In fact, during this period of time, the People's Army was certainly not idle, and seized the time to dispatch troops and prepare to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army by the Yalu River. First of all, after occupying Liaoyang, the 3rd Army immediately followed the rear of the Japanese army and chased it to the vicinity of Phoenix, but did not launch an attack on the Japanese army, mainly to put pressure on Japan; after the 4th Army opened up the Liaoyang-Lushun section of the Harbin-Dalian line, it dispatched the 4th Division, the 12th Division, and 2 reserve regiments to cover the Japanese from the north side of the Japanese army, with the intention of containing the Japanese army.

The remaining 2 divisions and 1 reserve regiment of the 4th Army were temporarily placed under the command of the 2nd Army to guard Liaoyang and resist the Russian army. Since the Harbin-Dalian line had been opened at this time, the armored train that landed in Lushun had arrived in Liaoyang, which also greatly strengthened Liaoyang's defensive strength, so that although the People's Army's strength in Liaoyang was only about 100,000, it was enough to hold Liaoyang, and it was also possible to pull out self-propelled artillery units and towed artillery units to the 3rd Army to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the 3rd Army.

However, the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army mainly relied on the strength of the southern front, the original marines and the 1st Army on the southern front, and the Qingdao side sent the 5th Army left in Shandong to the southern front to participate in the war, of course, two divisions were left in Shandong from the 5th Army, so in fact, only half of the divisions were transferred, and the only cavalry brigade of the People's Army that is currently formed, as well as the self-propelled artillery unit composed of two self-propelled guns, and armored units were transferred to the southern front, with a total strength of about 120,000. At the same time, it also dispatched Yueyang, Sanya, and battleship detachments to the mouth of the Yalu River to strengthen the firepower of the People's Army.

It should be said that the transfer of the 5th Army to Liaodong to participate in the war was a certain risk for Qingdao, because Qingdao only formed a guard division, plus the 5th Army left two divisions, and there were only 3 divisions in the whole of Shandong, with a total of about 40,000 troops guarding, in addition to 12 reserve regiments under training. Of course, such a force is somewhat weak, but the military group believes that there will be no large-scale fighting in Shandong for the time being, so there is no need to keep a large number of troops in Shandong, but should use the army where it is most needed.

Of course, even if a war breaks out in the mountains, the military group does not think there is much to worry about, because the East China Government's river and lake base areas are now developing well, and now they have organized three divisions and seven regiments, totaling about 60,000 troops.

It took time for these troops to be mobilized and arranged, so the KPA did not launch an attack on the Japanese army, giving the Japanese army almost two nights and one day to cross the river. However, due to the large number of Japanese troops and the large amount of baggage, although there were two nights and one day, they still did not finish the crossing, and although the supplies were basically sent to the east bank of the Yalu River, most of the soldiers and logistics personnel still stayed on the west bank. However, after crossing part of the army, it also weakened the Japanese army's strength on the west bank of the Yalu River, which was also more conducive to the KPA offensive.

So at 11 o'clock in the evening of June 6, the 3rd Army first launched an attack on Phoenix, and then the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship anchored at the mouth of the Yalu River destroyed the bridge built by the Japanese army on the Yalu River with the Haihongqi 16* shipboard, which also officially opened the prelude to the offensive of the People's Army.

On the southern front, the main direction of the KPA's attack, artillery positions had been arranged, and all the more than 800 artillery pieces had been concentrated, and at this time, the artillery on the positions also opened fire together, launching a fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese defense line, and on the sea, a total of nine warships of the battleship detachment and the ironclad ship detachment, also launched artillery bombardment on the Japanese positions on the shore to strengthen the army's strike.

The dense firepower covered almost all the positions of the Japanese army, and for a time the artillery roared, which was earth-shattering.

After about 15 minutes of shelling, KPA had dumped more than 20,000 shells into the Japanese position, and at that moment, KPA shelling seemed to have stopped about 3,000 meters in the middle of the Japanese line.

Although the Japanese positions were hit by heavy KPA fire, the Japanese defense line did not collapse, and the losses were within the limits of what the Japanese could bear. It turned out that the Japanese army and the KPA had fought many times, and they had a certain understanding of the KPA's tactics of concentrated firepower, and they had also come up with a countermeasure, although in a short period of time, the Japanese army could not build strong and tight fortifications, so the defense line was divided into two parts, and only about 1/4 of the troops were stationed on the first line, and 3/ The 4 troops were deployed on the second line about 2 kilometers behind, so that they could evade the KPA artillery fire, and as soon as the KPA stopped the shelling and launched an attack, the army of the second line immediately filled the first line and defended its position against the KPA attack.

As soon as the KPA shelling stopped, the Japanese troops on the second line immediately ran forward and rushed to the first line of positions to defend. It took about 7 or 8 minutes to trot forward at a distance of 2 km, and although the positions on the front line had been bombed beyond recognition by the KPA shelling, and the simply constructed positions were basically destroyed, the Japanese soldiers quickly found cover and prepared for battle. And those who couldn't find cover lay down on the ground. In short, the Japanese army was very quickly prepared, just waiting for the KPA to attack.

And at this moment, in the dark night ahead, there was a strange sound that the Japanese soldiers had never heard before, and it was getting bigger and bigger from far to near, and after a short time, dozens of huge figures appeared faintly in the darkness, and they were pressing towards the Japanese position. Although the night sky was clear today, the visual distance was only between 200 and 300, so seeing the shadow indicated that it was very close to the Japanese position.

Despite not knowing what it was, the Japanese soldiers still shot at the shadow, but fortunately the shadow was so large that most of the Japanese soldiers could still hit it even though it was dark.

However, only the sound of "ping pong" hitting the steel plate was heard, and the sparks flying in all directions could be seen very clearly, and the speed of the shadow's forward movement did not seem to slow down much.

The Japanese soldiers were also puzzled: What kind of weapons did the people's army use? At this moment, they only heard the "boom, boom, boom," and many figures erupted in dazzling flames, and explosions occurred in succession on the Japanese positions, and many Japanese soldiers died in the explosions without any cover. And some sharp-eyed Japanese soldiers vaguely saw through the light of the fire from the muzzles of the cannons that these figures were actually huge monsters with blue faces and fangs, and the sound they made was naturally the roar of this monster. Therefore, I couldn't help but be frightened, and some Japanese soldiers even shouted: "Monsters, monsters." ”

In fact, this is the armored unit of the People's Army, using the Type 05 amphibious combat vehicle, and in order to confuse the public, an iron-cast monster head is installed in the capital of each combat vehicle, and the paint of the combat vehicle has also been changed from the camouflage blue of the navy to a scaly armor pattern, which looks like a monster in the dark night.

There were no tanks in this era, Weapons like armored vehicles, even cars are still in the initial stage, so the Japanese soldiers don't say they haven't seen it, and they don't even have this concept, so the monster's statement was quickly recognized by the Japanese soldiers, and after this recognition, the more you look at it, the more you feel like a monster, even if it's close, you can roughly see the shape of the Type 05 amphibious combat vehicle, and there will be no other ideas, maybe the monster looks like this, and even the cannon has a plausible explanation, which is the artillery carried on the monster.

If it's just a monster, the Japanese army won't do anything, but a monster that is invulnerable and can't be killed by bullets, it's very scary, not to mention that this monster can carry an artillery cannon on its back, and there is more than one such monster, and I don't know how many such monsters the People's Army raises, so the Japanese army's will to resist quickly collapsed, and the whole line was defeated.

This time, the armored forces put in a total of 21 Type 05 amphibious combat vehicles, including 7 amphibious tanks and 14 warrior vehicles, forming 7 combat groups, which spread horizontally for about 2,000 meters.

Originally, the armored troops were deployed on the battlefield of the Western Front and were ready to participate in the battle on the Western Front, but because the People's Army was well prepared, and there were three trump cards of armored trains, self-propelled guns, and towed artillery, they fought very smoothly in the two battles of Liaohe and Liaoyang, so they did not use this trump card unit, so this time they surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army, and the armored troops were transferred to the battlefield of the southern front. Since Luo Yue only had 2 self-propelled guns in his hand, and there were no armored trains and towed artillery, he naturally had to reuse this trump card.

Finally, there is a place to use, and the soldiers of the armored forces are also very excited, and they have saved up enough energy to fight a beautiful battle, which is not only to establish meritorious service for themselves, but because the research and development of armored vehicles has been established in the East China government, so the armored forces naturally have to come up with some achievements that prove the role of the armored forces.

The breakthrough of the armored forces was very easy, it took less than half an hour, and if you deduct the time of marching, the actual time is not even 15 minutes, and the Japanese defense line was completely crushed. In this way, the KPA tore a large gap of more than 2,000 meters in the Japanese position, and the KPA army, which was in battle with the armored troops, immediately launched separate attacks on the Japanese positions on both sides of the gap and continued to widen the gap; at the same time, the KPA also completely stopped shelling and launched an attack on the entire line of the Japanese position. Luo Yue, on the other hand, ordered the marines to quickly break through the gap and directly attack Jiulian City.

After receiving the report that the position on the southern front had been broken through by the KPA, Dashanyan was also so shocked that he was speechless for a long time, because this was really too fast, even if it started with the KPA's artillery bombardment, it took less than one hour, and the KPA's combat effectiveness was really strong to this point? The reason why Dashanyan allowed the wounded soldiers and supplies to cross the Yalu River first was because he was confident in the defense line he had arranged, and although it was impossible to block the KPA's attack, Dashanyan thought that he would defend 2. 3 days is still possible, so that the Japanese army also has enough time to retreat, but they did not expect to hold it for even 1 hour.