People who can compare themselves to Zhuge Liang will never do boring things.

When Prince Xiong saw the plaque of Jingde Villa, he was actually slightly stunned, and soon understood the true meaning of Wan Lian.

Sooner or later, the word Jingde Villa will be spread, and if there is no real Jingde Villa, Zhang Ying's suspicion of secretly accumulating force to rebel will never be cleared.

Although Xuandewei is a hundred miles north of Hukou, it is a necessary road for merchants to take the west exit, so it will soon be transmitted back to Guannai.

Wan Lian is a person who pays attention to details, is far-sighted, and has a beginning and an end.

Prince Xiong respects him in his heart, because such a person can be trusted.

After the respect was over, Xiong Chu began to admire Wan Lian again.

It's not ordinary admiration, but very much admiration, and it's even about to be worshipped.

"You really have the ability!" Prince Xiong, accompanied by Wan Lian, inspected the entire military camp, and couldn't help but sigh: "In addition to the sixteen big lifting poles, there are actually four big fire guns, where did they all come from?"

Wan Lian didn't care: "What's this, isn't it just bought with money? You have brought back so many treasures from Chongfu Temple, you can only look at them, and you can't eat them as food." When I arrived at the fort, I paid a special visit to the overseers and the generals, and then I had these things. ”

"Your lord, you should know that this place was originally an outpost position for killing Hukou, that is, an early warning position. Because the imperial court was unwilling to fight on two fronts, in order to win the trust of Altan Khan, the king of Shunyi, this place was abolished. ”

"However, without this outpost warning position, killing Hukou and helping Mabao is very passive. As long as there is an enemy attacking, it will directly be a soldier in the city, and they all know the stakes. ”

"Because of this, after consultation, the generals of Zhumabao and Hukou decided to separately transfer the two firearms in stock to form a new early warning position for us. Because this is a private villa, it will not cause foreign disputes in the imperial court. ”

"However, this is a four-foot-long small wolf machine, the cannon weighs 200 catties, the bullet weighs 1 catty, and there is a crosshair to aim at the door. It can reach 500 steps when placed horizontally, and 2,000 or 3,000 steps when placed on its back. Each firearm is equipped with four sub-guns, so that the charge can be rotated without interruption. ”

Xiong Chu stretched out his hand and touched the fire gun, and then shook his head: "It's made of bronze, it's a good thing, but two hundred catties is too heavy." If we leave, how can we take it with us? I can carry it, but I can't go far. Also, will the brothers use it? This thing is no joke. ”

A smile faintly appeared on Wan Lian's face, and then he shook his head: "If it is a confrontation between the two armies, of course you can put it on the artillery carriage and use a horse to go." If it is an ordinary battle between the rivers and lakes, there is no need to bother. As for the operational sergeant, I have already brought twenty of them. Starting tomorrow, a group of brothers will be selected to come out for training. ”

Xiong Chu is also a young man, and there are times when his blood is boiling.

Although he was afraid that many people would die once the battle started, but now that the arrow was ready to be sent and had to be sent, there was no way back.

After inspecting the entire barracks, Xiong Chu realized that Wan Lian had done a lot of things before he came over.

First of all, a lot of grain and salt have been hoarded, and the essence of the war horse has also been prepared. Forage doesn't matter, it's the best pasture.

The second is the most worried gunpowder, this time it was also hoarded in large quantities. If you don't use a firebolt, it should last a long time.

Wan Lian said very strictly: "This is all bought with money in the Guannai, three times higher than the normal price, but I think it's worth it." The general who killed Hukou put a lot of effort into it, and he ordered the three hundred-man team to send it over at night to ensure that we had no worries about food and grass for a month. ”

The next three days were busy, because the military advisor Wan Lian issued an order, not only to tidy up all the barracks of the guard, but also to build another mountain village and a water village.

The cottage is built in the southwest corner of the Hulu Sea, adjacent to the east of the Naobao Mountain, halfway up the mountain, where six large lifting poles and two Furlong machine guns are arranged.

Huo Lianshan and Qiao Rushan's firearms battalion were stationed here, and the task was to take advantage of their condescending advantage, to be sure to discover the enemy situation in advance, and then raise the fire as a signal to see the north-south passage on the west side of the Death Gourd Sea.

The water village is built at the southernmost end of the Hulu Sea, three miles away from the cottage.

The water village that Wan Lian said was not to form a water army, but to build a camp on the shore of the Hulu Sea.

This camp is garrisoned by six female generals led by the White Phoenix Guards, which is actually to protect the girls and the White Phoenix Guards, because the south of the water village is next to the barracks.

There is a hot spring near the Hulu Sea, the local people call it Ma Shau Spring, legend has it that the flying general Li Guang led the troops to pass by here to fight the Huns, and once drank horses here to rest.

The construction of the water village mentioned by the military advisor Wan Lian is to close the gap between the horse planing spring and the gourd sea and cut off the passage here. At the same time, we should control the most important source of fresh water to ensure that there are no problems with the drinking water of our thousands of people.

As soon as I heard about the construction of a water village, the happiest person was Yan Erniang, followed by Huang Yanying and Fang Qianxun.

The three of them are all Jiangnan people, especially Yan Erniang originally grew up in Dongting Lake, and her underwater kung fu is a must, and it is said that she is more powerful than Zhang Shun, a good man in Liangshan, so her personal weapon is a pair of water thorns.

The White Phoenix Guards were stationed at the water's edge, of course, considering that the girls had convenient access to water, and at the same time, they also had two tasks, which were to monitor the entire lake and the grassland in the direction of Jubaozhuang on the east side of the Hulu Sea to prevent the enemy from sneaking up.

With Yan Erniang, Huang Yanying, and Fang Qianxun as the leaders, every day at noon, when the weather is hot, the entire Baifeng Guards conduct swimming training.

At noon on the fifth day, the three cantonment sites were all completed, and all the personnel in various places were arranged in place, and Xiong Chu and Wan Lian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At the beginning of May, the grassland on the Saiwaiba (called the dam by the locals on the Mongolian Plateau) is a good season when "the mountains are green, the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep".

In response to the confusion in Xiong Chu's heart, Wan Lian has not specified it. Now the people below are basically ready, and the two of them came to the main peak of Baotou Mountain in the cottage, and they had a panoramic view of the surroundings.

Xiong Chu was a little impatient: "Military Division, all kinds of forces around Naturalization City are intertwined, and they are already chaotic. We've popped up in this place, what's next?"

Wan Lian found a stone and sat down, and then spread out a map: "My lord, please see, as the most important northern fortress of the imperial court, the Datong line has been in constant fire for thousands of years, and the key is that the Chahar Department is too close, and the Mongolian iron cavalry will reach the bottom of the Great Wall with a casual movement." ”

"Although the Great Wall is thousands of miles, it is always impossible to defend one step at a time, and can only station troops in key areas, so there will be loopholes. Now all the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are cowering within the Great Wall, which violates the most basic principle of using troops that Qi Zheng depends on, and has lost all mobility, which is the way to death. ”

"Anyone who knows a little bit about military affairs will understand that the Great Wall is like a giant dragon, and it seems to be very powerful. But with a little breakthrough, the enemy in the north can drive straight in. Then, with a high view, it will inevitably be like a bamboo, sweeping thousands of miles, and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner. ”

"The lessons of the ages have taught us that no side has ever won a war by passively defending. Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty organized and trained a new army, and the general Wei Qing and the hussar general Huo Qu were born out of nowhere, crossed the Great Wall and smashed the hinterland of the Xiongnu, completely solving the border trouble. ”

Xiong Chu nodded: "The old master has told me a lot before, of course I understand this truth." I also know that everyone is very worried about the current precarious situation of the imperial court, but we are not the imperial army, but just a group of people in the rivers and lakes, how can we play the role of a partial division?"

A spark flashed in Wan Lian's eyes, and he suddenly became full of spirit: "If there are 10,000 elite cavalry, I can sweep thousands of miles and burn the enemy's rear hinterland to ashes." ”

Speaking of this, the look in Wan Lian's eyes quickly dimmed: "Yes, we are ordinary people, and no one supports us." But the ancients said: The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband. So we can only do our best, listen to the destiny of God, and not let ourselves regret it. ”

Wan Lian said the truth, and Xiong Chu felt a little helpless: "Although we people are not dragged down, even if one is ten, but the total is less than a thousand, what role can we play?"

"Of course you can play it!" Wan Lian stretched out his hand and pointed to the map: "Lord, you see, the imperial court is seeking perfection from Lin Dan Khan's ministry, and doesn't it hope to achieve something on the front line of Liaodong? In other words, the only enemy of the imperial court now is the Jurchen Tartar Nurhachi. ”

"The current situation is that Nurhachi is temporarily unable to break through the Shanhaiguan and Jiliao defense lines, and the enemy and us are temporarily in a stalemate, so Nurhachi's attention will inevitably turn to the west and north. ”

"The total number of Jurchen Tartars combined is less than 500,000, and he cannot afford to fight a protracted war and a war of attrition with the Ming Dynasty. Because the Jurchen Tartars lacked enough troops to replenish their resources, they belonged to a passive situation where if one died, one would be missing. ”

In this case, Nurhachi will definitely adjust his strategy in the future, and he will definitely find a way to expand his territory and strive to have a larger population base, so as to provide more soldiers. ”

"Although Mongolia is divided internally, on the surface it is Lin Dan Khan who has the final say. If Nurhachi turned around and headed westward, Lin Dan Khan would bear the brunt of the threat, and it would be a catastrophe. ”

Speaking of this, Wan Lian stood up and looked at Prince Xiong: "Lin Dan Khan is facing a catastrophe, this is our opportunity, what does the lord think?"

"The military advisor is really a genius!" Xiong Chu's face was slightly red, not shy but excited: "If you see Nurhachi as Cao Cao and Lin Danhan as Sun Quan, but we are not Uncle Liu Huang, are you going to stage a Romance of the Three Kingdoms here?"

Wan Lian smiled slightly: "Actually, as long as the lord stands up and raises his arms, he can also become Uncle Liu Huang." Look at how similar the current situation is? The lord borrowed Lin Dan Khan's territory, and then joined forces with Lin Dan Khan to deal with Nurhachi, isn't this the time before Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou?"

"Back then, Liu Bei and Uncle Liu Huang went through the defeat of Xinye, the defeat of Fancheng, and the defeat of Dangyang, and his subordinates were also not more than a thousand. Later, Zhuge Liang ordered Guan Yu to capture Liu Qi's 10,000 naval army, and then united with Eastern Wu to have the Battle of Chibi. Now the lord is almost the same as Uncle Liu Huang who was in Dangyang Changbanpo back then, what a good opportunity!"

"That's not good!" Prince Xiong hurriedly shook his head: "I'm just a little killer, I can't afford such a big responsibility at all, it's definitely not Uncle Liu Huang, don't mention this." ”

Wan Lian was still smiling: "Of course, the lord is not ready to be Uncle Liu Huang, so it doesn't matter." However, now that we have come out, and we still have nearly a thousand elite troops under our command. Even if you are not Uncle Liu, you can fish in troubled waters, and create another Uncle Liu to come out and deal with Nurhachi together!" I734