At this time, Japan launched the second Yalu River Battle for 15 days. Although the Japanese army had participated in the war in full force on the fourth day of the war, it was not controlled by the Korean army as cannon fodder, and it also successfully landed on the west bank of the Yalu River many times, under the strict defense of the People's Army, it was still impossible to establish a stable beachhead position on the west bank of the Yalu River.

In fact, in order to break through the Yalu River defense line of the People's Army, the Japanese army also tried every means. Before the attack, the Japanese army risked the danger of being hit by the People's Army, and launched violent artillery bombardment on the People's Army's positions to provide fire cover for the offensive troops. In order to establish a stable position on the beach as soon as possible, the Japanese army ordered each soldier to bring a bag of sand and soil, and immediately pile up the sand and soil after landing on the shore as a bunker; and sent engineers to set up a floating bridge on the Yalu River with the firepower of the People's Army.

However, the People's Army has established a complete tunnel position defense along the Yalu River. The Japanese artillery was basically small and medium-caliber artillery, and was restricted by the People's Army's precise strikes. The People's Army's two 200mm caliber self-propelled artillery were driven back and forth in the lane behind the position. According to the position of the Japanese artillery position provided by the drone, it kept firing, destroying several Japanese artillery positions in a row, forcing the Japanese army to frequently change the position of the artillery position, so it was unable to continue artillery, so it did not have much effect on the People's Army's positions.

Japanese soldiers landed with sandbags and could indeed quickly arrange bunkers on the shore. However, machine gun shooting of this bunker defense rifle has a certain effect, but its defense effect on artillery is very limited. Moreover, the People's Army's mortars can use large curve ballistic shooting, and the artillery fire is very dense. The array artillery fire covers the shooting, which can basically wipe out all the enemies. It is even more impossible for the Japanese army to put on the Yalu River. Although the People's Army's combat plan is not to annihilate the Japanese army in the river, but to put them on the ashore to annihilate them, the Japanese army will never allow them to put on the Yalu River to form a pontoon bridge. Therefore, as long as the Japanese army's pontoon bridge is halfway through, the People's Army will concentrate artillery fire and destroy the pontoon bridge.

The result of the battle of more than 10 days caused heavy casualties in the Japanese army, with more than 60,000 casualties, of which about 35,000 were killed and 26,000 casualties in the Japanese army. On the bank of the People's Army, the fallen river was almost covered by the corpses of Japanese and Korean soldiers every day, and many corpses rushed into the sea along the river.

Of course, the efforts of the Japanese army these days were not useless. At least they transported a large number of mud and sandbags on the west bank of the Yalu River, coupled with the bodies of the dead soldiers, so they also provided a lot of cover for the later Japanese attacks, which was much better than when the war first started. On the 13th day, the Japanese army finally withstood the People's Army's counterattack on the beach on the west bank of the Yalu River and established a small position.

When the Japanese commander Gentaro Ota, he immediately ordered that the hard-earned beachhead position should be defended at all costs. Therefore, the Japanese artillery desperately fired at the People's Army positions near the beachhead position to provide firepower support for the Japanese army's subsequent landing and expand the position, and even became the target of the People's Army's self-propelled artillery attack. The Japanese soldiers rowed hard to row and reinforce the beachhead position. At the same time, Gentaro Otaro also ordered the Korean army to attack from both sides of the beachhead position to restrain and attract the People's Army's strike, and also sent engineers to build a floating bridge.

As a result, after two days and one night of fierce fighting, the Japanese army paid 4 artillery positions and three floating bridges were destroyed by the People's Army. They expanded the beachhead position to a position about 1,500 meters horizontally and a depth of more than 400 meters. They used mud and sandbags and dug a small number of trenches to build simple but relatively complete fortifications, and entered about two corps troops.

Taro Otaya was relieved. With this position, the Japanese army had a foothold on the west bank of the Yalu River, and then gradually expanded their advantages and had great hope to break through the Yalu River defense line of the People's Army. But at this moment, Taro Otayaya received a report from the Military Control Bureau that the Japanese army's ammunition was less than 30%. This was already a near-risk number. If it was under normal circumstances, the Japanese army should stop attacking immediately and replenish ammunition. But now the Japanese army has no ammunition to replenish.

Otaro Genta's heart was also full of contradictions. He was about to win, but at this time there was insufficient ammunition and was about to lose his power. Otaro Genta's heart was naturally unwilling to accept it. And once the troops were withdrawn, the Japanese war would be completely defeated, so the goal of promoting peace with war could not be achieved again. Therefore, Otaro Genta's heart was also measuring whether to gamble, take all the last 30% of the ammunition, attack the People's Army's defense line with all his might, and strive to completely break through the People's Army's Yalu River defense line in one fell swoop.

This is naturally quite risky. Not to mention whether the remaining 30% of the ammunition is enough to support the Japanese army to completely break through the Yalu River defense line, even if it is successful, the Japanese army will no longer have the power to resist. Therefore, the People's Army only needs to launch a counterattack to completely defeat the Japanese army. However, if the Japanese army does not gamble and stop the war, then it will be meaningless to launch this war. Japan will not have any bargaining chips to play with the East China government in the subsequent negotiations? This decision is indeed not easy. Okata Genta thought about it over and over again, but did not make the final decision.

But at this moment, the People's Army finally launched the Zhennanpu landing war.

At this time, the 1st Marine Division had gathered for 6 days. After a short rest, the soldiers of the 1st Division basically recovered their mental strength and were able to participate in this landing battle in a good state. And just two days ago, the 2nd Marine Division and two reserve regiments also returned to Qingdao, but they had no time to rest and had to start a new battle immediately.

Compared with the previous two landing battles, the preparations for this landing battle in Zhennanpu were the easiest. Luo Yue also obtained the hydrological data from the waters near Zhennanpu and the Japanese army's shore garrison three days before the attack.

However, Luo Yue was still full of confidence in this battle. This was not because Luo Yue was blindly confident or arrogant, but based on the results of the People's Army's reconnaissance on the coast of Zhennanpu, the Japanese army's defense on the coast of Zhennanpu was quite slack. There were no few forts built on the entire coast except for ports, and there were not many troops stationed, probably only about one regiment. After the two landings in Lushun and Vladivostok, the Marine Corps also accumulated considerable landing experience. Based on these factors, although the preparation time for this landing war was short, Luo Yue still had the confidence.

In fact, Japan's lack of strong defense against Zhennanpu is also unwilling to do so. After all, the Korean Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a long coastline, so there are too many places to land. The Japanese army is now limited in power and cannot fully trust the South Korean army, so they can only give up coastal defense. Of course, Gentaro Otaro did not expect that the People's Army would land in Zhennanpu. The landing war in this era of Bijing is still a new concept. Although the People's Army successfully landed twice, it still did not arouse Gentaro Otaro's awareness.

On November 10, 1905, Luo Yue led the fleet from Qingdao and sailed to Zhennanpu. The fleet participating in the battle this time was made up of the Sanya ship as the flagship, including the battle lineup, the armored cruiser team, the newly established Fifth Cruiser Team, the Fifth Destroyer Team, and the Shanghai Marine Corps' four fire support ships, four landing ships, and eight transport ships.

Zhennanpu is about 500 kilometers away from Qingdao. The fleet set off at 6 a.m. and drove at a speed of 12 knots. At about 3 a.m., it arrived at the estuary of the Datong River.

Although Zhennanpu is a harbor, it is not actually located near the sea. It is located about 20 kilometers east of the mouth of the Datong River. If a sea boat wants to reach Zhennanpu, it must enter the Datong River. However, the river surface of the Zhennanpu River section is very wide, reaching 2,000-3,000 meters, and ordinary large sea boats can enter. Therefore, from a geographical perspective, Zhennanpu and Shanghai have certain similarities.

Luo Yue formulated the landing tactics: the armored cruiser team and the fifth destroyer team led two landing ships, two transport ships sailed along the Datong River, occupied the port of Zhennanpu, and then attacked Pyongyang. Other fleets landed on the sea and land. If the landing battle to attack Zhennanpu is unfavorable, an attack will be launched from behind Zhennanpu, attacked Zhennanpu by sea and land, and then rushed directly to Pyongyang.

So the fleet was immediately divided into two here, led by the armored cruiser Chitu, sailing into the Datong River, while the other team landed on the beach, and Luo Yue was in charge of command on the Sanya ship.

The People's Army chose the beach landing site to be a beach, with no troops stationed nearby, and only a few small fishing villages. Therefore, the People's Army was not even prepared for artillery, so the two landing ships left the fleet and headed towards the shore.

Half an hour later, a landing ship rushed to the shore. The gate opened and soldiers rushed out of the cabin and stepped onto the land of the Korean Peninsula. However, the second landing ship encountered trouble. It was stranded on a reef about 300 meters away from the shore. This was also caused by insufficient preparation time and insufficient detailed reconnaissance of hydrology.

However, the People's Army did not panic. The commander on the second landing ship immediately decided to go into the water at the stranded position and swim ashore. So the soldiers took the water rescue rings, jumped into the cold sea water, and swam to the shore with all their might. They took two cruisers to drive over, throw out ropes, tied the second landing ship, and dragged it back into the sea from the stranded position.

This small accident made the first batch of landings of the People's Army exceed the scheduled 40 minutes, but this kind of accident is inevitable on the battlefield. Fortunately, no other happened after the first batch of landing troops landed on the shore. After a brief rectification, the troops of the two battalions quickly dispersed by the beach, occupying and defending this beach. The two landing ships had also carried the second batch of landing troops and sailed towards the shore.
Chapter completed!