In fact, during this period, the People's Army was not idle either. He seized the time to dispatch troops and deploy generals to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army by the Yalu River. First, after occupying Liaoyang, the 3rd Army immediately chased the Japanese army and chased them to the vicinity of Phoenix City, but did not launch an attack on the Japanese army, mainly to put pressure on Japan; and after the 4th Army opened the Liaoyang-Lushun section of the Harbin-Da Line, it dispatched the 4th Division, the 12th Division, and two reserve regiments to Bao Cao from the north side of the Japanese army, with the intention of restraining the Japanese army.

The remaining two divisions and one reserve regiment of the 4th Army were temporarily assigned to the command of the 2nd Army to defend Liaoyang and resist the Russian army. Since the Harbin-Da Line was opened at this time, the armored train that landed on Lushun arrived in Liaoyang, which greatly strengthened Liaoyang's defense. Although the People's Army had only about 100,000 troops in Liaoyang, it was enough to defend Liaoyang, and it could also pull the self-propelled artillery troops to the 3rd Army to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the 3rd Army.

However, the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army mainly relies on the forces on the southern line. The Marine Corps and the 1st Army were originally sent to the southern line. Qingdao sent the 5th Army left behind in Shandong to the southern line to participate in the war. Of course, two divisions were left from the 5th Army in Shandong, so only half of the division was actually transferred. In addition, the only built-in cavalry brigade of the People's Army, as well as the self-propelled artillery unit composed of two self-propelled artillery units, and armored units to the southern line, with a total force of about 120,000. At the same time, the Yueyang ship, Sanya ship and battleship team were also sent to the estuary of the Yalu River to strengthen the firepower of the People's Army.

It should be said that the transfer of the 5th Army to Liaodong to participate in the war is a certain risk for Qingdao, because Qingdao only formed one guard division, and the 5th Army left two divisions, and there are only three divisions in the entire Shandong, with a total of about 40,000 troops guarding, and there are 12 reserve regiments under training. Such troops are of course a bit weak, but the military team believes that large-scale combat will not occur in Shandong for the time being, so there is no need to leave a large number of troops in Shandong, but should use the army in the places where it is most needed.

Of course, even if a war broke out in Shan Ran, the military team thought there was no need to worry too much, because the East China government’s river and lake bases are now well developed, and now it has formed three divisions and 7 regiments, with a total of about 60,000 troops. Since the river and lake bases have been connected with Shandong, it is possible to provide necessary support to the East China government when a war breaks out.

The mobilization and arrangement of these troops took time, so the People's Army did not launch an attack on the Japanese army, giving the Japanese army almost two nights and one day to cross the river. However, due to the large number of Japanese troops and a large amount of supplies, although they had two nights and one day, they still had not completed the crusade. Although the supplies were basically sent to the east bank of the Yalu River, most of the soldiers and logistics personnel still stayed on the west bank. But this was good. After crossing some of the troops, the Japanese army's strength on the west bank of the Yalu River was weakened, which was more conducive to the People's Army's attack.

So at 11 pm on June 6, the 3rd Army first launched an attack on Phoenix City, and then the Yueyang ship anchored at the mouth of the Yalu River. The Sanya ship used the ship-borne sea red flag 16* to destroy the bridge built by the Japanese army on the Yalu River, and officially opened the prelude to the People's Army's offensive.

The People's Army's main attack direction had already arranged artillery positions and concentrated all 800 artillery pieces. At this time, the artillery on the positions also opened fire together and launched violent artillery bombardment on the Japanese defense line. On the sea, the battleship team and the ironclad ship team had a total of 9 warships, and also launched artillery bombardment on the Japanese positions on the shore to strengthen the army's strike force.

The dense firepower covered almost all the Japanese positions, and for a moment, the sound of cannons roared, shocking the earth.

The artillery was carried out for about 15 minutes, and the People's Army had poured more than 20,000 shells into the Japanese position. At this moment, the People's Army's artillery seemed to have stopped on the defense line about 3,000 meters in the middle of the Japanese defense line.

Although the Japanese position was hit by the People's Army's fierce firepower, the Japanese defense line did not collapse, and the losses were within the range that the Japanese army could bear. It turned out that the Japanese army had fought many times, and had a certain understanding of the People's Army's tactic of concentrated firepower strikes, and had also come up with a solution. Although in a short period of time, the Japanese army could not build solid and strict fortifications, so they divided the defense line into two parts, and only about 1/4 of the troops were stationed on the front line, and 3/4 of the troops were placed on the second line about 2 kilometers later, so that they could escape the People's Army's artillery fire cover. Once the People's Army stopped artillery and launched an attack, the troops on the second line would immediately fill the front line, guard the positions, and resist the People's Army's attack.

So as soon as the People's Army's artillery was stopped, the Japanese army on the second line immediately ran forward and rushed to the front line to defend. It took about 7 or 8 minutes to advance the dog at a distance of 2 kilometers. Although the positions on the front line had been bombarded by the People's Army's artillery and the simply built positions were basically destroyed, the Japanese soldiers quickly found the bunker and prepared for battle. But those who could not find the bunker were lying on the ground. In short, the Japanese army was very quickly prepared and just waiting for the People's Army to attack.

At this moment, in the dark night ahead, a strange sound that Japanese soldiers had never heard before, and it was getting bigger and bigger from a distance to near, but not long, dozens of huge shadows appeared in the darkness, and were forcing their way towards the Japanese position. Although the night sky was very clear today, the visual distance was only between 200-300. Therefore, seeing the shadows means that they were very close to the Japanese position.

Although they didn't know what it was, the Japanese soldiers still shot at the Shadow. Fortunately, the Shadow was very large, so even in the dark, most Japanese soldiers could still hit it.

However, I heard a sound of "ping-ping-pong" that seemed to hit the steel plate, and I could clearly see the sparks splashing around, and the speed of the shadow moving forward did not seem to slow down much.

The Japanese soldiers were also very puzzled. What weapon was the People's Army using? And at this moment, only "boom boom boom boom" was heard, and many shadows burst out with dazzling fire, and explosions occurred continuously on the Japanese positions. Many Japanese soldiers died in the explosion without any cover. Some sharp-eyed Japanese soldiers vaguely saw through the firelight of their muzzles that these shadows were giant monsters with green faces and fangs, and the sound they made was naturally the roar of the monster. Therefore, they couldn't help but be scared to the point of being broken, and some Japanese soldiers even shouted: "Monsters are monsters."

In fact, this is the People's Army's armored force, which uses the Type 05 amphibious chariot. In order to confuse the public, an iron-cast monster avatar was installed in the capital of each chariot, and the paint of the chariot was also changed from the navy's camouflage blue to a scale-shaped pattern. In the dark night, it really looks a bit like a monster.

There are no weapons like tanks and armored vehicles in this era. Even cars are still in the early stages. Therefore, the Japanese soldiers have never seen them before, and they don’t even have this concept. So the saying of monsters was quickly recognized by the Japanese soldiers. After this recognition, the more they looked at them, they felt like monsters. Even if they were close, they could roughly see the shape of the Type 05 amphibious chariot, and they would not have any other ideas. Maybe the monsters looked like this, and even the cannons were reasonable. That was the cannon carried on the monsters.

If it were just a monster, the Japanese army would not do anything, but a monster that could not be killed by gunfire and bullets would be scary. Moreover, the monster could carry a cannon on its back, and there were more than one such monster. I don’t know how many such monsters the People’s Army had raised. Therefore, the Japanese army’s will to resist quickly collapsed and was defeated on the whole line.

This time, the armored troops deployed a total of 21 Type 05 amphibious tanks, including 7 amphibious tanks and 14 warriors, forming 7 combat teams, spreading horizontally about 2,000 meters. Behind each armored combat team, each followed a battalion of troops to fight in concert.

Originally, the armored troops were arranged on the Western Front battlefield and were preparing to participate in the battle on the Western Front battlefield. However, because the People's Army had sufficient preparations, there were three aces in the hands of armored trains, self-propelled artillery and towed artillery, they fought very smoothly in the Liaohe and Liaoyang battles, so they did not use this ace force. So this time they encircled and annihilated the Japanese army and transferred the armored troops to the southern front battlefield. Since Luo Yue only had two self-propelled artillery and no armored trains and towed artillery, he naturally had to reuse this ace.

After finally having a place to use it, the soldiers of the armored troops were also very excited. They had accumulated enough energy to fight a beautiful battle. This was not just to make contributions to themselves, but because the research and development of armored vehicles had already established projects in the East China government, the armored troops naturally had to come up with some achievements to prove the role of the armored troops.

The breakthrough of the armored troops was very easy, and it took less than half an hour. If the time of travel was deducted, the actual time was not even 15 minutes, so the Japanese defense line was completely defeated. In this way, the People's Army tore open a large gap of more than 2,000 meters on the Japanese position, and the People's Army, which fought with the armored troops, immediately launched an attack on the Japanese positions on both sides of the gap, and continued to expand the gap. At the same time, the People's Army also stopped artillery attacks completely and launched an attack on the entire Japanese position. Luo Yue ordered the Marines to quickly break in through the gap and directly attack Jiuliancheng.
Chapter completed!