Chapter 1429 Head-to-head confrontation

Of course, Morgan would not think that Hou Jin would retreat after sending so many troops after just one look. He knew that with the temperament of these barbarian soldiers, they would definitely try to gather troops to fight hard with his side, but he did not know that the opponent's army was going to

When can we get here? What we have to do now is to seize the time to better arrange the trap that attracts firepower. Only by delaying it can the Jin army give the other two armies room to move around.

"Send a telegram to inform the Central Route Army and the East Route Army that our unit has entered a combat position and ask them to keep a close eye on our right wing to prevent the enemy from slipping past!" Morgan stared at the prisoners of war digging trenches outside the village.

Issued an order to the adjutant.

Although Morgan has great confidence in defeating the Jin Army, he is also worried that his opponent will detour to the south of the highland and surround the place from three directions. At that time, the Eastern Route Army will have to defend against attacks from several directions.

It will be a bit tight. And if the center army can move closer here and not leave too much free space for the rear Jin army, then Morgan can concentrate the troops under his command to the north of the highland to maintain the maximum

Increase the intensity of your firepower output without having to consider the risk that your back may be outflanked by the enemy.

As soon as the adjutant left, scoldings suddenly came from the construction site outside the village, and he saw a figure running for his life in the snow. Judging from his clothes, he should be the Houjin soldiers who were captured here before. In order to facilitate these prisoners of war,

They were not put in shackles or handcuffs during the work, so naturally there was no way to prevent people with lucky intentions from trying to escape from the construction site.

Of course, it was almost impossible to escape from here on foot. Immediately, guards chased him out, and others had already gone to the stables to fetch horses. Obviously, they did not intend to let the prisoner of war go.

"Give me the gun." Morgan stretched out his hand, and an entourage immediately handed over his special rifle. Wherever others go, the gun follows them, and they can be thrown into the battle at any time. The man can't run far away.

Far away, he thought he should be sure to kill this target with one shot.

Morgan took over, loaded the gun, and aimed the gun at the prisoner of war who was still running on the snow in the distance. After adjusting his breathing slightly, he pulled the trigger. After a crisp gunshot, the man fell down and jumped.

After struggling a few times in the snow, Morgan still couldn't get up. Seeing that the pursuer had arrived quickly, Morgan handed the rifle back to his entourage and said calmly: "Capture him and warn the other prisoners of war."

As for the warning method, he did not say that these people under his command are not novices, so they naturally know how to deal with this situation.

Not long after, the escaped prisoner of war was dragged back by the cavalry with his legs tied with ropes. It turned out that he was shot in the waist. No wonder he couldn't get up after he fell. The blood trailed a long red mark on the snowy field.

Even if Haihan let him go, his injuries would definitely not allow him to escape back to Houjin's control area. Several soldiers spread his hands and feet and tied him to a rebel horse. Those prisoners of war who were still digging trenches,

As long as they raised their heads a little, they could see their bloody companion. No one warned the prisoners of war. This captured prisoner of war was tied here and was more useful than any words.

Morgan didn't care about the lives of these prisoners of war. As long as he could squeeze out all their labor in a short period of time, he would have achieved his goal. When the Jin army attacked, no matter whether the task at hand was completed or not, Morgan would not waste any more manpower.

Guard them.

When Qian Tiandun received the telegram, the Central Army under his command was still more than ten miles away from the highlands occupied by Morgan, but he was not in a hurry because the fortress where the Jin army stationed troops was further away from Morgan than he was, so he had

Confidence sealed the hole on the right wing for Morgan before his opponent did.

Of course, the position of the central route army cannot be too close to the high ground, otherwise the opponent will definitely choose the plains where it is easier to launch an attack as the main attack direction. By then, the highland strongholds that Morgan has worked so hard to deploy will be wasted. So Qian Tiandun's plan is

Send a force close to the high ground, but keep a certain distance from the high ground, and let the Hou Jin Army discover its presence. If the Hou Jin Army wants to forcefully break into the high ground to outflank the high ground, it may face being intercepted by the Haihan Middle Route Army.

Risks of back roads.

Jia La'erzhen Erhe, who was guarding the Jinzhou Isthmus, learned a few days ago that Haihan had built a camp on the southern seaside. He presumably used sea transportation to transport combatants and supplies to the local area. On the one hand, he sent additional troops to the local area.

The scout cavalry, on the other hand, also submitted the emergency situation to his superiors in writing and requested that more troops be mobilized for reinforcements as soon as possible to ensure that the Haihan people's march could be stopped.

But before Erhe could take action, Yu Yu returned here together with the new news. The reconnaissance team he sent out discovered that this was not just the place where Haihan had done anything, and sea signs also appeared on the middle road and the coast of the Bohai Sea in the west.

The figure of the Han army. No matter how slow Erhe was, he could still detect that Haihan's movement this time was not a pretentious feint, but a real attempt to attack the Jinzhou Isthmus.

Before winter came, the senior officials of the Later Jin Dynasty, led by Huang Taiji, had always believed that Haihan would not really invade Liaodong. Even though they knew that Haihan had formed an alliance with the Pidao Ming Army, they still believed that Haihan would not end up personally.

Provide more military assistance to Pidao and let Shen's uncle and nephew serve as pawns in the Yellow Sea area. Because no matter how you think about it, it is useless for Haihan to go to Liaodong and start a war with Hou Jin. After all, Haihan and Ming Dynasty

Even formal diplomatic relations have not been established yet, and it is obviously not in Haihan's interests to fight tooth and nail for the Ming Dynasty.

However, for a regime like the Hou Jin Dynasty with a reckless origin, its leaders obviously could not understand the considerations of a country like Haihan who pursued sea control in developing overseas colonies, and they could not imagine that Haihan's strategic purpose of seizing the Jinzhou area was to control the Yellow and Bohai Seas.

The key waterway in the region is not just as simple as whether to help the Ming Dynasty resist the Hou Jin Dynasty. Taking a step back, even if this place is still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, Haihan will find ways to encircle a piece of land here and claim it as his own.

Therefore, Haihan wanted to attack Jinzhou at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. In fact, it was more out of strategic considerations for his own development. In the process, he knocked on Hou Jin and loosened the noose around his neck for Daming. Hou Jin

Unable to understand Haihan's strategy, they were naturally not fully prepared for the wave of offensives before winter. The Haihan army directly captured Lushun and gained their first foothold in Liaodong.

Haihan controlled the timing and rhythm very accurately. After capturing Lushun, he did not leave much time for Hou Jin to organize a counterattack, so he launched another wave of feint attacks in Dalian Bay, making Hou Jin's troops who had already moved south to the vicinity of Lushun hesitate.

In the end, they had to take the initiative to retreat and gave up their plan to recapture Lushun before winter.

After this tone, Jin was holding back in his heart, and naturally he had to wait until the spring to settle the accounts with Haihan. But Haihan obviously did not settle down, and instead took the lead in launching the first wave of the new year's offensive.

Erhe had to send people to notify Fuzhou and Gaizhou in the north to speed up the transfer of troops to Jinzhou. Although all parties cooperated, Haihan's offensive was still a step forward and took the lead in seizing the rear on the Bohai Sea coast.

A highland stronghold of Jin Dynasty. According to the information Erhe has received so far, the Haihan Army is at least divided into three groups to launch an offensive this time, which can be described as fierce. He believes that he cannot wait for the opponent's three groups of troops to join forces and then advance to Jin Dynasty.

The fortress defense line in the Zhouzhou Isthmus has only begun to respond. Instead, they must take advantage of the fact that the opponents have not yet joined forces and try their best to repel or even eliminate one of them. Only in this way can they have a chance to defeat Haihan's offensive.

Although Erhe did not have a comprehensive understanding of Haihan's troop formation, his ideas coincided with Haihan's military at this time, and he also chose the West Route Army, which was taken away by Haihan.

The high ground serves as a breakthrough point.

Erhe believes that the highland occupied by Haihan is closest to the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line, and naturally poses the greatest threat. Jinzhou is more familiar with the terrain conditions of this place, and it is not impossible to take it back with the advantage of its military strength. In winter,

The former Haihan people landed at Dalian Bay to attack the Jinzhou Isthmus. At that time, they also occupied an abandoned village and fought against the Later Jin army. However, they were eventually driven back to the sea by the Later Jin army - at least that's what Erhe himself thought.

Since the Haihan people were able to be driven out for the first time, Erhe believed that he could do it for the second time. If this highland could be recaptured from Haihan, then the Haihan army that launched an attack from the plain to the east would also be able to do so.

What you are afraid of is that if you take action quickly while the opponent's troops have not yet gathered together, you will have a greater chance of recapturing this high ground.

So Erhe did not wait for reinforcements from the north, ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses at the Jinzhou Fortress, and rushed directly to the stronghold occupied by the Western Route Army.

However, Erhe was not a reckless person. When he set out, he had already thought that since the enemy had taken the upper hand, he would definitely make arrangements for his possible counterattack at the highland stronghold. He was also cautious during the march.

A large number of cavalry were dispatched to scout the enemy's movements on the periphery, in order to prevent the enemy from ambushing them before they even arrived.

The large army did not encounter them, but the Haihan Rangers saw some sporadically on the way. Erhe felt a lot more relieved after receiving the report, because it showed that the main force of the Haihan Army still did not go north for some reasons.

Then the rendezvous should not have been completed, and our side still has a chance to regain the lost stronghold.

About six hours after Morgan led his troops to seize the coastal highlands, the counterattack of the Jin army appeared in the sight of the highland lookout posts earlier than expected. A sharp and short whistle sounded over the highlands.

There was a signal of an enemy attack. Without the need for Morgan to issue an order, each company that had divided the defense area in advance entered its combat position.

But just as Morgan had predicted, although the purpose of the Hou Jin Army's coming here was to recapture the high ground, they did not launch a direct offensive. Instead, they sent a cavalry group to circle eastward. It seemed that they planned to bypass the high ground and first

Let’s cut off the retreat route to the south.

Morgan sensed the enemy's intention, a sneer appeared on his lips, and then turned to the east, raising his telescope to see what was going on in the distance.

After receiving Morgan's telegram, the Central Army under the command of Qian Tiandun sent a company to march quickly to a pine forest about one mile east of the high ground and ambush it. At this distance, it was certainly difficult to stop it with the soldiers' rifles alone.

The rapidly advancing cavalry passed through this area, but Haihan only used a tactic to deceive the soldiers here, and did not really want to engage in a sniper battle here immediately. So when the cavalry was about to bypass the high ground, Qian Tiandun's command

The troops suddenly appeared from the pine forest and started shooting at the Houjin cavalry.

The teams on both sides were a hundred feet away from each other. Even with the high performance of the Haihan rifle, it was difficult to aim accurately at this distance, and the hits could only be hit by chance. But after the gunfire sounded, the golden cavalry moved forward.

They quickly stopped, and they immediately realized that if they continued to march south, the Haihan army that suddenly appeared from the east might cut off their retreat.

Before the officer leading the cavalry team could make a decision, the call to retreat sounded from the rear. Erhe sensed Haihan's intention and decisively recalled the cavalry team. He could tell that Haihan was most likely bluffing.

, deliberately deploying a small force there to interfere with his judgment. But he did not dare to bet on whether the Haihan force, which was standing by the pine forest and playing cold shots, was an empty city strategy or a more dangerous bait. If his

The cavalry crossed this line, what awaited them to the south?

Erhe did not think about it further and decisively recalled the cavalry. He thought to himself that no matter how many mysteries are created, I will just ignore it. It doesn’t matter which way you come, I will only go all the way. As long as this way is broken, other places will be arranged.

No matter how many traps there are, they can never trick me.

Erhe made up his mind and ordered his troops to attack the highlands.

"Listen to the order and move closer before attacking." Morgan saw the movements of the Hou Jin army through the telescope and could basically guess the opponent's plan. Since the Hou Jin army had decided to attack the high ground from the front, Morgan naturally wanted to seize this opportunity.

If you have the opportunity, give the other party a little pain.

Later, the Jin army's offensive was still with cavalry in front and infantry behind. The Haihan position at the foot of the mountain was about a mile away, so the cavalry began to gradually accelerate and launch a charge. After about 500 cavalry, the Jin cavalry formed a line on the field.

The characters spread out and were divided into three waves, front, middle and back, and rushed towards the Haihan position.

Haihan had fought several times with the Houjin Cavalry before, and he knew that his opponent was quite accomplished in the use of cavalry tactics. This kind of charge seemed menacing, but it was also a combination of virtuality and reality. If there was no movement on Haihan's position,

Then they may charge in at once. If fire is fired here, the opponent's cavalry will often turn around. The first wave of cavalry is responsible for attracting firepower, and then the last two waves of cavalry will charge and kill targets that have no time to reload ammunition. This tactic

They have tried and tested successfully against Daming's Musket Battalion, but now their opponent is the Haihan Army, and they are not so easy to deal with.
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