I want to be emperor

Chapter 282 The Bloody Chu Army
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Naturally, let the attacking side also know that Yang Sichang already has a new standard army of 5000 people, and he is imitating his own new standard army from organization to tactics.

For exercises, you don't need to judge in detail how strong the opponent's combat power is, just compare it with your own main force.

Knowing this, the exercise generals playing the part of the Chu army decisively changed their strategy. First, they added a mixed brigade-sized guards to the attacking side, strengthened half of the mortar regiment, and at the same time transferred the sixth garrison division. Reinforce Linxiang.

With more troops and more artillery, after successfully attacking Linxiang again, they still rushed to take Baling.

But after taking Baling, they did not rush to attack Changsha, but divided their troops into two groups.

The [-]th Division, the [-]st Cavalry Brigade and half of the Mortar Regiment turned to the west and went straight to Wuling, Changde Mansion.

At the same time, the third garrison division also crossed the river from the Jingzhou Prefecture area on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and entered the Yuezhou Prefecture area west of Dongting Lake. However, it did not go directly to Wuling, but went to Shimen.

The remaining mixed brigade of the guards, with part of the eighth garrison division and the sixth garrison division, was stationed in Ningxiang and Yiyang. This was to cut off the connection between Changsha and Changde Wuling.

When the attacking side increased its troops and changed its strategy, although Chen Yongfu and He Renlong, who played the role of the Ming army, racked their brains, they still failed in the end.

This sand table deduction ended with the Southern Route Army finally winning.

However, although the offensive side won almost a complete victory in the second beach deduction, the high-level staff of the Great Chu Empire Army, especially the generals of the general staff headed by Xu Zhixian, did not relax.

Because this kind of sand table deduction also has great limitations, it cannot be used as a comprehensive reference for actual combat at all, at most it is only a part of the reference.

For example, in the sand table deduction, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army led by Chen Yongfu was not comparable to that of the Ming army in reality. When guarding Linxiang, most of the casualties of Chen Yongfu's troops did not collapse, and this was actually a group of ordinary guard soldiers That's all.

This is impossible in reality, because if the Ming army had the will to fight, they would have taken Dong captive countless times.

However, relying on Chen Yongfu's method of using troops, Xu Zhixian and other referees really agreed that relying on the absolute elite to act as a supervisory team is very likely to prompt the defenders to burst into a more tenacious will to resist.

But in the same way, the Chu Army cannot be perfectly reflected in the sand table deduction. For example, the tactical role of the First Cavalry Brigade is difficult to realize. At the same time, the shelling effect of the Chu Army Artillery Unit is only theoretical.

In actual combat, if the enemy's response is appropriate and the morale of the army is relatively high, it can actually withstand this level of shelling by the Chu army.

Not to mention the relatively primitive field artillery shelling of the Chu army, even in the modern Napoleon period, twelve-pound and six-pound artillery were widely used, and there were still a bunch of troops who could carry the shelling with a higher density of artillery Fight in dense formation and even win.

Conversely, it is also difficult to make a specific judgment on the impact of shelling on the enemy.

Because the shelling brought not only the casualties of the shelling to the enemy soldiers, but also the suppression of morale. After the Chu army experienced many times of violent shelling by its own artillery units, although the defenders on the opposite side did not suffer many casualties, they still collapsed. Condition.

The changes caused by this bombardment, the changes in tactical formation and maneuvering to respond to the bombardment, these changes are actually difficult to reflect in detail in the sand table deduction.

Wars are always fought by people, and the factor of people is difficult to measure by quality.

This situation has appeared in several sand table deduction and actual combat comparisons conducted by the Great Chu Empire Army before.

When the Great Chu Empire army attacked Nanyang City, it only took down Nanyang City at a weak price.

But in the replay deduction at that time, Chen Yongfu was replaced to command the defenders. The same weapons and equipment and the same strength could cause heavy losses to the attacking troops.

Another example is the attack on Xiangyang City. The Chu army only paid dozens of casualties by means of a sneak attack, and took down Xiangyang City, which is well-known in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Similarly, in another time and space, Zhang Xianzhong ran for thousands of miles and sent spies to sneak into the city to open the city gate. Finally, under the threat of more than [-] Ming troops from the periphery, he took Xiangyang City with ease.

But in any official deduction, it is impossible to take Xiangyang City so easily and simply. It is impossible to take Xiangyang City without siege of 5 or even 10 people day and night.

But deduction is only theoretical, and actual combat often exceeds theory by a lot.

The sand table deduction has limitations, but Xu Zhixian and Han Ziping still saw a lot of problems, and they will make strategic and tactical changes to address these problems in the future.

The biggest change among them is the change in the strength of the South Route Army.

After learning that there is a new standard army of 5000 people in the Wuling area of ​​Changde Prefecture, and that this new standard army is directly training against the main force of the Chu army, the Great Chu Empire Army will naturally not be indifferent, let alone stubborn Continue to launch the campaign according to the original preparation.

They made a difference!
This change is also very simple!
That is to increase troops!
It's not about changing the combat thinking, playing this tactic or that tactic, not because I don't want to, but because I don't have the ability.

To be honest, the middle and senior generals of the Chu army generally do not have superb tactical command ability. If you let them lead the army to play thousands of miles of raids, play various sneak attacks or other conspiracies and tricks, and brush the enemy around, that is unrealistic thing.

They don't have this ability!
Luo Zhixue knew this very well, so he didn't bother to listen to the various tactical plans proposed by some people in the staff department, and directly waved his hand to increase troops.

What kind of tricks and dangerous tactics do you want? Just increase your troops and push them over.

It's not that the Great Chu Empire couldn't mobilize more troops and artillery.

If the main force of a division is not enough, then increase the main force of a division.

If one mortar regiment is not enough, then add another mortar regiment,

In the battle of Linxiang, there is not enough one garrison division scheduled to assist in the battle, so another garrison division will be added.

Previously, Luo Zhixue believed that it should not be a problem to win Linxiang only by relying on the fifth division, the eighth garrison division, the second artillery regiment and some friendly artillery support.

But now it seems that it is still a bit close, so the Chu army began to further strengthen the strength of the South Route Army.

Luo Zhixue first ordered the guards stationed in Wuchang and the surrounding areas to prepare for battle. Except for one regiment stationed in Wuchang, the other departments accompanied them to fight in southern Chu.

The First Mortar Regiment, which was transferred to defend the Eastern Front, hurried to the Western Front.

At the same time, the Sixth Defense Division was transferred to Linxiang.

The above three divisions were combined into the Central Route Army, led by Luo Zhixue himself.

In addition, considering that Linxiang City is difficult to attack, even after the blasting, it may be denied by the enemy, and the requirements for the quantity and quality of commandos are also higher.

The fifth division's own commando might not be enough, and immediately ordered the eighth garrison division, sixth garrison division, and guard division to form commando teams of different sizes for the storming of Linxiang.

At the same time, the [-]st Cavalry Brigade will be provided with an additional [-] spare horses and an additional two and a half catty artillery post to strengthen the field firepower of the [-]st Cavalry Brigade, to block possible reinforcements from the enemy, and to pursue the enemy to break through the remnants of the enemy.

At the same time, in the two mortar regiments, an additional proportion of 48-jin mortars was added, and a batch of 48-jin mortars just produced from the Hantian Arsenal was directly strengthened and supplemented to the first mortar regiment to go to the Western Front.

The number of troops and artillery has increased, and the supply of ammunition has also increased accordingly.

After such an increase, the increased main force alone has reached more than 1 people, and an additional garrison division has about 9000 people.

This caused the total strength of the Great Chu Empire Army to attack Linxiang from about 5000 originally planned to directly increase to 7000. In addition, the troops accompanying the army were used for armed taxation in the newly occupied areas and to eliminate stubborn resistance. The gentry also provided some support for the army with [-] armed tax policemen.

In addition, there are more than [-] people in the navy.

The Great Chu Empire has assembled more than [-] armed forces of various types on the front line of Linxiang.

This does not include the tens of thousands of civilians in various transport regiments and transport fleets recruited by organizations affiliated to the Logistics Department and the Naval Logistics Division.

If these people are counted according to the traditional calculation method of Chinese ancient troops, then there are 10 people.

Shameless, you can even call it a 20 army!
An army of [-], more than a hundred mortars of various types, hundreds of field artillery of various types, and even Luo Zhixue decided to conscript himself, just to take down Linxiang City and take out Chunan!
It can be said that in order to be able to directly pry open the tortoise shell of Linxiang and enter the hinterland of Yuezhou, and then capture the hinterland of southern Chu in a short period of time, and control Changsha, Hengyang and other areas around Dongting Lake and the areas along the Xiangjiang River, the Great Chu Empire Army also went down. bloody.

With Luo Zhixue's many orders issued, the Great Chu Empire's military operations against Chu Nan have reached the final stage of preparation.

On March [-], the Sixth Garrison Division arrived at the military camp in the eastern suburbs of Linxiang.

On March [-]th, the First Mortar Regiment arrived in Linxiang by ship and landed.

On March [-], Luo Zhixue personally led the main force of the Guards and a group of civil and military officials to the military camp in the eastern suburbs of Linxiang.

When Luo Zhixue arrived in Linxiang in person, it also meant that the Linxiang battle had reached the stage that was about to start.

As a large number of Chu troops arrived for reinforcements and arrived in the eastern suburbs of Linxiang, the Ming army in Linxiang City was not blind, and naturally sensed that the security bandits were about to attack.

Faced with tens of thousands of bandit troops, the Ming army in the city strengthened the city defenses and collected all the materials that could be used to defend the city. At the same time, they also urgently asked for help from Baling, Yuezhou in the rear.

But Luo Zhixue would not give the Ming army too much time to react.

On the night of arriving at the military camp in the eastern suburbs of Linxiang, Luo Zhixue held a military meeting. This meeting was not only to finalize the final tactics, but also to boost morale and carry out the final pre-war mobilization.

After talking about a lot of crackling chicken soup for the soul, Luo Zhixue finally said: "In the first battle of Chunan, Uncle Hou can be sealed."

"Finally..." Luo Zhixue looked around at this point, paused for a few seconds before saying: "The first victor in the first battle of Chu Nan will be rewarded and other successors will be replaced."

(End of this chapter)