I want to be emperor

Chapter 513 Be cautious (six thousand two in one)

When the troops directly under the No.20 Third Division of the Chu Army's landing force and two infantry regiments, the Navy's Second Marine Regiment landed at Lushunkou and captured the northern and southern cities. After forcing down the Dongyao navy in the port.

It also means that the first phase of the landing of the Chu army has been successfully completed.

Next, the Chu army will block the counterattack of the Dongyao people, defend Lushun Port, and on this basis, go north to capture Jinzhou Acropolis.

In this regard, the Chu Army has already prepared for it. The third landing fleet sent out before carried the No.20 Infantry Regiment of the No.90 Third Division. They did not land outside Lushun Port, but directly along the Going north along the coastline, they even crossed the Golden State Acropolis, and landed in the Red Mouth Fort, tens of kilometers north of the Golden State Acropolis.

Their task is to cooperate with other troops of the Chu army to attack the Jinzhou Acropolis and prevent reinforcements from other directions from reinforcing the Jinzhou Acropolis.

To attack the city, the first thing to do is to intercept local reinforcements.

Otherwise, it would not be so easy to fight if the enemy sent a large number of reinforcements to Jinzhou Acropolis.

Therefore, the No.90 Infantry Regiment and an artillery battalion, a cavalry company, and a supply battalion that were reinforced to the Ministry consisted of a mixed force of more than 5000 people. They ran directly to the north to land and took down the Red Mouth Fort near the landing site.

At the same time, in order to prevent the No. 90 Infantry Regiment from fighting behind the enemy for a long time, and then being surrounded by the enemy and falling into danger, the main force of the No. 20 Third Division and the Second Marine Regiment after capturing Lushunkou did not Rest and reorganization, only one infantry battalion was left in the local area as a precaution, and the engineering troops were covering the construction of Lushun Port, and large-scale hoisting equipment was built. After the emergency dock was built, other troops who went ashore quickly went north.

The distance from Lushunkou to Jinzhou Acropolis is about 60 kilometers. With the marching speed of the Chu army, three days are enough to arrive.

If the action was fast enough, the Chu army would have already taken the Jinzhou Acropolis before the reinforcements from the Dongbaoren arrived at the Acropolis of Jinzhou, and there was no need for the No. 90 Infantry Regiment to fight for reinforcements.

Of course, even if the aid fails, the impact will not be great, so when Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong set off, he specially told Brigadier General Huang Jinkui, the deputy commander of the No. , don't force yourself if you don't have a chance, get on the boat and run away as soon as you encounter danger...

Anyway, even without the aid of the No. 90 Infantry Regiment, if the Chu army insisted on attacking the Golden State Guard, it would be able to defeat it, and it would not even be too difficult.

Now that the Chu army has taken Lushun Port, and there were Dongyao people's navy berthed in this place before, with usable dock facilities and emergency installation of hoisting equipment, it is completely possible for the Chu army's landing troops to take a large number of ships. Heavy weapons such as nine-pound field guns, fourteen-pound cannons, and 48-pound howitzers were removed from the ship.

When these heavy artillery are pulled to Jinzhou Acropolis, even if the Dongbang people hoard tens of thousands of troops in Jinzhou Acropolis, it is only a matter of time before the city is taken, and this time will not be too long!

But, if you can play more easily, it must be good.

In the battle of fortifications, whether it is casualties or ammunition consumption, it is always relatively large.

Especially ammo consumption...

The Chu army's strong attacking ability is purely based on the fact that the shells do not cost money and are thrown in the enemy's city. They use saturated cover bombardment, and the ammunition consumption is also huge.

Although the army has a big family and a big business, it can't just waste ammunition, not to mention that the transportation across the sea is very troublesome and costly. The key is that it is very troublesome and the transportation volume is limited.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong would be very happy if he could intercept the enemy's reinforcements, reduce the difficulty of attacking Jinzhou Weicheng, and reduce his own casualties and ammunition consumption.

It's just... Chu Jun didn't expect at all that the behavior of these captives was different from what they expected!
When the Dongyao people heard that tens of thousands of Chu troops landed in Lushun, and completely captured Lushunkou the next day, they got the news that thousands of Chu troops landed tens of kilometers behind Jinzhouwei. .

The Dongyao people had no intention of defending the Jinzhou Acropolis at all, and the Dongyao defenders of about 4000 people in the Jinzhou Acropolis chose to retreat directly.

At first, the investigators of the Chu army thought they were going to flee to Fuzhou... They also thought that these captives from the east were nothing more than mediocre, just like the Ming army before, when they saw the Chu army coming, they would run away as soon as they encountered danger the way.

But I didn't expect that the more than 4000 soldiers of the Jinzhou Guard did not go to Fuzhou at all, but chose to go directly north... From their marching route, it is easy to guess their target: Red Mouth Fort the area.

It can also be the location of the No.90 infantry regiment and other troops that have just landed.

Immediately afterwards, the reconnaissance cavalry sent by the No. 90 Infantry Regiment to Fuzhou made an emergency report. At least [-] enemy troops from Fuzhou had already left the city and came straight to Hongzuibao.

The most important thing is that there are a large number of cavalry in the Dongyao defenders in these two directions!

Seeing this, the Chu army didn't know... These Dongyao people had no intention of defending the city at all, and they went straight to the No. 90 infantry regiment.

After realizing this situation, many officers of the No.90 Infantry Regiment and the reinforced troops were full of confidence and even looked forward to it.

Not only did these Dongbang people not escape, they even dared to come to Red Mouth Fort to beat themselves?

My brain is burning out...

The combined strength of the Eastern Captives in their two directions is only 8000 people, which is not much more than the troops he is carrying now.

And if the opponent came over, it would be a dislocation of offense and defense. As the attacking side, even if the opponent was going to be beaten to death under his own hands.

Their Chu army is good in field battles, and they can also attack fortified positions. As for defensive battles... Although they haven't fought much, they are not bad.

In war, with the guns in place, whether it is attacking or defending, it is a matter of course.

Then... Brigadier General Jin Kui, who led this mixed force, ordered the entire army to retreat that night, boarded the ship and ran away in a hurry...

When retreating, Brigadier General Jin Kui looked at the officers under his command who looked incomprehensible, and said slowly, "You don't understand why we are retreating?"

The few people who were inferior immediately nodded, and the head of the 91st regiment among them said: "General, we have a lot of troops, and we have enough ammunition, and we can build a defense line around the Red Mouth Fort. They only have seven or eight thousand troops. It is absolutely impossible to fight them down." Impossible."

Jin Kui asked rhetorically, "If the opponent can't fight back, can we counterattack?"

"Counterattack?" Hearing this, the next few people showed contemplative expressions.

One of them said: "The counterattack is relatively difficult. The total strength of the Dongyao people on the opposite side is not large, but there are quite a few cavalry. The cavalry in the two directions can add up to a thousand or so. It is too risky to go back and attack from the defensive line." Big!"

Jin Kui then asked: "If we can't counterattack, we can only spend time with them, and it will be more troublesome to retreat calmly by boat, and once they deploy more troops from the north to go south, then what do we have to do?" What needs to be faced is not thousands of people, but tens of thousands of people, what should we do if we are besieged?"

"After being besieged, can the main force of the division headquarters come to rescue us?"

Colonel Bian Jiarong, head of the No.90 Infantry Regiment, said: "If we are besieged, it may be more troublesome for the main force of the division to come to rescue, because it needs to be directly across dozens of kilometers under the threat of a large number of enemy cavalry. !"

"In our Seventh Army, there are only two cavalry regiments belonging to divisions, and they are all half-baked cavalry. There are only a few hundred half-baked mounted infantry, and I am afraid that there is no way to stop the large number of cavalry from the Dongyao people."

At this time, Brigadier General Huang Jinkui said: "It seems that you are still very clear!"

"Remember our combat mission, the first is to confuse the enemy to create favorable conditions for landing at Lushunkou, and the second is to ambush the possible reinforcements of the enemy, and assist the main force of the division to take down the Jinzhou Acropolis."

"Capturing the Acropolis of Jinzhou is the core strategic goal. Whether we can ambush the enemy is secondary. If you have the chance, you can do it. If you don't have a chance, don't be brave!"

After finishing speaking, Jin Kui glanced to the south: "Since the Dongyao people themselves have voluntarily given up the Jinzhou Acropolis, then our strategic goal has been achieved, and there is no need to take huge risks to fight Dongyao here." People smashed to death, and even endangered the safety of the entire Seventh Army!"

"It's always good to be cautious!"

After hearing what Brigadier General Jin Kui said, the low-level officers pondered, but they basically agreed with Jin Kui's opinion.

When marching and fighting, it doesn't really matter how many enemies you kill, and it doesn't matter whether you retreat or attack. The important thing is to complete the established strategic goals.

What was the core strategic goal of the Great Chu Empire landing on the Liaodong Peninsula?
It is to restrain the main force of the Eastern captives as much as possible!
As for how many soldiers in the East can be killed, it is a good thing to kill more, but it doesn't matter if you don't kill many.

As for the core goal of the early stage of the landing operation, it is to capture the Golden State Acropolis, and then rely on the Jinzhou Acropolis to build a line of defense across the peninsula to resist the future counterattack of a large number of Dongren people.

Once the main core strategic goals have been achieved, the rest are secondary tasks.

Looking at the group of officers under him who were still contemplating, although they agreed with his opinion, they still looked somewhat incomprehensible, Jin Kui sighed a little inwardly.

The vision of the middle and low-level officers is still lacking...

In their eyes, war may be just war, but what they consider is often limited to tactics itself, and they generally have limited understanding of strategy.

In Huang Jinkui's view, they didn't need to play any risky defense with the Dongbao people at all, and were forced to dispatch the main force to rescue this set of things.

You only need to take down the Jinzhou Guard, then hoard the army, pull up the artillery and ammunition, and push it all the way up. In the process, even the weakness of your own cavalry can be covered up.

Only by pushing flat can you maximize your own advantages!

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And what is the biggest advantage of the Great Chu Empire Army?
Line tactics?Enough guns?Excellent treatment for soldiers?
These are all counted... But in the final analysis, these are one point: the national strength of the Great Chu Empire is strong enough!
The Great Chu Empire with people and money can form a large-scale army of tens of thousands of people, build a large number of arsenals, and produce a large number of guns and ammunition.

In this aspect, the advantage of the Great Chu Empire far exceeds that of the Eastern Captives!
Many senior generals in the Chu army knew this, but this was only part of it.

Many people, especially middle and low-level officers, don't understand it so thoroughly, so that when they fight, they always think about various tactics and conspiracies, and then forget what their greatest advantage is!
The advantages of the Great Chu Empire are always the same: there are people with money!
It's just that many people just ignore it!

It seems that the Army University that His Majesty asked the Military and Political Department to establish is still very necessary!
The Army Military Academy can only train officers who know how to fight, but it cannot train commanders with a strategic vision. It is still very necessary to have an Army University to train generals to have a higher level of strategic vision.

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Brigadier General Huang Jinkui simply led the troops back on board and retreated, which made the Dongbao people who ran all the way over here quite speechless...

Didn't you say that you Chu Manzi are so awesome, why did you run away without seeing each other... Should you be so cautious.

In fact, Huang Jinkui and the others didn't run too far, they were just floating on the sea near the Red Mouth Fort, the kind that Dongyao people can see at a glance when they run to the beach... Anyway, Dongyao people don't have much naval power, as long as the Chu army lands If the fleet doesn't go ashore, they can only stare blankly...

However, if the Dongyao people want to turn around and return to Jinzhouwei, then Jin Kui can lead people to land again in minutes, and then cooperate with the main force of the No.20 Third Division and the Second Marine Regiment to directly outflank the north and south, and take seven or eight of them. Thousands of power surrounded the Jinzhou Acropolis, and then came to annihilate it.

It is a pity that the enemy did not continue to go south, but retreated west to Fuzhou.

When the Dongyao people tried to attack the No.90 Infantry Regiment led by Jin Kui and failed, and then withdrew to Fuzhou, Bai Yangrong also took the main force of the No.20 Third Division and the Second Marine Regiment into Jinzhou Wei. city.

Because the Dongyao people left in a hurry, although they deliberately destroyed some facilities in the city before leaving, and burned the food and other things that could not be taken away, they still left an almost intact city for the Chu army. .

Without encountering any resistance, without killing or injuring any soldier, and without wasting a shell, the Chu army entered Jinzhou Acropolis smoothly.

After entering the city, Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong personally sat in the town and commanded the troops to build defense lines, especially artillery positions, dig trenches outside the city, and build parapets, forts and other fortifications.

After all, the Dongbang people also have a lot of artillery. They have a batch of old-style red barbarian cannons. In the past two years, they have also imitated a lot of field artillery.

Now spend a little more effort and save some sweat. When the Dongbang people really gather a large army to counterattack, it will be good if one person can be killed or injured.

The main reason why the Chu army attaches great importance to Jinzhou City is because the geographical location of this city is very special.

Just in the bottleneck area of ​​the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, the narrowest part of this place is no more than 5000 meters wide...

This place is a natural place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack!
There is a Jinzhou city near the coast in the west, where the main purpose is to hoard troops, and it is difficult for the enemy to go around...

However, in order to prevent the infiltration of a small group of enemy troops, Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong chose to build another East Fortress in a small hill east of Jinzhou City, and planned to deploy artillery on it.

In this way, the East Fortress can form a crossfire network with Jinzhou City, and at the same time, the artillery deployed on the East Fortress can also cover the east.

At the same time, around the East Fortress and Jinzhou City, a large number of trenches, parapets, and small fortifications will be excavated.

Bai Yangrong wants to build a five-kilometer-wide line of defense here, completely seal off the north-south passage, and prevent any Dongfang troops from sneaking into the south and threatening to destroy the security of Lushunkou.

After all, Lushunkou will be very important in the future. As the main port, it not only needs to serve as a logistics base for the naval fleet that will fight in this sea area, but also undertake the logistics supply of the Seventh Army.

There are a large number of ships transporting various supplies here every day, so any accidents cannot happen.

When Bai Yangrong was sitting here, the No.90 Infantry Regiment, which had been floating on the sea for several days, returned and landed smoothly.

In this way, all the main forces of the No.20 Third Division have been stationed on the Jinzhou defense line. At the same time, the Second Marine Regiment of the Navy is also helping to defend here, but the Second Marine Regiment will not stay here for too long. It is estimated that the No.20 in the rear will After the division arrives, they will re-board the ship and perform other landing raid tasks.

The No.20 Division did not keep Bai Yangrong waiting too long. Four days later, this division and the 20th Division arrived at Lushun Port, and then the No.[-] Division went directly to the Jinzhou defense line, and the main force of the [-]th Division also They arrived with them, but the [-]th Division did not bring all their troops northward. They also needed to divide their troops to garrison various places, including Lushun Port, Nanniaoguan between Lushun and Jinzhou, and some small coastal areas. fortress.

The main purpose is to prevent the Dongbao people from taking the risk of sending a small group of troops to land and harass them secretly from the sea.

It is impossible to attack on a large scale, but if they sneak up to do damage, such as burning a warehouse or something, it will be a big loss.

Therefore, although there is no external threat in Lushun in the rear, the Chu army still left an entire infantry regiment of the second-class division here, controlling the port and the surrounding area.

On September 24, the Second Marine Regiment of the Navy withdrew from the Liaodong Peninsula as planned, preparing to go to the Yalu River area to play a landing attack in order to further attract the attention of the Dongbang people.

In this way, the ground combat missions of the entire Liaodong Peninsula were fully handed over to the Seventh Army of the Army.

Bai Yangrong did not let his troops stay idle in the Jinzhou defense line, but on September 25th, before winter fully arrived, he brought the main force to kill Fuzhou.

Because the Seventh Army lacked cavalry troops, even though Bai Yangrong had asked for reinforcements from the rear, it would be best to send a cavalry brigade directly, but the superiors refused him without hesitation!

The Chu Army’s cavalry has limited strength, and they must prioritize meeting the needs of the Jiliao frontline, especially in the follow-up west of Liaoning. If a large number of cavalry are transferred away, after the Liaoxi Campaign is launched, they will face tens of thousands of cavalry captives at every turn. passive.

On the Liaodong Peninsula, it was just a secondary battlefield, and the high-level army did not ask the Seventh Army to go all the way to Shenyang. They only needed the Seventh Army to make some noise here, and then contain more enemy troops.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong did not receive cavalry reinforcements, he could only use the two divisional cavalry regiments under his command and the second-class divisional cavalry battalion in the [-]th division.

The total number of cavalry is only a little over 1000, and they are still half-baked mounted infantry.

Don't expect these cavalry to charge in formation. They are used either as scout cavalry or fast mobile infantry for daily use.

Therefore, these divisional cavalry regiments are basically equipped with Suifa lances, and they dismount directly to play in line during large-scale battles.

As for Fuzhou, it is conservatively estimated that there are at least more than 2000 cavalry. The cavalry of the Dongyao people are not half-baked, but traditional cavalry cavalry. It is hard to say whether the combat effectiveness is strong, but they can basically fight on horseback.

Under such circumstances, Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong's battle plan was greatly promoted. The scale of the army dispatched was very large. He directly took two first-class divisions and one heavy artillery regiment to go out together, leaving only the [-]th division to garrison the Jinzhou defense line. .

After the two first-class divisions went out, the two cavalry regiments belonging to the two divisions were at the front and flanks, acting as peripheral search and security forces, while the infantry, artillery, and supply troops walked along the coastline not long ago.

On the edge of the sea, there are still a large number of naval ships accompanying...

Not only are there warships that can provide fire support at any time, but there are also a large number of transport ships...

These transport ships are now carrying some supplementary materials such as food and ammunition, so that after the Chu army arrives in Fuzhou, they can directly provide supplies from the sea.

At the same time, these transport ships have another function, that is, when the battle situation is unfavorable, when an emergency retreat from the sea is needed, they will directly take the soldiers of the two first-class divisions to run away!
In war, you have to prepare your retreat first!
Although it is unlikely to be intercepted by the enemy's main force, or even block one's own way to retreat to the south, one has to be on guard first.

But if there is an extreme accident at that time, just board the ship and retreat.

Anyway, the army must bring supplies when they go out, and they will directly use the transportation regiment to transport them by land, and they still need to face the threat of the cavalry from the Dongbang people raiding the food road.

From Jinzhou City to Fuzhou City, the ground distance is more than 100 kilometers. On such a long road, the cavalry of the Dongyaoren can launch an attack at any place.

Therefore, it is better to use the method of sea supply!

By the way, these ships can also serve as escape ships, which kills two birds with one stone.

Think about defeat before winning, this is what the instructors at the Chu Army Military Academy have been emphasizing.

No matter what the battle plan is, there must be an alternative plan, and no matter how likely it is to retreat at that time, the retreat plan must be made first...

That's what Lieutenant General Bai Yangrong did.

So there was such a weird scene!
There are more than 3 troops marching on the shore!
There are more than 100 ships on the sea!

Even in order to be able to get the fire support of the fleet at any time, and to be able to retreat from the sea at any time, the [-] army troops walked as close to the coastline as possible, and even voluntarily abandoned some better roads.

In this situation, a group of Eastern captive scouts who were monitoring the movement of the Chu army nearby were quite speechless after seeing it...

As for being so careful... people who don't know have read it and thought that the Chu army is the one with the few troops.

But in fact, in the Fuzhou area, the current strength of the Eastern Captives including the cavalry is only eight or nine thousand, less than [-], which is less than one-third of the Chu army's attacking Fuzhou strength.

These Chu barbarians are too cautious!

Then the Dongyao Cavalry general who led the team had a headache again. Chu Manzi was so cautious that they didn't even have a chance to attack halfway, so the follow-up would be difficult.

(End of this chapter)