"What?" Luo Yaoguo and Bai Chongxi exclaimed at the same time, especially Bai Chongxi's face showed a look of ecstasy, the battle plan of the entire Korean campaign was formulated by him, and the Korean geochronicles would have been memorized well a long time ago, Liu Fei said that the 52nd Army had captured Gufeng Village in Guiping, and he immediately knew that the road leading from Chushan to Yunshan was halfway there

"For the chapter, what does Guan Yudong Guan Linzheng's report say? How many troops did the 52nd Army detour back to Guping Village? Bai Chongxi asked Liu Fei while striding to the front of the map, and quickly found Gupingli and Gufeng Village

"There are more than 100 T307 assault guns of the 307th Infantry Regiment and the 308th Infantry Regiment, as well as the 9th Assault Artillery Regiment, with a total strength of more than 8,000 people, and the unit is personally commanded by Liu Yuzhang, commander of the 52nd Army," Liu Fei glanced at the telegram, and his face also showed a surprised expression

"More than 8,000 people and more than 100 assault guns, oh my God, how did this Liu Guangtou pass?" Bai Chongxi searched on the map for a long time, but he didn't find a highway that could allow more than 100 assault guns to pass, you must know that although this T39 assault gun has strong firepower and defense, its mobility is really a little unsatisfactory

"They walked on the ice of the loyal Manjiang River, this was the idea of Jiang Peiyuan, chief of staff of the 9th Army"

"It's good, it's good" Bai Chongxi said in a loud voice, although what he said when he explained to Luo Yaoguo just now was the truth, but in his heart, he was more anxious than anyone else Tens of thousands of cannons, more than 2,000 aircraft, as well as 12 divisions of elite infantry and 360 T39 assault guns, such a powerful force can't break through the defense line guarded by 8 second- and third-rate Japanese divisions, where do you put Commander Bai's face?

"Jian Gong, Gupingli and Gufeng Village not only threaten the back of the Japanese army in Chushan, but also hold the main road to Yunshan, and once Yunshan is obtained by our army, the Japanese army's Yalu River defense line is probably going to collapse completely, so this Gupingli and Gufeng Village will definitely become the key points of contention between the two sides, it is estimated that the Japanese army will soon organize forces to counterattack, which is also a good opportunity for us to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, I suggest that the 7th Army be transferred to Guan Yudong for unified command, first strengthen the attack on Chushan, and open up the road to Guipingli; At the same time, he ordered Guan Yudong to send a powerful force to reinforce Liu Yuzhang through the ice surface of the Zhongmanjiang River, ordered the Third Air Force to organize an airdrop, and must give Liu Yuzhang's detachment sufficient supplies before dark, and ordered the 8th Army to launch an attack on the Japanese troops on the line from Dapingli to Changcheng, and to attract the Japanese troops in the western section of the Yalu River."

Luo Yaoguo looked at the map, and his heart was also quickly deducing the changes in the current battle situation, for the Japanese army, Gupingli and Gufeng Village are indeed traffic points, after these two places are occupied by the squadron, the defense of the first line of Chushan and Huishan will not be able to be maintained, and as soon as Chushan is lost, the armored troops of the squadron will be able to advance to Yunshan along the Yunshan Highway in Chushan, and Yunshan is a crossroads extending in all directions, once it is captured by the squadron, the defense line of the Yalu River, which the Japanese army has painstakingly operated for 8 years, will completely collapse

In the face of such a situation, the Japanese army had only two possible choices: one was to organize a counterattack with all its might, recapture the first line of Gufeng Village in Gupingli, or at least seize Gufeng Village to block the pass southward of the Jiangnan Mountain Range, and then build a defense line along the first line of the Gaima Plateau in the Jiangnan Mountain Range to defend the east and west sections of the Yalu River defense line, and the second was to simply retreat in great strides, give up the Yalu River defense line that had been painstakingly operated for eight years, and retreat to the front line of Miaoxiang Mountain on the Qingchuan River to build a defense line that was greatly shortened in length and relatively easy to defend

If you let yourself stand in the position of Gangcun Ningci to choose, you will definitely choose the second option, abandon the long Yalu River defense line, withdraw the troops to the Qingchuan River Miaoxiang Mountain, go to the battle ridge to build a defense line, and the length of this defense line is at most more than 300 kilometers, which can greatly save the limited strength of the Japanese army, and also make the Japanese defense line become tighter, reducing the risk of being broken by Chinese armored forces

However, it is not so easy to withdraw the main force from the Yalu River defense line that is being attacked by the squadron, and the withdrawn army will not only be pursued by the Chinese armored forces, but will also be chased and bombed by the Chinese air force all the way, and the three divisions of the four armies stationed on the Yalu River defense line, with a total of 7 or 800,000 troops, can withdraw half of the army, and as for the heavy weapons and baggage, I am afraid that more than two-thirds will be lost, so the determination to retreat in great strides is not easy

Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo looked at Bai Chongxi with an inquiring gaze, Bai Chongxi was also pondering Okamura Ningji's thoughts, this Japanese marshal would now choose to make a desperate bet on the decisive battle with the ** team south of the Yalu River; Or will a strong man break his wrist and exchange the cost of annihilating hundreds of thousands of troops for the opportunity to build a defensive line in the middle of the Korean Peninsula? This is the scene of hundreds of thousands of troops throwing away their armor and abandoning their baggage and fleeing in a hurry all the way to his mind

Bai Chongxi sneered: "No matter whether Okamura Ningji fights or leaves, we must fight hard, only by beating him painfully and crippling the 32 divisions and regiments deployed on the defense line of the Yalu River, can we make him believe that our main attack direction is in the north of Korea, and can we transfer the two armies on the west coast of Korea to the frontal battlefield of North Korea."

Speaking of this, he looked up at Luo Yaoguo, and saw Luo Yaoguo nodding, he continued: "The offensive on the front of the Japanese defense line on the Yalu River should be strengthened, the 5th Army and the 6th Army immediately launched an attack on the east and west sections of the defense line of the Yalu River, dispatched trains and artillery to bombard the Japanese fortifications, ordered the 8th Army to launch an attack on the Japanese army on the line from Dapingli to Changcheng, and the 7th Army could give Guan Yudong unified command and order 12 hours to capture Chushan, Liu Yuzhang's detachment was east of the Zhongman River and south of Chushan, The Second Panzer Army dispatched one Panzergrenadier Division to reinforce Liu Yuzhang's detachment along the Zhongman River South, and the other Panzergrenadier Division should also be ready to be dispatched at any time; as soon as Chushan was opened, the First Army of the Air Force would immediately go south to cancel its bombing plan against the Japanese mainland, concentrate all its efforts on air strikes on kilometers, railways, and transportation hubs in the Japanese-controlled areas in northern Korea, and organize transport planes to airdrop a batch of ammunition supplies to Liu Yuzhang's detachment, and at the same time dispatch another tactical bombing aviation regiment to cooperate with Liu Yuzhang's detachment

In addition, the Navy's Second Fleet immediately went north through the Taiwan Strait and began shelling important targets on the west coast of Korea tomorrow night."

"Do you want the First Fleet to go north now? Aren't you afraid of startling the snake? Luo Yaoguo was stunned for a moment, and asked that the Second Fleet of the Navy is a battleship fleet, and the three battleships of Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, and Ningyuan are all under the jurisdiction of the Second Fleet of the Navy

"Don't be afraid" Bai Chongxi smiled: "Let's fight a decisive battle with more effort on the Yalu River defense line, if our navy doesn't make any moves at this time, it will be suspicious."

……

North Korea, east of the Chungman River, the sound of artillery in the distance can be faintly heard, a team with the sun flag is moving fast along the road, this Japanese army has been completely lightly armed, except for the 75mm mountain guns and 70mm infantry guns that can be disassembled and transported by horses, the rest of the artillery did not carry all the soldiers, and only brought three days' rations and three base ammunition, and there was no baggage convoy to follow, which was not to speed up the march, but because of the strong air superiority of the squadron, at the same time that this lightly armed Japanese army trotted all the way forward, The officers on horseback also looked up at the sky around them, and as long as they found the shadow of a Chinese bomber, they would immediately fire a warning shot, and when the time came, the more than 20,000 officers and men of the elite Kurume 18th Division would rush into the mountains and forests on both sides of the highway as fast as possible to hide themselves

At this time, on the ice of the Zhongman River, the Chinese Third Panzergrenadier Division was also marching southward, but these Chinese imperialist officers and soldiers did not walk on foot, but drove slowly on the frozen river in trucks and half-track armored vehicles, pulling cannons and baggage, and at the same time, nearly 200 huge assault guns, self-propelled guns, and other heavy armored vehicles rumbled along the frozen soil on both sides of the Zhongman River

On the road south of the Jiangnan Mountains, the Japanese 122nd Division's brigade was also advancing lightly, but their heavy artillery and baggage vehicles were not left at the station and did not bring them, but they accidentally exposed their targets during the march this morning and were blown up by the swarming Chinese planes......

However, the goal of these three-way armies was only one, that is, to insert themselves into the rear of the Japanese army and jam Gupingli and Gufeng Village on the Yunshan Highway in Chushan

Gupyeong-ri and Gufeng Village have now become the focus of this "battle to cross the river", and Liu Yuzhang's detachment, which was in this focus, did not even have time to take a breath after defeating a Japanese 113th Wing sent to the door, and began to arrange defenses, North Korea's winter was unusually cold, the ground was frozen hard, and it was difficult to build fortifications, and the time was too hasty, Liu Yuzhang had to order the troops to collect some door panels, trees, and miscellaneous things. In addition, some craters were blown up with explosives, forming several thin defensive lines to hold the four sides of Gupingli and Gufeng Village, and 120 T39 assault guns were assigned to each defense line to act as fixed fire points

The air superiority of the Wehrmacht also played a role at this time, and the transport planes of the three air forces not only dropped ammunition supplies for them, but also brought a 105mm light howitzer parachute battalion with 12 paratroopers, and parachuted down

But with the arrival of the evening of December 12, the test of Liu Yuzhang's detachment is finally coming, at 7 o'clock in the evening, the Japanese artillery shells first exploded on the position of the 1st Battalion of the 307th Regiment of the National Defense Army on the hillside outside Gufeng Village on the southern front, this time the Japanese army seems to have invested a whole artillery wing, at least 40 75mm field artillery mountain guns, as well as 24 70mm Type 92 infantry guns, and at least 30 large-caliber mortars firing at the same time. Soar into the sky in a variety of different positions

Seeing that the hastily constructed field fortifications of the 1st Battalion of the 307th Regiment were blown to shreds, the fragments of various obstacles, the wreckage of civil fortifications, and the human body could be vaguely seen lifted into the sky, and the soil and rocks on the slopes of the mountains were also shaken down, and the trees were swept down by the shock wave, and the whole thing was a mess

When the Japanese artillery bombardment began, the straggler battalion that had been dropped by air was setting up artillery on the position south of Gupingli, and before it had time to put into operation, the ** team had to counterattack with heavy mortars for a while, but the firepower was obviously weak

On a hill not far from the position of the 1st Battalion of the 307th Regiment of the Wehrmacht, the former enemy command post of the 122nd Division of the Japanese Army had been set up, and the commander of the 122nd Division, Lieutenant General Ryotaro Nakai, and the chief of staff, Yoshitaka Akiyama, stood here, holding binoculars like two sculptures to watch the effects of the shelling

Seeing the weak firepower of the opponent's counterattack, Ryotaro Nakai put down his binoculars and turned his head to look at Yoshitaka Akiyama: "Akiyama-kun, it seems that the opponent is not a complete panzergrenadier division, at least their self-propelled artillery regiment is not in place"

Yoshitaka Akiyama also put down his binoculars and shook his head slightly: "That's not something our 122nd Division can deal with, according to the German estimate, the combat effectiveness of a Chinese armored grenadier division is at least equivalent to three divisions of the fourth wing...... And this is when the anti-aircraft artillery of the three divisions is fully equipped with the armament in place, and we are now ......"

Ryotaro Nakai snorted coldly: "We are preparing to use three divisions to encircle and annihilate this branch of the grenadier division, our 122nd Division will attack from the southern front, the 106th Division will attack from the northern front, and the 18th Division will attack from the western front and attack from three sides...... I don't believe that this Panzergrenadier Division can still put on wings and slip away from the encirclement of the imperial army" Speaking of which, the commander of the Nakai Division was already a little gritted his teeth, and he turned his head to look at the chief of staff Akiyama: "Order, let the 124th Wing attack, and tell the riverside Dazuo to order him to capture Gufeng Village before dawn tomorrow and open the passage north into Gupingli"

"Hail"

……

"On-board on-board on-board ......"

In a shout that seemed to tear through the throat, a yellow wave composed of nearly 2,500 Japanese infantry appeared under the hill of the 1st Battalion of the 307th Regiment of the Wehrmacht

At this time, Liu Yuzhang also moved the command post of the former enemy from Guping to Gufeng Village, and he himself stood on a high hill outside Gufeng Village and watched with binoculars as the Japanese army's earthy yellow people surged towards his position

I'm afraid there are three brigades of Japanese devils, these little Japan are really willing to let go of the capital, the fierce north wind blows his hands cold, but he doesn't know it, all the attention is attracted by the Japanese front, a staff officer doesn't know when he came behind him, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Military seat, Battalion Commander Zhang of the military seat paratrooper artillery battalion said that the cannon has been set up and can now be fired."

Liu Yuzhang didn't put down the binoculars: "Fire them to cover the Japanese assault infantry and give Lao Tzu a hard beating" As Liu Yuzhang gave the order, the artillery advance observer assigned to the 1st Battalion of the 307th Regiment picked up the phone and reported loudly: "...... Azimuth 310, distance 350 high-explosive eight-shot battalion salvo "

In the rear, the artillery position of the squadron suddenly flashed like a strong wind, followed by the roar of the cannon ejection in a row, and then from far and near, as if it was a scream from the sky and the sound of explosions like winter thunder, looking at the hillside covered with earthy yellow human waves, there were columns of fire and smoke, shrapnel whistling and flying around, at the same time, mortars, recoilless guns, and infantry guns deployed in the front line, There are also more than a dozen T39 assault guns in Gufeng Village, and the 75mm cannons of the artillery chorus also joined the lineup of this artillery chorus, and for a while, the air was full of the harsh sound of various shells and the explosion of shaking the mountains in formation

Lieutenant General Ryotaro Nakai saw a flash of light in the northern sky through the telescope, and before he could figure out whether it was thunder or something else happening, he felt the earth tremble, and then the rows of columns of smoke exploded in the Japanese stormtroop formation, which had become somewhat dense due to the excessive number of troops thrown into the attack at one time, and was immediately drowned by a sea of flamesThe whistling shrapnel flew in all directions, sweeping down the Japanese infantry in pieces, and many Japanese soldiers who survived the shelling did not even have time to scream and did not dare to charge forward, but they lay down one after another to find terrain and features to cover their bodies, but they really couldn't find cover, so they had to lie on their stomachs close to the ground, gritting their teeth and comparing the character of the shells with Chinese......

The intensity of this artillery bombardment is not ranked at all in this Korean War, but because it directly covered the Japanese infantry who were charging in a relatively dense formation, the effect of the shelling was very good, and in just 15 minutes of shelling, nearly 2,000 shells of various calibers accurately fell on the heads of the Japanese infantry, giving great damage to the Japanese 124th Wing that was charging, according to the battle report submitted by the Japanese 122nd Division to the 16th Army the next day, The entire 124th Wing lost 998 killed, 846 wounded, and 49 missing in the battle on the night of the 12th (to be continued)

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