in coordination with the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and are responsible for providing them with a center.
Close fire support!
At this time, in the team, a grenadier captain wearing a dark blue officer's uniform and wearing the rank of captain rode a horse and quickly passed in front of his soldiers. The command knife in his hand was raised high, and at the same time he shouted: