"Zhu Daichun, the temporary commander of the fifth battalion. ◎Bungakukan www.xstxt.org◎"

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"Zhao Xuan, the instructor of the fifth battalion of the provisional formation."

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"Zhong Caisheng, deputy commander of the fifth battalion!" ……

"Zhong Caisheng!"

There was silence for a moment in the combat conference room of the General Military Mansion, and Zhu Daichun whispered to Chen Xin: "My lord, Deputy Battalion Officer Zhong went out to drink while on standby, and was discovered by the military justice corps to calm down the soldiers, and is currently in confinement in the military justice corps for two days, well, this, will not come out until tomorrow." ”

Chen Xin asked, "The Department of Military Justice didn't say how to punish it?" ”

"Confinement for two days, 20 military sticks, Judge Nie Zongjun believes that he has repeatedly taught and refused, and he also needs to withhold half a year's monthly salary and pension."

Chen Xin nodded and didn't say anything. Wang Mafu continued to roll call, and only Zhong Laosi did not arrive after the finish.

Liu Minyou, who was next to him, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "This Zhong Laosi, do you really plan to promote him?" When training troops from Weihai, it was a thorn. ”

Chen Xin smiled and did not answer. Facing the people in the conference room: "What I want to talk about today is the matter of the Liukou, these people are not the original thieves now, they have attacked the county many times in Shanxi, and even have a record of using artillery, almost every county south of Taiyuan is broken." The tactics of its wandering and plundering decided that they would look for new rich areas to continue to loot and supply what they needed, and the north of Taiyuan Mansion was close to the Xuanda Border Army, and they did not dare to go, and there were three elite Shaanxi sides in the direction of Shaanxi to the west, so the direction of the flow was only left to the east and south, and the military department gave us Zafu to Baoding Mansion. ”

Wang Mafu picked up the bamboo branch on the table and pointed at the map hanging high, "The Liukou is called the 36th Battalion, but in fact, the size is more than that, and the main area is currently in the south of Taiyuan Mansion. Shanxi has been suffering from drought for many years, and the places where the Liukou pass through are portable and wrapped. All the prisoners in the official office were issued with clothes and guns, and the people in various places responded to the chaos like a cloud, and the total number should be more than 200,000. There are not many elites, all of them are horsemen, and the logistics are all looted along the road by coercions, and the places they pass are looted, like locusts crossing the border, and when they arrive, they first ask for food, grass, horses, and mules. The women were bound to the courtyard day and night to commit adultery. ”

Zhu Daichun recorded carefully, frowned when he heard this, raised his hand and asked, "Do you know the number of their elite horsemen?" ”

Wang Mafu shook his head. "This is not easy to know, but after the thieves entered Shanxi, there were many bandits and bandits along the way, many of whom were the border troops of Shanxi Town that were defeated in the battle of Jisi, and there should be some border troops in Ningxia and Yansui Town, and these people are the main source of elite horsemen."

Zhu Daichun silently wrote it down, and Zhou Shifa, who was sitting at the bottom, added: "There are still many bandits in Shanxi who are border troops who aided Liao in the early years. They fled back from Liaodong, but they did not dare to return to their hometowns, and the grass fell the most in Shanxi, and the combat skills of these people were not comparable to those of simple refugees. It is said that many of them have been thrown into the thieves. ”

Wang Mafu waited for Zhou Shifa to finish adding, and continued: "The strongest of the thieves, headed by Zijin Liang, this person is called Wang Ziyong. A native of Suide, Shaanxi, he was originally Wang Jiayin's right army division. slipped through the net in the battle to eliminate Wang Jiayin. The second is to break the king, break the general, the eight kings, the old return, break the sky and other departments, its field battle is difficult to be a big array, but the most like to use deceit, siege often use internal response. There must be no negligence when confronting these rogues, and the marches and pursuits must be strictly followed. The soldiers and horses of the imperial court on our side are mainly Cao Wenzhao, the chief soldier of Lintao, Zhang Yingchang, the chief soldier of Shanxi Town, Zuo Liangyu, the deputy chief soldier of Changping, Deng Xi, the chief soldier of the Sichuan army, Liang Fu, the chief soldier of Baoding, Ai Wannian, the deputy general of Yansui, He Renlong and other departments. ”

"This time, the imperial court transferred me to Dengzhou Town to send troops, and my town is ready to send the provisional fifth battalion to go, Lord Chen is ready to personally lead the troops, and the baggage corps, special service team, Chinese army reconnaissance cavalry team, various departments under the Chinese military department and the intelligence bureau need to send people to accompany them."

Chen Xin interjected, "Including the Department of Foreign Affairs." ”

The chiefs of the departments who participated in the meeting hurriedly recorded, and some divisions originally thought that they had nothing to do with them, so they didn't know that they also had to transfer people.

Chen Xin stood up and said to everyone: "This operation is different from the past, the combat area is wide, far beyond the past, from Pingdingzhou in the north, to Huaiqing Mansion in the south, across Shanxi, Henan, and Zhili in the north, there are both plains, and there are thousands of miles of Taihang Mountain and Wangwu Mountain, the battlefield environment is far more complex than before, the fifth battalion is a new battalion head, but the officer said don't be afraid, no matter how old the old thief is, he is just a thief, and our new recruits are also a soldier, no soldier is afraid of thieves, our fifth battalion, not only to fight, but also to fight stronger and stronger." The following is the aspect of civil affairs cooperation, please deploy it to Lord Liu. ”

After Chen Xin finished speaking, he sat down and made a gesture of invitation to Liu Minyou, Liu Minyou coughed, and then said to the people on the side of the civil affairs: "The civil affairs departments also dispatch people to accompany them, mainly those who are proficient in cantonment affairs and water conservancy. In addition, it is the stronghold of the trading company, and at present it is necessary to continue to expand in the two places in Kaifeng and Luoyang, and two branches need to be established in the area south of the Taihang Mountains and north of the Yellow River, and all the merchants in Zhongzhou must deal in grain, and they would rather give up part of the profits of other commodities to the local officials, but also ensure that they have a foothold in the local area, and they must ensure that the treasury has more than 3,000 stone of grain at any time, and the performance of the semicolons in Henan and the south of Beizhili should be evaluated with grain as the first and profits as the second............

After the meeting, Chen Xin left Zhu Daichun and Zhou Shifa alone, and took Zhu Daichun to the study first.

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Xin smiled and said, "Dai Chun, after this time, I plan to let you lead the troops in the future, are you willing?" ”

"Subordinates obey the orders of adults." Zhu Daichun bowed and said with a smile, "I myself have some desire to lead the troops, thank you for giving your subordinates this opportunity." ”

"You were originally the leader of the troops, when we were only a few dozen people, you were a captain, and you have been learning things all these years, and being a battalion officer is a proper duty. This opportunity is born in hard work, I heard that you are still learning the accelerated cavalry subject recently, if you don't do well on weekdays, the opportunity will not run by itself, and every bit of effort behind it may not be known on weekdays, but when it is shown in front of people one day, it will give you double the reward. ”

Zhu Daichun was a little proud when he heard this, he could be so praised by Chen Xin, he felt that his efforts over the years had not been in vain. From the time of Wenden, he was transferred out of the first line. Specially responsible for the training of recruits and reserves, the peasant soldiers are also planned by Chen Xin, established by Zhu Daichun, and the mandarin duck formation, phalanx, artillery, etc., have also matured step by step through his hands. At present, nearly 100 tunpu and workshops have basically established peasant and soldier companies, which are under the jurisdiction of 30 mobilization headquarters, and when the tunpu manpower is fully manned, he can mobilize more than 20,000 reserve soldiers at a time. These reservists usually have drills, every once in a while. He will take turns to strengthen training at the three training bases, and the huge preparation system of Dengzhou Town has his great contribution.

Even in such a busy situation, he also took the time to go to the Martial Arts Cavalry Department to learn cavalry tactics quickly and make up for this shortcoming. In fact, I also have the intention of competing with others in my heart, and now I have finally got enough rewards.

Zhu Daichun stood up a little excitedly, Chen Xin hurriedly waved his hand to let him sit down, and said to him with a smile: "Actually, you don't need to thank me, the mobilization department is at the same level as the battalion officer, but now it's just a flat adjustment, and it is a harder place to say." I just said at the meeting. The fifth battalion will become stronger and stronger, it is not an empty word, Zhongzhou and Denglai are thousands of miles apart, even if they land from the Grand Canal. It also needs to walk a few hundred miles, and it is difficult to get direct support from our town headquarters, and the area of this battle is at the junction of Henan and Shanxi, where the shape is complicated. There are both local officers and soldiers, guest soldiers, and bandits. The gentry in the countryside often form a village to protect themselves, which is quite powerful. As soon as the rogue comes, it will break the old pattern of the local area, and the more complicated the place, the more opportunities. ”

Chen Xin paused when he said this, and then thought about the wording before saying: "Our Dengzhou Town needs a foothold in the Central Plains, more because of ...... We need manpower to ensure the interests of the trading companies in the Central Plains, otherwise our military salaries will not be so sufficient. ”

After listening to this, Zhu Daichun raised his eyes and peeked at Chen Xin, and then said respectfully: "The last general only listens to the words of the adults, anyway, where the adults let the last general fight, the last general will fight." ”

Chen Xin nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, there are some things that need not be said to be too clear, but Zhu Daichun obviously understands now.

"This time I will personally lead the troops to go, after gaining a foothold in the Central Plains, I will return to Denglai, you will stay in the local area, we will not only send troops to fight in turns, but also recruit qualified homeless people on the spot to train into an army, and operate a certain amount of tuntian and business in the local area, so as to reduce the supply pressure of Denglai, the trading company can speak locally, otherwise, just like Linqing, it will be oppressed by those gentry and princes."

Zhu Daichun's eyes rolled twice, Chen Xin seemed to mean to build a small Dengzhou town in the Central Plains, as a support point for the expeditionary force, he replied in a low voice: "My subordinates understand." ”

"After the bandits are rampant, there will be a lot of ownerless land in the local area, and they will occupy it."

"My lord, in case the government asks......"

"As for how to deal with the local government, it's a matter for the Department of Foreign Affairs, and they will know how to deal with it. What you have to do is to establish a common anti-thief village in Henan, and at the same time recruit local good families and homeless people for training, this is your old business, there should be no one more suitable than you, and it is also one of the reasons why this officer appointed you as the commander of the fifth battalion. ”

Zhu Daichun agreed in a low voice, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that now the influence of the imperial court in Dengzhou Town is almost non-existent, and even the seats of the meeting are sorted by internal positions, and the internal documents never write the official positions of the imperial court. Just like this fifth battalion, some people in the upper echelons know that it is called the regimental training battalion, but the lower soldiers have never heard of it at all, and only know that it is the fifth battalion in Dengzhou Town.

And the battalion official of the imperial court is Liu Minyou, and the internal is Zhu Daichun, and Liu Minyou just hangs a sheep's head. And Dengzhou town every day there are instructors to educate the soldiers, everyone has a kind of arrogance, the instructors often call the name of the ministry when they speak, the soldiers imperceptibly do not take the civilian officials more and more seriously, the military order department often analyzes the defeats in the Apocalypse year one by one, and criticizes the civil and military officials in command, the image of the civilian officials has long been broken.

Zhu Daichun didn't know what Chen Xin was going to do, but he knew that he could only follow Chen Xin, and Chen Xin recruited him to make his attitude clear, and at this time he had already achieved his goal, and after talking for a while, he asked Zhu Daichun to go back and prepare, and recruited Zhou Shifa to come in.

Chen Xin didn't have any politeness to Zhou Shifa, and when he sat down, he said directly: "The people from the intelligence bureau should go ahead, in the past, the Central Plains region was a blank for us, only the trading company inquired about some hearsay things, and there are three places that should immediately start to establish special intelligence stations, namely Luoyang, Kaifeng, and Nanyang." ”

When Zhou Shifa heard this, he said tentatively: "Do you want to insert the inner city or ......?"

Chen Xin turned his head and glared at him, "What is the destruction of the city, these places are to inquire and analyze intelligence, and to carry out some small-scale operations, there is no need to break the city." In addition, the Shanxi distribution plan reported last time, you missed a place. ”

"Please give me advice"

"Zhangjiakou."