Qian Mengjiu and Zeng Ziwen spoke one after another, and several other people would not stop, and began to speak for and against!

After this discussion, it was impossible to tell the winner in a short period of time, and Li Xuan, who was above, listened to everyone's discussion, and it was not easy to make a decision for a while!

The Tang Dynasty needs a large number of recruits, this is a reality!

But the soldiers needed by the Tang Dynasty King Division are different from the soldiers, which is also a reality!

Can a werewolf with a strong folk style be trained to become a modern soldier like a wooden man? In fact, Li Xuan himself was not sure of this.

In addition, there is another problem that no one else has talked about, and that is the problem of habits and language!

China is so big, the radius is different everywhere, and now the official language of the Tang Dynasty is naturally the official dialect, of course, the local dialect of Xingquan Mansion is also spoken.

However, the ordinary soldiers in the army, you don't expect them to be able to understand or speak official language, they all speak the local dialect.

In the past, the scope of activities of the Tang Dynasty was small, and most of the soldiers recruited were soldiers from Xingquan Mansion, and although soldiers were also recruited in Liping Mansion later, although the dialects of the two provinces were different, they were actually similar, and the people who spoke were slower, and those who listened carefully could still understand them.

Therefore, at that time, the soldiers of the two provinces were mixed, and there was no problem of language barrier.

However, the dialects of Guangxi and Guizhou are very different, and if the soldiers from Liuzhou are added to the existing army, whether they are soldiers or local Han soldiers, there will be a problem of language barrier.

And this point, the following people didn't notice it when they were discussing it.

However, despite the many problems, it is also a fact that the Tang Dynasty Division lacks soldiers!

Guizhou is originally a small number of people and many mountains, and the total population is not much, and the total number of people is only about a million people!

With such a small total population, it is naturally impossible to recruit many qualified recruits from it, plus these populations have actually been recruited by Zhu Zhihai and them before, and Zhu Zhihai and they raised an army of fifty or sixty thousand!

Fortunately, among the 50,000 or 60,000 people, more than 20,000 people were taken prisoner and joined the side of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, it would be impossible for the Tang Dynasty Division to recruit so many soldiers.

Even if the total population is not twice as large as that of Guizhou, there must be more than two million, and many of them are concentrated in the basins on both sides of the Xijiang River.

And Liuzhou, an important area in the Xijiang River Basin, is not too small!

In other words, it should be possible to recruit a lot of recruits here, but there is a problem here, that is, there are a large number of recruits in the population of Liuzhou, and if you don't recruit them to join the army, then it is equivalent to giving up at least half of the recruits!

Seeing that everyone discussed and discussed and did not come up with a mutually agreeable plan, Li Xuan was too lazy to listen to them continue to quarrel, so he directly softened the plan of the two families, and then proposed a compromise plan.

Since there are not enough recruits, then this servant will have to be recruited.

Since I am worried that the existing part of the army will not be able to integrate in a limited way, then I will form an army separately!

In this way, everyone is happy!

After speaking, Li Xuan said to Zeng Ziwen: "Zeng Aiqing, you have to work harder and form a plan to build the Seventh Infantry Regiment!" ”

"This Seventh Infantry Regiment is mainly composed of local soldiers, and if more soldiers are recruited in the future, the new soldiers recruited locally in Guangxi can also be used to form the Eighth Infantry Regiment."

The reason why the 7th Infantry Regiment was being established instead of the 6th Infantry Regiment was because the number of the 6th Infantry Regiment was already occupied.

Previously, the Tang Army had decided to recruit new recruits on the spot after taking the northern region of Guangxi for the formation of the Sixth Infantry Regiment.

Although the Sixth Infantry Regiment has not yet been formally formed, the relevant preparations are almost there, and even the follow-up arrangements are in place.

This Sixth Infantry Regiment will work with the Fifth Infantry Regiment to form the Third Infantry Brigade of the Tang Army, and the main direction of subsequent operations is to meet the Ming Army in the direction of Huguang!

Therefore, if a new unit is formed in Guangxi, it can only use the number of the Seventh Infantry Regiment, and for the unification of the number of the troops, Li Xuan also gave the number of the Eighth Infantry Regiment to the people in Guangxi in advance.

However, in the process of forming a new army, the soldiers are actually relatively easy to solve, and the more difficult thing to solve is the salary, and the more difficult thing to solve is the equipment!

These problems belong to the long-standing problems, although they are difficult, but they have to be done hard.

When the officials on the Ministry of Industry heard that the military was preparing to form the Seventh Infantry Regiment and that a large number of guns and artillery would be needed to equip this new unit in the coming months, they all wanted to scold their mothers!

Bastards, the people of their Ministry of Industry went up to the Ministry of Works, down to the coolies in the workshops, and they rested all day long, and were busy making guns and cannons for them every day, but they finally fully armed the First Infantry Brigade, and were thinking that they would be able to fill the gap in the guns of the Second Infantry Brigade this month, and then they would be able to fill the gap in the Fifth Infantry Regiment next month, and then the Sixth Infantry Regiment.

However, now that they have not even finished the guns needed for the Second Infantry Brigade, the military has already put forward a plan for the 7th Infantry Regiment and even the 8th Infantry Regiment.

Damn, it's really going to exhaust us to death!

It is rumored that the people from the Ministry of Industry held a brief internal meeting, at which in addition to the people who scolded the military as usual for not knowing moderation, wasting guns and ammunition indiscriminately, and scolding the people of the Ministry of Taxation for not supplying money, food, and raw materials in a timely manner, the plan to establish a second military production base in Liuzhou was also discussed.

When Li Xuan first returned to Xingquan Mansion, he had already approached someone from the Ministry of Industry and put forward the idea of establishing a second military production base!

And the people on the Ministry of Industry naturally need to put this matter into action, especially in Guangxi, there has been news that Hao Bonian's troops have conquered Huaiyuan County and Rong County one after another, and are marching towards Liuzhou City!

The people on the side of the Ministry of Industry speculated that it would not be long before the front-line troops would be able to take Liuzhou, and at that time, the Ministry of Industry would need to establish a large number of workshops in Liuzhou as soon as possible, and then produce ammunition and guns to supply the army nearby.

And just when the people from the Ministry of Industry were preparing to set up a workshop in Liuzhou, in fact, the other departments of the cabinet had already begun to move.

When Li Xuan first returned to Xingquan Mansion, he said that he would relocate the capital to the Liangguang region, which is not a secret, and when to relocate and relocate there depends entirely on when Hao Bonian, who is on the front line, will be able to conquer Liuzhou, and even Wuzhou and Zhaoqing.

However, if you want to wait for Hao Bonian to completely conquer Zhaoqing before relocating, then it will be a bit too long and troublesome.

According to Li Xuan's personality, he didn't like to be too far away from his own army, especially since this army was the First Infantry Brigade that he relied on as the core pillar.

He didn't have to worry about letting the 1st Infantry Brigade, the most combat-effective unit, get out of his control for a long time!

So when he saw that Hao Bonian said that he had entered Liuzhou, he also instructed all departments of the cabinet to start preparing for the relocation, and after Hao Bonian took Liuzhou, the political center of the Tang Dynasty would be relocated to Liuzhou first.

However, Liuzhou is still a transition!

After the army takes Zhaoqing, Li Xuan will officially set the capital in Zhaoqing!

Just when Li Xuan and all departments of the cabinet in the rear were waiting for Hao Bonian to take Liuzhou, Hao Bonian also launched his first tentative attack under Liuzhou City!

However, this exploratory attack did not go well, and the artillery bombardment of the Second Artillery Battalion failed to effectively suppress the counterattack fire of the Ming army at the head of the city, resulting in a garrison battalion of the Third Garrison Brigade that launched the tentative attack being counterattacked by the artillery fire of the Ming army's bowl mouth artillery at the head of the city, and thus suffered a lot of losses.

The Tang Dynasty's attack on the capital city of Liuzhou ended in failure, and more than 100 people were killed under the city of Liuzhou!

At that time, after Li Xuan received Hao Bonian's report about the failure of this tentative attack under Liuzhou City, the brainless person from the Hanlin Academy ran in and said Your Majesty, it's not good, the army was defeated in Liuzhou, and the frightened Li Xuan almost rolled off the dragon chair!

Later, when he looked at the battle report and found that the dead and wounded were only more than a hundred Ming troops, and it was only a tentative attack, Li Xuan was relieved, and then he changed hands and punished the Hanlin who was talking nonsense and scared him to wash the toilet of the Hanlin Courtyard for a month!

Nima, can't speak, I'm scared to death!

Li Xuan in the rear felt that it was nothing to kill and wound more than 100 Ming troops, but Hao Bonian on the front line was a little worried about this.

Because these Ming troops at the head of the city seem to have learned wisely, they didn't stupidly run out to fight him in the field, even when they were defending at the head of the city, they didn't stand directly on the battlements and didn't know how to dodge their own artillery fire!

In this way, the effect of their own heavy artillery shelling is not very obvious, and if they risk approaching the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Brigade to suppress the fire, they will also be thrown by the opponent's archers to counterattack, and the casualties will definitely not be small at that time.

Unless it is in the general offensive stage, Hao Bonian is not willing to invest in musketeers for direct fire suppression.

After the failure of this first tentative attack and the death and wounding of more than 100 people, Hao Bonian also changed the previous practice of launching a fierce attack at the first time!