Chapter 80                                                             �

When Zhou Mengchen heard this, his eyelids twitched slightly, and then he suppressed it, as if he hadn't heard it, and he still acted naturally and remained unchanged at all. After getting on the carriage, Zhou Mengchen's face suddenly became extremely ugly. As soon as he stretched out his hand, Xu Wei immediately handed over the military situation.

When Zhou Mengchen saw that the earliest point was at the end of February.

It was reported by Yu Dayou. Yu Dayou said that after several contacts with the Japanese pirate fleet, it was determined that the Japanese pirate fleet was roughly located, but because of its weak power, he did not dare to attack rashly. Therefore, there was no result in the battle. He only reported the results of sinking one ship and beheading several people.

This should be a small contact battle.

Zhou Mengchen was relieved, which was good news for Zhou Mengchen. He knew very early that the Japanese pirates should have come. However, there has been no news, which makes people worry. Although he understood that the vast sea was vast and there were many islands on the sea, it was normal that the Japanese pirates could not find the whereabouts of the Japanese pirates for a while.

But still anxious.

Zhou Mengchen looked at the range reported by Yu Dayou, thought carefully, and thought to himself: "It's still in the Zhoushan Islands. But where is it? Where is he trying to attack."

Zhou Mengchen looked at the military situation with this question. He was stunned and said, "How did Qi Jiguang arrange it? How could such a thing happen?"

It was written above that Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, trained 2,000 troops. The Japanese pirates landed in Taizhou at the end of February. Tan Lun led the training troops to fight, was defeated in one battle, and fled back to Taizhou. The Japanese pirates immediately besieged the city.

What made Zhou Mengchen dissatisfied with was not Tan Lun's defeat, but Tan Lun's battle. The arrangement made by Zhou Mengchen was actually very simple. Jiangnan led Jiaxing Prefecture to focus on defense, and it is best not to let the Japanese pirates ashore, Jiangbei and southern Zhejiang defend in depth. After the Japanese pirates ashore, they can continue to fight.

It can be said that the task given by Zhou Mengchen has been very easy.

What did Tan Lun think? He actually disrespects military orders. He heard that the Japanese pirates came and brought the so-called military training to fight. In fact, it was the soldiers he trained by Tan Lun himself.

Zhou Mengchen has always known that prefectures and counties in various places have trained soldiers privately. After all, after Zhou Mengchen arrived in Jiangnan, he has tried hard to expand the number of soldiers that can be fought. However, the entire southern Zhili Zhejiang will not exceed 50,000. 50,000 people will defend such a long coastline. It is impossible. So prefectures and counties will naturally find ways to train soldiers themselves. However, Zhou Mengchen is not responsible for this funding.

This is actually one of the reasons why coastal people suffer.

After all, Zhou Mengchen was training troops. He wanted to find a way to make money and not directly pressed on the people. But what should the prefectures and counties do? It was the original number of the gentry and the 37-7 share of the people. Or, simply let the servants of the big family below become county and township soldiers and train troops.

Anyway, what is the best thing for the King of Hell, and it is difficult for the little ghost to deal with.

The taxes set by the court were limited, but the heavy taxes collected by officials in private were unlimited.

Therefore, these messy soldiers must be rectified. However, after the military rectification in Jiangnan, these unnecessary rural soldiers can be revoked one by one. Now we can only default.

These rural soldiers defended the city, and the locals in the country worked hard, and they had time to fight better than the imperial army. After all, everyone knows the combat effectiveness of the Guard Army as a beggar army.

But when I go out to fight and go out to wander, I don’t know what I think.

Xu Wei said: "Sir, this Tan Lun is a 23 Jinshi of Jiajing, and he has always been known as a military officer. I heard that many people say that the soldiers in Taizhou are different from those in other prefectures and counties. It seems that this defeat was accidental."

Zhou Mengchen sneered and said, "I don't care whether it is accidental or not. In short, such a thing cannot happen again. You write a letter to Tan Lun in my name and scold him well so that he can know that I am just scolding him for the previous defeat. But if Taizhou has any mistakes and is treated as a loss of territory, don't blame me for being ruthless. And by the way, write a letter to Qi Jiguang to let him know that I will wait."

What are you waiting for? Waiting for news of victory.

After all, Zhou Mengchen knew very well that the battlefield was so wide that Zhou Mengchen could fly over to command. Since he could not, he could only rely on the officers he appointed. He could still trust Qi Jiguang.

"Yes," Xu Wei said immediately.

Zhou Mengchen felt a little troubled.

To be honest, Zhou Mengchen hates some civil servants participating in the war. These civil servants have some inexplicable arrogance. It seems that Zhou Mengchen was promoted with his military merits and gave them a good example. He thinks that I can do it and wants to make achievements in military affairs. But why is Wang Chonggu a native of Shanxi. He is close to the border area and may have traveled to the border before he was admitted to the Jinshi. However, he has a little real skill in using military force, but that's all. In Zhou Mengchen's opinion, Wang Chonggu's military literacy is not as good as some of his young generals.

Not to mention most civil officials, they all learn war from military tactics, history, dramas, and novels. In Zhou Mengchen's opinion, most of them were kicked by donkeys in the head.

Because of the inexplicable arrogance of these civil servants, they often do not take orders seriously. They seem to think that military law is to limit our literati? It is simply funny. The officers and generals below can be brave and unpredictable when facing the enemy, but when facing the civil servants, they all suffer from chondrome disease. As long as the orders of these civil servants are ordered, they will be executed, and the previous military orders are often thrown aside.

It goes without saying how serious the consequences will be.

More importantly, the following is. Zhou Mengchen cannot handle it at will.

A general made such a mistake, and Zhou Mengchen sentenced him to the statutory order. No one said anything. But a civil servant did such a thing, just like Tan Lun. His defeat was placed on his general. Zhou Mengchen felt that he would be demoted, even thrown aside to be a cold bench, deprived of his post, etc., and he had a way to deal with it. However, this was impossible for Tan Lun.

Tan Lun was a Jinshi in the 23rd year, the same year as Wang Zongmu, there were teachers on the top, classmates on the middle, and a lot of relationship networks. Zhou Mengchen touched Tan Lun to offend a group of people. Moreover, the world is very small and the circle of civil servants is not big. Maybe this relationship will be found in Zhou Mengchen.

Two words: "Trouble."

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen could only scold and warn him. Then he said that, and the crime of losing his land was serious. If Taizhou was lost, Zhou Mengchen would be responsible. It was legitimate to kill Tan Lun, and no one could say anything.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know that Tan Lun was a famous general in history, and once as famous as Qi Jiguang. After all, there were too many wars and too many famous generals in Chinese history, so Zhou Mengchen could not remember them one by one. Tan Lun started his career in the Battle of Taizhou in history. He defended Taizhou and won three battles. But he did not say that Tan Lun had the first time fighting with Japanese pirates was actually a failure.

After all, most generals grew up step by step. Zhou Mengchen was actually barely able to fight in the first battle. Zhou Mengchen now thinks he was really lucky back then. Tan Lun's luck was a little worse.

However, the same failure has different influences.

In history, there were too many people who defeated the war. Tan Lun lost a little and lost some troops. However, he later defended Taizhou and everyone carried the flower sedan chairs. No one said that Tan Lun had lost this time. But now it is different. Zhou Mengchen repeatedly ordered that for this battle, he held a military deployment meeting for more than half a month. The following are all instructions.

In history, Tan Lun's defeat was just a defeat in the Battle of Taizhou. Now, Tan Lun's defeat was a defeat in Wang Zhi's first battle. It can even be said that he would have the same influence?

Zhou Mengchen vaguely felt that there was actually something wrong with his military deployment, that is, he asked civil servants to cooperate with the work of military generals. I guess many people below were dissatisfied, and Tan Lun's performance reminded Zhou Mengchen of this.

But what can Zhou Mengchen do?

Most civil servants have different military qualities and different responsibilities. What's more, the officials below are very complicated and may not be devoted to fighting Japanese pirates. Perhaps others have other thoughts. For example, it is not impossible to dig a hole for him, Mr. Zhou.
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