Chapter Thirty-Seven: Dead Guard
"Fangshan!"
For Chen Mu, a small banner of Qingyuan that started at the end of the micro, war has never been a good thing, but war is an opportunity.
As long as he can win.
Tan Lun originally planned to put Wang Zhongguo back and let him make meritorious contributions, because the Wei Army's personal attachment to the Wei Officer could not be compared to anything, and no one in the Yanqing Flag Army could command better than Wang Zhongguo in a short period of time.
But Chen Mu's words changed Tan Lun's thoughts.
General Chen has been promoted again, the official positions of the Ming Dynasty are longer than the other, Chen Mu now also enjoys this treatment, and now he is the commander of the Nanyang Wei palm print, General Zhaoyong, the deputy chief soldier of Changzhen and the acting commander of the Yanqing Wei, and controls the three guards.
Chen Mu didn't lie in the military department, and when he got the warrant from the military department, he pulled out a 3,000-step cavalry artillery team in Yanqing Sanwei.
The headquarters of the banner army of 500, forcefully received Wang Zhong's national treasury and built 500 cavalry, selected brave and daring people from the miners, salt apprentices and guards to form a 2,000-person death squad, led by Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng, controlled the three guards and 14,000 troops, and escorted the baggage to the Fangshan position.
By the way, Lao Wang's savings for half of his life have made a favor for General Chen.
At an extraordinary time, he carried out an extraordinary method, took the warrant of the military department, and took the dirty punishment treasury officer of the criminal department to raid the home of the former commander, and withheld two or three thousand silver in order to boost morale in the future.
Dafang Mountain, the mountain above.
In the telescope, the terrain under the mountain reaches the Juma River, except for the peaks on both sides of the mountain is the field orchard of Yima Pingchuan, now it is the agricultural time, even if the army is stationed here, the people in the countryside are still busy harvesting, Chen Mu also sent a flag army to help the people collect grain - this is part of the military, the wall is clear.
He has never commanded such a large army, but it is not as difficult as imagined to march and garrison the camp normally, after all, there are two commanders to help, more than 8,000 banner troops are directly commanded by Hu Xingyun and Jiang Yuelin, and the remaining 4,000 soldiers are led by Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng.
What really belongs to Chen Mu is only more than a thousand of the most elite troops, the infantry artillery banner army of the headquarters, the family soldiers and the collection of 500 cavalry.
By the way, these five hundred cavalry are not cavalry, they are mounted infantry, Chen Mu specifically asked about this when he gathered them, most of them are rough cavalry shooting, but they will not and dare not fight with Hu Lu on horses, if they really want to use them to fight, they will choose to ride in front of Hu Lu and then dismount and fight in array.
This is also the usual combat method used by the soldiers of the Ming army in northern Xinjiang.
"Chen worked with you for the first time, but I didn't expect it to be such a war, a hundred miles behind us is the city of Beijing, and forty miles southwest is the Juma River, in the middle, we have to lay two lines of defense, this and this."
Chen Mu was outside the handsome tent at the foot of Dafang Mountain, commanding, generals, thousands of households, guerrillas, and generals, sitting in two columns, and the open space three steps square in the middle was placed on the wooden plank, and the soldiers used soil and stone glue to put out the sand table in the defense area.
Chen Mu pointed to two places, one is under Dafang Mountain, several mountain range breaks in the Fangshan Mountain Range, a line of gentle terrain, he said: "Here please Commander Hu led the flag army of the headquarters to build five camps, three to guard the valley, two in front of each other as horns to guard the official road, wait for the camp to be erected, leave 500 soldiers to guard, the headquarters forward fifteen miles, and then set up a military village." ”
The second place is the forward front, which is ten miles northeast of the Juma River, and he said: "The first thing that the flag army of the headquarters led by Jiang Commander is to build two large villages, divide them into left and right, dig the Juma trench, and build a wooden bridge on the trench to connect the defeated army. ”
In fact, Chen Mu was already looking forward to this war, if this battle could not be fought here, I am afraid he would be very disappointed.
This is the last line of defense, there are two important towns in Zhending and Baoding in front, it is conceivable that there will be no accidents in the future, whether the war will go north of the Juma River, Chen Mu's defense area will welcome a large number of defeated troops and fleeing people.
"Chen will sit here next, and when the camp is completed, please ask Jiang to cross the Juma River, dig a trench in the shallow part of the river, and set up a camp."
Chen Mu wanted to sit on the front line ten miles northeast of the Juma River, and as he spoke, he looked at Jiang and Hu Er's commanders, and said: "Before Hu Lu hits the Juma River, the two soldiers and horses will advance to the front of the Juma River, and these ten miles are where you will set up camp. ”
To put it bluntly, the camps behind are not inhabited, maybe they will live, but they are not inhabited, of course, Chen Muning will never use those camps, because several fronts are used to cover the retreat.
"Obey the general's orders!"
Jiang and Hu Er will clench their fists and respond, just as usual. As a guard officer in the capital, they are used to obeying orders, no matter who the official is, anyway, every official has the right to rule over them.
"If there is no war, we will wait here to camp and repair the village, just in case, once in battle, Chen has an order, and I hope you will pass it on now." In wartime, the general order is naturally serious, in fact, Chen Mu wanted to bring a smiling expression at this time, but he didn't, he just asked the second general, "Is it okay?" ”
"Please show me the general."
"Good! Make a note of it! Chen Mu raised his hand and pointed out the master outside the account, and then ordered when he was ready: "Each hundred households will set up a small banner to supervise the war, and a thousand households will set up a hundred households to supervise the war, and the command will be supervised by Chen. ”
"Where the small flag officer collapses at the first touch, remember the small flag officer; All the small flags are dead and the flag army escapes, and the whole flag army is recorded; The small flags were all killed in battle, the general flag escaped, and the chief flag officer was recorded; The general flag was killed in battle, the flag army fled back, and the whole flag army was 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 100 households, the 100 households are killed by 1000 households, and the 1000 households are killed by the commander, and you can't intercede." Chen Mu looked at the two commanders and said, "Whoever pleads, kill together." ”
"This ...... Checkmate! ”
Hu Xingyun still didn't react, but it was too difficult for Jiang Yuelin to accept, what kind of ghost military law is this!
"Of course, Chen is not unkind, the above is a desertion without a retreat order, and the deserters will be executed, all day long." Chen Mu paused and said: "When to retreat, Chen has the final say, but Chen may not be in the same command, so the commander also has the power to announce the retreat, we have a lot of defense lines, and we can always retreat." ”
"But it's not that you can retreat casually, there are only three possibilities for retreat, or Chen gives an order to let the commander retreat, and you can retreat; Either their own casualties are too large, and they can retreat to Hebei if they suffer 10% casualties in the west of the Juma River; If the casualties on the front line exceed 20%, they can retreat fifteen miles back to the camp; If the casualties in the camp are more than 30%, they can retreat to the foot of Dafang Mountain; Dafang Mountain suffered more than forty percent casualties and could withdraw from the battlefield. ”
"In addition, if you want to retreat, you will kill the enemy, each of you has more than 4,000 soldiers, and Hexi will kill more than 200 enemies, and return to Hebei; Hebei killed more than 300 enemies and retreated to the camp; The camp killed more than 500 enemies; Retreat to Dafang Mountain, if there are neither so many casualties nor so many kills, and Chen does not give an order and the commander retreats without authorization, please trouble Qianhu to kill the commander for me, and Chen will protect your official position. ”
"So, you get it, right? Toshio! ”
Chen Mu gave an order, turned his head and called Long Junxiong, who was in charge of the soldiers and cavalry, and said: "Order the horse team to cross the river and investigate the situation, insert ten horse posts along the way, and report back once an hour; Led the soldiers to transport gunpowder and blew up the two wooden bridges, leaving only the big stone bridge, which is where Chen had to defend to the death! ”