The Changping defense area is neither big nor small, and the military affairs are very heavy, but the garrison task is not heavy.

From Juyong Pass to the northern suburbs of the capital, a radius of 100 miles, there are both Xiongguan and dangerous roads, and the most fatal thing is where the imperial tomb is located.

In terms of military status, this is a second line of defense, with Gubeikou and Jinshanling in the north, and the defense line of Xuanfu Datong in the west can be defended after being breached. In other words, although this is the second line of defense, behind him is the city of Beijing.

It can be said that under normal circumstances, there will be no battles in Changping, and once there is a battle, this is the land of death.

"The danger of Juyong Pass should be solid, it is rare in the world, the general merit starts in the south and is young and promising, the first time he is stationed in the north of Xiongguan, and he is cautious in the past, and he can't be greedy for merit in case of trouble."

The speaker was Wu Dui, the deputy envoy of Jizhou Military Preparation Road, who was subordinate to Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jiliao, and was also a civilian official who had been in the military for a long time.

In order to let Chen Mu take over the Changping affairs smoothly, Tan Lun specially chose Wu Dui to take him to inspect the defense area.

"Over the years, all the Juyong passes have been broken, not passes, but dangerous roads, so the generals should deploy rangers on dangerous roads to wait for war." Wu Dui is businesslike, neither domineering nor pleasant, giving Chen Mu the feeling that he is very scheming and can do great things, because he sees everything in his eyes but does not make a sound.

In the process of patrolling the soldiers, they saw that many guards were relaxed and tired, and the soldiers were all old, weak, sick and disabled, Wu Dui did not speak, but only did his duty to take Chen Mu to see it, and made it clear that other things depended on his ability.

However, Chen Mu felt that this person was good, and he was very friendly, because when he returned to Changping City, which was the future of Deputy General Chen's garrison, Chen Mu invited him to a banquet, but he asked the servant to refuse, and then sent someone to invite Chen Mu.

The green lantern wine, without a trace of dance, stopped the two of them drinking at the table in the house, and said: "The town of Changping, where does the general think it is important?" ”

Chen Mu raised three fingers, put down the wine bowl and said, "Pass, dangerous road, imperial tomb." ”

"There is another place, the Dragon and Tiger Terrace Palace." Wu Dui pointed to the direction of Longhu Mountain, arched his hand to the sky, and said: "The land of Longhu Tai is important in His Majesty's palace, and it is also the top priority to prepare for travel and stationing. In the past few days, the general may have seen that the shortage of soldiers in many guard battalions is really serious, and the sand and the old and weak need to be carried out urgently, and what the general wants to do is the general's business, and it is inconvenient for Wu to say more. ”

"But it is Wu's duty to rectify the army, but everything important can be passed down to discuss below." Wu Dui's words are actually good, which means that even if you don't care about anything, you have to inform him first, "No matter what the general's plan is, I can only tell the general that there are no new soldiers - at most half a month, the Jinyi guard who went to the south to recruit troops will be handed over to Changping, and there may be five or six thousand soldiers, and there will be no more sergeants." ”

Chen Mu's brows furrowed more than ever, he didn't ask about the new recruits, but asked: "Wu Bingbei, I want to ask, Xuanfu and Datong, how many soldiers do they have?" ”

Wu Dui, who had lived in the military department for a long time, came to capture these things and said: "The Xuanfu side is 600 miles, and the rated soldiers are 150,000; Datong has a radius of more than 1,000 miles, and the rated soldiers are 135,000. ”

Immediately after Chen Mu asked: "What about Changping, not counting the guards, how many battalions and recruits are there?" ”

Wu Dui smiled, this General Chen is very smart!

"The general doesn't have to count those." He raised three fingers and said, "The three thousand battalions are led by the staff general of Longhutai and are stationed in Longhutai; 5,600 filial piety guards garrisoned the emperor's mausoleum, which are all immovable troops. Other generals also saw it, Yanqingwei has jurisdiction over five departments and thousands of households along the Juyong Pass, Yanqingwei used to be called Long Qingwei, and the name was changed in the first year, including the left and right two guards, and the flag army is also full. ”

"In addition, it is the new pawn sent by the Jinyi Guard half a month later."

Playing with hair?

Changping has more than 20,000 registered soldiers, but in fact, he can only use the fifteen thousand households of Yanqing Sanwei and the newly recruited southern soldiers ranging from 1,000 to 5,000, all depending on the mood of Jinyiwei.

The court did not deceive people, counting the old, weak, sick and disabled guards, it was more than 20,000.

Chen Mu thought that he had already passed the test by obtaining the official position of deputy chief soldier of Jiliao West Road. He met Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun, thinking that every sentence in the dialogue and every action in the behavior was a test.

He was wrong, his fame was not enough to make Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang look sideways, everyone boasted of his military exploits and summarized his combat methods, but he was not transferred to let him fight.

Wu Dui saw that Chen Mu was distracted, and said with a smile: "The soldiers of the world are weak but the battalion soldiers are strong, and the recruitment of soldiers is stronger than the battalion soldiers, and everyone knows it." Only in Guangdong, there was a thousand households in Xiangshan who refused to accept it, governed the army for two years, and used the flag army to fight the Battle of Tuen Mun in Lingdingyang, chasing the chief leader of the Fujian Guanghai Kou to heaven and earth and had nowhere to escape. ”

"Such a record, if it is a recruitment, is far inferior to the victory of Taizhou; If it is a battalion soldier, it is not as good as the Battle of Xinjiang. Wu Dui drank a glass of wine, lifted his robe, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and arched his hand to the beginning: "My ancestors first set up a flag military guard, and were proud of raising millions of soldiers without consuming a grain of grain for the people, and it has been nearly 200 years, and the descendants are incompetent, and the guard army has collapsed and become a million servant tenants. ”

"As strong as Tan Qi's marshals, he is not willing to drive the guards and recruit troops, but General Chen can turn decay into magic, so that he can exhaust the guards to recruit the army, practice for two years, and win the Japanese in the vast land and sea, and strengthen the spirit of our army!"

Perhaps because he drank too much wine, Wu Dui's spirit also became heroic, and he hugged his fists and said: "I can't hide it, recruiting generals to come north, not only is the military department all cousins, but also the first assistant and the second assistant have to agree, in order to stop one thing - the reform of the guards." ”

The burden on his shoulders seemed to have suddenly become heavy, so he raised a guard army, and now he has actually become the pioneer of the entire imperial guard to reform the malpractices, which makes Chen Mu a little difficult to accept.

He couldn't interject, so he just listened to Wu Dui.

Zhang Cifu played Chen Qishu in the early years of Longqing, with the intention of enriching the country and strengthening the army, but it was not adopted because the reform was very widespread. In Changping, no one can stop the general, and it is best for the Jinyi guard to recruit sergeants to use together, and it doesn't matter if they don't work. ”

"As long as the Yanqing Sanwei Banner Army can practice and be self-sufficient, it will be a great achievement for the general, even if there is no military merit, the addition of officials to the knighthood is just around the corner!"

Bidding farewell to Wu Dui, riding a horse surrounded by family soldiers, the slightly drunk Chen Zongbing had a tired and indescribably happy complexity on his face.

The test has only just begun at this time.

"Logistics, and the is here to do logistics."

"Chen Ye is a general!"

From Qingyuan to Nanyang, from Nanyang to Changping, build warships and new weapons, huh? Who is Chen Ye behind?

If you have to hold on to Lao Tzu, you will farm!

Chen Mu viciously slapped the "Flag Army Production Training Manual" on the table.