728 Marching towards Mukden
The Huaxia Army adopted a steady and steady tactics, leaving no chance for the Japanese soldiers to succeed in a sneak attack, and as soon as the Japanese soldiers rushed out of their bunkers, they would be killed by the Huaxia soldiers.
The Huaxia Army's more ferocious move was to let the invading artillery and chariots hit them with one shot as soon as they saw a bunker that might be hiding people, and as a result, many Japanese soldiers did not even have a chance to shoot, so they were blown up into the sky by a cannon and turned into bloody corpses.
After blowing up the heavy artillery, they immediately poured oil into the trench and burned the Japanese infantry, further opening the gap into the Lushun fortress to facilitate the entry of follow-up troops.
The Japanese army had never thought that the Lushun Fortress might be conquered by the enemy, so they did not build any fortifications inside the Lushun Fortress, and now they can only rely on the ruins to defend it, and they have been beaten miserably.
The battle lasted for three days, and the casualties of the Japanese soldiers exceeded 10,000, and for the Japanese soldiers, the casualties were not terrible, the terrible thing was that their casualties could not be exchanged for the casualties of the Huaxia Army, and the Huaxia Army did not have any difficulty in fighting them, and under the cover of the artillery and chariots of the invasion, the casualties of the Huaxia Army were extremely low.
On the fourth day of the battle, the Huaxia army concentrated twenty invading artillery chariots to attack the grain warehouse, the grain warehouse is a semi-basement building, and the top was poured by the Japanese soldiers with a layer of concrete up to five meters thick, which made the Monkey King airship have no possibility of exploding, and the aerial bombs of the Monkey King airship could not be exploded, and the shells could not be exploded, so the grain warehouse was still intact in the attack of the Huaxia artillery.
There is a five-meter-thick earthen wall outside the grain warehouse, which is four meters high, which is used to prevent the residents of the Lushun fortress from robbing and stealing grain, and this earthen wall has become the only defense facility in the face of the Huaxia army.
The artillery chariots of the plundering artillery opened fire on the earthen wall, which soon collapsed in the deafening sound of cannons, and the more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers guarding the grain warehouse were soon wiped out.
The grain warehouse was taken by the Huaxia Army, and the pressure on the Huaxia Army's military food supply was much lighter, but for the Japanese soldiers, the loss of food had too great an impact, and all the defenders were facing the embarrassing situation of fighting the Huaxia Army hungry.
On the fifth day, Commander Dashanyan finally couldn't support it, he originally wanted to break all the jade in the Lushun fortress, but he thought that there were still more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers who could fight, so he ordered the troops to withdraw from the Lushun fortress.
The Japanese soldiers quickly withdrew from the Lushun fortress, and the Huaxia army was in hot pursuit, Lin Fei specially told Li to understand before the war that there were two key points in this battle, the first was to break through the Lushun fortress and combat Japan's arrogance, and the second was to annihilate a large number of Japanese living forces to prepare for future operations.
The Huaxia army then launched a pursuit operation, pursued for three days, and eliminated more than 10,000 Japanese troops, and in this way, the 30,000 Japanese troops stationed in the Lushun fortress were finally left with only more than 5,000 remnants of the defeated generals, and fled to Mukden in embarrassment.
At this time, it was 13 February, the battle of Lushun Fortress, which lasted more than a month, officially ended, and the battle ended with a complete victory for the Huaxia Army, the Huaxia Army annihilated more than 25,000 Japanese troops, conquered the Lushun Fortress in one fell swoop, and suffered more than 3,000 casualties of its own, and no artillery and chariots were destroyed.
The most commendable part of this battle is the use of individual rockets, if it weren't for the heavy artillery on the third layer of defense of Lushun Fortress that was blown up by individual rockets, the Chinese army would not have to think about the rest of the matter.
Although the individual rocket appeared in this battle, Lin Fei did not disclose the individual rocket, and the Japanese side was even more secretive about this matter, so the Western world did not know about the individual rocket at this time.
On 14 February, Lin Fei released to the world the news that the Huaxia Army had conquered the Lushun Fortress, which shocked the whole world and shocked military strategists from all over the world.
British military experts commented: "The capture of the Lushun Fortress by the Chinese army can be called the eighth wonder in human history, and it cannot be surpassed. ”
French military experts commented: "The defense of the Lushun fortress is extremely tight, and the fact that the Huaxia army was able to conquer the Lushun fortress shows that the Huaxia army's combat effectiveness is very strong, and I hope that the French government can give more flexibility to its China policy." ”
American military experts commented: "Facts have proven time and again that the Chinese Army is a very powerful army, and we, the United States of America, should start military cooperation with the Chinese Empire as soon as possible." ”
Lin Fei ignored the comments of various countries, and on the third day after the end of the Battle of Lushun Fortress, that is, on February 16, he ordered the Huaxia Army assembled at Shanhaiguan to immediately march to Jinzhou.
Jinzhou is the only way to attack Mukden in the north and Shanhaiguan in the south, and its strategic position is extremely important.
At this time, the center of the Japanese army's rule in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty was Mukden, that is, Shenyang in Lin Fei's era, more than 200 kilometers away from Jinzhou and more than 300 kilometers away from Shanhaiguan.
The troops assembled at Shanhaiguan included the 1st Armored Division, the 1st Northeast Division, the 2nd Northeast Division, and the 3rd Northeast Division, with a total strength of nearly 50,000 troops, including 180 artillery and combat vehicles that had invaded and plundered.
Lin Fei organized the Huaxia Army in the direction of Shanhaiguan into the Shanhaiguan Front, and ordered Lei Guang, commander of the First Armored Division, to serve as the commander-in-chief.
The troops stationed in Jinzhou are the elite second division of the Japanese army, with a total number of more than 20,000 people, as well as the first and second Korean divisions, each of which has 30,000 people, about 10,000 more than the Japanese army, with Koreans as soldiers and Japanese as officers.
It stands to reason that the number of Japanese soldiers exceeds that of the Huaxia Army, and the Huaxia Army should be worried, but surprisingly, the Huaxia Army is not worried about the strength of the Japanese army, not because of the existence of the artillery and chariots of the invasion, but the bunkers built by the Japanese soldiers are really too loopholes.
The biggest loophole in the bunkers of the Japanese soldiers was that they were too close to the sea, and in order to be able to completely defend against the Huaxia army, the Japanese soldiers actually built the defense line all the way to the seashore, which gave the Huaxia Navy a godsend.
On 18 February, the Huaxia Army approached the outer defense line of Jinzhou, and on 19 February, the Huaxia Navy concentrated six Dadi-class cruisers to bombard the bunkers of Japanese soldiers on the ground.
Under the ferocious fire of the Emperor-class cruisers, the Japanese Jinzhou defense line collapsed in only one day, and the remnants of the Japanese soldiers retreated in disarray.
As soon as the Japanese army lost Jinzhou, it had to retreat to the defense line of the Daling River, which is a large river running north-south and was a natural barrier against the enemy advancing eastward.
The Japanese defending Jinzhou withdrew to the Daling River defense line, and on 20 February, the Huaxia Army fully occupied Jinzhou.
After the Huaxia Army occupied Jinzhou, the first thing it did was to recruit soldiers and form the Fourth Division in the Northeast and the Fifth Division in the Northeast.
The troops of the five divisions joined up with the 1st Panzer Division to attack the Japanese-controlled Daling River, which was less than ten kilometers away from Jinzhou, and the advance of the Huaxia Army was extremely convenient, and the Daling River was very long, and any point of breakthrough would collapse the entire defensive line.
Lei Guang, commander of the 1st Armored Division, ordered his troops to divide into five routes to attack the Daling River defense line.
When the troops were mobilized, Division Commander Lei Guang adopted a suspicious tactic, making the Japanese army mistakenly believe that the Huaxia Army attacking the Daling River defense line from the front was the strongest, so the Japanese army concentrated all the troops on the front of the Daling River defense line.
On 22 February, under the order of Division Commander Lei Guang, nearly 100,000 Huaxia troops launched an attack on the Japanese army, and on the frontal battlefield, one by one the soldiers of the Huaxia Army rushed to the positions of the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers planted explosives on the ice in advance.
The soldiers of the Huaxia Army who fell into the water did not continue to attack, but retreated backwards, and the Japanese soldiers were extremely excited when they saw that they had blocked the attack of the Huaxia Army, but they could only be excited for a while, because the real protagonist of this battle, the artillery chariot of invasion, had not yet appeared.
In the early morning of 23 February, a large number of peasant-looking people suddenly appeared on the ice of the Daling River, all of them carrying door panels, not knowing what to do.
The Japanese soldiers on the opposite side were worried that these people were Huaxia Army, so they opened fire and fired warning shots, and these peasant-looking people threw down the door panel and ran away after hearing the gunshots, and the Japanese soldiers were very surprised, and they couldn't figure out what these Qing peasants were going to do.
At this moment, suddenly three green signal flares rose in the night sky, and then a deafening cannon sound sounded on the position of the Huaxia Army, and then, one after another, violent explosions rose on the position of the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers realized that this was the real attack.
I saw a large patch of snow and fog rising from the sky in the distance, in the snow and fog, I don't know how many plundering artillery chariots rushed to kill, they drove onto the ice, pressed on the wooden plank, the ice was pressed to the click, but it was not broken, it turned out that those peasant people were the soldiers of the Huaxia Army pretending, the Huaxia Army high-level was worried that the ice could not withstand the invasion of artillery chariots, so they sent soldiers to disguise themselves as farmers, and spread the wide wooden planks on the ice.