(Am I going to tell you there's another chapter later?) ）

One of the reasons for Lian Zining's continuous expansion of the army on such a large scale also comes from the deep fear of the Russians in his heart.

In this way, there is only one explanation, the Jurchen commander of the northern land, Wanyan Yeping, is really too strong, and the combat effectiveness of the Jianzhou Jurchen soldiers is also beyond the imagination of ordinary people!

Lian Zining secretly felt a little more jealous in his heart.

"Actually, from the perspective of subordinates." Li Tie pondered for a moment and said, "This incident is not a good thing. ”

"Oh? Good thing? You name it! Lian Zining asked with interest.

"This expedition to the north, although the mark has not traveled with the army, but after the army returned to the division, the performance of the observation of the words and deeds of the generals, and even the news from the soldiers and soldiers, the daily words, marked under the mark are all listened to a lot, and have to be carefully thought about one by one. But some signs were found. Li Tie paused and said: "Maybe it is because this time the army conquered the north, it was too smooth, taking advantage of the fact that the Haixi Jurchen army was out of the air, and when it was caught off guard, it was a lot of generals and even soldiers, and now they all look down on the Jurchens, thinking that they are nothing more than this, but they are just defeated generals under our Wu Yi army." ”

If it were someone else, I was afraid that I would feel that this was not to be heard, but Lian Zining naturally didn't take it to heart, and he smiled slightly: "Then you say, what should I do?" ”

Li Tiedao: "Under the mark, I think that the whole army should be told so that everyone knows that the enemy should not be despised . In fact, this battle of the White Eagle Gorge. We don't have any losses, the two sides can be called a draw, if we can give the armies a wake-up call like this, it is better than a fiasco. ”

Lian Zining nodded and praised: "What you said makes sense. ”

He raised his voice and said, "Someone! ”

The guard outside the door pushed the door in response, and saluted with crossed hands: "Your Excellency's command!" ”

Lian Zining shook the piece of paper in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Take this piece of paper." Go to the Propaganda Department, give this piece of paper to Wang Chunxian, and tell him a few words. ”

Lian Zining paused. Said: "Tell him that the battle of Baiying Gorge has begun, and the Jurchens have attacked." Our army underestimated the enemy, but fortunately, the general commanded properly, and the three armies worked hard with their lives, but the enemy attacked the city without success, and since retreating, our army suffered heavy losses. If you tell Wang Chunxian and let him publicize this matter in the army, it will have the following effects: First. It is necessary to make the whole army vigilant, and no longer be careless about the Jianzhou Jurchens, and pay attention to it! Second, it is necessary to arouse the hatred of the whole army and the hatred of the enemy, and everyone should fight bravely! That's all there is to it. Tell him, I want to see what he's capable of!" If you can't do it, let him hang the seal and get out! ”

"Yes, my lord, it's all written down!" As Lian Zining's guard, in addition to martial arts is high enough. In addition to not being afraid of death and being loyal enough, it is also necessary to have a good memory, because he often has to go everywhere for Lian Zining to spread the word, he can basically remember it after listening to it once.

After the guard went, Lian Zining sighed and said, "Nalan Jiancheng is this person, not to be underestimated!" ”

Li Tie nodded and replied: "It is already a wise plan to send someone to go up the mountain from a trail and then descend from the cliff with a rope." ”

He suddenly said: "My lord, do you want to reply to Baiying Gorge, if so, mark it and arrange it." ”

Because of the characteristics of the pigeon, it is possible to transmit from the Jurchen Khan's court to the White Eagle Gorge, and from the White Eagle Gorge to the Zhenyuan Mansion, but this is a one-way street, and if you want to give an order to the White Eagle Gorge from the Zhenyuan Mansion, you can only rely on manpower to go quickly.

"Well, you don't have to worry about it." Lian Zining glanced at him lightly.

Li Tie was suddenly startled, and suddenly found that his hand seemed to be a little deeper, so he hurriedly bowed his waist and said respectfully: "Yes, the mark is reckless." ”…,

Even Zining didn't pursue it, but he also knew that Li Tie had such a reaction, and it was not surprising, because he had been handing over some important and secret tasks to MI6 these days, which also led to Li Tie being used to taking over any task, but he couldn't blame him.

He suddenly felt that his Wu Yi Army seemed to be hierarchical and orderly, but in fact it was a little disorderly and chaotic in management, which was not to say that the level of Wu Yi Army was not perfect, in fact, on the contrary, Wu Yi Army had six functional departments in the center, such as the Recruit Department, the Logistics Department, the Pro-Barracks, the Ordnance Bureau, and the Military Intelligence Department, and below, it was set up by the guards, thousands of households, hundreds of households and other hierarchical institutions, not only not chaotic, but quite orderly, orders can be conveyed quickly, and the execution is also very strong!

But the problem is that Wu Yijun lacks a functional organization necessary for an army, and this department is usually called the General Staff Department in later generations, and in this era, it is often represented by the names of the Military Department, the Military Aircraft Department, the Military Department, the General Conference, and so on.

The General Staff Department commands the overall situation, formulates battle plans, issues battle orders, and even appoints generals, and is the most core department of an army, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the brain.

For an army as large as Wu Yijun, with hundreds of thousands of people, it must have at least a general staff of about 1,000 people to operate perfectly, but the current situation is that Lian Zining is the General Staff, and the General Staff is Lian Zining. He did all the work alone.

He even led his troops directly into battle.

Wu Yijun's huge army of more than a dozen guards, this is a combat unit, the recruit department, the logistics department, the ordnance bureau, these are functional departments, and even the Lian chaebol related to Wu Yijun, Lian Zining's name as General Songhuajiang, and so on, all have a common maintenance point - that is Lian Zining!

To put it mildly, once Lian Zining died, Wu Yijun would immediately fall apart, and if the General Staff was there, he might be able to maintain it for a few months by inertia.

This is also the reason why Lian Zining did not set up a general staff headquarters -- Anyway, I can do the work you can do alone, and you can't do what I can't do, so what do I want you to do? In essence, people with great ambitions like Lian Zining also have thoughts that after my death, no matter how much the flood will be monstrous. Therefore, in his opinion, the General Staff is even more dispensable.

But now, after Lian Zining touched his heartstrings at this moment, he realized that the establishment of such a department as the General Staff Department was an imminent matter, even from the point of view of decentralization and sorting out chaos. It is also necessary.

Lian Zining thought for a while, and gradually had some outlines in his heart, so he casually wrote it down on the paper on the side and put it in the drawer.

He glanced at Li Tie. said lightly: "Yang Husheng and Xia Zikai are both guilty of pleasing, but I think this time, it's not their sin." It was Nalan who built this strategy. It's really unthinkable, this battle, although it was caught off guard at the beginning, but Xia Zikai defended the city to the death, inspired the soldiers in the battle, and gave a large number of rewards, Yang Husheng responded to the situation and broke the rebels, and his performance was remarkable. Especially Yang Husheng, smart! If the 10,000 people are not released. It is said that the dog jumps under the wall in a hurry, but the battle is extraordinarily effective, so it is necessary to cooperate with the inside and outside, and work with the Jianzhou Jurchens outside the city to break through this White Eagle Gorge! Even if it's a hold. We also suffered heavy losses on our side, but we lost slave rebels over there. But Yang Husheng did this, not only killed and injured many Jianzhou Jurchens, but also threw those slave soldiers to the Jianzhou Jurchens for disposal. Hmph, those slave soldiers have poor combat effectiveness and low morale. is even more war-weary, no weapons, no armor, these 10,000 people are a hot potato, I see how Nalan will clean up! I can't say that I'm already regretting taking over now. These 10,000 slave soldiers are a great drag! ”…,

"Nothing!" Lian Zining sneered: "Nalan Jiancheng took advantage of this big one this time, but he couldn't spare him, he had to make him suffer a little, only to know that not everyone can be offended!" ”

He sneered, looked down and wrote a few lines on the paper.

Li Tie regretted his loss of words just now, and now he also knew that he shouldn't be staying here, and when he saw Lian Zining finish writing, he said goodbye.

Lian Zining nodded and said, "The pigeon is standing over there, pay close attention to it, and report it immediately as soon as there is a war in the north." ”

Li Tie hurriedly responded, and was about to leave, when Lian Zining suddenly asked: "Chen Dakang's only son, Chen Tong, is he now on an errand in the barracks?" ”

Li Tieying said: "That's right, now he is the thirteenth hundredth household officer of the dragoon under the pro-military battalion. ”

"Wind Reviews?" Lian Zining asked again.

"Not bad. This person came to Zhenyuan Mansion in March, and on the seventh day of the first month of March, he was personally handled by Shi Dazhu Zhenfu, joined the dragoon, accompanied the expedition to the north, and beheaded more than 30 people. Speaking of these, Li Tie can be said to be a treasure and very detailed.

Lian Zining nodded, Li Tie has always spoken cautiously, and he can get a comment that he is doing things properly, which shows that this Chen Tong is not bad. Because of Chen Dakang's relationship, Lian Zining also wanted him to show some face.

He waved his hand: "Go, call Chen Tong over by the way." ”

Li Tie left in response.

After a while, Chen Tong pushed the door in, crossed his hands and saluted: "I've seen adults under the mark!" ”

"Hmm." Lian Zining nodded: "I called you over this time, I have something important to order." ”

He shook the paper in his hand: "Take this down, put it in an envelope, seal it with fire paint, and bring a small flag to send this letter to Yang Husheng in Baiying Gorge." ”

"Yes, sir!" Chen Tong was overjoyed, knowing that this was his uncle's intention. The work of sending a letter takes a long time and is less dangerous, which can be said to be relatively easy, but the credit is not small, and it is also a stroke of seniority.

Lian Zining explained: "In addition, after seeing Yang Husheng, send me a message, just say, Yang Husheng did a good job, although Xia Zikai has some omissions, but the emergency response is also passable, you two, there is no fault, why bother to ask for guilt?" Fight hard, see what the letter says, and let Nalan Jiancheng suffer a dark loss! ”

Chen Tong secretly muttered to himself a few times in his heart, and said, "My lord, mark it and remember!" ”

Lian Zining waved his hand: "Go!" ”

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It's about four watches now, the sky is dark, it's not very good today, the moon is hidden behind the dark clouds in the sky, there are not even a few stars, and there is a few faint lights flashing in the sky.

The black stretched out his hand and couldn't see his five fingers, and the cold wind of late autumn came from the north, swirling in the air, and it was already very cold.

Ha sighed, it was already possible to get out of the fog.

In this kind of weather, it is not even suitable to kill people and set fires, and it is only suitable for sleeping at home.

On the tower of the city gate of the Zhimen in the west of Beijing. There are a few dead wind lanterns, swaying in the howling wind, emitting the entrusted light, that is, illuminating the palm-sized realm.

Xizhimen has some origins, it is the Yuan Dynasty to the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty Kublai Khan in the old city of Jinzhong in the northeast of the old city of Jinzhong when the construction of the new city began to build, in the Yuan Dynasty Xizhimen was called Heyi Gate, is the sister door of Dongzhimen. Liu Bingzhong is the chief designer of Xizhimen, and Guo Shoujing is responsible for the design of the water source. The ideal layout design and construction of the imperial capital in the examination of the work. It was completed in the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the winter of the eighteenth year of Yuan Zhizheng, when the peasant uprising was in full swing at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuan Shun attacked the city to prevent the peasant rebel army. He ordered the construction of the urn fortress of the eleven gates, including the Wayi Gate, and the suspension bridge of the moat outside the city. In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the general Xu Da led the army to capture the city of Beijing, in order to prevent the counterattack of the Northern Yuan, he ordered Hua Yunlong to renovate and Yimen and the nearby city wall, Yongle 17 years again after repairing and renamed Xizhimen, the first year of Ming Dynasty orthodoxy Ming Yingzong ordered the eunuch Ruan An and other eunuchs to supervise the repair of the Jingshi Jiumen City Tower, the orthodox four years were completed, the original door hole of the Yimen was used during the construction, the original urn city was pressed under the newly built urn city, it can be said that it is quite clever. …,

However, it is estimated that it is not very strong - twenty-five years of Zhengde. The strong wind destroyed the Xizhimen Tower, although the wind in Beijing City was strong enough, but it was not so big, and the dignified city tower was not waiting for the enemy to come, and it was able to be blown across by the strong wind. Its quality is also visible, this matter has been passed on as a laughing stock among the people, and from time to time there are literati who write this matter into the book, pinpoint the disadvantages of the times, and take it out to sneer at it.

Because of this, Emperor Zhengde was furious. It's just that the officials and craftsmen who were responsible for rebuilding the city wall in the orthodox year have all died after all these years, and I am afraid that even the bones are rotten, and he really has no place to vent his anger. However, this master who is so happy with his achievements happened to take advantage of this reason to order the rebuilding of the Ming City Wall and the Nine Gates!

In order to rebuild the city of Beijing. Specially set up a division of the Yamen for the second product, the Ministry of Industry and Shangshu both, from Shandong, North Zhili, Henan, Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang Zhubu political envoy Si Minfu 1.3 million, day and night work, life and death of 300,000 people, it took five years, with Oh Zhengde 30 years of the first day of the first month, before it was all completed.

The scope of the whole Beijing city, vigorously expanded outward, the east wall and the west wall, each extended five miles outward, the east and west lengths reached twenty-three miles and one hundred and fifty zhang, the north and south walls each expanded three miles outward, the width of the north and south reached sixteen miles and fifty zhang, around eighty miles, built nine gates, respectively: due south for Zhengyang Gate, left Chongwen Gate, right Xuanwu Gate; The south of the east is Chaoyang Gate, and the north is Dongzhi Gate; The south of the west is the Fucheng Gate, and the north is the Xizhi Gate; The east of the north is Anding Gate, and the west is Desheng Gate.

According to the standards of later generations, its total area has reached nearly 90 square kilometers, second only to Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty, and it is the second largest city among all the cities in the land of China throughout the ages.

Xizhimen is an important town in Beijing, one of the most important gates, it is also quite attentive when it is built, the height of the city wall is only inferior to Zhengyang Gate, up to nine zhang six feet six, the city tower is five floors, plus the city tower, it is as high as sixteen zhang Xu.

It's just such an important gate, but there is not a ghost shadow on the city wall, it is empty, but inside the city tower, there is a burst of noise and laughter from time to time.

The soldiers who wanted to come to guard the city gate were all having fun in the tower.

This is also a normal thing, Beijing Chengping has been peaceful for a long time, except for the orthodox years have been patronized by the Wara Tartars, it has been more than 100 years have not seen the enemy, the original Yongle Emperor set the capital of Beijing, in order to be the Son of Heaven to guard the country, but as the imperial capital, you can't let people come over to play in three days, right?

Now in the north of the Ming Dynasty from Gansu Town to Liaodong Town, an important town on the nine sides, more than 100,000 soldiers guarded this defense line tightly, and Beijing City, in this era, can be said to be worry-free.

It is because the vigilance of the soldiers defending the city is extremely low, which is naturally a matter of course.

What's more, the people who are guarding Beijing City now are no longer the Beijing army that followed Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle to fight on the battlefield.

When Taizu of the Ming Dynasty set up the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to control the Chinese and foreign armies, the capital was placed inside and outside the large and small two fields, and 48 guards were taught. After Chengzu moved north, it was increased to seventy-two guards, which was also the largest time in the history of the entire Beijing camp.

This is the Beijing camp, which is also known as the three major battalions, namely the five military battalions, the three thousand battalions and the Shenji battalion.

In the eighth year of Yongle, the infantry cavalry army was the middle army, with left and right folds and left and right posts, called the five armies. In addition to the Beijing Guard, every year, 160,000 soldiers from Zhongdu, Shandong, Henan, and Daning are dispatched to Beijing for training, which is called the squad army. This is the five military camps. In addition, there are also 12 battalions of the officers and soldiers of the cavalry team, the camp of the encirclers who are in charge of the training of the Shangzhi fork knife hand and the officers and soldiers of the Jingwei Infantry team, and the battalions of the young officials and the people who are loyal and righteous. The Fifth Army Battalion is the main force of the Beijing Army, the largest in scale and the largest number of soldiers.

The 3,000 battalion consisted of 3,000 cavalry, divided into five divisions, which were in charge of the emperor's flag, public uniforms, soldiers' golden drums, and imperial treasures. The Shenji Battalion, because of the use of troops to hand over the address, which is now called Annam, obtained the firearms law, and established a camp to learn the name, which is also divided into the middle army, left and right, left and right posts. The Chinese army is divided into four divisions, and three divisions are set up in each of the sentry and sentry posts, and they are in charge of firearms such as guns and artillery. There are also 5,000 battalions attached to the battalion, which are in charge of firearms and accompanying escort horse officers. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )