798 Capture Lushun 1)
Don’t forget the national humiliation! I would like to use this chapter to commemorate my compatriots who have died!
Whatever you are afraid of, for the new commander Yozo Yamada and Chief of Staff Hitaro Kimura, their biggest concern is that China launches an attack from the sea and officially forms a siege against the Kanto Army.
When the Air Force first blew up all the bridges on the Yalu River with absolute advantage and cut off the passage between North Korea and Liaoning, it was the time for their internal handover. It was also judged that it was the other party's restraining action. Although the bridge was destroyed, temporary pontoon bridges could always be built to deal with it. Moreover, the entire Manchuria itself has sufficient resources, and it would be able to withstand a long time without support for a while.
The only evidence of suspicion is that the Chinese Navy has been very calm and has not launched maritime attacks and landing operations at the same time. Therefore, after half a month of worry, the Japanese army returned to peace.
But this time it was completely different! There was no place to escape in the narrow Yellow Sea. The aircraft could easily discover hundreds of ships arranged in combat formations. The vast scale was obvious, not to mention that there were also majestic battleships and aircraft carriers in the middle.
When the first 406mm caliber armor-piercing projectile spanned more than 30 kilometers across the sky and accurately hit the Laotieshan Fort, Commander Yamada finally believed that their worries had resulted, and China was really going to launch a full-scale attack!
"What should I do?! Although our troops are sufficient, the flight regiment is really bad! And if there is no more power on the peninsula, the Chinese army's artillery fire is so fierce, and it will be difficult to defend!"
Yamada Yozo and Kimura Hitaro looked at each other, but they were unable to make up their minds for a moment!
If the lieutenant generals of the masters saw the two gentlemen in this way, they would definitely be disappointed and cut them to death with their own swords to vent their anger! As the leader of the most elite Kanto Army in the powerful Japanese Army, these two guys are really bad!
It must be said that in the past ten years, the level of these two guys among the leaders of the Kanto Army is the worst! Not to mention that they are not as good as the elites of Itagaki Seishiro, Uezumi Mijiro, Ishihara Kanji, and Doihara Kenji, even Okamura Natsuji and Ueda Kenyoshi who followed closely behind are also much better than them, Honjo Shizuki, and Natsujiro are also very elites. Koiki Akira and Isotani Ryosuke can also be in the front. Even though Hideki Tojo, who is despised as a private, is reckless and rude and has a unclear mind, at least that guy is brave and decisive and will not look forward to the front at critical moments.
Now, the two generals were ordered to take the initiative to take the initiative of the Imperial Army in the face of danger, and they came up to incite two active attacks, with more than 100,000 casualties. However, at least they delayed the fierce attack of the Chinese Corps. It was a small record, but the overall situation changed, and their true nature of not being able to capture was immediately exposed!
Kimura Hitaro could not admit that he was too bad, so he pretended to think deeply for a while and said, "It seems that there is no other way. If the Chinese army attacks with all its strength, we must launch a strategy of a decisive battle in the local area, and turn the Liaodong Peninsula into a dead land, and stop them from forcing in any case!"
This is all nonsense, but as a qualified Japanese, nonsense is a prerequisite for saying it. Although Yamada Yoshizo was impatient, he had no better idea and nodded helplessly: "Then use Jinzhou as the decisive place! Let the Chinese army taste the sufferings that our imperial warriors had endured back then, and it would be good to retreat when they faced difficulties."
This is what they say is the eternal pride of the Japanese army. In 1905, they defeated Russia and became the ranks of world powers. At that time, Japan suffered 70,000 casualties in the war, and almost washed the narrow fortress ground with blood, making the name of Nogi Hinomi Army God and completely bringing the Japanese army into the gutter!
If you are afraid, the two generals still do not have the Kwantung Army guarded Zhu Bin's sea attack. It was not a day or two. The entire Jinzhou area has been built countless fortresses and fortresses. It's really a thing that can't even handle the hit-pound bomb.
All heavy forts are set up in a hidden place with a hill in front, of course this is to absorb the experience of the Russians back then; not to mention the small amount of fortifications on the surface, one is counted as one, all of which are reinforced concrete permanent fortifications, and there are mountain-passing lanes connected inside, which is comparable to the Maginot Line of Defense.
The experimental ultra-long-range electromagnetic accelerating gun bombardment some time ago was mostly directed at warships in the port. After the basically tormented third fleet was killed or injured, the attack on mountain turrets was not so accurate, and there were various obstructions in front. The straight ballistic trajectory of high-speed shells was not easy to hit and crossed tens of kilometers. It was considered as a surprise that it could hit.
However, the intermittent aerial bombardment recently has caused a lot of damage. Hundreds of firepower points were destroyed and many caves collapsed. However, compared with the fortifications built by the Japanese army with a cruel deliberate effort, it was not damaged. Now, more than 100,000 people are arranged along the sides of the road. Each fortress has machine guns, cannons and soldiers waiting for battle. That is to make up your mind to guard the situation!
Kimura Hitotaro finally gritted his teeth and said viciously: "In addition, we have retained hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers in Lushun and Dalian. I believe this news has spread. You should be careful when the Chinese army bombs! Humph, as long as we do not use special bombs suddenly, we can use this place to completely stop the attack on Fengtian!"
They naturally learned that Jinzhou was inexplicably captured, and it was found out later that it was some kind of anesthetic, but the use environment was limited, and as long as you put on a pig's mouth gas mask in advance, you would not be afraid.
There are a lot of Chinese people in several cities that have been spreading, and everyone knows that they are not afraid of the Chinese taking action to indiscriminately destructive bombing. This is definitely a kidnapping rogue style!
The vast fleet drove near the seaside, with two battleships of the East China Sea Fleet, three heavy patrols and two amphibious assault ships as the main force, more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers as the deputy, and they set off clear positions and bombarded the coast beaches and nearby mountain fortifications, from low to high. They projected dozens of tons of ammunition in one minute, most of which were armor-piercing bombs like steel, especially the big thing of the battleship. When they went down, they could penetrate the seven-meter-deep rock formation. Most of the bunkers placed on the front were destroyed in one shot!
In the sky, various fighter jets taken off from aircraft carriers and Shandong Peninsula became the absolute overlords, covering the air in hundreds of miles in turn. Large bomber formations and attack aircraft were mixed, and gliding bombs were continuously fired from the fleet, targeted and fixed-point removal, and the anti-landing steel frames and wooden pile barriers on the beach were blown up in one breath, and large tracts of fire evaporated thick water vapor on the beach. In the area with a depth of two kilometers, all the targets that could be seen were clean!
The Japanese army had long expected this possibility, and almost all of them were huddled in the back-sloping fortifications or deep caves, waiting for the order to issue the dense explosion, which shocked them. The food in their stomachs was about to be spit out. The sand, soil and gravel that kept trembling and peeling from the top of the cave was even more worrying. Will it collapse at any time!
This is a crazy bombardment that they have never experienced before. The shells are calculated in tens of thousands of shots! From morning to evening, the sky and the sea bombing never stops. Any exposed turret will be taken seriously. It is not a problem that heavy artillery at sea can be shot back and forth in the valley with clever tricks. What hangs under your belly is not just the stunningly high-explosive bombs. The brutal cloud bombs and napalm bombs are also standard! Any thrown nearby will cause huge damage!
The bombing of the whole day destroyed all exposed targets from Lao Tieshan to Lushun. In the early morning of the next day, large landing ships began to rush into the coast. Countless small hovercraft and rubber boats were unloaded one after another, forming a landing group that spreads for several kilometers in the sea, and rushing towards the beachhead filled with smoke!
The Japanese army hiding in the cave and the back slope heard the sharp whistle sounding. The exhausted Japanese army, who had been unable to live for a day and a night, became as crazy as a rat who had taken medicine, and ran along the cave or traffic trench with weapons and entered the remaining fortress positions!
Most of the exposed fortifications were blown to 80% complete as the focus of attracting fire. The Japanese army had no hope at the beginning, and they emerged from deeper, setting up guns and aimed at the beach!
More, we will temporarily build fortifications and set up small machine guns and cannons in the open-air preset positions to prepare for combat!
The flight regiment, which had been suppressed for a whole day, became active again, accurately grasped the time and rushed into the battlefield from afar, fought fiercely with the Chinese Air Force, and prevented the support of attack aircraft and helicopters to the greatest extent that they had no time to clone them!
The turrets that were always hidden in the mountains collapsed from the inside of the thin mountain or showed their true appearance. Hundreds of artillery large and small were scattered, aiming at the ships at the sea to open fire! This is a counterattack defense line established by the Japanese army. It was purely a change made after suffering too much loss and learned lessons!
The roar of chaos suddenly sounded from various hidden artillery batteries, and shells of various caliber fell into the predetermined sea area in a mess, exploding dazzling water columns, and several landing craft were hit by the first wave of bombardment!
The fire of revenge came in an instant! The anti-aircraft radars on each warship calculated the coordinates of the attack immediately, and it took less than a minute to pass it to each naval gun until the first artillery was released! The more thicker and more powerful than the Japanese gun barrels, the more powerful naval guns roared, and blocked one-third of the exposed artillery in an instant!
This is also a situation that the fleet had long anticipated! It is impossible to destroy all defenses by relying on simple early bombing. Even this strike can only kill a part of the Japanese army and will not give up easily. As the foundation of future hegemony, how can they not take care of them?
Tons of shells and bombs were smashed down, and no matter how tough the turret was, it would be ruined! The battleships that were in front were rough and thick in flesh, and had high resistance to heavy shore artillery, which attracted most of the attention. While being hit by multiple shells, they also successfully allowed other battleships and hidden attack aircraft to finally see the target of the key attack!
This time, it’s not just shells that are fired!
On the battleships and heavy cruisers, the ground missiles obtained the input data and started firing one after another. Dozens of long arrows spewed out thick smoke columns and flew out, each of which was the place where the heavy artillery was located and rushed towards them! Those hidden points that were difficult to hit directly, but they could not withstand the frontal bombardment of the subsonic heavy missiles used to attack steel monsters. In just a few dozen seconds, a series of shocking explosions suddenly rose in the mountains and fields, and more than a dozen heavy shore defense cannons immediately silenced!
On the heavy bombers, air-to-ground missiles and precise ground-drifting and gliding bombs dropped off and started, accelerating toward long-range targets, covering the tails of the first batch of missiles, and adding small turrets into it. Another big explosion was overturned, and the heads that extended into the sea in the peninsula were boiling like a volcano erupted!
On Laotie Mountain, Chengtou Mountain, Jiguan Mountain, and Huangjin Mountain, all kinds of artillery were continuously swallowed by explosions! This time, most of them were on the backscene surface or the backward mountain. The artillery exposed by peeling off the camouflage was attacked and was only arrogant. In just two minutes, most of them were stopped!
Hundreds of landing craft rushed to the beach without any trouble. The strong tank landing ship rushed forward directly, and the tilted steel door slowly spread on the beach to form a direct steel plate bridge. Heavy "cheetah" tanks headed and wade directly to kill and kill. While firing, machine guns fired while crushing broken obstacles, and used the push shovels installed in front to smooth the craters and triangular steel frames to clear the ground for the infantry!
There was finally someone in the castle half buried in the hillside of the beach! Through several safety gates, they avoided the attack of brutal things such as cloud explosion bombs. After rushing out, they started bombarding with heavy machine guns and small cannons. The artillery machine guns brought by the landing ships were decisively launched, and the armored vehicles that opened the circuit rushed left and right with their rough and thick capital, sweeping all the way, letting the dense bullets hit the armored guns, and they were not afraid!
When more than a dozen huge super engineering vehicles drove up majesticly, the remaining Japanese soldiers were stunned! The towering figure of the moving building, the hydraulic lifting arms with fangs and claws, and the strange fortresses resisting on their shoulders all gave people endless pressure! The Japanese who believed in ghosts and gods suddenly thought that no wonder had crawled out of hell!
Hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and thousands of soldiers rushed to the beach like a tide. Under the fierce firepower, they completely withstood the Japanese army's firepower, cleared them one by one, and then spread all over the mountains and fields to search and destroy them in a carpet-like manner!
In front of each team, one or two armored soldiers covered with steel shells carry heavy shields to open the way for them to block the first round of machine guns and small cannon bombardment, attract firepower, and create attack opportunities.
The armored vehicles scattered along the relatively smooth positions, and no matter how they passed, they would scatter the bombardment and strafing of ammunition, so as not to leave any blind spots and not give suspected opportunities!
Most fighter jets in the Bohai Rim area flocked to this airspace, which was crowded and flew around almost every kilometer. Hundreds of attack aircraft flew from low altitude and acted as eyeliners and main attackers in front of the landing troops. The strafing fired over and over again destroyed the hidden castle that was constantly exposed by the Japanese army!
The Japanese division commanders who were commanding the frontier were completely stunned! This scale was completely the military density of a national war! In order to cover the landing of only 10,000 or 20,000 people, they actually dispatched an entire fleet and thousands of fighter jets. They were so idle?
No! This is an absolute advantage of concentrating strength and gathering powerful fists to strike a target!
That’s right! Zhu Bin’s fight was the only one of his fingers! It’s better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers. If he doesn’t fight, he will be successful. He won’t leave any chance of luck for the Japanese army! Be quick and neat, kill and hurt his vital force as much as possible, and don’t do the trick of procrastinating!
Such decisive, so cruel, and such a desperate gameplay were seriously misleading by the long combat methods that the Japanese army had never expected before. Even if they were judged to capture Lushun, subconsciously, the Japanese army did not expect that the intensity was so high, it was like putting all their strength into doing it, but the situation of life!
More troops successfully landed on the beach! On the arc-shaped coastline that is more than ten kilometers wide, there are rushing chariots everywhere. Some of them peel onions layer by layer along the three-bread clip of Laotieshan, while some break through the frontal defense, capture the beach and overlook the port of Lushun!
"Crazy! The Chinese army must be crazy!" A series of urgent reports flocked to the table at the Kanto Army Command. Yamada Yozo widened his eyes and roared in disbelief!
The pointed tips of the entire Liaodong Peninsula were all submerged in tens of thousands of tons of ammunition. After nearly 20,000 landing troops went up, no one could stop them! The forts set up behind Lushun were also hit by long-range missiles. The Air Force followed closely behind them and used blockbuster bombs to break many underground passages and cut off the reinforcements!
The Japanese army had never seen such a war. They bombed all the places in intensively as soon as they came up... How much money does this cost and how much ammunition has to be used! In the past, the Kwantung Army would only use this kind of war? The Chinese actually only had reserve cover before landing for battle, which was so luxurious!
It is hard to say whether China is rich enough, but Zhu Bin just grabbed more than 10,000 tons of gold, which is enough to support him in fighting a complete war without worrying about bankruptcy! The key is that his troublesome method will not affect most of the industrial and agricultural production and normal social order in the country! Correspondingly, it has greatly reduced the burden on unemployed vagrants. Natural disasters and man-made disasters have been chaotic for more than ten years. There are tens of millions of unemployed proletarians in China!
Can't figure it out! Can't figure it out no matter how you go!
But now is not the time to hesitate! The troops that were originally deployed on a long-term basis had to temporarily recruit emergency recruitment, and the reserve troops placed around Lushun could only be pulled out in advance and stuffed into the battlefield. In any case, the beachhead must be snatched back. Otherwise, just a narrow Yellow Sea would become a maritime conveying line with endless potential. With the Chinese troops with a foothold, they would be able to fight anyway!
It must be fast! The Kwantung Army around rushed here like crazy, but immediately they found that the idea was good and it was difficult to achieve it!
The Chinese Air Force, which had originally gathered together, suddenly dispersed several large groups of aircraft! A crossed the battlefield from the left wing to block reinforcements from Jinzhou. Hundreds of bombers were calmly under the cover of fighter jets, continuously bombing the narrow passage one after another, and bombing as much as possible!
Chapter completed!