Chapter 1460 Many Difficulties
Although what Sha Xi said was not too pleasant to hear, it was indeed the truth. Because the area had long since been cleared by the Hou Jin Dynasty and all the people had been relocated, the manpower needed by Haihan to develop Liaodong could only be organized from other places and transported across the sea. This method of immigration was time-consuming, laborious and inefficient, and was far inferior to the previous development of new areas in the south. The colony was so smooth. Judging from the current development progress, tent residential areas are indeed likely to exist locally for a long time.
Of course, for the immigrants from Phi Island, living in tents may not be a difficult situation. After all, they also used tents as their main residence when they were on Phi Island, and their living conditions may not be as good as those provided by Haihan for the exclusive use of the troops. Extra large camping tent. Although working here is a bit tiring, you don't have to worry about food and housing. After working every day, at least you have enough food. The last and most important thing is that the Haihan people also promised to provide them with military protection. For these helpless people, there is really nothing. Nothing to nitpick.
Liu Shanxia said with a straight face: "The original resettlement plan did not have the option of arranging the immigrants to live in tents for a whole year. How can we find tents to accommodate thousands of people in this short period of time? Unless all the tents of the frontline troops are taken back , I guess I can get the amount you mentioned... Go talk to Qian Tiandun yourself and see if he will show you a show of love."
Sha Xi chuckled and was not angry at Liu Shanxia's rebuttal. Generals like Qian Tiandun, who obviously have a tendency to protect their own shortcomings, would never trade the interests of their own troops even if they cared about the lives of the people in Dongjiang Town. Of course he wouldn't touch a tiger's butt for this matter. If he really dared to suggest that the frontline troops set aside tents for immigrants to live in, he would probably not look good when he met Qian Tiandun in the future.
"Of course I can't afford to offend Commander Qian, but the problem is here and we must find a way to solve it." Sha Xiping said calmly: "Of course the military will not feel anxious. The military and civilians are separated and resettled. They only need to be responsible for the skin. Everything will be fine if nothing happens to the island army, but I have to take responsibility for the resettlement of this group of immigrants. If problems arise due to procrastination, the executive committee will definitely blame me, Lao Liu, do you think I can do it? Are you in a hurry?”
When Liu Shanxia heard what he said, he felt that his previous attitude seemed a bit too much. He scratched his head and said: "I've been running around in two directions these days. I'm so busy that I'm dizzy. I'm also a little angry. Don't take it to heart if you say something wrong."
Sha Xi shook his head and said: "Old Liu, after all, you are a technocrat. The misunderstanding is because you don't know enough about administrative matters. I won't blame you. If the resettlement work in Dongjiang Town cannot be solved, I will It is also difficult to advance the policy plan in Liaodong. I don’t know how much time the executive committee can give me, but if I can’t do the basic work well in the first year, I might be summoned to Sanya to hand over the official seal by a telegram. ”
During his tenure in Guangdong, Sha Xi had dealt with people from all walks of life for several years. In terms of his ability to deal with people, he was naturally better than Liu Shanxia, who spent almost all his time on construction sites everywhere. The mood has changed.
Liu Shanxia took the cigarette handed over by Sha Xi, lit it and took a few puffs, and then said: "How about this, put aside the projects that can be saved and postponed at the moment, and send more As for the lack of tools, we need to get some goods from Shandong as soon as possible, either by buying them or grabbing them. In short, we can get a batch as soon as possible. If we can find craftsmen such as carpenters and blacksmiths, it is best to work together. Bring them here! As long as the building materials problem is solved, the next step will be smooth. To implement the infrastructure plan I have formulated, the existing manpower is actually enough. Since we cannot accept more immigrants now, then Let Dongjiang Town stop sending more immigrants here and try to solve the bottleneck first.”
Liu Shanxia's suggestion sounds a bit arrogant and unreasonable, but for a powerful force like Haihan to deal with the problem in this way, it will undoubtedly be the most efficient. This may cause a small chaos in Shandong, but if done correctly, it may only take a few days to solve this series of problems.
Sha Xi looked at Chen Yixin and said, "Do you think you should ask the headquarters for instructions on this matter?"
Chen Yixin responded: "Try to save time as much as possible. Let's work together on both sides. You can rush the work in Shandong and leave it to me at the headquarters!"
"Then I'll keep an eye on you here for two more days. You all should hurry up!" After Liu Shanxia finished talking about the business, he stopped greeting them and started chasing them away.
With the help of radio, a communication black technology tool, the latest instructions were quickly conveyed to the executive agency. However, in this time and space, there are too many factors that restrict efficiency, and it is difficult to implement the leaders' ideas immediately without any compromise. Therefore, the chaos Liu Shanxia imagined did not occur. When receiving this task, Ma Dongqiang did not fully follow their radical ideas. Instead, he adopted a relatively peaceful approach, hiring craftsmen with large sums of money and purchasing various civil tools from the private sector. This was a full two days later than expected before the results began to show. It was already five days after the first batch of craftsmen and tools from Shandong arrived in Lushun.
Sha Xi was naturally not satisfied with such efficiency, but Chen Yixin's father-in-law was responsible for handling the matter in Shandong, and he worked hard. In just two or three days, he collected information from Fushan County and nearby prefectures and counties. More than 200 craftsmen were hired, and all the labor was paid out of their own pockets. Under such circumstances, it was not easy to accuse others of incompetence.
The frontline headquarters was pressing hard, and Liu Shanxia was not in good spirits to run back and forth between the two construction sites dozens of miles apart. After watching for two days, he had no choice but to go back to the north. After all, the bastion project is more urgent than resettling immigrants. If there is a flaw on the front line, it will be useless to build a hundred immigrant villages here.
After more than ten days of confrontation north of the Jinzhou Isthmus, Azige and others in Jinzhou City finally realized that Haihan did not seem to intend to attack Jinzhou City, but intended to force the Jinzhou garrison to reach the isthmus. beyond the defense line. In other words, the Haihan people may not have intended to continue the war, but wanted to use this military operation to attract their attention to cover up some of the activities going on in the Jinzhou Isthmus.
It was actually not difficult to find out the truth of the matter. Azig sent his elite spies out of the city at midnight for several days in a row and walked towards the Jinzhou Isthmus at night to find out. Although Haihan deployed many troops in this area and intercepted several waves of Houjin spies, Azig's spies finally knew what was hidden in Haihan's military formation after paying the price of losing more than half of their manpower. The secret behind. Azig didn't quite understand why Haihan wanted to invest heavily in rebuilding the isthmus defense line. In his opinion, Haihan's army had guns and artillery, and as long as his own side didn't send out heavy troops to attack, it wasn't too difficult to hold on to that line of defense. But since the other party is carrying out large-scale construction projects locally, it is probably not about dismantling that line of defense, but about further strengthening it.
With Azig's knowledge, it is difficult for him to imagine out of thin air what methods Haihan will use to make that line of defense more difficult to conquer, but he knows that if he continues to sit back and ignore Haihan's methods, then the Golden State Isthmus will It is very likely that the Haihan people will build an iron barrel array that is truly easy to defend and difficult to attack. The only question is just how long it will take for Haihan to complete this project.
Azig was not a pessimist. Before the appearance of the Haihan people, he could even be considered a fanatical militant. It's just that Hou Jin has never had any advantage in the battle with Hai Han, and this series of battles in the spring made him a little confused. He lost thousands of people without even understanding what was going on. troops, and Yanguli, who has fought alongside him for many years.
Since Yangu Li's death in battle, Azig knew that the Haihan people would be a big trouble that Hou Jin would have to face in the next few years. This army is equipped with advanced equipment and extremely powerful combat effectiveness. Even if Hou Jin has a multiple advantage in strength, it is still difficult to suppress his opponents on the battlefield. Until now, Azig has not come up with an effective tactic that can really defeat the opponent, so he is very careful to restrain his troops from going out to fight at will. He just keeps sending small groups of troops to harass the opponent and delay their attack on Jinzhou City as much as possible. time.
But when he now discovered that his judgment was wrong, and that the opponent might not have the intention to attack Jinzhou City, but was secretly trying to cross Chencang, he had to take further action to stop Haihan's intention - no matter whether the opponent was To strengthen the defense line or there is some other conspiracy, in short, we must try to stop it as soon as possible.
As a result, the fighting north of the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line finally began to become more frequent, and the scale also expanded significantly compared to before. Fights at the level of a hundred people gradually expanded to confrontations at the level of a thousand people. Naturally, this change was quickly noticed by the Haihan military, but in the end, the reaction was still a little slow. On a calm morning, about 3,000 Houjin cavalrymen suddenly came out from the due north and rushed straight towards the gap that had been blasted by Haihan earlier.
Haihan did not try to directly repair this gap after occupying the defense line, because the original reconnaissance results of the headquarters showed that this gap was one of the weakest defense points on the entire defense line, and it had a certain relationship with the garrison strongholds on both sides. The distance was so large that for a period of time after Haihan carried out the blast, the Jin Army failed to mobilize troops quickly to seize the gap. So after Liu Shanxia saw the scene, he decided to build a small bastion here as well, in order to transform this weak link into a sharp thorn.
The reason why Azig chose this place as a breakthrough point for counterattack is also very simple. The Houjin Army currently does not have the ability to project large-scale maritime forces. It cannot learn Haihan's tactics of throwing troops behind the defense line if it wants to break through the isthmus. The defense line can only launch attacks in simple and crude ways. The gap that is still under construction is the only ready-made flaw in the entire defense line. If it is to be attacked, then of course the first choice is to attack this gap.
In view of the painful lessons learned when Yanggu led troops to attack here, Azig did not follow his example and go to the front of the battle to supervise the battle in person to avoid being shot in the dark by the Haihan people. The attack was launched in the early morning, which was also the time when most people were most depressed, and it should also be the time when the Haihan position's defense was at its weakest. By launching the offensive at this time, Azig believed that he would be a little more certain of success.
However, despite this, Azig was still very careful to ask the generals to pay attention to the enemy's defensive firepower at all times. If he noticed that the opponent was obviously prepared, he would not have to bite the bullet and attack him. In that case, he would just let his subordinates go. Just dying in vain.
This wave of sudden attacks launched by Hou Jin did catch the defenders off guard, but fortunately, even at dawn, the outer patrol cavalry still fired off fireworks warning flares in time, buying the defenders valuable time. The highly nervous generals of the Hou Jin Army mistakenly believed that Haihan's fireworks signal was a signal to launch an ambush. Later, after approaching the Haihan position and encountering a round of gunfire, they decisively issued an order to abandon the attack and evacuate the battlefield. .
However, at this time, there was only one platoon of soldiers on the Haihan position who had just entered the fighting position. If the Houjin cavalry launched a desperate charge, then these three thousand cavalry would be enough to overwhelm the poorly prepared Haihan position, and even hope to break through this line of defense and rush to the south. Go and show your skills. The hundreds of migrant workers responsible for building this small bastion were still resting in the camp behind the defense line, unaware that they had returned from a walk on the verge of death.
By the time Qian Tiandun got the news and rushed over with his men, Houjin's cavalry had already circled around the perimeter and quickly left the battlefield. Even with Qian Tiandun's combat experience, it was difficult to judge whether the enemy was just trying to launch a feint attack or had another agenda by running away with just one shot. It is impossible that Azig had nothing to do and sent thousands of troops to stage a flash mob for himself. Of course, he could not have imagined that this offensive, which almost led to a catastrophe, could not be carried out because of the other party's guilty conscience. Otherwise, he would have secretly shouted in his heart that he was lucky.
The offensive of the Hou Jin Army came and went in a hurry, and they withdrew after only hearing a sound. After Azig heard the report from the general who led the troops, he was a little unsure about the situation. If Haihan really set up an ambush at the defense line and waited for him to step in, then his patience and planning would be really terrible.
But based on the reports, Azig was basically certain of one thing. Haihan was indeed carrying out some kind of repair project with unknown purpose at the gap. Azig guessed that they might be building fortifications such as forts or forts. Although he didn't completely guess it, it was pretty close. The only good thing is that this cavalry managed to escape from the battlefield without encountering much resistance, and the number of casualties was probably relatively few in the recent battle with Haihan.
(End of chapter)