Age of Rebirth

Tang Qiuquan didn't seem to hear the chief of staff's words, picked up the napkin, wiped his mouth gracefully, glanced at Xin Xiguo, and said with some aftertaste: "Well, the food tastes good today, why didn't I notice it usually! Negligence ah!"

Xin Xiguo almost fainted, "My commander, the two fast gunboat brigades are all ready. Commander Hantie of the Marine Corps is so anxious that his eyes are burning, and he has called twice, waiting for you With one order, hundreds of thousands of troops will start to move immediately, so you still have the time to talk about food?" He said a little angrily.

Tang Qiuquan looked at his watch and said: "Convey my order, all the carrier-based reconnaissance planes will take off to conduct a comprehensive reconnaissance of the Japanese positions! Don't let go of any abnormal situation! The reconnaissance planes will return in 10 minutes!"

"Commander, is it necessary?" Xin Xiguo asked with his eyes wide open.

"Execute the order!" Tang Qiuquan didn't explain, but said very simply. Xin Xiguo swallowed, mumbling something, got up and called.

Tang Qiuquan walked to the porthole of the command cabin, raised his binoculars, and looked at the carrier-based reconnaissance planes on the aircraft carrier, gliding lightly across the take-off deck of the aircraft carrier, taking off one after another, and rushing into the blue sky in an instant.

"In more than an hour and a half, the Japanese soldiers who survived by chance should do something. After the napalm bomb is destroyed, the Japanese army's underground fortifications will definitely be unusable, so they can only come to the ground, and they will never give up. Resistance, the final blow of the fast gunboat brigade, can catch all the fish that slip through the net, I hope my hunch is accurate!" He thought to himself.

How many years have I fought with the little devil, from the northeastern land of white mountains and black waters, to the coast of the East China Sea, with the southwest border, and then to the Indochina Peninsula.In the end, he changed his career and took charge of a fleet. Qiuquan never dared to ignore him. Under the education of the emperor, he was full of samurai spirit, and the Japanese soldiers who were loyal to that shitty emperor were crazy and fierce. It is common to treat yourself as a human flesh bomb.Any contempt will bring heavy casualties to the troops.

In about ten minutes, a staff officer came in and reported: "Reporting to the commander, the reconnaissance plane reported that they were at the Japanese army position at Lushunkou. There were traces of Japanese soldiers' activities, but they were too scattered. It is impossible to make a specific number of people." statistics!"

Tang Qiuquan smiled slightly.Said: "Understood, order the reconnaissance plane to return!"

Xin Xiguo was so surprised that he opened his mouth so wide that he could stuff an egg in, "Commander, you are amazing, how did you know that you are on the battlefield? There will still be little devils alive, it's crazy, two rounds of bombing, even bombs The one with napalm. The little devil has too much life, can he still survive?" He was surprised, unbelievable, and a little ashamed.

Tang Qiuquan glanced at him, and said earnestly: "Xiguo, as the chief of staff, you should think that nothing is absolute. On the front line of Lushunkou, there are nearly [-] Japanese troops in two divisions. Can you expect to pass two rounds of bombing? No one left? Well, order the fast gunboat brigade to attack and cover the area where the landing troops are about to grab the beach! Order the landing troops to prepare for landing!"

Xin Xiguo bowed his head in shame. The commander's words were a reminder and also a criticism of himself. With regard to the series of performances just now, he was really not a competent chief of staff. Impulsive, not calm enough, blindly optimistic and underestimating the enemy, these should not be committed. I have taken full account of all my mistakes, "Commander, I am ashamed!" He whispered.

Tang Qiuquan waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't look dejected, act immediately and order, isn't Han Tie so red-eyed!" He was a commander of the army. He has served in the fleet since he joined the independent division. He is a layman in some army tactics. "It seems that it is necessary for Xiguo to go to the field corps for a while!" He thought to himself road.

On the surface of the sea, the troop transport fleet and escort fleet of the Independent Division began to move. On the ground position at Lushunkou, Major Tokugawa was holding the binoculars tightly. Cannon, on the right side, are more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns. This is the front of Tokugawa Major's defense. All the firepower is already all the weapons and equipment that can be collected, and there are no more. , can not be used, is buried in the ruins.

The shells and bullets collected are not many, and they can only support the battle under normal circumstances. It takes less than an hour, but Major Tokugawa believes that it is enough, and he has no extravagant expectations. To be able to defend the Lushunkou position, the only thing I have to do is to inflict the greatest damage on the Chinese soldiers and kill the most Chinese soldiers before the jade is broken.

For this reason, Major Tokugawa ordered mortarmen and light and heavy machine gun shooters not to fire even if the enemy's shells fell on him before the Chinese landing troops entered the effective range. The fastest rate of fire, the most mortar shells and machine gun rounds, until it runs out.

For the other soldiers, Major Tokugawa's request was to tie all the grenades and explosives to his body, lie motionless in the trench, and when the soldiers of the Independent Division rushed into the position, they would ring them together, and fight with these nasty Chinese soldiers. Everyone died together, not only asked the soldiers to do this, but Tokugawa Major himself had a dozen grenades strapped to his body. With the leader taking the lead, the rest of the Japanese soldiers followed suit without complaint. There is a sacred feeling of dedicating oneself to His Majesty the Emperor!

Just now, the reconnaissance planes of the independent division that passed overhead made Major Tokugawa feel uneasy. After all, it is broad daylight, and the soldiers hiding in the simple fortifications will be discovered by the reconnaissance planes of China ?

If found, what happens next?Major Tokugawa doesn't know, but he can be sure that the commander of the independent division will never send bombers to carry out indiscriminate bombing because of these few imperial soldiers. Most likely, it will be shelling, "Attention all , hide yourself as much as possible, and prepare to prevent the shelling of the Chinese troops!" He whispered the order.

On the sea, the huge troop carrier of the Independent Division is getting closer and closer. In front of the troop carrier fleet are nearly a hundred small gunboats. Although the tonnage is small, their speed is astonishingly fast. From the perspective of Major Tokugawa, the small gunboats of the independent division seemed to be flying on the sea. "Could it be that the Chinese used the small-caliber artillery on this small gunboat to carry out Shelling? If so, it is the luck of the remnants of the Seventh Army!" He thought while puzzled.

The fast gunboats of the Independent Division lined up in a horizontal line, galloping over the sea, and approached the beach at Lushunkou in an instant. Major Tokugawa saw that the gunboats were not slowing down, and seemed to keep rushing to the beach. , From the gunboat, groups of flames suddenly erupted, tongues of flames whizzed over, and the sky was immediately filled with piercing screams that he had never heard before.

Major Tokugawa opened his mouth wide and stared dumbfounded at the tongues of fire, which came before his eyes in an instant, and the dull loud noise reached the ears of the remaining Japanese soldiers at this time, "Boom! Boom! Boom!"— — A series of loud noises, a burst of flames suddenly rose from the Japanese position, and in the pupils of Major Tokugawa, it rapidly enlarged. After the rocket exploded, the high temperature of thousands of degrees instantly swallowed Major Tokugawa and the people around him Japanese soldiers.

This is the third firepower strike by the escort forces of the Independent Division against the Japanese position on the front line of Lushunkou. On the position that is less than [-] kilometers long, according to the order of Lieutenant General Tang Qiuquan, the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Crossing the Sea Command, carry out The repeated firepower strikes, the investment of bombers, gunboats and naval guns, more than a large-scale positional battle, thousands of tons of steel, poured on the Japanese positions.

Regarding the landing operation on the Liaodong Peninsula, so many bombers and naval guns were used, and there were two fast gunboat brigades, one salvo and thousands of rockets. The senior generals believe that such a waste of firepower is really unnecessary, especially the third firepower attack, which is a waste of ammunition. If you can drown a thousand little devils, is it worth using thousands of rockets?

Of course, this is just a view on tactics, not aimed at Tang Qiuquan himself, and Tang Qiuquan didn't mean to explain at all, but the teacher Tang Qiuli said a word, which immediately quelled the controversy, "The life of a soldier is not What can be exchanged for thousands of shells, if in the next battle, your troops use millions of shells to end the battle without a single casualty, I will give you credit!"

Thousands of rockets turned the Japanese positions that had been destroyed twice into a sea of ​​flames and steaming flames. This is different from napalm bombs, which burn slowly, and the flow of flames can be seen. Underneath, in the area covered by rockets in all directions, flames mixed with thick smoke rose into the air, which was more intuitive and terrifying, as if the air was ignited.

Rear Admiral Han Tie, the commander of the Marine Corps, stood on the command ship, looked at the sea of ​​flames in front of him, smacked his teeth, and said to Colonel Wang Dongshan, the chief of staff beside him: "It's ruthless! Commander Tang is ruthless! Three strikes, I'm afraid The little devil's bones and dregs are not left. I thought that the beach landing would be a fierce battle. No matter what, we would have to pay thousands of lives to win the little devil's beachhead. Now it seems that worrying is unnecessary! This Do you still need to fight? With whom?"

Wang Dongshan said with a smile: "Commander, it seems that you are not very satisfied with your tone?"

(to be continued) (to be continued..)