Blind Wang, who had just finished his pursuit mission, saw such a happy scene when he returned to the headquarters set up by Luo Zhixue.
He even vaguely heard a few people muttering about how their hometown-protecting army should be organized and found a country, and then what titles and rewards he would receive.
After hearing these words, Wang Xiazi also felt hopeful in his heart.
Although he, the blind man, has a low level of education and has only learned to read from a reading teacher in the past few months, he can only recognize a few hundred or two hundred characters and cannot even write a letter.
However, blind man Wang also knows what happened to the founding hero.
Once the rebellion succeeds, even if they are unable to seize the entire world in the end, as long as they can favor one side, it will be enough for them to establish a formal country with the Home Guard Army.
When the time comes, General Luo Zhixue will naturally proclaim himself king or even emperor, and these civil servants and generals who founded the country will naturally be the founding heroes.
All kinds of glory and wealth are indispensable.
Blind Wang felt that among the many generals under the general's command, even if he could not be among the top three, he should be able to get into the top ten no matter what.
At that time, the Duke and the like would not dare to think about it, but a Marquis should have hope.
That was the Marquis. In the past few decades of his life, before following Luo Zhixue, he never dared to think that he would have such an opportunity.
Now that I think about it, I am able to have everything I have today and the possible prosperity and wealth in the future, all because I followed the right person.
Fortunately, when the former general Sun Chengli died of illness last year, he, Wang Xiazi, listened to Sun Chengli's words and did not compete with Luo Zhixue for the position of general, nor did he lead people to leave the team and become independent. Instead, he chose to obey Luo Zhixue. .
Luo Zhixue did not treat him badly after that. He has always been the chief officer of the cavalry unit, from the cavalry sentry officer to the cavalry director, and then to the current cavalry director who also serves as the commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade.
Although there are still only about 300 cavalry under Wang Xiazi's command, including several other cavalry posts that also belong to his guidance and construction, there are only 500 to 600 cavalry.
This small amount of troops seems to be nothing in the army that already has thousands of people, and even tens of thousands of people are rushing to protect the countryside.
But no one would underestimate the strength and role of the cavalry under Wang Xiazi's command.
In the past many battles, Wang Xiazi also made great achievements with his cavalry. Under such circumstances, Wang Xiazi felt that it would not be a problem to obtain a marquis when the country was founded.
With beautiful visions for the future, Blind Wang walked up to Luo Zhixue with a smile on his face and congratulated Luo Zhixue on his victory like the others.
In response to the congratulations from his generals, Luo Zhixue looked at everyone with a smile and finally said: "Today's victory can only be achieved because of the contributions of all of you."
Luo Zhixue didn't say much else, but expressed his meaning in a simple sentence.
Luo Zhixue will remember your merits. Your benefits will be indispensable when the meritorious officials are awarded in the future.
Everyone was laughing and laughing, and began to discuss how to fight the next war.
Following the old rules, Chief of Staff Huang Guangmao was the first to speak: "Lu Xiangsheng has now led five thousand defeated troops to retreat to Sanyuan Village. Many of his troops have lost their armor, their food supplies are insufficient, and they lack artillery."
"And Sanyuan Village faces the river to the east and north. Although the rivers are small rivers, it will be quite troublesome to cross the river and attack from these two directions."
"The terrain is flat to the west and south. The villagers here built a wooden fence as suggested before. Today, after the enemy's forward troops arrived here, they urgently demolished the house, took out wood, bricks, and dug soil, and carried out construction on this wooden fence. Reinforcement.”
"There are obstacles such as horses and horses here, and some wooden fences are also piled with bricks, stones and soil."
"If we launch an attack from these two sides, we will encounter certain troubles, but even if it is more troublesome, it will be better than crossing the river to attack by force."
"After all, it's not a real city wall, it's just an obstacle made of debris, masonry, stone and mud. It can't stop our artillery."
"As long as the attacking infantry is fully prepared, such as arranging some wheeled shield vehicles to cover the advance, concentrating heavily armored soldiers, and providing archers and musketeers with adequate cover, then there won't be much of a problem in conquering Sanyuan Village."
When Huang Guangmao said this, he added: "When I was fighting in Liaodong and Dongduo before, I saw Dongduo's one-wheeled shield cart. It was based on the wheelbarrow, with thick wooden boards in front, some cowhide and even The iron pieces are enough to withstand bows, arrows, bullets and even light cannon fire.”
"Our army can also use it to reduce casualties during a strong attack."
Luo Zhixue immediately said: "Yes! The Ordnance Department will start preparations immediately."
Then he looked at everyone and said: "Today's battle, the soldiers are already very tired, and the enemy has been besieged by us in Sanyuan Village. There is no strong fortress during this period. We can rest for a day and make preparations at the same time. We will fight again tomorrow." attack!"
After saying that, Luo Zhixue looked at Huang Guangmao and said, "I want to use the prisoners of war here to reorganize the Ninth Mixed Brigade. Can you be the brigade commander?"
When Huang Guangmao suddenly heard this, he immediately looked overjoyed and said, "The general is so kind to me, and my subordinates will definitely fight to the death in return."
It's no wonder that Huang Guangmao is unhappy. In the past few days, everyone has seen that Xu Zhixian has taken over most of the actual power of the staff. He, Huang Guangmao, only has the power to handle the daily affairs of the staff. By the way, during the military meeting Just act as a host.
Huang Guangmao was naturally unwilling to do this. Just after the war ended, Huang Guangmao had already hinted to Luo Zhixue that he wanted to lead troops after he learned that a large number of prisoners of war had been captured.
According to the recent tradition of the Baoxiang Army, after taking over a large number of prisoners of war, qualified soldiers will be selected and trained into an army.
During this process, unless there are special circumstances, for example, elite cavalry who can ride and shoot will be transferred to serve in new-style troops, most of the surrendered and qualified soldiers will be reorganized into old-style troops using traditional tactics and weapons.
That is, units such as the Fourth Mixed Brigade, the Fifth Mixed Brigade, and the Sixth Mixed Brigade.
Now, in the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang, four to five thousand prisoners of war and at least two thousand civilians were captured. How could a traditional mixed brigade of about 2,500 men be selected from such a large number of people?
In fact, if we can capture Sanyuan Village and capture more prisoners of war in the future.
The prisoners captured in this battle alone were at least enough for the Baoxiang Army to organize two mixed brigades.
Now that a new mixed brigade is about to appear, Huang Guangmao will inevitably have to think about it.
Before, he was thinking about planning the position of commander of a main infantry brigade such as the 7th Infantry Brigade or the 8th Infantry Brigade, but well, these two brigades are not even there yet. If he really wants to wait, he has to wait at least. It's been two months.
The current situation is that he doesn't want to stay at the staff headquarters for another day.
So he planned to go even to an old-style unit like the traditional mixed brigade.
He just wanted to take advantage of the frequent fighting in the past two months to perform meritorious service as soon as possible. By then, his status would not be much worse than that of the brigade commanders of the main infantry brigades.
Furthermore, he was a traditional military officer after all, and he was still very new to commanding this kind of traditional army.
Under such circumstances, Huang Guangmao expressed his desire to lead troops to Luo Zhixue.
Everyone is smart. Luo Zhixue knew from his hint that Huang Guangmao wanted to lead these mixed brigades that had been reorganized. At the same time, he also felt that Huang Guangmao took the initiative to give up his position to Xu Zhixian, which could be regarded as avoiding his own embarrassment.
To be honest, Luo Zhixue has been regretting that he chose Huang Guangmao as the head of the staff department instead of directly selecting Xu Zhixian as the head of the staff department these days.
The past period of time has proven that Huang Guangmao is not a qualified chief of staff at all, and he cannot even formulate a combat plan...
If he were not afraid of the negative impact, he would have planned to withdraw Huang Guangmao during the Xiangyang Battle and move him to the field troops.
Now that Huang Guangmao has taken the initiative, it is considered a good thing.
Huang Guangmao's wish was immediately fulfilled and he was given the title of brigade commander of the mixed brigade, which was not considered a injustice to him.
Now that Huang Guangmao has become the brigade commander of the newly established 9th Mixed Brigade, Xu Zhixian naturally takes over the post of chief of staff.
No one was too surprised by this change, because this was something that had been obvious for a long time, but now it was just implemented.
However, Xu Zhixian, who was newly promoted to the Chief of Staff, later pointed out that they currently have at least 5,000 prisoners of war and 2,000 captive civilians in their hands. After the capture of Sanyuan Village, thousands more people will be captured as expected.
After so many troops are organized into a mixed brigade, there will definitely be a large number of remaining troops, so a tenth mixed brigade can be organized on the spot.
Xu Zhixian even made arrangements for the Ming troops still under Xinye City. After capturing Lu Xiangsheng in Sanyuan Village, he would then march eastward to Xinye City, kill these Ming troops as well, and then select some qualified soldiers from them. To supplement the vacancies of the 6th Mixed Brigade.
The Sixth Mixed Brigade was established after the Battle of Xiangyang. However, because the number of prisoners of war was limited at that time, only one battalion was organized. So now the brigade only has one name, and it does not even have a brigade commander.
In this regard, Luo Zhixue also agreed to the plan to establish the 10th mixed brigade, but the candidate for the brigade commander has not been announced yet. Luo Zhixue plans to wait and see before selecting a suitable person.
While the Baoxiang Army was cleaning the battlefield to collect prisoners of war and building offensive equipment, Lu Xiangsheng in Sanyuan Village was in an extremely depressed mood.
The frontal field battle failed, and now he can only be trapped in Sanyuan Village. Why this battle failed and who made the bigger mistake is meaningless. Anyway, today he has personally beheaded more than a dozen generals!
Almost all of them are mid-level and high-level generals who escaped from the battle!
But just killing these middle- and high-level generals who escaped before the battle could not change the fact that Lu Xiangsheng was besieged in Sanyuanzhuang, and it was very likely that he would not be able to defend Sanyuanzhuang.
In today's battle, the entire army might be wiped out!
