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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2351 Another Sea of ??Fire

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    Tang Qiuquan didn't seem to hear what the chief of staff said. He picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth gracefully. He glanced at Xin Xiguo and said with some aftertaste: "Well, the food tastes good today. Why don't you notice it usually? I was negligent!  ah!"

    Xin Xiguo almost fainted, "My commander, the two fast gunboat brigades are ready. Commander Han Tie of the Marine Corps is so anxious that his eyes are burning. He has called twice. He is waiting for you."  With an order, hundreds of thousands of troops immediately took action, and you still have time to talk about food?" He said angrily.

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

    "Commander, is it necessary?" Xin Xiguo asked, glaring.

    "Execute the order!" Tang Qiuquan did not explain, but said very simply. Xin Xiguo swallowed his saliva, and without knowing what he was mumbling, he stood up and made a phone call.

    Tang Qiuquan walked to the porthole of the command module, raised his telescope, and looked at the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft 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 were lucky enough to save their lives should have taken action. After the napalm bombs were destroyed, the Japanese underground fortifications would definitely be unusable, so they would have to come up to the ground. Moreover, they would never give up.  Resistance, the last blow of the fast gunboat brigade can catch all the fish that have escaped the net, I hope my premonition is accurate!" He thought to himself.

    How many years of fighting with the Japs, from the northeastern land of white mountains and black waters, to the coast of the East China Sea, to the southwest border, and then to the Indochina Peninsula, finally changed my career and took charge of a fleet.  Qiuquan never dared to ignore that Japanese soldiers who were educated by the emperor and were full of the spirit of Bushido and loyal to that bullshit emperor were crazy and fierce. They were covered with grenades and often used themselves as human bombs.  Any slight will cause heavy casualties to the troops.

    In just ten minutes, a staff officer came in and reported: "Report to the commander, the reconnaissance plane reported that traces of Japanese soldiers were found in the Japanese position at Lushunkou. However, because they were too scattered, it was impossible to make a specific number.  statistics!"

    Tang Qiuquan smiled slightly and said, "I understand, order the reconnaissance plane to return!"

    Xin Xiguo was so surprised that he could stuff an egg into it with his mouth wide open. "Commander, you are really amazing. How did you know that there would be alive little Japs on the position? It's so weird. Two rounds of bombings, including bombs."  With napalm bombs, the little devil is too lifeless, can he still survive?" He was surprised and unbelievable.  Still feeling a little ashamed.

    Tang Qiuquan glanced at him and said earnestly: "Xi Guo, as the chief of staff, you should have thought that nothing is absolute. There are nearly 50,000 Japanese troops in two divisions on the front line of Lushunkou. Can you expect that through two rounds of bombing,  No one is left alive? Okay, order the fast gunboats to attack the area where the landing troops are about to seize the beach! Order the landing troops to prepare for landing!"

    Xin Xiguo lowered his head in shame. The commander's words were both a reminder and a criticism of himself. Based on his previous performance, he was really not a competent chief of staff. He was impulsive, not calm enough, and blindly optimistic and underestimated the enemy. These should not be committed.  He took full responsibility for all the mistakes. "Commander, I'm so ashamed!" he whispered.

    Tang Qiuquan waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't look downcast, take action immediately and give the order. Han Tie's eyes are red with his stare!" From the bottom of his heart, Tang Qiuquan didn't blame Xin Xiguo very much. After all, he didn't  He has served as a commander in the army and has served in the fleet since he joined the independent division. He is a layman on some tactics of army operations. "It seems that it is necessary for Xiguo to stay in the field corps for a while!" He secretly thought.  thought.

    On the sea, the independent division's troop transport fleet and escort fleet began to move. On the ground position at Lushunkou, Major Tokugawa held the telescope tightly. On the left side of his body, there were more than twenty mortars lined up in a row.  Artillery, on the right, are more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns. This is the defense front of Major Tokugawa. All the firepower is all the weapons and equipment that can be collected. There is no more, if it is not burned to pieces by the flames.  , unusable, just buried in ruins.

    There were not many shells and bullets collected, and they could only support the battle under normal circumstances, which lasted less than an hour. However, Major Tokugawa believed that it was enough, and he had no extravagant expectations. With only the remaining four thousand people,  He can hold the Lushunkou position. The only thing he has to do is to inflict maximum damage on the Chinese soldiers and kill the most Chinese people before the jade is broken.

    To this end, Major Tokugawa ordered mortar crews and light and heavy machine gunners to land troops in China without entering effective shooting positions.Before reaching the range, even if the opponent's artillery shells fall on you, do not fire. Once you are within the effective range, fire as many mortar shells and machine gun bullets as possible at the fastest rate of fire until they are all fired.

    For the other soldiers, Major Tokugawa's request was to tie all the grenades and explosives to their bodies, lie motionless in the trenches, and wait until the soldiers of the independent division rushed into the position to fire them together to fight with these hateful Chinese  Everyone died together. This was not only what the soldiers were asked to do. Major Tokugawa also strapped more than a dozen grenades on his body. With the commander taking the lead, the rest of the Japanese soldiers followed it without any complaints, and they still felt in their hearts.  There is a sacred feeling of dedicating oneself to His Majesty the Emperor!

    Just now, several independent division reconnaissance planes passed overhead, making Major Tokugawa feel uneasy. After all, it was broad daylight, and the soldiers hiding in the simple fortifications would have been discovered by the China reconnaissance planes.  ?

    If you are discovered, what will happen next?  Major Tokugawa didn't know, but one thing he was sure of was that the commander of the independent division would never send out bombers again for indiscriminate bombing because of so few imperial soldiers. The most likely thing would be to carry out artillery bombardment. "Attention to all,"  "Hide yourself as much as possible and prepare to prevent shelling from the Chinese troops!" He whispered the order.

    On the sea, the huge formation of independent division troop transport ships is getting closer and closer, and in front of the troop transport fleet are nearly a hundred small gunboats. Although the tonnage is small, their speed is astonishingly fast. Behind the dark green  , pulling out white waves. 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 such small gunboats to carry out operations?"  Artillery attack? If so, it's the luck of the remaining troops of the Seventh Army!" He thought while wondering.

    The independent division's fast gunboats lined up in a row, speeding across the sea, and approached Lushunkou Beach in an instant. Major Tokugawa saw that the speed of those gunboats did not slow down, and seemed to be rushing to the beach. At this time,  , from the gunboat, bursts of fire suddenly erupted, tongues of flames roared over, and the sky was immediately filled with piercing screams that he had never heard before.

    Major Tokugawa opened his mouth wide and stared dumbfoundedly at the tongues of fire, which came to his eyes in an instant, and the dull loud noise only then reached the ears of the remaining Japanese soldiers, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" -  - There was a series of loud noises, and a burst of fire suddenly appeared on the Japanese army's position. In Major Tokugawa's pupils, it rapidly enlarged. After the rocket exploded, the high temperature of several thousand degrees instantly swallowed Major Tokugawa and those around him.  Japanese soldiers.

    This was the third fire attack carried out by the escort force of the Independent Division against the Japanese positions on the front line of Lushunkou. On a position with a length of only more than 20 kilometers, it was carried out in accordance with the orders of the commander-in-chief of the Cross-sea Campaign, Lieutenant General Tang Qiuquan.  The repeated fire strikes, the investment of bombers, gunboats and naval guns were more than a large-scale positional battle, and tens of thousands of tons of steel were poured on the Japanese positions.

    Regarding the Liaodong Peninsula landing operation, so many bombers and naval guns were used, as well as two fast gunboat brigades, a salvo fired, and thousands of rockets. After the war, there was quite a bit of controversy among the senior leaders of the Independent Division. There were many  The senior generals believe that such a waste of firepower is really unnecessary, especially the third fire attack. It is a waste of ammunition and nothing more than a thousand little devils that luckily slipped through the net. Hundreds of thousands of Marines landed, and each one spit.  If you can drown thousands of little devils, is it worth using thousands of rockets?

    Of course, this is just an opinion on tactics, and it is not directed at Tang Qiuquan himself. Tang Qiuquan did not mean to explain it at all. However, the division commander Tang Qiuli said something, which immediately settled the controversy, "A soldier's life is not  Thousands of artillery shells can be exchanged. If in the next battle, your troops use millions of artillery shells and end the battle without any casualties, I will give you credit!"

    Thousands of rockets turned the Japanese position that had been destroyed twice once again into a sea of ??steaming flames. This was different from napalm, which burned slowly and you could see the flow of the flames. Compared with  Below, in the area covered by rockets in all directions, flames mixed with thick smoke soared into the sky, which was even more intuitive and terrifying, as if the air was ignited.

    Major General Han Tie, the commander of the Marine Corps, stood on the command ship, looked at the sea of ????fire in front of him, smacked his teeth, and said to the chief of staff, Colonel Wang Dongshan, next to him: "That's enough! Commander Tang is enough! Three strikes, I'm afraid  There are no bones left of the little Japs. I originally thought that landing on the beach would be a fierce battle. No matter what, we would have to pay thousands of lives to capture the little Japs¡¯ beachhead. Now it seems that the worry is unnecessary!  Do you still need to fight? Who should I fight with?¡±

    Wang Dongshan smiled and said: "Commander, your tone seems not very satisfactory?"

    (To be continued)?
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