In Beijing, Prince Rui's Mansion East Warm Pavilion.

After the overall strategy is determined, the specific defense deployment is carried out.

Hong Chengchou pointed to the map and said: "Master, the Ming army has the advantage of a water division, which can ensure that the water transportation is unimpeded, and the cost of water transportation is much lower than that of the land route, even if the river freezes in winter, you can still use the ice climbing plow to transfer the baggage, and it is not surprising that the Ming army will definitely march along the river." ”

Dolgon was convinced that this analysis was undoubtedly quite convincing.

Hong Chengchou continued: "Therefore, heavy troops are needed near the estuaries of the Fuhe, Chaohe, Shahe, Dingliu and Hulu rivers, among which the Chaohe River and the Wei River are the most important. ”

"The banks of the Wei River are already full of towers, as long as they need to be strengthened."

"It is necessary to build a small number of platforms along the Chaohe River first, and it is necessary to garrison heavy troops near the mouth of the river."

Hong Chengchou is still old, not only thinking of building a beacon tower to provide early warning, but also predicting the Ming army's combat strategy and possible landing points, which is really powerful.

However, it is a pity that Jiannu and Daming are no longer at the same level in terms of top-level military structure.

Jiannu still uses the primitive staff system, that is, to gather a group of staff members to give advice.

However, the military structure of the Ming Dynasty has evolved from the staff system to the staff system, and the introduction of wargame deduction, through the confrontation of staff officers in wargame deduction, a variety of battlefield trends can be deduced.

Therefore, no matter how powerful Hong Chengchou is, it is impossible for him to beat the systematic staff system.

Of course, the advantages of the staff officer system are by no means limited to this, and the greatest advantage of the staff system compared with the staff system is actually the overall planning, deployment, and command and dispatch of the armed forces.

With the entry of the first phase of Guozisheng, the Ming army has truly established a modern staff system.

Uploading and disseminating, material allocation, troop scheduling, and marching arrangements have all begun to be completed through the staff officer system, and the next step is to improve the staff training system.

Because there is no hierarchy in the current staff system.

That is to say, at this moment, there is no difference in rank between the soldiers who participate in the military meeting in Yilun Hall and those who are sent to serve as staff officers in brigades, battalions, and even sentinel-level units.

But in the future, these soldiers or staff officers will definitely be divided into ranks.

The military rank system will be introduced sooner or later, and the army still needs to be divided into upper and lower ranks.

All in all, the Ming army already had the rudiments of a modern staff system.

At this point, although Dolgon was also aware of it, and also made efforts, that is, after the failure of setting up the Jinshi camp, he asked Meng Xueli and the three of them to build a people-lifting camp, and gave life and death to seize the power.

Meng Xueli and the others did practice in accordance with the practice of the Shizi Battalion to form a people-raising camp.

However, the sad thing is that Meng Xueli and they only learned the surface, but did not get the essence.

After a pause, Hong Chengchou said: "If nothing else, my Qing soldiers will start a long-term confrontation with the Ming army along the Chaohe River, just wait for the Ming army to be tired or change in other directions, and when the Ming army is forced to retreat, my Qing soldiers can take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, even if they can't completely annihilate the Ming army, they will inevitably be able to hit it hard!" ”

At this time, Fan Wencheng questioned: "Hengjiu, I don't know if you have thought about a question, what if the Ming army is not ready to march along the Chaohe River?" ”

Hou Fangyu also echoed: "What you said is that the coast of the North Sea is so long, where can't you go ashore?" ”

The eyes of Dolgon, Ning Wan, Qi Chongge and other Manchu ministers also fell on Hong Chengchou's face.

Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said: "Can't get around, the Ming army can't and doesn't dare to bypass the waterway and take the land route instead." ”

"Why?" Hou Fangyu said abruptly, "Why didn't the Ming army dare to bypass the waterway and take the land route instead?" ”

Hong Chengchou said indifferently: "The reason is very simple, because the Ming army carried heavy red-coated cannons, and the red-coated cannons used by the Ming army were often two or three thousand catties, not to mention the swampy depressions near the coast, even ordinary roads and bridges could not withstand it, so the Ming army had to march along the waterway, and only in this way could it bring cannons." ”

"That's not right, is it?" Hou Fangyu retorted, "After winter, the swampy depressions near the coast of the North Sea are covered with thick ice, and there is no problem in bearing two thousand catties of weight. ”

Faced with Hou Fangyu's question, Hong Chengchou turned his head and asked Kong Youde: "What does King Gongshun think?" ”

"Foolish dreams." Kong Youde said very unceremoniously, "Before the red-coated cannon fires, you need to raise the fire to burn the red iron chisel, and when the cannon is fired, a large amount of hot gas will be generated, and then the scorching shells will continue to bombard, and no matter how thick and hard the ice layer is, it will melt away, and the red-coated cannon of the Ming army will fall into the mud swamp and can't pull it out." ”

Hou Fangyu quibbled: "The Ming army is not stupid, how could they choose to fight in the swamp?" ”

Kong Youde retorted: "The Ming army is not stupid, is my Qing army stupid?" The Ming army will not choose to fight in the swamp, so can't our Qing soldiers take advantage of the Ming army to launch a blockade when it passes through the swamp? ”

After a pause, he said: "My Qing soldiers don't even need to block it, just set it on fire." ”

Hou Fangyu was completely silent at this time, because there were a large number of swamp depressions on the coast surrounding the North Sea, and these swampy depressions were often overgrown with reeds, and most of the reeds died in winter.

The red-coated artillery of the Ming army will also fall into the swamp.

At this time, Sonny retorted coldly: "What if the Ming army throws away the red-coated cannon?" ”

"Then God really helped me to clear up." Hong Chengchou said, "If the Ming army abandons the red-coated cannons, even if it advances to Beijing by land, what is there to fear?" At that time, our Qing soldiers can go out of the city to fight with it, with the help of red-coated cannons and camel cannons, a battle will be decided, wouldn't it be happy, but unfortunately, Chongzhen will not be stupid so much. ”

Now Sony is also dumb.

……

Nanjing, Guozijian Yilun Hall.

After several hours of fierce fighting, Xu Yingwei finally led the army to advance outside Chaoyang Gate.

During this period, there were also many battles, Yan Yingyuan really deserved to be the strongest shield of the Ming Dynasty, and all kinds of conspiracies and tricks emerged in an endless stream when fighting a defensive war.

For example, landmines are planted on the road.

For example, setting fire to reeds.

For example, gunpowder is placed on the surface of ice.

These means did cause great trouble for the Ming army.

But in the end, it was resolved by Xu Yingwei and the "staff group" of the Ming army.

At the cost of more than 10,000 casualties, Xu Yingwei finally led his army to the outside of Beijing.

Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said, "Brother Youzhen doesn't seem to be carrying a red-clothed cannon, but this gives me a chance, if nothing else, I will most likely go out of the city to fight." ”

"Don't hide it, Brother Heng, I think so too."

Xu Yingwei also smiled: "However, after Jiannu leaves the city, he will find that he has made a big mistake." ”

"Even if our army does not carry 4-inch field guns, it can still defeat them in the field, because my soldiers are also equipped with 2.5-inch mountain guns and god artillery, and they have an air force."

Yan Yingyuan's expression suddenly turned grim, and he continued: "What if I can't hold on? ”

"Then there is no other way but to attack the city." The expression on Xu Yingwei's face also became serious, "Concentrate all the mountain artillery to bombard the city wall, and one day it will be blasted open, and Jiannu can't hold it." ”

Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said, "I can continue to strengthen the city wall. ”

Xu Yingwei said: "I don't believe you can cultivate faster than me." ”

"There is Brother Zhen, you will know it when you try." Yan Yingyuan's face was confident.

"Try it, just try it." Xu Yingwei immediately ordered the soldiers to swing the artillery.

Immediately, the two camps began to deduce according to the pre-set parameters.

Yan Yingyuan and Xu Yingwei began the final decisive battle, and it was difficult to come out with a result in a short time.

Chongzhen beckoned to Jiang Tianyi to come to the staff department and asked, "Jiang Tianyi, how has the reorganization of the new army been completed?" ”

So far, none of the 270,000 conscripts has been reorganized in the true sense of the word.

Even the new troops sent to Dagukou and Gaizhou were only temporarily reorganized into infantry brigades, infantry battalions, or artillery battalions before the expedition, and then battalion officers and brigade commanders were temporarily appointed.

In normal times, the Forces nouvelles still conduct daily training on a general basis.

But now that the Northern Expedition is about to begin, and the decisive battle with Jiannu is about to begin, it can't be delayed any longer.

In fact, there is no need to delay it any longer, because the first batch of students of Guozijian has graduated, and in addition to the Sailor Academy and the medical school, all the 6,000 students in the headquarters have been incorporated into the new army.

In addition to the 1,500 commanders of the sergeant battalion, with these 7,500 sergeants to serve as officers, it is enough to set up the command and staff of the new army.

Jiang Tianyi replied: "Your Excellency, the chief officers and staff officers of units above the battalion level have been selected, but the chief officers at the general and sentry levels are still being selected. ”

In the future new army, the highest background in the army can only be the commander of a sentry.

If you want to serve as a more senior commander, battalion officer, brigade commander or even the general town, you must be a student of Guozijian.

Chongzhen also knew that the selection of the chief officer at the general post level was a heavy task, and immediately said: "Then let's talk about the reorganization of units above the battalion level and the selection of personnel. ”

"Yes." Jiang Tianyi immediately took out a small notebook and opened it.

"After the reorganization, the new army will be organized into 11 towns, with headquarters in the towns, under the jurisdiction of 5 infantry brigades plus 1 artillery brigade, with a total of more than 25,000 personnel."

"Each infantry brigade has a brigade headquarters, with 2 infantry battalions and 1 baggage battalion under its jurisdiction, with more than 4,200 posts."

"Each artillery brigade also has a brigade headquarters, with 2 field artillery battalions or 2 mountain artillery battalions, plus 1 baggage battalion, and more than 4,200 personnel."

"Each infantry battalion has a battalion headquarters, with 4 infantry and 1 infantry artillery under its jurisdiction, with more than 1,400 personnel."

"Each baggage battalion has a battalion headquarters, with 5 baggage chiefs, more than 1,400 posts, and more than 1,400 mules and horses."

"Each field artillery battalion or mountain artillery battalion has a battalion headquarters, with jurisdiction over 5 field artillery or 5 mountain artillery headquarters, with more than 1,400 personnel and more than 1,400 mules and horses......"

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