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Chapter 707

Everyone came all the way to the top of the mountain and saw that the abandoned pier had been basically restored and became a watchtower.

Hong Chengchou, Zhang Ruoqi and others climbed to the top of the tower and overlooked the mountains. The top of Changling Mountain is wide and long, and slightly undulating. , Xilianta Mountain, so it is called Changling Mountain.

And here, there are several small hills surrounding the tower, and on top of them, relying on the cover of big trees, several watchtowers have been built to observe the surrounding situation.

Hong Chengchou and others looked around the tower. Thousands of soldiers of the Dushibu Battalion of the Xuanbei Army were in full swing, busy building the core camp of the Changling Mountain defense line.

It wasn't until this moment that the accompanying generals breathed a sigh of relief. They finally saw the fortifications of the walled city they were familiar with...

The city of Dushiying of the Xuanbei Army is centered on the observation tower, with the forts at the northeast and southeast corners as the sidelines. It is roughly a rectangular civil structure camp.

The wall of the village is made of big wood and rammed with soil. Some key parts such as the gate of the village are piled up with large stones, and some protruding piers in the shape of a horse face are also built on the wall of the village. There are also gate towers and turrets.

However, the construction project of this camp is quite large, and it will not be completed in a short time. Fortunately, the low wall defense line of the trench on the hillside has been completed, and the construction of the camp at the rear can be done leisurely, without rushing for a while.

Hong Chengchou and the others looked at the groups of carts and chariots standing outside the wall of the village. They were divided into eleven teams in a row of ten vehicles. on the car.

According to Zhang Cheng's instructions, Chen Zheng gathered the [-]-carriage carts on the left side of the camp around the camp, and built a mobile fort in conjunction with the low walls of the three ditches there. Group.

These carts have now been unloaded, and the empty carts are only loaded with a No. [-] Franco cannon and guns. Each cart is equipped with ten soldiers, who can push and move quickly. Each cart is a movement. fort.

In this way, not only can the carts be quickly pushed into the artillery positions to bombard, but also at critical times, the carts can be surrounded and connected to form a car formation to prevent the Tatars from charging.

The low walls of the outer three trenches are equipped with easy-to-move small guns such as tiger squatting guns, mortar guns, and flying guns, as well as small guns such as Baizi guns supported by Governor Hong Chengchou. emplacement.

Hong Chengchou's eyes turned back to the camp. According to Zhang Cheng, the main camp will also build granaries, gunpowder depots, and special houses for wounded soldiers.

Because I don't know how long they will be stationed on Changling Mountain, the more than [-] soldiers need a lot of grain, so this place will be used as a grain storage place for the Xuanbei Army. The granary will be huge, and there will be more than one granary.

Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, looked at the huge plan of the granaries in the camp, which seemed to be able to hoard a lot of grain and grass, and couldn't help sighing secretly: Zhang Cheng was so thoughtful and scheming, wouldn't he have to help him fill up such a large granary!
A group of people got off the tower, went around in the camp, and came to the fort in the northeast. There were also many low walls and ditches here, winding along the river to the northwest of Changling Mountain. .

On the northwest side, according to the terrain, several stone walls were built. If the Tatars tried to climb up from here and were hit by the soldiers' guns, even if they were not killed, they would fall to their deaths.

Everyone inspected the defense line of the entire Changling Mountain camp, and looked at the unrecognizable hillside in front of them, everyone didn't know what it was like!
In a short period of time, an inconspicuous mountain has turned into a terrifying and sinister place. What is certain is that if the Tatars really attack from here, they will definitely be smashed and bloody, and they will cry without tears.

The defense line of Changling Mountain arranged by Zhang Cheng was unanimously appreciated by all patrolling personnel, including Governor of Jiliao Hong Chengchou and Commander Zhang Ruoqi. Regardless of the papers, officers and generals, they all believed that the fortification of this place was as solid as gold, and would become an important guarantee for protecting Xingshan's grain road. .

They even suggested that the defense lines at Wudaoling and other places can also follow the example of this place and set up a strong defense line of walls and ditches.

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That night, in the large tent of the Chinese Army in the Xuanbei Army camp outside Xingshan Fort, the generals were eating and drinking while discussing the war in Liaodong.

Zhang Cheng did not sit at the top today, but sat at the same table with all the battalion leaders under his command. The atmosphere on the scene was also extremely harmonious, only Li Jiyu of the Dengfeng Camp was a little uncomfortable.

After all, he has only been in the team for a short time, and Zhang Cheng has always felt that he is superior. Now that he is having a drink at the same table, he feels a little overwhelmed.

On the contrary, it was Zhang Cheng who toasted again and again, and after several glasses of warm wine, he let go a little bit, but he felt extremely comfortable in his heart. He was grateful to Zhang Cheng for treating him like a confidant.

Li Jiyu held up his wine glass and thought to himself: Since I have to meet the Lord of the Ming Dynasty, I must die to repay him, and use my life to fight for a future, so that this life is not in vain!
Chen Zheng drank some wine, his face was full of excitement, and he said: "Changling Mountain is as solid as gold, and now I am afraid that the Tartars will not come. Commander, the Tartars will really come to cut off our army's food and morals." ?”

Zhang Cheng said with a smile: "Whether the Tartars will come or not is just speculation at the moment, it depends on the progress of the battle on the Songshan front. If our army wins the first battle and the Tartars retreat from then on, how can they attack my Xingshan Liangdao? "

All the generals nodded their heads when they heard the words, but Chen Zheng was a little anxious and said, "If the Tartar thieves don't come, my work is not in vain!"

"Hahaha!"

Zhang Cheng laughed loudly and said again: "But do you think, if our division enters Songjin, can we defeat the Tartars in one battle and make them retreat?"

All the generals meditated silently when they heard the words, and no one answered for a while.

After a while, Wei Zhice took the lead and said: "Although the Tartar army is weaker than the king's army, they are united from top to bottom, and their soldiers are strong and brave. I'm afraid they can't be defeated in a single battle!"

All the generals nodded in agreement, and Wei Zhice went on to say: "The Tatar rebels rebuilt Yizhou City, and now they have expelled slaves to farm for many years, and they have recruited Mongolian captive cavalry and Korean blunderbuss to help in the battle. Dozens of cannons came, which shows that his heart to attack the brocade has become stronger.

I guess that even if Songjin's war goes wrong, it is nothing more than recruiting the young and strong from the whole country to come, and there is absolutely no possibility of retreating lightly! "

Zhang Cheng lightly tapped on the edge of the table, appreciating: "Everything Zhice said makes sense."

He said again: "Let's think about it, it has been more than two years since the Tatars settled in Yizhou and besieged Jinzhou, even the red cannon was transported to Yizhou for half a year, has it ever been used?

According to my commander, Jinzhou is already under siege. If he launches a violent attack, he may have already broken the city. Why wait for today?

Its intention is not in Jincheng, but in our aid to the Jin army. The Tartars are deliberately planning to lure our king to go north to help break the siege of Jinzhou, so as to find a way to wipe out our army's tens of thousands of elites here. Can't prevent. "

(End of this chapter)