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However, compared with the direct killing effect, the biggest role of the battleship cannon is to destroy the enemy's will to resist, and the terrifying killing effect of the cannon has exceeded the psychological endurance of the vast majority of Japanese officers and soldiers, even many of the most stubborn old devils are no exception, and the grievance of being able to only be beaten but unable to counterattack has caused a devastating blow to the morale of the Japanese army. And the most important thing is that only the Japanese have ever bullied the Chinese with naval guns, but now the situation is actually reversed, and the devils in the city are completely unacceptable to this, and the huge psychological gap further amplifies the various negative emotions that they quickly breed under the shelling, so that the most fanatical devils and middle-level and low-ranking officers have also collapsed psychologically

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the brave pilots of the Chinese reconnaissance planes risked their lives and deliberately flew at low altitudes to attract Japanese attacks, and as long as the Japanese ground troops opened fire on them, they would be judged as diehards and would be given priority by Chinese naval guns. After several rounds of shelling, almost all the most stubborn officers and soldiers among the devils were killed, and the remaining devils completely lost their fighting spirit and fled west of the city one after another. Ironically, according to post-war estimates, when the devils abandoned the city and fled, the Japanese casualties caused by the shelling of the Third Fleet were actually less than 10,000, which was less than one-fifteenth of the total number of Japanese troops in Lianyungang. Sure enough, as some people say, the greatest power of battleships is not to kill people, but to frighten people, which is somewhat similar to the later nuclear weapons

The panicked devils had just begun to flee out of the city, and Sun Liren, who received a telegram from the reconnaissance plane, immediately led the main force of the new 38th Division to leave Canal Town and march eastward, and before the two armies engaged, the 48 40-barreled 122 rocket launchers that had already made miraculous achievements in succession were once again powerful under the guidance of the reconnaissance plane, and the ghosts who were swarming to the west were scattered, completely dispersing their morale at all, so that the vast majority of devils even lost their sense of resistance. With only more than 1,000 casualties, the new 38th Division killed and wounded more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers and captured no less than 120,000 devils, setting a new record since the beginning of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, even until the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. There is no second divisional unit that has achieved a better record in a single battle. After all, many of the favorable conditions of this war are unattainable

For example, it stands to reason that the new 38th Division should become the target of the frenzied retaliation of the Japanese air force, so it is not impossible to cause a large number of Japanese troops to flee or even reverse the victory, but until they wipe out all the Japanese troops in Lianyungang. The devil's fleet didn't come much either. On the one hand, thanks to the bloody struggle of the North China Air Corps and the Soviet Air Force, but also because the Third Fleet, especially the two battleships, was far more hateful than the new 38th Division. He also suffered a great loss of vitality, and even caused the air supremacy in northern Jiangsu to be completely seized by the Chinese side for a week. To be honest, the loss of Chinese planes and pilots in the past few days is also heart-wrenching, but the devil is even worse, and because of the contribution of the anti-aircraft fire of warships, it is not just a little worse

Obviously, it was unfair to the many commanders and fighters of the Navy and Air Force who participated in the battle to attribute all the results of this battle to the new 38th Division, but Hu Weidong and even the Red Party Central Committee did so out of propaganda considerations. simply downplayed the decisive contribution of the Navy and Air Force, and shaped the new 38th Division into a tiger division that made the Japanese army smell and change, and Sun Liren, the division commander, naturally followed suit and became the most feared Chinese number one tiger general in the Japanese army (generals like Hu Weidong are not in comparison), but with Sun Liren's talent. That's not too much to overrate. In addition, because there are still many Chinese residents in Lianyungang City, accidental injuries are inevitable, according to rough statistics after the war. The number of casualties was no less than three thousand, but there was no way. This is war, but fortunately, after all, you will not be directly hit by shells, so there are more injuries and fewer deaths

Despite this, this battle was still the most glorious victory since the War of Resistance Against Japan, even if the losses of the navy and air force are counted, but it is not as exaggerated as advertised. According to post-war statistics, the first battle of Lianyungang annihilated a total of about 140,000 Japanese troops, including 121774 captured devils, all of which set a new record for a single battle since the Anti-Japanese War, in addition to sinking 4 small and medium-sized ships of the Japanese army, 5 civilian ships requisitioned by the Japanese army, blown up, shot down and captured (due to the serious damage to the airport shells, coupled with the rapid progress of this battle, the plane hidden in the hangar by the devil has not had time to drive out, it has become the trophy of the new 38th Division) A total of more than 800 Japanese aircraft, In addition, hundreds of devil planes were basically scrapped after returning with difficulty because they were too seriously injured.

Even though the strength of the Central China Dispatch Army Aviation Corps in this time and space was far stronger than that of the same period in history, such heavy losses were still unbearable, and in addition, it was impossible for the large cities in Central China occupied by the Japanese army to leave no air units, and for a time the devils in the northern Jiangsu battlefield almost completely lost the air support they had always relied on. At the same time, it is precisely because of this that after the 15th Group Army regained Lianyungang, the devils did not dare to send a fleet over for a while, the reason is very simple, without the protection of aircraft, even if the combined fleet came over, it would not be able to withstand the total of no less than 1,000 planes of the Soviet aid air force and the North China air force (the Soviet Union has supplemented the Soviet aid air force with planes and pilots, see later for details.) Indiscriminate bombardment

As for our losses, they were much smaller than those of the Japanese army, and the largest losses should have been the Air Force, whose planes were shot down and damaged (referring only to those planes that were heavily damaged and difficult to repair, the I-16 was a wooden plane, which was more difficult to repair than an aluminum alloy aircraft after being seriously damaged). 277 aircraft, with more than 200 pilots killed or captured; One of the destroyers of the Navy was blown up and sunk by the devil's dive bombers, and the other six were also damaged to varying degrees, of which the battleship's rough skin and thick flesh were not a big problem, and the destroyer's target was relatively small, and the two heavy cruisers that were already injured were the worst, especially the Jingyuan, even if the officers and men on the ship had been desperately draining the water with electric pumps on the way back, they almost sank in the middle of the road, and in addition, more than a dozen expensive naval gun barrels (with main guns and secondary guns) were scrapped, and more than 500 officers and men of the Navy suffered casualties

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