After learning the news that the Tatar Uketu Khan was withdrawing from Liaodong, Liu Juntao laughed and said to everyone: "It seems that the governor still thinks highly of this man!" ”

Everyone was puzzled.

Liu Juntao said: "Although our army is advancing all the way now, there are still 200,000 soldiers and horses left behind by the Tatar Department after all, and the troops are even more than hundreds of thousands. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Juntao sneered and said: "But Na Xiaolai directly led the army to retreat, so that all the achievements of the 100,000 or 200,000 troops of the Tatar Department before were lost!" ”

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized and laughed.

Then, everyone was concerned about how to fight the next big war.

Liu Juntao led everyone to the side of the sand table, pointed at it with a long stick, and said: "Now our army is stationed in the area of Saihan Mountain, where the terrain is dangerous, not only between Liaodong and the Tatar Khan tent, but also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and also occupies the best water and grass land in this area!" ”

Hu Dexing, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, his eyes lit up, and he said: "What does the governor mean by preparing to face the army of the Doulai Institute in the area of Saihan Mountain?" ”

Liu Juntao nodded and said, "If you come to lead the army back to help, this Saihan Mountain will be the place where you must attack!" Let's be here, in a bloody battle with the Badlai, as long as the 200,000 troops of the Badlai are defeated, the Tatars can be decided, and the remaining 200,000 Tatar iron horsemen can be defeated without a fight! ”

When everyone heard this, they all thought so.

Therefore, Liu Juntao ordered the officers and soldiers of all units of the Tiance Army to be stationed on the spot and began to build fortifications in the area of Saihan Mountain.

On the same day, Liu Juntao ordered all the armies to camp on the spot, and he himself was escorted by a hundred heavily armored iron cavalry, leading the generals to inspect the terrain around Saihan Mountain.

In the afternoon, everyone finished inspecting the area around the east side of Mount Saihan, and they all thought that the east side of Mount Saihan was extremely important, so this place was the place where everyone focused on their inspection.

There is an unnamed hillside to the east of Saihan Mountain, and to the west, there are endless mountains, which can completely block the Tatar iron cavalry army and cover the rear and left and right flanks of the Ming army.

The slope of this nameless hill is not high, and the slope is gentle, but at the bottom of the mountain is the Pingchuan River, and there is an avenue that runs up and down.

There are not many trees on the nameless hillside, most of them are barren grass and mud, and everything is bleak at this time, giving people a bleak feeling. On the top of the hillside, there is also an abandoned fire road pier, which was originally the lookout place of the dun army, and a small road leads directly from the avenue under the mountain to the pier, which must have been set up here by the Daning Dusi a long time ago, but with the revoked of the Daning Dusi by the dynasty, this place was also abandoned.

At this time, Liu Juntao led everyone to climb this nameless hillside, even if the weather was cold, they were all sweating profusely. Liu Juntao looked at the fire road pier in the distance and sighed: "This place is indeed important, if you set up an army, you can echo the north and south, prevent the thieves from outflanking, and encircle me in the entrenchment." ”

Hu Dexing, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, also nodded and said: "Governor Xian said very well, the location here is indeed critical, if our army establishes a village here, it will be strong, and it will be able to echo the defense line of the army under the hillside, and even the big tent of our army can be set up here, and you can have an overview of the overall situation." At this time, Yan Hu, the general next to him, looked at the northeast foot of the hillside, a river was flowing out of the mountains, although it was the harsh winter season at this time, the amount of water in the river was not very large, but it was enough for the army to use for a period of time, and his eyes couldn't help but light up: "There is a river here, and the drinking water of the garrison has also been solved, and our army can build a strong city."

Liu Juntao also agreed with the words.

In Liu Juntao's imagination, this nameless hillside is about five miles long from northeast to southeast, and from the mountainside to the top, there must be at least many low walls to intercept the attack of the Tatars, which is enough to block the 200,000 Tatar iron cavalry army here.

These walls don't need to be very high, just reach the soldiers' chests, so that the Birdmen can aim at the enemy, and they can rely on the low walls to defend against arrows from the Tartars.

Liu Juntao was not worried that the Tatar Iron Cavalry Army had looted artillery all over Liaodong, even if he had obtained some artillery, he had no time to pull back when he hurriedly withdrew his troops at this time, and he could not find a qualified gunner in a short time.

In addition, in the defense line expected by Liu Juntao, each trench can be dug deeper, at least one zhang deep and one zhang wide, and such a low wall actually reaches four meters, which is higher than the average castle wall.

And each of the low walls is not far apart, and along the hill, the latter low wall is in fact much higher than the previous low wall.

The defensive line took advantage of the direction of the mountain, and the birdmen behind each low wall could easily aim at the Tartar army, but not shoot at the heads of their own front row soldiers, so as to ensure the firepower output and continuity of the army. In this way, the entire line of defense can echo up and down, forming a three-dimensional network of fire bombardment.

Everyone listened to Liu Juntao's idea, and at this time they all nodded again and again, and they were all gearing up for the upcoming war, eager to start the war as soon as possible, and to kill the Tartars, so as to relieve their hatred and make contributions!

Of course, Liu Juntao's vision of improving the defense line is not only these, in Liu Juntao's specific vision, there are as many as nine low walls and trenches, divided into three waves. There are three low wall trenches between each wave, each wall is only a few steps apart, or a dozen steps apart, and the upper and lower shooting boundaries are obvious.

Every time the Tatar army attacked a low wall, it had to face fierce blows from the upper and lower fire points, and from time to time it had to face 10,000 enemies, gray bottle bullets and other weapons thrown from behind the three low walls.

Everyone was excited when they heard this, and the general Gao Ran said with a smile: "In this way, when the time comes, the Tartars will definitely be able to take care of the bottom, not the top, the above, and the bottom, and be embarrassed!" ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

Liu Juntao also smiled and continued to talk about his ideas.

These three waves, about 50 paces and 100 paces between each wave, can be set up in the open space, some tents and bamboo canopies, as a place for the wounded and wounded soldiers to rest, as well as a place for the soldiers to prepare soldiers and horses, and a place for the troops to attack.

Between each low wall, there will be many empty spaces for the warriors inside the wall to attack according to the situation.

"Are the soldiers of my Tiance Army a tofu scum soldier, who will only die and defend it? We have to defend and attack, and we attack from time to time in the defense, even the soldiers of the heavy battalions of each army are no exception! ”

Liu Juntao's words encouraged everyone's morale even more, and they echoed it, and even Zhou Zongsheng suggested that he should lead his troops and horses to respond to the main army at the foot of the mountain, as he had done in previous wars, so as to attack and disturb the flanks of the Tatar army from time to time.

Of course, these low wall vacancies are irregular, for example, the first low wall vacant place enters, but it is faced with a thick wall, and you need to take a few steps to the left or right, a dozen steps, to continue to touch the empty road.

Moreover, in the vacant space of the low wall in front of each wave, artillery can also be placed, and a cannon can be fired, which will definitely make the Tatar soldiers of the Tatar part attacking the wall cry wolf and howl, suffering unspeakably and suffering heavy casualties.

And that's not all, but the guards of these low walls, and the many protrusions, are like the horse-faced enemy platforms of the city walls. From the flank, the officers and men of each unit could shoot at the enemy attacking the low wall trench.

With the power of the firearms of the birds of the various divisions of the Tiance Army, there can be a convex wall every one hundred and fifty paces. In order to prevent dead angles, the front end of the convex wall needs to be built with an acute angle.

For example, in the first wave of the first low wall of the road, there are two raised walls on the left and right, so that this opening is as if it is sunken in. When the enemy attacked the passage, he fell under fire from the left and right ends.

It is on the northeast side of the nameless hillside by the river, not far from the river. He also built several low walls all the way to the northwest of the mountain, protecting the water source and preventing the enemy from attacking along the river. After all, the river is not deep, only up to knees.

In addition, although the northwestern part of the nameless hill was steep and ravine-crisscrossed, it was prudent to set up several lines of defense to prevent the Tatar elite soldiers and horses from attacking at the risk of death.

Finally, Liu Juntao also planned to erect artillery on the top of the hill and establish an artillery position, so that the entire battlefield could be completely included in the bombardment range of the artillery position and bombard the Tatar army. And with the fire pier as the viewing point, you can see the surrounding situation at a glance.

Listening to Liu Juntao coming one by one, all the generals of the Tiance Army quickly calculated the relevant deployments in their hearts.

At the same time, the Zhongzanhua led by Zhang Yuqing imagined in his heart what it would be like if the nameless hillside defense line here was placed on the sand table.

At this time, after Liu Juntao's tempering, although the cultural level of the generals is not very high, they can be regarded as literate and hyphenated. Soon, everyone will construct a three-dimensional nameless hillside protection map in their hearts, and everyone feels that the nameless hillside defense line must be very powerful, and if you have the courage to lead the army to attack, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

After Liu Juntao finished talking about his ideas one by one, he sneered: "After such a deployment, you also want to capture my nameless hillside defense line first?" If you don't die 30,000 or 50,000 people, that's delusion! And that's not counting the casualties of our army's counterattack! ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, according to Liu Juntao's arrangement, the Tatars captured the nameless hillside defense line, and 30,000 or 50,000 people would die?

However, looking at the sneering Liu Juntao, everyone only felt a chill rising in their hearts, and they couldn't help but believe it. All are mourned for the Tartars, and if they storm the place, they will shed blood.

After some arrangement, Liu Juntao asked Zhang Yuqing to return to the camp to immediately improve the sand table and map, and at the same time ordered the baggage soldiers of all armies and departments to immediately go up the mountain to build a defensive line, and the soldiers and horses of each battalion were ready to go up the mountain.

At this time, Liu Juntao took everyone to climb the mountain and look into the distance, looking at the white mountain that was faintly visible in the east, and couldn't help but say to everyone: "This nameless hillside is about to witness a shocking bloody battle, in the opinion of the governor, it is better to give this place a name." ”

"It's called the Funeral River!"