Chapter 31 Breaking the Siege of Golden State
Early in the morning, Zhao Yi woke up and forgot that he was sleeping under the tank, and when he wanted to sit up, his head hit the tank's territory. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Tankmen sleep under tankers when they are too lazy to dig foxholes. Since it is sheltered from the wind and rain, it has the function of avoiding bullets like a foxhole.
However, if you are not a crew member of this tank, don't go to sleep under the tank. In case of emergency, the car crew will start to leave when they have all their troops and horses, and no one will know if you are not below at that time.
Zhao Yi didn't care about the small bag that was knocked out of his forehead, so he hurriedly washed up briefly, and then rushed to the command center.
The North American Mustang OV-10D fighter jet is undergoing maintenance today after two long days of taking off from duty. This means that today the traverser has no air support and reconnaissance.
Zhao Yi was very worried about the situation on the Jinzhou side, although Xu Bangdao was very brave enough to block the Japanese army on the outskirts of Jinzhou City. However, Zhao Yi had little confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Qing army. He wanted to arrange a reconnaissance team as soon as possible to investigate the battle on Shimenzi's side.
Although Ma San has already brought a message, whether the Qing army will come to ask for help is another matter. Moreover, I am most afraid that the Qing army will collapse too quickly, and it will not even be too late to ask for help.
After a hurried breakfast, An Yanxin and his SEALs drove an all-terrain tactical assault vehicle to the blocking position of the Qing army in Shimenzi.
This morning, all the various infantry combat vehicles that participated in the battle yesterday will be overhauled and maintained. Despite the fact that these steel behemoths are extremely powerful in battle, they are often overhauled and maintained much more frequently than family cars.
Zhao Yi took advantage of the fact that there was no war on the north and south fronts now, and hurriedly asked people to overhaul and maintain these combat vehicles.
The base of the green paint area is located near the Thirty Mile Fort in the later Dalian City. The reason why it is called Thirty Mile Fort is because it is thirty miles away from Golden State.
Therefore, the base is about ten kilometers away from the blocking position of the Qing army in Shimenzi.
An Yanxin and the all-terrain assault vehicle they were driving were not very affected by the bad road conditions, and it didn't take long to reach Shimenzi.
Although it was only dawn, An Yanxin and they heard a dense burst of gunfire and cannonball.
It seems that the Japanese army is really in a hurry, looking at the sky, it should not be eight o'clock, and the fight is so lively.
An Yanxin guessed correctly, Nogi Noshinori was really anxious. He was a genius who let the soldiers attack.
In order to show his loyalty to Emperor Meiji, Nogi chose to attack Kinshu Castle on November 3, the day of the Tencho Festival, which is the birthday of Emperor Meiji, from the Hanazono Exit along Kinshu Avenue.
In order to leave the army on this day of great significance to his loyalty, Nogi Noshinori brought with him the 1st Infantry Wing, a cavalry squad, a mountain artillery squadron, and a part of the sanitary team. He hurriedly attacked Jinzhou City.
Yesterday, on November 5th, Nogi Noshinori fell for Xu Bangdao's plan to lure the enemy deeper, and was caught off guard. Immediately afterwards, the two sides attacked and defended, and there were casualties on each other.
Xu Bangdao led this Qing army of more than 2,200 people, and by virtue of occupying favorable terrain, he stubbornly resisted the onslaught of Nogi Xidian.
You must know that more than half of the soldiers in Xu Bangdao's Gong Guard Army are new recruits who have been in the army for three months. There are many kinds of weapons, and in short, many people use old-fashioned guns, and even more so broadswords and pikes.
According to the original history, in the early morning of November 6, the soldiers and horses of the headquarters of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army who came from Fuzhou Avenue joined forces with Nogi Noshinori. All the mountain artillery of the 1st Division was moved to a high ground a few hundred meters away from Shimenzi.
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the bombardment of Xu Bangdao's position began. With the coordination of artillery with absolute superiority, the Japanese army captured the Shimenzi position where the Gongwei Army was stationed. Xu Bangdao took the rest of his troops to retreat to Jinzhou City.
However, the above is the original history. In this time and space, yesterday the headquarters of the First Division gave the traversers a fat beating on Fuzhou Avenue. Nearly 600 people were captured. Although the traversers released nearly a hundred more people, they were all wounded and could not fight in the short term.
And the number of people who died, even if they were all bearded and tailed, must be as small as five hundred. Those that were run over by tanks, or directly smashed by large-caliber shells, are really not easy to count.
After Nogi Noshinori set out, Genji Yamagi sent a lot of reinforcements to him. But the rest of the artillery of the 1st Division moved with the division headquarters.
The artillery that Nogi Noshinori could use in the attack on Shimenzi was the artillery squadron he brought with him when he set off.
The Japanese army attacked the Qing army's positions on Roe Deer Mountain and Taishan Mountain, but the mountain artillery did not fully exert its power.
Although the number of artillery of the Gongwei Army was less than that of the Japanese army, it occupied favorable terrain and had a farther firing range than the Japanese army.
For a while, the Japanese army could not bargain for anything. On the night of November 5, Noshinori Nogi, who had been unable to attack for a long time, asked the commander of the Japanese Second Army, Admiral Oyama Iwa, at Hanazorokou, for more troops and more artillery.
However, on the evening of November 5, the news of the Japanese army's crushing defeat on Fuzhou Avenue had been transmitted back to the headquarters of the Japanese Second Army at Huayuankou.
The headquarters of the 1st Division lost at least a third of its soldiers on the Fuzhou Avenue. The artillery was completely wiped out, and not a single one was saved.
What Dashanyan needs to consider now is to quickly assemble the rout, mobilize more artillery, and build a defensive line along the bank of the Anzi River on the Pulandian line of Fuzhou Avenue. to protect the Garden Mouth Landing Site.
According to the description of the soldiers who escaped, only the construction of fortifications along the river and the addition of a large number of artillery could withstand the attack of the steel chariots.
Big Mountain Rock was really frightened by the information that Krilman and Koman brought back. The other side is a unit called the 1st Volunteer Brigade of the Royal Marine Corps, which is very capable of fighting, with a large number of heavy artillery and new steel combat vehicles.
Dashan Yan couldn't figure out the number of opponents, and he couldn't figure out their combat intentions. At this time, where will there be more troops for Nogi Noshinori.
Nogi Noshinori didn't ask for reinforcements and the artillery he was looking forward to, but instead gave him an order to retreat.
Now the Japanese army is in short supply of artillery, and it will take time to mobilize it from the mainland. The artillery squadron that Nogi Noshinori brought out suddenly became a sweet tooth.
Oyama Rock intended to transfer this artillery squadron to the Saddle River defense line as well, in order to stop the attack of the so-called 1st Volunteer Brigade.
Nogi Noshinori couldn't believe his ears when he heard the news that the headquarters of the 1st Division had been defeated head-on on Fuzhou Avenue yesterday.
That's nearly 4,000 troops, and the rest of the artillery of the 1st Division is all moving with the division headquarters. The front was crushed all at once?
The deployment of the Qing army on the Liaodong Peninsula has long been clear to the Japanese army, where can the troops come from to defeat the troops of the headquarters of the first division head-on?
The stubborn Nogi Noshinori still insisted on destroying the Qing army in Shimenzi before retreating.
Now that the rout on Fuzhou Avenue has been defeated, there is a possibility that the Huayuankou landing site will be captured. Even if the Japanese army occupies Jinju now, there is a danger that the rear road will be cut off.
However, Nogi Noshinori knew very well that there were not many Qing generals who dared to fight the Japanese army in the field, and even fewer who did not fall behind in the battle. If you don't take this opportunity to destroy this Qing army now, you may bring more trouble to the Japanese army in the future.
Just as Nogi was about to launch a final general assault, he spotted some men on his flanks watching his troops with binoculars.
Those people stood on the high ground not far away, with no intention of hiding at all.
Those men were safe and honest with his Hypo Commandos. They were discovered by Nogi Noshinori's Japanese army, not because the camouflage skills were not up to par.
An Yanxin temporarily decided to play a good show of Zhang Fei scaring Cao Bing off at the bridgehead of Changbanpo.
All the SEALs stood up straight, deliberately for the Japanese to discover.
Nogi Noshinori observed them with a telescope, and judging from their strange attire, they were the first volunteer brigade mentioned by Oyamayan.
Are they reconnaissance troops? Or have their main forces already reached my flank? Or are they just trying to scare me and make me retreat?
Nogi Noshinori was full of questions, and finally he gave the order for the entire army to retreat. He didn't dare to gamble with the last artillery squadron of the 1st Division, even if the few people standing in the distance were using tricks to deceive him, he had no choice but to suffer a dumb loss. General Oyama Rock made it very clear that without enough artillery to cooperate with the defense, the vehicles of the First Volunteer Brigade could not be stopped.
The Qing troops on the mountain had not returned fire with guns and artillery for half an hour. Nogi knew that they had run out of ammunition, and if he launched a general attack, he would be able to capture their positions.
But Nogi Noshinori still chose to retreat, and the safety of the landing site at the entrance of the garden was much more important than the prestige of the moment.
On the blocking position of the Qing army in Taishan, Xu Bangdao watched the Japanese army stop the attack on Roe Deer Mountain and Taishan and began to retreat in an orderly manner. He knew that the Japanese army was about to retreat, and if he didn't bring new soldiers, if he still had ammunition, he would definitely take the opportunity to rush the sand for a while.
Xu Bangdao sat on the ground, coughing violently, his face sallow. He held on to it all day and night, knowing that this arch guard, which consisted of a large number of recruits, would immediately collapse as soon as he fell.
Last night, the temperature plummeted, and the wind was strong on the top of the mountain, but Xu Bangdao did not dare to take half a step away from the position.
But his body is not as good as it used to be. He joined the army at the age of eighteen, and it has been more than 40 years since this year. For most of his life, he has left many old injuries on his body. Last night, he was caught in a cold again, and he was really uncomfortable.
The Japanese army has been attacking, and he has also been directing the operation. When the Japanese army retreated, his courage retreated, and he could no longer hold on.
Beads of sweat fell from his forehead, and Xu Bangdao coughed so hard that he couldn't breathe.
"Pass on my military order, send a team of horses, and follow the Japanese people. If there is any change, report it quickly. Xu Bangdao said to the soldiers.
The behavior of the Japanese army's sudden retreat was very strange, at this time Xu Bangdao was ready to use cold weapons to fight with the Japanese army, why did the Japanese army leave as soon as they said it?
"Report to the commander-in-chief, there are a few people on the high west side who are spying on our position." A Qing soldier reported to Xu Bangdao.
Xu Bangdao stood up again and looked towards the high ground with a telescope. Several people in extremely strange costumes were spotted standing there, peering at Intuition with impunity.
Could it be that the Japanese army retreated because of the presence of these few people? Who are they?