Datang New Order

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On June [-], Li Chengzhong went south from Luzhou with the General Staff of the Military Staff and the chief officers of the field armies, crossed the Changping passage, and went south to Gaoping.Early the next morning, under the escort of thousands of soldiers, they climbed to Jiepai Ridge to observe the appearance of the coalition forces of the princes.

Jiepai Ridge is located [-] miles south of Gaoping City, just between Gaoping and Zezhou, five miles long from east to west, two miles wide from north to south, and [-] feet high at its highest point.This small mountain was originally very ordinary, but since the Yan army captured Gaoping, it suddenly revealed its extremely important military significance.

After the Shangdang camp captured Gaoping at the end of last year, before He Delun, who was stationed in Zezhou, could react, he quickly dispatched two battalions of soldiers to seize Jiepai Ridge, and at the same time, hundreds of cavalry patrolled around Jiepai Ridge, waiting for He Delun to wake up. It was too late to mobilize troops to compete.

From the end of last year to May of this year, the battle in the Shangdang area mainly revolved around Jiepai Ridge. Although He Delun had a strong army, the Shangdang camp was equipped with luxurious equipment and a lot of equipment, so He Delun had no way to do anything, which also caused the war to always be at the top. Under the control of the party camp.

Therefore, when Li Chengzhong entered Shangdang, he first inspected Jiepailing, because this small mountain had already become a strategically important place.

On Jiepai Ridge, the Yan army built several wooden villages, antlers, barricades, and pits according to the terrain, erected densely packed archery towers on key points, and placed ballistas, rushing carts, and triggers on the slopes of the climbing ridge. Equipment such as trains, and several flat areas along the edge were filled, and the trebuchets were used scattered.

There are four battalions of combat soldiers and one battalion of logistics troops stationed on the ridge. The deployment of 500 troops is enough to defend Jiepai Ridge.

At the same time, as the support of the prominent part of Jiepailing, military villages were established behind it relying on the three highlands of Xuanhu, Niushan and Shizuitou.Support for Jiepailing can be launched at any time.To the north under the cover of three highlands is the important town of Gaoping.

Li Chengzhong and a large number of generals boarded the observation tower, from which they could see everything within ten miles.

Zhao Yuanping, who was formerly the chief of the Shangdang camp and has now returned to the Mozhou army, told Li Chengzhong and others about the enemy situation in front of him. He pointed to the rolling enemy barracks in the distance and said, "He Delun's camp is six miles away. The garrison was 3 before May, and it will increase to [-] from this month. Your Highness, the camp on the east side of Hedlun was newly built at the end of May. According to the size of the camp, it is estimated that [-] sergeants can be accommodated; the camp on the west side is three days It was built before. More than [-] soldiers can be accommodated. According to Hou Engeng, the east side should be Zhang Guihou's department, and the west side should be Zhu Yougong's department. The three camps are separated by miles. Sixty to seventy thousand."

Zhao Yuanping paused, pointing to the looming hills farther away, he said: "Yan Mountain is [-] miles away on the right, and Baima Mountain is [-] miles away on the left. The enemy camp is built on these two mountains. The three camps of He Delun, Zhang Guihou, and Zhu Yougong are the first line. There are also several camps hidden behind, and there are five or six camps at Dadonggou and Dongwangtai on the outside of the two mountains, which have not yet been investigated. Qing. In addition, behind Baima Mountain is Zezhou City. Some people suspect that King Liang should be in the city.”

Li Chengzhong listened and watched, and asked: "The king of Liang claims to have a million people, how many are there. Do you know?"

Zhao Yuanping said: "Judging from the camp in front of us, it is impossible to have a million, but there should be between 50 and 30. A certain man talked with Hou Zheng. He said that the soldiers under King Liang's command can fight It is about 40, if the recruitment is increased, it can reach about 50, plus the coalition forces of the princes, I think the total will not exceed [-]."

Li Chengzhong pondered for a moment, and ordered Chuanhou to attend the audience.Hou Zong is Hou Yan, who was originally a general under the tent of Liang Wang. After the official worship of Heyang Jiedu, he led an army alone and was restrained by Ge Congzhou.In the spring of the first year of Tianyou, in order to guard against Lu Long's Shangdang battalion's spying on Zezhou, Liang Wang hurriedly dispatched Hou Yan and He Delun to go north to Taihang.At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Hou Yan surrendered to the Shangdang camp in Gaoping.

Hou Yan surrendered after being defeated and captured. If it weren't for the fact that he was familiar with Liang Jun's inside information, there might be only one fate waiting for him--to show his head to the public.Therefore, Hou Yan's salary was very low, and he was only suspended from a job in the United Front Work Department, and he was not allowed to continue to lead the army.

Hou Yan couldn't get into the decision-making circle of the Yan army, so he had been waiting downstairs at Yuanwang. Hearing that the King of Yan had heard about it, he immediately climbed up the stairs, bowed respectfully to Li Chengzhong with a feline body, and said, "The sinful general has seen His Highness!"

Li Chengzhong was also not polite to him, and directly asked about the situation of the generals under King Liang's tent by name. Hou Yan was able to survive because of this. Come.

Li Chengzhong nodded and let him go down. Hou Yan turned around and went down the Yuanwang Tower. When he entered the waiting train, the clothes on his back were soaked.But Hou Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief - this was the first time he had an audience with the King of Yan, and the King of Yan didn't take his anger out on him, so his life was truly saved from this moment.

After listening to Hou Yan's introduction, Li Chengzhong and the generals had a more intuitive understanding of Liang Jun. Looking at the endless enemy camps in the distance, everyone felt tremendous pressure.

In the Shangdang area, the total strength of the Yan army was 40, and the combined army of the princes led by the Liang army was more than 2. The comparison between the two sides was very different.If you only look at the Gaoping battlefield, the disparity will be even greater, because the Yan army still has [-] people stationed in Luzhou in the north to resist the threat of the Three Kings of Hedong. Seventy thousand!

This is the largest military force that Li Chengzhong has assembled so far. There are still more than 2 reserve soldiers stationed in prefectures and counties in Hebei. Second, once the reserve soldiers take time off, the states and counties in Hebei will lose even the power to maintain local law and order, which will easily cause local chaos.

Although there have been many battles in history in which the less wins the more, since each time it can be recorded in the annals of history, it shows that this kind of battle is very rare, and all of them are classics.From the point of view of the principles of military warfare, it is desirable to use more to win less, and it is also the normal state of war. Always expecting to win more with less is a gamble and a risk.

King Liang has more soldiers, so he can stretch the front line.With multiple battlefields at the same time, there will be many attack directions and attack methods to choose from. For Li Chengzhong, the longer the battle line and the more battlefields, the more dispersed the Yan army's power and the more passive the situation will be.

In addition, Liang Wang will also have a strong ability to withstand failure, but Li Chengzhong cannot withstand a major loss.To give a simple example, the same loss of 5 people, Liang Wang got angry and chopped off the heads of several defeated generals.This matter is over, he lost 5 people, and he still has several 5 people; on the other hand, if Li Chengzhong lost 5 people, then there is no need to fight this battle again.

What is the best way to fight against the coalition of princes led by Liang Jun in the Shangdang area?

Li Chengzhong silently scanned the enemy camp in the distance, and finally squeezed out two words through his teeth - violent soldiers!

In July of the second year of Tianyou, the Military Staff General Administration issued a military order, launching the original "Lulong Jiedufu Military Mobilization Plan" that had been dusty for three years.Implement the general mobilization of the whole army.Because the title "Lu Longjun" is too regional, the entire army was officially renamed "Yanjun" two months ago, but the regulations and orders have not yet been changed.It still bears the words "Lulong".

The original "Lulong Jiedu Mansion Military Mobilization Plan" was formulated in the spring of the second year of Tianfu, and it has been three years since then, but it has been shelved and never activated. stipulated in the Plan.Once Lu Longjun is under a huge threat, corresponding mobilization mechanisms will be implemented according to different threat levels.

The "Pre-plan" divides the huge threats Lu Longjun faces into three levels.Distinguish between low, medium and high levels, corresponding to three levels of mobilization orders.If the Lulong Jiedu Mansion is attacked by the enemy, a third-level mobilization will be issued, that is, the mobilization of the whole army; The trained males were organized as a supplementary force to deal with the enemy; if the threat assessed by the Lulong Jiedu Mansion was so great that it was a matter of Lulong's overall survival, the mobilization range would be extended to those between 30 and 15 years old.There is no need to expand the scope of mobilization. If even men over the age of 40 had to be mobilized, Hebei would have basically lost the war.

The "Pre-Plan" is closely integrated with the original "Military Service Regulations of Lulong Jiedu Mansion". Without the "Military Service Regulations", the "Plan" would not have much effect. The "Pre-plan" actually comes from Li Chengzhong's related emergency concepts during that era. It deals with emergencies and there is not much time to prepare, which means that the mobilized men do not have too long to conduct military training. Such men Ding La played the role of a civilian husband at most on the battlefield, not even an auxiliary soldier.

Fortunately, Li Chengzhong attached great importance to the implementation of the "Military Service Regulations". In the past three years, the Military Staff Administration and the Magistrate's Office have regularly conducted military training for the men under their rule. For three consecutive years, the number of men who have received 24 days of military training per year has reached 20. According to statistics, there are more than 48 men who have received 30 days of military training in two years, and about 24 men have only received 20 days of military training in one year.In a broad sense, there are more than 24 males between the ages of 15 and 50 who have received more than 70 days of military training in Hebei (including Yingzhou outside the Guanwai).

With these 70 males, the "plan" can be regarded as the basis for launching.

And the first launch of the "Pre-plan" is the general mobilization of the whole army. This is the first-level plan!His content is that the Recruitment Office of the Training Division, with the cooperation of the state and county governments, compulsorily requires males who meet the age to join the army. camp.

Of course, in actual operation, it is impossible to mobilize 70 troops. The 70 men who have received military training are the essence of Hebei. If they are really pushed to the battlefield, then the production situation in Hebei will be greatly reduced. deteriorated to an extremely dangerous level.At the same time, it is impossible to support a 70 army to fight with the power of poor Hebei.

Therefore, although a first-level mobilization order has been issued, the expected training strength of the General Staff of the Military Staff is not so large, and the focus of mobilization is still only on men between the ages of 30 and 25.Beginning in July, males up to the age of 10 were first recruited, and [-] men were required to be trained to join the Shangdang that month.

For Hebei, supporting 20 people to fight in Shangdang is still within the acceptable range. After all, Shangdang is not far from Hebei, and it belongs to fighting at the door.But is it really enough to use 20 people to fight against the 50 coalition forces of the princes?This question made the young Military General Staff still not confident enough.

Therefore, starting in August, the scope of recruitment was expanded to 30 years old, and by the end of October, it was required to concentrate 10 people in the Handan area again, stationed in Handan, and they could leave the customs at any time when the Shangdang battlefield needed it.Such preparations can greatly ease the logistical pressure, and were reluctantly agreed by the Logistics Department and the Magistrate's Office.However, the Logistics Department and the Magistrate's Office also issued a warning to Yu Housi and even Li Chengzhong that this number cannot be increased, otherwise the people's livelihood in Hebei will be dragged down.

Of course, the most critical thing is July. With the capabilities of the General Staff of the Military Staff and the Magistrate's Office, it is impossible to complete the task of reorganizing 10 people a month.However, Li Chengzhong did not confine the mobilization order to the customs, and the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion in Liucheng will be the main department for the implementation of the first batch of mobilization orders. (To be continued..)