On 28 November, on the night when the air force had achieved a good victory, Jang Hyo-huai, who had already arrived in Uiju in North Korea to take command, also issued a timely order to capture Pyongyang after completing the adjustment and deployment of various units on the front line. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Pyongyang Plain and the Anshun Plain were under heavy artillery fire, and an unprecedented battle between China and Japan began. The Chinese army attacked from three sides and tried to move closer to Pyongyang, but the Japanese army blocked it layer by layer, refusing to give in an inch. After a few days of fierce fighting, although the KPA side relied on its superiority in equipment to approach Pingcheng, Shun'an, Songlin and other places one after another, and constantly compressed the Japanese front, correspondingly, the Japanese army continued to shrink its strength and carried out key fortifications, which made the offensive speed of the various units of the KPA inevitably slow down.

The generals on both sides were no slouches, and they soon realized this.

Zhang Xiaohuai believes that the frontal attack has achieved little effect at present, and it seems that we should consider a flank detour, bypassing the Japanese sniper line, and stabbing the Japanese army on the flank, so as to cut off the communication between the various units of the Japanese army, so that it will be exposed to the enemy on the belly and back, and will collapse without a fight. Coincidentally, Nagaoka felt that in the face of the enemy's equipment advantage, the consumption of frontal sniping was too great, so it could not just be beaten there, for the imperial warriors, offense has always been the most effective defense, especially in the face of the current situation, only attacking the enemy's logistics supply line is a clever move.

So, they began to whirl their gaze, stared at the map, and made a quick decision.

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That night, on the Pyongyang Plain of North Korea, the 3rd Armored Division of the People's Army, led by the "White Tiger Regiment" and followed closely by the troops of the 7th Tank Regiment and the 9th Armored Regiment, began to rush to the southeast of Pyongseong. In this predetermined battle plan, the task of their division was very simple, that is, to cross Pyongseong, run for more than ten miles, capture the Taeseongsan area not far from Pyongyang, and cut off the interconnection between the Japanese army in Pyongyang and the 8th and 11th divisions of the Japanese army on the central and eastern fronts.

According to the reconnaissance report of the Air Force, it is now completely certain that the Dachengshan area is an important base for the Japanese army to provide logistical supplies to the two master regiments on the front line.

At the beginning, Zhang Xiaohuai, who discovered this, did not think about it and took the lead in defeating this place, but first, the bombing of the air force was not ideal, and second, there was no effective mobile unit in his hands to use, so he had to give up in the end. But now, the 3rd Armored Division, which has returned to the battlefield after resting, and Zhang Xiaohuai, who holds the trump card in his hand, will naturally not tolerate the long-term existence of this thorn in the eye and thorn in the flesh.

Of course, Zhang Xiaohuai at this time never expected that his opponent, Lieutenant General Nagaoka Gaishi, not only had similar ideas to him, but also sent a sneak attack force, nearly 3,000 Japanese cavalry from two cavalry wings, and was also rushing non-stop in the direction that the Third Armored Division wanted to go.

So, the next day, at about seven o'clock in the morning, when the troops on both sides with high mobility speed suddenly collided in a sudden collision, and then cut together at an angle of nearly 180 degrees, the first real duel between cavalry and tank in history began!

On the plains, on one side are steel monsters emitting white smoke, while on the other side are strong and fierce elite cavalry. In this encounter, neither side was too prepared, and even when their final commanders had not really reacted, more than 800 cavalrymen from three squadrons of the Japanese army had already fought with a tank battalion and more than 20 tanks of the "White Tiger Regiment" of the People's Army.

When the Japanese cavalry shouted and began to charge at the Chinese tanks, their momentum even frightened the tankers in the tank to the point that their faces turned a little pale, and the result of the whitening was that they began to pull the trigger of the machine gun rigidly, and then used the muzzle of the tank gun to continuously shoot shells at the Japanese cavalry group, sending countless charging Japanese cavalry to see the god Amaterasu they believed in.

Although there were still a lot of lucky people who were lucky enough to rush through the death barrage woven by shells and machine gun bullets, when they stared at the tank with blood-red eyes, brandished their sabers and rushed to the tank, and then angrily swung their sabers and slashed at the tank, the result was that except for the dazzling sparks between the sabers in their hands and the tank, they never left even a trace of scars on the tank.

Gradually, the Japanese cavalry began to despair, and in the repeated slashing, they could only be strafed by the Chinese tanks in front and behind with machine gun bullets!

As the sun rose, the sound of artillery and gunfire gradually began to cease. Around the tanks and armored vehicles of the Chinese army, countless cavalry and war horse corpses had fallen at this time, and the more than 800 Japanese cavalry who launched a charge at this time were all wiped out except for dozens of people who fled from the battlefield.

In the first duel between tanks and cavalry, the Japanese cavalry originally wanted to rely on their higher mobility and flexibility to intercept the Chinese army, but what they didn't expect was that they were attacked head-on by the other side as soon as they made contact. Although the result was dramatic, the Japanese cavalry no longer had the courage to do anything about the cavalry charging the tanks on their own initiative.

The Japanese cavalry over there did not dare to charge, but the Chinese armored forces here were not happy. Therefore, with the support of heavy firepower from behind, they did not hesitate to start their tanks, led the infantry of the aircraft battalion, and took the initiative to rush to the temporary position of the Japanese cavalry. But I didn't want to, the Japanese cavalry at this time had become frightened birds, and they didn't resist even for a moment, so they chose to retreat directly.

The unforgiving Chinese army naturally will not choose to stop there. So, after a series of pursuits, they not only caused more than 200 casualties to the Japanese cavalry, but also allowed them to rush into Dacheng Mountain.

The news of the victory was transmitted back to the rear, and Zhang Xiaohuai and others were smiling. Political Commissar Xiong Tong said with a smile: "Taking Dacheng Mountain, I finally put a knife on the chest of the old boy in the history of Changgang!" ”

"What the political commissar said is right, once Daeseongsan is in hand, the Japanese army on both fronts will definitely be shaken on the whole front, and now the 52nd Division will succeed on the western front, and then successfully encircle Pyongyang." Next to him, Li Gengen was also in a good mood. When the Japanese troops on the periphery are swept away, it will only be a matter of time before the city changes hands if only the two garrison brigades in the city are used.

As soon as Li Gengen's voice fell, Zhang Xiaohuai frowned. Speaking of the Western Front, he originally did not pay attention to the Fifth Division stationed there, the division that had been half-crippled by the Navy's submarine forces, but he didn't expect that under the command of his division commander Otani Kikuzo, they would become even more difficult than the fully staffed Eighth and Eleventh Divisions. After the 52nd Division took Nanpu and attacked Songlin, they actually fought for each hill and front by front. This is really in response to the old saying, the mourning soldiers will win!

"Telegraph to Zhang Zuoxiang, take the pine forest for me within three days, and close the retreat of the Japanese army in Pyongyang!" Zhang Xiaohuai pondered for a moment, and then added: "In addition, assign the bomber regiment of the Second Air Division to them.

"Yes!"

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The winter wind, cold and swishing, went straight to the neck, but in the afternoon of that day, there was a rare calm on the battlefield on the western front in Pyongyang. Otani Kikuzo was a little panicked for the calm on the battlefield, but Zhang Zuoxiang on the other side was full of depression because of the order sent by the headquarters. The deadline is three days, and the pine forest is taken, but how easy it is to say!

The Fifth Division, after all, was the ace division of the Japanese army, and even though its own troops were now well-equipped and well-trained, they were still blocked from this town a few miles away from the pine forest when they faced the strength of only one brigade. Two days passed, and he successively threw the 155th Regiment and the 156th Regiment to attack in turn, but all of them ended in failure. How many times did he see through his binoculars that the Japanese positions were covered by his own artillery fire, and the troops had rushed into the town, but how many times did he see the Japanese soldiers crawl out of the fire and drive the troops out with bayonets.

"Division commander, order from the theater command, we..."

"It's okay, an order is an order, we must carry it out, and the pine forest must be taken!" Seeing that the chief of staff was a little worried, Zhang Zuoxiang shook his hand and interrupted him: "Didn't the above give us a bomber regiment?" Didn't the commander send us a regiment of reinforcements? After fighting for so many days, I really want to see how many people are left in Little Japan on the other side. ”

Zhang Zuoxiang didn't care about it, but in his heart, he had secretly made a battle plan. He realized that in the past, the offensive was carried out on all fronts each time, in order to complete the battle in one battle, but the result was often a quick and unreachable goal, and finally because of the lack of follow-up, he was driven out by the Japanese army. Therefore, this time he decided to take the battalion step by step, and after attacking it, he was not busy attacking in depth, but preparing to hold on to the spot to resist the Japanese counterattack. This was repeated several times, constantly encroaching on the Japanese front, and then carrying out a counteroffensive on the whole line in the end, which could completely annihilate the enemy in a corner.

So, that night, the 52nd Division, having captured two streets, stopped the offensive. Although this change made Otani Kikuzo a little unpredictable, he still urged his subordinates to carry out a counteroffensive to prevent the front from being eroded. But gradually, two days later, after a few battles, he finally found that the Chinese just want you to counterattack, let you attack with their dense firepower, and then use the existing fortifications to consume your living strength, leaving you with heavy casualties. Unfortunately, he found out a little late after all. By this time, nearly two-thirds of the town was in the hands of the Chinese army.

Zhang Zuoxiang's long-planned counteroffensive opportunity began to arrive as scheduled.