The military command system of the Tang Dynasty is not the same as the traditional feudal dynasty, but it is also very different from the modern countries of later generations, even compared with modern countries.

Datang's military command system is a command system based on Datang's own characteristics and the limitations of the times.

This command system, on the one hand, increases the authority of the central government, and on the other hand, increases the authority of the emperor himself, so as to guard against the ambitions of military generals, and on this basis, to improve the command efficiency of the troops as much as possible.

So the command system of the Tang Empire has emerged.

This kind of system is not good, nor can it be said that it is bad, but there is no doubt that this is the command system that is more suitable for the Tang Empire at present, and it is also the command system that Li Xuan can accept.

The best choice for balance!

Under this command system, Admiral Chen Pengming had great authority in the Battle of Malacca, but there were also many restrictions.

In terms of tactics, Admiral Chen Pengming has great authority, but it is limited to this, he does not have the authority to decide matters other than tactics, let alone decide matters other than military affairs.

Luo Yuanjian, the first secretary of the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, who was with the army, was ordered to supervise the army, and he was responsible for ensuring that Chen Pengming's authority was limited to the war in Nanyang and India, and could not be involved in other aspects.

However, Admiral Chen Pengming did not feel any restraint because of the existence of the supervising army, because Luo Yuanjian would not make any suggestions to Chen Pengming on military issues.

In other words, as long as Admiral Chen Pengming honestly leads his troops to fight, fight in the South Seas, and fight India, then there is basically nothing to do with Luo Yuanjian.

Only when Chen Pengming disobeyed the order and disobeyed the order would Luo Yuanjian use his power to restrain Admiral Chen Pengming: forcibly escort Chen Pengming back to Beijing to report on his work.

However, it is also to prevent the possibility of civilian interference in the military, so Luo Yuanjian's authority is limited to this, even if Chen Pengming disobeys the order in the end, and does not obey the order, Luo Yuanjian uses his authority to restrict Chen Pengming, and the command of the Nanyang army is not his turn to intervene, and he must escort Chen Pengming back to Jinling City to report on his work.

Luo Yuanjian did not have the authority to directly convict Chen Pengming or even any soldier of the crime, and the authority he had was only to forcibly take Chen Pengming back to Jinling City to report on his work according to the authority granted to him by the holy decree.

As for whether Chen Pengming is guilty or not, it is not his turn to judge, but Li Xuan!

After Luo Yuanjian takes Chen Pengming back to Beijing to report on his work, the command of all units in Nanyang will be extended in accordance with the consistent tradition of the Tang military.

It will be extended according to the rank and level of the position!

In the Tang Empire, there will never be a situation in which a civilian official commands the troops, nor can a civilian official directly convict a soldier of any crime.

Therefore, as long as Chen Pengming doesn't do anything rebellious, in fact, Luo Yuanjian, the superintendent of the army, is air, and he won't even appear at the combat meeting.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of the landing operation, the main fleet of the Indian Ocean Fleet will take the risk of approaching the port of Malacca and blockading the port of Malacca nearby, so as to prevent the Portuguese fleet in the port from rushing out and interfering with the landing operation of the landing fleet.

Early the next morning, a few kilometers north of the port of Malacca, a large number of ships of the Datang Joint Landing Fleet were gradually heading towards the beach.

However, this kind of landing is also troublesome, that is, if you directly hit the beach, large ships will not be able to dock at all, and heavy equipment will not be able to dock, so you can only wait for the pontoon bridge to be built before docking, and unload heavy equipment, especially many artillery.

Therefore, the early landing was actually very primitive, that is, many small boats were lowered from the Daxing transport ship, and then these small boats carried soldiers to carry out beach landing.

This kind of primitive landing can hardly allow the landing force to carry artillery and too many supplies ashore at the first time, they can only go ashore lightly, and for this reason, the fire cover at the landing place is all provided by the fleet's naval guns.

In order to provide fire cover for the landing force in the vicinity, the two frigates, risking running aground, forcibly approached, and rushed to a distance of about a hundred meters from the coastline.

In the rear, there were quite a few battleships, cruisers, and frigates that anchored two or three hundred meters away in order to provide fire support to the landing force, and at this distance, when their guns were firing, their firing range had to be increased to more than the daily effective firing range, and at least about 500 or even 600 meters could barely provide fire support.

Shelling at this distance basically does not count on any hit rate, so the fire support fleet does not expect any hit rate either, they are ready to use dense barrages to supplement the lack of hit rate, when hundreds of guns are shelling, the hit rate of a single gun is actually not important.

In addition, there are three coastal transport ships that arrived with the fleet, because their draft is shallower, and the tonnage is relatively small, even if they run aground, it is easier to break free at high tide, so they carry soldiers directly to the beach.

In order to allow these three coastal transport ships to become the fire support points of the landing fleet after they hit the beach, these three beaching ships carried a large number of naval guns in addition to a large number of soldiers preparing to land.

Because it was planned to run aground directly on the beach, there was no need to consider the recoil and stability of the guns, which were all piled up on the deck.

In this way, these three coastal transport ships, with a tonnage of only 100 tons, are equipped with a total of more than 20 guns, and these guns are basically deployed on the deck and can fire at the beachhead.

Just the number of guns on board these three beached transports is even stronger than the firepower that the two frigates that risk running aground can provide when supporting land.

It is worth noting that the officers and men on these three transport ships, even the sailors, do not belong to the Navy, but to the Army units!

The sailors and officers on the transport ship were the officers and men of the Army's maritime transport unit, and the guns and gunners piled on the deck were not naval guns or naval gunners, but the guns and gunners of the 19th Infantry Division's artillery regiment.

After the landing force is deployed and the initial pontoon bridges and other facilities are erected, the artillery of the 19th Infantry Division's artillery regiment on these three transport ships will be the first artillery units to be unloaded ashore.

The Combined Landing Fleet was full of sixty or seventy ships landing about five kilometers away from the city of Malacca, and as long as the people in the city were not stupid, they could see from the city walls that there were countless ships on the northern coast.

However, when many preparations for the landing force were made useless, the Portuguese in Malacca had no intention of going out of the city to block the beachhead, and they were still cowering in the city.

Even Admiral Chen Pengming could already see through the high-magnification telescope that the Portuguese fleet in the harbor was removing a large number of artillery from the ship and preparing to go ashore for defense.

Did they give up on the breakout?

Directly move the naval guns into the city, and then evacuate the gunners and sailors of the fleet to the city, and rely on the strong city defenses of Malacca to defend it?

After Chen Pengming saw this scene, he frowned slightly, this is certainly a good thing for the navy, because the enemy has given up on breaking through and waiting to die in the port, but for the army, this is probably not a good thing.

The Portuguese in Malacca originally had 3,000 native ground combat troops and 5,000 indigenous troops, and the fleet in the harbor also had a large number of sailors, and more importantly, there were a lot of artillery in the fleet!

If the Portuguese had moved all the guns in their fleet to the shore and used them as city artillery, the number of guns in Malacca would have been terrifying.

Originally, their artillery in the city and on the batteries added up to dozens, and this number was at most the number of guns on a thousand-ton battleship.

However, if the Portuguese had removed all the guns from the fleet, the number would have risen to several hundred in an instant.

The Portuguese fleet, with at least two battleships and a number of medium ships, and the total number of guns was two or three hundred, all of which were brought ashore, and the army group would probably have to jump to their feet.

Sure enough, soon an army liaison officer walked up to Chen Pengming, a brigadier general and deputy chief of staff of the Army's Seventh Army Department, but at this time, he was on the flagship of the Indian Ocean Fleet, acting as an army liaison officer to coordinate operations between the army and navy.

I saw him say in a tone of deep worry: "The Portuguese are removing a large number of artillery from the fleet and preparing to deploy it on land, there are too many of these guns, if they are successfully deployed on the head of Malacca, it will pose a major threat to our army's follow-up siege!"

Hopefully, the Navy will be able to prevent this from happening, and the Army will be grateful! ”

The city of Malacca, which the army needs to conquer, is originally an extremely strong fortress, and if the Portuguese get in a few hundred naval guns, it will be a fart, no matter how awesome the army is, but under the bombardment of hundreds of naval guns, the siege will definitely be heavy casualties.