Chapter 1425
The Battle Is Coming
Chapter 1425 The Battle Is Coming
When Liu Shang was in Sanya, he was fortunate enough to witness how the Haihan Navy defeated the Spanish fleet in the sea south of Sanya. Although several months had passed, the magnificent scene at that time has been deeply imprinted on the sea. He couldn't get it out of his mind.Now that he has come to another battlefield that is about to start, Liu Shang wants to find a reason to stay and see how Haihan cleans up the Houjin armed forces that have always been a headache for Daming.
Among the generals in Liaodong, he is only a little familiar with Chen Yixin, so if he wants to stay in Liaodong to watch the fun, Liu Shang thinks it is best to start with Chen Yixin and see if he can Get a temporary military clerk or something to stay.
When Liu Shang was still mulling over his words, Chen Yixin spoke first: "You will have to work hard for a while, and you will not be able to return to Shandong until the operation here is over."
Liu Shang didn't react for a while, and subconsciously asked, "Why is this?"
Chen Yixin explained: "Confidentiality is required to avoid leaks of the spring offensive."
Haihan is currently gathering troops and supplies in Lushun with great fanfare, and it is not carried out in secret, but the Houjin army stationed in the Jinzhou area in the north may not be able to catch the wind in time to discover Haihan's actions, and naturally it is difficult to do anything in advance. Effective coping arrangements.
Houjin's few naval armed forces have long since been lost in the repeated raids by the Haihan Navy last year, and the few remaining armed sailboats that were lucky enough to escape the pursuit have all retreated into the northern inland rivers to hide, and they dared not to go any further. Easy to go out to sea.After the navy launched the wave of feint attacks in Dalian Bay before the winter, it wiped out all the large and small boats on the coast near Dalian Bay. Now even the fishing boats are no longer visible there. It is also difficult to conduct reconnaissance near Lushun.
At the beginning, Houjin captured the Han aborigines in the Lushun area, trying to make it difficult for Haihan to gain a foothold in Liaodong. show up.The most direct effect is that Houjin can no longer place spies to carry out reconnaissance missions in the Haihan occupation area. Any outsider who appears in the Lushun area is very conspicuous, and it is difficult not to attract attention.
The few people in the south of the Jinzhou Isthmus have all been sent by Haihan to the south for resettlement in the past month or so.Houjin sent many Han Chinese who worked for him to Lushun, trying to obtain Haihan asylum as refugees and then lurking, but Haihan did not give these people a chance to play.The military would rather spend more time moving in immigrants from Phi Dao and Shandong than take the risk of letting these Han Chinese, who are said to have escaped from the north, stay and settle in Lushun.
No matter how many people came from the north, they all packed up and sent them away. Houjin's method was like hitting a dog with meat buns.Therefore, although Haihan has been continuously sending personnel and materials to Lushun recently, for Houjin, the Lushun area is already a place shrouded in fog, and they do not know what Haihan is doing in Lushun. , can only subconsciously increase the troops stationed in the Jinzhou Isthmus to prevent the next round of attacks that will come after the spring.
In addition to launching intelligence shielding measures in Liaodong, Haihan also has similar measures in Shandong.The Haihan army only stayed on Zhifu Island for about a week. Except for a few well-informed outsiders who more or less guessed the purpose of Haihan's mobilization of the army, the spring offensive was still a secret to most people.Even among the naturalized citizens in the occupied area, there are still many people who do not know where this army is going.
Liu Shang is of course one of the insiders, and he has witnessed the whole process of how Haihan transported personnel and materials to the Lushun area in winter. Because of this, Chen Yixin will not let him leave Lushun and go back to Shandong now, because he will go back to Lushun. After that, it might leak what they know.This has nothing to do with loyalty and trust, but because of the confidentiality system. Even if Liu Shang's position is changed to someone else, this will be the same arrangement.
However, for Liu Shang, it didn't take much effort. He wanted to find a reason to stay in Liaodong to watch the battle. Chen Yixin's arrangement was just right for him. Try your best.
As the troops continued to arrive at Lushun, the command began to send additional troops to the intended areas of engagement in order to set up camps on the front lines before the start of the spring offensive.Otherwise, when thousands of people are fighting on the front line, they will have to move their belongings from Lushun bit by bit, which will be too much of a delay.
It is natural that the special operations battalion of the army's ace force is responsible for this task, but the mobilization of the special operations battalion was not carried out by land, because the mountainous area that stretches for dozens of miles is not friendly enough for the transportation of large numbers of personnel and materials. For the sake of efficiency, the command still arranged for the navy to dispatch ships to transport them to the front line.
More than a dozen troop transport ships docked at an estuary more than ten miles away from the Jinzhou Isthmus, and Gao Qiaonan took the lead in jumping from the bow to the sand on the riverbank.At this time, the nearshore was already frozen, and the ground was extremely frozen. Gao Qiaonan's short and sturdy body fell down and stepped on it with a crisp sound, but it was the leather boots on his feet that broke a layer of ice on the surface.
There was originally a small river called Shahe, but the boat couldn't sail into the upper reaches of the Shahe at this time, so they could only drop the troops of the special operations battalion at the mouth of the sea.After confirming that there was no trace of the activities of the Houjin Army in the nearby area as far as the eye could see, the horses that had disembarked from another troop carrier had already been saddled, and the cavalrymen turned on their horses and headed north.They need to determine the security situation in the area from the landing point to the Golden State Isthmus, and at the same time find a suitable marching route to the Golden State Isthmus to facilitate the subsequent march of the large troops.
Although it is still relatively far away from the Jinzhou Isthmus, the headquarters intends to set up a material camp here, and it will be more convenient to supply the front line by then.Therefore, in addition to the scouts from the cavalry battalion, there is also an engineering company and more than 200 militiamen operating with the special warfare battalion this time.They will be responsible for building a simple camp here, and the task of the special warfare battalion is to protect it during this period and establish a safe zone in the surrounding area.
It has been nearly 20 days since the Golden Patrol led by Morgan led an ambush last time. After completing the reconnaissance of the plain area south of the Golden State Isthmus a few days ago, the Special Operations Battalion shrunk its defense line to the mountainous area again, so it is not sure. Whether Hou Jin has resumed patrolling this area, it is natural to be careful.Of course, if the opponent's patrol came here by mistake, Takahashi Minami didn't mind harvesting some heads to warm up before the big battle.
Regarding the situation here, Gao Qiaonan had already figured out the situation in the previous reconnaissance operations, and he dispatched a small team to a small hill in the northwest to serve as a guard.Although the highest point of the hill is only more than 100 meters above sea level, it already has an excellent view on this plain. When the visibility is the best during the day, it can monitor at least a radius of ten miles. This is enough for the camp to prepare for the battle. up.
Engineers and militiamen transferred various construction tools and materials from the ship to the shore. They had to build a camp here within two or three days that could accommodate at least 500 people and store hundreds of tons of supplies.Of course, this has to include the most basic defense facilities such as wooden wall, barbed wire, deer village, and horse pit.The amount of this project is really not small, so they have to hurry up every minute and every second from now on.
But after this camp is completed, the special operations battalion will not be stationed here for too long. Before the battle, they will go to the area closer to the Golden State Isthmus, where they will meet with other army units, and then act as the frontal offensive force on land. main force.
Gaoqiao Nan was convinced that after the war, it was impossible for the enemy troops to go south to this place to raid the camp, so he ordered the engineers to deploy only one-time fortifications outside the camp, and only focus on the north, in order to save engineering required time.As for the south side of Linhai, Gaoqiao South is not worried. If Houjin can still have warships coming here, even if they come, they will not be able to go back.
In the evening, the cavalrymen who had gone out for reconnaissance came back. The news they brought back was not good, but it didn't seem to be too bad.The cavalry encountered a Houjin patrol about fifteen miles from the camp, and there was a skirmish between the two sides.
The cavalry wisely did not close the fighting distance with the opponent, but overturned a few people with a salvo from a distance of [-] meters, and then resolutely retreated south.
After this fight, two things can be confirmed. One is that the Houjin Army has returned to the patrol range before being attacked by Morgan last time, and the other is that the Houjin Army has learned the previous lesson, and the current patrol team has expanded to 50 people. The size of the army, about one-third of which is cavalry.Although such a team would still feel uncomfortable if they bumped into the Morgan squad ambushing in the wild, at least the Haihan cavalry who went out to scout today did not dare to fight when they faced them, and decisively withdrew from the battle after taking advantage of them.
Takahashi Minami marked the battle location on the map, and then ordered to strengthen the nighttime alert.Although the other party did not follow his cavalry all the way, Gao Qiaonan knew that many people in the Houjin Army were from hunters. Come on.Gao Qiaonan is not afraid of the opponent's strength, but he is not too careless to let the opponent take advantage of it.
Sure enough, just as he was worried, after nightfall, Jin Bing groped and found this side, but the other party didn't dare to approach the Haihan camp where the lights were being built, and after watching it from a distance for a while, Taking the initiative to leave, some of the means that Gao Qiaonan arranged in advance also failed to come in handy.
After the sky brightened, Gao Qiaonan used a telescope to confirm that there were still several horses on the edge of the woods a mile away. okay.This time, there were no snipers in the troops led by Takahashi South, otherwise they could try to solve these annoying spies from a long distance.
For safety reasons, he couldn't send out his limited cavalry to fight the opponent recklessly. After all, it was not easy to train his own cavalry, but he couldn't just pull out thousands of cavalry to fight like Hou Jin.
"Endure the calm for a while." In this situation, Gao Qiaonan could only use Qian Tiandun's teachings to soothe his mood.Although he is belligerent, he also knows that it is not yet time to start. Even if Houjin finds out his side's movements, he has to make adjustments now, or even deploy troops to attack here, but it is probably too late.
In the blink of an eye, another two days have passed. The camp has already begun to take shape, and the number of rear golden cavalrymen watching from a distance has increased from the initial two or three cavalry to about ten times, but this is still not enough to attack the Haihan camp. , so these post-golden cavalry still maintained a wait-and-see state, and did not try to further shorten the distance from the Haihan camp.But Gao Qiaonan can be sure that they should have sent someone back to Jinzhou to report.
Gao Qiaonan looked at the sky and nodded in satisfaction.There has been no more snow on the Liaodong Peninsula recently, and the ice at the mouth of the Shahe River near the camp is also showing signs of thawing, which shows that the temperature has begun to warm up, the severe winter is passing away, and Haihan's long-prepared spring offensive is about to usher in the best opportunity.
On March [-], more than [-] Ming troops from Phi Island arrived at the camp where Gao Qiaonan was located, and they would take over the defense here.Although the Spring Offensive was carried out under the banner of the Ming Army of Phi Dao, in fact, the troops dispatched by Phi Dao were mainly responsible for tasks such as logistics and escorting camps. Only Shen Zhixiang and his two hundred family soldiers would really Go to the front lines and take part in the spring offensive.
Shen Zhixiang had already arrived in Lushun earlier to participate in various preparatory work before the war, and only at this time did he join his troops on the front line.The materials, food and grass, and even military salaries of the troops participating in the war on Phi Dao were basically provided by Haihan, so it was more appropriate to say that this unit was a mercenary rather than a mercenary army.Of course, the purpose of Haihan paying to hire this army is not to expect them to have any extraordinary performance on the battlefield, but to act in their name, which both sides are tacit.
So after Shen Zhixiang arrived at the front line, he also behaved very respectfully in front of Gao Qiaonan, and took the initiative to command his troops to participate in the project of expanding the camp.In addition, Phi Island also sent more than 20 ships to join the war here. Of course, the arrival of these ships is not to play big swords in front of Guan Gong, but to undertake the transportation task between Lushun Port and the front line. The links are all taken care of by the Haihan Fleet.
(End of this chapter)
When Liu Shang was in Sanya, he was fortunate enough to witness how the Haihan Navy defeated the Spanish fleet in the sea south of Sanya. Although several months had passed, the magnificent scene at that time has been deeply imprinted on the sea. He couldn't get it out of his mind.Now that he has come to another battlefield that is about to start, Liu Shang wants to find a reason to stay and see how Haihan cleans up the Houjin armed forces that have always been a headache for Daming.
Among the generals in Liaodong, he is only a little familiar with Chen Yixin, so if he wants to stay in Liaodong to watch the fun, Liu Shang thinks it is best to start with Chen Yixin and see if he can Get a temporary military clerk or something to stay.
When Liu Shang was still mulling over his words, Chen Yixin spoke first: "You will have to work hard for a while, and you will not be able to return to Shandong until the operation here is over."
Liu Shang didn't react for a while, and subconsciously asked, "Why is this?"
Chen Yixin explained: "Confidentiality is required to avoid leaks of the spring offensive."
Haihan is currently gathering troops and supplies in Lushun with great fanfare, and it is not carried out in secret, but the Houjin army stationed in the Jinzhou area in the north may not be able to catch the wind in time to discover Haihan's actions, and naturally it is difficult to do anything in advance. Effective coping arrangements.
Houjin's few naval armed forces have long since been lost in the repeated raids by the Haihan Navy last year, and the few remaining armed sailboats that were lucky enough to escape the pursuit have all retreated into the northern inland rivers to hide, and they dared not to go any further. Easy to go out to sea.After the navy launched the wave of feint attacks in Dalian Bay before the winter, it wiped out all the large and small boats on the coast near Dalian Bay. Now even the fishing boats are no longer visible there. It is also difficult to conduct reconnaissance near Lushun.
At the beginning, Houjin captured the Han aborigines in the Lushun area, trying to make it difficult for Haihan to gain a foothold in Liaodong. show up.The most direct effect is that Houjin can no longer place spies to carry out reconnaissance missions in the Haihan occupation area. Any outsider who appears in the Lushun area is very conspicuous, and it is difficult not to attract attention.
The few people in the south of the Jinzhou Isthmus have all been sent by Haihan to the south for resettlement in the past month or so.Houjin sent many Han Chinese who worked for him to Lushun, trying to obtain Haihan asylum as refugees and then lurking, but Haihan did not give these people a chance to play.The military would rather spend more time moving in immigrants from Phi Dao and Shandong than take the risk of letting these Han Chinese, who are said to have escaped from the north, stay and settle in Lushun.
No matter how many people came from the north, they all packed up and sent them away. Houjin's method was like hitting a dog with meat buns.Therefore, although Haihan has been continuously sending personnel and materials to Lushun recently, for Houjin, the Lushun area is already a place shrouded in fog, and they do not know what Haihan is doing in Lushun. , can only subconsciously increase the troops stationed in the Jinzhou Isthmus to prevent the next round of attacks that will come after the spring.
In addition to launching intelligence shielding measures in Liaodong, Haihan also has similar measures in Shandong.The Haihan army only stayed on Zhifu Island for about a week. Except for a few well-informed outsiders who more or less guessed the purpose of Haihan's mobilization of the army, the spring offensive was still a secret to most people.Even among the naturalized citizens in the occupied area, there are still many people who do not know where this army is going.
Liu Shang is of course one of the insiders, and he has witnessed the whole process of how Haihan transported personnel and materials to the Lushun area in winter. Because of this, Chen Yixin will not let him leave Lushun and go back to Shandong now, because he will go back to Lushun. After that, it might leak what they know.This has nothing to do with loyalty and trust, but because of the confidentiality system. Even if Liu Shang's position is changed to someone else, this will be the same arrangement.
However, for Liu Shang, it didn't take much effort. He wanted to find a reason to stay in Liaodong to watch the battle. Chen Yixin's arrangement was just right for him. Try your best.
As the troops continued to arrive at Lushun, the command began to send additional troops to the intended areas of engagement in order to set up camps on the front lines before the start of the spring offensive.Otherwise, when thousands of people are fighting on the front line, they will have to move their belongings from Lushun bit by bit, which will be too much of a delay.
It is natural that the special operations battalion of the army's ace force is responsible for this task, but the mobilization of the special operations battalion was not carried out by land, because the mountainous area that stretches for dozens of miles is not friendly enough for the transportation of large numbers of personnel and materials. For the sake of efficiency, the command still arranged for the navy to dispatch ships to transport them to the front line.
More than a dozen troop transport ships docked at an estuary more than ten miles away from the Jinzhou Isthmus, and Gao Qiaonan took the lead in jumping from the bow to the sand on the riverbank.At this time, the nearshore was already frozen, and the ground was extremely frozen. Gao Qiaonan's short and sturdy body fell down and stepped on it with a crisp sound, but it was the leather boots on his feet that broke a layer of ice on the surface.
There was originally a small river called Shahe, but the boat couldn't sail into the upper reaches of the Shahe at this time, so they could only drop the troops of the special operations battalion at the mouth of the sea.After confirming that there was no trace of the activities of the Houjin Army in the nearby area as far as the eye could see, the horses that had disembarked from another troop carrier had already been saddled, and the cavalrymen turned on their horses and headed north.They need to determine the security situation in the area from the landing point to the Golden State Isthmus, and at the same time find a suitable marching route to the Golden State Isthmus to facilitate the subsequent march of the large troops.
Although it is still relatively far away from the Jinzhou Isthmus, the headquarters intends to set up a material camp here, and it will be more convenient to supply the front line by then.Therefore, in addition to the scouts from the cavalry battalion, there is also an engineering company and more than 200 militiamen operating with the special warfare battalion this time.They will be responsible for building a simple camp here, and the task of the special warfare battalion is to protect it during this period and establish a safe zone in the surrounding area.
It has been nearly 20 days since the Golden Patrol led by Morgan led an ambush last time. After completing the reconnaissance of the plain area south of the Golden State Isthmus a few days ago, the Special Operations Battalion shrunk its defense line to the mountainous area again, so it is not sure. Whether Hou Jin has resumed patrolling this area, it is natural to be careful.Of course, if the opponent's patrol came here by mistake, Takahashi Minami didn't mind harvesting some heads to warm up before the big battle.
Regarding the situation here, Gao Qiaonan had already figured out the situation in the previous reconnaissance operations, and he dispatched a small team to a small hill in the northwest to serve as a guard.Although the highest point of the hill is only more than 100 meters above sea level, it already has an excellent view on this plain. When the visibility is the best during the day, it can monitor at least a radius of ten miles. This is enough for the camp to prepare for the battle. up.
Engineers and militiamen transferred various construction tools and materials from the ship to the shore. They had to build a camp here within two or three days that could accommodate at least 500 people and store hundreds of tons of supplies.Of course, this has to include the most basic defense facilities such as wooden wall, barbed wire, deer village, and horse pit.The amount of this project is really not small, so they have to hurry up every minute and every second from now on.
But after this camp is completed, the special operations battalion will not be stationed here for too long. Before the battle, they will go to the area closer to the Golden State Isthmus, where they will meet with other army units, and then act as the frontal offensive force on land. main force.
Gaoqiao Nan was convinced that after the war, it was impossible for the enemy troops to go south to this place to raid the camp, so he ordered the engineers to deploy only one-time fortifications outside the camp, and only focus on the north, in order to save engineering required time.As for the south side of Linhai, Gaoqiao South is not worried. If Houjin can still have warships coming here, even if they come, they will not be able to go back.
In the evening, the cavalrymen who had gone out for reconnaissance came back. The news they brought back was not good, but it didn't seem to be too bad.The cavalry encountered a Houjin patrol about fifteen miles from the camp, and there was a skirmish between the two sides.
The cavalry wisely did not close the fighting distance with the opponent, but overturned a few people with a salvo from a distance of [-] meters, and then resolutely retreated south.
After this fight, two things can be confirmed. One is that the Houjin Army has returned to the patrol range before being attacked by Morgan last time, and the other is that the Houjin Army has learned the previous lesson, and the current patrol team has expanded to 50 people. The size of the army, about one-third of which is cavalry.Although such a team would still feel uncomfortable if they bumped into the Morgan squad ambushing in the wild, at least the Haihan cavalry who went out to scout today did not dare to fight when they faced them, and decisively withdrew from the battle after taking advantage of them.
Takahashi Minami marked the battle location on the map, and then ordered to strengthen the nighttime alert.Although the other party did not follow his cavalry all the way, Gao Qiaonan knew that many people in the Houjin Army were from hunters. Come on.Gao Qiaonan is not afraid of the opponent's strength, but he is not too careless to let the opponent take advantage of it.
Sure enough, just as he was worried, after nightfall, Jin Bing groped and found this side, but the other party didn't dare to approach the Haihan camp where the lights were being built, and after watching it from a distance for a while, Taking the initiative to leave, some of the means that Gao Qiaonan arranged in advance also failed to come in handy.
After the sky brightened, Gao Qiaonan used a telescope to confirm that there were still several horses on the edge of the woods a mile away. okay.This time, there were no snipers in the troops led by Takahashi South, otherwise they could try to solve these annoying spies from a long distance.
For safety reasons, he couldn't send out his limited cavalry to fight the opponent recklessly. After all, it was not easy to train his own cavalry, but he couldn't just pull out thousands of cavalry to fight like Hou Jin.
"Endure the calm for a while." In this situation, Gao Qiaonan could only use Qian Tiandun's teachings to soothe his mood.Although he is belligerent, he also knows that it is not yet time to start. Even if Houjin finds out his side's movements, he has to make adjustments now, or even deploy troops to attack here, but it is probably too late.
In the blink of an eye, another two days have passed. The camp has already begun to take shape, and the number of rear golden cavalrymen watching from a distance has increased from the initial two or three cavalry to about ten times, but this is still not enough to attack the Haihan camp. , so these post-golden cavalry still maintained a wait-and-see state, and did not try to further shorten the distance from the Haihan camp.But Gao Qiaonan can be sure that they should have sent someone back to Jinzhou to report.
Gao Qiaonan looked at the sky and nodded in satisfaction.There has been no more snow on the Liaodong Peninsula recently, and the ice at the mouth of the Shahe River near the camp is also showing signs of thawing, which shows that the temperature has begun to warm up, the severe winter is passing away, and Haihan's long-prepared spring offensive is about to usher in the best opportunity.
On March [-], more than [-] Ming troops from Phi Island arrived at the camp where Gao Qiaonan was located, and they would take over the defense here.Although the Spring Offensive was carried out under the banner of the Ming Army of Phi Dao, in fact, the troops dispatched by Phi Dao were mainly responsible for tasks such as logistics and escorting camps. Only Shen Zhixiang and his two hundred family soldiers would really Go to the front lines and take part in the spring offensive.
Shen Zhixiang had already arrived in Lushun earlier to participate in various preparatory work before the war, and only at this time did he join his troops on the front line.The materials, food and grass, and even military salaries of the troops participating in the war on Phi Dao were basically provided by Haihan, so it was more appropriate to say that this unit was a mercenary rather than a mercenary army.Of course, the purpose of Haihan paying to hire this army is not to expect them to have any extraordinary performance on the battlefield, but to act in their name, which both sides are tacit.
So after Shen Zhixiang arrived at the front line, he also behaved very respectfully in front of Gao Qiaonan, and took the initiative to command his troops to participate in the project of expanding the camp.In addition, Phi Island also sent more than 20 ships to join the war here. Of course, the arrival of these ships is not to play big swords in front of Guan Gong, but to undertake the transportation task between Lushun Port and the front line. The links are all taken care of by the Haihan Fleet.
(End of this chapter)