Wafangdian was the Fuzhou Inspection Department during the Qing Dynasty. It was originally just an ordinary town. Since it was successively occupied by Russia and Japan in modern times, it has been guarding the Jinzhou, Liaodong Peninsula, from the Liaodong Peninsula, from Fuzhou to Dalian and Lushun, and has successively won the attention of Russian and Japanese architects.

During the Russian ceasing period, Wafangdian received an investment of more than 100,000 rubles. During the initial militarization, the town was built with only a few modified mortars, causing more than 1,000 Japanese troops to attack the town to suffer casualties. The organization of an elite infantry brigade was eliminated, which impressed the Japanese generals.

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese generals and military experts began to notice the town, but due to the deterioration of domestic finance in Japan after the war, from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the early 1915, the Kanto agency stationed in the Liaodong Peninsula only squeezed out less than 100,000 yen for the expansion of the wafang shop.

This situation was alleviated with the end of the Sino-Japanese Shandong Battle. Due to insufficient preparations in the Battle of Shandong and the lonely army, two elite Japanese divisions were annihilated and stayed in China, which shocked the Japanese military. Although Okuma Shige trusted him to suppress the expansion of the army, the military headquarters took into account the importance of the Liaodong Peninsula and after allocating funds to establish a number of permanent military fortresses in northern Korea, it also strengthened its military expenditure on the Liaodong Peninsula. Wafangdian received a grant of more than 300,000 yen. After driving away the Chinese indigenous people in Wafangdian town, the Japanese used this grant to double the size of the town and built multiple trench defense lines at the same time.

The Sino-Russian War broke out a year later, and the victory of China terrified the top Japanese military leaders. The top military leaders then found out in fear that before they knew it, the neighboring country that had lost a chance to rise was qualified to provoke Japan's East Asia leadership. Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has always regarded its neighbor as its biggest competitor. In recent years, as the decline of the Republic of China has decreased vigilance, as the conflicts and frictions between China and Japan have been continuously planned, the Japanese who were worried that the Chinese would take back the Liaodong Peninsula were once again allocated more than 300,000 yen to expand the wafang store in early 2018.

Today, this place has been built by the Japanese into a military fortress that is no less than the size of a county in the mainland.

The genius was slightly brighter, and the National Defense Forces' siege began again.

The first thing that roared was the two 108mm heavy artillery of the 109th Artillery Brigade. After the past two days of fighting, the National Wehrmacht, after paying the heavy price of more than 4,000 casualties, had already understood how difficult the hard bones in front of them were. Permanent military buildings were hit by 60mm caliber mortars, as if they were tickling through their boots. Even the standard infantry cannon of 75mm, it was difficult to destroy the building without concentrating on the front.

Like yesterday, with the roar of the National Defense Army artillery, Japan assumed that the artillery positions in the rear also returned with fierce shelling, and the shells fell from the sky to the National Defense Army positions with roars, and the violent explosion made the entire battlefield boil.

They were two artillery brigades under the 17th Japanese Artillery Regiment who had arrived to support them. They also brought more than 20 artillery pieces of large and small caliber, including four 158mm heavy modified howitzers removed from naval warships. After the shells fell to the ground, they exploded, throwing the soil and stones on the ground into dozens of meters or even hundreds of meters of air, and then falling back to the ground, as if it was raining. Even if the soldiers of the National Defense Forces were not directly killed by the shells, these stones and dirt falling from the air may cause indirect damage to the soldiers.

It can be said that the reason why the Japanese could stick to the fact that Wafangdian was able to hold on with the fall of half of the urban area was that these four large-caliber heavy artillery made great contributions.

"Damn it, where are our artillerymen? Why don't the artillery fight back?"

On the position, an officer with a major's ejection on his shoulder took off his military cap and threw it on the ground in anger.

"My brothers under my command want to shoot a gun repair factory, and two hundred lies in it. Why are our cannons, why are the Japanese artillery machine guns on the opposite side not extinguished yet!"

It was nothing more than that he was so angry that they had fought in Wafangdian in the past three days. On the dozens of miles of positions, there was only one infantry corps, one infantry brigade, and two artillery corps. Including some Japanese troops who fled from the front line, the total enemy was less than 7,000. However, they gathered two infantry divisions and mobilized more than 100 large and large artillery artillery pieces. After countless casualties, they have not been able to take down Wafangdian.

No one could answer him, and the artillery was also wronged. The Liaodong Peninsula had many hilly terrain and the railways were mostly controlled by Japan, so heavy artillery was inconvenient to move, so it was difficult to keep up with the war needs before relying on animal power alone. Japan has been operating in the Liaodong Peninsula for many years, and they are very familiar with the importance of the Liaodong Peninsula. Therefore, the Japanese troops stationed in the Hangout far exceed the local and Nanyang garrisons.

The artillery of both sides was still firing at each other. After more than two days of fierce attack, the National Defense Forces had cleared the Japanese's peripheral defense line and attacked Wafangdian. At present, except for a very small number of strongholds in this fortress, most areas have been controlled by the National Defense Forces.

However, the Japanese's determination to resist was far beyond imagination. When a front line was lost, they immediately retreated and established one, relying on the alleys and strongholds to defend stubbornly. Moreover, they also had dozens of artillery and a large number of machine guns, but they blocked the National Defense Force's strong attack and stubbornly stuck this key point.

Under the roar of the god of war, the cannon, it is not safe to curl up in the trenches, let alone there are no trenches. The soldiers of the National Defense Forces who invaded the city had to find any cover that could provide cover to resist the fragments of shells falling from the sky and other things that splashed from the sky. In the high-speed flying, even a stone that was not as big as a nail could penetrate through steel, let alone flesh and blood.

An explosion sounded not far away. General Tu Lin put down the military area of ​​Wafangdian, which was drawn from high aerial photos of the land aerial reconnaissance aircraft, and also put down the scale of the hand.

"Does the Japanese shells keep firing?"

He frowned and sighed, "Only by accumulating energy to transport supplies from the rear, our shell supply cannot keep up with the troops' consumption. The Japanese almost destroyed most of the railway when they retreated, and it took at least one month to repair it."

It is necessary to take down Wafangdian as soon as possible, which is adjacent to the coast. Xizhong Island, not far away, was captured by the Navy of the Republic of China yesterday. More than 490 Japanese troops stationed on the island were killed and none of them surrendered. After the National Defense Force took down Xizhong Island, as long as the navy can still control the maritime defense line, the continuous supply of materials can be landed from Xizhong Island and directly transported to the Liaodong Peninsula to supply the army. This is extremely important. It is not far from Xizhong Island. Once the National Defense Force takes over it, it will become a material transfer station.

At this time, a major officer rushed into the bunker and handed a telegram to General Tu Lin.

Tu Lin opened it and finally had a smile on his face.

Fengtian ordered them to take down Wafangdian before sunset today, and to transfer all two bombing squadrons of the Army Airlines that had just cooperated to destroy the last Japanese resistance army in Fuzhou to them, and also transferred a bombing squadron from Liangjiadian next to them. Cooperating with the three Army Airlines squadrons assigned to their battlefield, they could finally have a stronger deterrent to the Japanese.

"Quick, order it. The troops in the city broke off contact with the Japanese army and retreated to some blocks. The artillery continued to restrain the Japanese artillery positions. Our bomber group was about to come and passed my order that the Wafangdian must be taken down before sunset!"

About ten minutes later, two continental aviation reconnaissance aircraft rushed to Wafangdian first, hovered at high altitude for a shooting, and then returned. About an hour later, a shocking roar came from the north, and then the sky was covered with the bomber groups of continental aviation and the fighter planes escorted by the two teams.

Looking at the huge aircraft group consisting of hundreds of fighter jets, Tu Lin breathed a sigh of relief. On the battlefield of the Liaodong Peninsula, the air force of the Republic of China has an absolute advantage. As long as the supply of oil and ammunition can be guaranteed, they can continuously bomb Japanese positions and provide firepower to suppress the ground offensive troops. The reason why the Republic of China was confident that it would take over the Liaodong Peninsula in a short time and destroy the Japanese resistance troops in Lushun and Dalian cities was also from the sky.

For a whole morning, the explosions in the entire Wafangdian area never stopped. The fleet dispatched nearly 400 aircraft in just one morning, and threw nearly 700 tons of aviation bombs at Wafangdian and Japanese positions, destroying a large number of Japanese military buildings. At the same time, it also severely attacked the Japanese artillery, killing and destroying dozens of artillery pieces, forcing the Japanese to retreat the remaining artillery troops and unable to provide military shelter to the Japanese defenders in Wafangdian as before.

Until two o'clock in the afternoon, after the last bombing, all the front-line air bombs were temporarily used up. When the fleet of aircraft had to return, the entire Wafangdian had almost become a ruin.

The air strike was very smooth. It not only destroyed three heavy artillery positions in the Japanese army, one Japanese telegram station, two supply points, and one hidden ammunition depot. It also forced the Japanese artillery to retreat, and more than a thousand Japanese soldiers who were still defending were killed or injured.

Of course, China Airlines did not fail to pay a little price. During the bombing, the two China Airlines planes collided due to fatigue in operation, and became the third group of aircraft that collided since the establishment of China Airlines in the Republic of China. At the same time, a Raptor bomber crashed due to mechanical failure, and three other aircraft were shot down by Japanese ground machine guns.

However, compared with the results they have achieved, this loss is completely acceptable.

The Warriors of the Land Airlines performed well, and the rest depends on the soldiers of the National Defense Army.

When the fleet that had gone far away gradually disappeared from sight, General Tu Lin looked north until he could no longer see a plane. Then he came to his senses and shouted to call the adjutant, "If you order, the artillery does not need to continue saving shells and provide fire support to the brothers of the infantry. I order to take down the Wafangdian before sunset!"

"yes!"

At 4:00 pm on April 24, the National Defense Forces captured the Wafangdian. Eleven hours later, the Liangjiadian was captured.
Chapter completed!