"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

A wave of dense shells fell into the Japanese army's ranks and exploded! And appeared a bunch of dazzling sparks.

Although the shells of the mortar are not as powerful as conventional artillery, they are still shells, which are not comparable to those of rifle bullets, and are numerous, so countless Japanese soldiers were immediately blown away by blood and flesh, broken bones and broken tendons, and suffered heavy casualties.

At the same time, artillery bombardment also caused a heavy blow to the psychology of the Japanese soldiers. Since it was at night and the Japanese army was dispatched in a hurry, the Japanese brigade did not carry heavy weapons, but the opponent seemed to have a large number of artillery guns. Judging from the density of the artillery shells, there should be 3 or 40. From this, it can be inferred that the opponent has absolutely a large number of troops, at least one regiment, otherwise it would be impossible to transport so many artillery ashore. And being able to accurately hit oneself in the darkness, such an opponent is obviously not something that a brigade of Japanese troops can fight against.

Although the Japanese army has always been known for its tenacious combat and not fearing life and death, in the face of such a completely one-sided battle, the opponent's troops and firepower are above them, so they still can't hold on and have to choose to retreat.

The battle lasted only more than 20 minutes and ended with the retreat of the Japanese army. Moreover, since it was a night battle, the hit rate of both sides was not high, so the People's Army suffered little casualties, with only three people killed and 12 others injured, while the Japanese army was about 100 people killed.

At this time, all the second batch of landing troops were out of the landing ship and landing ashore. A regiment of the Marine Corps had already gathered. The regiment commander Yi Xun received a command from Luo Yue on the shore, ordering him to lead the entire regiment immediately to attack Andong County.

It turned out that in the battle just now, Luo Yue found that the Japanese army's attack was very hasty, so he determined that the Japanese army was not prepared for the People's Army's night landing, so he decided not to give the Japanese army enough reaction time. The first regiment did not have to wait for the second regiment to land, but immediately attacked Andong County. At the same time, he ordered six warships to concentrate firepower to strike the Japanese defensive positions.

The Japanese army's defense line was arranged outside the county town of Andong County, about 4 or 5 kilometers away from the seaside, but only two brigades were stationed.

The Japanese army had only one brigade of troops in Andong County, that is, two corpses, one of which was stationed in Xiaosishan, southwest of the county town. After all, there was a brigade station here to defend the forces of a division of the People's Army, and a brigade had to be stationed in Andong County. Therefore, there could only be two brigades on the defensive position near the seaside. Moreover, although Andong County has a city wall, it is mainly adobe structure. After years of disrepair, many places have collapsed and damaged. The Japanese army has not been stationed in Andong County for a long time, so of course there were no time to repair the city walls, so they could only use sand bags to block the damaged gaps, and some trenches were dug outside the city wall, which constituted the defensive position of Andong County.

Although such a line of defense is not useless, the walls of the squad also have considerable defense against small and medium-caliber artillery artillery, the People's Army called over to the 280mm naval naval gun. Whether it is adobe city wall or a sand bag, there is slag in front of the 280-caliber artillery shells. As long as the shell hits the city wall or sand bag, it will be immediately blown up and the soldiers behind the sand bags will fly into the sky. The soldiers hiding in the trenches are not better. Because the trenches dug by the Japanese army are very shallow, they can only allow soldiers to stand and shoot, and the defense effect of the huge vibration of the shells falling on the ground is not good. Therefore, many Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches near the landing point of the shells were shaken and their internal organs were cracked, and their deaths were extremely miserable.

Although the People's Army's artillery was not long, six warships carried out eight rounds of volleys. Although they did not completely destroy the Japanese defensive positions, they did cause major damage to the Japanese positions. More than 10 large gaps were blown up in the city wall alone.

Moreover, the strike of the naval gun just stopped, followed by a dense small and medium-caliber shell like raindrops. Although it was not very powerful, it was defeated by a large number and density. Therefore, almost all the Japanese positions were covered by explosions. With the explosion, the dazzling sparks ruthlessly devoured the lives of the Japanese soldiers. Moreover, the shells fell in a large arc of ballistics, and the trajectory and the ground had a very large angle. Many shells fell directly into the trenches. Jie Dai's Japanese soldiers who had luckily escaped the bombardment just now were not so lucky this time and were injured and killed by the bombardment.

A regiment of pursuing artillery units fired nearly a thousand shells into the Japanese positions. Therefore, when the People's Army launched a charge on the Japanese positions, the Japanese resistance was extremely weak and could hardly cause any trouble to the People's Army. The flames on the positions, like starlight, illuminated the direction of the attack for the People's Army, allowing the People's Army to easily break through the Japanese defense line and enter the city of Andong County.

Although in Andong County, the People's Army suffered the most tenacious resistance from the Japanese army since the war started, a Japanese army brigade left behind in Andong County fought desperately against the People's Army. They used the houses and narrow streets in the county to fight hard against the People's Army. Therefore, in various streets in Andong County, even in many houses, soldiers from both sides were fighting desperately, and the weapons used were not limited to rifles, wooden sticks, bricks, stones, sand, and even punches, kicks, teeth and bites. All the means that could be used were used, which also caused considerable casualties to the People's Army.

However, the general trend of the war at this time was determined, and the Japanese army's crazy resistance was nothing more than a dying struggle. Moreover, the fighting spirit of the People's Army was not inferior to that of the Japanese army, so at most it could only slightly delay the Japanese army's defeat.

At this moment, the 2nd Marine Corps Regiment also completed its landing and joined the battle, becoming the last straw to defeat the Japanese army. Therefore, the Japanese army, who could not resist, had to choose to retreat and handed over the Andong County to the People's Army.

At around 6 a.m. on May 29, the People's Army completely occupied Andong County. At the same time, the 7th Division also launched another attack on the Xiaosiyama position.

At this time, the six warships involved in the landing operation had moved to the sea near Kojiyama and launched artillery bombardment on Kojiyama's Japanese positions.

Just when the Japanese position was bombarded by heavy artillery, the news of the loss of Andong County also reached the Xiaosiyama position, which made the Japanese army guarding the position very motivated. At this time, it was meaningless to defend the Xiaosiyama position. Moreover, once the People's Army attacked Andong County freed up its hands and attacked Xiaosiyama, the Japanese army guarding the position would be in danger of being wiped out. Therefore, the Japanese army indeed evacuated the Xiaosiyama position and retreated in the direction of Jiuliancheng.

At this point, the People's Army completely controlled the Andong County area and fully controlled the estuary of the Yalu River, completing the first step of putting pressure on the Japanese army.

In this battle, the People's Army annihilated a total of 2,563 Japanese troops, captured 415 people, and killed 241 people and injured 385 people.

On the same day, Liu Tie commanded the 1st Army and launched an attack on Phoenix City. Although the People's Army did not really plan to capture Phoenix City at this time, it was necessary to make a gesture of determination, otherwise it would not put enough pressure on the Japanese army.

The Japanese army's garrison in Phoenix City was based on the mountains around Phoenix City. There were many hills around Phoenix City, including Laohuling, Xujialing, Laogang, Dakabaling, Erlong Mountain, Fenghuang Mountain, etc., which were quite similar to Lushun. The Japanese army had a division of troops in Phoenix City and also fully utilized the terrain to arrange the defense line of Phoenix City. However, because the Japanese army had a short time to build a defense line, they did not build many solid positions. However, with the advantages of the terrain, the Japanese army was still confident in defending Phoenix City.

However, this time the People's Army brought two 200mm caliber self-propelled artillery, which was extremely powerful. Therefore, the People's Army used these two 200mm artillery to open the way and launched an attack on the Japanese mountainside position. First, a round of heavy artillery bombardment, severely damaged the mountainside position, and then the infantry launched an attack on the mountainside. The two 200mm artillery turned to attack the other mountainside.

The attacking People's Army carried a large number of mortars, attacked with the synchronous army, and continued to shell out Japanese firepower points at the remaining Japanese positions on the mountain. Therefore, the People's Army's attack went very smoothly, attacked the mountain, and launched hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army's resistance was very tenacious, defended the position to the death and fight, but he had no choice but to go all out and he could only increase casualties. Not only himself, but also increased the casualties of the People's Army, but he still could not defend the position.

In one day, the People's Army conquered two hills, Laohuling and Xujialing. This was the result of the conquering of the People's Army. If the People's Army attacked with all its strength, it would be able to capture three positions in a day.

The People's Army's attack from the night of the 28th to the full day of the 29th did make Kawamura Jingming, who was in Jiulian City feel like a ray of light. Andong County was lost, the northwest gate of Jiulian City was opened, and the Yalu River estuary was completely lost. Of course, Japan has lost its sea control power now, and it does not make much sense to control or not the Yalu River estuary, but now even Phoenix City is arduous. It seems that the Japanese army's retreat is really hanging. Kawamura Jingming had no good idea at this time. While strengthening Jiulian City's defense, it also generated power to rescue Liaoyang.

After receiving the telegram from Kawamura Kyoko, Oyama was really scared. He didn't expect that the People's Army would be so fast and the attack was so fierce. He took Andong Prefecture with one move and made a major breakthrough in the front line of Phoenix City. If Jiuliancheng is lost again, he should have apologized to the Emperor. But to be honest, there is no good way for Oyamayan now, because he can't go to Jiuliancheng! Besides, even if he flew to Jiuliancheng, what's the use of only one person? Unless he could take several divisions to Jiuliancheng. These are of course all the random thoughts of Dashan Step. Now the only way is to speed up Notsu Dokun, who is already on the reinforcement road.

However, the Japanese army is not like the People's Army. It has radio stations and walkie-talkies to communicate. Once the army goes out and leaves the cable telegraph node, it can only rely on manpower to convey messages. Therefore, Oyama Iron immediately set off overnight and reported to Notsu Daokuen on a fast horse, asking him not to arrive in Phoenix City before 12 noon tomorrow, which is 12 hours ahead of the requirement when Notsu Daokuen sets off.
Chapter completed!