After receiving the order from Oyama Iwa, the commander of the 1st Army Corps, General Kuroki Weizhen, also immediately organized his troops to cross the river.

The 1st Army Corps was the main force of the Japanese army in this war, with 3 divisions, 2 brigades and 3 regiments directly under its command, with a total strength of about 100,000, but due to continuous fighting in the early stage, it is now less than 90,000 people, and the Guards Division has crossed the Yalu River, so the strength of the west bank of the Yalu River is now about 70,000. Since the 1st Army Corps was responsible for guarding the northern front of the Japanese army, the strength of the People's Army on the C line was not large, and it was not difficult to retreat, so Kuroki Weizhen ordered the 15th Brigade to stay in Laoduntai, the 23rd Brigade to stay in Xiaoguling, and the rest of the army immediately withdrew to the Yalu River, and then retreated to the east bank of the river in turn.

The first to cross the river was the Guards Reserve Brigade, which was also part of the Guards Division, so it was naturally a priority.

The Yalu River is also a large river in Northeast Asia, and since it is close to the mouth of the sea where the wooden bridge was erected, the width of the river here is about 1,000 meters, and it takes about 10-15 minutes to walk normally. However, although most of the baggage of the Japanese army has been transported across the bridge, the baggage and materials accompanying the army are not a few, not to mention, there are a lot of artillery and ammunition, and the artillery is an extremely heavy item, even the weight of a 75 mm gun is about 2 tons, plus the horses that pull the guns, the total weight of an artillery group is increased to 4-5 tons, and only one artillery can be passed at a time, if it is 120 mm, Guns of this level of 150 mm had to be disassembled first and then transported in batches, which naturally slowed down the speed of crossing the bridge. As a result, it took more than one hour for the one brigade to cross the Yalu River.

The second group to cross the bridge was the 2nd Cavalry Brigade directly under the 1st Army Corps, and the reason is also very clear, because the brigade commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade is a member of the Japanese Imperial Family: Major General Prince Zaihito of Kanin Palace. This prince was the 16th son of Prince Fushimi Miyakuni of the Bang family, who was known for his fertility in modern Japanese history. (The prince had 17 sons and 15 daughters in his lifetime; the age of childbearing ranged from less than 14 to 65, a span of 52 years.) It is even known as the first type of horse in the Japanese imperial family)

Military positions held by members of the Japanese imperial family, after the Meiji era, have become the norm, not only to boost the morale of the military, but also to increase the prestige of the imperial family, and the members of the royal family to serve in the military is not to gild a layer of gold, but to really go to the war to live and die, the most typical is that after the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan suppressed the resistance of the Taiwanese people in the Yiwei War, then the head of the Guards Division, Prince Nohisa of the Kita-Shirakawa Palace personally led a team into Taiwan to participate in the war, and died in the battle of Changhua Bagua Mountain (one said that the water and soil did not accept the disease and died).

However, it is not a good thing to let the members of the royal family die on the battlefield after all, so it is better to send Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace across the river as soon as possible. Fortunately, all the cavalry led by the prince were cavalry, and there was nothing heavy, although the soldiers dismounted and led the bridge when crossing the bridge, but the speed was also very fast, and it didn't take long to finish all of them.

Kuroki looked at his watch, it was already more than 11 o'clock in the night, and at this rate, at about 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, the whole army could cross the river. So the 2nd Division was ordered to cross the river. and decided to lead the military headquarters to cross the river with the 2nd Division.

At present, the 1st Army Corps has crossed the river with one division and two brigades, and although most of the army is still on the west bank of the Yalu River, the order of crossing the river has been arranged, and all the troops can only cross the river in turn, so that there is no need for the command of the military headquarters. On the contrary, there are more and more troops crossing the east bank of the Yalu River, but there is a need for someone to organize the positions where the troops are stationed and the vigilance arrangements, so it is only natural for the military headquarters to cross the river.

From the west bank of the Yalu River to the east bank, it took only more than 10 minutes, but Kuroki Weizhen's heart is full of feelings, because just over a year ago, he also crossed the Yalu River from here and entered Liaodong to participate in the war, although it also experienced some twists and turns, but after all, it was to defeat Russia to the ground, and successively conquered Lushun, Liaoyang, Fengtian and other important towns in Liaodong, although the Russian army is still resisting, but Kuroki Weizhen has been convinced of the final victory, in fact, it is not only Kuroki Weizhen, at that time the Japanese army thought that this would be the same big victory as a Sino-Japanese War。 Ever since the overseas Chinese landed in Liaodong, the situation of the Japanese army has taken a turn for the worse, not only in successive battles, but also in Lushun, Liaoyang, Mukden and other places, and now they have been forced to retreat to the Yalu River, and even have to retreat to the Korean Peninsula, and all the achievements made in the past year or so have come to naught.

However, Kuroki is a high-ranking general in the Japanese army after all, and he knows the plans of the high-level. Although the retreat to the Korean Peninsula is forced by the general trend, there is also the intention of preserving the strength and waiting for a comeback, so Kuroki is also looking forward to crossing the Yalu River again.

And just when Kuroki was thinking nonsense, he only heard a staff officer next to him say: "Look, is that a meteor?"

Kuroki Weizhen looked up at the sky, only to see that in the inky blue sky, there was indeed a bright yellow long tail, and it was getting higher and higher, the color changed from bright yellow to orange, and the tail flame was getting longer and longer, as if it was falling in his direction.

At this time, someone had already shouted: "Meteor...... Meteors are falling on us. ”

Kuroki Weizhen was also a little surprised at this time, but when he looked closely at the "shooting star", he vaguely saw that at the front end of the long tail, it seemed to be a slender tip-like thing, to the side that looked like a cannonball.

At this time, Kuroki Weizhen suddenly remembered that in the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China six years ago, it was rumored in the Japanese army that overseas Chinese had a kind of cannonball with a tail that could breathe fire, and later said that this kind of cannonball was extremely powerful, and one shot could sink a battleship. But Kuroki only thought it was nonsense, and how did the tail of the cannonball breathe fire?

Kuroki Weizhen's mind just flashed this thought, only to see that the "meteor" had already fallen, and it was actually heading for a bridge, because the distance was extremely close at this time, and the tail flame was bright, so it could be seen very clearly, this flame was indeed erupting from the tail of a cannonball-like object. And at this time, there were also many Japanese soldiers who were crossing the bridge on the bridge, and they couldn't help but be in a big mess, and fled to the shore one after another, but the soldiers who had just gotten on the bridge or were about to get off the bridge were fine, and they arrived in a few steps, and the soldiers who were in the middle of the bridge came very well, and as a result, they pushed and collided with each other, and many soldiers fell into the river.

At this moment, only a loud "boom" was heard, and a fireball exploded in the middle of the wooden bridge, and the cracked flames rose into the sky, mixed with countless fragments of broken wood and the stumps and severed arms of soldiers, and it was as bright as day for a while.

When the fire gradually extinguished and the smoke dissipated, I saw that the wooden bridge had been disconnected from nearly 100 meters, and the wooden planks at both ends were still burning with fires, and the river was full of stars, still burning flamed remnants, and countless Japanese soldiers struggling in the river.

Kuroki Weizhen couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and there were beads of sweat in his palms, he came from this wooden bridge just now, that is, there was a difference of 10 minutes, and it was only a little short, otherwise the person struggling in the river might be himself.

And what kind of weapon is used by overseas Chinese, but in terms of power, it is not so terrible, and the general large-caliber naval guns almost have such power, but where did this shell come from, even if the warship stopped at the mouth of the Yalu River and bombarded it with naval guns, but its own side has already deployed personnel at the mouth of the Yalu River, although it cannot be stopped, at least there will be an early warning, how can there be no wind at all? Then there is only one case, that is, the shell was fired from a greater distance, and there is also the fact that the accuracy of ordinary naval guns is very poor, but the shell just hit the wooden bridge with unmistakable accuracy, and did not even fire once, how can this be done? These are the terrible things about this shell?

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"Shanying reports to the Yueyang ship, Shanying reports to the Yueyang ship, target No. 1 has been destroyed, and target No. 1 has been destroyed. Target No. 2 has been locked on, it can be launched *, it can be launched *. ”

"Very good, Mountain Eagle, the 2nd * has been launched, keep the lock on the 2nd target, guide *, make sure to hit. ”

"Mountain Eagle understands. ”

After the call, Han Zhi said: "* has been launched, keep the radar lock on the No. 2 target, and connect with the data of *." ”

He Bin said: "Don't worry, it's already connected, and now it's under our command." In fact, the launch of this one by one* is really trivial, simply send out all 5 * at a time, and our firepower channel is not insufficient. ”

"It's better to be on the safe side, we're just going to have a few shots* and one less shot, so each one has to be sure to hit. ”

Han Zhi and He Bin were the pilots of the Haizhi 20 helicopter on the Yueyang ship, and they were now ordered to guide the Haihongqi 16* launched from the Yueyang ship and hit the wooden bridge over the Yalu River.

Although in the old time and space, the Caspian Hongqi 16* was an advanced medium-range regional air defense *, but now it is used to attack a fixed target on the ground, and the distance of this attack is too far, because it is the two pontoon bridges just built by the Japanese army, almost to the range limit of the Haihongqi 16*, so it is obviously not very reliable to rely on its own radar, and it must be guided by a helicopter, after all, the helicopter can fly directly to the vicinity of the target and lock the target with the airborne radar. Moreover, in this era there was almost no awareness of air defense, electronic interference was even more zero, there were simply no weapons capable of threatening helicopters, and as a result, the first Haihongqi-16*, under the guidance of the helicopter, successfully hit the target.

Subsequently, the Yueyang ship launched four Haihongqi 16* in succession, and under the guidance of the helicopter, they all hit one by one, destroying all the wooden bridges and pontoon bridges built by the Japanese army on the Yalu River, and also cutting off the last way of life for the Japanese troops remaining on the west bank of the Yalu River.