Chapter 48: Landing Operations (Part II)
About 20 minutes after the airborne troops had completely occupied the Dagukou Battery, two hovercraft landed on the south bank of the Haihe River, and four companies of soldiers came up from the hovercraft one after another to join the troops that had captured the battery on the south bank.
Zhu Yaping, the commander of the Marine Corps, was in charge of the Changbai Mountain ship, controlling and commanding the landing operation, while Qin Yuhai, another battalion commander, was responsible for the on-site command. This time, the fleet had a total of two marine battalions, the commander of the fifth battalion was Zhu Yaping, and the commander of the ninth battalion was Qin Yuhai. Both of them have the rank of lieutenant colonel, but Zhu Yaping was promoted to lieutenant colonel earlier than Qin Yuhai, so he served as the commander of the Marine Corps. And the division of labor in this landing operation was that Zhu Yaping sat in the rear and commanded, while Qin Yuhai personally came to the battlefield. However, Qin Yuhai did not go ashore with the airborne troops, but landed in a hovercraft.
Because the wharf at Dagukou was located on the south bank of the Haihe River, Qin Yuhai ordered both hovercraft to land on the south bank of the Haihe River after learning that the airborne troops had easily occupied the fort.
After going ashore, Qin Yuhai reorganized the troops, leaving two squads in each battery to garrison, and notified the armored troops who were still in the sea, so that after they arrived at the shore, they would immediately follow up, and then lead the troops to advance towards the dock, because the headquarters of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army at Dagukou was at the dock.
At this time, the naval battle at the wharf was nearing its end, and all the small ships that escaped from the wharf were intercepted by the Yueyang and Sanya ships, sinking seven and capturing two, while among the large and medium-sized warships, only the British ship Orlando and the German ship Hansa could still float on the sea, and all the other warships were sunk, and fourteen other transport ships were sunk. And the reason why the Orlando and the Lufthansa are not sinking is not because of how strong these two warships are, but because of the mercy under the guns of the crossing fleet, because the crossing fleet hopes to capture these two cruisers for their own use. And now the Orlando and Lufthansa are scarred, the main guns have all been destroyed, and they are basically no longer combative.
In the sea, there were countless corpses of Eight-Nation Coalition soldiers, and various scattered parts, and dozens of flames floating. However, after all, the warships of the Eight-Nation Alliance are moored at the pier, very close to the shore, so as long as they are not killed at that time, the soldiers who fall into the water can basically swim ashore, and the ships are sunk, and they are not completely sunk, and some of them are exposed to the sea, and the soldiers on the ships can still escape a lot, and some warships can also put down the lifeboats and row back to the shore in a very timely manner, only the soldiers who are locked in the cabin on the bottom of the ship cannot escape, but this is it, there are still a lot of soldiers who escaped, and after a while, the shore was full of people.
Most of the army forces stationed at Dagukou by the Eight-Nation Coalition Army participated in the battle to attack Hejiawan Village, so the troops remaining at the wharf were very small, only more than 20 people, and of course they were not the opponents of the landing force, and as a result, the landing force easily occupied the headquarters of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army stationed at Dagukou, and the resistance of the coalition forces was almost negligible.
And although there are many naval soldiers who have escaped ashore, it is a pity that there are very few soldiers with weapons, after all, who will jump into the sea with a gun. Naturally, they were not the opponents of the landing force, and they were exhausted when they fled ashore, and at this time they had no intention of fighting, and as a result, in the various voices of "surrender the gun and do not die", the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army raised their hands and surrendered, and only a very small number of resisted, of course, the landing force was killed, so the landing force occupied the dock very smoothly.
The battle went so smoothly that it greatly surprised Qin Yuhai, and he hurriedly reported the progress of the landing force to the headquarters and asked the headquarters for instructions on the next battle plan. The reply was to stand in place, wait for the arrival of the armored forces, and then open artillery bombardment on the ships anchored at the pier.
In fact, the war has basically ended at this point, and the navy can sink all the ships moored at the pier without the need for shore artillery bombardment, but the crossing fleet does not want to sink all the ships, and it is a waste of shells; second, it hopes to capture the remaining ships and use them for their own use, even if the remaining ships are basically transport ships, but for the crossing fleet, these transport ships are still of great use, and even if the army cannot use them, they can be converted to civilian use in the future.
Therefore, the command was hoping to put pressure on the remaining ships by shelling from the shore and force them to surrender. And now the ground artillery fire that the command can count on is actually the armored forces that pass through the fleet.
There was also an armored battalion in the crossing fleet, but in reality there were only two armored companies, and there were two maintenance platoons. The armored battalion of the Marine Corps is armed with the ZBD-05 family of amphibious armored vehicles.
The ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicle family is an important armored weapon of the Marine Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and is the fastest and most advanced series of medium amphibious assault vehicles on the water in the world before the fleet crosses. Propelled by a powerful engine, it can sail at high speeds on the water, reaching up to 35 km/h. However, at the cost of obtaining high speed, the ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicle uses a large amount of aluminum alloy, and the whole vehicle weighs only 29 tons, which is only equivalent to the weight of a light tank, and the armor protection is not strong.
The new appearance of the ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicle family is very obvious, and there is a retractable and folding wave plate at the front end of the hull. It can offset the disturbance and resistance of some water flow to the vehicle body, and improve the speed of the vehicle when maneuvering in water. It can adjust its forward tilt angle according to the height of the waves and the required speed, which makes the whole body have the function of a glide board. If it is used in normal land warfare, the wave shield shrinks back into the front hull, which has the effect of attaching the front armor. The rear water baffle adjustment plate that can be retracted by hydraulic lifting is installed at the rear of the car body, which can be used for the pedal when the passenger gets on and off the car, and can also play the role of hydrofoil to adjust the pitch balance of the car body when sailing at sea. In normal land combat, the retracted rear adjustment plate can also play the role of rear armor protection.
Moreover, the front and rear wave plates plus the side skirts that can be opened on both sides of the car body can greatly increase the contact area between the whole car body and water, which not only increases the stability and safety of the car in the crossing, but also makes the assembled large-caliber weapons such as 105mm guns have the special effect that they can fire at any time during the crossing without sinking over.
The ZBD-05 family of amphibious armored vehicles includes four models:
The first is an amphibious assault vehicle, also known as an amphibious tank, designed for beachhead assault, equipped with a 105 mm low recoil rifled tank gun, topped with a QJZ85 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and a 67III. 7.68 mm coaxial machine gun;
Type 2 is an amphibious infantry fighting vehicle, mainly used for troop transportation, equipped with a 30mm machine gun, a Red Arrow-73A anti-tank missile on each side of the turret, and can carry seven soldiers;
The Type III is an amphibious armored command vehicle, which is used for battlefield command operations, equipped with a powerful radar and electronic communication system, and is equipped with a detachable QJZ85 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun on the roof for self-defense.
Type IV is an amphibious armored rescue vehicle, which can provide timely vehicle repair operations for landing combat formations. The folding glide board was eliminated at the front of the vehicle and replaced by a large bulldozer blade for clearing anti-landing obstacles and pre-set anti-infantry minefields on the shore of the stall, or to open up landing sites for landing transport helicopters. A telescopic crane boom with an estimated lifting capacity of 3-5 tons is installed on the roof of the vehicle, which can provide timely field maintenance services for other armored vehicles. And on the roof of the car was armed with a detachable QJZ85 type 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun for self-defense.
The two amphibious armored companies configured for this evacuation operation are an amphibious assault vehicle company and an amphibious infantry fighting vehicle company, and the establishment of armored units is the same as that of the army, and the three-three system is also implemented; an amphibious armored company has three armored platoons, each platoon has three amphibious armored vehicles, and the company headquarters is equipped with four armored vehicles, two of which are command vehicles, in fact, to command an armored company to fight, one command vehicle is enough, and the other command vehicle is used as a reserve, because the lack of one or two amphibious assault vehicles does not have a great impact on the whole company, but the absence of a command vehicle is a disaster for the whole company。 The two maintenance platoons each had three armored rescue vehicles, for a total of thirty-two ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicles.
The amphibious assault vehicle company that participated in the landing operation dispatched a total of twelve ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicles, eleven of which were assault models, that is, eleven 105 mm low-recoil rifled tank guns.
The fire control system of the ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicle is very advanced, consisting of a ballistic computer, a commander and gun commander sight, a laser rangefinder located at the base of the gun mount, and a variety of sensors. Moreover, in the left rear of the turret, a new type of optoelectronic jamming device is deployed for jamming and destroying incoming laser-guided munitions. With a maximum range of 5.4 kilometers, it can capture targets 1,000 meters away in 3 seconds, targets 2,000 meters away in 14 seconds, with an accuracy rate of 90%, and when converting the second target, it takes 4.9 seconds to go 1,000 meters away and 19.6 seconds to 2,000 meters away.
However, no matter how fast the ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicle travels by water, it cannot catch up with the hovercraft, and the speed of the Type 726 hovercraft is 50 knots / h, which is almost three times that of the ZBD-05 amphibious armored vehicle, so the marines waited for nearly half an hour before the armored company arrived. However, the armored company received an order from the headquarters on the way, so the armored company rushed to the dock and immediately lined up and opened fire on the remaining ships anchored at the pier.
At this moment, the Xiangyang ship advanced to a place about 3.5 kilometers away from the pier and shouted to the remaining ships, demanding that they immediately stop resisting and surrender unconditionally, and said that if they surrendered, the personal safety and basic personal rights of the surrendered personnel could be guaranteed.
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