Chapter 373: Attack in the Western Theater of Operations

At the Port Arthur Western Theater Command, Li Ming and all the commanders above the regimental level in the theater gathered together. They gathered in front of a huge sand table, and Lin Hua, chief of staff of the Western Theater, made a final statement of military plans.

After listening to Lin Hua's statement, Li Ming took the baton, glanced at everyone, and then said solemnly: "Now the troops in the Eastern Theater have begun to move. According to the latest information we have, the three westward detachments have attacked Zhishan Exit Station, Ferhu Station, and Hu'er Wenwei respectively. The waterway attack unit of the Eastern Theater of Operations made a surprise attack on the city of Ula yesterday and achieved success.

It is expected that the waterway attack force of the Eastern Theater will arrive in the vicinity of Nadan Province in the early hours of tomorrow morning. The rapid detachment of the waterway attack force, which also turned into the Danhe River at Binzhou Station yesterday, will land at Yidong Hewei, and then take a vehicle along the official road post road to attack in the direction of Anle Zhou and Tieling. The attack in the Eastern Theater of Operations has reached the suddenness of the campaign, and is progressing very smoothly at the moment. The time is ripe for an operation in the Western Theater of Operations. I commanded ......"

Hearing Li Ming's words, everyone in the Western Theater Command stood solemnly, waiting for Li Ming to give the final attack order.

"The Western Theater of Operations will be operational at one o'clock this afternoon, and by four o'clock tomorrow morning, all troops will arrive at the attack area and begin to attack and advance. Okay, let's go back and get ready. ”

As soon as his words fell, all the commanders in the Western Theater Command responded with a bang. They left in a hurry and rushed to their own troops for the final preparations before departure.

At present, the troops of the Western Military Region are deployed in Lushun and Phi Dao, and the military port wharves in Lushun are full of all kinds of offshore and inland river barges. All the barracks were frantically busy, and all kinds of supplies and vehicles were loaded onto barges.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the three landing ships were the first to sail out of Port Arthur, followed by a large number of barges leaving Port Arthur one after another, and the mighty fleet of barges was like a long dragon. Head north along the coastline.

Lianyun Island, guarded here is a Tartar fort, stationed a hundred Tartar armor soldiers. Since the Gaizhou Campaign was launched in the Far East, there were no Jurchen villages on Lianyun Island, and only such a tunbao was left to guard the coast of Gaizhou.

There is a beacon next to it. As soon as the enemy is detected, the beacon will be lit. The more than 1,000 Tartar armor soldiers stationed in Gaizhou Wei will immediately mobilize the bannermen of Gaizhou when they see the beacon fire to organize the defense of Gaizhou City and the coast.

In the first two years, the guards of Lianhua Island and Gaizhou were very tight, and the Tartars stationed thousands of troops here, all of whom were elite main forces. But with the passage of time, even the armor soldiers in Huadao Tunpu have dropped from more than 500 to more than 100 today.

In addition, the Far East has been trading with the Tartars in Lianhua Island for more than a year, and Lianhua Island has become a lot lax even with Gaizhouwei. Cat a winter of tartars, just beginning of spring. The laziness on the body has not subsided. Therefore, the Tartars all over Liaodong have no spiritual head.

Bosil was the captain of the defense of Lianhua Island, and he slept until noon today, before he got up from the bed. After washing it casually, he asked a few Han people to prepare some food for him and ate it simply. After eating, he came to the beacon tower of the fort on the shore, and sat on a wicker chair to bask in the sun.

"My lord, a ship is coming from the sea."

Bosil sat up from the wicker chair and saw several flatboats heading towards Lianhua Island. He said impatiently: "It's those guys from the Far East who are here." Wait until they come to the shore and let their treasurer come to me. ”

After he finished speaking, he lay down on the wicker chair and basked in the sun comfortably. After a while, several Tartars led a middle-aged man to the beacon tower.

"Haha...... The general is so at ease. I wonder if there are any private goods this time? ”

Bossile sat up and said with a smile: "Of course there are, there are fifty nikans in all, and the old rule is that men and women are half and half men. Lao Bi, shouldn't we mention this price, my Nikan here always dies so quickly. Toto-sama has already asked. You have taken it here at a tattered price, and you may be able to sell it for a big price when you go back."

The middle-aged man laughed when he heard this: "The general is really joking, I bought some people from you, and I will call them myself when I go back." Now the people of Daming are worth anything. But since the adult said it, let's follow the price that the adult said last time. By the way, this time I got a few jars of spirits for the adults, and I'll send them to the adults in a moment. ”

Bossil also laughed and said: "Lao Bi, don't say anything, brother, I thank you, come to me for a drink in a while." ”

"My lord, I can't do it today, you will come to pick up the goods in a while, I'm busy, another day...... Another day......"

The middle-aged man departed politely, and when he returned to the shore, he shouted to the sailors on board: "Bring down those jars of wine, and the roe deer, and send them to the general." ”

This person is Qian Chenggui, because he speaks fluent Tatar dialect and is a businessman, he was asked by the Ministry of Commerce of the Far East Company to be responsible for the transaction with the Tatars. Every time he traded some Liaomin with Bosile, it was actually just to let the other party get some benefits and ease his vigilance.

In the evening he took out two jars of spirits, slaughtered two roe deer, and beckoned the Tartars to feast. The strong liquor blended with industrial alcohol in the Far East is deeply loved by the Liaodong Tatars, who feel that this wine is strong enough, and now this wine has been sold by several Baylors to the Mongolian Han Department of Liaohetao.

Today, the wine was particularly violent, which made Bosil and a group of Tartars drink very much, and even the Tartars on duty divided a few bowls. As a result, when it got dark, even the Tartars on Hua Island were all disposed of in their sleep by Song Tao and the special combat team members lurking on the Far Eastern merchant ship.

It was already completely dark, and a group of rescued Liao people gathered some firewood and grass from everywhere, and lit a raging fire on the shore of Lianhua Island. Two landing craft emerged from the vast night and rushed to the sea stall near Lianhua Island. A group of ground crews from the Air Force Department and two trucks rushed to the beachhead and drove Song Tao away from Lianhua Island.

The ground crew of the Air Force requisitioned all the Liaomin and established a temporary airship take-off and landing base on Lianhua Island. A Liao Min inadvertently glanced at the sea in the distance, and was stupefied at that time.

"Look...... Boats, all big ships......"

The other Liao people were attracted by his shout, and they all looked in the direction of his finger, and were immediately stunned by the huge ships on the sea. I saw countless sail shadows emerging from the darkness, and beams of dazzling light shot out of the ship, and the dense huge ship almost covered the sea near Lianhua Island.

A Liao Min suddenly heard something, looked up sharply, and found that there were several behemoths hanging above their heads, which were slowly descending. It was as if several mountains had overwhelmingly pressed down, scaring him so much that he sat on the ground. The other Liao people also heard a buzzing sound, and when they looked up, they were all frightened.

"Ah...... Oh my mother...... Run......" A group of Liao people suddenly bombed the camp, scattered in a hurry, shouting and running in all directions.

It took a lot of kicking, beating, and scolding of the officers and men of the Air Force to bring these Liao people back. But when they were working, they would raise their heads from time to time and glance in horror at the behemoths above them.

Three landing ships and dozens of offshore deck barges bypassed Lianhua Island and took the lead in slowly sailing towards the coast of Gaizhou. Two drones were released from the landing ship, and the battlefield situation on the coast of Gaizhou was instantly clear at a glance.

At the Western Theater Command of the No. 1 landing ship, Li Ming chose a nearby uninhabited beach stall to land based on the real-time images transmitted by the drone. Three landing ships opened huge front tongue doors, three armored vehicles, six UAZ-469 jeeps, six UAZ-452 light off-road vehicles, as well as a large number of KAMAZ military trucks, agricultural vehicles.

This is the motorized infantry regiment of the Gaizhou detachment of the Western Theater of Operations, and they will follow the official post road from Gaizhou to Shenyang all the way to Liaoyang, and not only will they sweep all the villages and towns of Tartar along the way, such as Yaozhouyi, Haizhouwei, Tashanbao, and Anshanyi, but they will also make a rapid assault of more than 100 kilometers tonight to attack Liaoyang.

Song Tao and the special combat team took two landing craft and had already entered the mouth of the Qinghe River in advance, and took advantage of the night to knock out several nearby Tartar forts. Behind is a fleet of barges composed of deck barges, sailing into the mouth of the Qinghe River, going upriver and rushing straight to Gaizhou City.

This time, a total of four detachments were formed in the Western Theater, namely the Gaizhou Detachment, which landed in Gaizhou and attacked Liaoyang along the official road. The Liaohe detachment entered the Sancha River from the mouth of the Liaohe River to the north, and then divided its troops into three routes, entering the Hunhe River and the Puhe River respectively, and landed in the north and south of Shenyang, forming a north-south flank attack on Shenyang.

The other road continued to go north along the Liao River, occupied important places such as Changshan, Liaobin Tower, and Shifang Temple Fort, and then killed all the way to Tieling and Sanwanwei, where it joined forces with the rapid detachment of the waterway attack force in the Eastern Theater and completely blocked the route of the Tartars' northward escape.

The Yalu River detachment set out from Phi Island, entered the mouth of the Yalu River, landed at Zhenjiang Fort, attacked and advanced all the way to the north, and swept the Dingliao Right Guard (Phoenix City), Tongyuan Fort, Lianshan Pass, and Fengji Fort along the official road post road, and killed all the way to Shenyang.

The Daling River detachment marched north from the Daling River, swept all the ships on the Daling River, and obtained the sea control over the Daling River and the mouth of the Daling River. To establish a defensive line on the east bank, it is also necessary to clear all the Ming troops east of the Daling River to prevent the Ming Guanning army from taking advantage of the fire to loot. Finally, he organized his troops to move eastward to eliminate the main Tartar forces in the areas of Quang Ninh and Changping.

Two of the four detachments chose to attack by water, and two by land for two lines of attack. With the exception of the Yalu River detachment, the other three detachments were all very heavy in their tasks. Victory in this battle is inevitable, but it will take some thought to destroy the main force of the Tartars. (To be continued......)

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