Chapter 684: A Proposal to Rapidly Expand the Results
Affected by the large-scale rout in the middle, the other defensive lines of the Houjin army that were still holding on quickly also collapsed.
The Huaxia Army, which had been attacking the left flank, reacted sensitively, mixed into the 101st Infantry Battalion of the 1st Brigade and several special service platoons, and quickly appeared in the rammed earth wall and its passages.
They made full use of the piles of dirt bags and soil frames near the barrage ditch, filled in the trenches of the Houjin army, and then began to line up behind the earthen walls of the Houjin ram.
At the same time, the cavalry units of the Huaxia Army also maintained a dense and strict formation, with a company as the frontal width, and slowly walked to the outside of the sandwich road.
Chen Xin's royal banner representing the monarch of a country, and the handsome banner representing the commander of the country's military forces appeared together on Jiguan Mountain.
There was a chaotic award at the foot of the mountain, and there was jubilation in the direction of Lushun, and many figures wearing dark yellow military uniforms were chasing all the way behind the rout of the Houjin army, shooting and killing the backward Houjin soldiers all the way.
Since Li Rusong began to rebel after his death, the Houjin Tartars, who were always able to win large-scale positional battles of the Ming army, could no longer maintain their long-term victory record when facing the Huaxia army.
Since the later battles of the Daling River, the Jinzhou Campaign, and the Fuzhou Campaign, the Lushun Campaign fought by the Later Jin Army under the city of Lushun once again suffered a heavy defeat.
When the Later Jin Army was learning the fortifications of the Huaxia Army, it imitated it very poorly, at least the rapid transportation roads and some details were not learned at all.
In addition, without engineering knowledge, the moats and other buildings of the Houjin army would collapse from time to time, and the Houjin army could only dig next to it again, etc., resulting in chaos on the Houjin army's position.
In addition to those chaotic things, the area of the horse barrier dug by the Huaxia army between the enemy and us, and the rammed earth wall of the Houjin army, the pursuit launched by the Huaxia army this time did not give full play to its combat effectiveness.
In particular, the killing and wounding of the Houjin Tartars was not as much as expected, and under the continuous bombardment of countless artillery fires, the ditches and ditches dug by the Houjin army during these days really played a role, providing good protection for the Houjin army.
However, although it failed to achieve the expected results in terms of killing, this war was initiated by the Houjin on its own initiative, and almost all the main forces of the Houjin country were already here.
Now under this sudden rout and escape, that panic will quickly spread to the whole army of the Later Jin, which may make the Later Jin army completely lose the psychological advantage it had established in the Ming army, the Mongolian army, and the Korean army when facing the Huaxia army in the future.
On the contrary, from now on, in the war, the Huaxia army will occupy a psychological advantage, and this psychological advantage will be transformed into a powerful combat strength when fighting.
And this subconscious influence from the victory in the war is much more effective than the political commissars speaking a thousand or ten thousand times.
Just like in the history before Chen Xin's travel, China has been bullied by foreign powers since the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Until, after the founding of New China, after the founding of the Yalu River, China even picked the 17 halls of the United Nations to carry the handle, and completely established the self-confidence of the Chinese in the world.
Since then, China, which has experienced a hundred years of suffering, can be regarded as stepping onto the world stage again, and the arrogance of the Chinese soldiers can be regarded as completely beaten, and no matter how advanced and powerful the weapons and equipment in the hands of all the opponents encountered since then have not been able to hit the self-confidence of the Chinese soldiers.
Now in this battle in Lushun, there are also similar seconds.
"Your Majesty, in fact, you can let each battalion get out of the rammed earth wall and line up on the enemy's position, is Chief of Staff Liu's current style of play a little too conservative?" Fu Yan put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Chen Xin: "In the month since the Houjin army officially besieged the city of Lushun, it has been a sleepy fighter.
Now that the enemy's defense line has completely collapsed, and the morale of the army has been shaken, our army can go out and engage in a positional battle directly opposite it, and teach the Tartars a good lesson! ”
Chen Xin carefully looked at the situation under the mountain, so he shook his head slightly and said: "Houjin mobilized more than 15,000 female real soldiers and more than 15,000 Yu Ding for this war, and the number of real Tartars sandwiched together has exceeded 30,000.
There are also more than 15,000 people on the left and right flanks of Mongolia, 20,000 people in the Han military banner, and 20,000 people in the outer Mongolian wing. If all the main forces of these battles are added together, then the number of fighters in the Houjin army has exceeded 85,000.
That's it, not counting the more than 40,000 coatings and more than 100,000 Aha.
As for our army, the soldiers and horses in Lushun are only 10,000 people. Take a good look, now, the number of Houjin cavalry who have been lined up on the opposite side has exceeded 10,000.
Our army has no advantage at all in terms of strength, coupled with the area of the barrage ditch in the middle of the position, the rammed earth built by Houjin himself, and the large number of ditches behind it, which hindered the speed of putting in troops.
Moreover, in uneven places, the passage of artillery was extremely inconvenient, and by the time we had finished lining up in the enemy's positions, the Tartars had already returned to their own camp.
Now, for those complicated and chaotic main fronts, let the special service platoons of each battalion and the special service company of the brigade cooperate with the infantry to clear out, and at most occupy the enemy's rammed earth wall.
Our focus is still on striking at the Jurchen forces that are still behind. ”
Chen Xin also wanted to clean up all the Houjin troops in one go, but in the face of a large-scale cavalry charge, he really didn't dare to take risks.
Before heavy machine guns such as the Makqin officially appeared on the stage of history, the same number of infantry was always at a disadvantage in the face of cavalry. On the premise that victory could not be guaranteed, Chen Xin would never gamble with the lives of his soldiers.
Fu Yan took a look at several locations where the Houjin cavalry was assembled.
Indeed, as Chen Xin said, there were about 3,000 people under the banner of Dolgon at the foot of the North Mountain, with 3,000 cavalry on each flank, and 2,000 cavalry on the opposite side of the northern slope of the Cockscomb Mountain.
Looking at the posture, Dolgon was also prepared, once the infantry of the Huaxia Army entered the open area, they would immediately face the threat of Houjin cavalry in at least three directions.
Fu Yan also knew that with the current number of cavalry in Huaxia, there was no way to cover his infantry under the impact of the enemy's superior cavalry.
It seemed that this time it would not be possible to achieve the maximum victory quickly, and he turned his map to look at the more and more figures of his own soldiers on the rammed earth wall, and thought that his side had achieved the effect of invigorating the army at the beginning, and gave up the initial proposal.