golden scales

This young officer is the biggest labor leader in the East Palace, Chen De.After he took over the handicraft barracks, he was quite unwilling and always wanted to be transferred back to the soldiers.Who knew that the third battalion of the guards did not have his share, but more and more prisoners, "troublemakers", stragglers, and hard labor were assigned to him.

Today, there are almost no soldiers in the Chen De Gong Battalion, but there are as many as 5 coolies.As a last resort, he could only manage the coolies with innocent laborers, and almost every skilled craftsman had dozens of apprentices.Fortunately, Chen De still has some trustworthy servants, and there are troops stationed everywhere in the east of Lexia, so no tragedy happened yet.

With the passage of time, Chen De himself has gradually settled down, and no longer expects to be a general in the army.Now, he treats these loose laborers with military laws, bans noise between the camps, gradually instills the concept of discipline, and asks the crown prince to appoint a trainer, and it really looks like a barracks.

Gradually improving work efficiency and strictly controlling the death rate, the labor camp performed very well in various tasks.Chen De himself is very clear about where to use the best materials to achieve the best results, and where to save manpower to meet various needs.As soon as he received the order to build the road to Jinan as soon as possible, he knew that this was a preparation for war. The quality of the road may not be excellent, but it must meet the mobilization needs of cavalry, infantry, and artillery as soon as possible.

Now the Technical College has not yet completed the research and development of hydraulic rock crushers, and cement roads can only be used on the face, mainly rammed earth roads.And now that there is little rain in Shandong, the service life of this kind of rammed earth road is quite long.Coupled with the plain landform, there is no need to worry about flash floods washing away the road.

"What's the name of this general?" Huang Desu asked.

"The engineer battalion officer. Colonel Chen De." Chen De said indifferently: "The state can't transfer more civilians? What about the former military households in the guard?"

"Even women are working." Huang Desu shook his head and pointed from a distance.Sure enough, there were two rough-clothed women sifting the soil with a sieve.

Chen De was helpless.Although there are many people under him, there are more places to employ people, so he always recruits civilian husbands from local states and counties to cooperate with them.

With the accumulation of engineering experience, more and more special tools have been transformed.At the same time as the efficiency is improved, civilian husbands must be guided by someone to use it, and it will take three to five days to really master it.This makes the construction project more like a battlefield. The craftsmen and workers under Chen De are professional soldiers, and the hard labor is auxiliary soldiers lacking combat skills.The civilian husband is the labor force supplement.

Chen De was about to speak when he heard a bell ringing suddenly.

"Warning bell! Donglu is coming!" Huang Desu's face was ashes, and he cried out.

"The whole team!" Chen De shouted loudly: "My horse!"

Huang Desu pulled Chen De back: "General, what should I do, my subordinate!"

"Steady the people and obey the military orders." After Chen De finished speaking casually, he got on the horse led by his personal guards.

The queue drills of the engineer battalion in recent days have been effective, and laborers from all over the place quickly gathered.They lined up in square formations with fear on their faces.

In contrast, the people were not so obedient to orders.They quickly dispersed and rushed towards the city gate.

Huang Desu almost fainted when he saw it, and he barely cheered up, and shouted loudly: "Don't run! Bring your tools!"

The running people stopped quickly, and then fled in the opposite direction.

In the city gate.Soldiers from one bureau trotted out in neat steps, drove the scattered people together, and let them file into the city.In front of these terrifying order maintainers, the people quickly entered the former Acropolis.

Chen De rode over.Called the Bai Zong who stopped the game: "Which direction did the enemy soldiers come from? How far is it?"

The hundred-president glanced at Chen De's shoulder and saluted, "Report to the colonel. It's more than [-] Donglu riders from the north. There is still half a day's journey to the city of Dezhou. The [-]th headquarters of our battalion has been ordered to attack." .”

"It's Xiao Mo." Chen De couldn't help being envious and jealous, turned around and returned to his command position, and ordered: "We have everything, pack up your tools, and retreat into the city. The construction department will stay behind and prepare for support."

The fortification department is full of veterans who are good at civil engineering. If they are to fight in battle, they are definitely not as good as the soldiers, but after concentrating on building fortifications, they can play a greater role.

General Donggong was in Dezhou thinking about how to lure Donglu out to attack the city. Naturally, Donglu would not sit in a daze in Cangzhou City.Because of the banner of "sweeping the rebels and returning to welcome the Ming emperor" all the way, Bahana, who lacked political thinking, had doubts about whether to attack Texas, so he sent a letter back to ask for instructions.

Shi Tingzhu, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is not very enthusiastic about attacking Dezhou.He hoped to get a chance to be on his own, instead of following the Manchurians all the time, and the result was that he did not make little effort and did not make great achievements.With his political sense, he was not optimistic about Ye Chen's trip to the Northwest. If he could be transferred to the Northwest, fighting Li Chuang directly would be a great opportunity to gain credit.

"It's always right to build a village first." Shi Tingzhu agreed with Bahana's suggestion.Although his own status is similar to that of Bahana, the Han army flag is lower than the Manchurian flag after all.

Bahana said: "If you want to stab it, you have to get closer. If you hit it accidentally, the prince can't blame us."

The two coaches reached an agreement and sent [-] cavalry under their command as the vanguard. After this team, there were [-] infantrymen and [-] or [-] wrapped soldiers, and they went to camp five miles outside the city of Dezhou.As long as the camp is set up, the Han army flag will also be moved there, just waiting for the order of the regent Dorgon.

The road from Cangzhou to Dezhou was already filled with scouts from the first battalion, and the news was reported back to Dezhou in time.

It was because of the timely delivery of this information that Xiao Mo was able to calmly set up his formation, choose a battlefield that was beneficial to him for rest, and use the battalion's engineering battalion to carry out simple combat fortifications.From this point of view, the Donggong Army has been adhering to "do not fight unprepared wars" since it became an army.

Chen De ordered the engineering battalion to complete the team, and went to the city alone to request an audience with the crown prince.

However, Zhu Cihong had already left the city with the [-]th headquarters of the [-]st Battalion to inspect the battlefield layout.When Chen De caught up, Zhu Cihong had already chosen a small high ground, ready to meet this real Manchurian soldiers.

"I request you to join the battle!" Chen De gave a military salute energetically: "The First Fortification Department of the Engineer Battalion is ready for orders!"

Zhu Cilang looked at this energetic young colonel and said with a smile, "Sure. Let's see what changes have taken place in the engineer battalion these days."

"Yes!" Chen De saluted again excitedly, then turned around and ordered his personal guards to transfer the engineer barracks into the battlefield for emergency pre-battle arrangements.

You Shiwei stood beside Zhu Cihong, and said: "Your Highness, I heard that lions and tigers fight each other with all their strength, and lions and tigers fight rabbits with all their strength. Although it is only two hundred horses, why not use thunder to completely cut them off?"

"General You, the current commander on the battlefield is General Xiao, and it hasn't reached the point where I need to seize power and command." Zhu Cihong smiled.

You Shiwei didn't know whether to be moved or regretted.There are very few high-ranking people who can attend the battle in person but respect the general so much, not to mention the identity of the crown prince, even those civil servants and supervisors would like to let him have the final say on everything.However, Xiao Mo was an inexperienced general in You Shiwei's eyes, and such a good opportunity could only be wasted.

If this battle can kill the Eastern Cavalry, even if there are only a dozen heads, it will be an exciting thing.

"General Xiao fought bravely, but his deployment was a bit conservative." You Shiwei couldn't help but said, "The [-]th headquarters is in Dezhou, and the [-]th headquarters is in Ling County. However, the headquarters of the [-]th is located in Pingyuan County, so I don’t know why. Could it be a response to the fall of De County?”

Zhu Cilang smiled and said: "I want to know too. In this way, after this battle, after General You asks General Xiao, remember to make a copy for me. But now it's past the time to formulate military proposals. What happened on the battlefield , let’s leave it to General Xiao.”

Unwillingly, You Shiwei picked up the binoculars and looked at the soldiers preparing for the battle below.

Going north out of Dezhou is the Hejian Mansion in Beizhili.The vast North China Plain, in the words of scribes, is a vast land, let it gallop.However, when a large army marches, there is no reason to walk in a straight line between two points, and it must find a way.From this, we can also deduce the direction of the future battlefield: Wuqiao.

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