Dominate the Country

[The first day of the new week, please collect it...]

Lushan, in the general's mansion.

"Wow..." The baby's loud cry is like a magic sound that enters people's ears.

The large carved bed was covered with a thick quilt. Little Chen Ding was lying on his back, clawing and kicking, crying as if the sky was dark, but in fact not a single teardrop fell. A pair of big black eyes would look at his mother who was sitting by the bed, holding his favorite toy in her hand, but with a stern face; and then looking pitifully at the anxious grandma beside her, only Li Xiaomei or Gao Shi Her eyes met his, and as soon as Xiao Chen Ding closed his eyes, he started crying even harder.

"Yue..." Mrs. Gao felt heartbroken when she saw her grandson crying so hard.

"Mom, don't spoil him. He is a child who can crawl over and over again. All the other kids his age can crawl very easily. He can only take two steps and then collapse. I really can't spoil him any more." "

While Li Xiaomei was talking to Mrs. Gao, she was gouging out little Chen Ding with her eyes. Just because she wanted him to learn to crawl and crawl a little longer, Li Xiaomei had been scolded many times by Mrs. Gao and the higher-ranking Mrs. Huang.

Little Chen Ding, who was crying and crying, saw that his grandma would not help him, and that her mother would tempt him with toys from time to time. Finally, unable to bear the temptation, she turned over and lay on the bed, crawling towards his mother with all four limbs.

Li Xiaomei did not continue to 'fuck' little Chen Ding. She held Chen Ding in her arms and gave him the toys she snatched from her hands as Chen Ding wished. Mrs. Gao stepped forward in two steps, hugged her grandson, and gave Li Xiaomei a fierce look: "I've never seen such a mother-in-law like you..." Mrs. Gao was so precious to Chen Ming when he was young. , that is the treasure that Gao has waited for many years. If you really hold it in your hand, you're afraid of dropping it, and if you hold it in your mouth, you're afraid of it melting.

At present, Chen Ding is Chen Ming's only son. No matter whether the Chen family succeeds or not, Chen Ding's status as the legitimate son and grandson cannot be shaken. He is completely the legitimate first heir of the third generation.

In Grandma's arms, little Chen Ding could feel an aura that was different from his mother's. He immediately gave Gao a big, sweet smile, which made Gao's heart melt with joy.

Because Chen Ming went to war again and again, Gao really put all his worries and love for his son on his grandson.

The women of the Chen family live a very anxious and uneasy life. They are now prosperous and wealthy, and enjoy the respect of thousands of people. But once things fail, the entire Chen family will fall into the abyss, and even the most ordinary and poor civilian life will be out of reach for them. However, they are unable to change all this, so they can only accept it silently.

In the study room of the General's Mansion, Chen Huizheng was studying in detail the military intelligence reports submitted by the six newly reorganized armored battalions. These six armored barracks will move south in the near future. 70% of them are prisoners of war who surrendered, and 70% of the remaining 30% are new recruits. Only 10% are real veterans of the Chen family army.

It is not very safe for such troops to stay in the General's Mansion, especially as the Qing court's second encirclement and suppression campaign is about to attack. The remaining Chen Jiajun troops are likely to be trapped in a defensive dilemma. In this case, it is difficult to guarantee the loyalty of such troops. Spend.

They were prepared for Chen Ming's expeditionary force when they were first formed, and these three thousand people were already the second batch. The first batch was also three thousand, consisting of six battalions of armored soldiers. They set off many days ago, and now they are all Went to Nanyang Fucheng.

These six thousand people took away the prisoners of war who had surrendered during this period in the base area. Chen Ming would also send most of the results of his troops' battles after entering Yunyang Mansion back to the base area. Those who were willing to follow Chen Ming When the general's mansion was attacked and blocked by the Qing army, the refugees' military skills may not be as good as those of the prisoners of war who surrendered, but their loyalty could completely defeat them. For Chen Jiajun, loyalty is far more important than combat effectiveness in the days to come.

Of course, Chen Ming's confidence in taking in so many prisoners of war was also because of his golden fingers. For these camp leaders, who were mainly prisoners of war, the 'Qi Watching Technique' was definitely the best magic weapon to deal with them.

Chen Hui didn't know Chen Ming's bug, so he was very worried. If Chen Ming is on an expedition and the camp head composed of these prisoners of war suddenly collapses, let alone a counterattack, as long as they suddenly collapse, Chen Ming can be plunged into a place of eternal destruction. Therefore, Chen Hui always read the military intelligence reports of these battalion heads in detail, and personally inquired about every change in these battalion heads.

All surrendered prisoners of war, from their organizational structure to their place of origin, are completely disrupted before being assembled into the A barracks.

Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei, a small number of Anhui soldiers, green camp prisoners of war from the four provinces, so many military towns and camp heads, were mixed together as thoroughly as mud, and they tried their best to make the captive soldiers in the camp heads not know each other, and each other Not familiar.

Then there is the armament of the armored barracks. There are no muskets. The captive soldiers wear the simplest rattan armor. Moreover, this rattan armor is different from the original rattan armor. The current rattan armor uses rattan armor as a frame and is covered with a layer of rattan armor. Iron pieces are braided together with leather and wattle, which is rattan armor. The regular recruits were equipped with old-fashioned rattan iron armor, and the chest area was still the same iron breastplate; in the end, the veterans, who only accounted for 10% of the team, wore iron armor with stronger and more comprehensive protection.

Doing so can also be regarded as a deterrent to the captured soldiers.

Not to mention that this artificial hierarchy affects combat effectiveness, the Chen family's military merit system is clearly laid out. As long as they perform meritorious service, the captured soldiers can wear iron armor if they have done enough. Isn’t the current class status the soldier’s lifelong class status?

The veterans are also equipped with four grenades each, and some officers are also equipped with handguns.

In general, the order of the twelve battalions was still reliable before it was seriously tested.

This was all Chen Hui could do for Chen Ming in the base.

The twelve new battalions, including the officers, were promoted from the officers of the army. Together with the headquarters led by Chen Ming, a total of 10,000 people, they were the basic base of Chen Ming's expeditionary team. At most, Chen Ming would recruit a few more in Yunyang. The number of people would definitely not exceed 15,000, mainly cold weapons, supplemented by muskets and artillery.

Chen Hui put down the report in his hand, rubbed his eyes, and a look of fatigue appeared on his face. Since the return of the Shaanxi Green Camp, the pressure on Chen Hui's shoulders has been increasing. In this war, there is no Chen Ming to share the pressure with him in the base.

The troops further south of Nanyang would naturally be pinned down by Chen Ming, while the troops in Gansu, Shaanxi, Zhili, the bannermen of the capital, Shandong and other places had to be carried by the base. The military pressure previously borne by Chen Ming suddenly fell on Chen Hui's shoulders, which made him feel heavy in his heart.

Chen Hui had never fought a war, and he was afraid that he could not bear the pressure. By then, his son would be fighting in Jiangnan, and his old nest would suddenly fall. How miserable would that be? Chen Hui visited the troops and the recruit camps repeatedly these days, and said to himself again and again in a firm tone: Chen Hui, you must hold on, hold on. But I just had no idea in my heart.

In the second Qing court's suppression, according to the secret report from the dark camp, Emperor Qianlong mobilized multiple armies in Gansu, Shaanxi, Zhili and Shandong, and also mobilized the Beijing Bannermen of Fengtai Camp. Like the Firearms Camp, the Jianrui Camp, and the Guard Camp, they were all dispatched. In addition, the cavalry of Jilin and Shengjing and part of the Mongolian cavalry were mobilized.

The force was so fierce that it was going to crush Ruzhou into dust. Chen Hui... could he not bend under the pressure of a mountain? ?