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- The left-wing attack group's ferocious bombardment lasted for more than half an hour, turning the Japanese beachhead that had been bombed over again. In the planned landing area, a strip of more than 30 kilometers wide appeared. , a blank area with a depth of more than ten kilometers, all Japanese officers and soldiers disappeared into the division aviation, warships and fire attack ships, two rounds of bombing and shelling that were enough to melt rocks!
No one can survive such fierce bombing and artillery shelling, and Japanese soldiers are no exception. Feng Jiwu did not dispatch infantry. The left-wing offensive group relied on the superiority of sea and air firepower to tear apart the first line of defense in the northwest of Honshu Island. A large opening was opened, but it was not enough, far from it. For the vanguard of more than 300,000 people, the breakthrough was still narrow.
After the bombardment stopped, Feng Jiwu looked at the smoke-filled beach, showed a smile, and said to Chief of Staff Zhang Hansheng: "Hansheng, order the troops to start landing. After landing on the beach, immediately attack the left and right wings with six brigades. , expand the breakthrough point, and hold the landing site, you command five brigades to land at Shimonoseki in the northern part of Kyushu Island, and the remaining troops immediately attack the Japanese second line of defense! "
More than 300,000 soldiers from the vanguard of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps began to land. Large landing ships, full of soldiers, quickly arrived at the beach. The heavy iron door opened. The first thing that appeared was not the infantry, but a group of soldiers. A heavy tank, this is the experience summed up by the division troops in many landing operations.
In conventional landing operations, after the landing craft arrives at the beach, the hatch opens. What the soldiers will face is the fierce firepower of the enemy guards. A large proportion of the casualties of the landing force occurred at the moment when the soldiers left the landing craft. To this end, Han Tie's marines, mainly the Marine Corps, studied new tactics for landing operations.
That is to say, every landing craft or landing ship must be equipped with a heavy tank rather than carrying less infantry. After arriving at the beach, the tank goes out first, so that the soldiers have a movable bunker to resist the oncoming, dense and dense tanks. Raining bullets.
certainly. During the landing process of the leading troops of the left-wing offensive group, there was no dense bullet flying towards them. The Japanese soldiers defending this area were all turned into fragmented corpses. However, the tactics that had been practiced countless times were used by various troops. Strictly implemented.
After the first batch of soldiers landed and took control of the landing site, the large troop carriers lowered their boats one after another, and batch after batch of soldiers began to land. The battle to land in the northwest area of ??Honshu Island went extremely smoothly. The troops landed on the beach in batches without any casualties. Then, immediately began to clear the landing site and build fortifications. Be prepared for the Japanese counterattack, on the sea in the distance. Countless small boats continued to carry soldiers.
Feng Jiwu jumped onto the uneven beach. Looking ahead, he waved, and more than a dozen staff officers gathered around him. He issued an order: "Order, all tanks must immediately gather to form a two-way assault group to cover the infantry to attack the Japanese second line of defense. At the same time, call the aviation force." Provide fire support!"
What Feng Jiwu wanted to seize was this fighter opportunity. Taking advantage of the Japanese army's first line of defense being torn open, he stormed the second line of defense. After opening the breach, he continued to expand the results, but instead of attacking in depth to defend against the Japanese army, he attacked the second line of defense. The Japanese army attacked horizontally on both sides of the second line of defense. After completely occupying the two lines of defense, the Japanese army suspended the attack and adopted a defensive posture, waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops.
Feng Jiwu wanted to take advantage of the situation and keep fighting, but he couldn't. The left-wing offensive group had more than 750,000 troops. After all of them landed, he knew how big a landing site would be. Moreover, the main task of the left-wing offensive group was not The main purpose of continuously attacking the Japanese defense line was to attract Japanese troops.
The tanks roared. According to the pre-war deployment, the two tank brigades of the vanguard of the left-wing offensive group quickly assembled and divided into two armored assault groups. Then, the tracks kicked up dust all over the sky and headed towards the Japanese second line of defense. He rushed over, and behind him were more than 70,000 soldiers from four brigades of the Niangziguan Guard Corps, a flood of people.
Feng Jiwu's rapid offensive action achieved remarkable results. The two divisions of the Japanese army placed on the front-line beachhead position contained more than 40,000 troops. Under the superior ground and air firepower of the divisions and the rapid attack of the superior infantry, There were heavy casualties, and there were not many left. The remaining troops, only five to six thousand people, fled to the second line of defense.
By the evening of the battle, the landing site had expanded to a vast area of ??more than 70 kilometers wide, more than 30 kilometers deep, and an area of ??more than 2,000 square kilometers. The last five brigades had all landed and immediately launched the second line of defense against the Japanese army. in the attack.
Less than two hours later, more than 70,000 troops from five brigades commanded by Major General Zhang Hansheng, chief of staff of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, landed at Maguan in the northern part of Kyushu Island. However, the landing of Zhang Hansheng's troops was met withThe fierce resistance of the 131st Division of the Japanese defense force in the northern part of the island was defeated. After a certain amount of casualties, the division was defeated and most of it was annihilated. They gained a foothold, expanded the landing site, and then switched to defense. situation.
As night fell, the Japanese second line of defense, under the fierce attack of more than 100,000 people from two tank brigades and nine mechanized infantry brigades commanded by Feng Jiwu, was finally torn open a large hole more than ten kilometers wide, Niangzi Pass. Troops from the garrison corps poured in along the breach. Immediately, three brigades were used to defend the front, and the remaining six brigades spread out on the left and right flanks to sweep across and continue to expand the breach.
At midnight, the Niangziguan Garrison Corps broke through the Japanese second line of defense. The three brigades defending frontally repelled many Japanese counterattacks and firmly controlled the front of the breach. After fierce fighting, the other six brigades The battle expanded the breach to an area of ??more than 40 kilometers wide and 20 kilometers deep, and the attack was directed at Yamaguchi Castle, the headquarters of the Japanese defense zone in the northwest of Honshu Island.
Also on this night, the second echelon of the division's left offensive group, with more than 450,000 troops, under the command of Lieutenant General Ma Chaoyang, the deputy commander and commander of the Southeast Mobile Corps, began to board the troop transport ship from the first-line port in Busan. Taking advantage of the darkness, he rushed toward the northwest of Honshu Island.
Division troops landed in the northwestern part of Honshu Island and the northern part of Kyushu Island one after another, causing the top Japanese commanders in both places to break out in cold sweat. They were shocked beyond measure. The first person who couldn't sit still was Shirakawa Yoshizawa, the commander of the Kyushu Island Defense Zone Headquarters. Lieutenant General.
Lieutenant General Shirakawa Yoshizawa knew that the successful landing of the China Division troops in the northern part of Kyushu Island would have a great impact on him. Chiba was defeated and he could lose his official position. If he allowed the China Division troops to gain a foothold in the northern part of Kyushu Island, , Prince Zai Ren will definitely chop off his own head. The harsh rebuke he gave him at the last military meeting still echoes in his ears, which can only mean one thing: he does not want to be welcomed by His Highness the Prince.
The rumbling sound of artillery and explosions in the northwestern area of ??Honshu Island made Lieutenant General Shirakawa terrified. The China Division troops landing in the northern part of Kyushu Island made him feel as if a disaster was approaching, and he was as panic-stricken as a thorn in his flesh. Uncomfortable, only by launching an immediate counterattack and driving the China Division troops down the Korean Strait while their foothold is still unstable can they turn defeat into victory and save Kyushu Island.
Just after midnight, Lieutenant General Shirakawa personally led a group of people from the defense zone headquarters to Kumamoto City in the middle of Kyushu Island, formed a frontline headquarters, and urgently mobilized four first-class divisions with nearly 100,000 troops, divided into four. Road, launched a fierce counterattack against the positions defended by the five brigades of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps commanded by Zhang Hansheng. The intensity of the Japanese counterattack even exceeded the intensity of the main battlefield in the northwestern battlefield of Honshu Island.
In the northern part of Kyushu Island, the original Japanese defense fortifications were basically destroyed by the division's daytime bombings and evening attacks. In areas where the degree of destruction was extremely severe, it was simply impossible to rebuild the fortifications. What's more, Shirakawa The lieutenant general's counterattack did not leave Zhang Hansheng time to build fortifications. Everything seemed to be detrimental to the Niangziguan garrison troops.
However, Zhang Hansheng was also a general who fought on the battlefield. Before serving as the chief of staff of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, he was the commander of the Sixth Brigade of the Directly Affiliated Corps. He had considerable battlefield experience. After the troops occupied the Japanese position, he just took one look and The idea of ??building fortifications on the spot was abandoned, and instead the tanks of a tank brigade were lined up at the front to serve as temporary bunkers, movable forts, and fortifications. Temporary fortifications were dug between the tanks to establish firepower points. The artillery unit mainly suppressed Japanese artillery fire and protected temporary bunkers.
Then, Zhang Hansheng contacted the escort fleet and the Northern Flying Group headquarters to seek sea and air fire support. Just after the deployment was completed, the Japanese counterattack came. Lieutenant General Shirakawa was also dizzy, and the width was only more than 150 In an area of ????kilometers, nearly 100,000 troops from four divisions were deployed at the same time to carry out multiple counterattacks. The density of troops was so high that it was really rare.
Under night, nearly 100,000 Japanese soldiers, shouting and rushing across the wilderness, rushed forward without fear of death. But for the Japanese soldiers, this meant the beginning of a disaster. First, dozens of the division's Northern Fleet on the sea A warship, with long-range and powerful bombardment of large-caliber naval guns, plunged the Japanese soldiers into a bloody storm. Then came the fire attack ship, a storm of shells, leaving Japanese soldiers lying dead on the road of charge. Tired.
After that, there were more than a hundred fast gunboats nicknamed "Assassins" and equipped with three thirty-two "Thunder" rocket launchers. A single salvo fired more than ten thousand 300 mm rockets, destroying the path of the charging Japanese soldiers. , turned into a sea of ??fire, and the bodies of countless Japanese soldiers were reduced to ashes under the high temperature of thousands of degrees.
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