Before the expedition, Zhang Chong issued an order to the commanders of each legion in the expedition sequence, that is, the positions that each unit should reach within three days.
For example, Yang Mao, the right envoy of the Privy Council who came from Yecheng with three thousand elite troops to help, received a military order to lead his troops to the Jiumen area before July 27th.
At that time, Yang Mao's troops were still north of Yuanshi. After receiving the military order to carry the flag, they speeded up again, took the baggage and horses, and gathered towards Zhending. When Yang Mao and others arrived, Zhang Chong's army
We have crossed the river, but Zhending is still no less lively.
The sergeants at this moment were full of sergeants. They all gathered here after setting off from various places to prepare to cross the river.
Seeing that time was already very tight, Yang Maoling ordered each general to replenish their supplies, rest for the night, and then set out to cross the Hutuo River before dawn the next day.
Finally, on the night of July 26, we arrived at a village community north of Jiumen.
Yang Mao's troops will build a barrier here and wait for the next military order.
Zhang Chong, who had arrived outside Jiumen City as early as July 25th, held a military parade directly outside the city.
Standing on his horse, Zhang Chong inspected twenty-seven infantry battalion heads, all of whom were the pillars of the Taishan Army. Zhang Chong also personally awarded these battalion generals new military flags, which were battle flags embroidered with golden crows.
This magical bird, the Golden Crow, is the messenger of the Lord of Mount Tai. Whenever there is a disaster or death in the world, this magical bird will always appear.
At that time, a group of officials surrounding Zhang Chong witnessed this grand military parade with their own eyes.
These people had never seen so many people gathering before, but they had never seen such a strict military formation lining up across the vast plains.
Whenever they passed by the Dahu where Zhang Chong was, these Taishan military officials would erupt into roars and tsunamis, which shows how much prestige Zhang Chong, the king, had in the army.
Zhang Chong often ran back and forth in front of the formation, and from time to time he could call out the names of the warriors at the front of the line.
These people were all brave men in the army, and they showed no fear even if they were facing mountains of swords and seas of fire. But when the king called out their names and told them about their military exploits, these people burst into tears.
The plain outside Jiumen City was covered by nearly 30,000 Taishan soldiers, including 5,000 cavalry.
These people were extremely heroic and vowed to sacrifice the death of their enemies to the king. They showed a strong confidence in winning the final victory.
This is because these people have grown up through countless victories under Zhang Chong. Their faces may be darkened by long battles, but they never doubt their victory in their hearts.
After the military parade, Zhang Chong entered the Nine Gates with his camp. He will use this place as his camp to preside over the decisive battle.
At this time, in the palace of Jiumen, the officials had set up a huge detailed map of the north bank of the Hutuo River. On this map, the current moving positions of the Taishan Army units and the garrison situation of the Zhenbei Army were standardized.
The details of this map are unique in this world. It was a surveyor trained by Zhang Chong in the army. He had traveled throughout this area with Zhen's grain team. A large number of precise maps were finally pieced together, and finally
This formed a huge map.
While Zhang Chong was looking at these maps, Meng Ju on the side was reporting to Zhang Chong the intelligence collected by the Foreign Military Department's spies combined with the maps.
Zhang Chong nodded while thinking, and then continued to give various orders to Li Heng beside him.
Li Heng was Zhang Chong's secretary, and he needed to write down Zhang Chong's commands and send them to all the armies. He didn't need to be gorgeous in his words, but he had to convey them accurately.
This is also the reason why Li Heng was better than Cai Yong's two students. The latter's writing was indeed good, but it was too gorgeous and not suitable for writing about military affairs.
After Li Heng waved his hand and left, Zhang Chong would take a look, and then two military officers would walk to a room outside the corridor with military orders.
There are more than a dozen calligraphers here who are constantly copying various military orders, specially issued to the various armies.
Generally speaking, as long as the documents are issued from the military government, they need to be copied and kept.
The above set of processes has formed a system.
For example, why do two collision soldiers have to be sent together to deliver military orders to the next door? After all, it’s only a dozen steps away, so do we need two people?
In fact, this is for mutual supervision.
This is not because Zhang Chong does not trust the military officials, but because of his habit of using the system to suppress people's hearts.
Once the writers entered the house, they were not allowed to go out during the entire war, and all eating, drinking, and diarrhea would be done in this side courtyard.
This is the importance Taishan Army attaches to its military situation.
After dealing with today's military situation, Zhang Chong had a long talk with Marshal Zhang Dan of the Right Army. The two discussed the ensuing war, the selection of the predetermined decisive battlefield, the morale of the army, and the supply of supplies in the rear.
It was not until midnight that Zhang Chong finished the day's work, but he had not rested yet. He led the Hengchang Army, Zhang Dan and other generals to the Nine Gate City Wall again to inspect the defense of the Nine Gate City Fortress.
For a long time, Jiumen was still their most important strategic focus on the north bank of Hutuo River.
In the next few days, the troops coming from the south bank continued to march towards Jiumen. However, these battalions were basically local garrison troops and were not the main combat force in this battle.
Zhang Chong reorganized these local garrison troops, with Yang Mao, the right privy councilor, as the commander, and with his elite headquarters of 2,000 as the core, he reorganized the 10,000 garrison troops.
In this way, there are currently four large-scale army formations on the north bank of the Hutuo River. They are Zhang Dan's Right Army Marshal's Department, with 13,000 people, and Dong Fang's Rear Army Marshal's Department, with 11,000 people. Just now
The reorganized temporary army of Yang Mao numbered 12,000 people, and the final Central Guard Army of 18,000 people, including the 5,000 tent troops at the camp.
These days, Zhang Chong has been asking all ministries to speed up the restoration of their organization and absorb the garrison troops coming from the north to form combat effectiveness.
In this way, there is such a huge military strength.
And in the specific army dispatch, after these few days of dispatch.
Zhang Dan's left legion and Dong Gu's rear legion are heading north along the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain. They will form the left wing of the Taishan Army. The task assigned to these two legions is to seize a mountain wall on the south bank of Zishui.
It overlooks Guangyang Straight Road.
However, Yang Mao's temporary military responsibility still stayed at Wulitun Camp and continued training.
Zhang Chong is particularly busy during this period.
Everyone only saw that he had supreme power, but few saw the responsibility behind it. The lives of more than 50,000 troops were decided in Zhang Chong's small central hall.
Even though the nave is actually not small, it seems so small in front of these things.
Not only that, Zhang Chong also took time to supervise the military discipline of each army.
In fact, Zhang Chong has always been very confident in the army he has built before. At least in terms of military discipline, he can well-deservedly say that he is the best in this world.
But during the patrol yesterday, he saw such a scene.
When he walked to a military tent, he heard crying inside the tent.
This made Yang Mao next to Zhang Chong very angry.
It's not that Yang Mao doesn't have the sympathy of a normal person, but for a place where tens of thousands of people gather together, all kinds of suppressed emotions are pressed together, like a powder keg that may explode at any moment.
Therefore, crying, talking at night, and making noise are prohibited in the army to prevent camp roars.
Moreover, if one person cries, hundreds of people will be sad, which will have a great impact on the morale of the army.
Therefore, Yang Mao stepped forward to deal with this disruptive military morale.
However, Zhang Chong stopped Yang Mao and did not say anything. He only led Yang Mao and a few others to open the tent and go inside to check the situation.
As soon as he entered, he saw a young man with blood dripping from his back lying on the mat sobbing.
As soon as this man saw someone coming in, he held back his sobs in a panic. It seemed that he also knew military law.
This sergeant obviously did not know his commander Yang Mao, but from the aura of Yang Mao and others, he could still tell that these people must be senior military officials in the army.
So the man panicked.
At this moment, Zhang Chong asked warmly:
"What's wrong? You're crying so sadly? Are you homesick?"
In fact, Zhang Chong knew what was going on when he saw the scars on this man's back. It was probably because he made some mistake and was sentenced to military law.
But Zhang Chong did not ask directly, but deliberately asked what he was most worried about.
The soldier first shook his head, then nodded, and finally replied with a Zhao accent:
"General, we are indeed homesick, but we haven't defeated the Han army on behalf of the king yet? It's only when we go home now that people look down upon us!"
Zhang Chong sat cross-legged next to Bingzi, pressing him to the ground first to prevent the wound from getting hurt again, and then continued to ask:
"I hear your accent is from Handan?"
The soldier smiled shyly and said:
"We are not from Handan city, our family is in Buri."
Of course, Zhang Chong didn't know where Buri was. What he was more curious about was why this person didn't want to go back.
So, Zhang Chong asked:
"Being so far away from home, the homesickness must be severe. If I let you go back and I also give you money, would you go back?"
But the soldier shook his head without hesitation and said seriously:
"Why are you going back? The fields our family harvested last year and the millet we just planted are only a few days old. Why can't we do this?"
Zhang Chong suddenly realized that he was worried that his family's fields would be taken away by the local government. So Zhang Chong expressed that these fields would not be taken away, and you are not a deserter.
The soldier understood what had happened here. He felt that the higher-ups must have known about what happened today, and they felt that he was not worthy of being a soldier, so they came to persuade him to retire.
Then the soldier cried loudly:
"What the hell, ever since our family received a hectare of land from the king, our life has been sold to the king. If the king doesn't let us go, we will stay here. And this is nothing, we just can't part with it.
Right or left, but we are nervous, and we are also good soldiers on the garrison, otherwise we would not be able to respond to the king's request for more troops."
What this soldier said is not wrong, because the division of fields between Zhao and Wei was relatively early, and the field-protecting soldiers were also trained earlier. After training for so long, the combat power is definitely not as good as the field army, but they can still
Distinguished.
At this moment, Zhang Chong finally understood.
He asked Yang Mao to call the generals of their team, because the training of the temporary army was based on the basic organization of the fifty-man team.
Soon, a captain with an arrow scar on his face came in in a panic. As soon as the captain said "Your Majesty," Zhang Chong tore off the captain's armband.
He said to the team:
"These people are also raised by their parents. They are grateful for the kindness of the Taishan Army. They believe in us, so they sent their nephews to the army. They are not for you to beat. I just talked with this person. He is a good boy. You don't deserve it."
With such brave soldiers. Now, when you report to the Central Guard Army, you will start from the vanguard."
The general was obviously stunned for a moment, then he saluted Zhang Chong without hesitation, then hurriedly left the tent and reported to the Central Guard Army.
Over there, Yang Mao also breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Zhang Chong's punishment.
Only then did the soldier lying on the mat realize that the young general in front of him was actually the king. So he couldn't care less about his injuries and had to get up.
But Zhang Chong held him down and said with a smile:
"Take good care of your injuries. As you said, only by taking good care of your injuries can you serve the king. I was quite unhappy today because you may think that I seem to be quite majestic, but in fact there are also unpleasant things. But I am happy now.
Yes, because I know there are brothers like you in the army who have been supporting me. But I mean, if you can one day think about fighting this battle for yourself, I will be happier."
Seeing that the soldier didn't understand, Zhang Chong didn't say much. He just let him continue to recover from his injuries and took Yang Mao and the others out.
As soon as he left the camp, Zhang Chong asked Yang Mao solemnly:
"Is corporal punishment common in the military?"
Yang Mao didn't dare to fool him and replied carefully:
"Because the main soldiers of the temporary army are local garrison soldiers, there is no big problem in small-scale combat skills. However, it lacks the ability to conduct large-scale legion operations. Therefore, during these days, the army has been practicing group dispatch.
The time is tight and the tasks are heavy, so the brothers below are a little impatient. But there is absolutely no malicious corporal punishment in the army."
Seeing that Zhang Chong didn't speak, Yang Mao carefully continued:
"Take the general of the team just now, I know this person, he is a strong general. He is an old brother of our Taishan Army. The arrow scar on his face was made when we were playing ladle, because it is still there today.
Not married yet."
Zhang Chong frowned and said nothing to Yang Mao.
Of course he knows this general. In fact, Zhang Chong has a better memory than anyone else. He can remember when and where he met people he met once, even after several years.
This talent made him a natural in leadership.
But Yang Mao obviously didn't understand the point of his question. Did he mention the general? Just now in the account, he had already concluded the matter by punishing the general.
The answer he wants now is whether there is too much corporal punishment in the military. Don't give him any attributive words about corporal punishment without malicious intent.
Zhang Chong frowned and scolded:
"Lao Yang, what I'm asking you is whether there is too much corporal punishment. Why do you talk so much about it?"
Yang Mao's face turned red, and finally he said:
"Every team in the army has this problem."
After getting the answer, Zhang Chong didn't speak anymore. After returning to Jiumen, a 500-strong military governor was stationed in the temporary army to cooperate with the military judges here to improve military discipline.
The war is coming, don't be distracted.
On the last day, is it possible to ask Xiao Chen to top up his monthly ticket to 1,000?