On the afternoon of October 17, Lieutenant General Watanabe Akira of the 8th Division reported to the Korean Army Headquarters in Seoul that a large number of troops were being built on the north bank of the Daefu River, and the number of the troops was unknown. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After receiving the telegram, Major General Muda Keikuro, chief of staff of the Korean Army, immediately reported to the commander of the Korean Army, General Hasegawa Yoshimichi, but it did not attract the attention of the commander, and he also thought that it was done by the Korean guerrillas, and did not take into account that it was the army of the Lanfang Kingdom, in his impression, the army of the Lanfang Kingdom just liked sneak attacks, and would not fight positional warfare with the Japanese army at all, and the army of the Lanfang Kingdom was not the opponent of the Imperial Japanese Army at all.

On October 18, at 6 o'clock in the morning, just after being able to see the road clearly, the cavalry regiment of the 31st Division of the Lanfang Army rushed into Andong County, successfully solved 1 Japanese squad and 50 Japanese policemen stationed in Andong County, and occupied Andong County.

The 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion followed suit, and the whole county was under martial law, and began to arrest traitors and Japanese merchants, and those who dared to resist were immediately killed; The rest of the 1st Regiment began to establish a blocking position in the west of the city, ready to defend the county seat.

The division headquarters and other units immediately marched towards Dandong, sending 1 company of cavalry as the forward reconnaissance force, followed by the 2nd regiment, followed by the large force and the baggage team.

There is a distance of 20 kilometers from the county seat of Andong to Dandong, and it takes 3 hours for the troops to march urgently, and when the troops arrived at Tangchi Town, Dandong City, it was already half past nine.

The division commander ordered the cavalry to go around to Pandaoling, east of Dandong City, dismount, and establish a blocking position according to the mountainous terrain.

In order to adapt to modern warfare, Zhang Wei equipped the cavalry regiment with a large number of horse guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, and four 65mm mountain guns.

The 2nd Regiment was ordered to establish a blocking position at Houjiabao, Tongxing Town, north of Dandong City, and not allow the Japanese troops to flee north into the mountains.

The rest of the troops rested for half an hour and then began to attack. At the same time, a telegram was sent to the destroyer, ready for battle.

Soldiers of the 3rd and 4th regiments and divisional units began to eat, drink, or wipe their guns and check their ammunition.

At this time, you can see the difference between the soldiers, some soldiers are very nervous, their faces are pale, they bite their lips with their teeth, and their eyes are blankly looking into the distance, as if they have something on their minds; Some soldiers don't care, they eat when they should eat, they drink when they should drink; Some of the soldiers were excited, smiling and red; It seems that whether it is a synthetic person or a natural person, the attitude towards the battlefield is the same; Perhaps after a big victory, the soldier's mentality can be stabilized.

The division's artillery battalion advanced to the northeastern and western heights of Dan to establish artillery positions; The regimental artillery battalion directly set up the artillery position on the edge of the woods in front of Tangchi Town.

When the cavalry rushed along the railway line to Pandaoling, the ground shaking caused by the cavalry running had already alarmed the Japanese garrison in Dandong City, and the wing commander gave an order, all the soldiers entered the fortifications, prepared for battle, and sent scouts to several directions in Dandong City to reconnoitre.

Most of the current Japanese soldiers have participated in the Russo-Japanese War and know the power of artillery battles, so from officers to soldiers, they are extremely serious when building fortifications; Moreover, they have strict requirements and styles for building fortifications, and the junior officers have received special training.

Most of the fortifications built by the 11th Wing and the 19th Division faced the Yalu River, and only a few were facing the flanks and rear.

The bunkers built by the Japanese rarely have a single case, usually a group of bunker groups, each group of bunker groups are based on several of the strongest mother forts as the core, surrounded by several sub-forts, dark forts, side defense bunkers, secret passages, artillery positions and other arch guards, and the fortresses are side defenses of each other; The perimeter of the fort was covered with cobweb-like trenches to connect the main positions, and even infantry artillery could move within the trenches, and the side walls of the trenches were heavily carved with cave-like shelters and numerous foxholes; Underneath the main fort there was a basement that served as a headquarters, ammunition, grain warehouses and rest rooms for soldiers, infirmaries, etc.; The fort is covered with logs with a diameter of more than 70 centimeters, arranged in rows, consisting of four or five layers, on which a layer of sand is 1 meter thick, then another layer of the same logs, and then a layer of sand up to 1 meter thick; It is surrounded by granite stone barricades, reserved for machine gun and rifle firing ports; The perimeter is sandy soil and sandbags several meters thick.

Soon, the Japanese scouts reported that a large number of Han soldiers were found in the east, north and west, the enemy troops in the east and north were building fortifications, the enemy troops in the west were resting, and in the southwest direction of the Yalu River, the shadow of warships was found, and it was estimated that the troops of the Lanfang Kingdom were calling, and Dandong City has now been surrounded.

The commander of the 11th Wing ordered to hold his position, and at the same time reported the situation to the commander of the 5th Division, Lieutenant General Kigoshi Yasuna, who learned that it was the army of the Lanfang Kingdom that had hit the north bank of the Yalu River, and he did not dare to make his own decisions, so he immediately reported the telegram to General Yoshimamasa Oshima, the governor of the Kanto Prefecture.

General Yoshimasa Oshima, the governor of the Kwantung Prefecture, also did not dare to call the shots, and immediately reported the news to the chief of staff, General Okuhoko; and ordered the 5th Division to hold its position until a new combat order was received.

By comparing the reconnaissance news from various places, the wing commander judged that the army of the Lanfang Kingdom should want to seize Dandong City with the cooperation of warships, and it is to cut off the connection between the Japanese troops stationed in the Great Qing Kingdom and the Japanese troops stationed in Korea; Due to the arrival of the navy of the Lanfang Kingdom, the fortress along the river was very unsafe, so the troops deployed along the river were ordered to withdraw to the east and west fortress groups, and with strong fortifications, they blocked the enemy and waited for rescue.

At 10 o'clock, the 31st Division of the Lanfang Army began to attack, and the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 3rd Regiment walked at the forefront of the troops, advancing in a straggler formation; Every 3 people are in 1 group, 1 in front and 2 in the rear, supporting each other and protecting each other's flanks.

The troops began to proceed very smoothly, encountering no resistance except for a few Japanese scouts.

By 11:30 a.m., the troops had advanced 5 kilometers and had entered the edge of Dandong City from the west.

At this time, a Japanese pillbox suddenly appeared in front of the troops, and bullets from light and heavy machine guns were fired from the pillboxes.

"Lie down, lie down!"

"Get down!"

The Japanese firepower was very fierce, and the light and heavy machine guns formed crossfire, leaving no obvious dead ends, causing all the troops of the Lanfang Kingdom to lie on the ground and could not move forward.

The bullets fired from the light and heavy machine guns in the pillboxes hit the ground around the fighters "poof, poof, poof", and from time to time the fighters were hit, and the entire battalion was suppressed and lay on the ground and did not dare to move.

Seeing that his comrades were constantly being hit, the company commander's heart was like a knife, and the eyes of the surrounding soldiers were about to burst with flames of hatred.

The commander of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company ordered: "Mortar group, prepare to fire, and remove the turtle shell in front of Lao Tzu." ”

"Yes, company commander."

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

Six M2-60 mortar shells were fired in succession, three of which hit the top of the Japanese fort, but the explosion was followed by a puff of smoke and dust, and nothing happened.

"His grandmother's, the devil's turtle shell is too hard, the herald, inform the battalion headquarters, the devil's turtle shell is too hard, and the mortar strength of the company headquarters is not enough, please ask the battalion headquarters mortar support."

"Yes, company commander!"

Soon, the 3 M1-81 mortars directly under the battalion began to fire shells, firing more than 20 rounds in a row, the shells fell on the fortress of the devil, just made a "poof" and "poof" sound, and exploded a puff of smoke and dust on the surface of the Japanese fortress, and after the smoke and dust dissipated, it was found that the effect of the bombing was the same as that of the M2 mortar, and there was no damage to the fortress of the devil, and the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were still whistling and firing bullets, and the soldiers of the 1st battalion were still suppressed lying on the ground and could not take a step forward.

The battalion commander had no choice but to let the herald go to the regimental headquarters to seek artillery support from the regimental headquarters. (To be continued.) )