At around five o'clock in the morning, the first regiment command office was established in the village discovered by the Ninth Company. There were only more than ten families in the village. They were surprised and at a loss when facing the sudden appearance of Chinese soldiers. The regiment headquarters dispatched a number of orderly soldiers to do ideological work for the people, and told them to stay behind closed doors and not come out. At the same time, they were never allowed to leave the village without permission.

While collecting airdropped military supplies, the regiment headquarters counted the units of the companies that had been landed and contacted.

The combat characteristics of the Air Marine Corps are that they appear behind enemy lines by surprise and then launch a sneak attack quickly, and make sure to expand the battlefield advantage as much as possible before the enemy can react.

Therefore, not long after, the regiment headquarters immediately issued an order to various combat troops, requiring the Second Battalion to build a defensive position in the south to defend against the Japanese garrison in the Saliyuan, and all the scouts were dispatched to find out the surrounding geography, enemy distribution, traffic lines and other important situations.

In addition, the three companies of the third battalion were ordered to attack Nanpu before dawn, seize the coastline, clear out Nanpu's Japanese strongholds, and respond to the landing of the Marine Corps. This is the current priority. According to the mission briefing assigned by the headquarters under the airdrop, the meeting of sea and air is the first step in opening up the battlefield behind enemy lines.

While the First Regiment Headquarters launched an operation, the second airborne site located in the northwest of Shaliyuan also completed the assembly of troops one after another. The Second Regiment Headquarters was soon established, and the first priority was to stick to the surrounding areas.

The task of the Second Regiment is to organize a raid behind enemy lines. After landing, the Second Regiment will not meet with the First Regiment except for establishing necessary communications and liaisons. They will advance directly to the southwest of Shariyuan, control important traffic lines, and cut off the liaison between Pyongyang and Seoul.

After the second regiment headquarters met, the officers of the 2nd regiment immediately began to plan a sabotage operation and prepared to launch a round of attack before dawn to break the railway between Pyongyang and Seoul.

Everything is going on in full swing, and this dawn is destined to be peaceful.

At 5:50, the sky in autumn was still dark. In a suburb of a county town at the junction of Shaliyuan and Nanpu, the Second Battalion of the Air Force Marine Corps launched a sudden attack on a Japanese military station. The Japanese military station station station station station only had one squadron, and the squadron was scattered to various places around the county town. The actual strength of the military station stronghold was less than one hundred.

The third company of the Second Battalion assaulted from three directions and surrounded the Japanese military station in less than ten minutes.

The sound of gunfire broke through the entire dawn, and it also officially announced the beginning of the battle behind enemy lines in the Market Garden Operation. Although all Japanese rear troop stations, logistics bases, headquarters and other military institutions have received orders to strengthen their guards, no matter how vigilant is, no matter how safe it is, it cannot prevent surprise attacks from the sky.

The only function of the Japanese troops in the suburbs before being breached was to send out an emergency telegram informing the Saliyuan and the Pyongyang Command that the Chinese airborne troops had appeared nearby.

Bai Chongxi led the Ninth Company to the rear of the flank of the military station. He originally planned to spare the military station and launch an attack on the county town first.

However, the Japanese army at the military station found that the momentum was wrong and decided to withdraw to the county town. The two sides happened to be in a collision.

"The Japanese are going to retreat. Hurry up, pick me up and block it. Don't let anyone go." Bai Chongxi found the movements of the Japanese army not far behind a deserted earth wall, and quickly shouted.

A squad leader led his subordinates to lie on both sides of the road, set up a light machine gun, and immediately opened fire to block the Japanese soldiers who were in a panic, and then knocked down three or four Japanese soldiers.

With the pursuit soldiers behind him intercepted him, the remaining dozen Japanese soldiers could not escape, so they could only stop and fight to the death. At first, these Japanese soldiers planned to die to the end, but after the Chinese soldiers threw a few grenades, they not only blew up their defense line, but also their determination, and immediately dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.

The Japanese military station was solved, and some soldiers controlled the prisoners and at the same time they retrieved useful intelligence information from the military station. Most of the Second Battalion continued to advance towards the county town, striving to occupy the county town before dawn.

There were no Japanese troops in the county town, only some Korean military and police. All of them surrendered without firing a few shots. When it was just dawn, the Second Battalion drove into the city and soon set up a command post in the city. While controlling the city, the collected intelligence information was summarized and the next combat plan was arranged to attack Nanpu Port City.

Pyongyang and Sariyuan received a telegram from the attacking station at 7 o'clock in the morning, and what worries the Japanese General Staff Headquarters most happened. Since deciphering some of the telegrams from the Market Garden Operation, the General Staff Headquarters realized the threat of China's large-scale joint war, and it is very likely that the entire Korean war situation will lay the overall situation from this battle.

Although the Japanese troops that can be mobilized in the rear have four divisions, their actual strength is less than 10,000. On the one hand, the 10th Division is responsible for the project of the second line of defense, and on the other hand, it also serves as the frontline reserve. The 18th, 19th and 20th Divisions are all troops with incomplete organization and no combat experience.

Facing the Chinese team launched a general attack on the front battlefield, and airborne troops appeared in the rear, the Japanese army was truly in a situation where they could not take into account both front and back.

In the past three days, the Japanese army has established a rapid response force in Pyongyang, which is under the command of the 10th Division.

This rapid response unit was to deal with China's surprise attack. When Pyongyang received an emergency telegram, the 10th Division quickly ordered the rapid response unit to be put into operation, using trains, war horses, personnel carriers and other means of transportation to transport the unit to the site of the incident as soon as possible.

Not only that, Seoul also urgently mobilized a cavalry corps of the 18th Division and rushed to the Shariyuan for assistance.

However, it takes as soon as four hours for Pyongyang troops to arrive in Nampo, and one hour of preparation is required to be put into combat. The distance from Seoul to Shariyuan is even longer, and it is expected that it will take two days to complete the assembly and defense.

When Pyongyang's troops arrived on the north shore of Nanpu, it happened to be around 8 o'clock in the morning. At the same time, the Chinese Marine Corps ships also happened to arrive at the sea entrance of Nanpu Port.

The Chinese fleet set sail from Weihaiwei at 1:00 a.m. and met with the German Far East Fleet in the southwest of the Yellow Sea. The fleet drove straight to Nanpu, the central part of the Korean Peninsula. Fortunately, they did not encounter Japanese warships during the voyage.

The Liaohai Detachment and the German Far East Fleet covered six large transport ships, and the huge fleet occupied almost the entire outer waters of Nanpu. The Japanese army had no coastal defense fortifications on the shore of Nanpu. Faced with the sudden appearance of a large number of warships, there was no way to deal with it. The rapid response troops arrived from Pyongyang could only set up pitiful artillery behind the shore to attempt to resist.

Under the cover of the navy's naval guns, the first batch of landing craft were launched and advanced towards the south bank of Nanpu.

The Japanese army occupied the north bank of Nanpu and could only use infantry artillery to suppress the landing craft, but the effect was minimal. Under the suppression of dense naval gun fire, not to mention the infantry artillery could not stand, the entire north bank of Nanpu was almost overturned.

The landing troops quickly landed on the south side. The Marines did not rush to launch an attack on the north bank, but advanced directly to the Nanpuan urban area. Their primary task was to meet with the airborne troops, then jointly establish a stronghold with sufficient defensive power, and then find ways to fight the Japanese army.

The battle in Nanpu lasted all day. In the evening, the navy completed the first batch of transport and prepared to return one after another. At this time, the two regiments of the First Brigade of the Marine Corps had all arrived ashore, and some of the troops continued to attack the southern city, and some of the troops stayed on the shore to receive supplies. It was originally planned to meet with the airborne troops around 8 o'clock in the evening, but the Japanese rapid response troops set up defenses everywhere in Nanpu City, using street fighting to restrain the Central Team at the south and north.

The war ended late into the night, and neither the Marines nor the Airborne Forces could meet.

The two sides immediately changed their backup combat plans and decided to launch a night attack after two hours of rest.
Chapter completed!