When he started escaping from Songshan, Wang Jida had already started thinking about how to tell a good story on the road.

By the time he escaped from Funiu Mountain, he already had a general case.

First of all, we must extricate ourselves from this fiasco. As for who is responsible for this fiasco.

Who else could it be? Of course it’s Huang Guangmao, who doesn’t know whether he’s alive or dead!

After all, Huang Guangmao is just the leader of the army. Wang Jida is not even supervising the army. He just goes into the mountains with Huang Guangmao to suppress the bandits.

As the leading general, Huang Guangmao has suffered a disastrous defeat. If he is not responsible, who is responsible?

Therefore, all responsibilities must be placed on Huang Guangmao.

Simply shirking responsibility is not enough, other means must be prepared, such as immediately sending people to secretly recruit hundreds of young men to restore the original county brave establishment of several hundred people.

Let's do some pretense of resisting the bandit army, and then get some heads to serve as the heads of the bandits.

After making these preparations, he was going to write a letter to his mentor and friend, and then planned to send a sum of money to Tan Zhengling.

He planned to tell others this story: Huang Guangmao refused to listen to dissuasion and insisted on advancing with light troops, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army. After the rebels defeated Huang Guangmao's troops, they continued eastward and tried to attack Lushan County.

As for himself, he led the county's brave forces to climb the violent waves. After many days of hard fighting, he finally forced back the rebel army outside the mountain, successfully protecting tens of thousands of people in Lushan County.

As long as the operation is done well, maybe he can even be promoted to a higher level due to merit...

After all, under the disastrous defeat of Huang Guangmao, he, Wang Jida, made a sniper attack on the rebel army, forcing the rebel army to stop at Funiu Mountain and successfully defended Lushan County. Isn't this a meritorious service?

What, you said it was Wang Jida who forced Huang Guangmao to attack Songshan several times.

Are you kidding me? Wang Jida has never done this before!

Wang Jida was just about to try his best to turn a tragic defeat into a tenacious sniper attack, trying to create an image of himself as a civil servant who was not afraid of strong enemies and bravely led troops to kill thieves.

Luo Zhixue in Songshan didn't know that Wang Jida still had so many roles...

At this time, Luo Zhixue was busy collecting prisoners of war and reorganizing the five posts. At the same time, he continued to arrange manpower to build the Songshan defense line.

In the past few days of Songshan defense operations, we fought very well through the Baoxiang camp, and the invading areas were annihilated twice.

However, these two defensive operations involved a certain amount of luck, which does not mean that the Songshan defense line is really very strong.

When Fei Bingqing led his troops to attack for the first time, he led his men and horses close to the canyon because he underestimated the enemy. Then he was defeated by Luo Zhixue first with artillery bombardment and then with cavalry charge.

The second time was purely because the Ming army was too stubborn and wanted to attack head-on. This was equivalent to the enemy washing their necks and sending them to Baoxiang camp to kill them. Luo Zhixue didn't understand why the Ming army would do this before.

They were so stubborn, but after they captured Huang Guangmao and others, they found out that it was Wang Jida, the county magistrate of Lushan County, who had been forcing them to launch a strong attack.

After learning about this, Luo Zhixue immediately developed a 100% fondness for Wang Jida, the magistrate of Lushan County.

So much so that Luo Zhixue sighed to An Yongduo at that time: "This is a good official!"

Anyongduo also nodded seriously and said: "He is indeed a good official."

As worthy of being a county official, he is a generous man, and thousands of troops were sent away without any ambiguity at all.

If I enter Lushan County that day, I will definitely treat this person well. Not only will I treat him kindly, but I will also give him a big banner and five hundred taels of silver to reward him for his second attack.

Contribution in the Battle of Songshan.

The victory of the two Songshan battles was more or less at the cost of luck. This does not explain how strong the Songshan defense line itself is.

In fact, from the perspective of the fortifications themselves, the Songshan Defense Line is actually very ordinary. The city wall as the main body of the defense line is just a short wooden wall.

That day, the enemy brought in several artillery pieces that fired solid shells. They were able to destroy these wooden walls from a distance, and the arrow towers behind the wooden walls were even more unable to withstand the bombardment of the artillery.

At the same time, the area covered by the entire Songshan defense fortifications is still too small. At present, they only surround the valley as the center and extend towards the mountains on both sides, with a length of about three hundred meters.

In the more peripheral areas, there are actually no fortifications. There are only a few checkpoints set up in places suitable for small-scale traffic.

At the same time, the way into the hinterland of Funiu Mountain is not just the Songshan road.

There are actually several other roads that can enter the hinterland of Funiu Mountain. However, the road on the Songshan side is the best and is more suitable for large armies. It can barely pass by with carriages and light artillery.

The main reason is that the terrain to the south of Songshan is already considered hilly. Many villages in those areas were under the control of the Ming Dynasty officials. They are relatively mature areas for development, and naturally there are country roads.

The most difficult section of the road is the Songshan section. However, the last time the Ming army entered the mountain, in order to march, mainly to pass carriages and light artillery, the roads along the way were also widened and repaired to a certain extent.

In addition to Songshan Road, the conditions of the other roads into the mountain are much more complicated. People can only march on foot. If a lot of effort is not spent to repair the roads, it is impossible to pass carriages and artillery.

However, even so, the next time the Ming army attacks, it is still possible to bypass Songshan and march lightly along several other trails into the mountain.

To fight a war, you don't have to take such a high road. In fact, you can also march on small roads.

When walking along such a trail, armed personnel can march directly on foot. Logistics materials can be transported by mules and horses, or simply carried by civilians. As for those light artillery pieces weighing one to two hundred kilograms, they can also be dismantled and carried directly into the mountains.

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When Sun Lili and Luo Zhixue and others went south to Funiu Mountain, they took this kind of trail. At the same time, when Luo Zhixue and others brought two 200-pound artillery pieces from Sanshui Village to Songshan Village, they actually dismantled the barrels and mounts.

Divide it into two parts, and then use a group of people to take turns carrying it.

The subsequent 600-pound artillery pieces will also be separated and directly transported to the Songshan front line by a large number of personnel to be assembled with the gun mount.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Ming army from entering from other trails, Luo Zhixue stationed sentinels directly on these trails and set up checkpoints.

At the same time, in order to know the movements of the Ming army outside the mountain in advance, Luo Zhixue also arranged for a few smarter people to go to Lushan County in the east and Nanzhao County in the south to lurk in order to monitor the large-scale movements of the Ming army at any time.
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Once it is detected that a large-scale Ming army is gathering and heading towards Funiu Mountain, it is necessary to report it immediately.

The defense facilities on Songshan's side must continue to be strengthened. After all, this place is the most suitable road for the Ming army to march on a large scale. The defense line here must be built more solidly. Luo Zhixue asked the engineering team to continue to strengthen Songshan's main defense line, while also

A new artillery position was built in advance on the right side of the mountainside. The location of this artillery position was carefully selected. As long as the artillery is deployed here, it will be enough to cover the entire battlefield in front of the valley.

If the Ming army comes to attack later and wants to form an array in the open space in front of the valley, I'm afraid they will be bombarded before the array is ready.

Reorganize the troops, strengthen the Songshan defense line, strengthen peripheral intelligence collection, and deploy certain forces in other directions.

This is what Luo Zhixue mainly did after the Second Battle of Songshan. These things cannot be said to be too much, but to say too little is not too little. Many of them need to be handled by Luo Zhixue personally.

After working on various military affairs for five days, Luo Zhixue relaxed a little and began to make time to deal with other camp affairs.

It is said to be business affairs, but in fact it is more like various internal affairs.

Some of these business matters are purely trivial, while others are very important matters.

For example, because the two villages on the edge of Sanshui Village are in the upstream and downstream of a stream, the two sides have been fighting for the water source. They once had a fight, causing some casualties. As the overlord of Funiu Mountain, Baoxiang Ying

Naturally, we cannot turn a blind eye to this kind of internal strife.

Luo Zhixue, who was busy fighting against the Ming army some time ago, had no time to pay attention to them. No, after he had some time, he asked the village chiefs of the two villages and several well-known old men to be called over to deal with the matter.

When the Baoxiang Camp collected grain from each village before, in order to successfully collect grain, they actually used some force as a threat, and incidentally also arranged village chiefs for each village.

No other people were sent, but a person with a relatively high reputation from each village and who was obedient to their Baoxiang camp was selected as the village chief. He was responsible for handling ordinary affairs in each village, mainly assisting the Baoxiang camp in recruiting food and soldiers. On weekdays, he also Will be responsible for handling some chores in the village.

Luo Zhixue called people from these two villages over and scolded them severely, and then asked them to negotiate directly in Songshan Village and divide the water sources on the spot.

Under the threat of a group of soldiers, these people were already frightened. When the two sides came, they were still hostile to each other. Okay.

Apart from such trivial matters, what is actually more important is to arrange for land reclamation so that more food can be grown after spring plowing next year.

There are now hundreds of people in the Baoxiang camp, and there are hundreds of prisoners of war. These people all need to eat, and the food collected from the villages in Funiu Mountain alone is not enough to feed them. You have to farm by yourself.

The first place to be reclaimed is not Sanshui Village, nor the several places near Sanshui Village, but Songshan Village.

Not only was Songshan Village the site of subsequent large-scale reclamation, but Luo Zhixue had gradually transferred all the craftsmen in the weapons workshop to Songshan Village and re-established the weapons workshop.
Chapter completed!