Chapter 564: Landing (3)

"Wow"

Night finally fell, and the two sides finally stopped after a day of fierce fighting, and each lurked on his own territory to lick his wounds.

Strictly speaking, this is the first time that the young Chinese army has carried out an amphibious landing operation on land and sea, and the entire naval command has seriously underestimated the problems and difficulties to be encountered in amphibious operations. Although the Japanese army had only one brigade and less than 7,000 men, the Japanese relied on the favorable terrain to resist one by one, which frustrated the idea of rapid advance of the naval command and the Marine Brigade.

The island's complex topography and intertwined fortifications reduced the power of the naval guns to an unbearable level for the admirals, giving a resounding slap in the face to the staff officers who thought that the Japanese fortifications could be leveled with the powerful naval artillery fire as soon as the battle began, and then the infantry could swagger up and occupy the enemy positions. The Marine Brigade fought for a whole day to advance less than 10 kilometers, and it was only in the afternoon that a beachhead was barely established under the indiscriminate bombardment of carrier-based aircraft at any cost, and the Marine Brigade paid the price for this at more than 1,000 casualties.

The heavy casualties and the consumption of a large amount of ammunition poured a plate of cold water on everyone in the naval staff, and amphibious operations were not supported by large-scale infantry, air force, and endless heavy artillery groups at any time as in the previous large-scale army operations on land, and its requirements for logistics support were simply so harsh that they made logistics officers vomit blood. Not to mention anything else, even the straw paper used by the soldiers to wipe their buttocks had to be transported from Vladivostok, thousands of miles away, and today's one-day ammunition consumption has already exhausted the ammunition consumption that the staff officers thought was enough to support a week, and at this rate, the troops would consume the ammunition of the entire fleet in less than three days.

"We need medicine, food and more ammunition and troops," was the common cry of all commanders on shore.

"You are committing a crime" On the "Zheng Chenggong" aircraft carrier, Admiral Chen Shaokuan, commander of the Navy, had a blue face, and his fingers almost pointed to the noses of the staff officers.

Chen Shaokuan, who had just received the report, felt dizzy when he looked at the casualty figures of today's troops, and the casualties of more than 1,000 Marine Brigade soldiers had consumed seven ammunition bases, in exchange for a depth of 10 kilometers.

"Ten kilometers, you can really do it" Chen Shaokuan was so angry that his body trembled, "What is ten kilometers enough?" Let me tell you that the 10 kilometers were only enough to bury our fallen soldiers for a whole day, and they were bombed by planes and naval guns, and the casualties of the Marine Brigade were still so heavy. Why wasn't this scenario estimated? ”

The room full of staff officers in the war room, including Chief of Staff Zhang Shouye, all drooped their heads and did not say a word, allowing Chen Shaokuan's saliva to spray on their faces. Most of their experience was gained when they fought against the Japanese army at home and with the Soviet and Russian armies, and as for this kind of amphibious island landing operation, everyone was "a toad jumping into a well--puff (I don't understand)"

With no heavy bombers to help them out and no heavy artillery to support them, everything is incredibly precious in a place where even a single bullet has to be transported by transport ship from thousands of kilometers away. The soldiers of the Marine Brigade were also at a loss in the face of the Japanese troops hiding in the complicated terrain, and although the tanks of the armored division had already landed, there was not much use in this place full of volcanoes and steep terrain, all of which were so unfamiliar.

Just as Chen Shaokuan was glaring angrily at the group of dejected staff officers in front of him, a communications officer ran over and reported: "Sir, the call from the president himself is asking you to answer it personally."

As soon as the communications officer's voice fell, the heads of the staff officers hung lower, and they fought a battle that the president had personally followed with the superiority in firepower and strength, and they were ashamed of themselves.

Chen Shaokuan habitually touched his heels, and stood upright before taking the headset and microphone handed over by the communications officer, "Report to the president, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Chen Shaokuan reports to you"

"Commander Chen, you've been fighting for a day, how is the battle going?" Su Tong's voice in the headset was not loud, but it made him uncomfortable to Chen Shaokuan's ears.

"Report to the president, I only advanced ten kilometers today, and we suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and a third of the ammunition was consumed, I didn't fight well today" Chen Shaokuan's voice instantly lowered.

Su Tong was silent, only Su Tong's heavy breathing was heard in the headset, Chen Shaokuan was very ashamed in his heart, the president handed over such a fleet of advanced ships and more than 25,000 elite ground troops in the world, and now he just had to deal with a Japanese second-rate brigade composed of more than 7,000 people.

After being silent for a long time, Su Tong's voice finally sounded again: "Amphibious operations on land and sea are a completely new subject, and this is a completely new field that none of us have ever touched, so the temporary defeat is excusable. But I must not accept to fall in the same way in one place for a second time, Chen Shaokuan, you are also a veteran of the naval world, you are a naval general, you should know that there is a specialization in the art industry, your specialty is sea combat rather than amphibious operations, so tonight I will send another army general to take over your ground command, do you have any opinions? ”

"I completely accept your orders, I don't have any opinions" Chen Shaokuan stood up straight, secretly relieved in his heart, after today's lesson, Chen Shaokuan finally understood that ground combat and surface ship combat are completely different fields, and some of his previous assumptions and experiences will not work at all on the ground.

"Well, the person who will take over your ground command tomorrow will arrive tomorrow, and I will also have the ammunition and reinforcements you need to be shipped to you as soon as possible, anyway, I don't want to hear you report to me that you haven't done it well, do you understand?" There was a firm will in Su Tong's words, and Chen Shaokuan had no doubt that if he couldn't fight well, Su Tong would not hesitate to withdraw his determination.

Nanjing Presidential Palace

Su Tong, who put down the phone, didn't say anything, just took out a cigarette from his body and lit it, and the faint green smoke reflected his delicate and resolute face a little blurred.

In fact, the difficulties encountered in this amphibious landing operation were also expected by Su Tong as early as possible, and at this time, the amphibious operation for the island is still a completely new topic, and all countries in the world have not really studied amphibious operations as a course, and Huaxia is no exception.

But the casualties of the Marine Corps today still surprised Su Tong, more than 1,000 well-trained Marine Corps casualties, and they still have superior strength and firepower, it seems that this amphibious operation is really not easy to fight.

At this time, Su Tong thought of the Battle of Luzon fought by the U.S. Army in later generations. The 175,000 U.S. troops under the command of Admiral MacArthur attacked the 14th Front, which consisted of 250,000 Japanese troops under the command of Yamashita Fumi, and fought for seven months. In the end, the American army ended the battle for the island at the cost of 47,000 Japanese casualties and 217,000 Japanese casualties.

In this battle, the US forces attacked with overwhelmingly superior warships, planes, and artillery and suffered heavy casualties, and it is not surprising that more than 1,000 casualties of our own troops were killed and wounded today.

"No, we still have to strengthen their troops" Su Tong, who was pacing back and forth in contemplation, stopped, walked quickly to the desk, grabbed the black phone and shook it vigorously: "Hey, will you pick me up from Gao Zhihang, the Air Force Command?" I'm Su Tong, now I'm ordering"

The sky gradually brightened, and Chen Shaokuan received a report from his subordinates as soon as he got up that the new ground commander had arrived by plane overnight.

When Chen Shaokuan came to the war room, a middle-aged general wearing the uniform of an army lieutenant general stood in front of him.

"Report to Chief Chen, Lieutenant General Guan Zhenglin came to report and ask the commander to give instructions"

"Yudong, it turns out that the president sent you" Chen Shaokuan stepped forward to hold Guan Zhenglin's hand and said with emotion: "I'm relieved that you're here."

Looking at Chen Shaokuan's bloodshot eyes, Guan Linzheng sighed in his heart, Chief Chen didn't sleep all night last night. Guan Zhenglin, who graduated from the first phase of Huangpu, since the Republic of China truly realized the reunification, he clearly realized that the old era has passed, and the current national situation is completely different from before, although he has an arrogant personality, but he is not a person who does not know the times, when the whole army was reorganized, he was the deputy commander-in-chief of the 31st Group Army, he resolutely telegraphed to support the reorganization work of the central government, and took the initiative to cooperate with Su Tong to break up and reorganize the army, so he also won Su Tong's trust. still let him be the commander of the 31st Group Army and stationed in Anhui.

In the past two years, the country has been at peace, and as soon as he received an order from the Ministry of National Defense yesterday, he immediately handed over his work to his deputy, and rushed to Sakhalin Island, thousands of miles away, by plane overnight with several staff officers and guards.

"Fu Gong, what is the form of the island now, please explain it to me." After the salute, Guan Linzheng closed the honorific title for Chen Shaokuan, although he had already looked at the information on the plane when he came, but the details were best known to Chen Shaokuan, the front-line commander.

"Okay, I'll give you an explanation of the current situation and yesterday's battle situation first," Chen Shaokuan cheered up and gave Guan Linzheng a detailed explanation of the current situation