In terms of light weapons, the Marine Division is the second integrated division in China, after the new 38th Division, to be fully equipped with the "small three pieces" of the Bayi gun family, the Red Star series mortars, and the "Changying" rocket launcher. In terms of heavy weapons, the Marine Division is the first to be equipped with the latest 152mm cannon howitzers produced by the military industry department among all division-level units of the PLA, and there are 24 of them, but this is not the best, and the Marine Division is actually equipped with its own air defense units, (amphibious) armored brigades, and divisional (water) reconnaissance aircraft brigades, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this division is the first multi-arm mixed integrated division in the history of the PLA.

In addition, the personnel of the Marine Division of the Navy also far exceeded the level of one division, and the total strength of the Marine Division had increased to more than 50,000 (including non-combatants) before this cross-sea landing battle, which was a large increase in the number of troops in the country. Prior to this war, the Marine Division had been armed with 24 152mm plus howitzers, 36 122mm plus howitzers, 48 107mm 12-barrel rocket launchers, 54 105mm light howitzers, 153 120mm mortars, 324 82mm mortars, 18 twin 37mm anti-aircraft guns, 24 twin 25mm anti-aircraft guns, 72 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 702 general-purpose machine guns, 486 60mm mortars, and 1053 squad light machine guns, 1,053 bazookas, 21,048 assault rifles, 1,053 sniper rifles, 81 anti-materiel sniper rifles; In addition, there are nearly 6,000 vehicles, hundreds of landing craft (large landing ships were uniformly allocated by the field army command before the war), 28 amphibious tanks, 60 amphibious armored vehicles, and 12 water reconnaissance aircraft.

It is worth mentioning that the amphibious armored brigade of the Marine Division is equipped with amphibious tanks and amphibious armored vehicles that use the newly developed double-sided hardened armor steel jishu. Therefore, the protection force is greatly enhanced, and because the double-sided hardened armor is very close to the composite armor in principle, the protection ability of the shaped energy armor-piercing bullet is stronger than that of the kinetic energy bullet, which makes the amphibious combat vehicle of the Marine Division more confident in the face of the devil infantry, you must know that no matter how the Japanese pick the door, it is impossible to ignore the anti-tank problem after suffering so many big losses, and now the Japanese army and marine corps have begun to equip a large number of anti-tank grenades, rocket launchers and anti-tank guns using the principle of concentrated energy.

It must be noted that the "1939" amphibious tank equipped by the armored brigade of the Marine Division was perfected by the Luoyang Tractor Factory based on the design sketch sketched by Hu Weidong based on the "Type 63 amphibious tank" of the historical New China as a template, so it is inherently much stronger than the Type 81 light tank that was continuously improved by the previous copycat devil Type 95 light tank in the factory, and even regarded it as a conventional tank. It was also inferior only to the T34 and the Panther tank, which Germany had only begun to secretly produce. The amphibious armored vehicle, although it has to undertake the task of transporting part of the personnel, the thickness of the armor is greatly limited. It is only 6-12mm, but because the thinner the double-sided hardened armor, the more obvious the advantage, it is still enough to resist the attack of any steel core or armor-piercing bullet (caliber no more than 13.2mm) produced by other countries, as well as non-armor-piercing bullets with a caliber of no more than 75mm, although the performance in other aspects is not particularly excellent. But on the whole, it can be regarded as a very good armored car. What's more, it's still amphibious

In fact, Hu Weidong originally wanted to get the amphibious assault vehicle out in advance. However, the requirements for the engine are too high, and it is really not something that China can develop now, but there are nearly 100 amphibious armored vehicles and more than 100 landing ships ordered from the United States and copied by itself. As well as the powerful ground-to-ground firepower cooperation of the "fire support ship", Hu Weidong still has some confidence in this amphibious assault operation, which can be called the first time in the history of the PLA

Perhaps it was a historical coincidence, or perhaps it was deliberate by Hu Weidong, that the landing site of the Marine Division was chosen Huayuankou near Dalian, where the Japanese army landed during the First Sino-Japanese War, and then seized Dalian and Lushun, laying the foundation for the victory of the First Sino-Japanese War. But unlike the Qing army's unfortified troops during the First Sino-Japanese War, the devils still arranged some defenders here, but after all, they didn't think of building a coastal defense fortress here (if a coastal defense fortress is built at every possible landing site, even Lao Mei can't bear it, let alone the devils. The Japanese marines, who only had more than 1,000 men, and the barracks outposts, which could not withstand the heavy artillery bombardment, could not resist an elite main regiment of the Marine Division that was the first to land.

Although the Japanese navy and army were full of contradictions, they still understood the truth of "the cold lips and the cold teeth" in the "Kwantung Prefecture," a brigade that was attacked on both sides and had a small territory, so soon a devil from an infantry wing rushed to the rescue, but under the cover of more than 10,000 rockets poured down by six fire support ships in just one minute, they had already lost their offensive capability before they could take part in the battle

At the same time, the few remaining Japanese warships in the mouth of Arthur also hurriedly drove out, but they did not expect that the frogmen of the Marine Corps had unknowingly anchored a few mines in the channel the night before. Frightened by the mines, the Japanese fleet at Lushunkou did not dare to advance at full speed anymore, but cautiously sent minesweepers to the front to clear the hidden dangers, but in this way, time was inevitably delayed a lot, and when they arrived at the destination slowly, the heavy equipment of the Chinese Marine Division had been successfully sent ashore

Now that the Japanese capital ships are far away, the remaining small and medium-sized ships of the Japanese army are simply unable to bombard the more than 100 cannons of the Marine Division, especially the 24 152mm cannon howitzers specially equipped with armor-piercing blasting shells, which pose a great threat to the thinly armored Japanese destroyers and light cruisers. After a single fire, the Japanese fleet, which sank two warships not long after, saw that it was difficult to win, so they had to retreat back to the mouth of Arthur in a gloomy manner, but in their opinion, with the fortress of Jinzhou, even if the Chinese army was elite, it was not easy to capture Dalian. However, the Marine Division did not storm the fortress, but sent an elite light infantry battalion to penetrate it and take the devil's airfield

Hu Lian analyzed this very thoroughly, although the devil's naval guns and fortress heavy artillery must be able to reach the airport, if they really dare to shell, with the error of large-caliber heavy artillery at a long distance and the terrifying killing radius of the shells, I am afraid that the destruction of the airport will be more complete than ours (to be continued......