When he also led an army of 210,000 to the south, Liu Juntao received the news, and then he summoned the generals and ordered the army to immediately garrison Lei Gongshan in the northwest of Datong Town.

In this regard, Zhang Xiaojun and other generals all agreed very much, and this plan was also one of the many strategies proposed by Zhang Yuqing, and Liu Juntao also improved it.

Although the army garrisoned Lei Gong Mountain and gave way to the road to Datong Town, the army could also rely on the mountain to defend, which was considered to be a favorable location.

And he didn't dare to take a huge risk at first, once again put the tens of thousands of elite troops under Liu Juntao's command behind his back, and attacked Datong Town again, otherwise the previous failure would be staged again.

Liu Juntao expected this, so he was relieved and boldly prepared to give way to the front road, and then led the army to the area of Lei Gong Mountain.

At the end of May of the second year of Jingtai, it was June in later generations, at this time, the scorching sun in the area of Leigong Mountain, the trees on the mountain were not moving, and the scorching sun in the sky seemed to expose everything to dry.

On this day, Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Yanzhou Town, led all officials and generals to brave the scorching sun and heat, and led a team of personal guards and iron cavalry to patrol the area of Leigong Mountain.

After some inspection, everyone thought that the Yanghe slope on the east side of Lei Gongshan was extremely important, so the place of the mountain range was the place where everyone focused on their inspection.

Yanghe slope is in the southeast of Leigong Mountain, about fifteen miles away from the town of Datong in the south, and in the west, it is the continuous mountains, and the towering mountains can completely block the Wara Iron Cavalry and cover the rear of the Ming army.

Yanghepo is not high, and the slope is gentle, but below the mountain is Pingchuan, and there is a road that runs up and down.

There are not many trees on the mountain, mostly barren grass and mud, and there is an abandoned fire road pier on the top, 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.

Liu Juntao looked at the fire road pier in the distance, and sighed: "This place is indeed important, if you have an army, you can echo the north and south, prevent the thieves from outflanking, and encircle me." ”

Zhang Yuqing also nodded and said: "The general town is very right, the location here is really important, if our army establishes a village here, it must be strong, it must be able to echo the defense line, and even the big tent of our army can be set up here." ”

At this time, Zhang Yuqing looked at the northeast foot of the mountain, a river was flowing out of the mountains, and his eyes lit 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 vision, Yanghepo was about four miles long from northeast to southeast, and from the mountainside to the top, there were at least many low walls to intercept the Tartar attack.

These walls don't need to be very high, just reach the chests of the soldiers, and the birdmen can aim at the enemy, and of course, the low walls can be built thicker, at least to resist cannon bombardment.

Liu Juntao was also worried that the Warat army had looted around Datong Town for a long time, and it was difficult to guarantee that the artillery in the fortresses would not be captured, so it was always good to be prepared in advance.

In addition, the trenches of the defense line 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 ordinary 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.

By the direction of the mountain, the bird-stalkers behind each low wall could easily aim at the Tartar army without shooting at the heads of their own front-row soldiers.

In this way, the entire line of defense can echo up and down, forming a three-dimensional network of fire bombardment.

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

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

Everyone was excited when they heard this, and 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 of the long knife hand and the mine-thrower 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 Yanzhou Town tofu scum soldiers, who will only die and defend hard? We have both defense and attack, and we attack from time to time in defense, and even the soldiers of the baggage battalion are no exception! ”

Liu Juntao's words encouraged everyone's morale even more, and they echoed it, and even Zhou Zongsheng suggested that he lead his own troops and horses to deal with the main army at the foot of the mountain, so as to attack and disturb the flanks of Wara 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 position 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 Wara Tartar soldiers who attack the wall cry wolf 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 fire guns of the bird guns in Yanzhou Town, there can be a convex wall every one hundred and fifty steps. 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 near the river in the northeast of Yanghepo, 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 northwest part of Yanghepo is steep and ravine-ridden, it is prudent to set up several lines of defense to prevent the elite soldiers and horses of Warat from attacking at the risk of death.

Finally, Liu Juntao also prepared to erect artillery on the top of the hill and establish an artillery position, which could completely bring the entire battlefield into the bombardment range of the artillery position.

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 battalions and generals in Yanzhou Town 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 Yang and Slope defense lines were 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.

And the praise of the painting department of the praise painting is quite knowledgeable, the degree of professionalism is strong, soon, everyone in the heart of the construction of a three-dimensional Yang and slope protection map, everyone feel that the Yang and slope defense line must be very powerful, but also if there is the courage to lead the army to attack, 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 Yang and Po defense lines?" If you don't die 30,000 or 50,000 people, that's delusion! ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, according to Liu Juntao's arrangement, the Tatars captured the Yanghepo 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 immediately improve the sand table and map after returning to the camp, and at the same time ordered the baggage soldiers of each battalion 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 Baishan Mountain that was faintly visible in the east, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "When Han Gaozu was surrounded by the Huns in Baishan Mountain, it can be described as a great shame for my Han family!" Today, we will defend Datong City again, and we will fight the Warat army in this Lei Gong Mountain, and make a name for ourselves here! ”