As the starting place of the Tang Dynasty, it is normal for a large number of high-ranking generals to appear in Xingquan Mansion!

In his own distant uncle or father's hair child, my mother's maternal uncle and other messy relatives and friends are still high-ranking military generals, do you think he will go to the army?

If you don't go, it's a waste of resources!

Even under the auspices of many military generals, many generals jointly donated funds to open a military preparatory school in Xingquan Mansion, which specially recruited young people for basic military training and cultural training, and the goal of the training was to let them be admitted to the martial arts academy!

Over the years, many situations have also changed the entire Xingquan Mansion, and in the pre-Ming Dynasty, Xingquan Mansion was just an ordinary remote and inferior mansion, and there was nothing to do!

But now, Xingquan Mansion has become a concentration of military aristocrats, and every household is in the army!

Now in this land of Longxing, there are nearly a hundred military nobles, all of whom were awarded the title of nobility from the dragon in the early days, and they are still continuing to expand the number of military nobles!

Every year, a large number of children of Xingquan Mansion apply for the martial arts hall or the sea academy, it doesn't matter if they can't pass the exam, review, and take the exam next year, in this life, except for joining the army, they basically won't have any other thoughts!

And Li Xuan also paid attention to this situation, he did not reject the children of Xingquan Mansion joining the army, on the contrary, he welcomed it, but a large number of military aristocrats gathered together, he just didn't like it very much.

Especially that military preparatory school, which only enrolls children from Xingquan Mansion, is very bad!

Therefore, Li Xuan waved his pen in the autumn and directly changed the military preparatory school donated by the generals of Xingquan Prefecture from private to public, and turned it into a government-run military preparatory school, and renamed it 'Xingquan Fu Military Preparatory School', but it did not belong to the military, but assigned it to the Imperial Examination Department of the Ministry of Rites.

At the same time, he personally stipulated that the school must recruit students from all over the country, and any student with a secondary school diploma in the country can apply for the examination.

At the same time, the Imperial Examination Department was also instructed to continue to prepare for the establishment of a number of government-run military preparatory schools in other places, and it was not necessary to run too many, but only three or five schools.

Therefore, the Imperial Examination Division has preliminarily selected the four places of 'Guangzhou, Jinling, Tianjin, and Changsha' to prepare for the establishment of military preparatory schools, recruit students from middle school graduates, and provide preparatory candidates for the martial arts academy and the naval academy!

Basically, this is similar to an ordinary preparatory school, except that an ordinary preparatory school is for applying for college, and a military preparatory school is for applying for a military school.

At the same time, there is no rule that students of military preparatory schools can only apply for military schools, they can also apply for other universities, and students from other general preparatory schools can also continue to apply for military schools.

The nature of these two types of preparatory schools is the same, at most, when training students, the focus is different.

The military preparatory school is only one part of the continuous reform of the education system of the Tang Dynasty, aiming to train more professional officers for the Tang Dynasty, not to say that it is only for a special group in a certain place, like the previous private Xingquanfu military preparatory school.

The widespread phenomenon of joining the army in Xingquan Mansion is also a microcosm of the current rise of the Tang Dynasty, but this phenomenon is more prominent in Xingquan Mansion.

In fact, in other places, there are also a lot of people who join the army!

Therefore, at present, the Tang Dynasty is not short of soldiers!

But there is no shortage of soldiers, it does not mean that the lives of the soldiers will be squandered at will, not that the lives of these ordinary soldiers are pitied, every senior general, which one of his subordinates does not rely on the flesh and blood of the soldiers under his command to achieve fame!

They just felt stupid and rushed up, and it was too cost-effective to let the soldiers go to death, and they couldn't afford it!

Although there is no shortage of soldiers, it also costs money to train soldiers, and it costs dozens of taels of silver to train a qualified veteran.

During the three-month recruit training period, the military spends a lot of money on each soldier for all kinds of training after entering the active army, and it is directly used as cannon fodder, and when it is used up, it will have to spend dozens of taels of silver to train a qualified veteran!

The life of a veteran is still relatively precious, and Wang Chaohong is reluctant!

So Wang Chaohong honestly works with earth!

Then beat the left army on the opposite side without any temper!

People are not stupid to rush forward, but constantly digging trenches to advance, and after advancing to a certain distance, they throw grenades, shell with howitzers, shell with field guns, and then rush in and solve the battle with pistols, bayonets, waist knives!

Fighting like this, although the progress is slow, the effect is very good!

To be honest, in Li Xuan's opinion, this kind of defense system created by the Supervising Biao Left Army is really too advanced!

It's already beyond this era!

In the days when there were no machine guns and no barbed wire, although you were somewhat useful in building trenches, to be honest, it was far less useful than a fortress!

Even the city walls are to a certain extent better than such field fortifications!

At least the city wall, if the Tang Army wants to break through, it can really only rely on forcible charge!

At the beginning, in the Battle of Qishui, it was just that the Tang Army was not familiar with this defense system, but now that I look back and find a way to deal with it, this defense system was instantly dismantled.

In the face of today's Tang Army, even if it is a fortress, it can be defeated with some time, not to mention these field fortresses and trench fortifications.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, if the Datang Army is willing to pay a certain number of casualties, and they rush over directly, then it will basically be over!

The generals of the Left Army also noticed that something was wrong, and a few days ago, they fought well, and the pseudo-Tang thief army rushed forward as stupidly as they expected.

But now, after turning into a civil engineering operation, and solving the battle with explosions, they are just stunned!

One by one, the trenches were lost, and the rudimentary fortresses were conquered!

In the end, they found that they didn't cause too many casualties to the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side, but they killed and injured a lot of people on their own!

The casualty ratio reached three to one!

And this casualty ratio will not even be much lower than the two sides have a frontal field decisive battle!

Damn, it's a mess!

So Du Danqing quickly adjusted his direction, since he couldn't play anymore by relying on the fortress trench, then continue to play turtle speed tactics!

Abandon the outer positions directly and retreat to the vicinity of the city walls!

This is the only way to redeem the decline a little!

However, at this time, Du Danqing suddenly got a piece of news that made him not very good!

At least 20,000 puppet Tang thieves crossed the Yangtze River and landed in Tuanfeng behind them!

Although when Du Danqing decided to defend Huangzhou, he had already expected that he might be surrounded by the puppet Tang thief army, but what he originally expected was that the puppet Tang thief army should bypass the Huangzhou line and try to surround himself after entering from the northeast.

But I didn't expect that these pseudo-Tang thief armies would come to a landing operation again!

This time, he deeply felt how uncomfortable it was to rely on his own supervising the left army to fight after losing the cover of the sailor, and he knew that he should have supported the sailor in the first place and let them build more ships.

It's a pity that the current supervising sailor is already in name only, and has long been swept away by the Yangtze River Fleet of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, and now almost the entire middle reaches of the Yangtze River are the world of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army.

With them, these pseudo-Tang thief armies almost landed there if they wanted to, and withdrew if they wanted to.

It's the same as the previous landing of the 1st Infantry Division of the Puppet Tang Dynasty to attack Huangzhou, and then quickly retreated by ship after it was unsuccessful!

Come as much as you want, leave as you want, this is what the puppet Tang thief army can do by relying on the Yangtze River fleet.

But he Du Danqing is not good!

After thinking about it for a long time, he ordered to go down and immediately send someone to report to Lord Zhang Yue in Hanyang, and at the same time ask them to send reinforcements to cooperate with his counterattack.

If there is a chance, it is best to attack the front and back of the two divisions to annihilate this pseudo-Tang thief army that dared to land behind their backs.

In fact, he had also thought about giving up Huangzhou directly and then retreating to Hanyang before, but reason told him that this was impossible.

If it had been a day ago, he would have had a chance to abandon Huangzhou and then withdraw to Hanyang, but now, this opportunity is gone.

Because the puppet Tang thief army is already blocked in the group wind!

As soon as he retreats, the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him, Wang Chaohong's department, will definitely catch up, and then he will become a front and rear attack, not counting, but also being hit by the front and back on the way to escape, as long as you think about it, you know that it is absolutely disastrous.

It's better to continue to defend the front line of Huangzhou, and then wait for the Chinese army to come to help!

He is confident that he will rely on the Huangzhou defense line for at least more than a month!

As long as he is firmly nailed to Huangzhou, he can at least contain more than 80,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops, and the 50,000 Tang thief Wang Dynasty Hongsuo Department on the front is even more immobile!

This is enough for Lord Zhang Yue to mobilize his troops for a counteroffensive.

In order to increase his persuasiveness and show his determination, he personally wrote a letter to Zhang Yue and said that he would defend Huangzhou to the death, block and contain the main force of the puppet Tang thief army for the army, wait for the superintendent to lead the source of the army, and then attack back and forth, defeat the puppet Tang thief army landing in one fell swoop, and lay the foundation for the victory of this defensive counterattack!

When Du Danqing sent someone to send the handwritten letter Pegasus back to Hanyang!

Lieutenant General Chen Keqiao also stepped off the bow of the ship and stepped on the land of Huangzhou Mansion!

The place they chose to land was not very good, it was just a wasteland, but there was no way, there was no suitable large-scale dock in this ghost place, so they could only choose this kind of flat wasteland for landing.

In the early days of the landing, a group of specially modified small transport ships rushed directly to the beach, not only sending the first batch of landing soldiers, but also becoming a temporary trestle, and then a small number of modified medium-sized ships ran aground directly near the shore.

Immediately, the sappers used the hulls of these beached ships to build temporary docks on the spot, and began to load and unload other guns, vehicles, and even horses on the ships.

Every day, the 11th Infantry Division under Chen Keqiao went ashore with all the weapons and equipment, and easily blocked the counterattack of some Ming troops stationed in the Tuanfeng area.

When Chen Keqiao got off the ship and landed on land, he did not wait for the 12th Infantry Division to start loading and unloading, and he took the 11th Infantry Division to quickly kill the center of this area: Tuanfengji.

Taking advantage of their absolute superiority in strength, they quickly routed the 3,000 governors stationed there, drove them to the south of Huangzhou, and captured this small market town.

Immediately, Chen Keqiao erected the signboard of his Fifth Army Headquarters in this small market town!

At this point, the left army of the superintendent on the front line of Huangzhou has completely fallen into the strategic encirclement of the Tang Army!