After the Marine Corps successfully landed in Zhennanpu, the 5th Army of the People's Army stationed on the Yalu River defense line judged that the Japanese army would withdraw. Because even if the Marine Corps could not capture Pyongyang, it cut off the Japanese army's logistics and supplementary line. Based on the ammunition consumption of the Japanese army during this period, it can be confirmed that the Japanese army's ammunition was insufficient. Therefore, the attacking Japanese army could no longer continue to fight and could only retreat, and the People's Army would also launch a counterattack against the Japanese army.

In fact, as early as the battle plan to land on the Korean Peninsula was determined, the 5th Army began to prepare for the counterattack of the Japanese army. On the one hand, it prepared more than 300 wooden ships of large and small, which could cover the forces of two regiments at one time; on the other hand, it prepared a large number of wooden boards, ropes and other equipment to build floating bridges, and at the same time, it also transferred all accessories for two sets of steel structure assembled bridges.

After the Marine Corps attacked Pyongyang, the 5th Army also realized that the time for a counterattack was ripe, so they first launched an attack on the beachhead position established by the Japanese army on the west bank of the Yalu River, because the outside of the soil must be installed inside and to counterattack the Japanese army, they naturally had to pull out the nails that had been pulled into their own side.

In fact, the beachhead position established by the Japanese army on the west bank of the Yalu River was intentionally given up by the People's Army, with the goal of attracting the Japanese army to continuously invest manpower and material resources in order to defend this beachhead position and consume the Japanese army. Although the People's Army's positions are tightly guarded, the number of people is too small. If the Japanese army launches a multi-point attack on the whole line, and if it is to open a new front, the People's Army will inevitably lose sight of one thing. Therefore, the Japanese army has established 1 or 2 beachhead positions, so that the Japanese army feels hope of breaking the defense line of the People's Army. In order to expand the beachhead position and launch an attack based on the beachhead position, the Japanese army continues to invest troops in the beachhead position, and there is no need to take into account other directions. The People's Army can also concentrate its targets to deal with the Japanese army's attack.

In fact, as long as the People's Army is willing, it can break through the Japanese beachhead at any time. Now is the time. The People's Army's two 200mm self-propelled artillery immediately locked the Japanese beachhead and launched a shelling attack.

The Japanese beachhead positions were mainly simple fortifications built with sandbags, and a small number of trenches were dug. Such positions certainly had good defense against rifles and machine gun fire, and also had certain defense against small and medium-caliber artillery, but they had almost no defense ability against large-caliber artillery fire. A 200 mm shell fell into the position and exploded, which was enough to blow up the guard wall built by sandbags. In addition, the People's Army also concentrated nearly 100 artillery pieces to carry out a covered shelling of the Japanese beachhead positions. In less than 10 minutes, nearly a thousand shells were fired on this area of ​​only about half a square kilometer. After the shelling was over, every inch of land in the Japanese beachhead positions was almost turned over, and all the guard walls built by sandbags were also destroyed by artillery fire.

When the People's Army launched an attack, there was no resistance from the Japanese army. When the People's Army rushed into the position, it was discovered that the positions were everywhere, and most of them were incomplete. Only a very small number were breathing and groaning in pain.

The Japanese beachhead position was easily destroyed, and the People's Army immediately launched a crossing river attack. This time, all the artillery fired together and launched a fierce shelling on the Japanese positions on the east bank of the Yalu River. Since the Japanese positions were not on the shore of the Jialu River, but 3-5 kilometers away from the shore, the People's Army was just allowed to coordinate artillery and firepower to extend combat. So the soldiers of the two regiments responsible for the assault placed the wooden boat on a large flatbed carriage with wheels and pushed forward to the riverside.

When they arrived at the riverside, the soldiers lifted the wooden boats from the flatbed cart, pushed them into the river, then jumped onto the wooden boats and rowed to the opposite shore. Not long after, more than 300 wooden boats were all pushed into the river, and some of the fast-row wooden boats almost reached the middle of the river. The workers also rushed to the riverside and began to build floating bridges and assemble steel bridges.

When the People's Army crossed the river and built bridges, the Japanese and Korean troops on the other side were basically not blocked, and they didn't even fire a few guns, which surprised the People's Army. Although the main position of the Japanese and Korean troops was 3 kilometers away, there were their outposts on the riverside. Moreover, although the People's Army estimated that the Japanese and Korean troops were almost used for ammunition, they would not be left at all. Seeing the People's Army crossing the river in a large scale, how could the Japanese and Korean troops not stop at all?

Of course, the People's Army would not know that the Japanese and Korean troops in the positions now really have no ammunition at all, because all the ammunition was given to five elite Japanese divisions, so naturally they could not stop the People's Army from crossing the river.

Of course, the accident was unexpected, but the river still had to continue crossing. The Yalu River was not very wide, and now it was November and it entered the dry season, so soon a ship arrived at the east bank of the Yalu River. The soldiers jumped off the wooden boats, boarded the river bank, and then immediately established a beachhead position on the shore.

In fact, at this time, the Japanese and Korean troops had no power to resist, so the People's Army did not need to establish any beachhead positions on the east bank of the Yalu River. After landing, they would directly attack the Japanese and Korean troops' positions, leaving at most a company to connect with the bridges on the shore.

But the People's Army did not know that the Japanese and Korean troops had no ammunition at all. They always believed that even if the Japanese and Korean troops had insufficient ammunition, they would still have a little bit of it, so they should not be careless. Moreover, Japan and South Korea had a total of about 250,000. Even if they retreated a little, there were still more than 200,000. The People's Army had only two regiments crossing the river and launched an attack on the positions of the Japanese and Korean troops, which was indeed a bit risky. Therefore, at this time, the People's Army chose a safe tactic, first establish a good beachfront position, ensure that more People's Army troops cross the Yalu River, or wait until the floating bridge was set up and then launched an attack on the positions of the Japanese and Korean troops. After all, the People's Army had a great advantage at this time. As long as you fight step by step, you can ensure victory, and naturally there is no need to take risks.

However, in this way, the People's Army wasted a lot of time. Originally, Otaro Guaki issued an order to retreat to the Japanese army, so some Japanese troops took advantage of this time to evacuate their positions and retreat southward.

After the first batch of People's Army landed, the wooden boats transporting soldiers immediately turned back. The second batch of People's Army boarded the boat and crossed the river until the third batch of People's Army boarded the east bank of Yalu River. Not only did the crossing of the river not encounter any obstacles from the Japanese and Korean troops, but even the beachheads were not attacked by the Japanese and Korean troops. At this time, most of the two floating bridges under construction had been completed, and the remaining work could be completed within an hour.

The People's Army was also puzzled by this. It was so difficult that the Japanese and Korean troops had become wooden men. Is the People's Army allowed to cross the river calmly, establish positions and build floating bridges? However, although the Japanese and Korean troops did not attack the People's Army, they also sent some reconnaissance personnel to understand the progress of the People's Army. After the People's Army established a beachhead, they also sent scouts to reconnaissance the positions and movements of the Japanese and Korean troops.

The scouts of both sides will inevitably encounter and small-scale battles will occur. Although the Japanese reconnaissance personnel may have several bullets, they cannot be compared with the scouts of the People's Army. Therefore, the fight between the two sides is basically one-sided. The People's Army not only killed some Japanese reconnaissance personnel, but also captured several people. After interrogating the prisoners, the People's Army then realized that the Japanese and Korean troops had no ammunition at all.

The reconnaissance personnel immediately reported to the regiment headquarters, and the regiment headquarters did not dare to easily draw conclusions for such a major incident, so they reported it to the command center of the 5th Army. After the command center, they believed that the prisoners were very credible. After all, the Japanese and Korean troops did not have much ammunition. It was also a suitable choice to concentrate the remaining ammunition and ensure the combat effectiveness of several elite troops. After all, since the People's Army launched the crossing of the river to the present, the Japanese and Korean troops did not react at all. This was only possible that there was no ammunition.

At this time, the People's Army had already crossed the troops of six regiments, and there were quite a few. Although the heavy weapons had not crossed the river, each regiment was equipped with a lot of mortars and machine guns, and the firepower was quite good. Therefore, the command of the 5th Army decided to leave two regiments to continue to guard the beachhead positions, and the other four regiments launched an attack on the positions of the Japanese and Korean troops from 4 directions.

Originally, before leaving, Guyu Gentaro ordered the Japanese army to retreat immediately, leaving the Korean army to guard the positions as cannon fodder to cover the Japanese army's retreat, but in addition to the five elite divisions, the Japanese army also had about 100,000 troops. If so many troops wanted to retreat all from the positions, it would not be possible to complete them in a short period of time. Although the Japanese army was cautious, the Japanese army had several hours of retreat time, less than 20,000 troops were withdrawn, and the rest were left on the positions. At this time, the People's Army launched an attack on the positions of the Japanese and Korean army, so they could not withdraw any longer. They could only face the People's Army with the Korean army.

As a result, the four regiments easily captured their attack positions, and basically encountered no resistance. They also captured a large number of prisoners, with almost no casualties. It was not that the Japanese and Korean troops did not want to resist, but that they could not resist. Although Gentaro ordered the left-behind Japanese and Korean troops to fight with the People's Army after the People's Army entered the position.

But the People's Army will not wait foolishly for the Japanese and Korean soldiers to rush forward. After several rounds of shooting, most of the Japanese and Korean troops were defeated, and the rest could not persist and disperse. Moreover, even if both sides launched hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese and Korean soldiers were no match for each other, because the Japanese and Korean soldiers who went to fight had just been selected from ordinary people, and they could not compare with the People's Army in terms of training or combat experience. Moreover, the People's Army has experienced several major battles and the ability of hand-to-hand combat has been gone today. Even if they fight with the elite Japanese troops, they will not be at a disadvantage. It is naturally effortless to defeat these mobs.
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