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readx; The headquarters of the First Division of the Japanese Manchurian Army was located in Dalian, and the commander of the division was Lieutenant General Tomora of the Mountains, who was the second son of Genji of the Mountains. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Le "Text" Novel lwxs520

After receiving the news of the loss of Jinzhou, Tomora immediately mobilized the 1st Division and 2nd Brigade of the Japanese army in the Liaoyang area to assemble in the Jinzhou area of Dalian.

The commander of the Second Brigade, Kiichi Saji, quickly gathered his forces and rushed to Jinshu after learning that Katsuo Nishikan had served the emperor.

Kiichi Saji sent two squadrons of horsemen to Jinshu in advance, and he personally led an infantry wing to follow.

After Chen Zhong captured Jinzhou, he ordered Ma Cong to lead a regiment to garrison the Wafangdian area outside Jinzhou, and deploy a field artillery company, a machine gun company, and an infantry company to set up an ambush to snipe the Japanese troops coming from Liaoyang.

Chen Zhong ordered the 23rd Regiment and the Field Artillery Regiment to march to Dalian, and at the same time, ordered Li Chuang to continue to march towards Liaoyang after capturing Yingkou.

The defenders in the Liaoyang and Yingkou areas had three infantry wings of the Japanese army, two infantry brigades under three infantry squadrons, and one artillery brigade under three artillery squadrons. Eight squadrons of horsemen and six mounted guns. More than 15,000 people in total.

Dalian and Lushun garrisoned about 25,000 Japanese troops. Among them are two infantry brigades, two infantry wings, three infantry brigades, four infantry squadrons, and one machine gun squadron, which is equipped with sixteen machine guns.

In addition, there was a cavalry wing, which included two squadrons of horsemen. One field artillery wing, two field artillery brigades, three field artillery squadrons, each of which was equipped with six field guns.

When he learned that the king of Hainan personally commanded the attack on Jinzhou and Dalian, he was very excited, and he wanted to kill the king of Hainan with his own hands to avenge his brother mountain Xiuchen.

Since last year, after the mountain hidetomi infiltrated Hainan and failed to assassinate him, he was blown up by Chen Zhong, and the mountain Tomora vowed to avenge his brother.

He had imagined that their Great Japanese Empire would soon realize the Greater East Asia strategy, and at that time, he would ask the emperor to personally lead troops to Hainan to fight Chen Zhong in a decisive battle to regain face for the mountain family.

When Chen Zhong deployed the distribution of forces in this area of the Liaodong Peninsula, he considered preparing to take Dalian Lushun Jinzhou first and then join the advance force of Li Chuang's army.

In this way, it will inevitably lead to a large-scale counteroffensive by the Japanese army in the areas of Shahe and Heitaigou. At that time, the marine units of the Hainan Fleet and the advance troops of Li Chuang's army will engage in a general battle with the Japanese army in the Shahe area.

If the Battle of Shahe can be won, it will wipe out two-thirds of the Japanese forces on the Liaodong Peninsula. In this way, the Japanese army will again mobilize troops from the north of Korea into the northeast. At this moment, the reinforcements of Li Chuang's army also basically arrived in Liaodong.

In Mukden, they will have a final decisive battle with the main force of the Japanese Manchurian Army, after which all the Japanese troops of the Liaohe generation in the northeast will be driven out of the three eastern provinces.

Therefore, the current battles of Dalian and Lushun are extremely crucial, and they determine the progress of the entire battle situation in Liaodong.

If Dalian Lushun could not be defeated very smoothly, when the Japanese reinforcements in the Liaoyang area arrived, the marines led by Chen Zhong would be exposed to the enemy, and the advance troops of Li Chuang's army would also fall into passivity. Then, the entire battle situation on the Liaodong Peninsula will be controlled by the Japanese army.

Therefore, the key to taking Dalian and Lushun now is to first defeat the Japanese army that came to support Liaoyang.

The purpose of this deployment was, first, to remove the hidden dangers behind the marines, and second, to relieve the pressure on Li Chuang's advance troops and contain the Japanese army's forces in the Liaoyang Shahe area.

After destroying all the forces of the Japanese army that could support Dalian and Lushun, the Japanese army in Dalian and Lushun will be completely isolated.

The Japanese troops in Dalian and Lushun became turtles in this narrow area, and in the end, they were annihilated in one fell swoop, and the first stage of the Liaodong strategic plan was over.

In view of the strategic plan for the first phase of Liaodong, Chen Zhong emphasized with Ma Cong the tactical arrangements of the two horse squadrons of the Japanese Second Brigade that came to support the ambush.

The Japanese cavalry squadron was a strong force of the Japanese Manchurian Army, and he asked Ma Cong to deal with the two horse squadrons of Kiichi Saji, not to confront them head-to-head, but to take measures to avoid their edge and attack them from the flank.

He asked Ma to learn the tactics of Akiyama Yoshiko's defeat of the Russian cavalry, and used the machine gun company as an attack against the Japanese cavalry.

In setting up an ambush for the Japanese two horse squadrons, they only crouched on the flanks to defend the ambush, rather than attacking from the front.

After defeating the Japanese cavalry, a mountain artillery company was set up at a distance of 2,000 meters from the first ambush point, and dozens of wild mountain guns were erected.

At this moment, it was already late at night, Ma Cong led the troops in the Wafangdian ambush and waited for the arrival of the Japanese army.

At about three o'clock in the morning, in the north of Wafangdian, two squadrons of Japanese horsemen galloped in the dust, setting off a huge whirlwind.

From a distance, by the bright moonlight, the Japanese cavalry galloping in, holding a one-meter-long "three-two" saber, carrying a "four-four-type" cavalry gun and cavalry cartridges.

Ma Cong calculated the distance of this Japanese army, and at about 50 meters, Ma Cong ordered a heavy machine gun company to open fire on all fronts.

For a time, in a vast hilly area on the outskirts of Wafangdian, the sound of gunfire, horse whistles, and screams gathered into a fierce battle frenzy.

Before the two squadrons of the Japanese army could figure out what was going on, they had already lost most of them.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the two horse squadrons of the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and the remaining dozens of horses had to make a final fight.

So, they put their horses in order and launched a final attack on the Pioneer Regiment of Marines of the Hainan Fleet before dawn.

There was another burst of gunfire, the whistling of horses, and the screams of horses......

Twenty minutes later, the Japanese cavalry unit still had three groups of horses left, and they looked at their fallen companions in horror and desolation, knowing that today's dawn would be the last goodbye.

In the years to come, there will be no more rushing, no more helplessness, no more life and death parting, no more ugly wars, no more killings!

The war horse raised its head to the sky and let out a long roar, looking at the hometown of the cherry blossoms, until now they did not understand how they came to this foreign land, spending every day in the killing, they looked at their masters, raised the war knife in their hands and slashed at those fresh lives again and again, each time it could clearly see their hateful eyes before they died.

At this moment, these three war horses miss the time when they galloped with their mother at the foot of Mt. Fuji many years ago.

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