Chapter 1480 Frontline Records
The most violent conflicts that He Li and others have witnessed in daily life are gangsters fighting, or the government beating the prisoners during the trial. After all, they have seen the execution scenes of Qiu Houwenzhan several times, and they have some experience. , as for this kind of life-threatening war scene, it was the first time for them to experience it personally. If the previous golden cavalry charges from a distance had given them a strong sense of fear, then at this time the Haihan Army used rifle formations to snipe the enemy troops dozens of feet away without making any progress, which made them even more nervous. Shi Shi was shocked and speechless.
According to folklore, the Haihan army is all heavenly soldiers and generals descending to earth, and the weapons they hold are all extraordinary. However, these businessmen have always been in contact with Haihan in the south, so they naturally know that these rumors are stories that only stupid men and women will believe. There is no such thing as heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, Haihan soldiers are just mortals with two eyes and one mouth. As for advanced weapons, they had never seen the power of Haihan weapons with their own eyes before, and all they knew about it were from various rumors.
But when the unbelievable battle scene of fighting against cavalry on foot actually appeared in front of them, the words "Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals" still subconsciously appeared in everyone's minds. How could the Haihan Army achieve such a one-sided situation in the battle if they were not descended from the gods?
Seeing that the hundreds of golden cavalrymen collapsed not far from me, the audience on the carriage was so excited that they finally shouted loudly. After all, these Jin people are the sworn enemies of the Ming Dynasty. Seeing the Jin people being beaten to the point of being knocked upside down by the Haihan Army, they felt very satisfied, as if they could use this to get rid of the resentment in their hearts.
The battle started suddenly and progressed and ended very quickly. It only took a few minutes from the time when the Hou Jin Cavalry appeared in everyone's sight to when the few survivors saw that the situation was over and turned around and fled the battlefield. However, the infantry formation formed by Haihan during the battle was not disrupted at all, and no one escaped in fear of the battle. This shows that this unit has strict military discipline and is confident on the battlefield. It has never faced the enemy's attacks. The offensive was daunting.
After the battle came to an end, an officer came and asked them to get out of the car and watch the results of the battle nearby. Perhaps the battle scenes stimulated their bravery as men, and everyone was no longer as nervous as they were in the field hospital. After getting out of the car, they headed to the fighting area under the leadership of the officers.
In the battle just now, only a few people of the Haihan Army were hit by bows and arrows thrown by the Houjin cavalry on horseback. However, they were not fatally injured. As long as the injuries are treated carefully and rest peacefully, they should all be better in the future. of recovery. After the medical soldiers assessed the injuries, they carried out the more seriously injured people on stretchers after simply treating the wounds, and sent them to the rear field hospital with better medical conditions for treatment.
The Houjin soldiers on the opposite side who were knocked down but could not breathe for a while did not have such a good life. Howls and groans came one after another, and the scene looked quite tragic. Haihan is already gathering his troops and preparing to clean up the battlefield.
At this time, Takahashi Minami also came over to meet the merchants and gave them a general introduction to the battle process just now. A battle of this scale is not a big deal for Takahashi Minami, but the guys we bumped into today are very hard-headed. With just a few people, they dare to push up. It seems that they may be visitors who are heavily protected. The group had misunderstood them. These desperate charging Houjin cavalry probably thought that there were important people from Haihan in the carriage patrolling the battlefield, so they were so manic. Although Takahashi Minami had no intention of using the southern businessmen as bait, objectively it did play such a role.
Fortunately, the deployment preparations before departure were very thorough. The troops did not show any sloppiness when facing the enemy. The result of the battle was also very ideal. This enemy force that took the initiative to attack was eliminated at a very small cost. Most of it. Even if we look at this battle according to Takahashi Minami's strict standards, there is nothing to criticize about the performance of his soldiers. And what satisfies Takahashi Minami the most is that these southern businessmen were obviously shocked by the battle scene just now, and all of them had red faces and excited expressions on their faces.
"You may have seen just now that even the hundreds of Houjin cavalry are as vulnerable as chickens and dogs in front of our army. No matter how fierce they are, they still can't get closer to our army. The gap in strength. I can promise you without exaggeration that even if the enemy's strength is five times that of mine, it will never take advantage of our army in the field. If it relies on the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line to be built in the rear, then forget it. They sent ten times the army to no avail, they just let our army improve its record.”
When Takahashi Minami talked about the war, his confidence accumulated from years of winning battles was palpable. Of course, he also wanted to use this vivid battle example to show the visitors that the strength of the Haihan Army was far beyond what Hou Jin could challenge. After the southern defense line was built, it would be tantamount for Hou Jin to launch an offensive southward. The act of hitting an egg against a stone.
At this time, an officer came over and asked Takahashi Nan for instructions on how to deal with the injured enemy soldiers. Gao Qiaonan glanced at the group of southern businessmen next to him, and ordered in a deep voice: "Disarm and do not kill anyone. If there is anyone who tries to resist, there is no need to warn them, they will be killed immediately."
The officer gave a military salute and then led the team to clean the battlefield. The soldiers held their rifles and formed a long snake formation, slowly approaching the area where the Jin army was concentrated. Another person followed behind with a tin trumpet, shouting in Jurchen language, asking these injured Houjin soldiers to stop holding weapons and not to try to stand up, otherwise they would be regarded as trying to resist.
Although such measures were taken, there were still ferocious Houjin soldiers who did not believe in evil and tried to struggle up for a last-ditch effort. However, anyone who dared to stand up at this time would immediately be shot by at least six or seven rifles. , and then fell down and died as quickly as possible.
In fact, if the Haihan Army followed the usual habit of cleaning the battlefield, even this kind of shouting might be omitted. In the end, those who were left on the battlefield were almost all wounded soldiers who had lost most of their mobility. For Haihan, these wounded soldiers had nothing else to use except the heads on their necks. Moreover, for soldiers of Han origin, under the long-term propaganda effect, the impression of these post-Jin barbarians is extremely hateful, and there is no psychological pressure to execute these wounded soldiers who will become a burden to Haihan. Even if these wounded soldiers do not take any resistance measures, it is difficult for most of them to survive the stage of cleaning the battlefield.
To put it ten thousand steps back, even if the fate is passed through the Haihan Army's filtering, the Ming Army from Dongjiang Town will come to do the second cleanup, and this time all the Houjin wounded soldiers left on the battlefield will be removed. It is basically the last period of his life. Dongjiang Town needs to use these enemy heads to report their merits to the country, so it will be more merciless than the Haihan Army, and will basically chop off the heads of all the injured. In a battle of this scale today, it would take at least three large carriages to load the heads that were chopped off and transported away afterwards. The scene was so bloody that these southern businessmen probably would not dare to watch it.
Among the people in the car, the only one who had seen the view of the head was probably Liu Shang. Earlier when he was on duty on the front line, he had seen several times the heads of enemy soldiers brought back from the battlefield by the Ming army in Dongjiang Town, unloaded from the car. It was piled up like a hill, and it had to be salted with lime to prevent it from spoiling quickly. However, no Ming army was arranged to accompany this errand today, so it would probably be an hour before the Ming army received the notice and rushed over.
However, Gao Qiaonan did not intend to leave them here waiting to watch the Ming army's performance in Dongjiang Town. After all, this was not a post-Qiu beheading. It was just a matter of cutting off one or two heads, and it didn't hurt to treat them as a curiosity. But if they saw how vigorously they were beheading people here, they might be frightened and go crazy. After watching the work of cleaning the battlefield for a while, Takahashi Nan called everyone to get in the car again and continue to move northwest. He hoped that before the enemy made a more violent response, he could take these visitors further north to see - it would be best if they could see Jinzhou City.
This is not a delusion. The war zone is not too far from Jinzhou City, and the visibility today is not bad. As long as we can enter the visual range of about seven or eight miles, plus the bonus of the telescope, it will probably be You can see the towers of Jinzhou City.
After the previous news of the defeat of the post-Jin army spreads back, it will inevitably cause further reactions. Perhaps a larger post-Jin army will attack later to find the so-called carriage target. However, Takahashi Minami knew that his opponent's battlefield information transmission and feedback speed were relatively slow, so he calculated that he would have enough time to go outside Jinzhou City first.
The journey of several miles was coming in a blink of an eye. Although no groups of Houjin cavalry seemed to be found here, for safety reasons, Gao Qiaonan still ordered to stop heading north. He had the merchants brought out of their cars, distributed telescopes to them, and immediately taught them how to use and adjust them.
The merchants knew that there was such a magical baby in the Haihan Army, but they had never touched the real thing before. They were very excited at the moment. They held it in their hands and played with it. Everyone couldn't put it down. When Liu Shang saw this, he couldn't help but secretly mock these guys for not having seen the world, but he seemed to have forgotten that just a few months ago, he was a storyteller in Sanya Port District who had not seen much of the world.
After setting the focus, you can clearly see Jinzhou City on the distant horizon through the telescope. After Hou Jin occupied the city, some reinforcements were made to the city wall defenses, so the city walls were taller and thicker than during the Ming Dynasty. However, this group of southern businessmen didn't know what Jinzhou City looked like before, so they could only marvel at the sight they saw in front of them.
Although they don't know much about the current situation of Jinzhou City, they also know that this place used to be the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Now that this kind of strong city has been occupied by Hou Jin, it will be very difficult to take it back. Moreover, even the powerful Haihan Army seems to have no intention of continuing to attack north. It seems that the defense of Jinzhou City will be difficult to break.
At this moment, some unwilling people still raised this question to Gao Qiaonan: "Excuse me, General Gao Qiao, since the Jin army is vulnerable, why not send troops northward to capture Jinzhou City, at an angle to the southern defense line?" Wouldn’t it be more stable? ”
Gao Qiaonan didn't bother to answer this kind of layman's question, but now that he was on task, he could only explain patiently: "Jinzhou City has thick walls and nearly 10,000 troops. It will take a lot of effort to capture it. For our army, it is of little significance to capture Jinzhou City at this stage. On the contrary, because we have to divide our forces to defend the city, it will further dilute our army's deployment of troops on the southern border defense line, which may leave a dangerous legacy for the enemy. Therefore, for our army, attacking Jinzhou City is not the best option at the moment, but maintaining the current high-pressure situation can force the other side to continuously send troops to fight a war of attrition, which is probably the most cost-effective way for our army. ”
Regardless of whether everyone understood Takahashi Minami's explanation or not, they could only quickly say "The general is wise." But at least one thing everyone understands is that the Haihan military currently does not plan to attack Jinzhou City, but intends to maintain the current state of war and continue to bleed Houjin. No matter what Haihan's purpose is, such a move is undoubtedly a good thing for the Ming Dynasty. Hou Jin needs to maintain enough garrison here to stabilize the situation, and this actually reduces the offensive that the Ming Dynasty will face in disguise. .
Of course, with the military strength shown by Haihan, the businessmen also believed that as long as Haihan really wanted to launch an offensive, it might not be a difficult task to capture Jinzhou City.
In fact, what Takahashi Minami said needs to be explained in one sentence, that is, "not enough troops." Haihan only has 3,000 combat troops in Liaodong. The more places he captures, the more scattered the garrison troops will be. Even if a big city like Jinzhou City is successfully captured, it will definitely not be enough to mobilize three to five hundred people to defend the city. If more are deployed, it will affect the overall deployment. Therefore, before the military strength has been sufficiently expanded, the Haihan military decided to For the time being, they did not move to Jinzhou City, but made some noise from time to time, so that the Jin Army had to take the initiative to send troops to fight.
After staying at this observation point for about half an hour, a clear copper whistle sounded from the nearby wilderness. Takahashi Minami understood that this was a signal to observe the enemy's formation and mobilization, and there happened to be nearly 10,000 troops stationed nearby. of Jinzhou City. When even the tour was ordered to be suspended, everyone returned to the carriage and evacuated to the rear.
Although the reaction was a little slow, the Hou Jin Army finally got some flavor from the product, so Azig sent troops again, hoping to intercept this heavily protected convoy.
(End of chapter)