Chapter 1825 Enemies meet on a narrow road

When Azig was based in Jinzhou, he had suffered a lot in front of the defense lines built by the Haihan Army. He knew how much murderous potential was contained in these seemingly inconspicuous fortifications, and now he saw this in North Korea.

The familiar scene made the memories in Azig's heart that had begun to become blurry become clear in an instant.

The thirty-two-year-old Azig is not a timid person. He has made many military exploits in the foreign wars of the post-Jin Dynasty. In 1627, when the Jin army attacked North Korea, Azig led his troops to conquer five cities.

In the same year, he defeated the infantry formation commanded by Man Gui, the general of the Ming army, in Jinzhou. In 1629, Azige followed Huang Taiji to defeat the Ming Dynasty and led troops to win battles in Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Zunhua, Tongzhou, Jizhou and other places. After that,

In the past few years, Azige also won more battles against the Ming Dynasty than lost, and became one of Huang Taiji's most trusted generals.

If it hadn't been for a big setback in Jinzhou, Azige should have become the main force of the Qing army in attacking the Ming Dynasty. Precisely because of the impact of a series of defeats in Jinzhou, Huang Taiji's trust in him was weakened, and the direction of the Ming Dynasty was changed.

The war was left to the command of Abate, Dorgon and others, while Azig could only prove his strength through his performance on the Korean battlefield.

Azig held his breath and led his troops to North Korea, hoping that the achievements here would reshape his image. It was not difficult to suppress the already limited North Korean army militarily, but he did not expect to go around a

After a large circle, Haihan will encounter the Haihan Army again in North Korea. Moreover, the amount of defense work outside the base is quite large, far exceeding the original temporary stronghold on the Yalu River. It is obvious that Haihan has invested a lot of manpower and material resources here.

Financial resources, this stronghold should be more than just a show.

If the defenders in this stronghold were really Haihan people, Azig felt that this place would be a nightmare for the Qing army, but he did not dare to express his feelings. This would definitely have a great impact on the morale of his subordinates.

The negative impact. Azig was a little hesitant at the moment, whether he should respect Huang Taiji's order and send troops to attack this stronghold.

But without a fight, Azig would definitely not be able to do it, so at that moment he could only ask: "Everyone, the time has come for meritorious service. Who wants to lead the troops to lead the battle?"

One of his subordinates, Jia La E Zhen Ce named Uleg Shan, immediately stepped forward and responded: "I am willing to lead the troops to break the formation!"

This Wulegshan was an officer transferred from Shenyang. He had no experience of direct combat with the Haihan Army before, so he still wanted to take the lead. Azige did not reveal the dangers of this place.

He was told that if it was difficult to break through the enemy's defense line, there was no need to fight to the death and he could decide whether to advance or retreat based on the direction of the battle.

Azig's instructions were undoubtedly very "kind", but Ulegshan slightly misunderstood his superior's meaning, thinking that he was deliberately saying this to urge him to fight with all his strength, even though he said that he would do his best and win.

Break through this line of defense in one fell swoop.

There were five Niulu under Uleg Shan, totaling 1,670 troops, including about half of the cavalry. Although he was bold enough to take over the task, he was not reckless and did not use all the troops in his hands.

Instead, they first sent two hundred cavalry to rush towards this line of defense, trying to test the defensive strength of the defenders. Then they ordered another two hundred cavalry to distance themselves from the first group of cavalry, and prepared to follow behind.

Carry out the second wave of charge.

Tactics like this were common in the battles between the Qing army and the Ming army. The Qing army would first use the mobility advantage of the cavalry to launch a feint charge to test the firepower points and key defense areas on the Ming army's defense line, and then launch targeted attacks.

Put your troops in the direction where the opponent's defense is weak.

But this trick is not so easy to use against the Haihan Army. Independent regiments equipped with new rifles can evenly deploy infantry to the entire defense line and still maintain strong firepower output without having to send troops to a certain level in order to increase firepower.

The preparation is centralized.

These Qing cavalry have experience fighting against the Ming army. According to past practice, they usually charge to the edge of the Ming army's firing range. Once the Ming army can't help but fire, they will immediately adjust their direction and leave the battlefield from the left and right to minimize the risk.

casualties to attract firepower, and then the next wave of charging cavalry directly charged into the formation. Since the Ming army was almost equipped with matchlock guns that reloaded ammunition very slowly, there was a long period of time after firing that they could not output firepower again.

In terms of the shooting frequency in a short period of time, it is even far inferior to that of a trained archer.

This weakness also caused the Ming army equipped with muskets to have insufficient firepower output when fighting the Qing army in the wild. They often could not hold on after one or two waves of charges. Once the infantry was broken through the defense line by cavalry, the muskets in their hands were basically useless.

It was no different from burning fire sticks. The experienced Qing cavalry only needed one charge to cause the Ming army to lose control and fire, and then quickly broke the formation.

However, these cavalrymen who had never fought against the Haihan Army did not know the tactics that the enemy they faced would use to charge the cavalry. If they had known something about it, they might not have rushed towards the enemy's defense line so blankly.

When these cavalrymen were still about a hundred meters away from the defense line, they were surprised to find gunshots rang out from the opposite position. Although several cavalrymen fell down immediately in the charging cavalry ranks, the cavalrymen did not panic and immediately followed the instructions.

The usual approach is to adjust the direction of advance, trying to escape from the battlefield, and at the same time attract more firepower to the second batch of charging companions behind.

This group of Qing troops attracted the firepower as they wished. In fact, they had already entered the firing range of the Shanghai and Han troops on the defense line. It was just that the commander kept them close to about 100 meters before ordering the fire to ensure the hit rate and killing effect. Even though

The Qing cavalry adjusted their direction in time, but they still could not quickly get out of the firing range of the Haihan army. Moreover, they suddenly discovered that the gunfire did not stop there, and their companions were shot and fell from their horses all the time. Before they could figure out what happened,

In any case, he himself has already been shot.

The cavalry who followed behind and launched the second wave of charges accelerated their horses after hearing the gunshots from the opposite position, because as long as they could seize the gap where the enemy was loading ammunition, they could break through the opponent's defense line. But this was just

It was just a beautiful wish. When they rushed closer, they found in despair that not only was there a not too wide ditch in front of them that needed to be crossed, but also there were densely packed rows of horses that were taller than each person on the opposite side of the ditch.

There seemed to be many large and small horse traps in the barbed wire fence. Although the trenches where the enemy infantry were located were already visible, it was not easy for them to break through these obstacles.

When the charging cavalry began to slow down and tried to find a gap to bypass the obstacle, untimely gunfire rang out again from the opposite position. The cavalry did not quite understand why the enemy on the opposite side was able to fire again so quickly.

Many people fell into the hail of bullets in a daze. However, when they tried to leave the battlefield, they found that the desperate gunfire was still ringing endlessly behind them.

Ulegshan looked livid as he watched the four hundred cavalry he sent out lose most of them with almost no achievements. He didn't even quite understand what happened in this battle. The cavalry he sent out successfully

This triggered musket fire from the Haihan army, but this shooting was not a wave like that of the Ming army. Instead, it ate up two groups of its own men almost without interruption. Some cavalry were even a hundred feet away from the opponent's position.

Even though he was beyond the distance, he was still hit and fell from his horse. Such range and accuracy far exceeded his understanding of musket tactics.

And these charging light cavalry didn't even have time to launch a round of bows and arrows at the enemy position before falling off their horses or changing direction. Of course, even if they did, it probably wouldn't have much effect, because Haihan

A wooden roof was built above the infantry trench in the position, which was obviously used to defend against arrows and falling rocks.

The two waves of cavalry charges before and after, let alone face-to-face with the enemy, could not even charge through the Haogou at the outermost edge of the position. They had already suffered heavy losses and had to choose to retreat. Wulegshan

At this time, it seemed that he finally understood why Azig had specifically told him those few words after receiving the order. Unfortunately, he realized it a little too late, and he lost an entire number of soldiers and horses in vain.

Ulegshan is not a fool. Since this test has shown that the enemy has made preparations for battle, if he continues to send cavalry forward to charge into the battle, the result will not be much better, and he will give the opponent more heads in vain.

That's it. At the moment, I can only bite the bullet and go back to Azig, hoping that my superiors will not be furious because of the poor performance of his subordinates.

In fact, Azig had expected this battle situation, and the frequency of musket fire on the enemy's position just confirmed his guess - the enemy troops building and stationing this line of defense were indeed Haihan people.

The loss of two to three hundred cavalry was not a big problem in Azig's view, and this was not a battle situation that Ulegshan could change with more than a thousand troops and horses, so after hearing the battle report, Azig was emotionally

He still kept relatively calm and asked Wulegshan to find a few lucky people who had rushed to the vicinity and successfully retreated, and asked them carefully about the situation of the enemy's positions they had seen.

In fact, whether it is Haogou, Juma, barbed wire or other fortifications, the Qing army has no shortage of means to deal with them. However, if they have to withstand the gunfire of the Haihan army when trying to pass and dismantle these fortifications, that is another problem.

It's the same thing. The Qing army had tried similar offensive and defensive operations many times when they fought against Haihan in Jinzhou. They also had such a situation when they fought in Jiulian City on the bank of the Yalu River earlier, but there was almost no such situation.

The achievement of breaking through the Haihan Line of Defense.

Haihan's ability to control position defense battles is much stronger than that of the Ming army. Azig is very sure of this. However, as for how to crack Haihan's defense mode, the Qing army has not found an effective way so far.

tactics. Even the extreme approach of using human lives to fight hard, the Qing army has already tried, but the effect is still not ideal, and the position in front of them is obviously not a temporary defense line like Jiulian City, it is just the outer fortifications of this position

Azig believes that the required construction time will require at least thousands of people to work for more than two months. The difficulty of breaking through this line of defense must be far greater than that of the battle in Jiulian City.

Azig's judgment on the construction period was quite accurate. He believed that the Haihan Army had been preparing for war here for a long time. At least when the news came out that Haihan had withdrawn from the Korean battlefield, this armed stronghold should have been disposed of.

It was under construction. In other words, the Haihan people withdrew their fleet from the Yalu River and then launched a series of plundering operations on the Liaodong coast. This made the Qing army think that the focus of their activities had shifted to Liaodong. However, they secretly crossed over to Chencang and built such a fortress in North Korea.

A difficult-to-defend military stronghold.

Since the Haihan people have spent a lot of time building such a large project near the coast of North Korea, it is obvious that the early rumors are not true. Azig can vaguely feel that this is a big conspiracy formulated by Haihan. If not handled carefully, this

This place is afraid that it will become another battlefield where the Qing army suffered heavy casualties.

Azig did not let Ulegshan continue to lead his troops to attack. Instead, he sent a number of reconnaissance cavalry to spread out along the perimeter of the position to confirm how large the control range of the Haihan Army was and whether any of his own forces could

Take advantage of the weak area. At the same time, a messenger was sent back to Pyongyang to report the findings here to Huang Taiji.

"It's all over if the Qing army just conducts a trial like this?" Takahashi Nan saw that the Qing army withdrew three miles away in one breath, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed with the enemy's cautious performance. The wave of tentative attacks launched by the Qing army just now seemed to him that

There was no way to threaten our own positions, so we ordered the corresponding positions to fire at the right time. Unexpectedly, this seemed to make the enemy wary and unwilling to continue the offensive.

Haihan spent two months building a defense line here, and Takahashi Minami also had the rare opportunity of personally serving as a supervisor on the construction site for a long time. Naturally, he hoped that the enemy's offensive would be more intense before he could be worthy of building this.

The manpower, material and financial resources spent on this position. But if the enemy retreats at the first touch, the intensity of such fighting is really far from what he expected before the war.

Haihan's strategy at this stage is to stay in this position and wait for the Qing army to attack. Even if Gao Qiaonan has a strong desire to fight, he cannot command his troops to take the initiative and can only hope that the Qing army can muster up the strength.

Courage to continue the offensive. If we fall into a long-term confrontation like the Jinzhou Isthmus, it will be too grueling.

Qian Tiandun was very optimistic about this. If the Qing army wanted to break through the Datong River defense line, it would either have to defeat the huge coalition fleet on the river, or it would have to severely damage the Haihan army staying on the Datong River to force Haihan to retreat on his own.

, and comparing the two goals, it seems that the latter is still possible to achieve, so sooner or later, troops will have to be sent to attack this position.
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