Eight hundred and seventieth chapters the emperor's duel against the emperor
In the Battle of Liangshanji, the Tatars suffered casualties of no less than 4,000 horses. Although many of the horses were killed or wounded, at least a thousand horses were intact, and these more than a thousand horses naturally became the army of the Tang Dynasty.
Trophies, it won't take long for these war horses to become the war horses of the Tang Dynasty cavalry and reappear on the battlefield!
Moreover, during the subsequent search, the Third Cavalry Detachment also discovered a herd of horses nearby, which were Tatar horses.
When the Tatars fight, they usually ride two or even three horses alone. Before the official battle, the cavalry will fight on the best horses, while the remaining horses will be taken care of by people in the rear.
The Tatars left in a hurry. Although they took away most of the horses, there was still a group of horses that did not have time to retreat. They were caught up by the third cavalry detachment and captured. More than 2,000 intact horses were captured on the spot.
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Although the more than two thousand horses are not the best riding war horses for the Tatars, they can only be regarded as second-class horses. They are used to carry supplies and ride on the road, but this is for the Tatars.
For the Tang Army, these horses could serve as riding war horses.
The Tatars have no shortage of horses, so their requirements for selecting war horses are higher, and their condition is a little more ordinary, so they can only serve as care horses or ordinary riding horses.
However, the Army of the Tang Dynasty was short of horses, especially riding horses. Therefore, as long as the quality was acceptable, they would be supplied to the cavalry and used as cavalry riding horses.
Think about it, in the early years, the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty were even forced to use southwest horses as riding horses. Later, more were captured and some were collected from the private sector. This was how they managed to make up a few thousand
A riding horse.
Now more than a thousand Mongolian horses in the best condition and more than two thousand first-class Mongolian horses have been captured at one time, which is equivalent to adding more than three thousand more cavalry to the Tang Dynasty!
Even though there were a lot of casualties in this battle, in Li Xuan's opinion, he made a profit, and a big profit at that!
When the battle report of the Battle of Liangshanji was sent to Li Xuan, Li Xuan nodded with a pleased expression, and rarely said directly in front of his ministers: "Chen Keqiao and Lu Yuzhi did a good job.
A severe blow to the arrogance of the Tatars!"
Under normal circumstances, Li Xuan rarely commented on his ministers in front of the outside world, but now, he directly praised Chen Keqiao and Lu Yuzhi in front of the ministers. This sounded to many people, and I am afraid that in the next round
To be promoted to lieutenant general, I am afraid that Chen Keqiao and Lu Yuzhi will also be among them.
"The victory in this battle was hard-won, and it was all due to the heroic fighting of the soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division and the 3rd Cavalry Detachment, especially the soldiers who were killed and injured in the battle. They forged this victory with their own blood.
Therefore, the follow-up pensions and rewards must be done well, and the hearts of the soldiers and their families must not be chilled!"
After Li Xuan thought for a while, he said again: "Let the Chaobao Department vigorously publicize it so that the world will know the illustrious achievements of the 5th Infantry Division and the 3rd Cavalry Detachment, and let the world know the unparalleled combat power of our Datang King Division."
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Li Xuan's words were not finished yet, but he continued: "In addition, Lu Yuzhi also said in the previous chapter that with the current characteristics of our Tang Dynasty cavalry, large-scale combat is far more beneficial than small-scale combat, and it is recommended to form a larger-scale cavalry organization.
, so the Privy Council needs to follow up. I think that the cavalry battalions in the subsequent cavalry units should be expanded into cavalry regiments.
There will be no less than 150 cavalry, organized into three cavalry platoons to fight, so as to ensure that the strength of each cavalry regiment will not be less than 650 cavalry."
The reason why Li Xuan wanted to change the cavalry establishment was, on the one hand, because Lu Yuzhi said that the current cavalry battalion was too small to meet combat needs, and on the other hand, it was also because more than 3,000 Tatars had been captured.
With these horses, novice cavalrymen who have been waiting for war horses for a long time in the rear can obtain war horses and then be directly incorporated into various cavalry units.
At this time, it is also more troublesome to form a new cavalry battalion, because it takes a long time for a newly established unit to form combat effectiveness. It is better to directly supplement and expand the existing cavalry battalion.
Moreover, if nothing unexpected happens, these three thousand cavalry will all be replenished on the spot to the cavalry units participating in the northern front operations, that is, the third cavalry detachment and the Guards Cavalry Battalion.
And because now is a critical combat period, it is even more unsuitable for large-scale changes in the organization, so Li Xuan's changes to the cavalry were nominally to transform battalions into regiments, which was relatively large, but in fact it was not large.
Why?
Because basically just rename the existing battalions to regiments, and then directly expand the size of each cavalry team.
In the past, each cavalry unit only had one hundred cavalry, but now it has been directly expanded to one hundred and fifty people. Although there are more people, the command structure is actually the same as before.
At the same time, this cavalry organization is not actually new, but has been implemented by the Guards for many years. The organization of the Guards has always been different from that of the army. The infantry battalions of the Guards are
It is a large camp with more than a thousand people. Although the cavalry battalion of the Guards only had 400 cavalry in the early years, the cavalry teams in the cavalry battalion of the Guards are larger, with each team having 150 cavalry, and
Organize into three cavalry platoons, each with fifty cavalry.
Therefore, the actual size of the Guards' cavalry battalion is larger than that of the Army's cavalry battalion, reaching 650 cavalry.
Of course, the Third Cavalry Detachment is now at a critical moment in the battle, so even if it is adapted, it will not be now, but later.
Anyway, it will take a certain amount of time for the captured war horses to form combat effectiveness. It will also take time to replenish the cavalry recruits in the rear. If this time is available, it will be enough for the various cavalry battalions under the Third Cavalry Detachment to form combat effectiveness.
The victory in the Battle of Liangshanji was a boost for the Tang Army. The Tang Army outside Anping Town had high morale after learning that the 5th Infantry Division and the 3rd Cavalry Detachment had jointly killed more than 4,000 Tatar cavalry.
They became more active in attacking Anping Town.
It was just a large-scale decisive battle involving 100,000 people, and it was not the kind of siege operation in the past. Therefore, both sides were very careful to conduct repeated tests, especially the Tang Army, which was searching for the target through frequent small and medium-sized tentative attacks.
The weakness of the Ming army was also the deployment of a large number of artillery positions.
The Tang army was still preparing but did not launch a large-scale attack. The Ming army on the opposite side was naturally willing to continue to delay the time. Their Ming army's purpose was simpler and purer. They wanted to use Anping as a town, or to be more precise,
It was the 100,000 Ming Army infantry in Anping Town that attracted the main force of the Tang Army, and then allowed the Ming Army cavalry and Tatar cavalry to attack the rear of the Tang Army, using the cavalry to cut off the Tang Army's logistics supply lines and destabilize the Tang Army.
This was also the core strategy of Emperor Zhengde's deployment of a hundred thousand troops in Anping Town.
If the Tang army did not take the initiative to attack, the Ming army would even less take the initiative. Therefore, the large-scale decisive battle between the two sides had not started for many days before this, but now, I am afraid that the situation is about to change.
Tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry went south. Instead of cutting off the Tang Army's supply line, the Tang Army's infantry and cavalry jointly killed four thousand of them. The remaining Tatar cavalry also retreated and did not dare to continue southward.
The 10,000 Ming Army cavalry on the east bank of the canal were also powerless. They wanted to cut off the canal supply line, but the 5th Infantry Division and the 3rd Cavalry Detachment were always on guard against them, and there was no good chance to take action.
Besides, they have little self-confidence. The Tatar cavalry on horseback were all defeated by the puppet Tang rebel army. Although they think they are good in strength, they don't think they are much better than the Tatar cavalry.
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The Tatar cavalry was defeated, and the Ming cavalry was helpless. This also declared that the strategy carefully planned by Emperor Zhengde had completely failed!
what to do?
Emperor Zhengde has also been looking sad in the past two days. He also received the battle report of the Liangshanji battle immediately. The Tatars took the initiative to tell him this time, but the Ming army also had reconnaissance cavalry!
Nowadays, with Anping Town as the center, especially in the area south of Anping Town, there are a lot of scouts from the three parties, and the scouts all run very fast, so it is very difficult to catch them.
Therefore, to a certain extent, the situation within a radius of dozens of miles is actually transparent to the generals of the three parties. Of course, this is only limited to large-scale operations. If there are only a few hundred or thousands of people hiding day and night, there will be
It is possible to evade the opponent's detection cavalry.
But if it is a large-scale operation involving tens of thousands of people, then there is basically no hope of being able to escape the eyes and ears of the reconnaissance cavalry.
A march of tens of thousands of people spread at least several kilometers, and the terrain here is flat. As long as the scouts are not fools, they can detect the general situation. Of course, it is impossible to know how detailed it is.
Yes.
At least for now, the Ming army and the Tatars don't know that the Tang army guarding the logistics line in the rear is the 5th Infantry Division, the top ace force in the entire Tang Army. They thought they encountered the 5th Infantry Division.
The division is just the main force of the ordinary Tang army.
However, the current intelligence investigation does not make much sense, because everyone's main force is here, and they are not afraid of your reconnaissance cavalry coming to spy. For example, the army of 100,000 is openly and openly placed outside Anping Town. You clearly
If the army has the ability, come over with a counterattack, or if you have the ability, the Tatars, just take the initiative and attack!
Do they dare?
They didn't dare, so they could only pay attention to the Tang Dynasty's logistics supply line, but unfortunately they failed.
Now, it was the turn of Datang's main force to launch their own operations.
After long preparations, Army Lieutenant General Lei Wan officially reported to Li Xuan that the troops' terrain reconnaissance of the battlefield, detailed reconnaissance of enemy troops, scheduled artillery positions, ammunition reserves, and even a military hospital ready to treat the wounded were all ready.
All have been set up.
And this also announced that the main force of the Tang Army could officially launch an attack on Anping Town!
Now that the preparations are complete, Li Xuan did not show any pretense and directly ordered the troops to attack, and he will also come to the front line in person!
Li Xuan has come to Anping Town, so naturally he will not sit in the back and watch the show. Although he cannot go directly to the front line to fight like the officers on the front line, he will still go to the front line, and this time, he will not only supervise the battle, he
He must personally command an army of 100,000 to defeat Zhengde and unify China!
This will be a showdown between emperor and emperor!