Fu Yan sorted out his thoughts a little, and then replied.

The reasons for the subordinates are as follows.

The first point is that the General Staff had previously formulated a relevant plan, preparing to build a fort near Jinzhou, that is, at a node between Jinzhou and Lushun, after our army captured Jinzhou City, so as to make a posture of holding on.

Originally, Commander-in-Chief Zha's thought that our army might not be able to build this fortress, but as far as his subordinates knew, as soon as they received the battle report from the front, an engineering battalion had already set off to build a fortress there.

Recently, our army has often fought with the Houjin rangers in Jinzhou, and the situation of our army's construction of the fortress must have been passed on to the high-level officials of the Houjin country.

If our army's measures to build a fortress near Jinzhou could not allow the Houjin to attack, then the capture of Fuzhou would not be enough to mobilize the Houjin army.

After all, relative to the post-Jin aspect, Jinzhou and Fuzhou, in terms of importance, Fuzhou is not as good as Jinzhou.

This is not a pure waste of time, and it also contradicts our army's strategy of destroying the enemy's living forces, supplemented by siege.

The second point is that because Fuzhou is deep in the inland area of eastern Liaodong, the transportation is not very convenient, even if our army conquers Fuzhou, it will not be able to hold on for a long time.

And, most importantly, once our army conquered Fuzhou, it was easy to be besieged by the Houjin army.

The siege here is not what we expected, and our army has set up a position and waited for the enemy to attack, so that it is convenient to destroy the siege of the enemy's living forces.

Rather, the kind that, from the beginning of our army's departure, was discovered by the enemy cavalry, and was suddenly besieged by the enemy cavalry at the critical moment of the siege battle, or at the moment when the defense had not been done well after the capture of Fuzhou.

Because, judging from all aspects of the just-concluded Jinzhou Campaign, our ranger force does not have the upper hand at all compared to the scouts of the Houjin army.

The disparity in the number of our cavalry makes it impossible for our army to prevent the enemy's cavalry from scouting, and as long as a large force of our army sets out from Jinzhou, it will definitely be quickly discovered by the Houjin army. ”

All of you here are high-ranking officers of the General Staff of the Kingdom, as well as some middle- and low-level staff officers who assist in deduction and writing work.

At this moment, everyone listened carefully to Fu Yan's explanation, even the officers who were not angry with Fu Yan's defensive views before could not admit that this young man was very organized at this time, so everyone would not preconceived that he was talking nonsense.

After Fu Yan finished saying what he said just now, his eyes rolled, looking at the expressions of everyone present, seeing that everyone was very qualified, no one interjected, and stood up to refute him before he finished speaking, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he returned to the state he had just spoken, and he walked up to the large map of southern Liaoning that had been specially prepared for the Battle of Jinzhou, pointed to two dots on the wall, and continued in a sonorous tone.

"Everyone, please see, this is Fuzhou, and further north, it is out of the terrain of the Liaodong Peninsula, and the space is suddenly opened, and the most important direction of attack in the north of Fuzhou is Gaizhou.

Fuzhou is about 100 highways away from Gaizhou, and this large area of land in the north and west is the territory of the post-Kim Zheng White Banner, and there is no concern about the inconvenience of mobilization for reinforcements and battles between them.

If our army is dispatched, then, march as fast as possible, and within two days we will be able to reach the city of Fuzhou.

In two days, it was enough for the nearby reinforcements from the White Flag of Houjin to reach the front line of Shabaozi outside Fuzhou.

With the containment of the Houjin cavalry troops, our army will inevitably allocate a part of its forces to guard against the surrounding Houjin cavalry forces, which will make it impossible to attack the city with all its might.

Based on the calculation of 1,800 troops from the two infantry battalions of our Lushun Dispatch Army, plus 800 Lushun auxiliaries, plus a part of the cavalry troops, the total strength of our army does not exceed 3,000 people.

If the Houjin army in Fuzhou has been unable to hold out, and our army is pinned down by Houjin cavalry on the outside, then only 3,000 people will not be enough to conquer Fuzhou in a short time.

Everyone knows how well our army's infantry artillery behaves in attacking the city, and if we can't transport our army's heavy artillery over that kind of muddy road, then we can only use the old method of attacking the city with ants or explosives to blow up the city walls.

In the city of Fuzhou, the Houjin army, together with the attached Mongolian tribal soldiers, Baoyi and other combat forces, had at least 1,000 people, and it was absolutely difficult to conquer Fuzhou in a hurry.

Once the siege dragged on for more than three days, it was enough for the remaining reserve alert troops in the country to come to the rescue.

At least now, without the support of heavy artillery and the support of naval guns, our army is not ready for a decisive battle with the Houjin army. ”

A middle-aged officer with his left arm hanging under the table, as if it was a prosthetic leg, was slightly stunned at this time, and raised his hand to indicate that he had something to say.

His surname was Liu, a high-ranking officer with the rank of general in the kingdom, and when he did not meet Chen Xin in his early years, he took part of the people of Liaodong to the mountains to fight guerrillas and fight against the Houjin.

It was at that time that his left arm was injured and unable to move, and later, when Chen Xin secretly sent Hu Ben to various places to develop, he recruited General Liu's team.

Although General Liu could no longer go to the battlefield and was awarded a senior military rank, he never admitted defeat, and when he knew that his military level could not bear his position, he insisted on being admitted to the lecture hall with a group of young people at the age of 37 to learn the advanced military knowledge of the kingdom and graduated with excellent grades.

This is an old-school officer to be admired.

The moderator of the meeting stretched out his hand and said to the middle-aged officer in a solemn tone, "General Liu, do you have something to say?" ”

General Liu nodded, and first apologized to Fu Yan for interrupting his speech, "Major Fu, first of all, I am very sorry for interrupting your speech, and I apologize to you here." It's just that when I listened to your speech, I had a question, which I really can't let go, and I hope you can forgive me for being reckless. ”

"General Liu's words are serious, this is a military meeting, a meeting held to let everyone speak freely, if you have any questions about my speech, I am naturally willing to explain."

The two sides politely unveiled this sudden action, and then General Liu asked rhetorically.

"Major Fu, how do you think that the cavalry of the Houjin Army will arrive at the scene within five or six days?

Can the Houjin army march so fast? According to the report issued by the intelligence department of our army, during the attack on the battle of Jisi in the Gyeonggi area of the Ming Dynasty, the daily march mileage of the cavalry of the Houjin Army was only twenty or thirty miles, that is, less than 10 to 15 kilometers.

I wonder why you think that the Houjin army, just two years after the last battle, was able to increase the speed of the march so much at once?

What is the basis for your theory?

Is there something that we don't know about in terms of post-finance?

Or is there something else? ”