Chapter 1416 Liaodong preparations for war

Occupying geographical advantages with fewer enemies and more enemies is one of the tactics that the Haihan Army is best at. After further receiving the bonus of weapon performance, the process of converting advantages into victory seems to be relatively smooth. Those who participated in this battle

The more than 20 people were all elite members of the Haihan army, and the weapons they used were also the military's most advanced models. It was easy to ambush the Houjin army of three to four hundred people.

Morgan was not busy ordering the pursuit or counting the results of the battle. Instead, he first counted his own personnel to confirm whether anyone was injured or killed in the battle. But throughout the battle, Haihan's ambush position was outside the killing radius of Houjin's long-range weapons, and the opponent's

It was difficult for the infantry to rush up the hill with the intensive firepower, so Haihan's side maintained zero casualties in this battle. The only slightly injured soldier was the one who lost his balance and fell when the Jin Infantry stood up to shoot.

We went down the hillside, but fortunately there was snow, so I only injured one arm, which was not serious.

Such results naturally made Morgan feel relieved. The combatants were all elite members of the military. The loss of any one person would be a big loss for the military. Even though the special operations battalion was not directly under Morgan's unit, he

I don't want these soldiers to suffer too much risk because of their own combat plans.

This is the difference in combat methods caused by the different command styles of the generals. When attacking Lushun, Takahashi Minami would let the infantry directly face the impact of the cavalry, while Morgan preferred to hide in the dark and use his killing moves against the enemy.

If Minami Takahashi were to direct this ambush, then he would probably deploy his troops into a more three-dimensional firepower network in order to kill more enemies faster, instead of huddled on the top of a hill to lay an ambush for his own benefit.

Safety.

For a special operations battalion that is good at fighting tough battles, the number of battle losses is not as low as possible, but depends on whether the final battle result achieves the set combat objectives. But the training of Morgan's snipers is not easy, and he considers other than

In addition to the combat goal, another very important part is to ensure that the combatants can escape unharmed.

After ensuring the safety of his own personnel, Morgan ordered an inventory of the results of the battle. As for the prisoners of war, Morgan did not think much of it. After all, those with good arms and legs who could escape had already escaped, and those who could not escape were almost all because of

The body was shot and lost the ability to move, and these ordinary rear gold soldiers had no treatment value for Haihan. Of course, it was impossible to let them go, so the last hit became a part of the entertainment after the battle.

The body count continued until the afternoon. Near this hill, the Houjin Army paid a total of nearly two hundred lives in the past two or three days. The number of casualties was quite high during the truce. Morgan had too many people at his command.

It would be too troublesome to collect all these corpses. Although it is a bit inhumane, under this situation, the only choice is to abandon the corpses in the wild and let them become food for wild beasts.

Morgan also saw the unsatisfied looks and expressions of his men. However, he did not intend to stay here any longer. This battle caused so many casualties to the opponent. Even if he wanted to attack here again, he had to return first.

Jinzhou Camp went to move reinforcements, and when they came back, there would definitely not be only a few hundred people. After going eighty miles in the snow, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to come back for three or four days, and Morgan didn't want to be here

Keep waiting here.

Of course, after such a fuss, the benefit to Haihan is not only the killing of a group of enemies. At least in the past few days, there should be no more patrols in Houjin in the nearby area. But Haihan can

Seize this rare opportunity to conduct more detailed reconnaissance and terrain mapping of the nearby area so that updated military maps can be used in the spring offensive.

Naturally, Morgan would not ignore this, so he had already sent people on horseback to report to Takahashi Nan in the rear. Regarding the combat needs of the large forces, the special operations battalion was definitely more familiar with it. This reconnaissance mission was left to Takahashi Nan to organize and implement more

To be on the safe side, Morgan did not want to overstep his authority and steal the work of the special operations battalion.

After Morgan handed over this place to Gao Qiaonan, he led the team back to the mountainous area, and then the guide took him back to Lushun Fort by a different route than when he came. Although this errand was not too long, it was a long-lasting journey for people all year round.

For these snipers living in the south, it is quite an experience. If conditions permit, Morgan actually hopes to lead this group of people to fight guerrillas in Liaodong for a longer period of time so that they can adapt to the conditions here as soon as possible.

environment.

However, the spring offensive was scheduled to be launched in early March, and now it is almost the end of January. The time left for Haihan to prepare for the war in Liaodong is actually only twenty or thirty days. At this time, Qian Tiandun, Chen Yixin, Harugong and other generals are still there.

In Shandong, he was busy raising supplies and mobilizing transportation capacity. He was the only one in Liaodong, so there were still many things that he had to organize and direct.

When Morgan returned to Port Arthur, he couldn't afford to rest, so he immediately convened a meeting with his medical staff to understand the situation of epidemic control. Fortunately, after strengthening isolation measures and supplementing with drug treatment, the epidemic that was raging in Port Arthur was finally gradually brought under control.

, the incidence rate has shown a clear downward trend in recent days. Some patients have recovered and returned to the team, and only a few people with more serious conditions have been transported to Shandong to receive more comprehensive treatment.

It has to be said that the cold climate in Liaodong has played a role in suppressing the outbreak of the epidemic to a certain extent. Otherwise, even if Morgan has various means, it may be difficult to stop the rapid spread of the epidemic in the military. However, taking this opportunity, Morgan can advance the epidemic

The medical staff arriving in Liaodong should be trained first to allow them to adapt to the environment here as soon as possible, so as to avoid confusion after the spring offensive begins.

Although the epidemic has been effectively controlled, the isolation measures in Lushun Fort still continue. Liu Shang, Qin Wei and others who were transferred from Shandong can only stay in the tent most of the time, writing and reading letters for the soldiers.

However, when it was time for dinner that day, none of the doctors came back for dinner. Liu Shang couldn't help but feel strange. After asking the soldier who delivered the meal, he found out that it was Morgan who had summoned everyone to a meeting after returning.

Liu Shang didn't know where Morgan had been during the past few days when he was away from Fort Lushun, but he could roughly think of some situations. After all, the news that there would be a war against Houjin after the beginning of spring had spread, and Morgan had not been in the fort these past few days.

Naturally, he went to the front line to observe the enemy's situation. However, Liu Shang certainly never imagined that the chief who was supposed to be in charge of medical affairs would be so restless that he quietly led his troops to the front line to fight a few battles with the Jin army.

The day after Morgan returned to Fort Lushun, some of the previous isolation measures were lifted. Except for the camp where the patients lived, normal order was restored in other places. Liu Shang and Qin Wei were finally free and could go in and out on their own.

Lushun Fort camp area.

Liu Shang's habit is to thoroughly explore the surrounding environment wherever he goes. However, after arriving at Lushun Fort this time, he was banned for several days due to the local epidemic, and he was already feeling very depressed. He regained his freedom.

After that, Liu Shang invited Qin Wei to go outside the fort to relax. Although Qin Wei felt that there was no unique scenery nearby, he was also a little depressed these days and wanted to go out for a walk, so he agreed with Liu Shang

invitation.

Sun Zhen, who was originally responsible for receiving them, is still on the front line, but the military still sent two soldiers to follow them as a means of protection. Although there are no Houjin armed activities nearby, various carnivorous beasts are not uncommon, and there are armed soldiers with live ammunition.

Having people follow you can increase the safety factor to some extent.

Liu Shang doesn't care about this. His thoughts on collecting intelligence have gradually faded away. He is more curious due to years of professional habits. Now that he has come to the northernmost control area of ​​​​Haihan, he naturally wants to

Let’s take a good look at Haihan’s business conditions and preparation progress here.

After Haihan occupied Lushun Fort, apart from repairing the severely damaged city gates, he did not carry out large-scale renovations on the city walls and other defense facilities. The limited manpower was all invested in infrastructure projects and built in the fort.

Barracks, warehouses, stables, dug reservoirs, sewers, etc., there are still many projects that have not been completed to this day. For example, Liu Shang and others do not have decent barracks to live here, and can only live in tents temporarily.

Liu Shang had stayed in many places under Haihan's jurisdiction and naturally understood Haihan's persistence in infrastructure projects. Therefore, he was not surprised that after occupying this place, the military did not pursue Hou Jin's victory, but instead stopped to carry out large-scale construction projects.

.And this steady and steady development strategy is one of the scary things about Haihan. The colonies that Haihan occupied in the Far East are quite scattered, but I have never heard of any place that was occupied by Haihan and then appeared again.

Repeated alternation of control.

On the one hand, this is because Haihan is so powerful that it would be difficult for the original owner to take it back. On the other hand, Haihan can complete infrastructure construction in a very short time, stabilize the basic market, and allow the army and immigrants to carry out local operations.

Get your footing quickly.

However, this approach obviously encountered difficulties in Lushun, Liaodong, because this area has been occupied by Hou Jin in the past few years. All the local Han residents who could escape have escaped, and those who did not escape were all captured by Hou Jin.

The slaves moved away from this place, so after Haihan occupied it, they faced a serious shortage of labor force. The special operations battalion had to deal with the Jin army while also dedicating manpower to organize production and construction. Naturally, this efficiency was not high.

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Although the road from Lushun Fort to the port has been repaired, there are still a lot of construction projects to be done on the Lushun Fort side. The next month will be the spring offensive, and there will definitely be more Haihan troops gathering by then.

At this point, with the current reception capacity of Lushun Fort, it may be difficult to play the role of a logistics base well by then.

Liu Shang and Qin Wei were chatting while taking a slow walk around Lushun Fort. Liu Shang noticed that there seemed to be many plots of land drawn horizontally and vertically on the ground outside the fort, but it seemed that they were not intended to be cultivated land, so he

He casually asked the soldiers following him: "With so many wooden stakes here as marks, is it to mark the boundary?"

The soldier did not doubt that he was there, and nodded in response: "These are the places where barracks will be built next. The land circled with wooden stakes is a row of houses."

Liu Shang asked: "But the barracks in Lushun Fort have not been completed yet, so where can we allocate manpower to complete this project?"

The soldier was just an ordinary soldier and had no access to this information at all. He could only shake his head and claim that he did not know. At this time, Qin Wei took over the conversation: "I know a little bit about this matter. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has already

A group of immigrants has been assembled on Zhifu Island. If the epidemic had not broken out, they should have been shipped to Lushun to start work. Now that the quarantine ban is lifted, this group of immigrants will be sent from Shandong soon."

Liu Shang nodded and said: "I see, I don't know how many people there are, but whether they are enough for the construction here."

Qin Weiying said: "As far as I know, there are at least more than a thousand people, and after the spring, at least three to four thousand people will be transported from the direction of Pidao to settle in Lushun. The labor force should be enough, it just depends on how each department works.

It’s arranged accordingly.”

Although Qin Wei was only a civilian officer responsible for political propaganda, Haihan's occupied area in Shandong was originally under military control, so the information he gave was quite credible.

Liu Shang added: "If we want to launch an offensive after the spring, it will not be enough to rely solely on the special operations battalion and the Shandong garrison. The Ministry of National Defense will also have to mobilize troops from the south."

Qin Wei said: "Of course. Didn't the Northern Fleet of the Navy go south to Zhejiang before winter? When they return to the north, they will bring some of the troops participating in the war. However, the Shandong garrison and special operations battalion should still be the main force.

, after all, they have been in the north for such a long time, and they must be better able to adapt to the environment in Liaodong than the troops from the south."

Liu Shang wanted to ask how many troops the military had prepared for this battle, but he felt that such questions were too sensitive and would easily make Qin Wei suspicious, so he swallowed his words. He just

I thought to myself that this time Haihan seems to be mobilizing a large army to fight in Liaodong. As a result, the garrison forces in Shandong, Zhejiang, and even Fuguang and Haihan may be weakened to varying degrees. I don’t know when the Ming Dynasty will

Does the government have the courage to take this opportunity to take back the areas that were originally under the Ming Dynasty?

But Liu Shang then thought about it and realized that the officials of the coastal states and counties in Fuguang and Guangdong had long been colluding with Haihan. There was no need to expect them to stand up for the Ming Dynasty and fall out with Haihan. However, there still seemed to be such a possibility in Zhejiang and Shandong.

It's just that the Haihan people fought all the way from the south to the north, and they have accumulated great power along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. I don't know if the officials in those two provinces will have the courage to challenge the Haihan people.

The goal of the Haihan Spring Offensive is to capture the peninsula south of Jinzhou. If such a situation is achieved, it will certainly be able to delay Hou Jin's move south to invade the Ming Dynasty, but it will completely hand over control of the entire Bohai Bay to the Ming Dynasty.

With Haihan in his hands, I don’t know whether this is a blessing or a curse for the Ming Dynasty.
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