readx; Before dawn, five miles southwest of Uiju County, the dark sky occasionally streaked through the light of the cannonballs, and then exploded after falling on the unknown place, and the rumbling of the cannonballs did not stop all night. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Within a radius of seven or eight kilometers from Uiju County, tens of thousands of troops from both sides of China and China were gathered, including the 12th Division, the 23rd Wing under the 6th Division, and artillery units in the nearby area. In addition, there are also the 48th Division of the Eighth Army in the Jiuliancheng area on the other side of the Yalu River, and there are also a large number of artillery positions of the Chinese Army on the other side of the river, in addition, the two lightly armed mountain divisions under the jurisdiction of the Tenth Army, that is, the 25th Infantry Division and the 39th Infantry Division of the Army, have also urgently marched to Gulouzi, preparing to take over the position of the Ninth Division, covering the supply line of the armored cluster and the retreat channel while advancing to the southern mountainous area.

North Korea is mountainous and this has caused great trouble for the Chinese army to attack North Korea, and the areas west and even south of Junguiju County in northern Korea are large areas of mountains and hills, which are not suitable for the rapid movement of armored groups at all, and even ordinary infantry divisions will be greatly restricted. However, the infantry divisions of the Chinese Army have always been divided into two types, one is the plain field division with the horse system, and the other is the mountain light division with the horse system. The main difference between the two is the maneuverability and weight of the heavy weapons, with the Plains Field Division heavily armed with heavier 75mm field guns, while the Mountain Light Division is lightly armed with 75 Mountain Guns and 105 Light Howitzers that can disassemble Mato. In terms of firepower, the power is different, but the firing range is very different, the 1916 model 75 mm field gun used for suppression in the plain field division can reach more than 8,000 meters, while the 1916 mountain artillery and 105 mm light howitzer of the mountain light division have a range of only 6,000 meters.

In addition, because the mountainous and lightly armed divisions in mountain operations are rarely able to receive the heavy artillery fire support of the reading artillery brigades, and can only rely on their own firepower most of the time, while the plain field divisions can not only have their divisional firepower when fighting, but also have a large number of heavy fire support from the reading artillery brigades, the gap in firepower that can be obtained between the two is quite large.

Due to the fact that the terrain of North Korea and the border with North Korea in the northeast and part of the territory recovered from Russia also have a large number of mountainous and hilly terrain, the army has deployed a considerable number of mountain light divisions in the northeast region.

Dandong, Sinuiju, and Uiju are not too far apart, Uiju is only ten kilometers away from Sinuiju, and Dandong is on the other side of the river in Sinuiju, so it can be said that the three places are three in one.

And this small place with a radius of only 30 kilometers gathered hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides, plus both sides are fully prepared, this hoarded artillery shells are full of front-line warehouses, so the artillery units of these two sides have almost never stopped from the beginning of the war, whether it is the divisional artillery of each division or those reading artillery units, they are hidden in one artillery position after another, intermittently firing shells at the enemy's positions.

When the armored cluster was beyond the imagination of the Yue army, it took only one day to intercept through the layers and arrive at Yiju County, which made the senior management of the Yue army extremely shocked, in addition to strictly ordering the defenders of Yizhou County to hold on and sending reinforcements from the Sixth Division, a large amount of artillery firepower was also mobilized to support Yiju County.

The artillery of the nearby Eighth Army and the Tenth Army of the Chinese Army also mobilized a large amount of artillery fire to support the front line of Yizhou County, and for a time, the artillery density in the surrounding area of Yizhou County exceeded that of Dandong, the main battlefield of both sides.

Xue Zhihang was lying in his armored command car, even if the internal space of the armored command vehicle was extremely narrow, even if it was the rumbling of artillery outside, but it still couldn't stop Xue Zhihang from sleeping soundly at the moment, he hadn't slept for more than thirty hours, and now taking advantage of the fact that there were still more than three hours before the attack, Xue Zhihang couldn't care about anything else, and he would sleep first.

Shut down

It has been 26 hours since the 1st Armored Division crossed the river at 2 o'clock in the morning on 7 June, and in these 26 hours, the 1st Armored Division has advanced about 20 kilometers, but in fact, nearly half of the time of the 1st Armored Division has been spent crossing the river, so the real attack time is only a dozen hours. The speed of this attack was not very fast, mainly because the opposite bank of Gulouzi, where the 1st Armored Division chose to cross the river, was not considered a plain, and the armored group had to pass through a mountainous area of about five kilometers after crossing the river to reach the plain along the Yalu River. This kind of terrain is nothing for tracked tanks and half-track armored vehicles, but it is quite troublesome for the trucks and motorcycles that are heavily equipped in the 1st Panzer Division and the two motorized infantry divisions, in order to be able to open a passage in the mountains that allows the trucks and motorcycles of the troops to march quickly, there is a heavy engineering battalion directly under the jurisdiction of the armored group, this battalion is equipped with a large number of bulldozers converted from tanks, and the main task is to open the way. In order to let the armored cluster exert their huge combat effectiveness, these field forces are equipped with a large number of high-tech auxiliary forces, whether it is a mechanized boat bridge battalion or a heavy engineering battalion is only one of them, and even in order to solve the wireless communication in the armored cluster, the army has spent a lot of money to let Fule Electric design a complete set of radio communication system

Despite the large number of auxiliary troops, the speed of the armored group's advance is still not as fast as their advance in the plains, you must know that in the exercises in the plains they often run more than 100 miles a day, and in the Russian Civil War, the two task forces staged a battle example of running hundreds of miles a day in actual combat.

Shen Gang, commander of the Northeast Theater Theater, has issued the latest order to the armored cluster, requiring the armored cluster to continue to give full play to the heroic spirit of the Chinese people, continue to move forward, advance all the way to the sea, and cut off the railway line. In order to allow the armored group to continue to advance, Shen Gang had ordered the Eighth Army and the Tenth Army to launch a corresponding coordinated attack, and the Tenth Army even sent two mountain light divisions to cover the rear of the armored group, and at the same time, the troops of the Eighth Army on the side of Jiuliancheng were also preparing to force the crossing of the river under the cover of the armored group on the other side of the river.

If such a situation is described as a boxing match, then this is a left hook from the middle [***] side.

At 5:15 in the morning, Xue Zhihang's lieutenant adjutant had already woken up Xue Zhihang, Xue Zhihang took off the military coat on his body, and then asked, "What time is it!" ”

The lieutenant adjutant said: "It's five and fifteen, the sky has already begun to dawn, and the troops are ready!" ”

The battle order had been issued before Xue Zhihang went to sleep, and after taking a nap, Xue Zhihang took out a towel from the face plate brought by the guards, and then washed his face before he looked at the gold pocket watch in his hand that Chen Jingyun personally gave him when he won the Golden Double Sword Medal, and the pointer on the pocket watch was already pointing to 5:18.

"Pass the order, and the ministries will execute the scheduled plan on time!" Xue Zhihang said that he once again boarded his armored command vehicle.

Looking at the tanks in front of and behind him that had been launched and emitted a roaring sound, these T6/T7 tanks had already turned into steel killing machines in Xue Zhihang's eyes. Xue Zhihang once again took out his binoculars and looked at the position of the Yue army not far away that was shrouded in the dense fog of the early morning, the time on the pocket watch passed minute by minute, and a few minutes later, the artillery fire fired by the rear artillery began to leave the front of the army position and go deep into the army, and at this time Xue Zhihang knew that it was time for him to appear!

Immediately, the white-gloved hand pointed forward, and the tank of the tank battalion under his direct jurisdiction was activated, and his eyes left Xue Zhihang and scanned the entire battlefield.

Then it can be found that on this horizontal front of less than a kilometer, more than 100 tanks of the First Armored Regiment are accelerating forward with a faint white smoke, and behind the tanks, the infantry of the Second Motorized Infantry Regiment are following behind the tanks to provide cover for the tanks, and the divisional artillery of the First Armored Division is intensively firing a large number of shells at this small position, and the artillery fire is gradually extending to the depth of the army.

The torrent of steel composed of more than 100 tanks became faster and faster, and the speed was raised to more than 15 kilometers per hour within a few hundred meters.

Captain Shimono Sadahiro opened his bloodshot eyes wide and looked at the faint black shadow in the dense fog in the distance, and subconsciously muttered, "Is this the chariot of the Shina people?" ”

A Cao Chang next to him also looked incredulous: "How can there be so many of these people? ”

Captain Shimono Sadaho didn't know whether to answer that Cao Chang or say to himself: "It is said that the people of China have two chariot divisions, and they are equipped with a large number of chariots, and these chariots in front of me are probably those two chariot divisions!" ”

Shimono Sadaho, who hadn't slept for a day and a night, didn't be stupid after muttering to himself, but gritted his teeth and showed perseverance: "Even if there are more comes, then I will fight more!" ”

Immediately, Captain Ueno Sadahiro came down from the trench, and then bent over and trotted rapidly, shouting while the cannon was fired: "All teams prepare, wait for my order!" ”

Although Lieutenant Ueno Sadahiro was also a traditional infantry officer, he was thrown into the anti-tank unit after joining the 6th Division, becoming the first group of people in the anti-tank unit. Due to the fact that the Chinese army is equipped with a large number of tanks, coupled with the strong combat effectiveness of the tanks on the Western Front in Europe, it is said that the army also pays more attention to tanks and anti-tank warfare, but due to the late development and the fact that the army is suppressed by the navy and does not have much money at all, the development of tanks has been relatively slow, and there is no tank unit formed until now, only a small amount is used for research and testing, and it is said that the army is facing the threat of tanks from China. Therefore, the army vigorously developed its anti-tank forces from its limited military expenditure, and with the Sixth Division as the pioneer, it successively formed several anti-tank brigades, which were assigned to various divisions and regiments.