Zhang Cheng imagined that there were three low-walled trenches between each wave. Each wall was only dozens of steps away from each other. There was a clear shooting range between the top and bottom. When defending, they could help each other. When the front retreated, they could also help each other.
Can be protected by each other.
If the Tatars come to attack, every time they attack a low wall, they will face fierce attacks from two front and rear firepower points, and from time to time they will also have to face the bombardment of concealed artillery.
In this way, he must be concerned about the bottom, but not the top, and if he is concerned about the top, he can't care about the bottom. As the saying goes, caring about the top but not the bottom, on the contrary, he is in a dilemma, and he is destined to be embarrassed.
Behind the low walls between the three waves, some more hiding holes will be dug. In this way, the cold soldiers as killers can not only avoid the scorching sun, but also take the initiative to attack the camp at the right time.
A wave of Tatar thieves.
After all, the officers and soldiers of the Xuanbei Army are not scumbag soldiers who just want to hold on to death?
Naturally, they have to defend and attack, find gaps in the defense to attack, and give the Tatars a surprise attack so that they will not dare to underestimate me, the soldiers of the Xuanbei Army!
Of course, although these low walls leave some spaces every other section, they look extremely irregular to outsiders. For example, when you enter the space on the first low wall, you are faced with another thick wall.
With a low wall, you need to take a few steps to the left or right, or even a dozen steps, before you can continue to touch the open space and enter the open space behind the low wall.
Moreover, Zhang Cheng also planned to place some artillery pieces, such as squatting tiger cannons and mortar cannons, in the empty spaces of each wave of low walls. In addition, there were also some flying cannons.
Zhang Cheng is currently unsure of the power of this new type of artillery that shoots clay shells, but he knows that the best way to test the effectiveness of the artillery is to take it to the position and fire a few cannons, and then he will know the result.
This is not over yet, because there are three trenches in front of each low wall, and the earthwork taken out is used to build the low wall. Therefore, although the low wall is not tall, it is extremely wide. Even if the Tatars climb up the low wall, they cannot directly
When it was turned over, and when it was high up, it became the target of Xuanbei's gunners.
Take the Yunzhou Type II flintlock musket used by Chen Zheng of the Xuanbei Army as an example. Under normal circumstances, its effective range is about 120 steps, but most Tatar thieves are double armored. In this way, between 60 and 80 steps
At a distance of ten steps, it should be able to cause effective damage to the Tartar thieves.
On the northeast side of Changling Mountain near the stream, not far from the stream, several low walls were built. They were built all the way to the northwest side of Changling Mountain. One was to protect the water source, and the other was to prevent Tatar thieves from following the stream.
Go up and attack the camp from the flank.
After all, this kind of mountain stream is not destined to be very deep, only reaching the knees, and the water flow is not fast. People and horses can still walk along the stream.
Moreover, although the northwest part of Changling Mountain is steep and criss-crossed with ravines, for the sake of caution, several trenches and low walls need to be dug here and observation posts set up to prevent elite Tatars like them.
Baya La soldiers passed through the danger here and attacked at the risk of death.
Finally, Chen Jiugao, the commander of the front camp of the Shenji Camp, generously supported Zhang Cheng and set up four Hongyi cannons on the top of the mountain. When the time came, using the Huolu Pier as a viewing point, the surrounding situation would be unobstructed.
Listening to Zhang Cheng's planned defense arrangements, all the generals of the Xuanbei Army quickly calculated and compared them in their minds. Especially Chen Zheng, as the chief general stationed in Changling Mountain, took out a painting from his arms and wrote it on the map.
Military map on cloth.
He spread the map on a big stone, and everyone started to look at it. Other generals also gathered to look at it. But when they saw the map, they all felt dizzy, including the governor Hong Chengchou.
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This map was specially drawn by Zhang Cheng's sentry cavalry when they came here to survey and was carefully drawn. However, it is completely different from the maps popular in the Ming Dynasty. There is no "Impressionism" in it.
It is drawn according to the trend of the mountains. There are circles on top of each other to represent the mountains, lines of varying thickness to represent roads and rivers, and various shapes such as triangles, squares, rectangles, etc.
Indicates forts, forts, piers, etc.
After looking at it for a moment, Hong Chengchou seemed to understand what was shown in the picture. He asked full of doubts: "General Zhongchen, who proposed this painting method?"
Zhang Cheng hurriedly bowed and clasped his fists and replied: "Reporting to the governor, this painting method is easy to understand and completely consistent with the actual trend of the mountains. It is actually recommended by my duty."
He then briefly introduced the meanings of the circles, lines, triangles, and squares in the map to Hong Chengchou and the officials. After he explained, it was indeed easy to understand, simple and clear, unlike the maps compiled by the Ming Dynasty officials.
They are all "Impressionist" and have all the names of regional fortresses, but where are they?
What is shown on the map is just a direction. If you have not been there in person, you can only know which direction it is located in the southeast, northwest and northwest based on the Ming Dynasty map alone. There is no intuitive specific location at all.
After Zhang Cheng finished explaining his ideas one by one, he sneered and said: "In this case, even if the Tatars come with 20,000 or even 30,000 captives, our camp at Changling Mountain can still hold on for three or five days.
captured by it.
In these three to five days, we can mobilize our troops and horses, surround them here, and annihilate them all!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard what he said: Zhang Cheng was so arrogant that he actually wanted to gather 20,000 to 30,000 Tatar thieves here to surround and annihilate them. They gathered around Chen Zheng, looked at the topographic map repeatedly, kept drawing on it, and discussed
According to the defense plan designed by Zhang Cheng, although this section of Changling Mountain is not impregnable, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.
However, most of them couldn't believe that Zhang Chengyan could withstand the fierce attack of 30,000 Tatars for three to five days. They all shook their heads and sighed, feeling that Zhang Cheng was just bragging and talking big words.
After all, this happens to everyone all the time!
Even the governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou, was a little confused. The commander-in-chief, Zhang Ruoqi, was on Zhang Cheng's side. He couldn't believe it but didn't question it at all.
Only Yang Guozhu, the chief military officer of Xuanfu Town, looked at Zhang Cheng, but the expression in his eyes was quite complicated. As a witness to the Battle of Julu that year, and his understanding of Zhang Cheng in the past few years.
In his heart, he still believed that Zhang Cheng's troops would be able to hold out against the Tatars for three to five days by relying on the location of the trench and the low walls and the sharp firearms in his camp.
But I also vaguely feel Zhang Cheng's terrifying side in my heart. If Zhang Cheng has evil intentions towards the court in the future, who can stop him at that time?
He shook his head, driving away the unrealistic thoughts in his heart, and discussed with the generals the pros and cons of the arrangement on Changling Mountain.
Chen Jiugao, Wang Pu, Fu Yingchong, Guo Yingxian and others were very happy. They firmly believed that Zhang Cheng's subordinate camp would be able to hold on to this place and cause the incoming Tatars to suffer heavy casualties and a river of blood.
Ma Ke, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan Pass, Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Association's branch training and several others looked at Zhang Cheng with complicated expressions: Damn, this guy really has his way, don't accept it!
Especially Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Association's division training, he even thought secretly: "It seems that I can also arrange it like this at Wudaoling?"