Although the Sixth Infantry Regiment in the Third Infantry Brigade has no guns, and the Fourth Infantry Brigade has only more than 1,000 people, and there are also no guns, this does not prevent Li Xuan from carrying out a new round of reorganization and adjustment of these troops!

Through the observation of the operations of the southbound troops, Li Xuan believes that it is difficult for a simple infantry brigade to adapt to a large-scale war, because in many previous battles, in fact, the first infantry brigade did not fight alone, not to mention the third garrison brigade to cooperate with the operation, the second cavalry battalion, the second artillery battalion, and the second baggage regiment alone followed closely and cooperated with the first infantry brigade throughout the whole process.

Of course, it is still a bit early to set up a purely infantry division, and the infantry brigade and the garrison are completely different systems, and it is not possible to forcibly integrate them into one infantry division.

However, the regular army and the garrison army cooperate with each other to fight is already the mainstream of the current Datang Army's operations, so Li Xuan simply put it in place in one step and directly set up a military-level unit!

The military-level unit set up by Li Xuan is not a fixed establishment, but a high-level command organization responsible for a certain strategic direction, which is a command body, not an establishment!

The corps will have a number of infantry brigades, garrison brigades, and other auxiliary units, and the subordinate units will be fixed and adjusted according to the needs of occupation.

For example, Li Xuan planned to set up the First Army in Guangxi, which was expected to be used for the eastward expansion, attacking eastern Guangxi, Wuzhou, and Zhaoqing.

It has jurisdiction over the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 3rd Infantry Brigade, the 3rd Garrison Brigade, the 4th Garrison Brigade, the 1st Provisional Regiment, the 1st Artillery Battalion, the 2nd Artillery Battalion, the 1st Cavalry Battalion, the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, the 1st Baggage Regiment, and the 2nd Baggage Regiment.

This first army has two main infantry brigades, two garrison brigades, and other artillery, cavalry units, and baggage troops are all in it, and if it is fully staffed, it will reach 25,000 people, more than 30 large and small field artillery, and dozens of camp guns, which can be described as the main essence of the Tang Dynasty.

The second is the establishment of the Second Army in Guizhou, which has the jurisdiction of the Second Infantry Brigade, the First Garrison Brigade, and the Second Garrison Brigade, and at the same time, the Third Artillery Battalion, the Third Cavalry Battalion, and the Third Baggage Regiment have also been formed.

On the whole, the strength is not bad, and it can barely maintain the situation in Guizhou.

Secondly, the Third Army was set up in Guangxi, with the Fourth Infantry Brigade, the Fifth Garrison Brigade, and the Second Provisional Regiment, and in the case of other auxiliary units, there was only one temporarily formed Fourth Baggage Regiment, and the cavalry and artillery were temporarily lacking, and at the same time, it was not intended to be established in a short period of time, and even if it was established, there would be no artillery and war horses.

This army is the weakest, but it doesn't matter if it's weak, because the strategic direction of this army is to march into the western part of Guangxi, and there is no main force of the Ming army in this direction.

After such a reorganization, except for the Guards Army, all the army units of the Tang Dynasty's division, including the regular army, the garrison army, and the provisional army, were all under the command of these three armies.

And Li Xuan will personally serve as the commander of the First Army, personally controlling the main force that brings together the essence of the Tang Army, and in the follow-up eastward battle, he will once again lead the troops to the battlefield to fight!

It's not that he likes to go to the battlefield, but he hands over the main elite troops of more than 20,000 people to other people's commanders, he really doesn't feel at ease, even Hao Bonian can't gain Li Xuan's trust.

As for the chief of staff of the First Army, Zeng Ziwen, director of the Operations Department, will concurrently serve as the deputy chief of staff of the former First Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Li Xin, former chief of staff of the First Infantry Brigade.

The commander of the Second Army was Major General Fang Xitong, commander of the Second Infantry Brigade.

The commander of the Third Army was Major General Li Chunjing, commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade.

In the Second and Third Armies, these posts were concurrently held by the commanders, chiefs of staff, and deputy chiefs of staff.

The establishment of these three armies is actually not an adjustment in the establishment, because the troops are still those troops, and the establishment of these three armies is only to deal with the three main operational directions of the Tang Dynasty: Guizhou, western Guangxi, eastern Guangxi, and even Guangdong.

It is similar to the previous southward detachment, northward detachment, westward detachment, etc., except that it has adopted the title of an army.

The First, Second, and Third Armies are not fixed formations, but an overall command organization!

After the establishment of these three armies, it means that the Tang Dynasty Division is about to launch a new round of offensive, especially on the Guangxi side!

Li Xuan couldn't sit back and watch after the Ming armies of the two Guangxi and Guangxi were all assembled, and even the Ming troops from Jiangxi and Fujian came over and then went to fight Wuzhou, Zhaoqing and Guangzhou, he had to take advantage of the fact that the Ming army was still assembling and smash the strategy of the Ming army gathering the army to move west and level the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop through a rapid attack.

Therefore, when the Empress Dowager Bai and them had just arrived in Huaiyuan and were heading south along the Liujiang River by boat, the First Infantry Brigade, the advance force of the First Army, had already taken the lead in going south, Hao Bonian would lead the First Infantry Brigade to Xiangzhou first, and then Li Xuan would lead the main force of the Chinese Army led by the Third Infantry Brigade to the south. After arriving in Xiangzhou, they will go straight to Wuxuan with the cooperation of the navy's warships, first defeat the tens of thousands of Ming troops hoarded by the Ming army in Wuxuan, and then go straight to Wuzhou!

Of course, the Xunzhou Prefecture along the way will also be attacked, and the two prefectures of Guilin and Pingle will be put aside for the time being, so that the provisional first regiment can contain the local Ming army.

The strategic goal of the First Army is Wuzhou, Zhaoqing, and even the whole of Guangdong!

Only after going all the way eastward to avoid Zhaoqing and Guangzhou did the entire southward strategy be regarded as an initial success, and then completely established the rule of the Tang Dynasty in the Liangguang region.

In this way, it is possible to become a local separatist regime, and after controlling Liangguang and even Yungui, it is possible to compete with the Ming Dynasty and compete with the Ming Dynasty for the world!

Hao Bonian went south ahead of schedule, and Li Xuan also used the period of time before the army to deal with internal affairs, striving to sort out the internal affairs of the Tang Dynasty before leaving.

Among them, his work center is naturally all kinds of workshops in Liuzhou, and other affairs are handled by various cabinet departments, and all kinds of affairs are basically formed rules, and those trivial things no longer need Li Xuan to do it himself.

But when he was dealing with the affairs of the workshop, the people from the Ministry of Industry found Li Xuan, saying that there were private businessmen outside who wanted to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry!

Li Xuan didn't care when he heard it, isn't it just cooperation, this kind of thing has not been done in Xingquan Mansion before, many businessmen have cooperated with the Tang Dynasty, and the Ministry of Industry can basically handle it on its own, so as not to find Li Xuan.

But after listening to it in detail, I found that it was not easy for this person who could let the Ministry of Industry Shangshu come to make decisions for himself, because this person who came to the door to say cooperation did not mean to provide raw materials, nor did he say that he wanted to contract some piecemeal business, but that he could also supply warships and various transport ships for the Tang Dynasty.

Supply battleships?

That's no small thing!

Li Xuan, who was interested, took the document and looked at it in detail, and found that it was really not simple for this person to say that he was going to supply ships to the Tang Dynasty.

He is still a big businessman in Guangxi, and he has a large inland river fleet, which travels to and from the Xijiang River all the year round, and his fleet is active from Guangzhou to Liuzhou, and the people who have such a large fleet naturally have shipyards!

"His shipyard can build warships?" Li Xuan questioned this, this warship is different from civilian ships, even if it is an inland river warship, it is not an ordinary civilian ship, it is quite particular about materials and construction technology, otherwise the protection ability is not up to standard, and after loading the artillery, the artillery will fall apart as soon as it fires.

Today, the warships owned by the Datang Navy are basically inland river warships captured from the Ming Army, and some are civilian ships!

So far, the Datang Navy has only eight warships capable of loading artillery, and the other dozen or so are actually ordinary civilian ships, and the tonnage is generally relatively small.

And among the many workshops of the Datang Ministry of Industry, there are really no shipyards!

Therefore, it is very difficult for the navy of the Tang Dynasty to expand its warships!

Now that a shipyard has emerged that claims to be able to build warships, Li Xuan doesn't care who he is, let him build the battleships first.

However, this battleship must not be the same as the kind of battleship of the Ming Dynasty, in Li Xuan's opinion, even if it is an inland river battle, the combat method should also change from hand-to-hand combat to naval artillery combat, so even if it is an inland river warship, it must have enough naval guns!

Immediately said: "You and the Ministry of Taxation, the Navy and the Ordnance Department of the people to talk about it, if the other party really has this ability, the price is also the same, you might as well buy some, in addition, the Ministry of Industry should also set up its own shipyard as soon as possible, and let the warships be built by civilian shipyards, it is okay for the time being, what kind of system will it become in the long run!" ”

After getting Li Xuan's approval, the Tang Dynasty soon sent a whole team of people to negotiate with Xu Bingfu, who claimed to be the largest ship merchant in Guangxi!

And the relevant agreement was reached soon, the Datang Navy will order five warships from the Xujia Shipyard one after another, in addition to fifteen transport ships, of course, the money will only give a small deposit, and pay the money for one ship when you pay for one ship!

However, this warship must be built in strict accordance with the needs of the Datang Navy, what needs? Li Xuan requires: The battleship must be able to load high-powered artillery and have good protection and mobility!

Li Xuan doesn't want the big-bellied battleship of the Ming army!

However, the requirements are there, but how to design this battleship, this is difficult for both sides, and in the end, the people of the navy found Li Xuan, and took a few design plans to respectfully ask Li Xuan to judge!