Chapter 2851

The root cause of all problems ultimately comes down to the demand gap for labor. It seems that as long as enough people can be introduced to the Liaodong region, the current problems that hinder development can be solved.

But in order to obtain the high-quality immigrants that Chen Yixin expected, the only way is to put pressure on Ming Dynasty, and this will involve policy changes in the fields of politics, military, diplomacy, etc. It may not be so easy for the Executive Committee to make a decision.

After landing in Gaizhou and traveling north for several days, the group finally arrived at Shenyang City, an important town in Liaodong.

Shenyang City is located on the north bank of the Hun River. Its construction history can be traced back to 300 BC. General Qin Kai of the State of Yan built a Hou City here to defend against the Donghu. In the third year of Yuanzhen in the Yuan Dynasty, this place was renamed Shenyang Road. It was under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Province. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Shenyang Zhongwei. More than two hundred years later, it was captured by the Jin army and later designated as the capital and renamed Shengjing.

During the 30 years when the Qing Dynasty occupied Shenyang, they carried out large-scale construction projects in the city and built a large-scale palace city. Until the Haihan army captured it, Shenyang had always been the political, military, economic and cultural center of the Qing Dynasty, as well as the entire Liaodong region. The largest city.

Several young people have become accustomed to hearing Chen Yixin tell the history of the Haihan Army's battle to capture the area wherever they go. Since Shenyang is the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the center of Liaodong, there will naturally be a fierce battle.

"The Battle of Shenyang, I believe you have read relevant reports in newspapers before, but the actual battle situation is indeed more difficult than the publicly reported information. After all, this is the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it has extraordinary conditions for them. The significance of it cannot be given away.”

On the way across the Hun River by boat, Chen Yixin briefly told everyone about his experience in attacking Shenyang City.

Ever since the Haihan Army captured Gaizhou Acropolis, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had realized that the situation was not good, so they also tried to mobilize troops and generals to try to block the Haihan Army's Northern Expedition. However, such attempts did not have the effect they expected. As a result, the Haihan Army continued to advance step by step by virtue of its strength advantage, and successively captured the two major cities of Haizhou and Liaoyang, and directed its troops towards Shenyang.

By this time, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had no choice but to deploy their defense line with Shenyang City as the center. They gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on both sides of the Hun River, vowing to block the Haihan Army from Shenyang City.

The Haihan campaign also concentrated almost all the regular troops in the northern region. Even the troops stationed in North Korea and Shandong, most of them were mobilized to the Liaoyang front line to participate in the combat operations against Shenyang. For this reason, Haihan also took the initiative to suspend the war for several Rest and recuperation will be carried out every month to wait for the deployment of participating troops and combat supplies.

The Haihan Army did not choose to launch the offensive when the Hun River was frozen, but chose to launch the offensive in early summer. Although the Hun River seemed to have an extra natural chasm, it also avoided the low temperature season that is most unfavorable for field operations. Moreover, the Hun River thawed. After that, the inland river fleet specially formed by the Northern Fleet can go upstream from the Daliao River estuary in Liaodong Bay, enter the Hun River, and reach the city of Shenyang.

The voyage of this inland river route is hundreds of miles, and it has no advantage in transporting supplies. However, the main task of the inland river fleet is not to transport supplies, but to clean up the river and serve as a means of transportation for troops to cross the river and attack the city.

Although the Manchu and Qing Dynasties invested a large number of troops and horses in the plain south of the Hun River in an attempt to interfere with the Haihan Army's crossing operations, the Haihan Army's weapons and equipment advantages were too great, and the use of long-range artillery strikes at all costs, the Eight Banners Army almost Unable to effectively resist the Haihan Army's offensive on the frontal battlefield, every encounter resulted in heavy casualties.

In fact, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were not unaware of the gap between the two sides. Years of combat experience showed that there are two most taboo environments for fighting with the Haihan Army. One is the plains, and the other is attacking fortresses. Both environments can make the Haihan Army Take full advantage of your firepower.

The Qing army's only chance of victory is to defend the city and fight a war of attrition with the Haihan Army. The Haihan Army's combat method has extremely high requirements on the supply of combat supplies. By prolonging the fighting time, as long as the Haihan Army's logistics are allowed If you can't keep up, you will naturally choose a truce and withdraw.

However, the experience of losing several cities in the south also proves that just defending is not enough. When it comes to the city attack and defense stage, the Haihan Army's ability to demolish city defenses is also terrifying. Although Shenyang City is known as the strongest city in Liaodong, it may not be able to stop it. Artillery fire and explosive blasts from the Haihan Army.

Therefore, the stupid way the Manchus figured out was to extend the combat time as much as possible to consume the Haihan Army's combat supplies. While blocking the Haihan Army's cross-river offensive on the south bank of the Hun River, they also sent a small group of troops to the south to attack the Haihan Army. Conduct raids on the army's supply lines.

Although such a stupid method would inevitably cost a lot of casualties, it did have the consumption effect that the Manchus expected. The Haihan Army could only slow down the pace of the attack to prevent the ammunition from being consumed too quickly and causing a disconnect in logistics supplies.

Compared with the previous sieges, Haihan's offensive in Shenyang was much slower. On the one hand, it was because the Qing army increased its battlefield investment and resistance, and on the other hand, it was also because Shenyang was too far away from Haihan's rear. The long distance and lengthened supply routes will affect the combat efficiency of the front line.

Combat materials need to be transported from Jinzhou or even Denglai, to Gaizhou, and then to the front line in Shenyang. The land route from Gaizhou to Shenyang alone is more than 300 miles long, even if there is no Qing army encountered on the way It will take at least three or four days to arrive at the destination.

"The Shenyang Campaign was the furthest large-scale combat operation inland since the establishment of the Haihan Army. Since we can no longer achieve convenient troop delivery and material transportation by sea, our shortcomings have begun to be exposed on the battlefield."

Recalling that war, Chen Yixin still had a look of regret on his face: "If more mules and horses could have been prepared in advance, perhaps the frontline operations would have been much smoother."

At that time, Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom were personally commanding the operations on the front line, and one of Chen Yixin's main tasks was to be responsible for logistics support. However, due to the objective conditions at the time, even if the logistics department tried its best, it would be difficult to fully meet the needs of the front line. needed for combat. Therefore, the battles at that time often lasted for three to five to seven days, and they had to stop for one or two days to wait for supplies to arrive.

A small Hun River blocked the Haihan Army. It took more than half a month before the Haihan Army finally made a breakthrough and established a position on the north bank of the Hun River.

Of course, the Qing army also paid an extremely heavy price for this, with more than 20,000 casualties on the south bank of the Hun River. Basically, five Niulu's establishment was consumed every day, and even the troops who had recently entered the battlefield were required to complete the establishment on the same day. The battle was over. During this period, hundreds of officers at all levels were killed, and over a thousand of the so-called elite Bagala soldiers were lost.
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