On the morning of November 30, the Ming Army Marine Corps Assault Battalion occupied Liandao and Yuntai Mountain and cleared the port area. At noon, six 3,000-ton troop carriers entered the port and directly took down the first Marine Corps on the dock.
The division was transported ashore. At the same time, 26 transport ships took turns to dock at the dock to unload the division's logistics supplies, vehicles, tanks, artillery and other heavy equipment.
However, this takes time. Getting a ship of heavy supplies to the dock is not as fast as getting a boat of people to the dock. And now the war situation is fleeting, and every second counts, and not a second can be delayed. On the afternoon of the 30th, the Navy
The 1st Marine Division established a division headquarters in the port area and requisitioned all locomotives and wagons in the port.
With only light weapons, light artillery, and a few vehicles, officers and soldiers of the 1st Marine Division rode on a train, played flutes, waved to the welcoming port area citizens along the railway lines, and headed for the southeast inland.
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The main urban area of Haizhou is divided into two parts. One is the port area. The commanding height of the port area is Yuntai Mountain, which has been captured now. The other urban area is Xinpu District. The commanding point of Xinpu District is Huaguo Mountain. Huaguo Mountain
The height and area of the mountain are similar to that of Yuntai Mountain, both are more than 100 square kilometers, with an altitude of several hundred meters.
However, the defense of Huaguo Mountain is obviously far inferior to that of Yuntai Mountain and Liandao. Yuntai Mountain and Liandao have large-scale permanent coastal defense fortifications, but there are none on Huaguo Mountain. Huaguo Mountain has always been a tourist attraction.
The army has only recently built some civil engineering works on it.
The temporary fortifications of sandbags are just some machine guns, mortars, and small mountain cannons. It's not that the heavy equipment cannot be transported, it's mainly that the defense is rushed and there is no time to build a place to place the heavy artillery. Unlike machine guns and mortars, which can be found at will
Can be placed anywhere.
A regiment of the vanguard took a train of about 20 wagons. They first ran southwest for about eight kilometers and drove to the foot of the northwest side of Huaguo Mountain. They stopped at the Empress Temple and did not dare to drive forward rashly. Although it went smoothly.
If we keep driving along the railway, we can bypass Huaguo Mountain and go straight to Xinpu City. We have a good chance of occupying Haizhou before the army. However, the commander of the 1st Marine Division still did not take this risk.
Before they could control such a large area of commanding heights in Huaguo Mountain, more than a thousand people took a train and detoured for more than ten kilometers from the foot of the mountain. It was too dangerous. If the Qing army had planted explosives somewhere and waited for the train to detonate when it passed by,
If there's another ambush, the entire vanguard might be wiped out.
The vanguard stopped at the Niangniang Temple in the northwest corner of Huaguo Mountain. More than a thousand people jumped off the train and began to climb the mountain to seize the commanding heights along the railway line.
Just a few minutes after going up the mountain, there was intensive gunfire and roaring mortars from the front - as expected, there was an ambush by the Qing army here. The reconnaissance company exchanged fire with the opponent.
A regiment of the Ming Army immediately dispersed and moved towards the mountain from different directions. The reconnaissance company at the front lay down in the woods while concealing themselves, setting up machine guns and mortars, and responded on the spot, also conducting fire reconnaissance.
After a firefight, the reconnaissance company roughly figured out the locations of several major firepower points on the hillside. The opposite side should be just a small unit of the Qing army, about two companies, and it might be that the train was bombed here. The other side only had two machine gun points.
, two mortars. With such a small amount of power, the Ming Army Marine Corps did not take it seriously, and felt that there was no need to call for air support, so they decided to eat it conveniently.
A marine battalion of the Ming Army immediately launched a fierce attack, bringing in two 80mm mortars, three 60mm mortars, and six Woodpecker machine guns, which immediately formed an overwhelming firepower. The mortar shells whizzed over and hit the hillside above.
Flowers bloomed everywhere, shrubs and twigs and leaves kept flying into the sky, and debris from the soil and rocks flew everywhere like shrapnel.
Within a few minutes, the opponent's two heavy machine guns and two mortars were silenced one after another. Hundreds of Marines, hunched over and holding submachine guns, surrounded them from all directions. For a time, there was the sound of rifles, submachine guns, and grenades exploding.
scream
The sound and shouting were mixed together. Fifteen minutes later, the battle ended. More than a hundred Qing prisoners raised their hands or carried the wounded down the mountain in embarrassment. After counting, more than fifty Qing soldiers were killed in this small battle.
The Ming army lost 21 people.
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With the first battle at the Empress Temple, the battle to capture Huaguo Mountain began.
The Battle of Huaguo Mountain was composed of a series of similar small battles. The Ming army changed its tactics. In the past, when attacking similar targets, they would first encircle them on all sides and then focus on annihilation. Now the Ming army adopts the tactic of "siege must be completed"
, use a division of troops to surround Huaguoshan on three sides, and then gradually attack inward from the north, east, and south, squeezing one hilltop after another.
The Qing army had a retreat but was in danger of being encircled at any time. They had no intention of holding on hard. They fought a few times on each hilltop and then retreated in a hurry. They always wanted to retreat with the whole army and avoid the danger of being surrounded.
They were surrounded and annihilated. As a result, the Ming army gradually occupied Huaguo Mountain with minimal casualties and the fastest speed.
By around seven o'clock in the evening on the 30th, the main force of the Qing army on Huaguo Mountain, about a brigade of troops, was basically driven to the southeastern plains and joined the main defense force of the Central Plains Corps.
At this time, the People's Guard had advanced to four kilometers southwest of Xinpu City.
To the north, the Third Armored Division is attacking Jinping Mountain. Jinping Mountain is a commanding height in the southwest of Xinpu City, covering an area of about ten square kilometers and more than 400 meters above sea level. Once the Fifth Armored Division captures Jinping Mountain, it will be equal to
Even if we capture Sinpo, we will capture half of Haeju.
To the east, the Fourth Armored Division and five Army Motorized Infantry Divisions were advancing toward the sea, tearing apart and dividing a large section of the easternmost end of the Qing army's defense line, threatening to drive them into the sea.
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At 8 o'clock in the evening, the commanding heights of Jinping Mountain were captured, and the 3rd Armored Division marched straight into the city of Xinpu, and Xinpu was recovered. At the same time, the Ming army-occupied area in the south was connected with the Haizhou theater, completely surrounding the 80,000 Qing troops east of Xinpu.
Between Zhou and Guanyun, there are areas occupied by the Ming army in the south, north and west, and there is only the sea to the east.
From the evening of November 30 to the early morning of December 1, the Ming Army's People's Guard, Army, and Marine Corps advanced from three directions and completely occupied the entire Haizhou area. Haizhou was recovered.
At the same time, the southern encirclement was not idle all night. The Gaza leaflets were bombed continuously at night, and the surrounding areas continued to advance, narrowing the encirclement. In the early morning of December 1, the remaining 70,000 Qing troops in the encirclement finally surrendered.
At this point, the Battle of Haizhou came to an end. The Ming army completely gnawed the southeast corner of the Central Plains Corps, occupied the first port city since the war began, and won a seaport that directly transported the front line. At the same time, it also opened the way to Shandong in the north and Shandong in the west.
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