When Liu Bagou heard Li Xuan's words, he knew that it was time for him to appear, and immediately took the initiative to pick up the conversation and said: "Your Majesty, the cabinet will definitely make every effort to ensure the logistics of the army!" ”

This sentence is the purpose of the cabinet ministries attending the meeting today, and this war, how to fight, and where to fight, naturally has nothing to do with Liu Bagou and other civilian officials.

The Tang Dynasty is different from the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials in the Tang Dynasty do not have the power to transfer troops and generals, and the power to transfer troops is in the Privy Council, more precisely, in the hands of the War Division.

The Cabinet's authority or responsibility for the military is to provide various logistical support such as soldiers, rations, and ordnance.

Therefore, the first sentence that Liu Bagou said was to express his opinion on behalf of the cabinet, that is, the cabinet will do everything possible to ensure the logistics of the army, just like they did before.

After Liu Bagou spoke, Qian Mengjiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also said: "What Master Liu said is very true, my Ministry of War will definitely do everything possible to increase the intensity of recruitment, and strive to more than double the original recruitment plan within half a month!" ”

Qian Mengjiu of the Ministry of War has already boasted about Haikou, and people from several other departments have also patted their chests one after another to express their positions!

The people from the Ministry of Industry said that the major workshops have already begun to fully implement the streamlined production mode and will start work day and night at all costs, and the output of all kinds of ordnance will certainly continue to rise by a large margin, and strive to double the output within half a month and triple the output within a month.

Well, provided that the supply of raw materials is sufficient!

The Ministry of Household and even the Ministry of Rites and other departments also said that they would support the military as much as possible in the operation and would not drag the military back!

But looking at the people in various departments patting their chests and making all kinds of guarantees, only Yang Xiucai, the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation, Yang Duwei's face was a little embarrassed, and at the same time, he kept accusing these colleagues in his heart.

Nima, you blow the cowhide one by one to the earth, and in the end it is not our tax department that takes the money and grain out.

What, the ordnance production of your Ministry of Industry is going to be doubled, Nima, where are the raw materials? It's not that we have to come up with silver to buy it.

Who pays the wages of workshop workers? It's not even from our tax department!

What, the number of recruits in your Qian Mengjiu Military Department is also going to be doubled, Nima, who will pay for the settling-in fee needed to recruit new soldiers? They are the Ministry of Taxation.

Who gives the recruits their food, drink, and even salary? It's not their tax department yet!

All of them are shameless bragging, and in the end they don't all count on our tax department, but our tax department can't play tricks, and it is impossible to say that a pile of stones will be turned into gold!

The tax inspection team has been running around the towns and villages day and night, but no matter how efficient the tax inspection team is, it is impossible to scavenge much silver from the already barren Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion.

Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion are two places where there is a limit to their population and wealth, and it is impossible to say that the Ministry of Taxation can collect as much as it wants, even if the Ministry of Taxation does not care about the lives of the people and forcibly raises the tax rate, but it is still difficult to support a new army of Datang that has reached 10,000 people and will quickly reach more than 15,000 people!

In ancient times, it was relatively reluctant for a hundred people to support a full-time soldier, but now, the total number of people and the number of troops under the rule of the Tang Dynasty has reached thirty to one, that is to say, an average of thirty people have to support a professional soldier, which is almost an impossible task for a feudal agricultural society.

But seeing His Majesty Li Xuan's gaze, Yang Duwei could only grit his teeth and swallow it into his stomach, and then said: "The Ministry of Taxation will definitely do its best to raise silver and grain, and will never let the soldiers go to the battlefield hungry and empty-handed!" ”

After seeing that all the departments of the cabinet expressed their attitudes, Li Xuan showed a satisfied look, this is what made the civil officials of the cabinet retreat, and the next imperial strategic meeting has nothing to do with them.

The task of the various ministries of the Cabinet is to prepare the soldiers, food, ordnance, and salaries, and the rest is left to the Privy Council.

And the military personnel who stayed behind actually didn't stay long, because the combat department had not yet come up with a battle plan, and there was no way to discuss it, what Li Xuan could do was to let the Third Infantry Regiment become an army as soon as possible, and let the combat division make a perfect battle plan as soon as possible.

At the same time, it was also decided to slow down the plan to go south to Guangxi, so that the first corps and the second infantry regiment would continue to garrison troops in Liping Mansion, since the Ming army in Guizhou had already come in advance, before the other infantry regiments had not yet formed combat effectiveness, it was natural to rely on these two infantry regiments as the core force to resist the Ming army.

The staff officers on the side of the Operations Department were also efficient, and in the evening, they had already come up with a preliminary strategic plan, and Zeng Ziwen took it to report to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan looked at this combat plan that had just dried in ink, and also judged the several preliminary plans put forward by the Operations Division.

The core of the plan is to let the first infantry regiment, the second infantry regiment, and the fourth infantry regiment arrive in the early stage, and at the same time, they can appropriately abandon the northern areas of Li Ping Province such as Tongguwei, and even the western part of Li Ping Province, exchange space for time, and wait for the formation of the Fifth Infantry Regiment and the formation of the Third Infantry Regiment and their arrival.

Half a month later, the main force of the whole army will be gathered, plus a number of reserve battalions temporarily formed, at least 13,000 people and the main force of the Ming army will conduct a strategic decisive battle, and the battle will be life and death!

The advantages and disadvantages of such a plan are quite obvious, the advantage is that in half a month, the strength of the new army of the Tang Dynasty in Liping Mansion will be at its peak, and the strength is expected to reach 13,000 people, and the artillery battalion will be able to gather multiple artillery pieces at that time.

According to the progress of our current artillery workshop, the Datang New Army is expected to participate in the battle with five 500-pound guns, six 800-pound guns, and two thousand-pound guns.

At the same time, in the case of strategic Armageddon, these artillery pieces can be used to their maximum power by presetting the battlefield.

At the same time, large-scale strategic decisive battles, especially field battles, are the war mode that the Datang New Army is best at.

And if such a strategic Armageddon can be won, then it will be equivalent to a battle to defeat the main force of the Ming army, and in this way, almost the entire Ming army in Guizhou Province will be annihilated, and then the huge Guizhou Province will be extremely empty, and the new army of the Tang Dynasty can march into Guiyang and take it if it wants, and truly seize the enemy of a province.

But the risk is also great, first of all, the Ming army will not sit back and wait for the decisive battle in half a month, the Ming army will definitely launch an attack from the north and west in this half a month, if it is not resisted, it will not take a few days to kill the city of Lipingfu.

At that time, the troops in Liping Fucheng will be completely surrounded if they are not careful, and then it will not be a decisive battle in the field strategy, but a breakthrough operation.

Moreover, there are more than 50,000 people in the Ming army, and Zeng Ziwen judged that this number will only be more and not less, Zhu Zhihai's assembled troops are a provincial force, tens of thousands of people are only in the early stage, with the increase of time, there will be more young people to be recruited, and it is possible for Zhu Zhihai to gather 100,000 troops at that time.

Under the disparity in troops, it is too risky to carry out a life-and-death strategic decisive battle in this way, if this is defeated, the Tang Dynasty will be finished.

In addition to the strategic Armageddon plan, the Operations Division also proposed that the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment, the main force already stationed in the city of Lipingfu, could quickly launch an attack on the Ming army that had entered Lipingfu in the early stage.

The advantage is that the number of Ming troops entering Liping Mansion in the early stage will not be large, and it will be relatively scattered, and it is expected to achieve relatively large results.

But there are also disadvantages, that is, it is easy to make the Ming army vigilant, find out the combat mode and strength of the Datang New Army, and finally act cautiously, which may lead to the Ming army grouping together and fighting against the Datang New Army for a long time, and this is also fatal to the Datang New Army.

Because the longer this kind of large-scale war lasts, the more uncomfortable it will be for the Tang Dynasty, and with only Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, the Tang Dynasty will not be able to maintain the high-intensity combat of the Tang New Army for too long.

If the new army of the Tang Dynasty wants to maintain its combat effectiveness and obtain sufficient resources, it must continue to expand, and maintain the combat and expansion needs of the troops by fighting and supporting the war.

The third plan is to use a large-scale mode of movement warfare, first concentrate forces to annihilate the 20,000 Ming troops that arrived first and attack from the north and northeast of Guizhou, and then turn around and march west to meet the 30,000 Ming army led by Zhu Zhihai himself.

The advantage of this is to disperse and defeat the Ming army, the pressure will not be too great, but the Ming army is not stupid, if they can't beat them, they will definitely stick to the reinforcements, and the 20,000 Ming troops in the north and south are very likely to defend to the death, and then wait for Zhu Zhihai's 30,000 Ming army source.

In this way, in the end, the Datang New Army may be flanked from the front and back, and even cut off the logistics supply line, and it is possible that the whole army will collapse.

Moreover, this plan is a huge test for the long-distance mobile combat capability of the Datang New Army, and the continuous rush has a very high demand for the army's logistics supply, soldiers' physical fitness, and the organization of the troops.

Regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the three combat plans, Li Xuan was also difficult to decide for a while!

Li Xuan himself is not a military expert after all, he was just an ordinary company employee in the early stage, and the biggest achievement in life was to soak in the front desk girl of the company that countless people coveted, and developed a lot of embarrassing postures.

Most of the knowledge of military affairs is through film and television dramas and these things, if you really ask him to make any large-scale battle plans, then he really can't do it.

In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the person with the most strategic vision today is not Li Xuan, a descendant, nor Hao Bonian, a front-line general, but Zeng Ziwen, a surrendered general from a family of generals, although he is not very capable, but he has learned various military theories since childhood, and all kinds of military books are familiar with his chest, and Zeng Ziwen After he came into contact with muskets and artillery and line operations, he actually has more say than Li Xuan in how to command a modern army, especially in strategic command.

That night, Li Xuan personally summoned Zeng Ziwen and a group of staff officers from the Operations Division, and asked the staff officers to conduct a war game deduction for all three plans.

According to the results of the deduction, Li Xuan finally adopted the third plan, that is, to meet the Ming army in the north first, and then to meet the Ming army in the west, taking advantage of the time difference in the middle to avoid the convergence of these two Ming armies and annihilate them one after another.

However, some revisions have been made to the third plan, for example, for the western part of Liping Province, even including the city of Liping Province, it is an area that can be abandoned, and the troops will all be assembled in the northern part of Liping Province in the early stage, and strive to completely defeat the 20,000 Ming troops in the north within half a month.

And in this half a month, the western region of Liping Province and even the city of Liping Province will be undefended, and if the Ming army in the west comes fast enough, it can be easily captured.

After the strategic plan was decided, in the second half of the night, there was a herald with Li Xuan's holy decree and quickly reported to the generals of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

At the same time, the Datang New Army has once again entered the tense moment when the war is approaching, and in the next few days, the Datang New Army will quickly go north, and then take the initiative to attack the 20,000 Ming troops from the north to the south!

On the same day, Zhu Zhihai also took the strongest army in Guizhou, and the 6,000 people of Fubiao, who belonged to him directly under the governor's direct jurisdiction, officially left Guiyang Mansion and entered Liping Mansion in the east.

At the departure ceremony, Zhu Zhihai boasted that he would go to Haikou: he will definitely set foot in Xingquan Mansion within a month and capture the puppet emperor Li Xuan alive!

In January, the slogan of Fuxing Quan's capture of the puppet emperor quickly spread throughout Guizhou, and even reached Li Xuan's ears!

Angered Li Xuan half to death, you paralyzed Zhu Zhihai with a big breath, and if you want to set foot in my Xingquan Mansion in a month and take my head, it depends on whether the soldiers under your command have this ability.

Of course, when Zhu Zhihai led Fubiao to the expedition, in fact, the other Ming troops had already set off, and the soldiers of the Ming army in the north had even arrived at Tongguwei.

And two tentative attacks have already been launched, and the number of attacking Ming troops has only increased, from a few hundred at the beginning to more than two thousand.

Fortunately, Hao Bonian sent an infantry battalion to the Tongguwei at the beginning, plus the two infantry teams originally stationed here, and the Ming army did not have much time to conquer the Tongguwei in a short period of time.

As for whether the bronze drum guard can hold on to the arrival of the main force of the army, there is no need to worry about this question, because at this time, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, and Wang Danxu have already taken the main force of three infantry regiments to the north one after another.

Their destination will naturally not be the Tonggu Guard, but the 20,000 main forces of the Ming army further north.

But in this way, the safety of the bronze drum guard is also ensured by the way.

The day after Hao Bonian and their army set off, many generals in Liping Mansion received Li Xuan's holy decree, which officially appointed Hao Bonian as the forward commander and temporarily commanded the three infantry regiments of the First Infantry Corps, the Second Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Infantry Regiment.

Li Chunjing and Wang Danxu are both deputy commanders.

But the point is not this sentence, the point is that the holy decree says that their majesty is going to drive the personal expedition again, and in the near future, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty will lead the personal guard battalion, the third infantry regiment, the fifth infantry regiment, the artillery battalion, the cavalry battalion, the reserve battalion and other troops to form the Chinese army.