When the various divisions of the Tang Dynasty launched a full-line attack on the Huguang Ming Army, the Ming generals in various places, including Zhang Yue in the rear, did not know that the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side had launched a large-scale full-scale attack that affected the entire Huguang area.

They all thought that they were the only ones who had been attacked by a large-scale attack by the puppet Tang thief army, and they were all doing the same thing, that is, asking Zhang Yue in the rear for help.

Of course, limited by the speed of communication in this era, Zhang Yue did not know that the troops on the front line had suffered an unprecedented large-scale attack at this time.

Not to mention Zhang Yue, even Li Xuan, who personally ordered the troops to launch a general attack, didn't know how the troops on the front line were fighting at this time, and the time when he gave the order was half a month ago.

"I don't know how the First Army is fighting?" On the evening of November 28, Li Xuan stood in front of the window of his office and looked north, where tens of thousands of soldiers carried his hopes and ambitions to march into the Qinhuai River and were fighting bloodily.

"It will succeed, it should be able to succeed, for this day, I have been preparing for several months, and the preparation is so thorough, there is absolutely no reason to fail!" Li Xuan persuaded himself like this.

In order to attack Huguang on a large scale, Li Xuan rectified tens of thousands of troops, and in order to rectify these tens of thousands of troops, Li Xuan's efforts and efforts were huge.

Li Xuan was personally involved in many affairs, personally observing the recruit training plans of various units, and also personally visited the recruit training camp outside Zhaoqing City many times.

At the graduation ceremonies of the most recent regular classes of the Martial Arts Academy, he went in person and personally awarded military ranks and silver-plated and gold-plated command knives to the officers with the highest graduation results.

As for the graduates of the Imperial Academy, because the number was smaller, he personally awarded each graduate with military ranks and gold-plated command knives.

And the command knife given by Li Xuan himself, because it is only awarded to those with superior achievements, the number is relatively rare, and it is a rare honor among the officer group.

The outside world often calls the outstanding graduates of the martial arts hall the silver knife group, and the outstanding graduates of the imperial school are called the golden knife group.

In the process of reorganizing the various units, Li Xuan met with all the officers above the regiment commander rank in batches over a period of several months in the name of asking them to return to Beijing to report on their work, and personally listened to their difficulties and suggestions on training, operations, and command. At the same time, Li Xuan will also encourage them to continue to work hard and not have psychological pressure or anything like that.

In addition to the dedication of the personnel, Li Xuan personally intervened in armaments, and repeatedly strictly ordered the major arsenals under the Ministry of Industry not only to ensure quality, but also to increase output.

Because the output of the Wuzhou Arsenal has not been able to increase for a long time, Li Xuan has already removed the supervisors of the two Wuzhou Arsenals in the past six months, and even the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry has been scolded by him.

Li Xuan almost put the knife on the neck of the Ministry of Industry official, which forced the military production of the Tang Dynasty to continue to hit new peaks!

At the beginning of the second year of Xuanping, there were only three arsenals used by the Tang Dynasty, namely Liuzhou Arsenal, Wuzhou Arsenal, and Zhaoqing Arsenal, and they were all in the stage of trial production, and the output was very small, and the total was not even as good as the peak output of the workshops in Xingquanfu last year.

By June, several arsenals had been in the formal production stage and began to prepare for the construction of the Foshan Arsenal.

By August, that is, when the Tang Dynasty Division began to reorganize its troops and prepare to train division-level troops, several arsenals and several small workshops in the entire Tang Dynasty added up to produce only more than 800 muskets per month, and basically a month's output could only meet the needs of a musket regiment's guns.

As for artillery, there are even less, with a monthly output of more than 20 pieces of five-pound artillery, and less than 10 pieces of seven-pound artillery per month, and as for the two-pound and three-pound shotguns, there are more, and there are dozens of guns per month.

But on the eve of the Tang Dynasty's official launch of the Huguang Campaign, that is, now, the total ordnance output of the major arsenals and small workshops of the Tang Dynasty has reached 1,200 muskets per month, more than 30 five-pound artillery, more than 10 seven-pound artillery, and nearly 100 two-pound and three-pound iron shotguns.

It is precisely because the output of the arsenals under the Ministry of Industry has been greatly increased that all infantry divisions, mixed regiments, and provisional regiments can be fully equipped.

After more than half a year of hard work, after spending countless military expenses, and after the workers in the factories under the Ministry of Industry were exhausted to death, the army departments of the Tang Dynasty Wang's division finally reached full capacity.

The musketeers of the musket regiment, the musketeers of the baggage regiment, the grenadiers, and the cavalrymen were all able to equip a musket, and each division was given about twenty percent of the number of spare guns.

At the same time, in order to equip each army with enough horses for riding and serving horses for artillery and baggage troops, the Tang Dynasty almost swept up the horses in Guizhou and the Liangguang region, regardless of whether it was a Mongolian horse or a southwestern horse, whether it was a horse in the horse farm or a private horse, whether it was a horse for riding or a service horse, all of them were forcibly requisitioned.

At the same time, a strict ban on horse farms was issued, requiring several southwest horse horse farms in Guizhou to give priority to the supply of the official needs of the Tang Dynasty, of course, the official will pay for them according to the market price.

At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Tang Dynasty also made great efforts to open an official horse farm in Guizhou for the breeding of horses.

However, even if the horses in Guizhou and Liangguang were almost clean, it still could not allow the Tang Dynasty to get enough horses, especially for riding horses.

Therefore, at present, among the cavalry battalions of the Tang Dynasty's division, only the first cavalry battalion, which belongs to the first infantry division, is truly full, with 400 cavalry, while the other cavalry battalions range from 200 to 300 cavalry.

The artillery that used to be in extreme shortage has now been greatly alleviated, at least the artillery battalions of each infantry division can achieve a full strength of 24 guns, and the battalion artillery teams of each infantry regiment can also have six shotguns.

Moreover, they are all five-pound and seven-pound field guns, two-pound and three-pound shotguns, that is, some artillery battalions are temporarily replaced with three-pound shotguns because there are not enough seven-pound artillery, but in terms of quantity, they are absolutely full.

In the past, the artillery captured from the Ming army, which was still mixed with equipment, has been withdrawn from various field units, and most of them have been moved to the city as city fire artillery, or moved to the river defense fortress as river fire artillery.

There are some Franc cannons and general cannons that are of acceptable quality and power, but they are used by the navy in various armed merchant ships in the spirit of waste utilization.

In the naval battle of Qiongzhou, the Second Fleet was almost wiped out, and the loss of artillery made the navy quite heartbroken, and because the artillery supply in the second half of this year was to give priority to meeting the needs of the army, even if the navy had military spending, it could not purchase enough artillery from various arsenals, so although the artillery captured from the Ming army was of poor quality and power, it was better than nothing.

In addition to the issue of output distribution, more importantly, there is a great difference between naval artillery and army artillery.

For example, the artillery used by the army, because it is necessary to maintain mobility, is very heavy on weight, and there are no too strict requirements for range and power, but the navy, they do not care about the weight of the artillery, but they require range and power.

That is to say, the army artillery is developing towards lightness, while the naval artillery is developing towards heavy duty.

In terms of current artillery technology, the army's equipment with nine-pound field artillery is basically the limit, and no matter how large-caliber field artillery is, the army's artillery units will have to scold their mothers, because they can't maneuver at all.

As far as the navy is concerned, the nine-kilogram cannon is only a medium-caliber artillery, and the navy is building a third-class frigate with a hull, although its main gun is tentatively a nine-kilogram cannon, but in fact this is not because it cannot be equipped with a larger caliber artillery, but because there is no larger-caliber artillery at all.

As for the third-class cruisers on the Navy's side, which had just completed the design and had begun to lay keels, the largest caliber main gun was designed to be a 14-pound cannon (18-pound), and a nine-pound cannon (12-pound) was only a secondary main gun.

And the existing several arsenals are now mainly focused on making artillery for the army, only the Foshan arsenal is now starting to try to manufacture nine-pound cannons because of its focus on making artillery, but if you want to form mass production, I'm afraid it will be next year, as for the larger, fourteen-pound cannon ready to be used as the main gun of the third-class cruiser, that is not even a plan for research and development and production.

The navy is preparing to purchase 14-pound heavy artillery from foreigners to equip first.

But you can't always buy out, these foreigners are all vampires, seeing that the Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty are buying ordnance on a large scale, the price of this gun is getting higher and higher day by day, and now five hundred taels of silver can no longer buy nine catties of artillery, those foreigners have raised the price to eight hundred taels of silver, and this is still a future, it will take several months before they can transport it.

If you want to buy their armed merchant ships as a spot for self-defense firepower, don't count on it without a thousand taels of silver.

Therefore, soon the navy sent the report on the preparation of the naval arsenal to Li Xuan's side, but Li Xuan directly vetoed it after reading it, what kind of joke, the navy actually wanted to open its own arsenal, which was impossible.

The navy can take care of its own training and operations, and don't mix it with the production of ordnance, Li Xuan doesn't want to see a large group of workers and managers with naval ranks working in the factory in the future.

This kind of unscrupulous thing must be resolutely put an end to, otherwise, in a few years, there will be a drama with the rank of general in the Tang Dynasty!