Mo Dunrang's miraculous defeat in Ningping, and Gao Shipra, who was far away in Guangxi, is still unknown for the time being, but although he can't figure out how the war between the Mo Dynasty and the Li Dynasty was fought, he knows that since Mo Jingdian's death, the Mo army has been as weak as eating ten spices and soft tendons, and has not won any battles until the destruction of the country.

Turning the pages of history, it was all a slip of defeat, defeat, defeat, defeat. Therefore, in this case, Gao Pragmatic felt that it was not a big problem to send troops, but for the convenience of command, he still transferred from Nanning to Mingjiang City, Siming Prefecture, and set up the general headquarters here.

In this dispatch, in accordance with the requirements of high pragmatism, Guixi and Guinan Tusi concentrated a total of 50,000 troops, of which 28,000 were in the west of Guixi and 23,000 in the south of Guinan.

The Tusi were responsible for the land route, and there were two directions, Cen Ling led the Guixi wolf soldiers from Guigui, Shunzhou and Zhen'an Fu to the border to the south to take Gaoping, and Huang Zhiting led the Guinan wolf soldiers from Pingxiangzhou out of Zhennanguan to Langshan.

In terms of difficulty, at present, both roads are fighting mountain warfare, but the defense of Langshan is definitely tighter than that of Gao Ping, so the pressure on Huang Zhiting's department is relatively large, and the strength of Huang Zhiting's department is less than that of Guixi, only 23,000 people, this pressure is further amplified.

In order to ensure the attack power of Huang Zhiting's department, Gao Shishi not only replaced the wolf soldiers of Huang Zhiting's department with new wrought iron spearheads in advance, but also provided an artillery unit of 500 people, with a total of 80 Jinghua Bingzi type 1 light guns and 10 Jinghua Jimao type 1 medium guns.

Originally, Gao Pragmatic wanted to provide her with a batch of Jinghua Gengchen heavy guns that had only been finalized and trial-produced last year, but after he and Huang Zhiting's subordinate generals visited the samples of the gun, this idea was rejected, because the transportation was inconvenient and did not conform to the general idea of fighting quickly.

Huang Zhiting's confidant Huang Hu said with a smile: "Don't worry, there are ten doors and No. 3 Franc machines, we will definitely be able to take Langshan City, if you are worried that it is not fast enough, you don't need to take the No. 1 Franc machine, it is too difficult to walk the mountain road, just this kind of No. 3 ...... Uh, I've got a mid-range cannon, and then ten or twenty guns, we're not too many. ”

Huanghu is in accordance with the current Ming Dynasty habitual saying, after the Ming Dynasty from the high arch reform, led by the Jinghua Artillery Factory to reorganize the artillery manufacturing specifications, now there are a total of five kinds of Franc machine, of which the first is 8 to 9 feet long, the bullet weighs a pound, and the charge is a pound; No. 2 is 7 to 8 feet long, with a bullet weight of 8 taels and a charge of 9 taels; No. 3 is 5 to 6 feet long, weighs half a catty, and has a charge of six taels; No. 4 is 3 to 4 feet long, the bullet weighs 4 taels, and the charge is 3 taels and 5 cents; The fifth is two feet long, with a charge of seven cents and a charge of one or two cents.

This specification is the general specification of the Ming Dynasty, but Jinghua has another set of its own system, the artillery produced is according to the habits of Jinghua, named after the stereotyped year and the first few paragraphs of the year, but because of the high pragmatism for the military industry is now difficult to provide too many suggestions, in fact, most of the artillery within a year has only one finalized model, so at present, "a certain year two type" is rare.

Huang Hu's proposal could not be satisfied with Gao Shipra, because the number of artillery pieces he had mobilized in advance was limited, and he could only support these at present.

"In the Battle of Liangshan, I can't give you any more support, but now there should be a batch of artillery on the way south, if everything goes well, maybe you can get another batch during the Battle of Thang Long." Gao said with a smile.

Huang Hu was not disappointed, but immediately thanked him.

To be honest, he has never enjoyed this treatment now, and the officers and soldiers would not give artillery support to their Tusi wolf soldiers in the past.

Looking at Huang Zhiting in military uniform, Gao Pragmatic was a little helpless, he originally didn't plan to let Huang Zhiting personally lead the army to fight, although in Guangxi, it is common for female toasts to lead troops to fight, just like Mrs. Washi at the beginning, but Gao Pragmatic always feels that it is always a little strange for Huang Zhiting, a delicate-looking girl, to lead troops to the battle.

However, Huang Zhiting refused to listen to his persuasion, and she refused to explain more, saying that since the Cen family was led by Cen Ling, she must also fight on behalf of the Huang family, otherwise, would she hand over the most elite wolf soldiers from more than 20,000 families to her younger brother Huang Yinglei, who was not very reliable no matter how she looked at it?

Gao pragmatically persuaded her not to move, and had to repeatedly tell her not to risk the arrow, and even found a good reason, saying that with the current situation of the Huang family, if she can't take care of things, the entire Huang family will inevitably be pressed on the head by the Cen family.

Huang Zhiting nodded silently in agreement.

Of course, she is very aware of the current situation, and Gao Pragmatic does care about her, but the overall strength of the Huang family is indeed a little worse than that of the Cen family, but from the geographical point of view, the Cen family must send troops to Gaoping, and the Huang family can only send troops to Langshan.

Langshan is difficult to fight, but once it is laid, it will definitely be a great achievement, and with this merit, the interests of the Huang family in Annam can be guaranteed in the future, and Gao Pragmatic will not be embarrassed when the time comes.

She not only wants to seek benefits for the Huang family, but also doesn't want to make it difficult for Gao Shi.

In addition to the land route, the waterway is covered by high pragmatism. Jinghua mobilized more than 200 large and small ships, of which about 50 were seagoing ships that could be used for combat, all of which were not professional warships, but they were all equipped with open-deck naval guns.

If these 50 sea vessels are to be put in a slightly more professional way, they should be called armed transport ships, which are already 70 percent of the strength of the "navy" under Gao Shishi's command.

In particular, the high pragmatic maritime combat force is still in the initial period, and the cost of building a fleet is obviously high, and the average unit price of these ships is as high as more than 50,000 taels, and the money spent on shipbuilding in the past few years has averaged more than 600,000 taels per year, and most of the money is spent on these armed transport ships.

Perhaps in the future, after the completion of the shipyard in Qinzhou, relying on Guangxi's timber resources, the cost of ships can be reduced.

However, the combat effectiveness of these armed transport ships is not bad, because Gao Shishi knows the correct direction of the development of naval guns, and each of them is equipped with 28 naval guns, and is only equipped with heavy guns of two calibers, not light guns. In his historical memory, these ships will certainly not become obsolete for at least ten years in the East Asian range.

In fact, to some extent, this fleet is much more powerful than the high-level concentrated land forces, and these fifty armed transport ships alone have 180 men each, with a total of 9,000 men. It's just that Gao Shishi currently does not have a "Marine Corps", and this fleet does not have the ability to fight ashore.

After all, it is in Daming, and it is not scary or conspicuous to have more ships, not to mention that this is the concentration of the fleets of several major private ports.

I have a lot of ships, of course there are many sailors, what's so strange about that? As for the artillery, the Japanese are everywhere, how can I go to sea without artillery? If you do business and get slaughtered by pirates, how can you play?

It was precisely in view of the strong strength at sea that Gao pragmatic chose to put his family into the sea route - starting from Qinzhou, going straight to the mouth of the Red River to land and sneak attack Thang Long!

The distance in a straight line is more than 500 miles, but in fact, of course, it is not a straight line, so the distance should be close to 700 miles.

But that doesn't matter, it's better to sail at sea than to take a mountain road, and this sneak attack should be able to achieve the effect of taking them by surprise.

The Mo Dynasty's naval army was stronger than the Lê Dynasty, and it was often used to go south to Thanh Hoa by land, bypassing Thanh Hoa by water to attack Nghe An or even Hue. Gao pragmatically judged that they would fight like this again if they were not able to do it in this battle, and in that case, the sea route would be safer.

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