And it turns out that the effect of bombarding the city wall of Laibin with a seven-pound cannon is still very good, and there are only three seven-pound heavy guns in the entire Tang Dynasty that continue to bombard the city wall of Laibin, plus the help of five-pound field artillery, it will not take long for the city wall of Laibin to collapse!

The next step was the charge that did not have much technical content and novelty, and according to the old custom, it was still the hoplites who took the lead in the charge and established forward positions for the troops in the rear.

Then came the influx of ordinary infantry!

In the previous many siege operations, the Datang Army has successively set up temporary commandos as the main force to attack the city, and the results are very significant.

Although the scale of this Laibin battle was small, the Tang Army still dispatched some elite infantry to charge into battle.

And in this process, Li Xuan found that the standing soldiers contributed by the Tusi were generally strong in personal martial arts, and the most important thing was that they were not afraid of death, and they would not retreat when they started a battle, which made him feel deeply.

I am even more looking forward to the Fourth Infantry Brigade with the source of soldiers as the core!

However, it is not a matter of a day or two for the Fourth Infantry Brigade to become an army, and now the soldiers that can be used in the Tang Dynasty Division are still the Liuzhou Independent Regiment pieced together by those Tusi!

And after watching their battles, Li Xuan already had the intention to draw out these elite soldiers from the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, and then draw some of the elites from other troops to create a unit with heavy infantry as the core to attack and charge.

Anyway, the equipment required by the heavy infantry is only swords and armor, and although the armor is lacking in the Tang Dynasty, it is better than muskets and artillery, after all, as long as the Ming army is defeated, you can always get a lot of cold weapons and loot.

And in his opinion, it would be a pity that this kind of elite soldiers, who are excellent in martial arts and full of combat courage, can be directly used as cannon fodder.

And with their characteristics, it is not suitable for them to strictly implement the phalanx mode of operation, and the most suitable for them is the mode of the commando, maybe they can make a Datang version of the heavy infantry battalion!

As the assault team rushed to the head of the city and began to receive the follow-up troops into the city, the Ming Dynasty was used as a defensive barrier in the western part of Guangxi, bringing together tens of thousands of soldiers, and even half a day could hold on, that is, it was declared broken.

When the guests are completely won and the central and western parts of Guangxi are swept away, it will be time!

When Li Xuan, who had watched the siege battle outside the city for a long time, learned that the troops had completely controlled the walls of the city and began to clear the remnants of the enemy in the city, he had no longer even the nature to continue watching.

went down the mountain directly, and then returned to his boat, an official ship captured from the Ming army, the speed of defense is naturally scum, but it is wide and comfortable enough, suitable for use as Li Xuan's ship, after all, it is too tiring to go on an expedition, and it is naturally a good thing to have this kind of comfortable boat ride.

In the afternoon of the same day, a group of high-ranking generals gathered on Li Xuan's boat to begin a routine post-war meeting, which, as usual, was a matter of advantages and disadvantages.

In addition, there are reports of enemy losses and captures, etc., this time the battle of the guests, although it is said that both sides participated in the battle with a lot of troops, the Ming army has more than 10,000 people, and the Tang army has more than 20,000 people.

However, the casualties on both sides of this battle were very small, the Ming army suffered more than 500 casualties before and after, while the Tang Army suffered fewer casualties, less than 100 people, most of them were soldiers and garrisons.

Although the casualties on both sides were not large, there were many captures!

Because before the siege of the city, the Tang Dynasty had already surrounded the entire guest, after breaking through the guest, except for a few dead and wounded of the Ming army in the city, most of the others chose to surrender under the hopelessness of inaction.

Therefore, the number of prisoners captured this time was quite large, much more than those captured during the Battle of Liuzhou City, and a total of more than 8,000 prisoners were captured!

Unfortunately, the quality of these captives was not very good, because many of them were young men who were temporarily conscripted, and some were guardsmen.

However, although the quality is a little worse, but it can't be let go, Li Xuan personally made arrangements for these prisoners of war, the elite part of these people and people with skills and expertise, such as artillery, cavalry, etc., are naturally supplemented into the regular army, and the rest of the brain is added to the garrison.

The 3rd Garrison Brigade was replenished with a few hundred people, and then the 4th Garrison Brigade and the 5th Garrison Brigade, with these prisoners and captured cold weapons and equipment replenished, these two garrison brigades were finally fully equipped for the first time!

Of course, as for the combat effectiveness, it can only be hehe, but no matter how bad it is, it is still okay to use cannon fodder to consume the enemy's bows and arrows and shells!

After all, in the eyes of the Ming army itself, this guest is a barrier to defend the central and western parts of Guangxi, and it must be guarded for at least three or five months, and if it is more, it will have to be guarded for a year and a half, so a large amount of food and other materials have been hoarded in the guest.

Therefore, after defeating the guests, the seized grain was relatively large, but in addition to the grain, there was nothing else, especially the war horses, in the tens of thousands of Ming troops, they only captured twenty or thirty batches of horses that could be ridden!

That's an unbelievably small number!

There is no way, Guangxi is short of horses, the Ming army itself has no horses, and the Tang Army will naturally not be able to capture any horses, and now the horses in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, most of them are brought from Guizhou, and Guizhou is still continuing to search for Roman horses, although the southwest horses are short, but they can still be used.

There were also a small number of horses in the Ming army and the people in Guangxi, and basically all that could be found were requisitioned.

However, even so, the cavalry units of the Tang Dynasty Division's division are still seriously lacking, not to mention the serious shortage of reconnaissance cavalry teams under each infantry regiment, even the first cavalry battalion and the second cavalry battalion are seriously lacking.

If it is according to the establishment, a cavalry battalion should have four cavalry teams, each team also imitates the sign of infantry with 100 cavalry, such a battalion should have more than 500 cavalry, but in fact, the largest number of cavalry is the first cavalry battalion, with 300 cavalry, and the second cavalry battalion is now less than 200 cavalry.

The only cavalry unit with a full number of troops, only Li Xuan's cavalry team of the personal guard battalion, which is not only full but also overstaffed, has one hundred and fifty cavalry!

However, in the future, this guard battalion will be changed to the first battalion of the Guards, and its subordinate cavalry team will also be independent of the Guards cavalry battalion, so if you look at it this way, in fact, the cavalry of the Guards is also seriously lacking.

The reconnaissance cavalry team in the infantry regiments of the regular army has only twenty or thirty cavalry, and the most is only more than fifty people, such as the first step corps, the most elite infantry regiment in the Tang Dynasty's division, and its subordinate reconnaissance cavalry team is only more than fifty cavalry, and half of them are missing.

In addition, after the establishment of the infantry brigades, in fact, the missing reconnaissance cavalry units of the infantry regiments were concentrated under the direct jurisdiction of the infantry brigades, and like the battalion artillery units of the infantry regiments, they were actually directly under the jurisdiction of the brigades during battles.

As for the garrison, there is no cavalry at all, at most it is only allocated to a few heralds on horseback!

In fact, the demand for horses is very large, not to mention anything else, just the horses used by officers are not a small amount, and the horses used by artillery and cavalry are even more large.

Fortunately, they started in Guizhou, and Guizhou still has southwest horses, if they started in Liangguang, Huguang or Jiangnan, it is estimated that they can only use donkeys and mules instead, because these places are not the origin of horses.

Now in this part of the southwest, although it is said that the southwest is not good, and the number of meetings for a while and a half is not much, but there is a good one.

After defeating the guests, Li Xuan did not plan to continue westward with the army, and now there is basically no large-scale Ming army to the west of the guests, and the rest are some small miscellaneous fish, so that the fourth infantry brigade that has not yet formed an army and the fifth garrison brigade with full personnel continue to move westward, which is basically able to meet the needs of the battle.

And these two troops are the troops under the jurisdiction of the Third Army!

The day after conquering the guests, Li Xuan summoned Major General Li Chunjing, commander of the Third Army and commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade, to discuss the future march into the central and western regions of Guangxi, and instructed Li Chunjing to send troops south to seize the Lianzhou Mansion in Guangdong in addition to taking other state capitals in the western part of Guangxi in the future.

At the same time, it is necessary to deter, and even march into Yunnan, but the march into Yunnan is a matter of the future, and for the time being, it can be ignored, and even whether or not to quickly take other areas in western Guangxi is not very important, as long as Li Chunjing can maintain the situation in western Guangxi and ensure that when the army advances eastward, the rear road will not be disturbed and attacked, then it will basically be regarded as the completion of the strategic task.

In addition, Li Xuan also said that once the eastward advance of the army goes smoothly, then the defense of the entire Guangxi will be undertaken by the Third Army, and the First Army will naturally enter Guangdong eastward.

Li Chunjing naturally listened to Li Xuan's advice with great respect, and said that he would definitely defend the rear for the army, so that His Majesty could rest assured that he would advance eastward!

On the third day after conquering the guests, after the initial rest, the main force of the Tang Dynasty Wang Division led by Li Xuan personally was divided into two, and Li Xuan led the main force to the east, preparing to return to Xiangzhou to join the remaining troops, and then continue to march east to Wuxuan.

Li Chunjing led more than 2,000 people from the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Third Army and more than 6,000 people from the Fifth Garrison Brigade to continue westward.

These units of the follow-up Third Army will cooperate with the provisional 2nd Regiment that has entered Qingyuan Mansion to take Qingyuan Mansion, Si'en Mansion, and Nanning Mansion.

After completing the above-mentioned strategic tasks in the first stage, it will continue to attack Ketian Prefecture, Sicheng Prefecture, Zhen'an Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture and other places in the west, and at the same time, it will also go south to Qinzhou and Yong'an Zhou in Lianzhou Prefecture in Guangdong, and fight all the way to the Beibu Gulf.

The reason why Li Xuan specially ordered Li Chunjing to send troops south to seize Lianzhou Mansion was because this mansion was a prefecture on the western coast of Guangdong, and it had many natural harbors, such as Hepu, which was developed very early and had been used in the Han Dynasty.

In addition, there is a very important point that Guangxi is on the edge of the northern part of Vietnam, and what is there in the northern part of Vietnam? There are Quang Ninh coalfields!

Why do you mention the Quang Ninh coalfield in particular, not only because I think that it has large reserves and most of them can be mined in the open pit, but also because most of its coal is anthracite!

The Quang Ninh coalfield has the largest reserves, the easiest to mine, and the highest quality anthracite in East Asia!