Chapter 408: The paratroopers attack
Three days later, Luo Yang's troops had made all the preparations, and they only started at night, when suddenly, an accident happened,
The U.S. Second Fleet suddenly pulled anchor and set sail, and bombarded the area around Mawei Harbor for a while, and then, heading out to the open sea, also bombed the city of Fuzhou, causing quite serious casualties, and the fire of the houses in the streets of Fuzhou stained the night sky red.
According to later statistics, there were more than 300 casualties among the villagers in the Mawei area alone, and hundreds of houses were blown up, while the losses in Fuzhou were even more severe, with 1,000 houses damaged, more than 2,000 people killed, and more than 1,000 injured.
After the bombardment, the US fleet also carried out a new attack on the hidden place of the Luoyang mixed brigade, and the naval guns and large-caliber shells were extremely powerful, causing dozens of casualties among officers and men.
At that time, the Huaxia Army was in chaos, and even Luo Yang himself was quite dizzy.
After the disaster to the country and the people, the American fleet smoothly returned to the open sea, then anchored, and sent officers and men to land, loot and burn and kill, in retaliation.
At that time, there was no accurate information on why the U.S. military was like this, but Luo Yang's keen intuition was that there must have been a traitor and a traitor on our side.
Chinese history is the history of a large number of traitors and traitors, and history has been distorted a lot because of this.
Urgently contacted Zuo Zongtang, Zuo was also inexplicable, and the reason for his judgment was also like this, he quickly dispatched the dismantled coastal artillery, etc., and prepared to bombard the US fleet when necessary, first, to prevent the enemy from attacking again, and second, to retaliate against the US army.
Just when Luo Yang was in distress, a good news came,
The special operations unit was at the landing site, playing the role of a civilian, oh, a female citizen aged fifteen or sixteen, with colorful clothes and a writhing buttocks, and as a result, the American GIs were attracted to a reinforced platoon, whoa, all came up,
There was a burst of random guns, from the squad leader to the team members, and the American soldiers were either killed or wounded, and then, the living ones were captured and became tongues to the Luoyang army.
It was more troublesome to interrogate, but fortunately, the special combat personnel were able to speak a few foreign languages, intimidation, deterrence, and even torture.
Although he knew that the squadron was plotting against himself, Major General Bowen was still very confident, he felt that China's so-called cannons actually did not have a few, and the range and caliber of the cannon were really not as powerful as his naval artillery, so he continued to stay outside the mouth of the Min River confrontively, wanting to fight a decisive battle with the Huaxia Army.
In fact, on the naval fleet, Rear Admiral Bowen was annoyed and angry, "The Chinese actually dare to deceive us, hum, they are looking for death, we will not leave, waiting for a decisive battle with them." ”
Major General Bowen also planned to wait a few days, and when the coastal batteries of the Chinese defense of the Min River were restored, he would attack himself to see how capable the Chinese were.
Because of his anger, Major General Bowen announced indulgence in military discipline, and random officers and soldiers went ashore to rob and play,
It is precisely because of this that Luo Yang has been given a major opportunity,
In winter, the wax moon, blowing northwest wind is the majority, although these days are not too strong, but, for the paratroopers who fight across the sea, there is definitely a convenient condition for sailing with a tailwind.
Scouts were dispatched, repeated reconnaissance, and the location of the US Second Fleet was confirmed, and more than a dozen warships were moored in black pressure at a position 500 meters outside the mouth of the Min River.
According to the prisoners of war, the American fleet will not leave for three days,
The best plan to attack the enemy's warships is to lure the enemy's troops into landing for operation; otherwise, no matter how fierce their own special combat forces are, they will not be able to defeat so many enemies, and the battle in Weihai is because the main force of the US army has already been lured and annihilated in Dagu, and there is no great disparity between the more than 300 special combat personnel and the 1,300 US troops.
Luo Yang didn't tell Zuo Zongtang to do anything again, because he was worried that the traitors and ghosts would appear by Zuo Zongtang's side, anyway, the former Qing officials, there are indeed people who don't feel at ease to be obedient to the people.
Dispatched a lot of officers and soldiers, disguised as civilians, at the landing site of the American army, and the American army to fight, guerrilla warfare, fight and run, sometimes, attacked the American army, killed more than a dozen people, triumphantly,
According to the strength, the Luoyang Army, not to mention the mixed brigade, is a special operations unit, with more than 600 people, all of which are very terrifying existences.
Repeatedly attacked the U.S. landing force, but did not fight, so that the U.S. ** team was both annoyed and not afraid, otherwise, these turtles slipped away, and it would be a bamboo basket to draw water.
This is to stick tightly to the US military,
Sure enough, the U.S. military was fooled, and in two days, a large number of U.S. troops landed ashore and repeatedly attacked the area around the Minjiang River, adopting barbaric methods, robbing, massacring, and raping them.
Luo Yang's troops, divided into small units, repeatedly attacked the enemy, and as a result, in the afternoon of the same day, most of the American troops landed and operated, and the battleships were also driven closer.
In the evening, at about half past four in the afternoon, Luo Yang suddenly launched an attack, and sent a mixed brigade, almost overwhelmingly, using hidden flying thunder cannons and new rifles, to defeat the US landing force with heavy losses, and half of the more than 2,000 people who landed were directly killed.
At this time, the northwest wind rose again, although it was not big, but it was just right, and the wind was too strong to control.
At five o'clock, the American troops, who had been defeated badly, were dizzy, hurriedly retreated, and fled to the small boats on the riverside coastline, while the American Second Fleet, in response, opened fierce fire on the shore.
Finally, the American troops retreated to the small ship and were about to board the battleship, and the sky seemed to be rapidly darkening.
At this time, the U.S. ** team didn't know that a major turning point had occurred.
In order to get the US Second Fleet, Luo Yang spared no effort and gave a death order, that is, the special operations forces were wiped out, and this fleet should also be taken down, and all its ships should be taken into his hands.
For this reason, more than 600 special operations troops of the Luoyang Army almost poured out their nests, and when the sun was about to enter the mountain, they quickly waited at a high place, jumped over, and rushed out of the coastline.
This was a tragic takeoff, because the position was not high enough, more than 30 officers and soldiers fell to their deaths, and because of the deformation of take-off and gliding technology, 18 more people fell into the sea on the way, and 10 people, because the night generals, when chasing the lights on the US ** ship, did not grasp it well, and directly crashed into the deck and died.
In this battle, the abnormal loss of officers and soldiers reached as many as 68, which can be described as heavy.
However, the loss was worth it, and the choice of this fighter was suitable,
The U.S. ** team was scrambling to save their defeated soldiers, and suddenly, some whirring wind sounded in their ears,
This is the gliding paratroopers,
In order to ensure the victory of the battle, Luo Yang also formulated the tactics of occupying the core and concentrating the superiority, and the battleship USS Lexington of the US army became the hardest hit area, at least 120 gliding paratroopers landed, carrying grenades and triangular thorns, and some of them did not land, so they began to attack, and the heads of the surrounding American troops were taken off.