It should be said that Yang Zhen spent a lot of time, after discussing the distribution of obtained materials and the appointment of low-level military attachés, he also arranged the main tasks of the officers and soldiers of Songshan City for the next period of time.

One is the issue of continuing to build the bastion and urn city. The progress of the entire renovation project is much slower than Yang Zhen's previous expectations.

Yang Zhen left Songshan for more than half a month this time. When he left, the construction of additional bastions and urns outside the east gate, west gate, and south gate had already begun. Now more than half a month has passed.

It still looks like a big construction site.

Fortunately, the foundations have been laid everywhere and the required stones have been collected. The progress of building the bastion and urn city will be accelerated soon.

Another issue is the issue of troop training and preparation for war. The advance battalion for the Eastern Expedition has many newly recruited brave men who have not undergone systematic training.

There is no way to temporarily arm them and put them into battle on the battlefield. Now that we have time and opportunity, we should quickly make up for the training that was missing before.

Grenadiers, musketeers and even gunners seem to be easier to use, at least compared to archers, heavy cavalry, and various formations of infantry.

However, in order to form a large number of well-trained grenadiers, musketeers and gunners, he still needs to spend a lot of time investing in training these newcomers.

The training content designed by Yang Zhen is also very simple. There are only three aspects in total: the first aspect is physical fitness, the second aspect is discipline, and the third aspect is skills.

Physical training mainly involves running. After getting up in the morning and at dusk, one long run around the city, one lap and two laps, gradually.

Discipline training mainly involves practicing queues, such as the most basic resting, standing at attention, squatting, standing, straddling and stopping, as well as walking, goose-stepping, running and marching.

These formation trainings that became popular hundreds of years later may not be so important to other troops in Songshan City, but for the musketeers, grenadiers, and even the artillery soldiers under the advance battalion of the Eastern Expedition

, but it is very important.

On the one hand, these basic movements are the basic tactical movements that a qualified soldier in the era of hot weapons needs to master proficiently.

On the other hand, and the more important aspect, is that through day-to-day queue training, as well as the training of stopping and moving methods, we can subtly achieve the purpose of commanding and prohibiting.

Queue training seems simple and boring, and seems to have no meaning, but in fact it is of great significance, and its greatest significance is not to develop basic tactical movements, but to develop basic tactical discipline.

As for technical training, it mainly consists of live ammunition exercises. A skilled and accurate musketeer must be trained through repeated reloading, repeated aiming, and repeated shooting.

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, but what about the skills that you can acquire if you are not familiar with them?

Similarly, a qualified grenadier and a qualified gunner need a large number of repeated live ammunition throwing and live ammunition shooting. Otherwise, they will not be able to form much strong combat effectiveness on the real battlefield.

Of course, such training must consume a lot of precious ammunition, but for Yang Zhen, instead of wasting ammunition on the battlefield during war, it is better to spend it on training in peacetime.

The last one is the issue of military production, including the production of guns and ammunition, the casting of large-caliber short-barreled cannons, the issue of continued improvement of the enemy of ten thousand people, flying generals, etc.

By the time all these questions were finished, most of the day had passed. Not long after the generals dispersed, Fang Guangchen and Jin Shijun had already accompanied Yang Chaojin and Fang Yizao back to Songshan from Jinzhou City.

Yang Chaojin and Fang Yizao both had objections to Zu Dashou. They both believed that Zu Dashou and his men cost the court millions of taels of salary every year, but they occupied the manhole and did nothing, and were suspected of supporting bandits.

The heart can be killed.

But both of them also knew that Emperor Chongzhen had no other choice but to hold his nose and continue to pay huge amounts of Liao pay to Zu Dashou and his Liaodong Army.

If there is any other way, it is to hope that Yang Zhen can act as a check and balance to Zu Dashou.

However, Yang Zhen currently only has a small town in Songshan. Although his troops seem to be good at fighting, they are too few after all.

The two of them went to Jinzhou and conveyed to Zu Dashou Emperor Chongzhen's latest decree that the Ming government and army should stand side by side on land and sea outside Shanhaiguan. From now on, the Guan, Ning, and Jin lines will still be led by Zu Dashou, the former general who conquered the Liao Dynasty.

The main officers in Liaodong Town are the generals, while the main officers in Songshan City, Liaoxi Sea, and Liaodong Coast are Yang Zhen, the former general who conquered the east.

Yang Zhen and his Songshan officers and troops stood side by side with Zu Dashou's Ningjin Liaodong Army in western Liaoning. They jointly accepted the control of the Governor of Jiliao and the Governor of Liaodong, but they no longer directly accepted the command of Zu Dashou.

Regarding Emperor Chongzhen's decree, Zu Dashou had already received the news in advance and had almost digested it.

Therefore, when Yang Chaojin and Fang Yizao went to Jinzhou to convey the order, Zu Dashou did not get angry or show any expression on his face, but accepted the order very calmly.

At the same time, when Zu Dashou heard that the imperial court had appointed Yang Chaojin, an eunuch of the inner court who had had a conflict with him, as the eunuch of the imperial army stationed in Songshan City, he also had the rare opportunity to laugh in front of these two people.

He laughed for a while.

Since the second year of Chongzhen, the Liaodong Army barracks under Zu Dashou have never accepted military supervisors and internal ministers to enter, so no matter whether it is Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Xingshan, Tashan, or Lianshan, there are no internal supervisors in these places.

Even though Gao Qiqian, the only eunuch in the army that Zu Dashou could accept and get along well with, could not place the eunuchs around him into the military camp under Zu Dashou.

Including Gao Qiqian himself, I don't know whether he was afraid of angering or offending Mao Zu's birthday, or whether he was too worried about his own safety. In short, he just stayed in Shanhaiguan and did not dare to take a step out.

As for asking him to go to the Jinzhou front line to supervise the army, no one from top to bottom mentioned it publicly, and Gao Qiqian himself didn't even think about it.

The reason for this is naturally tacitly understood by everyone from top to bottom.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen had sent a military supervisor to Songshan City, Zu Dashou felt inexplicably happy. He wanted to see how Yang Zhen, who had risen rapidly in the past six months, would deal with the suspicion of the suspicious Ming Emperor.

And he also wanted to see if the restless Yang Zhen would become more peaceful now that Yang Chaojin was in charge.

Because of this, Zu Dashou, who was quite cold to Yang Chaojin when they first met, finally managed a rare lunch for Yang Chaojin and his party in Jinzhou City before sending them away.

Zu Dashou's attitude was far beyond the expectations of Yang Chaojin and others.

They originally thought that Emperor Chongzhen's deliberate promotion of Yang Zhen might arouse Zu Dashou's doubts, or even anger and opposition. After all, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and how could there be two garrison commanders on the Songjin defense line who were not subordinate to each other and had the seal of general?

Soldier?

Therefore, Yang Chaojin, as the imperial envoy delivering the decree, insisted on asking Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, to go with him, hoping that at the critical moment, he could use Fang Yizao's identity to persuade Zu Dashou to accept the decree.

And they have found many reasons, even "misinterpreting" the emperor's intentions, for example, letting Yang Zhen be in charge of the maritime invasion of Mantar, while Zu Dashou is still in charge of the defense affairs of the cities on the Guangning-Jin defense line.

For example, let Yang Zhen and his Zhengdong Battalion focus on sea attacks, let the Liaodong Army of the Guanjin Defense Line under the command of Zu Dashou focus on land defense, etc.

Another example is the sea route commanded by Yang Zhen and the land route commanded by Zu Dashou. The two lines attack and defend each other. They do not interfere with each other and cooperate with each other. They jointly obey the orders of the governor of Liaodong who is stationed in Ningyuan and the governor of Jiliao who is stationed in Shanhaiguan.

Control and command.

This was an explanation and arrangement that Yang Chaojin and Fang Yizao came up with after repeated discussions and reflections that could convince themselves and also Zu Dashou.

However, what surprised them was that after hearing the emperor's decree, Zu Dashou was completely noncommittal. He neither became furious nor found various reasons to object. Instead, he accepted the imperial edict very calmly and listened to it calmly.

Yang Chaojin and Fang Yizao's explanations were as calm as if the matter had nothing to do with them.

On the contrary, Zu Dashou was somewhat interested in the fact that the imperial court sent Yang Chaojin, an internal minister, to Yang Zhen's side as a supervisory officer in Songshan City.

However, the more Yang Chaojin, the person involved, thought about it afterwards, the more he felt that Zu Dashou's attitude towards the imperial court's dispatch of ministers to oversee the army in Songshan was really thought-provoking.

On the way back to Songshan City from Jinzhou City, Yang Chaojin didn't say much. After they returned to Songshan City, Fang Yizao had something to discuss with Fang Guangchen and returned to the Zhenwu Temple station, while Yang Chaojin and his party went directly to the General Soldier

Mansion.

"Captain Yang, the top priority of our family's trip, which is to convey the Holy Emperor's will, has finally been completed. Others will take care of the mission when we return. Our family will be stationed in Songshan City from now on!

"

Yang Chao entered the General Military Mansion, first dismissed the accompanying followers, and then went straight to the second hall of the General Military Mansion. As soon as he saw Yang Zhen who came to greet him, he immediately said these words to Yang Zhen.

But at the end of the sentence, Yang Chaojin seemed to be smiling but not smiling. It was obvious that there was something in his words and he meant something.

Yang Zhen didn't know what Yang Chaojin and his party experienced in Jinzhou City, or what stimulation they received, so he didn't answer the conversation for a while. He just smiled and asked him to sit down, and then asked Ma Keqing to go out and prepare tea.

As soon as Ma Keqing left, Yang Zhen and Yang Chaojin were the only two people left in the large official room on the east side of the second hall, and they were seated separately.

At this time, Yang Chaojin looked at Yang Zhen and continued: "Brother, I went to Jinzhou City today. On the way back, I had a lot of thoughts and some things I couldn't say out loud - Brother, I want to make a three-part agreement with you, my dear brother, Han Qing, face to face.
Chapter completed!