At 3 a.m. on January 26, 1937, the mouth of the Yalu River - 5ooo meters south of Dadonggou Port (Donggang). A large Japanese fleet was already moored here.

Tonight is the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar, and a full moon hangs high in the night sky. Despite the sparkling surface of the sea, the deep blue-gray exterior paint characteristic of the Japanese ship perfectly conceals it against the black sea background. An hour later, this fleet will carry out artillery shelling of the positions of the Qing troops between Dadonggou and Andong (Dandong).

From the location where the Japanese capital ship was moored to Andong Prefecture at the farthest point, the distance has already passed 4oooo meters. This was almost the limit of the battleship's main guns. However, when the Japanese staff drew up the plan, what was required was not precision strikes, but covered shooting of a fire-ready nature. The explosion of the battleship's giant shells on the Qing army's position will definitely have a strong mental deterrent effect. The Japanese staff officers estimated that although the Qing troops on the other side of the Yalu River were transferred from the Ming and Qing battlefields in the south, and although they had also seen artillery fire, they had definitely not seen the artillery fire of the main guns of 16-inch battleships.

After shelling the Qing army's defensive line, this fleet also lowered its guns and shelled the port of Dadonggou, which was close in front of them. Of course, it was not to destroy the port, but only to destroy the shore artillery and the shore defenders. Subsequently, the Japanese army also had to board the 6th at Dadonggou Port, directly interspersed with the flank of the Qing army's defense line, and cooperate with the frontal offensive of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Yalu River.

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The battleships that took part in the shelling of Dadonggou were:

6 Ao battleship, 42753 tons, 8 16-inch guns.

Battleship Ise, 39,535 tons, 12 14-inch guns.

Battleship Hyuga, 39,535 tons, 12 14-inch guns.

Of these, the 6 Ao was the flagship of this fleet. The 6 Oka is the sister ship of the Nagato, the flagship of the Combined Fleet. As the treasure of the Combined Fleet, the Nagato has never been in battle. In today's first battle against the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese pulled out the 6 Ao horn of the same level. Now Japan is secretly designing the "Yamato-class", but construction has not yet begun. The Nagato-class remains the most powerful first-class warship in the Japanese Navy.

Myoko heavy cruiser, 14743 tons, 1o 8-inch guns.

Heavy cruiser Furutaka, 1o341 tons, 6 8-inch guns.

Heavy cruiser Kagu, 1o341 tons, 6 8-inch guns.

Heavy cruiser Aoba, 876o tons, 6 8-inch guns.

Heavy cruiser Kinugasa, 876o tons, 6 8-inch guns.

In addition, there were light cruisers Tenryu, Tatsuda, Kuma, Tama, Abbukuma and Isuzu, with a total of 34 55-inch guns.

The bombardment fleet had 8 16-inch guns, 24 14-inch guns, 34 8-inch guns, and 34 55-inch guns.

In addition to these large-caliber guns, there were several hundred secondary guns of various small and medium-caliber guns. According to the establishment of the Qing army, this can already form a strategic artillery corps.

The staff officers of the Japanese Navy's Command Department were determined to break through the cost in the first battle, saying that they would smash the 4o km defense line between Dadonggou and Andong and let those guys of the 6th Army break through in one fell swoop. In the future, every primary and secondary school history textbook in the empire should write that in the first battle of the empire's war against the Manchus, it was the navy's artillery that sent the 6th Army across the Yalu River.

Guarding this huge fleet were 32 destroyers of the first and second ranks. In addition, there are various auxiliary ships, transport ships, troop carriers, etc., which are lined up to dozens of kilometers on the surface of the open ocean. The 32 destroyers shuttled back and forth, forming a tight protective net to prevent the Qing torpedo boats from penetrating and injuring the precious capital ship.

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January is the coldest time in North Korea. The two banks of the Yalu River are dripping into ice, and the surface of the river is frozen solidly, and it is completely impossible to see that this was once a big river, but completely a snow-covered "avenue".

In the low temperature of more than 30 degrees below zero, thousands of Japanese soldiers wore thick white camouflage uniforms and crawled very slowly on the ice. Across the street is Andong County.

Each of the Japanese soldiers moved forward with as little movement as possible with their bodies as close to the ice as possible. Even with each exhalation, bury your face in the snow, so that the hot air in your mouth is sprayed on the snow first, preventing the formation of white gas in the air. The white gas produced by the breath of these thousands of people may still be visible in the snowy searchlight column on the opposite bank.

Thousands of people were scattered across the ice field, and there was not even a sound. Every time the searchlight column on the opposite shore swept overhead, the Japanese soldiers immediately stopped moving, flattened their bodies, and made complete "intimate contact" with the cold ice surface under them. After the light swept over, it slowly continued to move.

At about two o'clock in the morning, the Japanese soldiers at the forefront were only more than 200 meters away from the Andong Qing army sentry on the opposite bank, and they had not yet been revealed.

The reconnaissance battalion commander at the vanguard of the Japanese army slowly moved his wrist in front of him and looked at the luminous watch. The difference is five minutes to two o'clock. The operation went smoother than expected. However, he judged that this distance was already the limit, and even one step further would be very likely to be revealed by the Qing army. The battalion commander decided to lurk here and wait for the signal to attack.

No signals, no words or gestures, as long as he stops, the soldiers behind him will stop as well. Thousands of vanguard troops on the entire river will also stop at the same time. Until he moves forward again. He didn't move forward, and the thousands of people behind him wouldn't move even if they lay down until the end of the world. Thousands of people work together precisely and seamlessly, like a clock. For this sneak attack, they have been practicing a frozen lake in North Korean ducks for half a month.

The bitter cold wind blew from time to time, and the "snow nests" that these Japanese soldiers had just climbed immediately froze into "ice nests." The water vapor exhaled from under each person's nose and the clear snot scraped off the nose also begin to slowly freeze, forming an "ice skate". However, still no one moved.

Tonight was colder than any other night in the half month they had been training. And because the sneak went smoothly than expected, it also arrived at the front line of the Qing army much earlier than scheduled. In other words, this time the incubation time will be much longer than the training time.

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An hour passed. Two hours passed.

In the Japanese fleet off the coast of Dadonggou, a "Z" flag was quickly raised on the flagship 6 Ao. 6. The Ao used the signal light to send a sentence to friendly ships in all directions-

"The rise and fall of the imperial kingdom is a battle here! Gentlemen, work hard! ”

Before the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War, Heihachiro Togo raised the "Z" flag and played this sentence to boost the morale of the whole fleet. Today, for these officers and soldiers of the Japanese fleet, time seems to have returned to 3o years ago.

At four o'clock, the 16-inch guns of the 6 Ao opened fire first, followed by a dense fire of hundreds of guns of the size of the entire fleet. Thousands of shells flew north with a terrifying whistling sound.

A minute or two later, the Qing army's position, a few kilometers south of the Yalu River, began to shake the ground first. The pot was boiling on the position, and large clusters of red light flashed densely, which could be seen on the sea. For the next two or three minutes, the "blast zone" continued to extend northward. Due to the distance, the shells fired at the same time as the south have not fallen until now.

However, this section of Andong County was conceded out and was not within the scope of the shelling. It was not that the Japanese staff officers were humane and could not bear to shell the county seat, but that this county was an important target for the Japanese army's lurking and sneak attack. When the first shells exploded in the south and north of Andong County, the Japanese troops on the river were about to charge the county seat.

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Sure enough, as the first shell exploded, the Japanese soldiers crawling on the ice jumped up one after another, holding bayonets, shouting "Long live", and rushed to Andong County on the west bank.

The Japanese soldiers were a little sluggish in their movements. After two hours of lurking on the ice, everyone froze. There are still hundreds of people who have not made it up.

These people are completely frozen. Some people have lost consciousness.

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