Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1894 Retreat
Taiyuan headquarters.

Wang Xuexin finally had a good sleep, but this good sleep only lasted three hours after the victory of the coastal defense regiment.

The battle in Donggang can be said to be full of dangers, which really kept Wang Xuexin busy for a while... All large and small affairs required his command and racked his brains to plan, resulting in Wang Xuexin's average sleep of only more than two hours a day for so many days. Hour.

It wouldn't have mattered if Fengtian was surrounded by Japanese soldiers a few months ago.

but now……

When Fengtian had become an ammunition supply base and a fuel supply base for three front lines, its encirclement almost meant the collapse of the entire Eighth Route Army offensive.

But fortunately, I passed the test without any danger in the end.

This is the most stressful and difficult command since Wang Xuexin became the commander of the aviation regiment.

The main reason is that there is not much space to operate and there is a serious shortage of troops but there are many types of arms involved.

Infantry, recruitment of new soldiers, coastal defense regiments, aviation, equipment research and development and investment...everything must be handled by Wang Xuexin.

Wang Xuexin is only commanding at the strategic level. If he were to go down to the tactical level in detail, he would be too busy even if he had only three heads and six arms.

For example, the command of the 271st and 272nd regiments... Although they only command two regiments and have not many troops, they are still strategic commands.

For example, whether the two regiments should withdraw or defend, and whether to build an airport to hold off the Japanese after withdrawing, are all directional issues.

As for how to evacuate, how to repair the airport, or what methods to avoid, these are all left to the frontline commanders to decide.

But even so, Wang Xuexin still felt as if a layer of skin had been peeled off.

At the same time, Wang Xuexin was a little lucky: Ozawa Jisaburo and Sakagaki Seishiro were both very powerful opponents. Fortunately, the Japanese navy and army had long-term conflicts and conflicts, otherwise the ship might have capsized this time.

"Captain!" At this time, Chen Songyong stepped forward and reported: "The Japs fighter planes in the direction of Bangzi have not moved. The Japs who landed in Donggang have fully returned to defense, including the artillery used to bomb the airport and the anti-aircraft firepower deployed around!"

Wang Xuexin nodded.

This was something he had expected. Seishiro Sakagaki would not want to compete with the Eighth Route Army for air supremacy. This was no different from seeking death.

At this time, Sakagaki could only place his hope on one thing: to deploy artillery and anti-aircraft firepower along the coast of Donggang Port to create a maritime transportation channel.

To be precise, it is not a transportation channel but a retreat.

Seishiro Sakagaki hoped to withdraw troops from Donggang.

"Let them go!" Wang Xuexin said.

"What?" Chen Songyong couldn't help but widened his eyes: "Captain, you finally surrounded these Japs and let them go like this?"

Wang Xuexin pointed to the map and said: "Donggang is only a dozen kilometers away from Bangzi. If the Japanese deploy artillery and anti-aircraft firepower on both sides, there will be cross fire in the sea area of ​​​​more than ten kilometers. You ask our army's coastal defense regiment to follow Are these artillerymen hidden in the fortifications hard to defend?"

Warships may be able to defeat these artillery, because warships are durable and their guns have large caliber and long range.

The problem is that the Eighth Route Army's Coastal Defense Regiment lacks naval gun training, especially when warships have insufficient accuracy on unstable seas. If they want to win this artillery battle, they will have to use massive amounts of artillery shells to blast them like hawk sauce for days and nights.The Eighth Route Army does not have this condition and there is no need!

The most important thing is that it is not necessary:

The Japs located in the direction of Bangzi are not Wang Xuexin's main target. If they withdraw, they will be blocked outside the Yalu River defense line. At least they will not be able to pose a threat to China for a long time in the future.

On the contrary, there are hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army troops in the northeast waiting to be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army!

Is it necessary for Wang Xuexin to divide his troops and surround the [-] Japanese in Donggang, even let the coastal defense regiment run out of artillery shells, and even eat them at the expense of fighter planes and pilots?

"This is a lone army!" Wang Xuexin continued his analysis: "The sea channel is their only channel and the only way to survive. Once our army forces an attack, the Japanese will fight back desperately, and it will be a trapped beast fighting!"

Chen Songyong understood this when he heard this.

It is a taboo for military strategists to force the enemy to fight with animals. He just wanted to annihilate the Japanese so much that he didn't think of it for a moment.

So what the regiment leader said is right. The purpose of war is never to kill the enemy, but to see strategic significance and exchange of interests.

If you have to pay a huge price to kill the enemy, but it doesn't have much strategic significance... this battle really can't be fought like this!

"But if our army opens up this transportation channel, this battle will be much easier to fight!" Wang Xuexin said: "The coastal defense regiment does not attack directly, but it can use the long range of naval guns to block the Donggang... In this way, the Japanese can even escape. You want to have your skin peeled off too, right?"

Chen Songyong nodded repeatedly in agreement.

It's also a war. If the former uses up all the artillery shells, he may not be able to defeat many Japanese, and he will have to pay a considerable price.

But if you open your mouth and let the Japanese escape, you can use extremely limited shells to cause great losses to the Japanese. By the way, you can also train the operation of the coastal defense regiment's naval guns...

Then the coastal defense regiment operated like this. The ten warships did not break into the port directly but parked about [-] kilometers away from the port. The aircraft carrier was hidden fifty kilometers away under the protection of other warships.

The twenty-kilometer distance was just within the firing range of the "Wrath-class" destroyer, and the army artillery deployed by the Japanese along the coast was out of reach. They could only watch the Eighth Route Army's coastal defense regiment use the port as a target for artillery practice.

This move of the Eighth Route Army made Seishiro Sakagaki half angry to death.

He originally thought that the Eighth Route Army Coastal Defense Regiment would take advantage of the victory to pursue the attack and march straight to Donggang, so he was already prepared to fight the Eighth Route Army. The artillery was dispersed and deployed covertly, and three artillery regiments were urgently transferred to prepare for reinforcements at any time.

However, these preparations failed to work at all: all the artillery could not reach the Eighth Route Army warships.

On the other hand, the Japanese retreat in Donggang turned into a "great escape".

It is definitely impossible to retreat during the day. The Eighth Route Army reconnaissance plane saw a wooden ship docked at the port from a distance to transport people, and immediately guided the naval gun to fire the shells and blow the wooden ship into the sky... At this time, the only means of transportation the Japanese could provide to Donggang The wooden boats were "recruited" from fishermen, and these wooden boats could not withstand the explosion. If they were not hit by a wave, they might fall apart.

Retreating at night must also be done with caution.

The reason is that there are intelligence personnel of the Eighth Route Army in Donggang. Once a ship approaches, groups of naval guns will soon fall from the sky.

In the end, there was no other option. Seishiro Sakagaki could only order the troops to build their own rafts and retreat in a dispersed manner... that is, they used ant moving methods to withdraw bit by bit. Some even rowed kayaks to retreat, and the fleet was in a few places. Calling from kilometers away!

(End of this chapter)