Chen Xin continued: "Through these years of operation, Houjin has gained a great strategic advantage in Liaodong.

And this strategic advantage has allowed them to gain the ability to continue mobilization, so that the Houjin Army has slowly moved closer to the direction of a professional army from a semi-professional army that needs soldiers and officers to support themselves.

It was with this change that Hou Jin was able to perform for the first time in the vicinity of Dalinghe City this year, the long-term siege and siege tactics that they had never used and could not afford.

Everyone should be able to see that Houjin gave full play to their advantages when they occupied a strategic advantage, and used this strategic advantage to transform it into a tactical advantage. ”

All of you here, except for a few front-line officers who were present, are basically high-ranking officers and staff officers of the General Staff of the Kingdom, and everyone has a deep understanding of what Chen Xin said, and they often need to be put into practice, so everyone listens very carefully.

Chen Xin tapped Da Linghe's position again with the command whip, and then continued.

"When the Ming State made the plan before, it did not make corresponding personnel, and the military and political officials in Liaodong, Shandong, Denglai and other places, after the siege of the Daling River, had to raise reinforcements to rescue the besieged Dalinghe City because they were afraid that the Ming Court would investigate their responsibility for losing the city and land.

This will require a large number of reinforcements to be brought in. After that, the Jin army once again gave full play to their strengths, taking advantage of their field advantages, while besieging the defenders of the Daling River in the isolated city, and then, using long trenches to cut off internal and external communications, while sending reinforcements and preparing for a long time.

The city is besieged, and it is impossible to contact the outside world, even if there is more food in the city, there will always be a day when it will be eaten, so the lonely city cannot be defended for a long time after all, and Da Linghe soon became a clear proof. ”

Tong Ziyuan said in agreement: "What the king said is right, that's the truth."

In the absence of field combat capabilities, no matter how much food there is, there will be a day when it will be eaten, even if the Guanning army has powerful artillery and strong city defenses, it will fall one day.

Huang Taiji's method of besieging the city is a stupid method, but it is also an effective method.

It is conceivable that although Huang Taiji has been killed by Jun Shang's leadership, Houjin has already had this successful experience, and he will definitely continue to use this stupid method in the future. ”

Chen Xin waved his hand, "Huang Taiji was not killed by me, he died at the hands of the martyrs of the Daming Sichuan Army, this cannot be mistaken." Aside from that, the rest is to the point. ”

Chen Xin smiled slightly and continued, "A stupid way to weaken a country is really effective, it's not a stupid way, our army should also consider it this way when fighting, instead of always thinking about how to make it smart, many times, the saying that one force will drop ten will indeed be true, this point must be remembered." ”

Everyone in the room nodded their heads.

An officer who had withdrawn from the south, and Sukh Saha, had come back to report on his duties, scratched his head, and then raised his hand to indicate that he wanted to ask a question.

"Your Majesty, this stupid method is to dig a trench to trap people in the middle and trap them alive, which sounds quite simple, but when you encounter this method on the battlefield, it is really difficult to deal with.

Chen wants to know, once this tactic is encountered, how can it be cracked? There doesn't seem to be any relevant clause in our army's tactical regulations. ”

"That's a good question!" After Chen Xin praised him, he smiled and let him put down his raised hand and explained.

"To crack this tactic, we have to talk about our peaceful takeover of Lushun and the battle to forcibly conquer Golden State."

The command whip in Chen Xin's hand was a little in the position of Lushun, and he said, "For our army, Lushun is the Tianyuan position on the chessboard of the entire side of Liaodong.

If you get Lushun City, you can connect the territory of China with southern Liaoning and the original Dongjiang Town.

The advantage of this is that our army can deter the Houjin Tartars in southern Liaoning to the north, control the Liaohai Sea to the south, skip Guanning in the west and go directly to the Mongolian steppe, and occupy the hometown of Dongjiang Town in the east and extend to the interior of the Ming Dynasty.

And Lushun City has a natural military port, which holds the advantages of the coast, and no matter how many cavalry there are in Houjin, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness is, it will not be able to trap Lushun to death.

As long as the city of Arthur, or the port of Arthur is in the hands of our army, the deployment of troops in southern Liaoning can be gradually strengthened.

Our army is in the process of expanding, as long as this situation continues, and slowly wait until the power of our army in the Liaodong region is upgraded to the situation that Dongjiang Town had in the Apocalypse year, and Houjin will not want to get a peaceful rear again.

Without a stable and peaceful base for recuperation and recuperation, the strategic advantage that Houjin had just gained for less than two years would be lost.

Without a strategic advantage, it is natural that their siege tactics will not be sustainable, and doing so is also an application of strategic change tactics. ”

When the officer who asked the question just heard this, his face was excited, and he hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, since a Shuncheng in the brigade district is so important, what about the Jinzhou City, which has been repaired for a long time with a city wall that is more than 10 meters high?" And what are the benefits? ”

Chen Xin's command whip moved to the side, pointed at the position of Jinzhou, and explained directly.

"Jinzhou City, directly control the entire Jinzhou Isthmus, is located in the narrowest part of the Liaodong Peninsula, can be used as a barrier to Lushun, our army occupies Jinzhou City, you can be in the area between Jinzhou and Lushun along the way to carry out tuntian, while providing relief to the victims, while also solving the problem of food supply for the local garrison, saving the cost of raising soldiers.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, Golden State needs to be defended, but it is not an important node that cannot be abandoned.

All of this is because the current strength of our army is not enough, and it has not yet reached the point where it can compete with the entire strength of the Houjin Army alone.

In addition, Jinzhou is not near the sea and cannot obtain the support of the navy, if there are too many men and horses deployed there, and the Jinzhou cavalry suddenly attacks, it will not be able to evacuate all in a hurry, then Jinzhou is very likely to become our Daling River.

Therefore, from the perspective of the layout of chess, it can only be suspended as a void, not as a reality, so as to avoid the formation of decisive battles and battles.

And this theory can also be extrapolated to Fuzhou City.

Fuzhou, at least 17 kilometers from the nearest seaside, is too far away, much farther than Jinzhou, in the short term, with the strength of our army, Fuzhou City will definitely not be able to hold on.

Since there is no benefit in capturing Fuzhou, but it is easy to be besieged by the enemy, which is not something that our army can maintain at the moment, then this Fuzhou strategy can be canceled. ”