The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 587

The third echelon is not all attacking teams. They are the [-] Ming army with many sacks and engineering shovels. The trenches of the later Jin army must be repaired by the Ming army before they can be used with confidence. Where to continue digging and where to fill trenches There are plans.

It doesn’t matter if the soil is soft, fill it with sacks or cattail bags and compact it to ensure that it will not collapse in a short time.

This time the breakthrough was completely planned and acted according to the plan. Although the later Jin army fled for five or six miles at once, the Ming army only extended the occupied area for three miles to establish the No. [-] artillery position as quickly as possible, and completed the deployment.

The infantry cleared the remnants of the enemy in a four-mile radius and waited for the artillery to move in place. Then the artillery fire extended, and the infantry continued to break forward. After three or four copies of this, Jinzhou City would be within sight.

The main task of the [-] Ming army is to repair and reconstruct the captured positions of the Houjin army in a short time. Take the initiative to find Jiannu to start.

After two hours of lightness, the defense line that the Hou Jin Army had worked so hard for for a year in South Jinzhou began to collapse.Although it was only a partial collapse in one direction, the bad news that the defense line was under the attack of the Ming army was like a fake, which would make the Jin army shudder.

Hong Jie had just seen the three limping prisoners of war who had been exchanged. These three were relatively unlucky.

Before Ba Xiao had time to inquire about their situation after being captured, the roar of cannons came from the south.

It didn't take long before Bashiku rushed to report the news in a panic. He cried, "Master, the Ming army has started bombarding our army's forward position. They have used too many artillery pieces. Our army can't resist it at all!"

Hong Xie didn't have a good way to deal with it at this moment, and immediately ordered Dorgon to organize troops to gather outside the range of the Ming army's artillery fire, and ordered Azige to mobilize cavalry to prepare to counterattack the Ming army that had just broken into his position.

There is no problem with the layout of the slave chiefs. If a cavalry rushes up to form an assault when the two sides are stalemate, even if the speed is affected by the vertical and horizontal ravines, after all, this is the home field of the Houjin army. They are familiar with the terrain and can definitely form a local group fight.

It's a pity that the ensuing battle situation was one-sided. The Ming army's artillery fire extended, that is, [-]% of the artillery had moved forward three miles and fired again. After that, the Jin army no longer knew where to avoid the Ming army's artillery fire?

This is not surprising. The Ming army paid close attention to the dispatch of the Jin army on the high lookout post, and found that there were a large number of enemies gathering within the range of the rifled guns, of course the benefits were maximized.

At this time, even if there is only one artillery within reach, it can make a shell successfully fall into the enemy group, and the killing effect is very exciting!
The sad reminder of the post-Golden army could not even find a place where they could form a formation safely at the front. They were in a panic for a while, and the soldiers had already begun to feel war-weary.Seeing that there would be casualties in the assembled troops, Dorgon quit, and retreated three miles with his troops.

The infantry of the Ming army began to charge to seize the position, and then the reinforcement echelon formed by the Jin army could not be assembled. How to fight back?
Dorgon chose to fight passively, and sent a Bashiku to quickly inform Hong Jieshi of the new situation.

As soon as the cavalry led by Azig appeared outside the battlefield, they were chased and beaten by the artillery fire of the Ming army, and they were really unable to form an attack.

He thought that the dispersed impact might be broken by the Ming army one by one, and the shock effect would not be formed, and the Dajin cavalry would suffer great losses.

Azig quickly dispatched a sentry horse to report the actual situation to Hong, and asked for instructions on whether to continue to fight back.Seeing that the Jin army was unable to carry out an effective counterattack to beat out the attacking Ming army, Hong knew that he had no chance.

As long as the Ming army followed suit and came up a few times, the Jin army's position would be split, and the troops surrounded by the Ming army would suffer heavy losses.

The Ming army will always open up the route to Jinzhou City. At that time, the two armies will join forces, pass through Jinzhou City and go directly to split the Jinzhou North position. You know!

There is no good strategy, only the 36th strategy is the best, the retreat of the whole army is sooner or later, how to avoid defeat is the key point.

Hong Jie is worthy of being a generation of heroes, and he can be regarded as decisive in killing.

He didn't reprimand Dorgon, let alone Azig, the situation of the battle was irreversible, and preserving strength as much as possible was the first choice.

Eight small immediately sent an order to withdraw from Jinzhou, and the whole army assembled to the east. When the artillery of the Ming army was not in place, they moved slowly eastward step by step as quickly as possible to bring out as much baggage and infantry as possible.

The Hou Jin Army was adjusting its deployment and preparing to flee. Tang Daoheng and Sun Jiuge in Jinzhou City were not spectators. As long as the weather allowed, the two hot air balloons would take off to observe, and the transfer of the Hou Jin Army was clearly seen.

The Jinzhou side kept reporting the dispatch of the Hou Jin Army to the reinforcements, and the withdrawal of the Hou Jin Army was immediately notified to the Zanhua Department.

Huang Sheng didn't expect that Hong would leave as soon as he said he would leave for a day, and he thought he had overestimated Jiannu's will to fight.

Now the Ming army has no cavalry nearby at all. As long as the later Jin army leaves the ditches and ridges in the fortification area, the Ming army will not be able to expand its results. It is simply unrealistic for the Jin army to leave the trenches and pursue them.

First of all, there is no precedent for infantry chasing cavalry in this world. As long as infantry without artillery cover and machine guns leave the trench and be shot back by the Jin army, there is no doubt that the loss of troops will be lost, and it is possible for the enemy to turn defeat into victory.

Now we can only temporarily adjust the strategy to try to keep a part of the post-Golden Army, which is better than nothing.

After the rescue army contacted the Jinzhou defenders, they decided to cut off the retreat of the Jin army, focusing on attacking the slaves in the west of Jinzhou.

The Jin army chose this part because they could not retreat from the south. This place has been broken by the Ming army and will be cut off immediately. They have to detour to the north of Jinzhou and then turn back to the east.

The artillery of the Ming army was too late to deploy, and a scuffle was inevitable. The rescue force was divided into two groups, one went directly to Jinzhou to attack, and the other went west to intercept and kill.

If you can't keep the Jiannu Eight Banners cavalry, you must keep some infantry. Besides, most of the infantry are slave soldiers formed by Koreans and Han people. Their combat effectiveness and fighting will are not worth mentioning.

The soldiers and civilians of Jinzhou who had been preparing for many days moved the boulder blocking the gate of the south gate as quickly as possible, and [-] volunteers came out fully armed.

This team gathered all the equipment in Jinzhou City, and it could be regarded as armed to the teeth. He Kegang and Tang Daoheng personally led the team. The four pilots, Sun Jiuge, also requested to participate in the operation, but they were strictly rejected.

The task the pilot received was to continue to use the hot air balloon to observe the enemy's situation around Jinzhou, and to use the semaphore and light code to convey the military situation to the Zanhua Department at any time.

(End of this chapter)