I want to be emperor

Chapter 528 Night Talk
On April 24, the sixth year of Chengshun, night.

In Balipu, five kilometers east of Shanhaiguan, after the Dongyao people voluntarily evacuated here, although they set fire here, most of the stored materials and some houses in the city were burned down.

However, because the Dongbang people retreated in a hurry, and under the tight time, it was not easy to burn the food and other materials that could not be taken away. As for most of the buildings, they were still preserved.

After the Chu army arrived, they also controlled the fire in the city, and then began to move in.

Even if this place was set on fire by the Dongkui, it is a fortress city with a large number of fortifications. Many of the buildings are stone and earth buildings. That's right, and it's not easy to cause a fire.

Under such circumstances, it will be a success for the Chu army to occupy this place after advancing eastward and use it as an outpost.

The front-line headquarters of the Third Army was also established here. Zuo Yingzhe, the commander of the Third Army, personally led the senior generals of the Army to station here, and commanded the various ministries and guards of the Third Army that had already launched a full-line attack on the Liaoxi Corridor.

Although the guards are of a different system from the army, they are not under the command of the army in legal terms when they go to fight in Liaodong.

However, in order to coordinate and command the war in the Northeast, the Guards still took the initiative to negotiate with the Army. More than 2 Guards fought in the Northeast. They fought on their own in name, but in fact, in the name of consultation and cooperation, they temporarily belonged to the third Commanded by the Army Group.

Of course, if the guards don't listen, there is nothing they can do.

After all, this involves the issue of the military. The army is the army, the guards are the guards, and the navy is the navy. Coordinated operations are possible, but forced orders are not.

The Chu army has played this kind of coordinated operations many times, and they have already established a complete set of procedures.

For example, when the army and the navy joined forces and landed on the Liaodong Peninsula, the generals of the navy were in charge of the overall command, and the army was only responsible for the combat matters after landing. At the same time, the second marine regiment of the navy was once under the command of the army.

The Guards and the Army cooperated more. During the Eastward Campaign, the First Guards Division was under the command of the First Army.

Later, the First Guards Division and the Second Guards Division successively participated in the Jiangbei and subsequent Northern Expeditions, and were also under the command of a higher-level army-level command.

But this kind of relationship is limited to the command of a specific battle, and the guards will not cooperate with orders outside the battle.

At the same time, the Army is still unable to interfere in the internal affairs of the Guards.

This time the Northeast campaign is still the same!

In order to better allow more than 2 guards to cooperate with the third army, the guards also dispatched a major general to sit at the headquarters of the third army to negotiate with the army on behalf of the guards. The combat order of the guards is also conveyed by this person to the combat troops of the Guards.

This seems to be very complicated, and there are many processes.

But this involves the coordination of the military, which is so complicated. If it is not complicated, it will be easy to mess up and even threaten the independence of the Guards.

Guards, it is not just any ordinary field troops.

If it was just an ordinary field force, there was no need for Luo Zhixue to set up another guard army, it was just enough to expand the size of the main first-class division within the army.

The most important purpose of the guards is still for balance.

To balance the army's dominance in ground combat, um, at least ensure that Luo Zhixue has another army with a large number of ground combat troops in addition to the army.

As for those who belong directly to the royal family and are only loyal to the emperor, these are secondary.

Because all the armed forces of the Great Chu Empire, whether it is the army or the navy, plus the guards and even the armed tax police, they are all directly loyal to the emperor.

Theoretically speaking, all troops are under Luo Zhixue's direct command, regardless of the type of troops.

Moreover, people’s minds have changed. It’s not that you said that the guards are only loyal to the royal family, and they will not rebel if they are only loyal to the emperor himself...

Therefore, the purpose of Luo Zhixue's formation of the Guards is for balance.

Let the army, navy, and guards form a relatively stable triangular structure, which will increase the difficulty of some generals in a certain military branch rebelling as much as possible.

If the difficulty of rebellion is not high, no matter how serious the consequences are, someone will do it.

But if the difficulty is high and the threshold is high, then it can effectively dispel the thoughts that some people shouldn't have.

Under such circumstances, the status of the Guards is very special.

In battles involving the Guards, it is often necessary to negotiate with the Guards.

That night, when Zuo Yingzhe held a strategy meeting, Major General Ding Jiaheng, the representative of the Guards, reported the fighting situation of the various units of the Guards on behalf of the Guards.

"The third division, the main force of our Guards, has strategically encircled Tieyang Fort in the north according to the battle plan we negotiated before. According to the information provided by our reconnaissance cavalry, the enemy also wants to retreat where the battle started. Due to the swift action of our vanguard cavalry and the early attack, more than [-] enemy troops retreated back to Tieyang Fort under the threat of our guard cavalry."

"Following up, the main force of the third division of our Guards successfully arrived at Tieyang Fort and carried out a strategic encirclement of the enemy forces in the city."

"We are currently building artillery positions overnight, attacking trenches, and transporting ammunition. It is expected that we will be able to launch a general attack on Tieyang Fort early tomorrow morning!"

"Lieutenant General Qian Taijinwei, a letter has been sent. We will use a large number of artillery for shelling early tomorrow morning, including more than fifty howitzers. If everything goes well, we are expected to capture Tieyang Fort tomorrow afternoon."

"A mixed regiment belonging to the Second Division of our Guards is currently cooperating with the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment, and the Second Hussar Regiment continues to advance eastward, and has now arrived in a mountain forest eight kilometers east of Tieyangbao to rest. , to ambush possible reinforcements from the enemy!"

"On the whole, our guards are proceeding smoothly according to the combat plan agreed upon by both of us, and have reached the planned tactical goals on the first day."

After Major General Ding Jiaheng finished speaking, he closed the report in his hand, nodded slightly to the other army generals around him, and then sat down again.

General Zuo Yingzhe smiled at Ding Jiaheng and nodded slightly: "Brothers of the Guards, Tieyang Fort is a stumbling block for our army to advance eastward to the west of Liaoning. Only by taking this place, our army will continue to advance eastward." The key to getting into the middle is that you don’t have to worry about being intercepted by the two rear lanes, let alone being attacked by enemies from the front or back.”

"Now Tieyang Fort has been strategically surrounded by the guards, and the [-] elite enemy troops on Balipu have voluntarily withdrawn. It is impossible for the two outposts in front of us to create any obstacles for us. Then it’s time to hit the front line.”

"And when hitting the front, we must always be vigilant and guard against the enemy's cavalry!"

"According to the report from Zhu Xingfa of the First Cavalry Army ahead, the Dongyao cavalry is relatively elite. They tried to go around and attack many times during the day, but the First Cavalry Army responded calmly and calmly, and nothing happened."

"In addition to the [-] cavalry from the east who voluntarily withdrew from Balipu, there are at least [-] to [-] cavalry in Zhongqian."

"Besides, after we dispatch our troops now, it probably won't take a day or two for the enemy troops in Guangning to rush to help. The first ones will probably be the enemy's cavalry, at least ten thousand cavalry!"

"It is estimated that we will face [-] to [-] enemy cavalry by then!"

"There are too many cavalry, it's hard to fight!"

Zuo Yingzhe stared at the military map on the table while talking!

These words are not so much for the generals present, as they are for himself. He must always remind himself that he must be cautious and cautious.

This time the attack on western Liaoning is of great strategic significance, not to mention these.

The most important thing is that the Chu army was at a considerable disadvantage in terms of cavalry this time when they fought captives.

The Chu army has drawn almost all the independent cavalry that can be drawn from the whole country. Only then has five divisions, two cavalry brigades and one cuirassier regiment been concentrated on the front line of Jiliao and Xuanda. Well, now, one can be counted The Sixth Cavalry Division conscripted from the Tumot tribe and the 'Naturalized Cavalry Training Camp' that has not yet been established although it has the size of a cavalry division.

They are the 16st to 17rd Cavalry Divisions of the Army on the front line of Shanhaiguan, the [-]th Cuirassier Regiment of the Guards, the No.[-] Cavalry Brigade of Jizhen, the [-]th Cavalry Division of Miyun, the [-]th Cavalry Division of Xuanfu, and the No.[-] Cavalry Division of Datong. No.[-] Cavalry Brigade.

Among them, the Fourth Cavalry Division stationed in Xuanfu has already gone north to the grassland, together with the newly incorporated Sixth Cavalry Division and the Naturalized Cavalry Training Battalion, formed the Second Cavalry Army, which has already entered the northeast of Monan Mongolia.

In addition to these independent cavalry, although the Chu army still has a lot of divisional cavalry, the actual number is not quite as many, and the combat effectiveness is basically not good.

According to the theoretical establishment of the army, each first-class division and second-class division has a divisional cavalry regiment. According to the latest establishment, this divisional cavalry regiment adopts the small regiment and large sentry system. The cavalry regiment governs four cavalry posts, each cavalry post, and each cavalry post has more than 150 cavalry, plus an auxiliary cavalry artillery post and supply post, the total strength is about [-] people.

But in fact, this is only a theoretical establishment. In fact, except for the first-class divisions on the front line of the border army, there is no other army that can achieve this full establishment.

It's okay to be dissatisfied with the establishment, but even if these cavalry regiments of the army divisions are in short supply, they are actually all dragoons composed of half-baked cavalry infantry. In the internal positioning of the Chu army, these dragoons are regarded as Used by fast mobile infantry.

There are only three cavalry divisions on the front line of Shanhaiguan that can really be used as field cavalry, and then there are the fourth cuirassier regiment on the side of the guards and the two hussar regiments of the guards.

If the Third Army and the Guards are added together, if you don't count the cavalry artillery and cavalry heavy soldiers, but only count the front-line combat cavalry fighting on horseback, then there are only [-] cavalry at full count!

As for the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side, there are at least [-] cavalry just on the Guangning line, not to mention that there will be more Dongyao cavalry reinforcements coming up at any time.

Under such circumstances, the third army's eastward pressure is still relatively large!

You can't fight waves, you must fight steadily!
(End of this chapter)