Mao Yuanyi and the generals still wanted to continue to advise, but Zhu Youzhen continued at this time: "Since I ordered the reorganization of the Beijing camp to organize and train the new army, the officials of the DPRK and China have continued to write letters to advise, saying that the reorganization of the Beijing camp has not stopped once in the past dynasties, and the result is that the Beijing camp is still useless. The amount of money and food spent on the reorganization of the new army is even greater than that of previous reorganizations, but whether or not it can go into battle is still between the two sides.

The country already has nine important towns to defend Gyeonggi, and instead of handing over money and grain to the new army for waste, it is better to comfort the border army more to save some money and grain.

The country is now suffering from internal and external difficulties, disasters and famines are frequent in various places, and it is difficult for the imperial court to raise money and food for disaster relief.

I am not only going to protect the people of our Ming Dynasty this time, but I also hope to see with my own eyes whether the new army that the country has spent millions of yuan to build can be used.

With the current revenue of the country, I will not invest so much money in an army that cannot go into battle every year. Now is not the time for you to consider the issue of my security, but rather to consider how the Forces nouvelles should behave in the battles that follow.

Whether the new army can survive, or whether the army you lead can continue to maintain the name of the new army, I will judge the performance of each army on the battlefield. The meaning of the existence of the army is to go into battle to kill the enemy and win the victory. An army that cannot win, and does not even have the courage to face the enemy, loses the meaning of existence. ”

Although the Gyeonggi New Army has only been established for less than two years, it has already faintly formed a new group that is different from the old military system of the Ming Dynasty with the graduates of the Army Military Academy and the General Staff System as a link. In this new group, the influence of the disciples of the sect and the children of the nobles was minimized, and the literary school represented by Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan, and Mao Yuanyi occupied the absolute right to speak.

The junior military attachés at the bottom, the original martial arts system of the Ming Dynasty, and some low-level people who wanted to get rid of their own strata passed the training system of the Army Military Academy and formed the backbone of the new army.

And a low-level military attache like Zuo Liangyu, although he was able to be promoted to the position of middle-level military attache in the capital of the right camp of Liaoxi Che because he hugged Hou Sui's thigh. But in front of the generals in Liaoxi Town, they can still only make promises, and there is no room to continue to rise. Unless he can be accepted by the Liaoxi Jiangmen and become the in-law of a certain Jiangmen, he can go to the next level in the border army of Liaoxi Town.

However, after being transferred from Liaoxi Town to the system of the Gyeonggi New Army, generals like Zuo Liangyu immediately became one of the core generals of the Gyeonggi New Army. As long as the Gyeonggi New Army continues to develop, his position will rise.

In this regard, the members of the General Staff and the generals of the New Army, who are sitting in front of Chongzhen today, are willing to pay a certain price to safeguard the status and interests of the New Army as a group.

The safety of the emperor is important, but the interests of the new army cannot be given up either. In addition, the matter of advising the emperor has always been the specialty of civil officials, and the warriors of the Ming Dynasty have become accustomed to obeying the orders of the imperial court instead of raising objections under the suppression of civil officials for nearly 200 years.

At today's meeting, the only person who can persuade the emperor to give up the risk is Mao Yuanyi, the head of the General Staff Headquarters, whose identity is more suitable. Therefore, after hearing the emperor's remarks, these generals turned their eyes to Mao Yuanyi, and seemed to be expecting him to stop the emperor's idea of going to Ma Shenqiao.

However, Mao Yuanyi was not from a clear background, and he had not been trained in a civil official career, so he was really not professional enough for the task of advising the emperor. When the emperor threatened each other with whether he could maintain his status as a new army, Mao Yuanyi immediately stopped talking.

Zhu Youzhen nodded to everyone with satisfaction, and then said: "Then the first military meeting of the Supreme Command will end here, as for the next stage of the battle plan, we will discuss it after recapturing Shimen Village and understanding the actual situation of Zunhua City."

Those who have combat missions should go back to make preparations, and those who do not have combat missions should go back to clean up the camps and find ways to regulate the emotions of the officers and men.

In addition, the General Staff Headquarters will establish a communication network with the theaters and the capital as soon as possible, and we will update the latest situation on the battlefield every 24 hours. Chief of Staff Mao, you will stay in Jizhou to deal with this matter. After I came back from Mashenqiao, if the communication network with the various war zones and the capital has not been completed, I am the only one who asks. ”

Mao Yuanyi opened her mouth, and finally agreed. He could only comfort himself in his heart and implement it according to his plan, as long as the main force of Houjin did not appear in Shimenzhai, then it would be a small battle in a few days. If the Mongols were interested, there would not even be any fighting, at most it would be a contact battle between sentinels.

And he really can't persuade the emperor, at this time, the emperor is not entangled, but let the troops set off as soon as possible, take Shimenzhai as soon as possible, and then let the emperor return to Jizhou as soon as possible is the best choice. After capturing Shimenzhai, he must send a letter to the capital and ask General Sun to go to Jizhou as soon as possible. Only the elders of the four dynasties like Sun Chengzong, coupled with the identity of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, can stop the emperor's reckless behavior.

Mashenqiao is a large market town in the east of Jizhou City, with a permanent population of more than 1,000 people. It is located on the main road from Jizhou to Zunhua and even outside the Guan, and there was a market as early as the Tang Dynasty.

In this dynasty, Mashen Bridge became the main place for the nearby mountain people to trade with merchants and passing troops. Therefore, Mashenqiao is a rare village and town in Beidi that is famous for its developed commodity economy.

To the east of the Mashen Bridge is the Lin River; The southern side was originally a plain, but now it is part of the State River Reservoir; To the northwest is the Yanshan Mountains. Most of the land west of Mashen Bridge is covered by forest, except for a mile or two close to the town.

Most of the fields developed by the town's residents are on the banks of the Lin River or on the plains south of the town. Dozens of bridges have been built on the Lin River near the Mashen Bridge to facilitate the passage of troops and local residents across the river for farming. The name of Mashen Bridge is related to these legendary bridges built in the Tang Dynasty.

Although Mashenqiao is already a relatively wealthy market town in the north, it has not built a city wall like Shimenzhai, but only built a low earthen wall around the perimeter of the town, and then used the natural rivers on the east and west sides as a barrier to the town, mainly to protect against thieves rather than enemy invasions.

After all, there are Shimen and Zunhua in the east, Jizhou in the west, and the Great Wall and Yanshan Mountain in the north as barriers.

However, in October of the second year of Chongzhen, the sense of security of the local residents of Mashenqiao was suddenly shattered by the hooves of the Houjin army. The residents of the town fled west to Jizhou with the refugees from Zunhua and Shimen. By November 8, there were less than 400 residents left in Mashenqiao, and most of them were elderly and weak.

As for the defenders in the town, in addition to the six or seven hundred sergeants who fled from Ma Lanyu, Ma Lan Camp, and Shimen Village, it was the Jin Shenghuan camp that Zuo Liangyu transferred to Ma Shenqiao and thought it was a sentry.

According to the reorganization of the General Staff, the infantry division has 12 battalion heads, while the chariot division has only 9 battalion heads, and the actual number of the first battalion of the infantry division is 540, but the number of the first battalion of the chariot division has reached 600. However, the technical units of the chariot division are more than the infantry, and the actual combat strength is less than eighty percent.

The combat training of the cavalry division is mainly based on field defense operations, supplemented by city defense battles. With a battalion of troops and six or seven hundred Ming troops who had retreated, it was more than enough to hold the Mashen Bridge in front of 2 or 3 thousand cavalry. But if you want to continue to the east sentinel, you can't catch it.

The battalion general Jin Shenghuan is a hereditary military household in Liaoyang, and after the fall of Liaoyang, the whole family fell into the city, and he had to escape alone. He gritted his teeth with bitter hatred for Houjin, so soon after entering the customs, he joined the Liao army recruited by Sun Chengzong that year, wanting to fight back to Liaodong and find Jiannu for revenge.

However, the ** of the generals of the Ming army, the incompetence of the commander and the party struggle within the imperial court made the defeat of Liaoyang, and the Ming army continued to fail one after another, burying the Ming army that Liaodong could fight on the land of Liaodong.

At this time, people with a little insight can see that the current situation is no longer a question of whether the imperial court can recover Liaodong, but whether the imperial court can keep the western Liaoxi corridor and not be beaten under Shanhaiguan by Houjin.

At this time, Jin Shenghuan no longer had much hope that he could avenge the revenge of the whole family. And human memory is also a very strange thing, in order to be able to live with peace of mind. We will unconsciously forget some painful memories, so that time can wear away the hatred and pain bit by bit.

In the second year of Chongzhen, nine years after the fall of Liaoyang, when Jin Shenghuan stood on the narrow city wall east of Mashen Bridge, holding a monocular and looking at the Tartar sentry on the east bank of the Lin River, what appeared in his heart was not the anger of revenge, but a faint sense of powerlessness.

"My lord, these Tartars are getting more and more excessive, and they are almost running under our noses to sentry.

Do you want me to take a few people to drive them away, and I can't let them show off their might in front of the soldiers. In the past two days, the morale of the soldiers in the base camp has dropped a lot, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that if these Tartars are not used to attack, the morale of the army will collapse. ”

A hundred households standing behind Jin Shenghuan watched these Tartar sentries strolling across the river without scruples, as if it was an outing, and immediately asked his superiors angrily.

Jin Shenghuan put down the monoculars, sighed and said, "We are a cavalry battalion, not a cavalry battalion. There are only 5 or 60 people who can fight these Tartar sentries right away.

It's not like we haven't tried these days. If the number of people sent is smaller, they may not be able to win; As soon as the number of people sent out, these tartars ran faster than the rabbits.

Their mounts are better than those of our army, and our men can't catch up with them. If we chase deeper, these Tartars will still have ambushes, and our soldiers and horses will be wasted.

Wouldn't the failure of the attack in front of the army and the loss of men and horses hurt our morale even more? Let's continue to hold on, I have already sent someone to Jizhou in the morning to ask for assistance.

Either we will send a large army to support, and we will directly march east to take down Shimenzhai and block the main road of Shimenxia. Either simply withdraw to Jizhou City, and don't waste the lives of our soldiers in vain..."