At the beginning of the sixth year of Xuanping, the Tang Dynasty set off a reform of state-owned enterprises, which naturally caused a lot of discussions, some said that the Tang Dynasty competed with the people for profit, and some said that it could concentrate on doing great things.

However, this did not stop the Tang Dynasty from promoting the development of state-owned enterprises!

At present, what supports Datang Industry is actually still state-owned enterprises, or more precisely, those national defense enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, which are now directly under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

Although a lot of private capital has been invested in industry, more of it is still invested in some industries with small investment, quick results and large returns, and many of them are still some traditional industries.

To be honest, in addition to being able to contribute taxes, these industries are of little use for the current improvement of the current industrial strength of the Tang Dynasty, and they are also of little use for the improvement of national defense strength.

In the tone set by Li Xuan, that is, private enterprises should develop, and state-owned enterprises should also develop, the former let them engage in ordinary industries, make money, and provide economic firepower for Datang, while the latter is engaged in national defense and industries related to people's livelihood, and go hand in hand.

In addition, Li Xuan did not prohibit any private capital from entering the defense-related industries, shipbuilding, gun-making, ammunition and the like, as long as you have enough strength and technology, you can also get involved, and the official level will not set up any obstacles.

In fact, in the shipbuilding industry, many private shipyards have already undertaken the construction of military warships, and even frigates have received orders from private creations, and inland river warships and transport ships are mainly private shipyards.

Several state-owned shipyards are basically concentrated in the construction of large-tonnage capital ships, and even if they can build inland river warships, but the output cannot keep up.

For example, even the Ping-class patrol ships, the navy has placed orders for more than 30 ships, if these orders are completed by state-owned shipyards, it is estimated that it will take many years to build, but after the private shipyards undertake most of the orders, the speed of the navy's acquisition of Lianping-class Luo patrol ships will be greatly accelerated.

At present, the Lianping-class patrol ships have been built at a rapid rate of one launch a month, and the total number of them has been put into service, while the Datang Navy is preparing to build more than 50 such patrol ships, which will be widely used for patrolling and fighting along the coast, major inland rivers and lakes.

Fifty ships is quite a lot, but China is extremely vast, and once it is distributed to various places, it is actually far from enough for the navy.

Therefore, the navy will still build a large number of first-class, second-class, and third-class inland river warships as a supplement!

As for the frigates and cruisers in the ocean-going warships, the preliminary plan of the navy was to keep the number of frigates at 24 and 12 cruisers.

Each of them is assigned to the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, with Fujian Dayuan as the central point, the second fleet's operational area to the south, and the First Fleet's operational area to the north.

After many years of construction, the fleet of frigates and cruisers is already in its infancy, and it is estimated that in a few more years it will be possible to complete the initial expansion plan, and the next step is the construction of battleships and their normal replacement.

In terms of battleships, the Navy is not planning more construction plans at present, because even the first battleship is now a little unsure of how to design it, and I don't know whether the first battleship designed and built is really easy to use.

Therefore, at present, the Datang Navy is also crossing the river by feeling the stones, regardless of whether it is good or bad, build one first, and then talk about it, as for the follow-up construction plan, it is to see how this test battleship is, if it is good, then start to build it in large quantities, if not, then it needs to be redesigned and build a second test ship.

Such a battleship with a price of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, the navy did not dare to act rashly, if something went wrong, it would cause hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to be lost, at that time, Your Majesty was furious, and the navy did not know how many people would be unlucky.

After the Spring Festival, Li Xuan promoted the reform of state-owned enterprises in Jinling City, and at the same time, Wang Chaohong was also preparing to launch a general attack on Anqing.

The general offensive is naturally dominated by blasting and artillery battles!

If there are generals who have watched the battle of Yangzhou outside the city of Yangzhou, then they will find that the way the Second Army attacked Anqing was almost the same as the way the Third Army attacked Yangzhou.

All of them were through artillery bombardment, suppressing the artillery of the Ming army, covering the sappers and infantry to dig trenches, dig tunnels, fill the moats, and then deploy the heavy howitzers in front to obtain a better shelling suppression effect.

When these are ready, the blast is just in time!

The only difference is that Wang Chaohong arranged two blasts for the insurance period, and then sent assault troops to attack from two gaps at the same time!

When the assault force rushed forward, a fierce offensive and defensive battle broke out between the two sides, but even if the Broken Thief Army resisted stubbornly, it still could not withstand the onslaught of the Second Army.

Seeing that the resistance was hopeless, the Ming army in the city tried to break through, but at this time, Wang Chaohong's workshop was different from Hao Bonian, in order to reduce casualties and reduce the enemy's stubborn resistance, Hao Bonian's choice at that time was to let the Ming army escape by taking the initiative to give way to an opening.

But Wang Chaohong directly blocked Anqing City.

When a Ming army of nearly 10,000 people broke through, the fifth mixed regiment directly blocked them!

This battle lasted for about three days, and three days later, the red dragon sword banner of the Tang Army finally floated on the prefect's yamen in the city and on the city gate towers in various places.

And in addition to the conventional killings and captures of many Ming troops in this battle, they also have another very interesting gain, that is, they accidentally captured Yu Dayou!

The reason why it is said to be an accident is because this Yu Dayou was not caught by the soldiers of the Tang Army themselves at all, but a group of Ming army routs directly tied Yu Dayou and sent him over in order to surrender and invite merit.

According to the accounts of those who surrendered to the Ming army, that is, when the city was broken, Yu Dayou once ordered a breakthrough, but after the breakthrough failed, he ordered all troops to defend to the death, and the last soldier in the battle.

But not every army has the courage to fight to the last soldier, especially when there is no hope of victory, and the enemy on the opposite side is also kind to prisoners of war, so many Ming troops did not resist to the end as Yu Dayou imagined, but chose to surrender.

Yu Dayou led the remnants of the resistance in the city, and the remnants of the soldiers in his hands were left from nearly 10,000 to thousands, and finally only a few hundred people remained, but even so, he still did not give up!

When nearly 100 people were killed and wounded, and there were less than 500 remnants left around Yu Dayou, the remaining other generals didn't want to die, so they took their own soldiers into Yu Dayou's camp and came to a small mutiny!

Then he tied up Yu Dayou and surrendered in front of the Second Army!

Yu Dayou, who fought all his life, was betrayed by his subordinates in the end, and then sent to the enemy, which has to be said to be an irony.

But you can't blame those subordinates, where the two sides fought, there were more than 40,000 defenders in the city, but when the city was broken, the defenders in the city were at least more than 5,000 killed and wounded, and on the first day of the city, the defenders in the city were less than 20,000.

After the failure of the breakout, when Yu Dayou gave the order to defend to the death, they were already only nearly 10,000 people left, and in the next two days, they fought until there were only a few hundred people left, but even so, Yu Dayou insisted on continuing to resist.

In fact, they were able to fight with Yu Dayou's side after three days of hard fighting, and only launched a mutiny in the end, compared to other Ming armies, they were already much better, and in the past three days, a large number of Ming troops were forced to surrender to the second army every day.

Of the more than 40,000 Ming troops, about 10,000 people were killed and wounded, and a few thousand of them broke up and didn't know where to go, while the remaining more than 25,000 people all chose to surrender, well, including the pre-battle uprising.

This is not to say that their combat effectiveness is too poor, or their will to fight is too poor, compared to the original traditional Ming army guards, they are already much better, but they are against the Tang Army, and the methods adopted by the Tang Army to attack the city are almost impossible for them to resist.

Artillery bombardment and blasting, this method is not something that can be stopped by manpower, not to mention, the Tang Army that attacked Anqing City is not counted, there are 30,000 people.

When the Third Army attacked Yangzhou before, the total strength was less than 60,000, but the Ming army in the city exceeded 100,000, and the gap in strength at that time was even greater.

Therefore, the fall of Anqing City is inevitable, and the casualties and surrender of the Ming army in the city are also inevitable!

Looking at Yu Dayou, who was tied up and stuffed his tongue in his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide, Wang Chaohong also had a lot of feelings.

The two of them are also old rivals, in the fourth year of Xuanping, Wang Chaohong served as the commander of the newly established Third Army, and when he led the army into Fujian, he fought against Yu Dayou's thief army, and the thief army was almost driven by the third army all the way to the south-central part of Zhejiang.

Then the two sides fought for several months in the central and southern parts of Zhejiang, and finally ended with Yu Dayou leading the remnants of nearly 10,000 people to flee and run all the way to Anqing.

In recent months, Wang Chaohong has served as the commander of the Second Army, and he has been against Yu Dayou again.

The two separate generals led their respective troops to fight, and the Central Campaign lasted for about a month, from December to mid-January.

In the end, Anqing City fell, 40,000 defenders were annihilated, and Yu Dayou was captured.

Although he defeated his opponent and made the other party a prisoner of war, Wang Chaohong did not have the same contempt as other Ming generals and prisoners, on the contrary, he was quite sympathetic to this person.

In such a bad situation, it is not easy to be able to persist in fighting, to be honest, if he was in his environment, it is estimated that it would have been over.

After all, strictly speaking, Wang Chaohong himself is different from Yu Dayou, Wang Chaohong knows very well that he is a pure professional general, who only leads the war, and does not care about the rest.

However, this Yu Dayou still has to worry about military expenses, the manufacture of ordnance, whether there is enough military food, and he has to worry about recruiting soldiers and training recruits.

But Yu Dayou is a general, and many things should not have been worried about by him, just like himself, Wang Chaohong never worries about things other than combat command.

After ordering his subordinates to take Yu Dayou away and keep him strictly guarded to prevent him from seeking an opportunity to commit suicide, Wang Chaohong sighed!

In this way, it will fall on the side of the pseudo-Ming, like flowers inserted in cow dung!

It's a pity!