Chapter 1443
Breakthrough
Chapter 1443 Breakthrough
"Be careful when carrying it onto the boat!" Tom Wang patted the wounded soldier on the stretcher on the shoulder, and then motioned for the medic to send him away.
Although the wounded soldier's mood was relatively stable, Tom Wang's face was not at all relaxed.This time, the Marine Corps' landing harassment operation behind enemy lines was not as easy as imagined. The first half of the landing was relatively smooth, and the initial confrontation with the Houjin Army did not give the opponent any chance at all.But after Yang Guli came with reinforcements today, Tom Wang really realized the power of the post-Golden Army.
The enemy army can break through Haihan's defense on the frontal battlefield with relatively backward weapons and equipment, and even once reached the Haihan position. This is a rare situation in the past war history of the Haihan Army.The main reason for this situation is that Tom Wang believes that the preparations of the Marine Corps are not sufficient, and there are certain loopholes in his own command.He thought that the Jin Army would retreat after trying once or twice to be deflated, or simply keep blocking the periphery and besiege without attacking. Even with heavy casualties, storm the beachhead.
The Marine Corps, which was not sufficiently prepared for this, was indeed caught off guard, and the Haihan Artillery, who had been breached, lost a squad directly in the fight.If it wasn't for Tom Wang taking the lead at the critical moment and withstood the wave of offensive, the casualties of the Marine Corps today might be far more than that.
Looking back on the previous battle scene now, Tom Wang is still a little scared.In recent years, he has rarely been on the front line to command battles, let alone participate in battles in person.Although his usual shooting training made his skills not too unfamiliar, if he was really unlucky before, and a stray arrow was taken at the vital part, he might end up hanging in the wilderness thousands of miles away from home.
Earlier, Qian Tiandun asked him to stay on the flagship to direct the landing battle. He also retorted that it is rare to have such a combat opportunity to fight the weak with the strong. The commander should appear on the front line to increase his confidence in his troops. Anyway, after the Jin Army There is no way to break through the defense, and there should be no worries in terms of security.But I didn't expect this to be a prophecy. If Qian Tiandun and others knew about it afterwards, they would definitely be ridiculed.
According to post-war statistics, 21 people in Haihan were killed on the spot in this battle, and nearly a hundred others were injured, and more than a dozen of them were seriously injured. It is hard to say whether they can survive.Although the battle damage was dozens of times less than that of the opponent, and Hou Jin's offensive was eventually repelled, Wang Tom still felt ashamed.He did play a role in attracting firepower in the enemy's rear, but the battle was fought so fiercely, but it was not what he had hoped for when the battle plan was first formulated, and it did not reach the expected level at all.
Fortunately, the cavalry battalion in charge of the other part of the operation went very smoothly. All the way to the west, it carried out lightning attacks on multiple Houjin strongholds along the way. Finally, it was able to retreat completely and withdrew from Bohai Bay to the sea.In contrast, the mission completion of the cavalry battalion is obviously much higher than that of the marines.
However, the mission of the Marine Corps is not over yet. Tom Wang decided to continue to pin the Marine Corps in this place according to the original plan.If all goes well, the next day will also have a chance for the Marines to turn over.
Yang Guli brought his personal soldiers back to Jijiabao overnight to sit in town. Although he left some soldiers and horses by the sea to stare at Haihan's beachhead, he still felt uneasy.During the short half-day that he left Jijiabao, Haihan's intermittent shelling continued, but he still did not send infantry to launch a real offensive.He didn't know what the Haihan people were waiting for, but what he could be sure of was that this offensive launched by the Haihan people was by no means a bluff. Get a real fight.
When this time comes, Haihan's attack will definitely be a thunderous attack. Although Yangguli still has thousands of troops in hand, he is not at all sure that he can defuse Haihan's offensive.This ominous intuition has been haunting him since a day ago, but he has never been able to find the real reason, even the news that the Haihan cavalry voluntarily evacuate, he is not relieved at all.He wanted to know when and how the Haihans would launch their final offensive, but Houjin's battlefield information collection had almost completely stalled, and he could only use the naked eye to observe the movements of the Haihan Army as a decision-making reference.
However, the deployment of the entire line of defense for several days has been constantly mobilized by Haihan's offensive, and the original defense system has been completely messed up.And Haihan didn't seem to have a real focus of attack, and he was carrying out some tentative attacks everywhere, making Houjin's defense forces exhausted in the entire defense line, even in the deep area behind the defense line.Although the fighting time was not long, Yanguly already had a faint feeling of physical and mental exhaustion, which was a phenomenon that had never appeared in his past fighting career.
Yanguli called a cronie to his tent, gave orders like this, and then sent the cronique to the Golden State Camp to deliver a message to Azige.He felt that it was already difficult for him to take care of the areas within the attack range of Haihan, so he hoped that Azig could bring another group of troops to the defense line as soon as possible.However, he also knew that even if Aziger received help tonight, he would have to start assembling the troops to prepare supplies at the earliest tomorrow morning. It is estimated that if he can start at noon, even if the action is fast, the leading troops may be able to arrive at the fortress before dark. Defense line here.
Azige is the main general of the Liaodong operation, but Yanguli has a kinship with him, so he will not worry that Azige will not help or deliberately delay the fighter plane, since this message for help has been sent out , he believed that Azig would send reinforcements as soon as possible after receiving the news.As long as he persists for another day or so, and when Azige's reinforcements arrive, his confidence in defending this line of defense will increase a lot.
Thinking of this section, Yanguli's uneasy mood finally eased a little.He took his own soldiers to inspect the dilapidated city gate. Although the continuous shelling of the Haihan Army made it impossible for the defenders to completely block the city gate hole, after so many days of tossing and truce at night There were also a lot of building materials that got into the city gate hole, and they were piled up in a mess, and they had basically blocked most of the passages. Large groups of troops would definitely not be able to quickly pass through here and enter the Ji Family Fort.But even so, Yanguli carefully deployed five hundred infantry near the city gate to prevent Haihan from sending a small group of troops to come in through this passage at night.
Of course, Yanguli also tried to send a small group of troops to go to Haihan's camp at night, but the effect was not ideal.After losing two groups of people, Yanguoli dismissed the idea that it was too difficult to achieve.
It's just that Yang Guli never expected that Haihan actually dispatched people to do things secretly at night, and tonight was no exception.However, the target of Haihan sending these people was not at Jijiabao, but somewhere between Jijiabao and Sujiabao where the defense was relatively weak.
This group of engineers who were dispatched to the Liaodong battlefield to be responsible for laying mines this time were responsible for geotechnical blasting operations in the army before receiving relevant training. They were no strangers to explosives, so they received this assignment.And they lurked under the root of the city wall at night, the purpose is to dig some blasting points on this earth wall and bury detonators and explosives.In order to reduce the noise during the operation as much as possible, the excavation tools they use are also specially made, and there is only a very slight noise during operation.
Morgan's sniper team is responsible for keeping watch for the engineers. These professionally trained snipers have excellent eyesight. Even at night, they can use the moonlight to see the wind and grass at a distance of [-] meters.Of course, the most important equipment is the night vision device operated by Morgan himself. With this device, when the post-Golden Sentinel appears in the nearby area, a warning signal can be sent to the engineers under the city wall in time to let them stop temporarily. Work to avoid the sound being detected by the Sentinels.
After two full nights of operation, the engineers had buried hundreds of kilograms of explosives under this section of the city wall. According to calculations, the amount was enough to blow this section of the city wall into slag.If the detonation goes well, a gap of about ten meters wide can be opened in the defense line in a short period of time, and the nearby Houjin large-scale garrison stronghold is at least a mile or so. This time difference is enough to prepare for The Haihan Army has entered the other side of the defense line.If the Haihan Army moves fast enough, they may even build a temporary position relying on the ruins of the city wall to resist the inevitable counterattack.
After confirming that all the explosives at the detonating positions had been buried and the fuses were connected, the sappers silently began to retreat from under the city wall.Whether the results of their two all-night hard work will play a final role will be known after dawn.
At dawn, two Haihan troops from the Central Route Army and the West Route Army quietly appeared near the city wall that was about to be blasted.The two troops assembled and set out in the middle of the night, and without lights, they reached their destination in such a deep and shallow way, where they met Morgan and his sniper team.
"I've transferred all the troops here, so there won't be a problem with this plan, right?" Although Qian Tiandun didn't doubt Morgan's ability, he subconsciously asked him again for confirmation.
Morgan patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'm personally overseeing the work here, so I'm sure. The amount of explosives planted has also been calculated repeatedly. If the wall doesn't blow up, I can order my people at will from now on." ?”
Qian Tiandun smiled and said, "When you say that, I suddenly look forward to a misfire."
The snipers trained by Morgan are treasures in any army unit, and Qian Tiandun is no exception, but the allocation and deployment of snipers are controlled by Morgan, so I want to use these elite soldiers in battle, or use them in battle. If it is included in the establishment of its own troops, it must have a good relationship with Morgan.
The day turned white with fish belly. The Houjin Sentinel, who had just taken over in the morning, patrolled the vicinity of this section of the city wall, and suddenly found that a large area of enemy troops was silently pestering in the field to the south, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.The sentinel knew that the defense was not strict here. If the Haihan Army wanted to attack this place with peace of mind, it would take half a column of incense to mobilize a large number of defenders. Now they hurried to the nearest beacon tower, intending to send a warning message immediately. .But before he could run a few steps, he felt a huge force gushing out from the soles of his feet, lifting him into the air, and then he lost consciousness as soon as his eyes darkened.
The Haihan Army, who was standing on the far field and witnessed this scene, was also deeply shocked by this magnificent scene. The detonation points buried under the entire section of the city wall exploded at the same time almost perfectly, and the dust and smoke caused by it was probably [-] meters away. high.The audience standing hundreds of meters away felt the vibration from the ground beneath their feet.Everyone has no doubt that even if this is a real city wall, it will also be destroyed in such an explosion.
The war horses that Qian Tiandun and Morgan were riding were also neighing, and they were obviously frightened. Fortunately, the groom was pulling the reins all the time, and they didn't make too much movement to directly lift the two big men off.
When the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, Qian Tiandun couldn't help but take a deep breath and said, "You are sure...you really have a good grasp of it!"
Not to mention that the section of the city wall was blown away, a groove more than ten meters long appeared in the original position, and the explosion cut off a layer of the ground.
Morgan put down the binoculars, and said with a forced smile, "It's better to blow hard than not enough medicine. Hurry up and start it!"
Qian Tiandun nodded and ordered an offensive.The charge sounded immediately, and nearly 2000 troops quickly rushed to the gap to seize the passage that was forcibly opened by the explosives.They knew that Hou Jin's counterattack would come soon, so they had to control this vital area before then.And among the artillery units that followed closely behind the infantry, there were the four new cannons that showed their prowess in Jijiabao the day before yesterday.When Yang Guli was still worried about Jijiabao, these four cannons had been quietly transferred to the real attack point, and would undertake the next artillery cover and attack tasks.
Houjin had worked so hard to maintain the fortress line of defense for a long time, and wanted to take this strategic plan to block the Haihan Army south of the Jinzhou Isthmus, but was defeated in one fell swoop by the huge explosion in this early morning. The fortress line has been successfully broken through.
Jijiabao, which was several miles away, also heard the sound of the explosion, but no one understood what was going on. The dull sound was neither like thunder nor the sound of artillery firing. Yang Guli, who came out of the tent, was also dazed and didn't realize the risk for a while.
(End of this chapter)
"Be careful when carrying it onto the boat!" Tom Wang patted the wounded soldier on the stretcher on the shoulder, and then motioned for the medic to send him away.
Although the wounded soldier's mood was relatively stable, Tom Wang's face was not at all relaxed.This time, the Marine Corps' landing harassment operation behind enemy lines was not as easy as imagined. The first half of the landing was relatively smooth, and the initial confrontation with the Houjin Army did not give the opponent any chance at all.But after Yang Guli came with reinforcements today, Tom Wang really realized the power of the post-Golden Army.
The enemy army can break through Haihan's defense on the frontal battlefield with relatively backward weapons and equipment, and even once reached the Haihan position. This is a rare situation in the past war history of the Haihan Army.The main reason for this situation is that Tom Wang believes that the preparations of the Marine Corps are not sufficient, and there are certain loopholes in his own command.He thought that the Jin Army would retreat after trying once or twice to be deflated, or simply keep blocking the periphery and besiege without attacking. Even with heavy casualties, storm the beachhead.
The Marine Corps, which was not sufficiently prepared for this, was indeed caught off guard, and the Haihan Artillery, who had been breached, lost a squad directly in the fight.If it wasn't for Tom Wang taking the lead at the critical moment and withstood the wave of offensive, the casualties of the Marine Corps today might be far more than that.
Looking back on the previous battle scene now, Tom Wang is still a little scared.In recent years, he has rarely been on the front line to command battles, let alone participate in battles in person.Although his usual shooting training made his skills not too unfamiliar, if he was really unlucky before, and a stray arrow was taken at the vital part, he might end up hanging in the wilderness thousands of miles away from home.
Earlier, Qian Tiandun asked him to stay on the flagship to direct the landing battle. He also retorted that it is rare to have such a combat opportunity to fight the weak with the strong. The commander should appear on the front line to increase his confidence in his troops. Anyway, after the Jin Army There is no way to break through the defense, and there should be no worries in terms of security.But I didn't expect this to be a prophecy. If Qian Tiandun and others knew about it afterwards, they would definitely be ridiculed.
According to post-war statistics, 21 people in Haihan were killed on the spot in this battle, and nearly a hundred others were injured, and more than a dozen of them were seriously injured. It is hard to say whether they can survive.Although the battle damage was dozens of times less than that of the opponent, and Hou Jin's offensive was eventually repelled, Wang Tom still felt ashamed.He did play a role in attracting firepower in the enemy's rear, but the battle was fought so fiercely, but it was not what he had hoped for when the battle plan was first formulated, and it did not reach the expected level at all.
Fortunately, the cavalry battalion in charge of the other part of the operation went very smoothly. All the way to the west, it carried out lightning attacks on multiple Houjin strongholds along the way. Finally, it was able to retreat completely and withdrew from Bohai Bay to the sea.In contrast, the mission completion of the cavalry battalion is obviously much higher than that of the marines.
However, the mission of the Marine Corps is not over yet. Tom Wang decided to continue to pin the Marine Corps in this place according to the original plan.If all goes well, the next day will also have a chance for the Marines to turn over.
Yang Guli brought his personal soldiers back to Jijiabao overnight to sit in town. Although he left some soldiers and horses by the sea to stare at Haihan's beachhead, he still felt uneasy.During the short half-day that he left Jijiabao, Haihan's intermittent shelling continued, but he still did not send infantry to launch a real offensive.He didn't know what the Haihan people were waiting for, but what he could be sure of was that this offensive launched by the Haihan people was by no means a bluff. Get a real fight.
When this time comes, Haihan's attack will definitely be a thunderous attack. Although Yangguli still has thousands of troops in hand, he is not at all sure that he can defuse Haihan's offensive.This ominous intuition has been haunting him since a day ago, but he has never been able to find the real reason, even the news that the Haihan cavalry voluntarily evacuate, he is not relieved at all.He wanted to know when and how the Haihans would launch their final offensive, but Houjin's battlefield information collection had almost completely stalled, and he could only use the naked eye to observe the movements of the Haihan Army as a decision-making reference.
However, the deployment of the entire line of defense for several days has been constantly mobilized by Haihan's offensive, and the original defense system has been completely messed up.And Haihan didn't seem to have a real focus of attack, and he was carrying out some tentative attacks everywhere, making Houjin's defense forces exhausted in the entire defense line, even in the deep area behind the defense line.Although the fighting time was not long, Yanguly already had a faint feeling of physical and mental exhaustion, which was a phenomenon that had never appeared in his past fighting career.
Yanguli called a cronie to his tent, gave orders like this, and then sent the cronique to the Golden State Camp to deliver a message to Azige.He felt that it was already difficult for him to take care of the areas within the attack range of Haihan, so he hoped that Azig could bring another group of troops to the defense line as soon as possible.However, he also knew that even if Aziger received help tonight, he would have to start assembling the troops to prepare supplies at the earliest tomorrow morning. It is estimated that if he can start at noon, even if the action is fast, the leading troops may be able to arrive at the fortress before dark. Defense line here.
Azige is the main general of the Liaodong operation, but Yanguli has a kinship with him, so he will not worry that Azige will not help or deliberately delay the fighter plane, since this message for help has been sent out , he believed that Azig would send reinforcements as soon as possible after receiving the news.As long as he persists for another day or so, and when Azige's reinforcements arrive, his confidence in defending this line of defense will increase a lot.
Thinking of this section, Yanguli's uneasy mood finally eased a little.He took his own soldiers to inspect the dilapidated city gate. Although the continuous shelling of the Haihan Army made it impossible for the defenders to completely block the city gate hole, after so many days of tossing and truce at night There were also a lot of building materials that got into the city gate hole, and they were piled up in a mess, and they had basically blocked most of the passages. Large groups of troops would definitely not be able to quickly pass through here and enter the Ji Family Fort.But even so, Yanguli carefully deployed five hundred infantry near the city gate to prevent Haihan from sending a small group of troops to come in through this passage at night.
Of course, Yanguli also tried to send a small group of troops to go to Haihan's camp at night, but the effect was not ideal.After losing two groups of people, Yanguoli dismissed the idea that it was too difficult to achieve.
It's just that Yang Guli never expected that Haihan actually dispatched people to do things secretly at night, and tonight was no exception.However, the target of Haihan sending these people was not at Jijiabao, but somewhere between Jijiabao and Sujiabao where the defense was relatively weak.
This group of engineers who were dispatched to the Liaodong battlefield to be responsible for laying mines this time were responsible for geotechnical blasting operations in the army before receiving relevant training. They were no strangers to explosives, so they received this assignment.And they lurked under the root of the city wall at night, the purpose is to dig some blasting points on this earth wall and bury detonators and explosives.In order to reduce the noise during the operation as much as possible, the excavation tools they use are also specially made, and there is only a very slight noise during operation.
Morgan's sniper team is responsible for keeping watch for the engineers. These professionally trained snipers have excellent eyesight. Even at night, they can use the moonlight to see the wind and grass at a distance of [-] meters.Of course, the most important equipment is the night vision device operated by Morgan himself. With this device, when the post-Golden Sentinel appears in the nearby area, a warning signal can be sent to the engineers under the city wall in time to let them stop temporarily. Work to avoid the sound being detected by the Sentinels.
After two full nights of operation, the engineers had buried hundreds of kilograms of explosives under this section of the city wall. According to calculations, the amount was enough to blow this section of the city wall into slag.If the detonation goes well, a gap of about ten meters wide can be opened in the defense line in a short period of time, and the nearby Houjin large-scale garrison stronghold is at least a mile or so. This time difference is enough to prepare for The Haihan Army has entered the other side of the defense line.If the Haihan Army moves fast enough, they may even build a temporary position relying on the ruins of the city wall to resist the inevitable counterattack.
After confirming that all the explosives at the detonating positions had been buried and the fuses were connected, the sappers silently began to retreat from under the city wall.Whether the results of their two all-night hard work will play a final role will be known after dawn.
At dawn, two Haihan troops from the Central Route Army and the West Route Army quietly appeared near the city wall that was about to be blasted.The two troops assembled and set out in the middle of the night, and without lights, they reached their destination in such a deep and shallow way, where they met Morgan and his sniper team.
"I've transferred all the troops here, so there won't be a problem with this plan, right?" Although Qian Tiandun didn't doubt Morgan's ability, he subconsciously asked him again for confirmation.
Morgan patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'm personally overseeing the work here, so I'm sure. The amount of explosives planted has also been calculated repeatedly. If the wall doesn't blow up, I can order my people at will from now on." ?”
Qian Tiandun smiled and said, "When you say that, I suddenly look forward to a misfire."
The snipers trained by Morgan are treasures in any army unit, and Qian Tiandun is no exception, but the allocation and deployment of snipers are controlled by Morgan, so I want to use these elite soldiers in battle, or use them in battle. If it is included in the establishment of its own troops, it must have a good relationship with Morgan.
The day turned white with fish belly. The Houjin Sentinel, who had just taken over in the morning, patrolled the vicinity of this section of the city wall, and suddenly found that a large area of enemy troops was silently pestering in the field to the south, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.The sentinel knew that the defense was not strict here. If the Haihan Army wanted to attack this place with peace of mind, it would take half a column of incense to mobilize a large number of defenders. Now they hurried to the nearest beacon tower, intending to send a warning message immediately. .But before he could run a few steps, he felt a huge force gushing out from the soles of his feet, lifting him into the air, and then he lost consciousness as soon as his eyes darkened.
The Haihan Army, who was standing on the far field and witnessed this scene, was also deeply shocked by this magnificent scene. The detonation points buried under the entire section of the city wall exploded at the same time almost perfectly, and the dust and smoke caused by it was probably [-] meters away. high.The audience standing hundreds of meters away felt the vibration from the ground beneath their feet.Everyone has no doubt that even if this is a real city wall, it will also be destroyed in such an explosion.
The war horses that Qian Tiandun and Morgan were riding were also neighing, and they were obviously frightened. Fortunately, the groom was pulling the reins all the time, and they didn't make too much movement to directly lift the two big men off.
When the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, Qian Tiandun couldn't help but take a deep breath and said, "You are sure...you really have a good grasp of it!"
Not to mention that the section of the city wall was blown away, a groove more than ten meters long appeared in the original position, and the explosion cut off a layer of the ground.
Morgan put down the binoculars, and said with a forced smile, "It's better to blow hard than not enough medicine. Hurry up and start it!"
Qian Tiandun nodded and ordered an offensive.The charge sounded immediately, and nearly 2000 troops quickly rushed to the gap to seize the passage that was forcibly opened by the explosives.They knew that Hou Jin's counterattack would come soon, so they had to control this vital area before then.And among the artillery units that followed closely behind the infantry, there were the four new cannons that showed their prowess in Jijiabao the day before yesterday.When Yang Guli was still worried about Jijiabao, these four cannons had been quietly transferred to the real attack point, and would undertake the next artillery cover and attack tasks.
Houjin had worked so hard to maintain the fortress line of defense for a long time, and wanted to take this strategic plan to block the Haihan Army south of the Jinzhou Isthmus, but was defeated in one fell swoop by the huge explosion in this early morning. The fortress line has been successfully broken through.
Jijiabao, which was several miles away, also heard the sound of the explosion, but no one understood what was going on. The dull sound was neither like thunder nor the sound of artillery firing. Yang Guli, who came out of the tent, was also dazed and didn't realize the risk for a while.
(End of this chapter)