Xingquan Mansion is the birthplace of the Tang Dynasty, so it is normal for a large number of senior generals to appear!
My distant uncle or my father’s childhood friend, my mother’s maternal uncle and other relatives and friends are all high-level military generals. Do you think he will join the army?
It would be a waste of resources if you don’t go!
Even under the auspices of many military generals, many generals jointly donated funds to open a military preparatory school in Xingquan Prefecture to recruit young people for basic military training and cultural cultivation. The goal of the training is to enable them to
Admitted to the martial arts school!
Many situations that have occurred over the years have also changed the entire Xingquan Mansion. In the pre-Ming Dynasty, Xingquan Mansion was just an ordinary, remote and low-class mansion. It had nothing to do with it!
But now, Xingquan Mansion has become a gathering place for serious military nobles, and every household joins the army!
Now, in this land of Longxing, nearly a hundred military nobles have appeared, all of whom were awarded noble titles from Long in the early days, and they are still continuing to expand the number of military nobles!
Every year, a large number of children from Xingquan Prefecture apply for the Martial Arts School or the Hai Xuetang. It doesn't matter if they fail, just review and take the exam again next year. In this life, they will basically have no other thoughts except joining the army!
Li Xuan also paid attention to this situation. He did not reject the children of Xingquan Mansion joining the army. On the contrary, he welcomed them. However, he just didn't like it when a large number of military nobles gathered together.
Especially that military preparatory school only admits children from Xingquan Prefecture. This is very bad!
So with a stroke of his pen in the fall, Li Xuan changed the military preparatory school, which was founded with donations from Xingquan Prefecture generals, from private to public, to a government-run military preparatory school, and renamed it "Xingquan Prefecture Military Preparatory School".
Preparatory School', however, did not directly belong to the military, but was assigned to the Imperial Examination Department of the Ministry of Rites.
At the same time, he personally stipulated that the school must recruit students from all over the country, and any student with a high school diploma across the country can apply.
At the same time, it also instructed the Imperial Examination Department to continue to prepare a number of government-run military preparatory schools in other places. It does not need to be too many, just three or five.
Therefore, the Imperial Examination Department has initially selected Guangzhou, Jinling, Tianjin, and Changsha to set up military preparatory schools, enrolling students from middle school graduates, specifically to provide preparatory candidates for the Martial Arts Academy and the Naval Academy!
Basically, this is similar to an ordinary preparatory school, except that an ordinary preparatory school is for applying for college, while a military preparatory school is for applying for a military academy.
At the same time, there is no rule that students from military preparatory schools can only apply for military academies. They can also apply for other universities. At the same time, students from other ordinary preparatory schools can also continue to apply for military academies.
These two preparatory schools have the same nature but are different.
The military preparatory school was only one of the links in the continuous transformation of the education system of the Tang Dynasty. It aimed to cultivate more professional officers for the Tang Dynasty, rather than just for a certain person like the previous private Xingquanfu military preparatory school.
A place serves a special group of people.
The widespread phenomenon of joining the army in Xingquan Prefecture is also a microcosm of the rise of the Tang Dynasty, but this phenomenon is more prominent in Xingquan Prefecture.
In fact, there are also many people joining the army in other places!
Therefore, the Tang Dynasty currently has no shortage of soldiers!
But there is no shortage of soldiers, which does not mean that the lives of the soldiers will be squandered at will. It does not mean that they pity the lives of these ordinary soldiers. Every senior general, which one of his subordinates has not relied on the flesh and blood of his soldiers to achieve success and fame?
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They just thought it was stupid to rush in and let the soldiers die. The cost-effectiveness was too low and not worth it!
Although there is no shortage of soldiers, it still costs money to train soldiers. Training a qualified veteran costs at least dozens of taels of silver.
During the three-month recruit training period and the various trainings after entering the active army, the military spends a lot of money on each soldier, who is used directly as cannon fodder. After using it up, it will have to spend dozens of taels of silver to train a qualified soldier.
veteran!
The life of a veteran is still relatively precious, and Wang Chaohong is reluctant to part with it!
So Wang Chaohong is doing earthwork work honestly!
Then he beat the supervisor Zuo Jun on the opposite side until he had no temper at all!
They didn't rush forward stupidly, but kept digging trenches. After advancing to a certain distance, they threw grenades, shelled with howitzers, and shelled with field artillery. Then they rushed in and used pistols, bayonets, and waist knives to solve the battle!
Fighting like this, although the progress is slow, the effect is very good!
To be honest, in Li Xuan's opinion, the defense system developed by Du Biao Zuojun is really too advanced!
It is beyond this era!
In an era when there were no machine guns or barbed wire, trenches were somewhat useful, but to be honest, they were far less useful than bastions!
Even city walls are better to use than such field fortifications to a certain extent!
At least as for the city wall, if the Tang Army wanted to break through it, they really could only rely on a forced charge!
At the beginning, during the Battle of Qishui, the Tang Army was not familiar with this defense system, but now looking back, after finding a countermeasure, this defense system was instantly dismantled.
Facing today's Tang Army, even a bastion can be defeated if it takes some time, let alone these field fortresses and trench fortifications.
To put it bluntly, if the Tang Army was willing to pay a certain amount of casualties and they just rushed over, then it would basically be over!
The generals supervising the Zuo Army also sensed that something was wrong. They had been fighting well a few days ago, but the puppet Tang rebel army rushed forward as stupidly as they had expected.
But now, it has turned into civil engineering work. After using explosions to resolve the battle, they were stunned!
One trench after another was lost, and each simple fortress was conquered!
In the end, they found that they did not cause too many casualties to the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side, but on the contrary, they suffered many casualties on their own side!
The casualty ratio reached three to one!
And this casualty ratio is not even much lower than when the two sides engage in a head-on outdoor decisive battle!
Damn, it was a mess!
So Du Danqing quickly adjusted his direction. Since he could no longer rely on fortresses and trenches, he would continue to use turtle-speed tactics!
Just abandon the outer positions and retreat to the city wall!
This has slightly restored the decline!
However, at this time, Du Danqing suddenly received some not-so-good news!
At least 20,000 puppet Tang rebels crossed the Yangtze River, and Tuanfeng landed behind them!
Although Du Danqing had already expected that he might be surrounded by the puppet Tang rebel army when he decided to defend Huangzhou, what he originally expected was that the puppet Tang rebel army would bypass the Huangzhou line and enter from the northeast.
Trying to surround himself, for this purpose, he also prepared heavy troops in that area.
But I didn't expect that these puppet Tang bandits would land again!
This time, he deeply felt how uncomfortable it was to rely solely on his own supervision of the left army after losing the cover of the Navy. If he had known better, he should have supported the Navy and let them build a better
Many ships.
It is a pity that the Dubiao Navy now exists in name only. It has long been swept away by the Yangtze River Fleet of the Puppet Tang Dynasty Army. Now almost the entire middle reaches of the Yangtze River is dominated by the Yangtze River Fleet of the Puppet Tang Dynasty Army.
As long as they are here, these puppet Tang rebels will land wherever they want, and withdraw wherever they want.
Just like how the First Infantry Division of the Puppet Tang Dynasty landed in Huangzhou for a sneak attack, but then quickly retreated by boat after being unsuccessful!
Come whenever you want and leave whenever you want, this is what the puppet Tang rebel army can do with the help of the Yangtze River Fleet.
But Du Danqing can't do that!
After thinking for a long time, he ordered to go down and immediately sent someone to report to Lord Zhang Yue of Hanyang, and at the same time asked them to send reinforcements to cooperate with him in counterattacking Tuanfeng.
If there is a chance, it is best to attack from the front and back to annihilate this pseudo-Tang bandit army that boldly landed behind us.
In fact, he had previously thought about giving up Huangzhou and retreating to Hanyang, but his reason told him that this was impossible.
If it was one day ago, he would have had the opportunity to abandon Huangzhou and withdraw to Hanyang, but now, this opportunity is gone.
Because the puppet Tang thief army has already blocked Tuanfeng!
As soon as he retreats, Wang Chaohong, the puppet Tang thief army in front, will definitely catch up. At that time, he will be flanked from both sides, not just from the front and back, but also on the way to escape. Just think about that situation.
Thinking about it, everyone knows it is absolutely catastrophic.
It is better to continue to defend the Huangzhou front line and wait for the Chinese army to come to the rescue!
He is confident that he can rely on the Huangzhou defense line to defend for at least a month!
As long as he is firmly anchored in Huangzhou, he can at least contain more than 80,000 puppet Tang thief troops, and the 50,000 Tang thief Wang Chao Hongsuo troops in front will be unable to move!
This is enough for Master Zhang Yue to mobilize his troops for counterattack.
In order to increase his persuasion and show his determination, he wrote a handwritten letter to Zhang Yue, telling Zhang Yue that he would defend Huangzhou to block and contain the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army, wait for the supervisor to lead the army, and then attack from both front and back.
In one fell swoop, they defeated the Puppet Tang bandit army's landing regiment and laid the foundation for victory in this defensive counterattack!
When Du Danqing sent someone to send the autographed letter back to Hanyang on Pegasus!
Army Lieutenant General Chen Keqiao also stepped off the bow of the ship and set foot on the land of Huangzhou Prefecture!
The place they chose to land was not very good, it was just a wasteland, but there was no other way. There was no suitable large-scale dock in this damn place, so they had to choose this flat wasteland to land.
Fortunately, the King of the Tang Dynasty had played landing operations many times, and was already very familiar with landing operations. In the early stage of the landing, a group of specially modified small transport ships directly washed up on the beach, not only sending the first batch of landing troops
soldiers, and it also became a temporary trestle, and then a few modified medium-sized ships ran aground directly close to the shore.
Immediately, the engineers used the hulls of the washed-up ships to build temporary docks on the spot and began to load and unload other artillery, vehicles and even horses on the ships.
Day by day, the 11th Infantry Division under Chen Keqiao came ashore with all its weapons and equipment, and also blocked the attack and counterattack of some Ming troops in the garrison area.
When Chen Ke disembarked from the ship and landed on land, he did not wait for the 12th Infantry Division to start loading and unloading. He led the 11th Infantry Division quickly towards the center of the area: Tuanfengji.
Taking advantage of their absolute strength advantage, they quickly defeated the three thousand governors stationed there, drove them towards Huangzhou Fucheng in the south, and occupied this small market town.
Immediately, Chen Keqiao erected the signboard of his Fifth Army Headquarters in this small market town!
At this point, the supervisory left army on the Huangzhou front line was completely trapped in the strategic encirclement of the Tang Army!u