Chapter 580: Planning and Contingency

"Hurry up, hurry up, don't grind."

"The master has an order, dare to stop and not move forward, and severely punish him."

"You, what about you, hurry up, this arrow is just a warning, next time it will be shot on you."

Yue Tuo was two hundred paces away, looking at the situation in front of him with a blank face. He was the chief general of the vanguard army in this campaign, among which there were more than 500 Bayala of various banners, and these elites wearing bright silver armor were very conspicuous.

They were scattered in the queue, with different colors of back flags on their backs, or small flags hanging on the barrels of their guns, representing their respective flags, these Bayala elites were the confidence that Yue Tuo was able to surround Jinzhou City with a few thousand people.

Dolgon's original plan was to secretly assemble a large army in various forts and cities along Fuzhou and Gaizhou, and then, in the direction of the flank of Jinzhou City, send a force as a bait to lure the Chinese cavalry of Jinzhou City to the east.

At this time, Houjin suddenly mobilized thousands of cavalry gathered at the forefront to rush to Jinzhou City as fast as possible, and intercepted the Chinese cavalry in the wilderness north of Jinzhou City.

Then, it was the turn of the Houjin army to rush to Jinzhou City, and learn from the original battle of Dalinghe, when Huang Taiji besieged Zu Dashou, digging pits and trenches outside the city, and completely besieging Jinzhou City.

As long as the extremely scarce cavalry troops in China can be blocked in the area north of Jinzhou, maybe Chen Xin can be forced to send a large army to rescue them.

Although Yue Tuo was the forward commander, when he made the plan, he thought that the Huaxia army was cunning like a fox, and Dorgon's initial plan to besiege the defenders of Huaxia Jinzhou was probably difficult to work.

He knew very well that there were many mountains and hills in the middle of Fuzhou City and Jinzhou City, and that area had almost completely become the territory of the Huaxia Army, and if they wanted to pass through the Jin Army, they would definitely be blocked by the Huaxia Army.

So far, there has been no report from the troops on the flanks acting as decoys moving eastward to intercept them, and Yue Tuo believes that the Huaxia army may have seen through this plan. If that's the case, then they probably won't attack at random at this time.

Therefore, Yue Tuo was no longer prepared to wait for the defenders of Huaxia Jinzhou to be deceived, but directly led the forward cavalry troops to attack from the hidden point of Fuzhou and quickly pounced on Jinzhou City.

But Yue Tuo really didn't expect that the Huaxia side would delay him for a whole day just by using some mines, and it would also make the forward troops under his command panic.

Now, on the way of the Houjin army, everyone is worried and afraid, for fear that the underground will suddenly explode.

The mines used in China now are mixed with a variety of fuzes, in addition to the pulling mines that pull the fire pipe as the fuze, there are also the timed firing mines with the fuse as the fuse, and finally, there is the most used one, the flintlock fuse stepping mine.

Of these types of mines, the most reliable is naturally the pull-out mine, followed by the timed mine, and finally the stepping mine. But the best and most productive of them is the flintlock fuse stepping mine.

However, even the least reliable stepping mines used by the Huaxia Army were much more reliable than the mine guns fired by steel wheels used by the Ming Army.

Because these mines are disposable weapons, the arsenal uses the simplest mechanical structure and the most economical process possible. A mine was covered in the body, and there was not even a nut to hold it in place.

Of course, even those mines in later generations have times when they fail, so there will naturally be times when this primitive flint mine will be unstable.

It's like there are times when the people in front pass through the minefield safely, and no one allows the mines to be fired smoothly, but the troops behind are suddenly bombed when they follow the footprints of the people in front.

The occasional instability of flint mines only increased the panic among the post-Jin army. Because they obviously walked in the footsteps of the people in front of them, how could they still be bombed?

For a while, this kind of march, which seemed to be everywhere and never had a sense of security, made the Houjin army very sad, and the Houjin vanguard cavalry galloped in a menacing look, but in the end, in front of these small mines, they lost their might.

Since the end of the Fuzhou Campaign last year and the arrangement of a part of the troops and horses to garrison in Fuzhou, Yue Tuo has stayed away from this place of right and wrong and has gone to other places to develop his own forces.

Therefore, he is not very clear about the Huaxia Army's raids and disturbances that began in the late autumn of last year, and he lacks an in-depth understanding of the equipment that has been used on a large scale by the Huaxia Army's long-range reconnaissance patrol since last year.

And he didn't know how many mines the Huaxia Army had planted along the way, all of which deeply affected his decisiveness, and he would never dare to use the armor soldiers selected by these banners to break through the mine formation, so he had no choice but to take a detour.

After all, the number of Huaxia scouts on a mission here was too scarce, and after Yue Tuo suddenly chose to make a detour, they were unable to lay out a large minefield again in front of an enemy army composed entirely of cavalry.

Therefore, Yue Tuo also discovered that after his detour, the number of mines encountered by the forward cavalry was indeed greatly reduced.

In this case, in order to carry out the plan set by Dolgon and reach Jinzhou City as quickly as possible, it was natural for him to order the banners to follow Yu Ding, who had come to fight the autumn wind, to walk at the front of the army and be responsible for opening the way.

Looking at the wolf smoke rising from the watchtowers built by the Huaxia Army along the pipelines and the commanding heights of the mountains in the eastern direction, Yue Tuo's mood was extremely anxious.

Originally, the plan he made was to rush to Jinzhou City for a day without sparing any horsepower, so as to achieve the tactical goal they set, but according to the current situation, I am afraid that they may not be able to reach Jinzhou City in two days.

If the forward cavalry unit led by him cannot achieve the intended purpose of the surprise attack, then it may be difficult for them to carry out more deployments later.

Over the past few years that these defeated generals have fought against Chen Xin, they have seen that the combat characteristics of the Huaxia Army are flexible and changeable, and they do not care about the gains and losses of one city or one place.

If the Huaxia army retreats into Lushun and holds on, then the Houjin army, which they have finally assembled, will have to walk hundreds of miles more on the unjust road, and Lushun is close to the sea, and judging from the huge and powerful navy of the Huaxia army, it is impossible for Lushun to be surrounded and killed.