Chapter 317: Mu Dafu who Quenches Thirst by Drinking Poison
When the number of transport ships was limited, in order to evacuate as many troops as possible at one time, all heavy weapons except infantry artillery and some mountain artillery were left behind during the evacuation.
The super large artillery group can be said to have played an important role in combat.
These artillerymen made great contributions to the Fourth Army's defense of Huludao in previous battles. But Mu Dafu also understood that these artillery groups had become a thorn in the enemy's side and a thorn in their flesh. But he did not expect that the enemy's
They took measures to pull out the thorn in their capture of 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, the enemy's intensified offensive at this time seems to have legitimate reasons. However, as the supreme commander of the thousands of defeated Japanese troops on the Huludao battlefield, Colonel Mu Dafu.
Still using his usual sensitivity as a senior staff officer, he believed that the enemy's action would not be as simple as it seemed on the surface.
Especially when the Anti-Japanese Alliance carried out the landing operation on the Liaodong Peninsula, the lessons learned from that landing operation were right in front of them. Small boats and few ships did not seem to be enough to stop the enemy from launching a landing behind them. The enemy had previously carried out a landing on the Liaodong Peninsula.
The landing was carried out mainly relying on motors and sailing boats. It was completed after crossing the entire Liaodong Bay and caught the entire Kwantung Army by surprise.
At present, there is no suspense in the Liaodong Peninsula. The Kwantung Army has lost the power to reinforce the Liaodong Peninsula. In other words, the enemy fleet that landed in Liaodong can now be said to be almost all free. It is estimated that there is nothing to do at the moment.
Find your next target.
If the enemy forces are behind you and try to copy yourself in a decent way, then you will really be in trouble. Huludao is a small peninsula deep in the Bohai Sea, with one side bordering Lianshan Bay.
One side faces Jinzhou Bay. And these two bays are just two narrow bays that extend from the entire Liaodong Bay to the south.
Xingcheng and Jinzhou on both wings are already in the hands of the enemy. The enemy does not need to sail too far at all. Whether they board the ship in Xingcheng or Jinzhou, they only need to sail a dozen kilometers to get there.
Landing operations can be carried out in any area of Huludao.
Therefore, although Wang Guangyu stepped up his attack on the front of Huludao, forcing Colonel Mu Dafu to mobilize all the last reserves in his hands. However, Colonel Mu Dafu still had two complete units in his hands.
An infantry squadron, plus an engineering squadron, and a squadron each of mountain artillery and mortars, were placed at locations suitable for landing in the coastal area of Huludao to prepare for anti-landing.
To say that Colonel Mu Dafu is considered a talent, despite the increasing pressure on the front line and even continuous breakthroughs, he still retains a certain amount of mobile troops in preparation for anti-landing.
But he didn't expect that his opponent would also think of what he thought of.
When Wang Guangyu chose the landing place for this regiment, he did not choose the place on the map that seemed suitable for landing. Because he knew the outcome of the battle on the Liaodong Peninsula, and with the fleet appearing off the coast of Huludao, the enemy would definitely
Take precautions. So far in this battle, the Anti-League has shown all its 18 martial arts skills. It can be said that it has already alerted the enemy.
The enemy will definitely make some preparations at a location suitable for landing in the area controlled by Huludao. Judging from the previous battle situation, the Japanese commander has considered very comprehensive issues. The danger has arisen, and he will not be unprepared at all.
.If you are not afraid of a head-on confrontation, but it will cause too many casualties, it is not a good thing.
The first person to eat crabs is a hero, but the second person to eat crabs may not be of any benefit. Since the first person to eat crabs has been taken away by Tao Jingfei, then if he goes step by step before eating crabs
, maybe you will be bitten by a crab.
Therefore, Wang Guangyu simply decided to come and have a black tiger take out his heart. He discussed it carefully with Lin Mufeng, who was in charge of commanding the small naval fleet. He simply chose the dock of Huludao as the location for the forced landing, which is also the location of the entire naval fleet.
Huludao extends to the southernmost point in the sea, which is the most suitable landing place.
As the deputy commander, Lin Mufeng was the first person selected by the Anti-Japanese Federation to go to the Soviet Union to study the navy, even before the team led by Li Mingfeng rushed to the Soviet Union to study and assist the Soviet Navy in combat. As soon as he returned to China last year, he was
Appointed as the commander and political commissar of the Northeast Military Region's border defense fleet.
This trip south to the Bohai Sea was also the first time he had real contact with the sea after returning to China. However, when he commanded the fleet to cross the Liaodong Bay and land on the Liaodong Peninsula, the fleet had too little time to practice, and there were also ordinary fishermen recruited there.
They have no combat experience and have undergone uniform training.
While crossing the entire Liaodong Bay, two motor-sailing boats capsized and two motor-sailing boats collided. In addition, a group of motor-sailing boats transferred from Jiaodong were separated during the night voyage, which somewhat clouded his first battle.
A hint of failure.
Although Yang Zhen personally called to congratulate the Anti-Alliance Navy on its first victory after its establishment. But for Lin Mufeng, this first kick was a bit useless. Although the responsibility is not all on him, as the only one of the Anti-Alliance forces at the moment
Lin Mufeng, the commander of a small fleet, felt very embarrassed.
This time Lin Mufeng was determined, and this battle must be fought successfully. After receiving Wang Guangyu's telegram and personally rushing to Jinzhou to hold talks with Wang Guangyu, Lin Mufeng sent electricity to the troops staying in Fuzhou Bay and sent the few remaining ships of the Anti-Japanese Alliance to
The Japanese Type 1 and Type 2 landing ships were all transferred over.
However, considering that only one regiment carried out the landing operation this time, and the previous use of motorized sailing ships, it can be said that they suffered a lot. Lin Mufeng decided to let those motorized sailing ships continue to serve from Tanggu and Qinhuangdao to the Liaodong Peninsula and Shandong Military Region.
To transport supplies, they will not be mobilized to participate in this landing operation.
After the transport ship transferred from Fuzhou Bay arrived, Lin Mufeng loaded the troops scheduled to be carried onto the ship in Xingcheng. After replenishing the artillery shells for his small fleet in Xingcheng, he commanded the fleet to sail directly to Hulu at the maximum speed.
Sailing in the direction of the island pier. At this time, on Huludao, the anti-alliance tactical aviation was conducting indiscriminate bombing on the Japanese positions in the southwest of the wasteland.
The main force of the small fleet operating in the waters west of Huludao also traveled to waters less than 300 meters away from the coastline and fired at the Japanese fortifications on the coastline west of Huludao. The ships concentrated their artillery fire and used precise firepower one after another.
Yes, to name the Japanese coastal fortifications.
Lin Mufeng's action was a virtual and real approach. It attracted the attention of the Japanese army on the peninsula from the port direction to other directions, creating a good condition for the landing troops to successfully occupy Huludao Port. Although what he was doing now was
He is from the Navy, but also from the Army. He clearly knows that troops are most vulnerable when landing.
If the Japanese troops at the port cannot be attracted, then the ships loaded with landing troops will be unable to fight back against the Japanese firepower when they approach the dock. Moreover, the longer the landing lasts, the greater the losses of ships and troops will be.
It's likely to be bigger.
This is not Fuzhou Bay where the Japanese army had no defense, nor is Huludao, a small peninsula, nor the Liaodong Peninsula. Under the circumstances that the entire small peninsula of Huludao has become a battlefield. In order to reduce the casualties of the landing troops, at the same time
To speed up the battle, we can only find ways to attract the Japanese army's attention to other directions.
Otherwise, on such a small battlefield, the Japanese army can quickly mobilize its troops, which is likely to make the landing troops unable to defeat the tiger and injure themselves instead. As an army veteran, he knew that under the terrain of Huludao, it is impossible for the enemy to mobilize all its troops.
Put them on the front line. Although there may not be too many, the defenders will definitely have a certain amount of mobile troops. What he needs to do most right now is to transfer these mobile troops that the Japanese army may have to other directions.
Moreover, Lin Mufeng knew more clearly that the troops in Wang Guangyu's hands were not from Tao Jingfei, who had already adapted to the sea in Tianjin. I am afraid that most of them had never seen what the sea looked like before this battle, let alone sailed on it.
Boat experience.
Although there is only a dozen nautical miles from Xingcheng where we boarded the ship to Huludao, seasickness is probably still a very difficult problem for these troops who have never seen the sea. Seasickness is a problem for people who live on land all year round.
The most insurmountable problem at sea.
Not to mention these simple armies, they are the sailors transferred from the Songhua River under his own command. Because they only trained on the calm Songhua River, they have never been exposed to the real sea. It took a long time to reach the real sea before they finally
Overcome seasickness?
Tao Jingfei's unit, which originally landed in Fuzhou Bay, had practiced many times in Tanggu Port, but still experienced a lot of seasickness after boarding the ship. At present, many people in Wang Guangyu's unit have never even seen what the sea looks like.
, this phenomenon of seasickness may become more common. If seasickness occurs in large numbers, it will definitely weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops in a short period of time.
Therefore, he also adopted certain methods when carrying out this landing operation. Before starting a general landing operation, he would implement a large amount of firepower at the landing site to suppress this. He used a general bluff to transfer the Japanese troops at the port to other fronts.
To reduce the pressure on the landing troops and gain a certain amount of time to allow the landing troops to recover as much as possible.
Lin Mufeng's tactics indeed played a certain role. The Anti-Alliance's actions on the west coast of Huludao made Colonel Mu Dafu hesitate a few times, and finally decided that the landing site chosen by the Anti-Alliance was the area south of the Great Wasteland because the terrain here is relatively flat.
, although there are some hills, but the altitude is not high.
Moreover, these hills are still several hundred meters away from the coastline. If losses are not considered, the enemy's motorboats and sailboats on this line can even wash ashore directly. It can be said that the entire long and narrow peninsula of Huludao is the most suitable for implementation.
The location of the landing battle.
After determining this direction, Mu Dafu not only transferred all the defense forces around Huludao Port to the frontline fortification in the wilderness, but also strengthened the last infantry squadron in his hand to this direction. He also painstakingly searched and brought the last
Three mountain guns, two 92 infantry guns, and two 50mm anti-tank guns were also strengthened in this direction.
The only five mountain guns, nine 92 infantry guns, and two 120mm mortars were secretly transferred from the forward positions and deployed on the front line in the wilderness. These artillery units were already the main force of the artillery force.
After the Huludao Japanese army was defeated, the last bit of artillery power was left.
After he secretly mobilized the frontline artillery to return reinforcements, at this moment, on the frontline at the northern end of Huludao, except for a few Type 1 rapid-fire guns, two 50mm anti-tank guns, and a few mortars, there was almost no artillery.
Strength. In order to avoid the situation of being attacked from both sides, Colonel Mu Dafu could only choose to drink poison to quench his thirst.