When the guards around him heard Li Xuan's words, they first habitually said, "The minister obeys the order!" ”

But after saying that he obeyed the order, he was stunned, and after hesitating for a moment, he still didn't move, maybe he hesitated for a long time, and the guard said with apprehension: "Your Majesty, the minister is stupid, what is this Italian cannon?" ”

"Italian cannons?" When Li Xuan heard this, he came back to his senses, and he just said that he had leaked his mouth.

Even if it has been more than a year in this era, I am used to this era in many ways, for example, the paper used to wipe the butt is not soft toilet paper but straw paper, for example, there is no toothpaste but green salt for brushing teeth, for example, in the past, I couldn't calm down when I saw people injured or killed, but now I can ignore the corpses on the battlefield and the wounded who are constantly wailing.

But although many habits have been changed, the soul is still unchangeable, and he still has the soul of a modern man, and when he speaks, he will inadvertently say one or two words that people of this era cannot understand.

Most of the time, because of his status as emperor, Liu Bagou and the others were either forced to get used to the words Li Xuan said, such as calling the handcuff a musket, or simply ignoring the words Li Xuan said.

But now, this guard beside him is not easy to ignore, because he is going to pull this Italian cannon over, but what is an Italian cannon?

Fortunately, Li Xuan didn't embarrass him, and after realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Li Xuan immediately said: "It's the artillery built in the workshop, didn't you say that you have tried to build one before, bring it over, well, be fast!" ”

Hearing Li Xuan say this, the guard reacted, the workshop of the Ministry of Industry was building a big firebolt, oh, no, he also knew that it was artillery.

And he has followed Li Xuan to see it many times, although now he still doesn't understand why His Majesty called the big fire gun into artillery, and today it was replaced by an Italian gun.

But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he knows the specific task of going back to Huangzhushan this time.

He immediately said: "The minister will bring this cannon as fast as possible, oh, the Italian cannon!" ”

Hearing that the guards under him also called the Italian cannon with him, Li Xuan didn't bother to explain, and waved his hand casually to let him do something, and when he turned around, he continued to observe the Ming army on the other side of the river.

The Ming troops on the other side of the river obviously had no intention of venturing across the river this evening, because those Ming troops had already begun to build camps.

But think about it, there are not a few boats on the other side of the river that can cross the river, and the ropeway has been cut off, they rely on these boats, at most dozens of people at a time, this round trip is afraid that it will take half an hour.

If they want to cross the river at such a risk, they will basically send meat to the Datang New Army to eat, and they will eat as much as they send.

If they want to cross the river, they have to make a large number of rafts or bamboo rafts, and at least they need to send 500 or even 1,000 people across the river at one time, otherwise they will risk crossing the river and will only be sent to death.

Seeing that the Ming army had begun to build a camp, Li Xuan was not interested in continuing to observe in person on the mountain, anyway, there were people from his own side on the mountain at any time to observe the movements of the Ming army on the opposite side, and he could report to himself if there was a slight change, so there was no need for him to keep an eye on it personally.

After descending the mountain, after returning to the camp tent of the Chinese army, Li Xuan gathered Zeng Ziwen and several of his senior generals to talk about the gains and losses of today's ambush.

This kind of post-war discussion has almost formed the habit of the Datang New Army!

This kind of post-war discussion meeting is simply to summarize the advantages and disadvantages, and continue to carry forward the advantages in the future, and the disadvantages are to be avoided as much as possible.

In this way, the new army of the Tang Dynasty can gradually move towards regularization in the absence of a large number of professional generals.

If the theory is not enough, then rely on experience to make up for it, and if there are more wars, the things that the Datang New Army can gain will definitely not be less than the various experiences brought by a group of professional generals.

After the meeting, Li Xuan asked Bai Yunqi in detail about the logistics.

This time they went to the Lanjiang crossing, but they were ready to confront the Ming army for a long time, and the food of these more than 1,000 people was not a small amount, and there were no big villages around that could allow them to eat the enemy, so they could only collect grain from Xikou Village or simply send a grain collection team to other places to collect the two places, and then transport them over.

And the journey on this road is not short, especially from Xikou Village, the baggage transport troops may be attacked by the Ming army in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County.

So the logistics are a lot of work!

And the main force on this side of the combat mission is also heavy, it is unlikely that too many main forces will be dispatched to escort the grain, and only a few dozen people can be sent symbolically, and the main force escorting the grain has to carry the heavy battalion itself.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, calculate the time, the second batch of grain should have passed the dangerous area of Longhua Town, and if nothing happens, it will be able to arrive tomorrow afternoon!" Bai Yunqi said: "Although the combat power of my baggage battalion is not as good as the first infantry battalion, most of them are also good hands, and many people were also soldiers in the Ming army before, so it is not a problem to escort food!" ”

Li Xuan nodded and said: "The importance of logistics, I don't say it, you must know it, I won't say anything superfluous, as long as the logistics supply continues, this credit will be indispensable to your baggage battalion, but if something goes wrong, then the military law will be ruthless!" ”

Although Bai Yunqi is his uncle, if something really happens, Li Xuan will not be able to kick Bai Yunqi down by cutting off his arm, but today's meeting is a formal meeting, and the attitude that should be there must be still shown, otherwise others will have opinions.

Logistics is important, Li Xuan knows, Bai Yunqi himself knows, after this expansion, the baggage battalion has become the largest battalion-level unit, not only more than 300 people, but also a large number of livestock and vehicles.

And this time, the army went out, and the new army of the Tang Dynasty also temporarily recruited more than 300 people from Xikou Village to transport materials.

This is mainly to free up the soldiers of the baggage battalion to carry out escort tasks, after all, although the people in the baggage battalion are used as auxiliary personnel, but as Bai Yunqi said, most of the people in the baggage battalion are actually combatants, and now to maintain such a distant and dangerous supply line, the main task of the soldiers of these baggage battalions is not to transport supplies, but to escort materials.

The soldiers of the baggage battalion itself, plus the temporarily conscripted people, maintained the supply line of the Datang New Army to more than 600 people.

Moreover, nearly 100 Ming soldiers were captured today, and if nothing else, these Ming soldiers will also be incorporated into the baggage battalion, so that the baggage battalion can be expanded to four teams, and the number of combatants is already equivalent to that of the infantry battalion.

However, even with so many people escorting supplies, Li Xuan still received bad news the next day.

In the afternoon of the same day, when Li Xuan was looking at the Ming army on the opposite side was cutting wood and building a raft, a scout came to report that the infantry team sent out by the 3rd Infantry Battalion to 'collect grain' in the nearby area in the morning was attacked by the Ming army, and the size of the enemy reached more than 100 people.

As soon as he heard the news, Li Xuan's first reaction was, Damn, when did the Ming army on the opposite side put on their wings and flew over?