The Tang Dynasty has also tried several times in the garrison area, and in the early days, it was a robbery hunting camp, but later the robbery hunting camp was unusable, and the combat effectiveness was not even comparable to the tax inspection team, not to mention assisting the regular army to fight, and it was difficult to even suppress local turmoil.

In the early days, there were quite a lot of unrest caused by various armed tax resistances, and at that time, because the robbery camps were so useless that the tax inspection team had to be self-reliant, equipped with guns and artillery, and more seriously, directly requested the assistance of the regular army.

So later, the Tang Dynasty simply withdrew the robbery camp.

Later, I also tried to use the garrison formed by the Ming army as a second-line force, but I found that this method was not good, the combat effectiveness of the garrison army was still very poor, and because the quality of the Ming army's troops was uneven, and later when the military system was reformed, the garrison army was also withdrawn.

Later, although there were militia organizations in various places, the militia organizations were very scattered, and the scale of the various places was not large, and the equipment was not good, and it was okay to deal with ordinary bandits and small-scale riots, but it was also difficult to undertake the heavy task of assisting the regular army in combat.

So for a long time, the task of garrisoning the rear was entrusted to the supplementary brigades and the mixed regiments stationed in the garrisons.

The supplementary brigade is actually a new battalion with an establishment, and with the regularization of training, the training time in many new barracks has been extended to more than three months.

Now, the supplementary brigade has officially disappeared in the Tang Army, and instead of it, there are many mixed regiments!

In the current mixed regiments, those with strong combat effectiveness can stand shoulder to shoulder with the main force, while those with poor combat effectiveness will not be much stronger than the previous supplementary brigades.

But in any case, the mixed regiment belongs to the regular army, and the quality of the soldiers is not bad, but the equipment is poor, and the combat experience is a little lacking.

Even if the enemy army is attacking in a big way, it is no problem to hold on for a while and wait for the main force to come to help.

This has made the army more enthusiastic about organizing and training this kind of mixed regimental troops.

At present, every province has at least one mixed regiment stationed in it, and near the front line, there are also mixed regiments that specialize in front-line operations, such as the 7th Mixed Regiment, which has always undertaken the battle on the Sichuan side alone.

At present, there are several mixed regiments in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei regions, although the combat effectiveness is average, but if one more Tenth Infantry Division is left to assist in the defense, Li Xuan can also rest assured that the Guards and other main forces of the Fourth Army will go north.

Li Xuan went north to conquer in person, and it was not known to the whole city, because it was only two days before and after, Li Xuan was sure and went north with the guards, so after Li Xuan went north, many people still didn't know that Li Xuan went north to conquer in person.

In mid-April, Li Xuan led the Guards to Yangzhou on transport ships and naval warships, and then changed to inland river ships to continue along the canal north, and it did not take long to successfully reach Huai'an, and made a rendezvous with the main force of the Fourth Army, and then continued north along the canal to Xuzhou.

At this time, Xuzhou had become the base camp of the Tang Army to the north, and many troops and materials were concentrated here, and then set off to the north or west.

But Li Xuan did not stay in Xuzhou for too long, but after resting for a day, he continued to lead the army north, and then went all the way to Jining, the capital of Yanzhou.

Yanzhou Jining Prefecture, a city on the edge of the canal, has changed differently than before.

In the past, relying on the canal, the city of Jining Prefecture was extremely prosperous, even if it was not as big as Yangzhou, Huai'an, and Xuzhou, but it was much better than many small cities.

But since the winter of the previous year, after Jiangnan was occupied by the Tang Dynasty, Caoyun was cut off, and many cities on the canal that relied on Caoyun were naturally devastated, and they were no longer prosperous.

After a year of silence, this Jining is lively again, but this time it is not those Cao transport fleets that come to Jining, but the Tang Dynasty Wangshi!

The Fifth Infantry Division had conquered the area seven days earlier, and then the Fifth Infantry Division had sent another regiment to attack the city of Yanzhou, and it had been successfully conquered.

The Ming army had already begun to shrink its forces, and did not leave too many troops in Yanzhou and Jining, so in the face of the attack of the Fifth Infantry Division, the local Ming army did not put up strong resistance at all.

Most of them are symbolic resistance, followed by a simple rout or surrender.

These Ming soldiers who stayed in the local area were generally guards, or even just local young and strong, and they themselves knew that they had been abandoned, and it was unreasonable not to resist, and it was even more unreasonable to resist desperately.

So they will resist if they resist, but ordinary is symbolic resistance!

The Fifth Infantry Division didn't even put on a posture, but took Jining and Yanzhou down.

And today, there is a serious atmosphere in Jining City, and the soldiers of the brigade have already completely blocked the whole city, so that the natives in the city, who are not many in the city, are even afraid to go to the street.

Outside the city, Hao Bonian was already waiting outside with many senior generals of the Third Army.

The only person who could let Hao Bonian go out of the city and wait was naturally Li Xuan.

According to the messenger's report, the holy car is already only about twenty kilometers away from Jining, and it won't take long to arrive!

However, Hao Bonian and the others were not waiting for Li Xuan first, but the soldiers of the Fourth Army, and after the arrival of the Fourth Army, the surrounding area of Jining was even more crowded.

Originally, Jining City was small, and the garrison strength was at most about one division, and it was useless to let go of more, and the other main forces of the Third Army were stationed outside the city.

After the Fourth Army arrived, it took over the troops originally stationed in the city of the Third Army and took over the defense of Jining City.

Then, an infantry regiment of the Guards arrived, and after this infantry regiment of the Guards arrived in Jining City, it directly began to inspect all parts of the city. Subsequently, the troops of the Guards arrived one after another, and they entered the city directly, and took over the garrison of the main roads along the Holy Drive.

These measures are naturally to ensure Li Xuan's safety.

As Li Xuan's guards, the Guards are naturally Li Xuan's there, they are there, and Li Xuan's escort work has always been done by the Guards.

After waiting for a while, everyone saw that a fleet of ships had arrived on the canal one after another, and this fleet was Li Xuan's fleet.

Li Xuan went north this time, in addition to carrying the main force of the Guards and the Fourth Army, he also brought a large number of important ministers to the north.

The minister on duty in the imperial study room came four of them this time, and Liu Bagou took the other three to stay in Jinling City.

In addition, in order to ensure the safety of the rear, Li Xuan also urgently transferred the personnel of the Fourth Infantry Division and several mixed regiments left behind in Jiangnan before leaving.

And who is behind Bai Yunqi?

It's the White Queen Mother!

What does the White Empress Dowager care about the most? What she cares about the most is her baby son Li Xuan!

In the Tang Dynasty, the only person who can really make Li Xuan believe is the Empress Dowager Bai, no way, that is the original mother, and Li Xuan also knows that in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Bai, except for her precious son, everyone else is not taken into her eyes, and with the Empress Dowager Bai sitting in the rear, Li Xuan is also relieved.

And the main officers of the 10th Infantry Division and several mixed regiments are all officers who graduated from the Imperial Academy, and a few of them are even young military camp students whom Li Xuan admires and has personally taught, in private, these people are qualified to call Li Xuan a teacher.

In the great Tang Dynasty, there were countless soldiers of the navy and army, although the students of the Imperial Academy could be regarded as protégés of the Son of Heaven, but those who had really received Li Xuan's long-term teaching were basically students from the young military camp, and among them, there would be no more than thirty people who were qualified to call Li Xuan a teacher in private.

It can also be seen from this that although Li Xuan went north to conquer in person, he still left a back hand in the rear to avoid accidents.

Although the chance of an accident is not too great, you must always be on guard!

After Li Xuan's fleet arrived at the dock outside the city, before anyone got off the ship, Hao Bonian boarded the imperial ship with a scholar from the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy and faced the saint alone.

More than ten minutes later, Li Xuancai appeared in the sight of all the generals, only to see him walk out of the cabin, wearing his unique golden silk dragon pattern general's regular uniform, not wearing a military rank, and the command knife commonly used by the Tang generals hanging from his waist was not a sword, but a sword, with black leather gloves and long leather boots.

When Li Xuan walked out of the cabin and stepped on the red carpet to the shore, a group of generals in front of him bowed their hands and saluted, which was the official military salute stipulated by the Tang Dynasty military.

On ordinary occasions, when soldiers wearing military uniforms face saints, they replace kneeling with military salutes.

At the same time, it is stipulated that except for the official occasions such as the grand court meeting, military personnel are not allowed to bow down at other times, especially when they explicitly stipulate that when facing superior officials, they are not allowed to bow and bow, and all military salutes are used instead.

At the same time, many generals also shouted in unison: "Ministers knock to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" ”

Li Xuan looked at the generals who had saluted several times in a row, his expression remained unchanged, he just nodded slightly, and then raised his hand with black gloves slightly, and then said lightly: "Zhong Aiqing is flat!" ”

Naturally, his voice was not very loud, only a few people around him could hear it, and the officers who were almost hundreds of people outside were naturally unable to hear it clearly, but the attendant on the side immediately sang aloud: "Your Majesty has a decree: 'All Aiqing is flat!'" ”

At this time, all the officers put down their bows together!

Immediately, Li Xuan, accompanied by Hao Bonian, met with a number of generals above the brigadier general level one by one, as well as a few representative regiment commanders, each of whom simply said a few words, mainly encouraging.

And although these generals are already big names in front of outsiders, but in front of Li Xuan, they are acting like a child, when Li Xuan held the right hand of a young colonel who was injured in battle and only had his right hand left, he said: "Aiqing has worked hard!" ”

The young colonel's tears flowed down instantly, and he was a little excited when he spoke: "Minister...... The minister does not work hard, fight for His Majesty, that is the honor of my generation of soldiers! ”