After Hao Bonian discussed with Zeng Ziwen and Chen Keqiao, the three major generals, well, that's right, Zeng Ziwen was also promoted to major general before the Battle of Wuzhou, becoming the fifth major general in the Tang Army.

On the one hand, the reason for his promotion is that the Operations Division under his leadership was built from scratch, and until now it is enough to assume the heavy responsibility of commanding the whole army, and has planned many important battles and won them.

Although the main credit for the battle was taken away by the generals at the front, the merits of the Operations Department and other rear agencies cannot be erased.

In addition to these achievements, a more important point is that there are now four brigade commanders of infantry brigades in the field army, major generals of the army, and the Operations Department of the Privy Council, as the command center of the whole army, even if it is Li Xuan's order, it is indirectly transmitted through the Operations Division, so the person in charge of the Operations Department cannot always be a colonel.

It sounds a bit funny to let a colonel command a group of major generals and more colonels, and Li Xuan is also worried that Zeng Ziwen's military rank is too low to suppress the formation.

Therefore, before the Battle of Wuzhou, Li Xuan awarded Zeng Ziwen the rank of Major General in the name of leading the Operations Division.

Let Zeng Ziwen become a real general as he wished!

The three major generals of the army who are currently the only ones in the Wuzhou direction have held private discussions, and the results of their discussions have actually directly determined the operational plan of the follow-up First Army.

On this day, two successive imperial battle meetings were held, and a large group of people did nothing, except for the more than 20 middle and senior generals who participated in the meeting who only cared about quarreling during the lunch break, and finally reached an agreement.

No, it can't be said to be unanimous, in fact, many people still disagree with the final plan, but this plan is the final opinion of the Operations Division, and Hao Bonian, the leading boss in the army, also expressed his support, although Chen Keqiao was not very satisfied, but he only said that the plan should be slightly adjusted, but he still agreed with the general policy.

Although some of the other group of officers still strongly opposed, it was useless to oppose it, and the Operations Department still presented the next round of combat plans to Li Xuan in accordance with the main concept agreed upon by the three army bosses.

That night, after dinner, everyone once again sat in Li Xuan's Chinese army tent and held today's third imperial strategic meeting!

However, at this strategic meeting in front of the emperor tonight, everyone did not have too much debate, because at the beginning, Zeng Ziwen presented and began to explain the overall plan designated by the Operations Department on behalf of the Operations Division.

I only listened to Zeng Ziwen standing on the large map on the side, pointing at the map with the command list in his hand, which was to explain the current military deployment of the enemy and us.

The more than 20 middle and senior generals above the army colonel rank at the rectangular table are all sitting upright, their military uniforms are meticulously ironed, and they are wearing winter uniforms and their fingers are naturally placed on their thighs.

Sitting posture and even standing posture are also part of the daily training of the Tang Dynasty Division, and it is also part of the strict military law, and many of the officers present are actually from the early Guards, even if some are not, they have joined the army very early, and they have been like this for several years all day long, which has made this standard sitting posture under the strict military law their instinctive reaction.

Li Xuan, who was sitting on the dragon chair more than two meters away from the rectangular table, looked at the group of people in front of him, in fact, he was still very impressed, the appearance and military uniforms of these people were actually very similar to the modern officers of later generations.

The officers sat at the ends of the rectangular table, sorted by rank and rank, but although they were motionless, they all turned their heads to look at Zeng Ziwen behind the rectangular table and the large map behind him.

Although most of them already know the deployment of the troops on both sides of the enemy, Zeng Ziwen explained it more clearly through illustrations, and the Operations Division, as the command center of the whole army, has the most comprehensive understanding and control of the troops.

Therefore, it is only a general explanation, and everyone still has a relatively intuitive impact on the current deployment of the troops of the Tang Dynasty.

From north to south and from west to east, there is currently only one provisional third regiment in western Guizhou shouldering combat missions, but most of the area has actually been captured or surrendered on its own initiative, so there are not many actual combat missions in this area.

With the 1st Reserve Battalion of the 4th Infantry Regiment of the former 2nd Infantry Brigade as the core, a garrison battalion of the former 1st Garrison Brigade and two newly organized garrison battalions formed the 3rd Provisional Regiment.

In the central region of Guizhou, it is the main force of the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Second Infantry Brigade and most of the troops of the First Garrison Brigade, which was originally here to conquer Guiyang, but now that Xingquanfu is in crisis, Li Xuan has already sent five hundred miles of expedited military dispatch to let them temporarily abandon Guiyang, well, if the military envoy has not conquered Guiyang before he arrives.

The main force returned east to Xingquan Province to reinforce the 3rd Infantry Regiment and other troops.

In the eastern part of Guizhou, that is, Xingquan Province and Liping Province, the Third Infantry Regiment is the core, the Second Garrison Brigade is in coordination, and there are also some artillery, baggage and other troops, with a total strength of about 10,000 people.

In the entire Guizhou direction, in fact, the total strength is not small, with a brigade of the regular army and several auxiliary troops, about 7,000 people. The garrison has two brigades of more than 10,000 men, and a tentative regiment of about 2,000 people.

The total strength of the army was 20,000, but only 7,000 of the 20,000 were regular troops, and they were also scattered in the western, central, and eastern parts of Guizhou Province.

And the Ming army from Huguang had 30,000 people, and they went straight to Xingquan Mansion, so they made Xingquan Mansion fight extremely hard.

Except for Guangxi, the west and central parts of Guizhou, and even Liuzhou, they are all defense areas of the Third Army, and the strength of the Third Army is also the smallest among the three armies, and the Fourth Infantry Brigade under its command has only a pitiful 2,000 people, and they are all recruits, and there are no firearms equipped with tasks.

In fact, the Third Army relied on the garrison army to fight, fortunately, there was no large-scale Ming army in the central and western parts of Guangxi, so the pressure on the Third Army was not great, and it could even be said to be easy.

The eastern region of Guizhou is the First Army, which has the jurisdiction of the First Infantry Brigade, the Third Infantry Brigade, the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, the First and Second Baggage Regiments, the First and Second Artillery Battalions, the First and Second Cavalry Battalions, the Third Garrison Brigade, the Fifth Garrison Brigade, and the First Provisional Regiment.

In addition, although the navy did not belong to the First Army, it also fought with the First Army, and this part of the navy also had more than 1,000 people.

Such a first army can be described as strong.

On the side of the Ming army, the intelligence source channels on the side of the Operations Department are limited, not because the spies are not good enough, but because the information transmission in recent years is too slow, and it is basically impossible to know the movements of the Ming army hundreds or even thousands of miles away, and even if the front-line troops report it, it is often outdated news.

Therefore, at present, the combat department can be sure that there are 30,000 Hu Guangming troops on the Xingquanfu side, and then there are about 3,000 remnants of troops who have fled from Wuzhou on the Zhaoqing side, and about 6,000 or 7,000 remnants of troops on the Guiyang side.

In other places, there are more or less Ming troops, but they are not to be worried.

As for the back of Xingquan Mansion, whether there will be more Ming troops in Huguang, and whether there are already many Ming troops guarding Guangzhou, these combat divisions cannot be known.

Therefore, this briefing on the situation of the enemy and us can only be a simple explanation of the situation of the army, and then Zeng Ziwen talked about the official combat plan of the Operations Division.

There is nothing new in this plan, and it can even be said to be old-fashioned, it has been discussed many times by everyone, this is the division of troops!

The First Army was divided into two, and one part continued to march eastward into Guangdong, taking Zhaoqing before the rainy season completely arrived, and then marching into Guangzhou.

But Guangzhou is actually not important, what is important is Foshan and some of the major iron mining areas in Guangdong, and these, although important from the perspective of strategic resources, but the people of the Ming Dynasty obviously do not think so.

Therefore, it is possible to encounter the enemy's regrouped heavy troops in Guangzhou, but in those places in Foshan, it is basically unlikely that there will be many enemy heavy army groups, and it is even more unlikely that there will be any large-scale Ming troops in other remote mining areas.

And this is also the core plan of the eastward entry into Guangdong, the capture of Zhaoqing is to obtain the gate to Guangdong, but after entering Guangdong, it is not necessary to take the coastal city of Guangzhou as soon as possible, it is completely possible to take other places first, and then besiege Guangzhou, just like before they attacked Wuzhou, first beat down the surrounding places and then besieged Wuzhou, and finally Wuzhou did not obediently fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty.

After the split, the other part of the army only went north to Guilin, and after capturing Guilin, they directly entered Huguang Jingzhou, and came to encircle Wei to rescue Zhao, so as to reduce the defensive pressure on the side of Xingquanfu and force Huguangming's army to withdraw from Xingquanfu.

Of course, it would be even better if the 30,000 Hu Guangming army could be blocked in Xingquan Mansion, and then surrounded and annihilated.

According to this strategic plan, the operational division headed by Zeng Ziwen split the First Army, which is currently strong.

This kind of dismantling will follow the example of the Second Army and the Third Army, with a main infantry brigade as the core, and then with one or two garrison brigades, as well as cavalry, cavalry, and baggage troops to form an army, which will be used to undertake combat missions in a strategic direction alone.