On the fourth day of the lunar month, after more than ten days of confrontation, the Houjin army finally stopped insisting on this slow and meaningless trench-filling offensive operation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After a large number of slaves and Jurchens and servant soldiers were killed and wounded in more than ten days, the trenches outside the three fortresses could not even fill in a road that could be passed by, which was really not cost-effective.

Xuan Jun can bake a fire, eat hot food, and drink clean water in a house made of brick, stone, wood, and cement. However, the Houjin army, because of the previous burning, killing and looting, the surrounding area was deserted for more than ten miles, and there was hardly a complete building left, so they could only hide in the tent and tremble.

After a few good years, the former Korean soldiers, that is, the current Houjin army, have been pampered and a little unseemly, and they are about to be unable to endure this kind of suffering.

So after several adjustments, the Houjin Army added another relatively novel style of play.

They sent men farther away, captured a large number of slaves, and then began to dig trenches with these slaves.

It's just that they underestimated the power and accuracy of the 10-pound naval long-barreled heavy artillery, and before they sent someone to dig a large pit that could accommodate enough construction personnel to enter the designated position, the heavy artillery had already taught them how to behave.

The few excavation points selected by the enemy were completely submerged by the stumps and broken arms, and the slaves who were captured later would rather be killed by the Houjin army than dig any pits in the place where the corpses were covered with a sea of blood.

After the failure of the plan to exchange human lives for progress, Hou Jin did not give up, because this is the best way to break the current deadlock.

Next, the Houjin army continued to move the excavation point backwards, constantly testing the effective range of the Xuanjun heavy artillery, and finally after a few days, determined the effective range of the naval heavy artillery erected at the height of the three fortresses, and then they chose a few points outside the line as the starting position, and began to dig the ditch.

With the efforts of a large number of Korean slaves, three ditches perpendicular to Fort No. 1 and more than one person high were slowly dug out, and then dug straight towards Fort No. 1.

On the high platform, looking at the dusty ditch in the distance that kept coming towards him, Chen Xin's face became serious, "This excavation tactic can't be underestimated." ”

"Is the general afraid that they will besiege us in this way?"

Chen Xin shook his head, "No, I'm not worried about the siege, because we still have more than 20,000 reinforcements from the original South Korea in the rear who are being reorganized, plus two mixed brigades, armed alert troops, and a part of the militia, as well as 18 raid detachments that are dormant and ready to clean up the enemy's left army, we can almost make up more than 40,000 fighters."

Although a small part of them are goods that will be eliminated after this war, they still have a certain amount of combat effectiveness, and in addition to the mobilization system we have built, in fact, the longer it drags on, the more beneficial it will be for us.

I'm just worried that they're going to dig in and attack hard, knowing that we're at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and the fence here isn't as tall as the wall, and if we lose the advantage in distance, it's likely to be a big problem. ”

After thinking for a while, Chen Xin ordered, "Closely monitor the enemy's excavation work and report the enemy's progress at any time." ”

"Yes."

In Layue, the land in the north has been frozen solid, and ordinary shovels can't dig it up at all, so the Jin army used firewood to heat up a place, and then dug up a layer of soil while it was hot.

As a result, the workload was more than ten times higher than in other seasons, and the soldiers of Houjin would not do such hard work, so the number of cannon fodder sent to fill the trenches and consume the ammunition of the Xuan army was greatly reduced every day.

The detainees were sent to work on the construction site, but their mortality rate was about the same as that of the previous trench filling.

Tens of thousands of troops have stayed in such an area for a long time, and everything they can eat has been eaten, and now in this situation where they can't eat the enemy, Houjin's military rations need to be transferred all the way from the rear, and on the road to transport food, the 18 raiding detachments of the Xuan army have been eyeing each other, which has also caused the ration supply of the front-line soldiers of the Houjin army to be intermittent.

At a time when even their own military rations could not be supplied on time, it was naturally even more impossible for a large number of slaves to be captured to work to have a stable food supply, coupled with the cold weather, the Korean civilians under heavy physical labor continued to die, and the corpses were piled up into several hills. Fortunately, it is now a cold winter, and if it were summer, I am afraid that the plague would have broken out long ago.

The Xuan army inside the three fortresses looked angry, these beasts were so ferocious, many of the Xuan soldiers who had been Kim Aha in the past couldn't help but think of their previous lives, just like those Korean slaves who had become numb and allowed to be slaughtered.

Fortunately, the Xuan army collective saved itself, and there was no one to save these Korean Aha outside, the political commissars at all levels discovered this trend of thought in time, and immediately secretly started a war to remember the bittersweet movement, these soldiers of the Xuan army, the militia is now more loyal to the collective.

The enemy was digging towards Fort No. 1, although the speed was slow, and the consumption of Korean slaves was very huge, but the mortality rate of the Jurchen soldiers was greatly reduced, and the most important thing was that the pit was approaching the Xuan army step by step.

Sukh Saha was overjoyed to hear the news and immediately ordered additional manpower to speed up the progress.

When the enemy's tunnel was excavated to 500 meters in front of Fort No. 1, Chen Xin finally couldn't sit still.

"You can't just let them get closer, the shorter the distance the enemy can charge, the more dangerous we are."

"General, I'm willing to lead a commando team and go out to fight a counterattack."

Chen Xin pondered the feasibility of this proposal, and the enemy's cavalry units rotated outside the range of heavy artillery attacks, and a horse team of 1,000 men was on guard at all times.

Even if it is only 500 meters away, you may not be able to return to the fortress when the enemy cavalry rushes in front of you, but the attack is necessary, and what you need most now is to delay time, if you can't hold out here for a while, I'm afraid things will not be good.

In this kind of thing, the cavalry units must be called, and the number of them must not be too large, otherwise it will arouse the vigilance of the enemy army. As a result, ordinary cavalry companies of mixed brigades could not be used.

There was a deep groan, "Transfer the 1st Company of Rangers from the rear." ”

After all, in recent years, the reconnaissance units have mostly carried out tasks in squads, while the Ranger units have mostly carried out small-scale infiltration raids in companies.

Among them, the 1st Company of the Ranger had the highest task completion rate and the smallest casualty rate, and had completed the arduous tasks assigned by the General's Mansion many times, so Chen Xin naturally chose the 1st Company to carry out this combat mission.

The staff officer wrote down the order and asked Chen Xin to seal it, and after a while, the eagle falcon rose to the sky with the order.