A few days later, Zachdan received another piece of information that a new support army of the Houjin Army was about to rush to the front line to support the forward cavalry.

"Brigade commander, the enemy on the opposite side already has a full 10,000 people, if the second batch of reinforcements arrives, then the enemy's numerical advantage will be too great, what should we do?"

"Hehe, it's enough for us to stop the enemy here for so long, the usefulness of this third fortress has been reached, we can retreat, and let the sappers start laying mines."

Just after the second batch of reinforcements from the forward cavalry unit of the Houjin Army arrived on the battlefield, Zachdan ordered to lay mines at the ferry to block the enemy, and at the same time began the retreat again with a cavalry force of less than 2,000 men.

This time, they did not choose to stay on the way and entangle with the enemy, and under the order of Zachdan, they chose to retreat directly to the Arthur Line.

After learning the news that the Huaxia army had retreated, the Houjin army also quickly sent cavalry across the river to pursue.

This Huaxia Army unit that retreated from Jinzhou to Lushun was all cavalry, and the Huaxia Army was familiar with the road, so their mobility was not inferior to the cavalry pursued by Houjin.

However, just after crossing the river, the pursuing Houjin cavalry encountered a mine laid at the ferry.

The invisible threat caused by this kind of hidden mines has caused a lot of pressure on the Houjin army, and even left a psychological shadow in the hearts of some confused soldiers.

As long as they broke away from the mountains and forests and reached a place where the terrain was slightly flatter, the Houjin army would rather leave the official road and march into the surrounding wilderness.

Even the scouts who were at the forefront and were responsible for tracking the specific whereabouts of the Huaxia Army often did not dare to gallop boldly when pursuing.

When the riders were marching, they were all in a state of high tension, constantly observing the situation on the road ahead, trying to see if there were any parts of the road with different colors.

After betraying his brother Amin, Zilharang was appointed to re-establish the Blue Banner, and for such a long time, the strength of his men and horses has grown slowly, but there are few combat achievements, which makes his qualifications as the banner owner even inferior to the new Blue Banner Owner's Dege class.

At this moment, in order to seize this rare opportunity to make meritorious deeds, he secretly made up his mind, drove his men and horses with all his might, and followed closely behind the Huaxia cavalry.

After suffering several hundred casualties, Zilharang finally arrived north of the Arthur Line with his cavalry unit in late August.

However, Zilharang didn't expect that the Huaxia Army, which they had pursued for such a long distance and had not made any counterattack, would actually turn around here and make a counterattack against them.

A full 2,000 Chinese cavalry came out slowly from the other end of the hill in battalions, and then a rifle salvo caught Zilharang's troops by surprise, and then suddenly launched a charge.

Zilharang's troops were a lone army, and after a sudden counterattack, they could not immediately organize a defense, and after losing a few hundred men, Zilharan finally ordered a retreat.

After withdrawing for several kilometers and encountering reinforcements under the leadership of Derge, he was able to stabilize his position.

The Chinese cavalry alternately covered each other, gradually disappearing behind the mountains to the north.

Zilharang suffered a loss, and he didn't dare to continue the pursuit, but he could also find a reasonable excuse, that is, Lushun was already close at hand, and he didn't need to rush to pursue the Huaxia army.

Thinking of this, he couldn't wait to set up camp and climbed a high mountain to the north with Goshha, and he was anxious to see what Lushun City was like now.

Zilharang, who had come to Arthur City with Mang Gultai, stood on the top of a high mountain to the north, and the scene in front of him was almost unrecognizable.

Because, what appeared in front of Zilharang, the northern city of Arthur that originally stood on the plain, has almost completely disappeared.

Not only were all the stones on the outside of the city wall empty, but even most of the rammed earth city walls that were sandwiched inside the stones were removed.

On the plains outside the city of Lushun, countless ditches have been dug up, and the back and forth are simply charming to the eye.

And in the outermost part of Lushun, there is a large area of barrage ditch with seven bends and eight turns, the trench is only half a human height, and there is no earth breast wall or anything like that around it.

Then there was a deep trench about three meters wide, and the earth dug out of those trenches formed a rammed earth wall about three meters high behind the ditch.

When viewed from above, the shape of the rammed earth walls is jagged. Every 100 meters or so, there is a watchtower, which is much higher than the earthen wall, and you can faintly see huge weapons covered in canvas.

Because the Huaxia Army sent a large number of troops to Lushun this time, and because there were also many numbers, there were still many flags belonging to different units on the earthen wall.

At the top of the 3-meter-high earthen rampage, there is also a breastwork wall made of rammed earth, and behind the breastwork, you can vaguely see a flag fluttering, which is to lay the flag in advance, so as to facilitate the orderly entry of all units into the combat site during the operation.

On these breastwork, at intervals, there is a small gap that is almost level with the ground. On both sides of the gap, it was also filled with soil by the bamboo basket of more than one person high by the Huaxia army, which was well protected, and a cannon was placed in the middle of the bamboo basket, only the position where the muzzle was located was empty and no earth frame was placed.

Outside the deep trench is a defensive position composed of a barrage ditch that is nearly 100 meters wide, and at a distance of about 100 meters outside the barrage, there are a large number of dense and deep small potholes.

These things, just like the fortifications set up at the mouth of the Fuzhou River, were specially used to prevent shield vehicles, cavalry, and trench cannon fodder from approaching quickly.

There are two such large earthen walls and related fortifications, and between these two fortifications, there are still a lot of tents that can be vaguely seen, but the specific deployment inside is not clear at all.

There are several wide, leveled passages that extend from the front of the earthen wall, zigzag-shaped, through the deep, shallow, winding trenches and potholes.

In this area, the only ones that could be quickly passed by the large army were the two roads in the direction of the two flanks, which followed the defensive positions and pointed diagonally to the outer sides of the two flanks.

However, although these two fast lanes are straight, they will still be subject to fire from muskets and artillery on the entire earthen wall, and cannot be used by enemy forces to attack.