Chapter 174: The Sino-Japanese War 4
On August 3, the 2nd Army of the Guards Corps, which had landed from Donggang, arrived at Anton.
On August 8, the 4th Army of the Guards Corps again landed from Donggang and rushed to the Andong area.
On August 13, when the 6th Army of the Guards Corps arrived at Andong, the 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, and 85th Divisions, which had moved south from outside the Heilongjiang River, also arrived in the Andong area.
So far, more than 300,000 dragon and tiger troops have gathered on the west bank of the Yalu River, centered on the Andong region.
In the time of more than 10 people, there were nearly 200,000 Korean puppet troops transferred from all parts of the DPRK, and although the 200,000 Korean puppet troops were backward in weaponry, due to the propaganda of the Chinese army, they all regarded the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army as the aggressors who were about to invade their country, and completely forgot that the Japanese army that now occupies their country is the real aggressor.
The 200,000 Korean army, plus the 110,000 Japanese army, gathered a full 310,000 puppet troops in the Dongan area of the Yalu River centered on Longchuan County, which was almost the same as the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army in terms of the number of troops.
During this period, more than 100,000 troops from five divisions and regiments had already landed at the port of Pusan in southern Korea and were heading for the Yalu River, while more than 100,000 troops from the five divisions of the second batch of reinforcements from the mainland were also ready to leave on the mainland, and they could board the ship as soon as the Pacific Combined Fleet escorted the transport ship back to the mainland.
Wang Jundao did not stop there, and withdrew more than 300 transport ships from the China Shipbuilding Industry Group, which is directly under the military hall, and the China Shipbuilding Group, which is directly under the cabinet, and hired more than 300 transport ships from important private shipping companies in the Bohai, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, and the Yanhuang Group also dispatched more than 200 transport ships to join the war.
In addition to the naval auxiliary transport ships of the Chinese fleet, more than 1,000 transport ships have been gathered in the coastal waters of Tianjin, which can ensure the transportation of 100,000 people at a time, or the transportation of a large number of military baggage, and arrive in Andong within two days.
After the surprise attack on the Russian Lushun detachment last year, the Combined Fleet never dared to sail its fleet into China's Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea, and other waters, let alone China's inland sea and Bohai Sea.
In the past year, the Chinese Navy has not only collected and refitted the more than a dozen small warships that were captured intact, but also repaired and refitted those warships that suffered serious losses, and also salvaged eight warships, three of which have been repaired and refitted, and have been incorporated into the Chinese fleet, including one 10,000-ton warship and two 7,000-ton warships.
Today, the Chinese Navy has more than 110 main warships, and if the 'Jiaolong' fleet and the 'Ghost' submarine force are added, the strength of the Chinese Navy fleet is almost twice that of the combined fleet.
That's why Wang Jundao dared to confidently and boldly mobilize so many transport ships to transport materials and troops, otherwise Wang Jundao would not dare to do this without naval escort.
A large number of military supplies, through thousands of transport ships, escorted by the Chinese Navy fleet, set off from Tianjin Port and sailed to Donggang.
Such a large fleet and fleet, a few years ago, was completely unimaginable for China, but all this, a few years later, has been realized.
I dare not say that all of this is due to Wang Jundao, but at least most of the credit is attributed to him.
History can speak for itself, because if Wang Jundao had not appeared out of thin air, how could there be today's China? And how can there be a navy today?
In this regard, the people who followed Wang Jundao knew that the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army knew about it for 2 million people, the Chinese Navy for 100,000 people, and the Chinese Air Force for 5,000 people.
There is no doubt that without Wang Jundao, there would be no China today!
It took only two days for more than 1,000 transport ships to transport more than 1,000 ships of military supplies to Donggang, enough for 500,000 people for more than three months.
With such a huge amount of materials as the foundation, more than 200,000 troops, including the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th armies of the Guards Corps, the artillery divisions directly under the Guards Corps, the motorized infantry mechanics of the Guards Corps, and the air force composed of 11 airships, also arrived in the Andong area one after another.
The First Army Corps, the Second Army Corps, the Fourth Army Corps, and the Sixth Army Corps have also drawn elites from various divisions under the corps, temporarily formed four new armies of 50,000 men, and rushed to Yanjing one after another.
When the reinforcements and supplies of the Dragon and Tiger Army were roughly in place, in Dongan, Yalu River, five divisions of the Yue Army had also rushed from Pusan to Yongcheon County, and 200,000 Korean puppet troops had also rushed to Yongcheon County, causing the puppet army in Longchuan County to reach a terrifying 500,000, and in Pyongyang and southern Korea, there were still nearly 200,000 Japanese troops, and in Seoul, the capital of Korea, 200,000 Korean troops were also being conscripted one after another.
So far, the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army in the area on the west bank of the Yalu River has reached an astonishing 500,000, and the puppet army in the area on the east bank of the Yalu River has also reached more than 500,000.
Because the number of troops invested in this battle was too amazing, the types of troops were also extremely complex, and the command lineups of the two sides were also extremely large, Wang Jundao was afraid that Nie Yuanzheng would not be able to take care of it alone, so he sent Lin Zhengnan, deputy commander of the military hall and head of the Guards Corps, and Pang Wei, deputy chief of staff, to personally go to Andong to serve as commander-in-chief and chief of general staff respectively, while Nie Yuanzheng served as deputy commander-in-chief.
During this period, the Excalibur Special Combat Team and the Sharp Arrow Special Combat Team worked together to find out almost 70 percent of the positions of the puppet army on the east bank of the Yalu River, and sent the deployment map and artillery positions of the puppet army to the general headquarters of Lin Zhengnan and Nie Yuanzheng.
After obtaining the deployment map of the puppet army, Lin Zhengnan and Nie Yuanzheng immediately ordered to throw in two-thirds of the artillery of the 500,000 Dragon and Tiger Army to launch an artillery bombardment on the defense positions and artillery positions of the puppet army.
At 4 o'clock in the morning of September 5, the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army invested a full 1,080 heavy artillery, of which more than 200 cannons and howitzers with a caliber of more than 200 mm, and the rest of the heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm, in addition to heavy artillery, there were 540 heavy mortars and 1,270 medium mortars.
A full 2,890 artillery pieces launched a two-hour artillery bombardment of the defensive and artillery positions of the puppet army east of the Yalu River from 27 artillery positions.
On average, each artillery gun fired at least 200 shells, and more than 600,000 shells exploded, including phosphorous incendiary bombs, poison gas bombs, and other bombs with terrifying lethality, and a small number of liquid oxygen shells newly developed by the China Military Weapons Research Institute.
It is said that the more than 10 artillery positions of the puppet army have long been in ruins, most of the thousands of artillery pieces have been destroyed, and most of the artillery has been killed and wounded, and the damage to the infantry defensive positions is even more heavy, and the horror of the lethality of the artillery shells of the Dragon and Tiger Army is only afraid that in another ten years, no other country will be able to invent it.
The two-hour artillery bombardment caused at least more than 100,000 puppet troops to be annihilated by the artillery fire and turned into stumps and broken flesh, at least 100,000 people completely lost their combat effectiveness because of the artillery fire, and no less than 100,000 people were more or less injured, and the frightened puppet army was estimated to be no less than 100,000, and they could still be safe and sound, and there were only 100,000 puppet troops left at most with normal complexions.
Nearly 3,000 cannons roared for two hours, the mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, the earth shook, and the earth shook, as if the end of the world was coming.
Hundreds of ships came to the Yalu River during the artillery bombardment of the Dragon and Tiger Army, and loaded ironclad transport ships, and before the artillery bombardment of the Dragon and Tiger Army ended, the battle to cross the river had already begun.
Tens of thousands of Dragon and Tiger vanguards, under the cover of artillery shells and heavy machine guns, soon approached the east bank of the Yalu River.
Immediately afterward, dense flares were fired into the sky from the ironclad transport ship.
Seeing such a dense signal flare, the shelling of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army stopped in less than a moment, and at this time, the vanguard soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army had already set foot on the land on the east bank of the Yalu River under the cover of heavy machine guns and light machine guns.
The 10,000 pioneers of the Dragon and Tiger Army soon gained a foothold on the east bank of the Yalu River, and gradually expanded the battle line with advanced weapons and a spirit of fearlessness.
An hour later, the second group of Dragon and Tiger troops crossed the Yalu River.
Two hours later, the third group of Dragon and Tiger troops crossed the Yalu River.
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Until four o'clock in the afternoon, the Dragon and Tiger Army had crossed the Yalu River with 100,000 troops, divided into five forces, faintly in a semi-encircled posture, and pressed the remnants of the puppet army to Longchuan County.
In the process of desperately attacking the puppet army by the soldiers in front, for most of the day, three pontoon bridges also completely traversed the Yalu River.
With these three pontoon bridges, until the evening, more than 100,000 dragon and tiger troops had crossed the Yalu River through the pontoon bridges, and the 100,000 dragon and tiger troops who had previously crossed the river by transport boats converged together, and surrounded Longchuan county from the west, north, and south of Longchuan County respectively, and the vanguard of the three dragon and tiger armies was no more than three kilometers away from Longchuan county town.
However, the Dragon and Tiger Army did not launch a general attack on Longchuan County, but temporarily suspended its troops to rest under the orders of Lin Zhengnan and Nie Yuanzheng.
In one night, more than 100,000 troops of the Dragon and Tiger Army crossed the Yalu River through the pontoon bridge, so that the Dragon and Tiger Army on the east bank of the Yalu River had reached more than 300,000, and at this time, the puppet army in Longchuan County was less than 200,000.
In terms of troops, the Dragon and Tiger Army has completely gained the advantage!
On September 6, at 8 o'clock in the morning, Lin Zhengnan and Nie Yuanzheng gave an order, and the 300,000-strong army launched a general attack on Longchuan County in three parts, and more than 1,000 mortars almost destroyed at least seventy or eighty percent of the city walls in the west, north, and south of Longchuan County and the fortifications built overnight outside the city.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army broke through the defense of the puppet army like a tide and poured into Longchuan County!
It is said that the supreme commander of the puppet army stationed in Longchuan County, General Ao Baogong, knew that it was hopeless to hold on to Longchuan County, and led the remaining 150,000 puppet troops to abandon the city and flee in a hurry.
The 200,000 Dragon and Tiger Army, under the leadership of Sun Chuanfang, the front-line commander, and Xiao Changcheng, the front-line chief of staff, launched a frantic pursuit.
This chase lasted for more than 100 miles, until in the evening, when the Dragon and Tiger Army occupied Xuanchuan County and stopped the pursuit, the puppet army fled from Xuanchuan, and there were less than 100,000.
So far, after two days of fierce battles, the Dragon and Tiger Army has won the first battle, defeating 500,000 puppet troops!
The bones of the 400,000 puppet army once again showed the world the great martial arts of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army! (To be continued.) )