The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Don't forget the national humiliation!I would like to use this chapter to commemorate the compatriots who died!

What they are afraid of will come. For the new commander Yamada Otozo and Chief of Staff Heitaro Kimura, what they are most worried about is that China will launch an attack from the sea and formally form an encirclement offensive against the Kwantung Army.

When the Air Force first blew up all the bridges on the Yalu River with an absolute advantage and cut off the passage between North Korea and Liaoning, it was the time for their internal handover. It is possible to erect a temporary pontoon bridge to deal with it, and the entire Manchuria itself has relatively sufficient resources, and it can resist for a long time without support for a while.

The only evidence for doubt is that the Chinese navy has been very calm and did not launch a sea attack and landing operation at the same time, so after half a month of fear, the Japanese army regained its calm.

But this time it's completely different!There is no place to hide in the narrow Yellow Sea. Airplanes can easily spot hundreds of ships arranged in combat formations. The mighty scale is not good at first glance, not to mention the majestic battleships. and the aircraft carrier in the middle.

When the first 406mm caliber armor-piercing projectile spanned more than 30 kilometers across the air and precisely bombed near the Laotieshan Fort, Commander Yamada finally believed that their worries had come to fruition, and China was really going to launch a full-scale attack!

"What should we do?! Although our strength is sufficient, the flying regiment is too bad! And we can't deploy more forces on the peninsula. The Chinese army's artillery fire is so fierce, and the defense will be very difficult!"

Otozo Yamada and Heutaro Kimura looked at each other, unable to make up their minds for a while!

If the lieutenant generals of the master regiments saw the appearance of the two gentlemen, they would be disappointed and hacked them to death with their own hands to vent their anger!As the leaders of the most elite Kwantung Army of the powerful Japanese Army, these two guys are really bad!

It must be said that in the past ten years, among the leaders of the Kwantung Army.The level of these two goods is the worst!Not to mention the elites like Itagaki Seishiro, Umezu Yoshijiro, Ishihara Wanji, and Doihara Kenji who got up early, even Neiji Okamura and Kenkichi Ueda who followed them were much better than them.Seniors like Shigeru Honjo and Minamijiro are also very elite, and Koiso Kuniaki and Isoya Rensuke can also be at the top.Even though Hideki Tojo, who was scorned as a private, was reckless and rude, and his mind was not clear, at least that guy was brave and decisive, and he would not hesitate at critical moments.

It's fine now.Your Excellency, the two generals, were ordered in danger to act as the imperial army's entrustment. They came up to encourage two active attacks, with 10,000+ casualties, but at least they held back the fierce attack of the Chinese Corps. It was a small record, but the overall situation changed. Immediately exposed!

Kimura Hyoutaro couldn't admit that he was too bad, so he pretended to think deeply for a while.Said: "It seems that there is no other way. If the Chinese army attacks with all its strength, we must launch the strategy of a decisive battle on the mainland. If we want to turn the Liaodong Peninsula into a death zone, we must stop their advance no matter what!"

This is all nonsense, but as a qualified Japanese, nonsense is the premise that must be said. Although Yamada Otozo is impatient, he has no better ideas.Nodding helplessly: "Then take Jinzhou as the place of decisive victory! Let the Chinese army taste the hardships that our imperial warriors suffered back then. It is good to retreat in spite of difficulties."

This is the eternal pride of their Japanese army. In 1905, the classic war that defeated Russia and became a world power. At that time, Japan paid 7 casualties in World War I, and almost washed the narrow fortress ground with blood. The Japanese army was completely brought into the gutter!

As far as fear is concerned, the two generals still don't have it.It has not been a day or two for the Kwantung Army to defend against Zhu Bin's sea attack.Countless fortresses have been built around the entire Golden State, which is really something that even medium-pound aerial bombs can't handle.

The heavy forts are all erected in the hidden places with hills in front. Of course, this is to absorb the experience of the Russians in the past;There are tunnels through the mountains inside, comparable to the Maginot Line of Defense.

Some time ago, most of the experimental ultra-long-range electromagnetic accelerator bombardment was aimed at the warships in the port. After the basically tossing Third Fleet was killed and wounded, the attack on the mountain fort was not so accurate, and there were All kinds of occlusion, the straight trajectory of high-speed shells is very difficult to hit --- if you can hit it even if it is separated by hundreds of kilometers.

However, the recent intermittent air bombing has also caused a lot of damage. Hundreds of firepower points were destroyed, and many caves collapsed.Now, there are more than [-] people lined up along both sides of the halfway, and there are machine guns, artillery and soldiers in every fortress, and they are determined to guard against it!

Heitaro Kimura finally gritted his teeth and said viciously: "In addition, we have retained hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers in Lushun and Dalian. I believe this news has spread, and the Chinese army should be more careful when bombing! Hmph, As long as the special bullets are not used suddenly, we can use this place to completely prevent the attack on Fengtian!"

They naturally learned that Jinzhou was inexplicably captured. It was later found out that it was some kind of anesthetic, but the environment for use was limited, and as long as they put on a pig's mouth gas mask in advance, they were not very afraid.

And the fact that there are a large number of Chinese in several cities has long been known to all walks of life. We are not afraid that the Chinese will carry out indiscriminate and destructive bombing. This is definitely a way of kidnapping rogues!

The mighty fleet approached the sea, with two battleships, three heavy cruisers, and two amphibious assault ships of the East China Sea Fleet as the main force, and more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers as the deputy. The mountain fortifications are densely bombarded from low to high, projecting dozens of tons of ammunition per minute, most of which are armor-piercing projectiles like steel bumps, especially the big battleship, which can blast through a seven-meter-deep rock formation when it goes down. Most of the bunker fortifications in China are almost destroyed in one shot!

In the sky, various fighter planes flying from the aircraft carrier and the Shandong Peninsula became absolute overlords, covering the airspace for hundreds of miles in turn. Large bomber formations and attack aircraft were mixed, and glide bombs were continuously fired from the sky above the fleet. In tone, the Japanese army set up anti-landing steel frames and wooden pile obstacles on the beach.Concrete pillars were blown apart one after another, and a large sea of ​​flames evaporated dense water vapor on the beach. In the area two kilometers deep, all the targets that could be seen were completely wiped out!

The Japanese army had expected this possibility a long time ago, and almost all of them huddled in the reverse slope fortifications or deep caves, waiting for the order to be issued.The dense explosion shocked them to spit out the food in their stomachs, and the sand and gravel constantly shaking and peeling off from the roof of the cave was even more worrying, whether it would collapse at any time!

This is a crazy bombardment that they have never experienced before, and the shells are calculated in tens of thousands of rounds!From morning to evening, the bombardment from the sky and the sea has never stopped. Any exposed fort will be taken care of. It is not a problem for the heavy artillery to hit the sea. Those tricky attack planes can dexterously circle around in the valley. , hanging under the belly is not just a high-explosive bomb with an amazing depth of penetration.The murderous cloud bombs and napalm bombs are also standard equipment!Any kind thrown nearby will cause huge damage!

The whole day's bombing destroyed all exposed targets from Laotieshan to Lushun. In the early morning of the next day, large landing ships began to approach the coast, and countless small hovercraft and rubber boats were unloaded one after another. The formation spread for several kilometers. The landing group in the sea area is charging towards the smoky beach with full power!

The Japanese soldiers hiding in the caves and on the reverse slope heard the sharp whistle, and could not survive day and night.The mentally exhausted Japanese army went crazy like a rat that had taken medicine, and ran all the way into the remaining fortress positions along the caves or traffic trenches with their weapons in their hands!

Most of the exposed permanent fortifications served as focal points for fire.After being bombed to the brink, the Japanese army did not report any hope at first, they drilled out from deeper depths, set up guns between the collapsed bunkers, and aimed at the beachhead!

For more, temporary fortifications were built directly in the open-air preset positions.Set up machine guns and small cannons, and prepare for battle!

The flying regiment, which had been suppressed for a whole day, became active again, rushed into the battlefield from a distance at an accurate time, and fought fiercely with the Chinese Air Force, preventing the support of attack planes and helicopters to the greatest extent.Let them have no time to doppelganger!

The fort that has always been hidden in the mountain collapses from the thin mountain or camouflages to reveal its true face. Hundreds of artillery, large and small, are dotted around, aiming at ships at sea to fire!This is the counterattack line of defense established by the Japanese army with painstaking efforts. It is purely a change made after suffering too much and learning lessons!

The chaotic roar suddenly sounded from various concealed forts, and shells of various calibers smashed towards the predetermined sea area in a disorderly manner, exploding dazzling water columns, and several landing craft were hit by the first wave of bombardment!

The retaliatory artillery fire came in an instant!The anti-cannonball radar equipped on each battleship calculates the coordinates of the attack at the first time, and it takes less than a minute after the transmission is passed to each ship's gun until the first cannon is ejected from the chamber!The naval guns, which were much thicker and more powerful than the Japanese guns, roared, blocking one-third of the exposed forts in an instant!

This is also the situation that the fleet has long expected!It is impossible to destroy all the defenses by simply bombing in the early stage, and even this time the attack can only kill part of them---the Japanese army will not give up easily. As the foundation of future hegemony, how can they not focus on taking care of them?

Tons of shells and bombs fell down, no matter how tough the fort was, it would be finished!The battleship at the front is rough and fleshy, has a high ability to resist coastal defense heavy artillery, and has attracted most of the attention. While being hit by multiple shells inevitably, it has also successfully made other battleships and hidden ships wait for fire. The attack plane finally saw the target of the key attack!

This time, it wasn't just shells that were fired!

On the battleship and the heavy cruiser, the ground-to-ground missiles started to launch one after another after receiving the input data. Dozens of long arrows spewed out thick smoke columns and flew out, each aiming at the place where the heavy battery was located and piercing towards it!Those hidden spots where shells were difficult to hit directly could not withstand the frontal bombardment of the subsonic heavy missiles used to hit the steel monsters. After just a few tens of seconds, a series of earth-shattering explosions suddenly rose in the mountains and fields, and more than a dozen doors The heavy coastal defense gun immediately misfired!

On the heavy bomber, the air-to-ground missiles and precision ground-penetrating glide bombs dropped one after another and started to accelerate towards the long-range target, followed by the tails of the first batch of missiles covering the past, along with the addition of small artillery turrets, another burst of earth-shaking There was a big bang, and the head of the entire peninsula protruding into the sea boiled like a volcanic eruption!

On Laotie Mountain, Chengtou Mountain, Jiguan Mountain, and Golden Mountain, forts of all sizes were engulfed by explosions one after another!This time, most of them were on the reverse slope or the receding mountain, and the artillery that had been stripped of their camouflage was exposed one after another.Just being arrogant, most of the food will stop in less than 2 minutes!

Hundreds of landing craft rushed onto the beach as if nothing had happened, and the robust tank landing craft rushed up directly. The inclined steel doors were slowly rolled out on the beach, forming a direct steel bridge, and heavy "cheetah" tanks led the way. Directly wading to kill and wound, while firing artillery and machine guns.While crushing broken obstacles, use the push shovel installed in the front to clear the bomb craters and triangle steel frames to clear the field for infantry!

There are finally people in the bunker half buried in the wall of Tantou Mountain!A few safety doors prevented them from being attacked by such cruel things as cloud bombs. After rushing out at this time, they started bombarding with heavy machine guns and small cannons. The thick-skinned capital rushed left and right, sweeping all the way, even though the dense bullets made the armor jingle and sparks, he was not afraid!

When more than a dozen huge super engineering vehicles drove up majestically.The remaining Japanese soldiers were dumbfounded!The majestic figure like a moving building, the hydraulic lifting arm and big steel hands with teeth and claws, and the strange fortress on the shoulders all give people infinite coercion!The little devil who believed in ghosts and gods suddenly thought that no one had crawled out of hell!

Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles and thousands of soldiers flooded onto the beach like a tide. Under intense firepower, they completely withstood the firepower of the Japanese bunkers, cleared them one by one, and then scattered all over the mountains and plains.Carpet search and destroy one by one hill!

The attacking squads are organized in units of platoons, and each team has one or two armored warriors covered in steel shells carrying heavy shields in front of them to open the way.Block the first round of machine gun and small artillery bombardment for them, attract firepower, and create attack opportunities.

The armored vehicles disperse and advance along the relatively flat positions, bombarding and strafing with ammunition wherever they pass, so as not to leave any dead spots and give no chances to suspects!

Most fighter planes in the Bohai Bay area flocked to this airspace.Almost every kilometer in the crowded area was filled with flying figures. Hundreds of attack planes swooped and swept from low altitudes, serving as eyeliners and main attackers in front of the landing troops. They fired over and over again to destroy the Japanese bunkers that were constantly exposed!

The Japanese division commanders commanding the front were completely dumbfounded!Such a scale is completely the military density of a national war!In order to cover the dead, only 2 people landed.They actually dispatched an entire fleet and thousands of fighter planes, so they are so free?

wrong!This is a method of concentrating the strength of an absolute advantage and gathering it into a powerful fist to strike a target!

That's right!That's exactly what Zhu Bin did!It is better to cut off one finger than to injure his ten fingers. If you do not fight, you will be fine. If you fight, you must strive for victory, and do not leave the Japanese army with a chance of luck!Simply and neatly, kill its vitality as much as possible, stop procrastinating!

Such decisiveness, such ferocity, and such an all-or-nothing approach were completely unexpected by the Japanese army.The lengthy combat method in the early stage gave them serious misleading. Even if it was judged that Lushun would definitely be captured, subconsciously, the Japanese army did not expect the intensity to be so great.

More troops successfully landed on the beach!On the arc-shaped coastline with a width of more than ten kilometers, there are running chariots everywhere, some of them peel onions layer by layer along the posture of the old Tieshan mountain, and some of them break through the frontal defense and capture the beachhead. Overlooking Lushun Port!

"Crazy! The Chinese Army must be crazy!" A series of urgent reports piled up on the table of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, Yamada Otozo stared round in disbelief and roared again and again!

The tip of the entire Liaodong Peninsula was completely submerged in the bombardment of tens of thousands of tons of ammunition. After nearly [-] landing troops went up, no one could stop them!The fort erected behind Lushun was also hit by long-range missiles, followed by the air force to clear them one by one with heavy bombs, and even blew up many underground passages, cutting off the way for reinforcements!

The Japanese army had never seen such a war before, and they bombarded all the places intensively at first... How much money would it cost, and how much ammunition would be used!Put it in the Kwantung Army in the past, so much was used to fight a war?How extravagant it is that the Chinese are only a preparatory cover before landing operations!

Whether China is rich enough is hard to say, but Zhu Bin just robbed more than 1 tons of gold, which is enough to support him to fight a whole war without worrying about going bankrupt!The point is, his tossing method does not affect most of the country's industrial and agricultural production and normal social order at all!Correspondingly, it has also greatly reduced the burden of the homeless people---there are tens of millions of unemployed and propertyless people in China after more than ten consecutive years of wars and chaos and natural disasters!

Can't figure it out!I can't figure it out!

But now is not the time to hesitate!The troops originally deployed on a long line had to be temporarily recruited urgently, and the reserve troops placed around Lushun could only be pulled out in advance and stuffed into the battlefield. In any case, the beachhead must be snatched back, otherwise, just a narrow Yellow Sea will become an endless sea. With the strong sea transportation line and the Chinese troops with a foothold, they can fight whatever they want!

Must be fast!The surrounding Kwantung Army rushed here like crazy, but immediately they found that the idea was good, but it was difficult to realize it!

The Chinese Air Force, which had been gathered in a pile, suddenly dispersed into several large fleets!One crossed the battlefield from the left wing to stop the reinforcements coming from Jinzhou. Hundreds of bombers under the cover of fighter jets calmly and continuously bombed the narrow passage, as many bombed as many!

Another wave, covering the Zhuanghe frontline reinforcements from the right, and cooperating with the navy to start shifting the sea attack line to Dalian, this is the posture to open up the second landing field! (to be continued..)