Yangwei Wonsan Port(1)
"Division Commander Liu, I originally wanted to go home with you to have a look, and by the way, let you tell me about the Korean front, but I didn't expect the order to come so quickly, everything is important to the front line, and those who can work hard, when you return triumphantly, I will give you another wind!" Mr. Lin held his bangs and said. "Thank you, chief, I will definitely come back and report to you when the battle is over!" Bangs said. "Comrade Bangs!" Mr. Lin pulled his bangs aside and said, "I have a friend from the Soviet intelligence system, he said that the Americans seem to have bribed a group of people in the golden fat man's troops, specifically taking advantage of the contact with the volunteers, looking for an opportunity to assassinate the division commander of our army, there have been two division commanders and a corps-level chief of staff were attacked and killed, out of the consideration of the impact, we have not announced it for the time being, but secretly have begun to act, you should be careful when you go back this time, stay away from those North Koreans, especially those North Korean art troupes and condolence groups, don't go!" "Thank you, Mr. Lin, I'll be careful!" Bangs said.
Liu Hai said goodbye to Mr. Lin, wrote a letter to Sima Hong, asked someone to send him home, and then returned to North Korea again with the selected hundreds of artillery cadets! Liu Hai first sent the supplementary artillery to the station, handed it over to Wu Fatzi and the ghost artillery, and asked them to take it back first, the recruits, it is not easy to command after not experiencing it, such a thing is too suitable for the two veterans of the ghost cannon and Wu Fatzi, Liu Hai feels that after he comes back, the two of them will definitely be able to bring out a well-known regiment, and after a few actual battles, it will be a real artillery regiment!
After sending the people, Liu Hai came to the headquarters, met with Mr. Peng, asked about his new task, Mr. Peng told him that now the two sides of the front have fallen into a stalemate, the Americans have begun to make up their minds on the east coast again, the recent reconnaissance on the other side of the coast has become more and more frequent, and from time to time to carry out small-scale tentative landing operations on the small islands off the coast, now the battle line is very tight, there is not too much reinforcement, can only rely on the existing forces on the east coast for defense! After some consideration, the headquarters decided to take advantage of Liu Hai's troops to rest and recuperate, and send Liu Hai to the area of Wonsan Port on the east coast, and use the existing artillery there to strike at the US maritime reconnaissance force, and it is best to directly defeat the Americans' landing idea!
"Don't worry about your troops, I will send a special staff officer to help your troops recover, you can go with confidence!" Mr. Peng said. "What is the strength of the artillery there, it is not easy to defend the sea without air supremacy, and it suffered a big loss when it fought against the Japanese destroyers at Liuhe in Shanghai!" Bangs is a little worried about this task! "Didn't you serve as a defense arrangement for the coastal artillery last time, and the comrades in North Korea spoke highly of you!" Mr. Peng said. "The situation was different last time, the focus and strength of the Americans was on land, and now that there is a stalemate on land, it will definitely massively increase the forces on the other side of the sea, if the strength is too weak, it will be difficult to do!" Bangs said. "Don't worry, the strength there is okay, there were shore defense artillery positions before, and now there are two North Korean artillery regiments, a tank regiment and about a division of troops, all under your command, but you have to make sure to defeat the landing idea of the Americans!" Mr. Peng said. "I can't change the minds of the Americans, but as long as I am here, I can guarantee that the Americans will not be able to go ashore!" Bangs said.
"Commander, are you leaving again?" Ghost Cannon asked. "Yes, the task is not simple, I will probably go for a while, during this period of time, your task is not to make trouble, bring out this batch of recruits, I want to tell you, these recruits have just joined the army, and they have been educated in the artillery school, they must be a little arrogant, you take out the unique skills, first suppress their arrogance, and then *!" "Don't worry! Isn't it just a few recruit eggs? Lao Tzu has seen a lot, teacher, you can rest assured! "Wu Fatzi and Ghost Cannon looked at each other and smiled!" So be it, I hope that by the time I come back, the strength of the troops has been restored! Bangs said. Rest assured! Teachers! Both men said at the same time.
Liu Hai set out from Qujiang Road with his own guard battalion, and a day later arrived at the defensive area requested by General Peng, where there was a headquarters, and Liu Hai went there to report. After arriving at the headquarters, Liu Hai found that almost all of them were Koreans, and after inquiry, he learned that since the Americans increased their troops, in order to maintain the balance of the battle front, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army had to deploy all the main forces of the Volunteer Army on the 38th parallel, and the task of coastal defense was handed over to the North Koreans who suffered heavy losses in the army, but the artillery and coastal defense still had some strength. This decision is still very correct, because the North Koreans have more experience than the volunteer army in the area of coastal defense! After Liu Hai arrived, he found that Mr. Peng was not very kind in this matter, because the situation exceeded Liu Hai's expectations, because the situation was much worse than Liu Hai thought!
The Americans bombed the air defense facilities and artillery of Wonsan Port on a large scale within a few days, and although the Korean People's Army retained most of its combat strength through hard work, the brutal bombing of the US military still caused extensive damage, especially the two small islands in the open sea, which were captured by the American marines and used as a temporary reconnaissance base and artillery calibration observation post, and the coastal defense batteries in Wonsan were also partially destroyed. There is also news that the Americans' minesweepers have also begun to draw divisions on the sea, and the intention is even more obvious, and a large-scale minesweeper is about to be launched to prepare for the landing operation, in short, the situation is quite passive!
"Division Commander Liu, my name is Cui Shanyong, I am the division chief of staff of the Yuanshan Coastal Defense Division, we received an order that you are going to take over the command, we have been waiting for you for a long time!" A KPA officer salutes Bangs! "Master Liu, let me introduce you to the current situation!" A KPA staff officer next to him said. "No need, the situation has been drawn on the map, I have seen it, the situation is very bad, we need to improve the current situation first!" Bangs took a look at the coastal defense map on the shelf! "Yes, Division Commander Liu, we have defended with all our might, but the enemy's planes are bombed so fiercely that our artillery will be bombed almost as soon as it shows its head, and it is not possible to attack sea targets without cluster firepower, so it will be very passive!" Chief of Staff Choi said. "Have you ever tried to use a large-caliber gun to place it on the shore and shoot directly at a point, if you use this method, it is like the role of a sniper in a land battle, as long as there is a cannon, his ship is not easy to move casually!" Bangs asked. "Large-caliber artillery direct fire?" Chief of Staff Cui was stunned for a moment and said, "No! "Well, do you have a fifteen-five cannon?" Bangs asked. "There are two doors, American!" Chief of Staff Choi said. "Okay!" Bangs said, "Put it in this place!" Bangs said, pointing to the map.
"Division Commander Liu, why is it placed here, the Americans are attacking from the front, and their destroyers were shelled from the front last time!" Chief of Staff Choi said. "That's to attract you to open fire, and at the same time expose your firing position, now that they have drawn a division outside the port area, they are about to start minesweeping operations, and then they will definitely avoid frontal fire for minesweeping, and there will definitely be frontal fire to attract your attention, your artillery will fire in order, and the minesweeper will be handed over to me!" Bangs said as he adjusted the cannon. "Are you alone?" Chief of Staff Choi asked. "I'll be enough for one person," Bangs said. "To be honest, Division Commander Liu, I think this kind of large-caliber heavy artillery is used to directly aim at the sea, which is a bit unlikely, although I am not a professional artilleryman, but attacking sea and land targets is different!" Chief of Staff Choi said. "Maybe you're not training well!" Bangs said.
After getting ready, Liu Hai stayed next to the artillery, and the most important thing at the moment was to prevent the Americans from clearing mines, as long as the mines did not clear the Americans, they would not dare to land casually! "Division Commander Liu, think about it again, we can pull a few more guns over and form a cluster covering firepower to effectively hit sea targets!" Chief of Staff Cui said with some concern. "Your task is to arrange air defense and contain artillery bombardment against the sea, and as for the minesweeper, leave it to me!" Bangs said, "Remember, your artillery positions need to be shifted!" ”
Chief of Staff Cui is not half-convinced, he doesn't believe it at all, but he is afraid that Liu Hai is the head of the Volunteer Army, and he doesn't want him to have a bad relationship when he first comes, so when he assigns the task, he specially takes care of the artillery to pay attention to the attack of the minesweepers at sea, as for Liu Hai here, Chief of Staff Cui's idea is to report to Zhi Si and ask a commander with actual combat experience to come to command, and the current task is not to let the new division commander have anything to do! After the arrangement, Chief of Staff Cui immediately sent a telegram to Zhisi, and after describing the situation, he asked to reappoint a commander at the level of division commander, but soon a telegram from the Supreme Headquarters of the People's Army came, demanding that Chief of Staff Cui and all the troops and weapons of Wonshan Port obey the command of Division Commander Liu and have no objections! Chief of Staff Cui, who read the telegram, could only shake his head helplessly, and took a few of his guards to look at the one-five-five cannon with Liu Hai!
Liu Hai was right, the Americans couldn't wait, and the next day they sent two destroyers and two frigates to shell the formation, and five minesweepers from the two sides were also sent to prepare for a * clean-up operation in the sea area off Wonsan Port under the cover of the Navy! The US Air Force, which bore the brunt of the attack, took the lead in attacking the North Korean artillery positions that had already been reconnoitred, and one by one, accompanied by bursts of explosions, smashed the original artillery positions of the DPRK to a pulp, but fortunately, Chief of Staff Choi had already transferred the artillery positions! The US minesweepers, relying on the superiority of the sea and air, did not find that on the shore not far from them, a black hole 155 cannon was aiming at them!