Chapter 586: Decisive Killing

The third echelon is not all attack teams, they are 30,000 Ming troops with many sacks and sapper shovels, and the trenches of the Houjin army must be rebuilt by our Ming army to be able to use them with confidence.

It doesn't matter if the soil is soft, use a sack or puff pack full of soil to compact the base in the place that needs to be filled to ensure that it does not collapse in a short time.

Although the Houjin army fled five or six miles at once, the Ming army only extended the occupied area for three miles, established the No. 9 artillery position as quickly as possible, and completed the deployment.

The infantry cleared the remnants of the enemy in a radius of four miles and waited for the artillery movement to be in place, and then the artillery fire was extended, and the infantry continued to break through, so that three or four copies of this would make Jinzhou City close at hand.

The main task of the 30,000 Ming Army was to repair and rebuild the positions of the Houjin Army captured in a short period of time, and the secondary task was to pick up the missing and kill the Houjin Army who were hiding, but they were unwilling to be auxiliaries, and they also took the initiative to find Jiannu one by one with sapper shovels.

After two hours, the defense line of the Houjin army, which had been painstakingly operated for a year in the south of Jinzhou, began to collapse. Although it was only a partial collapse in one direction, the bad news that the defensive line was like a fictitious under the attack of the Ming army would make the Houjin army shudder.

The red gang just saw the three lame prisoners of war who were replaced, these three were relatively unlucky, their feet were pierced by thistles terrestris, they were injured, and they were captured by the Ming army.

Before the eight elementary schools could ask about their situation after they were captured, there was a roar of artillery in the south.

It didn't take long for him to rush to Bashiku, who reported the news, and he said with a crying voice: "Master, the Ming army began to bombard our army's forward positions, and they used too many artillery, and our army couldn't resist it at all!" ”

The Red Gangsters did not have a good response at this moment, and immediately ordered Dolgon to organize men and horses to assemble outside the range of the Ming army's artillery fire, and ordered Azig to mobilize cavalry to prepare for a counterattack against the Ming army that had just broken through to his position.

There is no problem with the arrangement of the slave chieftain, if a cavalry rushes up to form a surprise attack when the two sides are deadlocked, even if the ravine affects the speed, after all, this is the home of the Houjin army, and they are familiar with the terrain and can definitely form a local group fight.

It's a pity that the next battle situation is one-sided, the Ming army's artillery fire is extended, that is, three percent of the artillery has moved forward three miles and fired again, and the Houjin army no longer knows where to avoid the Ming army's artillery fire?

It is not surprising that the Ming army paid close attention to the dispatch of the Houjin army from a high lookout post, and found that there was a large group of enemies assembled within the range of the rifled guns, which of course maximized the benefits.

At this time, even if only one cannon is enough, a cannonball can successfully fall into the enemy group, and the lethal effect is also very powerful!

The sad Houjin army could not even find a safe place to form a formation at the front line, and for a while they were panicked, and the soldiers had begun to have a war-weary mood. Seeing that the assembled troops would be killed and wounded, Dorgon retreated three miles with his men and horses.

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 counterattack?

Dolgon chose to fight passively, and sent a Bashiku to quickly inform the Red Gang of the new situation.

As soon as the cavalry led by Azig appeared outside the battlefield, they were chased and beaten by the Ming artillery, and they were really unable to form a formation.

He believed that the scattered impact would probably be broken by the Ming army, and it would not be able to form a surprise effect, and the Dajin cavalry would suffer great losses.

Azig quickly sent a sentry horse to report the actual situation of the Red Gangsters and asked for instructions on whether to continue the counterattack. Seeing that the Dajin Army was unable to carry out an effective counterattack to beat the attacking Ming army out, the Red Gang knew that there was no chance.

As long as the Ming army draws the gourd a few times, the position of the Dajin army will be cut off, and the troops divided and surrounded by the Ming army will 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 directly cut off the position in the north of Jinzhou, the Dajin army will be more passive, and it is unknown that half of the Ming army will be surrounded by half of the people!

There is no other good strategy, only the 36 strategies are the best, the whole army retreats sooner or later, and how to avoid defeat is the key.

The red gang is worthy of being a generation of heroes, and it can be regarded as decisive.

He didn't reprimand Dolgon, let alone Azig, the battle was irreversible, and it was the first choice to preserve his strength as much as possible.

The Eighth Elementary immediately ordered the withdrawal of the siege of Jinzhou, and the whole army assembled to the east, and slowly moved eastward as quickly as possible when the Ming artillery did not move in place, bringing out as much baggage and infantry as possible.

The Houjin army is adjusting the deployment and preparing to slip away, Tang Daoheng and Sun Jiuge in Jinzhou City are not spectators, as long as the climate allows, the two hot air balloons will be lifted into the air to observe, and the movement of the Houjin army is unobstructed.

The Jinzhou side constantly reported the observed dispatch of the Houjin army to the reinforcements, and the withdrawal of the Houjin army was immediately reported to the Zanhua Department.

Huang Sheng didn't expect that the red gang would not delay for a day when he said that he would leave, thinking that he had overestimated Jiannu's will to fight, and it seemed that it would not work steadily, and people would have to slip away.

Now the Ming army has no cavalry nearby at all, as long as the Houjin army is out of the ditch and ditch in the fortification area, the Ming army will not be able to expand the results of the battle, if it leaves the trench to pursue the Jin army is not realistic at all.

First of all, there is no precedent in this world for infantry to pursue cavalry, and as long as the infantry without artillery cover and machine guns leaves the trench and is killed by the Houjin army, there is no doubt that the loss of the troops will be defeated, and it is possible to be defeated by the enemy.

Now we can only temporarily adjust our strategy and strive to stay behind, and the Jin army is better than nothing.

After liaising with the defenders of Jinzhou, the rescue army planned to cut off the retreat of the first section of the Houjin army, focusing on attacking Jiannu in the west of Jinzhou.

The Jin army chose this part because they could not retreat from the south, this place had been broken through by the Ming army, and it would be cut off immediately, so they had to make a detour to the north of Jinzhou and then turn back to the east.

The artillery of the Ming army was too late to be deployed, and a melee was inevitable, and the rescue troops were divided into two routes, one way directly to Jinzhou to attack, and all the way to the west to intercept and kill.

If you can't keep the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Nu, you must always leave some infantry, and most of the infantry are slave soldiers formed by the Koreans and Han people, and their combat effectiveness and will to fight are not worth mentioning.

The soldiers and civilians of Jinzhou, who had been preparing for many days, moved away the boulder blocking the South Gate as quickly as possible, and the 5,000 volunteers came out in full armor.

This team concentrated all the equipment in Jinzhou City, and it can also be regarded as armed to the teeth, He Kegang and Tang Daoheng personally led the team, and Sun Jiuge's four pilots also asked to participate in the operation but were sternly refused.

The pilot was tasked with continuing to use the hot air balloon to observe the enemy situation around Jinzhou, and to use the flag and light code to transmit military information to the Zanhua Department at any time.