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It is definitely not only Liu Yongyao's Second Aviation Division who will be tested on February [-], [-]. On the front line of Huludao, there are more Chinese soldiers who will experience this war to defend the country. A test of life and death!

boom!boom!boom……

After bombarding the front line of Tashan indiscriminately for half an hour, the artillery group of the Japanese army finally extended its firepower to the rear. The transfer of the Kuomintang army's rear caused no small trouble.The reserve and artillery units in the rear could only rush to the designated area despite the shells falling from time to time, preparing for this longest day!

"Quick! Quick! We must get there before the tanks of the Japanese devils rush up! Don't worry about those shells, don't stop!"

The man who shouted loudly was named Shi Jue, a graduate of the third phase of the artillery department of Whampoa and the fourth phase of Lu University. He is currently the commander of the artillery battalion directly under the fourth division. His battalion has 37 civilian 100-style [-]mm Anti-war artillery.Because in this time and space, the Kuomintang army has always had the "most powerful" armored force in the world, and it is because others see their tanks that they have a headache, and they never need to worry about defending tanks, so these are attached to Division [-]. The first-level anti-war artillery battalion has never been used, and has always been known as the "safest" and "slowest promotion" unit.But this time, Japan actually wanted to wear it, and took out more than [-] tanks at one time to fight desperately. This time, the officers of these anti-aircraft battalions who were promoted very slowly, the officers of the three anti-aircraft battalions The battalion commander tried his best to urge him to rush to the front line, and he just ignored the falling Japanese artillery shells...

But at this moment, on this battlefield filled with the smell of pungent gunpowder smoke, there is also the complacent leader of Japan's First Tank Regiment, Maeda Toshiwei, the captain of the Japanese First Tank Regiment.Looking through the binoculars, Hou Ye was in a very good mood when he saw the battered Kuomintang army position that had been bombarded by heavy artillery.What made him even more happy was his more than 100 Type 89 medium tanks. Thanks to God Amaterasu, more than 80.00% of these broken tanks can start today!To be honest, Japan's machinery industry is really not very good at the moment... Compared with Southern China, which is "controlled" by the British, American and German imperialists, it is probably a lot worse.

Seeing that almost 89% of the tanks were activated, Maeda Houye stood on the roof of an armored vehicle in high spirits, raised his head and looked at the entire formation. All the Type 120 medium tanks that the Empire of Japan could gather were there. Here it is, a total of 99 four cars.Among them, there are 33 active vehicles, which are now divided into three rows, with 120 vehicles in each row, and the distance between each vehicle is five meters...all of them have been measured with a ruler.In addition, there are [-] wheeled armored vehicles (the quality of armored vehicles is better than that of tanks). There are also three rows behind the tanks, each with forty vehicles, and a large group of infantry is installed on these armored vehicles.

At this time, a messenger came to him on horseback: "Report sir, the Fourth Wing and No.16 Wing are ready, please issue an attack order!"

"Yaoxi! Let them start." Lord Maeda frowned slightly. To be honest, he was firmly opposed to the tactic of letting the infantry lead the tanks. The whole world had never heard of this tactic.But the gang of misers in the military department wanted to do this. Faced with Maeda's opposition, they even ridiculed him, the pampered Marquis, for not knowing how to cherish his property...

"Hay!" The orderly gave a military salute to Maeda, and then turned his horse's head to report to the infantry in front.

Seeing that the messenger was reporting the message, Lord Maeda straightened his back again, glanced at his subordinates with piercing eyes, saw that all the people had stretched their necks and waited for Master Hou's words, so he was satisfied. Nodding, he said loudly: "Samurai of His Majesty! You are His Majesty's bravest warriors, you are the elite of the Imperial Army, today you will drive the chariots produced by the Empire, galloping on the future land of the Empire! You today Your feats will be forever recorded in the Empire’s merit book. Today, no matter who among you sacrificed your life for your country, your heroic spirits can enter the Yasukuni Shrine and become a god worshiped by 8000 million people! Now let’s shout together that the Empire of Japan is half planted! His Majesty the Emperor is half dead!"

"Half-planted! Half-planted! Half-planted!" Hearing the words of his own captain just now.Everyone's emotions were greatly mobilized, and they all raised their hands high and called out loudly.The chaotic shouting by everyone lasted about 5 minutes.Lord Maeda counted the time, and the infantry in front should have started charging, so he waved his hand vigorously.The officers and soldiers below also immediately stopped cheering and took their positions.Maeda took another flag from his subordinates, and held it up high: "Attention everyone! The speed is eight kilometers per hour, the target is directly in front, and the armored soldiers assault!" After finishing speaking, he waved the flag heavily.

As the flag was swung down heavily, more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles that had been launched began to crawl forward slowly, and in an instant, billowing and pungent gas came out of the exhaust pipe, and they slowly moved forward according to the pre-arranged three-row horizontal line The positions of the Kuomintang army moved.It took about 10 to [-] minutes before the chariot drove past the forward position of the Japanese army and entered the battlefield where the flames of war were raging.Maeda looked at the ground around him, and he was surprised by the number of dead bodies and bomb craters.And looking at the military uniforms, these dead bodies are all Japanese soldiers!

"It seems that the infantry's charge has failed! How stupid...why not the armored force to guide the infantry to attack? Using more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles in such a narrow attack area, the Chinese army will definitely collapse!" Looking at the corpse There were chariots all over the field, Maeda said involuntarily.He raised the flag again and waved it left and right, giving the order for the final assault.Then he closed his hatch, and soon all the engines of the chariot began to rotate at maximum power, roaring and rushing towards the opposite position.At the same time, in order to cover the assaulting tank troops, the Japanese infantry organized another full-line charge. Numerous khaki figures, holding long rifles with bayonets, screamed strangely towards the defense of the No. 11 Division of the Kuomintang Army Reorganization. Pounced on the ground.

The first thing that greeted the fierce Japanese armored group was the high wall of artillery fire fired by the powerful artillery group of the Chinese army in front of the formation of the two armies.As the Japanese fleet withdrew from the sea off Huludao after finally completing its bombardment of Huludao port, the Kuomintang artillery group with as many as 54 pieces has begun to exert its full power.The [-] cannons of the Japanese army should be overheated due to continuous firing, and can only be fired at a lower rate of fire at the moment. Therefore, the first round of offensive launched by the Japanese army across the board was repelled by this intensive artillery fire.And now it's the turn of Maeda's armored units!The Kuomintang army's artillery observation post on the top of the Baita Mountain behind the line of defense spotted these rumbling tanks and armored vehicles immediately, and the [-] howitzers behind the front line all tilted their firepower on the heads of these Japanese tanks.

One after another, the scorching shells landed on the only way for the chariot troop. The huge air waves generated by the explosion rolled up thick dust on the ground, like huge whirlpools, devouring everything around them.Maeda and his armored forces seemed to have crashed headlong into a hell made up of scorching shock waves and howling shrapnel. In just a few minutes, dozens of tanks and armored vehicles were shot and caught fire. However, this At this time, the armored troops had no way out, so they could only grit their teeth and cover their heads and speed up.

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The flares rose into the sky one by one, illuminating the slightly whitened sky, the earth, the Japanese army that was attacking, and the Tashan defense line of the Kuomintang army.The cannons are still roaring, howitzers on both sides, anti-aircraft artillery and infantry artillery of the defenders, and attacking tanks and armored vehicles are all doing their best to attack each other.Dark red artillery shells shuttled back and forth on the battlefield, and clusters of flames and explosions filled the forward positions of the two armies.

Including Huang Wei, commander of the No. 20 First Brigade, most of the Kuomintang officers and soldiers on this battlefield also saw the scene of hundreds of tanks launching a cluster attack for the first time, and they were deeply shocked for a while. .Before, they had only seen the scene of the Kuomintang armored troops charging on the movie screen, but the war on the screen, even if it was a real record of a war, there was no way to compare with the immersive war experience. Compare.

Like the infantry of all countries in this era, the current Kuomintang army has nothing to do with a large number of surging tanks.The Kuomintang army in this time and space has an anti-tank artillery battalion attached to the division level, which is only eighteen 37mm anti-tank guns. At the regiment level, it is equipped with 12.7mm anti-tank guns. Tank mines, anti-tank Molotov cocktails... If you consider the rapid consumption of anti-tank weapons on the battlefield, no infantry division in the world has enough firepower to destroy a tank regiment. Of course, the No.11 Division of the Kuomintang Army No exception.

Fortunately, due to preparations in advance, the three anti-tank battalions originally assigned to the First Division, the Fourth Division, and the No.18 Division were transferred out and directly controlled by the Army Group Command. Xiang Xiang was later sent to the dilapidated line of defense of the No.20 Brigade.

Seeing the Japanese tanks and soldiers approaching step by step, Huang Wei, who came to the front line to command and supervise the battle, suppressed the tension in his heart, and took another look at the sixteen 37mm anti-aircraft guns that had been deployed, and heaved a sigh of relief. .These artillery belonged to the [-]th Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Shi Jue. They were the first to rush to the battlefield despite the artillery fire. However, two artillery pieces and [-] officers and soldiers were killed and injured by Japanese artillery fire on the way... "The safest unit "Now people are starting to die too. It seems that no arm is safe in war, right?

"Aim! Fire!"

The moment the shouts with a slight Guangxi accent sounded, nearly fifty 37mm guns deployed on the defense line of the defenders fired one after another.Booming cannonballs came from all over the position one after another, and countless shells pierced the air with hot orange-red tail flames and crashed into the attacker's queue in an instant.Under the light of the flares, dozens of slowly advancing iron bumps immediately ignited into fireballs, and some of them even exploded.

"Good job! Kill them all!"

A burst of cheers sounded in the trenches of the defenders. If anyone can observe carefully at this time, they will find that the tense muscles on the faces of all Kuomintang officers and soldiers loosen.Because if the anti-tank guns can destroy the iron guys that are rumbling over, there is no need for the soldiers guarding the front trenches to risk their self-injury rate and use grenades, explosives, and incendiary bottles to stop them.Although these officers and soldiers are brave enough to fight and sacrifice for the country and the nation, but...they are the Kuomintang after all, and they cherish their own lives. Of course, it is best not to die!

Huang Wei also breathed a sigh of relief. Without these dozens of anti-tank guns that rained in time, these hundreds of tanks must have run over their own defense lines and corpses by now... After a burst of intensive anti-tank fire, everyone Some of the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles turned into piles of charred wreckage, and the remaining dozens drove back and retreated.

"Hidden! Hidden soon! The bombardment is about to begin..." As soon as the Japanese army retreated, the shouts of officers came from the trench again.As soon as the shelling stops, the infantry will charge, and as soon as the infantry charge ends, it will naturally be the next round of shelling!The so-called positional warfare is such a round after round of repeatedly consuming the lives and supplies of both sides until one side can no longer support it.

Chapter 0564 Iron Storm ([-]) Jade Broken Assault

On the surface of the Bohai Bay, the night has not completely faded, and a formation composed of more than 20 warships of various types is plowing out white waves on the sea.In the entire formation are the battleship "Hyuga", the battlecruiser "Kongo", and the battlecruiser "Kirishima", which are as huge as floating mountains!The three battleships were followed by the heavy cruiser "Kago", the heavy cruiser "Aoba", and the heavy cruiser "Kinagasa".On their periphery, there are eighteen light cruisers, destroyers and minesweepers patrolling and protecting these precious battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Vice Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, the commander of the First Expeditionary Fleet, stood in the command room of the "Hyuga" dragging his exhausted body, looking at Liaodong Bay about 380 nautical miles northeast of the sea level with red eyes.There was still the faint sound of artillery, and after twenty nautical miles, it was already like a faint thunder.This came from the front line of Tashan where the bloody fight was taking place. Looking at the sky that was almost reddened by the artillery fire, Yanze knew that the bombardment of his fleet did not destroy the resistance of the Huludao fortress.He can even distinguish the roar of the 280mm train gun and the [-]mm coastal defense gun from the faint gunfire. Obviously, the bombardment of the "King Kong" and "Kirishima" ships failed to destroy those Chinese. Giant guns, and now these giant guns are being used to bombard the positions of the Japanese army!But he, the commander of the First Expeditionary Fleet, had to order the fleet to evacuate...and hand over the army's animals to the Chinese cannons to kill them casually!Yanze felt that what he did was like a deserter, no, the entire navy was a deserter, and the army brothers who left them didn't know where to flee?

right!Koichi Shiozawa really doesn't know where to go now?His fleet lost a battleship, a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, four destroyers, and two minesweepers in one night. In addition, the "Tianlong" light cruiser was severely damaged, except for floating and sinking. It was no different, a turret of the battleship Hyuga was destroyed, and the bow of the battlecruiser Kongo was slashed by a Chinese torpedo.Moreover, such a terrible loss was suffered when the real trump cards of the Chinese - the air force and naval aviation were unable to dispatch because of the night!

After the loss report of the First Expeditionary Fleet was transmitted to Japan via radio waves, Emperor Hirohito held a liaison meeting between the Five Prime Ministers and the Staff Council overnight.At this imperial meeting, the heads of the Japanese army and navy quarreled.Minister of the Navy Biao and Minister of Military Command Naoshin Taniguchi put forward a proposal, demanding that the first expatriate fleet be withdrawn immediately before the entrance of the Bohai Bay was sealed off by the Chinese navy with mines, and that the Second Army Aviation Wing should spare no effort to save the country. The fleet withdraws to provide air cover.Their reason is that the navy's anti-submarine and air defense capabilities are weak, and they are unable to deal with China's submarines at night, and they have no way to deal with China's air force and naval aviation during the day...staying in Bohai Bay will eventually lead to annihilation of the entire army!After the empire lost its four battleships, it could no longer maintain its hegemony over the Eastern Sea.

However, the army firmly opposed the evacuation of the fleet, and even proposed to destroy the Qinhuangdao base at all costs!Suzuki Shoroku, Chief of the Army's General Staff, proposed that since the Manchurian War was a national gamble, losing the Manchurian War would mean losing the country's destiny.In the future, it will be the Nationalist Government of South China that won Manchuria, because without the land and resources of Manchuria, Japan's heavy industry will soon be left far behind by China. Supported, a few more battleships are just lingering for a while.Instead of that, it's better to fight it all at once!At worst, I will become a vassal of Britain and the United States or the South Branch in the future!It's been 2000 anyway.

The army and navy almost collapsed at the imperial meeting. In the end, Emperor Showa Hirohito, who "directly led" the army and navy, could only make up his mind. The Emperor Hirohito replied vaguely, "My loyal and brave first dispatched fleet can still fight. No?" Now this telegram is in the hands of Koichi Shiozawa.

Shiozawa knew that Emperor Hirohito was actually ventriloquizing. On the surface, these words seemed to be asking whether the First Expeditionary Fleet was still capable of fighting, but in fact they meant to ask Shiozawa Koichi to make a "fight to the death" request!Because even the Minister of the Navy and the Chief of the Navy Command cannot prevent all officers and soldiers of the entire First Expatriate Fleet from repaying the emperor's favor with death...or else they will suffer from the "Heavenly Punishment" national traitors!

"Shiozawa-kun!"

This is the voice of Yoshida Zengo, Shiozawa Xing turned around and saw his old classmate looking at him with cold eyes: "Shiozawa-kun! His Majesty the Emperor is still waiting for the reply from our First Expatriate Fleet Now! Now is the time for us to use jade fragments to pay back His Majesty's great favor, please don't hesitate anymore, Mr. Shiozawa!"

Yan Zexing put on a melancholy face, and said in a deep voice: "Yoshida-kun, you said that if our First Expeditionary Fleet shows the determination of Yu Sui, it can destroy the Qinhuangdao fortress...do you clear the way for the army to seize Manchuria? "

Yoshida thought for a while, then nodded solemnly: "Yes! The Chinese Nationalist Army has only two important bases in Manchuria, Huludao and Qinhuangdao, and Huludao's airport and port facilities have been destroyed in the bombardment... It is necessary to repair it. It cannot be done in a week or two. Now we only need to destroy the airport and port of Qinhuangdao, and the logistics line of the Chinese Nationalist Army will be temporarily affected, and the air superiority will also be temporarily lost! The army will have a chance to defeat them and seize Manchuria!"

"But the Chinese submarines... Do you think they will allow us to reach Qinhuangdao safely?" Yan Ze asked coldly.

Yoshida nodded heavily: "Yes! Shiozawa-kun, don't you find the deployment of the Chinese submarine force very strange? They didn't set up an ambush at the entrance of Bohai Bay...but put us in Bohai Bay!"

There was little silence in the room, and Yanze took a deep breath: "You mean...the Chinese set a trap for us from the very beginning! They want to annihilate our first dispatched fleet!"

Yoshida Zengo smiled wryly, and said in a cold tone: "That's right! If the Chinese Navy placed their submarines at the entrance of the Bohai Bay, it would certainly achieve greater results, but at the same time we would flee after suffering heavy losses... and According to my analysis, their submarines should be deployed in this way." He and Yan Ze walked to the chart platform.He picked up a pencil and drew on the chart: "Look, Mr. Yanze, they have about 20 submarines, they should be divided into four to five teams, and one of the teams is deployed on the west side of Fuzhou Bay. , is the team that ambushed us. There are four to five teams that should be deployed around the entrance of Bohai Bay in a crescent shape, respectively guarding the waterways leading to Qinhuangdao, Longkou Port, and Laizhou Port, and at the same time forming a siege for us... Moreover, the location of their ambush has also been carefully calculated! Our ambush location is more than [-] nautical miles away from the exit of Bohai Bay, and it will take two and a half hours to withdraw at a speed of [-] knots. Moreover, after the fleet encountered an ambush There will probably be damage to the warships, and the speed will definitely drop."

Koichi Shiozawa's face was livid, as if he had seen the tragic end of the fleet's annihilation, and he said tremblingly: "You mean, when we were in ambush, two Chinese submarine teams rushed to the exit of Bohai Bay to set up an ambush." ?”

"It's not the exit, but we're on our way to the exit! Their mission is to ambush and delay my fleet's actions! Just wait until dawn...their planes will fly over and sink all our auxiliary ships." Yoshida sighed with a wry smile Tone: "I believe their naval aviation has been hiding their strength! At that time, we will only have a few battleships and heavy cruisers left. Can we still escape from this bay full of mines and submarines?"

The answer is self-evident, relying on a few damaged capital ships, without the protection of frigates, they are the targets of submarines!And the battleship doesn't even have depth charges on it...

Seeing Yanze's face turned livid, Yoshida remained unmoved: "Yozawa-kun, I guess the submarine team that ambushed us last night should return to the port to replenish torpedoes... there should be fifteen more ships left. The above submarines. One team should be deployed on the waterway from Huludao to Qinhuangdao, and the rest should be arriving off the coast of Huludao soon!"

Yanze frowned impatiently: "Mr. Yoshida, do you mean that the fleet will rush to Qinhuangdao at the fastest speed and the shortest straight-line distance?" Can't go back to Japan... This cold Bohai Bay is the place where the fleet is buried!Now there are only two fleets going out, one is to wait for death in Yingkou Port; the other is to go to Qinhuangdao to commit suicide!

Go to Yingkou and wait for death, the whole empire will die... although most of the officers and soldiers of the First Expeditionary Fleet should be able to escape to death.Going to Qinhuangdao to commit suicide may give the empire another chance to seize Manchuria.The five to six submarines lurking in the waterway can at most kill one battleship, and the remaining two are enough to complete the task of destroying the airport and port of Qinhuangdao.Moreover, after the navy has made such a big sacrifice, it will definitely receive corresponding compensation after the Manchurian War, especially His Majesty the Emperor will especially favor this "loyal and brave" navy!

At this time, Shiozawa already knew that he had no choice. Whether it was for the empire or the navy, he and the thousands of Japanese naval officers and soldiers here must die!

When Yanze looked away from the chart and raised his head, the original hesitation had been replaced by a murderous expression: "Mr. Yoshida, please give Your Majesty a power! The main force of my First Expedition Fleet will attack the Qinhuangdao Fortress of the Chinese Nationalist Party." Jade Smashing Assault!"

"Hay!" Yoshida Zengo stood at attention and solemnly saluted the commander in front of him who had decided to send everyone here to hell.

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Although the Japanese First Expatriate Fleet hit a mine and was hit by a torpedo during the battle last night, it knocked out the No. 280 turret of the battleship "Hyuga" with a 20mm shell that hit the Universiade.It seems quite unlucky... But there is also luck, at least the power systems of all ships in the entire fleet are basically intact.After the commander of the fleet, Koichi Shiozawa hung up the Z flag and shouted the slogan "The rise and fall of the empire is here, all soldiers must work hard!", thick smoke billowed out of the chimneys of the ships immediately, and soon These warships quickly headed towards Qinhuangdao at a high speed of [-] knots.

When the Japanese fleet rushed towards Qinhuangdao in a hurry, six 2D submarines were also advancing towards the sea off Huludao at the highest speed.This is the second detachment of the Kuomintang Navy Submarine Force.Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Wen Qingyun, the captain of No. 001 and the commander of the squadron, this detachment was responsible for guarding the waterway from the entrance of Bohai Bay to Qinhuangdao, but it did not encounter the Japanese fleet.After receiving Zhang Yiming's order, although he rushed to the warring sea area as quickly as possible, he was still one step late.Zhang Yiming then instructed the detachment to immediately go to the waters off Huludao to attack the Japanese fleet.After receiving this order, Wen Qingyun immediately took his own unit and chased the Japanese fleet to the north at full speed.

"Did you find anything?" Wen Qingyun, who was standing on the bridge of the submarine, asked the chief officer beside him loudly.A man who looked very capable was looking at the northern ocean with a huge [-]x binoculars, and sighed when he heard the captain's question: "I haven't found it yet. Our submarine is good at everything, but the speed is too fast." Slow down, I think chasing the warship is a little bit precarious! It would be great if the four 'Carls' could get into the water earlier and stop them in front."

Wen Qingyun sneered and shook his head. If the four "Karl Marx" class battleships were in front and 36 380mm naval guns were fired at once, the Japanese fleet would be sunk directly, and what about submarines? ?Hearing his boss's laughter, the lieutenant and first mate seemed to know that he was telling a joke. He shook his head and put down the binoculars, picked up the kettle and drank cold water.Then pick up the binoculars and continue to observe the ocean.At this moment, suddenly several masts floated on the sea level in the northwest and the smoke from several steam turbines went straight into the sky.He hurriedly shouted: "Commander Wen, Northwest! Northwest! They are going to Qinhuangdao! These little Japanese must be crazy, they are desperate!"

Wen Qingyun also quickly raised the large binoculars hanging around his neck, and after a little search in the northwest direction, he found the target. At this time, the sky was gradually brightening, and the visibility of the entire sea surface was greatly improved.He could even recognize that one of the masts was a triangular mast in a typical British style, and the rising sun flag of the Japanese Navy was vaguely flying above it!From the shape and size of the mast.This capable naval officer has quickly calculated in his heart that this is the "King Kong" class battlecruiser of the Japanese Navy!The main force of Japan's No. [-] Expatriate Fleet really went crazy, and was about to risk the bombing of Chinese planes and rush towards Qinhuangdao forcibly!It is estimated that they no longer plan to return to Japan alive!These little devils will use their sacrifices to give their army a chance of victory!