In the battle to conquer Luling City, although there were only 12 heavy artillery units, they actually played a role more than the 100-odd field artillery pieces, and at least 60 percent of the results of the artillery bombardment battles judged by the combat staff officers of the Second Army were achieved by the 12 heavy howitzers.

He even put forward a hypothesis: if there were no heavy howitzers in this battle, the casualties of the Second Army in this battle could have exceeded 5,000, and the time required to attack the city could have dragged on to more than five or even ten days.

Therefore, the operational staff officers of the Second Army suggested to Li Chunjing: In the follow-up siege campaign, the siege tactics should be designed with heavy howitzers as the core!

Li Chunjing naturally would not ignore the suggestions made by the operational staff officers of the Second Army to Li Chunjing, and even he himself saw this tendency, so he also actively applied to Zhaoqing for more heavy howitzers.

It is best to have more 48-pound heavy artillery, if this kind of heavy artillery is not enough, 24 pounds can also make do, as for smaller calibers, the explosive power of the shells fired out is limited, and the use in attacking the fortified operations will be relatively limited, but he also suggested that the 18-pound medium howitzer can be appropriately developed, as long as the number is large enough, it can also have a certain effect.

Li Chunjing's excerpt was soon delivered to Zhaoqing through Pegasus, and appeared in Li Xuan's hands.

After reading the battle report, Li Xuan said to a group of generals in the Privy Council: "It seems that the effect of this howitzer is good, and the army should send the howitzer as soon as possible!" ”

Zeng Ziwen said: "Your Majesty, the army is also speeding up the training of the second heavy artillery battalion, and at the same time it has begun to prepare for the construction of the third heavy artillery battalion, but due to the limited production of heavy artillery, the artillery of the second heavy artillery battalion is not yet full, and I am afraid that it will not be able to be sent to Jiangxi to fight during this time!" ”

Li Xuan said: "You don't have to worry about the production of heavy artillery, I will personally ask about it, within ten days, I must see the second heavy artillery battalion set off for Jiangxi!" ”

Li Xuan said that there was no need to worry about the output of heavy artillery, Zeng Ziwen had anything else to say, so he naturally nodded yes!

"And medium-caliber howitzers, what do you think about this? Is there an equipment plan on the part of the army? Li Xuan said: "If the effect is okay, we must speed up the equipment, the enemy will not give us too much time!" ”

"Now the puppet Ming has also begun to learn from us to build guns and build a new army, Zhang Yue's supervision is an obvious example, the puppet Ming has more strategic resources than us, and the speed of making guns and artillery will not be fuller than ours, I'm afraid it won't be long before what we see is not 40,000 governors, but 80,000 or even 100,000!"

Zeng Ziwen said: "After the minister went back, he immediately began to organize relevant tests!" ”

"Well, for the army, I still rest assured, you have to do a good job in the aftermath, the promotion of meritorious soldiers must be promoted as soon as possible, and the treatment of wounded soldiers must also do their best, these are all veterans, let the wounded return to the battlefield as soon as possible.

The bereavement of the fallen soldiers should also be arranged as soon as possible, and the families of the fallen soldiers should be comforted well, so as not to let the military families chill their hearts!

These are soldiers who are fighting for me and the Empire, and we can't treat them badly! ”

Zeng Ziwen said: "Minister, obey the order!" ”

"Alright, let's go back and get busy!"

After Li Xuan let a group of army generals out, he was not idle, but was ready to start his second strategic meeting today: the naval strategy meeting.

After Zeng Ziwen went out with a group of army generals, he happened to see Bao Yifen coming over with five or six naval generals, and immediately Bao Yifen stepped forward and said: "Congratulations to the army, I heard that you have won a battle in Ji'an!" ”

Zeng Ziwen said with a smile: "A small victory is not enough to worry about, in this battle, it is also troublesome for the strong support of the Ganjiang Detachment of the Navy, Zeng Mou thank you on behalf of the army!" ”

Bao Yifen seemed to be in a good mood, and immediately said: "It's all a trivial matter, if the army needs it in the future, speak as soon as possible, and the navy will do its best!" ”

These two senior generals who each represent the army and navy in the center of the empire are smiling, and the tone of each other is very kind, and people who don't know really think that the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty are a family.

But in fact, these two bigwigs talked happily with each other, but their respective subordinates were all straight faces, without looking at each other, and it was estimated that many people were scolding each other for being turtles.

After a brief conversation, Zeng Ziwen just said goodbye to Bao Yifen, and then took the people away, and when he walked away, Zeng Ziwen showed a disdainful expression and said: "A group of turtles, if it weren't for the follow-up Jiangxi Campaign, there would be a place where they could be used, and the officials would not be too lazy to take care of them!" ”

Coincidentally, after Bao Yifen left, he also spat on it: "What kind of thing, if it wasn't ordered by His Majesty personally, it would be up to you to command our navy to fight!" ”

Soon, Bao Yifen walked into the conference room with his subordinates, and after saluting Li Xuan, who was sitting on it, seven or eight naval generals sat down!

Then Bao Yifen began to report on a series of recent naval wars.

The battle of the navy was far more complicated than that of the army, and even more time-consuming, although it was said that it had recaptured Lantau Island and annihilated the Ming naval fleet stationed on Lantau Island, but it still continued to fight off the coast of the Pearl River estuary.

In the battle to attack Lantau Island, the Tang Navy relied on its suddenness to directly surround the port of the Ming Army's naval division with a large number of small fireships, and then launched a fire attack, while the main fleet carried out artillery suppression on the periphery.

The Ming Navy also tried to break through, but there were not many ships of the Ming Navy on the island, so they were quickly beaten back, and finally the Navy Transport Army successfully went ashore and captured the island, and the ships of the Ming Navy Navy Division sank a lot, and there were also those who surrendered and were captured.

The more than 2,000 Ming army and sailors on the island were annihilated by the cooperation of the army and navy!

After recapturing Lantau Island, the troops of the Tang Navy were divided into three routes, the Pearl River Fleet returned to the naval base and the estuary of the Pearl River West River, and the first fleet continued to clear some small islands off the Pearl River Estuary, some of these small islands were occupied by the Ming army and sailors, some were simply occupied by pirates, and the Franc machine man also occupied several small islands.

However, these small islands were relatively small, and it was impossible for the enemy to garrison too many troops, ranging from dozens to hundreds, and they were soon swept away by the First Squadron one by one.

The second squadron, however, sailed directly to the sea and cruised off the Pearl River estuary!

However, limited by the means of communication, it is relatively difficult for the navy to contact the second detachment after going to sea, and it can only know their approximate location through communication speedboats every few days, because the combat mission of the second detachment is to go to sea to cruise, and then clear the Ming army, the Francophone fleet, and even pirates in the open sea are also their combat targets, so the patrol range is quite large, from the Qiongzhou Strait to Nanao Island, it is the patrol combat range of the second squadron.

The pirates are also smart people, they will not challenge the Datang Navy at this time, especially in the coastal waters to challenge the Datang Navy, their purpose is not to challenge the sea power of the Datang Navy, they are just for money, and there is no half-dime benefit from fighting warships, so after approaching the coast of Guangdong, they will all become ordinary maritime merchants!

And the Datang Navy also turned a blind eye to this, anyway, in these years, all maritime merchants can basically have something to do with pirates, they are maritime merchants in the port, and they become pirates after going to sea.

As long as they are not blatantly confronting the Datang Navy, or plundering under the nose of the Datang Navy, the Datang Navy will be regarded as not seeing it.

Otherwise, so many pirates can't be controlled at all, and if all the pirates are killed, it will be equivalent to killing all the maritime merchants, who will come to Guangzhou and Lianzhou to do business!

What the Datang Navy needs is to maintain maritime order along the coast of Guangdong, and as for these pirates or maritime merchants who plundered each other after leaving the coast, it was beyond the control of the Datang Navy.

After the second detachment was dispatched to patrol, the results of the battle began to come frequently, and several Ming naval division warships were sunk, and three Ming naval division warships and more than 200 sailors were captured.

Bao Yifen said that in the future, the navy's sea patrols will be normalized!

At the same time, the navy is also preparing to intercept the counterattack of the Ming army's naval divisions at any time.

But what is strange is that the Datang Navy has been at sea for many days, and it has not seen the main force of the Ming Army's naval division in the direction of Nanao Island!

What they don't know is that the Ming army on Nanao Island is also miserable!

This pirate who is very close to the land, itself has no output, and there are more and more Ming troops on this island, at first there are thousands of remnants of Liangguang, and later more than 3,000 people of the Fujian Ming army have been reinforced, plus thousands of Ming army sailors and the original army of Nanao Island, so that more than 10,000 people have gathered on this small island.

The food, ordnance and other materials needed by more than 10,000 people need to be transported from the sea, but now the focus of the Ming Dynasty is not on Nanao Island, but in the direction of Huguang and Jiangxi, and a large number of resources are sent to the above areas, even if there are some leftovers, they are also sent to Fujian.

As for Nan'ao Island, it seems to have been forgotten, although there is food and salary delivered every month, but it is not much.

Not to mention the shortage of food, and now there is no competent person on the island to command the army!

Since Wang Yue, the governor of Liangguang, was captured and returned to Beijing to await trial, all the Ming troops in the place were under the command of Qin Zhifu, the commander-in-chief of Nanao Island.

But this Qin Zhifu is not a subordinate of Liangguang and Fujian, nor is he a military general from Fujian, he, the general army of Nanao Island, actually exists independently, but he does not have many descendant troops under his hands, which also leads to the fact that they can't control the remnants of Liangguang and the reinforcements from Fujian, and even the sailors don't care much about him.

The dignified general army of Nanao Island was unexpectedly overturned by the tripartite people.