Two days later, the first reinforcements of the Houjin army had arrived near the third fortress, and it was part of the men and horses with the blue flag and the blue flag, a total of less than 5,000 men.

The Houjin army led by Dolgon himself has also drawn from the Jinzhou area and headed straight for Nanshan Pass.

Even though Dolgon had not yet obtained any reliable information about the defense line of Arthur and its surrounding areas, he did not show any hesitation, and completely put on a posture of directly conquering Arthur City.

The reinforcements of the Zhenglan Banner and the Blue Banner were led by Zilharang, who had followed his brother Amin to conquer the Korean Kingdom, had some dealings with Chen Xin, and had also traveled to southern Liaoning with Daishan back then.

He even followed Mang Gurtai to conquer Lushun City, which was still in the hands of the Ming army back then, so he was not too unfamiliar with this area in southern Liaoning.

At this time, Yue Tuo was in the mountains next to the narrow passage of the "Third Fortress", engaged in a battle with the Huaxia army.

The terrain in the mountains and hills is complicated, and the Huaxia army has positions as cover, so although it seems that the two sides have killed and injured each other, in fact, the losses of the soldiers and horses under Yue Tuo's command are much greater than those of the Huaxia army.

And now, two days have passed, and that Moncta has not yet returned with the reconnaissance of the Lushun area intelligence.

After Houjin's reinforcements appeared near the third fortress, their strength had exceeded 10,000 people, occupying an absolute advantage.

After several rounds of fierce attacks from the Houjin army, Zachdan was not willing to resist the first line of defense and lose his precious troops, so he naturally gave up the first line of defense again, and lit a fire on the first line of defense as he had done several times before.

After unloading the fighting spirit that had just been exuberant since the Houjin army had reinforcements, and delaying the fighting rhythm of the Houjin army with a fire, he once again confronted the Houjin army on the second line of defense, relying on the river.

The river flowed out of the peaks of the mountain range, traversed the gentle plains of less than two kilometers, and poured into the sea in a westward direction, and the Huaxia army burned the wooden bridges erected over the river when they retreated here, and guarded the two ferry crossings.

After the Houjin army extinguished the fire, although the momentum was a little leaked, but under the strict orders of the officers, they still could not stop, they pushed the shield carts coming from afar, covered a large number of soldiers, advanced to the edge of the riverbank, and launched a confrontation with the Huaxia army.

In the case of being separated by a big river, whether it is the bows and arrows used by the Houjin army, the firearms, or the smoothbore rifles of Huaxia, they are not too lethal, after all, the distance between them is really a bit far.

Even if the range of the weapon can be reached, human eyesight will not be able to accurately hit a small projectile that looks like an egg-sized human body in the distance, let alone hiding behind cover with barely revealing their bodies. Even if you hit the other side, you can't break through the bunker at all.

However, although bows and arrows and rifles did not have much lethality, the large-scale infantry artillery in the Huaxia Army occupied a great advantage.

First of all, the caliber of the gun is much larger than that of the rifle, and the amount of charge is even more incomparable, and there is an essential difference in the firing range.

Secondly, the size of the shell is relatively large, even if it misses the target, a large amount of smoke and dust will rise from the place where it can be hit, which is convenient for the gunners to adjust the trajectory and adjust it several times to always hit the target.

Thirdly, even if a rifle or bow hits a bunker such as a shield car, it cannot penetrate the thick layer of solid wood at such a long distance, but the infantry cannon can fully 40mm caliber shells, even at the end of the effective range, once it hits the shield car, the opponent will definitely not be able to withstand the artillery shot.

In this way, the battle between the two sides on the bank of the river almost formed a one-sided advantage, and no matter how the Houjin army fought, it could not cause too many casualties to the Huaxia army.

However, as long as the infantry artillery of the Huaxia Army fired, after several rounds of calibration and adjusted the trajectory, it could cause huge damage to the Houjin army's shield vehicle on the riverbank, and at the same time, it could easily cause some damage to the Houjin infantry behind the shield vehicle.

In this way, the enemy and us carried out many offensive and defensive battles in Zhizhou, and the Huaxia Army was always able to successfully repel the attack launched by the Houjin army.

This forced Jilharang and Yue Tuo and others to have several times the advantage of troops, but they couldn't give full play, so after many attacks were blocked, Houjin changed tactics again.

A day later, they placed heavy troops along the river bank to contain the river defense forces of the Huaxia army, and at the same time, they sent some infantry to move upstream, trying to cross the river from the nearby mountains.

These Houjin infantrymen are all Jurchen people, warriors from fishing and hunting peoples, and they have always been accustomed to surviving in this environment, not only used to walking the road of this kind of mountain forest, but also hunting and fighting in this kind of place, so they can play a good mountain combat ability in this kind of place.

However, the Huaxia Army is also not vegetarian, even if the ability in mountain warfare is not as good as these hunters in the Houjin, the equipment used as a few special service platoons in the reserve is far more advanced than the Houjin infantry.

Once the pump-action rifles in the hands of these dozens of people began to fire, that series of barrages would definitely crown any army of the same number in this era, even the artillery could not match the density of their barrage.

The combat effectiveness of a spy platoon with the same number in such a complex terrain is by no means comparable to that of the Houjin Army.

After knowing the enemy's movements under the reports of the mountain observation troops and scouts, Zakdan sent several flexible and mobile special service platoons to move up the river with these Houjin infantry, preparing to prevent the enemy's attempt to cross the river from the mountains.

The two sides are constantly fighting each other like this, although such a sentinel battle happens every day, and it is very brain-consuming, but the battle situation is not too intense, and the proportion of casualties on both sides is not high.

However, the Huaxia army was able to take advantage of several favorable terrain and preset positions, so Zakdan was able to successfully block the 10,000 men and horses of Houjin for several days with less than 2,000 men and horses.

In the past few days, the enemy blocking troops led by Zachdan have not only worn down the vigor of the Houjin army, but also successfully prevented the enemy's reconnaissance of the Lushun defense line, and the large forces of the Houjin army still do not understand the specific situation of the Lushun defense line until this time.