"Okay, Li Shuai is really clever, the eastern captives are all foot riders, if the lone army goes deep, once the glue is passed, if you want to evacuate Laizhou, his army has no water division, so you can only go to Pingdu to bypass the glue and return to Qingzhou."

Lu Liangzhi was in high spirits, although he was dissatisfied with Li Xingzhi's establishment of the Military Marshal's Mansion, but the attitude of the two towards Dongyu was the same, which was also an important factor for Lu Liangzhi to follow Li Xingyi to Leiden.

Li Xingzhi sneered: "Dongyu has won successive battles, it is not enough to loot Gyeonggi, and they have also invaded Shandong, if they don't teach them a lesson, they will not take my Ming in their eyes, the official road leading to Pingdu from Daze Mountain is more than 30 miles, we just need to deploy defenses layer by layer, delay the offensive of Donglu, consume their grain, and within a few days, Donglu will collapse itself!" ”

Wang Zhong thought for a moment and asked: "Dashuai, in the first battle of the Hutuo River, our artillery and guns were lost, and now we only have more than 300 guns and forty small tiger squat cannons in the second town, the Tartars are brave and the archery skills are accurate, how can we fight?" ”

The problem of weapons is indeed a big problem, most of the guns of the Jingbei Army are made by the imperial court, and the quality is uneven, and some of them will explode if they can't put a few guns, and now that they have a stable base area, they naturally have to build their own firearms.

Qian Tianxi said: "Dashuai, Dengzhou was originally the base for Sun Yuanhua, the former governor of Laiden, to build firearms, even if Kong Youde robbed Dengzhou, I think there are still craftsmen living among the people, this official thinks that we can offer a reward, and we will definitely be able to recruit craftsmen who are proficient in firearms, and then promote it, and the problem of firearms will be solved." ”

Li Xingzhi waved his hand and said: "Mr. Qian can start to arrange the matter of recruiting firearms craftsmen first, don't be reluctant to spend money, the so-called workers want to do a good job, they must first sharpen their weapons, and the soldiers fought bloodily, if they died in battle because of the quality of the weapons, it is the dereliction of duty of our military commanders." ”

Lu Liangzhi sighed in his heart, Li Xingzhi's words are not bad at all, since the Dongyu Incident, how many loyal and brave soldiers died on the battlefield because of the quality of their weapons, and did not die in the hands of the enemy, but because of the poor quality of their firearms, is it not ridiculous.

Yang Biao felt very depressed about Qian Tianxi and others diverting the topic, and said at the moment: "Dashuai, let's talk about weapons later, the last general wants to ask us how to deal with Dongyu?" ”

Li Xingzhi said: "Yang Biao, you now have 5,000 military horses, in the Ming Dynasty, it can be regarded as a town commander, you have to sink your breath, Laizhou and Jinan are separated by a Qingzhou Mansion, if the Tartars come to our Laizhou, how to say it will take ten days and half a month, and you listen to Mr. Lu's clever plan." ”

Lu Liangzhi groaned: "Li Shuai, what we have to do is nothing more than two things, one is to clear the field with strong walls and strengthen the city defense of Laizhou, and the other is to arrange the defense line on the official road in the area of Daze Mountain, how to arrange it, it is nothing more than ploughing the ground as a moat, widely distributing sharp piles, and building a few more walled walls, so that the Dongyu will either have to storm Daze Mountain, or can only attack the official road, as long as it drags on for three or five days, I am afraid that the Tartars can only kill horses and wrap their stomachs." ”

Li Xingzhi stroked his palm and laughed: "Mr. Lu is really clever, so you and Wang Zhong will go to Daze Mountain to deploy the defense line, and the rest of the generals will act according to the plan." ”

Zhang Shaoqian suggested: "The body of the marshal is ten thousand gold, and the safety of the 200,000 soldiers and civilians of our Jingbei Army is at stake, how can he go to the danger in person, it is better to enter Huangxian under the banner of the last general and attract the main force of the eastern captives." ”

Li Xingzhi frowned, and he wanted to speak.

Qian Anning and other civil officials all stood up and saluted: "Dashuai, the so-called son of a daughter, can't sit in the hall, Dashuai should sit in the capital city, make overall planning, and make a plan to be perfect." ”

Yang Biao and Wang Zhong glanced at each other, and also got up to stop them.

Li Xingzhi said coldly: "This general is also in the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, crawled out, and went to Huangxian County, but also to see the reality of the East Captivity, if the East Captives are crowded, we have to readjust the deployment, the commander is on the front line in person, and he can also formulate a response plan according to the enemy situation." ”

Zhu Wenwu had no choice but to obey the order, and Li Xingzhi brought over the cavalry, and there was almost no possibility of being caught up by the Qing army.

Wang Zhong and Lu Liangzhi were the fastest, after all, to deploy a defensive line in Daze Mountain, it was also necessary to mobilize some people to rush to repair the fortifications.

It is not difficult to mobilize the people to build fortifications, after all, the ferocity of the Dongyu is well known, and now that everyone has just settled down, no one wants to be plagued by the Tartars again, and the military marshal's office has issued a decree that all the people who go to Daze Mountain to repair the defense line will be given fifty yuan per person per day.

If you have money, of course the people will not resist, Li Dashuai is benevolent and righteous, not only to give us food, but also to give us money, which is many times stronger than those military horses in the imperial court, you must know that the construction of a defense line in Daze Mountain is to protect our people.

Therefore, after Li Xing issued a military order, Wang Zhong requisitioned more than 3,000 people on the second day and embarked on the official road to Daze Mountain.

There are more than 30 miles of official road from Daze Mountain to Pingdu County, and the road here is rugged and the mountains are undulating, which is the most suitable for ambushes.

However, Wang Zhong was not ready to ambush the Qing army, after all, sixty percent of the second town were young and strong people who had just joined the army, and even the previous veterans only had combat experience in the original Li Jiashan and the Shandong army.

Lu Liangzhi agreed with Wang Zhong's opinion, and after surveying the terrain of the Daze Mountain Range, he suggested that Wang Zhong build a defense line in the area of Dafoling and Panlong Mountain, because the official road to Pingdu was guarded here, and there were many ancient stone fort ruins of the Chimei Army on the mountain, which were very easy to arm.

Wang Zhong agreed with Lu Liangzhi's suggestion, although he had never fought any big battles, but he could understand the geographical environment, and immediately divided the young men into two teams.

Some of them dug trenches on the Big Buddha Ridge, arranged sharp piles, and built mud walls, and some built cities and walled walls on official roads, and arranged defense lines.

In the mountains, earth, stone and wood can be found everywhere, Lu Liangzhi and others took more than 2,000 soldiers and civilians, continued to dig trenches along the mountain road, and began to build the walled city.

Some of these soldiers and civilians continuously strengthened and compacted the earthwork excavated from the trenches, and then piled up sections of earthen walls.

More soldiers and civilians brought in long logs and began to build fences along the earthen walls, and the surplus timber was driven into stakes before the trenches.

Because the official road is narrow, this walled wall has to be built against the mountain, no more than five or six zhang long, no more than two meters wide, and no more than one and a half zhang high.

However, although the sparrow is small, all kinds of organs are complete, and the wall is marked with high and low orderly wooden piles, which are used as wall stacks, and seven or eight arrow towers and watchtowers are built after the wall.

More than 1,000 people acted at the same time, and in just three days, a simple city pass was erected.

On the defense line on the mountain, Wang Zhong was deployed according to the same as Li Jiashan, digging three trenches, setting up three mud walls, and instructing the people to bring a large number of stones and wood to use as rolling wood and stones.

After the layout of the defense line of the Big Buddha Ridge, Lu Liangzhi took the people to build a defense line in the area of Panlong Mountain, according to Wang Zhong's words, we will definitely not be able to fight with the Tartars, but we will fight on the inside line, even if we consume the strength of the Tartars.