Chapter 2340

Chen Yixin was standing on the wall of the isthmus defense line at this time, using a telescope to observe the fighting situation between the two armies in the wilderness. Although the current battle situation was that the Haihan side clearly had the advantage and caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army, Chen Yixin's face

But he didn't show any joy because of this.

At this time of year, artillery units with poor maneuverability were deployed to the fields outside the positions, and in order to hide their tracks, infantry units were not arranged to protect them nearby. This was actually a very risky approach. If the Qing army had dispatched larger cavalry units,

, this artillery unit may not be able to retreat unscathed after sneak attacks on the opponent.

However, the Qing army had suffered more defeats than wins in the battles in this area in the past two years. Chen Yixin also expected that the opponent would not directly invest heavy troops when the battlefield reconnaissance methods were blocked, so he made such a bold deployment. Facts have proved

This risky move was successful in actual combat. The Qing cavalry was almost unprepared after two rounds of close-range artillery fire, and was immediately in disarray. They only wanted to leave the battlefield as soon as possible and did not have the courage to attack Haihan.

Artillery positions launched a counterattack.

But this kind of strange move can only be used once on the battlefield. Since the Qing army discovered that there was a hidden artillery position here, they would naturally not repeat the same mistake. And the construction of such a hidden position would take two or three days at the fastest.

Time and a lot of migrant workers have to be invested. Judging from the current reaction of the Qing army, it may be difficult to completely block the opponent's reconnaissance methods, and it is probably impossible to find another place to replicate this tactic.

The killing effect on the Qing army was not Chen Yixin's main consideration in making this deployment. He hoped to use this to mislead the Qing army's judgment, making the Qing army think that the main force of the Haihan Army would come out from the isthmus defense line and directly attack Daheishan.

After all, Haihan's artillery units have already left their original positions, which can be regarded as a very obvious attack signal.

If the Qing army made such a judgment, then the garrison troops in the two large camps in the east and west of Daheishan would not be easily transferred elsewhere in the near future in order to prevent the Haihan army from attacking, so as to achieve the purpose of containing the main force of the Qing army with a feint attack. However,

Chen Yixin was actually not very sure whether this wave of fighting could achieve the desired effect.

The two armies have been fighting on this front for more than two years. There have been no less than a hundred armed conflicts, large and small. It can be said that they know each other thoroughly. It is not easy to form effective tactical deception. Since Azig is very cautious,

Only a single cavalry team was sent to test the truth and no large troops were rashly deployed into the battlefield, so the trick designed by Chen Yixin might not be able to deceive him.

Chen Yixin did not dare to risk the few hundred cavalry he had at hand, so the Haihan army did not pursue the fleeing Qing cavalry too far. They only followed behind them symbolically for a while and then took the initiative to stop.

Zhu Chen slowly led his team back to the place where they had just fought. While covering the retreat of the artillery, he also checked the enemy's casualties. However, this time he did not dismount the saber to chop off the head. It was not his own merits, he would not

Not to mention that many of the Qing soldiers who were killed or injured were torn into pieces by the close-range shelling just now, and their heads may not be intact.

But the battle was not completely one-sided. In the process of luring the enemy deeper, Haihan also lost more than a dozen cavalry, and even Zhu Chen's team lost one person. However, compared to the casualties of the Qing army,

, the losses of the Haihan Army were indeed at an acceptable level.

In the short battle just now, hundreds of Qing troops were knocked down by the overwhelming grape bombs. Such a killing efficiency would indeed make people feel desperate. It is difficult to have the determination to charge when facing a position composed of artillery.

Some soldiers walked slowly among the corpses, using the bayonets on their rifles to kill the still-living people and horses. The artillerymen skillfully attached the artillery carts to the pack horses and began to evacuate the position. These artillery pieces were in the snowy environment

The maneuverability of the artillery was extremely poor, and if they wanted to stay in the wild overnight, they would have to arrange for troops to be stationed nearby for protection, so Chen Yixin simply ordered the artillery troops to be withdrawn within the defense line.

The Haihan soldiers who died in this battle have also been carried back on horses. Soldiers serving in Jinzhou will arrange their own funeral arrangements in advance and can choose to be buried in the nearest military mausoleum after their death.

Or the cremated bones may be transported back to Sanya for burial. But no matter which option is chosen, the souls of the fallen soldiers will be enshrined in the Martyrs' Shrine in Sanya and become heroic figures revered by the nation for generations.

Zhu Chen stood for a moment in front of the corpse of his companion to express his condolences, but his mood actually did not fluctuate much, and there was not even much sadness. Because the patrol team had been active on the front line for a long time, they had many fights with the Qing army.

, so it has become the unit with the highest casualty ratio among the Jinzhou garrison. Zhu Chen himself has experienced several serious injuries and narrow escapes. If he had not been lucky enough, he might have become a memorial tablet in the Temple of Heroes.

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Zhu Chen has seen casualties like this too many times. A soldier shrouded in horse leather can be regarded as a worthy death. What's more, the country has given pretty good pensions to soldiers who died in battle, and they will not leave much behind if they sacrifice themselves for the country.

It's a pity. A person like Zhu Chen, who has no worries in the first place, takes life and death very lightly. He has already killed enough Qing soldiers. If he had not taken into account the safety of his brothers, his fighting methods might have been even more radical.

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Later that day, Chen Yixin listened to the battle report about today's battle with the Qing army. Compared with the previous battles for control of the Jinzhou Isthmus, today's battle can only be regarded as a small conflict, although it caused three-digit casualties to the Qing army.

There were casualties, but Chen Yixin also understood that this loss was not serious to the Qing army, far from breaking the bones.

After listening to the battle report, Chen Yixin then listened to Liu Shang's report on logistics. The local area has organized three thousand civilians on standby to transport baggage, rush to build fortifications, etc., and the relevant combat materials are basically in place, which is enough

Supported the Jinzhou garrison to fight several major battles.

As for the next action plan on the Jinzhou Isthmus, Chen Yixin decided that it still depends on the reaction of the Qing army. If the other party continues to send small groups of troops to explore their movements as before, then they will use cavalry patrols according to the previous deployment.

The team must defeat the opponent's spies and continue to keep this area invisible.

But if Azig resolutely sends more troops to clear the fog on the battlefield, then the Haihan side will probably have to restrain themselves and retreat to the isthmus defense line to hold on. On the Dongshan side, Chen Yixin decided to hold on for a few more days in order to

Seeking to contain the Qing army in Dongdaying.

Compared with the troops stationed in the Datong River in North Korea, there is indeed a certain gap in the combat effectiveness of the Jinzhou garrison, and the strength is not enough to implement the operational plan of actively advancing northward. There are indeed not many ways to contain the nearby Qing troops. Perhaps this is the case

After a lot of trouble, they could only buy two or three days for the friendly forces on the Datong River, but for Chen Yixin, this was the best that the Jinzhou garrison could do.

Chen Yixin looked at the time. If there were no accidents, Qian Tiandun's special operations group should have landed somewhere on the Liaodong coast by this time.

Just as Chen Yixin thought, near the coastline four hundred miles away from the Jinzhou Isthmus, Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom were watching the landing of troops on the nearby coast on the flagship Wei Neng.

Although the Liaodong coastline close to North Korea is hundreds of miles long, there is actually not much population in the area near the coastline, and there are only a few large cities, towns and counties, so there are not many targets for them to choose from. According to Wang

The action plan agreed upon by Tom and Qian Tiandun is to clean up all these targets this time.

The first target they chose to attack was Donggang Town, located near the estuary of the Yalu River. The livelihood of this town is mainly agricultural reclamation. The permanent population is no more than a thousand, and most of them are Han Chinese. The only people stationed in the town are those sent by the Qing court.

There are officials and tax collectors, but no troops are stationed there. Rather than not paying attention to the value of this place, it is better to say that the limited output here cannot support an army stationed for a long time.

For this kind of almost undefended target, it is certainly not the first time that the Haihan Army has visited here, but this time it is different from the past casual plundering operations. The two commanders intend to completely evacuate the town.

For this reason, in addition to dispatching combat ships, the Navy also mobilized all troop transport ships from the Datong River base to participate in this operation. One troop transport ship can carry more than 300 people. In a small place like Donggang Town, only

It would take four or five ships to transport all the people.

The special forces landed in Donggang Town without encountering any resistance. After landing, the cavalry quickly circled to the north of the town and blocked the roads leading from the town to the inland areas.

Then the soldiers went from house to house to clean up the people in the town and drove them to the seaside to board ships. As for the few Manchus here, the Haihan Army would not let them go either. Although these Manchus were not suitable for resettlement as immigrants,

Jinzhou, but there is no problem in transporting it to Shandong for mining.

During this period, a few Manchus tried to resist, but the Haihan Army would not show mercy at this time. Anyone who resisted would be punished as enemy spies and directly executed.

After several troublemaking Manchus were executed in public, the remaining people became much more honest. Although the Han people did not know where they would be transported, at least they would no longer be exploited and ravaged by the Manchus, who would do anything to them.

To say this is already an excellent result.

After completing the sweep of Donggang Town, the special operations group did not return to the ship, but continued to move westward. According to the intelligence obtained, there is another long-distance village with a slightly smaller population more than ten miles west of Donggang Town.

Mountain town.

So two hours later, Changshan Town quickly fell into the control of the Haihan Army in the same way. Then the entire town was emptied, and all the people were taken to the seaside to board the ship. In just one morning, the harvest was successfully completed.

About two thousand immigrants.

"We should have taken such action a year or two earlier." Wang Tom said with emotion: "It is too easy to gain population from these places!"

Qian Tiandun said with a smile: "It may not have been so easy two years ago. When we sent troops to sweep the Liaodong coast, we didn't dare to risk going deep into the interior. The troops we landed were far from enough to pack up an entire town like we do now.

Walk."

The sweep of the Liaodong coast has become a routine task every year since Haihan occupied Jinzhou. However, as Qian Tiandun said, at that time, the foundation of the Haihan army was not stable and they did not dare to send too many troops into the interior.

There is not enough transportation capacity and materials to support such operations, so although there are gains every time the Liaodong coast is raided, it is impossible to uproot populated areas like now.

Using elite units such as special operations groups and the Marine Corps to perform this kind of mission may seem like an overkill, but in fact, because these elite units are better able to execute orders, their operational efficiency will also increase.

If they really encounter a situation that requires the use of force, their response will be more secure.

In the afternoon of the same day, the special operations group continued to march westward about ten miles away from the coastline, and successively captured Beijingzi Town and Yiquan Town. The populations of these two towns were not large, but their combined population was about one thousand.

There are too many people.

When the people from Yiquan Town were rushed to the seaside to board the ship, it was already dark. The special operations group chose to camp near the shore and continue to sweep westward tomorrow. The three thousand captive people who had already boarded the ship,

They were transported overnight to Jinzhou, four hundred miles away, where they would be reborn.

Early the next morning, the special operations group continued on the road, conquering Huangtukan Town and Gushan Town. Among them, near Gushan Town, the Haihan Army finally encountered the first group of Qing troops in two days.

This Qing army consisted of only about 200 people. After only a symbolic resistance, it was quickly defeated by the special forces. More than 40 people were killed and injured. Most of the others were captured. Only a few people escaped on horseback. There was a huge difference in combat power between the two sides.

, the special operations group did not lose any manpower, only a few people were injured.

This Gushan town is already thirty miles away from the coastline. Gaoqiao Nan can only detach a company of people to escort the people to the seaside to board the ship.

After solving Gushan Town, the special forces troops divided into two groups, one heading to Bodhisattva Temple Town in the southwest, and the other heading west, with the goal of Lizifang Town more than 20 miles away.

According to the sweeping method adopted by Haihan at this time, although there will definitely be some places that are missed, at least 70% to 80% of the population in these areas has been relocated. In terms of the local agricultural cultivation level,

With so much less labor force, thousands of acres of cultivated land will soon lose output, and this loss will continue to expand.

For the Manchu Qing, what they lost was not only the thousands of farmers who farmed and fished, but also the materials and wealth they continuously created through production activities. Moreover, if they wanted to move Han people from other places to make up for the population in these places,

If it is lost, it will cost a lot of money.
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