Chapter 1095: The Japanese army moves south

As mentioned earlier, the Japanese troops on the opposite bank were suppressed by the powerful firepower of the first column with all the artillery, and were unable to prevent the infantry of the first column of Longya from crossing the river. The baggage troops also took advantage of this opportunity and quickly stepped forward and began to build pontoon bridges.

Everything was going according to the battle plan originally formulated by the column headquarters, and the Japanese army was powerless to counter it, and in the final analysis, the Japanese army stationed on the Goryeo Peninsula at this time had lost its overall strength to compete with the Dragon's Tooth Corps.

The two sides are no longer at the same level in terms of artillery, armor and individual firepower, that is, Qiao Youhua is still waiting for the opportunity and does not want to fight on two fronts, otherwise, the first column will definitely be able to hit Seoul.

After all, the Goryeo Peninsula is not our own territory, at best it can only be regarded as a foreign vassal country, and there is no need to rush to recover it, which will lead to the elongation of the battle line of the Dragon's Tooth Corps, and it is likely to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

"Brothers, it's time to wash away the shame of a few days ago, rush up to me and destroy the little Japan raised by his son of a bitch, rush!" Li Mingshan saw that the fleet was about to dock, and stood on the bow of a large wooden ship and raised his arms and shouted angrily.

"Rush! Kill! Nearly 3,000 soldiers roared in unison, and as the ship docked, they jumped off the bow of the ship, guns in hand, and rushed ashore.

The shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth, and thousands of elite infantry roared angrily, and their own artillery fire immediately extended to the depth of the enemy's position.

The infantry artillery coordinated perfectly, and before the remaining devils had time to catch their breath, the smoke of gunpowder had dispersed on the battlefield of fire, and a large number of Chinese soldiers were swarming with guns and firing while firing.

The rest of the devils didn't even have the strength to fight back, so they were shot and killed one by one.

It turned out that the Japanese commander urgently transferred a group of devil reinforcements from the rear at this time in an attempt to prevent the landing of the first column of Longya.

Thousands of shells slashed and covered the face of the tiger's roar, and the Japanese army was blown up to the point of crying fathers and mothers, and the dead and wounded were all in pieces.

In the midst of the head-on engagement, a roundabout unit also managed to quietly cross the Yalu River three kilometers upstream and downstream of the engagement area, and under the leadership of a regimental commander and deputy regimental commander, they went straight to the deep positions and command posts behind the Japanese positions along the river.

At this time, the Japanese army was under tremendous pressure from the devastating artillery fire and powerful offensive of the first column, and there was no surplus force to hold on to the two flanks, and these two roundabout troops were a complete infantry regiment of more than 3,000 troops, and they were well-equipped.

Therefore, soon more than 3,000 officers and men easily broke through the resistance of a small number of Japanese alert troops, pursued and fought fiercely all the way, and directly hit the vicinity of one of the Japanese headquarters on the front line, and there was only one devil infantry squadron guarding the command post at that time.

Thousands of semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, general-purpose machine guns, mortars, and grenadiers shot all the devils in a dense burst of fire, and the shells fell on the Japanese headquarters, killing several Japanese soldiers on the spot.

Subsequently, this roundabout force divided into two routes, one along the Japanese command post and the other towards the Goryeo Peninsula, and the other rushed in the opposite direction to the forward positions of the Japanese army, which were still fighting.

At this time, our artillery group had been notified that the roundabout troops had successfully cut into the enemy's rear, and in order to prevent accidental damage, the extended artillery bombardment was stopped.

Under the front and rear attacks of the Dragon's Tooth Corps, the five or six thousand devils who were stuck in the forward riverside position were soon all annihilated.

The battle was declared over at two o'clock in the morning, but the other detachment of the roundabout unit had already advanced 50 miles all the way to the north, and the Japanese troops who came to help were caught off guard, not to mention destroying thousands of enemies, and also took advantage of the situation to eliminate the two advance bases and material supply points of the Japanese army on the front line.

Large quantities of war materiel and supplies were destroyed.

The main force that followed up and the tank units that crossed the river quickly attacked, followed closely behind the roundabout force, expanded the combat area to a range of 50 kilometers to the left and right, and then tens of thousands of troops pushed forward all the way.

By noon the next day, the mechanized corps had advanced for 300 li, defeated countless Japanese puppet troops, destroyed a large number of enemy defenses on the Goryeo Peninsula, and captured two county-sized cities.

Jiang Haidong immediately ordered all the combat units to stop going deeper, and according to the original battle plan, all units took turns to cover and retreat, and the Japanese puppet army had already been defeated and could not be defeated, and did not dare to pursue at all.

Liu Yidao suggested to Jiang Haidong: "Commander, the Japanese puppet army is too ineffective, and their combat effectiveness is worse than we imagined, in fact, we can completely advance to the vicinity of the Han River!" ”

Jiang Haidong said: "Don't be too optimistic, the devil has not yet reached the point of exhaustion, just accept it when you see it!" ”

"Then can we slightly change the original battle plan, not give up the Japanese positions on the other side that we have already captured, and instead garrison them on the spot, so that we can save the trouble of crossing the river again in the future?

Moreover, by controlling the positions along the river on the other side, we can also repair the Yalu River Bridge that was damaged and blown up by the devils, and at the same time repair a few more bridges to prepare for the future march into the Goryeo Peninsula. Liu Yidao suggested.

Jiang Haidong pondered for a while and said: "Well, this is okay, then order all troops to change the retreat plan according to your suggestion!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yidao was overjoyed.

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"Youhua, the first column has won a big victory in the Yalu River, take a look." Pingshan County, General Headquarters of the Dragon's Tooth Corps. Chief of Staff Zuo Quan took the telegram he had just received, found Qiao Youhua, and handed him the telegram.

"Oh? There is another war on the other side of the Yalu River? Qiao Youhua put down the pencil in his hand, took the message and read it, and said: "Haidong still has that temper, he refuses to suffer, but I like it, and revenge is also my character!" However, this combat operation was not reported to the Corps Headquarters for approval, and it was a private operation, so the merits and demerits were offset by the merits, and neither were rewarded nor investigated! ”

"I'll see it." Of course, Zuo Quan knew that Qiao Youhua would not be punished for this, after all, the first column was an independent combat unit, and as the commander of the column, he had the power to formulate some battles.

However, just as Zuo Quan was about to leave, Wan Ying'er, deputy director of the Communications Department, ran into Qiao Youhua's office in a panic with a telegram, and saluted the two of them: "Commander, chief of staff, I just got the news that 100,000 Japanese troops raided French Indochina and opened up the southern battlefield!" ”