readx; Since the outbreak of the war in May, the army has begun to plan the Korean war, and according to the course of the war and adjust at any time, because the Arthur fortress is stronger than the army imagined, although the air force and army artillery continue to bombard, but still like a turtle shell, in order to avoid large-scale casualties, so the army changed the pre-war Lushun priority plan, the direction of Arthur to maintain restraint, adopted artillery battles, air force bombardment and fortifications blasting slowly advance method, The example of the heavy casualties of the army attacking Lushun not only made him feel uneasy, but even let China, a bystander, be cautious, for fear that he would repeat the tragedy of the army back then. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lushun adopted a restrained posture, and the Third Army did not receive large-scale reinforcements after the war, so those troops reinforced from other parts of the country went there, naturally to the Korean front, to be precise, the Dandong front.

After realizing that Lushun would not be able to conquer for a while, Shen Gang had already put the strategic focus on the North Korean side, which led to the continuous increase of troops on the Dandong front, and when the increase in troops reached a certain level, a full-scale counteroffensive began.

First, the armored group crossed the river from Gulouzi and forcibly broke through from the left flank (the right flank of the army), relying on the powerful firepower of the armored group to directly tear apart the interception of the 5th Division of the Yue Army in Uiju County, and then broke through the interception of the 6th Division of the Yue Army, and finally broke through the defense line of the Yue Army in six days with the support of a large number of infantry and artillery units in the rear, and successfully entered the southern area of Sinuiju.

At the same time, Situ Jun's temporary first corps also received a strict order from Shen Gang, requiring the temporary first corps to quickly conquer Yizhou County and clear the enemy on the back road for the armored group, and at the same time, it also arrived in Sinuiju after crossing Yiju County, preparing to encircle the main force of the Yue Army in Dandong and Sinuiju with the main force of the Eighth Army.

If you look at it from the map, it can be easily seen that the army on the front line of Dandong and Sinuiju has been cut off from the back route and land supply lines, and is under huge pressure in the north and east, and behind them is the armored cluster in the south.

In order to cross the Yalu River, in order to conquer Dandong and Sinuiju, and in order to be able to annihilate the living forces of the Yue army on a large scale, Shen Gang gathered a total of ten infantry divisions, one armored division, two motorized infantry divisions, one cavalry division and three artillery brigades in this Dandong campaign, and the number of troops directly involved in the campaign has exceeded 200,000, and this is not counting the other two divisions of the Tenth Army deployed in northeastern Korea.

It is basically impossible to encircle and annihilate the Yue army with only twice the strength, but Shen Gang did not expect to be able to annihilate all the Yue army, what he Shen Gang needs is to conquer Dandong, cross the Yalu River, and then annihilate a large number of the living forces of the Yue army, if this battle is successful, even if the Yue army can break through, but it must first leave tens of thousands of corpses.

In fact, the battle has come to an end, and the core of the battle is whether the armored cluster can break through the interception of the army and cut off the supply line of the army.

Shirakawa Yoshinori's reaction was much faster than Shen Gang imagined, when the Eighth Army captured the Dandong Railway Station, Shirakawa Yoshinori had already ordered the Dandong troops to begin to organize a retreat, and was preparing to launch a counteroffensive against the Chinese armored cluster in the south with the remnants of the Sixth Division and the Eighth Division as the main force.

Shirakawa Yoshinori had already begun to organize a retreat, and even planned to take the initiative to abandon the bridgehead of Dandong, and it has to be said that Shirakawa Yoshinori's reaction was decisive and swift.

In this way, the Eighth Army of the Dandong Front and the Provisional First Corps of Yiju County desperately wanted to advance, and the Yue Army in these two places was organizing a retreat on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was gathering heavy troops to counterattack to the south, trying to reopen the passage of the railway line, and at the worst had to get a way back to the south. In this case, Zuo Yugang's armored cluster is beginning to face a huge offensive power.

There is no doubt about the offensive ability and rapid mobility ability of the armored forces, and a large group of generals such as Shen Gang have great confidence in the armored group, but many people have no bottom about the defensive ability of the armored forces. Especially when the general who led the armored cluster was Zuo Yugang, it made many generals even more worried.

It is well known that Zuo Yugang is good at commanding offensive operations, but Zuo Yugang's ability to defend and even retreat, to be honest, even Zuo Yugang himself does not know, because he has never defended or retreated in his life!

From the domestic unification war to several exercises in previous years and to today's Dandong Campaign, he Zuo Yugang has always been attacking and attacking, and has never defended or retreated, and his ability to lead troops to attack has been verified as always in this Dandong Campaign, and then the armored cluster needs to be held, and Zuo Yugang, who has never carried out defensive operations, is also a little numb.

However, Shen Gang and Chen Jingyun both knew Zuo Yugang's advantages and disadvantages, so they also assigned Zuo Yugang a capable assistant, that is, Cao Yangqing, the chief of staff of the armored cluster. Although Cao Yangqing is not very old, but in the national army can be regarded as a veritable veteran, he was born in the former Qing Beiyang Military Academy Riding Department, Xinhai before the twenty-first town of the post, Xinhai participated in the southern coalition army attack on Nanjing, accumulated merit to the regiment commander, but after the first north-south peace talks, Huang Xing cut the troops around Nanjing, Cao Yangqing and many officers chose to go to other provinces to join the army, some went to Guangxi, Yunnan or north, and some also went to Fujian to join Chen Jingyun, After Cao Yangqing joined the National Army, he was quickly promoted to the first division as the commander of the 11th regiment by virtue of his qualifications and ability, you must know that there were only a few divisions in the National Army at that time, and the regiment commander was already an absolute senior officer, but it didn't take long for the first division to suffer a fiasco in Zhenjiang, the fiasco of the first division not only made Chen Weihua be removed, but even other middle and senior generals of the first division had no good fruit to eat, although Cao Yangqing was not removed during the war, but after the war, he was transferred to the Fuzhou Military Academy as a teacher, Missed a great opportunity for two years, those two years were the time when the national army was rapidly expanding, including Zuo Yugang, a large number of generals were in high positions during that period, and he Cao Yangqing was still just a colonel, and later after the success of the Northern Expedition, the scale of the national army rose sharply, and there was an extreme lack of middle and senior generals in the Southwest War, which Cao Yangqing was reactivated, so that he took the last train of the domestic unification war to earn this credit for himself, and then was promoted to major general in 1918 by virtue of his qualifications, this is a bumpy road to the army.

Compared with Cao Yangqing and Zuo Yugang, Cao Yangqing is a more traditional soldier, and he can't catch up with Zuo Yugang in terms of offensive ability alone, but this person was able to become the regiment commander during the Southern Coalition Army, and he also became the regiment commander in the early National Army, and he was also able to fight his way out of a large number of colonels in the peacetime after the end of the civil war to be promoted to major general, it is conceivable that this person is not simple. Although affected by the defeat of Zhenjiang by the First Division, his 11th Regiment was also well defended at that time, and defensive operations were also carried out many times in later operations, so he still had a very good set of defense.

With the assistance of Cao Yangqing, Zuo Yugang's defensive deployment did not have too many loopholes, but Zuo Yugang's surname and the offensive ability of the armored cluster had already determined that the armored cluster could not be just a simple defense.

At Cao Yangqing's suggestion, Zuo Yugang decided to turn the passive into the active, taking advantage of the mobility and firepower advantages of the armored clusters to take the initiative to attack, and taking advantage of the time difference to defeat the various armies one after another.

Since the war entered the positional warfare, the tactics have become quite mature, basically the tactics of the armies of all countries are similar, that is, to concentrate forces to achieve a breakthrough point, and then break into the depth of the enemy's army, breaking the enemy's transportation, command, communication and logistics system, so that the frontal enemy army is chaotic and shaken, and then the troops behind the flank cooperate with the frontal troops to attack, forcing the enemy army to have a complete collapse, and once the enemy army collapses, it means that the battle has been won.

To put it simply, it is an offensive, no matter how repeated the encirclement, and the engagement of the troops is also different from the era of queuing and shooting, the combat area of the troops is often very large, the front of a division can reach more than 10 kilometers or even 20 kilometers, and the scope of a large-scale battle design is also more than 100 miles, and it is impossible for tens of thousands of people to charge together in modern warfare. There will be repeated battles around a house and a small village, and it will be a situation of point to area.

However, this is only a tactic of traditional infantry, and it is not suitable for armored forces. The armored cluster under Zuo Yugang has never been dispersed, and the main force under his command, that is, the more than 100 tanks of the First Armored Regiment, have never been dispersed, and Zuo Yugang is not ready to disperse them.

And now, Zuo Yugang is taking the entire armored cluster with him, preparing to meet the remnants of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army.

The entire armored group acted together, and Lieutenant Pei and Sergeant Li of the 13th Regiment also got into the car and shook all the way north, although they knew that they would face a fierce battle soon, but they did not have the slightest impression of Sergeant Li's good mood: "Lieutenant, look at this gun, do you see it, it is gold-plated, how about it, just by putting this gun outside, it will not be a problem to buy a hundred or so yuan!" ”

Lieutenant Pei was now wearing a shiny bronze shoulder medal on his chest, and he didn't open his eyes when he closed his eyes, and said: "you, I still want to buy one hundred and fifty yuan for this broken gun, and Lao Tzu can't use a hundred yuan to gild his own gun!" ”

Sergeant Li smiled: "Isn't this called captured loot, this has commemorative value!" ”

Lieutenant Pei didn't bother to talk to him, so he didn't speak, and Sergeant Li said a few more words, seeing that Lieutenant Pei didn't speak, he also felt bored, so he turned the twenty-year-old six-style revolver gold-plated pistol around in his hand.

After a while, a sudden explosion suddenly sounded, and Lieutenant Pei immediately opened his eyes and looked around, shouting, "What's the matter?" ”

At this time, the clatter machine guns around him sounded quickly, and Lieutenant Pei was secretly shocked: "Oops, there is an ambush!" ”