And Colonel Mu Dafu spent so much effort that he even took the risk of weakening the firepower distribution on the front line. In addition to stopping the possible landing actions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he also had an idea that has always existed. That is to try his best to
Through this anti-landing operation, we will fight against that damned small fleet.
There is also the former Manchurian Imperial Maritime Police Force that betrayed the Kwantung Army and used the ships built by the empire to help them. Now it is helping the anti-Japanese elements to attack the Kwantung Army. Inflict heavy damage as much as possible to solve the most critical maritime transportation problem in the current defense of Huludao.
.Even reopening the retreat channel for the remaining troops in Huludao.
Colonel Mu Dafu firmly believed that the small but annoying fleet of the Anti-Alliance and its air superiority were the real reasons that prevented the Kwantung Army from supporting him. Although he did not have the air power of the Anti-Alliance.
There is no way to deal with it, but he believes that as long as he destroys this hateful little fleet and reopens a sea channel, he can at least obtain a certain amount of food supplies, which can at least alleviate his urgent needs.
At this time, Colonel Mu Dafu still had certain concerns in his heart. But since he no longer had any mobile troops in his hands, he had no choice but to gamble as much as possible on the possible landing site of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
, chose south of the Great Wasteland.
Although he knew that the Kwantung Army and the Fourth Army he belonged to had no hope of rescuing him. As the current supreme commander of the Fourth Army in Huludao, Colonel Mu Dafu was doing his best.
I still hope that the Kwantung Army can lend a hand at this time.
Although the Navy almost lost all its capital in the just-concluded Battle of Leyte Gulf, there are still some ships on the mainland after all. Of course, most of these ships are almost unable to move due to a serious lack of fuel. But
After all, the navy still has some capital, and the remaining strength of the Fourth Army left in Huludao does not mean that there is no hope of rescue.
As long as that hateful little fleet can be destroyed, the Kwantung Army can at least transport some food supplies to the Huludao garrison that is about to collapse by sea. But the first problem in obtaining rescue is to be able to persist. Otherwise
If he can't hold on, even if the Kwantung Army wants to rescue him, it will be unable to do anything. Mu Dafu still understands this very clearly.
But now the defenders of Huludao are facing more and more fierce attacks from the Anti-Japanese Alliance. More importantly, food is now extremely scarce. The troops who stayed and persisted, including him, the highest temporary commander, are
Inside, each person can only be equipped with four taels of food per day.
Such a small amount of food inventory is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain because the food warehouses were destroyed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance bombers. The serious food problem faced by the entire army has also forced Colonel Mu Dafu to think about it to a certain extent.
This is not a gamble. If he doesn't think of a way to deal with the small fleet of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and open up communication with the outside world, his remaining troops will really not be able to survive.
Huludao is a peninsula with a small area and mainly hilly areas. This terrain is certainly conducive to defense, but there are also disadvantages to it. This small peninsula itself is not a food producing area. The people here are mainly fishermen, and they have always been
They make a living by fishing and do not farm. The food they need daily is supplied by Jinzhou and Jinxi areas in the north.
At the same time, the entire Huludao itself, except for some fishermen, is not a densely populated area at all. Although the Fourth Army tried its best after withdrawing to Huludao, it almost dug into the ground to recruit soldiers everywhere. But what could be collected
Food is still quite limited, not even enough for a single Fourth Army headquarters to use for three days.
After losing Northern Manchuria, in order to plunder as much resources as possible in Southern Manchuria and ensure the entire strategic needs of the Japanese army, the Kwantung Army had already begun to implement a food rationing system in Southern Manchuria. The Chinese in Southern Manchuria were only supplied with one and a half kilograms of sorghum rice every day.
No one in each household is allowed to keep grain.
Even farmers, including farmers, must turn in all the grain produced every year. Even seed grains must be collected from the Japanese Control Association during spring plowing. In addition to my monthly cooperation, one pound
No food was allowed to be stored. As for strategic materials such as soybean oil, ordinary people could not even see them. All soybeans were shipped back to the mainland by the Japanese.
In order to search for strategic materials such as grain, the Kwantung Army scraped the ground in southern Manchuria. However, they did not expect that when the Japanese army needed it, they would lift a rock and hit it on their own feet. The entire gourd
The island, a small peninsula, is dominated by fishermen and is a non-agricultural area.
Moreover, since it is close to the coast, the number of residents is really small. Under the strict rationing system implemented by the Kwantung Army, the common people had no food in their hands. After the Japanese troops withdrew to Huludao, even if they dug three feet into the ground, they would not be able to survive.
Not much food was looted.
In fact, as one of the most important ports for the Japanese army in the entire southern Manchuria, besides Dalian and Lushun, it was also the port where the Japanese army plundered the resources of western Liaoning, especially the mineral resources in Jinxi, Chaoyang, and Fuxin areas, as well as the entire grain export port of western Liaoning.
There is quite a lot of grain stored in several warehouses at the port.
But before the Battle of Huludao officially started, the anti-alliance bombers chasing the retreating troops of the Fourth Army directly regarded various Japanese warehouses in the port as their first targets. Tens of thousands of tons of them were originally reserved for transfer to Japan.
Several grain warehouses have become the first choice targets.
When the main force of the Fourth Army braved indiscriminate bombing by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, abandoned the corpses and wounded along the way, and most of the heavy weapons and equipment, and struggled to withdraw to Huludao, nothing but the constant falling bombs greeted them.
In addition, there are several large warehouses filled with tens of thousands of tons of grain and other materials burning in the port. There are more than a dozen grain and material storage warehouses in the entire Huludao port, and only one is built in a cave.
Library survived.
But the only remaining warehouse is unfortunate. Most of the grain was transferred to the Korean army just before the war. The remaining grain in it is not eaten by the Japanese, except for the sorghum rice used as feed for the military horses. The entire quantity is
Altogether, it only amounts to less than twenty tons.
Most of the original grain storage warehouses were destroyed. After the Fourth Army withdrew to Huludao, except for a small amount of Japanese-style field food, the rest of the supplies were lost as the Anti-Alliance aircraft chased and bombed them all the way.
They were all lost. And because they retreated from Jinzhou in a hurry, they didn’t bring much food with them, so basically everything was lost.
During the retreat, the Fourth Army was chased and bombed by Anti-Japanese planes. It had two attached heavy artillery regiments and an independent field heavy artillery brigade. All the artillery was either lost on the Yixian battlefield or was all lost in the retreat.
On the way. Although the artillery of the remaining divisions managed to retreat to Huludao, there were only a dozen field howitzers left.
Those dozen Type 91 howitzers and several Type 90 field guns, when the Yixian battlefield came to an end, Shojiro Iida, who was already thinking of retreating, retreated to Huludao in advance to strengthen Huludao's defense.
Strength. Used to ensure that this last escape route is preserved when needed.
As for the two Type 89 cannons and the four 150mm howitzers that appeared in Huludao in the Fourth Army, they were specifically requested by Qin Yanzaburang after learning that the Anti-Japanese Alliance was building its own fleet.
Fourth Army. To prevent the Anti-Japanese Alliance from landing from behind the Fourth Army, they were transferred to the Huludao battlefield and retained. If Qin Yansanlang hadn't insisted, I'm afraid these heavy artillery wouldn't have caused Wang Guangyu such a headache.
Because of its important position, the Fourth Army was equipped with artillery that occupied a quarter of the artillery directly under the Kwantung Army. Except for some mountain artillery, infantry artillery and mortars, only a dozen field artillery pieces of powerful artillery were withdrawn, and the rest were withdrawn.
Everything was either lost or blown up on the way back.
The Fourth Army, which was extremely hasty during its retreat and was chased and bombed by anti-Japanese aircraft from Jinzhou to Huludao along the way, even the most important weapons and equipment for the Japanese army were lost, not to mention those
It’s not important. Can we replenish food when we get to Huludao?
When they arrived at Huludao and saw the burning warehouse, the entire Fourth Army from Shojiro Iida to all the officers and soldiers below were dumbfounded. Except for a small amount of field food, all the supplies they carried had been thrown away. It turned out that
They thought they would save their heavy equipment and replenish their food supplies when they arrived at Huludao. But when the food reserves in Huludao reached the west, the Fourth Army realized that it was about to stop.
In order to persist as long as possible and solve the problem of serious food shortage, when the Fourth Army withdrew to Huludao, it even went so far as to kill the officers and the horses pulling the artillery, and significantly reduced the supply standards of the Japanese army before it could barely persist.
Wait until the navy slowly mobilizes ships to retreat.
Although the main force of the Fourth Army withdrew, the supply pressure on the island was suddenly reduced a lot. However, the more than 20,000 troops of the Fourth Army only persisted in Huludao for three days and had basically reduced the original small grain reserves.
Consuming the embers. The main force of the army has now gone to the Bohai Dragon King as a guest, but there is not much food left on Huludao. Colonel Mu Dafu is currently facing the embarrassing situation of no reinforcements from outside and no food at home.
Although before the main force of the army evacuated, he left a large amount of ammunition for him in order to lighten his equipment, and threw away all the remaining artillery pieces from infantry guns and above to him. The ammunition may be able to feed the weapons, but bullets and artillery shells cannot be used as food.
, cannons and machine guns cannot be eaten as rice.
Colonel Mu Dafu knew that if he didn't think of a way to replenish food, he would starve to death during this battle. If he wanted to continue to persevere, he had to solve the problem of eating first. This was even more important than how many lines of defense the enemy had to break through.
Therefore, Colonel Mu Dafu decided to take a gamble.
This is a double-edged sword. You can take advantage of the enemy's attempt to land behind your back to destroy the enemy's small fleet. If you win the bet, you can open up the sea route, allowing the Kwantung Army to at least supplement itself with some food.
.If you lose the bet, you will have nothing.
So this man tried his best to take a gamble on Colonel Mu Dafu and mobilized all the artillery that could be mobilized. He even secretly mobilized all the mountain artillery from the front line. Indeed, several of his main artillery positions were destroyed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The naval guns were knocked out. The rest of the artillery was basically lost on the way to retreat.
Before the main force of the army withdrew, the general had left behind all the firepower above the infantry artillery. Therefore, although the large-caliber artillery and the Type 91 howitzer group were knocked out, the field artillery group was also completely destroyed. But now in his hands,
There are also more than twenty mountain guns, infantry guns and mortars, as well as seventeen 50mm anti-tank guns and Type 1 rapid-fire guns.
In order to bet on this, Mu Dafu transferred all the remaining artillery except for a few rapid-fire guns at the front. Although there was a lack of armor-piercing ammunition, he still believed that high-explosive grenades were enough for these gunboats. Anyway, for him
Say, there may be hope if you give it a try. But if you don’t give it a try, there will be no hope at all.