Originally, Huang Xueren just wanted to let his young son train in the artillery battalion for two or three months, and then arrange for him to enter the Operations Division as a staff officer, which is not only safe, but also has more room for subsequent promotion, and the road may be wider than his eldest brother!

But even if he was distressed, it was even unbearable, but Huang Xueren still gritted his teeth and didn't say anything.

Because he knew very well that among the many people present, almost everyone would have a nephew to serve in the army, even Butcher Chen, who had no biological son, had a nephew who served in the Fourth Infantry Regiment.

And in this large-scale battle, there was only one major among the officers killed in the Tang New Army, thirty lieutenants, and many were wounded.

What's more, when he fought in the army, how could there be no threat, even when he was a bandit before, it was very dangerous, these people were originally begging for a living on the knife edge, and now they are dying on the battlefield, and they can be regarded as deservedly dead.

It's just a pity that after his young son married last year, he just gave birth to a son last month, and I'm afraid that the orphans and widows will not have a good time in the future!

But there is also his grandfather, and there is also an uncle, as long as the Tang Dynasty does not fall in the future, they will always be able to make their mother and son live without worry, and the future of this child can also be guaranteed.

Huang Xueren gritted his teeth, most of the other senior generals present were also psychologically uncomfortable, this battle had many casualties, and it was also the heaviest casualty since the establishment of the Datang New Army.

Dozens of officers were killed and wounded, and nearly 900 soldiers were killed or wounded, which adds up to nearly 1,000 casualties, accounting for about 10 percent of the total strength of the Tang New Army.

This casualty figure is more than the entire Datang New Army a few months ago.

But on the other hand, this casualty figure and proportion also reflect to a certain extent that the scale of the Datang New Army is far beyond the past.

Thousands of casualties still failed to make the Datang New Army suffer from injuries, and even maintained their core combat effectiveness.

If it was before, thousands of casualties would have to make the Datang New Army completely finished.

At the same time, these thousand casualties, the number of people killed in battle is at most half, this is not worth mentioning compared with the results they have achieved, you must know that the Ming army alone directly killed more than 3,000 people, and more than 5,000 people were captured, and the rest all fled.

They exchanged nearly 1,000 casualties for the defeat of more than 20,000 Ming troops, and among these 20,000 Ming troops, there were 1,500 cavalry!

Such a result cannot be overstated!

After reporting the battle damage, Li Xuan personally arranged the relevant issues of the post-war pension, and the wounded should be treated with medicine as much as possible, especially the officers, and the non-commissioned officers must be treated carefully, because these people are the precious wealth of the Datang New Army.

In addition, the treatment of soldiers should also be attentive, because unless these soldiers are disabled, they will be able to return to the battlefield after they are injured, and these veterans who have returned to the battlefield are extremely valuable to the Datang New Army.

Even though the atmosphere was a little dull, soon the focus of everyone's attention was not on casualties, because after talking about the results and losses, it was about the follow-up strategic issues.

Although the decisive battle on the side of the Acropolis of Tonggu is over, the battle with the Ming army on the North Road is still not over!

"Colonel Hao just sent a letter back, saying that the Second Infantry Regiment of the vanguard has caught up with the first part of the Ming army, and the Ming army that has caught up with about 1,000 people has been defeated at present, most of them have been captured by our army, and the Ming army that is still in formation and fleeing is less than 3,000 people, please ask for instructions on whether to continue the pursuit?"

At this time, Zeng Ziwen also picked up the grief that he thought his cousin had died just now, took Hao Bonian to write it himself, and asked the herald to bring back the letter and hand it to Li Xuan.

After Li Xuan unfolded the letter and read it, he pondered for a moment, and then said: "Order Hao Bonian, let him send a small number of troops to keep the pursuit of the fleeing enemy army, and the main force should rest and replenish in time, and it is not appropriate to use too much force!" ”

Although it is said that if you continue to chase, you can still achieve certain results, but this is no longer important, the most important thing is that the forward troops have fought hard for a day, and the soldiers are tired, and the three regiments of the forward troops and the Chinese army commando are the core combat force in the Datang New Army, so it is more important to keep them in the best condition, and it is more important to rest and replenish in time.

In addition, the Ming army that organized the rout and fled was less than 3,000 people, and it was no longer able to pose too much effective threat to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

As for the main force, it is better to rest and replenish in time so as to meet the Ming army coming from Guizhou Province in the future.

Guizhou Governor Zhu Zhihai brought over more than 30,000 or even more Ming troops on the way, from now on, the main force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty must begin to prepare for the battle against this Ming army.

And this preparation time is estimated to be short.

After all, the Ming army will not be stupid to wait for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to rest and replenish, or even continue to expand and come back, they must have rushed all the way over, and then began to attack Liping Mansion.

In fact, Li Xuan's worries were not wrong at all, just when the new army of the Tang Dynasty defeated the main force of the Ming army on the North Road under the Tonggu Acropolis, the vanguard of the Ming army on the West Road had already entered the territory of Liping Mansion, and I was afraid that it would not take a few days to arrive at Liping Mansion City.

The strikers of the Ming army are here, will their main force be far away?

"In addition, not only the forward troops, but also all departments of the Chinese army also need to rest and recuperate in time and carry out replenishment!" When Li Xuan said this, he turned his attention to Qian Mengjiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and then said, "Here in the Ministry of War, how are the recruits prepared?" ”

When Qian Mengjiu heard this, he immediately stepped out and said: "Your Majesty, the military department has already opened recruitment points in various parts of Liping Mansion, and it has been able to recruit hundreds of people every day recently, and it will definitely be able to maintain the replenishment of soldiers!" ”

Hearing this, Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then looked at the official in charge of the training department: "What do you think about the new barracks?" ”

The director of the Training Department of the Privy Council is actually not a military general, but a civilian official, but he served in the Privy Council by chance in the early days, and thus became one of the many civilian officers in the Tang New Army.

This person is relatively old, and said with a bitter face at this time: "Although there are more than 2,000 recruits currently being trained in the recruit camp, and there are more than 1,000 people here in Liping Mansion, most of the training time is relatively short, and generally only training for less than five days, in a short period of time, I am afraid that it will not be able to replenish qualified recruits for the troops!" ”

According to the rules of the Datang New Army, the recruits in the new barracks can only be replenished to the troops after a month of training.

In the past, because of the urgency of the war, many recruits who had only been trained for half a month or even about ten days had been made an exception to supplement the troops.

At present, the recruits in the recruit camp have only been trained for six or seven days for the longest time, and such soldiers cannot even do the basic formation, and it is useless to supplement them to the various units.

Li Xuan also knew the difficulties in the recruit camp, so he had no intention of embarrassing people, he just wanted a solution.

The director of the training department is a civilian officer, and he is a literati who is instinctive when he is an official, and when he sees Li Xuan's expression, he probably knows what he is going to say, and immediately said: "In the future, our recruit battalion is ready to strengthen the training of recruits, and at the same time get close to the troops, once the recruits meet the basic requirements, they will be immediately replenished to the troops!" ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly, although it is said that the training of recruits takes a month, but this time is not impossible to shorten, in the past, training for four hours a day, now training for six hours, and some tactical actions and the like can also wait for recruits to arrive in the army before training, as long as the most basic line up, follow orders and the like.

In the future, it is completely possible to train while fighting, anyway, after these recruits arrive in the army, they all need to go through a period of adaptation training.

At this time, Ma Wei, the left attendant of the military department, also spoke: "Your Majesty, the soldiers of the army can be replenished, and some Ming army prisoners can also be appropriately supplemented!"

In this battle, our army took a lot of prisoners, although most of them were overwhelmed, but after selection, we should still be able to select some people to supplement the main force!

Some other forces that cannot be replenished to the main force should also be able to be replenished to the garrison regiment, and even a new garrison regiment should be established, which should greatly alleviate the current shortage of troops in our army! ”

The matter of recruiting and arranging prisoners has always been the responsibility of Bai Yunqi in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Xuan immediately turned his head and asked Bai Yunqi: "What is the quality of this group of prisoners, and how many are usable?" ”

Bai Yunqi immediately stepped out and said: "Your Majesty, the quality of this group of captives is relatively average, not as good as the batch of prisoners we replenished during the Lanjiang Campaign, but after detailed selection, we should be able to select five hundred to six hundred people to supplement the main infantry battalion, and in addition, we can probably select about a thousand people to supplement the garrison!" ”

It is difficult to say that it is difficult to replenish soldiers, and it is easy to say that it is easy, and it is relatively easy to simply replenish soldiers, but it is difficult to obtain a large number of well-trained soldiers.

Compared with the replenishment of soldiers, the replenishment of weapons is the big trouble!

The Datang New Army was already short of weapons, and many troops, such as the Third Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Infantry Regiment, did not have enough guns.

After a big battle, the troops' weapons and ammunition are not small, and the ammunition is okay, and after being stored for so long, it can always support the troops to fight one or two more large-scale battles, but the damaged guns are not so easy to replenish.

There is no way, in the process of combat, the wear and tear of weapons is inevitable, especially muskets, which are actually easy to damage when motivating combat.

Although according to military regulations, each unit should have a batch of spare muskets, in fact, many units of the Datang New Army are waiting for muskets to be used, and it is impossible for the troops already equipped with muskets to stock up on another batch of spare muskets.

Therefore, it is very difficult, and now the muskets lost by the infantry regiments can only be slowly replenished later!

As for the direct transportation from the rear to replenish, by the way, the officials of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty have to scold their mothers, when we are, nurses, squeeze milk and milk, you can squeeze this output again, there is no more shot!