At seven o'clock in the morning on November 3, the sun was still sleeping behind the clouds, and the mist blowing from the Sea of Japan shrouded the mountains far and near. ""
Through the mist, people can clearly see the mountains, jungles and the stretching barbed wire fences in the canyons in the distance, as well as the criss-crossing anti-tank ditches and trenches.
Among these stretching trenches, every two to three hundred meters, you can see a plaster flag fluttering in the wind, proving that the defense line here is still in the hands of the Japanese army.
In the stream that flows beside the position at the bottom of the valley, there are layers of corpses lying on top of each other, with bulging bellies lying in the water. The air is filled with the stench of dead corpses. These are all the things that have been intermittent in the Anjia Army position opposite in the past few days.
The consequences of continuous bombardment.
According to reports from the Japanese military intelligence department, this is not the normal state of the Anjia Army artillery. It is estimated that there is a problem with its ammunition supply. However, even such sparse shelling is still very deadly. No matter day or night, the team that collects corpses is often killed as soon as they go out.
The other party found out that a dense barrage of artillery shells were coming at them as if they were free of charge. The corpse collection team was immediately reimbursed. After losing the lives of hundreds of people in a row, the superiors simply ignored it in the end.
Although it is already November and the temperature is not too high, the corpses will inevitably rot and deteriorate after being laid out for several days. Therefore, the Japanese soldiers who stick to the defense line at the bottom of the valley live in such a smelly environment.
The officers and soldiers all hoped to be transferred to the mountains on both sides, but unfortunately not many people had the backing to realize their wish. Due to the permeable smell of corpses, most of them suffered from various diseases.
Fortunately, there are many clear springs and wells in the nearby mountains, otherwise we would not be able to find a place to drink water.
In the trenches at the bottom of the valley and on the mountains on both sides, thousands of bayonets emitted countless little bits of cold light. In the damp and dark trenches and mountain bunkers, as the cooks delivered food, Japanese soldiers and soldiers with sticks picked up their lunch boxes.
, eating Korean kimchi in the lid of the lunch box, and drinking wild vegetable porridge so thin that the silhouette of a human figure can be seen.
In the Japanese army's retreat plan, food was the priority to be shipped, leaving very little food for the blocking troops. As the retreat of personnel at various ports accelerated in the past few days, the food supplies of the frontline units that had lost their rear transportation were basically exhausted.
If the confrontation continues, there may not be rice in the gruel next time, but only wild vegetables.
The Japanese soldiers were drinking wild vegetable porridge while listening to the speech of North Korean Governor Koiso Kuniaki coming from the battlefield loudspeaker. Koiso Kuniaki had already retreated to Kitakyushu. At this moment, he was speaking to the Japanese troops in North Korea through wireless broadcasts. The front line
The command headquarters receives the message through the radio, and then transmits the speech through the microphone and wires to the large loudspeakers arranged at the forward position for the frontline officers and soldiers to listen to and boost morale.
"... Imperial Warriors, since July, we have suffered sneak attacks from the abominable South China Army. They took advantage of our main force being outside to shamelessly invade Manchuria, the Far East, the Northern Branch and other places, and then later
The flames of war have spread to the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Peninsula is an important territory of the empire. After more than 40 years of transformation, the people here have long become the most loyal servants of His Majesty the Emperor. The enemy’s purpose is to invade our land and enslave us.
people!
"Originally, we should fight to the end and never retreat, but the main force of the imperial army is fighting in America at this time, teaching the white people a lesson for the glory of the yellow people. If we do not carry out the transfer and perish together with the enemy on the peninsula, then we will not have enough power.
To ensure the success of the empire's next strategy, His Majesty the Emperor and the commanders of the base camp endured the heart-wrenching pain and issued the order for all personnel to move in!
"But how can we ensure that we send most of the people and wealth to a safe place? Then we need a heroic force to block the enemy's attack. My dearest officers and soldiers in the church, you are fighting bravely on the front line,
Miraculously, you withstood the attack of the South China Army, which was several times yours. I am proud of your performance!
"Now, the transition of the empire is coming to an end. As long as you persist on the front line for another week, you can safely withdraw and return home to reunite with your relatives. I know it is very difficult for you now, but I believe you can overcome all dangers.
, block the enemy in front of your position...The motherland and the people are watching you, His Majesty the Emperor is watching you, and you will definitely not disappoint their expectations..."
"It sounds nice, but who understands our pain? We haven't had enough to eat for several days!"
After finishing the porridge with wild vegetables, a Japanese soldier felt that his stomach was still flat. He turned his head and glanced at the empty porridge bucket, muttered, put down the neatly filled lunch box, stood up and stretched.
After sleeping in a damp bunker for a night, my whole body felt as uncomfortable as rust.
The stretched Japanese soldiers habitually stood in front of the earthen periscope made of wooden boards and broken lenses, looking out. What they saw was a wasteland dotted with withered and yellow weeds. The shelling in recent days, this
The place has been plowed almost all over, and the view is very broad.
The Japanese soldier didn't notice anything unusual. He returned to the fortification and sat down. He saw that many people around him were still swallowing slowly and slowly. He felt even hungrier, so he simply closed his eyes and rested his mind. At this moment,
He suddenly heard a strange sound in the air, and just when he opened his eyes, he exclaimed "enemy shelling", and then there was a violent explosion outside the bomb hole.
Continuous explosions came one after another, and the whole world seemed to be shaking violently with each violent explosion. Crushed earth and stones continued to fall into the fortification along the gaps between the logs on the top of the fortification, causing many people to have their lunch boxes filled with food.
Covered with dust.
Since the Anjia Army's shelling had become a routine, no Japanese paid much attention. They hurriedly finished their meal, then huddled up and lowered their heads in the dusty fortifications, waiting patiently for the shelling to stop.
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"put--"
As the flags continued to rise and fall, at the forward artillery position eight kilometers east of Jinquan City, hundreds of howitzers and mortar barrels continued to spit out black smoke and orange flames, hovering in the sky.
The reconnaissance aircraft constantly adjusted the target position for the artillery through radio.
After hoarding artillery shells for nearly two weeks, each department now has sufficient ammunition reserves. During this period, the artillerymen fired a few shots and then stopped. One by one, they were all exhausted. Today, they can open up and fire. It is like taking stimulants, and they continue to fire.
The cannonballs are fired according to the adjusted shooting parameters.
Because the cannon fire was so fast, many gun barrels were red, and the officers and soldiers had to stop to take a breath and rest.
The loaders, who had received strict training and were tall and strong, after firing dozens of rounds in a row, their arms were so sore that they could not straighten them, so they had to be temporarily replaced to rest, but they did not feel bitter or tired.
Everyone is in an extremely happy mood.
After dozens of consecutive rounds of shells were fired, all the gun emplacements were surrounded by empty shells and boxes, which were piled up like hills. The Holy Cathedral
At around 8:30, the sun burst out and quickly dispersed the mist shrouding the mountains. Now the artillerymen could see with their own eyes the situation on the Japanese positions in the distance. As long as there was smoke and dust fired from the artillery positions here, they could be seen several kilometers away.
The Japanese position outside quickly fell into flames and smoke.
The north wind blowing from Siberia brought a hint of coolness, blowing away the smoke on the Japanese army's position. Large swaths of gunpowder smoke went straight into the sky and quickly connected into one, forming a thick gray-black smoke screen from the sky to the ground over the position.
, covering all the Japanese positions, the scene was grand and spectacular.
The preparations for the first round of artillery fire were over, and all the gunners were completely blackened by the shell smoke. Except for their teeth, which were white, there were two eyes that retained their original color due to the opening and closing of the eyelids, almost turning into black people.
Seeing each other's embarrassment, the gunners pointed at each other's faces and burst out laughing. At this time, the trucks pulling the shells drove to each gun position. The gunners and loaders quickly took their positions, and the second round of extended shelling began immediately.
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Due to terrain restrictions, tanks and armored vehicles were unable to deploy in this line, and the attack could only be launched by infantry, with the air force and army aviation units cooperating in the operation.
The Japanese army was very surprised when they heard the intensive shelling sounded again. This kind of continuous shelling had never happened before. So one by one they hurried to the periscope to observe carefully. Through the thick smoke, they were horrified to find a group of people appeared in front of the position.
A large camouflage-colored skirmisher line - after more than ten days of silence, the Anjia Army's attack launched again!
The Japanese and the stick soldiers immediately screamed, took the Type 38 rifles with bayonets from the gun racks, rushed out, came to the position, and shot at the attacking Anjia officers and soldiers.
Under the cover of artillery fire and light and heavy machine guns from the rear, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Anjia Army, armed with automatic rifles, submachine guns or general-purpose machine guns, shouted slogans and advanced towards the Japanese forward positions on the mountain.
For the attacker, it is useless to capture the position at the bottom of the canyon. The firepower on the mountain ridges on both sides will tear the troops passing through the bottom into pieces. Therefore, the Anjia army's strategy today is to bloom on both wings and capture the high ground on both sides.
Finally, you can deal with the enemies in the middle, and then you won’t need to spend much effort.
"kill!"
Looking at the Anjia officers and soldiers who were charging forward shouting slogans, the Japanese artillery hidden in the mountain bunker began to fire violently. In just one minute, hundreds of artillery shells fell into the charging lines of camouflage skirmishers, hundreds of
A white smoke cloud, black smoke clouds with orange-red fireworks, rose high into the air. The entire skirmisher line was instantly enveloped by the smoke raised by the artillery shells. Countless limbs and broken arms were thrown into the smoke clouds.
At a height of tens of meters, the waves that were originally rushing in like waves were stopped as the dense rain of bullets fell.
However, this pause only lasted a short moment, and then quickly resumed. Countless Anjia officers and soldiers were still fighting towards the Japanese positions without fear of death.
The Anjia Army reconnaissance aircraft in the sky quickly recorded the location of the Japanese artillery fire, and immediately transmitted the shooting elements to the Anjia Army artillery position.
At this time, the 120mm and 150mm towed cannons equipped by the Anjia Army raised their muzzles one after another. Following the order, hundreds of heavy cannon shells flew towards the target at high speed.
Flames flying and rumbling sounds!
As the cannon shells directly penetrated the thick wall of the Japanese artillery bunker, the carefully constructed bunker of the Japanese army quickly disintegrated and rushed into the sky. The hot shrapnel raged crazily. In the violent shock wave, the Japanese artillery that was aiming and the nearby loading equipment were destroyed.
His hand was quickly killed by hot shrapnel.
However, direct cannon shells can only threaten the artillery positions from the front. The artillery positions arranged by the Japanese army on the reverse slope are still spitting out tongues of fire, causing huge casualties to our army.
"Buzz——"
Amidst the roar that resounded in the sky, more than 60 fighter planes flew over from the Yushan Cave in the northwest, quickly spread out in the air, and swooped down towards the Japanese artillery position. A series of aerial bombs were like fish laying eggs.
Falling between the Japanese artillery, in just a minute or two, the Japanese artillery position on the reverse slope was shrouded in the light of dense explosions.
The Japanese army had a deeply hidden air defense position. At this time, they finally couldn't bear it anymore. Sparks were shooting out from the mountains everywhere. Anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were constantly firing at the air. Projectiles of various calibers were shooting into the sky. Explosive clouds were flying in the sky.
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One B2 bomber was unable to evade and was hit in the engine while diving. It burst into flames and exploded immediately. Two more bombers were beaten and smoke erupted from their butts as they climbed. However, the Japanese air defense positions were also exposed.
In addition to being attacked by the Anjia Army's artillery group, the stimulated B2 bombers and Q1 attack aircraft risked their lives and began to bombard these air defense positions indiscriminately, using aerial bombs, rockets, machine gun shells and aviation machine gun bullets for free.
The ground was sprayed on the Japanese air defense positions.
After paying the heavy price of three more planes crashing and five being damaged and returning home, the smoke and clouds shooting into the sky finally fell silent. About forty air defense fire points were all eliminated by the Anjia Army's air-ground coordination.
When the air-to-ground battle was in full swing, the charging Anjia Army infantry was only one step away from the Japanese frontline. Unexpectedly, the condescending Japanese soldiers threw out dense grenades and caused hundreds of casualties to the Anjia Army soldiers.
They rushed out of the position and launched a countercharge towards the arrows of the Anjiajun assault troops.
The two waves of people collided head-on and quickly started a hand-to-hand combat.
The Japanese were condescending and had the advantage of the terrain, but the Anjia army had ferocious firepower. The Type-1 automatic rifle could not only carry out continuous short bursts of fire, but also had a unique triangular deep-groove spear, which was high in strength, good in puncture, and not easy to break, making it difficult to rely on bayonets.
The victorious Japanese army could not take any advantage.
The follow-up troops from both sides continued to collide with each other. Under the powerful close fire suppression of Anjiajun, the Japanese army finally could not resist and began to retreat.
Hundreds of mortars moved forward to block the bombardment at the rear of the Japanese army. Under the cover of general-purpose machine guns, the officers and soldiers successfully entered the Japanese army's forward trenches.
The Japanese machine gun fire points located on various hilltops fired desperately, and the dense firepower crisscrossed into a fire network, suppressing the officers and soldiers in the trenches. At the same time, waves of Japanese troops rushed down from the mountains, trying to regain their positions. The entire mountain range and
There was a cry of killing in the canyon.
The reconnaissance aircraft in the air once again locked the Japanese army's firepower. Soon hundreds of cannon shells exploded near the Japanese machine gun positions. The large-caliber shells overturned the Japanese bunkers almost immediately.
The machine guns on the surrounding mountains gradually went silent.
At the same time, the Japanese troops were positioned above their positions in the mountains, and grenades continued to fall. Deafening explosions sounded intensively. The charging Japanese soldiers and stick soldiers were blown to pieces, and countless Japanese soldiers died.
The continuous artillery fire suppressed the Japanese army's fierce counterattack, and the follow-up troops of the Anjia Army had already arrived, crossed the first position, and advanced in depth.
Another wave of aircraft flew in. This time it was a mixed formation of fighters, attack planes and bombers. There were more than 80 fighters. They kept circling in the sky. When they found where the Japanese troops were trying to mass a counterattack, they immediately dived down with cannons and aviation.
With heavy machine gun fire or long-distance strikes with rockets, the Japanese counterattacks were neutralized time and time again.
At this time, the helicopter group of the Anjia Army finally appeared. There were about forty armed helicopters, like tanks with wings. When they found the Japanese firepower, they immediately rushed over and greeted them with cannons and rockets. Many of the Japanese troops were well hidden.
There was a very deep machine gun bunker. Soon after the fire started, rockets were sent flying into the sky along with the bunker.
Some machine gun bunkers of the Japanese army were strategically located so that helicopters could not attack them. At this time, the rocket launchers and flamethrowers came into play. Anjia officers and soldiers first used rocket launchers to suppress the Japanese shooting, and then the flamethrowers quickly approached and fired at them.
At the entrance of the cave is a string of fire dragons spraying out.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the caves or tunnels where the Japanese soldiers were hiding were surrounded by flames. The burning napalm will send all enemies it comes into contact with to hell. The kind of flames that are like tarsal maggots will make people regret coming to this world.
superior.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the highlands northeast of Jinquan were the first to be conquered by the Anjia Army. Half an hour later, the southern highlands also fell under the control of the Anjia Army. After several counterattacks to no avail, the Japanese army had to retreat to the front line of Guoshidong in embarrassment. The Anjia army was depleted.
After fierce pursuit and relentless pursuit, the Japanese defense line was broken again before Guoshidong could hold out for two hours, and they had to retreat to Gumi City.
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A four-story building in the west of Jinquan City was the former enemy headquarters of the East Road Attack Group. Li Jinlong, who was on the front line in person, breathed a long sigh of relief after receiving a call from the front line.
Lieutenant General Chi Zongyuan, commander of the 13th Group Army, and Lieutenant General Fang Jide, commander of the 14th Group Army, who had been waiting at the headquarters for a long time, surrounded them.
Chi Zongyuan asked impatiently: "Did the front line break through?"
"Yes!"
Li Jinlong nodded happily and said: "The Second Army and the Ninth Army fought resolutely. Five divisions took over to attack, without giving the Japanese any chance to breathe. Now the general attack on Gumi City has been launched, and it is expected to be tonight at the latest."
You can take Gumi City and threaten Daegu!
"Now you go back immediately and order the troops to be ready to leave at any time. Once Gumi is taken from the front, the next step of the operation will be the responsibility of your two group armies! However, you must allocate half of the special forces of each division to me.
, sort through the mountains on both sides of the railway and highway, and resolutely destroy the Japanese army’s hidden military garrison points and tunnel entrances. Even if they cannot be destroyed, they must be reported to the headquarters in time, and we will send troops to deal with them!
"Remember, you must act resolutely and decisively. Don't give the Japanese troops any chance to drive them into the sea in one go!"
"yes!"
The two lieutenant generals saluted Li Jinlong solemnly and then walked out of the headquarters quickly.
In a relaxed mood, Li Jinlong came to the map and looked at the western front, wondering whether Quanzhou could be captured.
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