I want to be emperor

Chapter 65 This is a good official

When he fled from Songshan, Wang Jida was already thinking about how to tell a good story on the road.

By the time he escaped from Funiu Mountain, he already had a rough plan.

First of all, you must extract yourself from this fiasco. As for who should be responsible for this fiasco.

Who else could it be? Of course it is Huang Guangmao who doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!
After all, Huang Guangmao was the leader of the army, and he, Wang Jida, was not even the supervisor of the army, he just went into the mountains with Huang Guangmao to suppress the bandits.

As the leader of the army, Huang Guangmao is not responsible for the disastrous defeat. Who is responsible?
Therefore, all responsibilities must be pushed onto Huang Guangmao.

It is not enough to simply shirk responsibility, and other means must be prepared, such as immediately sending people secretly to recruit hundreds of young men to restore the original number of hundreds of county warriors.

Let's pretend to resist the thieves and the like, and get some heads to act as the heads of the thieves.

After making these preparations, he was going to write a letter to his teacher and friend, and then planned to send a sum of money to Tan Zhengling.

He planned to tell others such a story: Huang Guangmao refused to listen to dissuasion and insisted on advancing lightly, causing the entire army to be wiped out. After the bandit army defeated Huang Guangmao's troops, they continued to go east and tried to attack Lushan County.

As for myself, I led the county's bravery to ride up the storm, and after many days of hard work, I finally forced back the bandit army on the outskirts of the mountain, successfully defending tens of thousands of people in Lushan County.

As long as the operation is done well, maybe he can be promoted to a higher level because of merit...

After all, under Huang Guangmao's disastrous defeat, he, Wang Jida, sniped the bandit army furiously, forcing the bandit army to stop at Funiu Mountain, and successfully defended Lushan County. Isn't this meritorious service?
What, you said that Wang Jida forced Huang Guangmao to attack Songshan several times.

What an international joke, he, Wang Jida, has never done this before!

Wang Jida was about to do his best to turn a disastrous defeat into a tenacious sniper, trying to create an image of a civil servant who was not afraid of powerful enemies and bravely led troops to kill thieves.

Luo Zhixue in Songshan didn't know that Wang Jida still had so many roles...

Luo Zhixue at this meeting was busy recruiting prisoners of war and reorganizing the five sentries, and at the same time continued to arrange manpower to build the Songshan line of defense.

In the Songshan defense operations in the past few days, the Baoxiang Battalion fought very well, annihilating the invading land twice.

However, these two defensive operations involved a certain amount of luck, which did not mean that the Songshan line of defense was really strong.

When Fei Bingqing led his troops to attack for the first time, because he underestimated the enemy, he led his troops directly to the canyon, and was defeated by Luo Zhixue first bombarded with artillery and then charged with cavalry.

The second time it was purely because the Ming army was too stubborn and wanted to attack head-on. This was equivalent to the enemy washing their own necks and sending them to the Baoxiang camp to kill. Luo Zhixue didn't understand why the Ming army would Such a tough guy, but after Huang Guangmao and others were captured, it turned out that it was Wang Jida, the magistrate of Lushan County, who had been forcing them to launch a strong attack.

After learning about this, Luo Zhixue immediately developed a 100% affection for Wang Jida, the magistrate of Lushan County.

So much so that Luo Zhixue sighed to Ernst and Young at that time: "This is a good official!"

An Yongduo also nodded in a serious manner: "He is indeed a good official."

As expected of a county parent official, he is a generous man, and thousands of troops will give it away as soon as they say it, without ambiguity at all.

In the future, if I enter Lushan County that day, I must treat this person kindly, not only kindly, but also give him a big pennant, and then give him 500 taels of silver as a reward for his second visit to Songshan Mountain. Credits in battle.

The victory of the two Songshan battles had more or less the cost of luck, which does not explain how strong the Songshan defense line itself is.

In fact, from the perspective of the fortification itself, the Songshan line of defense is actually very ordinary. The city wall as the main body of the line of defense is nothing more than a low wooden wall.

That day the enemy brought in a few cannons that fired solid shells, which could destroy these wooden walls from a distance, and the arrow towers behind the wooden walls were even more unable to withstand the bombardment of the cannons.

At the same time, the coverage of the entire Songshan fortifications is still too small. At present, they only surround the valley as the center and extend towards the mountains on both sides, with a length of about 300 meters.

As for the more peripheral places, there are actually no fortifications, only checkpoints have been set up in a few places suitable for small-scale traffic.

At the same time, the way to enter the hinterland of Mount Funiu is not just the way to go through Songshan Mountain.

There are actually several other roads that can enter the hinterland of Funiu Mountain, but the road on the Songshan side is the best, and it is more suitable for the passage of large troops. It can barely pass with carriages and light artillery.

The main reason is that the terrain to the south of Songshan Mountain is already considered to be hilly terrain. Many villages in those places were under the control of the Ming Dynasty government, and they belonged to maturely developed places, so naturally there were country roads.

The difficult part of the road is the Songshan section, but the last time when the Ming army entered the mountain, in order to march, mainly for the passage of carriages and light artillery, the road along the way was also widened and rested to a certain extent.

Except for the Songshan road, the road conditions of the other roads into the mountain are much more complicated. They can only be marched on foot. If the road is not spent on repairing the road, it is impossible for carriages and artillery to pass.

Even so, it is still possible for the next Ming army to bypass Songshan Mountain and march along several other trails into the mountain with light equipment.

In war, it is not necessary to take this kind of road, in fact, you can also enter the small road.

Taking this kind of path, the armed personnel march directly on foot, and the logistics materials can be carried by mules or horses, or simply carried by civilians. As for the light artillery of one or two hundred catties, they can also be dismantled and carried directly into the mountains .

When Sun Jiancheng took Luo Zhixue and others south to Funiu Mountain, it was this kind of path. At the same time, when Luo Zhixue and the others brought two [-]-jin cannons from Sanshui Village to Songshan Village, they also dismantled the barrels and gun mounts. Divide it into two parts, and then use a group of people to carry it away in turn.

The follow-up [-]-jin artillery will also be separated and transported directly to the front line of Songshan by a large number of people on their shoulders to be assembled with the gun mount.

Therefore, in order to guard against the possible invasion of the Ming army from several other trails, Luo Zhixue stationed sentries directly on these trails and set up checkpoints.

At the same time, in order to know the movements of the Ming army outside the mountains one step ahead, Luo Zhixue also arranged for a few clever people to lurk in Lushan County in the east and Nanzhao County in the south, so as to monitor the large-scale movements of the Ming army at any time.

Once it is detected that there is a large-scale Ming army gathering and coming towards Funiu Mountain, it is necessary to report immediately.

However, the defensive facilities on Songshan must continue to be strengthened. After all, this place is the most suitable road for the Ming army to march on a large scale. The defense line here must be built more solidly. Build a new artillery position on the mountainside on the right side. The location of this artillery position has been carefully selected. As long as the artillery is deployed here, it is enough to cover the entire battlefield in front of the valley.

If the Ming army came to attack later, if they wanted to form an array in the open space in front of the valley, they would probably be bombarded before the formation was completed.

Reorganize the troops, strengthen the Songshan defense line, strengthen the intelligence collection on the periphery, and deploy certain troops in other directions.

This is the main thing Luo Zhixue will do after the second Songshan Battle. These things are not too many, but they are not too many. Many of them need to be handled by Luo Zhixue himself.

After being busy with various military affairs for five days, Luo Zhixue finally relaxed a little, and began to free up time for other battalion affairs.

It is said to be business affairs, but in fact it is more like various internal affairs.

And some of these operations are purely trivial, while others are very important.

For example, because the two villages on the edge of Sanshui Village are in the upstream and downstream of a stream, the two sides have been fighting for water sources recently. Naturally, this kind of infighting cannot be ignored.

Some time ago, I was busy fighting against the Ming army Luo Zhixue and didn't have time to talk to them. No, when I am free, I will ask people to call the village chiefs of these two villages and bring a few famous old people over to deal with this matter.

When Baoxiangying collected grain from various villages, in order to successfully collect grain, it actually used some force as a threat, and by the way, village heads were also arranged for each village.

No other people were sent, but a person with a relatively high reputation from each village who was obedient to their rural protection camp was selected as the village head. He was responsible for handling ordinary affairs in each village. Will be responsible for handling some chores in the village.

Luo Zhixue called the people from these two villages over and scolded them severely, and then asked them to negotiate directly in Songshan Village to divide the water sources on the spot.

Under the threat of a group of soldiers, these people were already terrified. When the two sides came, they were still hostile to each other. If you stare at me, you have to stare back. But when negotiating, they are like family members, and they talk to each other in a few words. All right.

In addition to such trivial matters, the more important thing is to arrange to open up wasteland and cultivate land, so that more food can be grown after the arrival of spring plowing next year.

There are hundreds of people in the Baoxiang camp, and there are hundreds of prisoners of war. These people all need to eat, and the food collected by the villages in Funiu Mountain is actually not enough to feed them. You have to farm by yourself.

The first place to be reclaimed is not Sanshui Village, nor the places near Sanshui Village, but Songshan Village.

Not only is Songshan Village the place to be reclaimed on a large scale, but Luo Zhixue has gradually transferred the craftsmen from the weapon workshop to Songshan Village to re-establish the weapon workshop.

And these actions also mean that Luo Zhixue is going to focus on managing Songshan Village, not Sanshui Village, which is deeper in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)