The autumn wind is bleak, the grass and leaves on the land of Liaodong have gradually withered yellow, every night, the wind blowing from the direction of the Bohai Sea will become cold and biting, Lin Feng is wrapped in a warm bearskin coat, and a cotton cloak is draped behind his shoulders, standing at the door of the Chinese army's big tent, holding a monocular, looking at the small camp opposite.

At the end of last month, when Lin Feng's guards arrived at Jinzhou Mansion, they made a slight repair, and the next day they set out for Shenyang, and before he arrived in Jinzhou, Wang Dahai of the Second Infantry Army personally led the main force westward, approaching Chengde and Rehe, and intimidating the Eastern Mongolian Zhuotusuo Department close to Liaodong, providing security for the western front of the theater.

Since Lin Feng exterminated the Kangxi gang entrenched in Beijing, with the collapse of the Manchu bandit central system, the Eastern Mongolian tribes have gradually converged under the Daxu of the Horqin King Buryagma, in fact, this so-called "Horqin" has now become a very vague concept, it turns out that Horqin is only the strongest tribe in the Eastern Mongolian tribes, because it sold itself to the Eight Banners Bandit Gang a long time ago, so it also followed the master and became the leader of the tribes on this vast grassland, and it has fallen to the present, After the death of Kangxi, the Horqin tribe also lost any constraints, and at the same time as the rise of the Han army, he also wantonly invaded and annexed other Eastern Mongolian tribes, integrating the Eastern Mongolian tribes in northeast China, and competing with the Tushetu and Junggar tribes in the west.

Since the implementation of Wang Shirong's trade strategy, the Han army and Horqin prince Bulyagma have also established some diplomatic relations, but the level of this diplomatic relationship is very low, only limited to ordinary commercial exchanges, in fact, the relationship between the two sides at the beginning of this year was still quite tense, Horqin's cavalry once invaded the Suiyuan grassland to which the Chahar tribe belonged, and had a skirmish with the troops of Zhao Guangyuan, the Mongolian lieutenant general of the Han army, but fortunately, the high-level of both sides were very cautious and maintained considerable restraint with each other, And these skirmishes were not allowed to develop into large-scale wars.

For this strong opponent, Lin Feng has quite limited information at hand, but this cannot be blamed on Wang Shirong's intelligence department, in fact, under the conditions of the seventeenth century, it is quite difficult to transmit information, and what is even more annoying is that the current ethnic relations in China are also very tense, and the Mongols of the Horqin tribes are quite hostile to the Lin Feng regime with the Han people as the main body, so even if the agents rely on business travel, it is rare to obtain a lot of valuable information for a while.

In order to alleviate the military pressure of the Eastern Mongolian tribes, the Han army had to give up Chengde, Rehe and other strategically important strongholds, the two sides tacitly set up Zhangjiakou as each other's trade cities, in the current tense political situation, Buryagma no longer allowed the Han army's caravan to go deep into the Mongolian steppe, but concentrated trade in the border city of Zhangjiakou, according to some fragmentary information from the agents, Lin Feng only roughly knew that the current Horqin King Buryagma is an old man in his fifties, Cunning and cruel by nature, up to now, he has controlled the west to Erenhot, including Heilongjiang, most of Jilin and other large areas of land, and his military strength is still a mystery, although the actual number of his royal tent army is 50,000 iron cavalry, but everyone knows that the Mongols are nomadic by water and grass, half soldiers and half people, it can be said that every Mongolian hero can be regarded as a warrior, if the war is mobilized, God knows how many troops he can gather.

The only consolation is that the prince of Horqin, Buryagma, has been very ambiguous in his attitude towards the Han military regime, although the Horqin tribe has a close relationship with the Qing court, and there are still 10,000 thousands of Mongolian troops serving under the account of Yue Le, the prince of Jiangxi, but so far, Horqin still has no sign of war with the Han army, under the close attention of Wang Shirong, as of before Lin Feng set out on the expedition, the Hulunbuir steppe was quiet, except for a few Mongolian cavalry patrolling the border, None of the tribes had any action to assemble an army.

This situation is very reassuring, because according to the current military conditions, although the Mongol army is naturally capable of rapid mobility, it is impossible to form a large army from all corners of the steppe and enter the war without two months.

According to the pre-war military deployment, the second army of the Han infantry Wang Dahai will be divided into a force of 6,000 people stationed in Chengde and Rehe - since Lin Feng ordered the formation of the Ningjin Governor's Mansion, the strength of the Second Infantry Army has been greatly strengthened, in fact, this expansion order has been very hidden, in order to avoid the jealousy of other generals, the Second Infantry Army has not expanded its structure, and still only maintains the number of about 9,000 soldiers, and this expansion is Lin Feng's unique way, and an infantry brigade was set up under the Ningjin Governor's Mansion, A cavalry brigade directly under the direct command of Lin Feng, the governor of Ningjin and the king of Han, but because the king of Han "failed to go to the post on duty", this unit was temporarily subordinated to the Second Infantry Army and assigned to Wang Dahai, the general of Pingliao Zhonglang. However, due to the shortly established army and the financial constraints of the Han military government, this unit was not fully equipped with muskets, artillery, and other weapons and equipment, and the training time was not very long, so its combat effectiveness still needs to be tested.

Maybe Lin Feng is too sensitive to the distribution of military power, in fact, for the expansion of the strength of Wang Dahai's department, other generals of the Han army do not care very much, in fact, so far, Lin Feng treats several generals under his command basically a bowl of water is very flat, and now the most military pressure is Koubei Zhonglang General Zhao Liangdong, Mongolian Zhonglang General Zhao Guangyuan and Liao Zhonglang General Wang Dahai, and in addition to Wang Dahai's additional 4,000 people, Zhao Liangdong's infantry Fifth Army because of the garrison of the important town of Datong, In addition to the self-produced red-coated cannons, the only remaining 20 Hongyi cannons imported from the Netherlands in the Han army were also equipped with Zhao Liangdong's troops; As for the Mongolian lieutenant general Zhao Guangyuan, the strength is stronger, because of the success of the Han military regime's foreign policy towards the Chahar Department, through means such as co-optation and infiltration, the Chahar troops are now almost all controlled by Han army officers, so General Zhao Guangyuan not only has his own troops, but also commands nearly 5,000 troops of the Chahar Department.

The strategic goal of this campaign is to take advantage of the opportunity when the Horqin alliance is stable and has no time to look south, make a decisive attack, occupy most of the central and western Liaoxi regions, clear the Liaodong Peninsula, and at the same time create conditions to lure the main force of the Eight Banners besieging Yaksa to the south, annihilating or severely inflicting it - however, all these plans are based on the premise that Horqin has not reacted violently, and the key to this battle is speed - in addition to speed, it is speed.

It can be seen that the risk of this battle is so great that it can almost be called a tiger's mouth, but in this chaotic era, Lin Feng has no choice, standing in his position, that is, no matter what, the Eight Banners entrenched in the North Manchurian region can be allowed to calmly recover their strength.

War itself is a big gamble, and who can avoid the risks? - Death to those who retreat.

After the Ma Ying Division of the Sixth Army of the Second Echelon of Cavalry arrived at Jinzhou from the Shanhaiguan garrison, the men did not take off their armor and horses and did not loosen their saddles, and immediately abandoned the infantry and artillery, and the three cavalry brigades and 6,000 iron cavalry rushed desperately towards the deep area of the Qing army, and formed a "Pin" zigzag battle group with the brigade as a unit, first stabbing obliquely to the Tongliao area, and then rushing south on a clockwise route, sweeping all the way.

The total strength of Lin Feng's subordinate was nearly 10,000 men, in addition to the 4,000 guards he brought from Beijing, including a mixed infantry and artillery brigade left by Ma Ying's department, two cavalry battalions and an infantry brigade drawn from Wang Dahai's department.

Up to now, Ma Yingbu has basically cleared other Qing strongholds in the central Liaozhong region, under the strong cavalry of the Han army, the Qing army was forced to shrink on the whole line, and the entire Liaoshen region, the forces of the Eight Banners were concentrated in the four cities of Tongliao, Shenyang (Fengtian), Liaoyang and Xingjing.

Now Lin Feng's Chinese army camp is stationed on a hill outside Liaoyang City, around this small hill with an altitude of less than two hundred meters, the Han soldiers are setting up a camp with the assistance of the army and the people, up and down the mountain, everywhere is in ruins, this small hill outside the city was originally a large official forging workshop in Liaoyang, and around this large metallurgical workshop, there was originally a large worker village, but at this moment these beautiful things have been destroyed in the war, at the beginning of this month, A cavalry brigade of Ma Ying's department suddenly launched a hundreds of miles of attack on Liaoyang, and the soldiers and civilians of Liaoyang who were caught off guard suffered heavy casualties, and the Han cavalry who successfully attacked faithfully carried out the combat instructions issued by the Han General Staff - this campaign must not be delayed, no suspicion is allowed, and no fighter planes are delayed. All in all, it's still the same sentence: keep your head and don't shave your hair, and shave your hair without your head.

Obviously, after the large-scale slaughter, this large workshop and residential village no longer exists, and Lin Feng has no pity at the moment, war is war, she has her own rules of the game, as for buying the hearts of the people to consolidate the rule is a matter after the victory of the war, this kind of good thing is hard to find, not to mention that from the perspective of the Ma Ying troops, deep into the enemy area and surrounded by enemies, they can only take this means to calmly supply and maintain combat effectiveness, so as to win the battlefield advantage.

Tens of thousands of people worked at the same time, and it took several hours to clear the ruins, and on a flat field, the view of this small hill seemed to be very wide, and with the help of a telescope, Lin Feng could look straight to the Tongliao city wall in the distance.

Compared with Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan and other military towns, Liaoyang's defense system is not very strong, as far as visual observation is concerned, the city's city walls are not very high, and it is the dry season, and the moat outside the city also seems to be extremely dry, but Lin Feng understands that in the area outside the Guanguan, each city does not attach much importance to the defense function of the moat, of course, this is not because of the lack of rainfall, Northeast China has a long and harsh winter, until the season of dripping ice, The moat naturally formed a thick layer of ice, and even if it was pushed on a heavy siege vehicle, it could be run over.

The real test is the city wall, after decades of Ming and Qing wars outside the important towns, the city walls are surprisingly thick and thick, in fact, this area should be the first in Chinese history to take the lead in the large-scale use of siege artillery in the war zone, after a long period of war, the defender's city building technology has also been greatly improved, the cost of investment is also more huge, such as the Tongliao city wall in front of him, the whole body is wrapped with hard bluestone, the inner soil is very strong, but in addition to these, Lin Feng is not sure of the street fighting.

In fact, according to the previous intelligence, the Qing army's strength in Tongliao was only more than 4,000 people, and the residents were about 16 or 70,000, of which the strong men who could be requisitioned should be about 40,000, and because Liaoyang itself was a famous metallurgical city, the equipment of this defensive force was also quite good, there were nearly 20 cannons on the city wall, and other war materials such as grain and ordnance had been hoarded for nearly a year. It was also quite sufficient, enough to support the defenders of the city for six to eight months.

Seems to be a hard bone.

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