Valley Emperor

Qian Mengjiu and Zeng Ziwen spoke one after another, and the others did not stop, and began to speak their own opinions of support and opposition!

After this discussion, it turned out that there was no winner in a short period of time. Li Xuan above listened to everyone's discussion, and it was not easy to make a decision for a while!

The Tang Dynasty needs a lot of recruits, this is the reality!

But the soldiers needed by the Great Tang Emperor are not the same as the soldiers, and this is also a reality!

Can the sturdy werewolf be trained to become a modern soldier like a wooden man? In fact, Li Xuan himself is not sure about this.

Furthermore, there is a problem that no one else has mentioned, that is, the problem of living habits and language!

China is so big, and the radius of each place is different. Today, the official language of the Tang Dynasty is naturally Mandarin, and of course the local dialect in Xingquan Prefecture is also spoken.

However, the ordinary soldiers in the army, don't expect them to understand or speak the official language, they all speak the local dialect.

In the past, the scope of activities of the Datang King Division was small, and most of the soldiers recruited were soldiers from Xingquan House. Later, although soldiers were also recruited in Liping House, although the dialects of the two houses were different, In fact, it's almost the same. People who speak slower and people who listen more carefully can still understand.

So at that time, the soldiers of the two provinces were mixed, and there was no problem of language barrier.

However, the dialects of Guangxi and Guizhou are quite different. If soldiers from Liuzhou are added to the existing army, whether they are soldiers or local Han soldiers, there will be language barriers.

And this point, the following people did not notice when discussing.

However, despite many problems, it is also a fact that the Great Tang King Division lacks soldiers!

Guizhou has a small population and a lot of mountains, and the total population is not large, and it adds up to only a million people!

With such a small population, it is naturally impossible to recruit many qualified recruits from it. In addition, these populations have actually been recruited by the previous Zhu Zhihai and the others. Zhu Zhihai and the others raised an army of 50,000 to 60,000!

Fortunately, among these 50,000 or 60,000 people, more than 20,000 people were taken prisoners, and thus joined the Datang Wangshi. Otherwise, the Datang Wangshi would not have recruited so many soldiers.

Guangxi has a small population, but it is more than Guizhou. Even if the total population is not double that of Guizhou, there must be more than 2 million people, and many of them are concentrated. on both sides of the Xijiang River.

And Liuzhou is an important area in the Xijiang River Basin, and its population is not too small!

That is to say, there should be a lot of recruits here, but there is a problem here, that is, there are a large number of people in Liuzhou's population. If you don't recruit people to join the army, then it means giving up At least half of the recruits were recruited!

Seeing that everyone was discussing and discussing, they did not come up with a plan that they agreed with each other. Li Xuan was too lazy to listen to them continue arguing. He directly softened the two plans, and then came up with a compromise plan.

Since there are not enough recruits, this person has to be recruited.

Since you are worried that you and the existing parts will not be able to integrate in a limited way, then form an army separately!

In this way, everyone is happy!

After speaking, Li Xuan said to Zeng Ziwen: "Zeng Aiqing, you should work harder and come up with a plan for the establishment of the Seventh Infantry Regiment!"

"The Seventh Infantry Regiment is mainly composed of local soldiers. If more soldiers are recruited in the future, the new soldiers recruited locally in Guangxi can also be used to form the Eighth Infantry Regiment."

The reason for the establishment of the 7th Infantry Regiment, not the 6th Infantry Regiment, is that the number of the 6th Infantry Regiment is already occupied.

Previously, the Datang Army had decided to recruit new recruits on the spot to form the Sixth Infantry Regiment after winning the northern part of Guangxi.

Although the Sixth Infantry Regiment has not yet been formally formed, the relevant preparations are almost there, and even follow-up arrangements have been made.

The 6th Infantry Regiment will form the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Datang Army together with the 5th Infantry Regiment. The main direction of the follow-up operation is to face the Ming Army in the direction of Huguang!

Therefore, if a new army is formed in Guangxi, it can only use the number of the Seventh Infantry Regiment, and in order to unify the number of the troops, Li Xuan also gave the number of the Eighth Infantry Regiment to the people in Guangxi in advance. In the future, if you recruit enough soldiers, you can form an infantry brigade!

However, in the process of forming a new army, the soldiers are actually relatively easy to solve. What is more difficult to solve is the food and wages, and the more difficult thing to solve than the food and wages is the equipment!

These problems belong to the long-standing problems that have always existed. Although they are difficult, they have to bite the bullet.

When officials from the Ministry of Industry heard that the military was preparing to form the Seventh Infantry Regiment again, and that a large number of guns and guns would be required to equip this new unit in the next few months, they all wanted to curse!

The bastards, the people from the Ministry of Industry go up to the Ministry of Industry and work as a coolie in the workshop. They rest all day and night, and they are busy making guns and cannons for them every day. However, they finally arm the 1st Infantry Brigade. It's full, and I'm thinking that I can fill in the guns and guns of the 2nd Infantry Brigade this month, and then the 5th Infantry Regiment will be able to fill the gap next month, and then the 6th Infantry Regiment.

However, now they haven't even finished building the guns needed by the 2nd Infantry Brigade. The military has already proposed plans for the 7th Infantry Regiment and even the 8th Infantry Regiment.

Damn, it's really trying to exhaust us to death!

However, scolding mother is scolding mother, but things still need to be done. According to reports, people from the Ministry of Industry held a brief internal meeting. At the meeting, except for those who scolded the military as always, they were unrestrained, wasting guns and ammunition, and scolding the Ministry of Taxation. In addition to the untimely supply of money, grain and raw materials, the plan to build a second military production base in Liuzhou was discussed.

When Li Xuan just returned to Xingquan Mansion, he had already approached the Ministry of Industry and proposed the idea of ​​establishing a second military production base!

The people from the Ministry of Industry naturally need to take this matter into action, especially since news has come from Guangxi that Hao Bainian's troops have successively conquered Huaiyuan County and Rong County, and are marching towards Liuzhou City. !

However, the Datang Dynasty still trusts the combat effectiveness of the Datang Wangshi. People from the Ministry of Industry guessed that it would not be long before the front-line troops would be able to take Liuzhou. At that time, the Ministry of Industry would need to be in Liuzhou as soon as possible. Set up a large number of workshops, and then produce ammunition and guns to supply the army nearby.

While the people from the Ministry of Industry were preparing to set up a workshop in Liuzhou, in fact, other departments of the cabinet had already started to move.

When Li Xuan just returned to Xingquan Mansion, he said that he would relocate the capital to the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. This is no secret. When to move and move there, it all depends on when Hao Bainian, who is on the front line, can conquer Liuzhou and even Wuzhou. and Zhaoqing.

However, to wait until Hao Bainian completely conquered Zhaoqing before relocating would be a bit too long and troublesome.

According to Li Xuan's personality, he doesn't like to be too far away from his own army, especially this army is the first infantry brigade that he relies on as the core pillar.

He can't worry about letting the most powerful troop, the 1st Infantry Brigade, be out of his control for a long time!

So when he saw that Hao Bainian said that he had entered Liuzhou, he also instructed all cabinet departments to start preparing for the relocation. After Hao Bainian won Liuzhou, the political center of the Tang Dynasty would first move to Liuzhou.

However, Liuzhou is still a transition!

After the army takes Zhaoqing, Li Xuan will officially set his capital in Zhaoqing!

Just when Li Xuan and all the cabinet departments in the rear were waiting for Hao Bainian to take Liuzhou, Hao Bainian also launched his first tentative attack under Liuzhou city!

However, this exploratory attack was not very successful. The artillery battalion of the Second Artillery Battalion failed to effectively suppress the counter-fire of the Ming army in Chengtou, which led to a garrison battalion of the third garrison brigade that launched the tentative attack. The counterattack of artillery fire such as the head bowl and mouth artillery, and thus the loss is not small.

The attack on Liuzhou City by the Great Tang Emperor ended in failure, and more than 100 people were left in the city of Liuzhou!

At that time, after Li Xuan received Hao Bainian's report about the failure of this exploratory attack under Liuzhou City, the brainless person from the Hanlin Academy came in and said that Your Majesty, it's not good, the army was defeated in Liuzhou, and Li Xuan almost fell from the dragon chair. Get off!

Later, when I looked at the battle report~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and found that the casualties were only a hundred soldiers descended from the Ming army, and it was just a tentative attack, Li Xuan was relieved, and then turned his hands and started talking nonsense to scare him. The Hanlin was punished to wash the toilet of the Hanlin Academy for a month!

Nima, will you speak, I'm scared to death!

Li Xuan in the rear felt that it was okay to kill and wound more than 100 Ming troops, but Hao Bainian in the front was a little worried about this.

Because these Ming troops on the city head seem to have learned to be smart, they didn't run out stupidly to fight him in the field, and even when they were defending the city head, they didn't stand directly on the battlements and didn't know how to dodge their own artillery fire!

In this way, the effect of your own heavy artillery shelling is not very obvious. If you risk getting close to the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Brigade to suppress the firepower, you will also be thrown back by the opponent's archers, and the casualties will certainly not be small. .

Unless it was the general attack stage, Hao Bainian was not willing to invest in the musketeers for direct fire suppression.

After the first trial attack failed, and more than 100 people were killed or injured, Hao Bainian also changed the previous practice of launching a fierce attack right away!