When the sunrise of Mengyang City arrives, you can see a halo of orange and clouds slowly emerging on the edge of the sky in the distance, and a fiery bright circle with the warm breath of the early morning slowly emerges from the edge of the sky.

As the sun rises, the entire forest, which was originally a variety of greens: dark green, emerald green, pale green and gray-green, is gilded with a pale gold.

June to July in Luchuan was supposed to be a day in the scorching heat, but the orthodox fourteen-year-old Luchuan was a little strangely refreshing, Jiang Yugang did not have a thermometer on his body, and he did not arrange for someone to make a thermometer, but he estimated that the temperature around him should be less than twenty-six or seven degrees, which was quite close to the temperature of the air conditioner in the summer that he was most familiar with.

In other words, the temperature is close to what I am familiar with, and the temperature of turning on the air conditioner in the summer is not much hotter than the winter in the Luchuan River that I have crossed.

But the temperature was an inaccurate thing, and Jiang Yugang didn't think too much about it, just feeling the coolness of the morning. It's supposed to be a cool summer, and the temperature is even lower in the early morning.

The command headquarters of the North City Tower of Mengyang City is a small house located in the center of the North City Tower, basically all the soldiers of the Second Regiment of Mengyang City who followed Jiang Yugang to Mengyang City, all the staff officers are working here, although the official battle has not yet begun, but everyone has begun to move.

After Jiang Yugang made the pre-war arrangements, he did not continue to be responsible for specific work, after all, the affairs of the more than 500 people guarding the city were not so simple to manage, and more people were still needed to take specific responsibility, and he, Jiang Yugang, would not be responsible for these specific things.

Whether it is the array of soldiers, the preparation of weapons and equipment, or the advance check of tactics, these are the specific responsibilities of the front-line officers, so as to achieve complete preparations before the battle.

Jiang Yuyan is only responsible for the final inspection and verification work, and the specific details of the process are the ones below him, from the battalion commander to the array commander officers at all levels.

The whole preparation work was carried out for about half an hour, after which the soldiers in each position were on standby, entering a state of half-readiness and half-rest. After the preparations were over, Jiang Yuyan walked out, while checking the preparations, and waiting for the military news from the front line.

In fact, the basic preparation work is relatively simple, mainly the preparation of various weapons, from the on-site inspection of the bird gun, to the verification of the fixed ammunition, and other such as a few traditional fortification tools such as bows and arrows and artillery.

Jiang Yugang still had a lot of hope for these birds, after all, the walls of Mengyang City were relatively low, and they could be relatively taller and taller, and they might be closer to the bunkers of rifles. Jiang Yugang is not very sure whether this primitive firearm is a rifle or not, but he can be sure that this is the closest firearm to the concept of rifle in this era.

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After inspecting the five arrays responsible for guarding the North City Tower and attacking about five hundred soldiers, Jiang Yugang began to conduct a second inspection, that is, the battle readiness inspection of the other defenders in Mengyang City.

It is said that it is other defenders, but in fact it is a civilian man who would not actually participate in the battle under normal circumstances, and there are a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled among these people, and at the same time, there is no response to the treatment of soldiers to provide them with, and correspondingly, there is no obligation of soldiers.

But in the current emergency, these people obviously have no choice but to join the overall defense team and participate in the battle to defend the city. Although there are various subjective and objective problems with their participation in battles, in short, even if we do not take into account the existence of those who do not meet the conditions for combat at all, those who are qualified to be warriors are completely unrecruited.

This is because it is actually very clear. He didn't know the situation of other people's teams, just the situation of his Mang Gubao troops, and later Meng Yang garrison Bai Qianfan deployed to his troops to replenish them, basically all of them were from the Minfu team.

These civilians are not resistant to joining the army, their situation is that they have a low status in the army, they do not have adequate treatment, armament and command arrangements, and they are not some special status that can escape the battle, so this kind of non-resistance should be more accurate than it can be refused and resisted.

The situation of the people is roughly divided into two types, the first is that they cannot meet the requirements of the army for soldiers, that is, they may have physical defects or are not of the right age; The other is purely inconsistent with the number of people in the team, and there are not so many resources to supply such a pair of soldiers, so they follow the team to join the team as a citizen.

In fact, judging from these two points, Minfu can be said to be unarmed warriors, and some of them even have weapons. This point can be related to the difference between the so-called elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers in ancient warfare.

In ancient warfare, the number of participants was often extremely high, and in some cases, it was even possible to support a large number of soldiers and troops under the conditions of much lower productivity in ancient times than in modern times.

Although it is said that the standards of soldiers and troops in ancient warfare are far lower than the modern level, we cannot completely analyze the problem in isolation from the actual conditions; from a relative point of view, the consumption of the equipment level and the organizational level of the troops required by the ancient troops is also very high, and a large number of metal products are used as armor and weapons, and there are troops with relatively high organizational and training difficulties, such as war horses.

On the other hand, what supports the consumption of these equipment is a very low productivity support capacity, and a large number of small workshop-style production and random production organizations can support the equipment demand is very limited.

The way to solve this problem under normal circumstances is actually difficult for people to accept after learning the truth.

Based on some of the materials that Jiang Yugang saw from later generations that reflected the level of equipment at that time, there was a very serious problem of long-term reuse of equipment in ancient times, simply put, it was the reuse of old equipment, and some equipment may even have a history of hundreds of years, or even longer.

In this case, the equipment will naturally not have any actual combat effectiveness at all, and it can be said that there are very serious hidden dangers, and the use of such old weapons as formal armaments will bring very serious problems, and also reflect a very serious problem, that is, a direct result: the ancient army simply did not have the ability to support a large number of soldiers, a large number of troops.

On the one hand, it is reflected in the equipment problem mentioned above, and on the other hand, it is the distinction between elite troops and ordinary soldiers.

This distinction is not simply a manifestation of the fact that only a small number of troops can be effectively managed under the backward organizational and management capabilities, but is also the result of the inability of the military organization to effectively support a large number of troops, because the supply capacity can only support a small number of troops, and in the consumption of war, it is necessary to prepare a large amount of actual manpower as a supply, so this combination of a small number of elite soldiers and a large number of ordinary armies was born.

And the people, in fact, are the lowest level of this kind of organization and cooperation, and the people who are provided to Jiang Yugang by Bai Qianfan in Mengyang are basically some recruits who have basic combat qualifications and have not experienced enough military training.

From the current point of view of Meng Yangcheng, it is a large number of recruits who have not been sufficiently trained and will be tested in actual combat. Jiang Yugang's design method is very simple, which is to control the recruits to receive enough training to complete the identity change.

It's just that the time he came to Mengyangcheng was too short, and when the battle in Mengyangcheng had not yet been held, and a large number of soldiers were still under the original deployment arrangement, Jiang Yugang could see that Mengyangcheng had no space for him to intervene.

After the troops from all over the city left Mengyangcheng and rushed to the specific battle position, Jiang Yugang had the opportunity to enter Mengyangcheng and become the main guard officer in charge of Mengyangcheng. The disadvantage of his status is that his background is too shallow, and he is just an officer who was promoted from a small banner and was appreciated by Bai Qianfan, the garrison of Mengyang.

Even if he is promoted, his status is still very low, and the status of Baihu is the lowest level of the officer's ranking, and these aspects are very unfavorable to Jiang Yu's management position in Mengyang City. After all, this is not the Mang Castle that he built single-handedly, most of them don't have much to do with him, some of them have even a status higher than him in the past, and the vast majority of people have never heard of such a person as Jiang Yugang.

The rationality of Jiang Yu's position mainly comes from the hard power of his Manggu Castle, in the difficult garrison affairs of the Ming army in the area of Mengyang City, in the case that no one else has any development, and even some places are forced into a desperate situation, and the defense line is unsustainable, Jiang Yugang's Mang Castle can be said to have sprung up, completely changing the situation of the Ming army in the area of Manggu Mountain, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he saved Mengyang City once.

Many high-status officers and generals have affirmed Jiang Yugang from this, Bai Qianfan naturally needless to say, he regards Jiang Yugang, a real young man with a humble background and little experience, as a trustworthy, even the most trusted subordinate.

The other officers were also because they saw Jiang Yufan's achievements in the Manggu Castle, even if some people were dissatisfied with Bai Qianfan's attention to Jiang Yugang so much, no one directly challenged Jiang Yugang's authority, or directly opposed Jiang Yugang's approach.

However, even in this case, what Jiang Yugang could do in Mengyang City was very limited, and it was not until Bai Qianfan left that he began to really take over the civilian team in Mengyang City.

If Bai Qianfan hadn't left, these two thousand people should have been under his direct management, and after Bai Qianfan left, if according to the official rank, it would not be Jiang Yu's turn to manage these people, and among the other officers who stayed in Mengyang City, there were also officers at the command level.

However, this is to replace the strength of the Ming army in Mengyangcheng, because of the serious shortage of people, the Ming army organization in Mengyangcheng can actually be described as simple, and only Bai Qianfan has the power and qualifications to manage the people in the real sense, and there is not even a person who takes over Bai Qianfan to manage these people in a reasonable sense.

Whether it is streamlined or shabby, it is undeniable that Bai Qianfan has a huge influence on the Ming army of Meng Yangcheng, Jiang Yugang wants to come out, and this influence must be eliminated, but this is a later story, the most important thing is to take over Bai Qianfan's power at the moment.

Bai Qianfan's power is too large, in a sense, it also has certain benefits for the current Jiang Yugang, the most direct manifestation is that Jiang Yugang, as Bai Qianfan's direct subordinate, took over the management and command of more than 2,000 people in Mengyang City.