Chapter 692: Next Step

Both sides committed a large number of elites and stragglers into the darkness, and the chaotic fighting between the two sides continued until two hours before dawn, when it was officially over.

That night, apart from firing 100 new rockets carrying incendiary warheads, the Huaxia Army did not launch a substantive attack.

Even if the enemy sent elites to launch fierce night attacks and counter-attacks, the total number of casualties on both sides did not exceed 100.

After the rocket attack, Chen Xin rested in the tent of the battalion headquarters of the 102nd Infantry Battalion on the hill for the night.

However, he kept tossing and turning in the tent, but he couldn't sleep, and he couldn't help but think about the gains and losses of this battle in his heart.

The number of real Tartar heads of the Houjin Eight Banners captured in the Battle of Lushun this time has not yet been counted, but according to the rogue fighting method of the Houjin Army to drive away cannon fodder and take the lead, it will not exceed 3,000 at most.

The Mongol soldiers belonged to the part of the left and right flanks of the Mongols, and because they were directly under the orders of the Jurchen Eight Banners, the losses were much greater than those of the outer Mongols.

Unfortunately, during the confrontation between the two sides, many corpses were not within the control of the Huaxia Army, and were snatched back by the soldiers of the Houjin Army, and they were collected according to their own customs. Therefore, there is no way to calculate the specific losses of the Houjin Army in a short period of time.

However, Chen Xin was able to determine that the losses caused to the Houjin army by the excitation were definitely far more than the figures calculated by his own side, and Chen Xin roughly estimated that the casualties of the Jurchen Eight Banners True Tartars should be between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

In this battle, the casualties of the Later Jin Jurchen Eight Banners and True Tartars were mainly concentrated in the two main attacks and the two night attacks.

And because Mongolia was forced to fill in the trenches, the losses were definitely much more than those of the real Tartars, and Chen Xin now really doubted whether the outer Mongolian could still endure the oppression of the Later Jin.

He believed that if the next time Houjin called on the outer vassal Mongolia to send troops together. The Mongols still dared not set foot in the territory occupied by the Huaxia army in southern Liaoning.

Kong Youde's Tianyou Army and Wuzhen Chaoha, which was established during the Huang Taiji period, also suffered many key blows in this battle.

After losing so many men and horses, the remaining forces of these two forces can be said to be completely warless in front of the Huaxia army, and they are almost crushed in the last few contacts.

Moreover, because when the Later Jin Jurchen Eight Banners retreated to the camp, these two Han troops were forced to carry out a final general attack to contain the strength of the Huaxia army, but they were defeated again, their losses may have exceeded more than half of the total strength.

Such a huge loss, no matter which unit it is, is already considered to be a broken muscle, and it must be withdrawn to the rear to rest for a long time.

But the current Houjin army has no conditions to rest and recuperate, and it is difficult for them to retreat even the Jurchen Eight Banners, so how can they let the two Han armies retreat first.

In general, even if they remain on the battlefield, these two Han armies are already useless, and it is impossible to undertake any combat missions other than being cannon fodder.

As for those coats, Chen Xin never regarded them as the fighting force of the Houjin army, and in this battle, the losses of coatings that can be counted clearly have exceeded 10,000 people.

What's more, because the Huaxia Army always uses firearms as the main weapon in the war, there are more Baoyi dead and wounded in the territory controlled by the Houjin Army, and there is no way to make statistics, so you can imagine how many people Baoyi lost.

In addition, more than 1,000 people surrendered to the Chinese army during the war. Chen Xin never thought that the effect of the previous nonsense-like psychological warfare would be so great.

Chen Xin had already planned to wait until the end of the campaign to set up a special research course on battlefield psychology and allocate a certain amount of funds for people to conduct research and teaching, hoping to really make some fame with others.

In addition, Chen Xin also planned to select some of the strong-willed surrender coats from the surrendered coats to join the Huaxia Army. They must be cultivated as models, and they may be able to exert unexpected results on the battlefield in the future.

Of course, it is impossible to recruit all the surrendered coats into the army, it is an honor to join the army, and if all the surrendered soldiers are recruited, it is likely to have a bad impact on the young people who fail to pass the conscription selection.

Therefore, after careful selection, the rest of the remaining surrendered coatings were all sent back to China to concentrate on ideological transformation in the state-owned construction collectives.

By the way, I forgot a little, last night Chen Xin saw a new report, saying that in the battle of the rammed earth wall of the Jin army after the previous attack, more than 500 real Tartar heads were collected, as well as 600 Mongolian soldiers.

In addition, there are more than 400 Mongolian soldiers who surrendered, and more than 1,000 people who surrendered, and these people are now guarded by auxiliary soldiers in the open space next to the port.

Most of the auxiliaries of the Huaxia Army were originally military households in Dongjiang Town, which were gradually recruited after the Huaxia Army occupied Lushun.

Of course, the auxiliary soldiers are not fixed, and those who perform well among them can be promoted, or join the Huaxia Army, or be allocated land, and enter the tuntian system.

Therefore, the current batch of auxiliaries are all newly recruited military households in Dongjiang Town in the past year.

After more than a month of battlefield trials and great victories in the end, they have built up full self-confidence in their hearts.

Coupled with the fact that after more than a year of normal nutritional supplementation and strict basic training, these auxiliaries can be said to be absolutely more capable of fighting than the old-style armies in Dongjiang Town that have not yet been reorganized.

Both in terms of physical fitness and mental outlook, this group of auxiliary soldiers has already been reorganized into regular troops.

There are also some other recruits who have been expanded and replenished, and they have also been well trained, and these nearly 10,000 experienced and confident soldiers, as well as the officers who have experienced this vicious battle, showing that they can take charge of themselves in the southern Liaoning region, are the greatest substantial gains of Chen Xin's Lushun campaign.

Now, the Houjin army has no fighting spirit, and no matter from which point of view, they have reached the point where they must withdraw their troops.

In addition to pursuing the retreating Houjin army and killing and injuring the living forces of the Houjin Jurchen Eight Banners to the greatest extent, Chen Xin wanted to ensure that Jinzhou City would not be demolished by the Houjin side.

The Huaxia army fought well in this battle, which had already made the Houjin army completely discouraged, and they were afraid that they would no longer have the courage to attack the defense line held by Huaxia in the future.

Chen Xin had already achieved the overall strategic advantage in southern Liaoning, and the next step was to close the Jinzhou Isthmus, implement the Tuntian plan on this territory, and further develop his own strength in this place close to the base camp of the Later Jin, oppress the Later Jin, and consume its national strength.