At the end of March, the grass warbler flies in Liaodong, and the Phi Island and other places at the northern end have been frozen, and the four wild fields of Jinzhou, which is at the southernmost tip of Liaodong, are flourishing, revealing a strong chūn meaning

Chen Xin led the guards back from Jinzhou, this time it was not as urgent as the last time, the road was very slow, and there was an opportunity to pay attention to the scene along the way, and saw that there were many villages of the Liao people in the past, which were burned by Jiannu in the previous confrontations, and now they have been swallowed up by barren grass.

When passing through Nanguanling, there are already thousands of Lushun auxiliaries here in repairing the original Nanguan fortress, here is thirty-five miles away from Jinzhou, about ninety miles away from Lushun, five miles away from the sea, the east and west sides are hilly terrain, Nanguan is just in the plain land among them, the field of vision is very broad.

Here in the Song Dynasty is the important place in the east of Liao, the entrance to the sea of the Khitan people of the Liao country is selected in Dalian Bay, in order to protect the sea mouth, the first section of the Great Wall of the Liao country was built here, called Hasihan Pass. By this time in the late Ming Dynasty, the original city wall had disappeared, and the name was changed to Nanguan, because it was about thirty miles away from Jinzhou, and it was also called South Thirty Miles.

After the fall of Liaodong, the Dongjiang army once built a fortress here, but before it was repaired, it was conquered by Mang Gurtai to conquer Lushun, and the southern pass could not be held, and it was also demolished by the Houjin soldiers.

Now that the Wendeng battalion wants to run southern Liaoning, this is the place where it must be laid out, and Chen Xin immediately sent auxiliary troops to repair it after stabilizing Jinzhou. It was mainly used as a second-echelon cavalry station, and the surrounding barren and grassy fields were just a source of material for the cavalry.

However, Chen Xin didn't plan to make it too strong, he only needed to prevent the opponent's cavalry from raiding, and if necessary, rely on this to cover the withdrawal of Jinzhou's troops. After the Nanguan fortress is built, the auxiliary soldiers will also build some forts around it. and digging long trenches where a large number of cavalry could pass.

Lushun is the place where Chen Xin needs to focus on deployment, before the expansion of the army is completed. The total strength of Liaonan will not exceed four thousand people. At present, the total strength of the Wendeng battalion is 7,000, and a certain garrison must be maintained in Dengzhou and Wendeng to deter the local gentry and other Ming troops.

The more than 3,000 garrisons included a cavalry battalion, the 2,000 headquarters, the 4,000 headquarters, and a temporary auxiliary battalion. The 4,000th headquarters will be converted into the 1,000th Mounted Infantry Headquarters, which will be transferred from the reserve battalion to the cavalry battalion.

Chen Xin camped in Nanguan, and Liu Pojun, who accompanied him, did the work of ordinary staff officers, and brought a few new staff officers from the literacy class to draw a map of the vicinity of Nanguan, and the tools they used were similar to those of artillery, and they could roughly measure the height and length of the mountain peaks. Delineated on the map with contour lines, and rivers and roads indicated, the jīng degree far exceeds that of previous maps of the Ming army.

Chen Xin led Zhu Guobin to check near the Nanguan River, this small river does not flow much, but there is no problem in supplying a thousand headquarters, and this river flows eastward into the Liaohai Sea, so that there is a natural barrier in the east of Nanguan, even if the cavalry can pass through the Guò, their logistics vehicles and horses will not be able to pass.

Chen Xin pointed to the open east. "Build three trenches along the river here, if a small group of Jiannu cavalry wants to sneak through, the cavalry in the South Pass will give them a side attack."

Zhu Guobin agreed: "Nanguan is very good here, and there is no change in the surroundings at a glance. I'm going to build a simple pier on the east side of the sea. This sè can be transported directly from Dengzhou to the wharf, and then loaded into a small boat to haul here, which is very convenient. There are more than ten miles of fertile fields to the south of this pass. When our army is trained, we can expand Jinzhou or Nanguan. Here can also be tuntian, when invincible. ”

Chen Xin nodded. Da Linghe has surrendered, Huang Taiji withstood the winter with firm determination, after eliminating the main force of Liaozhen, some of the Houjin soldiers have withdrawn to Liaodong, Zu Dashou still killed He Kegang like history, and took advantage of Huang Taiji's greed to take Jinzhou lightly, and gave Huang Taiji a plan to break through into Jinzhou by himself.

Zu Dashou is indeed very good at pondering Huang Taiji's thoughts, and this strategy is something that Huang Taiji can't refuse. Losing Zu Dashou is just losing a general, and if you can easily take Jinzhou, the benefits are very huge.

Huang Taiji quickly agreed, but detained Zu Dashou's eldest son and nephew, as well as a number of generals who could be related to each other, in order to coerce Zu Dashou as hostages. He originally thought that he would be nine out of ten, but as soon as the young master Zu arrived in Jinzhou, he rebelled, threw his son, nephew, and a number of generals away, and returned to Daming.

Huang Taiji waited for a few rì in the Daling River, knowing that Zu Dashou had mostly run away, and he had fallen into a small trap again, but he, like the Liu Xingzuo incident back then, did not seal the retreat, leaving a group of Zu Dashou's relatives to lead the "" Houjin soldiers to retreat to Liaodong one after another, and they could still catch up with this year's chūn wheat cultivation. However, according to Chen Xin's own judgment, the Houjin soldiers are sleepy and lacking, once the mobilization state is lifted, it will be difficult for them to organize a large-scale sortie this year, as long as the Houjin soldiers do not come from the whole division, they can rely on the stronghold between Jinzhou and Lushun to take the initiative to defend, and it should be possible to deal with thousands of Houjin soldiers.

"Guobin, you have to do your best to train new cavalry, this officer will transfer half of the men and horses from the Chinese army sentry cavalry to the cavalry battalion, plus the cavalry infantry department, your cavalry battalion will be fully equipped. After the training was completed, they could quickly attack Fuzhou, disturb their tuntian and supplies, force Jiannu to increase investment, and drag down their mobilization ability. ”

Zhu Guobin agreed: "My subordinates understand, it's just that the sentry cavalry has lost dozens of people this time, and it is not so easy to practice for a while, and there are still some in the Kong Youde Department captured in Dengzhou, I don't know if I can transfer it to replenish." ”

Chen Xin didn't express his position immediately, and slowly led the way in front, Zhu Guobin was familiar with his habits, knew that he was thinking about things, and followed honestly. The two walked up a hill, Chen Xin looked up and looked south, the Hengshan mountain range was vertical and horizontal, and the distance was verdant.

Only then did he say: "These soldiers robbed all the way, and followed Kong Youde to taste a lot of sweetness, and now Kong Youde is in Gaizhou, in case they escape and take refuge, it will expose our deployment." These people have the ability to be a ranger, but it is useless to use it for the time being, so they still stay in Wendeng to open up the wasteland and wear off their anger. The matter of the sentry cavalry, after the business route is through the nine sides, recruit some locally, and now you still have to rely on your own training. ”

After Chen Xin finished speaking, he looked back at Zhu Guobin, the old brother he had known on the sea boat had a calm face, and his straight posture showed the demeanor of a professional soldier everywhere.

"Guobin, do you remember that when you were in Tianjin, you were going to join Guan Ningjun. The official promised you that he would take you to fight the Tartars, and you followed me to Weihai. Now that I think about it, it's like yesterday. ”

Zhu Guobin also smiled and said: "At that time, my subordinates just thought that adults were capable. Maybe there were more ships and they could sneak ashore to kill a few, but I didn't expect to return to Liaodong with thousands of troops. If he belonged to the Guan Ning Army, he didn't know where he was buried now. ”

Chen Xin smiled and shook his head, if he didn't have his butterfly wings, he might just be a small soldier, who died in a certain battle in the "Late Ming Chapter 18 Defense System", and he might have killed a few Houjin soldiers with his good martial arts. Today, Zhu Guobin can command thousands of cavalry, can read and write, read maps, and analyze the shape of the enemy and the advantages and disadvantages of tactics. He is solely responsible for the military command of the southern Liaoning region, and under the advanced military system of the Wendeng battalion, his ability will be further enhanced.

"The distance from Jinzhou to Dengzhou is not close, and it takes a lot of time to travel back and forth, Guobin, you are alone in Jinzhou, whether it is the infantry artillery special service, all of them are under your command. When a fighter plane appears or there is an emergency, you can make decisions without waiting for the orders of your own officer. I will report it to me afterwards, but we must first discuss it with the staff officers and the commanders of the various departments in accordance with the new regulations. Ping Rì and the staff officers did more deductions, thinking about how Jiannu would fight. Make some emergency plans so that you don't have to rush when they arise. ”

Zhu Guobin only sent Chen Xin to Nanguan, and he was going to return to Jinzhou early in the morning. So Chen Xin feels like a mother-in-law, like a task arranged by his superiors. It's like a parting message between friends. In fact, at the last military meeting in Golden State, these things were already said in detail.

Zhu Guobin said with some emotion: "My subordinates understand." ”

"And the Secret Service. I plan to expand them to 300 people, and southern Liaoning is the best place to train troops. In this place in southern Liaoning, our worst thing is intelligence ability, the intelligence bureau is good at operating in the city, Nansiwei is desolate, which is suitable for the activities of the special service team, and the area between Fuzhou and Jinzhou is full of mountains, kill those Jiannu who dare to come to the sentinel, and let the slave chiefs also taste the taste of black-eyed blind guessing. ”

"The subordinates think the same way, after we gain a foothold in Jinzhou, Jiannu will definitely be in the field between the covers to strengthen the defense of the southern four guards. After the subordinates completed the training, the first step was to repel the reconnaissance line of Jiannu, so that the east of Fuzhou would become an area where our troops could operate freely, and then use small forces to continuously attack the tuntian and supply lines of Fuzhou. Exhausted by the enemy's life, and having to disperse his forces to maintain traffic, I mobilized my cavalry to surprise one of them. If the Nu chief couldn't help it, he sent a large army to attack, and his subordinates led the troops back to Lushun quickly, lengthening the distance they could transport grain. Huang Taiji can't beat Lushun, and he can't besiege Lushun, the longer Jiannu surrounds it, the more Houjin's materials will be consumed. And I have Denglai as the backing, and I can still ship the special service team to Jinfujian and attack its heavy grain and grass. And I have a thousand cavalry at hand, and it will not be so easy for him to withdraw again. ”

Chen Xinfu laughed and said: "That's right, except for the western coast, southern Liaoning, which is full of mountains, in addition to the special service team, I will build a mountain infantry battalion in Dengzhou." This time, the expansion of our Wendeng camp is a major adjustment, not limited to which 1,000 headquarters were originally rearranged, but at present, it still takes time to recruit the displaced people, and it is not possible to expand the army to 20,000 in a moment. However, after each training is completed, the officer will transfer them to Liaonan to fight in rotation, and Liaonan is our training ground. It's a white flag in Fuzhou, and I've heard that Morgen Daiqing was blown into the sky, and you have to beat him back to his original form. ”……

Chen Xin rested for the whole night in Nanguan, inspected the construction site of Nanguanbao for the second time, cordially met with the auxiliary soldiers who were fighting on the front line of construction, personally inquired about their work and living conditions, and instructed them to pay attention to protecting their health and make reasonable arrangements for work and rest while working hard.

The comrades of the auxiliary soldiers said one after another that now that their lives are better, they have no oppression from the original officers, and they have food and clothing every day, and they ask the leaders and people of the Wendeng Battalion to rest assured that they have the confidence to create a miracle of construction under the leadership of Lord Chen and Lord Zhu.

Chen Xin ended the inspection amid the enthusiastic shouts of the auxiliaries, and he estimated that all the auxiliaries had seen him and had established that sense of authority, so he said goodbye to Zhu Guobin and rushed to Lushun with the guards.

He was confident in Zhu Guobin's ability, and he never thought that the chieftains of Houjin were the so-called immortal talents, as long as an army was fighting every year, there would always be countless experienced generals, provided that most of them survived.

And the Ming army was wiped out every time, and the Houjin became stronger and stronger, and the Ming army was already crushed at the touch of a button in the later period, and the Houjin soldiers could defeat them only by fame. If a solid mountain comes out casually, he really boasts that it is famous all over the world, but in fact it is like that. Since there are so many "famous generals" who are "famous all over the world" among tens of thousands of barbarians, Chen Xin believes that the system of Wendeng Camp can produce more and stronger famous generals.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that they arrived at Lushun, which also became a large construction site, where thousands of people were working in full swing, and the construction places included the expansion of the southern city, the fortress of the tiger's tail estuary, and the dock fortress.

It turned out that the demolished stones in Beicheng were still in place, and they were all used for the construction of these new fortresses, and Dong Yu, who stayed in Lushun, took Chen Xin to check the location, which was basically the same as Chen Xin's plan. A new outer city was built to the south of the "Entertainment Show" South City, extending to the vicinity of the wharf, and the original city wall added a horse face every thirty steps to reduce the dead angle under the city and increase the fire density of the wall.

An outer wall was also built on the wharf, and there was only fifty steps between it and the wall of the southern city, just like the water city of Dengzhou. These fifty paces are completely within the range of a two-sided attack, in which the defending side can gather troops to attack and cover their retreat. Excavation of earth is being carried out in the outer walls, and an inner harbor is to be built.

The Tiger's Tail Estuary Fort is a large platform, built at the location of the waterway into the sea, and the entire west side of the Tiger's Tail Waterway is safe.

Chen Xin's next step is to build defensive positions in Jinshan and Xiguan Mountain, combine trenches and moats, fortify along the mountain step by step, form a cascade depth, and then temporarily deploy thistles, spikes, and earth-shaking thunder, and Lushun's defense system will be very perfect. As long as he knew in advance that Jiannu would attack on a large scale, he could urgently transport troops from Dengzhou and directly enter these defensive positions, and Jiannu would not be able to fill it with tens of thousands of lives, and Huang Taiji would definitely not be reluctant.

The first thing at the moment is to expand the southern city, and for the time being, only a small fort was built on the top of the golden mountain as a beacon tower. This system of transmission was completely copied from the Ming army, and it was also the most effective method of rapid transmission in this era.

After reading it, Chen Xin returned to the deputy general's mansion in Lushun Nancheng, Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi had already returned to Dengzhou, although they each received some henchmen, but their young and strong were almost recruited by Chen Xin, and only a small number of family members remained. These people knew that Chen Xin was not easy to provoke, and they didn't compete with him, but they just wanted to smuggle.

As soon as Chen Xin returned home, Song Wenxian came over, and when he saw Chen Xin, he said, "The adult is like a god, Mao Chenglu really couldn't hold his breath, and sent someone to Lushun, saying that he wanted to take refuge in the adult." ”

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