If you look down from the plane, Zhifu Island is like an open umbrella, silently sheltering Yantai City. It is also like a Ganoderma lucidum grass, growing in the blue waters of the Yellow Sea. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhifu Island was known as the five major ports with Jieshi, Juzhang, Langyu and Huiji.

The landing site chosen by Commander Lin Guowei of the Qingzhou Army was Yantai on the south side of Zhifu Island.

The Japanese troops stationed in Yantai Port were two detachments of the 9th Independent Brigade. When the war on the southern front was unfavorable and the Japanese invasion headquarters judged that the Han army might land in the north, it captured a large number of Chinese laborers to overhaul the fortifications on Zhifu Island, with countless beachhead obstacles and cement bunkers, and arranged a large number of machine guns to kill and injure the landing force.

The JH37-B Poison Dragon and HH6-A Pterodactyl on the three aircraft carriers all took off, and the 203 mm main guns of the heavy cruisers Xingba and Ziyi can only be regarded as shabby among the main ships of the navies of the great powers, but they are more than enough to bombard beach targets. Plus...... A group of destroyers' 155 mm caliber main guns can be regarded as hundreds of guns in unison, and the obstacles and bunkers along the coast of Yantai have been cleared piece by piece. The task of the bombers is to strike at targets in depth, and the commander in chief of the landing, Senior Colonel Guan Canghai, gave the pilots the following orders: Don't skimp on bombs, and turn over all the targets that you think are valuable! How to open it? Bombs, of course.

The two howitzer artillery positions of the Japanese army behind the coastal positions were the first to be "turned over", and twelve pterodactyls scrambled to drop the aerial bombs where the pilots considered the most valuable. But not far away, an artillery position of 75-mm mountain guns, hidden by branches and debris, was ignored by careless pilots.

The shelling lasted for two hours, and after learning the lesson of Commander Mao Shiying of the Indian Ocean Fleet during the Battle of Pei Island, Senior Colonel Guan Canghai even took the Linglong reconnaissance plane to patrol the air and confirm that every inch of Yantai Beach had been "turned over" before informing Lieutenant General Lin Weiguo that he could land!

The nearly ten kilometers of beach between the famous Yantai Mountain and Yudai Mountain became the landing ground of the 16th Army. When assembling in Hong Kong, the 144th Brigade of the 48th Division, which was equipped with a large number of amphibious combat vehicles, took the lead in landing on the amphibious landing ship Zishan (Bulu). Amphibious landing ships can rush to a distance of several hundred meters from the beachhead in waters such as Yantai. As soon as the dock baffle was opened, the walrus tank appeared on the beach almost instantly! The tank guns accurately called the bunkers that survived the artillery bombardment, and the landing craft of the follow-up troops began to launch from the Yanhuang wheel thousands of meters away, and the Han army, which had absolute air superiority, did not feel that the landing was a difficult task.

The pre-war tension became relaxed as the landing craft moved quickly and steadily, and some soldiers even leaned on the boat and chatted.

"Dude, where are you from?"

"Wulian's, it's not far from here! What about you? ”

"Haha, buddy is from Qixia, and he will be home after Yantai. After this battle, I can invite you to my hometown to eat apples. ”

...... "boom-" The sound of shelling suddenly sounded, and a shell fell on the side of the landing craft, and a huge wave hit, and the landing craft suddenly overturned on its side, and more than a dozen fighters on the boat all fell into the water.

The old man who can go home and eat apples after hitting Yantai doesn't seem to know how to water, his arm sticks out of the water, and he disappears after a few random scratches!

Wulian's buddies shouted a few times, but there was no reaction at all, and the squad leader roared angrily, "What's the howl, swim forward, do you want to throw it here?" ”

"Boom-" Brother Wulian watched as the squad leader disappeared into the whirlpool created by the shells. This time, he didn't shout again, wiped a handful of tears or sea water from his face, and swam forward with all his might.

The mountain artillery positions that survived because of the carelessness of the pilots caused a lot of casualties to the landing force, Guan Canghai grabbed the intercom, and before connecting the radio communication, he spit out two words: "Shit!" ”

The Xingba and Ziyi re-patrolled and turned their guns, and the 203-mm guns of the triple seat roared continuously, "turning over" the Japanese mountain artillery positions, and without the threat of artillery fire, the landing craft marched faster and more balanced. At 6 o'clock in the morning, it was a good time to enjoy the sunrise over the sea, and the soldiers on both sides certainly had no intention of looking at the red sunrise. I have seen too much life and death, and when I see something red, I feel like I want to vomit.

The 48th Division of the Qingzhou Army landed all of them, and opened up a landing ground on the beach that was five kilometers wide and two kilometers deep, and the 46th and 47th Divisions of the 16th Army landed one after another. The 46th Division attacked the Yantai Port Pier laterally, and the 47th Division joined up with the 48th Division to continue to advance in depth, and the batteries on Yantai Mountain were still firing artillery, and a clouded leopard amphibious infantry armored vehicle was destroyed. Three minutes later, a two-plane formation of poisonous dragons dived and dropped a number of aerial bombs in succession, blowing up the only remaining small-caliber artillery of the Japanese army on Yantai Mountain.

The information-based warfare that Zhong Yi has always admired has begun to emerge in the Yantai landing campaign, and of course, it is only a rudimentary form, but it can only enable timely communication and joint operations between multiple branches of the armed forces and multiple units through radio communications.

The War Lab is developing a command information platform called Beidou, which can integrate functions such as command and control, reconnaissance and intelligence, communications, security and confidentiality, and early warning and detection. Once the research and development is successful, the joint combat between the various units and branches of the Han army will be more tacit. Commanders can also make rapid responses, make accurate judgments, and make resolute decisions in light of the battlefield situation, and can command and control troops and weapons and equipment with ease, so as to give full play to the combat effectiveness of all combat units.

However, at present, the Beidou command information platform is still only in the stage of paper design, and the functions of the base's first-generation tube computer Yinhe-39 are not enough to afford such a huge amount of information processing.

I'm not afraid that I can't do it, I'm afraid that I can't think of it. Zhong Yi is very confident that in the next few years, with the help of the base, the scientific and technological level of the empire will have a great leap, so that the ancient and wise Chinese nation will once again stand at the top of the world's national forest, just like the four major inventions changed the world, Dahan Zhongxing will once again lead the global trend of science and technology.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Lin Guowei received a report from the 48th Division that the 144th Amphibious Combat Vehicle Brigade had successfully torn off the plaster flag of the Yantai City Government and replaced it with the Dahan Golden Dragon Flag. At this time, the 18th Army of Qingzhou had just assembled on the wharf of Yantai Port.

The successful implementation of the Wanderer plan and the landing of the Qingzhou Corps in Yantai were a fatal blow to the Japanese army strategically. Tada Jun paid the price for his Japanese-style self-confidence, North China was no longer a large rear, and the space for the Japanese army's activities in China was greatly reduced.

On September 14, 1940, Ye Zhiqiu, chief of the general staff of the Han Imperial Army, announced in Hong Kong that the allied forces in southern China would be unified and reorganized into the Southern Group Army, with Wang Yizhe as the commander-in-chief, Chen Cheng in Chongqing as the deputy commander-in-chief, and Yu Xuezhong as the chief of staff. The Northern Group Army was established in Yantai, with Wei Lihuang as deputy commander and Chen Shukang as chief of staff of the group army in Chongqing.

This appointment has caused speculation from all walks of life, there is no problem with the appointment of Army Group South, but why is the commander-in-chief of the North vacant? And who will make the Allies vacant?

But this eye-catching topic was not continuously hyped, because the headline of the next day's newspaper was changed to "The Battle of the Han and Japanese Navies in the Yellow Sea, the Han Royal Fleet VS the Combined Fleet!" ”