open sea

Chapter 233
"Fangshan!"

For Chen Mu, a small flag in Qingyuan who started at the end of the century, war has never been a good thing, but war is an opportunity.

As long as he can win.

Tan Lun originally planned to put Wang Zhongguo back and let him do his crimes and meritorious deeds, because the personal attachment of the guards to the guards is nothing compared to that, and no one in the Yanqing Banner Guards can command better than Wang Zhongguo in a short time.

But Chen Mu's words changed Tan Lun's mind.

General Chen has been promoted again. The official positions in the Ming Dynasty are longer than one. Chen Mu also enjoys this kind of treatment now. Now he is the commander of the Nanyang Guard, General Zhaoyong, the deputy commander of Changzhen and the commander of the Yanqing Guard. Control the three guards.

Chen Mu didn't lie to the Ministry of War either. As soon as he got the warrant from the Ministry of War, he pulled out a [-]-step cavalry artillery team in Sanwei, Yanqing.

Headquarters with 2000 banner troops, took over Wang Zhong's national wealth and built [-] cavalry, and selected brave men from miners, salt disciples and guards to form a death squad of [-] people, led by Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng, Controlled the combined army of the three guards to [-], escorted the luggage to the Fangshan position.

By the way, Old Wang's half-life savings gave General Chen a favor.

In an extraordinary time, he took an extraordinary law, took the warrant of the Ministry of War, and led the treasury officials of the Ministry of Punishment to ransack the home of the former commander and withhold two or three thousand silver for future morale boosting.

Dafang Mountain, Shangfang Mountain.

In the binoculars, the terrain at the foot of the mountain reaches to the Juma River. Except for the peaks on both sides, there are fields and orchards in the Pingchuan River. Now it is the farming season. Even if the army is stationed here, the people in the countryside are still busy harvesting. Chen Mu also sent a flag army to help the people collect food— —This is part of the military, to fortify the wall and clear the field.

He has never commanded such a large army, but it is not as difficult as he imagined to lead a normal march and camp. After all, there are two commanders to help, and the more than [-] banner troops are directly commanded by the left and right commanders Hu Xingyun and Jiang Yuelin. The army was led by Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng.

The ones that really belong to Chen Mu only have more than 1000 elite troops, including the infantry banner army, family soldiers and five hundred cavalry in the headquarters.

By the way, these [-] cavalry are not cavalry, but cavalry infantry. Chen Mu specifically asked about this when he gathered them together. When they fight, they will choose to ride in front of the Hulu and then dismount to fight in formation.

This is also the usual combat method used by the soldiers in the northern border of the Ming army.

"Chen and you are working together for the first time. I didn't expect it to be such a war. Behind us is Beijing City, and forty miles to the southwest is the Juma River. In the middle, we have to deploy two lines of defense, this and this."

Chen Mu sat in two rows outside the commander's tent at the foot of Dafang Mountain. Commanders, generals, thousand households, guerrillas, and generals sat in two rows. In the middle, there was a three-step square space on wooden boards, and the soldiers used earth and stone glue to make a defense area sand table.

Chen Mu pointed to two places, one was at the foot of Dafang Mountain, a few mountain breaks in the Fangshan Mountain Range, and a line of flat terrain. He said: "Here, Commander Hu will lead the banner army to build five camps, three to guard the valley, and two to guard the valley. Standing in front of each other guards the official road, and when the camp is set up, leave [-] soldiers guarding it, and the headquarters will push forward fifteen li, and then set up a military camp."

The second is the front line, which is ten miles northeast of the Juma River. He said: "The first thing that Commander Jiang will do with the banner army is to build two large villages, separate the left and right, dig the Juma trench, and build a trench on the trench. Build a wooden bridge to lead the defeated army."

In fact, Chen Mu is already looking forward to this battle. If this battle fails to reach him, I am afraid he will be very disappointed.

This is the last line of defense. There are two important towns, Zhending and Baoding, in front of it. It is conceivable that there will be no accidents in the future. Regardless of whether the battle will go north of the Juma River or not, Chen Mu's defense area will welcome a large number of defeated troops and refugees. of the people.

"Chen will sit here in the future, and when the camp is built, please command Jiang to cross the Juma River, dig trenches in the shallow part of the river, and set up camps."

Chen Mu was going to sit on the front line ten miles northeast of Juma River. As he spoke, he looked at Commander Jiang and Hu Er and said, "Before the Hulu hit Juma River, both soldiers and horses will advance to Juma River. Ten li is where you set up your camp."

To put it bluntly, the camps in the back are not inhabited, maybe they will be inhabited, but they are not the ones who live there. Of course, Chen Mu would rather never use those camps, because the front lines are used to cover the retreat.

"Follow the general's orders!"

Jiang and Hu responded with clasped fists, as usual.As guards in this part of the capital, they are used to obeying orders, no matter who the superior is, anyway, every superior has the authority over them.

"If there is no war, I will wait here to camp and build a stronghold, just to be prepared. Once in battle, Chen has a general order, and I hope you will pass it on now." The general order in wartime is naturally serious, but Chen Mu is very serious at the moment. He wanted to put on a smiling expression, but he didn't. He just asked the second general, "Can you?"

"Please show me the general."

"Okay! Write it down!" Chen Mu raised his hand and clicked on the chief recorder outside the account, and when he was ready, he gave the order: "Each hundred households has a small banner to supervise the battle, and one thousand households has a hundred households to supervise the battle, and the commander is Chen." Supervising the war, in all battles, the supervising war does not need to experience the battle, just give one order and kill the fleeing troops."

"Every small flag officer collapses at the first touch, remember the small flag officer; every small flag dies and the flag army flees back, remember the whole flag flag army; every small flag dies in battle, the general flag escapes and returns, remember the general flag officer; if the general flag dies in battle, When the Banner Army flees and returns, remember the entire Banner Army; hundreds of households and thousands of households follow the law."

"Small banners are killed by the general banner, hundreds of households are killed by the general banner, hundreds of households are killed by thousands of households, and thousands of households are killed by commanders. They cannot intercede." Chen Mu looked at the two commanders and said: "Whoever begs for mercy, kill together. "

"This... General!"

Hu Xingyun still didn't respond, but it was too difficult for Jiang Yuelin to accept, what kind of military law is this!
"Of course, Chen is not unreasonable. The above is that he fled without an order to retreat. All the deserters will be executed. This is the case all over the world." Chen Mu paused and said: "When to retreat, Chen said Forget it, but Chen may not be with the commander, so the commander also has the power to announce the retreat, we have many lines of defense, and we can always retreat."

"But it doesn't mean to retreat casually. There are only three possibilities for retreat. Either Chen gives the order and the commander makes a retreat, and you can retreat; or your own casualties are too large, and [-]% of the casualties in the west of Juma River can be retreated to Hebei; casualties in the front line If the casualties exceed [-]%, you can retreat fifteen miles to the camp; if the casualties in the camp exceed [-]%, you can retreat to the foot of Dafang Mountain; if the casualties exceed [-]%, you can withdraw from the battlefield.”

"In addition to this, if you want to retreat, it is to kill the enemy. You each have more than four thousand soldiers. If you kill more than [-] enemies in Hexi, return to Hebei; kill [-] enemies in Hebei, return to the camp; Shan, if there were neither so many casualties nor so many beheads, and Chen did not give an order and the commander retreated without authorization, please ask Qianhu to kill the commander for me, and Chen will recommend an official position for you."

"So, do you understand? Junxiong!"

Chen Mu gave the order, turned around and called Long Junxiong, who was in charge of the family soldiers and cavalry, and said: "Order the horse team to cross the river camp post to investigate the situation, set up ten horse posts along the way, and report once every hour; lead the family soldiers to carry gunpowder The wooden bridge was blown up, leaving only the big stone bridge, and that is where Chen will stick to it!"

(End of this chapter)