Chapter 59: Reflection
After sending Lu Yuding away, Chen Wen reintegrated into the busy work, and the daily work was arranged by Zhou Jingting in an orderly manner, when to preside over the sacrifice, when to preside over the work of the Huaxia Revival Association, when to meet with the subordinates who came to report on their work, and when to return to those who resisted the Qing Dynasty. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info All in all, except for eating, sleeping, and, Chen Wen has no private time every day.
Sometimes, Chen Wen even thought viciously that the reason why Zhou Jingting, the "office director and secretary", arranged the work so intensively for him, was that he already knew about the little sister of the Zhou family that day. Therefore, this guy who has always protected his calves, the last time Chen Wen was in Quzhou, he dared to express his dissatisfaction with the boss just by looking at his sister twice, sincerely arranged things so intensively, so as to prevent Chen Wen from having leisure time to "harass" his precious sister again.
Putting aside these reveries, Chen Wen presided over the sacrifice work of the Martyrs' Shrine in the morning, Chen Wen was very uncomfortable looking at more and more tablets, but he also knew that today's sacrifice was better than the darkness of the next three hundred years.
After leaving the Martyrs' Shrine, Chen Wen returned to the Hou Mansion to continue his work. According to the plan, this afternoon I will meet with several officers who have returned to report on their work or who have taken up their posts before the end of the year, including the guerrilla general Lin Zhongxiao, the commander of the Anwar Town Fort who guarded the rear road for the army in this year's war.
Due to the rapid expansion of the occupied area, the original Jinhua town has evolved into three towns: Jinhua, Quzhou and Chuzhou, and Chen Wen has been given the name of the military governor of the three provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Jiangxi, so he directly appointed the commander-in-chief of the three towns.
According to the appointments issued, Yin Yue, the former chief soldier of Jinhua Town regimental training, was promoted to the chief soldier of Jinhua Town, Li Ruixin, the commander of the Nantang Battalion of the former Jinhua Town regimental training commander, was appointed as the chief officer of Quzhou Town, and Wu Dengke, the commander of the Yiwu Battalion, the former chief soldier of Jinhua Town, was appointed as the chief soldier of Chuzhou Town.
These three towns are currently the largest military units in the Ming army occupied by the Ming army in Zhejiang. Jinhua is the nest of this army, and most of the military achievements of the officers and men in the army are here, and Yin Yue, who has always been in charge of the defense of the northern front, is in charge of it. Quzhou is Chen Wen's next direction of using troops, and Li Ruixin, who has always been known for his martial bravery, is in charge to better exert his attacking instincts; As for Chuzhou, although it was Chen Guobao who regained Chuzhou, Chen Wen still gave Wu Dengke the post of chief soldier of this town, and he was responsible for the defense there.
This is not a matter of seniority, nor is it a matter of trust, because Chen Guobao has a more important task, that is, to replace Yin Yue in charge of the defense of the northern front.
The focus of the defense of the northern front lies in the narrow strip from Anhua Town to Zhengjiawu Town, and the core idea of defense is to use the fortress of Anhua Town to block the main road, and use the artillery on the fortress to control the river surface and road, so that the Qing army cannot pass smoothly, and the army behind the flank should play a diversion role.
In this year's war, the Qing army has a strong force, and it is the elite of Hangzhou, Yin Yue is responsible for the containment work is extremely difficult, but relying on the solidity of the fortress, the Ming army still blocked the Qing army there, effectively supporting the continuous battles in Quzhou.
After the expansion of the army, Chen Wen planned to use the half of the Dongyang battalion as the backbone to expand into a new combat battalion to strengthen the ability to contain the army, and the command of this battalion was assumed by Chen Guobao, who was promoted to the chief soldier of regimental training.
Another hero of the Northern Front, Lin Zhongxiao, the commander of the Anhua Town Fortress, was wounded in the battle in the second half of the year, and according to the evaluation of the injured position and level, it stands to reason that he can no longer be a military general, after all, the two fingers of his right hand were cut off by the fragments of the cannon that exploded, and he could not command the battle with a sword, nor could he beat the drum to cheer and boost morale at a critical moment, let alone replenish the battle formation.
However, Chen Wen admired this officer very much, and was able to continue to drive down the Qing army that had climbed to the top of the city in accordance with the provisions of the fortress guard code when he was wounded, and kept this vital fortress.
"In the end, everything will be arranged by the commander."
After sitting down, Chen Wen first asked about the injury, chatted before asking him what he thought, and finally got this answer.
"Guerrilla Lin, according to the system in the army, your injuries are no longer enough to serve as a commander. To tell you the truth, Ben Shuai admires your work in Anhua Town Fort very much, so he does not plan to let you retire from active duty and go to the guard post below to serve as a guard officer, but wants you to continue to serve in the army. If you have any ideas, you can say them without worrying about them. ”
Because he had served as a pacification soldier by his side, Chen Wen still had a certain understanding of this officer, in fact, this person was not suitable to be the commander of the war barracks, because he was not mobile enough.
"Back to the commander, the last general didn't think about this, but the last general also knew that he was really not suitable as a lone officer, not because of the injury this time, but because of the experience of being the commander of the fortress this year. The performance of the last general in the fortress of Anhua Town is actually very poor, several Tartar sieges, in fact, the last general has the opportunity to inflict greater casualties on the Tartars, but these are all realized by the last general after the battle, and in the battle, the last general only knows how to defend in accordance with the discipline. ”
Lin Zhongxiang said a lot of things, in general, it was very consistent with Chen Wen's understanding of his character, but it was these words that Chen Wen found that this military general had another advantage that he had not discovered before, that is, he knew how to reflect and had some ability to summarize.
Zeng Zi said: "I have three times a day to save my body, and I am not loyal to others? Making friends and not believing them? Are you used to it? ”
Knowing how to reflect, there is the possibility of not going to death on a wrong road, which is a good quality, and Lin Zhongxiao seems to have consciously wanted to go to the path that suits him.
Chen Wen thought for a while, and then said: "Guerrilla Lin, you don't need to be arrogant, your performance in the fortress in Anhua Town is already very good, because the order I gave you is to defend the fortress, and you have done a great job. As for giving more damage to the Tartars, it's just something extra, so don't worry too much about it. ”
Chen Wen knew very well that he and the middle and senior officers under his command were not famous generals like Li Dingguo, who used troops like God, and the reason why he was able to complete this counterattack against the background of the imminent collapse of the anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang, and forced Chen Jin, who single-handedly wiped out all the units of the Ming army in Zhejiang, to death, in addition to his understanding of history, the greater reason was that he re-embarked on the road of China's local military modernization, and continued to walk the road that Qi Jiguang started but was not able to follow.
It is precisely because there is no talent like Li Dingguo, and the vast majority of the officers in the army are also from low-level small people, so Chen Wen has never asked for anything extra from his subordinates, he only needs to be able to do his duty and act according to his orders, and the overall situation is coordinated by him and his staff department of the Marquis of Anyuan's Mansion, who can barely operate even if the parts are so rough that they can't fit tightly.
At present, the area of operation is still relatively small, and some hard and fast regulations can still be effective, but in the future, the size of the army and the scope of operations will be larger, and the requirements for the ability of the generals will be correspondingly increased. With the martial arts academy, the staff teams that will be formed in the various barracks, and most importantly, military modernization, Chen Wen believes that his ordinary generals can have the strength to fight even in the face of famous generals in the sense of the feudal army, because the brute force of the beast of the modern army is too amazing, just like the strong men of human beings cannot compete with the power of heavy machinery.
Regarding Lin Zhongxiao, this general is really not suitable as a commander, nor is he suitable as a staff officer. Chen Wensi thought about it, and weighed it for a long time between the prison officer and the military judge, and then issued an order to let Lin Zhongxiao transfer to the Military Justice Department, which can be regarded as returning to his old profession. And the next task of the former commander of the fortress of Anhua Town is to go to the Zhejiang Martial Arts School to make up for the military law regulations.
After completing the debriefing of several officers, there were officers who were about to serve as battalion supervisors, and there were officers who were about to become garrison commanders, and it was not until dinner that Chen Wen completed today's summons, stretching his waist, Chen Wen thought with bad taste, maybe this time was probably calculated by Zhou Jingting's guy a long time ago.
Once he thought about it like this, Chen Wen suddenly found that he didn't seem to be as tired as he had just now, as if he had complained about the boss vampire and capitalist in his heart when he had a lot of work before.
After resting for a while, Chen Wen began to review the documents after eating a simple dinner, which was regarded as a side dish to accompany the meal. When he had eaten most of it, he suddenly saw a special report, prompting him to send someone to summon the officer who had written the report for a detailed discussion. (To be continued.) )