Chapter 138 Yalu River under artillery fire

The devil's car drove to the river, the Yalu River Bridge had been blown up, and the devils, who suddenly had no way out, jumped out of the car one after another, and turned around on the other side, as if looking for a way, and crowded together in a chaotic manner.

How can this kind of good opportunity be missed, the mountain artillery and field artillery, which had been silent for a long time behind the river bank, suddenly let out a roar, one shell after another, accurately landed in the devil's pile, the devil who traveled a long distance and came from afar, was blown up by this sudden cannonball, and looked for a safe place everywhere, and the cannonball caught the devil and kept exploding.

On the other side of the Yalu River, they were covered by dense artillery fire, and the smoke and dust that rose into the sky soared into the sky, and even the bright sunshine in the morning was blocked.

The forward position was very quiet, without a sound, and the soldiers were calmly hidden in the well-camouflaged position, and from the other side of the river, only the new green weeping willows swayed in the wind, and the meadows that had just returned to green by the river.

Later, like a volcanic eruption, there was a loud "rumbling" sound, which was a salvo of nearly 100 artillery pieces, and the shells carried a screeching roar, swept across the wide river, and blasted the opposite bank into a sea of fire.

The devil, who was suddenly shelled, hurriedly retreated, leaving behind the burning car and countless broken corpses, and fled to the rear in order to get out of the range of the artillery fire as much as possible.

The unexpected shelling has received very good results, and the first wave of devils who came to the shore can run back completely, and there are really not many of them, especially the cars, all of which were blown up.

Tang Qiuli and Liu Tiehan's hearts were not relaxed because of the results of this battle, this was just the vanguard of the devils, and this loss was only a slight injury to the Suzuki division with more than 15,000 horses.

A more fierce battle is still to come, not to mention, the devil's artillery has not yet arrived.

The commander of the Suzuki Division was rather depressed, and when his troops received the order for reinforcements, they were scattered in the lofty mountains and dense forests of Korea, encircling and suppressing the guerrillas.

Originally, there were several places where the guerrillas of the DPRK and the Communist Party had already been surrounded, and with a little more effort, they could be completely eliminated, but at a critical time, this damn order came.

At this time, not only did the Korean communist guerrillas escape, but in the process of assembling, they were constantly harassed, and although the losses were not large, they were quite a nest of fire, and when they saw the figure of the imperial army, they could only flee from the wind, and the mud-legged guerrillas who did not even have a few rifles were simply a shame for the imperial army to chase and beat their butts.

When the troops climbed out of the mountains of North Korea, a wing of panting finally climbed out, and they didn't even have time to bring heavy equipment, so they hurriedly took the train to reinforce it, but now they have lost contact.

I really don't know how the Kwantung Army troops in Manchuria did it, they couldn't defend such a small place, and they were beaten everywhere by the poorly equipped Shina armed forces, which really disgraced the face of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The commander of the Suzuki Division was aggrieved in his heart, his face was not very good-looking, and he felt that there was a fire in his heart, and it happened that at this moment, the defeated soldiers of the avant-garde brigade ran back.

Looking at the wolf appearance of these soldiers, Suzuki's anger suddenly exploded, he took out his pistol, and "dangdang" two shots, and killed the two soldiers who ran the happiest and looked the most wolf.

One by one, the warriors of the imperial army were in tattered clothes, lost their armor, and their faces were smoked like little ghosts, and their pestles were there, no one dared to move, and they stared blankly at the pistol in the hand of the division commander who was still smoking.

Suzuki shouted to the captain, just like this, the one who dared to go forward, a young man who fled back, looked at his own highest rank, and replied hard, the captain had broken jade, just in the shelling just now

"Hani? What kind of shelling, where did the people get their artillery? Don't die, don't die," Suzuki didn't believe it at all, and the cannon sound he vaguely heard just now was the artillery of the Shina people attacking the Imperial soldiers.

This Shaozuo is depressed in his heart, isn't it nonsense I didn't see my current appearance, in fact, it's not that the devil's combat effectiveness is poor, it's really that this blow is too sudden, how can it come up, and there are nearly a hundred artillery pieces to greet a brigade.

Suzuki drove to the river with anger, and the scene of the battlefield stunned him, the corpses of the Imperial soldiers were lying on the shore in pieces, and the inclined train carriages on the opposite bank were still smoking, and piles of corpses of the Imperial soldiers could be seen, and one of his own wings was finished?

On the Yalu River Bridge, only the bare piers remained, and the river slapped against the piers, forming a whirlpool, as if mocking the division commander with heavy troops.

Suzuki realized that what this officer said was true, and it was not easy for the people of China besieging Anton to be armed, so he immediately ordered the field artillery wing to rush to the river as fast as possible to provide fire cover for the troops crossing the river.

Before the artillery arrived, no unit could venture to cross the river and prepare tools for crossing the river on the spot.

It should be admitted that Suzuki is still a Japanese commander with great military literacy, he does not have the arrogance and arrogance of ordinary Japanese commanders, after observing the shape of the battlefield, he was not carried away by anger, and without the cover of artillery fire, he immediately ordered the troops to cross the river, in that case, the little devil would become a live target, and Tang Qiuli's intention to strike with artillery fire again would be frustrated.

Looking at the little devils on the other side of the bank busy there, Tang Qiuli realized that this Japanese commander was not simple, he ordered the soldiers at the front to dig the anti-artillery holes as deep as possible, and after the battle started, after the position of the forward position was exposed, it would be hit by the devil's artillery fire.

That's all you can do, minimize the casualties of the soldiers, and the makeshift fortifications in the field really don't know how many shells can withstand the devils.

After a few hours of busy work, the time was close to noon, the devils on the other side began to cross the river, at the beginning it was a large-scale group charge, the devils who were pressed by the yellow pressure, spread all over the other side of the river, Tang Qiuli ordered the artillery, and immediately blocked and shot at the devils.

As soon as the artillery on this side opened fire, a wall of fire was drilled on the road where the devils charged, and the devils did not show any panic, and several rubber boats had already gone down into the water.

The devil artillery on the opposite bank began to return fire, first with a few test shots, and then with a dense burst of shells, they soon hit the artillery positions of the Bloody Hand Regiment, and the positions were shrouded in gunsmoke.

At this time, the artillery of the Bloody Hand Regiment will suffer a loss, it is also artillery, the Suzuki Division is a field unit, and the artillery equipped with it is all large-caliber and long-range, and the range of the artillery here is not as far as that of the devil, so it is in a hurry, and the legs are short and cannot reach it.

Seeing that a cannon was blown up, and the soldiers fell on the gun position one by one, but the artillerymen of the Bloody Hand Regiment would not retreat from the battle, and if they could not beat your artillery, I would beat your infantry who crossed the river.

More intensive artillery fire, constantly falling on the opposite bank, falling on the surface of the river, stirring up the water column that rushed to the sky, the river water is like a boiling pot, the devil who is crossing the river, has not yet reached the center of the river, even the devil on the rubber boat belt, was thrown high, and smashed to the water, and more were directly hit by the shell, the water column flashed, and there were several more corpses on the river.

The corpses of devils, the rubber boats and rafts that had been blown up floated down the river and into the Yellow Sea.

The first wave of devils who crossed the river were wiped out in the middle of the river, but the artillery position was retaliated more violently by the devil artillery, and one after another large-caliber shells kicked up the soil, overturned the artillery, and blew up the soldiers.

The artillery of the Bloody Hand Regiment can be described as brave, and with only artillery, they smashed the first shock wave of the devils, so that nearly a thousand devil soldiers floated on the surface of the river and floated to the Yellow Sea to feed the sharks.

However, the artillery position also suffered heavy losses, nearly 100 artillery pieces, only 20 or so can speak again, nearly 200 soldiers were killed and wounded, and the fragrant soil on the position was stained red by the blood of the soldiers.

After the devils retreated, they began to cross the river a second time, this time, the threat of artillery fire was very small, and the speed of the devils increased significantly, and they landed on the shore, this time, they were given a dense rain of bullets and endless grenades.

The devils who had just stood on the shore, before they had time to cheer, the bullets fired in their faces, hitting their bodies, the kinetic energy of the bullets, sent their lifeless corpses back into the river, and floated away with the river.

The remnants of the devils, turned around and ran back, jumped into the boiling river, either swallowed by the torrent, or hit by the bullets that followed, on the surface of the river, there were small black dots floating, and there were very few devils who could escape back to the other side by luck.

The artillery of the devils began a frantic shelling again, the shells hit from the shore all the way to the artillery position, the position was covered with mud, gunpowder smoke was billowing, and the flying smoke and dust covered the scorching sun at noon, making people feel that it was already dusk.

Charged, crossed the river, was repulsed, then fierce shelling, and then repeated the above process, the bloody hand regiment with a force of less than 3,000 people, braving fierce artillery fire, resisted the attack of more than 10,000 devils, the demeanor of the king, can be seen.

Pushing and killing, until dusk, the troops repelled several attacks by devils, no one remembers, just mechanical bombs and shots, only hideous devils in their eyes, and comrades who fell one by one.

Night fell on the Yalu River, which was filled with gunsmoke, after repelling the devils to cross the river for the last time, the riverside fell silent, Tang Qiuli took a deep breath of the air full of gunpowder smoke and blood, and finally survived this day.

The casualties of the troops were too great, and in this kind of battle, there was no possibility of tricks, and hundreds of soldiers fell on the ground.

He didn't care about other things, so he hurriedly contacted Qiu Quan, who was at the dock, to inquire about the progress of the shipment, and Qiu Quan told him that by ten o'clock tonight at the latest, all the materials and equipment could be loaded.

Tang Qiuli almost couldn't help but tell him that he didn't want the rest, and he would sail immediately, but reason told him that the soldiers fought desperately for the development of the army in the future, to accumulate more material foundation, and not to be constrained by the lack of materials on the battlefield in the future.

Fortunately, it was dark, and the devil didn't dare to attack at night, otherwise, he could still resist several waves of attacks, and he really didn't know the bottom of his heart.

(To be continued)