open sea

Chapter 235 Trench
The rainy season should start at the end of June in the north. There has been no heavy rain this summer, so it is considered a drought.

Originally, Chen Mu thought that there would be no heavy rain this year until winter, but looking at the sky now, it might rain soon.

When it rains, Chen Mu hates rain since he has a gun team in his hands, especially when he has ships and cannons.

Because the rain means that his men's combat power has dropped sharply.

Without artillery and blunderbuss, his ability to command combat will be greatly weakened, because his tactics are all dependent on firearms, otherwise even a general can beat him in cold weapon combat.

Fortunately, what was waiting for him was not an encounter, but a defense, and it was the river bank and bridgehead defense that he was more familiar with, even more powerful than the conditions of the Xinjiang battle.

Jumashui is very long along the line, but Jumashui is also very wide. Although it is uneven and some of the water depths are less than half a person, most of them form valleys between the two sides of the mountain. There is no road for the Mongolian cavalry to pass. The real There are only two gaps.

One is the Shuanma Bridge, which is more than ten steps wide for the friendly troops in front, and the other is fourteen miles northwest of the Shuanma Bridge. Once it rains, the river will rise sharply if it is spread from the source on the mountain, making it difficult for the enemy troops to cross the river. Therefore, the garrison mission is not difficult for the Four Thousand Banners Army.

What's more, between the two main roads, there are more than [-] banner troops stationed there. It only takes half an hour from the sentry cavalry to the soldiers and horses to come to help.

The artillery position is a big job. 24 artillery pieces of different weights will be placed a hundred steps directly behind the gunslinger position. Chen Mu asked to build a solid earth and wood square one foot high, 44 steps wide, and [-] steps long, and place it on the other side. There is a gentle slope of [-] steps on the back base, and a huge canopy should be purchased up and down the slope.

Cannons and gunpowder are placed on the slope to cover the rain, and the slope is used to cover the pack horses from the rain. In this way, if the situation is not good, the artillery can move quickly with the artillery first - but how far they can maneuver depends on God's will , Once the road is muddy, the artillery can't run fast.

Fortunately, not far from the position is the Sanhe Tuguan Road. As long as you can walk there, even if it rains, the artillery car can let go and run.

In Chen Mu's design drawing, the gunslinger's trench is a hundred steps ahead of the artillery position. It needs to be an arc-shaped trench of eighty steps five steps wide and four feet deep. In front of the trench, the wooden planks are supported by big sticks every two steps, and the tents soaked in tung oil are spread on the boards to waterproof them.

In front of the trenches, a row of large shields were placed horizontally, and also placed obliquely to direct the rainwater outside, providing part of the protection and the use of guns for the flag army.

Chen Mu named this the Chen's rain-proof trench, and drew two copies of the composition, one was given to the miner leader of his subordinates to let Hu Daxiong supervise their excavation work, and the other was kept in a notebook for future arrangement.

Miners are very useful. He had long wanted to build a soil engineering army under his banner, but was interrupted because Qi Jiguang sent him to the north, but he didn't expect Xu Jue to recruit a group of miners for him. Bing Chen Mu must be recruited under his own hands.

That is to say, relying on the large number of flag troops in hand, otherwise Chen Mu would not be able to build such a large project in a short period of time, but this is the advantage of local warfare. There are also people who fled from Baoding's rumored war and were also detained and sent to Fangshan for labor.

How does cement burn?

Limestone and clay ground, burnt and then served with iron slag?

But Chen Mu didn't know the ratio, so he had to try it out. After writing it down in his notebook, he sent another letter to Nanyangwei.

If this thing can be made, with masonry, steel bars... Can fried steel be used as steel bars?

Don't care if it's possible or not, try it first.

Even if it can be made, this thing is useless in the north. The northern captives can't even collapse the wooden wall, so they still have to be used in the south.

In the future, he will install more than a dozen boats of concrete and steel sticks, drive the boat to Malacca and Luzon, and build gun towers, side by side with the Portuguese and Spanish fortresses.

What?This is aggression?

No, no, if that happens, it must be a just war. There is no need to change the names of Malacca and the Philippines for Manchuria and Luzon. Fighting for the honor of the tributary country is General Chen's lifelong pursuit.

But at the moment, he has to win this battle first, even if there is no difficulty to create difficulties.

He needs a beautiful victory to establish his prestige among the three guards, and he also needs a magnificent enough battle exploits to qualify him for promotion. From Chen Mu's point of view, the transfer to the north is not a bad thing at all. Another breakthrough - one that directly reaches the DPRK and China to make friends with the rulers, and obtain the power to conduct maritime affairs in the South China Sea.

Maritime affairs are too involved and will hurt the interests of too many people. This is not something he can do alone and requires strong support.

Fortunately, there are at least two leaders in the current cabinet who are determined to go their own way and make the country rich and the army strong.

To be honest, Chen Mu now fully understands the mentality of constantly building the Great Wall and pulling out a long line of defense. No matter how much he understands, it is not real enough. He has truly realized how difficult it is to defend against nomads in this era.

There is no internet or telephone, and battle reports and police reports can still be transmitted by beacons over short distances like in Guangdong, but in northern Xinjiang, it is too slow to rely entirely on two or four legs.

Our messenger galloped on horseback, and the enemy army galloped on horseback. The governor received the battle report and dispatched troops. The soldiers and horses set off from one side, but the enemy cavalry had already run to the other side, and it was another big plunder.

If you want to stop a ranger, you need to use several times the force in all directions to besiege. However, the distances of soldiers and horses are different, and the location and time of sending troops are different. How easy is it to encircle?I am afraid that the greater possibility is that before the encirclement is formed, the enemy's faster maneuvers mobilize superior forces to divide and attack them.

Over time, the few soldiers did not dare to fight, and the large soldiers did not have time to fight, and it became such a weak situation-the movement of the Alta army was judged entirely by the battle reports of the fallen city.

If they don't want troops to come to the capital, but only to harm Shanxi, then the Ming army will be helpless.

Along with the luggage, there is also the voice of peace talks in the court. In fact, most discerning people know that peace negotiations are the only way out. They have been arguing since April, and they are still arguing. The reconciliation is still made with money.

In any case, everyone is waiting for the outcome of the war, the difference is that some people need a victory.

And Chen Mu was busy praying to the sky outside of the military. He prayed that the Tumed troops could rush to the Juma River, because this man who fought all the way from the south stubbornly believed that the great victory that the world was waiting for would be the next day. Created in his hands.

On September [-]th, it rained heavily and the Juma River swelled sharply. The victims of the war on the other side of the river came one after another. They brought news that the northern captives had crossed Jingxing and entered Zhending.At the same time, Nanyang Guard also sent artillery to the capital for the second time, and sent Bai Yuanjie's situation with Nanyang Guard, along with a piece of leather.

Chen Mu's short saber was nailed to the case with a soft object of unknown structure, and his expression was excited.

"Come on, let me blow you to pieces!"

(End of this chapter)