Age of Conquest Reborn

An hour later, Han Tie stood on the Japanese position where the ground covered his feet and was filled with bomb craters. The gunpowder smoke had not yet dissipated. The remaining smoke after the explosion of the artillery shells curled into the diffuse gunpowder smoke. The corners of Han Tie's mouth revealed

A hint of smile. Department

The team is cleaning the battlefield. This is an old rule of the independent division and a special request of Lieutenant General Zhang Quan, the head of the Logistics Department. However, in Han Tie's view, cleaning the battlefield at the moment is just a formality. Everything on the Japanese position has been reduced to pieces.

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Looking at his watch, Han Tie said to the communications staff officer beside him: "Immediately send a telegram to the division headquarters and the sea-crossing campaign headquarters. Our Marine Corps, with six brigades, will arrive at Lushunkou at dawn on June 20th.

Landed and annihilated two divisions of the Seventh Army of the Kwantung Army. On June 21, from Bayuquan to Zhuanghe, launched an attack on the second line of defense of the Seventh Army of the Kwantung Army. After six hours of fighting,

Annihilate the defending Japanese troops and Japanese armed civilians!"

"After the previous two rounds of bombing and one round of shelling, the specific number of enemy annihilations cannot be calculated. It is estimated that the number of regular Japanese troops annihilated is approximately 8,000, and the number of Japanese armed civilians annihilated is approximately 80,000. Now, our troops have

We are advancing toward the border between Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula in accordance with the original battle plan!"

In the telegrams to the division and the Cross-Sea Battle Headquarters, Han Tie did not use the word fierce battle. In fact, in the Battle of Lushunkou and the battle that just ended, the Marine Corps did not really take action at all. The protagonist of the battlefield was the aviation force.

As for the number of enemy bombers destroyed, it is indeed impossible to count. Under the mortar shells as dense as locusts, not even a single intact body of Japanese soldiers or armed civilians could be found.

Especially those members of the Manchurian Volunteer Team. The explosives and grenades on their bodies became accomplices in blowing up their own bodies, and they were almost shattered to pieces. After simply cleaning up the battlefield, the 6th Marine Corps Brigade continued on without stopping.

The Liaodong Peninsula is advancing rapidly in depth.

More than 90,000 Japanese were buried along the line from Bayuquan to Zhuanghe. Blood, flesh and soil were mixed together. According to the soldiers of the follow-up troops, a few days later, when the troops passed by, they could still smell the pungent smell of blood.

, the ground under your feet can still be seen. A large, large area of ​​dried blood, and from time to time, broken limbs, broken arms, deflated steel helmets, and 38-guns broken into several pieces can be kicked out from the void soil.

That year, the rain in the Liaodong Peninsula was particularly abundant. After being baptized by artillery fire, the vegetation on the battlefield grew vigorously again with the help of rain and sunshine. Starting from Bayuquan in the east and reaching Zhuang River in the west, a beautiful line was formed.

Different from the plant zones in other areas of the Liaodong Peninsula, however,

The local residents who escaped the war and returned to their hometown found that the grass, trees, and bushes were growing wildly and unbelievably lush. The leaves and branches of all vegetation were so green that they turned black.

It is light red, and if it is broken, you can still smell a faint smell of blood.

Six brigades of the Marine Corps with more than 100,000 troops, after the battle, quickly advanced towards Fengtian. There were three brigades on each side of the left and right wings. They advanced along the two wings of the Liaodong Peninsula. After the main Japanese troops in the Liaodong Peninsula were all annihilated.

, there was no large-scale battle at all along the way, and some local Japanese garrison troops, washed away by this torrent, melted quickly like snowballs falling into a boiling water pot.

On June 22, they recaptured Hengdaohe, Zhuanghe, Wanfu, Liangtun, Wanghaizhai and other towns and entered Gaizhou and other places. On the same day, Han Tie led members of the headquarters to Zhuanghe.

Although the Marine Corps began to attack the Liaodong Peninsula at dawn on June 20, they won two battles in two days, completely annihilating the Kwantung Army's Seventh Army, and turning more than 80,000 Manchurian volunteers into broken pieces.

corpses, and the Japanese army's deep advance was extremely smooth in the past, but from the bottom of his heart, Han Tie was not satisfied.

The Marine Corps fought two consecutive battles, and the results were extremely eye-catching. The main force of the Seventh Army of the Kwantung Army did not play any role at all and was completely wiped out. Because of this, Han Tie felt uncomfortable. The protagonist of the two battles,

They were all used by the aviation bomber unit. In comparison, the Marine Corps, which consisted of hundreds of thousands of people, had never experienced a decent battle. This was very depressing for Han Tie, who had the idea of ​​beating up the little Japanese.

Han Tie, who commanded an army of hundreds of thousands, was depressed. In the waters on both sides of the Liaodong Peninsula, the captains of the two fast gunboat brigade who accompanied the troops to attack and were ready to provide fire support were even more depressed. He originally thought that what was going on along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula

There will also be troops such as the Little Devil's Maritime Patrol, which will accompany the troops on land to attack and at the same time have the opportunity to fight, which is the best of both worlds.

It's a pity that they were disappointed. The ones responsible for patrolling the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula were not little Japs at all, but the Manchukuo Army. The patrols were not warships such as patrol boats, but wooden sailing boats, with at most a diesel engine.

It turned into a motor boat, which was the opponent of the gunboat brigade equipped with naval combat-type "Thunder" rocket launchers. It almost didn't use rocket launchers, just the machine guns on the gunboats, and they were beaten to death by the shipwrecks, and they were buried in Liaodong Bay and the North Yellow Sea.

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Just listening to the sound of gunfire on the shore, but not receiving orders, with nothing to do, the two captains of the fast gunboat brigade discussed in the telegram that in addition to leaving the necessary gunboats, the rest of the gunboats should simply go

The battle against pirates turned out to be a massacre without suspense on land in the Liaodong Peninsula. The battle at sea also yielded great results. The unintentional actions of the two captains actually eliminated the sea pirates who had been harming one side for more than a hundred years.

bandit.

After the independent division troops took control of the Liaodong Peninsula, they were no longer disturbed by pirates. This can be regarded as an unexpected gain. However, this was not approved by the superiors. It was purely an action of looking for wars on their own. They did not dare to go up.

Even Han Tie didn't know about the report.

At this time, Han Tie had already led members of the headquarters into Zhuanghe County, which had not been baptized by war. Major General Jiang Fangliang, commander of the Sixth Brigade, greeted the commander at the south gate of Zhuanghe County. What he did not expect was that,

Also accompanying the car was Major General Huang Wanshan, commander of the Fourth Brigade.

Seeing Han Tie get off the armored command vehicle, Jiang Fangliang hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Report to the commander, the Sixth Brigade has occupied Zhuanghe County. Without a large-scale battle, the Japanese guard force there is extremely empty. There are only less than

One squadron of Japanese military police and the rest were Japanese policemen. The battle lasted for thirty minutes and the Japanese troops were completely wiped out. Our unit suffered 26 casualties! Now we have control of the entire city!"

Han Tie looked Jiang Fangliang up and down, making Jiang Fangliang's conscience tingle, "Jiang Fangliang, I think you seem very proud? Do you think that the little Japs are vulnerable, and next, your Sixth Brigade will go straight to Fengtian?"

Han Tie spoke, but to Jiang Fangliang's ears, something seemed wrong?

Han Tie looked at Jiang Fangliang, whose eyes were moving around, obviously thinking about what he just said, and then said with a straight face: "Okay, stop thinking about it, I don't mean anything else, I just remind you not to win the battle.

, got carried away, if the little devils didn’t stop us in the wild, all the troops would be killed, and relying on the town to hold on, how could it be so easy to conquer the Zhuang River? Lead the way, let’s go into the city and have a look!”

Jiang Fangliang did not dare to say anything, but quietly grabbed the Chief of Staff Wang Dongshan, "Chief of Staff, the commander seems not very happy, what is it for?" he asked in a low voice.

Wang Dongshan lay next to Jiang Fangliang's ear and whispered: "It's not a good fight. In the two consecutive battles, the bombers of the aviation force played the leading role. Think about it, how happy can the commander be? You still want to take on someone who doesn't have a few Japanese to defend him."

If you come to Zhuanghe County to talk about things, you can avoid being punished!"

Jiang Fangliang suddenly realized it. He patted his head and saw that the commander and his party had entered Zhuanghe County and hurriedly chased after them. The Zhuanghe County of that era was far from developing into a pearl and county seat of the Liaodong Peninsula as it was in later generations.

It's dilapidated, with only obvious Japanese-style buildings

The houses and shops looked different. Not only were they tall, but they also had a sense of grandeur. The residents' faces were numb, and there was a look of fear in their eyes. They hunkered down and leaned on both sides of the street, watching the troops enter the city one after another.

There was an atmosphere of fear in the county town.

Han Tie felt this atmosphere from the moment he entered the county, but Han Tie understood that it had been more than ten years since the September 18th Incident and the Kwantung Army occupied the entire Northeast. The residents of the Liaodong Peninsula had already remembered

What would it be like if we couldn't afford the Chinese army?

No matter how you say it, after the Japs occupied the Northeast, many people had relatives who served as national soldiers in the Manchukuo army. Whether they were obedient citizens to survive or to live a better life, they served as national soldiers. In short,

It was under the rule of the little devils for more than ten years.

He has been branded a traitor on his body. Today, so many soldiers suddenly came, and they are also troops of the National Government. How can we not liquidate them? Maybe many people will be killed soon in Zhuanghe County.

, but the soldiers have blocked the four gates, and you can’t get out even if you want to, just waiting to be stabbed!

This atmosphere made Han Tie very uncomfortable. He said to Jiang Fangliang and Huang Wanshan: "The battle has just ended. From now on, this is the territory of our independent division. Zhuanghe cannot be in chaos. Let's detach part of the troops, just one battalion.

Form the Zhuanghe Security Command and immediately begin to restore social security and market order in Zhuanghe. By the way, all Japanese property in Zhuanghe County will be confiscated immediately, and all Japanese will be detained and managed centrally!"

Jiang Fangliang and Huang Wanshan looked at each other and said nothing. The commander's words were vague. Zhuanghe should leave a small number of troops, but he did not specify whether it was the fourth brigade or the sixth brigade. No one wanted to leave their own troops.

The troops stay in Zhuanghe for guard duty, which means that these troops are likely to become second-line garrison troops.

When Han Tie saw the two brigade commanders with their heads down and no one speaking, he thought he didn't want to leave the troops behind to guard Zhuanghe. His eyebrows stood up at that time, "Didn't you hear what I just said? We haven't arranged for the troops to go there yet."

!" he said loudly.

(To be continued)