Chapter 242: Breaking through the Yalu River

As in history, the main forces of the Japanese army were stationed in Uiju - 1 - where the Yalu River was divided into 3 tributaries. Two of the tributaries are only about 60 meters wide and 1 meter deep, so they can be waded through. Jiangbei, opposite Yiju, is Hushan, as an important fortress of the defense line of the Yalu River, Rongroku's fortification in Hushan can be said to spare no effort, so Katsura Taro did not plan to gnaw this bone directly.

Therefore, Katsura Taro specially selected two brigades of elite troops to carry mortar guns and several 107mm guns to maneuver to Shuikou Town, and then crossed the river from Shuikou Town to attack the Anping River Estuary. The next day at 10 o'clock in the morning. The two Japanese brigades under the leadership of the 18th Wing Commander Masadasa Sato launched an attack on the Anpei estuary!

Compared with the Japanese army in history, the Japanese army on this plane has greatly improved its technical and tactical level after fighting with the Beiyang New Army for more than half a year. With the roar of 107mm heavy guns, the Japanese attack officially began. Six 107mm guns entered the firing position at night and then aimed directly at the batteries of the Qing army. The Japanese troops on the starting position also began to attack the Qing trenches on the opposite bank with mortars.

"Why don't you fight?" Suddenly, Masadasa Sato couldn't hear the roar of the 107mm heavy gun.

"Well, the battery on the other side has collapsed." A staff officer wiped his sweat and said, to be honest, he really didn't expect this battle to be so easy. Relative to the various artillery bunkers in the North Ocean. The artillery set up by the other party on the high platform is basically equivalent to inserting a label and selling the head! Although there were a few small cannons that were not found at the beginning, the opponent's blind fire still exposed the position of the artillery, and after a few unlucky ghosts on the front line were injured, the 107mm heavy artillery directly sent those few fish that slipped through the net to the western sky!

"Which troop is on the other side?" Sato asked, sleepwalking.

"It should be the Eight Banners of Iktanga." The staff officer said.

"The gap in the combat power of the various units of the Qing Kingdom is too big, right?!" Sato said in his heart. Subsequently, under the onslaught of the Japanese army, after losing artillery support, the Zhenbian army, which had never fought before, retreated directly after a little resistance, and then retreated under the attack of the Japanese army, and then turned into a rout, and finally turned into a flight.

And when this war report reached Katsura Taro's headquarters. In the sound of broken eyes, Katsura Taro ordered an attack on all fronts, and the 3rd Division launched a full-scale attack on the defense line of the Yalu River, and the 2 brigades crossed the river separately to start, and then launched a pincer offensive against Tiger Mountain! The two sides finally started their first hard battle on Tiger Mountain.

Here, waiting for Katsura Taro is Dong Fuxiang, the general under Rong Lu, and his 5 battalions of nearly 5,000 troops and 24 75mm guns! "Junmen, why didn't the Japanese invade for a long time?" One of the guards pointed to the Japanese soldiers in the distance, who were just outside the effective range of the Hushan artillery. Then the actions of the Japanese army told them the answer, and one by one the Japanese soldiers took out their sapper shovels and began to build fortifications and dig trenches. With the sound of excavation, the foxholes turned into a coherent trench system, and the Japanese troops in the distance also began to do this work, and then the trenches began to gradually approach Hushan, and then re-trained as one.

"The Japanese don't want to besiege us, do they?" Dong Fuxiang, who has been in the army for many years, has a big question mark in his heart.

I have to say that Dong Fuxiang, who has been fighting for many years, still has some level, and he guessed half right. The trench system under construction did have a siege effect, but Katsura Taro's purpose was not limited to that. It is between the extremely strong defensive strength of the Beiyang Army. For fear that the troops of Ronglu Lianjun and Iketanga who met him were also so good at defending, Katsura Taro specially came up with such a tactic to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

Since the Third Division has taken the lead and unexpectedly completed the encirclement of the Hushan position, it is necessary to make full use of this bait to attract the Qing army to break away from the position to relieve the siege of Hushan, so that the offensive and defensive situation will change, and the Japanese army will occupy the convenient conditions of the defender, and this will greatly consume the vitality of the Qing army. And by the way, you can also evaluate the combat effectiveness of the two Qing armies from the attack, killing two birds with one stone. …,

In this way, the first battle of encirclement and reinforcement in the First Sino-Japanese War began! When it was learned that Hushan was surrounded by the main force of the Japanese army. Rong Lu and Yi Ke Tang A realized the crisis of the battle at the same time, so the two sides began to reinforce from both wings, but the two sides did not have unified command before the opening of the film, Rong Lu is the head of the northwest training army, but what about Yi Ke Tang A or Heilongjiang general? Who's afraid of whom? And even if you are separated, you can't help it if people don't cooperate with you. Originally, Rong Lu planned to drink Iktanga and talk about it, but before he could go to Iktanga, the two sides fought.

To say that Rong Lu has no understanding of the new war, it is indeed a bit excessive, people have read a few books, and they have also watched a few Beiyang New Army performances. However, the actual level is limited to the skin. In his opinion, it is to concentrate the artillery on a certain point, and then the brothers rush, and the most scattered on both sides of the breakthrough is over! Under the guidance of this kind of tactical thinking, if you face the Japanese army that has been educated n times by the defense line of the Beiyang New Army, the result will be quite tragic. And this tragedy has begun!

In the roar of 12 Krupp camp guns, Ronglu's attack began, the gunners stripped naked, threw off their arms in the still cold early spring, loaded shells into the breeches and fired at the Japanese positions, and soon, the dense shells hit the Japanese positions one by one dark plumes of smoke. Rong Lu put down the binoculars in his hand and nodded with satisfaction: "The boys did a good job, under such a fierce shelling, the soldiers in the trenches of the Japanese army should be about the same, right?" Then he signaled to the herald next to him that it was time for the infantry to charge!

Before the end of the shelling, the infantry entered the starting position, trying to reduce the gap between the artillery bombardment and the infantry to launch a charge, which Rong Lu still understood, and then when the artillery sound had not completely stopped, a large number of training officers and soldiers rushed out of the trenches and launched a charge towards the Japanese position, and the charge of more than 2,000 people was really spectacular! A pair of Qing troops under the leadership of the gang commander thought that the Japanese position was approaching, and behind them, the 75mm camp guns were still firing from time to time, I don't know if the road was to destroy the enemy's fortifications or to give courage to the charging friendly troops!

Suddenly, the piercing scream produced by the friction of a high-speed object against the air aroused Rong Lu's vigilance, and he immediately looked into the distance, only to see that the 75mm camp artillery position, which was still in full swing just now, fell into a sea of fire in just a few minutes, and the gunpowder smoke from the explosion of the shell directly covered the entire artillery position, and it was impossible to see what was happening inside from the outside, only a dull explosion could be heard. Every sound was like a hammer hitting Rong Lu's heart, this was all the troops that he Rong Lu had trained for several years. It's all his money!

With a loud bang to the sky, the entire field artillery position was completely sent to the western sky, and at the same time, the shells also began to fall in the attacking queue, the dense artillery shells directly blew the offensive queue into two ends, countless minced meat and blood sprinkled on the battlefield, gunsmoke and bloody smell made people want to vomit. Although the officers and men who rushed to the front were not blown up by the artillery fire in the sky, they were even more frightening weapons.

You are approaching the first trench, and from the outside you see that there is no enemy in front of you, but the silence of the battlefield does not mean that it is safe, and there may be something more terrible waiting for you. The attacking forces, which already had no way to retreat, had no choice but to continue the sprint. At this moment, a series of hot tongues of fire suddenly shot out from another trench not far from the first trench, and a blackened shell was thrown out of the trench and fell into the attacking skirmish.

The high-speed rotation of the barrel of the Gatling gun, which has a rate of fire of 300 to 400 rounds per minute, swept down the Qing army in front of him like a wheat harvester. And a single mortar shell made the attacking troops rushing in front of them not even have a place to hide. The bunker on the front, the side on the side knocks down the position. and the mortar cannons are intertwined into a fine web of fire, turning all life into a ball of blood. Rong Lu, who was supervising the battle in the back, had a feeling of dizziness as soon as his eyes darkened. "Rip it off." Rong Lu, who opened his eyes again, waved his hand and said. In just over 20 minutes, Ronglu's northwest training army lost 12 artillery pieces, and more than 1,000 soldiers were killed and wounded. And the losses of the Japanese troops on the opposite side were within 100. …,

Just when Rong Lu's training attack was frustrated, the local army in the northeast that launched an attack from the other side was also defeated, and unlike the northwest training army that fought hard and rushed hard, the Eight Banners troops in the northeast and the soldiers who were temporarily conscripted were too unbearable, and a few platoon guns and a few mortar shells repelled the Qing army on the opposite side, and the artillery and Gatling guns had no chance to play at all! The dense formation, rough command and tactical literacy are the evaluation of the Japanese army on the Qing troops in the northeast, and as the commander, Iktanga has nothing to do about it, these troops are originally fancy, and it depends on the situation to fight bandits, let alone fight with the elite of the Japanese army!

Soon, Rong Lu and Yi Ketanga realized that if they continued to fight in the current situation, they were afraid that if no one was rescued, the two troops would have to get in, and now Rong Lu realized how difficult it was for the army in Beiyang. But it won't work if you don't save it, his beloved general Dong Fuxiang is still in Hushan, and there are nearly 5,000 elite people in the northwest training army with him. If this army is lost, it will be enough to greatly damage the vitality of the Northwest Training Army. At this time, Rong Lu suddenly remembered that he still had 12 105mm long-range howitzers that he bought from the Germans, this thing Rong Lu has always been a treasure, and now it should be taken out and used, even if it can't break through the Japanese defense line, it would be good to relieve some pressure on Dong Fuxiang.

As for whether Dong Fuxiang can break out of the encirclement, it depends on his creation. After all, the current training of troops in the northwest of the front line is like this, and the soldiers and horses of Manchuria are really not able to count on it, looking at the current situation, even if Rong Lu's family background is put into it, it will not have any fundamental impact on the war situation. Rather than this, it is better to go on the defensive to gain a tactical advantage, anyway, the Japanese army's sea route is about to be broken, in Rong Lu's opinion. The Japanese offensive would not last.

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