For the Sixth Army, the staff officers of the Privy Council planned to do so, after the Sixth Army went to Liaodong, it would accumulate experience while fighting, as long as it was careful, there would not be any major problems, and as for the lack of experience of the recruits, the casualties would be relatively large.

The staff officers said that this is inevitable in the growth process of a unit, and the front-line troops have been damaged in battle, and it is enough to replenish new recruits later!

And how can you grow without grinding?

Before the Southwest Campaign, the Fifth Army was not a pure recruit, but now, after a Southwest Campaign, the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Army is not inferior to that of other armies, otherwise, the Privy Council would not have sent them to the northwest to garrison with confidence.

After the Liaodong Campaign, the Sixth Army will become an old army that can fight well, and it will be able to reassure people to garrison Liaodong in the later stage and expand its territory.

The navy said there was no problem, the army said there was no problem, and what Li Xuan had to do was to wait quietly for three months, and then wait for the start of the war in Liaodong.

The war machine of the Tang Empire did not stop with the end of the Southwest Campaign, but continued to run at high speed, with a letter from the Privy Council sent to all troops, many troops began to move and rushed to their respective defense areas.

Among them, the First Army began to quickly return to Zhili Sidao along the Yangtze River, and the Sixth Army also began to take ships in batches and go north along the canal or by sea.

These two armies exchanged defenses, which greatly increased the time for the Sixth Army to go north!

When the Sixth Army went north, a large number of ordnance materials were also loaded onto ships, and then began to be transported to the north, and several major transit ports, such as Guangzhou and Shanghai, were even a whole fleet, and a whole fleet sent all kinds of ordnance materials to the north.

In order to transport a large amount of materials in a short period of time, whether it is the armed transport ships of the Navy or the civilian ships recruited by the Navy's Logistics Department, they are all loaded with various materials to transport north.

Among them, only in the first half of July, there are more than 100 ships carrying the national flag of the Tang Dynasty and the flag of the navy or army full of all kinds of materials, and go to various ports in the north by sea.

Of these so many ships, only about 30 are actually armed transport ships owned by the Navy, and more are civilian ships recruited by the Navy Logistics Department or the Army Logistics Department.

According to the relevant laws of the Tang Dynasty, when there is a military need, the military has the right to call up any civilian vessel and the sailors on board, and the owner of the vessel may not refuse to be called.

Of course, the military will not call up ships in vain, during the call-up period, the military will give the shipowner rent according to the market price, bear the daily maintenance of the ship, the salary of the sailors, if in the process of conscription, the ship is damaged, sunk, sailors are injured or injured, etc., the military will repair, compensation, and compensation.

Of course, you can also refuse the military's call-up, as long as you are not afraid of ruining your family.

In addition, the logistics supply of the Liaodong Campaign this time is also different from the past, because this time the logistics supply will be divided into two parts, one is transported through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the other is by sea.

In order to avoid confusion in the management of transport vessels, the Privy Council and the Naval High Command negotiated and each set up a 'Maritime Transport Committee', with senior generals from the logistics departments of the Army and Navy in charge.

This committee will be dedicated to coordinating and managing maritime issues!

In the past, the army and navy were in charge of their own logistics and transportation, the army had a logistics department of the Privy Council, and the naval command also had a naval logistics department.

Therefore, there will be such a situation, the army will recruit a large number of sea-going ships or river transport ships, and then transport the army's forces, but the sea transportation needs the navy to provide escort, and when it comes to the coordination of the services, it is relatively easy to have all kinds of disputes.

In order to avoid this kind of trouble, the logistics departments of the two armed forces simply set up a maritime transportation committee to coordinate and manage it, and in the future, all maritime transportation tasks will be under the management of this organization.

At the same time, in order to avoid the generals of the army and navy from competing for power, the committee had a total of five members, two each for the army and the navy, and then Li Xuan sent one from the logistics department of the Hanlin Academy, a total of five people to form the committee.

Today, although there are many transport ships floating on the sea, some of which still carry the flag of the army, these ships will gradually be handed over to the navy in the future.

Of course, these ships are limited to conscripted civilian vessels, and the army's own armed transport ships are not among them.

Just like the Navy has a Marine Corps, the Army also has a fleet, and this fleet temporarily belongs to the Logistics Department of the Privy Council, and its name also has a strong army style, called the First Maritime Transport Division of the Tang Army!

Yes, that's right, this fleet is not called such and such a fleet, but a sea transport division.

At present, the division has a total of three Type 680 armed transport ships, six 460 armed transport ships, and a total of nine large armed transport ships.

In addition, there is a Arrow-type communication ship.

In short, it is strange, even Li Xuan felt special pain when he saw it, but the army general said that this army is so big, the sea transportation tasks are so frequent, and civilian ships can be requisitioned on a large scale during wartime, but in peacetime, to maintain the normal operation of the troops, it is also necessary to have many transport ships to transport various materials all year round.

If the army doesn't have ships, will it always ask the navy for help, and what if the navy can't spare a hand one day?

At first, the navy also had a big opinion, and later the army also made a certain concession, that is, the army no longer sought large combat ships on the sea, except for small river gunboats.

In the end, in a daze, the Army's First Maritime Transport Division came up with it, and the Army had a lot of money, so it ordered three 680 and six 460 transport ships in one go, and now they are also in service one after another.

However, this maritime transport division, like the Marine Corps on the navy side, has always been the main point of conflict between the army and the navy, and it is also an important bargaining chip for the two sides to compromise.

The army strictly restricts the size of the navy to expand the marine corps, and the navy also strictly restricts the scale of the army's maritime transportation division, plus there is Li Xuan on the top, so the two sides also maintain a relatively delicate balance.

For some small-scale maritime transport missions and even landing operations, the army did not bother to ask the navy for help, and it did it itself.

When the Navy launches landing operations overseas, there are also marines available, and there is no need to look at the face of the army.

However, this force is limited to small fights, and if it is a large-scale battle involving both the army and navy like the Liaodong Campaign, the two sides must sit down and discuss.

When many ships went north and brought a lot of supplies, Li Xuan also met Wang Chaohong, the commander of the Second Army, who rushed back from Sichuan!

Wang Chaohong is the commander of the Second Army, and the Second Army will be stationed in the southwest for a long time, and when he came back to report on his work, Li Xuan naturally attached more importance to it!

This time Wang Chaohong reported on his work, Li Xuan did not put it in the office, but in the courtyard outside, chatting with Wang Chaohong while walking!

Wang Chaohong's age is naturally not big if he is a military and political dignitary, he is only in his thirties, and if he is placed in that orderly and stable regime, he is at most a small character.

But in the Tang Dynasty, he was a lieutenant general in the army, one of the few army commanders whose reputation, seniority and real power were at the pinnacle.

However, such a person is nothing in front of Li Xuan, speaking of age, Li Xuan is younger than him, and the age gap between the two sides is more than ten years.

But when Wang Chaohong was by Li Xuan's side, he didn't have the majesty of a leading general, let alone put on a look like I am older than you and I am an elder, but he was extremely cautious in Li Xuan.

"In the southwest, the situation is not stable yet, I received a letter from the bottom two days ago, saying that the bandits in the southwest are very serious, and there are many mountain bandits of all kinds!" Li Xuan naturally wouldn't say these words for no reason, even if it was a walk in the courtyard, it seemed relaxed, but what Li Xuan said was that every sentence was very important.

Banditry, this is not a strange problem for the Tang Dynasty, although in the early days it was also in Liangguang and Guizhou, but it was only temporary.

In the next few years, the Tang Dynasty was busy fighting for hegemony in the world, and basically turned a blind eye to local bandits, all kinds of illegal armed forces, etc., as long as you don't rebel and don't resist taxes, then many times the military is too lazy to take care of them.

In recent years, there has been a shortage of soldiers, and many of the defeated soldiers have fallen into the grass, and at the same time, many people in poor mountains and remote areas also like to enter the people and become bandits.

This is not just about ordinary people, the gentry and landlords in many places are like this, usually, in their hometowns, it is the gentry and old men, but as soon as they turn around, they go out to loot with the guards and villagers.

For this situation, the previous Tang Dynasty did not have much time and energy to care, as long as it was not too much, the local regular army would not take care of it, and just let the local reserve division, or simply the patrol police deal with it.

In the past few years, such a situation has also emerged, except for several provinces in the north that have often experienced large-scale civil unrest due to natural disasters, and there have been no large-scale civil unrest in other places, especially in the south.

However, there are no large-scale civil unrest, but there are many small-scale thieves of all kinds!

Li Xuan said this to Wang Chaohong today, hoping that after Wang Chaohong returned to Sichuan, he would be able to preside over the important task of exterminating many chaotic thieves in the southwestern provinces.

In the next step, the strategic task of the garrisons in the southwestern and even southern provinces is not to wage a large-scale war with foreign enemies, but to suppress bandits!

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