readx; From Dandong along the Yalu River all the way to the northeast, about 20 kilometers later is Jiulian City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Even though it is twenty kilometers away from Dandong, Jiulian City is still the key area for the battle between the two armies.

The Dandong Theater began at the mouth of the Yalu River and fought to the death around the Dandong (Andong) Railway Station, the terminus of the Shen-Dan Line (Feng'an Line). At the beginning of the war, the army urgently transferred a large number of troops from Korea to Dandong, so as to successfully cross the Yalu River and control the bridgehead, and then the Chinese Eighth Army was ordered to counterattack Dandong, so the two sides launched a fierce battle around Dandong with hundreds of thousands of people.

With the increase of troops on both sides, the theater of operations has gradually expanded, at first it was only the urban area of Dandong, and then it became more than ten miles around, and now even the town of Jiulian more than 20 miles away from Dandong has become the main battlefield.

The Battle of Dandong has developed to this day, and it is no longer a small-scale battle, but a huge battle with hundreds of thousands of participants.

From Jiulian City, you will reach Taiping Bay more than 10 kilometers north along the Yalu River, and the south of the north bank of Taiping Bay is Gulouzi.

Gulouzi, from ancient times to the present is just a small village, the villagers are only hundreds, if there is no war in this China, then it will continue to be nameless, but today, Gulouzi is a lively scene that has not been seen for thousands of years, the small village and even the open space outside the village are not full of soldiers wearing brown-green military uniforms, in addition to these soldiers, there are also steel monsters that the villagers have never seen, those with tracks, tanks carrying black holes and cannons make everyone tremble when they see it, relatively speaking, Trucks with only a few wheels just look much better.

When Tang Qiang got down from the Dongfeng three-wheeled motorcycle, looking at this lively scene, it was so that he, a person who has been in battle for a long time, couldn't help but sigh, to be honest, it was the first time he saw so many tanks, although he had seen the tanks of the First Armored Regiment when he was in Omsk, Russia, but at that time he saw only one or twenty vehicles, how to see this kind of scene today, hundreds of tanks in a row on the square are almost endless.

"This kind of scene is the only way to see such a big battle!" The captain and adjutant behind Tang Qiang also showed a look of amazement, not everyone can have the opportunity to see the scene of the armored torrent.

In fact, what they saw was only a part of the tanks of the armored group, and among the three divisions of the armored group, there were more than 150 tanks of the first armored division, and the two motorized infantry divisions also had a tank battalion each, each with more than 30 tanks. That adds up to more than two hundred tanks. And what Tang Qiang saw in front of him was actually not hundreds, but more than seventy tanks in two tank battalions. And the main tanks of the 1st Panzer Division, they haven't seen it yet.

Compared with more than 200 tanks, in fact, the armored cluster is equipped with more Dongfeng three-wheeled motorcycles and Zhongfu trucks. From the very beginning, Chen Jingyun asked the Equipment Department to develop and produce three-wheeled motorcycles as a rapid mobile force for motorized troops, and the reason why the first and ninth divisions are called motorized divisions is because these two divisions are each equipped with more than 900 three-wheeled motorcycles. In addition to motorcycles, there are also Zhongfu trucks that pull artillery and transport troops, and each motorized infantry division also has more than 200 vehicles.

Together with a small number of other armored reconnaissance vehicles, etc., it constitutes the main composition of the Chinese motorized infantry division of the army.

Tang didn't stay too long when he saw this lively scene, and soon he found the division headquarters, and then met the division commander, Major General Guo Chengdong.

After Guo Chengdong saw Tang Qiang coming in, he put down the cigar in his hand: "Tang Qiang is here, sit!" ”

As he spoke, Guo Chengdong flipped through the table again, then found a document covered with top secret words and handed it to him: "This is the battle report of the 91st Regiment forcibly crossing Taiping Bay yesterday, you can also take a look!" ”

After Guo Chengdong handed him the report, he smoked his cigar again.

Although Tang Qiang has not been under Guo Chengdong for a long time, and he has only been around for more than a month, he also has a little understanding of some of Guo Chengdong's spleen surnames, and knows that Guo Chengdong is not a man of words, and he doesn't like to be polite but likes to have something to say, so he immediately sat down without anything else and looked at the battle report in his hand.

The report is written in a narrative tone, and a large number of data are listed along with the description of the battle process, such as the number of enemy equipment, the strength of firepower, and the specific combat deployment, this is a very detailed combat report, although there is no sensational text, only the cold data, but Tang Qiang still felt the fierce battle when the 91st Regiment crossed yesterday.

There is no need for much explanation, the figure of 268 killed in yesterday's battle of crossing the river by the 92nd Regiment alone is enough to prove how fierce yesterday's battle was. The Ninth Division has been the number one trump card in the Chinese Army since the beginning of the Northern Expedition, and the Ninth Division has never fallen behind in previous exercises or actual wars, otherwise the Ninth Division would not have been regarded as the first motorized unit back then. Although the First Division is also known as an ace unit in the army, its combat exploits in all aspects are still slightly inferior to those of the Ninth Division.

was able to make a regiment under the Ninth Division lose more than 200 people in a single day, Tang Qiang could already imagine how fierce the battle situation was at that time. Looking at the situation in the battle report, Tang Qiang couldn't help but think, if his 11th Regiment served as the vanguard of the entire armored cluster yesterday, not only to complete the forced crossing of the river in one day, but also to cover the boat-bridge troops to erect a pontoon bridge, then would his 11th Regiment have the ability to complete such a task? Do you have enough capacity to complete the task?

After reading the battle report again, Tang Qiang repeated yesterday's battle in his mind in the detailed deployment of the battle report, facing the beachhead interception and counterattack of more than 2,000 troops, and in the face of the dense beachhead firepower, Tang Qiang also did not have the confidence to force the crossing and cover the boatbridge to erect the pontoon bridge with his own 11th regiment.

"This Ninth Division is worthy of being praised by the president himself as the trump card unit of the word 'bravery'!" Although he was unwilling, the achievements of the Ninth Division had to make Tang Qiang willing.

Guo Chengdong said: "The Ninth Division can fight, otherwise General Zuo would not have personally designated the 91st Regiment as the vanguard of the whole army!" But! ”

Guo Chengdong paused here and said: "The Ninth Division suffered a lot of damage in yesterday's river-crossing operation, and the artillery regiment of the Ninth Division is still trapped on the Hushan side, so the Ninth Division will suspend the offensive and rest here in Gulouzi for a day!" ”

When Tang Qiang heard this, he was puzzled: "Why is their artillery regiment still in Hushan Town?" ”

Guo Chengdong said: "The night before yesterday, when they crossed the stone bridge in Hushan Town, the stone bridge was crushed, and it was thought that two 105 howitzers fell into the river, and when they rebuilt the bridge, it was tonight, and they could come over tomorrow." This ninth division will rest in Gulouzi for a day, so we ......"

Tang Qiang didn't need Guo Chengdong to say it, he just spoke first: "So now our first division is attacking with the armored division?" ”

Guo Chengdong nodded: "Yes, General Zuo, the commander of the armored group, has given me an order, asking our unit to cross the river immediately, and catch up with the pace of the First Armored Division and immediately go down the river west!" ”

Tang Qiang also smiled after hearing the news, the previous actions of the armored cluster were all accompanied by the Ninth Division of the First Armored Division, yesterday after the Ninth Division successfully crossed the river was to cover the Zhouqiao troops to erect the pontoon bridge overnight, in the early hours of the morning the pontoon bridge was just erected, the First Armored Division had already begun to cross the river, and was not ready to stay but directly down the river west.

"Now the 3rd Motorized Infantry Regiment and the Baggage Regiment of the 1st Armored Division are already crossing the river, and it is expected that the crossing will be completed in three hours, and your 11th Regiment will immediately follow the crossing of the river and keep up with the pace of the 1st Armored Division." Guo Chengdong gave the order he had just written directly to Tang Qiang: "You go back now, prepare well, and set off as soon as the time comes!" ”

Tang Qiang looked at the boss who was younger than himself and nodded: "The department understands!" ”

Shut down

In the regimental numbers of each division of the Chinese Army, except for the infantry division, the other guard divisions and cavalry divisions use Chinese characters and add categories, such as the first guard regiment, the second guard regiment, the third guard regiment, and the artillery regiment of the guard division. The 1st Cavalry Regiment, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, the 1st Cavalry Artillery Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division, and the ordinary infantry division are numerical numbers, such as the 11th Infantry Regiment, the 12th Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Artillery Regiment of the 1st Division.

The numbers of the regiments under the First Armored Division are: the First Armored Regiment, the Second Motorized Infantry Regiment, the Third Motorized Infantry Regiment, and the First Armored Artillery Regiment. The 2nd Armored Division used the 4th Armored Regiment, the 5th Motorized Infantry Regiment, the 6th Motorized Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Armored Artillery Regiment. In fact, the motorized infantry regiment under the armored division and the infantry regiments under the first and ninth divisions are all motorized infantry regiments, and there is not much difference, and the armored artillery regiment in the armored division is also the same as the artillery regiment of the first division and the ninth division, all of which belong to the truck-drawn artillery regiment.

In fact, the concepts of armored divisions and motorized infantry divisions in the Chinese army today are different from those of armored divisions and motorized infantry divisions or mechanics in later generations. Armored divisions, on the other hand, are equipped with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, and the infantry fights directly in combat vehicles; The mechanic division is a small number of tanks and a large number of infantry fighting vehicles, and the infantry fights directly in infantry fighting vehicles.

However, there is no such thing as infantry fighting vehicles in the Chinese army today, so in addition to tanks, armored divisions are also equipped with a large number of motorcycles and trucks. The motorized infantry division is not simply an infantry maneuvering in a truck, the motorized infantry division is also equipped with a tank battalion, which can also be used as a small armored division when necessary.

The concept of armored divisions and motorized infantry divisions in the Chinese Army today can be roughly understood in this way: the armored division has one tank regiment and two motorized infantry regiments, and there are about 150 tanks. The rest are trucks and motorcycles. The motorized infantry division has only one tank battalion and three motorized infantry regiments, which are equipped with only more than 30 tanks.

In a word: there are more tanks in the armored division, and fewer tanks in the motorized infantry division.

Regardless of whether it is an armored division or a motorized infantry division, it is not a simple single branch of the army, but a unit formed according to the mixed force model proposed by the armored division, and all of them have the ability to fight alone.

If there is no 1st Panzer Division in front of them, then the 1st Motorized Infantry Division can also use its divisional tank battalion to take on the role of Panzer Division.

The model of such a motorized infantry division is very similar to the German Panzergrenadier Division in later generations, although Chen Jingyun himself does not know, but the reason for their formation is the same, that is, they are all compromises adopted because of the lack of infantry fighting vehicles.

Tang Qiang, who was riding the Zhongfu III open-top off-road vehicle, looked at the pontoon bridge not far away, he knew that it was this pontoon bridge that made the Ninth Division pay for it yesterday, and more than 200 people were killed, and at this time the Ninth Division was still fighting fiercely on the other side of the river and the counterattack, and the sound of shells cutting through the air from time to time sounded, and there would be a big explosion on the Yalu River around the pontoon bridge from time to time, and then blow up the water column, which was the artillery fire of the Japanese army.

Then it was the rumbling of artillery, but Tang Qiang still commanded the troops to step on the pontoon bridge, and when the 11th regiment stepped on this pontoon bridge, Tang Qiang also saw the wreckage of another pontoon bridge dozens of meters away, it was obvious that this was a pontoon bridge that had been erected, but I don't know when it was destroyed by the artillery fire of the army, and the boat bridge unit in the engineer was making hurried repairs.

Tang Qiang's 11th Regiment has more than 3,000 troops, equipped with many trucks and motorcycles, in addition to heavy firepower such as artillery belonging to the regiment, it is a little slow to cross the river just by relying on a pontoon bridge, but Tang Qiang has no choice but to take his time.

It was not until the afternoon that Tang Qiang's 11th Regiment finished crossing the river, and Tang Qiang did not stop at all, and immediately followed along the road west of the First Armored Division.

The advance of the 1st Armored Division was even faster than Tang Qiang imagined, and the 11th Regiment could not catch up with the tail of the 1st Armored Division after galloping for half a day.

After seven o'clock in the evening, Tang Qiang connected with the rear troops of the First Armored Division, but when he asked about the situation, he found that the First Armored Division had continuously broken through the three lines of defense organized by the army, and had broken through to the edge of Yizhou County.

Yiju County was already a key deployment area for the Yue army, and the Chinese army in Jiulian City on the other side of the Yalu River was in a confrontation position, and now after being attacked from the northeast by the Chinese armored group, the Yue army also quickly organized a defensive line.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, when Tang Qiang's 11th Regiment had just arrived in Yizhou County, Tang Qiang once again received an order from the rear division headquarters, and Guo Chengdong ordered Tang Qiang's 11th Regiment to immediately take over the defense area of the 3rd Motorized Infantry Regiment under the 1st Armored Regiment and launch an attack on Yizhou County.

Tang Qiang was a little puzzled: "We took over the defense area of the Third Motor Infantry Regiment, so where did they go?" ”

It's a pity that although Tang Qiang is already the colonel's commander, he can only manage his own 11th regiment, and when it comes to the transfer of divisions and regiments, he has no authority to interfere at all, all he can do is to carry out orders.

What he didn't know was that the 3rd Motorized Infantry Regiment withdrew from the front line as soon as the 11th Regiment arrived in Uiju County, and then bypassed Uiju County to pursue the main force of the 1st Armored Division.

In the darkness of night, about five kilometers southwest of Uiju County, tanks, trucks and motorcycles of the 1st Armored Division were moving slowly with their headlights on.

Fang Dashan's armored command vehicle was parked on the side of the road, and there were other metering armored command vehicles on the side of the road, and there were several empty ammunition boxes on the open space, and the ammunition boxes were covered with a large military map.

Fang Dashan and several colonels and lieutenant colonels surrounded these empty ammunition boxes, all of them were wearing long leather boots, and the chief of staff of the 1st Armored Division, Colonel Fei Kentong, was explaining the current battle situation to others in the bright and dazzling lights: "Since we crossed the river yesterday, the enemy has reacted quickly, according to the reconnaissance of the air force, when the 9th Division launched the battle of crossing the river, the army in Yiju County and the south sent reinforcements, but the 9th Division crossed the river and fought extremely quickly. After the Ninth Division slowly advanced, after our division also crossed the river, and with the cooperation of the Ninth Division, our First Armored Division also quickly broke through the enemy's interception position and broke through to Yiju County in one fell swoop. ”

"In this battle, although our army did not kill or wound many enemy troops, the number of captured enemy soldiers was very large, and it is understood that the ninth and first divisions in the rear have collected nearly 1,000 enemy prisoners!"

Colonel Fei Ken continued: "However, Uiju County was originally a heavily defended area of the enemy, and according to previous intelligence, at least one enemy division was stationed in this area of Uiju County. This is also the reason why our troops have been unable to take the attack on Uiju County for a long time! ”

"When Commander Zuo ordered our division to bypass Yizhou County and continue to advance forward, our division left the Third Motorized Infantry Regiment to contain the defenders of Yizhou County, and the main force of our division is now here." Speaking of which, Fei Kentong pointed to the area on the map five miles southwest of Uiju County.

"And half an hour ago, the front-line reconnaissance force had already received news that there was at least one wing of the enemy army stationed here! And after the reconnaissance troops on the front line launched a fire test attack, they found that the enemy army was quite well prepared, and it was also equipped with a considerable amount of anti-tank fire! Fei Ken said: "According to the previous information of the Military Intelligence Bureau, this unit should be from the Sixth Division. He said: "Among the troops stationed in Korea before, only the 6th Division was equipped with a large amount of anti-tank firepower, while the other divisions and regiments had less anti-tank firepower, so it is impossible for the wing to have such a scale of anti-tank firepower!" ”

At this time, an officer with the rank of colonel next to him said: "Didn't you say that the Sixth Division is in Dandong?" How did it get here? ”

Fang Dashan looked at Xue Zhihang, the commander of the First Armored Regiment, and said after a pause: "Our army's battle to cross the river was launched yesterday morning, and more than 30 hours have passed, even if they react slowly, they should have reacted, and this Sixth Division should be specially aimed at us!" ”

Although the Ninth Division is a motorized unit, it cannot be forced to cross the river in a truck, so at first the army only thought that it was China's traditional infantry, but then the first armored division quickly broke through the defense line with tanks, and the commander of the army immediately learned that the Chinese troops crossing the river had a large number of tanks, and although the fact that China had formed tank units was a military secret, this was kept secret by the specific situation, and some of the general ones could not be kept secret. Although the other powers, including Ben, did not know what China's armored divisions and motorized infantry divisions were, nor could they know the specific establishment, nor could they know the way they were fighting, it was a well-known fact that these troops had a large number of tanks, so the army immediately withdrew the Sixth Division, which was equipped with a large number of anti-tank guns before the war, from the Dandong front. It was only possible to send a wing of the reserve to the direction of Uiju County first, and the main force of the Sixth Division could not be withdrawn until the other armies filled the defensive line.

However, before this wing arrived in Yiju County, it learned that Yizhou County had been besieged, and then the forward troops of the 1st Panzer Division were discovered, so the wing of the 6th Division immediately stopped marching, and then began to build a defensive line to intercept the Chinese tank forces.

After some deliberation among several senior officers of the 1st Armored Division, Fang Dashan quickly ordered that the 1st Armored Regiment and the 2nd Motorized Infantry Regiment should prepare to attack, and immediately launch a full-scale attack at dawn a few hours later, and be sure to break through the enemy's defense line in one fell swoop as in several previous offensive battles, and then advance in depth.