The Tang Dynasty also tried several times to garrison places. In the early days, they set up pirate camps, but later they became unusable. Their combat effectiveness was not even comparable to that of the tax inspection team, let alone assisting the regular army in combat.
, even suppressing local unrest is difficult to achieve.
In the early days, there were quite a lot of unrest caused by various armed tax resistance. At that time, because the anti-theft camp was unavailable, the tax inspection team had to rely on its own efforts and equip its own guns and artillery. In more serious cases, it directly requested the assistance of the regular army.
So later on, the Tang Dynasty simply disbanded the bandit-capturing camp.
Later, they also tried to use the garrison composed of the collected Ming troops to serve as the second-line force. However, they found that this method was not feasible. The combat effectiveness of the garrison was still very poor, and because the quality of the Ming troops inside was uneven, the army later
During the system reform, the garrison was also disbanded.
Later, although there were militia organizations in various places, the militia organizations were very fragmented, and the scale of each place was not large, and the equipment was not good enough. It was okay to deal with ordinary bandits and small-scale riots, but it was also difficult to shoulder the important task of assisting the regular army in combat.
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Therefore, for a long period of time, the task of rear defense was handed over to the supplementary brigades and mixed regiments stationed in the garrison area.
The supplementary brigade is actually a recruit camp with an establishment, and with the formalization of training, the training time in many recruit camps has been extended to more than three months. The Datang Army simply transferred the original supplementary brigade
After gradually replenishing the troops in the regular army and reorganizing several mixed regiments, the supplementary brigade was abolished.
Nowadays, the supplementary brigade has officially disappeared in the Tang Dynasty Army, and many mixed regiments have appeared in its place!
Today's mixed regiments with strong combat effectiveness can stand shoulder to shoulder with the main force, while those with poor combat effectiveness are actually not much better than the supplementary brigades of the past.
But no matter what, the mixed regiments belong to the regular army, and the quality of the soldiers is not bad. It is just that the equipment is poor and the combat experience is somewhat lacking. This is enough to defend the place.
Even if the enemy comes to attack in large numbers, there is no problem in holding on for a while and waiting for the main force to come for reinforcements.
This makes the Army even more keen on training this kind of mixed regiment troops.
At present, every province has at least one mixed regiment garrisoned, and close to the front line, there are mixed regiments that specifically participate in front-line operations. For example, the Seventh Mixed Regiment has been solely responsible for the battles in Sichuan.
Currently, there are several mixed regiments in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei areas. Although their combat effectiveness is average, if another 10th Infantry Division is left to assist in defense, Li Xuan can safely dispatch the Guards and other main forces of the Fourth Army northward.
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Li Xuan's personal expedition to the north was not widely known in the city, because it was only two days before Li Xuan made sure and led the guards to the north. Therefore, after Li Xuan went north, many people did not know that Li Xuan went north to conquer in person.
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In mid-April, Li Xuan led the Guards on a transport ship and navy warships arrived in Yangzhou, then changed to river ships and continued northward along the canal. It didn't take long before he successfully arrived in Huai'an and reunited with the main force of the Fourth Army, and then continued
Continue north along the canal to Xuzhou.
At this time, Xuzhou had become the base camp for the Tang Army's northward march. Many troops and supplies were gathered here before heading north or westward.
However, Li Xuan did not stay in Xuzhou for too long. Instead, after resting for a day, he continued to lead the army northward, and then all the way to Jining, the capital of Yanzhou.
Yanzhou and Jiningzhou, this city on the canal, have become different from the past.
In the past, relying on the canal, the city of Jining was extremely prosperous. Even though it was not as prosperous as Yangzhou, Huai'an, and Xuzhou, it was still much better than many small towns.
But starting from the winter of the previous year, after Jiangnan was occupied by the Tang Dynasty, water transportation was cut off. Naturally, the many canal cities that relied on water transportation suffered a devastating blow, and their prosperity ceased.
After a year of silence, Jining became lively again, but this time it was not the water transport fleets that came to Jining, but the King of the Tang Dynasty!
The Fifth Infantry Division captured this area seven days ago, and then the Fifth Infantry Division sent a regiment to attack Yanzhou Fucheng and successfully captured it.
The Ming army had already begun to shrink its forces and did not leave too many troops in Yanzhou City and Jining City. Therefore, facing the attack of the Fifth Infantry Division, the local Ming army did not mount a strong resistance at all.
Most of them showed symbolic resistance, followed by a simple defeat or surrender.
These Ming troops who stayed in the local area were generally guardsmen, or even just local young men. They themselves knew that they had been abandoned. It was unjustifiable not to resist, and it was even more unjustifiable to resist desperately.
So they will resist, but usually it is symbolic resistance!
The 5th Infantry Division didn't even put up much of a posture and just captured Jining and Yanzhou.
Today, there is a serious atmosphere in the city of Jining. The soldiers of the brigade have already completely sealed off the whole city, making the few native people in the city even go out on the streets with fear.
Outside the city, Hao Bainian was already waiting outside with many senior generals from the Third Army.
Naturally, the only person who could ask Hao Bainian to go out of the city and wait was Li Xuan.
According to the messenger's report, Shengjia is already only about 20 kilometers away from Jining, and it won't take long to arrive!
However, the first thing Hao Bainian and the others waited for was not Li Xuan, but a large group of soldiers from the Fourth Army. After the arrival of the Fourth Army, the area around Jining became even more crowded.
Originally, the city of Jining was small, and the number of troops stationed there was only about one division at most. If there were more troops, it would be useless and could not be accommodated. The other main forces of the Third Army were stationed outside the city.
After the Fourth Army arrived, it took over the troops originally stationed in the city from the Third Army and took over the city defense of Jining City.
Then, an infantry regiment of the Guards arrived. After arriving at Jining City, the Infantry Regiment of the Guards directly began to inspect various parts of the city. Subsequently, troops of the Guards arrived one after another, and entered the city directly, and took over
He completed the task of garrisoning the important roads along the way.
These measures are naturally to ensure Li Xuan's safety.
As the Guards of Li Xuan, naturally Li Xuan is there and they are there, and the Guards have always been doing Li Xuan's escort work.
After everyone waited for a while, they saw fleets arriving on the canal one after another. This fleet was the fleet that Li Xuan was in.
When Li Xuan went north this time, in addition to bringing the main force of the Guards and the Fourth Army, he also brought a large number of important ministers to the north. After all, he was going to go on a personal expedition, but government affairs could not stop.
Four of the ministers on duty in the imperial study came this time, while Liu Bagou and the other three stayed behind to guard Jinling City.
In addition, in order to ensure the safety of the rear, before Li Xuan left, he also urgently mobilized personnel of the Fourth Infantry Division and several mixed regiments staying in Jiangnan. Bai Yunqi was once again praised by him and was appointed as the commander of Nanzhi.
He is under the command of the garrison commander, and all the armies within the southern Zhili area are under his jurisdiction.
And who is behind Bai Yunqi?
It’s Queen Mother Bai!
What does Queen Mother Bai care about most? What she cares about most is her precious son Li Xuan!
In the Tang Dynasty, the only person that Li Xuan could truly trust was Queen Mother Bai. There was no way, she was the original mother, and Li Xuan also knew that in the eyes of Queen Mother Bai, apart from her precious son, she had
The others were not taken seriously by her. With Empress Dowager Bai sitting at the rear, Li Xuan felt relieved.
The main officers in the 10th Infantry Division and several mixed regiments are all officers who graduated from the Royal Academy. Some of them are even young military camp students who Li Xuan admires and has personally taught. In private situations,
These people are qualified to call Li Xuan teacher.
The huge Tang Dynasty had countless officers and soldiers in the navy and army. Although the students in the Imperial Academy were all considered disciples of the Emperor, those who had actually received long-term instruction from Li Xuan himself were basically students from the Young Military Camp, and among them, those who were qualified to serve in the Imperial Academy were
No more than thirty people would call Li Xuan "teacher" in private.
It can also be seen from this that although Li Xuan went north to fight in person, he still left a backup force behind to avoid accidents.
Although the chance of an accident is not too high, you must always be prepared!
After Li Xuan's fleet arrived at the dock outside the city, before anyone could get off the ship, Hao Bainian boarded the imperial ship with a lecturer from the Hanlin Academy secretariat and met the saint alone.
More than ten minutes later, Li Xuancai appeared in the sight of all the generals. He walked out of the cabin, wearing his unique general uniform with gold dragon pattern. He did not wear a military rank, and the one hanging around his waist was not the Tang Dynasty.
The command knife commonly used by generals is a sword, wearing black leather gloves and long leather boots.
When Li Xuan walked out of the cabin and stepped ashore on the red carpet, a group of generals in front of him all raised their hands in a salute. This was a formal military salute clearly stipulated by the Tang Dynasty's military.
On ordinary occasions, when soldiers in military uniforms face the saint, they use military salutes instead of kneeling down.
At the same time, it is stipulated that, except for the need to kneel down and pray when meeting the saints in formal occasions such as the Great Court, soldiers are not allowed to kneel down at other times, especially when they clearly stipulate that when facing superior officials, they are not allowed to kneel down and pray, and military salutes will be used instead.
While saluting, many generals also shouted in unison: "I bow to my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"
Li Xuan looked at the generals who were saluting several times in a row. His expression remained unchanged. He just nodded slightly, then raised his black-gloved hand slightly, and then said softly: "I love you!"
Naturally, his voice was not very loud. Only a few people around him heard it, and the almost hundreds of officers outside could not hear clearly. However, the lecturer on the side immediately sang loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree:
"Everyone loves you!"
At this time, all the officers bowed their hands in unison!
Immediately, Li Xuan, accompanied by Hao Bainian, met one by one with many generals above brigadier generals and a few representative regiment leaders. Each of them said a few simple words, mainly to encourage them.
Although these generals were already powerful figures in front of outsiders, they behaved like children in front of Li Xuan. When Li Xuan held a young man who was wounded in battle and only had his right hand left.
When he held the colonel's right hand, he said: "Thank you for your hard work, my dear!"
The young colonel shed tears instantly, and he was a little excited when he spoke: "I... I don't have to work hard to fight for His Majesty. That is the honor of our soldiers!"