Chapter 495: Retreat
In the past few days, the soldiers of the Houjin Army who defended in Fuzhou City took the initiative to attack many times, preparing to eliminate the First Mixed Brigade in the field battle, but the final result was that all of them were defeated and lost by their side, and there were not many soldiers and horses who even returned to the city safely.
After suffering a lot of blows, they suspected that this retreat was a trap deliberately set by the Huaxia army, just to attract them out of the city and fight with the Huaxia army in the field.
Therefore, for the sake of prudence, the Houjin army in the city did not rashly catch up with the retreating ranks of the Huaxia army.
Of course, after there are more people, opinions can never be so unified, although most people have decided not to act rashly, but there are still a few people in the Houjin army who have the idea of what to do if the Huaxia army really withdraws.
After several rounds of quarrels, under the suspicious mentality of most of the officers of the Jurchen Eight Banners, Fuzhou City successively sent several scout troops and went out to reconnoiter in all directions several times.
In the end, it was not until the scouts confirmed many times that they saw with their own eyes that the Houjin army in Fuzhou City sent three Niu Lu's red flag cavalry to follow from the north gate that had not been blocked by the obstacles.
In fact, by this time, the infantry of the Huaxia Army had all crossed the meandering area of the lower reaches of the Fuzhou River and reached the other side of the river.
This time, the 1st Mixed Brigade did not choose to retreat from the left flank and the right flank as in the previous attack, but let all the combat units evacuate together by land.
Two units, the cavalry battalion and the mounted infantry battalion, served as a guard force at the two main crossings of the Fuzhou River.
The cavalry and cavalry infantry of the 1st Mixed Brigade were mixed together, and the riflemen who dismounted were mixed between the cavalry ranks, and the rifles in the hands of the soldiers of the Huaxia Army were a great threat to the narrow position of the ferry.
The soldiers of the Houjin Army had already received a good lesson at the south gate under the city of Fuzhou, and they would never dare to attack the extremely narrow ferry.
Therefore, the infantry units of the Huaxia Army were not harassed by the Houjin Army at all, and with the battalion directly under the brigade headquarters in charge of the rear of the palace, all the people in the brigade evacuated the enemy's sight in an orderly manner.
Just when the Houjin army and the Huaxia army were facing each other across the river, a scout suddenly sent an urgent document from Fuzhou City, saying that in the area west of Fuzhou City, a military ship from Dongjiang Town had appeared.
As a result, at least one of Niu Lu's Houjin cavalry immediately returned to Fuzhou City to accept a new mission, and the Houjin cavalry unit, the remaining troops at the ferry position, was completely unable to launch an effective attack on the first mixed brigade.
The cavalry units of the Houjin Army still held on to their faces, and did not retreat back to the state city to encircle and suppress the attacking soldiers and horses in Dongjiang Town, more like monitoring the withdrawal of the First Mixed Brigade.
After the troops of several infantry battalions of the Huaxia Army had all crossed the second crossing of the Fuzhou River, the cavalry covered the retreat in turn.
At the same time, the cavalry of the Houjin Army also chased the first crossing of the Fuzhou River, and the enemy and us came to confront each other across the river on the edge of the second crossing of the Fuzhou River.
The cavalry of the 1st Mixed Brigade waited until all the infantry units had entered the mountainous area, and again received orders from the brigade headquarters to retreat.
The special service company directly under the brigade headquarters battalion and the special service platoons of other battalions were deployed layer by layer between the mountains, alternately covering each other's evacuation.
The cavalry units of the Houjin Army, which had pursued into the mountains, were finally coaxed several times and cleaned up by broadsword anti-infantry mines several times, and did not dare to continue to follow, so they could only let the large troops of the 1st Mixed Brigade slowly leave their sight.
The Battle of Fuzhou, which ran through the autumn of the seventh year of the fire, was finally over.
The 1st Mixed Brigade commanded by Zakdan, in addition to a field victory on the second day of the battle, inflicted a large number of casualties among the soldiers of the Houjin Army in the following two days of fighting against the city of Fuzhou.
After the war, there were at least 513 heads of soldiers of the Houjin Army, and the battle damage caused by the artillery bombardment of the city of Fuzhou could not be calculated.
This shows that the casualties of the Houjin army in the siege battles in the next few days are definitely above the number of 513, and they are much more.
It's a pity that the casualty figures of the Houjin Army are mainly Wuzhen Chaoha's coated troops and Kong Youde's Tianyou Army traitors.
Fortunately, the 1st Mixed Brigade also completed an additional combat mission, that is, to burn down almost all the grain fields in the area from Fuzhou City to Gaizhou City, 50 kilometers southeast of Gaizhou City.
Most of the campaign objectives formulated by Chen Xin and the General Staff before the war reached the expected level.
Fuzhou City was not defeated by his own side, and there were reasons why Zachdan was afraid that the casualties would be too large and he might not be able to dominate the next Liaodong campaign again.
There is also the purpose of letting the Houjin army continue to garrison Fuzhou City, and drag down the domestic economy of Houjin through this small city that is not too strong.
But a more important reason is that the Houjin Army's defensive determination this time is really very strong, and the Huaxia Army will not be able to take Fuzhou City even if it fights for its life if it does not occupy an absolute advantage in troops.
This is a certain blow to the morale of the soldiers of the Huaxia Army, who have almost won every battle and have never encountered such a situation.
Therefore, in the follow-up work, the political workers have successively strengthened the analysis of this campaign, and the military department quickly passed the first mixed brigade to submit various promotion reports, and the Ministry of Finance also quickly issued combat rewards for this campaign.
This series of operations finally re-energized the morale of the 1st Mixed Brigade, which had been depressed, and re-formed a positive atmosphere of striving to temper its combat skills.
This is the situation of the Huaxia Army, and the situation on the other side is much worse.
Dai Shan, who was in the formation of Shenyang City, when he received many urgent documents from Fuzhou City in a row, he only had a few thousand people guarding Shenyang in his hands.
And this time, not only the Huaxia Army is besieging Fuzhou City, but even Dongjiang Town, which has not moved for more than two years, has also come in.
Especially the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town, in the early years, under the leadership of Mao Wenlong, they had attacked Liaodong many times, and they were no longer familiar with the terrain of Liaodong, and this time, they actually carried out a sabotage war on the entire eastern coast of Liaodong.
This caught Dai Shan a little off guard, and he urgently recruited 18 Niu Lu's armor soldiers to each banner, and also asked the idle Yu Ding to bring out more to support the battlefields in various places.
He sent 8 Niulu's men and horses to reinforce the Phoenix City and Zhenjiang areas, while he himself personally led 10 Niulu to reinforce Fuzhou City.