Nine hundred and sixty-five chapters the second army dilemma
From Zhang Yue’s strategy, we can actually see that the composition of Du Biao is rather special. They have obvious regional characteristics. Although they all bear the name of Du Biao, there are actually Huguang Du Biao and Sichuan Du Biao.
points, and even within the Huguang Supervision Bureau, there are many internal divisions.
Because the composition of Du Biao is that the local famous gentry spent money and effort to recruit soldiers, and then they were trained according to the unified standards of Du Biao, and then they were organized and participated in the war. From this, a Du Biao army was formed, and all the soldiers were a certain
People in counties or state capitals have very obvious regional characteristics.
So much so that within the Du Biao, they are often referred to by a certain army. For example, the Eight Thousand Du Biao that was stationed in Qishui before. Its regular number in the Du Biao, according to the naming rules of using front, back, left, center, and center in the Du Biao, is the Du Biao.
The left army is the left guard, but within Dubiao, this army is called the Xiangyang Guard, because most of the soldiers in it are from Xiangyang Prefecture.
At present, there are many armed forces in King Jing's regime in the entire southwest region, and Du Biao is just one of them. In addition to Du Biao under Zhang Yue, there are also about 10,000 guards directly under King Jing. King Mu of Yunnan
The local garrison troops in Yunnan under his control were about 20,000 young men, generally known as King Mu's army. There were other chaotic armies, but most of them were small in number and weak in combat power, so they could basically be ignored.
The core of it is naturally the Du Biao. The 150,000 Du Biao were integrated from the previous Du Biao and Huguang Training Army, and were divided into five armies in total, like the original ones.
At present, the rear army of these five armies is deployed on the front line of Sichuan, Yunnan area close to Sichuan, and western Jingzhou in Hubei Province. For example, Badong area is also a defense area of the ministry. It is currently under the command of Song Zhiwen, governor of eastern Sichuan, with a strength of up to 40,000 people.
, but many of them are new soldiers who have not fought any regular battles and have good equipment, but they seriously lack experience in large-scale wars.
The Chinese Army is directly under Zhang Yue. He personally controls it and is deployed in Hanyang Prefecture, De'an Prefecture, and Sanguan of Yiyang, Henan. It has a large number of troops, reaching more than 30,000 people. They are well-equipped, and many of them are equipped with military equipment.
He is a veteran with long-term confrontation and combat experience with the Tang Dynasty Army. His combat effectiveness is considered one of the best among the Dubiao armies.
The Left Army was deployed on the front line of Huangzhou Prefecture, under the command of Du Danqing, the veteran governor of the right capital, and its total strength once reached more than 60,000 people. However, it lost more than 10,000 people in the Battle of Susong, and now only five are left.
About ten thousand people.
This unit was actually the real elite main force of Du Biao, fighting countless battles with the Tang Army along the way. The original Jiangxi battle was actually fought by Du Danqing's Du Biao Zuo Army against the Datang Army. Although they were retreating steadily, the actual battle was
This army has the most veterans and the most combat experience in Dubiao, but its equipment is slightly worse than that of the Chinese army.
The Right Army is deployed on the front lines of Jingzhou and Anlu Prefecture. It has a smaller number of troops, only about 20,000 people. The commander of this army is a rookie general who has only emerged in the past year. He is only 28 years old and was a former Ming Juren.
, but Fei Qinxiang has never held an official position.
This person was not a civil servant in the Ming Dynasty, because he had never held an official position. He had previously served as Zhang Yue's staff, and had been assisting Song Zhiwen in training recruits in the rear for a long time. After the battles of Hunan and Jiangxi, Dubiao suffered heavy losses, and he was
He was ordered to return to his hometown of Anlu Prefecture to recruit troops, and recruited about 5,000 Anlu soldiers. Naturally, he became the commander of the guards of these 5,000 people. Later, he was promoted by Zhang Yue to the commander-in-chief of the reconstructed Right Army.
The Dubiao Front Army was deployed on the front lines of Xiangyang Prefecture and Xunyang Prefecture. It had fewer troops, with only more than 10,000 people, making it the weakest army.
There are a total of five armies in the above-mentioned, left and right, which constitute the supervision standard. The strength gap between each army is relatively large, because the strength of each army is related to the commander's personal ability, or resources, and personal connections.
The core and main force here is the Dubiao Zuo Army. As the main force of the Dubiao, it is also the largest army of the Dubiao. Before the war, it had a total of five guards in the front, rear, left, right, center, and the basic organization of this guard was actually copied.
The infantry divisions of the Tang Army were completely different from the traditional guards of the Ming Army.
Each guard has three to four thousand households, which is also not the same concept as the traditional thousand households of the Ming army. This thousand households is basically equivalent to the regiment-level establishment of the Tang Army. Each thousand households has three to five
Battalion, this is not the traditional battalion of the Ming army. The traditional battalion organization of the Ming army is generally very large, with a scale of several thousand people. This battalion is actually the battalion-level organization of the Tang Army.
There are hundreds of households under the battalion, which is equivalent to the team-level organization of the Army of the Tang Dynasty. There are several banners under the hundred households, which is equivalent to the platoon-level organization of the Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Although the names are different, the establishment of the governor is actually very similar to that of the Tang Army!
However, due to their own reasons, their establishment is not very unified. Some guards may have only two thousand households, but some may have five or even six thousand households.
The specific number depends on who the chief officer is.
For example, the left guard of the Zuo Army, also known as the Xiangyang Guard, has only 8,000 troops, with three thousand households under it. The number of troops is less than half of the vanguard of the Zuo Army.
The left army's vanguard has a strength of 17,000 men, with seven thousand households, including four infantry thousand households, one cavalry thousand households, one artillery thousand households, and one baggage thousand households.
Yes, this left army avant-garde, judging from their organization and composition, apart from the different names and colors of military uniforms, in many other aspects they are actually a replica of the Tang Army!
Because this army of Du Danqing's direct line was organized and trained exactly according to the infantry division of the Tang Army. In order to gain an advantage, they even added an additional infantry Qianhu.
An infantry division of the Tang Dynasty Army only had three infantry regiments, but the Zuo Army's vanguard had four thousand infantry households!
Therefore, the same army, the same guard, or even thousands of households, but because of different chief officers, their military strength and equipment may be completely different, and the gap is huge.
The left guard of the left army is not as powerful as other supervisory guards, but its combat effectiveness is not weak. In the Battle of Qishui, with a inferior strength of 8,000 people, it blocked the indiscriminate bombardment of the 3rd Infantry Division for eight days.
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Although they paid a price of 2,000 people, they only caused 400 to 500 casualties to the Third Infantry Division. The comparison of casualties is ugly, but in any case, they blocked the 3rd Infantry Division for eight days and gave the left to the left.
The army mobilized the main force to build the Huangzhou Defense Line and gained valuable time!
At the same time, it also confirmed something very important to the Super League, that is, their new defense system is effective.
More effective than the previous city defense system!
And this made Du Danqing full of confidence in the upcoming Battle of Huangzhou!
He was confident that relying on Huangzhou's defense line, he could defeat the Second Army of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army on the opposite side and bleed him with blood!
And his confidence also gave Zhang Yue confidence!
Although a retreat was arranged, Zhang Yue never thought of giving up Hubei. For this reason, he put great effort into setting up the Hubei defense line, and now is the time to test this Hubei defense line.
The recent performance of Hubei's defense line makes him quite pleased!
In the series of battles in Huangzhou Prefecture, although his side still lost troops and generals, Zhang Yue was also a person who had seen big scenes. After seeing the rout of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, he was not satisfied with the current loss of thousands of people.
He no longer felt much about the battle involving tens of thousands of people.
Not only was he not disappointed with the early war in Huangzhou Mansion, he was actually relieved!
Because he saw a way to curb the rapid advancement of the Tang Army!
In recent years, he and a group of generals and staff under him have not been idle. They are thinking about how to defend the Tang Army's attack every day!
In the end, they simply started plagiarism again!
They copied the parapet defense and trench system of the Tang Army!
The Army of the Tang Dynasty began to play with parapets and trenches very early, these were mainly for field defense!
But now, Du Biao has added many of his own things to the simple trench and parapet defense system, such as building fortresses.
These forts are basically civil fortifications, used to place artillery. These civil fortifications have good bulletproof effects. Even if a nine-pound solid artillery shell is hit, although one hole is made, it actually does not affect the fort's defense.
It's useless because the soil absorbs the kinetic energy of live artillery shells very well.
And solid artillery shells without kinetic energy have basically no lethality!
At the same time, in order to guard against the extremely lethal heavy howitzers in the puppet Tang rebel army, they began to use trenches and fortresses to defend against shrapnel damage, instead of staying directly on the city wall as before.
In order to prevent the Tang Army's infantry from charging, they used muskets and shotguns to build a cross-fire defense line!
The defense system formed by these allowed them to succeed in the Battle of Qishui!
Although the left guard of the left army inevitably failed in the end and retreated, it is undeniable that their defense was successful!
And now, Du Danqing is trying to copy this defense system throughout the entire Huangzhou defense line!
For this reason, the commander of the Second Army of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Chaohong, had a huge headache!
Du Biao Mingjun played a defensive tactic, which he expected, but now Du Biao Mingjun changed his defensive tactics, giving his troops the illusion of fists hitting cotton!
After arriving at Huangzhou City, Wang Chaohong ordered his troops to launch multiple attacks one after another. However, the results of the early attacks were not very good. The attack was manageable and the casualties were not large!
But it’s too time-consuming and consumes too much ammunition!
Three days!
The Second Army only advanced a pitiful 100 meters!
Unfortunately, this distance is only the distance of a short charge!
And they still have more than 400 meters to reach the head of Huangzhou City!