The six ships that rushed to the battlefield were large gunboats built by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and equipped with 150mm German infantry cannons. As long as one shell hit, it was enough to blow a motorboat into a pile of wood. A four-carriage ship
The combined 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns also smashed those unarmored sailboats into sieves.
The German 150mm infantry guns on these gunboats are only temporary additions. The original two twin 23 anti-aircraft guns, a quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun, and an additional T-26 tank turret. Although
It is enough to serve as a guard in the Songhua River. But in this Bohai battlefield, the power is somewhat insufficient.
So after these gunboats were disassembled and transported to Tanggu by all means, they disassembled a double 23 anti-aircraft gun and temporarily modified a German 150mm infantry gun. These two-ton infantry
Although the amount of guns is indeed a bit heavy for infantry, for these gunboats of more than 100 tons, the tonnage is still acceptable.
There is no way, the Anti-Japanese Alliance cannot manufacture naval guns themselves. And with only a few gunboats, there is no need to establish a naval gun production line. They can only use army artillery to carry out certain modifications, as much as possible within the range that these ships can bear.
, and install some large-caliber artillery.
With the full displacement of these six boats added together, only the large gunboat, which is as big as the Japanese coastal defense ship, is indeed no match for the large Japanese ships. But it has no problem dealing with those temporarily modified transport ships such as sailboats and trawlers. At the same time, these plus
Gunboats equipped with diesel engines have high horsepower, fast speed, and strong firepower. They are absolutely super killers against these ships.
During this interception operation, the rebellious ships of the former Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force may be eager to make atonement, or they may be eager to show off the lethality they brought to the Japanese transport fleet. That ship had a full load displacement of more than 700
The tonnage transport gunboat even took advantage of its slightly larger tonnage to directly catch up with those motor sailing ships and sink them.
Those gunboats took advantage of their fast speed and flexibility to intercept the Japanese aircraft and sailboats that wanted to escape from the periphery. As long as they were caught up by these small gunboats, a machine gun and small-caliber naval gun would directly kill them.
The motorboat they targeted was sunk.
Although the anti-alliance aviation forces have all returned after sinking several large transport ships, the massacre of the Japanese transport fleet on the sea is still continuing. Several large and medium-sized transport ships were all sunk.
After that, the remaining motors and sailboats couldn't be beaten, and they were too slow to escape even if they tried to run away.
The more than 200 motor-driven sailing ships and transport ships converted from trawlers that the Japanese navy had forcibly commandeered from the coast of Korea were sunk one by one as if they were hit by targets. Although the Japanese troops on board used rifles and even grenades in their hands,
They were trying their best to resist. But those infantry light weapons were out of reach against these ships, and even if they hit, it would be like scratching an itch.
After an hour of not-so-fierce one-sided fighting, the entire sea was littered with floating Japanese corpses and ship fragments. The Japanese transport fleet, which was not small in size, except for one trawler, was struggling desperately.
In addition to the withdrawal of the Huludao shore artillery defense area and the more than 700 people salvaged by the Anti-Japanese Alliance as prisoners, all the ships and the tens of thousands of Japanese troops they carried were buried in the outer sea of Lianshan Bay.
As for the Japanese Navy at Lushun Naval Base, it was also the only coastal defense ship dispatched by the Japanese army, as well as several minesweepers and submarine destroyers. As early as the arrival of the anti-alliance bomber group, they were targeted because they were warships.
, all were sunk within a short period of time.
Although these ships are equipped with anti-aircraft artillery, how can they stop the more than 70 dive bombers and light bombers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, plus an air strike group composed of a squadron of Il-2 attack aircraft? The battle started for more than ten minutes.
Before the attack, all the escort ships were bombed and sunk.
As for the actual details of the sea and air battle here, Iida Shojiro, who is currently on Huludao, is not clear because of the distance. However, the Japanese army was hit by napalm bombs and burned more fiercely with the force of the sea breeze.
When the raging fire burned the steel on the transport ship, the black smoke rising into the sky could be seen clearly even on Huludao, dozens of kilometers away.
Looking at the black smoke in the telescope, he could not see what happened on the sea. The troops on the transport fleet did not make any reports. After the observation post on the seaside noticed thick smoke rising from the sea, he immediately contacted the transport fleet
The fleet contacted. However, the fact that they could not get in touch gave Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida an ominous premonition.
Up there is his Fourth Army, which currently has almost all its effective forces. Apart from the more than 10,000 people transported away in the first batch, he now only has the remnants of two independent mixed brigades, as well as some directly subordinate artillery, engineers and other troops left.
The troops who came down to insist on the evacuation of the second echelon, including the guards of his military headquarters, were only over 7,000 troops.
With the remaining troops alone, it is impossible for him to hold on in Huludao for too long. But now the predicament has turned into a predicament, and the worry about the safety of the more than 10,000 troops at sea has made Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida worried.
Until the trawler was hit like a sieve by the quadruple-mounted 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns. It was covered in thick smoke and struggled to run back to Huludao. The trawler sank before it even reached the shore.
A second lieutenant, a soldier, and a Korean sailor who were fished out were reporting their experiences to Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida with a mournful face. Before they could finish speaking, they learned that more than 10,000 of his men had been destroyed at sea.
News. Iida Shojiro could no longer suppress the anger and anger in his heart. After spitting out a mouthful of blood, his vision went black and he passed out.
After Iida Shojiro fell into coma, the military chief of staff, Major General Michio Kato, could only temporarily take over the responsibility of commanding the remaining troops on Huludao. However, the Japanese troops currently remaining on Huludao are just a patchwork of several remnants of the Japanese army.
It is not consistent with the sequence, and its combat effectiveness is also greatly reduced.
Originally, according to Iida Shojiro's plan, these troops were used as a lag force to defend Huludao and various peripheral key points. After the ships that transported the first echelon returned, they would be loaded onto the ships and evacuated. But now not only are the ships gone, but even the first batch of ships are gone.
The retreating troops, along with ships that would never appear again, sank into the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea.
Faced with the current situation, Major General Michio Kato was helpless. He could only send a report to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, hoping to get operational guidance from the Kwantung Army. In the face of the current war situation, the Kwantung Army Headquarters, which was basically helpless, was also helpless.
.The transport fleet dispatched from Port Arthur was completely destroyed, and the Kwantung Army no longer had any ability to support the Fourth Army currently trapped in western Liaoning.
At the moment, there is only one thing the Kwantung Army can do, which is to risk sending a few light seaplanes. On the night of the next day, the unconscious Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida, Major General Michio Kato, and the independent 135th
The brigade commander, Major General Jusuke Hamada, and all the personnel of the Fourth Army Headquarters were picked up from Huludao. As for the troops below, they could only be destroyed under the command of a colonel who voluntarily stayed.
It's not that the Kwantung Army can't send more planes, but that the artillery shells and aerial bombs falling on the entire Huludao every day have left more than 60 square kilometers of Huludao full of craters. The land-based planes sent by the Kwantung Army
, not even a gentle landing zone.
Just after the Japanese naval transport fleet was completely destroyed, the small anti-alliance warship formation suddenly appeared outside Huludao Port. It sailed along the east coast of Lianshan Bay and focused all its naval guns on the Japanese position.
The shelling poured a large number of artillery shells onto the Japanese heavy artillery positions on the east coast of Lianshan Bay.
The heavy artillery deployed by the Japanese army on the east coast of Lianshan Bay has very tricky positions. The main positions are set up in Ma'anshan, Loujia back mountain, and Gushan line, relying on the hilly areas on the peninsula as barriers. Fire support is provided to the northern battlefield.
And used long-range firepower to suppress the anti-alliance artillery group in the northeast of Lianshan Bay.
Although the counterattack artillery fire of the Anti-Japanese Alliance could reach here, the Japanese artillery positions were set up quite cleverly. Although Wang Guangyu's artillery continued to suppress them, they were still unable to destroy these Japanese artillery groups. In addition,
The mountain and field artillery groups set up by the Japanese army on the Guodi Mountain and Lantern Mountain lines were fully blocked, so the attack on Huludao was always very sluggish.
After completing the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese naval transport fleet, these ships immediately entered Lianshan Bay and carried out intensive artillery strikes against the Japanese artillery groups deployed on both sides of Lianshan Bay. Although the artillery on these ships, except
In addition to the two 120mm high-level dual-purpose guns on the coastal defense ship, the rest of the guns are 76mm, and many of them are even small-caliber guns.
Even the gunboats built by the Anti-Japanese Alliance are equipped with German-made 150mm infantry cannons, which have a range of only a few thousand meters. But if these naval guns are fired close to each other, there is absolutely no problem. The Japanese artillery positions are all
The temporary positions were not set up firmly.
Artillery battles with the Anti-Japanese Alliance have always been advantageous, as long as they rely on the location of the artillery positions and the clever setting of the terrain. What they mainly rely on is that the Anti-Japanese Alliance does not have a navy. All artillery positions can only be set up on the two wings of the northern end of Huludao.
.The direct-aiming artillery cannot hit because of the mountain obstruction, and the range of the howitzer's firing range is also greatly affected.
When it comes to relying on the strength of their positions, they simply don't have the time and energy to build permanent firepower points as strong as those in Northern Manchuria that can withstand direct hits from 150mm caliber artillery shells and hundreds of kilograms of aerial bombs. They just rely on
Taking advantage of the location of their own artillery positions, they competed with the anti-alliance artillery. However, facing the sea behind them, they basically had no cover.
The artillery of the Fourth Army, which had previously relied on the steep terrain in the southern part of the small peninsula Huludao, brazenly contended with the anti-alliance artillery. The artillery units of the Fourth Army were hit from behind, and they were suddenly blown away. They could not be tempered in time.
The defense was immediately destroyed, with four Taisho 4-year-old 150mm howitzers and two 89-type 150mm cannons.
The field artillery groups deployed in Guodi Mountain and Lantern Mountain suffered a devastating blow. The nine Type 95 field guns deployed in Guodi Mountain, five Type 90 field guns, and three Type 91 field guns were deployed in Guodi Mountain.
Type 105 howitzers, six Type 95 field guns deployed on the front line of Lantern Mountain, and most of the eleven Type 91 Type 105 howitzers were destroyed.
Although when these ships bombarded the Japanese artillery positions, the Japanese army ignored the previous attacks by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and concentrated their artillery fire in an attempt to destroy all these bold little bugs in the sea, lest these guys without Bushido demeanor come more erratically.
Give yourself a sneak attack.
But in the small fleet of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, if you take the counterattack, I will immediately retreat to the open sea. When your mental head is attracted by the front, I will take a stab at you again. I am small in stature and can be flexible. You fight
I may not be able to hit you, but if I give you a moment, you will definitely be killed by the maritime guerrilla warfare tactics, and you will be in dire straits.