Chen De remained silent, but was analyzing the meaning of the Crown Prince. With his growth environment, his childhood and even his life experience at the age of eighteen, he would not take human lives seriously. Just as the butcher's son would not be afraid of blood, would he, a son of a general who went to fight to kill the enemy at the age of fifteen, pity the lives of a group of "sinners"?

As the saying goes, it is difficult to find a toad with three legs in the world. There are so many people with two legs. You can catch them if you die!

——Is it because my father treason and the prince finally wants to attack me?

Chen De's heart was as painful as a knife, and then he realized that in addition to the righteousness of the prince, he seemed to have more closeness and dependence on the crown prince.

Just like the eldest brother...

Seeing that Chen De's face was gray, Zhu Cilang knew that he had gotten into the horns and said slowly, "I asked you to take care of the engineer camp and the prisoner camp to sharpen your character. When I read history books, there are certainly famous generals with great talent, but not many. But those who can make unparalleled achievements, such as those famous generals who founded the country and assisted the country, are often meticulous and steady, so naturally they can stand invincible and wait for the enemy to defeat themselves. Only then can you be able to raise a battalion of troops, but your temperament is not polished and you can get violent in everything. How can you become a commander in a town?"

Chen De's eyebrows relaxed, and then a sour feeling rushed straight into the base of his nose. He held back and whispered: "Your Highness, my father..."

Zhu Cixuan suppressed his hand: "Everyone has his own destiny, and your father is indeed a place where he has lost his integrity. But you followed me all the way and did not make any mistakes. How could I punish you for his sins?"

"The last general is sad..." Chen De finally choked and said, "Son should not say to his father's fault, and the minister should not blame the king's kindness. Now the last general is really in no place to live."

Zhu Cilang stroked Chen De's back: "You should do your best and make military contributions in the future, and you can redeem your father's sins."

Chen De knelt down on the ground and bowed: "Thank you for your kindness."

"Don't thank me first." Zhu Cilang said loudly: "From today on, the death index of the engineering battalion is one person every ten days, and the prisoner camp is fifty people every ten days. The project progress must be accelerated. I will also send people to conduct quality inspections, and the requirements are stricter."

"The last general will take the order!" Chen De was a smart man, not to mention that Zhu Cilang had already said so thoroughly. It is obviously inefficient and wasteful to rely on whips to speed up the progress of the project. He had to find a way to go another way. Although he was not sure now, he was the same person and the same principle. As long as he was brainstorming and chose experienced old designers to supervise the work, it was better than whipping it with a whip at every turn.

Thinking of this, Chen De felt guilty. He only wanted to lead troops to fight, but he didn't think about whether he had the ability. He almost let down the crown prince's painstaking efforts and missed the opportunity to atone for his father.

Zhu Cilang untied Chen De's heart. He also ordered people to bombard the wall with tiger squat cannons and hit the village gate by hitting the wood. Although the quality was still worrying, it did not collapse immediately.

"It needs to be strengthened." Zhu Cilang left four words, turned around and inspected the next place.

Now the Shun Army has the habit of using artillery to attack the city. The Qing soldiers in the original historical script also have records of using artillery when siegeing the city. This Lexia defense line is the fundamental defense line. It must have extremely strong defense. Moreover, it is now strictly required to provide experience and codes for future construction.

In Zhu Cixuan's view, the fortress will be the key point of defense for the Ming army in the future for a long time. Only after the recovery of Hetao can there be sufficient horses to implement offensive defense strategies. In the case of insufficient mobility, using the fortress plus artillery mode to defend, support each other, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, is the best way to fight against the Manchu Iron Cavalry.

"Xiao Mo." Zhu Cilang turned around and shouted.

"The last general is here." Xiao Mo had already put on the golden emblem and emblem, and the following general came forward and responded.

"There are still several hills on the Xiaodonglou that can be used as peripheral defense lines, but you are facing the open plains, but what are your plans?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

"Your Highness," Xiao Mo owed, "It is because our defense line is surrounded by plains. Finally, we hope to build a beacon tower after the main fort is completed to predict the enemy's situation in advance."

"Your thinking is very stable." Zhu Ciyang nodded: "For our army now lacks large-scale cavalry. Early warning is a good way to stay. But there is no hurry now. Because the main force of Luo Camp is in Dongchang Prefecture, it can serve as our eyes and the first line of defense. After he goes south, I will have the same powerful weapon to equip your camp first."

Xiao Mo only recently learned that Luo Ying was also a unit of the Eastern Palace system, so he naturally admired the prince's divine strokes. Hearing that there were powerful weapons, the general felt even more itchy and asked, "Your Highness, is it a red cannon?"

"No." Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Actually, it's nothing strange. The Technical College is now testing and developing, and it will be able to install your camp soon. But you still have a task."

"No one dared not to obey." Xiao Mo said hurriedly.

"How do you feel when you went to see Luoying?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

Xiao Mo tied his tongue and finally said bluntly: "The chaotic crowd is completely incomparable to the guard camp...oh, the guard camp is completely incomparable."

"Not bad." Zhu Cilang nodded and said, "It was only after Zhu Jiajun passed by that, Luo Yukun realized that the forces under his opponents were integrating. Before that, hehe, it could be said that he was just as different from the thief ten years ago."

Xiao Mo suddenly felt a warning and asked tentatively: "Your Highness wants our battalion to send officers to help him train his soldiers?"

"You have the intuition of a promising general." Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "That's right, I hope to draw a Yuanyang formation and a square formation from you to be a teaching team."

Xiao Mo secretly complained in his heart that there were not enough officers on his side. The Eastern Palace was extremely strict in the promotion and awarding of officers. In addition to fighting bravely, he also had to master various diplomas. For example, soldiers must have diplomas of C, lieutenant officers must have diplomas of B, and rank above school officials must have diplomas of A. Staff officers are even more strict, and they are higher than officers of the same level.

"Your Highness," Xiao Mo said, "Isn't this a matter for the training department?"

"The training department itself also needs to train a teaching team, but I really can't get out of it." Zhu Cixuan said: "Don't expect to retreat in a daze! Zhu Jiajun and Chen Chong are both your original subordinates. Don't you, the old commander, support them?"

"Your Highness, there are tens of thousands of people in Luoying!" Xiao Mo cried. Everyone in the Eastern Palace knew that if the crown prince gave the task in a negotiated manner, he could bargain and would never be criticized. If he didn't explain it clearly now, he would have to be punished if he could not complete the task in the future.

"It's not the entire Luo camp." Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "In the future, all camp leaders will have to control their organization to facilitate their dependents, so just select 3,500 people and train them into independent guerrilla camps."

"It is not possible to select one-third of the people among thousands of people." Xiao Mo felt slightly relieved.

Zhu Cilang glanced at him indifferently: "In the future, the organization will be expanded, and the third battalion will be set up with a 'department'. Maybe this guerrilla battalion will be together with your guard first battalion."

"Can we hire a group of people with stinginess to go with us?" Xiao Mo asked hurriedly.

He knew very well that the Second Battalion of the Xiaodonglou had long said that it would rebuild the Tianxiong Army and would definitely not be merged with the First Battalion. According to the Crown Prince's attitude of being equal, the only reserves can be unified in the Cavalry Battalion, the Firearms Department, Tanning's Preparatory Battalion, and Luo Yukun's Independent Guerrilla Battalion.

Only the independent guerrilla battalion has combat experience, and its quality is significantly better than those newly recruited battalions who came from Caodian. Xiao Mo himself stumbling from Caodian faction and knew what experience means to a soldier. Of course, he seized the opportunity and brought the independent guerrilla battalion together.

"Of course." Zhu Cilang smiled with a pursed lips, but his mind flew to Laizhou.

The Technical College was appointed as the priest, and Johnson Chan was appointed as the official, Wang Yongchun and Yongshun as the academic affairs. In fact, it was because Wang Zheng was old and was responsible for all the common affairs of the college so that Wang Zheng had enough energy to devote himself to scientific research.

The first order received by the Technical College was the "sharp weapon" mentioned by Zhu Cilang, a kind of observation and early warning equipment suitable for use in open areas.

The college’s name is: Giant manned Kongming Lantern.

Commonly known as: hot air balloon.

ps:
Chapter completed!