Although Wang Xiaoming's reaction speed was definitely not slow, the determination and speed of the retreat of the main force of the Third Army still exceeded Wang Xiaoming's judgment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info had already made some preparations, and although the retreat seemed to be hasty, the overall action was panicked and not chaotic.

Despite the tremendous pressure from the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Japanese troops under the Third Army did not retreat to the east in a swarm. Instead, alternate cover was adopted, and with the strength of two brigades and regiments, plus all the artillery that could not be carried, it was strengthened to various points in the north and south directions of Fengcheng, and made every effort to cover the retreat of the main force of the Third Army.

The seventh roundabout organized by Wang Xiaoming is interspersed, albeit further east. Dan still encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army north of Fengcheng, and was unable to break through the Japanese defense line for a long time. A brigade of the Japanese army, equipped with supernumerary artillery, was blocked between the Badao River and the Caohe River.

The accurate and ferocious cross-fire of the Japanese army in the area north of Fengcheng completely blocked every offensive route of the roundabout troops. Even though the roundabout troops were constantly changing their positions, the stubborn resistance was still slow in the face of the Japanese army, which had all the terrain advantages.

This is not a shallow mountainous area in the eastern part of Kaiyuan, but an extension of the Changbai Mountains towards the eastern Liaodong region. Not only is the mountain high and densely forested, but the terrain is complex and varied, and the mountain is also very steep. The most important thing is that because of the sparse population, many places do not have even the easiest mountain roads.

This area is a good place for travelers to explore in later generations, as well as a famous tourist area. But for a battlefield, it is too steep. Before the Japanese army retreated from Kuandian, in order to prevent the pursuit of the Anti-Japanese Union, it blew up the Shuifeng Hydropower Station built on the Yalu River, which was located in the auxiliary dam of Beijie in Kuandian.

This sub-dam is a flood channel built for the largest man-made lake in Asia when the Japanese built the Shuifeng Hydropower Station in 37 years to ensure the safety of the power station. Kuandian is the center of the rainstorm in the entire northeast, although there is only one month in summer every year, but the rainfall is quite large, the average annual precipitation is about 1,000 to 2,000 mm.

Due to the mountainous terrain and the rainy zone, the Japanese built a secondary dam for flood discharge in the direction of China to ensure the safety of the power station. Although Kuandian has entered winter at present, the water surface of the entire reservoir area has not yet frozen due to power generation.

Moreover, before the Kwantung Army blew up the auxiliary dam, it also shut down the entire power station and stopped the discharge of all water to store as much water as possible. The Kwantung Army blew up this auxiliary dam at this time, which not only brought great losses to the Chinese people along the reservoir area, but also created an artificial flood in front of Wang Xiaoming's roundabout troops.

Fortunately, at this time, the rainy season in Kuandian has passed, and it has begun to enter the long winter. Although the entire Shuifeng Reservoir has not yet begun to freeze, the capacity of the entire reservoir is far from reaching its peak. Although the Kwantung Army had shut down the power station to store water before the war, the amount of water in winter was far from comparable to that in summer.

The Kwantung Army blew up the auxiliary dam, and the area of the artificially created flooding area was not too large. But the problem is that although the flooding area is not large, it also allows Wang Xiaoming's roundabout troops to operate only west of Kuandian County. Not only could it not be directly interspersed with Fengcheng, but the area of attack was too narrow. Almost all offensive routes were exposed to Japanese artillery fire, which was also the main reason for the poor progress of the offensive.

On the contrary, Tao Jingfei of the southern front invested a division in the direction of Fengcheng, but it made great progress. It successively seized two strategic points of Gaolizhai and Hadaling, and approached the direction of Fengcheng from the south. However, the two divisions of the main force were attacking Tao Jingfei, who was advancing towards Andong with all their might, along the Xiuyan-Andong road, and the strength of one division in the direction of Fengcheng was obviously insufficient.

After capturing the first line of Hadaling, the follow-up attack in the direction of Fengcheng was stubbornly blocked by the Japanese army at the last barrier south of Fengcheng, the line from the western foot of Fenghuang Mountain to Jiguan Mountain. The Japanese army south of Fengcheng relied on the steep terrain of Phoenix Mountain and Jiguan Mountain in the south of Fengcheng. stubbornly blocked Tao Jingfei's division in an area only a few kilometers away from Fengcheng.

Although the unit made several surprise attacks despite casualties, it was unable to make a breakthrough because the terrain was too steep. In particular, the western foot of Phoenix Mountain and the front of Jiguan Mountain were extremely difficult because the mountain was too steep. The Japanese troops in the north and south battlefields of Fengcheng and the Andong battlefield resisted stubbornly, and between the Caohe River and the Phoenix Mountain, a gap of more than ten kilometers wide was reserved for the main force of the Third Army to break through.

Lieutenant General Nakayama took advantage of this gap of more than 10 kilometers, which could not be completely closed for a long time, to organize the troops to retreat desperately eastward. Behind them, the anti-union pursuit force was left behind by them to resist by relying on the terrain and was entangled in the mountains and mountains along the Anbong Railway.

Wang Xiaoming organized many transcendent pursuits, although he also cut off a large number of retreating Japanese troops. However, because the terrain was too complicated, the Japanese retreat was quite abrupt. At the same time, the front-line combat troops were too tightly entangled with the Japanese troops who were left to cover. Follow-up reinforcements have not yet arrived, resulting in a shortage of troops.

Most of the Japanese troops west of Fengcheng still rushed along the mountainous area north of the Anbong Railway, quickly rushing towards the gap that could not be completed. The entire Anbong Railway from Lianshanguan to Fengcheng is full of fierce battles. However, Wang Xiaoming's encirclement and interception have never been effective due to many reasons. In particular, the roundabout troops on the Eastern Front were unable to complete the blockade of the last 10 kilometers of the encirclement.

Just when Wang Xiaoming concentrated his forces and launched an encirclement and interception of the Third Army. The two main divisions of Tao Jingfei's headquarters, which were directly inserted into Andong to the south of him, also encountered an independent mixed brigade reinforced by the Korean army on the outskirts of Andong. And in the periphery of Anton, each point was in the first place, and then a fierce battle was launched on the whole front.

This independent mixed brigade that encountered the two divisions of Tao Jingfei's main force, together with the Japanese troops including the guard units around the Kwantung Army headquarters. In order to cover the Kwantung Army headquarters behind him and keep the last channel for the main force of the Third Army to retreat, a fierce battle was waged with Tao Jingfei's headquarters regardless of casualties.

After receiving Wang Xiaoming's report, Yang Zhen immediately ordered the entire battlefield in South Manchuria, and at this time, except for one fighter plane that remained at several airfields in Dalian, Anshan, and Shenyang to serve as air defense cover, almost all the combat aircraft groups that had been transferred to the Liaodong battlefield were all dispatched to deal the most violent blow to the retreating action of the Third Army.

At the same time, Wang Xiaoming was ordered to join a division of Tao Jingfei on the southern line of Fengcheng to complete the final encirclement under the condition that he could not block the last gap in the direction of Fengcheng and complete the final encirclement. Immediately organize long-range artillery fire, especially the 122 rocket artillery group, and with the full cooperation of the air force, carry out a fire blockade of this gap, and replace the encirclement that can never be completed with a fire blockade.

After giving the order to the aviation troops and Wang Xiaoming, Yang Zhen smiled faintly at the gap east of Fengcheng on the map, which was more than ten kilometers wide and had never been completely closed. In many cases, the gap is not the same as the way of life, and the way of life that seems to be the way of life may not be the way of life.

This other tactic of encircling three and one is not a good choice for the two clusters in the north and south of the Liaodong battlefield at present, when the progress in the final stage is not smooth. Although it requires more ammunition, the overall cost performance is still acceptable.

Anyway, except for the Xinmin battlefield, other battlefields that have basically ended are no longer needed by these aviation units. Even if it is now a new civilian battlefield that has entered the end, the role of aviation can be completely replaced by artillery. At present, these air units are idle, and they can take advantage of this opportunity to practice this kind of aerial firepower pursuit tactics.

After receiving Yang Zhen's order, the aviation unit transferred to the Liaodong battlefield did not dare to have the slightest delay and immediately dispatched its nest. And according to the combat range of the participating aircraft, the entire combat area was divided. The Il-2 attack plane, which had a short range and a small bomb load, and the British-made Blenheim light bombers, coordinated with the ground pursuit force to carry out a full-line pursuit bombing against the retreat sequence of the Third Army of the Kwantung Army.

The B-25 bomber group, the A-20 attack aircraft group, which had a large bomb load and a slightly longer range, were concentrated, and even the last squadron equipped with Il-4 bombers and a gunboat squadron were dispatched to carry out carpet bombing of the gap east of Fengcheng.

Cooperate with Wang Xiaoming's ground artillery fire, and adopt the tactics of sea of fire to completely seal this gap. In order to maintain a sufficient density of firepower at the gap, even the fighter groups responsible for air cover in Liaodong, mainly the P-40 fighters, all hung bombs to participate in the attack.

The anti-United Nations attack planes and bomber groups that were dispatched from their nests continued to pour bombs, napalm, rockets, and ammunition from airborne machine guns and artillery onto the head of the rapidly retreating Third Army. And in the gap east of Fengcheng, where the final blockade could not be completed, the bomber group of the Anti-Japanese Union cooperated with the 122 rocket artillery group of Wang Xiaoming's department to build a dense fire network.

The retreating troops of the Third Army faced Wang Xiaoming's all-out pursuit on the ground, and the long-range fire on the ground continued to kill and injure. But for the various units of the Third Army, which were retreating in full force, it was the strikes from the air that were even more threatening. High-explosive bombs and napalm, dense rockets and guns and ammunition formed a series of fire nets to buckle the heads of the Japanese soldiers.

Although the Third Army, when retreating, lost everything it could have lost, including all kinds of equipment. Armed as lightly as possible, he desperately fled eastward as fast as possible, but he was still bombed by the anti-coalition air force along the way and suffered heavy casualties. The retreat route of the Third Army was littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers killed by air strikes.

However, although it suffered heavy losses under the firepower of the anti-coalition air force, the Third Army, which was afraid of being pursued by the enemy and completely eaten by itself, retreated to various units, but still did not dare to stay for a moment, let alone wait until night to move. It is better to brave the dense air attack of the anti-coalition to forcibly retreat, rather than dare to find a hidden area to hide, this is almost a useless air attack.

At the same time, under Wang Xiaoming's strict supervision, the pursuing troops of the Anti-Japanese Federation ignored the Japanese army's resistance, constantly adopted the tactics of transcending the pursuit in shallow depth and depth, and constantly tore off pieces of meat from the Third Army. The distance from Lianshan Pass to Fengcheng was only more than 80 kilometers, and the Third Army lost half of its strength.

It's just that before waiting for the repeated urging of Lieutenant General Zhongshan, the Third Army, which finally struggled to withdraw to Fengcheng, breathed a sigh of relief to the divisions and brigades under it. However, he was stunned to find that the gap in the anti-joint encirclement in front of him was not so easy to pass under the crossfire network composed of anti-United Nations aircraft in the sky and long-range artillery fire on both wings of the ground. It can even be said that it cannot be called a gap at all.

When the divisions of the Third Army tried to retreat in the direction of Andong through the gap, they found that the gap was like hell. Waves of anti-United bomber groups, as if bombs don't need money, dropped tons of bombs and napalm at this gap.