Three hundred and twentieth chapters The way out is not necessarily the way out
Although Wang Xiaoming's reaction speed was definitely not slow, the determination and speed of the main retreat of the Third Army still exceeded Wang Xiaoming's judgment. Lieutenant General Zhongshan Dun had already made certain preparations, and although the retreat seemed a bit hasty, in the overall action
On the other hand, he was panicked but not confused.
Although they were under tremendous pressure from the Anti-Japanese Alliance, all the Japanese troops under the Third Army did not retreat eastward in a swarm. Instead, they took alternate cover, and used the strength of two brigades, plus all the artillery that could not be carried, to
Strengthen the troops to various key points in the north and south directions of Fengcheng, and fully cover the retreat of the main force of the Third Army.
The seventh detour organized by Wang Xiaoming, although further east, still encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army on the front line north of Fengcheng, and was unable to break through the Japanese defense line. It was blocked by a Japanese brigade equipped with super-equipped artillery.
Between Badao River and Cao River.
The Japanese army's accurate and fierce crossfire in the area north of Fengcheng completely blocked every offensive route of the outflanking troops. Even though the outflanking troops kept changing their positions, facing the Japanese army that occupied all the terrain advantages, the tenacious
Resistance continues to be slow.
This is not the shallow mountainous area in the east of Kaiyuan, but the extension of the Changbai Mountainous Area towards the Liaodong area. It is not just as simple as high mountains and dense forests, the terrain is complex and changeable, and the mountains are also very steep. The most important thing is that because of the sparse population, many places are
There are not even the simplest mountain roads.
In later generations, this area was a good place for adventurers and a famous tourist area. However, it was too steep for a battlefield. Before the Japanese army retreated from Kuandian, in order to prevent the pursuit of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, they bombed
It refers to the Shuifeng Hydropower Station built on the Yalu River, located in the auxiliary dam of Beijie in Kuandian.
This auxiliary dam was a flood discharge channel built by the Japanese for the largest man-made lake in Asia to ensure the safety of the power station when they built the Shuifeng Hydropower Station in 1937. Kuandian is the center of heavy rains in the entire Northeast. Although it rains every summer,
It only lasts for one month, but the rainfall is quite heavy. The average annual precipitation is about 1,000 to 2,000 millimeters.
The mountainous terrain is also in a rainy zone, so the Japanese built a auxiliary dam for flood discharge facing the direction of China to ensure the safety of the power station. Although Kuandian has entered winter, the entire water is abundant.
Because the power station is generating electricity, the water surface in the entire reservoir area has not yet frozen.
Moreover, before blowing up the auxiliary dam, the Kwantung Army shut down the entire power station and stopped all water discharges in order to store as much water as possible. The Kwantung Army blew up the auxiliary dam at this time, not only giving the Chinese people along the reservoir area
It caused great losses to the people and created an artificial flood in front of Wang Xiaoming's outflanking troops.
Fortunately, at this time, the rainy season in Kuandian has passed and the long winter has begun. Although the entire Shuifeng Reservoir has not started to freeze, the storage capacity of the entire reservoir is far from its peak. This artificial area created by the Kwantung Army
Floods, although the Kwantung Army had closed the power station to store water before the war, the amount of water in winter was far from comparable to that in summer.
The Kwantung Army blew up the auxiliary dam, and the artificially created flooding area was not too large. But the problem was that although the flooding area was not large, Wang Xiaoming's detour troops could only operate west of Kuandian County. Not only were they unable to directly attack
Fengcheng was interspersed, and the area of attack seemed too narrow. Almost all attack routes were exposed to Japanese artillery fire, which was also the main reason for the poor progress of the attack.
On the contrary, Tao Jingfei's division on the southern line, which he invested in the direction of Fengcheng, made great progress. It successively captured the two strategic points of Gaolizhai and Hadaling, and approached the direction of Fengcheng from the south. However, the two main divisions were approaching Fengcheng.
Tao Jingfei, who was attacking Andong along the Xiuyan-Andong highway with all his strength, invested one division in the direction of Fengcheng, which was obviously insufficient.
After capturing the Hadaling line, the follow-up attack in the direction of Fengcheng was stubbornly blocked by the Japanese army at the last barrier south of Fengcheng, the line from the western foot of Fenghuang Mountain to Jiguan Mountain. The first part of the Japanese army south of Fengcheng relied on the southern part of Fengcheng.
The steep terrain of Phoenix Mountain and Jiguan Mountain firmly blocked Tao Jingfei's division in an area only a few kilometers away from Fengcheng.
Although the unit made many attacks regardless of casualties, it was unable to achieve a breakthrough because the terrain was too steep. Especially at the western foot of Fenghuang Mountain and the front of Jiguan Mountain, the mountains were too steep, making the offensive operations extremely difficult. The north and south battlefields of Fengcheng
As well as the stubborn resistance of the Japanese troops on the Andong battlefield, a gap of more than ten kilometers wide was reserved between Caohe and Fenghuang Mountain for the main force of the Third Army to break out.
Lieutenant General Zhongshan Dun took advantage of this gap of more than ten kilometers that could not be completely closed, and organized his troops to retreat eastward desperately. However, the anti-union pursuit troops behind them were left behind.
It is entangled in the high mountains along the Anfeng Railway.
Wang Xiaoming organized multiple pursuits and intercepted a large number of retreating Japanese troops. However, because the terrain was too complicated, the Japanese retreated quite suddenly. At the same time, the front-line combat troops were too entangled with the Japanese troops who were left behind to cover. Follow-up reinforcements
The troops have not yet arrived, resulting in insufficient use of troops.
Most of the Japanese troops west of Fengcheng still rushed along the mountainous area north of the Anfeng Railway, towards the gap where the encirclement could not be completed. The entire Anfeng Railway from Lianshanguan to Fengcheng was everywhere.
During the fierce battle, Wang Xiaoming's pursuit and interception failed due to various reasons. In particular, the outflanking troops on the eastern front were unable to complete the blockade of the last ten kilometers of the encirclement circle.
Just as Wang Xiaoming was concentrating his forces to pursue and intercept the Third Army, Tao Jingfei's two main divisions, which were directly inserted into Andong to the south, also encountered an independent mixed brigade reinforced by the North Korean army outside Andong.
The fortresses outside Anton took the lead, and fierce battles began across the entire front.
This independent mixed brigade encountered Tao Jingfei's main two divisions, together with the Japanese troops including the surrounding guard troops of the Kwantung Army Headquarters. In order to cover the Kwantung Army Headquarters behind them and secure the last channel for the main force of the Third Army to retreat, regardless of casualties,
A fierce battle began with Tao Jingfei's men.
After receiving Wang Xiaoming's report, Yang Zhen immediately ordered the entire battlefield in South Manchuria. At this time, except for one fighter jet that stayed at several airports in Dalian, Anshan, and Shenyang to serve as air defense cover, almost all combat aircraft groups had been mobilized.
All aviation forces heading to the Liaodong battlefield were dispatched to deal the most severe blow to the Third Army's retreat.
At the same time, he ordered Wang Xiaoming and Tao Jingfei's division on the southern line of Fengcheng to immediately organize long-range artillery fire, especially the 1, 2 and 2 rocket launchers, with the full cooperation of the aviation force, when they were still unable to block the last gap in the direction of Fengcheng and complete the final encirclement.
Next, a fire blockade was implemented on this gap to replace the encirclement circle that could never be completed.
After giving the order to the aviation force and Wang Xiaoming, Yang Zhen looked at the gap that was more than ten kilometers wide east of Fengcheng on the map and had never been completely closed. Yang Zhen smiled faintly. In many cases, the gap does not mean that there is a way out.
, what seems like a way out may not actually be a way out.
This other kind of tactic of surrounding three and attacking one may not be a good choice for the current two clusters in the north and south of the Liaodong battlefield. When the progress is not smooth in the final stage, it may be a good choice. Although it will consume more ammunition, the overall
The price/performance ratio is still acceptable.
Anyway, except for the Xinmin Battlefield, these aviation units are no longer needed in other battlefields that have basically ended. Even in the Xinmin Battlefield, which is now coming to an end, the role of aviation units can be completely replaced by artillery. Now these aviation units are idle.
, you can just take advantage of this opportunity to practice this kind of aerial fire pursuit tactic.
After receiving Yang Zhen's order, the aviation units transferred to the Liaodong battlefield did not dare to delay at all. The entire combat area was divided according to the combat range of the participating aircraft. The Il-II had a short range and a small bomb load.
Attack aircraft and British-made Blenheim light bombers cooperated with the ground pursuit forces to launch pursuit and bombing across the board on the retreat sequence of various units of the Kwantung Army's Third Army.
The B-25 bomber group and the A-20 attack group, which had a large bomb load and slightly longer range, were concentrated. They even dispatched the last squadron of the Anti-Japanese Alliance equipped with Il-4 bombers and a gunship squadron to attack the east of Fengcheng.
Implement carpet bombing at the gaps.
In conjunction with Wang Xiaoming's ground artillery fire, the sea of fire tactics were adopted to completely seal the gap. In order to maintain sufficient firepower density at the gap, even the fighter group responsible for air cover in Liaodong, mainly P-40 fighter jets, all mounted bombs to participate.
Under attack.
The anti-alliance attack planes and bomber groups dispatched in full force continued to pour bombs, napalm, rockets, and ammunition from airborne machine guns and artillery onto the head of the rapidly retreating Third Army. To the east of Fengcheng,
At the gap where the final blockade could not be completed, the resistance bomber group cooperated with Wang Xiaoming's 122 rocket launcher group to build a dense fire net.
The retreating troops of the Third Army faced Wang Xiaoming's all-out pursuit on the ground, and the long-range firepower on the ground continued to kill them. But for the various units of the Third Army that retreated with all their strength, the more threatening thing was the attack from the air.
Pieces of high-explosive bombs and napalm bombs, as well as dense rockets and artillery ammunition, formed a web of fire on the heads of the Japanese troops.
Although the Third Army threw away all the materials it could, including all kinds of equipment, when it retreated. It was as lightly equipped as possible and fled eastward as fast as possible, but it still suffered heavy casualties from the Anti-Alliance aviation bombs along the way.
.The retreat route of the Third Army was littered with corpses of Japanese soldiers killed by air strikes.
However, although it suffered heavy losses under the firepower of the Anti-Alliance Air Force, the Third Army, which was afraid of being pursued by the enemy and completely eaten by the enemy, retreated and retreated, but it still did not dare to stay for a while, let alone wait until night to take action.
. They would rather brave the intensive air strikes of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and force a retreat than dare to find a hidden area to escape. This is almost an endless air strike.
At the same time, under the strict supervision of Wang Xiaoming, the pursuit troops of various departments of the Anti-Japanese Alliance continued to adopt shallow and deep pursuit tactics, regardless of the Japanese obstruction, and also continued to tear off pieces of flesh from the third army. The line from Lianshanguan to Fengcheng was only eight meters long.
In a journey of more than ten kilometers, the Third Army lost half of its strength.
But before the Third Army, which had finally struggled to retreat to Fengcheng under the repeated urging of Lieutenant General Zhongshan Dun, its divisions and brigades breathed a sigh of relief. However, they were shocked to find the anti-union encirclement in front of them.
The gap was not so easy to pass under the cross fire network composed of the Anti-Alliance aircraft in the sky and the Anti-Alliance long-range artillery fire on the two wings on the ground. It could even be said that it could not be called a gap at all.
When the various units of the Third Army tried to retreat towards Anton through the gap, they found that the gap was simply like hell. Waves of anti-alliance bomber groups, as if bombs were free of charge, dropped tons of