Chapter 2845
Chapter 2845
Chapter 2845
It took a whole day for the group to complete their inspection of the defense line of the Jinzhou Isthmus.And this is just a casual visit. If you really want to understand the details of this line of defense, you have to stay here for at least ten days and a half months.
But even so, this line of defense, which can be called an engineering miracle, has already shocked the visitors.For Bai Letong, Ning Zijing and others who came here for the first time, the written materials they have read in the past are far from enough to describe the majestic scene of the isthmus defense line, and the visual impact brought by the fortresses stretching for more than ten miles , so that they have a more real understanding of wars that they have never had personal contact with.
Although the last battle fought here dates back several years, the air still faintly smells of gunpowder.This is not their hallucination, but because every brick and stone on this line of defense, and even every inch of land, has been continuously eroded by gunpowder during the years of war.
The last stop on this trip was Jijiabao at the eastern end of the defense line, which was also one of the most important large-scale fortresses on the isthmus defense line.The Hall of Martyrs, which was specially set up for the defenders of the Isthmus Line, was built on the south side of Jijiabao.
Compared with the martyrs' shrines built in Sanya, Zhoushan and other places, the scale of the building here is not too large, and the yard outside the ancestral hall is less than two acres of land, even smaller than the Xianzhong Shrine outside the Huanglong Mausoleum in Lushunkou a little.There are no gods enshrined in the ancestral hall, but densely packed spiritual plaques. The names and military positions of the Haihan soldiers who died here were engraved on the spiritual plaques and received incense offerings from descendants.
Haihan confronted the Manchus on the Jinzhou Isthmus for more than ten years. During this period, the war continued. Although the Haihan army was far superior to its opponents, the swords and guns had no eyes, and casualties were inevitable during fierce battles.Moreover, the battlefield between the two sides has actually expanded to the north of the defense line in the later period, and the Haihan army often took the initiative to attack. Without the cover of fortifications, the advantage of the Haihan army would not be so great.
There are more than 20 dead soldiers enshrined in this ancestral hall, which is the battlefield with the largest casualties of the Haihan Army in the past [-] years.If the large-scale fortifications made the visitors feel the chilling atmosphere of the battlefield, then the Hall of Martyrs made them feel the cruelty of war.
"Since our army captured the Isthmus line of defense, the frontline combat troops in the army have been stationed here. All the elite troops you are familiar with have participated in combat here. More than half of the spiritual tablets enshrined here are also these elite troops a member of."
After burning incense, Chen Yixin explained the situation of these fallen soldiers to everyone.The number of casualties of the Haihan army was more than ten times less than that of the opponent, but most of the combatants lost were the elite of the army, so the price was actually not small.
But it is precisely because of these more than ten years of rounds of battle that a group of grassroots officers with rich combat operations and capable of fighting tough and big battles have been tempered on the Liaodong battlefield. This is an invisible wealth for the army.To this day, the Ministry of National Defense still dispatches troops to Liaodong for training from time to time, so as to prevent the garrison troops from losing their due combat capabilities in some places after a long period of peace.
After the inspection trip in Jinzhou, Bai Kesi and his party left Jinzhou by boat, headed north along the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, and went to Gaizhouwei, the next stop. Chen Yixin, Chen Pingliao, Liu Shang and others also continued to accompany them.
Gaizhouwei is located in the northeast corner of Bohai Bay, on the west side of the connection between the Liaodong Peninsula and the mainland, guarding the land passage between the Liaodong Plain and the southern tip of the peninsula. One of the mouths of the Liaohe River, the main river in Liaodong, is also in Gaizhouwei. So the geographical location here is very important.
In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Gaizhouwei was established, which was subordinate to the Liaodong Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division, and had five thousand household offices under its jurisdiction.However, this place had already fallen under the iron heel of the Qing Dynasty more than 20 years ago, and it was completely out of the control of Ming Dynasty. It was not captured by Haihan until a few years ago.
"When we attacked Gaizhou Acropolis, it still took a lot of work. It took several years just to prepare!"
Having nothing to do during the voyage, Chen Yixin told the young people about the process of the Haihan army attacking the Weicheng of Gaizhou.
In fact, before the Haihan army launched a large-scale northern expedition, Gaizhouwei was already one of the fixed targets of the Qing raids and harassment wars every year.However, the acropolis built in the Ming Dynasty was quite strong, and the Qing army guarded the city, and it was difficult to capture the city only by small-scale amphibious raids.The Haihan army often set up artillery after landing, and bombarded the city for a while, so that the defenders in the city did not dare to go out to fight, and then took the opportunity to plunder the surrounding countryside, taking people and goods together.
This is actually very similar to the Qing army's tactics of invading Daming and looting places. They surrounded the big city without attacking it, with the main purpose of robbing resources.However, the Manchu Qing did not have such a strong family background. They were looted by the Haihan army from time to time, and a group of immigrants were robbed when they moved in. After a few years, the Manchu Qing could only give up the development of this area. Naturally, the vicinity of Acropolis gradually became a no-man's land.
As a result, the various materials needed by the Gaizhou Guard garrison could not be self-sufficient, and could only rely on external imports, and the cost of maintaining this stronghold also rose accordingly.
Haihan adopted this sausage-cutting tactic, and it took several years to gradually weaken the defensive strength of Gaizhou Guard.Later, when the Northern Expedition was launched, Qian Tiandun formulated a combat plan specifically for Gaizhouwei, that is, skipping the Fuzhouwei area between Jinzhouwei and Gaizhouwei, and directly attacking Gaizhouwei.
As long as this place is broken, the most important land passage between the hinterland of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Liaodong Peninsula will be cut off, and the sea will be completely controlled by the Haihan army. hold fast.
Qian Tiandun's troops undertook the combat task of attacking Gaizhou Weicheng. With years of experience in harassment warfare, more than 4000 combat troops and a large number of artillery were dropped from the sea to the outside of Gaizhou Weicheng.This time, the bombardment of the city was no longer just a show, but was directed at the Ninghai Gate on the west side of the Acropolis and the Guangen Gate on the south side for two full days.Later, in order to break through the urn city of Guangenmen, even explosives were used.
After four days of fierce fighting, the Haihan army wiped out more than [-] enemies inside and outside Gaizhou Weicheng, and finally captured this traffic pass.The subsequent reaction of the Qing army was just as Qian Tiandun expected. After organizing two counterattacks against the Acropolis and failed, the Fuzhou Guards south of Gaizhou Guard quickly moved to avoid being attacked by the north and the south. He voluntarily gave up his territory and fled eastward into the Qianshan Mountains. With the help of the complicated terrain of the mountains, he escaped from the pursuit of the Haihan army and retreated to the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty in the north.
If the traditional method of warfare is to be pushed all the way from Jinzhou to Gaizhou, there are many large and small fortresses in the 300-mile area for the Qing army to fortify.However, Qian Tiandun's battle plan took less than half a month. He only fought the big battle of Gaizhou Acropolis, and successfully drove the Qing army out of this area.
(End of this chapter)
It took a whole day for the group to complete their inspection of the defense line of the Jinzhou Isthmus.And this is just a casual visit. If you really want to understand the details of this line of defense, you have to stay here for at least ten days and a half months.
But even so, this line of defense, which can be called an engineering miracle, has already shocked the visitors.For Bai Letong, Ning Zijing and others who came here for the first time, the written materials they have read in the past are far from enough to describe the majestic scene of the isthmus defense line, and the visual impact brought by the fortresses stretching for more than ten miles , so that they have a more real understanding of wars that they have never had personal contact with.
Although the last battle fought here dates back several years, the air still faintly smells of gunpowder.This is not their hallucination, but because every brick and stone on this line of defense, and even every inch of land, has been continuously eroded by gunpowder during the years of war.
The last stop on this trip was Jijiabao at the eastern end of the defense line, which was also one of the most important large-scale fortresses on the isthmus defense line.The Hall of Martyrs, which was specially set up for the defenders of the Isthmus Line, was built on the south side of Jijiabao.
Compared with the martyrs' shrines built in Sanya, Zhoushan and other places, the scale of the building here is not too large, and the yard outside the ancestral hall is less than two acres of land, even smaller than the Xianzhong Shrine outside the Huanglong Mausoleum in Lushunkou a little.There are no gods enshrined in the ancestral hall, but densely packed spiritual plaques. The names and military positions of the Haihan soldiers who died here were engraved on the spiritual plaques and received incense offerings from descendants.
Haihan confronted the Manchus on the Jinzhou Isthmus for more than ten years. During this period, the war continued. Although the Haihan army was far superior to its opponents, the swords and guns had no eyes, and casualties were inevitable during fierce battles.Moreover, the battlefield between the two sides has actually expanded to the north of the defense line in the later period, and the Haihan army often took the initiative to attack. Without the cover of fortifications, the advantage of the Haihan army would not be so great.
There are more than 20 dead soldiers enshrined in this ancestral hall, which is the battlefield with the largest casualties of the Haihan Army in the past [-] years.If the large-scale fortifications made the visitors feel the chilling atmosphere of the battlefield, then the Hall of Martyrs made them feel the cruelty of war.
"Since our army captured the Isthmus line of defense, the frontline combat troops in the army have been stationed here. All the elite troops you are familiar with have participated in combat here. More than half of the spiritual tablets enshrined here are also these elite troops a member of."
After burning incense, Chen Yixin explained the situation of these fallen soldiers to everyone.The number of casualties of the Haihan army was more than ten times less than that of the opponent, but most of the combatants lost were the elite of the army, so the price was actually not small.
But it is precisely because of these more than ten years of rounds of battle that a group of grassroots officers with rich combat operations and capable of fighting tough and big battles have been tempered on the Liaodong battlefield. This is an invisible wealth for the army.To this day, the Ministry of National Defense still dispatches troops to Liaodong for training from time to time, so as to prevent the garrison troops from losing their due combat capabilities in some places after a long period of peace.
After the inspection trip in Jinzhou, Bai Kesi and his party left Jinzhou by boat, headed north along the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, and went to Gaizhouwei, the next stop. Chen Yixin, Chen Pingliao, Liu Shang and others also continued to accompany them.
Gaizhouwei is located in the northeast corner of Bohai Bay, on the west side of the connection between the Liaodong Peninsula and the mainland, guarding the land passage between the Liaodong Plain and the southern tip of the peninsula. One of the mouths of the Liaohe River, the main river in Liaodong, is also in Gaizhouwei. So the geographical location here is very important.
In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Gaizhouwei was established, which was subordinate to the Liaodong Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division, and had five thousand household offices under its jurisdiction.However, this place had already fallen under the iron heel of the Qing Dynasty more than 20 years ago, and it was completely out of the control of Ming Dynasty. It was not captured by Haihan until a few years ago.
"When we attacked Gaizhou Acropolis, it still took a lot of work. It took several years just to prepare!"
Having nothing to do during the voyage, Chen Yixin told the young people about the process of the Haihan army attacking the Weicheng of Gaizhou.
In fact, before the Haihan army launched a large-scale northern expedition, Gaizhouwei was already one of the fixed targets of the Qing raids and harassment wars every year.However, the acropolis built in the Ming Dynasty was quite strong, and the Qing army guarded the city, and it was difficult to capture the city only by small-scale amphibious raids.The Haihan army often set up artillery after landing, and bombarded the city for a while, so that the defenders in the city did not dare to go out to fight, and then took the opportunity to plunder the surrounding countryside, taking people and goods together.
This is actually very similar to the Qing army's tactics of invading Daming and looting places. They surrounded the big city without attacking it, with the main purpose of robbing resources.However, the Manchu Qing did not have such a strong family background. They were looted by the Haihan army from time to time, and a group of immigrants were robbed when they moved in. After a few years, the Manchu Qing could only give up the development of this area. Naturally, the vicinity of Acropolis gradually became a no-man's land.
As a result, the various materials needed by the Gaizhou Guard garrison could not be self-sufficient, and could only rely on external imports, and the cost of maintaining this stronghold also rose accordingly.
Haihan adopted this sausage-cutting tactic, and it took several years to gradually weaken the defensive strength of Gaizhou Guard.Later, when the Northern Expedition was launched, Qian Tiandun formulated a combat plan specifically for Gaizhouwei, that is, skipping the Fuzhouwei area between Jinzhouwei and Gaizhouwei, and directly attacking Gaizhouwei.
As long as this place is broken, the most important land passage between the hinterland of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Liaodong Peninsula will be cut off, and the sea will be completely controlled by the Haihan army. hold fast.
Qian Tiandun's troops undertook the combat task of attacking Gaizhou Weicheng. With years of experience in harassment warfare, more than 4000 combat troops and a large number of artillery were dropped from the sea to the outside of Gaizhou Weicheng.This time, the bombardment of the city was no longer just a show, but was directed at the Ninghai Gate on the west side of the Acropolis and the Guangen Gate on the south side for two full days.Later, in order to break through the urn city of Guangenmen, even explosives were used.
After four days of fierce fighting, the Haihan army wiped out more than [-] enemies inside and outside Gaizhou Weicheng, and finally captured this traffic pass.The subsequent reaction of the Qing army was just as Qian Tiandun expected. After organizing two counterattacks against the Acropolis and failed, the Fuzhou Guards south of Gaizhou Guard quickly moved to avoid being attacked by the north and the south. He voluntarily gave up his territory and fled eastward into the Qianshan Mountains. With the help of the complicated terrain of the mountains, he escaped from the pursuit of the Haihan army and retreated to the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty in the north.
If the traditional method of warfare is to be pushed all the way from Jinzhou to Gaizhou, there are many large and small fortresses in the 300-mile area for the Qing army to fortify.However, Qian Tiandun's battle plan took less than half a month. He only fought the big battle of Gaizhou Acropolis, and successfully drove the Qing army out of this area.
(End of this chapter)