Chapter 1419
Chapter 1419
Chapter 1419
In fact, it is not the first time that Gaoqiaonan has heard of this battle plan. In fact, the special operations battalion's attack on Lushun last year was also part of the Liaodong Raiders. Arrangements for the spring offensive have been informed.However, the combat environment that the special operations battalion is good at is complex terrain such as mountains and hills, and it seldom participates in such frontal positional warfare on the plains. Therefore, for the arrangement of the Ministry of Defense, Takahashi Nan has no doubts in his heart, it must be a lie human.But in front of a foreign general like Shen Zhixiang, he would not show the slightest inappropriateness, but he was already thinking about how to use the battalion of the Ming army sent by Phi Dao to help in the battle in order to make up for the shortcomings of his troops.
Morgan did not have much experience in directing large-scale military operations. .His attention is still focused on the large map of Liaodong hanging on the wall. Although he will not be the general who will command the battle at that time, it is necessary to let the senior officers present at this time as much as possible understand the battle plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense the key to it.After all, all the orders issued by the commander in battle had to be executed by the officers present.
However, similar combat meetings will be held several times before the arrival of spring. First, to gradually improve the details of the combat plan, and secondly, a large number of participating troops have not arrived in Liaodong at this time. Naturally, various departments also need to communicate through combat meetings. opinions so that we can reach a tacit understanding on the battlefield.
The content of Morgan's explanation is naturally based on land routes. He personally went to the front line for several days of reconnaissance a few days ago, and also has a relatively clear understanding of the local geographical environment and natural conditions.After returning, Morgan sorted out the information collected on the front line, and also had some ideas of his own on the specific arrangement of troops.
"...The terrain of the Jinzhou Isthmus is flat, and the battlefield width is relatively limited. In fact, this is more beneficial to our side with less troops, and it is convenient to concentrate firepower to attack the place!" Morgan said while stroking on the map: "The enemy is the most powerful. The most powerful are cavalry, but the narrowest place on the battlefield is only a few miles, we can try to use long-range firepower to block the enemy's attack channel, seal them in the stronghold, and make them unable to play the role of cavalry!"
Shen Zhixiang asked: "Sir, at the end of the day, I heard that the golden thieves have built many fortresses in the local area, and deployed their troops to the entire area. If they want to completely block their attack channels, I am afraid that a large number of artillery can be deployed to achieve this effect. Bar?"
"Don't worry about this." Morgan replied confidently: "Before the spring, artillery units transferred from the south will arrive in Liaodong, specially to cooperate with the land offensive. No matter how many strongholds they build, they are only temporary defense means, those earth walls. The fence is full of tofu scum in front of the cannonballs!"
"Artillery units!" Gao Qiaonan and Shen Zhixiang were shocked when they heard the word.Although Haihan also invested in artillery in the previous Liaodong operation, but generally only a few artillery, the artillery establishment is no more than one company level.And Morgan is now talking about the special transfer of artillery troops from the south, it is estimated that there is a big move.
Haihan's artillery units have always maintained a relatively scattered organization. Combat units such as special operations battalions are generally equipped with at least one artillery company. In addition, in the colonies of the level such as Zhoushan in Zhejiang, Zhifu Island in Shandong, and Amber Island in the South China Sea In the garrison, the formation of the artillery company will also be maintained.However, there is no special artillery battalion set up further up. This is not because Haihan has no money to build artillery, but because the old problem is that the number of troops is limited. There are only so many artillerymen trained every year. Naturally, it is impossible to station in a certain battalion unit. a place.
What's more, not all of these artillerymen belonged to the field troops, and the gunners needed in the ports and armed strongholds, as well as the newly launched naval warships every year, were not a small number.Every year, the newly released artillery is the fragrant bun that everyone wants to rush for. Therefore, the army's artillery preparation level has not been greatly improved. During large-scale combat operations, artillery can only be transferred from other places to gather at the destination early.
The situation in Shandong has stabilized recently. Most of the artillery troops stationed by Haihan in Shandong have been transferred to Liaodong, but the existing artillery troops will be put on the battlefield to attack the Jinzhou Isthmus. Coming is still not enough.However, if the Ministry of National Defense really sends another batch of artillery troops from the south, whether it is to attack armed strongholds or deal with the torrent of iron cavalry of Houjin, the grasp will be much greater than it is now.
Of course, even if such a big setback is not abandoned, as long as Haihan gathers enough troops near the Jinzhou Isthmus, sooner or later, he will be able to kill the Houjin army stationed there.And it took so much trouble to transfer artillery troops from the south to fight, the Ministry of Defense may have some thoughts about training troops in it.In addition, some new weapons and equipment that have been tested in military exercises last year also need to be tested in a harsher battlefield environment to determine that their performance is sufficient for combat needs.
When the officers held a meeting in Lushun Fort to discuss the battle plan, Liu Shang was in charge of receiving more than [-] Chinese immigrants from Phi Island at the port.After arriving in Lushun, these people will be respectively resettled in the area currently occupied by Haihan at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, and will gradually open their naturalization in the future, so that the identity of these people will be changed from Liaodong refugees to Haihan nationals.And Liu Shang's task is to explain the local situation to these people who have just arrived in the port, and the next resettlement measures for them by Haihan officials.
After repeating the propaganda content according to the script, Liu Shang returned to the bamboo shed on the dock, put down the tin horn in his hand, and took a sip of the tea on the table.After drinking the warm tea, his dry throat finally felt a little more comfortable. Although he was not a squeamish person, he was responsible for preaching to the migrants who landed in batches, and this task was indeed not easy.
However, Liu Shang's attention was not entirely on these dull-eyed immigrants. He had already noticed that there was also a Ming army Dafu ship that came to Port Lushun with these immigrant ships.He had previously heard that the general of the Ming army who hurried to Port Lvshun after disembarking was a sergeant on Phi Island, and it seemed that Phi Island would also send troops to participate in the upcoming spring offensive.
The officer in charge of maintaining order on the pier was Sun Zhen, who returned to Lushun with Gao Qiaonan the day before yesterday.Although this errand seems a bit like killing a chicken with a knife to a special operations battalion officer, Sun Zhen doesn't care, because he was recruited by Haihan as a refugee, and he understands these desperate people. What kind of environment is needed to settle down - the first and foremost is the sense of security brought by order.
The special operations battalion has always been fighting on the front line of Haihan's expansion, so many times this ace unit has to undertake the work of taking prisoners or accepting immigrants, which should be done by the logistics unit.Sun Zhen is also no stranger to immigration affairs. During his stay in Shandong, most of the officers in the special operations battalion took turns to be responsible for the reception of immigrants.In Sun Zhen's opinion, the performance of the Liaodong refugees from Phi Dao was quite honest. Perhaps they had been warned countless times by the local Ming army before they set off, and regarded Haihan as the new master who could not resist.
"Brother Liu is tired. There are a lot of people arriving in Hong Kong today. I'm afraid I will be busy until the afternoon." Sun Zhen saw the tired look on Liu Shang's face who was drinking water, so he said a few words of comfort.
Liu Shang put down the teacup, waved his hand with a smile, and said, "It's a matter of your own accord, so why should you be burdened? By the way, I want to ask Brother Sun about something."
After Sun Zhen agreed, Liu Shang asked, "I don't know where this lord who came from Phi Dao today is sacred?"
Sun Zhen didn't suspect him, so he answered by the way: "It's Mr. Shen Zhixiang, the ginseng general of Pidao. Brother Liu should have heard of it, right?"
Liu Shang nodded and said, "After I arrived in Shandong, I heard about the reputation of Pidao's uncle and nephew Shen, and I didn't expect to be able to see it in person so soon. I heard that this little Shen once stayed in Zhifu Island for a long time, and had a good relationship with him. Eat and live with our army?"
Speaking of this, Sun Zhen was also interested: "At the beginning, this little Shen was not a tourist, but came to receive military training. It was a coincidence that I lived in the same barracks as him. After a while."
"No wonder I greeted you when I saw him disembark." Liu Shang said suddenly.
Sun Zhen continued: "Sir Xiao Shen is also a studious person. After staying in Zhifu Island for a while, he went to the south with Commander Wang of the Navy. I heard that last winter, he was studying naval drills in Zhoushan. Phi Dao has a tacit understanding with our army in the Liaodong waters, and he also has a share of credit. After the beginning of the spring to attack Houjin, Phi Dao must also contribute."
Liu Shangxin said that although General Shen was still wearing the military uniform of the Ming army, he was afraid that he had long since stopped treating himself as a general of the Ming army.This is not the first time he has seen this kind of thing. When he left Hainan Island and went north with the fleet, he could see Ming officials with high or low rank in almost every colony of Haihan. The method appears locally, and even a general like Shen Zhixiang is not uncommon.
These Daming officials communicated with Haihan for a variety of purposes, including those who accepted money and bribes, those who cooperated with Haihan in business, those who embraced Haihan's thighs and begged for support, and some who lived in Caoying and in Han, long ago People who secretly cast Haihan.The more Liu Shang looked at it, the more he felt that Daming's plan to drive out or even destroy Haihan in the south was just a delusion in the minds of some court officials.Many people retain their identities as officials of the Ming Dynasty, but they work for Haihan, and this situation can no longer be changed by a few wills from the capital.
Regarding the situation of Phi Dao, Liu Shang had also learned some information before. He thought that the uncle and nephew of the Shen family, who were in charge of the local military power, might turn to Haihan more thoroughly than the Xu family in Fujian, because Daming could not give them any reality at all. The benefits of it, but Haihan can at least let them live happily.Sun Zhen's words seem to confirm this point. Shen Zhixiang's performance may have exceeded the scope of his partners, but he really intends to work for Haihan.
Of course, with Liu Shang's current state of mind, he will no longer secretly scold Shen Zhixiang for treason and surrender to the enemy. After all, for Pi Dao, who needs to survive, serving Haihan is almost the best way out.It's just that Liu Shang can't help sighing for the dying empire when he looks at the big blessing ship of the Ming army on the dock.
While Liu Shang was sighing over Pidao's change, a large-scale fleet was slowly leaving Zhoushan Dinghai Port.The huge hulls of the first two Majesty-class flagships could be seen from a few miles away, and the civilian and commercial ships entering and leaving the port gave way and lowered their half-sails to pay tribute to the fleet.
This fleet from Zhejiang gathered the main battleships of the East China Sea Fleet and the Northern Fleet of the Navy, and dozens of large and small troop transport ships carrying more than [-] troops from the army and marine corps assembled from all over the south. There are dozens of heavy-duty cargo ships and comprehensive supply ships transporting various combat materials, and the number of ships in the entire fleet has exceeded [-].
This mixed fleet is still under the command of Navy Commander Tom Wang. After a winter of rest on Zhoushan Island, the sailors finally ushered in a new journey.Shi Diwen, who is based in Zhoushan, also wants to follow him north to Liaodong to participate in this rare "event", but the concubine he married last year is pregnant and is about to give birth in October. fight.Of course, what's more important is that neither the Executive Committee nor the Ministry of National Defense approved his application. After all, Zhoushan is close to Zhejiang, and most of the garrison has been taken away. It is still necessary to have military officers in charge.
As a senior military officer, Tom Wang is very clear that the plan to attack Liaodong has actually been discussed at the staff meeting of the Ministry of Defense for several years.However, in the past few years, Haihan's hand could not reach so far, so it was only a plan on paper.And now the time is finally ripe, the Haihan army also has the opportunity to once again expand the territory for this emerging country.
This battle in Liaodong is very likely to be the last large-scale military operation of Haihan in the north in recent years. After that, the occupied area in the north will be transferred to the stage of cultivation and recuperation, and it will not continue to expand further north for the time being. .This is not because the Executive Committee is satisfied with the status quo and has no ambitions, but because Haihan's existing colonies are too scattered, and if they continue to expand their territories north and south, there will be more troubles in both military and administrative aspects.
Although the Ministry of National Defense is not so receptive to this point, it also understands that the concerns of the Executive Committee are not unreasonable. After all, the distance between the north and south of Haihan's existing control area is thousands of miles away. A solid centralization and a stronger military will do.And this is not a problem that can be solved in a short period of time for the Haihan Kingdom, which is expanding too fast.
(End of this chapter)
In fact, it is not the first time that Gaoqiaonan has heard of this battle plan. In fact, the special operations battalion's attack on Lushun last year was also part of the Liaodong Raiders. Arrangements for the spring offensive have been informed.However, the combat environment that the special operations battalion is good at is complex terrain such as mountains and hills, and it seldom participates in such frontal positional warfare on the plains. Therefore, for the arrangement of the Ministry of Defense, Takahashi Nan has no doubts in his heart, it must be a lie human.But in front of a foreign general like Shen Zhixiang, he would not show the slightest inappropriateness, but he was already thinking about how to use the battalion of the Ming army sent by Phi Dao to help in the battle in order to make up for the shortcomings of his troops.
Morgan did not have much experience in directing large-scale military operations. .His attention is still focused on the large map of Liaodong hanging on the wall. Although he will not be the general who will command the battle at that time, it is necessary to let the senior officers present at this time as much as possible understand the battle plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense the key to it.After all, all the orders issued by the commander in battle had to be executed by the officers present.
However, similar combat meetings will be held several times before the arrival of spring. First, to gradually improve the details of the combat plan, and secondly, a large number of participating troops have not arrived in Liaodong at this time. Naturally, various departments also need to communicate through combat meetings. opinions so that we can reach a tacit understanding on the battlefield.
The content of Morgan's explanation is naturally based on land routes. He personally went to the front line for several days of reconnaissance a few days ago, and also has a relatively clear understanding of the local geographical environment and natural conditions.After returning, Morgan sorted out the information collected on the front line, and also had some ideas of his own on the specific arrangement of troops.
"...The terrain of the Jinzhou Isthmus is flat, and the battlefield width is relatively limited. In fact, this is more beneficial to our side with less troops, and it is convenient to concentrate firepower to attack the place!" Morgan said while stroking on the map: "The enemy is the most powerful. The most powerful are cavalry, but the narrowest place on the battlefield is only a few miles, we can try to use long-range firepower to block the enemy's attack channel, seal them in the stronghold, and make them unable to play the role of cavalry!"
Shen Zhixiang asked: "Sir, at the end of the day, I heard that the golden thieves have built many fortresses in the local area, and deployed their troops to the entire area. If they want to completely block their attack channels, I am afraid that a large number of artillery can be deployed to achieve this effect. Bar?"
"Don't worry about this." Morgan replied confidently: "Before the spring, artillery units transferred from the south will arrive in Liaodong, specially to cooperate with the land offensive. No matter how many strongholds they build, they are only temporary defense means, those earth walls. The fence is full of tofu scum in front of the cannonballs!"
"Artillery units!" Gao Qiaonan and Shen Zhixiang were shocked when they heard the word.Although Haihan also invested in artillery in the previous Liaodong operation, but generally only a few artillery, the artillery establishment is no more than one company level.And Morgan is now talking about the special transfer of artillery troops from the south, it is estimated that there is a big move.
Haihan's artillery units have always maintained a relatively scattered organization. Combat units such as special operations battalions are generally equipped with at least one artillery company. In addition, in the colonies of the level such as Zhoushan in Zhejiang, Zhifu Island in Shandong, and Amber Island in the South China Sea In the garrison, the formation of the artillery company will also be maintained.However, there is no special artillery battalion set up further up. This is not because Haihan has no money to build artillery, but because the old problem is that the number of troops is limited. There are only so many artillerymen trained every year. Naturally, it is impossible to station in a certain battalion unit. a place.
What's more, not all of these artillerymen belonged to the field troops, and the gunners needed in the ports and armed strongholds, as well as the newly launched naval warships every year, were not a small number.Every year, the newly released artillery is the fragrant bun that everyone wants to rush for. Therefore, the army's artillery preparation level has not been greatly improved. During large-scale combat operations, artillery can only be transferred from other places to gather at the destination early.
The situation in Shandong has stabilized recently. Most of the artillery troops stationed by Haihan in Shandong have been transferred to Liaodong, but the existing artillery troops will be put on the battlefield to attack the Jinzhou Isthmus. Coming is still not enough.However, if the Ministry of National Defense really sends another batch of artillery troops from the south, whether it is to attack armed strongholds or deal with the torrent of iron cavalry of Houjin, the grasp will be much greater than it is now.
Of course, even if such a big setback is not abandoned, as long as Haihan gathers enough troops near the Jinzhou Isthmus, sooner or later, he will be able to kill the Houjin army stationed there.And it took so much trouble to transfer artillery troops from the south to fight, the Ministry of Defense may have some thoughts about training troops in it.In addition, some new weapons and equipment that have been tested in military exercises last year also need to be tested in a harsher battlefield environment to determine that their performance is sufficient for combat needs.
When the officers held a meeting in Lushun Fort to discuss the battle plan, Liu Shang was in charge of receiving more than [-] Chinese immigrants from Phi Island at the port.After arriving in Lushun, these people will be respectively resettled in the area currently occupied by Haihan at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, and will gradually open their naturalization in the future, so that the identity of these people will be changed from Liaodong refugees to Haihan nationals.And Liu Shang's task is to explain the local situation to these people who have just arrived in the port, and the next resettlement measures for them by Haihan officials.
After repeating the propaganda content according to the script, Liu Shang returned to the bamboo shed on the dock, put down the tin horn in his hand, and took a sip of the tea on the table.After drinking the warm tea, his dry throat finally felt a little more comfortable. Although he was not a squeamish person, he was responsible for preaching to the migrants who landed in batches, and this task was indeed not easy.
However, Liu Shang's attention was not entirely on these dull-eyed immigrants. He had already noticed that there was also a Ming army Dafu ship that came to Port Lushun with these immigrant ships.He had previously heard that the general of the Ming army who hurried to Port Lvshun after disembarking was a sergeant on Phi Island, and it seemed that Phi Island would also send troops to participate in the upcoming spring offensive.
The officer in charge of maintaining order on the pier was Sun Zhen, who returned to Lushun with Gao Qiaonan the day before yesterday.Although this errand seems a bit like killing a chicken with a knife to a special operations battalion officer, Sun Zhen doesn't care, because he was recruited by Haihan as a refugee, and he understands these desperate people. What kind of environment is needed to settle down - the first and foremost is the sense of security brought by order.
The special operations battalion has always been fighting on the front line of Haihan's expansion, so many times this ace unit has to undertake the work of taking prisoners or accepting immigrants, which should be done by the logistics unit.Sun Zhen is also no stranger to immigration affairs. During his stay in Shandong, most of the officers in the special operations battalion took turns to be responsible for the reception of immigrants.In Sun Zhen's opinion, the performance of the Liaodong refugees from Phi Dao was quite honest. Perhaps they had been warned countless times by the local Ming army before they set off, and regarded Haihan as the new master who could not resist.
"Brother Liu is tired. There are a lot of people arriving in Hong Kong today. I'm afraid I will be busy until the afternoon." Sun Zhen saw the tired look on Liu Shang's face who was drinking water, so he said a few words of comfort.
Liu Shang put down the teacup, waved his hand with a smile, and said, "It's a matter of your own accord, so why should you be burdened? By the way, I want to ask Brother Sun about something."
After Sun Zhen agreed, Liu Shang asked, "I don't know where this lord who came from Phi Dao today is sacred?"
Sun Zhen didn't suspect him, so he answered by the way: "It's Mr. Shen Zhixiang, the ginseng general of Pidao. Brother Liu should have heard of it, right?"
Liu Shang nodded and said, "After I arrived in Shandong, I heard about the reputation of Pidao's uncle and nephew Shen, and I didn't expect to be able to see it in person so soon. I heard that this little Shen once stayed in Zhifu Island for a long time, and had a good relationship with him. Eat and live with our army?"
Speaking of this, Sun Zhen was also interested: "At the beginning, this little Shen was not a tourist, but came to receive military training. It was a coincidence that I lived in the same barracks as him. After a while."
"No wonder I greeted you when I saw him disembark." Liu Shang said suddenly.
Sun Zhen continued: "Sir Xiao Shen is also a studious person. After staying in Zhifu Island for a while, he went to the south with Commander Wang of the Navy. I heard that last winter, he was studying naval drills in Zhoushan. Phi Dao has a tacit understanding with our army in the Liaodong waters, and he also has a share of credit. After the beginning of the spring to attack Houjin, Phi Dao must also contribute."
Liu Shangxin said that although General Shen was still wearing the military uniform of the Ming army, he was afraid that he had long since stopped treating himself as a general of the Ming army.This is not the first time he has seen this kind of thing. When he left Hainan Island and went north with the fleet, he could see Ming officials with high or low rank in almost every colony of Haihan. The method appears locally, and even a general like Shen Zhixiang is not uncommon.
These Daming officials communicated with Haihan for a variety of purposes, including those who accepted money and bribes, those who cooperated with Haihan in business, those who embraced Haihan's thighs and begged for support, and some who lived in Caoying and in Han, long ago People who secretly cast Haihan.The more Liu Shang looked at it, the more he felt that Daming's plan to drive out or even destroy Haihan in the south was just a delusion in the minds of some court officials.Many people retain their identities as officials of the Ming Dynasty, but they work for Haihan, and this situation can no longer be changed by a few wills from the capital.
Regarding the situation of Phi Dao, Liu Shang had also learned some information before. He thought that the uncle and nephew of the Shen family, who were in charge of the local military power, might turn to Haihan more thoroughly than the Xu family in Fujian, because Daming could not give them any reality at all. The benefits of it, but Haihan can at least let them live happily.Sun Zhen's words seem to confirm this point. Shen Zhixiang's performance may have exceeded the scope of his partners, but he really intends to work for Haihan.
Of course, with Liu Shang's current state of mind, he will no longer secretly scold Shen Zhixiang for treason and surrender to the enemy. After all, for Pi Dao, who needs to survive, serving Haihan is almost the best way out.It's just that Liu Shang can't help sighing for the dying empire when he looks at the big blessing ship of the Ming army on the dock.
While Liu Shang was sighing over Pidao's change, a large-scale fleet was slowly leaving Zhoushan Dinghai Port.The huge hulls of the first two Majesty-class flagships could be seen from a few miles away, and the civilian and commercial ships entering and leaving the port gave way and lowered their half-sails to pay tribute to the fleet.
This fleet from Zhejiang gathered the main battleships of the East China Sea Fleet and the Northern Fleet of the Navy, and dozens of large and small troop transport ships carrying more than [-] troops from the army and marine corps assembled from all over the south. There are dozens of heavy-duty cargo ships and comprehensive supply ships transporting various combat materials, and the number of ships in the entire fleet has exceeded [-].
This mixed fleet is still under the command of Navy Commander Tom Wang. After a winter of rest on Zhoushan Island, the sailors finally ushered in a new journey.Shi Diwen, who is based in Zhoushan, also wants to follow him north to Liaodong to participate in this rare "event", but the concubine he married last year is pregnant and is about to give birth in October. fight.Of course, what's more important is that neither the Executive Committee nor the Ministry of National Defense approved his application. After all, Zhoushan is close to Zhejiang, and most of the garrison has been taken away. It is still necessary to have military officers in charge.
As a senior military officer, Tom Wang is very clear that the plan to attack Liaodong has actually been discussed at the staff meeting of the Ministry of Defense for several years.However, in the past few years, Haihan's hand could not reach so far, so it was only a plan on paper.And now the time is finally ripe, the Haihan army also has the opportunity to once again expand the territory for this emerging country.
This battle in Liaodong is very likely to be the last large-scale military operation of Haihan in the north in recent years. After that, the occupied area in the north will be transferred to the stage of cultivation and recuperation, and it will not continue to expand further north for the time being. .This is not because the Executive Committee is satisfied with the status quo and has no ambitions, but because Haihan's existing colonies are too scattered, and if they continue to expand their territories north and south, there will be more troubles in both military and administrative aspects.
Although the Ministry of National Defense is not so receptive to this point, it also understands that the concerns of the Executive Committee are not unreasonable. After all, the distance between the north and south of Haihan's existing control area is thousands of miles away. A solid centralization and a stronger military will do.And this is not a problem that can be solved in a short period of time for the Haihan Kingdom, which is expanding too fast.
(End of this chapter)