Chapter 386: Recovering Liaonan 1

At the end of October 1629, 5,000 heavily armed Fuxing marching soldiers and 10,000 newly reorganized and carefully selected Dongjiang Fuxing Army landed at Lushunkou. [Full text reading]

The First Fleet of the Renaissance Army Navy assumed the escort duty during this landing operation. But unfortunately, because Dongjiang Town has been completely reorganized by the Baath Party, and the Jin Jurchen side did not have any troops in the Lushun area, so in this operation, the First Fleet of the Baxing Navy did not even have a chance to open fire.

Originally, Dongjiang Town had a certain amount of troops in Lushun. So at present, there are still some dilapidated and simple dock facilities on the Lushun wharf. But even so, the trestle that looked precarious, the Renaissance Army was not prepared to use it directly.

After the First Fleet Marines landed on the docks in Arthur in small boats and set up beachheads, the engineers began to lead the Dongjiang Revival Army to build floating trestles made of empty iron barrels and planks.

Zhao's eldest son got his wish and joined the Revival Army's military attack on the Later Jin Jurchen region in southern Liaoning. However, what made him more depressed was that the 10,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Revival Army, which were reorganized from the Dongjiang Army, were mainly responsible for defense and construction tasks in this military operation. A few soldiers who are more familiar with the terrain and road conditions in southern Liaoning can take part in reconnaissance missions and lead the way for the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion.

Zhao's eldest son was a native of Fengcheng, and in the guerrilla war of the Dongjiang Army against the Later Jin Jurchen, he also mainly took the route from Jiuliancheng to Lianshui Pass on the border between North Korea and Liaodong. Therefore, he could only obediently undertake the construction of the Lushun base like other Dongjiang Renaissance Army.

For this mission to recover southern Liaoning, Wang Shuhui had a heavy hemorrhage. He transferred a large number of various supplies from the Hubei base by radio (imported from Hyundai), and sent 20 newly manufactured 2,500-ton transport ships to join the operation, so that nearly 40 transport ships joined the Lushun landing operation.

In addition to 15,000 soldiers, the fleet also brought in a large amount of barbed wire, cement, prefabricated house materials, steam engines and other materials. Wang Shuhui is ready to build a military base directly in Lushun in one go.

Therefore, the main force participating in the military strike against the Later Jin Jurchen in this year was the regular troops of 5,000 men. The 10,000 Dongjiang Reconstruction Army, which has not yet completed its basic military training, will undertake the construction and defense of the military base together with the production and construction troops who are about to cross the sea from the Ludong base area.

Later Jin Jurchen lacked navigation ability, so after the blue flag broke through the north and south cities of Lushun during the Apocalypse, they only destroyed the Ming army fortresses on the Golden Mountain and Baiyu Mountain, and then withdrew to Jinzhouwei. Because there were no ships and warships at all, there was not even an observation post in the Lushun area on the Houjin Jurchen side.

When it took three days for the Fuxing Army to completely complete the landing of all personnel and materials and began to devote themselves to the construction of port facilities and basic defense facilities, the Later Jin Jurchen side had not yet discovered the fact that the Lushun area had been occupied by other forces.

The Liaonan Liberation Operational Headquarters of the Fuxing Army was located in the former Lushun North City on the dilapidated Baiyu Mountain. Wang Shuhui is currently in the headquarters to listen to the reports of various departments on the progress of the construction of the base.

In just one morning, the Fuxing Army had completed the construction of fortifications on the official road from Jinzhouwei and Fuzhou Wei to Lushun.

In this era, Lushun was not a city with a large population and flat terrain. After the destruction and plundering of the Jin Nuzhen in Lushun at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the fact that the area was originally an undeveloped area, most of the area around Lushun was covered by dense forests except for some flat land with barren grass near the Nancheng Wharf and near the official road in Beicheng.

Judging from the current combat capabilities of all armed forces in the world, as long as the Renaissance Army holds the official area, then the Houjin Jurchen will not be able to attack the Renaissance Army in other directions.

Of course, the Baath Army, armed with artillery, machine guns, rockets, grenades, and rifles, did not care at all about any armed forces attacking the defensive positions of the Ba'ath Army. Of course, the so-called "invincible" Eight Banner soldiers of the Houjin Jurchen are also no problem.

Unlike the 5,000 veterans of the Renaissance Army who were transferred from the Hubei base area, the 10,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Renaissance Army, who had a serious psychological shadow on the Jurchen Eight Banners, were not so safe and orderly in their work. There was no need to urge or demand at all, and the soldiers of the Dongjiang Revival Army who built the fortifications and barracks facilities themselves worked very quickly to build the fortifications.

In the past month or so of recruit training, they have become fully aware of the strength of the Baath Army's barbed wire and machine gun fortifications. These former Dongjiang Army soldiers, who had been left with serious psychological shadows in the war with the Later Jin Jurchen, had full confidence in the defense system of the Fuxing Army.

The steam saw is countless times more efficient at processing wood than traditional manual methods. In less than half a month, rows of temporary buildings built of logs, military camps, warehouses, and other bases with warm facilities such as earthen kang were built.

With the cement and stone being continuously transported from the Ludong base to Lushun. Arthur Wharf has three sturdy piers made of cement and stone. After the loading equipment of the steam wharf with tracks was installed and put into use, a large number of professional production and construction troops and various materials from the Hubei base area and the Ludong base area were continuously transported to Lushun.

After 15,000 professional production and construction troops arrived in Lushun, 10,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Revival Army took over the construction work at hand and began to carry out the defense tasks of the Lushun base. After Wang Shuhui filled all the warehouses of the Lushun base with all kinds of food and materials from modern times secretly transported through the time and space gate, the command began to conduct adaptive training for the ten battalions of Fuxing Army soldiers who were on combat missions.

You must know that unlike Hubei and even the Ludong base area, the winter temperature in southern Liaoning should reach about minus 15 degrees under normal circumstances. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty when the Xiaoice River climate broke out, the winter temperature in southern Liaoning will reach below minus 20 degrees. In other words, the winter temperature difference between the Hubei base area and the southern Liaoning region will be more than 20 degrees.

For the APA to operate in such a large climate variety, it must be adequately adapted.

In mid-November, the temperature in Lushun was already around freezing. Wearing cotton clothes, cotton pants, cotton shoes, cotton hats and cotton gloves to fight, this is a new experience for most of the veterans of the Renaissance Army.

You must know that when they were in the Hubei base area, even if they conducted military training in winter, they wore a military coat with a thin layer of cotton on the outside of their winter uniforms. And here in Lushun, not only are the military uniforms all covered with thick cotton, but also the military coats and military boots, hats, and gloves worn on the outside are also covered with thick cotton.

This kind of clothing makes them feel particularly inconvenient in the process of marching activities. Space-Time Gate 1619

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Chapter 386 Liberating Southern Liaoning 1