Among them, the commanders of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment have already carried the Holy Decree south to Liuzhou, and are currently recruiting new recruits in the Huaiyuan and Rongxian areas, while the commanders of the 9th Garrison Regiment and the 10th Garrison Regiment are also continuing to go south, and it is expected that they will be able to arrive here to accept these prisoners of war within three days! ”

Hao Bonian said: "In this way, this time two infantry regiments and three garrison regiments have been established in one go, in this case, I am afraid that there will be one more fourth infantry brigade and two garrison brigades!" My Datang army expansion is going smoothly, and ZTE is just around the corner! ”

When everyone heard this, they also nodded slightly!

As a member of the Tang Dynasty, they pinned their heads to the trouser belt He Mingjun was fighting, what they wanted was not glory and wealth, the Tang Dynasty was becoming more and more prosperous, and the heroes who fought the world with His Majesty would enjoy better glory and wealth!

So this expansion of the army is a good thing!

The size of the army is huge, and they have more opportunities for promotion!

At present, there are as many as three infantry regiments that the military is preparing to build, and where will the officers of these infantry regiments at all levels come from?

However, these people obviously did not consider how to solve the guns needed to prepare for the establishment of the 6th Infantry Regiment, the 7th Infantry Regiment, and the 8th Infantry Regiment.

Because they are all officers in the field army, and the ordnance is the business of the Cabinet and the Privy Council Ordnance Department, they are only responsible for fighting, and they don't care about the supply of ordnance.

Besides, they also heard that the Ministry of Industry of the Cabinet was already planning to build a new workshop base in Liuzhou City, although Liuzhou City had not yet been taken, but they officers had already regarded Liuzhou City as something in their pockets, and it was only a matter of time before they took it down.

If it weren't for the purpose of using Liuzhou City as a bait to attract reinforcements from the Ming army, and then encircling the point to send reinforcements to annihilate as many Ming troops as possible through field battles, they would have taken Liuzhou City a long time ago.

Even if the Ming army in Liuzhou City couldn't shrink back, the first tentative attack was a failure, but as long as they put a little effort into it and were willing to pay a certain price, it was definitely possible to take out Liuzhou City.

Deal!

It's a big deal to let those Ming troops surrender to be cannon fodder, just like the original Battle of Lipingfu!

At the beginning, there were more than 20,000 Ming troops in the city of Lipingfu, and many of them in Guizhou Fubiao recruited troops could not stop the attack of their own army, so this Liuzhou capital city could be stopped? Just kidding!

After taking Liuzhou City, the people on the Ministry of Industry will be able to produce guns and ammunition near Liuzhou, but it will be more convenient to supply them themselves.

Well, when they think so, they also don't think about it, the production of guns also requires a large number of craftsmen and ordinary workers, and even more needs a large amount of gold and silver to purchase raw materials.

They are soldiers, and they naturally can't manage and don't bother to take care of these money and production matters, they are only responsible for fighting the war.

And if there are no guns in their hands for them to fight, it is naturally the business of the Ministry of Industry and the Ordnance Department, and it has nothing to do with them.

When everyone talked about the bright prospects for the future, they also continued the meeting, which was a serious matter, mainly to discuss the gains and losses in this battle.

It has been a long-lasting tradition of the Tang Army to hold a post-war meeting after the battle, summarize the advantages and disadvantages, and form a paper report to submit to the boss and finally summarize the report to the Operations Division.

Regardless of victory or defeat, the advantages should be summed up, and they should be maintained and carried forward in the future, and the disadvantages should also be summarized and avoided in the future.

The focus of this discussion is the zigzag regiment-level phalanx used by the Tang Army for the first time!

In the past, the basic tactical phalanx of the Tang Army was limited to the battalion level, and when fighting, even if it was a large-scale battle of tens of thousands of people, each infantry battalion was in its own formation, and although the regimental level troops also coordinated the operation of the subordinate infantry battalions, in fact, these infantry battalions could be said to be fighting on their own, but they were only able to cooperate.

This time, the First Infantry Brigade of the Tang Army adopted the regimental-level phalanx tactics proposed by Hao Bonian for the first time.

Even if the battle was won this time, to be honest, the victory in this battle was not directly related to the regimental level phalanx tactics, because the Ming army had already retreated on its own before the short-handed phase.

Later, the role of the infantry was to charge and pursue, and after the charge and pursuit, the formation of the troops could not be maintained, and in the end it was not dared to say that it was a mess, but in fact, the huge regimental phalanx had already existed in name only.

At this time, Li Chunjing was the first to speak: "Li Mou first threw bricks and stones, the advantage of the regimental phalanx is that everyone knows, that is, it can organize a wider front in a large-scale battle, although the depth is a little shallower than the previous phalanx, but through crossfire, it can exert a larger musket firepower, and form crossfire on some fronts, and the mobility is also quite good, which can effectively maintain the unified and rapid mobility of the entire infantry regiment, and at the same time can also have excellent defensive resilience in defending against enemy chargesThese have a very positive effect on our army, which has too few troops!

But through this battle, Li also discovered some flaws of this kind of phalanx that cannot be regarded as defects, that is, this formation has too high requirements for the quality of the troops!

The quality of the soldiers of our Second Infantry Regiment is also acceptable in terms of the whole army, but it is still not enough to implement this kind of regimental phalanx, and the troops are still acceptable when they are arrayed in the early stage, but when they are attacked by the enemy's bow and arrow throwing, the first battalion in the front row has borne a large amount of enemy fire alone because it is too far forward, resulting in many casualties and the formation has been shaken!

This also means that once the enemy uses long-range firepower comparable to our army, the first battalion, which acts as an arrow, may not be able to withstand the enemy's concentrated firepower, and I am afraid that it will collapse after suffering a large number of casualties!

In order to maintain such a formation, the quality requirements for the troops, especially the requirements for the front row troops, are very high, and I personally estimate that a force that can withstand a casualty rate of more than 30 percent can act as a front row phalanx, otherwise, once the enemy is attacked by strong firepower, the front row phalanx will inevitably collapse!

And looking at my Tang Wang Division, the troops that can take on this kind of heavy responsibility are probably only one of the first infantry battalions, the second infantry battalion is slightly worse, and the third infantry battalion, including the three infantry battalions below me, is even worse! ”

Although Li Chunjing said that it was a brick thrower, he did not stop talking, but continued: "In addition to the very high requirements for the quality of the troops, the original goal of our establishment of this regiment-level phalanx was to use shallow depth to expand the battle line and concentrate crossfire, and hoped to strengthen the defense capability of the troops, but I don't know if you have found that today, after our troops launch a counteroffensive, the quality of the soldiers is too high when the formation is mobilized, which will lead to confusion in the formation of the troops. At the same time, after launching a counteroffensive, it is necessary to transfer the troops in the front row, so that the defensive depth of the remaining troops in the back will be even more shallow, and once the enemy launches a counteroffensive, the defense capability of our army is worrying! ”

Li Chunjing is the commander of the Second Infantry Regiment, but his position in the southbound army is far more than the commander of an infantry regiment, because he is also the deputy commander of the southbound detachment, and he is a veritable second person in the southbound detachment.

His status is to surpass that of Fang Dongquan, deputy commander of the First Infantry Brigade, and Chen Keqiao, commander of the First Infantry Corps, and everyone knows that his promotion to brigade commander and becoming a major general of the army is just around the corner, and when the Third Infantry Brigade or the Fourth Infantry Brigade is officially formed, one of the two major generals and brigade commanders of the regular army is very likely to have one of them.

Therefore, his words were naturally not despised by everyone, on the contrary, they listened very carefully, even Hao Bonian, who was sitting at the top, attached great importance to this, who was the same as himself, was born in the Guards back then, and was also a colleague of the first batch of students in the Imperial Academy.

Although he was promoted to major general one step ahead of Li Chunjing, it did not mean that he had too many advantages over him, so he also listened very carefully, and also used a pen to write down the main points of Li Chunjing's words directly on the paper: the depth is too shallow, and the quality requirements are too high.

After Li Chunjing said that, other people naturally spoke one after another, and this post-war meeting of the southbound army was attended by all those above the rank of colonel, and this kind of meeting, the tradition has always been that it does not pay attention to the level of military rank or position, everyone can speak their minds freely, even if they say the wrong thing, no one will be held accountable.

Of course, if you are accusing others, you still need to pay attention to the art of speaking, and if you talk nonsense, it is not a discussion of tactics, but scolding.

The next thing Li Chunjing spoke was Chen Keqiao, the commander of the First Infantry Corps, who had always served under Hao Bonian, and it can be said that the reason why he knew how to lead the army to fight was completely taught by Hao Bonian himself, and his style of operational command was naturally greatly influenced by Hao Bonian.

I only listened to him: "What Commander Li said is very reasonable, the current regiment-level phalanx does have many defects, but Chen thinks that these defects can be improved and finally solved!"

Whether it is the high quality of the troops, or the weakening of the depth of the troops during the offensive, the problem of weakening the defense capability is solved, and this solution is also very simple! ”

Hearing Chen Keqiao say that there is a way to solve the defects of the current regiment-level phalanx, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing and everyone pricked up their ears and listened!

The advantages and disadvantages of this regiment-level phalanx are quite obvious, if the defects can be solved, then this kind of regiment-level phalanx is suitable for the current use of the Tang Army, especially in the field frontal decisive battle, if the perfect regiment-level tactics can be used, it will improve the frontal field combat ability of the troops by a level!

But can there be a solution to this Chen Keqiao?