While dispatching reinforcements and arranging the final hole cards, Chen Xin also arranged for combat sappers and auxiliaries to work overtime to lay traps and mines.

Traps are easy to dig, but it takes a little labor, and mines are very simple, in the case of sufficient gunpowder, there is no need for steel, any wooden box, stone shell, cement mold, and even thick paper bags can be used as carriers, which is a useful weapon that can be mass-produced on the front line.

During this period, Chen Xin also sent cavalry to bypass the mountains and launch a charge against the tens of thousands of Houjin Baoyi and Yu Ding, who were cutting wood.

Although the enemy was in the mountains and forests and was very scattered, and the cavalry of the Houjin Tartars quickly came to support, they were not able to kill and injure too many Houjin troops, but this kind of action also delayed the enemy's ability to build siege weapons and delayed the enemy's attack by at least a day.

Five days after the Houjin army stopped attacking, before the reinforcements dispatched by Chen Xin arrived, a new offensive of the Houjin army had already begun.

The more than 85,000 regular combat units of the Houjin Army who had stopped at the Lushun Defense Line were all mobilized and began to raise fires and cook before it was dark.

The preparations required for such a large-scale attack were extremely complicated, and there was no way to hide from the opponent in such a large number of movements.

The Huaxia scouts, who had been monitoring the Houjin army, as well as the Alpine Observation Force and the Eagle Falcon team, immediately detected the enemy's movements and immediately informed the armies.

Bursts of bugles sounded on the Lushun defensive line, and the auxiliaries and logisticians began to cook in preparation for the next offensive of the Houjin soldiers, who could arrive at any time.

Chen Xin himself has been resting on the north gate tower of Lushun for the past few days, and got up immediately after receiving the alarm.

The trumpeter of the command also sounded the order to call a meeting of the military commanders, and several commanders quickly came to the castle tower to meet.

Chen Xin temporarily divided the entire defense line into several parts, and he himself was in charge of the overall situation at the north gate of Lushun, directly managing all the reserves and the reinforcements that would arrive one after another.

Fu Yan was stationed on the left flank, and the second battalion of the infantry of the first brigade was mixed under his command, plus more than 1,000 auxiliaries, and the second battalion of the infantry should be separated, so that one of the companies would be stationed on the West Cockscomb Mountain, and the others would be used as supplementary forces to reinforce the top of the mountain at any time.

Zachdan personally guarded the defensive line where the rammed earth wall in the middle was located, and had the third battalion of the infantry of the mixed first brigade, plus a reinforced fourth battalion of infantry, as well as the Lushun armed garrison, the combat engineer company directly under the brigade headquarters of the first brigade, and more than 1,000 auxiliaries.

The 112th Infantry Battalion, which arrived in advance of the 11th Infantry Brigade, was led by its battalion commander to guard the right flank defense line, an infantry company under the 112th Infantry Battalion was responsible for garrisoning Golden Mountain, and several other companies were responsible for supporting and counterattacking at any time.

The 1st Battalion of the 1st Mixed Brigade Mounted Infantry was stationed in the 2nd line of defense to which the earthen wall was located.

The cavalry battalion of the 1st Brigade served as the general reserve and was under the personal jurisdiction of Chen Xin.

Everyone knew that today must be a big battle, and after quickly talking about the battle arrangement and the division of tasks, they beat each other's chests and saluted, and hurried to their respective defense areas.

Chen Xin delegated all the command on the front-line battlefield to several brigade and battalion commanders, and he himself led a part of the guard flag team to the West Chicken Crown Mountain.

At this time, everyone on the entire defense line was busy, batch after batch of 10,000 enemies, mines, grenades, and explosives bags were transported from the rear, and then the logistics officer commanded the auxiliaries to distribute them to each section of the earthen wall, and stacked them in bamboo baskets at the anticline position of the earthen wall, waiting for the soldiers above to use them at any time.

After eating, the soldiers shouted the trumpet and went to their respective fronts, and the officers at all levels were giving lectures to the soldiers who were already in place. The non-commissioned officers took advantage of the last moment, picking themselves on the defensive line, placing cloth curtains against arrows.

The great war is about to be taken, and now everything on the positions of the enemy and us is filled with a tense and solemn atmosphere.

When Chen Xin came to the top of the mountain, the sky had not yet been completely lit up, and when he looked in the direction of the north of Lushun, he could clearly see the lights in the Houjin camp in the distance.

Those lanterns, bonfires, and torches stretched out far away, like prosperous stars in the sky, and only the sound of trumpets and war drums continued to be heard to the outside world, showing that the soldiers of the Later Jin Army had gathered under the urging of the Tartar slave owners.

Chen Xin quietly looked at the sea of lights in front of him, and as time passed, after the sky brightened a little, he could carefully see that there were puffs of cooking smoke rising up, and then drifting into the air.

Before dawn, the smoke cast a hazy veil over the area where the enemy camp was located.

That place was one of his biggest enemies at the moment, and it was also the greatest pressure he had ever faced, although the kingdom was now developing smoothly, and even expanding its territory around the world.

In reality, however, the kingdom is far from being able to expand in all directions. This is just Chen Xin taking advantage of his foreknowledge of history, taking advantage of the fact that the tentacles of the European colonizers have not stretched too long, and preemptively seize the advantage.

Sometimes, in his heart, he is also a little frightened, he does not know whether everything he is doing now is real or illusory, even if he has changed history, but he is still not sure whether history will eventually do something to correct itself.

If history cannot be changed, or if time and space have corrected itself, then everything that is being done now will be meaningless, and he will inevitably be the losing side.

The future has always been hidden in a fog, like the Houjin camp in front of us. The general outline can be seen, but it is not very clear.

He had no way to say this kind of pressure to others, even Anya, he didn't mention it.

Chen Xin had imagined countless endings in his heart, as well as countless possible variables. The biggest possibility is that he himself was hit by a cannonball that came from nowhere.

Of course, because of his fingers, as long as it is not the will of the universe, the probability of him being killed by a cannonball of this era is still very small.

Chen Xin just couldn't help but think about these things.

Chen Xin didn't know what would happen to the most loyal cyborgs and creatures he had if he died. But come to think of it, it won't end well.

The biggest possibility is that the cyborg people do not have enough adaptability, and the kingdom will disintegrate, become a cake divided by bureaucrats at all levels, and finally disappear in the long river of history.

If the kingdom is to always be cohesive, in addition to the infiltration and lurking between the cyborgs at all levels to enhance everyone's cohesion, the binding of interests is also essential.

But, in the end, it is also extremely important that the kingdom needs an orthodox successor who can be agreed upon. In the event of any accident that happened to him, he was able to continue to maintain the stability of the main body of the kingdom and avoid the fragmentation of this collective.