As the forward commander, Hao Bonian's opinion is crucial!

When Li Xuan received Hao Bonian's letter, he quickly brought Zeng Ziwen and others over to discuss the gains and losses of Hao Bonian's proposal to move the preset decisive battle battlefield to the north thirty miles and put it in the Tonggu Acropolis to fight.

During the discussion, Zeng Ziwen had a lot of complaints about Hao Bonian's proposal, and raised several concerns, on the one hand, he was worried that the preset battlefield would be replaced, and the Chinese army troops would be able to arrive in time, on the other hand, according to the original plan, the Tonggu Acropolis had been abandoned, and now it has fallen into the hands of the Ming army.

Will the emergence of the offensive lead to a long battle, and when the Ming Army's Western Route Army comes, will the army fall into a situation of being flanked by the front and rear.

Even if there will be no situation of being flanked by the front and rear, but if you fight a tough battle, even if you win, the casualties will definitely be relatively large, if the casualties are too large, will it affect the plan to meet the Ming Army's Western Route Army in the future?

You must know that the enemies that the new army of the Tang Dynasty needs to face are not only more than 20,000 people from the Ming Army's Northern Route Army, but also more than 30,000 people from the Western Route Army.

If the casualties of the attack on the Ming North Route Army are too large, it will inevitably affect the follow-up battle against the Ming West Route Army!

If one of them is not done well, it may be wiped out!

Li Xuan naturally knew about Zeng Ziwen's worries, and he himself had the same worries, just reason told him, don't learn from Jiang Guangtou at this time, don't know how to fight and command blindly!

Li Xuan still has self-knowledge, he has a little ability, even if he has a vision beyond the contemporaries, but these prophets can only give him an advantage in the grand strategic direction, once it comes to specific wars, especially tactical choices, he will not be stronger than contemporary ordinary people.

To put it mildly, if Li Xuan and Hao Bonian were allowed to lead the same troops to fight, Li Xuan would definitely lose very badly!

Hao Bonian was able to become the commander of the First Step, and even now he is the commander of the forward, because of his outstanding ability, and Li Xuan also trusts him.

Since he has confidence in his ability and trusts him, he is more inclined to Hao Bonian's choice in terms of strategic choice this time.

After all, from a realistic point of view, this battle is ostensibly he personally led the army to command the battle, but in fact, the actual commander of this battle is not him, Li Xuan himself is actually just a banner, and the only role in this battle is to stimulate morale, and at the same time suppress the many generals under their heads, so that they don't mess around, and they are honest with Lao Tzu.

The actual commander of this battle is undoubtedly Hao Bonian!

This can be seen from Hao Bonian's so-called forward commander, and his forward commander is actually completely different from Qiu Yu, the forward commander of the Ming Army's Northern Route Army.

Qiu Yu only led two thousand Ming troops, and the main forces of the Ming army on the North Road were still behind.

But what about Hao Bonian, the three infantry regiments under his command are the main infantry regiments of the Datang New Army, and they account for more than half of the existing troops of the Datang New Army.

Whether this battle can be won and the strategy of the new army of the Tang Dynasty can be successfully completed depends on the performance of the three infantry regiments under Hao Bonian.

Other units will also play a role, but to be honest, their role is limited.

At present, the expansion plan of the Datang New Army has not been completed, and only the First Infantry Corps, the Second Infantry Regiment, and the Fourth Infantry Regiment have completed the expansion plan, and these three infantry regiments are under the command of Hao Bonian.

As for the 3rd Infantry Regiment, although the soldiers are full, they lack guns and artillery, and most of the soldiers are new recruits, so that they march all the way and train all the way, while receiving equipment.

It is foreseeable that after the 3rd Infantry Regiment arrives on the battlefield, it will still be in a situation of lack of guns and artillery and insufficient training.

As for the Fifth Infantry Regiment, the situation was even worse, according to the predetermined plan, they would not accept all the recruits until half a month later, but because of the urgency of the situation, the recruit battalion even pulled out the soldiers who had not yet completed the recruit training to the Fifth Infantry Regiment.

As for the equipment, I'm sorry, there are only a few dozen muskets expected to be used for training and a few bowl-mouth guns that are also intended for training, well, the bowl-mouth guns captured from the Ming army.

So much so that the 5th Infantry Regiment had to be reduced to a cold-armed unit, and a large number of musketeers picked up swords, shields, and spears.

Can such a 5th Infantry Regiment fight?

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Among the Chinese army led by Li Xuan personally, it was not these two infantry regiments that had combat effectiveness, but artillery battalions, cavalry battalions, baggage regiments, and personal guard battalions.

The artillery battalion already has an 800-pound artillery corps, the cavalry battalion also has nearly 200 cavalry, and the personal guard battalion also has more than 400 people.

Li Xuan's personal guard battalion, as a personal guard unit to protect Li Xuan, has the highest quality of soldiers, the best weapons and equipment, and its troop configuration is also relatively special, which is different from the regular infantry battalion.

There are a total of four teams, three of which are mixed large-scale infantry teams, with 96 grenadiers and 36 heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, and the grenadiers in it are selected and trained according to the standards of the strongest grenadiers, and equipped with grenades, one of which was left in Xingquan Mansion to protect Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun, Ye Shi and others.

The fourth team was a pure cavalry team, with ninety-six cavalry men under its jurisdiction.

It can be seen from the configuration of the guard battalion that in fact, this unit is not used to fight, but to protect Li Xuan's escape, otherwise what to do with the cavalry, these cavalry are just to escape with Li Xuan on the battlefield.

However, although the establishment is nondescript, it is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the guard battalion is not weak, not to mention the rest, just the hundreds of grenadiers in the guard battalion are a formidable force, not to mention that there is an elite cavalry in armor.

You must know that the cavalry battalion is only less than 200 horses, and the cavalry teams of the major infantry regiments are called cavalry teams, but even the cavalry teams in the first step corps are only more than 50 horses.

In addition to the personal guard battalion, the baggage regiment also has to focus on mentioning that the baggage troops in the Datang New Army have never been simply transportation and logistics baggage, although they are also responsible for logistics transportation tasks, but their more main task is actually not to transport logistics baggage, but to protect logistics baggage.

At the same time, there will also be an engineer unit in the baggage unit, which is mainly used to build bridges and open roads.

For such a large-scale battle, the military supplies to be supplied to the army are a huge number, and the new army of the Tang Dynasty uses a large number of young and strong men to temporarily recruit a large number of young and strong men to transport, and the baggage regiment protects the transport team.

The advantage of this is that there is no need to divide the strength of the precious main force to protect the logistics and transportation troops, and all the main forces can be put into the frontal battlefield.

In this way, the baggage troops will be able to participate in the decisive battle on the battlefield like the main force at the critical moment.

It's just that there are not many guns in the baggage troops, and most of them are mainly cold weapon troops, so Li Xuan will not use them like this unless necessary.

But now that a large-scale decisive battle is imminent, one more soldier will have one more hope of victory, so Li Xuan has already decided to send a baggage regiment of more than 1,000 people to the decisive battlefield at that time.

If it is calculated in this way, the Chinese army troops led by Li Xuan himself can also gather thousands of people to participate in the decisive battle, but the combat effectiveness is uneven, and compared with the main force of the three infantry regiments led by Hao Bonian, it is not a little bit worse.

Li Xuan approved the new battle plan proposed by Hao Bonian on the same day, and led the Chinese army to continue northward!

Thanks to the heralds galloping on horseback, it may take two or three days for the army to travel dozens of miles, but for the heralds who keep changing horses and galloping, it is actually only a matter of a few hours, so Hao Bonian had already received a reply from Li Xuan approving the plan the next morning.

Immediately, Hao Bonian officially issued a series of orders, he ordered the Second Infantry Regiment to continue to the north as the leading force, the First Infantry Regiment to cover the left flank, and he himself continued to lead the Fourth Infantry Regiment and baggage and other auxiliaries to follow the rear of the Second Infantry Regiment.

These three troops are basically advancing in a zigzag shape, and the distance between each other is about five or six miles, which is converted into the distance unit of later generations, which is more than two kilometers, which can be seen by standing a little higher.

Such a distance is conducive to expanding the search range, avoiding turning into the ambush circle of the Ming army, and at the same time, when there is an engagement, they can support each other in time.

And when Hao Bonian and they continued to lead the army north, in their forward, they withdrew from the Tonggu Acropolis three days ago, and the Fifth Infantry Battalion, which had just rested for less than two days, also turned around and returned to the north, heading towards the Tonggu Acropolis again.

To be honest, Wang Chaofeng is still a little complaining, what's the matter, he is guarding the Tonggu Acropolis well, although it is a little more difficult, but as long as there are reinforcements arriving and there is ammunition, it is definitely not a problem to continue to hold the Tonggu Acropolis.

But the boss made him retreat!

However, within a few days, the boss asked him to lead his headquarters back to the Tonggu Acropolis and make a gesture of attacking the Tonggu Acropolis, in order to attract the main force of the Ming army in the north to accelerate southward, what is this!

If he had continued to defend the Tonggu Acropolis, those Ming troops would not have been able to defeat the Tonggu Acropolis, and they would not have to accelerate their southward reinforcements!

It's good now, I've come full circle and gone back to the old way.

However, although there were complaints in his heart, as a soldier, and he was also a soldier who was born in the Imperial Academy and knew how to read and write, he naturally led the army to set off as soon as he received the order.

At this time, whether it was Qiu Yu or Wang Chaofeng, these two opponents who had already fought each other in the Tonggu Acropolis did not know that their opponents were not far ahead.

Fate, it seems, is destined for them to be each other's opponents!