Once Li Chunjing led the main force of the Second Army to attack Wuchang in the northwest direction, then in Nanchang and Fengcheng and other places in the rear, there was only one Sixth Infantry Division left.

Although the Sixth Infantry Division has also been reorganized in recent times, it has not been completely completed, only a spear regiment has been reorganized into a musket regiment, and the artillery unit has only been expanded by one artillery battalion.

Although the Sixth Infantry Division, which has not yet completed its reorganization, has more than 13,000 men, the number of muskets is less than 3,000, and there are only more than 20 field artillery pieces.

The only thing that is better is that most of the heavy infantry in the 6th Infantry Division have also been reequipped with plate armor!

Plate armor, for the Datang Ministry of Industry, which has initially realized hydraulic power and mechanized production, does not have much technical difficulty, and even the biggest difficulty in manufacturing is that the production of steel is relatively difficult, but the processing stage is relatively easy.

Therefore, since the assembly line of plate armor was built, plate armor can be produced in large quantities almost every day.

Of course, although this kind of mass-produced plate armor is said to have defensive power, it has absolutely nothing to do with aesthetics, and even some soldiers who are relatively short or particularly tall cannot find a plate armor suitable for them to wear.

Because of Datang's plate armor, in order to simplify the process, provide production efficiency and reduce costs, only four fixed sizes of plate armor are produced, and if these four can't be worn, then there is no way.

Plate armor is easy to produce, and it has replaced the original armor in large quantities, especially iron armor, which has become the standard configuration of heavy infantry personnel.

In order to strengthen the defense of Nanchang and Fengcheng, although Li Chunjing took away the main force, he also left Cai Erhu a lot of weapons that could be used for defense, such as a field artillery battalion and a large number of grenades and mines for Cai Erhu.

In addition, a large number of artillery captured from the Ming army also continued to remain in Nanchang City!

And this part of the artillery captured from the Ming army is actually not a lot, and although the quality of those field guns is worse than that produced by the Tang Dynasty Ministry of Industry, it is barely usable.

In the first battle of Ji'an Luling and the first battle of Nanchang, the second army not only captured tens of thousands of Ming troops, but also captured a large number of ordnance of the Ming army.

On the other hand, some of the swords of acceptable quality were selected for the equipment of public servants, such as patrol police and tax inspection team personnel, and some were assigned to the cantonment regiment and the people.

As for the rest of the ones whose quality is too poor, they are basically directly returned to the furnace, and the scrap copper and rotten iron in these years are actually quite valuable.

As for thermal weapons, the handling of muskets is much more troublesome, although it shows that the muskets of the dynasty are imitations of the muskets of the Tang Dynasty, but their musket manufacturing is still in the manual stage, and the muskets made by each place, and even each craftsman only have a similar appearance, but in fact, the difference is quite large, and the most troublesome thing for the Tang Army is that their caliber is not uniform.

Quite a few captured Ming army muskets, with calibers ranging from ten to fifteen mm!

To be honest, until now, the officials of the logistics department of the Tang Dynasty have not understood how the musket of the Ming Dynasty can get so many calibers!

The musket ammunition used by the Datang Army is all paper shell fixed ammunition, and the propellant and bullet have been bundled together in advance, although only part of this bullet is directly produced by the arsenal, and many of the ammunition in the front-line troops are made locally, but if you want to make it locally, you have to have a mold to melt the lead bullet!

The caliber of this bullet is different, and the mold is naturally useless.

But it is even more impossible to throw these muskets directly, the Tang Army can directly throw away the cold weapons captured from the Ming army, but they still care more about guns.

In the end, there was no choice but to test the caliber of the captured muskets, and if the caliber was 14 mm, it was directly supplemented for the use of ordinary troops.

If the caliber doesn't need to be moved, there is no need to move other aspects, because the muskets made in the Ming Dynasty, crosshairs, rulers and bayonets are also all lacking, otherwise how can it be called imitation.

But if the caliber is not 14 mm muskets, then it is classified, and then if there are more arquebuses of a certain caliber, then they are concentrated on a certain unit, and at present, the muskets equipped with this special caliber are limited to auxiliary forces such as baggage and artillery transports, and the combat infantry is still not equipped.

At the same time, the mold for making lead bullets was specially created for these special muskets, and the amount of propellant was tested at the same time, and the paper shell ammunition standard that met the Datang Army standards was manufactured.

Among these captured muskets, the 13-millimeter musket was the largest, with more than 500 pieces, and the Second Army had already used this batch of 13-millimeter Ming-made muskets to equip two baggage battalions.

The muskets of other calibers are still slightly fewer, and they are still hoarded in warehouses in Nanchang and Ganzhou, and now the pressure on the Sixth Infantry Division is too great, and Li Chunjing also took out the remaining five or six hundred messy calibers and handed them over to the Sixth Infantry Division for temporary use.

It's better to be inconvenient than nothing!

The handling of muskets is troublesome, and the handling of artillery is quite simple, the arquebuses of the Ming army are not very good, but their artillery is not bad, although it is also said that there are quality problems of this or this.

However, they copied the artillery of the Tang Army, and its caliber still maintained the original caliber standard, which allowed the Datang Army to capture these field guns of the Ming Army, basically without adapting to them, they could be used directly.

Even now the five-pound field guns made by the Ming army are all made of bronze, although the manufacturing process is not very mature, but the life of the body tube is much stronger than the iron-cast five-pound field cannon of the Tang Army Ministry of Industry, and it is not easy to blow up.

The artillerymen on the front line actually like to run with the five-pound bronze made by the Ming army.

It's a pity that not many of these standard field guns were captured, and not many were produced by the Ming soldiers, and the most captured were those messy bowl guns, general guns, Franc machine guns and the like.

And these artillery, the artillery units of the Tang Army are basically not looked down upon, and most of these captured artillery pieces of the Ming Army were moved to the city by the Tang Army and used as fixed defensive firepower.

Li Chunjing also handed over these captured artillery pieces to the Sixth Infantry Division for use!

All this is to strengthen the defensive combat capability of the 6th Infantry Division!

When Li Chunjing left Nanchang with a large army and an equal number of people, a total of 70,000 people, Cai Erhu summoned the Sixth Infantry Division and began to arrange defense.

Of course, the detailed deployment was not done by Cai Erhu, but by the staff team of the Sixth Infantry Division.

Cai Erhu also knows that his cultural level is not high, and when it comes to various tactical theories, he is not as good as those staff officers who are from professional classes, so most of the time, he has great respect for the staff team under him.

The defense tactics formulated by a large number of staff officers are simple to say, and complex to say complex.

First of all, the main force of the 6th Infantry Division was stationed in Nanchang, and a regiment was also left in Xiafengcheng!

If the Fuzhou Ming army takes the opportunity to attack Fengcheng, then the defenders of Fengcheng will defend to the death, and then the main force of the Sixth Infantry Division will immediately attack, rush to Fengcheng, and annihilate the attacking Ming army under Fengcheng City.

If the Ming army in the direction of Jiujiang was also dispatched, there were fewer of them, and the Sixth Infantry Division didn't bother to deal with them.

But if the Ming army in the direction of Jiujiang and Nankang is the main force attacking, then it is not the business of the Sixth Infantry Division itself, and then Li Chunjing will lead the main force of the Second Army to intercept it directly.

When the time comes, even the Sixth Infantry Division will send troops north to fight with the main forces of the Second Army!

If the main forces of Zhang Yue Dubiao in the direction of Jiujiang and Nankang can be annihilated, even if Fengcheng is conquered, it will be worth it for Nanchang to be surrounded.

Li Chunjing led the army away, and Cai Erhu stayed behind with the Sixth Infantry Division, which also announced that the Tang Dynasty had launched the second round of large-scale operations of this year's autumn and winter offensive: to attack Wuchang!

As soon as Li Chunjing moved, the Ming army scouts in the nearby area immediately discovered the situation, and it was soon sent to the Ming army generals in the direction of Jiujiang.

Half a month ago, Zhang Yue had already returned to Wuchang and sat in the base camp of Wuchang to prevent any accidents in the process of cutting out the guards, and at the same time, it was also to urge his subordinates to speed up the recruitment of troops and the manufacture of guns.

Now, sitting in Jiujiang is Du Danqing, the commander of the Left Army, of course, this is not Du Danqing's official position, and it is not even a military general official position or dispatch recognized by the imperial court, this is just Zhang Yue's private appointment, his official is actually the right Yushi, a senior official of the fourth grade, and this is much higher than the fourth grade of the local official.

Left and right are the imperial history, which is usually the standard configuration of a provincial governor!

In other words, Du Danqing's political status is actually comparable to that of the governor of a province!

In order to solve the problem of supervising the ranks of the officials in the special civilian command of the New Army, Zhang Yue also took great pains, and he could not directly turn these civilian officials under his command into the official position of military attaché.

Therefore, the general soldier, guerrilla or anything can't be used, otherwise, a group of civilian generals under his command can hate him to death!

This official is a non-commissioned officer who was born in the imperial examination, and you give Lao Tzu a military general title, doesn't this treat this official as a rude martial artist?