Mo Dunjang's miraculous defeat in Ningping is still unknown to Gao Pangshi, who is far away in Guangxi. However, although he can't figure out how the war between Mo Dynasty and Li Dynasty was fought, he knows that since Mo Jingdian's death, Mo Jingdian has From then on, the army was as weak as if it had taken Shixiang Ruanjin Powder, and it never won any battles until the country was destroyed.
Looking through the annals of history, it is all a series of defeats, defeats, defeats, defeats. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic felt that it was not a big problem to send troops under such circumstances. However, for the convenience of command, he moved from Nanning to Mingjiang City in Siming Prefecture and established the general headquarters here.
In accordance with high pragmatic requirements, the chieftains in western Guangxi and southern Guangxi gathered a total of 50,000 troops this time, including 28,000 from the western Guangxi and 23,000 from the southern Guangxi.
The chieftains were responsible for the land route, which had two directions. Cen Ling led the Guixi wolf soldiers from Guishunzhou and the border with Zhen'an Prefecture and went south to Gaoping. Huang Zhiting led the Guinan wolf soldiers from Pingzhou to Zhennanguan and went straight to Langshan.
In terms of difficulty, both sides are currently engaged in mountain warfare, but Lang Son's defense is definitely tighter than Gaoping, so Huang Zhiting's troops are under greater pressure. In addition, Huang Zhiting's troops have fewer troops than Guixi, only 20,000. With three thousand people, this pressure is further amplified.
In order to ensure the attack power of Huang Zhiting's unit, Gao Pragmatic not only replaced Huang Zhiting's chieftain wolf soldiers with new wrought iron spearheads in advance, but also provided an artillery unit of 500 people, with a total of 80 Jinghua Bingzi Type 1 light cannons. and ten Jinghua Jimao-1 cannons.
Originally, Gao Pragmatic wanted to provide her with a batch of the Jinghua Gengchen Type-1 heavy artillery that was finalized and trial-produced last year. However, after he and Huang Zhiting's generals visited the sample of the artillery, the idea was rejected because The transportation is inconvenient and does not conform to the overall idea of fighting fast.
Huang Zhiding's confidant Huang Hu said with a smile: "Don't worry, with those ten No. 3 Fo Lang machines, we will definitely take Lang Son City. If you are worried that it is not fast enough, there is no need to take the No. 1 Fo Lang machine." Come on, it’s too difficult to walk on the mountain road. Just like No. 3... well, one of Ji Mao’s guns was shot, and there are ten or twenty guns, so we don’t think that’s too much.”
Huang Hu refers to the customary saying of the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty reformed from high arch, the Jinghua Artillery Factory took the lead in rearranging the artillery manufacturing specifications. Now there are five kinds of Folang machines, of which No. 1 is 8 to 9 feet long. , the bullet weighs one kilogram, and the charge is one kilogram; No. 2 is 7 to 8 feet long, the bullet weighs eight taels, and the charge is nine taels; No. 3 is 5 to 6 feet long, the bullet weighs half a kilogram, and the charge is six taels; No. 4 is long 3 to 4 feet, the bullet weighs four liang, and the charge is three liang and five qian; the No. 5 is two feet long, the ammunition is 7 qian, and the charge is one liang and two qian.
This specification is the general specification of the Ming Dynasty, but Jinghua has its own system. The artillery produced is named according to Jinghua's custom, after the year of finalization and the model of that year. However, due to high pragmatism, it is difficult to provide too much for the military industry. suggestion. In fact, most artillery guns only have one final model in a year, so "two models in a certain year" are rare at present.
Huang Hu's proposal was highly pragmatic and unsatisfactory, because the number of artillery he had mobilized in advance was limited and he could only support these at present.
"In the Battle of Liangshan, I can't support you anymore, but there should be a batch of artillery on the way south now. If everything goes well, maybe you can get another batch during the Battle of Shenglong." Gao pragmatically said with a smile.
Huang Hu was not disappointed, but thanked him immediately.
To be honest, he has never enjoyed this kind of treatment before. In the past, the army would not give artillery support to their chieftains and wolf soldiers.
Looking at Huang Zhiting in military uniform, Gao Jingshi was a little helpless. He originally did not intend to let Huang Zhiting lead the army in person. Although in Guangxi, female chieftains often led troops to fight, just like Mrs. Wa's back then, but Gao Jingshi was old and pragmatic. I think it's a little weird for a petite-looking girl like Huang Zhiting to lead troops on an expedition.
However, Huang Zhiting refused to listen to his advice, and she refused to explain more. She said that since Cen Ling led the troops of the Cen family, she must also fight on behalf of the Huang family. Otherwise, would it be possible to mobilize the best elites from each family of more than 20,000 people? The wolf soldier was handed over to her younger brother Huang Yinglei, who looked unreliable?
Gao Jingshi really tried to persuade her not to move, so he had to repeatedly tell her not to risk her own life. He even found a good reason, saying that given the current situation of the Huang family, if she couldn't take care of things, the entire Huang family would definitely be oppressed by the Cen family. superior.
Huang Zhiting silently nodded in agreement.
Of course she is very aware of the current situation, and Gao Pragmatic does take care of her, but the Huang family's overall strength is indeed a little worse than that of the Cen family. However, from a geographical point of view, the Cen family must send troops to Gao Ping, while the Huang family can only Send troops to Langshan.
Lang Son is difficult to conquer, but once it is conquered, it will definitely be a great success. With this success, the Huang family's interests in Annam can be guaranteed in the future, and Gao pragmatism will be allocated when the time comes, so that there will be no embarrassment.
Not only does she want to benefit the Huang family, but she also doesn't want to make it difficult to be pragmatic.
In addition to land routes, all water routes are handled by Gao pragmatism. Jinghua mobilized more than 200 large and small ships, of which about 50 were sea-going ships that could be used for combat. None of them were professional warships, but they were all equipped with open-deck naval guns.
If we want to use a slightly more professional term, these fifty sea-going ships should be called armed transport ships. They are already 70% of the strength of Gao Pragmatic's "navy".
In particular, Gao Pragmatic's maritime combat force is still in its infancy, and the cost of building a fleet is obviously high. The average unit price of these ships is as high as more than 50,000 taels. In the past few years, Gao Pragmatic has spent an average of more than 60,000 yuan per year on shipbuilding. One hundred thousand taels, most of which was spent on these armed transport ships.
Perhaps after the shipyard in Qinzhou is completed in the future, relying on Guangxi's timber resources, the cost of shipbuilding can be reduced.
However, the combat effectiveness of these armed transport ships is not bad, because Gao Pragmatic knows the correct development direction of naval guns. Each ship is equipped with twenty-eight naval guns, and only two calibers of heavy guns, not light guns. . Based on his historical memory, these ships will definitely not become obsolete in East Asia for at least ten years.
In fact, to a certain extent, this fleet is much more powerful than the highly concentrated land force. Just these fifty armed transport ships have 180 people each, and a total of 9,000 people. It's just that Gao Pragmatic currently does not have a "Marine Corps", and this fleet does not have the ability to fight ashore.
After all, it is in Daming, and there are more ships than intimidating or conspicuous. What's more, this is a gathering of fleets from several major private ports. If Gao Pragmatic can gather tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry in a place like Kaiping, then That's scary.
My fleet has a large fleet, and of course there are many sailors. Is it any wonder? As for cannons, Japanese pirates are everywhere. How can I go to sea without cannons? If you are doing business and get slaughtered by pirates, how can you still have fun?
Precisely in view of the strong strength at sea, Gao Pragmatic chose to devote his servants to the sea route - starting from Qinzhou, going straight to the mouth of the Red River to land and sneak attack on Thang Long!
The straight-line distance along this route is more than 500 miles, but of course it is not actually a straight line, so the distance should be close to 700 miles.
But that doesn't matter, sailing on the sea is faster than walking on the mountain road. This sneak attack should be able to achieve the effect of taking them by surprise.
The navy of the Mo Dynasty was stronger than that of the Le Dynasty. Previously, they often went south to Thanh Hoa by land and bypassed Thanh Hoa by water to sneak attacks on Nie An or even Hue. Gao pragmatically judged that they might fight like this again this time. In that case, the sea route would be safer.
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