At the beginning of the sixth year of Xuanping, the Tang Dynasty launched a series of reforms in state-owned enterprises. This naturally aroused a lot of discussion. Some said that the Tang Dynasty was competing for profits with the people, and some said that this way it could concentrate its efforts on major things. In general,
There are some good things and some bad things.
However, this did not stop the Tang Dynasty from promoting the development of state-owned enterprises!
Currently, Datang's industry is still supported by state-owned enterprises, or to be more precise, it is the defense enterprises that were formerly directly under the Ministry of Industry but are now directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
As for private capital, although a lot of it has been invested in industry, most of it is invested in industries with small investments, quick results, and large returns, and many of them are traditional industries.
To be honest, these industries, apart from contributing to tax revenue, are not of much use to the current industrial strength of the Tang Dynasty, and they are also of little use to the improvement of national defense strength.
In the tone set by Li Xuan, private enterprises must develop, and state-owned enterprises must also develop. The former allows them to engage in ordinary industries, make money, and provide economic firepower for Datang, while the latter is engaged in national defense and is related to people's livelihood.
The industry is advancing at both ends.
In addition, Li Xuan has not prohibited any private capital from entering defense-related industries, such as shipbuilding, guns, ammunition, etc. As long as you have sufficient strength and technology, you can also get involved, and there will be no official obstacles.
In fact, in the shipbuilding industry, many private shipyards have already undertaken the construction of military warships. Even frigates have been privately built and received orders, while inland warships, transport ships, etc. are even built by private shipyards.
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Several state-owned shipyards basically focus on the construction of large-tonnage battleships. Even they can build inland river warships, but their output cannot keep up.
For example, even for the same-class patrol ships, the Navy has already placed orders for more than 30 ships. If these orders were completed by state-owned shipyards, it would probably take many years to complete them. However, private shipyards have to bear most of the costs.
After the order is placed, the navy will be able to acquire Lianping-class Luo patrol ships much faster.
Now, the Lianping-class patrol ships are being built at a rate of launching one ship a month, and the total number is already ten in service. The Datang Navy is preparing to build more than fifty patrol ships of this type.
It is widely used for patrolling and combating along the coast, major inland rivers and lakes.
Fifty ships is quite a lot, but China is vast and vast. Once distributed to various places, it is actually far from enough for the navy.
Therefore, the Navy will still build a large number of Class A, Class B, and Class C river warships as supplements!
As for the frigates and cruisers in the ocean-going battleships, the Navy's preliminary plan is to maintain the number of frigates at 24 and the cruisers at 12.
Each is assigned to the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, with Fujian Danguan as the center point, the south is the combat area of the Second Fleet, and the north is the combat area of the First Fleet.
After years of construction, the frigate and cruiser fleet has begun to take shape. It is estimated that the initial expansion plan will be completed in a few years. The next step is the construction and normal replacement of battleships.
In terms of battleships, the Navy currently does not have any more construction plans, because now even the first battleship is not sure how to design it. Whether the first battleship designed and built is really useful?
Don't know this.
Therefore, the Tang Navy is currently crossing the river by feeling its stones. Regardless of whether it is good or bad, it will build one first. As for the subsequent construction plan, it will first see how this experimental battleship does. If it is good, then it will start mass production.
Construction, if it doesn't work, then it needs to be redesigned and a second test ship built.
For such a battleship that costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, the Navy does not dare to act rashly. If something goes wrong, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver will be wasted. At that time, His Majesty will be furious, and the Navy will still
I don’t know how many people are going to be unlucky.
After the Spring Festival, Li Xuan promoted the reform of state-owned enterprises in Jinling City. At the same time, Wang Chaohong was also preparing to launch a general attack on Anqing.
The general attack will naturally focus on blasting and artillery battles!
If there are generals who have watched the Battle of Yangzhou outside Yangzhou City, they will find that the Second Army's attack on Anqing is almost exactly the same as the Third Army's attack on Yangzhou.
They all used shelling to suppress the Ming army's artillery, cover the engineers, and the infantry dug trenches, dug tunnels, filled the moat, and then deployed heavy howitzers forward to obtain better artillery suppression effects.
When these preparations are complete, the explosion will appear at the right time!
The only difference is that Wang Chaohong arranged two blasts to ensure the safety period, and then sent assault troops to attack from two gaps at the same time!
When the assault troops rushed forward, a fierce offensive and defensive battle broke out between the two sides. However, even though the bandit army resisted tenaciously, they still could not withstand the fierce attack of the second army.
Seeing that the resistance was hopeless, the Ming army in the city tried to break out. However, at this time, Wang Chaohong's workshop was different from Hao Bainian. In order to reduce casualties and reduce the enemy's stubbornness, Hao Bainian chose to surrender voluntarily.
A hole was created for the Ming army to escape.
But Wang Chaohong directly blocked Anqing City.
When a Ming army of nearly ten thousand people broke out, the fifth mixed regiment blocked them directly!
This battle lasted for about three days, and three days later, the red dragon and sword flags of the Tang Army finally fluttered on the magistrate's yamen in the city and on the gate towers of various places.
In addition to the regular killings and the capture of many Ming troops in this battle, they also had another very interesting gain, that is, they accidentally captured Yu Dayou!
The reason why it was said to be an accident is because Yu Dayou was not captured by the soldiers of the Tang Army at all, but by a group of defeated soldiers of the Ming Army who directly kidnapped Yu Dayou and sent him over in order to claim credit for their surrender.
According to those who surrendered and the Ming army was defeated, Yu Dayou once ordered a breakout when the city was breached. However, after the breakout failed, he ordered all troops to defend to the death, and the last soldier was killed in the battle.
But not every army has the courage to fight to the last soldier, especially when there is no hope of victory, and the enemy on the opposite side treats prisoners of war well. Therefore, many Ming troops simply did not resist to the end as Yu Dayou imagined.
Instead, he chose to surrender.
Yu Dayou led the remnant troops to resist step by step in the city. The number of remnant troops in his hands dropped from nearly ten thousand to several thousand, and finally only a few hundred were left. However, even so, he still did not give up!
When nearly a hundred people were killed or injured, and there were less than 500 remaining soldiers around Yu Dayou, the remaining generals did not want to die, so they led their soldiers into Yu Dayou's camp, and a small mutiny broke out.
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Then he kidnapped Yu Dayou and surrendered in front of the Second Army's formation!
Yu Dayou, who had been a soldier all his life, was betrayed by his subordinates and sent to the enemy. This must be said to be an irony.
But you can't blame those subordinates. Where the two sides fought, there were more than 40,000 defenders in the city. However, when the city was breached, the defenders in the city had already suffered at least 5,000 casualties. On the first day after the city was breached, the number of defenders in the city was at least 5,000.
There were less than 20,000 defenders.
After the failed breakout, when Yu Dayou issued the order to defend, there were only nearly ten thousand people left. In the next two days, they fought until only a few hundred people were left. However, even so, Yu Dayou insisted on continuing to resist.
In fact, they were able to fight with Yu Dayou after three days of hard fighting, and finally launched a mutiny. Compared with other Ming troops, they were already much better. In the past three days, a large number of Ming troops were killed every day.
Forced, or voluntarily surrendered to the Second Army.
There were more than 40,000 Ming troops, about 10,000 were killed or wounded, a few thousand fled and disappeared, and the remaining more than 25,000 people all chose to surrender, well, including the uprising before the formation.
This is not to say that their combat effectiveness is too poor, or their fighting will is too poor. Compared with the original traditional Ming army guards, they are already much better. However, they are facing the Tang Army, and the siege forces are
The method adopted by the Tang Army was almost impossible for them to resist.
Shelling and blasting were not something that could be stopped by manpower, not to mention the Tang army attacking Anqing City, which totaled 30,000 people.
When the Third Army attacked Yangzhou before, the total strength was less than 60,000. However, the Ming army in the city exceeded 100,000. The gap in strength was even greater at that time.
Therefore, the fall of Anqing City is inevitable, as are the casualties and surrender of the Ming army in the city!
Looking at Yu Dayou who was tied up and had his tongue stuffed in his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue to commit suicide, Wang Chaohong also had many thoughts.
The two of them are also old rivals. In the fourth year of Xuanping Dynasty, Wang Chaohong served as the commander of the newly established Third Army. When he led the army into Fujian, he fought against Yu Dayou's bandit army. At that time, the bandit army was almost defeated.
The Third Army fled all the way to central and southern Zhejiang.
Then the two sides fought for several months in central and southern Zhejiang, and finally ended with Yu Dayou leading nearly 10,000 remnant troops to escape and rush all the way to Anqing.
In recent months, Wang Chaohong served as the commander of the Second Army and faced off against Yu Dayou again.
These two generals, who were in charge of their own affairs, led their respective troops to fight. The central campaign started in December and ended in mid-January, which lasted for about a month.
In the end, Anqing City fell, all 40,000 defenders were wiped out, and Yu Dayou was captured.
Although he defeated his opponent and made him a prisoner of war, Wang Chaohong did not treat him with the same contempt as he did with other Ming army generals and prisoners. On the contrary, he quite sympathized with this man.
To be honest, it is not easy to be able to persist in fighting when the situation is so bad. If I were in his situation, I would probably be finished long ago.
After all, strictly speaking, Wang Chaohong himself was different from Yu Dayou. Wang Chaohong knew very well that he was a purely professional general who only led the war and did not care about anything else.
However, this Yu Dayou still has to worry about military expenditures, the manufacture of ordnance, whether there are enough military rations, recruiting soldiers, and training new recruits. In short, this man can support tens of thousands of thieves with one blow.
Survive, fight.
But Yu Dayou was a general, and he shouldn't have to worry about many things. Just like himself, Wang Chaohong never worried about things other than combat command.
After ordering his men to take Yu Dayou away and keep him under strict custody to prevent him from seeking an opportunity to commit suicide, Wang Chaohong sighed!
In this way, talents placed on the false side are like flowers planted on cow dung!