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"War, how can there be undead?"

The rhetorical question of Zhang Cheng, the chief soldier of the Xuan Mansion, left everyone around speechless. In fact, this was also the case. Since ancient times, there has been no such thing as a war without death.

I only heard Zhang Cheng say as he walked: "You should know that although the soldiers of our Xuanfu army are well-armored and well-armed, their guns and chariots are sharp, and their drills are rigorous, they never slack off.

In this way, it is already much stronger than the officers and troops of other towns in my Ming Dynasty, but the strength of an army is just a competition of these? "

While everyone was thinking, Zhang Cheng continued: "The strength of an army has a lot to do with the quality of its armor and guns and chariots, as well as the seriousness of its drills.

However, it is not only by these to judge the strength of an army! "

Zhang Cheng has always been like this, he doesn't say complete words when things happen, in order to hope that through his own inspiration, the generals under his command can think independently.

Of course, there are exceptions in emergencies!
As they walked and chatted, they saw that the camp on the top of the mountain was not far ahead, and it was only less than a hundred steps away from the gate of the village. They saw blood stains everywhere, and there were deep pits everywhere.

It is obvious that some places have been covered by new soil, but occasionally some stumps can be seen protruding from the new soil, obviously because the landfill was too hasty.

There are still many Soldiers and civilians from the Dushi Battalion around. They are cleaning up the battlefield full of gunpowder traces. They will even pull out the buried Tartar corpses from some mounds, cut off their heads and throw them into the nearby abyss. pit.

"For the strength of an army, armor, vehicles, artillery and other equipment are of course important, and rigorous training is also essential. But the will and command of an army leader, and whether the soldiers' fighting spirit is firm, are more important!"

Zhang Cheng suddenly stopped, and under the doubts of the crowd, he continued: "On the battlefield, one has to face life and death, which requires extremely high psychological quality of the soldiers.

Therefore, being able to withstand heavy casualties without retreating under the fierce attack of the enemy does not rely on excellent equipment and well-trained, but the fighting will of the soldiers who are not afraid of death. "

He took a few steps forward, stood on a rock, and only then could he face the rising sun, and then said: "The will to fight is not innate, nor can it be obtained by daily practice, but it is the experience of blood and blood on the battlefield." Only the baptism and tempering of fire can be possessed.

Just like the Chicheng Battalion of our Xuanfu Army, a battalion of soldiers and the same number of Tartar elite infantry can fight bloody battles for more than an hour without retreating. This is the standard for a strong army. "

As Zhang Cheng spoke, he looked down at Chen Zheng who was looking up at him, and said loudly: "If an iron rod is not tortured, how can good iron be made into steel?"

"Even if the officers and soldiers of the Xuanfu Army are well equipped and well trained, they must go through the trials and beatings of blood and fire, life and death on the battlefield before they can be called a strong army.

Chicheng camp is like this, so is Dushi camp! "

Zhang Cheng's words not only made Chen Zheng's blood boil, but even Guo Yingxian, Zhang Guangda and other generals, and even the soldiers of the Dushi Battalion around were extremely excited.

At this time, Zhang Cheng raised his voice again, and said loudly: "Under the fierce siege of tens of thousands of Tatars, all the soldiers of the Dushi Camp have held on for five days. My Xuanfu military camp stands on the top of the mountain like a rock.  …

My Xuanfu Army's Dushi Battalion has played out the reputation of my Xuanfu Army, and strengthened the military prestige of my son of the Xuanfu Army, and you are all rocks.Today I confer the unique title of "Panshi Camp" on Dushiying! "

He didn't wait for everyone's reaction, and continued to shout: "I hope that you and other soldiers can live up to the name of 'rock' and continue to be as solid as a rock in future battles, serving as the commander, the emperor, and your family." , wipe out the thieves, and wipe out the Tartars!"

The excitement in Chen Zheng's heart was no less than that of Zhang Guodong yesterday. He fought to the death with the soldiers, and what he wanted was not to get the approval of his own general.

As for the idea of ​​conferring their wives and yin sons, it's not that they don't want to, it's just that those are too far away from them, and now they only know one thing, that is, to be loyal to their own general, Marshal Zhang Cheng.

Why do you want to be loyal to Zhang Cheng?

This is actually very simple. It was precisely because of Zhang Cheng's arrival that they were able to get rid of the previous life of being enslaved and starving.

Today, although they are only soldiers who eat food, they are different from those who were stationed in the past. Not only can they get full pay, but their families are exempted from quotas and a series of preferential treatment policies.

For example, in the area of ​​Xuanbei, the popular workshops are all paid in cash, never deducted, and there is a rule that military members are given priority in hiring, and so on, it is simply too numerous to mention.

Just imagine, everyone will support Zhang Cheng, and, as the saying goes, "It is easy to go from thrift to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality"!
They have already lived a good life now, how can they willingly return to the past when they were hungry?
Therefore, by protecting Zhang Cheng now, they are defending their current happy life. Even if they died on the battlefield, as long as Zhang Cheng is still alive, that is enough.

Because they know and also believe that even if they die in battle now, their family members will only be better off, and they will be honored and honored after death, and they will be able to enjoy offerings and sacrifices in four seasons.

All of them witnessed it with their own eyes. It was the same for the soldiers who died while aiding the suppression of Henan Province. Not only was the family pension a lot of money, but their family members would also receive a "Show Merit Card".

Only the family members of those who died in the battlefield had this merit card. They could use this card in the local government office to exchange for policies such as land tax reduction, free schooling for children, and free support for the elderly. This was the first time in Ming Dynasty.

In Xuanbei, it can be said that serving as a soldier has become the best way out for military households, followed by working in the workshops of various castles. However, Zhang Cheng's selection of soldiers is extremely strict, so serving as a soldier has become the most important way out of Xuanfu North Road. An honor for soldiers and civilians.

Moreover, these soldiers who accompanied the army to aid Liao even heard that after bringing this victory back to the army, the general will build a "Praise Loyalty Shrine" to enshrine the souls of the soldiers who died in the previous battles.

For an ordinary soldier, this is a supreme honor!

Before they died in battle, the whole family might be destroyed because of this, so they would flee every battle, not for themselves, but for the whole family behind them.

But now it is different.

Even if they died on the battlefield, not only would their families receive pensions on time, their children and the elderly would also be supported by military stations in various places, and their own heroic spirits would also be invited into the "Praise Loyalty Shrine" to be sacrificed at four o'clock and five o'clock. …

In this way, they no longer have to worry about the future. It is precisely because of this atmosphere that not only the Xuanbei military households flock to it, but also the soldiers of the Xuanfu army's battalions feel very honored.

Therefore, in order to keep today's glory and the hard-won happy life of their family, they will never allow anyone to be unfavorable to Zhang Cheng, and they are willing to fight to the death for Zhang Cheng.

But today, in front of all the generals and many Soldiers of the Dushi Battalion, Zhang Cheng suddenly announced that they were granted the unique title of the Dushi Battalion, which was a great honor for them.

Chen Zheng was the first to react, and hurried to Zhang Cheng, bowed on one knee, "Chen Zheng, on behalf of all the soldiers of the Dushi Battalion, thank you Commander for giving the battalion number!"

Zhang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Yes. If you want to lead the army well for me, you must be worthy of the word 'rock'. No matter when, where, and against any enemy, you must be as firm as a rock!"

"Please rest assured, Commander."

After Chen Zheng finished speaking, he got up immediately. He came to the place where the soldiers of the Dushiying camp gathered, raised his arms high and shouted loudly: "Doushiying, as solid as a rock, will never retreat in a deadly battle!"

"Sturdy as a rock, never retreating in a deadly battle... a rock... never retreating..."

As the loud roars finally converged into one voice, all the soldiers in front of the Dushi Camp on Changling Mountain raised their arms one after another to join the sea of ​​voices.

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Standing on the tower in the northeast corner of the camp on the top of Changling Mountain, looking at the wreckage of the battlefield in front of the mountain, you can still feel the intensity of the battle here. Looking at the big pits everywhere, you seem to be able to feel the tragedy after the gunpowder detonated that day.

Standing beside Zhang Cheng, Chen Zheng raised his finger to the stream in the northeast, and told how the Tartars had sailed up the stream three times, trying to attack the defenders on the mountain, but they were all killed and retreated.

Especially in the last surprise attack of the Tartars, due to the tenacious blocking of the soldiers in the middle of the Dushi Battalion, they not only repelled the elite Tartars in the Zhenghuang Banner of Manchuria, but also killed the Gushan Ezhen'a Mountain in the Zhenghuang Banner in one fell swoop.

Zhang Cheng was also in a good mood when he heard the news. So far, the Xuanfu army has achieved brilliant results in Xingshan, beheading nearly [-] Tartar heads.

This is not counting the corpses snatched back by the Tartars on Changling Mountain, and those Tartars who were hit by guns and were destined to die in the future. As many as seven thousand.

According to this calculation, based on the record of the Xuanfu army in Xingshan alone, it almost destroyed almost one banner of the Tartars!
However, Chen Zheng's kills in the first two days were mainly Mongolian northern captives, while the Manchurian Tartars only joined the battle in the next two days, and it was only on the last day that they killed the most.

Of course, it was a great achievement to kill the Tartar Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen'a Mountain, and also killed the puppet Yu Prince Duoduo, Xiangbai Banner Latiao Zhangjing Eshuo and others.

Zhang Cheng and the Xuanfu Army, I'm afraid it's hard not to be famous!

"Which sergeant killed Ah Shan?"

Chen Zheng hurriedly replied: "Master Hui, it wasn't my soldiers from the Dushi Battalion who killed him, but Ah Shan who was bravely killed by the Liao People's Army."

"Oh. Military bravery?" Zhang Cheng couldn't help being taken aback.

Chen Zheng rushed forward and explained cautiously: "Master, the battle in Changling Mountain is difficult, and the Tartars attacked in a hurry. The last general made his own proposals and recruited some young men from the peasants in Liushan to serve as soldiers for the time being. , to assist in defending the camp.”…

Therefore, when the matter involved the Liao people, it was destined to be inseparable from the Liaodong generals, and Chen Zheng admired the tenacity and bravery of the Liao people.

He also had the intention to keep these Liao people in the army completely, so before Zhang Cheng could express his opinion, he cautiously said: "Master, the Liao people have a feud with the Tartars and have lived in a war-torn place for a long time. He is fierce and brave, and he is not afraid of death when he fights against the Tartars.

Moreover, they lived a hard life in Liaodong. The Liao people who have survived to this day are all strong and strong, and they are also very resilient. "

Zhang Cheng turned his head to look at Chen Zheng, and asked with a smile, "With your little thoughtfulness, you have fallen in love with him, and you want to take him back to Xuanfu. Is that right?"

"hey-hey……"

Chen Zheng laughed foolishly for a while, and Nuonuo said: "The handsome man has eyes, but this Liao people is really a good soldier seed, we fell in love wholeheartedly."

He took a step forward, almost sticking it to Zhang Cheng's ears, and said softly: "Handsome, why don't you just make up the gap for our Dushiying."

"What?"

Zhang Cheng couldn't help being taken aback, he stared at Chen Zheng with rounded eyes, and said, "I'm interested in it, what are you talking about?"

He pointed back at the main camp of Changling Mountain, and asked Chen Zheng, "How many Liao people do you have here? How many young and strong are there? But anyone who is selected by you will join our Xuanfu army, and all family members can be naturalized." I am a military household in Xuanfu.

This matter will be handed over to you. After registering and making the book, hand it over to me! "

"Here!"

Chen Zheng never thought that Zhang Cheng would decide this matter so readily, he felt relieved, and his response to the order was much louder.

Then, Zhang Cheng heard about Song Shanquan, the general commander of the central part of Dushiying, and the brave Fang Sihu of the Liao People's Army who killed Ezhen'ashan, Gushan, Zhenghuang Banner.

For Fang Sihu, Zhang Cheng was also very good at it. He punched this strong man half a head taller than himself on the chest, but he didn't move at all.

At the end, Zhang Cheng quietly passed a sentence to Chen Zheng: "This idiot, leave it to me."

…………

Just after noon, the Xuanfu army gathered in the Chinese army tent at the foot of Changling Mountain.

At this moment, with the gathering of intelligence from all parties, the movement of the Qing army has become roughly clear, and all the generals gathered here to discuss the next military strategy and how to implement it.

Zhang Chengfang was the only one standing behind Zhang Cheng, while Zhang Mingyuan took Zhang Cheng's Baojie Lubu, and under the guard of twenty elite cavalry, he rode towards Songshan to report the victory.

Now, according to reports from the spies, there are thousands of Tartars under Xingshan Fort, and they are attacking the small forts around Xingshan. .

However, it is not yet certain!
Moreover, the spies discovered another army of Tartar bandits, which failed to attack Takahashi, and has now crossed Takahashi and headed south. We haven't found out its whereabouts yet.

After Zhang Cheng heard the news, he suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but secretly startled in his heart.

He vaguely remembered that in the history of the Pine Brocade War, the Tartars sent their troops out of Xingshan, digging ditches and digging trenches, blocking the return of the Ming army, and cutting off the Ming army's food road at the same time. The army stockpiled food on Beacon Hill.

Finally, the tens of thousands of Ming troops under Songshan City fell into chaos due to the shortage of food, and they rushed to flee, and they were defeated by the Tartars one by one.

Although Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, Qiu Minyang, governor of Liaodong, and generals such as Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, the generals, still stayed in Songshan and never fled back.

However, with few soldiers and no food, there was nothing more to do, and they were finally captured by the Tartars, surrendered or killed.

The Liao incident also completely collapsed after this war, and Daming retreated to the subsequent line of defense-Shanhaiguan City!