The continuous dark and gloomy weather finally passed, and the wind also swept away the dead leaves on the trees, indicating the arrival of winter.

The fortifications of Lushun Fort have been repaired, and trenches have been built around the surrounding areas to form a complete defense system.

In the harbor, nearly a hundred large and large ships are moored in a row. From the heights overlooking the entire harbor, it is as calm as a pleasure boat cruise in a lake.

"The Zuohui 6,000 soldiers, plus the 5,000 troops brought by General Zhang; the ammunition and medicine are sufficient, and each is in danger. Even if tens of thousands of Jiannu attacks, it is enough to resist."

Zhang Pan was full of confidence and raised his fingers to point out, with a sense of voluntary momentum.

The new general of Dengzhen, Zhang Keda, was a martial arts master in the Wanli period. He was able to fight and had talent. He was able to be both civil and military, and had the style of a Confucian general.

When guarding Guazhou in Zhejiang, Zhang Ke made great contributions to capturing the thieves who robbed the tribute ships and was promoted to guerrillas and gangs. Later, he followed the general Wang Minghe to pacify the southwest and made contributions.

Later, he was transferred to Ningbo and stationed in Zhoushan. He defeated the invading Japanese pirates many times and was promoted to deputy general.

Moreover, Zhang Keda devoted himself to the coastal defense. He always inspected himself, and drew the coastal terrain and strength into a "Coastal Defense Map" and handed over to the court. He was therefore valued and favored by Zhu Youxiao and promoted to General Officer of Denglai, Shandong.

Now, after checking the Lushun defense, Zhang Keda understands and agrees.

Although he made many achievements in fighting in the south, Zhang Keda thought he knew very little about Jiannu, so he took this opportunity to bring the men and horses out of Dengzhen to train troops in actual combat.

You should know that after Dengzhen has been expanded, only Zhangbang's headquarters has experienced actual combat.

Therefore, Zhang Keda, based on the idea of ​​training troops, sent five thousand reinforcements and transported a considerable amount of food and supplies collected by Lord Dengfuyuan.

If it were just these things, Zhang Keda was not worth a special trip. He was skilled in naval combat, but actually had a more fierce combat strategy and wanted to communicate with Zhang Pan.

"General Zhang defended Lushun Fort. If the Eastern Barbarians came to attack, Zhang Bang led a cooperation with General Kong's right-handed cooperation, and he could fight in cooperation with General Kong's right-handed cooperation, trap him under Lushun Fort and wipe out all of them."

Zhang Keda was very satisfied with the defense of Lushun Fort, so he expressed his plans, "This idea has been approved by Lord Yuan, and we and General Kong will discuss and decide together."

Zhang Pan agreed without thinking too much. This is not a strange plan, and he has long had such a combat plan.

If Amin had the first time attacking Lushun Fort, the Ming army would have more troops, and it would not have been attacked from front and back, but would have completely cut off its retreat and eliminated them all.

Of course, it is normal for the new army to be cautious in its first battle.

"Although the court did not make the plan to cut off the narrowest part of South Guam and lure the sea water to strengthen itself, the court did not make any clear decisions. However, the effect was different as if it was digging trenches and setting up a fort. "Zhang Pan said: "That would be faster and less."

As he said that, Zhang Pan bowed to Zhang Ke and thanked him: "A team sent by Lord Zhang is enough to defend this line of defense and build a foundation for unbreakable development in southern Liaoning."

The river was broken south of Guam, and a stable base was established in isolation of a hundred and thirty miles. After reporting to the court, it was immediately rejected by Zhu Youxiao.

To be precise, it is vetoed to open a river instead of establishing an onshore base.

It costs 200,000 yuan to dig an artificial canal of more than ten miles, but it is not high in terms of wages.

But for Zhu Youxiao, this is extremely low in quality and price, and it is too time-consuming, so it is hard to say what the effect is.

It can stop Jiannu from attacking. How deep and wide the canal needs to be dug, is there an excavator, how much manpower is used, and how long it takes? Will Jiannu watch you dig?

Of course, the difficulties can be overcome, but will the dug canal freeze in winter? It is costly and labor-intensive. Don’t be passed by Jiannu in the end, and the time will be wasted.

The Bohai Sea is a semi-closed inland sea. It is attacked by the Siberian cold wave in winter, and severe ice disasters often occur. For example, Juehua Island was slaughtered because the sea surface is frozen and frozen for more than ten miles.

As for the Yellow Sea, the ice conditions in winter are less and lighter than those in the Bohai Sea, but you can't take it lightly.

Based on this consideration, Zhu Youxiao believes that building more than ten miles of trench chest wall fortifications is much more appropriate than digging an artificial canal.

In order to be more secure, he outsourced a large amount of wire processing to private workshops, hoping to manufacture and transport it to Lushun in a short time, adding barbed wire barriers to the fortifications of the trench chest wall.

Don't underestimate the simple and fast-layed barbed wire. In the first battle, at least tens of thousands of soldiers died because of them.

In particular, multiple arrangements were adopted, which were enough to stop Jiannu's cavalry and infantry, causing them to be subjected to intensive fire from muskets and difficult to move.

Of course, Zhang Pan and Zhang Keda do not know this new defense tactic yet, and martial arts is also conducting research and experiments on the new ideas proposed by the emperor.

But Zhang Pan thought of land mines and picket fences and decided to use them for defense.

In his opinion, as long as there is enough troops, a defense line of about ten miles can be defended without digging a river.

With a Dengzhen association, coupled with Kong Youde's right association, it already meets his expectations of sufficient troops. In other words, a large number of migrant workers can be recruited and the land can be taken while it has not frozen.

As long as you spend the winter safely, you can farm this land worth hundreds of miles in the beginning of next spring, making the occupation more stable.

With a solid bridgehead, you can further explore the three states and integrate the overseas trend, making the Pingliao War a more favorable and proactive stage.

In fact, the emperor was more anxious than Zhang Pan to occupy the land base on the Liaodong Peninsula, not to mention that Lushun is the throat of the Liaohai Sea, which plays an important role in the "four-side arrangements".

Zhang Keda originally wanted to use the benefits of the navy to lure Jiannu to Lushun Fort, and then land and cut off his retreat.

But Jiannu did not respond, and if he waited, it would be winter. With the troops of the three associations and 20,000 people advanced to Nanguan, it was also an enterprising strategy.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ke nodded with a big smile and said, "Since that's the case, I will step up my preparations and start taking action recently."

After receiving Zhang Keda's approval and approval, Zhang Pan was overjoyed and bowed to thank him.

Although the Dengzhen official army led by Zhang Keda was considered a visiting soldier, they were higher than Zhang Pan in terms of age, qualifications, and titles. If he did not cooperate, Zhang Pan would not be able to command.

In fact, Zhang Pan did not expect that the general of Dengzhen would come to Lushun Fort in person, and Zhang Keda did not expect that it would make it difficult for Zhang Pan to do it.

Fortunately, the two of them are quite angry. Zhang Pan is from a Chinese student, and Zhang Keda can't put it down. They are both cultural people! They still have a common language.

The two took the map and discussed. After the specific action was determined, Zhang Keda would be in charge of Lushun Fort, and Zhang Pan and Kong Youde would be responsible for the front line command.

Such an arrangement not only takes care of Zhang Keda's identity, but also facilitates specific combat command, which is the best of both worlds.

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Chapter completed!