I want to be emperor

Chapter 155 Fighting against Lu Xiangsheng ([-])

After the Battle of Xiangyang, although Xu Zhixian still held the title of deputy minister, he had actually vaguely replaced Huang Guangmao and became the de facto head of the staff department.

At least, the core powers in the three staff departments of combat, training, and intelligence have all been under the jurisdiction of Xu Zhixian, and Huang Guangmao is left to handle the internal affairs of the staff department and attend various high-level military meetings as the moderator.

Huang Guangmao naturally didn't want this, and he also knew that he couldn't compete with Xu Zhixian.

Xu Zhixian was able to control most of the power of the staff department in the name of deputy minister, not because he was so powerful that he was able to snatch it from Huang Guangmao, but because Luo Zhixue directly ordered Xu Zhixian to take charge of it.

To put it bluntly, if it wasn't for Huang Guangmao's difficulty in transferring after he became the chief of staff, Luo Zhixue would have transferred Huang Guangmao directly to make room for Xu Zhixian.

Everyone knows this, and Huang Guangmao himself knows it.

A few days ago, Huang Guangmao was hesitant and wanted to delay for a while, but Xu Zhixian's performance became more and more outstanding in the past few days when he went north to fight, and his desire to leave the staff headquarters and lead troops became stronger and stronger.

When Huang Guangmao was thinking about this, he didn't listen much to Xu Zhixian's battle plan. Anyway, he had already read the battle plan in advance, and he knew what he was talking about if he didn't listen.

After Xu Zhixian finished describing the detailed battle plan for tomorrow, Huang Guangmao stood up again and said, "Brother Xu has just introduced the battle plan of our staff department. You can express your opinions."

Xiazi Wang and Huang Dingquan naturally have no opinion. You can ask them to lead the troops forward, but it is really incapable of you to let them understand the series of battle plans made by Xu Zhixian and find loopholes from them.

The general system in the Rural Protection Army is still too primitive, and many of them are small officers of the frontier army, soldiers, thieves, and refugees.

Another part is the generals among the officers and soldiers who surrendered.

To be honest, the military literacy of these people is just that way, and they can't do too complicated things.

The group of staff officers in the Operations Division of the General Staff Headquarters were the ones who could really advise on the combat plan.

Nowadays, the staff officers in the Operations Division of the General Staff Department are selected from among the officers in the entire army who can read and write. Well, if they don’t have enough education, they can’t even read intelligence documents, and they can’t even read various plans. Unable to formulate a battle plan...

These literate people are also the group of officers that Luo Zhixue focuses on training, and Xu Zhixian is just one of the more prominent ones.

For these literate officers, Luo Zhi learned to let them rotate in multiple positions, continuously accumulate experience in leading troops, accumulate experience in staff, etc., and at the same time let them enter the military school attached to the battalion to study.

The camp military school of the Protectorate Army has been formally established, and the first phase is currently open, and the schooling period is expected to be three months.

It can be seen from the school system that this is purely a crash course for officers.

There are more than 80 students in the school, which are divided into four departments: infantry, cavalry, artillery, and logistics, which directly correspond to various arms. The purpose is to train existing officers in a short period of time, especially to let them master how to command an army The capabilities of an army that makes heavy use of guns.

Because many officers in the Rural Protection Army lead troops to fight in other places, most of the officers who can enroll are officers in the four major departments of the General Staff Department, the Military and Political Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Logistics Department. The brigade, the cavalry brigade, the artillery brigade, officers in the [-]st supply battalion.

After the initial stabilization of the follow-up situation, Luo Zhixue will also select Dong Wen's literate officers from the Second Mixed Brigade, Third Infantry Brigade, and Fourth Mixed Brigade fighting in various places in Nanyang Prefecture to enroll in the camp school.

The accompanying military school is expected to provide a large number of qualified grassroots officers for the Rural Protection Army, but it will take time. In a short time, the Rural Protection Army will still have to use these grassroots officers without professional military training.

It doesn't matter if there is no professional college training. The solution for the rural protection army is to learn while fighting.

As for fighting, if a recruit survives three or five battles, or if he has been in the army for a year or so, he is basically considered a veteran.

The same is true for military officers. As long as they lead troops to fight a few more battles, as long as they are not too stupid, then they can barely lead troops to fight in a decent manner.

Luo Zhixue is very clear about this, so he generally doesn't demand too much from the generals under his command, and doesn't put forward some difficult requirements, and only fights when he has the greatest advantage as much as possible.

After all, it takes time to grow up, and there will be a price to pay, and what Luo Zhixue has to do is to control the cost of learning within a certain range.

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After a one-night battle meeting, the Township Protection Army had thoroughly formulated a battle plan, and Luo Zhixue had already issued corresponding orders to the various troops at the end of the meeting.

This also means that the township protection army, which ran for dozens of kilometers and killed the tiger all the way, is ready, and is waiting for a decisive battle with Lu Xiangsheng's troops tomorrow.

On the second day, the sky was not yet clear, but the soldiers of the Rural Protection Army in Dulin Town had already had breakfast in advance and were packing up personal equipment, camp tents, etc., making final preparations for the departure.

It was just dawn, and as the vanguard of the whole army, the cavalry brigade, which shouldered major tactical tasks, left the camp first under the leadership of Wang Xiazi and headed north.

About a quarter of an hour later, the [-]rd Infantry Battalion belonging to the [-]st Infantry Brigade, as the infantry forward of the whole army, began to leave the camp and embarked on the road northward.

Followed by the [-]st Infantry Battalion, [-]th Infantry Battalion and other units of the [-]st Infantry Brigade.

Followed by the two artillery posts of the [-]st Artillery Brigade, a total of twelve [-]-jin long guns.

After the above-mentioned two brigades left, Luo Zhixue personally led the [-]-member personal battalion to set off, accompanied by a large number of logistics supplies. As for the first logistics battalion, it fell at the end as a rear-end force.

Due to the shortage of troops, soldiers are needed everywhere. Luo Zhixue often uses the supply units directly as infantry units on the spot, so that the current No. [-] Supply Battalion has gradually evolved into a pure combat infantry battalion now...

The transportation tasks of a large number of supplies are now directly handed over to the two transport battalions organized by the Logistics Department. The supply battalions often only send a few officers and soldiers to manage them, and the main force of the supply battalion is used as an escort for the supplies in daily life. .

When necessary, they basically go directly to the battlefield and use them as ordinary infantry.

The army of the rural protection army came out of the camp one after another, because it is expected that a large-scale encounter will break out today, because when the rural protection army marched, they did not maintain the high-speed marching state as in the previous two days, but used a slightly slower speed than usual. Go north at a slower pace.

It's just that they set off early, and even though their marching speed was much slower than usual, they arrived near Sanyuanzhuang smoothly at around ten o'clock in the morning.

After the army arrived near Sanyuanzhuang, they did not go directly to Sanyuanzhuang, but took a temporary rest in a forest about two kilometers to the south.

The soldiers directly sat on the ground to drink water and eat dry food. In order to avoid the smoke from cooking and let the opponent's scouts find out in advance, they could only eat dry food directly.

When the soldiers ate by themselves, they did not forget to feed the many mules and horses.

Whether it is a man or a mule, they all need to recover their physical fitness as soon as possible, so that they can have sufficient physical fitness to fight in the follow-up battle.

When the soldiers were resting, Luo Zhixue continued to pay attention to the movements on the battlefield.

The scouts reported back one after another. Lu Xiangsheng's troops were heading towards Sanyuan Village. The scouts sent by the Ming army had even arrived at Sanyuan Village and searched both sides of the road.

But the rural protection army did not approach Sanyuan Village at all, but stopped in the woods two kilometers away to rest.

In a short time, the opponent's scouts didn't find them.

However, it is estimated that they will not be able to hide for a long time, because the search of the scouts is usually fan-shaped. In addition to the detailed search of the front of the road, the search is often also carried out on the left and right sides of the road.

In this kind of open area, the search area of ​​the scouts can even reach several kilometers.

However, Luo Zhixue and the others never thought about hiding!

It is impossible to play ambush in a place like Sanyuanzhuang, and it is precisely because it is impossible to be ambushed that Lu Xiangsheng is able to take this path boldly.

From the beginning to the end, neither Luo Zhixue nor the staff members of the staff department thought about playing an ambush.

All they have to do is to encounter the enemy army head-on and defeat it!
Of course, it would be better if the enemy ran away without resistance after encountering the enemy, and it would be easier to catch up and kill a wave.

For any army, for any general, it is always more difficult to organize a retreat than to organize an attack.

Standing on the short hill, Luo Zhixue looked to the northwest. Although there was nothing in his sight, he knew very well that the main force of the Ming army under Lu Xiangsheng was there, and the straight-line distance between the two sides was about five kilometers.

With such a long distance and the fact that there are still low mountains blocking his view, it is naturally impossible for him to see any soldiers of the Ming army.

After looking at the empty northwest direction, Luo Zhixue looked away and looked at Blind Wang:

"Blind man, I won't say anything superfluous. You also know the importance of today's battle. I just have one request: If the enemy infantry wants to escape from the battlefield, restrain them and wait for us to come over!"

Blind Wang said: "General, don't worry, there are not many cavalry on the opposite side, only about a hundred people. I have seen it from a distance just now. They are all a bunch of half-baked guys. They can't stop me."

Luo Zhixue nodded: "Well, let's go!"

Then he turned his head to look at Xu Zhixian and said, "Let the soldiers pack up their things and make final preparations before leaving for Sanyuanzhuang!"

When Luo Zhixue led the army to Sanyuanzhuang, Lu Xiangsheng, who had just led his army into the edge of Sanyuanzhuang, also got the news of the reconnaissance cavalry. About ten miles to the southeast, he found a large group of bandits moving from south to north Coming here, looking at his marching route, it seems that he is going to Dengzhou.

Many of them wore gray robes and shaved their heads.

When Lu Xiangsheng heard the news, he didn't even need to ask, he knew that the thieves discovered by the scouts were the rural protection army.

Looking around the world, the entire army shaves their heads, only the Bao thief family, and even the Dongbao family still has a rat-tailed braid...

The question is, how did these thieves of the Township Protection Army appear in the area south of Dengzhou? Did the thieves from Xinye City kill them?
Or did the thieves from Xiangyang City go north?
There is also a question that Lu Xiangsheng cares more about: why did they appear here?How many soldiers and horses do they have?
With these doubts in mind, Lu Xiangsheng immediately said: "Send more sentries to find out the size of the bandit army."

"Order the army to stop, put on armor and prepare for battle!"

(End of this chapter)