Chapter 389: Recovering Liaonan 4

From the perspective of later generations, during the period from October 1629 to March 1630, it seemed to be a good strategy to take advantage of the opportunity of about half of the main forces of the Later Jin side to enter the pass and plunder, and attack the Liaoshen area of the core ruled area of the Later Jin from the southern Liaoning region, where only half of the troops were stationed. [Full text reading]

There is nothing wrong with such an idea, on paper. However, from a practical point of view, neither the Ming army nor the revival army in this time and space can achieve this level of long-range attack.

Fighting a war is about logistics. For the army in the agricultural era, the soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first. For a modern army like the Baath Party, logistics support is actually more important than the army of the agricultural era.

In fact, the modernized army is built on strong logistical support. Regardless of the fact that the main weapon of the Renaissance Army at present is a single-shot rifle, whether it is rifle bullets, machine gun bullets, grenades or artillery shells, without a safe and stable material supply route and without a perfect logistical support, the advanced weapons of the Renaissance Army will not be able to exert their due power.

Wang Shuhui had no intention of letting the soldiers of the Renaissance Army use bayonets to confront the Houjin Jurchen.

Although the renaissance army's stabbing has always been one of the basic items of the repetition of the renaissance army, like shooting, bombing, blasting and earthwork, and the revival army, which uses advanced stabbing technology, can also use bayonets to defeat the Jurchen soldiers who have not yet been surrendered by Kong Youde and are still in the era of cold weapons.

However, Wang Shuhui still believes that the Baath Party, as an industrialized organization, and the Baath Army, as an advanced army that surpasses the times, do not have the reason to use the method of fighting in the flesh instead of unleashing the power of industrialization.

Therefore, from this point of view, it is sufficient to complete the first phase of the Baath Party's Terminator Plan at this stage and establish a base of the Baath Party in the southern Liaoning region.

After the establishment of the self-sufficient base area in southern Liaoning, it gradually encroached on the territory of the Later Jin Jurchen, expanded while building, and gradually approached the Liaoshen area, the core area of the Later Jin Jurchen regime, along the well-established transportation network, which was the correct line that could give full play to the tremendous power of the industrial organization of the Baath Party.

In the absence of logistical support, Wang Shuhui believed that he did not have such military talent, and did not allow the revival army, which lacked battlefield experience, to adopt such a strategy. Step by step, step by step, this is why Wang Shuhui likes a somewhat rigid textbook commander like Zhao Yiming.

In fact, with the development of military science and technology and the advancement of weapons, the requirements of war for commanders are getting lower and lower. In the era of cold weapons, military geniuses can create miracles in war, but after human beings enter industrial civilization, war has become an increasingly pure technical competition.

The stalemate in the First World War gave birth to the use of tanks and airplanes. The brutality of World War II gave birth to the emergence of the atomic bomb, the ultimate weapon. The more industrialized the society, no matter in which field, whether it is war or otherwise, the role of human beings is constantly weakened.

After the First Regiment of the Liaonan Army of the Revival Army eliminated the Akdan forces that could have been stationed in the Jinzhou Acropolis for defense, but instead ran out to fight the Fuxing Army in the field, it arrived at the empty Jinzhou Acropolis on the morning of the next day.

There were originally twenty or thirty soldiers left behind in the Golden State Acropolis. They didn't know that Akdan, who had led all the Golden State Guard garrisons out, had been wiped out. So when the Renaissance Scout soldiers arrested them all, they were still a little confused.

After a simple repair and construction of the Acropolis of Jinzhou, the 1st Army Corps of the Southern Liaoning Army of the Renaissance Army sent four battalions to sweep the surrounding area. The main task of these four battalions is also very simple, that is, to break through the military stronghold of the Later Jin Jurchen in the area from Jinzhou to Fuzhou and capture all the personnel in this area.

The Later Jin did retain a certain number of troops in the southern Liaoning region only in the larger cities. However, in the southern Liaoning region, there are still some Mongols who were incorporated by the Houjin side to graze here.

Before Huang Taiji carried out large-scale reforms of the Later Jin Jurchen regime, both the Mongols who were captured by the Later Jin and the Mongols who came to take refuge were still in a position of supplementing the strength of the Jurchen soldiers. They belonged to the reserve in the Jurchen regime. Under normal circumstances, when the Jurchen soldiers were full, they would not fight.

At the present stage, the southern Liaoning region belongs to the garrison area of the Houjin inlaid with blue flags and inlaid with white flags. The two banners lost nearly a thousand Jurchen soldiers and more than 2,000 subordinate troops in the Battle of Ding Mao in 1627. For this reason, in the war between the Jin Jurchen and the Mongol Dorot and Chahar tribes after 1628, the two banners targeted a large number of Mongols to supplement their strength.

Before Huang Taiji completed the centralization of the Later Jin Jurchen regime, the Later Jin Jurchen was still in a backward tribal state. In this situation, the leaders of the Eight Banners all have their own interests. It is very common to conceal Dingkou and conceal self-fattening.

The more than 2,000 Mongols who are now grazing in the area between Jinzhouwei and Fuzhou are the "small treasury" of Dingkou set up by themselves with blue and white flags.

Of course, in addition to the more than 2,000 Mongols, the blue and white flags of Houjin also arranged two or three genuine Jurchen soldiers with nearly 1,000 people in the Acropolis of Fuzhou, as well as about 4 or 500 so-called Jurchens with fish skin tartars.

Since the end of the Battle of Dingmao in 1627, the Later Jin side also carried out a certain amount of agricultural development in some areas of southern Liaoning, and resumed some agricultural production activities. A number of slave farms have been established in the Yaozhou and Gaizhou areas north of Fuzhou. Han Chinese slaves who were captured by the Later Jin Dynasty were imprisoned in these slave farms for agricultural production.

Around the Acropolis of Fuzhou, there were also about 3,000 Han slaves who farmed here. But this was only happening at the beginning of 1629. This is the main reason why more than 1,000 Jurchen soldiers were stationed in the Acropolis of Fuzhou.

The four battalions sent by the First Army Corps of the Fuxing Army in southern Liaoning, their main task was to capture the Houjin living forces between Jinzhou and Fuzhou.

You must know that for the Ba'ath Party, the construction of base areas must start from both agriculture and industry at the same time. Heavy physical labor such as transportation, construction, mining, etc., requires a considerable amount of labor to undertake. Wang Shuhui, a production and construction soldier trained by the Baath Party itself, will be distressed. In addition to the Han slaves who needed to be liberated, the Jurchen soldiers and Mongols happened to be the objects that needed to be reformed through a large amount of labor to reform their erroneous ideas and help them establish correct ideological concepts.

Under these circumstances, arresting the vital forces of the Houjin side and sabotaging the economic construction of the Houjin side has become one of the effective means of the First Army Corps in southern Liaoning to support the construction of the base area in southern Liaoning.

In mid-December 1629, under the sweep of four battalions of the Fuxing Army, the Mongol settlement between Jinzhouwei and Hongzui Fort was completely swept away. At the end of 1629, more than 600 Mongols began to contribute to the construction of Baathist's base areas in southern Liaoning.

On the other hand, neither the upper echelons of the Later Jin Jurchens, who were flaunting their might around Beijing, nor the people left behind in the Acropolis of Fuzhou with blue flags and white flags, did not notice that when they were attacking the city and plundering the land and hiding in their houses, a military base that was completely outside their cognition was being rapidly built and developed in the Jinzhou area