The news of the sudden expansion of the army, listening to the ears of the officers present, in addition to means that their worries are relieved, more flashes in their minds are the number of army officers that will inevitably increase after the expansion of the army.

In the current military system of the Hong Dynasty, the commander of the first army is now the largest military rank, and now Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming's two armies are fighting together, but they are only temporarily promoting one person as the commander and the other as the deputy.

The plan of an army is seven brigades, a brigade has three regiments, and the scale of the complete army is about 100,000, which is far more than the number of the first army in later generations, but after all, it is the time when hot weapons have not yet been popularized in ancient times, and this is already regarded as the number of soldiers and horses owned by the main general of the first army in Chinese history.

500,000 recruited recruits, even if they are given priority to supplement the five legions of the Hong Dynasty, there will still be about three more recruits, which means that there will be three more new legions at that time, and the deputy commanders like Ma Yao and Wu Sangui will be first-class, and they will be able to officially take charge of the first army!

"Don't worry about the loss of the soldiers of our two armies, take Xiangyang as soon as possible, we can't delay it like this, I don't even know how to write a report to the imperial court anymore!"

After Shang Kexi finished talking about the news of the expansion of the new army, his voice changed but he knocked on the officers below in a serious tone.

After this battle, Shang Kexi sat in the Chinese army, but found a big problem in the Hong Dynasty army, that is, the officers in the army paid special attention to the problem of soldier death.

As long as the losses of the soldiers in the army exceed one of their psychological bottom line, they will start to think of ways to avoid a head-on battle and reduce the losses of the soldiers under their command.

When attacking Xiangyang before, many times the generals and soldiers in the army had been able to gain a firm foothold in the city, but when the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not afraid of death, they forced the Hongchao army in the city to make a choice with their lives, whether to risk most of the soldiers under their command to lose half of their soldiers to block the counterattack of the Ming army; It is better to preserve the living forces first, and after killing and wounding a large number of Ming soldiers, withdraw from the city, and wait for the next comeback.

The emergence of this kind of problem is not accidental, in fact, the Hong Dynasty army has always used the principle and policy of war to supplement their army, and every time a soldier is sacrificed, it will make everyone feel distressed.

It is not easy to replenish the supply of troops, so when arranging tactics, the officers must find ways to reduce losses while ensuring that the goal is achieved as much as possible.

After a long time, such a purpose has gradually deteriorated, and the officers, after feeling that the tactics cannot be achieved, are worried about the loss of officers and men in the army, but it is rare for them to face the enemy head-on and achieve the goal at the cost of the casualties of the soldiers.

The soldiers of the Hong Dynasty army were not afraid of death, but the officers had too many concerns and could not give full play to the real combat effectiveness of the army, which also became an important reason for the decline in the strength of the Hong Dynasty army.

"Don't continue to delay the war because the sacrifices of the soldiers of the First World War are too much, and you don't want to think about it, the more you delay the war, the more losses our soldiers will have."

"Look at the city of Xiangyang, my first and second armies have accumulated 10,000 soldiers who have died in the battle, and the number of wounded is no less than 6,000. If we had been able to gain a foothold in the city earlier, perhaps we would not have lost as many troops as we have now. ”

"Although I don't deny that our Ming Dynasty army has brought more losses, but just like everyone cares, their Ming Dynasty army soldiers are easy to replenish, and our soldiers are more valuable, we are killing more Ming Dynasty soldiers, and they can always be replenished quickly after the war."

"Therefore, as the coach of this time, I would like to remind you that when it is time to make sacrifices, don't think too much about scruples, and you can't end up causing more losses because of a momentary soft-heartedness."

Shang Kexi's reminder is not obvious, but it is straightforward enough, after all, everyone's original intentions are good, and the emergence of these problems is not unrelated to them, the upper-level officers.

After this beating, if there are still such problems, then he can still find out the typical ones, come to a killing of chickens and monkeys, and completely kill this evil spirit.

"The Ministry of National Defense has completed most of the recruitment work, and the recruits have begun to be reorganized and trained in the boot camp for three months, so there is no need to worry too much about the heavy loss of troops now."

"With 100,000 troops, I haven't been able to take Xiangyang City until now, this is not the style of my Hong Dynasty army!!"

"Everyone, it's time to regain the might of our army!!"

"Yes!!"

Ma Yao, Wu Sangui and other generals are all gearing up, or there is no Shang Kexi's remarks, and they are afraid that they will not have any more hands left, seeing that the promotion opportunity is close at hand, who doesn't want to be able to make a note in the military merit book and become a military commander who is in charge alone.

The calm war outside Xiangyang City has a different style because of this war, at least for the more than 100,000 Ming Dynasty troops stationed in the city, the pressure is suddenly a little greater.

"Boom! Boom Boom! ”

Infantry artillery coordinated operations, as the Hong Dynasty army's artillery crosshair became more and more accurate, and after being able to reduce the error to less than five zhang, it became the Hong Dynasty army's specialty in attacking the enemy's position.

In the past, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty army would generally hide in unknown corners, quietly waiting for the scouts who risked their lives to observe the advance formation of the Hong Dynasty army on the position to send a signal, and waited until the Hong Dynasty army entered a range of about 20 zhang, and the Ming Dynasty army began to prepare to assemble.

When the advance of the Hong Dynasty army pressed forward to their position of about ten zhang, the Ming Dynasty army had already begun to show its head in its own position at this time. At this time, in order not to injure friendly troops, the artillery of the Hong Dynasty army will be muted, stop firing, and the Hong Dynasty army's musketeers will take over the offensive.

The Ming Dynasty army would use crossbow machines, bird guns and grenades to launch a counterattack against the Hong Dynasty army.

During most of the offensive and defensive battles in Xiangyang City, as long as the Ming Dynasty army was willing to use materials and a large number of lives to fill the gaps, the Hong Dynasty army basically lost a certain amount of money on this stalemate battlefield and saw that it was difficult to break through the Ming army's position, so they would take the initiative to retreat and not give the Ming Dynasty army a chance to exchange their lives for their lives.

But now this offensive and defensive battle is completely different, the Hong Dynasty army is no longer the opponent who cherishes the soldiers under his command too deeply, this came up to press the position of the meat grinder of thousands of Hong Dynasty soldiers, after the loss of more than 30%, still did not retreat, but desperately rushed to the Ming army before the position.