With a gunshot, the commander Chen Feng was executed on the spot; with a military order, the commander Jiang Sheng was dismissed and handed over to the Military and Justice Department of the General Administration; with an imperial order, the commander Pan Nian Pinjie was demoted to one level and temporarily retained his post as a former army. Immediately afterwards, His Majesty signed an order, Sima Qifu, the first division of the Sixth Army, was appointed as the commander of the division commander, and the commander of the Third Regiment and the commander of the Third Regiment, Li An was appointed as the commander of the First Division and the Commander of the Third Regiment. At the same time, the command system of the Sixth Army was reorganized, and a group of staff were removed.

After all, Zhao Bing is a man with modern ideas. He did not pass Chen Feng's head to various departments for public display, and also gave him a coffin, and did not let him expose his body in the wilderness. What made him feel a little ridiculous is that he still didn't understand where he was wrong until he died. Before his execution, he was still yelling about his wrongdoing and insisting on thinking that he should not bear responsibility for defeat, at least he would not die.

The handling situation was quickly reported to the Jingxiang tribes in the form of an imperial order. Although this imperial order was simple, it still caused quite a shock to the various divisions. No one expected that a battalion-level battle would fail, which would actually cause a division to be cleansed from top to bottom, the division commander was convicted, the regiment commander was executed, and the military command system was majorly adjusted.

Some people were glad that they saw the opportunity early in this sudden storm, and stopped the horse in time and were not regarded as the scattering chicken; some were lucky enough to be unaffected and saved their lives; some people thought it was because they didn't have eyes and hit the gun. Anyway, no matter what they were thinking, they also understood that the emperor's sword had been lit, but they didn't know who the next sword ghost was.

However, the effect is also obvious. The entire army will not be very prosperous and can be refreshed. They will no longer dare to regard military orders. Military discipline is like a joke. The 1st Division of the Sixth Army, as the starting point of the incident, has also changed very clearly. The two newly appointed chief officials led the team to personally survey the terrain, draw detailed drawings, and make sand tables. After many deductions, the formulated combat plan was reported.

After receiving the emperor's approval, Pan Nian issued a combat order. The combat mission was still handed over to the third regiment. They were re-engaged three days after their defeat in the last battle. Zhao Bing personally made pre-war mobilization and stayed in Qingping to command. Pan Nian did not dare to entrust him anymore, and followed the First Division's forward command post to advance to a location less than five miles away from the battlefield to coordinate the troops and supervise the war.

This battle changed the deployment of slapping the Palm Mountain before and attacking Laifengling, and the combat plan also made many adjustments. At midnight, the main attacking troops set off from the assembly ground and took advantage of the darkness of the night to approach the front of the enemy's village. The commando cleared the secret sentry and approached less than ten feet of the enemy's village wall before lurking. After the attack order was issued, the commando killed the sentry first with precise shooting, and at the same time, the blasting hand used explosive packs to blow out a gap of two feet.

The commando took advantage of the smoke of gunpowder and the enemy had not yet reacted from the explosion and rushed into the enemy camp and launched a sudden attack with grenades. The sudden rain-like grenade defeated the enemy patrol team in an instant. Before the enemy was awakened by the explosion, they were killed and injured by the waves of grenades thrown over, and suffered extremely heavy losses.

While the commando was causing bloody storms and causing chaos in the enemy camp, the troops that followed also launched a charge. After rushing into the enemy camp, they used bayonets to assault and scattered the enemy troops they were trying to gather and scattered the enemy troops and annihilated them and then rushed towards the core of the village. As reinforcements continued to join, the enemy troops could not organize an effective counterattack, but half of the casualties had already exceeded. The remaining enemies fled to the back mountain and opened the back door and ran down the mountain.

The fleeing enemy was intercepted by the Second Battalion, which had long been ambushed here, and the enemy, who had no intention of fighting again, died or surrendered, and was soon wiped out. Even though some fish that had escaped into the mountains and temporarily escaped, the roads down the mountain were cut off, and it was only a matter of time before the attack was launched. At this time, Laifengling was captured before dawn.

During the battle, the enemy troops on the other side of the Pangzhang Mountain never sent reinforcements. They might not have expected the battle to end so quickly, or they were worried that they would be ambushed on the way, so they could only sit and watch Laifengling be broken. At this point, the two deep into the Song army defense zone and controlled the road to enter Yicheng from the east. No matter how difficult it is to support each other, self-protection has become a problem.

After capturing Laifengling, the attacking troops took a break and adjusted their forces and redeployed after dawn. The two mountain villages were not far apart, and Laifengling was at a high altitude, within most of the artillery firing distances equipped by the Song army. The division's artillery battalion carried several medium-sized artillery pieces up the mountain and cooperated with the third regiment artillery team to launch artillery attacks on the enemy village of Pangshan.

The Song army artillery occupied the commanding heights and had a wide view. After dawn, the enemy camp in Bazhang Mountain was well visible. Under the bombardment of large and small artillery, the houses collapsed, the village walls were destroyed, the defense facilities were destroyed, the soldiers on guard were killed and injured, and the strongholds that had been working hard for a long time instantly turned into a pile of rocks. Seeing that there was no hope, the enemy began to break through the mountain and drilled into the ambush circle arranged by the Song army. After a fierce battle, all of them were annihilated, and the troops participating in the attack did not even delay lunch.

In one day, the Song army was removed from the enemy's fortress at the cost of killing three people and injuring twelve people, beheading more than 300 enemies, capturing more than 100 enemies, and achieving complete victory. The morale of the first division was greatly boosted, not only sweeping away the haze of the failure to attack the mountain several days ago, but also avenging the fallen officers and soldiers. At the same time, Pan Nian also breathed a sigh of relief. If he was defeated again in this battle, he would have no face to meet His Majesty, and he would have to apologize for his death...

Zhao Bing felt that it was like chewing wax and it was difficult to swallow. Such a small-scale battle exposed too many problems, such as senior officers who had no overall view, had short-sighted strategic vision, had negative combat, and had the idea of ​​self-protection; intermediate officers had poor military literacy, were not good at planning, lacked subjective initiative, and rigid tactical use.

The Eighth Army is like this now, the Sixth Army is still like this. Although the Seventh Army has not made head-on contact, it seems that it will not be much higher. This made Zhao Bing very worried. He really dared not to rely on the army in this state to attack Xiangyang quickly. He could not imagine that after the defeat of the siege, the Mongols launched a counterattack. If they could stop it, they would be defeated thousands of miles and lose all the results of the Northern Expedition.

However, to change this negative state of the Jingxiang army, Zhao Bing knew that it was not to shoot and replace a few incompetent generals, and punish a group of officers who were unfavorable to combat could be reversed in a short period of time. Instead, it was necessary to change the thoughts of senior officers and the slack habits of officers and soldiers, improve the tactical qualities of officers at all levels, and boost the morale of soldiers.

At the moment, the heads of various departments scattered around have arrived in Yicheng one after another, but Zhao Bing has not yet come up with a proper solution, which makes him a little anxious. The longer the time is delayed, not only will the logistics pressure increase sharply. Now that his whereabouts have been exposed, the Mongolian Yuan side will find that he is delaying time to cover up the "fake peace talks and real preparations for war" and intends to seize Xiangyang. Then the Mongolian Yuan will mobilize heavy troops from Jingxiang side, which will cause greater difficulties in capturing Xiangyang.

On the other hand, people have arrived, and I have not yet come up with a way to break the situation. I can't let them wait anymore and discuss it after I figure out a way. What I lack now is time, and he can't always stay in Jingxiang and give up the trouble in the capital. At present, we still have to conquer Xiangyang, but the current state of the army has made him hesitant.

"Your Majesty, Wang Xiang and several officials in the imperial court have returned. Please ask for a visit!" After seeing His Majesty come back from Qingping Town, Wang De held it in the room and turned around. He knew that the emperor had encountered difficulties and did not dare to disturb him. But he could not share his worries for His Majesty, so he could only be anxious. When he saw Wang Xiang and others come to ask for a visit, he broke the previous practice and came in to report.

"Well, let them come in!" Zhao Bing stopped and thought for a while. He was not a solution to work behind closed doors like this. He could hear what they found at the grassroots level and make a decision.

"Your Majesty, I met with the former General Administration of the Marching Office separately and learned about some situations!" Everyone knew that Your Majesty did not like false rituals, so after performing the rituals, he went straight to the topic.

"Oh, tell me what the situation is?" Zhao Bing gave him a seat and asked someone to come to tea.

"Your Majesty, the officials are quite complaining about some of Jiang Shuai's actions. They hope that Your Majesty can make changes when they come, and they have high hopes for it, hoping to change the current situation!" Wang Yinglin reported, "They thought that the battle against Xiang was delayed for a long time, and not only did the soldiers passively fight, but also were dissatisfied with food and wages, and they should fight quickly and decide quickly. However, Jiang Shuai was too worried and hesitant to encounter problems, which weakened his prestige in the army. However, the generals under his command became increasingly domineering and did not obey military orders, resulting in the government orders being blocked."

"Well, they don't have much resistance to Jiang Shuai's resignation?" Zhao Bing nodded and asked.

"That's right!" Wang Yinglin said, "Several officials believed that His Majesty was wise to remove Zhang Ba's military power and transferred him from the Eighth Army, and they also supported the generals who were ineffective in combat. They all expressed their sincere support for His Majesty to purify military discipline, dismiss those ***s, and change the situation in Jingxiang."

"Okay, if we can obtain the support of everyone in the General Administration, our work will be much easier." Zhao Bing was very pleased when he heard this, and looked at Ni Liang again and said, "How are you doing there?"

"According to His Majesty's instructions, the subordinates let the Dusi and the soldiers of the Guard Brigade contact many old subordinates in the name of visiting friends. They expressed pessimism about the war situation in Jingxiang, were also disgusted with the behavior of several governors, and were quite disappointed with the fact that they came here to take office. Many people wanted to be transferred back to Jiangdong, and even had the idea of ​​retiring and returning home." Ni Liang replied.

"Well, then what's the situation with the soldiers?" Zhao Bing asked for a moment of contemplation.

"According to what they said, the soldiers in our army were allocated to each department after training, and they still have basic tactical qualities. Grassroots officers have also undergone martial arts training and have good technical and tactical skills. As long as they have a short period of intensive training, they can undertake combat tasks." Ni Liang said...
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