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Early in the morning of the 18th, the 27th Division of the Lanfang Kingdom completed the encirclement of the 19th Division of the Japanese Army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yongchuan County is a place with the Yalu River to the north, the sea to the west, the mountains to the east, and the plain of Pingchuan River to the south.

But now the Japanese Army has lost the support of the navy, and the destroyers of the Lanfang Kingdom have sailed into the Yalu River, which is a mortal threat to Yongchuan; to the east and south were blocked by the army of the Kingdom of Lanfang; Now the Japanese army in Yongchuan County has no place to retreat and no place to defend, and this is a dead place for them.

At 12 o'clock in the morning, Governor Yuan Tiande ordered the 27th Division to begin the attack.

This time, the 27th Division resolutely carried out Zhang Wei's instructions: If it can be solved with bullets, it cannot be solved with bayonets, and if it can be solved with artillery, it cannot be solved with bullets.

Only the troops of the Southern Front of the 27th Division launched the attack, and for the troops of the Eastern Front, it was necessary to do a good job of defense to prevent the Japanese from breaking through to the east and entering the mountains.

The 27th Division first asked two regimental artillery battalions to carry out artillery bombardment of Japanese positions, specifically hitting places with a large number of Japanese troops; The division's mountain artillery battalion was ready to fire and strike at the Japanese artillery positions at any time.

24 65mm mountain guns, maintaining a rate of 15 shells per minute, came first with a rapid-fire.

Suddenly, the overwhelming shells fell into the Japanese barracks, and the "boom, boom, boom......" continuous shells exploded, making a deafening sound. The Japanese soldiers were immediately blown up, and their flesh and blood flew sideways, and bricks and rubble were scattered everywhere. The smoke and dust from the collapse of buildings and explosions obscured everyone's view.

In this half an hour, the 19th Division of the Japanese Army was focused on how to assist the 11th Wing, and did not notice that there were still troops from the Lanfang Kingdom near them, and they were immediately blinded by the artillery bombardment of the 27th Division. After the smoke and dust cleared and he came to his senses, the division commander ordered the division's rapid-fire mountain artillery brigade to start a counterattack.

The Japanese artillery fired at the artillery positions of the Lanfang Kingdom, but their range was too close, the farthest range was only 4,300 meters, and they could not hit the enemy's artillery positions at all. However, after they opened fire, they exposed the location of their artillery positions, and the divisional artillery battalion of the 27th Division of the Lanfang Kingdom Army immediately adjusted its direction and began to fire shells at the fastest speed, and before the Japanese artillery had time to transfer the artillery, a burst of shells that were more fierce than the shelling just now came, and a huge explosion sounded on the artillery position, not only the Japanese artillery was lost, but the artillery was also blown up in scattered places, and artillery parts were scattered everywhere.

The loss of the artillery unit also made the Japanese army lose the last bit of honor guard.

The army of the Lanfang Kingdom did not launch a large-scale attack, and now it is only slowly encroaching on the Japanese army in the encirclement. Use mortars to clean up the Japanese machine-gun fire points one by one, and the range of Japanese weapons, except for artillery, is not as long as the range of mortars, and Lan Fang's army does not give the Japanese a chance to fight in close combat at all, and the Japanese army has no chance to fight with bayonets even if they want to.

The Japanese army now felt powerless against the mortars of the Lanfang Kingdom.

Mortars have a fast rate of fire, a long range, and are lightweight, allowing them to move with the army.

The forward positions of the Japanese army were gradually lost, and the casualties gradually increased.

You know, this time the Japanese completely miscalculated, all the pillboxes are facing the direction of the Yalu River, and in the face of the direction of the Korean Peninsula did not build a fortress group, no one would have thought that there were hostile forces from the direction of the peninsula, and now there is no way to even defend, the terrain is a flat plain, there is no terrain to borrow, so the soldiers who resisted the Lanfang army in front kept retreating.

In the distance, the artillery of the Lanfang Army fired at the dense places of the Japanese army, making the Japanese army dizzy, and every shell that fell would take the lives of several soldiers.

In an area of more than 10 square kilometers, there were shelling sounds of "boom, boom, boom" everywhere, so that the Japanese army could not find a safe place.

The division commander could only send a telegram over and over again, asking for support, but far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and it was useless for the nearest 73rd Wing to come, and it was necessary to have heavy artillery to suppress the mountain artillery of the Lan Fang army, otherwise it would only be possible to send war merits to the enemy when it came.

"Division commander, the soldiers can't stand it, let's withdraw, as long as we withdraw to Yizhou, if it doesn't work, let's withdraw to the mountains, their artillery will be useless."

"Chief of Staff, can the enemy let us withdraw? We must have already ambushed the blocking troops on our retreat, and we couldn't rush out. ”

"How do you know if you can't rush out if you don't try, even if you can't rush out, it's better than waiting here to die!"

"Okay, the 74th Wing is stationed in Shixia Town, I didn't hear gunfire over there, it is estimated that the enemy has not discovered it, you will contact the 74th Wing first, and then you take the 75th Wing away and join the 74th Wing, and at the same time order the 73rd Wing to answer."

"The division commander retreated, and I broke off to cover."

"No one will be able to leave in that way, you go quickly, leave some seeds for the 19th Division, this is an order!"

"Yes, division commander!"

The chief of staff bowed to the division commander, and then, tearfully, left the command.

The chief of staff came to the headquarters of the 75th Wing, made contact with the 73rd and 74th companies and ordered the 75th Wing, which in 15 minutes began to break through.

After a while, the 74th Wing sent back a telegram that it had found a large number of enemies in its east, that it had established a blocking position, and that it could only charge hard.

At this time, the front troops of the 27th Division had reached Longzhou Town, only 3 kilometers away from Yongchuan; The headquarters of the 27th Division and the artillery battalion of the division were temporarily placed in Neizhong Town, only 6 kilometers away from Yongchuan County.

The battalion company used mortars to open the way, and behind it was the mountain artillery of the regiment to provide fire support, and the Japanese army had no power to fight back, which was the reason why the troops advanced so quickly; in modern warfare, if there were no troops covered by artillery fire, they would be crushed under the blow of the enemy's artillery fire, and the soldiers of any country would not be spared.

By 1 o'clock, there was no Japanese garrison in the bunkers on the south bank of the Yalu River, and all of them were withdrawn to land, and there was no need for the destroyers to continue to bomb those bunkers. Then go and bomb Yongchuan, so that none of them can escape.

The main guns of the naval guns mainly bombarded the Japanese barracks, and the secondary guns swept the tail behind, bombing from east to west, just to drive the 74th Wing to the west.

I didn't expect the wing commander of the 74th Wing to make a strong man's decision to break his wrist and evacuate to the south, the wing commander meant that as many people could be withdrawn, if they were evacuated to the west, the troops would always be within the range of the naval guns, and sooner or later they would be wiped out.

The chief of staff of the Japanese army and the 75th Wing had not yet set off, and received a telegram from the 74th Wing, they had been hit by naval guns, suffered heavy losses, and were moving southward, hoping to avoid the blow of naval guns, hoping that the 75th Wing would move south, join up with the 74th Wing, and break through together.

The staff of the Japanese division adopted the decision of the 74th Division and moved to the southeast, where no trace of the enemy had been found for the time being.

At 2 o'clock, the 2nd Regiment of the 27th Division was defending there, but because the front that needed to be defended was too long, the soldiers were arranged relatively sparsely, and news came from the observers on the high ground that more than 4,000 enemies were moving to the side of the position, preparing to break through from this side, and the 2nd Regiment immediately sent a telegram to the division headquarters, hoping to get reinforcements, there were too many enemies.

Yuan Tiande discussed with the division commander, ordered the cavalry regiment to support, and sent a militia regiment to arrive later.

At 3 o'clock, with the help of the cavalry regiment to repel the Japanese army that broke through, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, more than 4,000 people, and less than 1,000 people remained.

Heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and mortars greeted the Japanese army desperately, especially heavy machine guns, which were the nemesis of intensive charge. Rows of Japanese soldiers fell, and the Japanese soldiers behind rushed forward on the bodies of their comrades, mortar shells exploded in the Japanese crowd, as long as they could continue to get up and charge, the barrels of the Lanfang Army's heavy machine guns and light machine guns were red, but fortunately, the cavalry regiment came in time, which became the last straw that crushed the confidence of the Japanese army to break through.

The first breakthrough was unsuccessful, and the Lanfang Army came with reinforcements, and the Japanese army lost 3,000 people at one time, and was unable to charge again, and the chief of staff could only declare the breakthrough failure and return to the division headquarters with the troops.

Without the support of artillery fire, and the number of people was not superior, the Japanese army in the encirclement, under the blow of the Lanfang army pressing step by step, was completely annihilated is the difference between early time and late time.

At 4 o'clock, Yuan Tiande ordered the troops of the Eastern Front to advance, compress the living space of the Japanese army, and strive to end the battle before dark.

The troops of the Eastern Front, especially the 1st Regiment, had been holding back for a day, and when they received the order to attack, they immediately became energetic and slaughtered the Japanese in accordance with the predetermined formation.

The light and heavy machine guns and mortars of the Lanfang army went into battle, and the Japanese troops who were hit by fierce fire continued to retreat, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and all the Japanese troops felt that the end had arrived, but their training quality was really good, no one surrendered, all of them fought to the end, even if they were seriously injured, they did not surrender, and they also wanted to pull a cushion and want to die with the Lanfang soldiers, but the Lanfang army was not willing to fight with the Japanese army at all.

By 6 p.m., there were less than a hundred soldiers left.

After burning the military flag and sending a farewell telegram, the division commander and other high-ranking officials all chose to commit suicide by disembowelment.

The rest of the Japanese army did not commit suicide, but chose to fight to the end, when the Lanfang army rushed up, they held rifles, ready to fight with the Lanfang army bayonet, the commander of the 1st regiment of the Lanfang army, waved his hand, light and heavy machine guns fired at the same time, and dozens of Japanese soldiers were slaughtered in an instant.

The regiment commander meant that no more soldiers could be sacrificed at the moment of victory, so why fight bayonets if they could be solved with bullets?