I want to be emperor

Chapter 225 I have the advantage of crossing the river (subscribe for the fifth update)
In the conference room, Xu Zhixian pointed at the large map hanging on the wall and said, "According to the information we have collected and sorted out so far, it is initially known that there are about [-] Ming troops in Jinzhou, Guanzhong Prefecture in the west. the rest."

"There are about [-] Ming troops in Shanyang and Shangzhou in Xi'an Prefecture."

"There are about [-] soldiers in Luyang County and Ye County in the direction of Ruzhou. The Ming army is commanded by Zuo Liangyu."

"On the other side of Kuizhou Mansion in Sichuan, there are about ten thousand Ming soldiers or Tusi soldiers around Wushan City."

"In the south of Chu, there are about 2 troops in Wuchang, about 5000 in Yuezhou, and [-] to [-] in Yidu."

"There should be more than 2 people in the Huangmei front line in the east in the Susong and Taihu Lake areas."

"The Runing Mansion on the other side of the Dabie Mountains mainly has about 8000 troops in Xinyang."

"The above-mentioned are all obvious military forces that can be directly detected, and it is not known whether there are more troops behind these places, but we have also collected information. It is said that the Ming court is already investigating. Troops from Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou went north."

"At the same time, there is also news that the Ming court is preparing to dispatch troops from Xuanda, Jiliao and other places to go south to the Central Plains."

"There is no doubt that we are the main target of their mobilization of these forces."

"Because according to the news from Shaanxi, Ming court Hong Chengchou has assembled heavy troops in the Guanzhong area to encircle Gao Yingxiang and other rogues. Now that the rogues are retreating steadily, I'm afraid they can't last long. Many rogues have already lost to them before." The Ming army finally fled to the Yunyang area controlled by our army, and was defeated and reorganized by our second garrison division and other troops."

"It is impossible for the Ming court to dispatch frontier troops for these thieves, so their target can only be us!"

"In addition, we must also consider that after Hong Chengchou defeated the main force of the bandits in the Guanzhong area, it is very likely that he will lead a heavy army to attack Chubei."

After Xu Zhixian briefly introduced the general situation of the Ming army, he sat down. At this time, Luo Zhixue said: "The situation of the enemy and us is clear. The puppet Ming army seems to have a large number of troops, but they are scattered all over the place. There are only about [-] troops."

"Although our army also fights on multiple fronts, the other fronts are on the defensive. We can deploy more mobile troops to launch an offensive across the river!"

"This time crossing the river and attacking the city, I have the advantage!"

Regardless of the actual situation, let's boost morale for ourselves and a group of generals first!

After finishing speaking, Luo Zhixue turned his attention to Li Chengtong, the commander of the first division: "Later, we will cross the river and attack the city. Wuchang's hard bones still need your first division to chew on. Later, the second brigade and other departments will be transferred back from Huangzhou Prefecture."

Li Chengtong immediately said: "Your Majesty will never let His Majesty down!"

As he said that, he said to Dong Mingjie, the new commander of the Fourth Division: "Isn't the Seventh Brigade of your Fourth Division already fully staffed, go to Huangzhou Mansion to take defense first."

"The eighth brigade must also speed up the reorganization. Whether it can withstand it will be discussed later. Now we must set up a shelf and gather people together. No matter how bad it is, we can gather a number to guard the rear!"

Dong Mingjie also said: "I obey the order, and I will personally lead the troops to Huangmei when I turn back, and train while stationing."

Dong Mingjie spoke with excitement, not only because he won the title of earl when the country was founded, but also because before the founding of the country, Luo Zhixue transferred him to Hanyang and made him the first commander of the Fourth Division.

This also made Dong Mingjie feel that in the past few months, he has been working hard to lead the garrison to fight, and all his efforts to win the Jingzhou Mansion have been rewarded.

Although he was also a division commander before, he was only the division commander of the third garrison division, and his rank was only brigadier general.

As for the Fourth Division, when he first took office, he seemed to be nothing more than an empty frame, and most of the subsequent recruits were also new recruits, but this Fourth Division is a serious main division. The standard of the first division is gone.

Being the commander of the fourth division has a lot more prospects than being the commander of the third garrison division.

No, after being transferred, their military ranks were raised by one level, from brigadier general to major general, and they also participated in such an important strategic meeting today.

Luo Zhixue then continued: "This time crossing the river to attack south of Chu, we plan to transfer the [-]st Division, the [-]st Brigade of the Guards Division, the [-]th Garrison Division, the [-]st Cavalry Brigade, the [-]st, [-]nd, and [-]th Mortar Battalion, um. , organize these three mortar battalions into a mortar regiment, and a batch of five-pound field artillery will soon arrive, and this batch of five-pound field artillery will also be organized into the First Artillery Regiment to fight."

"For the rest of the Southern Front, the Fourth Division will be stationed at Huangzhou Prefecture, and the Third Defense Division will be stationed at Jingzhou Prefecture."

"The third division and one brigade are stationed in De'an Prefecture, and the rest are stationed in Xiangyang Prefecture as strategic reserves for all parties."

"The Second Brigade of the Guards Division is stationed in Hanyang."

Luo Zhixue looked at the map while talking, and then looked at Lu Xingye, Minister of the Navy who hadn't said much.

"This time, the difficulty in the early stages of crossing the river lies in crossing the river, and the army also needs the assistance of the navy to cross the river. What does the navy think about this?"

When Lu Xingye heard Luo Zhixue's words, he was still a little stunned. After all, he was a real junior among everyone, the only brigadier general...

At today's meeting of this level, Lu Xingye originally believed that he only came with his ears and only listened but didn't talk, so he would do what his superiors ordered him to do.

But I didn't expect Luo Zhi to learn to let him speak directly.

Of course, the person who can become the Minister of the Navy, even if it is the tailwind of the previous large-scale expansion of the Xiangbao Army, but Lu Xingye is also outstanding.

After being stunned for a second, he calmed down and said immediately, "Your Majesty, the navy will fully cooperate with the army to cross the river."

Luo Zhixue was dissatisfied after hearing this: "How to cooperate?"

Hearing this, Lu Xingye immediately regretted that what he just said was too false, and immediately said: "Our navy currently has a total of 36 warships equipped with artillery, ranging from a hundred to four hundred. Jiang, our naval warships will take the initiative to leave the port, and the main force will blockade the opposite port of Wuchang to prevent false naval forces from going to war."

"Although most of the artillery on the warships of our navy are captured artillery, they are all selected general artillery and Frang machine artillery. In addition, there are also [-]-jin short robes produced by our Xiangyang Arsenal, which have strong firepower. The number is large enough to intercept the false naval forces to fight."
"In addition, more than [-] transport ships of various types have been raised for the army to cross the river in the early stage!"

After hearing this, Luo Zhixue nodded: "The navy should not relax, there is still some time before the battle across the river, and try to arm some more warships."

The warships of the Great Chu Empire Navy are actually very simple. Most of them are ordinary inland watercraft, but they are only temporarily equipped with artillery.

Moreover, due to the small tonnage of the ship itself and the lack of firmness, it is not possible to deploy many artillery pieces.

However, even so, it is much stronger than the Ming Army's Inland River Navy in Wuchang.

The navy of the Ming army has long been in decline, and now it is actually the Zheng's fleet of pirate origin that defends the coastal defenses of the Ming Dynasty, and the official navy directly under the Ming court has been overwhelmed.

This is the case for the coastal navy, and the inland navy can be imagined.

After all, the Ming court has unified China for more than two hundred years, and the hinterland of the Yangtze River will not encounter any large-scale enemy navy. Therefore, the inland river navy of the Ming Dynasty basically stayed in the direction of suppressing bandits, maintaining law and order, and investigating smuggling. security tasks.

Many ships of the Ming army's inland water division did not even have the basic old traditional artillery.

Otherwise, the Township Protection Army would not have to install artillery on them after capturing a batch of naval warships of the Ming Army.

After adding artillery, the firepower of the Dachu Navy must be stronger than that of the Ming Neihe Navy.

In addition to firepower, for the inland river fleet, the most important hand-to-hand combat Chu Navy is not weak.

The officers and men of the Great Chu Navy, apart from some directly recruited sailors and surrendered sailors from the Ming Navy, also have a considerable number of troops, especially the marines assigned to each ship are basically the main infantry directly drawn from the army.

When the navy was first set up, Luo Zhixue took into account the surface combat these years. In addition to long-range attacks such as artillery, close-range hand-to-hand combat also accounted for a considerable proportion, because soldiers and officers who were proficient in water were drawn from various armies at the beginning. They transferred to the Navy, and most of them were incorporated into the Marine Corps.

These marine soldiers have muskets and armor, and their overall strength is not bad.

In the follow-up battle of crossing the river, even if the navy attached to these marines could not win any great victories, it was still possible to contain the Ming army navy in Wuchang City.

As long as the navy can contain them, the army can solve other matters by itself.

In a military meeting, it was basically decided that an offensive across the river would be launched in the near future, but the specific time would depend on the preparations of the subsequent troops.

Before starting to cross the river, the second brigade of the first division had to be transferred back first, and then it was necessary to further arm the guard division and replenish various ammunition.

At the same time, it is also necessary to build a large number of boats, rafts and other means of crossing the river.

All troops also need to carry out targeted adaptive training. At any rate, let the soldiers learn how to swim first, otherwise they will drown directly if they encounter enemy attacks or fall accidentally when crossing the river.

At the same time, it is also necessary to set up an engineering unit dedicated to building pontoon bridges. Boats and rafts can be used to cross the river in the early stage, but pontoon bridges are required for the subsequent transportation of a large number of artillery and luggage.

After all, the short-barreled artillery in the Baoxiang Army is as light as two or three hundred catties, while the field artillery and mortars are basically several hundred catties in weight, and the five catties field guns and 48 catties mortars that are about to arrive in Hanyang, that's amazing. They are all big guys weighing more than 1000 kilograms.

In addition, the new four-wheeled carriages for transporting luggage also have a load of one thousand to several kilograms, and these carriages are not a few dozens, but hundreds of thousands, and there are even more two-wheeled carriages.

It is unrealistic to transport so much luggage by boat, and a floating bridge is necessary.

And when the various troops were making various preparations before crossing the river, Luo Zhixue finally got the five-pound field artillery that he had been thinking about all along.

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