Just like the 44th Division's eldest brother, the 4th Division, after the 70th Wing, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was transferred out to form the 25th Division, two of the remaining three wings were from Osaka. {We don't write novels, we're just online text porters - after World War I in the Philippines, no one dared to send them to fight on the front lines.} No matter how tight the fight is in that direction, they are all basking in the sun in Thailand in Southeast Asia.

With a living example of the Fourth Division there, Sekihara Rokuchi still dared to put two wings all composed of Osaka soldiers and use them together? Isn't that unpleasant for yourself? The 44th Division is a non-Osaka wing of the 94th Wing, and it is also a helpless choice for Sekihara to arrange them into the second echelon.

And Lieutenant General Sekihara is very full of ideas, but the reality is still very backbone. Originally, I thought that I would personally supervise the Osaka soldiers, and this group of Osaka soldiers would improve somewhat. As a result, he didn't expect that the battle situation was unfavorable, and the majesty that he should have as a division commander was directly ignored.

In other words, when the shape shì deteriorated, he, the commander of the division, did not take it seriously at all for these Osaka soldiers of the Imperial Body. As a result, the entire deployment that he thought he was relatively comprehensive had really become a tragedy on the Qikou battlefield.

At the same time that Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6 gave up his original attempt, after half a day of fierce fighting behind him, the Anti-Japanese League that came out of his flank had trapped the last remnants of the 93rd Wing in several isolated strongholds on the line from Sanhuzhuang to Shilihe and Xiaoxinzhuang, and of course, a few scattered stragglers scattered around here.

Considering that the fraternal troops of the Bohai Naval Region can take advantage of this rare opportunity to fight the water dogs to fully exercise. Du Kaishan generously left the final attack mission, as well as the sweeping operation against the Japanese stragglers, to the troops of the Bohai Naval Region under his command. They left only part of the artillery and a tank company to fight with them.

As for the No. 6 Lieutenant General Sekigahara who consumed all the strength around him in the senseless counter-assault, he was unfortunately in the process of fleeing and finding and collecting his scattered subordinates who were rushed. It was discovered by a tactical team consisting of two anti-union half-track armored vehicles, as well as a tank.

After spotting these sneaky people, looking everywhere for a ditch to flee east. A company commander who led the command of the team was not polite, and directly carried out the machine gun and tank gun fire. The sixth lieutenant general of Sekigahara, along with the only people around him, were beaten into a hornet's nest.

It's just that when the commander of a tank company who led the team of the Anti-Japanese Federation was a little curious in his heart, he got out of the car and thought about what kind of Japanese soldiers were carrying a radio station when they ran away. Seeing the rank of lieutenant general on the six collar badges of Sekigahara, and looking at the collar badges of other corpses around him, they were all carrying officer-style sabers, and they couldn't wait to slap themselves a few big mouths.

What kind of scattered Japanese army is this, this is obviously the 44th Division. If you can catch this lieutenant general, at least you can get a medal belt when you go back. It's a good thing that the living lieutenant general has become a dead corpse, which is somewhat worthless.

In other words, he killed Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6, but compared with the one who caught him alive, this value fell by more than one notch. But it is basically impossible to revive this old man, who has become a hornet's nest and has been hit by a 12-millimeter bullet in the head.

In desperation, the company commander could only tear off Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6 in frustration, and go back to the errand along with the ranks and sabers on the corpses of all the Japanese soldiers around him. Although I didn't catch anything alive, but since I had this result, I couldn't waste it, right? Although the dead are not of much value, there are still some good ones.

This company commander was a little annoyed, but his chagrin was even more fatal to the already low morale of the 44th Division and the next operation. The killing of Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6 also means that in the first round of attacks by Du Kaishan, the position was disrupted, and it can even be said that the main force of the entire 44th Division, which was divided, was in full swing on the ground battle on the Qikou front line. He lost his division commander and lost his overall command.

And this result is quite fatal for the 44th Division, which has become Du Kaishan's next step and the main target. After handing over the task of clearing the remnants of the 93rd Wing to the Bohai Naval Region. In addition to interspersing the main force of the Ninth Division with a force, Du Kaishan could encircle it in the shortest possible time. Concentrate the main forces in his hands and first transfer to the settlement of the 44th Division.

The reason why Du Kaishan did not first solve the entire Qikou front line, the Ninth Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was very simple. For him, there are so many enemy troops on the Qikou front. And at least for a short time, the enemy army at Qikou will not increase significantly. Unless the Japanese Navy breaks through the minefield that it has set up in the old Tieshan waterway, not a single ship will be lost.

They will also take the risk of a landing operation, otherwise the Japanese troops on the front line of Qikou will not be reinforced by a single soldier at least for a short time. However, judging from the previous battle situation in Bohai Bay, I am afraid that the Japanese Navy will not be reluctant to take out some ships to accompany the Japanese army on the adventure.

It was not known that at this time, the retreating fleet of the Japanese Navy was struggling in the old Tieshan waterway. The Japanese naval formation, which was in a hurry to retreat, originally thought that Bohai Bay had become a hell, but at least the old iron mountain waterway was still safe. Therefore, they only called the Lushun Japanese naval base and sent submarine destroyers and tugboats to support, but they did not call the minesweepers to respond.

In addition, the Japanese Navy ships, after leaving the combat radius of the anti-United Nations attack aircraft group, were delayed for a period of time in order to wait for the army ships that were evacuated in front. After arriving at the old Tieshan Water Channel, it was already dark, and for fear of attracting the attention of the US submarine, the searchlights were not turned on, which caused the visual observation distance to drop in a straight line.

As a result, as soon as I drove into the old iron mountain waterway, I struck thunder again one after another. The only air battleship on the Bohai Bay line that escaped the catastrophe was the first to win the bid. This time this guy was not so lucky, and was directly blown up and sunk in the old iron mountain waterway.

Yan Zhan Ng lacked experience in laying mines in the sea, and even less in the anti-union of night air minelaying technology, so when laying mines, he set the depth of these mines and pushed them down from the plane in the general area. As a result, these three layers of mines are deployed in seven out and eight in, and there is no law at all. When it is said to be a mine, it is actually a messy minefield.

None of the tugboats and submarines that came out of Port Arthur to meet them won the bid, but the Japanese Navy ship formation that sailed out of the Bohai Sea really plunged headlong into it. Not to mention the sinking of the only remaining air battleship, the Akitsu Maru, a national treasure of the Japanese Army, was not finally saved, and was bombed and sunk in the old iron mountain waterway immediately behind the Ise.

After the battleship Ise was struck by a mine, it was impossible to quickly determine the situation in the vast night, and other naval ships and transports did not know what was going on. I thought I had been attacked by an American submarine. Immediately scattered in all directions, while deploying all sonar to search for the submarine, constantly firing depth charges, and maneuvering according to the requirements of anti-submarine tactics.

As a result, the Japanese Navy and Army ships that made mistakes in judgment struck mines one after another. In the middle of the night, instead of finding a submarine, it suffered heavy losses from mines. After the Bohai Bay, the entire Laotieshan Waterway once again became the grave of the Japanese Navy. The entire old Iron Mountain waterway is full of ships of the Japanese Navy and Army that have been sunk by bombing.

When Vice Admiral Chiaki Matsuda, who had been transferred to a destroyer because the communications equipment of the battleship Ise had been completely destroyed, and he was no longer able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the flagship, he immediately ordered all the ships to stop maneuvering on the spot. And when he called the nearby Lushun naval base and quickly sent minesweepers to clear the channel, there were only two or three kittens left in his fleet.

The heavy losses in this operation with the army are almost unprecedented for the Japanese Navy. Not to mention the second landing operation in a short period of time, to send reinforcements to the Japanese army on the front line of Qikou. I am afraid that even during the rest of the war, the Japanese Navy will not be able to step into the Bohai Sea even if it is killed.

Compared with the vast Pacific Ocean, the Bohai Sea, which is small and not worth mentioning. However, it buried three Japanese battleships, one heavy cruiser and one light cruiser, one old armored cruiser, nearly half of the destroyers and coastal defense ships deployed by the navy on the mainland, plus a large number of transport ships, submarine destroyers, and all the Type II landing ships that had just been commissioned, and more than half of the Type I landing ships.

As for the army, because of the limitation on the number of ships invested, the losses are not as large as those of the navy. However, the army's SS landing ships also lost two-thirds, and two amphibious landing ships, which were the treasures of the town, were killed and seriously injured. With such a big result, Du Kaishan only paid the price of several thousand mines, a dozen planes, and thousands of artillery shells, which can be described as quite disproportionate.

In fact, when the Anti-Japanese Federation was laying mines in the Laotieshan Waterway, a large number of heavy bombers were dispatched, and the Japanese Army Alert Unit stationed in the Laotieshan Waterway was not unaware of it. At least the humming of engines could be heard on the surface of the sea, which could still be heard by the Japanese Army observation posts on the ground.

The air defense radar that the Japanese Army has just put into use, although it has played a limited role in good times and bad times, it has made some discoveries. However, the Japanese Army observation posts around the Lao Tieshan Waterway did not pay any attention to the abnormal movements coming from the sea, let alone make any report to the navy.

The Japanese Navy's base in Arthur lacked radar, and after the main ships were transferred back to the mainland, there were not enough garrison ships to fully assume the vigilance of the old Tieshan waterway. The emergence of a tragedy is by no means a single factor. The combination of multiple factors cost the Japanese Navy dearly.

If the Japanese Army's observation posts around the old Iron Mountain Channel can report and inform the Navy in a timely manner after discovering an anomaly in the sea. Although the landing operation may be delayed for a certain time due to mine clearance. However, the Japanese Navy, which has rich experience in minesweeping and a large number of minesweeping ships, will definitely not suffer such heavy losses.

As for Du Kaishan, the results of Lao Tieshan's painstaking design are unclear. However, with the victory in the Battle of Bohai Bay, at least for a short time, the possibility of a comeback of the Japanese navy, which had suffered heavy losses, was basically gone.

He was very relieved that he was determined to concentrate his forces to fight first, the two wings of the Ninth Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness on the entire Qikou frontline, the relatively weak 44th Division, and the Marine Corps. As for the 44th Division becoming the first choice in addition to the Marine Corps, it was because Du Kaishan was already very keenly aware of the differences between the two divisions after the landing of the two Japanese divisions in Qikou.

Although the 9th Division was rebuilt after being defeated by the Anti-Japanese Union, it was not as undisciplined as the 44th Division. However, in keeping with the tradition of his predecessors, his fighting style is still unusually fierce. As soon as he fought on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village, he also found that in addition to the style and quality, the 9th Division was also better than the 44th Division in terms of equipment.