Longyou, in the Spring and Autumn Period, was the capital of the country of Gumi, and its name was Gumi City. In the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Qin, Taimo County was placed in Taimo County, and it was renamed Longqiu in the eighth year of Tang Zhenguan. In the second year of Changxing in the later Tang Dynasty, Qian Hao, the king of Wuyue, took the "mound" and "tomb" as close to the meaning of inauspiciousness, and according to the county, the hills were undulating like a dragon, so the dragon hill was changed to a dragon tour. Although there have been occasional changes since then, it is still called Longyou today.

According to records, the city is 212 steps long from east to west, 160 steps from north to south, and the city wall is 1 zhang 7 feet high, 4 feet thick, and 470 steps in circumference. What Chen Wen saw at this moment was the city built on the original site of Gumei City in the second year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, with a circumference of six miles, a height of one zhang and six feet, a base width of one zhang and three feet, a width of nine feet, and a package of bricks. There are four city gates, called Yong'an, Quy Nhin, Taiping, Xiangyi, and there are city towers built on each gate.

Historically, Quzhou is a place where soldiers must fight, and there are countless wars going on around this place, among which from Jinhua to Quzhou in the west, you must first take the dragon tour before you can make the trip. And if you want to attack Longyou, the first thing you have to do is to try to cross Lingxi.

After looking at the city wall across the stream, Chen Wen returned to the camp outside Longyou Town with his staff and personal soldiers. It had been several days since they arrived here, and since the Ming army's water camp did not have the strength to suppress the Qing army's water camp on the Qujiang River, it was naturally impossible to enter Lingxi through the Qujiang River to assist the Ming army troops to cross the river. As a result, Chen Wen collected and manufactured ships while recruiting people along the way, collecting grain and grass from large families in the countryside, and put on a posture of preparing to cross Lingxi.

Outside Longyou Town, the Ming army camp was divided into two battalions, north and south, using the terrain trend as horns for each other. Among them, the Nantang battalion and the half of the Dongyang battalion guarded the northern battalion, the Yiwu battalion and the garrison troops were stationed in the southern battalion, and the people from Jinhua were stationed in two battalions, and the people recruited in Quzhou were placed in Longyou Town. As for the rangers and outposts, they were scattered as usual, in order to keep the enemy's intelligence available and our intelligence shielded.

When Chen Wen returned to the camp. The men who built the rafts outside the camp were still working under the supervision of the Ming army, while the soldiers in the camp were still doing relatively light training to maintain the fighting condition and distract from the tension before the war.

At the same time, in the big tent of the Chinese army, several staff officers are continuing the production of sand tables under the leadership of Lou Jiye. After months of practice. They were already quite handy at this job, and Chen Wen didn't plan to get any too detailed sand tables and maps.

It wasn't until more than an hour later that the sky began to darken, and the rafts that had been built outside the camp began to be stored one after another, and the people began to line up to receive their meals. And at this moment, the sand table is also completely completed. Picking up the booklet that recorded the military situation, Lou Jiye began to take the staff officers to carry out staff operations.

Since we do not have the technology and equipment to make contour maps and sand tables, we can only make them based on empirical observations. As a result, it is difficult to achieve the desired results even if the staff is used to carry out the mapping work, and with the current technology, it is still possible to roughly estimate and deduce the forces of the enemy and us according to the intelligence.

However, even so, the purposeful conduct of staff operations is far more active and precise than the kind of ideas and plans made by officers and staff members in the armies of the East and West in this era, and the process of changing from quantitative change to qualitative change has already begun.

It's just that the General Staff Headquarters has been established for several months, although Chen Wen has also simulated the form of staff operations in later military-themed TV dramas, movies, and written records in the martial arts academy, but for these staff officers. This was the first time that a large army had been sent out to rehearse the coming battle. So much so that both ordinary staff officers and Lou Jiye, who already had the rank of assistant commander-in-chief, felt extra nervous

Watching the staff officers under his command, the last two green flags symbolizing the green battalion and the red flag of the Ming army were planted on the sand table. Lou Jiye took a deep breath and began to speak to Chen Wen and the officers present: "Since April 12, our unit set out from Fucheng, and nine days have passed since this moment. The sentinels of the Quzhou Tartars kept in contact with each other after they crossed the control area of Tangxi County, and did not retreat to the west bank of Lingxi until our troops approached the area of Longyou Town. ”

"According to the information obtained by our department before, the Tartars in the direction of Quzhou are currently composed of the standard camp of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, the standard camp of Jinhua Town, and the green camp of Quzhou. All three of them were at war with our ministry last year. Among them, the standard battalion of Jinhua Town belongs to the complete reconstruction, almost no field combat ability, the loss of the Quzhou green battalion is not small, but it can still assist the relatively well-preserved standard battalion to fight, and at present, the real opponent of our department is the standard battalion under the command of the governor of Tartar, Zhejiang and Fujian. But. If there is a long delay, there is also the possibility of reinforcements arriving. ”

As he spoke, Lou Jiye pointed to the sand table with the ruler in his hand and explained: "According to the intelligence, the Tartars stationed the standard camp of Jinhua Town in Longyou County, while the Quzhou Green Camp was fortified along Lingxi to defend it. At this moment, the location of the Inspector Battalion cannot be determined, but it should not be too far, otherwise it will be difficult to become a corner. ”

Hearing this, Wu Dengke and several other higher-ranking officers nodded one after another. The defenders must attack and harass at any time, and the reinforcements must also try to interfere with the layout and rhythm of the enemy's siege, which is the most basic common sense. These officers were forcibly blinded by Chen Wen when they were in Tiantai Mountain, and although the effect was still very bad, they still knew the most basic military knowledge.

As for the fact that Lou Jiye did not mention that the Supervisory Battalion detoured to Chuzhou and appeared on the side of the Ming army, it is actually not impossible, but with the results of last year's battle, the Qing army in Quzhou may not dare to use the Supervisory Battalion to go deep alone, and it is better to be defeated by other armies with cooperation. Wu Dengke has been studying for nearly two years, and he has read some of these things in the military books, and if he doesn't understand, he has also asked Chen Wen and other officers about and communicated. For a deeper level of knowledge, such as the reason for paying attention to "more expensive doors" when guarding the city, and how to use it are very clear, so the results of Lou Jiye's performance at this moment can naturally be easily understood.

"According to the deduction before the dispatch of troops, there may be two possibilities for the deployment of Quzhou Tartars:"

"First, defend the Dragon Tour, fortify along Lingxi, if our troops can't break through, continue to consume, and send reinforcements or surround Wei from other directions to rescue Zhao; If our troops break through Lingxi, they will divide their troops to harass outside Longyou County and interfere with our siege in order to wait for reinforcements to arrive. ”

Second, abandon Longyou County and retreat to Quzhou. Quzhou is located in the key point, the city defense is very strong according to the intelligence, when the king of Kaiping attacked Quzhou and still has a long time to attack. If we divide our troops to harass outside the city, our troops will easily lose their ground. ”

Speaking of the results of the Qing army's deployment shown in the intelligence, I only heard Lou Jiye draw a decisive end to the deduction: "From the current intelligence, the Tartars obviously chose the first strategy, which is intended to fight a decisive battle with Wang Shi in Longyou County!" (To be continued.) )