I want to be emperor

Chapter 161 The Ninth Mixed Brigade

When Xiazi Wang, who had just finished the pursuit mission, returned to the headquarters established by Luo Zhixue, what he saw was such a happy scene.

He even vaguely heard a few people muttering about what their country protection army should be to establish the founding of the country, and then what kind of title he would get as a reward.

Hearing these words, Wang Xiazi also had wings of expectation in his heart.

Although blind man Wang's education level is not high, that is, he has only learned to read from a scholar in the past few months, and now he can only recognize a mere one or two hundred characters, and he can't even write a letter.

However, Blind Wang also knows what happened to the founding hero.

Once the rebellion is successful, even if it is impossible to seize the whole world in the end, as long as they can settle down in a corner, it will be enough for their rural protection army to establish a formal country.

At that time, Luo Zhixue, a great general, will naturally become king or even emperor, and those civil servants and military generals who founded the country will naturally be the founding heroes.

All kinds of prosperity and wealth are indispensable.

And Wang Xiazi felt that among the many generals under the general's command, even if he could not enter the top three, no matter what, he should be able to make a top ten.

At that time, the Duke and the like dare not think about it, but a Marquis should have hope.

That's Lord Hou. In the past few decades of his life, before he followed Luo Zhixue, he never dared to think that he would have such an opportunity.

Now that I think about it, I can have everything I have today, and the prosperity and wealth that I may have in the future, all because I followed the right person.

Fortunately, when the former great general Sun Jiancheng died of illness last year, blind man Wang obeyed Sun Jiancheng's words, and did not compete with Luo Zhixue for the position of the great general, nor did he lead anyone out of the team to stand on his own, but chose to obey Luo Zhixue in a proper manner. .

After that, Luo Zhixue didn't treat him badly, and always let him serve as the chief officer of the cavalry unit, from the cavalry sentry officer, to the cavalry director, and then the current cavalry director and the commander of the first cavalry brigade.

Although the cavalry under Wang Xiazi's command is still only about [-] cavalry, counting the other cavalry posts that also belonged to his guidance and construction, it is only [-] to [-] cavalry.

This strength seems to be nothing in the rural protection army, which already has thousands of people, and even tens of thousands of people are rushing to it.

But no one would underestimate the strength and role of Wang Xiazi's cavalry.

In many battles in the past, Wang Xiazi also led the cavalry to make great military exploits. Under such circumstances, Wang Xiazi felt that it should not be a problem for him to get a marquis when he founded the country.

With a bright vision for the future, blind Wang walked up to Luo Zhixue with a smile on his face, and congratulated Luo Zhixue on his victory like everyone else.

For the congratulations from the generals under his command, Luo Zhixue looked at the crowd with a smile on his face, and finally said: "Today's victory is due to the credit of all the gentlemen."

Luo Zhixue didn't say much else, but expressed his meaning with a simple sentence.

He, Luo Zhixue, remembers all the credit, and your benefits will be indispensable when rewarding heroes in the future.

Amidst the laughter, everyone began to discuss how to fight the next battle.

According to the old rules, Huang Guangmao, the head of the staff department, was the first to speak: "Lu Xiangsheng is now leading [-] remnants of the defeated generals to retreat to Sanyuan Village. Many of their troops have lost their helmets and armor. There is also insufficient food and artillery."

"And the east and north of Sanyuanzhuang are facing the river. Although the river is a small river, if you want to cross the river from these two directions and attack, you will have a lot of trouble."

"The west and south sides are flat terrain. The villagers here had previously built a wooden fence as proposed. Today, after the enemy's vanguard arrived here, they urgently demolished houses to get wood, bricks and stones, and dug soil. Reinforce."

"There are obstacles such as distance horses here, and some wooden fences are also piled up with bricks, stones and soil."

"If you launch an attack from these two sides, you will also encounter certain troubles, but even if it is more troublesome, it is better than crossing the river."

"After all, it's not a real city wall, it's just an obstacle made of miscellaneous bricks, stones and mud, but it can't stop our artillery."

"As long as the attacking infantry is well-prepared, such as setting up some unicycle shield vehicles to cover and advance, such as concentrating heavy armored soldiers, and covering archers and musketeers in place, then there will be no big problem in conquering Sanyuanzhuang."

When Huang Guangmao said this, he added another sentence: "When I was fighting against Dongyao in Liaodong before, I saw Dongyao's wheelbarrow cart. Based on the wheelbarrow, a thick board was added to the front, and some cowhide and even The iron sheet is strong enough to withstand the shelling of bows, arrows, bullets and even light artillery."

"Our army can also use it to reduce casualties during storming."

Luo Zhixue immediately said: "Yes! The Ordnance Department will start preparations immediately."

Then he looked at the crowd and said: "Today's battle, the soldiers are already exhausted, and the enemy army has been besieged by us in Sanyuanzhuang, and there is no fortress in the period, so you can rest for a day and prepare at the same time, and come back tomorrow." attack!"

After finishing speaking, Luo Zhixue looked at Huang Guangmao again and said, "I want to reorganize the Ninth Mixed Brigade with prisoners of war here, can you come to this brigade commander?"

Huang Guangmao suddenly heard this, he immediately looked overjoyed and said: "The general loves you so much, and your subordinates will definitely fight to the death in the future."

Huang Guangmao can't help but be unhappy. I can see that Xu Zhixian has taken over most of the actual power of the staff department these days. Huang Guangmao only has the power to handle the daily affairs of the staff department. By the way, during the military meeting Just act as a host.

Naturally, Huang Guangmao was unwilling in this situation. Just after the war ended, Huang Guangmao had already hinted to Luo Zhixue that he wanted to go down and lead the troops after he learned that a large number of prisoners had been captured.

According to the recent tradition of the Rural Protection Army, after taking over a large number of prisoners of war, qualified soldiers will be selected from them to form an army.

In this process, unless there are special circumstances, for example, elite cavalry who can ride and shoot will be transferred to new-style troops, most of the surrendered and qualified soldiers will be reorganized into old-style troops using traditional tactics and weapons.

That is, the fourth mixed brigade, the fifth mixed brigade, and the sixth mixed brigade.

Now that 5000 prisoners of war and at least 500 civilians have been captured in the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang, how can a traditional mixed brigade of about [-] people be selected from so many people?

In fact, if Sanyuanzhuang can be conquered in the future and more prisoners of war can be captured.

The prisoners captured in this battle alone are at least enough for the Township Protection Army to reorganize two mixed brigades.

Now that a new mixed brigade is about to appear, Huang Guangmao will inevitably have to be tempted.

Before, he was thinking of planning a position as the commander of the main infantry brigade, such as the [-]th Infantry Brigade or the [-]th Infantry Brigade. It's been two months.

But the current situation is that he doesn't want to stay in the staff for a day longer.

So even if it is an old-style unit like the traditional mixed brigade, he plans to go.

He just wanted to take advantage of the frequent fighting in the past two months to make contributions as soon as possible, and his status would not be much worse than the brigade commanders of the main infantry brigades.

Furthermore, he was a traditional military officer after all, and he was very new to commanding such a traditional army.

Under such circumstances, Huang Guangmao expressed to Luo Zhixue his desire to lead troops.

Everyone is a smart person, Luo Zhixue only listened to his hints and knew that Huang Guangmao wanted to lead these mixed brigades, and at the same time felt that Huang Guangmao took the initiative to give way to Xu Zhixian, which could be regarded as avoiding his own embarrassment.

To be honest, Luo Zhixue has regretted choosing Huang Guangmao as the head of the staff these days, instead of directly choosing Xu Zhixian as the head of the staff.

The past period of time has proved that Huang Guangmao is not a qualified chief of staff at all, and he can't even make a battle plan...

If it wasn't for fear of bad influence, he would have planned to remove Huang Guangmao from the battle of Xiangyang and send him to the field troops.

Now that Huang Guangmao took the initiative to propose it, it was considered a good thing.

Immediately, Huang Guangmao's wish was fulfilled and he was given the title of Brigadier Commander of the Mixed Brigade, which was not a bad treatment to him.

Since Huang Guangmao became the brigade commander of the newly established Ninth Mixed Brigade, Xu Zhixian naturally took over the position of Chief of Staff.

Everyone was not too surprised by this change, because this was something that had been obvious for a long time, but now it just fell into place.

On the contrary, Xu Zhixian, who was newly promoted to the head of the staff department, later proposed that they currently have at least [-] prisoners of war and [-] captive civilians in their hands.

After so many are organized into a mixed brigade, there will definitely be a large number of troops left, so a tenth mixed brigade can be reorganized on the spot.

Xu Zhixian even arranged for the Ming army still under Xinye City by the way. After Lu Xiangsheng took down Sanyuanzhuang, he went east to Xinye City, and after killing these Ming troops, he selected some qualified soldiers from them. To supplement the vacancy of the Sixth Mixed Brigade.

The Sixth Mixed Brigade was established after the Battle of Xiangyang, but because the number of prisoners of war was limited at that time, only one battalion was formed, so that now the brigade has only one title, and there is not even a brigade commander yet.

In this regard, Luo Zhixue also agreed to the plan to build the tenth mixed brigade, but the candidate for the brigade commander has not been announced yet. Luo Zhixue intends to wait and see before choosing a suitable person.

While the rural protection army was sweeping the battlefield and taking prisoners of war, while making offensive equipment, Lu Xiangsheng in Sanyuan Village was in an extremely depressed mood.

The frontal field battle failed, and now he can only defend Sanyuanzhuang. Why did this battle fail? It doesn't matter who made the bigger mistake. Anyway, today he has personally beheaded more than a dozen generals!

Almost all of them are middle and high-level generals who escaped before the battle!

But just killing these mid-level and high-ranking generals who escaped before the battle could not change the fact that Lu Xiangsheng was besieged in Sanyuanzhuang, and most likely he would not be able to hold Sanyuanzhuang.

In today's battle, the entire army might be wiped out!

(End of this chapter)