This was the third day of the tentative Tartar offensive, and when Chen Xin entered the port of Arthur by boat, the red flags of the Huaxia Army were constantly flying on the hills on both sides, indicating that it was still firmly under the control of the Huaxia Army.

I could still hear clearly in my ears that in the direction of the north of Lushun South City, there were "rumbling ······" one after another The sound was very clear.

It seems that the Houjin army is launching a new round of attacks on its own side, and listening to the intensity of the artillery, the enemy's offensive intensity is relatively large.

Chen Xin's warship stopped when it reached the offshore waters, and they had other tasks to do urgently, and Chen Xin was now transferring to the Coast Guard's fast crab warship.

Because it was in the harbor, in order to avoid collision and landing, the sailors quickly adjusted the sails, turned off the steam engine, lowered the two rows of long oars from the side of the ship, and rowed the water towards the harbor.

As for why he switched to the fast crab of the Coast Guard instead of entering the port with the naval warships, it was not because Port Arthur could not accommodate those few naval warships, as a natural military port, there was really no shortage of places to dock thousand-ton warships.

In fact, the surrounding environment of the kingdom is not very good, the Dutch and Spaniards have begun to be vigilant because of the rise of China's maritime power in the past two years, and there have been several frictions with the kingdom recently, and the navy needs to go to Batavia and other places to carry out deterrence missions, and there is no time to act as a transport ship for Chen Xin.

The fleet behind Chen Xin, followed closely behind this fast crab, was loaded with a battalion of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Army, a company of the field artillery regiment that had just completed training, and a large number of supplies and ammunition.

At present, several brigades of the Chinese Army, the first brigade is in southern Liaoning, and the second brigade and the third brigade are in China, and these two brigades are the last means to stabilize the country.

The Fourth Brigade was in the Wa Kingdom, although the Tokugawa family sued for peace and signed a peace treaty with Huaxia, but Chen Xin did not intend to give up there, not only Kyushu was still occupied, but even used more covert means to infiltrate the Wa State, Chen Xin wanted to completely control the country.

The Fifth Brigade was still in the Annam region, where the granary of the kingdom was located, and there was no room for error, so although the area occupied by the kingdom in Annam was relatively small, a full brigade was still arranged.

The Sixth Brigade was in the city-state of India, and since it could become the "jewel in the crown of the British Empire" in the next few hundred years in the original history, it could also become a help for China to conquer the world.

The Seventh Brigade is in that strange place in the Americas, named San Francisco by Chen Xin, where Chinese immigrants have already established several towns, and a brigade is already a bit clumsy, and in the future, it will need to increase its troops.

The Eighth Brigade is in Australia, where it is now sparsely populated, animals are extremely prosperous, and it is an important supply of canned meat in the kingdom, and some people in Western countries have already noticed it, so the troops of a brigade are not much.

As for the 9th Brigade and the 10th Brigade, Chen Xin planned to treat these two units as training units, specifically responsible for training qualified recruits for the other units, so the name of the newly formed 11th Brigade existed.

As for the supplies, Chen Xin was desperately searching for these things during this time, and even asked for gunpowder and other things from various colonies regardless of his cheekiness.

Although the gunpowder from those places is of poor quality and cannot be used as a propellant for guns, it is still no problem to use it to make mines and the like, and as for other materials, it is not to be disliked, it is better than nothing!

Chen Xin's arrival made Zachdan feel relieved, he was very aware of the consequences of losing Liaonan, and had been doing his best to block the pace of the Houjin army's offensive recently.

Even, he wanted to ask Chen Xin to transfer those armed forces established by himself from Daming to come to Lushun to assist in the defense, but Chen Xin resolutely refused.

In the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty, except for the battalion of men and horses in Shandong, and several battalions of men and horses belonging to the camp of displaced people, who have the ability to participate in large-scale battles, the others are scattered small forces, that is, they have not practiced together, and they have no experience in large-scale battles.

However, those formed soldiers and horses really can't move around, because they have nothing to do with Huaxia on the surface now, and once they are brought in, they will soon be exposed! In the future, how to be a surprise soldier.

As for the other small groups of men, they are scattered, that is, they are not familiar with the equipment and tactical system of the Huaxia Army, and they do not have experience in large-scale operations, so they really have no meaning for this kind of defensive warfare.

Therefore, except for Dongjiang Town, which can maneuver to attack the hinterland of Houjin, it can only depend on the consciousness of other Ming troops, and in addition, the Huaxia Army has no reinforcements.

Chen Xin has finished handling all the things outside the battlefield in southern Liaoning, and the institutions and personnel in other places will operate according to Chen Xin's instructions. Now all that remains is the war itself in southern Liaoning.

For Chen Xin, what can be solved by war is much simpler than spending huge energy on political confrontation.

The nimble fast crab boat slowly leaned on the dock outside Shuicheng, where Fu Yan and other officers, as well as the officials of the Lushun Military Management Committee, were waiting quietly for Chen Xin's arrival.

Chen Xin walked off the springboard steadily, and Fu Yan immediately came up and beat his chest and saluted: "Your Majesty, the chief of staff is commanding the battle on the city wall, and the brigade commander is going to the first line, in the earthen wall defense line, both of them can't get out of their bodies for a while, and they can't come to greet them, so please ······ you."

Chen Xin waved his hand to signal that the other party didn't need to talk nonsense, where would he care about these face-saving efforts, now it was naturally a matter of urgency, and then he asked directly: "How is the defense deployment?" ”

"A company of the 3rd Infantry Battalion is stationed on the western hill, and a company of the 2nd Infantry Battalion is also on the Golden Mountain.

The first line of defense in the middle was the two battalions and the other units of the Lushun armed garrison, with the mounted infantry battalion serving as a reserve in the rear.

In addition, there are more than 3,000 auxiliary troops in the city to assist in the defense.

The infantry battalion that had been sent to prepare for the formation of the 11th Brigade was also placed on standby on the second earthen wall defense line.

There was also a company of the 2nd Infantry Battalion and about 1,000 auxiliaries on the walls of the southern city, and 500 armed garrisons on the walls of the water city.

Two days ago, the Tartars had made a tentative attack, and yesterday they suddenly stopped for another day, and today they resumed their attack, and the enemy still chose to attack the earthen wall.

The Tartars sent out large numbers of coatings to fill in the pitfalls outside the trenches along the way. ”