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Andong City is located more than 250 kilometers east of Shenyang, bordering Anshan in the west, the Yellow Sea in the south, Benxi in the north, and Yiju County on the Korean Peninsula across the river in the east. As it had been in the first year of the First Wu Dynasty 20 years ago, tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers had once again gathered here to prepare for an expedition across the river to Korea.

In Jiulian City, in the headquarters of the 52nd Division temporarily set up here, Zhang Zuolin looked at the sand table in front of him worriedly with the dim oil lamp. Although after the start of the war, the troops of the Ninth Army in the rear continued to send good news from all over the country, and although the troops under him now have undergone earth-shaking changes compared with before, both in terms of the quality of soldiers and weapons and equipment, he has participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, has seen Japan and Russia, and still has lingering fears about the Japanese Army's spirit of fearless death.

Perhaps feeling that the air in the room was a little dull, Zhang Zuolin was about to step out, but he didn't want to hear a rush of footsteps outside the door, accompanied by the voice of Zhang Zuoxiang, the commander of the 52nd Division, from afar: "Big brother, big..."

Waiting for Zhang Zuoxiang, who was wrapped in a military coat, ran into his division headquarters with surprise on his face, and after seeing Zhang Zuolin who was glaring at him angrily, he couldn't help laughing twice, and forcibly held back the word "brother" behind him. He naturally knows that there are many more rules in the People's Army now, and he can get used to shouting like this before, but now it is difficult to change it for a while.

After a while, after remembering those old brothers at the beginning, only Zhang Zuoxiang is still serving under him, Zhang Zuolin slowed down his face and asked: "Fu Chen (Zhang Zuoxiangzi), what is the matter?" ”

"Commander, great victory, great victory! Look, this is a war briefing forwarded by the military region. Speaking of business, Zhang Zuoxiang couldn't help cheering again.

"A big victory?" Hearing these two words, Zhang Zuolin was stunned at first, and then after reaching out to take the telegram, he saw that it was written: "At 3 o'clock this afternoon, the navy dispatched air forces to attack the port of Arthur and inflicted heavy damage on the Second Fleet of the Japanese Navy. ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! Zhang Zuoxiang came to Zhang Zuolin's side in three steps and two steps, and said happily: "The navy itself sank so many warships of the Japanese without a single casualty, isn't this a great victory!" ”

Compared with Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuoxiang obviously does not have so many worries. Although there is still a Yalu River between the two sides, he still weighed the strength of the Japanese on the opposite side in the past two days, and the infantry is not to say, but their artillery is really beaten by himself and does not dare to take the lead.

The artillery of the People's Army basically inherited the tradition of the artillery of a certain army in later generations, and the tactics were very particular about the combination of layers and multiple points. Unlike the Japanese army in this era, which almost lined up all the artillery in a straight line, the People's Army deployed the battalion as a unit at multiple angles behind the infantry position, and at the same time carried out artillery fire output to the front, coupled with the large number of artillery in its hands, the performance was superior, especially with 105 and 155, two levels that the Japanese army could not compare with for the time being, so that in the artillery battle across the river in these two days, the Japanese artillery losses could not be described only as bleak.

"The brother troops are fighting well, so our 18th Army must not be able to fight next!" At this time, Zhang Zuolin simply threw away the worries in his heart and let go of his mind. At this time, he was not the Zhang Dashuai who dominated the Northeast in later generations, although he was quite scheming, but after seeing the methods of the Communist Party, he had already extinguished that little bit of caution, but instead thought about performing well wholeheartedly, and then added two little stars on his shoulders, so that he would return to his hometown in the future.

Seeing Zhang Zuolin like this, Zhang Zuoxiang was also very happy, and immediately said: "As for the thousands of Oriental Luo laps on the other side, I promise that you will take down a charge for the commander." ”

"Fu Chen must not underestimate the enemy, although we had the upper hand in the artillery battle before, but the overall strength of the Japanese infantry did not suffer much loss." Looking at the excited old subordinates opposite, Zhang Zuolin couldn't help frowning and pouring cold water.

After hearing this, Zhang Zuoxiang also quickly calmed down. In the past two days, he only thought about the victories that his side had continuously achieved, and only thought about how many machine guns and how many cannons his troops were equipped with now, but he forgot that there is a saying called lion and elephant fighting rabbit, all with all his strength. The 38th Wing of the Japanese Army, stationed on the opposite side, not to mention the total number of infantry in the whole wing, more than 4,000 infantry, plus logistics and the artillery and cavalry wings brought by it, the total strength is about 7,000, and it has reached the scale of half of its own division. He was not only the first member of the imperial family to enter the Japanese Army University to study, but also studied tactics at the German Military Academy for three years. How the German military is, even Zhang Zuoxiang knows it.

Zhang Zuolin's face remained unchanged, he glanced at Zhang Zuoxiang, who was secretly sweating beside him, and said in a deep voice: "According to the original plan, we will launch a general attack at 0:00:00 tonight, and we will cross the river and enter Korea with the First Army from Andong and Ji'an respectively. Chairman Xiao, Chief of General Staff Chiang, and Commander Zhang will all look at us at that time, and whether the 18th Army is a hero or a bear, it will be up to you when the time comes. ”

"Don't worry, Commander! Our brothers guarantee that all of them will not be of bad seeds. This time, Zhang Zuoxiang's face looked extremely solemn.

"Okay, it's almost time now." Raising his arm and looking at the brand-new watch on his wrist, Zhang Zuolin said: "This time your division is the first attack, you go down and prepare!" ”

"Yes, Commander!"

Not to mention the People's Army on Andong's side, let's just talk about the 38th Wing of the Japanese Army on the Sinuiju side, and the 38th Wing of the Japanese Army, its Dazuo Wing, King Kunihiko of the Long Palace, seemed extremely irritable at this time. The bureaucrats in the country are all fools, and they have sent several telegrams asking them to rely on the favorable terrain of the local area to snipe and transfer in layer by layer, but they have ruthlessly rejected them. Wait, wait, when will the reinforcements come? The Fifth Division is ready to board the ship, but the battle on the banks of the Yalu River is about to break out now!

King Kunihiko Kurenomiya was born in the Japanese imperial family, and he studied military affairs in Germany, so he has a wide range of knowledge and broad horizons, so he is naturally different from those young Zhuang officers who are empty-eyed and brainwashed by the spirit of bushido. Although the scale and intensity of the artillery battles that were fought across the river in the past two days were not too great, he still saw a lot of things from the artillery wing that suffered heavy losses. Needless to say, there are only a few planes in the entire empire, and some of them are very primitive; Let's talk about artillery, the two levels of 105 and 155, the Imperial Army has only just begun to have a small amount of equipment, but the opposite side has already been large-scale, dozens of vehicles. This is only the size of a division, and if it is expanded to the entire People's Army, then how can it be calculated?

Today's China Army is no longer the China Army of three or four years ago, and the disparity between the enemy and our forces has become so great that it is ridiculous that those fools in China are still so arrogant.

At this time, King Kunihiko of Kurenomiya did not know that the second fleet of his own navy had been destroyed by the other party, and he only hated that he was now a lowly official and a low-minded person, and he could not influence the decision-making of the upper echelons of the empire. He is still young, and he is not afraid of death for the great cause of the empire, but this does not mean that he wants to make unnecessary sacrifices.

Thinking like this, King Kunihiko of Kurenomiya couldn't resist the tiredness on his body for several days, and lay on the bed and began to fall into a deep sleep.

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November 14, 0:00:00.

"Ready!"

On the banks of the Yalu River, in the dark and dreary night, with a password coming from the telephone in the headquarters, the People's Army deployed artillery positions in more than 10 areas, including Yuanbaoshan, Shahe Town, Jiuliancheng, and Hushan, and artillery of various types of calibers began to slowly raise their barrels.

Cui Pei was the commander of the 18th Artillery Brigade of the People's Army and the actual commander of the artillery operation. At this moment, he was very excited, when he was in Beiyang, he commanded only one regiment of 75 mountain artillery, but now it is more than four regiments of heavy artillery. While he knows the pressure, he doesn't know that this is also an opportunity for himself.

"Fire!" Cui Pei almost shouted these two words in a roaring manner.

The rumbling sound of cannon suddenly broke the silence on the riverside, and clusters of orange fireballs began to explode on the opposite bank. The positions built by the Japanese army with deer firewood and sandbags were bombarded by artillery shells in an instant, stumps and broken arms rolled and shattered in the air waves, and steel fragments were screaming and harvesting lives. After a while, the shell explosion point was dense and it was impossible to distinguish, especially the 155 howitzer was even more powerful, the momentum was terrifying, and every explosion could leave a huge gap in the position.

Although the Japanese artillery fire also quickly began to counterattack, but at this moment, it seems that their counterattack is sparse and sparse, so weak. The shells went back and forth for a moment, and the Japanese artillery fire was dumb again.

After only more than ten minutes, the forward positions of the Japanese army in the hills along the river were no longer visible, but the KPA shelling continued. In order to ensure the success of the river crossing, the artillery of the 18th Army took out all the 300,000 shells stored in Andong this time, and they did not worry about the problem of ammunition supply at all, because they already knew that nearly half of the ten trains on the train from Guannai to Andong were shells.

The one-sided artillery fire marked countless bright spots in the night sky, and in the darkness at the foot of Tiger Mountain, in the woods outside Jiulian City, it was densely packed with People's Army officers and soldiers waiting for orders to attack. At the front of the crowd was Yang Yuting, the head of the 154th Regiment, and at this time, he was using a voice that only the people around him could hear, and Zhense said:

"North Korea, we are back, returning after twenty years!"