Daming Military Empire

Chapter 280

After pondering for a long time, Sun Chengzong finally thought of a good solution. He didn't need Zhu Cijiong's encouragement, and said directly: "Your Majesty, I believe that we should use fortresses to deal with cavalry."

Zhu Cijiong heard the words, his forehead was full of black lines, and he still wanted to build a fortress. The fortress can indeed restrain the cavalry. Huang Taiji was also very afraid of Sun Chengzong's fort advancement tactics, but the problem is that the Monan area is more than five times larger than the Liaodong area. The fortress advance, What year and month do you want to advance to!
Sun Chengzong didn't pay attention to Zhu Cijiong's reaction, but picked up the white wax pole on the table, stood up directly, pointed to several grasslands on the sand table model and said: "Weichen has carefully observed that these grasslands are closed or semi-closed. In the basins, if Jiannu wants to be elusive, the premise is that they must first come out of the basin. If we build small cities at the exits of each basin to block them in, then they will not want to be elusive. In this way, we can send The elite soldiers come to catch the turtle. And the emperor will garrison troops in Monan in the future. After these small cities are built, they can also be used as a place for garrison troops in the future. It is not a waste at all."

This seems to make sense, Zhu Cijiong is already a little moved, but he looked at the undulating Monan area, there are more than one or two exits in this prairie, I am afraid that many small cities need to be built!
Sure enough, Sun Chengzong pointed to the outskirts of several prairie and analyzed: "Wei Chen made a preliminary estimate that in order to limit the mobility of the slave cavalry, at least about 2 small cities should be built on the outskirts of the three major prairie, and these For a city to withstand the onslaught of Jiannu, with our current equipment, each city must be equipped with about 40 people. Calculated on the basis of 70 cities, [-] soldiers need to be stationed in the city. As for rushing into the urn to catch turtles, two Or three first-class legions will do, which means that the entire strategy only needs [-] to [-] troops, and the slaves will definitely not be able to escape."

The number of people is much less, but the time is much longer. Whether this tactic of exchanging time for people is feasible depends on how long it will take. Zhu Cijiong couldn't help asking: "Teacher, you probably estimate that it will take How long."

Sun Chengzong thought for a while, pointed to the sand table model and continued: "Wei Chen wants to divide the fort into three parts. The first part is in the middle of Chahar, Horqin and Hailar. About ten small cities will be built here. If Coupled with the defensive force to prevent the slaves from sneaking attacks during the construction of the fortress, it will take about 30 horses and about half a year to build it; the second piece is north of the Hailar Grassland, where about five fortresses need to be built, and about 20 horses are needed to build about three The third block is the east of the Chahar Grassland. There are almost five fortresses here, and it also takes about 20 horses to build about three months. If it is done in stages, it will take about 50 horses for about a year. If it starts at the same time That’s about half a year for 70 people.”

At least half a year?It seems that I can't keep up with my big wedding!But it will only take a year at most, and the time spent is not too long. It seems, probably, it seems to be okay. Just when Zhu Cijiong was hesitating, another general he had been looking forward to for a long time spoke. He got up and asked respectfully: "Master Taifu, it won't take so long to build twenty small cities with 3 to [-] people, right?"

Sun Chengzong heard the words, shook his head and sighed: "I also want to hurry up, but it will consume a lot of manpower, and it is not worth taking the risk."

Sun Chuanting quickly reminded: "Gongming, Wenfu, and I are still holding 50 rebel captives. If we take them there, we will definitely be able to repair all these fortresses within a month. There is no need to deploy an extra soldier!"

Zhu Cijiong heard the words, his eyes lit up, yes, there are still 50 prisoners, he even forgot for a while, now it's all right, it seems that he is expected to catch up with his big wedding!

Sun Chengzong was a little worried and asked: "Using the captives of the rebels to build the city? Isn't it a bit inappropriate, what should they do if they want to mutiny?"

Sun Chuanting explained: "Master Taifu, please rest assured that these captives have been tamed and are very obedient. The emperor also ordered that as long as they serve five years of hard labor, they will be released. Allocate land and provide necessary living materials so that they can live. So now they are very motivated, and there is no need to worry about them being disobedient."

When Sun Chengzong heard the words, he nodded in relief and said: "In this case, there will be no problem. If these captives are taken to build the city, we can organize elite soldiers to catch turtles in the urn years ago!"

It seems that Jiannu is expected to be cleaned up within this year, and Monan will be occupied. Zhu Cijiong is also very happy. He was about to stand up and make a decision, but another person he did not expect suddenly stood up.

I saw Zheng Zhilong stood up inexplicably, cupped his hands at Sun Chengzong and said: "Master Taifu, 2 people are stationed in each city is a bit too much, if it is built into a bastion, 1 people are enough for a bastion, Huang Taiji is It's useless to mobilize more horses!"

Sun Chengzong hasn't been to the southeast coast in the past few years, so he naturally doesn't know what the bastion is. Hearing this, he couldn't help but asked in a daze: "The bastion, is it a castle? What does it look like?"

When Zheng Zhilong heard the words, he immediately went blind. How can he describe such a big castle? He doesn't have any artistic skills, and he can't draw well.

At this time, our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong stood up excitedly and said to the next Wang Zhengnan: "Come to Xian, go get some clay for sand table."

Hearing this, Wang Zhengnan immediately stood up, ran to the corner next to him, picked up a small two-foot-square box, and respectfully placed it on the table in front of Zhu Cijiong.

Seeing that the emperor stood up again, all the generals had to stand up with them all. They all looked at the box inexplicably. It contained prepared clay. It is stored in a sealed box to prevent the clay from hardening after it dries, but what does the emperor do with the clay?

In order to draw some things of later generations, Zhu Cijiong has learned painting from the great painter Liu Ruozai for a long time. His artistic skills are still very sufficient, and when he built the sand table model, he played with the "mud" with his own hands, and he slipped away.

I saw that he opened the sealed wooden box, picked out a large lump of clay with the small trowel inside, threw it on the table, and wiped it a few times. A small hill shaped like a mound was formed. He used the trowel Pointing to the model of the mound, he said, "Teacher, look, there are mostly small mounds like this in the Monan area."

Sun Chengzong looked at the ball of clay that Zhu Cijiong was playing with, and then at the sand table model on the table. Indeed, there were many such protrusions on it. This is just a mound that has been enlarged several times.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cijiong directly 'carved' the mound model with a trowel, and introduced while carving: "A bastion refers to a castle with many edges and corners. This kind of castle has many blind spots for shooting. No matter which angle the enemy attacks from There are many sides that they cannot see or reach, and the bastion is layered. From a high place, whether it is using guns, artillery, or even grenades, it can cause huge damage to the enemy below. The hills in the southern region are the most suitable for building bastions. You only need to dig out a little bit at the bottom, build a city wall, then dig out the middle part, build a city wall again, and then level the top, build barracks and city walls. The fort is done."

(End of this chapter)