Chapter 265: The Blade in the Waist
When the vanguard of the First Army arrived at the safe passage, a wing of the Japanese army, which was responsible for calming the area, was seizing the time to strengthen the fortifications. They waited for the reinforcements to come from behind, but what they didn't know was that the reinforcements had been blown up by the air force of the East China Army at the moment. I'm afraid there's not much hope for waiting for reinforcements!
The commander of the first army and the first division who arrived here, before he arrived, ordered the troops to rest, and immediately organized the troops to start the offensive. Although there was no heavy artillery to cooperate, it was equipped with mortars at the battalion and company level, and after being used in a centralized manner. It also made the Japanese troops who blocked the attack feel the taste of shells falling like hailstones.
Compared with the usual blocking battles, they will test their firepower, and they know that if they take the blocking position one second earlier, they will have more hope of blocking the Japanese front-line troops. The commander of the 1st Division directly ordered his four regiments to attack from different areas. There is no distinction between priority and subordination, and whoever wins the responsible position first will be the first to take the lead.
It was not easy to grab the front of the other three main divisions, but the commanders and fighters of the first division naturally did not want to give up this military exploit that was hard to grab. You must know that as the first army of the East China Army, they are the old troops that Xu Bin started. The number of veterans of its troops far exceeds that of other main forces.
It can be said that the officers and men of the 1st Division, which has been in battle for a long time, began to use non-stop saturation attacks, gradually devouring the Japanese troops on several blocking positions. Immediately, the commander of the Japanese wing who was responsible for guarding the town here was constantly urged by his subordinates to call for reinforcements. All he could do was send all the staff guards of the headquarters and stay alone at the headquarters, constantly asking why the reinforcements had not yet arrived.
It's just that he didn't wait for reinforcements, but what he was waiting for was a group of excited screams that made the officers and soldiers of the first division, but the Japanese troops on the position were as pale as dirt, and they had just hunted and killed a group of Japanese reinforcements from the Longhua Air Force. Looking at the Japanese army below, they were blocking the troops on their side. Recently, the air force, which can be described as infinitely glamorous, has also begun to dump the remaining bombs on the Japanese blocking positions.
As for the wing commander, the tent he was in, although inconspicuous, was overshadowed by sharp-eyed bomber pilots. Seeing a somewhat conspicuous antenna, a string of bombs was dropped, and the captain of the Japanese wing, who did not know how to avoid air defense and was still shouting for reinforcements, flew directly into the sky with the tent.
In the face of the sudden arrival of the air force, the officers and men of the 1st Division, which had just adopted the Devouring Warfare, began to intensify their offensive and suppression. Until several hilltop positions held by Japanese wings. After all of them were taken down one after another. It means that the Japanese troops on the front line still want to retreat to the rear from here, which is probably unlikely.
Even after the 1st Division took the position, it began to quickly strengthen the position, waiting for the arrival of Japanese reinforcements. Or two divisions of the 1st Army. Get here a little ahead. In cooperation with the 1st Division, the defensive line of the position was increased, and two main regiments were also dispatched. Beyond this point and continue to the rear.
One is to put pressure on the Japanese army at the same time. It also blocked the Japanese troops coming from the rear. As for the remaining troops, they only need to block the troops withdrawn by the Japanese army from the front line and wait for the reinforcements of the two main forces in the rear to pursue and kill here, and the rest will not be considered for the time being.
Knowing that the safe passage was lost, the Japanese commanders on the front line understood that the tens of thousands of soldiers left on the front line were really in danger. The later the retreat. It means that the Longhua army, which has seized their blocking position, will have more time to stabilize its position. So much so that he was ruthless, and he didn't care how the planes in the sky bombed, so that the Japanese army scattered and rushed to the safe passage.
Strive for the arrival of the attacking troops in Longhua. Cooperate with the reinforcements in the rear to open this gap, and retain more troops to retreat to the security zone. At this time, the Japanese generals deeply understood that compared to the Longhua army, their troops were really too small.
The use of small groups of Japanese troops to disperse and break through and regroup near the safe passage really made the air force have nothing to do with them. After all, these Japanese troops, who mostly retreated in small formations, could not exchange them for a few shells. So much so that the Japanese army began to assemble towards the safe passage, and their air force, which was like a falcon, also began to assemble near the safe passage.
When those countries that were concerned about the Changbai War learned that the Longhua Army had fought for the first time, they blocked the troops on the front line of the Japanese army and could not retreat. The army generals in the rear of the Japanese army naturally knew the importance of those troops to them, and stepped up the deployment of troops to the safe passage to cooperate with the troops withdrawn from the front line to open up this lifeline.
Knowing that the threat of the East China Army and Air Force was too great, the generals in the rear and on the front line decided to set the time of the big battle until nightfall began. At that time, without the threat of aircraft, they had a certain chance of winning by fighting the blocking troops of the East China Army. But is that really the case?
They still don't know that now the four main divisions of the First Army are all assembled in place. While the Japanese were still waiting for dark, they had already strengthened the blocking position of this safe passage to the extent that it was enough to resist the heavy artillery. And what made the Japanese troops who attacked at night completely chilled that in order to ensure the sight of shooting at night, the commanders and fighters of the First Army became lumberjacks.
All the trees on the barrage were cut down and all were used to strengthen the fortifications of the positions, and communication trenches were built on several hills. It is convenient for reinforcements who are already resting in the trenches to pass through the communication trenches at any time to reinforce the fighting on the front line. This way of blocking both sides turned this place into a slaughterhouse tonight.
If the East China Army has a strong firepower allocation, then the First Army's firepower allocation is even stronger. What's more, when the Japanese front-line troops began to retreat one after another, they learned that the First Army had blocked the Japanese army, but they had not yet broken through the commanders of the two main armies of Datong and the Central Plains, which were blocked by the Japanese army, and they felt their faces hot.
Knowing how much pressure the First Army would be under, they finally stopped retaining any strength and ordered the artillery to begin to increase the output of firepower. The troops on the front line also began to launch a fierce attack regardless of casualties. The Japanese blocking position, which was already in danger, suddenly collapsed as the pressure of the two main forces increased.
Seeing the gaps being opened one by one, the two army commanders were undoubtedly relieved, and finally took down their current blocking positions before dark. Ordered the troops not to clean up the battlefield, but to pursue the routs with all their might. The surviving Japanese troops on the front line also all assembled in the plain passage.
As the Air Force blew up almost all the artillery that the Japanese wanted to use for night battles, it also knew that the rest of the work would be handed over to the army brothers. After a busy day, they can also go back to the airport to rest and wait for tomorrow dawn.
The Japanese generals, who had been waiting for the air force to leave, saw that the plane above them had finally left, and immediately ordered the troops to start attacking. As the officers and men on the blocking position had already slept all afternoon and had a full meal before the big battle, just waiting for the start of the battle, the Japanese army was undoubtedly hungry and thirsty.
It's just that they all know that if they can't rush out of this passage, they won't let alone eat. It's a question of whether even the guy who eats can keep it, and with this momentum of pushing a corner, the Japanese troops who retreated from the front line. Wave after wave of attacks was finally launched, and with the sound of gunfire ringing through the night sky, no one would sleep tonight in the safe passage.
The Datong and Central Plains armies, which were pursuing the rout of the Japanese army, also knew that the front line had been handed over, and the speed of the advance was undoubtedly faster. But at night, the march was indeed very inconvenient, plus the retreating troops of the Japanese army. It was also disgusting that one after another blocking troops were retained to delay their blockade, which undoubtedly slowed down their pace of advance.
When the Japanese army flanked several hilltop positions in the plain passage, leaving behind corpses that had been waiting for a long time. Finally, they waited for the telegram from Xu Bin, so that they could attack. Landing from Incheon, Jangbaek-do, bringing the marines ashore. Attack the Japanese army's military headquarters in the capital of Changbai Road!
Fighting with the Marines, there was also a main force of infantry drawn from Qilu Road. They will cooperate with the navy to insert this sharp blade into the waist eye of the Japanese army, while the attention of the Japanese army is focused on the safe passage. In the same way, he took the method of night raid to seize the port of Incheon in one fell swoop, and used this place as a base to directly push the main force of the army to Seoul, the capital of Changbai Province, more than 100 kilometers away.
So when the Japanese commander stayed up all night paying attention to the battle ahead, a submarine detachment composed of Sea Shark-class submarines had quietly slipped into the Japanese military port. The mines they place on the surface of the sea are useful against large warships, but they do not work at all against these submarines.
As for the blocking net they placed underneath, it had already been solved by the fighters of the Sea Lion Special Operations Team. At this moment, the submarine that slipped into the port looked at the Japanese naval officers and men who did not know that the war was about to break out. Xu Weiguo, who led the team, said with an evil smile: "Order all ships to choose their prey freely, and launch an attack in five minutes." Let's make a complete mess here! ”
After saying these words, the submarines that had slipped to the military port together began to disperse, locking on all the Japanese warships they saw in their sight. With Xu Weiguo, who also locked on a Japanese warship, he ordered: "Sea shark, attack!" ”
The submarine torpedo crew, having received the order, began to press the button for launching. As the torpedo accurately hit the target, Xu Weiguo said very calmly: "Dive, leave!" ”
As they left, the Sea Lion Special Operations Team, which came in in a submarine, and several assault detachments of the Marine Corps. has slipped out of the submarine smoothly under the cover of night.
This means that the submarine attack on the military port this time is not only responsible for the attack on the Japanese warships in the military port. It is to send these ghosts in the night to the military port.
The task of these special combat personnel is to deal with the coastal defense artillery units deployed by the Japanese army in the port. Only chop off the paws of the Japanese army one by one, and the next Incheon will become a helpless girl with open arms and waiting for the favor of the East China Army! (To be continued......)