In this meeting, Hao Bonian, on behalf of the Datang military, highly praised the Cen family's move to supply military rations, saying that the Cen family is a good friend of the Datang military!

At the same time, the Cen family was invited to send descendants into the army, Cen Fan said that it was a great honor for the children of the Cen family to serve the Tang Dynasty and serve His Majesty.

The Cen family is so knowledgeable, and it has indeed made great efforts in supplying military rations, solving the food crisis for the southbound troops of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty will naturally not treat the Cen family in Huaiyuan County badly, although Wuxuan County has not yet been taken, but the edict of the Tang Dynasty canonizing the family as the Tusi of Wuxuan County has been given to the Cen family in Huaiyuan County in advance.

According to the official documents of the Tang Dynasty, the Cen family in Huaiyuan County is already the Tusi family in Wuxuan County, and has the right to rule over the local natives.

And the Cen family in Huaiyuan County saw that it was not long ago, and the canonization edict had already arrived, and it was immediately unambiguous, and the change of hands meant that in addition to the two thousand stone grain transaction next month, their Cen family would give an additional batch of strategic materials to the Tang Dynasty for free, and the right to honor His Majesty Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages, as a tribute!

Someone sent things for free, and the Tang Dynasty naturally smiled happily, and by the way, he also asked the Cen family, I don't know if I can pay today's taxes in advance?

And don't use cash, you can settle the account with food and all kinds of supplies!

But this time the Cen family in Huaiyuan County politely refused, no way, they are just a business family, although it is said to be one of the few big grain merchants in Guangxi, and they are quite wealthy, but they can't withstand the free gifts again and again.

After dealing with the Cen family's file, Hao Bonian, as the commander of the southbound army, led a group of senior generals and some civilian officials who went south in advance and civilian officers of the Privy Council to hold a joint civil and military meeting.

Naturally, this meeting was convened for the capital city of Liuzhou.

At the meeting, civilian officials, especially officials from the Ministry of Industry, said that in order to be able to successfully open workshops in the city of Liuzhou to produce weapons, a large number of ordinary laborers are needed, and they hope that the military will avoid causing a large number of civilian casualties as much as possible when attacking the city.

At the same time, the people of the military department said that at present, the military department has completed the screening of prisoners of war, and among the 3,600 prisoners of war captured in the battle of Anjia Wharf, 3,000 have taken the initiative to join the Tang Dynasty's division, and some of them have special skills and 400 prisoners of war with good quality will be selected to be supplemented into the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, the 2nd Artillery Battalion, the 2nd Baggage Regiment and other units, and 600 will also be supplemented to the battalions of the 3rd Garrison Brigade to supplement the personnel losses incurred by the southbound troops in the process of fighting southward.

At the same time, the Ordnance Department also said that from the many weapons captured, priority will be given to selecting high-quality weapons to supplement the troops going south!

After this replenishment, the units of the southbound troops have once again returned to their peak state when they went south, and although the cavalry and artillery branches are still in a state of serious dissatisfaction, the infantry units have been fully recharged.

The remaining prisoners of war and ordnance will be replenished to the 7th Infantry Regiment, and part will be used to form the 9th Garrison Regiment.

As for the remaining 600 prisoners of war among the 3,600 people, some of them were unwilling to join the puppet Tang thief army, while some of them were so poor in all aspects that they were not even willing to ask for the garrison, and these people would be stuffed into the Ministry of Industry in one go, and in the future, these 600 people would become the first batch of free workers in the many workshops opened by the Tang Ministry of Industry in Liuzhou.

At that time, whether they want to or not, in the workshop of the Ministry of Industry, they will give full play to the surplus value of their lives and contribute to the rise of the Tang Dynasty!

However, they naturally didn't care about these 600 captives Hao Bonian, they were more concerned about the fact that with the initial establishment of the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the initial establishment of the Ninth Garrison Regiment, the strength of the troops on the Guangxi side would be further increased, which would also bring them a greater tactical advantage in attacking Liuzhou and even subsequent operations.

Even if the jurisdiction of these newly established troops does not lie with Hao Bonian!

In order to better prepare for the construction of these new troops, and also to better enable these newly established troops to form combat effectiveness faster, and also to undertake combat missions to a certain extent, a lecturer sent by the Hanlin Academy announced the appointment decree from Li Xuan's handwriting on the spot!

After a series of meaningless nonsense, the Holy Purpose finally said that Li Chunjing was appointed as the first brigade commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade, and at the same time promoted Li Chunjing to major general.

There is not only the divine decree of appointing and promoting Li Chunjing, but also the divine decree of appointing the deputy brigade commander and chief of staff of the Fourth Infantry Brigade.

The commanders of the two infantry regiments of the Fourth Infantry Brigade had already been decided in advance and had already taken up their posts.

At the same time, it is also clearly stipulated in the holy decree that the soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Brigade will be mainly indigenous people, which will be an important step for the Tang Dynasty to recruit and use the indigenous people of Guangxi to serve in the army, and try to form a military force belonging to the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, in view of the fact that a large number of Han soldiers will also be recruited in Guangxi, and these soldiers are only used to supplement the first infantry brigade, and it is not realistic to set up an infantry brigade in Guangxi now, therefore, these newly recruited and even subsequent recruits will set up the second battalion of the guards and the third battalion of the guards, and these two guards infantry battalions will rebuild the guards together with the existing first battalion of the guards!

And this guard army is not under the control of the Privy Council, it will be personally commanded by Emperor Li Xuan, and it will not easily participate in the combat missions of the front-line troops, and the safety of His Majesty will be the primary task.

Of course, the reconstruction of the Guards has nothing to do with Hao Bonian, and even has nothing to do with many departments of the Privy Council, because the reconstruction task of the Guards will be directly the responsibility of the existing Guards departments, and the supply of ordnance will not go through the Ordnance Department, the source of soldiers, the Ministry of War, and the Privy Council Training Department, but will be the responsibility of the internal organs of the Guard.

Even military spending is a separate expenditure!

This will be an independent force outside the Tang Army, and in Li Xuan's mind, this force is not limited to the army, infantry, etc., this will be an independent armed force that exists only to protect itself and defend the royal family, and will have cavalry, artillery and other arms in the future, and even if necessary, it will also have its own surface armed forces such as warships.

Of course, the scale cannot be too large, and the size of the Guards is only one battalion now, even if it is planned to build two battalions, but in the near future its scale is only three battalions, even if it continues to expand in the future, but the total strength is at most between 10,000 and 20,000 people.

However, the scale of the Tang Army will expand with the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, and it may eventually expand to hundreds of thousands or even millions.

Hao Bonian and others can see from the way the Guards are rebuilt that this will be a very special force, and it is not something that they can interfere with.

So he didn't care at all, and he didn't dare to care about the Guards forming two Guards Infantry Battalions on the side of Liuzhou Mansion.

Even if it was the upcoming battle of Liuzhou, these guards would not participate at all, not even the newly formed Fourth Infantry Brigade.

The Battle of Liuzhou City will still be dominated by the 1st Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Garrison Brigade.

At present, the Fourth Infantry Brigade only has a higher-level structure, with only more than 1,000 recruits, and these recruits have not even completed their training and have not formed an army at all, so at present they are only taking over the tasks of the Third Garrison Brigade and stationed in Huaiyuan County and Rong County.

It's the fifth garrison brigade, because there are already 2,000 Ming troops surrendered, and after a little reorganization, it can be directly pulled to the battlefield as cannon fodder!

Therefore, the 5th Garrison Brigade will participate in the Battle of Liuzhou, even if they are just cannon fodder!

Then also recruited a part of the local Tusi soldiers, the local Tusi was initially resistant to the arrival of the Tang Dynasty, but since the Ming army was defeated, the Tusi in Liuzhou immediately turned around and expressed their allegiance to the Tang Dynasty.

Anyway, there is no risk for them, and when the Ming Dynasty comes back, they will still be toasts!

Whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, these toasts are mainly wooed.

In order to show their allegiance, these toasts also obeyed the orders of the Tang Dynasty and each sent a different number of soldiers to fight.

The total number of these soldiers was about 1,500, and their leader was Cen Shouji, the more prestigious Tusi in Liuzhou.

Of course, in order to control the supernumerary troops of the Tang Dynasty Division, and also to better cooperate with the operation, the Tang Dynasty Division sent several liaison officers to this force, but it was only limited to sending liaison officers, but it would not intervene in the operations of these troops in detail.

In other words, the Tang Dynasty can order them to fight, but how to fight, the Tang Dynasty does not care, these toasts have the right to fight independently.

Well, the soldiers recruited by the Ming Dynasty are generally in this mode, and the governor of Guangxi, Wei Yan, can order the soldiers to fight, but in fact, Wei Yan will not specifically interfere in the battles of the soldiers.

In this way, the Tang Wang Division, which participated in the battle of Liuzhou City, will have most of the troops of the First Infantry Brigade, most of the troops of the Third Garrison Brigade, and the Ninth Garrison Regiment of the Fifth Garrison Brigade, as well as auxiliary units such as the Second Cavalry Battalion, the Second Artillery Battalion, the Second Baggage Regiment, and the Liuzhou Tusi Soldiers.

In addition, the navy will also provide surface forces to support the battle of Liuzhou City, and for this reason, the navy has specially established the Liujiang Fleet, which will lead all five surface gunboats and a number of auxiliary ships of the navy to participate in the battle to provide support for the army and maintain the security of surface supply lines.

If calculated in this way, the total strength of the Tang Dynasty's divisions that directly participated in the battle of Liuzhou Fucheng will reach more than 13,000 people.

If we include some of the troops on the periphery, in fact, all the troops in Guangxi, except for the 1,000 people who marched east into Guizhou, all of them directly or indirectly participated in this kind of battle, and the total strength will reach more than 16,000 people.

It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty King attaches great importance to attacking the capital city of Liuzhou!

In order to conquer Liuzhou as soon as possible, the Tang Dynasty royal division carried out intensive pre-war preparations on the eve of the Spring Festival, and officially launched a general attack on the capital city of Liuzhou on the first day of the second year of Xuanping (the forty-second year of the pseudo-Ming Zhengde, 1547 in the Western calendar), that is, on the first day of the Lunar New Year!