This young officer was the largest labor leader in the East Palace, Chen De. After he took over the engineering barracks, he was quite unwilling to transfer back to the war army. Who knew that the Third Battalion of the Guards had no share, but more and more prisoners, "troubled people", scattered soldiers, and hard labor were sent to his subordinates.

Now Chen De's engineering camp has almost no combat soldiers, but there are as many as 50,000 coolies. As a last resort, he can only manage the coolies with innocent laborers. Almost every craftsman with a skill has to bring dozens of apprentices. Fortunately, Chen De also has some trustworthy servants, and there are soldiers everywhere east of Lexia, so no tragedy has happened.

As time went by, Chen De himself gradually calmed down and no longer wanted to be a general of the war soldiers. Now, he ruled these loose laborers with military laws, prohibited noise among the camps, and gradually instilled the concept of discipline, and asked the crown prince to a training instructor, which really looked like a barracks.

The labor camp performed very well in various tasks with gradually improving work efficiency and strictly controlled mortality rates. Chen De himself knew very well where to use the best materials to achieve the best results, and where to save manpower and meet all needs. As soon as he received the order, he wanted to build the road to Jinan as soon as possible, and knew that this was to prepare for war. The quality of the road was not necessarily excellent, but the need for mobilization of cavalry, infantry and artillery must be met as soon as possible.

Nowadays, the Technical College has not completed the research and development of hydraulic stone crushers. Cement roads can only be used on the face, mainly rammed earth roads. Moreover, there is little rain in Shandong, and the service life of this rammed earth road is quite long. In addition, the plain landforms, there is no need to worry about mountain torrents destroying the roads.

"What do you call this general?" Huang Desu asked.

"Engineering Battalion Officer. Colonel Chen De." Chen De said lightly: "There are no more civilians in the state? Where are the military households in the former garrison?"

"Even women are working." Huang Desu shook his head and pointed from afar. Sure enough, there were two women in thick clothes sifting soil with a screening mesh.

Chen De was helpless. Although he had many people under his command, he used more places to employ people, so he always used the recruitment of civil servants from local prefectures and counties to cooperate with it.

With the accumulation of engineering experience, more and more special tools have been transformed. While efficiency is improved, civil servants must be guided by someone to use it, and it will take three or five days to truly master it. This makes the construction project more like a battlefield. The craftsmen under Chen De, workers are professional combat soldiers, and hard labor is auxiliary soldiers who lack combat skills. Civil servants are labor supplements.

Chen De was about to speak when he suddenly heard a bell ringing.

"Awakening bell! Donglu is here!" Huang De shouted in disgrace as plain as earth.

"The whole team!" Chen De shouted loudly: "My horse!"

Huang Desu grabbed Chen De: "General, what should I do if the subordinate official!"

"Stabilize the people and obey military orders." Chen De finished speaking casually, and turned over to the horses brought by his personal guards.

The queue exercises from the Engineer Battalion in recent days have been effective, and workers from all over the place have quickly gathered together and formed square formations with fear.

By contrast, the people did not obey orders so much. They soon became scattered and rushed towards the city gate.

Huang Desu saw it almost fainted, barely cheered up, and shouted loudly: "Don't run away! Bring the tools!"

The running people stopped quickly and then fled in the opposite direction.

In the city gate, a soldier from a bureau took neat steps and trotted out, driving the scattered people to a group and let them enter the city. In front of these terrifying order-maintainers, the people quickly entered the former Acropolis.

Chen De rode over and called the president of the 100th century in the game: "Which direction did the enemy soldiers come from? How far is it?"

The President looked at Chen De's shoulder and saluted: "Report to the Colonel. There are more than 200 cavalry from the East Lie from the north. It is half a day before we reach the city of Dezhou. The 1000th headquarters of our camp has been ordered to attack."

"It's Xiao Mo." Chen De couldn't help but be envious and jealous. He turned around and returned to his command position and ordered: "Everything is available, pack up the tools, evacuate into the city. The Fortification Department stayed behind and prepared to support."

The Fortification Department is all veterans who are good at civil engineering. If they want to fight, they will definitely not be as good as the warrior brothers, but after concentrating on building fortifications, they can play a greater role.

The General of the Donggong Palace was considering how to lead the Donglu out to attack the city in Dezhou, so the Donglu naturally would not sit in Cangzhou City. Because he was playing the long line of "sweeping out the rebels and embracing the Ming Emperor" all the way, Bahana, who lacked political thinking, was confused about whether to attack Dezhou, so he sent a letter back to ask for advice.

Shi Tingzhu, who has been through the battlefield for a long time, is not very enthusiastic about attacking Texas. He hopes to get a chance to stand alone, rather than follow the Manchu trumpets to act. The result is that he has made many efforts and has not made any contributions. With his political sense, he is not optimistic about Ye Chen's trip to the northwest. If he can be transferred to the northwest, directly fighting with Li Chuang is a great opportunity to make contributions.

"It's always right to build a village first." Shi Tingzhu agreed with Bahana's suggestion. Although his status seemed to be with Bahana, the Han military flag was ultimately lower than the Manchurian flag.

Bahana said: "If you want to get a pierce, you have to get closer. If you accidentally hit it, the prince cannot blame us."

The two commanders reached an agreement and sent two hundred cavalry under their command as the vanguard. After this group of troops, there were three hundred marches and five or six hundred soldiers who were robbed to set up camp five miles outside Dezhou City. As long as the camp was set up, the Han army flag would be moved, waiting for the order of the Regent Dorgon.

The journey from Cangzhou to Dezhou was already full of horse exploration from the first battalion, and the news was promptly transmitted back to Dezhou.

It is precisely because of the timely delivery of this information that Xiao Mo can calmly set up his formation, choose a battlefield that is conducive to rest and recuperation, and use the battalion's engineering battalion to carry out simple combat fortifications. In this regard, the Eastern Palace Army has adhered to the "not fighting unprepared battles" since its establishment.

Chen De ordered the engineering battalion to complete the team and go to the city alone to ask for an audience with the crown prince.

However, Zhu Cixuan had already left the city with the 1,000th headquarters of the first battalion and inspected the battlefield. By the time Chen De chased him, Zhu Cixuan had already chosen a small high ground to prepare to welcome this real Manchu soldier.

"I am requested to join the battle!" Chen De saluted with great energy: "The First Fortification Department of the Engineer Battalion has been ready to be on standby!"

Zhu Cixuan looked at the energetic young colonel and smiled: "Accurate. Let's see what changes have happened to the engineering battalion these days."

"Yes!" Chen De saluted again excitedly, turned around and ordered his personal guards to go to the engineering battalion to enter the battlefield and conduct emergency arrangements before the emergency battle.

You Shiwei stood beside Zhu Cilang and said, "Your Highness, I heard that lions and tigers need to fight with each other, and lions and tigers also need to fight with rabbits. Although it is only 200 cavalry, why not completely use thunder to cut it out?"

"General You, the battlefield commander is General Xiao now, and it is not yet at the level where I need to seize power and command." Zhu Cixuan said with a smile.

You Shiwei didn't know whether he should be moved or regretful when he heard this. There were very few superiors who could come to the battle formation but respect the generals so much. Not to mention the identity of the crown prince, even those civil servants and supervisors wanted to have the final say. However, Xiao Mo was a general who lacked experience in You Shiwei's eyes. He could only waste such a good opportunity.

If the Donglu cavalry can be defeated in this battle, even if there are only a dozen heads, it will be a great thing to be excited.

"General Xiao fought bravely, but he was still a little conservative in his deployment." You Shiwei couldn't help but say: "The first thousand headquarters is in Dezhou, and the second thousand headquarters is in Ling County. This is all the meaning of the topic. However, the third thousand headquarters is in Pingyuan County, I don't know why. Could it be the support soldier after De County fell?"

Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "I want to know too. In this way, after this battle, General You asked General Xiao, remember to copy a copy for me. But now it is time to formulate a military discussion, let the matter on the battlefield be left to General Xiao."

You Shiwei then unwilling to pick up the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and looked at the soldiers who were preparing for the pre-war preparations below.

Going north from Dezhou is Hejian Prefecture in northern Zhili. In the words of scholars, the vast North China Plain is a vast land that can be galloped. However, the army has never taken a straight line between two points, so it must be found to walk. From this, we can also infer the direction of the future battlefield: Wuqiao.
Chapter completed!