Chapter 463: Encircling and Annihilating the Japanese Army (7)

It turned out that Dashanyan finally ordered the Japanese army to gather in Yaogou after the defeat, and then try to cross the river, so most of the Japanese army after the defeat, as long as there is still an organized army, they all withdrew to Yaogou to converge, so at this time 100,000 people gathered in Yaogou, including the remnants of the 1st Army, the 2nd Army, and the 4th Army, because the military headquarters of the 1st Army had crossed the Yalu River, and the 4th Army suffered heavy losses, and there were not many people left, so all the Japanese troops put the commander of the 2nd Army, General Obaogong, in charge of the commander-in-chief. However, at this time, there were only more than 30,000 Japanese troops gathered in Yaogou, and another 70,000 or 80,000 were logistics personnel.

In addition to building bridges over the Yalu River, the Japanese army also set up four ferry ports, each with two or three small steamers and more than 10 wooden boats. However, there is no ferry in Yaogou, and the draft of the steamer is deep, can not dock, so can only use wooden boats to cross the river, now the Japanese army has collected more than 10 wooden boats, each boat can accommodate 30-100 soldiers, Ao Baogong on the one hand in the Yaogou around the arrangement of garrison troops; on the other hand, he ordered people to cross the river by boat, send people to Sun Island, and then take the pontoon bridge on the east side of Sun Island to the east bank of the Yalu River, and carry a rope with the boat to tie it on the trees on the opposite bank, so that the personnel and soldiers who know the water can swim across the river.

Among the Japanese army and logistics personnel, there are a lot of people who know how to get water, and the distance of more than 300 meters is not too far, and it is now June, and the river is not cold, so it is not difficult to swim across the river, but the water flow of the Yalu River is quite rapid, and after all, most of the Japanese army still do not know water or are slightly watery, and it is quite difficult to swim across the Yalu River.

In a short time, several wooden boats had rowed to the opposite bank, and the soldiers tied the ropes to the trees, so they pulled out four or five ropes between the two banks, and some soldiers who knew how to water also hurriedly went into the water and pulled the ropes across the river.

But at this moment, the People's Army launched an attack on Yaogou. It turned out that after receiving the notice from the 4th Army, Luo Yue ordered the 4th Army to attack the Japanese army first to contain the Japanese army, and he would immediately send troops to reinforce it, so the 4th Army immediately launched an attack on the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army deployed garrison troops around the perimeter, the sound of guns and artillery still made the Japanese soldiers on the shore, In order to compete for the boats, the soldiers refused to give in to each other, and even fought in a big way, and some soldiers even opened fire in order to fight for the boats, just to gain a chance of survival; some wooden boats were overloaded and the draft was extremely deep, and the side of the boat was almost level with the surface of the water, and the river water could pour into the cabin at the slightest wave; after some wooden boats sailed to the shore, there were still many people who were on the side of the wooden boats, making the wooden boats rock, and two wooden boats did not know whether they were overloaded or were shaken by the people in the water, one entered the water and sank, and the other turned over。

When the other people on board saw this, they were all frightened, and some of them pushed people into the water to lighten the load of the wooden boat; some of the people on board smashed their hands on the side of the boat with bayonets and * slammed their hands, and some of them opened fire; of course, there were also soldiers who did not grab the boat and were angry and raised their guns on the shore to shoot at the boat; and some people on the boat shot back, and for a moment the voices of people were boiling, and the shouts, shouts, gunshots, and exclamations rang out into one piece, and the whole scene was extremely chaotic.

There are also some people who know a little water so that they do not participate in the competition of boats, but choose to swim across the river with ropes, but because there are too many people and the river is quite urgent, some people cannot hold the rope when they swim to the center of the river, and are washed away by the river; some people who are grabbing and pulling on the rope are too many people to bear the strength and collapse, and as a result, the river is also full of people who are struggling and desperately crying for help.

Although Ao Baogong was promoted to the commander-in-chief, he was unable to call it at this time and could not control the situation. Because except for some high-ranking officers and nearly a hundred guards and soldiers around him, no one listened to his command at all, so at this time, he could only stand on a high slope and smile bitterly at this chaotic scene. However, they did not participate in the boat crossing the river, and they did not seem to be in a hurry.

It turned out that Ao Baogong had already arranged a retreat for himself, and when he first arrived at Yaogou, Ao Baogong found two wooden boats and a small steamer, arranged to hide 10 kilometers upstream, and sent his own henchmen to lead people to guard, in fact, he could cross the river at any time, but Ao Baogong hoped to organize as many people as possible to cross the river and save more vitality for the Japanese army, so he never left.

But as the gunfire got closer, one of the guards reported that the army guarding the perimeter had been defeated by the KPA, and that the KPA was about to reach the river. It turned out that the 4th Army did overestimate the strength of the Japanese army, in fact, although the number of people gathered in Yaogou was large, but the number of troops was actually not as large as the 4th Army, and the morale of the Japanese army was low, and the morale of the Japanese army was low, although it was at the defensive end, but it was not the opponent of the People's Army at all, and it was quickly defeated by the People's Army, so the 4th Army immediately killed the riverside.

The guards' report was not finished, only two "booms" were heard, and it turned out that two shells fell on the shore and exploded in the crowd, and at this time the Japanese soldiers were even more panicked, and some even fled along the river. And at this moment, I saw a group of small boats coming from the lower reaches of the Yalu River, firing at the middle of the river and the riverbank.

It turned out that this group of small boats was the inland river fleet built by the East China government, which were all small military boats of more than 100 tons, with a 75-mm gun installed in the bow and a 50-mm rapid-fire gun installed in the stern, and two machine gun mounts on the left and right sides, and the firepower was quite strong. After receiving the report of the 4th Army, Luo Yue was not sure how many Japanese troops had gathered in Yaogou, and now the battlefield was fragmented, and more than 10 gathering points of the scattered Japanese army had to send troops to clear them, and the occupied places had to be guarded by the army, so Luo Yue could only send two divisions at most to assist the 4th Army in the battle, and Luo Yue was worried about the lack of troops, so he sent the river fleet out for reinforcements, thinking that as long as the river fleet could block the river and make the Japanese army unable to cross the river, it would be enough to concentrate on cleaning up the Japanese army after the Japanese army in other places was cleared。

The river flotilla consisted of two sub-fleets, each with five warships, one fleet sailed into the west channel of Sun Island to reinforce the shore operations, while the other fleet sailed into the east channel of Sun Island to destroy the pontoon bridge erected on this section of the river. Thus completely cutting off the way for the Japanese army to escape across the river.

Five warships destroyed two pontoon bridges is naturally a breeze, very smoothly completed the task, originally at this time on the Sun Island there were more than 2,000 people, but most of them did not cross the Sun Island, arrived at the east bank of the Yalu River, because they thought that the Sun Island would be basically safe, and some people were robbing boats to cross the river, after landing on the island, they were somewhat ashamed, so they all stayed on the Sun Island, to assist other soldiers to cross the river, at least they could meet in the water near the shore, and even to rescue the people near the shore, how much could they do something, in order to seek psychological comfort, as a result, the pontoon bridge was destroyed, these people were trapped on the island, unable to advance or retreatSome soldiers could not stand the ups and downs of psychological emotions, and even collapsed on the spot, lying on the shore and crying.

Another detachment lined up on the west channel of Sun Island, firing at the shore and putting machine guns on the ship's gunwales to attack the Japanese soldiers struggling in the river, breaking several wooden boats to pieces, and cutting the ropes across the river, only to scatter the Japanese troops on the shore, and to kill countless wounds, and the river was full of floating corpses, and even the river water was dyed red.

At this time, Obaogong and the others also knew that the general trend was gone, if they did not leave at this time, they would probably not be able to go when the People's Army came to the encirclement, so they quickly left from the high ground and marched towards the march, fortunately, the number of their group was not large, and the riverside was already in chaos, no one noticed their movements, and finally escaped from the encirclement of the People's Army. On the upstream riverside, two hidden boats and steamboats were found, and the boats boarded the steamboats.

Okubaogong ordered the steamer to drive to the other side of the Yalu River, and at this time, Nozu said: "Okubaojun, we can't cross the Yalu River immediately, it's better to go upriver for a while." ”

Obao Gong was stunned, and immediately understood the intention of Nozu Daokan, although the place where they got on the ship was about 10 kilometers away from Yaogou, but now there are warships of the People's Army in the Yalu River, and the steamer is unarmed, considering the range of the ship's guns, this is by no means a safe distance, and it is certainly safer to drive a few kilometers upstream.

So the steamer immediately drove at full power, headed for the upper reaches of the Yalu River, drove for more than 40 minutes in one go, and drove a distance of about 7 or 8 kilometers, and then turned to the east bank of the Yalu River. After Obao Gong stepped on land, he was completely relieved, and he felt a sense of the rest of his life.

However, although Obao Gong and his entourage arrived safely on the east bank of the Yalu River, the soldiers and logistics personnel who remained on the west bank, including those who fled to Sun Island, were not so lucky, and under the attack of the People's Army on land and water, the Japanese army was beaten with heavy casualties, and there was no way to escape, because it was completely surrounded by the People's Army, and the Yalu River was behind it, so they could only choose to surrender in the end.

Although the overall situation of the war was decided at this time, it was only three days later that the People's Army could be regarded as basically eliminating the scattered Japanese troops. In the final count, the KPA killed 106843 Japanese soldiers and captured 41,563 prisoners, killed 227374 Japanese logistics personnel and captured 128743 prisoners, and killed 11,478 and wounded 18,634. In the end, about 140,000 Japanese troops fled to the east bank of the Yalu River, including 50,000 wounded soldiers, about 40% of the total strength invested by Japan in Liaodong, and only more than 200,000 logistics personnel.

In addition, although most of the Japanese army's supplies had already crossed the Yalu River, the KPA still captured a large amount of weapons and ammunition, including more than 100,000 rifles, more than 150 artillery pieces, more than 3,000 horses, and a lot of bullets and shells.

Judging by the casualty ratio alone, it can be regarded as a brilliant victory. And after this war, the People's Army also completely expelled Japan's forces out of the Liaodong Peninsula, although Japan has not completely withdrawn from the big game in Northeast Asia, but in the important card game of Liaodong, Japan has lost the qualification of the player, becoming the first player to be eliminated, and the card game of Liaodong has been killed by the three countries, and has become a bet between the East China government and Russia.