515.Lushun Town Guards (II)
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Sunu was anxiously waiting for reinforcements to race with the Xia army in Shengjing City, but after the Xia army conquered Jinzhou and Lushun and other places, except for sending a small number of rangers to block the news of Liaodong, there was no attempt to advance north, which made Sunu aware of the abnormality. However, at this time, Sunu had no soldiers in his hands, even if he felt that it was wrong, he didn't dare to test lightly, but he did everything possible to send detectives to try to figure out what kind of mystery Xia Jun's behavior was.
After ten days of waiting, the reinforcements from Jilin and Heilongjiang have not yet arrived, but the garrison of the Eight Banners across the Yalu River has turned back to Dandong, and the advance of the Gyeonggi Qing army from the rapid march of Monan has also arrived in Xinmin.
Seeing the arrival of the two reinforcements, the bold Sunu led the Shengjing defenders south and cautiously drove to the front line of Haicheng.
However, south of Gai County, the Xia army was active in exploring, and Sunu had limited troops and did not dare to fight lightly, so he could only hold back. Fortunately, the Qing army finally risked his life to get into the cracks of the Xia army, and brought the news back after paying a huge price, so that Sunu knew what was growing at the root of the peninsula.
"Hai Wei has built forts and fortresses all over the Jinzhou line, and built forts in Pulandian and other places." Sunu took a sour breath of cold air. "This, this is to stay down." You must know that even if Sunu thought that the Xia army had a chance to capture Shenyang, it would definitely not be able to hold on to the siege of the Qing army on all sides, but now the situation is obviously worse, and the Xia army, which is in the camp step by step, is obviously ready for a long-term battle, which cancels out the geographical advantage of the Qing army, and instead forces the Qing army to knock on the strong fortress of the Xia army. "Damn, come on, immediately urge all ministries to come to help."
Sunu was anxious, but it took more than ten days for the Gyeonggi Army, which he mainly relied on, to join him, and at this time, the reinforcements sent from Jihei had just entered Liaodong territory, and there were at least ten days before the division could be reunited.
However, Sunu could not wait any longer, and he carefully calculated the strength in his hands - about 25,000 Qing troops in Gyeonggi, 8,000 reinforcement troops, and 3,000 more in the Eight Banners garrison in Liaodong, a total of 36,000 people - although it was not as good as the 50,000 Xia troops reported by the Jinzhou side, according to the custom, the number of Xia troops should at least be discounted in half, so he could go south to attack the fortress line that the Xia army hastily held without waiting for the arrival of the Jihei Qing army.
As a result, the Qing army pressed towards the Liaodong Peninsula with the posture of Mount Tai pressing the top, and soon the Qing army on the western front dominated by the Liaodong garrison Eight Banners and the Gyeonggi Army regained Niuzhuang and Gaixian in turn and reached Wafangdian, and the Qing army on the eastern front from Dandong also successively approached Wafangdian and Pulandian through Qingduizi Bay and Zhuanghewan.
Just as the Qing army after the meeting was preparing to attack the fortress that the Xia army had just built, Sunu, as the commander-in-chief, hesitated. Speaking of which, Sunu is not ignorant of soldiers, but it is precisely because of his knowledge of soldiers that he is worried that the Xia army may take advantage of the mobility of the naval division and climb behind the Qing army again.6 At that time, he will face a desperate situation with a strong fortress in front and an enemy army behind.
However, Kangxi had already learned of the Xia army's attempt to hold on to the Liaodong Peninsula, and believed that with the character of this holy monarch, he would never allow Sunu to turn around and retreat without a single shot. In this situation, Sunu could only make amendments to the original battle plan. On the one hand, he departed 4,000 men and horses to guard Fuzhou Bay, Gaizhou Bay, Taiping Bay, Hulushan Bay, Qingduizi Bay, Zhuanghe Bay and other places where the Xia army might climb 6, and on the other hand, he urgently informed the Jihei reinforcements that they did not need to join them, and all of them were on standby in Haizhou, Niuzhuang and other places, so that after the Xia army could land on the 6th, they could carry out a tactical counterattack of the north and south encirclement.
Sunu also knew that he was only doing this to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and only to contain the Xia army's sailors so that they could not attack at will was the key to the success of the anti-Deng 6, but if you want to contain the Xia army's sailors, you must put the Qing army's own sailors on the table, but this is not something he can decide, so he had to play to Beijing and ask the Qing army's sailors to respond.
Not to mention how the Qing army's sailors reacted after knowing Sunu's suggestion, Sunu, who thought he was ready to deal with it, ordered the Qing army to start attacking Pulandian, which was closest to Wafangdian. Because the sea mouth of Pulandian Port is very narrow, which is not conducive to the maneuver of ships in the port, the Xia army did not build fortresses and fortresses in Pulandian Port, but only built one or two front-line observation posts, so as soon as the Qing army moved, the Xia army took the initiative to retreat in a small rowing boat.
The first battle was victorious, and the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and then the troops immediately pointed directly at Jinzhou. However, without even seeing the city of Jinzhou, the Qing army encountered the strong fortress group of the Xia army on the line of Xiaoheishan, Daheishan Mountain, Daheshang Mountain, and Dalijiacheng Mountain in the north of Jinzhou City -- in the nearly a month that the Qing army was waiting for reinforcements and slowly advancing, the Xia army had already established a fortress-like fortress-like defense system at various key points, and used gunpowder to blow up the firing boundary and the supply and defense channels behind the fortress, completely closing the two main roads into Jinzhou.
In addition to building artillery forts and fortresses on the mountain, the Xia Army's naval division also arranged a number of patrol warships on the side of the Huanshui Ocean to assist in closing the road with naval guns. Although the Qing army's foreign firearms battalion was also equipped with artillery that was not inferior to that of the Xia army, it was unable to wield firepower because of upward firing and other reasons, and the result was only to use human lives, and the end was naturally sad.
Of course, Sunu was reluctant to send the Eight Banners soldiers to gnaw bones, but after the towns of the two new battalions of the green battalion were disabled, Sunu could only continue to throw the Manchurians into it. At this time, the edicts from Beijing demanded that Sunuk recover Liaodong during the period, during which coercion and temptation were omnipresent, but promises and threats still could not make the Qing army overcome the obstacles in front of them.
"We can't do that anymore." Sunu watched the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai attack on the fort arranged by the Xia army on the Pine Ridge in vain, leaving the corpses of one hundred and ten people and escaping back, and he finally admitted his defeat with firm determination. "Withdraw the troops and go back to Gaizhou." The staff on the side persuaded him not to give up, but Sunu waved his hand. "I'm a son of Aixin Jueluo, if I didn't see with my own eyes that there was no possibility of success, how could I ignore such a confidant?" Sunu said excitedly. "I will bear the responsibility for the defeat and loss of land, but the children of the Eight Banners must be preserved, and they must be counted on to ??????defend Mukden."
Sunu was ready to withdraw his troops, but Kangxi didn't know it, and because of the delay in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula, Kangxi could only order the sailors to go to help in the battle. Although he was reluctant, but in the face of the invisible pressure of the supreme saint, the Qing army had no choice but to send out three Galen and several newly built small boats at one time.
Although he was lucky not to be discovered by the Xia army's sailors before arriving on the Liaodong Peninsula, the good fortune of the Qing army's sailors soon came to an end. Through the report of the 6th Division, it was learned that the Qing Army's naval division had poured out of the nest, and the Xia Army's Northern Naval Division came to encircle and intercept it with all the strength of the two cruising fleets, and vowed to leave all the Qing Army's naval divisions on the sea.
The first and second cruisers under the jurisdiction of the Northern Naval Division had 12 first-class cruisers with 48 guns and 12 second-class cruisers with 40 guns, which had an overwhelming advantage over the three 36-gun armed Galen equipped by the Qing army, and the small ships of the Qing army were not the opponents of the 12 second-class letter ships of the Xia Army's naval division, so after the first battle, except for a wounded Galen ship, which escaped into the Liao River, the rest of the troops were annihilated.
The destruction of the Qing army's naval division and the news that Sunu's troops were forced to retreat to Haicheng made Kangxi vomit blood, and before fainting, Kangxi ordered the abduction of Sunubei's viscount and the position of general of Liaodong, and remained in the post of Dai Guilty and Meritorious Service.
When the news reached Fengtian, Sunu could only find another way to solve the problem of Liaodong in addition to thanking the Holy Monarch for his magnanimity.
On 15 May, the Qing army, led by a fleet of 3,000 horses, crossed the Yalu River again and rushed to Pyongyang.
On 17 May, Cui Xian, who learned that the Qing army was coming to help, immediately withdrew his troops across the Taedong River, and Pyongyang lifted the siege.
After the siege was lifted, Poerpen originally intended to pursue it immediately, but after learning of the crisis in Liaodong, he agreed to the construction of Sunu brought by reinforcements, and then the Qing army fled to Yizhou with the fourteen-year-old dynasty king Li Yun.
Cui Xian, who had just returned to the front line of Huangzhou, couldn't believe it when he heard the news, the Qing army just retreated?
But this is the case, so Cui Xian didn't care if this was a trap or not, and turned around and returned north with his army again.
On May 25 of that year, when the South Korean army re-entered the city of Pyongyang, North Korean officials who had not fled with the Qing army opened the city gate to welcome Choe Heon into the city, and thus the important northern town finally returned to the hands of the South Korean royal court.
The reconquest of Pyongyang and the area south of the Cheongchon River caused jubilation in the city of Hanyang, and at this time, Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province, which had been poisoned by the Yonghsang Army and the Jincee Army, also sent envoys to the south Korean side to pray for surrender. In this regard, the Hanyang royal court naturally gladly agreed, and the reunification of Korea was thus announced??????
After the Qing army retreated from Korea, Sunu and Poerpen had a secret conversation in Mukden, and after exchanging views, the two drew up a strategy of defending instead of attacking. Immediately, while the Xia army strengthened the construction of ports in Lushun and other places, the Qing army also began to set up side walls and cantonment stations for galloping from the mouth of the Yalu River to Niuzhuang.
The reaction of the Qing army reached Zheng Kezang's ears, making him scoff, in fact, the Chinese court never expected to be able to break through from the direction of Liaodong, as for occupying the southern part of the peninsula, one is to occupy Lushun, Dalian and other good ports, blockade the Qing army's naval division nearby, and on the other hand, it is also a pawn to contain it, so as to mobilize and disperse the forces of the Qing army. Now that these two goals have been achieved, and even additional effects have been achieved, Zheng Kezhang naturally will not add oil and vinegar to it.
On June 14, the fifth year of Wucheng, Zheng Kezhang ordered the establishment of the Lushun Town Guard, which was subordinate to the Northern Naval Division. On the same day, the Liaodong General Army was also set up to take charge of the three divisions of the Liaodong Peninsula, and Tang Baoyi, the former deputy general of the Fu Army and the general soldier of North Korea, was appointed as the Liaodong General Army.
On 19 June, the Chinese envoy to Penghu submitted a written inquiry to the United Dutch East India Company's Penghu Merchant House, asking him to explain the gift of warships and the dispatch of sailors and shipwrights to join the Qing army.
In this regard, the Dutch Merchant House first defended that it did not know what was going on, and then confronted the prisoners sent by the Xia side, and then changed its story and said that it might be that the ship was swept to the Bohai Sea by the wind and waves and captured Yunyun for the Qing army.
Although the Xia Fang, who did not want to fight on two fronts now, was dissatisfied with the sophistry of the Dutch, he reluctantly accepted it, but what the Dutch did not expect was that after this change, the Chinese court began to secretly encourage the British to challenge the rights of the Netherlands in Java and the Spice Islands??????