Chapter 390: Strategic Advantage

In fact, Chen Xin sent troops to the southern Liaoning region just with the idea of occupying a bridgehead to continuously attack and weaken Houjin.

The occupation of Lushun has already completed the original tactical purpose, and the further capture of Jinzhou is more to be able to obtain a defensive depth, which can allow the kingdom to slowly establish self-sufficient logistics in Liaodong.

So, in general, he is not willing to go deep into Houjin's hinterland to fight a gambling battle where no one knows the outcome.

Of course, he believes that in terms of Houjin, as long as there is a person who understands the decision, he is also unwilling to come to this uninhabited, poor and bad Liaonan that has been made by Houjin.

However, once the kingdom's army took the action of attacking Fuzhou, it gave the Houjin side a good reason to attack southern Liaoning, because Fuzhou, which was already the northerly point of the center of the Liaonan Peninsula, had already crossed the psychological cordon of Houjin.

Moreover, if we fight in Fuju or even in the area to the north, there will certainly be some problems in intelligence because of the fact that it is an external war.

The reason why the Kingdom Army has been able to win battles continuously is that it can grasp the initiative and analyze the battlefield situation.

And if there is a problem with intelligence, it will disrupt the kingdom's long-established combat habits, which is likely to be a mortal threat.

Once the intelligence is at a disadvantage, relying on guesswork to decide the movement of the Houjin army, it will not have any initiative at all.

The small cavalry unit of the Huaxia Army, which had more than 1,000 people, although it was a bit majestic in the previous battle, was still pitifully vulnerable compared to the huge cavalry base of Houjin.

The Huaxia Army, although strong. However, he is also a new army that has been established for less than six years, and it really cannot withstand a huge defeat.

Therefore, Chen Xin would never let his side attack Fuzhou City.

However, as the king of a country, he could not directly negate the vigorous offensive spirit of a group of high-ranking officers at a military meeting, which was likely to cause the army that he had worked so hard to build and cultivate, and which was still in the development stage, to lose the vigorous fighting spirit that he had been building for a long time.

Therefore, he thought about it for a while in his heart, and after sorting out the wording, he asked Tong Ziyuan, Lakshen, Fu Yan and other officers to return to their positions.

Chen Xin himself, on the other hand, came back to the wall where the map was hung.

Chen Xin commanded the whip and casually drew a circle on the entire Liaodong Peninsula.

He did not start directly with Fuzhou, but was ready to change his perspective and conduct an in-depth analysis.

"In the last years of the Apocalypse, before Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, Houjin has always been surrounded on three sides by forces such as southern Liaoning, western Liaoning, Chahar, and Korea.

Although Nurhachi fought for decades, he never eliminated any of them.

Although Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang Town and Lin Dan Khan of Chahar did not intend to cooperate, they formed invisibly, exploited loopholes with each other, formed a certain tacit understanding, and firmly limited the combat scope of the Houjin Army to the vicinity of Liaodong.

In this way, every time the Houjin side went out to loot, the benefits were very limited, and Nurhachi himself made a fool of himself and killed on a large scale, which made the entire Liaodong extremely embarrassed, which in turn caused the Houjin to have a great strategic disadvantage. ”

What Chen Xin said was all old news before the establishment of his own army, and many of the officers present were either slaves who were captured, or low-level officers among other forces, or even big-headed soldiers, so everyone didn't know much about the overall situation before that.

Now, listening to Chen Xin's in-depth explanation of the situation at that time, everyone rushed to a very fresh moment, and everyone present listened carefully and waited quietly for Chen Xin's next words.

Chen Xin took a slow sip of tea, moistened his throat, and organized his words.

However, in that year, Nurhachi was gone, and Huang Taigu ascended the throne and became the Great Khan of Houjin. This is a much smarter guy than his father.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he quickly reorganized the team, gathered power, and went all out to attack everywhere, defeating Dongjiang Town in one go, forcing Mao Wenlong's forces to a desperate situation, and even driving most of his troops into the sea and entering the surrounding islands.

Then, it was clear to everyone that his next target was North Korea, and we were still the vanguard of the post-Kim side at that time, and we went on a rampage all the way and quickly solved North Korea.

This set of combination punches was defeated, and Huang Taiji directly alleviated the restraining forces that were originally in the east of them.

In the second year, that is, the first year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji united with Korqin, Khalkha, Karaqin and other Mongolian tribes to besiege the Chahar tribe.

Lin Dan Khan was forced to move westward, which allowed the Later Jin to relieve the containment in the north.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, pretended to pass on the will of the Ming Emperor and killed Mao Wenlong without authorization, and almost fell apart from Dongjiang Town, which had been fighting with Houjin for many years.

At that time, although the remaining soldiers of Dongjiang Town still occupied the offshore islands of Liaodong and Lushun, they only had a little self-protection left.

In this way, in just three years, Huang Taiji has solved the crisis that his Lao Tzu has not solved for more than ten years.

From then on, Houjin only had to face the side of the Guanning army in western Liaoning.

And what kind of virtue the Guan Ning army is, everyone also knows that the enemy will be defeated, so that Houjin has gained an overall strategic advantage through the tactical advantage of field warfare, which he is best at.

And our army, while constantly expanding its armaments in recent years, has to fight against rebels such as Sukh Saha, and has no time to look north.

From then on, there was no longer a threat to the rear of the Houjin Tartars, and it was in this situation that there was the battle of the entrance of Jisi between the Houjin and the Ming Dynasty. ”

The Battle of Jisi, because it was the first time that Houjin invaded the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Gyeonggi Strongland, so the various intelligence departments of the kingdom went all out to obtain a large amount of first-hand information.

Basically all the officers of the kingdom participated in the continuous war briefings at that time.

Chen Xin and the speakers of the intelligence department have also discussed the changes in the situation during that war with you at previous conferences.

Therefore, it can be said that all of you here are very familiar with this, and there is no need for Chen Xin to say more.

Therefore, Chen Xin directly skipped this paragraph and continued, "After the Battle of Jisi, the Houjin side gained a large amount of much-needed population and wealth, and had the capital to accept more Jurchen and Mongol fugitives. In addition, Houjin also took the opportunity to gather a large number of small Mongolian tribes.

Their domestic materials were never rich for a while, and under the post-Jin slavery system, there were a large number of Baoyi and Aha to cultivate the land for them. made Huang Taiji's ambition swell again.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Taiji launched a general attack on Lin Dan Khan and completely drove Lin Dan Khan out of the grassland. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Xin paused slightly, because this did not match the historical knowledge he had learned in his mind, the original history, with his participation, had changed beyond recognition, and Lin Dan Khan also died of "illness" several years in advance.

Moreover, Huang Taiji and those Houjin banner owners and Baylors also married Lin Dan Khan's wives several years in advance, and obtained a large number of incidental populations and war horses.

However, he has done too many things that have affected history, and he has begun to get used to it, and after just thinking about it for a while, he put all his feelings away.