Chapter 655: Artillery Fire on the Qingchuan River 1
readx; And now even the flagship Iwate has sunk, and the navy is also worried about the number of Chinese submarines, and if it continues to wait, I am afraid that the losses will be too great, so the remaining two destroyers do not dare to fight, covering the transport fleet and starting to retreat.' Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the Feather Wind has been circling in the original sea area, and its mission is not to find out the remaining submarines, but to rely on high speed and maneuverability to suppress the submarines ambushed in this sea area, so as to prevent the submarines from pursuing and attacking the convoy.
It wasn't until an hour later, when the convoy had gone far, that the Feather Wind began to evacuate.
Half an hour after the Feather Wind withdrew, seven or eight nautical miles away from the original battle area, a submarine began to slowly surface and then stretched out its periscope.
Inside the ship, a captain said with a smile: "Everyone did a good job, this time the attack is to sink a big ship of the enemy!" ”
A sergeant smiled: "Captain, I think the ship is at least seven or eight thousand tons, but I don't know what model it is!" "In the night attack just now, due to the extremely poor field of vision, the submarine could only attack a vague hull, and it was impossible to tell what type of warship the enemy was.
The captain nodded: "I guess it's at least a large transport ship!" "They didn't know that their torpedo had sunk an armored cruiser.
"But it's also so dangerous, I was almost discovered by them!" Recalling the situation when the depth charge exploded around the submarine just now, it made the sergeant frightened for a while, no wonder others said that serving on the submarine was a thrilling game, and this ambush attack was cool, but after the attack, it was not pleasant to be chased by the enemy's destroyer. Limited by the underwater speed of the submarine, as soon as the enemy discovers the approximate position, it will be attacked by depth charges. As for whether or not they can escape, it is a matter of pure luck.
"Now the torpedoes are almost depleted, contact No. 14 and No. 16, we are ready to return!"
On the surface, only four torpedoes were hit in a submarine ambush just now, but in fact, nearly 20 torpedoes were fired by the three Chinese submarines, and most of the torpedoes failed to hit the target, while the Alligator B type submarine was not large in tonnage and was not equipped with many torpedoes, so the three submarines in this battle had almost consumed their own torpedoes.
Without a torpedo, the submarine will have to return to the sea, and besides, it is already proud that this voyage can achieve today's results.
This submarine ambush in the evening ended with the evacuation of both sides, and this was only a small part of the naval battle between the two sides, except for the thrilling main battle a few days earlier, in fact, it was more of this kind of skirmishing at sea during the war. In addition to submarine ambushes, there were engagements between destroyers and cruisers, with small formations of both sides striking each other, occasionally sinking one or two. In the course of the entire war, there will not be such a huge naval battle of the scale as the Battle of Deland, the Battle of the East China Sea in 1923, and the Battle of the Sea not long ago.
And if this situation continues, the warships of both sides will be slowly consumed, especially the destroyers and cruisers in the auxiliary ships, and this is also the reason why both sides have adopted emergency wartime shipbuilding plans after the outbreak of war, and most of the shipbuilding plans are auxiliary ships, which is very simple, just to supplement the battle damage.
After Inoue Katsuchun Osa arrived in Busan with the fleet, his depressed face was not very good-looking, the Bandite was sunk, in fact, the crew casualties were not large, before the Inkate officially sank, Inoue Katsuchun Osa gave the order to abandon the ship, and transferred his flagship to the Hakaze.
After arriving in Busan, he still had to make a report on the operation, and he had to prove that he had not made a mistake in the battle, but to put it mildly, he finally managed to escort most of the transport ships to Busan, and this batch of supplies was urgently needed by the army.
Compared with the large-scale and exciting battles of the navy, the Korean battlefield is much more dull and bloody.
Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides crowded on this small Korean Peninsula, and then shelled each other with more than thousands of artillery pieces, countless bullets streaked through the air, burrowed into the land to stir up smoke and dust, hit the enemy's body, and the blood that flowed out stained the Korean land again and again.
Qingchuan Jiang'anzhou, as the forefront of this war, the Chinese and two armies concentrated a large number of main forces here, saying that they wanted to recapture Anzhou and recapture the Qingchuan River Bridge, and then counterattack north to reach the Yalu River. The Chinese Army, on the other hand, wanted to hold Anju and hold the Cheongchon River Bridge, and wanted to break through the defense line of the Japanese army all the way south to Pyongyang and even Pusan.
In this small area, the armies of the two countries actually concentrated up to more than 100,000 troops for a fierce struggle, and in addition to a large number of infantry, especially the convenience of transportation, the two sides concentrated their main artillery forces here, and a large number of artillery shells were desperately fired at each other's positions as if they did not need money, and their firepower density was no less than that of the Western Front battlefield during World War I.
In a small village north of the Qingchuan River, it was originally the headquarters of the 47th Division, and then after the 47th Division crossed the river, it became the headquarters of the 14th Army.
At this time, in the headquarters of the headquarters, in the conference room under the anti-artillery fortifications, a large number of generals of the 14th Army sat together, the most of them were the rank of colonel, and most of the others were the rank of major general.
Tang Qiang looked at Lieutenant General Song Junpeng at the top, and felt a little envious of this person, speaking of which, this Song Junpeng is still his junior. He Tang Qiang was born in the third phase of the Fuzhou Military Academy back then, and he was the major battalion commander during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, so this Song Junpeng was just a lieutenant. But the fate of people is different, this Song Junpeng can become a lieutenant general, and he is also an active lieutenant general, which shows that his development speed is very fast. At that time, Song Junpeng became a senior company commander within two months of graduation, and was promoted to major company commander in four months, and half a year later he was promoted to lieutenant colonel as the commander of the 32nd Regiment of the Third Division because of the great expansion of the army. In the Northern Expedition of that year, the Third Division quickly conquered Taizhou after crossing the river, and annihilated more than 3,000 people of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army at the cost of less than 300 people, and achieved a great victory in Taizhou. While this battle laid the foundation for Xu Lishan, the commander of the Third Division at the time, to become a famous general, most of the other middle and senior generals of the Third Division also benefited a lot, and they were promoted very quickly. At that time, as soon as the Taizhou War ended, Song Junpeng was promoted to colonel, and after the Northern Expedition, Song Junpeng was promoted to major general and served as the commander of the third division.
Subsequently, in the Qingdao Battle in 1915, Song Junpeng led the commander of the Third Division to participate in the attack on Qingdao.
You must know that the civil war had just ended, and the major generals and division commanders with outstanding military achievements had a large number of votes, and any one of them had a better resume than him Song Junpeng. Just as Tang Qiang worked hard for seven or eight years to be promoted to major general after 1923, Song Junpeng also stayed up for ten years before being promoted to lieutenant general in 1925 and became the commander of the 14th Army in 1929. But no matter what, Song Junpeng can be regarded as boiling out. However, he Tang Qiang wants to be promoted to lieutenant general among a large number of major generals with outstanding military achievements, and I don't know how many years it will take.
Song Junpeng's age is about the same as Tang Qiang, both in their forties, this age is the general age of middle and senior generals in the Chinese Army, the reason why the age of middle and senior generals is concentrated in the age group of 40s to 50s, mainly because most of the middle and senior generals of the National Army during the civil war were also in their twenties and thirties, and most of them were also around forty or fifty years old more than ten years later.
This age can be regarded as the golden age for a general.
Song Junpeng looked around at the people below and said: "In yesterday's counterattack, the 471st Regiment fought well, and was able to block the attack of the enemy's two wings with the strength of one regiment, which shows that the 47th Division is still the same as before, maintaining the excellent style of our army's tenacious fighting!" ”
Hearing Song Junpeng praise his troops by name, Tang Qiang's face was faintly happy, and he immediately replied: "Han San, this person, he still has the ability, he just commanded the 471st Regiment in less than five days, and he was able to lead the troops to fight such a record, and it was not in vain that the commanders cultivated him!" ”
Song Junpeng also nodded after hearing this: "Well, wait for you to write a report and officially appoint Han San as the head of the 471st regiment!" ”
At this moment, Han San, who was commanding operations on the front line, did not know that he was once again valued by the big men above and was officially appointed as the commander of the 471st regiment.
Han San's luck was very good, in the early days of December, when he was the commander of the 4732 Battalion, he cooperated with the 472nd Regiment to successfully cross the river and capture the Qingchuan River Bridge, so that he could write his name on the battle report that reached Chen Jingyun's hands. At that time, after Chen Jingyun's order, Lieutenant General Huang Anyuan, who was still the deputy chief of operations of the General Staff at the time and the current chief of staff of the First Group Army, said that he would add more burdens to him, so he was promoted to lieutenant colonel two days later. A few days later, the original commander of the 471st Regiment was hit by an artillery shell during the battle and was forced to withdraw from the front line and return to Dandong for treatment. He, Han San, was once again directly appointed as the acting head of the 471st regiment.
In less than five days after taking over the 471st Regiment, he won several battles, and while holding on to the attack of the two wings of the Japanese army yesterday, he also killed and wounded more than 1,000 enemy troops, thus completely establishing his position as the commander of the 471st Regiment.
"Tuanza, the third battalion said again, 'Ben is here!' The herald trotted in front of Han San, and then said, "The third battalion requests artillery support!" ”
"The third battalion said that I am here again?" Han San frowned: "It seems that this said, 'I really don't give up, hmph, I want to see if you really dare to charge at once!" ”
During yesterday's defensive operation, he said, "I tried to attack the position of the 471st Regiment by relying on the superiority of troops, and the main direction of attack was the 3rd Battalion. After a day of fierce fighting, at least five or six hundred corpses of the three battalions were left in front of their positions.
"These are said to be their own favors, what age are they, and they are still holding on to the set of the Russian War, I want to see if your flesh is powerful in the charge, or my machine gun is powerful!"
Han San, who was muttering so much in his heart, quickly ordered: "Order the artillery company, prepare to provide artillery support to the third battalion, and let the second battalion also pay attention to cooperation!" I'm going to see how many lives you have to fill! ”
At the same time as Han San gave the order, the position of the third battalion not far away was already full of gunfire, and in addition to the explosion, the machine guns of both sides continued to spray a series of bullets, and the shouts and groans resounded throughout the entire position.
Sergeant Li during the war, and today's Captain Li is the same as he was back then, scolding and grinning while personally pointing at a light machine gun: "Little one, come, come!" ”
Soon after, a bullet hit his steel helmet, and with the force of the bullet, he pushed the whole head under the trench, and a sergeant next to him hurriedly stepped forward and shouted: "Company commander? ”
It took a long time for Captain Li to sit up from the ground and sit up staggeringly, and after taking off the steel helmet on his head, he found the bullet marks on it, and cursed in his mouth: "Damn, this little man is really ruthless!" ”
At this time, a first-class soldier next to him ran over in a panic and shouted: "Company commander, I said that I came up again, what should I do?" ”
Captain Li scolded: "You panicked, and said, 'I'm here to fight!'" ”