Chapter 1443 Breaking through the defense line

"Be careful when you carry it onto the ship!" Wang Tom gently patted the shoulder of the wounded soldier on the stretcher, and then motioned to the medical soldiers to send him away.

Although the wounded soldier's mood is relatively stable, Wang Tom's face is not relaxed at all. 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 Hou Jin

The initial battle between the two armies did not give the other side any chance. But today, after Yang Guli arrived with reinforcements, Wang Tom truly realized the power of the Hou Jin Army.

The enemy was able to break through Haihan's defenses on the frontal battlefield with relatively backward weapons and equipment, and even entered the Haihan position at one point. This was a rare situation in the past history of the Haihan Army.

The main reason for this situation, Wang Tom believed, was that the Marine Corps had not done enough preparations for war, and there were indeed certain loopholes in his command. He thought that the Jin Army would retreat after one or two failed attempts, or perhaps retreat.

They simply implemented a blockade on the periphery and did not attack, but they did not expect that once the opponent made up their mind to fight, they would no longer have any scruples and would attack the beachhead even if they suffered heavy casualties.

The Marine Corps, which was not fully prepared for this, was indeed caught off guard. The Haihan Artillery that was breached directly lost a squad in the fight. If it weren't for Wang Tom who took the lead at the critical moment and withstood the wave.

Offensive, the casualties of the Marines today may be far more than what is seen in front of them.

Now thinking back to the previous battle scenes, Wang Tom is still a little scared. In recent years, he rarely goes to the front line to command operations, let alone participate in battles in person. Although his usual shooting training has kept his skills from being too good.

It's unfamiliar, but if you were really unlucky and took a stray arrow to a vital part, you might end up hanging in the wilderness thousands of miles away from home.

Earlier, Qian Tiandun asked him to stay on the flagship and command the landing battle. He also retorted that it was rare to have such a combat opportunity where the strong attacked the weak, and the commander should go to the front line to increase confidence in his troops. Anyway, the Jin army

There was no way to break through the defense, so there should be no risk in terms of safety. But I didn't expect that this almost became a prophecy. If Qian Tiandun and others knew about it afterwards, they would definitely be laughed at.

According to post-war statistics, Haihan suffered 21 casualties on the spot in this battle, and nearly a hundred others were injured. More than ten of them were seriously injured. It is difficult to say whether they can survive the battle. Although this battle damage

Dozens of times less than his opponent, and he finally repelled Hou Jin's offensive, but Wang Tom still felt shameless. He did play a role in attracting firepower behind the enemy, but the battle was so brutal.

However, it was not as expected when the battle plan was originally formulated, and it did not reach the expected level at all.

Fortunately, the cavalry battalion responsible for the other part of the operation went extremely smoothly. It carried out lightning attacks on multiple Houjin strongholds along the way to the west. In the end, it was able to escape unscathed and retreated from the Bohai Bay to the sea. In comparison,

The mission completion rate of the cavalry battalion is obviously much higher than that of the Marine Corps.

However, the mission of the Marines was not over yet. Wang Tom decided to continue to pin the Marines to this place according to the original plan. If everything goes well, there will be a chance for the Marines to turn around in the next day.

Yangguli returned to Jijiabao with his soldiers overnight to take charge. Although he left some soldiers and horses at the seaside to watch Haihan's beachhead, he still felt uneasy. He left Jijiabao for a short period of time.

For most of the day, Haihan's intermittent bombardment continued, but still no infantry was sent 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

This is definitely not a bluff. It is impossible to station troops here for a few days, fire hundreds of artillery shells and then retreat. In the end, there will definitely be a real fight.

When this time comes, Haihan's attack will definitely be thunderous. Although Yangu Li still has thousands of soldiers and horses in hand, he is not sure that he can neutralize Haihan's offensive. This ominous intuition has never stopped.

It started to linger in his mind a day ago, but he has never found the real reason. Even the news about the Haihan Cavalry's voluntary withdrawal did not make him feel relieved at all. He wanted to know when and how the Haihan Cavalry would take action.

method to launch the final offensive, but Hou Jin's battlefield information collection work has almost completely come to a standstill, and he can only observe the movements of the Haihan Army with the naked eye as a reference for decision-making.

However, over the past few days, the deployment of the entire defense line has been constantly involved and mobilized by Haihan's offensive, and the original defense system has been completely messed up. Moreover, Haihan seems to have no real focus of attack, and some tentative attacks are being carried out everywhere.

The attack made Houjin's defense troops exhausted throughout the entire defense line, and even in the depths behind the defense line. Although the battle lasted only a short time, Yangu Li already felt faintly physically and mentally exhausted, which he had experienced in the past.

This is a phenomenon that has never happened before in his combat career.

Yangguli called a close aide to his tent and gave these instructions. Then he sent the aide to the Jinzhou camp to deliver a message to Azig. He felt that it was difficult to take care of the situation by himself.

Haihan attacked areas within the attack range, so he hoped that Azig could bring another group of soldiers and horses to the defense line as soon as possible to support. However, he also knew that even if Azig received help tonight, the fastest would be tomorrow morning.

We began to assemble troops to prepare supplies. It was estimated that if we could set off at noon, we would move very quickly. The leading troops might be able to reach the fortress defense line before dark.

Azig is the commander-in-chief of this Liaodong battle, but Yangu Li has a kinship relationship with him, so he will not worry about Azig refusing to save him or deliberately delaying the fight. Now that this message for help has been sent out

, he believed that Azig would definitely send reinforcements as soon as possible after receiving the news. As long as he persisted for another day or so, when Azig's reinforcements arrived, the certainty of holding this line of defense would be much greater.

Thinking of this section, Yangguli's uneasy mood finally eased a little. He took his soldiers to inspect the already dilapidated city gate. Although the continuous shelling of the Haihan Army made it impossible for the defenders to completely

The city gate opening was blocked, but after several days of hard work, a lot of building materials were brought into the city gate opening during the night truce. The messy piles inside have basically blocked most of the passage. Large groups of troops will certainly not be able to pass through quickly.

Here we enter Jijiabao. But even so, Yangu Li carefully deployed 500 infantrymen near the city gate to prevent Haihan from sending a small force to sneak in through this passage at night.

Of course, Yang Guli also tried to send a small group of troops to Haihan to camp at night, but the effect was not ideal. The men and horses sent out were like meat buns beating dogs and never returned. After losing two groups of men and horses,

, Yang Guli gave up the idea that this was too difficult to implement.

It's just that Yang Guli never expected that Haihan actually sent people out to do something secretly at night, and tonight was no exception. However, the target of Haihan sending these people was not here in Jijiabao, but in Jijiapu

Under the relatively weakly defended city wall somewhere between the fort and Sujia Fort.

This group of engineers sent to the Liaodong battlefield to lay landmines were responsible for geotechnical blasting operations in the military before receiving relevant training. They were no strangers to explosives, so they received this assignment. And they were working at night

The purpose of lurking under the city wall is to dig out some explosive spots on the 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.

There was only a very slight sound.

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 100 meters. Of course, the most important equipment is

The night vision device operated by Morgan himself could send a warning signal to the engineers under the city wall in time when the Houjin sentry appeared in the nearby area, allowing them to temporarily stop working to avoid being noticed by the sentry.

After two full nights of operations, the engineers have buried several hundred kilograms of explosives under this section of the city wall. According to calculations, the amount is enough to blow this section of the city wall into pieces. If the detonation goes smoothly, then in a short time

A gap about ten meters wide can be opened in the defense line in an instant, and the nearest large-scale garrison of Houjin is at least about a mile away. This time difference is enough for another Haihan army to prepare to attack the defense line.

That's it. If the Haihan Army moves quickly enough, they may even establish a temporary position based on the ruins of the city wall to resist the inevitable counterattack.

After confirming that all the explosives at the detonation positions had been laid and the fuses were connected, the engineers silently began to retreat from under the city wall. Whether the results of the two of them working hard all night will have the final say, etc.

We can see the result after dawn.

At dawn, two Haihan troops from the Central Route Army and the West Route Army quietly appeared near the city wall where they were about to be blasted. These two troops assembled in the middle of the night and set out without lights, so deep

One step at a time, they reached their destination, where they met Morgan and his sniper team.

"I have transferred all the troops. There will be no problems with this plan, right?" Although Qian Tiandun did not doubt Morgan's ability, he still subconsciously asked him for confirmation again.

Morgan patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'm personally supervising the work here, so I'm sure of it. The amount of explosives planted has also been calculated repeatedly. If this wall doesn't blow up, you can do whatever you want with my people from now on."

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Qian Tiandun smiled and said: "When you said that, I suddenly looked forward to a misfire."

The snipers trained by Morgan are treasures in any army unit, and Qian Tiandun is no exception. However, the allocation and deployment of snipers are controlled by Morgan, so if you want to use these elite soldiers in battle, or send them to

To incorporate it into your own army's establishment, you must have a good relationship with Morgan.

When the sky turned pale, the Houjin sentry who had just taken over the post in the morning patrolled near this section of the city wall, and suddenly found a large enemy army silently stalking the southern wilderness. He was suddenly startled and broke out in a cold sweat. The sentry knew this place.

The defense was not tight. If the Haihan Army wanted to attack here with peace of mind, it would take half a stick of incense to mobilize a large number of defenders. He immediately ran to the nearest beacon tower, intending to send out a warning immediately. But there was no

After he ran a few steps, he felt a huge force spurting out from the soles of his feet, lifting him into the air, and then his vision went dark and he lost consciousness.

The Haihan Army standing in the distant wilderness and witnessing this scene was also deeply shocked by this spectacular scene. The detonation points buried under the entire city wall exploded almost perfectly at the same time, and the dust and smoke raised were probably as high as 100 meters.

The audience standing hundreds of meters away felt the shock coming from the ground beneath their feet. Everyone had no doubt that even if this was a real city wall in front of them, it would be wiped out in such an explosion.

The horses ridden by Qian Tiandun and Morgan also neighed loudly. They were obviously frightened. Fortunately, the grooms were always holding the reins, so they did not make any big moves to knock the two big men off.

When the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, Qian Tiandun couldn't help but take a breath and said: "You are sure... you are really sure!"

Not only that section of the city wall was blown away, a groove more than ten meters long appeared in its original position. The explosion cut off a layer of the land.

Morgan put down the telescope and said with a forced smile: "It's better to explode harder than not enough. Start it quickly!"

Qian Tiandun nodded and ordered the offensive. The charge signal immediately sounded, and nearly two thousand troops rushed to the gap to seize the passage that was forcibly opened by explosives. They knew that Hou Jin's counterattack would come soon.

, so this critical area must be controlled before then. Among the artillery units following closely behind the infantry, there are the four new artillery that showed their power in Jijiabao the day before yesterday. They are still there in Yanguli

While Jijiabao was on tenterhooks, these four guns had been quietly moved to the real attack point, and would take on the subsequent artillery cover and strike tasks.

The fortress defense line that Hou Jin worked hard for a long time to block the Haihan army south of the Jinzhou Isthmus was defeated in one fell swoop by the huge explosion in the early morning.

The fortress defense line has been successfully broken through.

Jijiabao, who was several miles away, also heard the sound of the explosion, but no one understood what happened. The dull sound neither sounded like thunder nor the sound of artillery fire.

Yangu Li, who came out of the tent, also had a confused look on his face, and for a moment he didn't realize the risk at all.
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