Chapter 350: The Blizzard Is Over, Preparing to Retreat

In November and November, the Huaxia Army took advantage of Huang Taiji's attack on the Daling River and the gathering of large armies, landed at the mouth of the Daling River, bombarded the enemy camp with heavy artillery, and created a miraculous record of defeating the enemy's 50,000 cavalry plus a large number of clothed soldiers and people with less than 5,000 infantry.

In this battle, the Huaxia Army practiced the use of heavy artillery in war, and initially established the idea of fighting against the enemy with artillery as the main force, which pointed out the direction for the development of the kingdom's military strength in the future.

Moreover, in the ensuing pursuit operation, Chen Xin also personally led the assault team to raid the enemy camp that was in a state of retreat in Houjin, and most importantly, Chen Xin and a small group of Ming local troops, plus a small Mongolian tribal cavalry, together executed Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji can be said to be a heroic figure whose talent far surpasses that of the old slave chief Nurhachi, it is this person who, in less than four years after coming to power, brought back to life Houjin, which was originally crippled by Nurhachi, and gradually expanded his strength.

If he hadn't died on the battlefield this time, according to the original historical trajectory, he would have been able to solve the political hidden dangers left by the original Nurhachi and completely control all the military and political power in Houjin.

Although Huang Taiji's death will not completely collapse the Houjin, it can be regarded as far-reaching, because it not only disrupted the internal stability of the Houjin at this time, but also completely affected the relationship between the Houjin and Mongolia.

At this time, the original Mongol Khan Lin Dan Khan was completely defeated in the war with the Houjin, and even all his wives, daughters, and sons asked Huang Taiji to surrender, remarry, and marry.

Therefore, some of the local Mongolian tribes have migrated to the west or north, and a large part of the remaining tribes who are accustomed to living in their hometowns have slowly moved closer to Houjin according to Mongolian customs, and are ready to submit step by step.

However, when the results of this battle spread, and after knowing that Huang Taiji had been killed by Huaxia, the Mongolian tribes who were speeding up contact with Houjin and slowly getting closer stopped their original series of actions and watched reflexively.

After all, according to custom, they surrender to the strong, not this kind of "seemingly powerful" tribe that can be easily dealt with by others.

The tribes on the steppe need to wait a little longer to see what the future is going to be before they can make the next decision.

It can be said that in this battle, Chen Xin's did take a big advantage. Although this kind of good opportunity is unlikely to appear again in the short term in the future, Chen Xin is extremely satisfied.

However, although Houjin suffered heavy losses, the strategic form of the enemy and us cannot be changed in the short term.

That's right, Houjin lost 50,000 cavalry and a large number of clothed minions, but Houjin has always liked to use foreign soldiers to fight, and a large part of the people lost in this battle are the Mongolian tribal cavalry summoned by Huang Taiji, so the loss of the strength of the Eight Banners is not as heavy as imagined.

Although the Huaxia Army has the support of heavy artillery and can destroy the enemy's will to fight from a distance, it is still the same old problem - the road of this era cannot allow such heavy artillery to enter the battlefield quickly.

Once on the road, encountering a sudden attack by enemy cavalry, these cannons can only be used to deliver food.

There was no way, the cavalry of the Huaxia Army was still too small to protect their artillery under the impact of the enemy's superior cavalry on the land march far from the protection of the warships.

In the face of Houjin, if it is along the coast, around the big rivers, and around the big rivers, with the support of artillery, it will definitely be invincible, but once it is far away from the assistance of artillery fire, then the Huaxia Army, which is not superior in terms of troops, has a high chance of heavy losses.

And, even at great risk and loss, artillery was transported inland, around the perimeter of the city where the enemy was located, and the resistance of the enemy troops was crushed.

However, the Huaxia army could not launch a large number of cavalry units to pursue after defeating the enemy.

In this case, if you can only continue to fight a difficult defeat battle, and cannot completely annihilate most of the enemy's living forces at one time, you will be doing your work in vain and wasting ammunition and manpower in vain.

Therefore, this raid can only be an example, and the war between the United Kingdom of China and the Houjin may continue for a while.

Chen Xin saw these things very clearly, and all the commanders and staff officers of the General Staff also made a clear judgment on this, so the Huaxia Army was not carried away by this huge victory.

After the end of this snowstorm, which lasted for more than ten days, the transfer of troops began.

This area is not an ideal point of attack, it is just sandwiched between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin, and Chen Xin is really relieved of the cunning of the Houjin and the discipline of the border generals in the border areas of the Ming Dynasty.

Once Houjin throws out some interests and unites the Daming Guanning Army to attack his own side, it will be a big mistake, of course, this possibility is very small, but it cannot be guarded against.

Moreover, there was another reason why Chen Xin decided to transfer the team, because it was still far away from the Huaxia Kingdom, and if he wanted to replenish, he would have to cross the Liaodong Peninsula and go around a big circle, and the transportation was too inconvenient, and the five thousand army plus a large fleet would eat, drink, sleep and ammunition, and the logistical pressure would be too great.

When I first came here, it was really because of the rare opportunity, and the opportunity for Houjin's group of landlubbers to gather an army on the beach was really rare, and in Chen Xin's memory, he only remembered this opportunity.

The other battles were either too close to the Ming Dynasty or too deep into the interior, and they could not exert the power of heavy artillery. That's why there was such an extremely sudden battle.

Now that the matter is over and the purpose of the campaign has been achieved, it is natural that it should be transferred.

However, Chen Xin is not willing to give up this place, Qingshui, which is the territory that his side has won on the Houjin territory, belongs to the first liberated town, and this place is not too far from the capital of Houjin, if the cavalry assaults, it will take less than three days to attack.

If a nail is laid here, then it is equivalent to putting a knife on Houjin's waist.

Therefore, Chen Xin mobilized a large amount of supplies from China, prepared to build a strong stronghold of the fortress in Qingshui, and then stationed the next infantry battalion here.

An infantry battalion, with a full strength of more than 800 men, is insufficient to attack, but more than enough to defend, and the logistical pressure is much less, as long as a 200-ton sea ship is drawn from the transport fleet to be specially responsible for the supply of this place, the supply of this place can be guaranteed.

In addition, Chen Xin also established a naval fleet mooring point in a place near the sea in the Shuangtaizi River basin to the west of Qingshui, that is, the red beach that he had passed through when he had traveled to the Daling River by sea.

In this dilapidated but beautiful beach landscape, a few fast crab gunboats can be stationed in rotation as a back support force, supporting Shimizu when he is in trouble, and assisting Shimizu defenders when they need to retreat.