After listening to Chongzhen's explanation, Mao Yuanyi, Zuo Liangyu and others were relieved, what they were most worried about was that after the emperor arrived in Jizhou, he ignored and urged them to go east as soon as possible to rescue the soldiers and civilians besieged in Zunhua.

In the absence of knowing the specific situation of Zunhua, the available troops of Gyeonggi are used to take risks, and once the rescue fails and this capital is folded in, then the entire Gyeonggi region will be equivalent to opening the door to Houjin, and the situation of the entire war situation will be so bad that it cannot be worse.

After all, now the Xuanda army is preparing to plunder the back road of the invading army of Houjin, and the Liaoxi army is guarding the Shanhaiguan-Yongping-Fengrun line. Here in Jizhou, only the Gyeonggi New Army can be the mainstay. This is also why, after Mao Yuanyi and others arrived in Jizhou, they mainly focused on building the Jizhou defense line, rather than going east to explore the direction of Zunhua.

To some extent, the Zunhua military and civilians had actually given up, and they only hoped that the Zunhua military and civilians would delay the westward advance of the Houjin army as much as possible, so that they would have time to complete the Jizhou defensive line.

Of course, no one will say such things directly. After all, the goal of the wartime base camp is, first, to rescue the Zunhua army and civilians and drive the invading Houjin army out of the Great Wall; The second is to build a defense line in Jizhou to prevent the Houjin army from continuing to advance westward after occupying Zunhua City and threatening the capital.

The emperor's suggestion gave them an excuse to absolve them of the charge of sitting on a large army and not rescuing Zunhua City. The Mongolian cavalry stationed in Shimenzhai were all Mongolian cavalry, these Mongolians had no experience in defending the city, if the main force of the Ming army in Jizhou was mobilized to advance eastward, these Mongols obviously wanted to retreat and entangle with the Ming army in the field, rather than waiting for death in Shimenzhai.

There is a large plain terrain between Shimen Village and Baozi Village, which is the most conducive to cavalry galloping and assault. In the past, Qi Jiguang once conducted a military exercise of 100,000 people between Baozizhai and Tangquanzhai, which shows that this area is enough to accommodate the deployment of large troops.

The Mongols would not fail to take advantage of this terrain, and once they took the initiative to abandon Shimen and put on a posture of luring the enemy into depth, then the base camp would have an excuse to gather forces and shrink back to the Jizhou defense line.

Zuo Liangyu was the first to speak out in support of the emperor's fire reconnaissance plan, and Mao Yuanyi and other officials of the General Staff also spoke out in agreement. Cui Chengxiu, the former secretary of the military department who has always opposed sending troops to the east, saw this scene, and could only say a few words on the side to act cautiously.

As the former secretary of the military department who guarded the system at home, Cui Chengxiu could only represent the local gentry at this time, and since the representatives of the local gentry did not object, the fire reconnaissance plan proposed by the emperor was naturally passed without hindrance. Cui Chengxiu was also dumb at this time, eating coptis, and there were words of suffering. Since the representative of the gentry in Jizhou had just been stopped outside the palace by the emperor's order, how could he dare to jump out to oppose the emperor's proposition.

Whether he can recover when the filial piety period is about to end mainly depends on Chongzhen's attitude. As the head of the eunuch party who is regarded by the Donglin party as second only to Wei Zhongxian, whether he can recover or not represents the emperor's attitude towards the eunuch case. If it can be revived, it will mean that the party dispute case in the Apocalypse period has come to an end temporarily. Whether it is a eunuch party or a member of the Donglin Party, they all need to accumulate strength in a short period of time and wait for the next opportunity to struggle.

If he can't recover after the expiration of his filial piety, then no matter how Chongzhen suppressed the party strife in the court and how he showed that he was not prejudiced against the two parties, he could not hide the emperor's vigilance against the eunuchs. Knowing the emperor's mentality, the Donglin Party will inevitably provoke a new round of party struggle and completely overturn the case for the Donglin Party.

Therefore, Cui Chengxiu can put a shelf of the former military department in front of Mao Yuanyi and Jiang Dejing, but in front of Chongzhen, he will not have any superfluous actions. What he needed most at the moment was to gain the trust of the new emperor in order to maintain his power and position.

Cui Chengxiu knows very well that if he completely fails in the court struggle, not only will the business of the first half of his life be in vain, but even everything in the Cui family in Jizhou will soon be regarded as a bag by the new powerful people.

Therefore, when the emperor put forward the idea of fire reconnaissance, he could only cautiously remind two sentences, and then he also supported the emperor.

Zhu Youzhen stopped Mao Yuanyi's continued discussion on the content of the fire reconnaissance, "We will talk about which troops to send to participate in this fire reconnaissance and the specific battle plan.

At present, the most important thing is to first sort out the organizational procedures between the wartime base camp and its subordinate units. The wartime base camp is not only the supreme command of the army, but also the supreme command of all units on the front line that are connected with the operation.

I also understood the situation of our army introduced by Staff Officer Mao just now. Although the wartime base camp controlled the intelligence of every unit from Huangyaguan to Shanhaiguan, it did not control the civil affairs in these areas, so that the army could not collect any supplies locally, and every grain needed to be transferred from the rear. This kind of scheduling tasks is too heavy for the limited manpower of the wartime base camp.

What's more, some of the places where the army is stationed are inconvenient to come and go, and the base camp receives the news and then responds, often after 5 or 6 days, and the battle situation is changing rapidly, how can we be allowed to react so slowly?

Therefore, I believe that the line of defense in contact with Houjin should be divided into a number of theaters, and each theater should have a wartime commander, who will be responsible for the command power of all the armies in the theater and the power to supervise civil affairs.

These wartime commanders are accountable only to the wartime base camp and are not interfered with by others. Of course, their power only exists within the war zone, and they have no right to interfere in military and civil affairs outside the war zone. After the end of the war, he left his post with the disbandment of the wartime base camp.

What do you think? ”

The wartime base camp was originally set up to assist the emperor in commanding operations, and it was a military and political organ that concentrated power. Even if Chongzhen directly ordered at this time, Mao Yuanyi and the others could only follow it, not to mention that now the emperor gave them the opportunity to ask for their opinions.

Mao Yuanyi, Zuo Liangyu and other subordinate officers of the former wartime base camp naturally would not oppose the establishment of branches under themselves in order to better control the military power of the entire front.

Jiang Dejing and Cui Chengxiu were silent for a while, and they frowned and thought about whether this division of the war zone would affect the civilian officials' management power over civil affairs.

Zhu Youzhen didn't wait for the two of them to think properly, so he continued: "I think that the Yanshan Mountain Range in the north of Jizhou City is the boundary, and Miyun and Changping are divided from Jizhou City to the west of Huangya Pass as the 4th War Zone.

Changping General Army Heiyunlong for the 4th Theater of Operations... Well, let's call the commander, and let Jinyiwei command Zhang Shizhuo to serve as the superintendent judge of the 4th Theater, responsible for the military and civilian law and discipline of the 4th Theater.

Jizhou and Fengrun are set up as the 1st theater, and the commander of the theater is led by me, and Cui Benbing is willing to assist me as the deputy commander of the theater to handle the logistics and civil affairs of the theater? ”

Cui Chengxiu suddenly forgot the calculation in his heart, and with the joy on his face that could not be concealed, he got up and said to the emperor: "The ministers should be ordered to do their best for Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youzhen beckoned to him, and after motioning for him to sit down, he said to Jiang Dejing on the other side of the long table: "Jiang Shangshu is a civil official, and he shouldn't have interfered in military affairs.

However, now that the military situation is urgent, I hope that you can take charge of the military and political affairs of Fengrun, Tangshan, and Luanzhou. Although Fengrun is in the south of Zunhua, there are mountains and rivers between the two places, and the current weather and the river are not frozen.

Therefore, the task of the second theater of operations is to cross the small Jin army to the south after the defensive alert, and to support the direction of Yongping and Qian'an. Of course, the most important thing is to ensure the safety and production tasks of the Tangshan Iron and Steel Base, and not to allow it to be damaged by the enemy. ”

Although Jiang Dejing still had some doubts about setting up a war zone, being able to get the task of defending Tangshan relieved his previous worries. He hesitated, but accepted the emperor's appointment.

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said to Cui Chengxiu on the side: "I know that the squire of Jizhou also bought a lot of shares of Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant. Defending Tangshan is actually defending the property of the people of Jizhou.

Therefore, the gentry of Jizhou still have to make some efforts. I asked Tian Ergeng to take a team of brocade guards to be responsible for the military and civilian law and order in the second war zone. In addition, 100 night troops were sent to Jiang Shangshu and a battalion of the 5th Division of the Gyeonggi Army.

Cui Benbing's side also mobilized a group of Jizhou militia groups to give Jiang Shangshu to ensure the safety of Tangshan, okay? ”

Cui Chengxiu replied without hesitation: "After the next meeting, the ministers will go to discuss with the local gentry, and they will definitely pick out a group of young and strong militia groups and hand them over to Jiang Shangshu." ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded at Cui Chengxiu and said: "Cui Benbing is really loyal to the country, I have also heard that Cui Benbing has done a lot of things for the people of Jizhou in the past year, and has donated a lot of fertile land in order to build the state river reservoir."

After the end of Cui Benbing's filial piety period, he should return to the court as soon as possible to continue to serve the court and the people, and he should not waste his time at home. ”

"The minister should be ordered by His Majesty, bow to the best, and die." Cui Chengxiu's face turned red, and he had long forgotten that he was the backstage of the Jizhou gentry who opposed the deployment of troops to support Tangshan.

Zhu Youzhen immediately said: "The line from Qian'an and Yongping to Shanhaiguan is the third war zone, and the commander of the war zone is led by Wang Benbing. As for the superintendent judge of the third war zone, he was also led by Zhang Chun, the superintendent of Huazhou.

The first and third theaters are the main direction of attack, and the tasks of the second and fourth theaters are defense and containment.

Staff Officer Mao, you should determine the military establishment of each theater as soon as possible. Once the theater of operations is established, these armies must obey the orders of the theater commander in addition to the orders of the base camp.

If there is a dare to disobey the order, the commander and judge of each theater may immediately enforce wartime discipline below the rank of commander-in-chief. Those above the rank of commander-in-chief may be deprived of their military command and sent to the capital for custody as long as the commander of the theater and the superintendent judge agree on their opinions.

After the war, the General Staff will set up a special military tribunal to deal with these personnel in a unified manner ...