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Mo Dongshan looked at the city in front of him and suddenly missed his hometown. www.biquge.info His hometown is also a port city, and it is much more prosperous than the city in front of him.
He is a native of Shandong, and his name also carries the word Shandong, and he came here thousands of miles away for his motherland and to conquer here.
The armored infantryman stood on his Iron Ox armored transport, looking at the harbor in the distance. It was an important stronghold of the Japanese army in northern Korea and a huge supply base.
Wonsan, an important port in northern Korea far from the Ming Empire's navy, allowed the Japanese to transport vital supplies to the area with little to no harassment without fear of attacking their transports.
However, there have been no Japanese ships carrying supplies here for a long time, only ships full of soldiers have arrived, unloading soldiers and then snatching away important supplies.
This has become a front-line city that the Ming Empire may attack at any time, so there is no need to hoard any important supplies.
However, as the number of Japanese soldiers increased, the troops of the Ming Empire gathered near Yuanshan gradually increased.
The forward forces of the 2nd Army had cleared the remnants of the Japanese defenders around it and targeted the attack on this important port city.
"Good news! Good news! The Southeast Peninsula won a great victory, and General Sima Mingwei won a great victory, attacking the Ceylon defense line for 10 kilometers! A signal soldier on a war horse shouted loudly in the middle of the troops.
Standing in the cold wind, the soldiers of the Ming Empire wearing heavy coats hugged their hands together because of the cold, and stopped these distant victories with hot air, without much joy on their faces.
The victory on the southeast peninsula was slow but encouraging, but now the soldiers of the 2nd Army were more concerned about the situation in front of them - how to take Wonsan.
Wonsan was a key Japanese city and had relatively well-fortified fortifications, so it would have cost a lot to attack it.
In fact, because the 29th Army attacking Anzhou was unable to completely occupy Anzhou City for 10 days, this left a great shadow on the attacking forces of the Ming Empire.
The Japanese defenders' desperate defense did have a certain effect, and this kind of scorched earth defense policy made the commanders of the Ming Empire feel a lot of pressure.
"Boom!" The infantry waiting here were still enjoying their rare leisure time, and the shelling of the port of Wonsan had already begun.
Although there are not many heavy artillery pieces of too large caliber, the support firepower at the level of the group army cannot be underestimated. Dozens of 150-millimeter howitzers roared in turn, greeting the terrified Japanese defenders in the city.
These artillerymen have managed to save enough money to storm Wonsan, and they have been waiting for such an opportunity to attack these days.
"Did you hear that? The battle on Anzhou's side was a terrible one...... I heard that more than 2,000 people were killed in battle. A soldier hugged his rifle and whispered to his comrades.
The soldiers standing beside him were infantry waiting for orders to attack, and they were used more for storming battles than armored infantry.
Standing on his armored car, Mo Dongshan carried a submachine gun on his back, looking at those groups of ordinary infantry, even if the times were advancing, when attacking strong fortifications, they still had to let these infantry pay for their precious lives.
"I heard about it, but the rumor says that it was because the 29th Army did not allow the Japanese to surrender that it fought so badly." The other soldier was very well-informed.
The sound of the discussion did not come far before it was drowned out by the rumbling of cannon fire in the distance. Everyone was waiting, waiting for the order to attack.
"Do you smoke?" A squad leader handed Mo Dongshan a cigarette, struck a match to help Mo Dongshan light the cigarette, and the two of them swallowed the clouds and spit out the smoke together.
Before the two of them could speak again, another signal soldier on a war horse hurried over there and shouted to the infantry in charge of the first wave of attacks: "The attack begins!" The offensive begins! ”
Despite the high radio penetration rate in the Ming Empire, this kind of novelty is still rare in the second-line traditional infantry.
Some units make do with outdated large-volume old-fashioned radio stations, while others rely on the traditional means of messengers to transmit orders.
After all, at a time like this, the good things produced by the Nanjing Radio Factory still have to be given priority to the Air Force, which needs radio equipment more.
In addition to the need for the Air Force to account for most of the radio equipment, tanks and armored vehicles on the ground are also equipped with a large number of new radio stations, so that the infantry has less chance of obtaining new equipment.
"Attack! Offensive! With one command after another, many of the soldiers who were leaning on the ground and on the stones stood up in silence.
The soldiers took their own steps in the cold wind, and slowly advanced towards the place where the shells had fallen in the distance.
"When they come back, it's probably time for us to go up." Taking a sharp puff of his cigarette, Mo Dongshan said to one of the squad leaders under him.
The squad leader nodded, also took a puff of cigarette, and replied: "It is estimated that after figuring out the enemy's pillboxes and support points, I have to let the armored troops go up and knock it once." ”
The practice of the 2nd Army was that the infantry made a feint once, and after finding out the enemy's defensive deployment, they let the armored units go up and knock them out, and so on and so on.
"Hurry up and let our people eat something first, don't go hungry for a while, you really don't have to fight for long!" Mo Dongshan said so, and then looked at the city in the distance.
On December 28, the 2nd Army of the Ming Empire continued its offensive in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, attacking the port city of Wonsan, where the main Japanese force was stationed.
On the same day, the Ming Empire invested an infantry division to organize the attack, and the Japanese defenders relied on the field fortifications outside the city to resist desperately.
The two sides were entangled until the afternoon of the same day, and the attacking Ming Empire troops could not wait to invest their main armored forces.
With heavy losses, the Japanese army quickly abandoned all field fortifications outside the city, and all the Japanese strongholds on the periphery of Yuanshan were occupied by the defenders of the Ming Empire.
However, there was no smile on the faces of Yang Zizhen and his chief of staff Liu Zhijian, because it seemed that the Japanese army had popularized Anzhou's defense experience.
It seems that in the future battles, street battles based on urban buildings will become the main theme of the Japanese defenders on the Korean Peninsula. (To be continued.) )