Chapter 720: The Korean Campaign (2)
With Gao Jianguo's order, all corps in the Korean theater also began to actively prepare. All the units involved in the battle began to move, advanced to the starting positions of the attack, and were ready for the attack.
Shi Mingfeng also began to make false promises with the North Korean mission every day, throwing out the final limit of the Far East. During the reigns of King Taejong, King Sejong, and King Sejo of Joseon, they pursued an active policy of expanding to the north, and the northwestern and northeastern regions of the peninsula where Joseon expanded were the places where the Jurchens lived for generations. The northern areas of Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province occupied by the Far East were originally the territory of the Yuan Dynasty, but were gradually annexed by Korea, and they were quietly encroached upon after the Ming Dynasty.
In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, because it was necessary to concentrate on the war of the Northern Yuan, it was necessary to ensure the existence of a force in the northeast that clearly supported it, so it had always adopted a policy of tolerance towards the Li dynasty, and the Joseon took advantage of this favorable condition to expand its influence to infiltrate the Jurchen tribes deep in the northeast.
In order to confuse the North Korean mission, Shi Mingfeng also took out this piece of bad sesame and rotten grain, and forced the DPRK to return the areas of Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province that he had annexed, and pointed out in righteous words that Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province have been the inherent territory of our Chinese nation since ancient times, and if the North Korean side insists on going its own way, the Far East does not rule out the use of force to resolve the territorial issue.
When the Korean mission transmitted the conditions from the Far East back to Hanyang City, the Joseon Inzu Li Liang and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu sighed inexplicably. As long as there is no attempt to annex the Kingdom of Korea in the Far East, those places were originally obtained by North Korea by improper means, so although it is distressing to cede the northern part of Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province, it is not unacceptable.
Joseon Injo Li Ju immediately sent an edict to the Korean mission in Dandong Town, trying to play a scoundrel with the Far East as much as possible, and to cut less land if he could. Just when the North Korean side breathed a sigh of relief, the three corps of the Korean Theater in the Far East were ready to attack.
Donggou Military Port. While the other three corps in the theater were actively preparing, the fleet of the surprise landing task force of the Western Military District had already left the Donggou military port and advanced towards the mouth of the Han River in Korea.
The assault landing task force is equipped with two battalions of the 1st Brigade of the Field Division, a special operations detachment, an armored detachment, an artillery detachment, and an engineer detachment. The total strength is more than 3,000 people.
These included three BTR-60 armoured carriers, twelve UAZ-469 jeeps, 10 KAMAZ military trucks, as well as a number of engineering vehicles and a large number of field wagons. The artillery detachment was equipped with two 105-mm Type 75 105-mm vehicle-mounted recoilless guns, three Type 2B11 120-mm mortars, six 75-mm mountain guns, and nine 70-mm infantry guns.
The fleet is equipped with two modern landing craft and more than 50 state-of-the-art offshore integrated steam deck barges. Each boat tows an unpowered barge. Among them were six fire support boats, four of which were armed with six 105-mm assault guns, and two were armed with four 12-barreled 107-mm rocket launchers. The remaining ships were all equipped as landing craft, each equipped with two twin water-cooled heavy machine gun turrets.
The flotilla carrying the assault landing task force, escorted by dozens of Far Eastern warships, rushed to the waters near Ganghwa Bay in North Korea. Nearly 100 warships of the Far East Attack Fleet have been gathered here, and the nearby waters have been completely blocked, so that the DPRK does not dare to go to sea with a single sail.
Since the Korean monarchs learned of the intentions of the Far East, in order not to provoke the Far Eastern Army. The Korean naval divisions had been strictly ordered not to fight, and all warships were moored in their respective naval camps. All their attention was attracted by the northern town of Dandong, and they were anxiously waiting for the news of the negotiations ahead.
Gao Jianguo is in the air on a Type 35A airship, which is currently the temporary headquarters of the Korean Theater, and through several communication relay airships over the DPRK, the communication between the various corps in the entire Korean Theater has been unimpeded.
It was late at night, and there were less than four hours left before the general attack. Gao Jianguo, political commissar Shi Mingfeng, and chief of staff Lin Hua. It is surrounded in front of a sand table in a North Korean region. Gao Jianguo turned his head to Lin Hua and asked, "How is the deployment of the troops of each corps?" ”
Lin Hua said solemnly: "I have just contacted the headquarters of the three corps, and at present, the units of the three corps have all been deployed. The assault detachments were already in position at the starting point of the attack and were ready to attack. All the airships of the Air Force Wing took to the air yesterday to reconnoiter and convey real-time intelligence information to the headquarters of the various corps. ”
Gao Jianguo nodded, raised his hand and looked at his watch, and then said in a deep voice: "It's almost time." Lin Hua, give an order to the assault landing task force. ”
Lin Hua nodded heavily, then turned around and came to the side of the radio station, picked up the microphone, and said in a deep voice: "Li Liansheng." Let's get started......"
Li Liansheng, who was on the other side of the microphone, kept holding the microphone, waiting for the order of the theater command. Hearing Lin Hua's voice frightened him, but he hurriedly yelled at the microphone: "Yes......"
After shouting, he put down the microphone, turned his head and nodded to a communications staff officer behind him. As the lights of the two landing craft continued to flicker, more than 50 deck barges that had already lit fires and ignited their boilers also let out a violent roar one after another, and clusters of thick black smoke continued to rise.
The two modern landing ships set sail slowly, followed by a series of offshore steam deck barges followed behind the two landing craft, sailing at full speed in the direction of Jianghua Bay. At this time, Ganghwa Bay was pitch black, and the sea was silent, and even the North Korean naval ships that used to patrol here were gone.
The flotilla carrying the assault landing task force rushed into Jianghua Bay at a speed of more than 20 kilometers per hour, breaking the silence of the bay. At this time, it was late at night, and the Korean soldiers on duty on both sides of the estuary of the Han River were huddled in the camps on the shore and napping, but the violent roar suddenly woke them up.
A disheveled Korean general, led by a group of Korean sergeants, came to the wall of the camp, and he held a torch and looked at the roaring river in the distance. But now it is late at night, tonight is the waning moon, and the light of the moon is not good, so that the river surface is pitch black, and the situation on the river surface cannot be seen clearly.
"General, this voice is too scary, isn't the Sea Dragon King out to sea......"
The general turned his head, kicked it over, opened his mouth and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can the Sea Dragon King come out of the river......"
"Is that Jiang Jiao, I heard that Jiang Jiao will enter the sea from the mouth of the river, I'm afraid there is Jiang Jiao into a dragon."
The people around couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts when they heard this, and the faces of a group of North Korean sergeants turned white. The general wanted to turn around and continue scolding, but now he couldn't even grasp it. In such a dark night, it is said that there is no boat on the river, and even if someone is trying to sail at night, they must light the lights.
Moreover, the fleet was sailing on the river, where did such a big movement come from, and I was panicked when I heard it. Is it really ......
Fortunately, the sound became quieter and quieter, and gradually disappeared into the dark night. The group of sergeants couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and the general thought for a moment and said, "After dawn tomorrow, I will have someone report this matter, and inquire again to see if anyone else hears this sound." (To be continued......)