After Zeng Ziwen's words fell, Wang Danxu on the side frowned slightly and said: "If you want to set up a new infantry regiment and additionally belong to the main force, in this case, where do these main forces come from, and how should their equipment be solved?" ”

"In addition, if the main infantry regiment adopts the configuration of regular infantry battalions and reserve battalions, then what will be done with the two existing garrison battalions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment? Is it for a regular infantry battalion? ”

As soon as Wang Danxu's words came out, they immediately attracted the contemplation of several people!

The problem that Wang Danxu said can be said to be that the new army of the Tang Dynasty cannot bypass it at present, and it is nothing to form a garrison battalion, but it is extremely difficult to increase the main force with a new infantry regiment.

At this time, Zeng Ziwen said: "My plan is not to add a new main infantry battalion, but to draw a small number of troops from the existing main infantry battalions, and allocate two main forces for each new infantry regiment, and these main forces are cold weapons such as spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, and do not draw musket troops!" ”

"The difficulty in expanding the main force of our army is due to the difficulty in expanding the musketeers, not the traditional difficulty in expanding cold weapons!"

Speaking of which, he continued: "The newly established infantry regiment will be a unit of pure cold weapons, and their task is not to act as the main force of the decisive battle, but to fight on the secondary front, and the pure cold weapons troops are enough to deal with it!" ”

Hearing Zeng Ziwen say this, Wang Danxu nodded slightly, as long as the new infantry regiment does not increase musketeers, it will indeed not be too difficult, and the simple cold weapon troops, even if it is the main force, it is not too much of a problem to transfer some of them!

Then other generals and civilian officers also raised many questions about the new troops one by one, and finally Zeng Ziwen answered them one by one, although some of the answers were not satisfactory, for example, the people from the Logistics Department of the Privy Council asked that so many garrison battalion troops were added at once, and at the same time, the reserve battalion troops were also expanding rapidly, which is equivalent to the next month, the troops of the Datang New Army will increase by more than 10,000 people, which will cause a great test to the logistics of the Datang New Army, of which the food problem alone is difficult to solve.

Moreover, the newly added 10,000 people are all cold-weapon troops, not the main force, which will give people the illusion that so much food has been wasted to feed a second-rate army.

Zeng Ziwen's answer was very simple, just saying that he tried his best to raise money, and he would eat the enemy and other words, which were basically useless, because these things were currently being done by the Tang New Army, and they could only barely supply the needs of the army.

However, although there is actually no satisfactory answer to many questions, this still cannot stop the determination of the Datang New Army to take these Ming army prisoners for their own use.

That night, Li Xuan officially issued a holy decree to prepare for the establishment of the Sixth Infantry Regiment, the Seventh Infantry Regiment, and the Eighth Infantry Regiment, and these three infantry regiments will be typical infantry regiments with pure cold weapons.

The regiment has five garrison battalions, each of which is organized according to the standard, and has five teams of about 550 men, so that such an infantry regiment will have nearly 3,000 men.

The 3,000-strong cold weapon troops should not suffer too much against the same number or even more of the Ming troops.

At the same time, the two garrison battalions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment were officially transferred to the 6th Infantry Regiment, the 7th Infantry Regiment, and the 8th Infantry Regiment.

In addition, considering that there is an extreme shortage of officers in the Datang New Army, whether it is a senior officer or a grassroots officer, there is an incomparable shortage of officers, so the officers at the two levels of the team and platoon of the three new infantry regiments are basically promoted from the soldiers in the original two garrison battalions.

Battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders, on the other hand, were transferred from various units, believing that they were transferred from the main force to serve in the second-line units, and in principle, they were mainly promoted to make exceptions; basically a deputy captain of the main force could be a battalion commander in the past, and the captain could be a deputy regiment commander in the past.

As for the battalion commander level, if this is to pass, at least one regiment commander position will be required, but even so, many people are unwilling.

Because the main force is also expanding, it won't be long before these battalion commanders may actually become the commanders of the main infantry regiment, and if they go to garrison the troops at this time, this is equivalent to losing a lot of promotion opportunities.

Originally, Li Xuan thought that the battalion commander would take the initiative to sign up for the three garrison infantry regiments, but a day passed, and no one came to take the initiative to ask for battle, and he also knew that although it was okay to be forcibly dispatched, it was not good after all, and in the end, he could only transfer three deputy battalion commanders to serve as the commanders of the main infantry regiment.

The two units of the regular army directly under the three garrison infantry regiments were pieced together from the various infantry regiments, one platoon from this battalion and one platoon from that battalion, and finally three platoons of spearmen and three platoons of sword, shield, and archers were formed to accompany the troops.

As for the bowl mouth artillery unit and cavalry unit, they were all prisoners of the Ming army like the garrison battalion, and many of these Ming prisoners were cavalry and gunners.

At the same time, in order to reduce the resistance of the surrendered Ming army officers, and also to allow more Ming troops to surrender in the future, Li Xuan generously gave several positions such as deputy commander of a thousand households in the Ming army with relatively high ranks, one of whom took the initiative to lead thousands of people to join the Ming army and was awarded the position of deputy commander.

In the two days after the end of the Tonggu Acropolis, Li Xuan has been busy resting his troops, accommodating and reorganizing the prisoners of the Ming army, and preparing for the establishment of three new garrison infantry regiments, which can be described as inseparable.

Li Xuan when they were busy, Hao Bonian on the front line finally led the main force of the forward to return south, before returning south, Hao Bonian seized the time to chase after the Ming army, although he did not kill many Ming troops later, but he successfully forced thousands of remnants of the Ming army to the north of Liping Mansion, and now these remnants of the Ming army did not dare to stay in Liping Mansion, even if Hao Bonian did not chase anymore, but they still continued to retreat north, and now it is estimated that they are about to run out of Liping Mansion.

Although the first battle of the Tonggu Acropolis and the subsequent two days of pursuit operations failed to completely annihilate the Ming army on the North Road, it can still be said that this Ming army was completely defeated, and only three or four thousand of the Ming army of more than 20,000 people fled back.

Thousands of people were killed and wounded, more than 6,000 people were captured, and thousands of people are missing, well, these missing soldiers can basically be judged as routs, and it is not so easy to gather them, because after these routs lose their organization, not many people will take the initiative to run back to the barracks, some will simply fall into the grass and become bandits, some will run all the way to their homes, and more are wandering around aimlessly.

If the Ming army wants to collect these routs, it will be difficult to reach the sky in heavy rain, and it will be a miracle that two or three out of ten routs will be collected at that time.

After initially stabilizing the northern front, Hao Bonian left an infantry battalion to continue tracking and monitoring these Ming troops, but the infantry battalion of this main force also did not stay in the north for long, as long as the Ming army in the north did not show that it would gather troops here in a short time to go south, the Datang New Army would not have time to deal with the remnants of the Ming army on the north road for the time being.

So in two days, this infantry battalion will also return south!

As for Hao Bonian himself, he led the main force of the striker to return south in advance!

After hurrying back to the Acropolis of Tonggu, he himself led several other senior officers to report the military situation to the Sheng, and at the same time, the temporary establishment of the forward force was completely disbanded.

As a temporary large-scale force set up for the purpose of capturing Liping Province, the forward troops are no longer suitable for the current needs of the Tang New Army.

On the one hand, Li Xuan is now leading the army to conquer in person, and on the other hand, the forward troops are too concentrated in the essence of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Xuan is honest, it is difficult to rest assured that this army will be commanded by one person for a long time, even if this person is Hao Bonian, whom he trusts very much.

As soon as he returned to the Acropolis of Tonggu, Li Xuan revoked the establishment of the forward troops, although Hao Bonian felt a little uncomfortable, but this was also something he expected, he was too eye-catching as the forward commander, how many senior generals in the army were staring at him, how could he stay in the position of the forward commander all the time, even if His Majesty did not have this mind, but it is estimated that others would bring it up.

What's more, the Chinese commando team formed before was also disbanded as soon as possible after the war, and there is no reason for his forward troops to keep it all the time.

After the revocation of the forward establishment, Hao Bonian was still the commander of the First Infantry Corps, and the infantry regiments also returned to the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council.

However, just when everyone thought that Hao Bonian would be in peace for a while, and His Majesty would not let Hao Bonian continue to be in the limelight, on the first day Hao Bonian came back, Li Xuan discussed strategy with him, and exchanged views on the establishment of brigade-level troops.

The pro-soldiers outside could hear the quarrels in the conference room from time to time, and several pro-soldiers couldn't help but be shocked when they heard it, this Hao Bonian deserved to be the highest-ranking general in the Datang New Army, and he was too bold to dare to have a direct quarrel with His Majesty!

But what shocked them even more was yet to come!

After Li Xuan and Hao Bonian discussed in the conference room for a whole day, Li Xuan summoned his ministers and directly at the imperial strategic meeting, without the discussion of the Operations Division, he officially issued the holy decree of preparing for the establishment of the First Brigade, and at the same time awarded Hao Bonian the rank of Major General and served as the brigade commander of the First Infantry Brigade!