Before the expedition, Zhang Chong issued an order to the lieutenants of each corps in the expedition sequence, that is, the positions that each division should reach within three days.

For example, Yang Mao, the right privy envoy who came from Yecheng and brought 3,000 elite soldiers to help, received a military order, ordering his troops to lead the army to the area of Jiumen before July 27.

At that time, Yang Mao's troops were still in the north of the Yuan clan, and after receiving the military order to carry the flag, they once again accelerated their speed, carrying their baggage and horses, and assembled towards Zhending. By the time Yang Mao and the others arrived, Zhang Chong's Chinese army had already crossed the river, but it was still lively.

At this moment, Zhending was full of sergeants, who had set out from all over the country to assemble here and prepare to cross the river.

Seeing that the time was already very tight, Yang Mao ordered the generals to replenish their supplies, rested for the night, and then set off to cross the Hutuo River before dawn on the second day.

Finally, on the night of July 26, we arrived at a village community north of Jiumen.

Yang Mao's department will build a barrier here and wait for the next military order.

Zhang Chong, who had already arrived outside the Nine Gates on 25 July, held a military parade outside the city.

Zhang Chong stood on a war horse and inspected the heads of twenty-seven infantry battalions, all of whom were the pillars of the Taishan army. And Zhang Chong also personally awarded these battalion generals a new military flag, which was a battle flag embroidered with a golden crow.

This sacred bird is the messenger of Taishan Fujun, and whenever there is a disaster and death in the world, this divine bird will always appear.

At that time, a group of Lang officials who were surrounding Zhang Chong witnessed this grand military parade.

It wasn't that they had never seen so many people assembled, but they had never seen such a well-organized army lined up on the vast plain.

Whenever they pass through the Daxu where Zhang Chong is located, these Taishan soldiers will erupt into a tsunami, which shows what kind of prestige Zhang Chong, the king, has in the army.

And Zhang Chong often ran back and forth in front of the formation, and from time to time he could call out the names of these warriors who were at the head of the line.

These people are all brave men in the army, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of them, they are not afraid. But when the king called out their names and told them of their exploits, they wept silently.

On the plain outside the Nine Gate City, nearly 30,000 Taishan soldiers were covered, including 5,000 cavalry.

These men were so proud that they swore to sacrifice the death of their enemies to the king. They showed a strong sense of confidence in their final victory.

This is because these people have grown up with countless victories under Zhang Chong's command. Their countenances may be darkened by the long battle, but their hearts never doubt victory.

After the military parade, Zhang Chong led the camp into the nine gates. He is going to use this as a guide to preside over this decisive battle.

At this time, in the line of the Nine Gates, the Lang officials had already erected a detailed map of the north bank of the huge Hutuo River. On this, the current position of the various units of the Taishan Army is standardized, as well as the stationing of the Zhenbei Army.

The detail of this map is unique in this world. It was a surveyor trained by Zhang Chong in the army, and had traveled all over the area with Zhen's food team. A large number of intricate maps were eventually pieced together to form this huge map.

When Zhang Chong was looking at these maps, Meng Fang on the side was reporting to Zhang Chong the information collected by the foreign military advisers in combination with the maps.

Zhang Chong nodded while thinking, and then kept giving various orders to Li Heng on the side.

Li Heng is Zhang Chong's secretary, and he needs to constantly issue Zhang Chong's passwords to all armies. He doesn't need to be ornate, but he has to convey it accurately.

This is also the reason why Li Heng can beat Cai Yong's two masters, the latter is really good, but it is too gorgeous to be suitable for military writing.

After Li Heng waved his hand, Zhang Chong would take a look, and then two rampage officers would walk to a room outside the corridor with military orders.

There are more than a dozen scribes who are constantly copying various military orders, which are specially issued to various armies.

Generally speaking, as long as the document is issued from the military government, it needs to be copied and retained.

The above set of processes has formed a system.

For example, why do two rampagers have to send the order next door? After all, it's only a dozen steps, do you need two people?

In fact, it's all about mutual supervision.

This is not Zhang Chong's distrust of the rampant soldiers, but his practice of suppressing people's hearts with the system.

And once the scholars entered the house, they were not allowed to go out during the entire wartime, and all eating, drinking, and Lazar were settled in this side courtyard.

This is the importance that the Taishan Army attaches to its own military situation.

After dealing with today's military situation, Zhang Chong had a long talk with Zhang Dan, the marshal of the Right Army, and the two discussed the subsequent battle, as well as the choice of the preset decisive battle field, the morale of the army, and the supply of supplies in the rear.

It wasn't until midnight that Zhang Chong finished the day's work, but he hadn't rested yet. With the rampage, Zhang Dan and other generals, he went up to the city wall of Jiumen and inspected the defense of the fortress of Jiumen.

For a long time, Jiumen was still their most important strategic center of gravity on the north shore of Hutuoshui.

In the days that followed, the troops from the south bank continued to march towards the Nine Gates. It's just that these battalion leaders are basically local garrisons, and they are not the main combat force in this battle.

Zhang Chong reorganized the garrison troops in these places, with Yang Mao, the right privy secret, as the commander, and his 2,000 elite headquarters as the core, and reorganized the garrison of 10,000 people.

In this way, on the north bank of Hutuoshui, there are currently four large-scale corps. They were Zhang Dan's right army marshal's department, 13,000 people. Dong's visit to the rear army marshal's department, 11,000 people. Yang Mao's provisional army, which has just been reorganized, has 12,000 people. and finally the forbidden middle guard, 18,000 people. It included 5,000 troops under the tent.

These days, Zhang Chong is asking all departments to step up the restoration of their establishment, absorb the troops who came from the north, and form a combat effectiveness.

In this way, there is such a huge military force.

And in the specific army scheduling, after these few days of scheduling.

Zhang Dan's left corps and Dong Wan's rear corps were moving north along the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain, and they would form the left flank of the Taishan army. The task assigned to these two corps was to capture a mountain dock wall on the southern bank of Zishui, which overlooked the Guangyang Straightway.

And Yang Mao's temporary military responsibility still stayed in the Wulidun camp and continued to practice.

Zhang Chong was particularly busy during this time.

Everyone only sees that he has supreme power, but few people see the responsibility behind it. The lives of more than 50,000 troops were decided in Zhang Chong's small nave.

Even though the nave was actually not small, it seemed so small in front of these.

Not only that, Zhang Chong also had to take time to supervise the military discipline of various armies.

In fact, before that, Zhang Chong had always been very confident in the army he had built. At least in terms of military discipline, he can deservedly say that he is the first in this world.

But yesterday in the course of patrolling, he saw such a scene.

When he reached a tent, he heard the sound of crying inside.

This made Yang Mao on Zhang Chong's side very annoyed.

It's not that Yang Mao doesn't have the sympathy of normal people, but for a place where tens of thousands of people gather, all kinds of suppressed emotions are pressed together, like a powder keg, which may explode at any moment.

Therefore, crying, night talk, and noise are forbidden in the army to prevent camp roaring.

Moreover, if one person cries, it will make a hundred people sad, and the impact on the morale of the army will be too great.

So, Yang Mao was going to step forward and deal with the punishment that disturbed the morale of the army.

But Zhang Chong stopped Yang Mao and kept silent, only took Yang Mao and a few people to open the tent and go inside to check the situation.

As soon as I entered, I saw a young man with a bloody back lying on the mat sobbing.

As soon as this man saw someone coming in, he held his sobs in a panic, and it seemed that he also knew military law.

This sergeant obviously didn't know his commander Yang Mao, but from the momentum of Yang Mao and the others, he could still know that these people must be high-ranking officers in the army.

So the man panicked.

At this time, Zhang Chong Wenyan asked:

"What's wrong, crying so sadly? Homesick? ”

In fact, Zhang Chong knew what the situation was when he saw the scar on this person's back, most likely because he had made some mistake and was dealt with by military law.

But Zhang Chong didn't ask directly, but deliberately asked what he was most worried about.

The soldier shook his head first, then nodded again, and finally replied in a Zhao Di accent:

"General, we are indeed homesick, but we haven't defeated the Han army for the king? At this time, when I went home, I was despised by people! ”

Zhang Chong sat cross-legged on the side of the soldier, first pressed him to the ground, so as not to let the wound hurt again, and then continued to ask:

"I heard your accent is from Handan?"

The soldier smiled shyly and said:

"We are not from Handan City, our family is in Wuli."

Of course, Zhang Chong didn't know where Buri was, and he was more curious about why this person was reluctant to go back.

So, Zhang Chong asked:

"Being so far from home, homesickness must be heavy. If I let you go back, and send you entangled, will you go back? ”

But the soldier shook his head without hesitation, and said very seriously:

"Why do you go back, the field that our family received last year, the millet that was just planted, the good days haven't passed for a few days, why can't you?"

Zhang Chong suddenly realized that he was worried that his land would be taken away by the place. So Zhang Chong said that these fields will not be taken away, and you are not a deserter.

This soldier understood here, he felt that today's events should be known by the above, and he felt that he was not worthy of being a soldier, and he was here to persuade him to leave the army.

So the soldier wailed and wept:

"What a return, since our family received a piece of land from the king, our life was sold to the king. The king won't let us go, so we'll stay here. And what is this, we just can't tell the difference, but we are nervous, and we are also good soldiers in the army, otherwise we can't respond to the king's big soldiers. ”

What this soldier said is not wrong, because the division of fields between Zhao and Wei was relatively early, and the field guards who were trained were also relatively early. After training for so long, it is definitely not as good as the field corps in terms of combat strength, but this can still be distinguished.

At this moment, Zhang Chong understood.

He asked Yang Mao to call the generals of their team, because the training of the provisional army was based on the basic formation of a team of fifty.

Soon, a team general with an arrow scar on his face came in in a panic. Then as soon as the team general said "king", Zhang Chong tore off the team general's armband.

He said to the team:

"These people are also raised by their parents, they read the kindness of the Taishan Army, believe us, and sent their own sons and nephews to the army, not for you to beat. I just talked to this guy, he's a good guy, you don't deserve such a brave soldier. Now, when you go to report on the Central Protector Army, you start from the vanguard. ”

The general was obviously stunned for a moment, and then did not hesitate to salute Zhang Chong, and then hurriedly went out of the tent to report to the Central Guard.

And over there, Yang Mao also breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Zhang Chong's punishment.

And the soldier who was lying on the mat over there only then knew that the young general in front of him was actually the king. So I didn't care about the injuries on my body, and I was busy getting up.

But Zhang Chong stopped him and said with a smile:

"Take good care of your injuries, as you said, only by taking care of your injuries can you serve the king. I was quite unhappy today, because you don't look at me as imposing, but in fact, there are things that are not pleasant. But I will be happy, because I know that there are still your brothers in the army who have always supported me. But I'm saying that I'd be happier if you could think about it one day and fight this battle for yourself. ”

Seeing that the soldier didn't understand, Zhang Chong didn't say much. Just let him continue to recuperate, and then take Yang Mao and them out.

As soon as he came out of the camp, Zhang Chong solemnly asked Yang Maodao:

"Is there a lot of corporal punishment in the military?"

Yang Mao didn't dare to fool around, and replied carefully:

"Because the main body of the army is a local soldier, there is no big problem in small-scale combat skills. But it lacks the ability to fight large-scale legions. Therefore, during these days, the army has been practicing group scheduling, time is tight, and the task is heavy, so the brothers below are a little impatient. However, there is no malicious corporal punishment in the military. ”

Yang Mao saw that Zhang Chong didn't speak, so he carefully continued:

"Take the team leader just now, I know this guy, he's a big guy. He is an old brother of our Taishan Army, and the arrow scar on his face was made when we were playing the long spoon, just because he has not married yet. ”

Zhang Chong frowned, and didn't take Yang Mao's words.

Of course he knew this team leader, in fact, Zhang Chong's memory was better than anyone else's, and the people he had met could remember when and where he met even after a few years.

This talent has made him a fish in water when it comes to leadership.

But this Yang Mao obviously didn't distinguish the point of his question. Did he say that this team will be a general? As soon as he was in the account, his punishment of the team general had already sealed the coffin of this matter.

The answer he wants now is whether corporal punishment in the army is too much. And don't give him any definite words, saying that corporal punishment is not malicious.

Zhang Chong frowned and reprimanded:

"Lao Yang, what I asked you is whether corporal punishment is too much, and why do you talk so much."

Yang Mao's face turned red, and finally he sighed:

"It's something that happens to all the teams in the army."

After getting the answer, Zhang Chong didn't speak again, but just returned to Jiumen. An overseer of 500 men was stationed in the Provisional Army, where the military judges were to work with them to clean up military discipline.

The big war is coming, and the heart cannot be disturbed.

On the last day, is it feasible to let Xiao Chen's monthly pass be charged to 1,000?

(End of chapter)