Anchorage is surrounded by the sea on three sides, the mountains and forests on the east, and the railway in the port runs through the north and south directions, and two warships have stopped on the harbor channel, blocking all the ships in the harbor.

At this time, nearly 120,000 residents in the town of Anchorage began to panic, this is the most populous town in Alaska, and it is also the base camp of local forces in Alaska, but when the first fleet of the Chinese army appeared on the sea and put down a regiment of troops, the local forces began to withdraw to the north of Alaska, they knew very well that in Anchorage could not stop the attack of the Chinese army at all, with the cooperation of the fleet naval guns, even if their fortifications were built strongly, they could not stop the shelling of naval guns, So they withdrew, leaving only a symbolic army of a few hundred men stationed here, about one battalion.

A battalion to defend Anchorage, which is surrounded by the sea on three sides, is too insufficient in terms of troops, which is why there are only four soldiers in the fortification that Liang Zhenwu and others have ended.

Liang Zhenwu easily broke into the Alaskan defensive circle, and when it got dark, they continued to advance, cautiously, and under the cover of night, they touched the outskirts of the small town of Anchorage, and advanced along the houses of the residents.

Martial law was imposed in the town, and everyone in the town was not allowed to go out at night, and the streets were pitch black, and there was not even a single stray dog. The Alaskans used a large part of their forces to protect the railroad line to the north, which was used to retreat north at a critical moment, leaving the defenses to the south and west too few.

Liang Zhenwu took the reconnaissance squad to carefully avoid sentry posts and patrols, and spent most of the night touching the entire Anchorage town inside and out, except for the Alaskan headquarters and barracks, the rest was found out.

Liang Zhenwu folded the sketched map, put it in his pocket and hid it, and then quietly left from Anchorage with the soldiers, returned to the starting point and joined the other two squads of the reconnaissance platoon.

After joining up with the other two reconnaissance platoons, the three squad leaders each reported on what their squads had detected. Liang Zhenwu reported in detail all the situation of the town detected by the first group: "The defense of the west and south is almost useless, the position near the town in the south is less than two platoons, and the position in the west is even less, and there are two platoons in the town, I estimate that the others are near the railroad tracks in the north, and the military camp is in the south area of the town." However, at this time, there were not many people in the barracks, their headquarters was in the north of the town, most of the troops in the town were concentrated here, and the patrol soldiers in the town were also sent by the headquarters, and the pattern in the town was very regular, each street was crisscrossed, the traffic extended in all directions, and there were almost no dead ends, and this place was obviously not suitable for defense. Because we can always bypass the enemy army in our way and stab them in the back! ”

Next, the second and third shifts introduced the situation they detected in the north of the town and the east of the town respectively, and the second squad leader introduced: "The other side did deploy half of the troops on the north to protect both sides of the railway, I am afraid that we are worried that we will send a small force to destroy the railway, then they will not be able to retreat to the north, the locomotive and the four carriages are in the north, and the locomotive and the carriage are connected, that is, as long as the train can start on fire." If there is no fault, they can be withdrawn at any time."

The third squad leader introduced: "The east side of the town is all mountains and forests. Moreover, the terrain is precipitous, and it is winter, and there is heavy snow everywhere, so it is impossible to attack from the east or go around to the north, unless someone can fly, so there is no one to defend it.

The information detected was quickly summarized and presented to the regimental headquarters. The regiment headquarters is on Farr Island, west of Anchorage, and the regiment commander Chen Zhongqi looked at the internal and external maps of the town of Anchorage that the staff officers would draw, but he kept thinking about how to build this town at the minimum cost.

It is not difficult to conquer the town, the key is not to let the Alaskan army guarding here escape, after all, Alaska is not a small area. This is also an extremely cold place, the climate and environment are extremely harsh, Alaskans are used to living here, they are familiar with the terrain, it is easy to hide, but the Chinese army is here for the first time, it takes time to adapt to the climate here, and it takes time to adapt to the environment. And now they have a train in their hands, and they use heavy troops to protect it, if they want to seize the train without making a big noise, this is not a small difficulty, after all, once the fight starts, the other party may start the train and slip away at any time when the situation is not good.

Chen Zhongqi looked at the train stop in the north of the town and asked, "How far is this train from the coastline?" ”

The operational staff officer said: "It will not be more than two kilometers!" ”

Chen Zhongqi thought for a while and ordered: "Contact the navy, ask them to drive the ship closer, and blast the train with naval guns for me!" In addition, while there are still a few hours left in the morning, let the reconnaissance company send another reconnaissance unit with radio equipment to report the coordinates of the specific location of the train to the regimental headquarters by radio, and the regimental headquarters will then inform the ships of the coordinates and let the battleship prepare several landing craft to transport a company to the railway bridge over the Matanuska River to the north, so as to block the bridgehead for me and prevent the other side from retreating with the troops after the train is blown up by shelling."

The combat staff officer stood up and said: "Yes, sir! ”

At dawn, a violent explosion sounded in the north of the town of Anchorage, which was the Chinese warship firing cannons, and the shells fell around the train one by one, and the front of the train and the carriage were quickly shot, and the violent explosion overturned the front of the train and one of the carriages out of the tracks, and the remaining carriages were almost pulled off the tracks, in short, the train could not leave.

This situation made the defenders confused, the commander couldn't sit still, the Alaskans knew very well that Anchorage was not a place to defend at all, there were too few troops, and the weapons and equipment were not as good as the Chinese army, how to fight and how to die, so the commander immediately ordered everyone to assemble in the north of the town and quickly retreat to the north.

The Chinese scouts, who had been monitoring the movements of the Alaskans, immediately reported the news to the above, and Chen Zhongqi quickly realized that the other party was going to flee, so he immediately entered the town from south to north with a battalion of troops, and launched an attack as fast as possible, not giving the other side time to assemble in the north.

This time, for the war in Alaska, the 89th Division prepared a large number of sleds, this division was stationed in the north for a long time, and the soldiers were basically trained in sledding, and even in the process of skiing, they could raise guns to fight.

The sleigh must have been much faster than a man in the snow, and the Alaskan soldiers from all over Anchorage were overtaken by the Chinese before they could make their way to the north of the town to assemble, and after a small number of Alaskan soldiers were killed in the resistance, the others surrendered.

The enemy commander on the north side of the town could not wait for the soldiers in the town to come and converge, and decisively retreated to the north on foot with his troops.

At noon, the retreating enemy army was blocked by a company of the Chinese army at the bridgehead of the mouth of the Matanuska River, the strength of the two sides is not much different, the Chinese army is a little less in numbers, but in terms of weapons and equipment, the Chinese army is a lot stronger, the Chinese army relies on strong firepower to attack the enemy troops who retreated here, the enemy army is already panicked, and is blocked here, now the Chinese army attacks, the enemy army suddenly collapsed, the soldiers fled in all directions, but were soon killed by the Chinese soldiers who caught up, More than half of them surrendered after seeing that they could not escape, and the rest were all annihilated.

In this way, the first regiment of the 89th Division recaptured Anchorage in less than a day, and then the Chinese army began to expand its area around Anchorage, where there were other small towns or villages, but there were no Alaskan troops.

A few days later, the 3rd Regiment of the 89th Division landed on the Nome Coast and quickly captured the Gold Coast town, which was not as populated as Anchorage's, but not much, and it took only one day for the Chinese army to take control of it.

The 2nd Regiment also landed successfully in Nakonek, and advanced in two directions, north and south, one north into the heart of Alaska, and the other south into the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands.

The Aleutian Islands are mainly inhabited by the Aleutian people, who are small in number, only a few hundred, and the Aleutian people are indigenous to this archipelago.

Due to the severe cold climate and harsh environment, the Chinese army received an order from Shangfeng to fight steadily, not to rush for a while, to prepare now, and wait until spring arrives to clean up the remnants of the participating Alaska local forces.

At the end of November, Jiang Baili reported to Xiao Zhenlei: "The 89th Division has gained a firm foothold in Alaska, and due to the influence of climate and environment, it has not expanded the scope of occupation for the time being!" ”

"That's good, as long as you stand firm first, since the climate is not adaptable, then wait for the weather to get warmer after the beginning of spring, don't worry about this" Xiao Zhenlei nodded.

Jiang Baili remembered another thing and said: "89 said that the natives of Alaska look very similar to Asians, which is really a bit incredible! ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled when he heard this: "What's so strange about this, most of the indigenous people in North America, including the indigenous Indians in the United States, crossed the Bering Strait from Asia to the North American continent a long time ago."

Jiang Baili really didn't know about this, and said with wide eyes: "So that's the case!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei skipped this matter and asked about the battle in the west: "How is the situation on Cai Yi's side?" ”

Jiang Baili shook his head and said: "It's also because of the weather, the war has almost stopped, and it seems that if you want to launch an offensive again, you have to wait until the beginning of spring next year!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and instructed: "Since this is the case, then simply stop, this matter can't be rushed, the Russians can only rely on the cold weather to block our army's attack, and when the temperature rises, they will have nothing to do, when the time comes, we will attack on two fronts together, I see how they can resist!" (To be continued......)