Some people say that those scholars in ancient China who were familiar with the art of war were all excellent staff officers, and they all had considerable strategic vision, but once they were allowed to lead the troops, it would be a disaster. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The most typical example is Zhao Kuo, who talks on paper, he can talk loudly on the map to convince people, but once he really commands the actual battle, it can only cause irreparable tragedy.

But how to arrange soldiers to charge into battle and how to organize defense and resistance, they have no experience at all, they do not lack strategic vision, but what they lack is the ability to operate tactically.

So once these problems are solved, the literati in ancient China are still very outstanding, for example, when Sun Bin has Tian Ji by his side who can command actual battles, the Qi soldiers are invincible. For example, Zeng Guofan, who fought a dumb battle step by step, made the Taiping Army have no choice.

But once the romantic spirit of the literati appeared, always thinking of winning by surprise, and using tricks to play the enemy in the palm of his hand, even a master like Shi Dakai could only be defeated in front of the Hunan army.

Taizu, who can command the grand strategy of crossing the Chishui four times, may not even be able to shoot accurately, and it is inevitable that it will be a tragedy for him to command the actual battle, Zhu Jinglun is self-aware, so he only mentions strategic ideas, and is not responsible for implementation.

The Swedes are good performers, and tactically, those who have studied in regular military schools for many years are able to accurately fight on the map down to the meter level.

It is not difficult to set a landing site, although the Kowloon Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, there are too many places for British troops to land, but there are only a handful of worthy landing sites.

First of all, the landing site must be open, so that they can be deployed as soon as possible, otherwise they will hit the other side with a counterattack, and it will be over if they drive down the sea; Secondly, the landing point must be close to the communication channel, choose a deserted foot of the mountain to land, and you have to climb over the mountain to see the enemy, such a landing point is meaningless; Again, the British landed from the sea, and they necessarily had to rely on their navy for cover, so the landing site must have been close to an open bay capable of accommodating the naval fleet.

After screening, the Swedes believed that the last possible landing place for the British troops was on the opposite side of Hong Kong Island, across the area of Tsim Shan Tsui and Kwun Tong in Victoria Bay. It is followed by Sai Kung and Tai Po. Yuen Long and Tuen Mun again. In addition to this, there are not many options for a landing with military value, and it is certainly not excluded that the British will choose to abandon the attack on Kowloon and attack the rest of Xin'an, and then force the government to compromise, if the British adopt this method, then it is impossible to predict their course of action.

Zhu Jinglun felt that the Swedes' plan had been well thought out, and this time it was finally approved:

"Based on your judgment of the Kowloon landing site, deploy defenses, if they burn the flames of war to other places in Xin'an, then we can only ignore the rules, and we will directly shell Hong Kong at that time!"

Although the defenders of Kowloon City were decorations, if Zhu Jinglun's artillery was used and replaced with fortress guns produced by the arsenal, it would be enough for the British to drink a pot, and even their governor's palace would be blown up at that time.

The specific plan of the Swedes was to use the British army to land somewhere in three places, and then based on the resistance of the regular army, with the battle plan of the local townspeople, they used the local townspeople as reserves, and their interests were unique enough, at least Zhu Jinglun did not think that these armies did have the characteristics of Western reserves.

When the plan was perfected, Zhu Jinglun immediately ordered the staff formed by the Swedes to immediately draw up an exercise plan based on these battle plans, and he must make full preparations for the upcoming war.

Once the British army landed, the plan required that the villagers of fishing villages near the bay such as Tsim Sha Tsui must immediately retreat, retreat to the area around Lion Rock, cooperate with the regular army to organize defense, hold on to and wait for reinforcements, wait for the troops from other places to support, and when the troops are sufficient, launch a war of encirclement and annihilation against the British army.

After the British army landed, it was impossible to put all their forces into the front line to fight, they must retain the necessary forces to protect the port as a back road, and at the same time to maintain a safe line of communication, referring to their situation in Tianjin, after the British and French troops landed in Tanggu, they could only send 8,000 people to attack the fort, so once the British army landed in the area of Jianshanzui, at most more than 5,000 of their 10,000 troops could enter the front line to fight.

The disadvantage of our own army is that we do not know where the other side will land, so we must disperse our defenses, at least in Tsim Sha Tsui, Yuen Long and Sai Kung, and only after it is clear that the other side will land, they can converge. Therefore, any way of the way needed to independently resist the British until reinforcements arrived.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun's 12,000 musketeers were divided into three divisions, one was stationed in Yuen Long, one was stationed in Tai Po, and the other was stationed in Kowloon City.

As for Xiang Yong, as a reserve, he was on standby in the rear, supporting the front line at any time, and was responsible for logistics transportation and treatment of the wounded.

The plan was very good, but it also had to be cooperated, Zhu Jinglun ordered the soldiers to march to Kowloon, and at the same time invited the major squires of Kowloon to discuss with them, and these people happily agreed to completely obey Zhu Jinglun's military orders, and even the Wen family, a family that had a land dispute with the Hakka people across the Shenzhen River, also actively asked for orders to take the lead.

Zhu Jinglun told them that they had never fought with foreigners, and once they were defeated and defeated, they would easily break up the main formation, so they were kind and well-intentioned, and warned them that once their military orders were issued, then they would have no way to retreat, and that they would die to the last person at that time, and they would have to fight.

The Wen family, who claimed to be the descendants of Wen Tianxiang, was even more clamoring, and when the time came, whoever ran away would level the clan and dig up the ancestral grave of whom. After the Wen family finished speaking, he also looked at the Zhang family.

The San Tin Man clan is a Kowloon family and is known as the first family in Hong Kong in history. Huangbeiling Zhang's and Xintian's Wen are separated by the Shenzhen River, the land on both sides of the river has been disputed, the history of the armed fight continues, the Zhang people are numerous, the Wen family in order to defend, but also built a 2 meters high, more than 1 meter thick wall.

Such a family that hates each other is very common in the Kowloon area, which is what Zhu Jinglun is most worried about.

"Well, you Gaoyi, the enemy is now, you should work together, there are no eggs under the nest, and the personal enmity between you will be put aside first, and then we will talk about it when the Yiren are driven away. The official's ugly words are in front, and if any of them don't open their eyes at that time, don't blame the official for being ruthless. There is no basis for my words, but I call you to make a covenant to prove it! ”

Zhu Jinglun somewhat liked the way of carving a stone stele to make a rural covenant, because he found that the common people recognized this, and after the covenant was made, everyone swore incense to their ancestors, and it was rarely violated.

The main contents of the covenant are that during the period of resisting the enemy, those who dare to fight privately will be killed without forgiveness, and all ethnic groups shall not be shielded, and the patriarchs of those who protect them will sit together; During the period of resistance to the enemy, all ethnic groups obeyed orders, and those who did not obey were expelled from their homes and expelled from the village; During the period of resisting the enemy, if there is a loss in which village or clan, all families in Kowloon will share it, and they must not shirk the blame!

With these three articles, Zhu Jinglun felt that it was enough, as long as they did not fight privately and could fight the enemy together, these villagers could show their ruthlessness when fighting, and they could still play a big role. If you obey orders, there will be no chaos, even if you are only responsible for transporting food, grass and ammunition, and ambulating the wounded, you can let the regular troops have no worries. Finally, there are families with losses, and other families share the losses after the war, so that there will be no cases where some villages refuse to retreat in order to protect their land.

After that, the military exercises began with a vigorous start.

Zhu Jinglun's subordinate county Yong stationed in three places, cooperated with the local villagers, dug trenches, built fortifications, and selected the retreat route, everyone moved, and even fought with empty bags and bombs for a day, which made the people of Hong Kong on the other side panic, and Wei Tuma came to the door again to hear the news, Zhu Jinglun said that it was just an exercise, and there was absolutely no intention to attack Hong Kong, but Wei Tuoma was still quite dissatisfied, thinking that this kind of exercise itself was a kind of hostility.

Zhu Jinglun could only stubbornly refuse to admit this, anyway, the exercise must be carried out, and it was impossible for him to bet his safety on the restraint that the British would not attack, after all, the two sides had irreconcilable conflicts of interest, unless the British could give up ceding the land, or Zhu Jinglun could give up defending the territory, otherwise this battle would have to be fought sooner or later.

The British were quite restrained, and when they were most angry, they only sent warships to cruise around the open sea where the exercise site was.

Zhu Jinglun also accepted it when he saw it, and only carried out the exercise for three days, and after personally inspecting it, he found that the cooperation between the township Yong and the county Yong was also in good order, so he ordered the exercise to end with satisfaction, but warned all ethnic groups not to slack off, to continue to strengthen training, and always be ready to protect their families and defend their land.

This time it's over, but that doesn't mean there won't be a next one, and the next one will only be bigger.

In this exercise, not only did Zhu Jinglun inspect the whole process, but also invited all the squires and clans in the entire Xin'an, including the Hakka family in the eastern part of Xin'an, because next time, Zhu Jinglun planned to launch the county-wide exercise.

In this exercise, Zhu Jinglun dispatched 12,000 county warriors, plus 20,000 warriors from various clans in Kowloon, and the number of troops was as high as 30,000.

In the next exercise, the entire Xin'an County will be mobilized, and the number of people will exceed 100,000.

Therefore, after the exercise, the army could not be idle, and the staff composed of the Swedes and some literate officers who had studied with them continued to formulate plans for the next larger-scale exercise, and Zhu Jinglun demanded that an exercise must be conducted in the summer of this year, because at that time it is likely that the results of the mission sent by Zhu Jinglun to London will come out.

At this time, the Heshan side was finally not calm, and the leader of the Hakka people in Heshan, Gao Guanxian, took a dozen Hakka gentry and ventured to Xin'an, where they asked Zhu Jinglun to fulfill their agreement and help them resist the attack of the Tukou. (To be continued.) )