It was late June when Chen Wen returned to the Quzhou front line. It has been half a month since he set up a plan from Quzhou Fucheng to return to the army to quell the rebellion.

Chen Wen did not feel happy at all after half a month to quell the rebellion in the rear. Not only was he tried his best to change the anti-Qing situation in Zhejiang, but the chain reaction caused the outbreak of the rebellion, and the fighter planes were fleeting. Now he wanted to recover Quzhou again, it was no longer as easy as half a month ago.

Quzhou Fucheng and the two Qing troops stationed in Jiangshan County completed the merger, but the war soldiers had already exceeded 10,000. Chen Guobao is still in charge of the rear with the town's direct battalion, and the Quzhou front line has only more than 5,000 soldiers. However, his family is too weak now, and he will be wasted all his efforts if he loses once. If he has no choice but to fight against two, it is better not to take such risks.

But who knew that Chen Wen's flag was re-established at the city of Longyou County, the Qing army withdrew its troops. To be precise, the main force of the Qing army retreated from west of Taoyuan Mountain between Longyou and Dingyang Creek to east of Dingyang Creek. Most of the troops retreated to the area around Quzhou Fucheng, leaving only the army with pitiful numbers and proportions as outposts, as well as several floating bridges on Dingyang Creek to ensure the transportation between the Qing army in the two places. The war was left with only the exploration of the horses of both sides in the middle.

Chen Jin's retreat surprised Chen Wen. In the half month after he left, the Qing army cautiously tried to explore the east when he just crossed Dingyang Creek, and then a few days ago when Chen Wen rushed back, he suddenly expelled the Ming army's post and quickly surrounded Longyou County. In the end, because Nantang Camp, which had always been away, suddenly appeared in the rear, he had to retreat for a while.

During this period, the Qing army clearly had the initiative, and the Ming army could only passively respond. However, as soon as Chen Wen returned to Longyou, the Qing army of such a large scale retreated so easily. Chen Wen was not so arrogant that he thought he had scared Chen Jin away.

Fortunately, this question was solved within a few days with the arrival of a messenger from the rear, because the news brought by the messenger was that the Qing army that besieged Anhua Town also retreated and retreated to the Zhuji County area.

After a long period of siege, several large-scale attacks not only returned in vain, but also caused great damage. It has been nearly July at this moment, and the temperature in Zhejiang is really not conducive to large-scale warfare, especially in such temperatures, the disease caused by corpses may turn the entire army into an existence that is exactly the same as the source of infection. In addition, there is always a threat from the Ming army on the flanks, which may be a big defeat. At that time, such losses are really unbearable to Jin Li, and now he has to retreat for a while to find another solution.

The Qing army on the northern front retreated, and the Qing army on the southern front mostly did this out of similar considerations.

Of course, perhaps there should be some reasons why the Cao Conglong Rebellion was quickly quelled by Chen Wen, as well as some other reasons that he had not yet discovered.

But no matter what, the truce is only temporary. Whether it is the nearly 20,000 Qing troops gathered in Hangzhou and Quzhou, or the Jinhua Ming army, which has been trained with more soldiers, it is impossible for both sides to spend so much. At most two months, it is absolutely impossible to delay until mid-September, and the battle will inevitably start again. At that time, it will be a critical moment to decide a victory or defeat for the Southeast battlefield this year, because the victory or defeat in western Zhejiang will inevitably affect the fate of the Ming army in Fujian and Jiangxi.

With little time left, Chen Wen decided to take advantage of this gap to strengthen his military strength as much as possible.

In the half month after Chen Wen left the army, Wu Dengke led the Yiwu Camp and half of the Dongyang Camp to guard the Longyou County. Li Ruixin brought Nantang Yingtun to gather in the southern mountainous areas to be a surprise soldier, while Lou Jiye brought staff, water camp and some reserve troops who came with the army to guard the Lingxi defense line, and at the same time coordinated the two generals Wu and Li to carry out defensive operations.

In just half a month, it seemed that the three generals were coordinating with each other well, but as the military judges delivered the report to Chen Wen's desk, Chen Wen found that the facts were far less optimistic than he thought.

Chen Wen left Lou Jiye for coordination, with the intention of strengthening the authority of the chief of staff system so as to popularize this modern military system at the battalion level. However, in order to make it easier for Chen Wen to contact the two heavy army groups, Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin simply used the opportunity to explore the existence and whether there was a problem with the information obtained by each other and the analysis of the situation of the war to Lou Jiye, as if he regarded the Chief of Staff as the official responsible for backing up the documents.

This problem has not caused any obvious losses yet. That is because Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin are both the earliest military generals who followed Chen Wen, and their relationship is also very good. Lou Jiye can only be considered a backward and has received such a position. In their opinion, the authority is naturally lower.

The most important relationship in the military should be class, dispatch, rather than factions and friendship, which is the truth that Chen Wen always believed in. In his memory, the last opponent before the founding of the Republic fell into his own internal friction, and was completely overthrown in just a few years without any factions. Although the initial steel lion of the Republic was not without factions, it was able to fight uninterrupted with each other under the same banner.

Chen Wen's army was established for a short time, and although there was no phenomenon of forming cliques among the generals, for example, the relationship between some former bosses and subordinates was obviously better, it was far from developing to the point of forming a true faction.

It is impossible to completely eradicate this potential problem, but it is still possible to reduce excessive losses caused by internal friction caused by factions. However, it is not time yet, so Chen Wen decided not to speak out for the time being.

In addition to this problem, until now, Chen Wen reexamined the jagged formation he designed and found that there was a fatal problem, that is, once the soldiers suffered too much loss, the formation had no ability to recover itself. If the formation was destroyed, it meant that the army was about to collapse.

This problem was not very obvious when crossing Lingxi, mainly because the Ming army was killed, and once the defeated soldiers were almost unable to escape from the battlefield alive, the terrain was blocked by the Ming army, and the Supervisor Battalion could not exert its military strength advantage. These were not impossible for the Qing army to solve, because the gap between the two sides was really big, and the wheel war could completely drag down the Ming army infantry that could not be replaced.

If Li Ruixin had not drawn two Folang machine cannons with a clever inspiration to accelerate the collapse of the Qing army and prevented it from rotating, it would have been the Qing army's governor camp rather than the Ming army's Nantang camp.

The main reason for this problem is that he is too superstitious about the flexible Mandarin Duck Formation, but ignores the response of the Qing army. When facing the Zhejiang Qing army, his military formation lacks thickness and density. The mandarin Duck Formation is very good in terms of local density, but due to the emphasis on flexibility, the thickness seems insufficient.

Qi Jiguang's method was to use the chariot and artillery battalion to build a temporary "city wall", rely on firearms to break the opponent's army formation, and then attack with cavalry and infantry. However, the Qing army faced by Chen Wen had a large number of artillery. Before the tank appeared, the best way was to rely on fortifications and the soldiers' firm will to defend and attack, so the military formation must be thicker, especially in the middle of the formation. While forming the long-range killer team, he did not show his heavy strengths, and he relied too much on the flexible Yuanyang formation killer team and the firearm team to launch an attack, which led to the embarrassing situation where neither side could achieve the effect.

Since this is the case, Chen Wen plans to reorganize the battle barracks, and all the spear formation killers teams are unified into the first and second games of each battalion, while the Yuanyang formation killers team is unified into the third and fourth games. When arranging the array, the thick spear formation killers team is in charge of the central army, and the flexible Yuanyang formation killers team guard the side and back. At the same time, they exist as a reserve team. When fighting, they are mobilized by changing the formation according to the situation. It seems that it should be stronger than the current jagged array that is not so illegible.

The modification of the formation requires time and training to be adjusted and adapted, and the adaptation must be started immediately. Since the Qing army temporarily avoided the war, Chen Wen, who originally only adapted the Yiwu Battalion, decided to use this period of time to adapt in batches, among which each station barracks had to rotate back to Jinhua Mansion. In addition to supplementing, there are more important things there that require the officers and soldiers of the barracks to participate.

After inspecting for several days, Chen Wen returned to Jinhua City, and the first batch of rotating troops were arranged according to the schedule designed by the staff in charge.

Within a few days, Chen Wen returned to the city again, which was beyond the expectations of the officials and gentry of Jinhua Prefecture. However, after hearing the news of the temporary withdrawal of the Qing army, one by one, after a moment of shock, they hurriedly came to compliment Chen Wen's "tiger power" to shock the enemy. Chen Jin took Chen Wen's power and did not even have the courage to fight. What's more, they insisted that it was Chen Jin, even if Jin Li came, it was the same. However, no one dared to say that the Eight Banners Army would be afraid of Chen Wen. After all, everyone is a cultural person, and you must know how to say it is appropriate to flatter.

However, Chen Wen was not even interested in these compliments. When he returned to the city, Chen Wen hurried to the workshop of the Military Industry Department.

The so-called Military Industry Department is the original Military Industry Department, the more distant Dalanshan Construction Department. After Chen Wen quelled the rebellion, all the civil servants and officials of the Military Industry Department were cleaned up. The craftsmen welcomed a new group of leaders. After obtaining Chen Wen's permission, they also replaced the brand with the Military Industry Department in order to draw a clear line with those rebellions.

The current Military Industry Department is very different from the former Military Equipment Department. The Military Equipment Department was adapted from the Construction Department, but only joined some craftsmen brought by Yu Guowang and recruited in Jinhua Mansion. In contrast, the main administrative officials in the new Military Industry Department were replaced by some civil servants who tended to Chen Wen during the rebellion, and at the same time, they were supplemented with a few disabled literate officers for supervision. In addition, several skilled craftsmen were selected to act as deputy in charge of civil servants in major workshops, changing the original system of civil servants in an absolute leadership position.

The rights of civil servants were restricted. According to the reality of the Ming Dynasty, it was almost inevitable that they would be boycotted and opposed by the civil servant group. However, when the rebellion had just been quelled, Sun Yu, the highest-ranking civil servants, had a tacit understanding with Chen Wen. The people below did not dare to jump out and touch Chen Wen's bad luck when facing the butcher knife of the prisoners, so the reform began silently.

Of course, the problem of the military industry is not just the system. After quelling the rebellion, Chen Wen also discovered some other problems through free conversations with craftsmen and soldiers.

The main job of the Military Industry Department is to make military weapons, which is beyond doubt. However, the craftsmen of the Military Industry Department are still hand-made, and the craftsmen are also craftsmen. If the civil servants of Dalanshan had not grown up under the supervision of their old boss Wang Yi and Wang Jiang, they would have been far from falling into the late Ming Dynasty as if they were not afraid of boiling water. Chen Wen would have been angry for a long time, and it would not be their turn to have the opportunity to rebel.

The craftsman system began in the Ming Dynasty since the Hongwu Dynasty. Chen Wen used the loopholes between the recruiting system and the ward system to establish Jinhua Town and Jinhua Guards. He made limited adjustments to the military household system, but directly reformed the craftsman system. He has not yet thought about how to improve it, so the focus of the reform is to increase the salary and benefits of craftsmen, which he once worked in modern times.

The way to increase the salary is not simply to increase wages. In addition to reward inventions and rewards, Chen Wen decided to stimulate the enthusiasm of craftsmen by piece-based wages. After all, if you throw away the number of pieces you should do, the more you can get the more bonuses you can get. Of course, in order to prevent craftsmen from relying on filling in numbers to improve production efficiency, each weapon must be engraved with the code of the supervisor, supervisor and participating craftsmen in the future. If there are quality problems, you must blame them according to the records.

Chen Wen didn't know if the Ming court did this before. Who made him and the civil servants of Dalanshan both come from wild ways and didn't know the details of the Ministry of Works. Even Li Ruixin, who was once a regular soldier of the Ming Dynasty's regular army, was the same because Huang Degong did not trust the weapons and armor produced by the Ministry of Works, like other military generals. But since the Ming army in Dalanshan had not before, Chen Wen felt that it would always be beneficial to take out a good system.

Of course, there is also a problem with hand-made construction, that is, although weapons are standard, they will more or less have some differences. They are either weight, length, arc of the blade, or something else. The difference is everywhere, but this will affect the use of soldiers. Especially for musketeers, since the caliber of muskets will be slightly different, each soldier needs to use tools to make lead bullets. The size cannot match the caliber and it will be polished. The amount of gunpowder is also different. These inconveniences will delay soldiers' rest time and affect the effectiveness of training and combat.

However, to achieve real standardization, he knew that it was impossible to achieve it with current technology, so he could only start with the measurement tools and molds used by standardized craftsmen, which should be effective. After all, examples of standardized weapons of the Qin Dynasty unearthed in later generations exist. If Chen Wen fails to achieve the technology, he can only rely on manual labor to make up for it.

In fact, in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many Western science and technology had been recognized by the scholar-official class, especially the science and technology related to the military industry, which was highly respected. However, now Chen Wen wanted to introduce it, either sending people to Macau or copying it bit by bit according to the records in the books. The former is not realistic, while the latter can send people to find local scientists like Song Yingxing, the author of "The Art of Heaven and the Works of the Heavenly Works", to carry out technical research. However, unrealistic problems also exist, so it is best to publish a reward now.

Chen Wen believed that the wisdom of the Chinese people was not comparable to that of the barbarians. There were always some wise men in the grass, and what he had to do was not to do it himself, as long as he chose the talents.

After leaving the Military Industry Department, Chen Wen inspected the Military Industry Department again. Gu Shouli was imprisoned in prison during the rebellion and suffered a little. Chen Wen admired his loyalty very much. Even though the Military Industry Department's work achievements have never made Chen Wen dissatisfied, he still took time to comfort him.

Several relevant departments inspected it and there were some things that needed improvement. Chen Wen planned to make improvements after thoroughly considering the pros and cons. It was almost time to get the time to go to the bottom. Chen Wen, who has been busy recently, decided to let Zhou Jingting, who has always been diligent and often overtime work, work another extra work. However, when Chen Wenping left the other person in the tent and explained his plan with Zhou Jingting, he received a worry.
Chapter completed!