The reluctance of officers of regular army units in the Datang Army to serve in the garrison is not new, but this phenomenon has always existed, and this happened the last time the garrison regiment was prepared.

In particular, the officers who served in several main forces were absolutely unwilling to leave the main forces to serve in ordinary units, let alone only garrison units.

As long as the major battalion commander of a main battalion is not unlucky enough to die in battle, then his chance of meritorious service is very large, and the promotion channel is also very smooth, and he is very likely to be promoted to the commander of the main force regiment step by step in the future, and then he will be the major general and brigade commander of the main force.

is the same as Hao Bonian and Fang Xitong before, and even the current Li Chunjing,

However, as for the garrison troops, there are few opportunities for meritorious service, and a lot of attention is paid to it, even if he becomes the lieutenant colonel of the garrison regiment, he will definitely not have the opportunity to be promoted to a general in the future.

In order to solve the problem of the selection of middle and senior officers in the garrison troops, the Quanxu Division has adopted two means: on the one hand, it is an open recruitment to the main force, as long as they are willing to take the initiative to sign up for posts in the garrison troops, regardless of seniority and military exploits, they are all promoted and used!

However, after asking the deputy commanders of several main infantry regiments and the battalion commanders of the main battalions one by one, as when the last time the garrison regiment was being prepared, few people were willing to serve in the garrison unit.

But this is still not the commander of the main battalion of the regular army who wants to go over!

In the end, there was no choice but to select the deputy battalion commanders of several main battalions and the battalion commanders of the reserve battalions to serve as the commanders of the new four garrison regiments.

And the position of the brigade commander of the garrison brigade was personally selected by Li Xuan, and the people who were selected naturally did not know whether they were willing or not, because Li Xuan personally ordered the promotion, and they did not have the courage and opportunity to postpone!

The brigade commander of the three garrison brigades, the brigade commander of the first garrison brigade is Zhao Qunbian, the former commander of the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the current commander of the first garrison regiment.

But this person did a good job in the garrison camp, and was later successfully promoted to the commander of the Seventh Infantry Regiment, Li Xuan was also more satisfied with this person's performance in the Battle of Liping Fucheng, the Seventh Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Liping Fucheng, effectively cooperated with the Second Brigade to contain the Ming army, and in the siege battle on the second day, it was also successfully completed the cannon fodder task, that was afraid of many casualties, Zhao Qunbian also forcibly suppressed the rebound of the troops and continued to carry out the task!

Such a person naturally needs to be promoted and reused!

At the same time, Li Xuan also needs to set an example, that is, even if he serves in the garrison army, he can continue to be promoted, and he will have the opportunity to become a general in the Tang Army in the future!

Therefore, the brigade commander of the 1st Garrison Brigade has become this person's bag!

As for the brigade commander of the Second Garrison Brigade, it is Bai Yunqi, the battalion commander of the former Guards Battalion, even Li Xuan still thinks that this Bai Yunqi's ability is scum, but he is a national uncle, and he is still loyal, so he can still be promoted, and he took this opportunity to raise his rank from colonel to colonel.

The main force did not dare to hand it over to him, but the garrison troops, and it would not be painful to hand it over to him in case of defeat and loss.

Moreover, Li Xuan was already planning to use the existing guard battalion as the basis to expand and rebuild the guards, at this time, a person with Bai Yunqi's ability to be a scumbag was not suitable to continue to be the battalion commander of the guard battalion.

So at this time, Li Xuan promoted Bai Yunqi to the Second Garrison Brigade as a brigade commander, which was also a compromise plan, but in order to prevent Bai Yunqi from really crippled the Second Garrison Brigade of five or six thousand people, Li Xuan specially assigned him a few people with good ability as deputy brigade commanders and brigade chief of staff.

He even personally told him that as the brigade commander of the Second Garrison Brigade, listen to the advice of the deputy brigade commander and the chief of staff, and be a boss who knows how to take advice!

If you put this bluntly, it actually means: You don't have to worry about the war, naturally the deputy brigade commander and chief of staff are in charge, you just need to be your brigade commander, and you have nothing to do to be tossed around!

In addition to Bai Yunqi, Li Xuan also arranged for another Lao Jiang to serve as the brigade commander of the Third Garrison Brigade, and this person was Cai Erhu!

Originally, he wanted to let Butcher Chen serve as the brigade commander, but after knocking on Butcher Chen, he found that this person was still addicted to artillery and couldn't extricate himself, so Li Xuan simply gave up this idea and turned his attention to Cai Erhu instead!

The reason for choosing him is very simple, although this person is brave, but he is really not suitable for commanding modern troops, Li Xuan did not dare to let him continue to be promoted to become the commander of the main infantry regiment, but this person is different from Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan, although he is less capable, he is still more loyal, unlike Huang Xueren, Fang Dongquan These two people have so many tricks.

And Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan are now the deputy brigade commanders of the First Infantry Brigade and the Second Infantry Brigade, and they are reluctant to leave the main force to serve in the garrison force.

They are still dreaming of becoming generals!

So Li Xuan chose a circle away, that is, he lifted Cai Erhu to the position of brigade commander of the third garrison brigade!

Li Xuan did not interfere too much in the subsequent positions of deputy brigade commander, brigade chief of staff, regiment commander, deputy regiment commander, regimental chief of staff and even battalion commander, but asked the Privy Council to report the candidate, and then let him decide.

With the increase in the size of the army, Li Xuan has become relatively less involved in many candidates for less important positions!

And at present, the Datang Army is also on the right track, and has formed a set of promotion system that is not perfect, but it is still usable, according to this system to promote and appoint, I dare not say how good, but the big problem will not come out!

The preparations for the establishment of four garrison regiments and three garrison brigades did not involve much with the regular army, and even with ordinary soldiers.

Because the source of soldiers in the garrison is mainly the surrender of the Ming army!

Even if the number of the regular army unit has changed, it is just a change of name, so many of the main forces have already received their combat missions for the first time to go out to fight!

Since they had successively defeated the two main forces of the Ming army in the Battle of the Tonggu Acropolis and the Battle of Lipingfucheng, and even Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou of the Ming Dynasty, was rumored to have died in rebellion, they naturally needed to take advantage of the victory to pursue and occupy as much territory as possible to gain greater strategic depth for the Tang Dynasty.

Now that many troops in Guizhou have been exhausted by Zhu Zhihai, and most of them have been lost in Liliping Mansion, when Guizhou is officially the emptiest, the Tang Army needs to take advantage of this precious time to occupy as much territory as possible, and even capture Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou.

Otherwise, when the Ming Dynasty reacted, it began to draw troops from other provinces and local officials from Guizhou began to recruit more young and strong troops, and the Tang Dynasty would face a lot of encirclement and suppression by the Ming Dynasty.

In order to capture the surrounding prefectures and counties as quickly as possible, Li Xuan sent many of the existing parts out!

The troops sent out to attack the city were divided into two routes, one to the north and the other to the west!

The troops advancing westward were dominated by the 4th Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Garrison Brigade was auxiliary in the operation, and their mission goal was to continue to attack westward, until Guiyang was the mainstay!

However, the Fourth Infantry Regiment, which belongs to the Second Infantry Regiment, has never been officially formed, and the core main force is only one Tenth Infantry Battalion, even if it is paired with the First Garrison Brigade, but the strength can only be regarded as average!

The northbound detachment was based on the 3rd Infantry Regiment as the core, with the 2nd Garrison Brigade, but the 3rd Infantry Regiment was also damaged relatively large, although it replenished hundreds of recruits at the first time, but it still failed to recover its peak combat effectiveness.

It can be seen from the fact that both the westward and northward armies belong to the Second Infantry Brigade and that the combat mission of capturing other prefectures and counties in Guizhou Province has been mainly entrusted to the Second Infantry Brigade.

As for the Fifth Infantry Regiment, it has never been officially formed, and the three main battalions do not even have muskets now, and it is estimated that they can only play the role of strategic reserve in the next two months and stay in the rear.

But what is the 1st Infantry Brigade, the real core ace unit of the Datang New Army, doing?

The 1st Infantry Brigade is still resting in Ri Binh Province and continues to replenish its troops and equipment!

Don't look at them as resting, but in fact, their future combat missions are heavier, because in Li Xuan's previous battle plan, the First Brigade will undertake the follow-up Ming army attack in the direction of Huguang and Guangxi.

Zhu Zhihai died, tens of thousands of Guizhou Provincial troops were defeated, and it won't take long for this matter to be transmitted back to the Beijing division in the north, and Li Xuan could imagine the scene of the Ming Court shaking!

At that time, the Ming Dynasty will definitely have to transfer troops from several provinces, and it may even be possible to send the northern border army south to encircle and suppress its own Tang Dynasty!

It's a lot of pressure!

After resisting the attack of the Ming army in the surrounding provinces, especially the attack of the Ming army in Huguang and Guangxi, then the southward strategy of the Tang Dynasty can be truly implemented!

Even if the Ming army in Guizhou Province has been swept away, the overall strategy of the entire Tang Dynasty has not changed, that is, to the south!

Guizhou is barren, even if the whole of Guizhou is captured, it will not be able to change the strategic disadvantage of the Tang Dynasty facing the enemy, let alone allow the Tang Dynasty to obtain many resources needed to maintain the war!

In order to change the strategic disadvantage of the enemy on all sides, the Datang Army can concentrate on fighting on a certain front; At the same time, in order to obtain more strategic resources, especially the population, steel, sulfur, saltpeter and other resources from overseas, the Tang Dynasty must continue to implement the southward strategy!

The Liangguang region, especially Guangdong, was a major steel province in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Foshan in Guangdong was an important steel producing area in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

So going south, it's a must!

Li Xuan has never changed this strategic direction!

Therefore, when the Second Brigade took two garrison brigades to attack everywhere and conquer cities, the First Infantry Brigade was actively preparing for war, and at the same time, in order to improve the follow-up combat environment and avoid the arrival of the Ming army in the direction of Guangxi and Huguang at the same time, it did not send senior officials such as governors of several provinces to command the troops of several surrounding provinces in a unified manner.

The 1st Infantry Brigade will also take the initiative to attack Guangxi first!

The scattered Ming army is always better to fight than the assembled Ming army!

And from this point of view, in fact, the strategy of resisting the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army and going south is not in conflict, and even highly overlapping!

A few days after the departure of the Second Infantry Brigade and other troops, the First Infantry Brigade, after a brief rest and replenishment, also embarked on a journey south!

The sortie of the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 2nd Infantry Brigade and other troops also officially kicked off the first large-scale expansion of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Xuan was looking forward to the Red Fat Dragon holding the sword figure out of the land of Liping Mansion and Xingquan Mansion, which would sweep the world from now on, and insert it into every corner of the countless dimensional universes!

That scene, just thinking about it can make Li Xuan extremely excited!