Chapter 317: Mu Dafu who drinks to quench his thirst
In order to withdraw as many troops as possible at one time, the super-large artillery group left behind by the main force of the army, except for infantry guns and some mountain artillery, was left behind after the evacuation of all the heavy weapons, which can be said to have played an important role in the operation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In the previous battles, these artillerymen made great contributions to the Fourth Army's defense of Huludao. But Mu Dafu also understands that these artillery groups have also become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the enemy. It's just that he didn't expect that the enemy army would take a way to pull out the thorn they had seized Huludao from the sea. However, although he lost most of his artillery in this battle, it also gave him a wake-up call in disguise.
Now that most of his artillery has been destroyed, it seems that there is no lack of legitimate reasons for the enemy to intensify its offensive at this time. But as the current Huludao battlefield, the supreme commander of the thousands of Japanese remnants was defeated. However, with the usual sensitivity of his senior staff officers, he believed that the enemy's move would not be as simple as it seemed on the surface.
In particular, the Anti-Japanese Federation on the Liaodong Peninsula has set a lesson in front of itself for carrying out that landing operation. The small size of the ships and the small number of ships did not seem to be enough to stop the enemy from landing behind them. The enemy's previous landing on the Liaodong Peninsula was completed after crossing the entire Liaodong Bay by relying mainly on sailing ships, and the entire Kwantung Army was taken by surprise.
At present, there is no suspense on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Kwantung Army has lost the strength to reinforce the Liaodong Peninsula. That is to say, the enemy's fleet that landed in Liaodong can now be said to be almost completely free. I guess I'm idle at the moment, and I'm looking for the next target.
If the enemy army is behind you and has a copy of yourself, then you are really not good. Huludao is a small peninsula deep into the Bohai Sea, bordering Lianshan Bay on one side and Jinzhou Bay on the other. And these two bays are just the entire Liaodong Bay deep into the south of the two narrow bays.
On both flanks, Xingcheng and Jinzhou were already in the hands of the enemy. The enemy army did not have to sail too far at all, and whether it was boarding a ship in Xingcheng or boarding a ship in Jinzhou, it only needed to sail only a dozen kilometers to carry out a landing operation in any area of Huludao.
So although Wang Guangyu was in front of Huludao, he strengthened his attack. forced Mu Dafu Dazuo to transfer all the last reserves in his hands. However, this Mu Dafu Dazuo still had two fully formed infantry squadrons in his hands, plus an engineer squadron, and a mountain artillery and a mortar squadron, which were placed in a suitable landing location in the coastal area of Huludao to prepare for the counter-landing.
If you want to say that this Mu Dafu Dazuo can be regarded as a talent. Under the situation that the pressure on the front line is increasing, and even successive breakthroughs, a certain number of mobile troops are still retained in their hands, ready to make preparations for counter-landing. But he didn't think that he would think of his opponent just as much as he thought of it.
When Wang Guangyu chose a landing site for this regiment, he did not choose a place on the map that seemed suitable for landing. Because he knew the outcome of the battle on the Liaodong Peninsula, and with the appearance of the fleet off Huludao, the enemy army would definitely take precautions. Up to now, the eighteen martial arts of the Anti-Japanese Federation have been pulled out, which can be said to have been shocked.
The enemy army will definitely make some preparations in the area under its own control on Huludao, at a suitable location for landing. Judging from the previous battle situation, the Japanese commanders considered the issues quite comprehensively. Danger had already arisen, and he would not be unprepared. If you are not afraid, it is not a good thing to cause too many casualties.
The first person who eats crabs is a hero, and the second one who eats crabs may not do any good. Since the first to eat crabs was taken by Tao Jingfei. So if you go to eat crabs step by step, you will be bitten back by the crabs.
Therefore, Wang Guangyu simply decided to simply come to a black tiger to dig out his heart. He discussed it carefully with Lin Mufeng, who was in charge of commanding this small naval fleet. The site of the forcible landing was directly selected at the pier of Huludao, which is also the most suitable landing site for the southernmost part of the entire Huludao extending into the sea.
As the deputy head of the regiment, he was the first to be selected by the Anti-Japanese Federation to go to the Soviet Union to study the navy, and the time was earlier than the rush to the Soviet Union led by Li Mingfeng to study Lin Mufeng, who assisted the Soviet Navy in combat. As soon as he returned to China last year, he was appointed captain and political commissar of the Northeast Military Region's border guard ship group.
This southward operation in the Bohai Sea was also the first time he really came into contact with the sea after returning to China. However, when he commanded the fleet to cross Liaodong Bay and land on the Liaodong Peninsula, because the fleet had too little time for drills and because the ordinary fishermen recruited had no combat experience, they went through unified training.
When crossing the entire Liaodong Bay, there was an incident in which two sailing boats capsized and two sailing ships collided. and a group of sailing fleets transferred from Jiaodong, which were separated during the night voyage, which cast a shadow of defeat on his first battle.
Although Yang Zhen personally called to congratulate the Anti-Japanese Navy on its victory in the first battle after its establishment. But for Lin Mufeng, the first kick to open the door was somewhat cowardly. Although the responsibility is not all on him, as the commander of the only small fleet of the Anti-Japanese Federation at the moment, Lin Mufeng feels a little embarrassed.
This time Lin Mufeng made up his mind, this battle must be fought well. After receiving Wang Guangyu's telegram and personally rushing to Jinzhou to hold talks with Wang Guangyu, Lin Mufeng sent a telegram to the troops left behind in Fuzhou Bay, and transferred all the only Japanese Type 1 and Type 2 landing ships of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
However, considering that only one regiment carried out the landing operation this time, and the previous use of sailboats, it can be said that it has suffered enough. Lin Mufeng still decided to let those sailing ships continue to be responsible for transporting supplies from Tanggu and Qinhuangdao to the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Military Region, and they would not be mobilized to participate in this landing operation.
After the arrival of the transport ship transferred from Fuzhou Bay, Lin Mufeng loaded the troops scheduled to be carried on board the ship in Xingcheng, and replenished his small fleet with shells in Xingcheng. He commanded the fleet to sail directly in the direction of Huludao Pier at maximum speed. At this time, on Huludao, the tactical aviation of the Anti-Japanese Union was indiscriminately bombing the Japanese positions in the southwest of the Great Wasteland.
The main force of the small fleet operating in the waters west of Huludao also sailed to the waters less than 300 meters from the coastline and opened fire on the Japanese fortification group located on the western coastline of Huludao. The ships concentrated their artillery fire, and with precise firepower, one after another, they called the Japanese coastal fortifications.
Lin Mufeng's action is a virtual and real approach. Draw the attention of the Japanese troops on the peninsula from the direction of the port to other directions, and create a good condition for the landing force to smoothly occupy the port of Huludao. Although he is currently working in the Navy, he is also from the Army. It is clear that the troops are the most vulnerable at the time of landing.
If the Japanese could not be attracted to the port, then the ships loaded with the landing force were approaching the pier. Against the fire strikes of the Japanese army, there will be no way to fight back. And the longer the landing lasts, the greater the losses of ships and troops are likely.
This is not Fuzhou Bay, where the Japanese army is unguarded, and Huludao, which is not a small area, is not the Liaodong Peninsula. The entire small peninsula of Huludao has become a battlefield. In order to reduce the casualties of the landing force and at the same time speed up the course of the battle, then the only way to attract the attention of the Japanese army was to other directions.
Otherwise, in such a narrow battlefield, the Japanese army could quickly mobilize its forces, and it was very likely that the landing force would not be able to fight the tiger and would hurt itself. Coming from an army background, he knew that under the terrain of Huludao, it was impossible for the enemy to put all his forces on the front line. Although it may not be much, the defenders will definitely have some mobile forces in their hands. What he needs to do most at the moment is to transfer these mobile forces that the Japanese army may have in other directions.
Moreover, Lin Mufeng knew more clearly that the troops in Wang Guangyu's hands were not Tao Jingfei's subordinates, who had already undergone a certain degree of adaptation at sea in Tianjin. I'm afraid that most people had never even seen the sea like before this battle, let alone had experience in a sea ship.
Although the distance from Xingcheng to Huludao is only a dozen nautical miles. But seasickness is probably still a problem that is quite difficult for these troops to overcome who have never even seen the sea. Seasickness is the most difficult problem for people who live on land all year round, and when it comes to the sea.
Not to mention these simple army troops, they are the sailors transferred from the Songhua River under their own command. Because I only trained on the calm Songhua River, I have never touched the real sea. It took a long time to get to the real sea before finally overcoming the problem of seasickness?
Tao Jingfei's department, which landed in Fuzhou Bay, had practiced many times in Tanggu Port, but there were still a lot of seasickness after boarding the ship. At present, many people in Wang Guangyu's department have never even seen what the sea is like, and this seasickness phenomenon may be more common. If seasickness occurs in large numbers, it will certainly weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops in a short time.
Therefore, when carrying out this landing operation, he also adopted certain methods. By means of a general landing battle, a large amount of fire will be used at the landing site to suppress this. The bluff of the general trend transferred the Japanese troops in the port to other fronts in order to relieve the pressure on the landing force. Gain a certain amount of time to allow the landed troops to recover as much as possible.
Lin Mufeng's tactics did play a certain role. The action of the Anti-Japanese Federation on the west coast of Huludao made Mu Dafu Dazuo hesitate several times, and finally determined that the landing site chosen by the Anti-United Nations was the area south of the Great Wasteland. Because the terrain here is relatively flat, although there are some small hills, but the altitude is not too high.
And these small hills are still a few hundred meters away from the coastline. If the losses are not taken into account, the enemy's sailing ships on this line can even rush directly ashore. It can be said that the entire Huludao is the most suitable location for landing warfare on the long and narrow peninsula.
After determining this direction, Mu Dafu transferred all the defense troops around the port of Huludao to the front line of the Great Wasteland. The last infantry squadron in his hands was also strengthened in this direction. And painstakingly collected, the last three mountain guns, two 92 infantry guns, and two 50-mm anti-tank guns were all strengthened in this direction.
The only five mountain guns, nine 92 infantry guns, and two 120-millimeter mortars were secretly transferred from the forward positions, and all of them were transferred to the front line of the Great Wasteland. These artillery pieces are already the last bit of artillery strength of the Japanese army in Huludao after the main artillery force was eliminated.
And after he secretly dispatched front-line artillery to help, at this moment on the front line at the northern end of Huludao, except for a few rapid-fire guns, two 50-millimeter anti-tank guns, and a few mortars, there was almost no artillery force. In order to avoid the situation of being caught between the front and back, Mu Dazuo can only choose to drink a duck to quench his thirst.