The artillery used in this attack on Guangzhou fired the largest number of shells in the Tang Dynasty's division.

In the fiercest battle last day and night, each of those nine-pound guns fired hundreds of shells, and the rumbling of the cannons rang out from yesterday morning until dawn today.

The gunfire never stopped!

Without such powerful artillery support, the battle of the Tang Dynasty's division to attack Guangzhou City would definitely not have gone so smoothly.

You must know that the Ming army in Guangzhou also has a good artillery force, if there is no own artillery to suppress, the attacking troops will definitely be heavily killed by the Ming artillery.

However, even if a large number of artillery was used to successfully suppress the artillery of the Ming army, the continuous offensive operations, especially the strong attack on the Tang Dynasty division in the following days, still paid a lot of casualties.

Of course, your own losses are not small, but the results are also huge!

In addition to seizing the city of Guangzhou, a city with an important strategic position, it also killed no less than 3,000 Ming troops, captured nearly 10,000 people, and seized a large number of various materials, as well as almost countless grains and all kinds of cold weapons.

And more importantly, they also captured a large number of artillery pieces of the Ming army, although most of these artillery pieces are similar to small-caliber guns with bowl guns, which are not of great value for the Tang Dynasty, but they also captured some usable artillery, such as some general cannons, medium artillery such as Franc machine guns, although the quality and power are a little worse, but they can barely be used.

In addition, there were 12-pounder guns, 6-pounder naval guns, and 3.5-pounder naval guns purchased by the Ming army from foreigners.

These foreigner artillery pieces are all good things, and their quality and power can be regarded as the top in the Far East, even if it is the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi himself, they are also equipped with a lot of artillery purchased from foreigners.

After the capture of this batch of foreigners' artillery, plus the original foreigner artillery of the Tang Dynasty's division, it can even equip a whole battalion of foreign artillery, which can effectively supplement and improve the artillery strength of the Tang Dynasty's division.

And Li Xuan did exactly that, he took the two captured twelve-pounder guns and his own several twelve-pounder guns, and organized them into a twelve-pounder (nine-pound) artillery team.

The six-pounder (five-pound) guns were organized into two teams.

The 3.5-pound (three-pound) artillery was also organized into two teams.

The artillery of the four teams of five and three catties was independently organized into the Sixth Artillery Battalion, and this artillery battalion was prepared for the Third Garrison Brigade.

As for the nine-pound heavy artillery team, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, because these cannons, which weigh more than 2,000 pounds, are not suitable for field warfare, because their mobility is too poor.

The best place to belong is to carry them to the head of the city or other fortresses, of course, if they have to attack the fortifications, they can also be carried to the front line.

Therefore, it is not suitable to directly assign it to the major field armies.

The preliminary plan is that these nine-pound artillery pieces are still deployed in the Guangzhou area, as an important force to defend Guangzhou, to defend against the attack of the Ming army's sailors.

After all, Guangzhou is on the edge of the Pearl River, and at present, the Pearl River and the lower reaches of the Xijiang River are still under the control of the Ming army's naval division.

Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty division seized the city of Guangzhou, the first time was to strengthen the shore defense force, preparing to build a river defense fort on the sand in the southwest of the city.

The fort is directly opposite the Baietan, which is facing the Pearl River, as long as the number of artillery in the fort is large enough, it is enough to hold the Pearl River, so as to play a role in protecting the city of Guangzhou.

And these nine-pound artillery pieces will be placed here.

At the same time, there will be many large general cannons captured from the Ming army, Franc machine guns, etc., these artillery because of the quality and power do not meet the needs of the regular army artillery battalion of the Tang Dynasty Division, but it is too heavy and too large to be delegated to the infantry regiment as an infantry gun, so now the Tang Dynasty Division's treatment of this batch of artillery is basically used for urban fire resistance.

These captured artillery from the Ming army will be deployed in the city of Guangzhou and the Shamian Fort.

In order to protect the safety of the fort, the Tang Dynasty Division will also deploy a full 1,000 troops in Shamian, but it will not set up an independent fortress force like the Antelope Gorge Fort, but will still be under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou City Defense Force.

Because the Pearl River Delta has a dense water network, and the Pearl River Basin is not a complete river with only a single outlet to the sea, like the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

The Pearl River, in fact, is more appropriately called the Pearl River system, with the Xijiang, Dongjiang, and Beijiang rivers, and then these three rivers are connected to the dense water network of the Pearl River Delta, and form numerous outlets to the sea.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to rely on a single shore defense battery to hold the entire Pearl River water system, because the ships of these years are not steel giants, and the warships are small in the tens of tons, and the large ones are only hundreds of tons, and the draft is very shallow, and the many inlets of the Pearl River water system can be walked.

So now, Li Xuan has no intention of building a fort in Humen, because the famous Humen Fort in later generations will not be useful in this year, the river outside the Humen Fort is several kilometers wide, and the effective range of the artillery in this year is only a few hundred meters, if it is not for the kind of 48-pound or 64-pound artillery, it is difficult to completely blockade it.

It is better to build forts in Humen than to build forts directly on the sandy surface, and then build small-scale forts in several other estuaries in the Xijiang Valley, which are relatively small and can block the river without heavy artillery.

However, no matter how good the fort is, it can only be passively defended, and the best or even the only way to completely solve the maritime threat faced by Guangzhou and even the Pearl River Delta is to train a strong navy to directly resist or even destroy the enemy on the sea.

But the Datang Navy is not of great use, and for many years that Li Xuan expected, it will be of great use, without a large number of warships and naval guns, the navy is just an empty word, not to mention the current Datang Navy is not to mention fighting with the Ming Army and naval divisions, even some medium-sized pirate gangs can't be defeated!

In this case, the shore defense battery is still necessary.

The navy was weak and the coast was facing great maritime threats, which was why Li Xuan did not choose to establish the capital in Guangzhou, but in Zhaoqing.

In the construction of the capital in Guangzhou, he had to worry that the enemy would suddenly appear from the sea one day and then shell the city of Guangzhou.

After conquering Guangzhou, Li Xuan did not stay in Guangzhou for too long, but after staying for a few days, he led the Guards to return to Zhaoqing.

However, before returning to Zhaoqing, he still had to reorganize the existing troops in Guangzhou, or the entire Guangdong region, in order to better cope with the next war.

First of all, the 7th Garrison Brigade was separated from the 1st Army, and the garrison brigade was still stationed in the western coastal areas of Guangdong, and was preparing for the subsequent attack on Qiongzhou.

The 3rd Garrison Brigade will remain in the Pearl River Delta region, and its defense area will include Guangzhou, Foshan and other places, and in terms of administrative division, it will be the southern area of Guangzhou Prefecture, including the entire Pearl River estuary.

The follow-up task of the First Army was to go north to Shaozhou Mansion, but there was originally a temporary first regiment on the side of Shaozhou Mansion, and Li Xuan also planned to send the Liuzhou Independent Regiment to Shaozhou Mansion to fight, so the First Army only retained the backbone and prepared to separate a part of the main force from it to form an independent regiment.

That is to say, from the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 1st Baggage Regiment, the 1st Artillery Battalion, the 1st Cavalry Battalion and other regular army units.

Two infantry battalions, one reserve battalion, one five-pound field artillery team, one baggage battalion, and one cavalry team were drawn from the regular army of the First Army to form a mixed regiment with a new number, and the number of the first mixed regiment was awarded.

The vacancy that was transferred in the original army, the infantry unit is the simplest, and it is enough to directly send recruits to supplement the shortage, and the musket is directly used from the captured musket of the Ming army, and the number and establishment do not need to be changed.

However, in order to take Shaozhou Mansion in one fell swoop, Li Xuan would also send an artillery team of the Guards Artillery Battalion and a cavalry team in the cavalry battalion to temporarily reinforce the First Army, and the above two units would be returned to the Guards Army after the Battle of Shaozhou Mansion.

In the future, the First Army will continue to move north, and together with the Fourth Army, it will become the two main corps fighting in Huguang, and the garrison in the First Army is still the Fourth Garrison Brigade, but it is the reorganized Fourth Garrison Brigade.

Because after the Battle of Guangzhou, the Fourth Garrison Brigade was divided into two, and its original two garrison regiments, the Seventh Garrison Regiment, will join some of the Ming troops captured in the Battle of Guangzhou to re-form the Fourth Garrison Brigade.

The 8th Garrison Regiment will be expanded into a new 8th Garrison Brigade, and the supplementary troops will also be surrendered from Guangzhou, and in the future, this 8th Garrison Brigade will cooperate with the 1st Mixed Regiment to fight in the east of Guangzhou.

Although the First Mixed Regiment was established by drawing the main force from the First Army, it was a completely new unit, but in fact it could be regarded as a branch of various units of the First Army, and because it was established as a formed system, its combat effectiveness was not affected in any way, so the First Independent Regiment had perfect combat effectiveness and was able to enter into battle.

The task of the 1st Mixed Regiment will be to advance eastward to Huizhou and Chaozhou, while the 8th Garrison Brigade that cooperates with the 1st Independent Regiment will not be able to participate in the operation in a short period of time, and the early cooperation will be undertaken by a garrison regiment under the jurisdiction of the 3rd Garrison Brigade.

After completing the reorganization of the troops and the arrangements for the follow-up strategy, Li Xuan officially led the Guards back to Zhaoqing to continue to be his emperor.

But Li Xuan's departure did not affect the Tang Dynasty's strong rule over Guangzhou!

After Deng Guan, the first Guangzhou prefect of the Tang Dynasty, who was in charge of the affairs of the entire Guangzhou Prefecture, moved into the tattered Guangzhou Prefect's Yamen, he immediately summoned a large number of former Ming officials and gentry with heads and faces in the city.

Preparing to have a new official take office with three fires, no, it should be said that it is three fires for changing the dynasty!