Yang Guozhu once fought side by side with Liu Yan in Julu, and he still remembered Liu Yan's cruel defense line, and nodded again and again after listening to it, and whispered to Wang Pu, Cao Bianjiao and others around him, as if he was telling about the battle situation when he was in Julu, Wang Pu, Cao Bianjiao and others were amazed when they heard it.

In fact, there are more than these lines of defense in Liu Yan's mind, in Liu Yan's imagination, there are nine low walls and trenches, which are divided into three waves, that is, three lines of defense. The three low walls and trenches between each line of defense, each wall is only a few steps apart, or more than a dozen steps apart, and the upper and lower firing boundaries are obvious, which can form wave shots.

It is conceivable that every time the Qing soldiers attacked a low wall, they had to face the fierce blows of the upper and lower firepower, and from time to time they had to face the earth-shattering thunder, gray bottle bullets and other weapons thrown from behind the three low walls.

With the defensive capability of the Qing army, even if there is a large amount of armor, shields, and shield carts to protect it, it is difficult to resist such a fierce crossfire.

These three lines of defense are about 50 to 100 paces apart, and some tents can also be erected in the open space between each two lines of defense as a place for the wounded and wounded soldiers to ambulance, or a place for soldiers to rest, and a place for troops to attack.

Between each low wall, there will be many empty spaces for the soldiers inside the wall to attack according to the situation. The new army in Qinglai Town is the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not the style of the soldiers of the new army to defend and not attack. Therefore, the defensive counterattack is the most suitable style of play.

Of course, the vacancy of these low walls is irregular, and the vacancy of the front and rear low walls is staggered. The Qing army passed through the vacant position of the first low wall, and was blocked by the second low wall, and if they wanted to pass through, they had to continue to attack to the left and right.

Moreover, Liu Yan also prepared to place artillery in the vacant space of the low wall in front of each line of defense, such as the Xiaofranc machine, the Baizi gun, the Huzun cannon, etc., these firearms can be used to shoot scattered bullets, and one shot will definitely cause heavy casualties to the attacking Qing army.

Of course, these firearms must be allocated by Hong Chengchou, anyway, there are still a lot of firearms and equipment in the baggage battalion of the Chinese army, and Liu Yan has already divided a battalion of elites to guard the back road for the army, and Hong Chengchou naturally has to support some equipment.

In this regard, Hong Chengchou immediately agreed, and asked Liu Yan to send someone to the Chinese army to collect it later, and if he needed any firearms, he would just open his mouth, as long as the Chinese army had them, he would vigorously support them.

Liu Yan continued to explain his idea to everyone: in each line of defense, the low wall should be built with many protrusions, just like the horse face of the city wall and the enemy platform, so that the defenders can attack from the side.

With the power of the flint bird guns of the new army in Qinglai Town, there can be a convex wall every one hundred and fifty paces, so that the place within 100 steps in front of the defense line can be blocked, making it difficult for the Qing army to move an inch.

In the northeast of Hongluo Mountain, near the river, Liu Yan also planned to build several low walls, all the way to the northwest of Hongluo Mountain, one is to send troops to protect the water source, and the other is to prevent the enemy from attacking along the river, after all, the river is not deep, only to the knee.

Although the northwest part of Hongluo Mountain is steep, out of prudence, Liu Yan is also prepared to set up several lines of defense to prevent the elite of the Qing army from risking death to attack.

In the end, Liu Yan used the abandoned fire pier on the top of the mountain as the "commander" of the front battalion, and set up artillery here. With the fire road pier as the viewing point, the situation around Hongluo Mountain can be seen at a glance, and the artillery on the top of the mountain can also be used as fire support to bombard all parts of the mountain at any time.

Everyone listened to Liu Yan one by one, and all the generals of the new army in Qinglai Town quickly calculated the deployment of the general in their hearts, and this whole set of defense line structure has been compiled into the infantry drill code of the new army in Qinglai Town, and everyone has already understood it, and at this time they all have a rough "defense map" in their minds.

And Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, Cao Bianjiao and others are half-understood, although they also have a general trip in their hearts, but there are still too many places that they don't understand, or can't think clearly, Zhang Ruoqi and Ma Shaoyu are even more black-eyed, only Yang Guozhu basically understands, this is another version of the Julu defense line.

However, although everyone did not understand it 100%, they unanimously believed that Liu Yan's defense line must be very powerful.

And after Liu Yan finished talking about his plan, he also said coldly: "As long as the slave thief has the courage to attack Hongluo Mountain, he only cares how many people die, this line of defense is enough to completely drain the blood of the slave thief!" ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, they couldn't imagine that Liu Yan's strategy was so strong, and he dared to boast about Haikou, I really don't know how Liu Yan thought of such a ruthless line of defense.

Ma Ke, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and the others are not very good-looking, Liu Yan is so ruthless, it is really not easy to provoke, especially Ma Ke, at this time, the corners of his mouth involuntarily twitched twice, and the eyes that looked at Liu Yan were also a little more awe-inspiring.

And Wu Sangui's expression was even more unnatural, and the jealousy of Liu Yan in his heart was even worse, why couldn't he think of such a line of defense, why couldn't the soldiers and horses in his hands be as strong as the new army in Qinglai Town?

Wu Sangui, who has always regarded himself very highly, felt inferior for the first time, and he couldn't be confident in front of Liu Yan at all.

Hong Chengchou also greatly appreciated Liu Yan's deployment, and naturally there was another burst of praise, which attracted the envy of everyone.

And Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen are moved, the two will also lead the troops to defend the Wudaoling area, and then the same defense line can be set up in this way, the two discussed a few words in a whisper, and decided to wait for the completion of the Hongluo Mountain fortifications, and immediately send someone over to refer to it.

Even if the defense line that the two learned was not as strong as the Hongluo Mountain defense line, it would definitely be able to deal a big blow to the Qing army and greatly improve its defense.

After everyone discussed the matter of the defense line of Hongluo Mountain, Hong Chengchou instructed Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen to also deploy defenses in the same way, and the two naturally received orders and did not mention it.

Later, everyone went to Wudaoling for a field investigation, and also went to the nearby Daxingbao and Dongqingbao, and even went to the area of Beacon Mountain to inspect.

Beacon Hill as the Ming army from the sea to transport grain transit place, here the guard is extremely strict, not only Beacon Mountain around the garrison of a large number of Liaodong local soldiers and horses, the distant sea also has the Ming Dynasty sailors from time to time to patrol.

At this time, everyone stood on a hillside of Beacon Hill, looking out at the sea, only to see that a large number of sea ships were still coming from a distance, ready to dock on the pier. Around the wharf, a large number of people and local Ming troops in Liaodong were busy under the scorching sun, loading and transporting away the grain and grass and all kinds of baggage accumulated on the wharf, a busy scene in full swing.

The sea in the distance was turbulent, and the waves slapped on the reef from time to time, splashing bursts of silver flowers, and many officials and generals who saw the sea for the first time. There was a look of horror on their faces.

At this time, as the soldiers and horses of the Ming army went out of the customs to participate in the war, the balance of the war situation in Liaodong began to tilt towards the Ming side. At this time, Xingshan, Songshan and other places were successively relieved, and only Jinzhou was still surrounded by the Qing army.

Before the solidarity was cut off in May this year, Zu Dashou sent a pawn to report to the imperial court, saying that the food in the city was enough to support half a year, and the salary was insufficient. It is not yet half a year, and with the ability of Zu Dashou, coupled with the more than 20,000 defenders in the city, Jinzhou should not be able to lose it in a short period of time. 33

Therefore, under Liu Yan's strong suggestion, Hong Chengchou ordered the Ming army to temporarily garrison in Bijia Mountain, while hoarding money and grain to supply the baggage, while requisitioning the people, and immediately began to build the back road defense line of Hongluo Mountain and Wudaoling, first stabilize the back road of the army, and then wave the army north to aid Jinzhou City.

In this regard, Yang Guozhu, Wang Pu, Cao Bianjiao and others all felt that there was no problem, so it was right to fight the national war steadily.

Ma Ke, Tang Tong and the others couldn't say anything, only Wu Sangui blushed, seeing that Jinzhou was already close at hand, but the army still had to wait until the rear defense line was completed before going north, and wanted to open his mouth to refute Liu Yan several times.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou hurriedly signaled with his eyes, and when Liu Yan and other generals returned to the camp, Hong Chengchou called Wu Sangui to the big tent of the Chinese army, and he could not help but say some kind words of relief, and at the same time, he promised that as long as the defense line of Hongluo Mountain and Wudaoling had an eyebrow, he would send troops to immediately rush to the aid of Jinzhou City. Wu Sangui returned to the camp unhappy.

On the same day, Hong Chengchou ordered a group of staff to recruit civilian husbands and go to Hongluo Mountain and Wudaoling, and the specific tiring work such as digging trenches and building walls was naturally accompanied by Ding Zhuang, a military and civilian husband, and some local military households in western Liaoning were in charge.

Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen also led their troops and horses to Wudaoling to garrison, and Liu Yan also sent Chen Xun, the commander of the former battalion and a guerrilla general, to lead his troops to Hongluo Mountain, and received a lot of firearms such as Xiaofranc machine guns and Baizi guns from Hong Chengchou's Chinese army battalion.

On Hongluo Mountain, people from all over the world gather here, working hard under the scorching sun, and from inside the pass to outside the pass, there is an endless stream of people who transport grain and grass for the army, a total of hundreds of thousands of people!

These people also have wages, according to the price of the Ming Dynasty's border wall castle service, it is about one cent of rice and silver per day, and five cents of silver for salt and vegetables, and the same is true for those military households who did not fight in Liaodong.

It's just that the little silver issued by the imperial court, according to the current prices, the people are generally not full, and they are tired and tired every day, which is very hard.

After Liu Yan inspected the construction site of the Hongluo Mountain Defense Line, he saw that these people were not motivated, and the progress of the project was very slow, and he was very anxious, after all, time waits for no one.

So Liu Yan ordered the baggage soldiers in the front battalion to cook more food every day, and the food of the new army in Qinglai Town was far better than that of the ordinary Ming army. In addition to the grain and grass issued by the imperial court, Liu Yan also asked the merchants of the chamber of commerce to organize a large-scale horse team to continuously deliver supplies to the front line, a large part of which was cured meat and grain. Of course, Liu Yan naturally had to pay for this expense himself, but in order to make the soldiers of the new army eat well and be full, Liu Yan also let it go.

At this time, the baggage soldiers were busy, and soon a large stack of flatbread was ready, and there were pots of broth tumbling on the fire, and the rich aroma wafted out from time to time.

"God, the officers and soldiers elsewhere eat pig food, and they often can't eat enough, why can these Shandong soldiers eat so well, is it possible that the money and grain of the imperial court have been distributed to the Shandong soldiers?"

"You know the! That's because the Shangguan of the Shandong soldiers is good, and he managed to get these meats. Otherwise, why is the Shandong soldier's combat power strong, and even the slave thief is not an opponent? ”

"I've heard that when there was a famine in Shandong, only everyone in Qinglai Town had food, and no one starved to death in such a disaster year!"

"Real Fake ......"

"Of course it's true, you see those new officers and soldiers in Qinglai Town, all of them are full of red faces, and they are even better looking than those gentry in the city. I really want to live in Qinglai Town, that's the life of people! ”

Liu Yan stood beside him, listening to the discussion of those people queuing up to eat, and a sense of pride also surged in his heart: "The hard work of the past few years has not been in vain after all!" ”

Some people died, but not completely......