Chapter 37: Defending
"Fangshan!"
For Chen Mu, the small Qingyuan flag that started in the last days, war has never been a good thing, but war is an opportunity.
As long as he can win.
Tan Lun originally planned to release Wang Zhongguo back and make him commit crimes and make meritorious service, because the guards could not compare with the personal dependence of the guard officials. In a short period of time, no one in the Yanqing Guard Banner Army could be better than Wang Zhongguo commanded it.
But Chen Mu's words changed Tan Lun's idea.
General Chen was promoted again, and the Ming Dynasty's official positions were longer than the other. Chen Mu now enjoyed this kind of treatment. Now he is the commander of the Nanyang Guard, General Zhaoyong, Deputy General of Changzhen and Deputy Commander of Yanqing Guard, and Controls the Three Guards.
Chen Mu did not lie to the Ministry of War. When he received the Ministry of War, he pulled out a three thousand-infantry cavalry artillery team from the three guards of Yanqing.
The 500 flag troops in our unit were strongly accepted by Wang Zhong's national wealth and built 500 cavalry. From the miners and the guards, they selected bold and desperate men to form a 2,000 suicide squad. They were led by Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng, and controlled the three guards' combined army to escort the baggage to the Fangshan position.
By the way, Lao Wang saved half his life to make a favor for General Chen.
In an extraordinary time, he carried out extraordinary methods. He took the Ministry of War's warrant and the Ministry of Justice's official jailer to punish the former commander's house and intercepted two or three thousand silver in order to boost morale in the future.
Dafang Mountain, the mountain above.
In the telescope, the terrain at the foot of the mountain is up to the Juma River. In addition to the peaks on both sides, there are flat fields and orchards. Now it is the time for farming. Even though the army is stationed here, the people in the country are still busy rushing to harvest. Chen Mu also sent flag troops to help the people collect grain - this is part of the military, strengthening the walls and clearing the fields.
He had never commanded such a large army, but it was not as difficult as he thought to command the normal marching camp. After all, there were two commanders who helped him. More than 8,000 flag troops were all commanded by the left and right commanders Hu Xingyun, Jiang Yuelin, and the remaining 4,000 troops were led by Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng.
The only one of Chen Mu was the only one thousand most elite troops, including the infantry and artillery flag army, family soldiers and gathered 500 cavalry.
By the way, these five hundred cavalry are not cavalry, but horse-riding infantry. Chen Mu asked about this when he gathered them up. Most of them were riding cavalry and shooting, but they would not dare to fight with the Hulu on horseback. If they really wanted to fight, they would choose to ride horses in front of the Hulu and then dismount and line the formation to fight.
This is also the common combat method used by the soldiers of the northern border of the Ming army.
"My first time Chen worked with you, but I didn't expect that this was the war. A hundred miles behind us was Beijing City, and forty miles southwest was the Juma River. In the middle, we had to set up two lines of defense, which is this and this."
Chen Mu was outside the commander's tent at the foot of Dafang Mountain, commanding, participating generals, thousands of households, and guerrillas. He sat in two rows. In the middle, there were three square open spaces. On the wooden boards were placed with domestic soldiers using earth, stone and glue juice to set up the sand table in the defense zone.
Chen Mu pointed to two places, one was at the foot of Dafang Mountain, and there were several mountain breaks in the Fangshan Mountains. The terrain was flat. He said: "Here, Commander Hu, lead the banner army of our headquarters to build five camps, three to guard the valleys, and two places live in front of each other to guard the official roads. When the camp is built, 500 troops will be left to guard the camps. The headquarters will push forward fifteen miles and then set up a military camp."
The second is the front line. In order to be ten miles northeast of the Juma River, he said: "The first thing the Jiang commander led the banner army to do is to build two big villages, set up left and right sides, dig the Juma trenches, and build a wooden bridge to lead the defeated army on the trenches."
In fact, Chen Mu is already looking forward to this war. If this war cannot be defeated by him, he may be very disappointed.
This is the last line of defense. There are Zhending and Baoding two important towns. It can be imagined that if nothing unexpected happens next, no matter whether the war will go north of the Juma River, Chen Mu's defense zone will welcome a large number of defeated troops and fleeing people.
"Chen will sit here next, wait for the camp to be built, and ask the river commander to cross the Juma River, dig trenches in the shallow water, and set up camps."
Chen Mu was going to sit in the front line ten miles northeast of the Juma River. As he said that, he looked at Jiang, and commander Hu Er said, "Before the Hulu fight to the Juma River, both of them will advance to the Juma River. These ten miles are where you camp."
To put it bluntly, the camps behind are not residents, and they may live in it, but they are not living in it. Of course, Chen Muning's camps will never be used because several fronts are used to cover the retreat.
"Abide by the general's order!"
Jiang and Hu Er generals held their fists and responded as usual. As guard officials in the capital, they were used to obeying orders. No matter who Shangguan was, every Shangguan had the power to govern them.
"If there is no war, we will be stationed here to repair the village in case of unexpected surprises. Once in the battle, Chen has a general order, and I hope you will pass it on now." The general order during the war is naturally serious. In fact, Chen Mu wanted to put a smile on his face at this moment, but he did not. He just asked the second general: "Can you?"
"Please tell me."
"Okay! Write it down!" Chen Mu raised his hand and lit the note of the outside tent, and waited for him to prepare before ordering: "Each hundred households has a small flag to supervise the battle, and a thousand households have a hundred households to supervise the battle. The command will be supervised by Chen. During the war, there is no need to go through the battle. Only one order will be used to kill the fugitive army."
"Any small flag officer is defeated as soon as it touches, and the small flag officer is recorded; all small flags die and the flag army flees back, and the entire flag army is recorded; all small flags die in battle, and the general flag flees back, and the general flag officer is recorded; the general flag is killed in battle, and the flag army flees back, and the entire flag army is recorded; hundreds of households and thousands of households follow the rules."
"The small flag is killed by the general flag, the general flag is killed by a hundred households, the hundred households are killed by a thousand households, and the commander is killed by a commander. You cannot plead for mercy." Chen Mu looked at the two commanders and said, "Whoever pleads for mercy, kill them together."
"This...General!"
Hu Xingyun still didn't respond, but it was too difficult for Jiang Yuelin to accept it. What kind of ghost military law is this!
"Of course, Chen is not unkind. The fleeing army above did not have a retreat order. All the fleeing army was executed, and the whole world was like this." Chen Mu paused and said, "When to retreat, Chen has the final say, but Chen may not be in the same place as the commander, so the commander also has the power to announce the retreat. We have many lines of defense and can retreat all the time."
"But it's not that you can retreat casually, there are only three possibilities for retreat. Either Chen ordered the commander to retreat and retreat. Or his own side suffered too much casualties. If he was in Hexi, he could retreat to Hebei. If he had more than 20% of his casualties at the front, he could retreat to the camp fifteen miles away. If he had more than 30% of his casualties at the camp, he could retreat to the bottom of Dafang Mountain. If he had more than 40% of his casualties at Dafang Mountain, he could withdraw from the battlefield."
"In addition to this, I want to retreat, just kill the enemy. You each have more than 4,000 troops. Hexi has more than 200 enemies and retreat to Hebei; Hebei has more than 300 enemies and retreat to the camp; the camp has more than 500 enemies and retreat to Dafangshan. If there are neither so many casualties nor so many killings, Chen has not issued an order but retreats without authorization, please ask Qianhu to kill the commander for me. Chen will recommend you to your official position."
"So, you understand, do you? Junxiong!"
Chapter completed!