When Bai Yunqi spoke, everyone already knew that His Majesty had already made a decision.

Therefore, no one is stupid enough to say anything about the plan to go east or west, but there is a more detailed discussion about the plan for going south.

And this time the discussion is more about tactical issues, for example, if you want to go south, you must first hit Liping Mansion, and how to fight this Liping Mansion?

After fighting Liping Mansion, how should you face the Ming army coming from Guiyang?

The subsequent series of strategies will need to be considered in detail.

And these things are troublesome to say, but in fact they can be solved step by step, because the most difficult thing is to decide the general strategic direction, once the general strategic direction is decided, then the rest of the things are simple.

It's like eating, the hardest thing to solve is what to eat? Once you decide what to eat, then even if you encounter a traffic jam, an ex-girlfriend, or a restaurant closure, it is not a matter of changing the restaurant, after all, all roads lead to restaurants, as long as you identify what you want to eat, you can always find a place to eat.

Therefore, the atmosphere of today's imperial strategic meeting was quite friendly, and there was no longer a big debate about what to eat, a super strategic problem, but a focus on the details of where to eat and how to go.

Oh, no, is there no one arguing about going east or west, and starting to discuss how to fight Liping Mansion, and then how to go south into Liuzhou Mansion and kill to the sea.

At this time, Li Xuan just didn't pay much attention, but let these generals discuss freely.

After all, things that involve many details and tactics are not something that can be solved by one person's brain, what is needed is teamwork.

Li Xuan didn't care about the follow-up battle plan, but there was one more thing he needed to do personally, that is, to appoint the commanders of the four infantry regiments.

For the candidates for the commanders of the four infantry regiments, Li Xuan has already had a plan, first of all, the commander of the first step corps, Li Xuan has already booked Hao Bonian.

This Hao Bonian has performed quite well in the past few months, and Li Xuan's cultivation of him has not been in vain.

The commander of the Second Infantry Regiment is Li Chunjing, who also performed quite well in the Second Lanjiang Campaign and the Battle of Crossing the River, and recently he has become a representative of the new generation of senior generals together with Hao Bonian.

As for the commander of the Third Infantry Regiment, it is Fang Xitong, he is also one of the more outstanding generals of the new generation, although he is not as outstanding as Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing, but he is barely usable, and although this person is conservative, he is loyal enough, this aspect makes him add a lot of points in Li Xuan's heart.

The commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment is Wang Danxu, although Wang Danxu is a general from a bandit, and he is still illiterate, but he is relatively capable of a group of bandit leaders.

After all, bandit-born generals also need to be appeased, and the positions of the four regiment commanders cannot be arranged for none of them.

But it's only limited to Wang Danxu.

Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, Li Xuan is already preparing to marginalize them, of course, this marginalization does not mean that they will be directly deprived of their glory and wealth, but that they will no longer be allowed to command a large army alone.

In fact, this trend had already begun during the Second Lanjiang Campaign, and Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were still serving as battalion commanders, but in fact they no longer had the opportunity to lead the army to fight alone.

After deciding on the candidates for the commanders of the four infantry regiments, Li Xuan selected several outstanding young generals to become deputy commanders.

He also selected a few newly trained staff officers from the Operations Division under Zeng Ziwen as regimental staff officers.

Li Xuan had already tried to establish a staff officer system in the army before, but it was the first time that a staff officer position was really set up in the army.

After the commanders, deputy commanders, and staff officers of the four infantry regiments were determined, the commanders of the battalions below would also make a certain amount of personnel transfers, and most of the battalion commanders were promoted from previous officers.

If there is a change in the battalion commander, there will naturally be a change in the captain, and this has formed a large-scale wave of promotions from top to bottom, and the officers are basically promoted by one rank, and a few are directly promoted by two ranks.

Their respective military ranks have also been improved, for example, Hao Bonian became the first colonel in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chunjing, Fang Xitong, and Wang Danxu were also promoted to lieutenant colonels, and in order to appease, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were also promoted to lieutenant colonels in the form of deputy regiment commanders and battalion commanders.

The only thing that hasn't changed is Butcher Chen, because he was originally a major, and he used to run to the artillery team as an artilleryman, and his military rank was higher than Xie Ziwei's at that time, which was extremely troublesome.

After the artillery team was expanded into an artillery battalion, Xie Ziwei, the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, was promoted to major, and Butcher Chen, as the deputy commander of the artillery battalion, was naturally not good to continue to be promoted, and then pressed Xie Ziwei one level in the rank, so the rank of major remained unchanged.

And here, there is one person who has to pay attention to one or two, that is Bai Yunqi, in this personnel change, Bai Yunqi did not continue to serve in the field army, but was transferred to Li Xuan's personal guard unit, served as the battalion commander of the personal guard battalion, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

This Bai Yunqi is really not suitable for staying in the field army, even compared with Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, his ability is too poor, let alone going to the field army to be a regiment commander, even if he is a battalion commander, he is not able to do it.

So this time, Li Xuan simply transferred him back and served as the battalion commander of the Guards Battalion, so that he could continue to play a role and help Li Xuan see the Guards Battalion, a guard force that was related to his life's safety.

After the relevant appointments were issued one after another, it was natural that some people were happy and some were crying.

At the same time, after the formal personnel appointment was issued, it was also announced that the Datang New Army had once again entered a state of combat readiness.

According to the plan of the Operations Division, the first troops to enter Liping Province are the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment, these two infantry regiments will enter Liping Province in two ways, one south and one north, and the First Infantry Corps will go straight to Liping Mansion from the middle road to wipe out all the resistance of the Ming army along the way. The 2nd Infantry Regiment marched from the north, first conquered the Tonggu Guard, and then turned south to Lipingfu City, and cooperated with the 1st Infantry Corps to take Lipingfu City.

After taking the city of Liping, according to the prediction of the Operations Division, the 3rd and 4th Infantry Regiments should also come up, and these two infantry regiments will not participate in the actual combat missions in the early stage, which will undertake the task of maintaining the logistics line in the later stage, and at the same time use these time to continue to expand the troops.

However, the First Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment would go directly south to Liuzhou, Guangxi, capture Huaiyuan, kill Guilin, an important town in northern Guangxi, and then attack Liuzhou, an important city in the hinterland of Guangxi.

What to do after taking these two places in this way, although there are also general strategic arrangements, continue to go east to Wuzhou and south to the sea to reach Qinzhou, but how to go at that time depends on the situation at that time.

After all, the plan will never catch up with the changes, and who knows how the Ming army will respond when the time comes.