Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 845: Heading for Lushun

Fengtian was the base camp originally run by Marshal Zhang. After being occupied by the Japanese, it became an important central city of the puppet Manchukuo and also achieved considerable development. Its level of modernization was far ahead.

Therefore, Ding Wei’s task was to reduce the damage to Fengtian as much as possible and try to ensure that it could be restored to operation within half a month.

This requirement would have been an impossible task two years ago, but now the possibility of completion has greatly increased.

Because the Japanese expatriates in Fengtian seemed to have lost their previous enthusiasm, especially after the Japanese army suffered successive defeats on the battlefields in China and Southeast Asia, they seemed to have begun to calm down and were unwilling to use their bodies as fuel for the war machine.

Therefore, as long as they take down the 136th Division, the 130th Independent Mixed Brigade and the st Independent Tank Brigade on the periphery, and carry out precise strikes on the diehards in the city, they will have a chance of completing the mission.

The 201st Airborne Brigade had now moved to the west of Fengtian, cutting off its connection with Xinjing. The Liangshan Special Forces, with the cooperation of underground intelligence personnel in the city, marked important facilities in the city and sent them to the Second Army and the Air Force to avoid them during the artillery preparation.

However, during the inspection, Duan Peng discovered that important facilities, including thermal power plants, water plants and some factories were equipped with a large number of bombs by the Japanese devils, and it seemed that they would explode immediately if they were lost.

"Captain, the highest command has given us a direct order to defuse the bomb and ensure that these equipment and facilities are intact!"

Duan Peng looked at the map. There were a total of ten places where bombs were buried, and each team was assigned to one place.

"Comrades, this is the training subject we are most familiar with, but this time it is a little more difficult. After dismantling the bomb, we have to hold on until the city is breached. Everyone, pack your equipment and set off!"

Duan Peng still followed the first team and headed for the most important thermal power plant.

According to information provided by intelligence personnel in the thermal power plant, the Japanese placed two bombs in the generator, boiler and other locations, and a small team of Japanese was deployed in each location.

Moreover, the Japanese would patrol every two hours.

Therefore, according to this frequency, unless Shenyang is liberated within two hours and the thermal power plant is completely occupied, it will definitely be discovered.

On August 1944, 8, the Fifth Army of the Second Army, led by Kong Jie, attacked Shenyang, while the Fourth Army, under the command of Ding Wei, simultaneously launched an attack on the industrial city of Anshan.

Fortunately, the main forces of the 136th Division and the 130th Brigade, as well as the st Independent Tank Brigade, were deployed outside Fengtian, and there were no large industrial facilities in the target area covered by the artillery fire.

At Kong Jie's command, the Fifth Army's artillery brigade, the Second Army's artillery divisions, and the artillery regiments of the armored divisions, with hundreds of artillery pieces, poured ammunition into the Japanese positions.

In Fengtian, there was only one artillery regiment and an independent heavy artillery regiment, with a total of 36 Type 105 24mm cannons and 150 Meiji Type mm field howitzers.

The Japanese Type 105 18mm cannon had a range of kilometers, and on the eve of the Second Army's bombardment, it did cause some casualties to the independent column's artillery units.

But more than ten minutes later, the Japanese cannon position was covered by a battalion of "Chang'e" rocket launchers and was directly turned into a pretzel.

Half an hour of artillery preparation frightened the newly enlisted Japanese soldiers so much that they crawled out of their anti-artillery holes during the bombardment and were torn to pieces.

While the heavy artillery was roaring, the first team that sneaked into the thermal power plant successfully killed all two teams guarding the heavy bombs and successfully defused the bombs.

"This is not safe. If we are discovered by the Japanese, they may use artillery to attack us. If this thermal power plant is destroyed by the Japanese, I am afraid the chief of staff will ask me to charge three 5-kilometer distances!"

Duan Peng considered it again and again, and finally decided to take the old approach and fake the imperial edict.

"Did we arrest the police chief of Fengtian this morning?"

"Yes, Captain, my name is Fang Qiushan!"

"Where are you now?"

"We are watching him underground. We are afraid that he might be useful later. Besides, this guy doesn't seem to have done anything bad except being greedy for money and lustful. So we didn't kill him!"

"Well, you go there..."

Half an hour later, a fat man in a black police uniform drove a jeep towards the thermal power plant, waving a pistol and shouting.

"Taijun Taijun, a small number of enemy spies have been discovered at the west city gate. Our police station brothers can't stand it anymore. Request for support!"

"Nani? Are there any enemies?"

The Japanese squadron leader guarding the thermal power plant wanted to turn around and blow up the thermal power plant, but when he thought of the combat effectiveness of the police station, he said:

"How many enemies?"

"Well, I didn't see them head-on, probably around 40 or 50 of them! But their firepower is strong!"

The Japanese squadron leader really wanted to slap Fang Qiushan twice, but he said he couldn't stand it before he even saw him?

But considering the mess that the police station was in, he was speechless.

"Director Fang, take your men to surround the thermal power plant. If the independent column breaks in, blow up the thermal power plant immediately!"

"Ha Yi! I'm good at this kind of robbery. No, I'm good at it. I'm good at it!"

After the Japanese squadron leader finished speaking, he gathered all the Japanese soldiers except the two guard teams and surrounded them following the sound of gunfire.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers marching away, Fang Qiushan, with his belly sticking out, said to a flat-headed guy next to him in a flattering way:

"Master, did I perform well? Is my life safe?"

"Make do. Order your people to surround the thermal power plant. No one can come in. Otherwise, you will end up in a miserable situation!"

Fang Qiushan immediately stopped and saluted, then ordered his loyal lackeys to notify all the police in Fengtian to surround the thermal power plant.

The other teams of the Liangshan Special Forces also successfully dismantled the other bombs in the city and were waiting for Kong Jie's troops to enter the city.

As expected, it took only half a day for the Fengtian city wall to be breached, and the Fifth Army captured more than 10,000 prisoners again.

The Fourth Army, which was heading south to Anshan, Liaoyang and Panjin, also pushed forward all the way, approaching the Ports of Lushun and Dalian.

As the most important port of the Japanese in Northeast China, Lushun originally had a large number of warships anchored there.

However, in the Battle of the Marianas in June 1944, the Japanese sent out their last nine aircraft carriers to fight against the M Army fleet, but eventually lost three aircraft carriers and almost all of their carrier-based aircraft were wiped out.

Because the Japanese strategy had changed and they wanted to make Southeast Asia their most important occupied area, the Japanese navy transferred a large number of warships from Port Arthur to Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, preparing for a decisive battle in October.