Without the fetters of the Mongolian army, the civilian camp built the fort much faster.
Dozens of miles away from the fort where the Mongolian army fought against the Tiger Banner soldiers, a fort was being built, with thousands of people busy around it.
"Yingzheng, Zhang Yingzheng is here." Qin Rong said to Chen Xunping who was playing with the map on the table.
After hearing this, Chen Xunping raised his head and looked over.
Zhang Sancha walked in from outside the tent door.
There is a wooden table in the big tent with a map spread on it.
Zhang Sancha walked to the bench next to the wooden table, sat down, and said: "In ten days at most, the fort here will be almost completed."
Qin Rong, who was standing aside, came over with a teapot in his hand and put his hand on Zhang Sancha's hand.
Chen Xunping looked at Zhang Sancha and said, "What? Do you want to stay?"
"It's not me." Zhang Sancha shook his head and said immediately, "I want to transfer a thousand-man team and a baggage team from the fort behind to station here."
After saying that, he picked up the teapot sent by Qin Rong, put it to his mouth, blew on it, and took a sip of the hot water inside.
Chen Xunping hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you want to mobilize a thousand-man team from the Sixth Soldier Camp?"
"It's a waste to leave two thousand-man troops there," Zhang Sancha said, "Besides, your Excellency has sent a newly formed supply battalion to the grassland. Now this supply battalion is on its way and will arrive in a few days."
As soon as the newly formed baggage camp left Xinpingbao, a fast rider came along the road to deliver the news. Although the people from the baggage camp had not arrived yet, the news about the baggage camp had already reached the ears of several war barracks on the grassland. inside.
Chen Xunping frowned slightly and said: "These heavy troops are all new recruits. It is definitely not enough to stay alone in a fortress."
"They can be dispersed and mixed with the thousands of soldiers from several military camps." Zhang Sancha said, "These heavy troops may not be able to fight in the field and lack actual combat, but they can be stationed in the fortress together with the soldiers from the military camp."
Chen Xunping thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll do as you say. When they arrive, we will split up the baggage camp and work with the soldiers from the soldiers camp to garrison the fort. In this way, we can still The first and seventh military battalions were liberated to defend against the Mongolian army."
"Then it's settled." Zhang Sancha put down the teapot in his hand.
Chen Xunping nodded and said, "It's settled."
Both of them are Yingzheng, and Chen Xunping is a veteran Yingzheng, the nominal commander-in-chief of the army. Basically, no one will object to the matters decided by the two.
"One more thing." Zhang Sancha said, "Our pier here is almost finished. I am going to take some civilians to build the next fire road pier ahead. Of course, the 7th Soldier Battalion will also go with me. "
After speaking, he looked at Chen Xunping, wanting to ask for his consent.
Although he is also the camp commander and looks like Chen Xunping, he is the camp commander, but he knows in his heart that his battalion has just been promoted, and Chen Xunping is the camp commander because the highest military commander in the Tiger Flag is the camp commander.
Hearing that Zhang Sancha wanted to continue northward to build the fort alone with the civilians, Chen Xunping laughed and said, "If you don't mention this, I will tell you, come and look at the map."
As he spoke, he pointed to a location on the map with his hand.
Zhang Sancha leaned his upper body forward, put one arm on the table, and looked at where Chen Xunping's finger pointed.
"Here, here, and here." Chen Xunping pointed at three places on the map and said, "These three places are where we need to build piers next. Two of them can be built with fire road piers." .”
Zhang Sancha laid his head on the map, glanced at it for a while, and then said: "This is the Dahei River, right? The farthest fire road pier has reached the edge of the Dahei River."
"Yes." Chen Xunping said, "As long as these three are built, the work that your Excellency has told us will be completed. From Xinping Fort to Dahei River, there are forts for our Tiger Flag along the way."
His finger drew a line on the map.
From the map, this line is not particularly straight, but this line is a road that the Tiger Flag convoy often takes to go to the Tumut Department, but now there are many piers and fire road piers built on this road.
"Winter comes early on the grassland, so it's best to build these forts before winter comes." Zhang Sancha reminded.
Although there were only two fire road piers and one pier fortress left that had not yet been built, he knew that winter on the grassland was coming soon.
It will be very difficult to build a fortress after winter.
Chen Xunping licked his lips and said, "You are right, winter comes earlier in the grassland than in Lingqiu, so I want to start the construction of two fire road piers and a pier at the same time."
"This is a way. If we hurry up, we should be able to complete it before winter and send troops to station there." Zhang Sancha nodded slightly and agreed with the method proposed by Chen Xunping.
Chen Xunping said: "Then it's settled. You will first take some of the civilian workers to build the fire road pier in front. When the pier here is completed, you will immediately take the remaining civilian workers to build the next pier and fire road pier."
"I will send you a team of a thousand men later. The Mongolian army is still there. If there are too few soldiers to protect the civilians, something will happen easily." Zhang Sancha said.
The Mongolian army was dozens of miles away.
Since the last attack by the Mongolian army failed, the Mongolian army has shrunk and no longer sends troops to attack the Dunbao of the Tiger Flag and the soldiers and horses outside the Tiger Flag.
But Zhang Sancha didn't dare to relax at all as he should be on guard.
Chen Xunping said: "When the pier here is almost built, the heavy supply camp from Xinping Fort will almost arrive, so there will be no shortage of troops."
Zhang Sancha nodded.
There are more than 4,000 baggage soldiers in the full force. Even if some of the baggage soldiers are sent to garrison the fort, there will still be a lot of baggage soldiers left.
Although the baggage troops are all new soldiers and are not as elite as the elite soldiers in several large military camps, there is no problem with the defense of Yicheng. After several months of training of new soldiers, the quality of the soldiers is not lacking at all.
The baggage soldiers of Tiger Character Banner are all trained according to the specifications of war soldiers, but they are slightly inferior in weapons and only have some battlefield experience compared with the soldiers of several war soldier camps.
"Captain Tan, have you just returned from inspection?" Qin Rong greeted Tan Zaiwang who entered the battle.
As the only cavalry captain of the two combat barracks, Tan Zaiwang arranged for armored cavalry to patrol the surrounding grasslands every day, and he himself would patrol from time to time.
Chen Xunping and Zhang Sancha heard Qin Rong's voice and looked up towards the main tent door.
Tan Zaiwang walked in from outside wearing a breastplate.
Qin Rong had already walked up to Tan Zaiwang and helped Tan Zaiwang remove his armor.
