readx; This war can be said to be completely unexpected, and the war of 1923, in 1923, China and the two countries can be said to have moved towards the war step by step, of course, there are commercial and territorial disputes between the two countries, but to a certain extent, it is a war jointly provoked by the high-level of the two countries, and the signs of war have appeared since the beginning of 1923, and it took half a year of brewing before it officially broke out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the current North Korean incident came very suddenly, and it did not give the two sides much preparation at all.

On the Chinese side, although Chen Jingyun had the intention of fighting with Ben again, seizing Korea, and at worst, driving Ben's army from the Korean Peninsula to the sea, Chen Jingyun only had this kind of thought, and even if he planned to do it, he would wait for a few more years until the late thirties, when he completely knocked down Ben at the beginning of World War II. At present, China's most important task is to get out of the global economic crisis and develop its industrial economy, and you must know that in 1930, China invested a lot of energy in developing its economy, and this situation is enough to prove that Chen Jingyun has no intention of launching a foreign war in the short term of two or three years.

In the same way, the top brass of Ben had a similar idea, saying, "Ben's most important problem now is the economic problem, and the Hamaguchi Kushino cabinet is trying hard to save the crisis from the economic crisis, and at this time, Ben's top brass knows that they don't have enough strength to start a war."

Since the war in mid-1923, the army and navy have all wanted to fight with China again, and the army, in particular, has to regard the defeat of Korea as a great shame, and in the past six or seven years, the army has begun a long-term period of hiding the courage of the army, and although the political axe and the navy want to suppress the development of the army, they also understand that they cannot suppress the army too hard, and the construction of the navy has come to an end. Due to the restrictions of the Second Washington Naval Treaty, it was said that "Ben has not continued to build battleships since 1925, when he started construction of two Kii-class treaty-type battleships." As a result, the navy's military spending has been reduced to a certain extent, and part of it has been allocated to the army.

By 1930, Ben had not only expanded the army's standing divisions to 30 divisions, but also added a large number of new equipment, especially anti-tank troops.

After the defeat of our army, we conducted a large-scale reflection and then came to a conclusion that the main reason for the failure of the Korean operation was that we lacked the strength to confront the Chinese armored forces, so we were repeatedly cut off by the Chinese armored forces by breaking through their positions and making detours to the rear, and almost all of them failed for the same reason in the Dandong Campaign, the Cheongchon River Campaign, and the Pyongyang Campaign.

In this case, the army naturally put forward a countermeasure strategy, to fight against the enemy's armored forces, the best way is to build its own armored experience, but limited by the fact that the level of tanks and trucks in the country is extremely weak, and it is impossible to build large-scale armored forces by relying on its own domestic strength alone. In 1924 and 1925, the army imported a batch of tanks from France and Britain, which were not only expensive, but also the imported tanks were at the level of the end of World War I, and they were far behind the advanced level of other countries, and could not be compared with the T6 and T7 tanks that China was equipped with on a large scale.

Of course, what is more crucial is that after massively expanding the number of standing divisions, it is said that "the army will not be able to spend too much money to build armored units."

In those years, the armored forces needed to consume a lot of military spending, and in 1930, when China invested most of its military expenditure in the army, there were only three armored divisions and six motorized infantry divisions. Therefore, it was said that it would be very difficult to build a viable armored force with limited military spending, so after two years of trying, the idea of building an armored force on a large scale was abandoned.

The reason why the idea of forming a large-scale armored force has been temporarily put abandoned, in addition to the inadequacy of domestic tank and automobile technology and the limitation of military spending, the reason why the army has also taken into account that it is "short of oil itself, and it is fine in peacetime, but if the oil supply is cut off in wartime, these tanks and cars will compete with warships and planes for the share of oil, and it is even more likely that these tanks and cars will become a pile of scrap metal."

The idea of large-scale armored forces was abandoned, but it is not that Ben gave up the development of tanks, in fact, Ben's tank development was quite rapid after 1923, before 1923, Ben only had a small number of experimental tanks for testing, and in 1924 and 1925 after importing dozens of British and French tanks, in 1926 it was said that Ben copied the first self-made tank based on imported French tanks, but this tank was said that the army was quite dissatisfied with this, It was not even given an official number, but was incorporated into the imported French-made tank units, but some good people gave this imitation tank the number of the Type 86 light tank according to the standard of the Type 87 medium tank that Ben was equipped with in 1927.

In fact, the Type 86 light tank was only an experimental model, and not much was produced in total, and the real first self-built tank was the Type 87 medium tank, which weighed 12.7 tons, had 17 mm hull armor, and was equipped with a 57 mm gun. Basically, it is the data of the historical Type 89 medium tank, but it appeared two years earlier.

Then in 1929, a cavalry light tank was put into service, followed by a heavy tank in 1930 this year.

It's just that although these tanks have been put into service one after another, the number is not much, and the Type 87 medium tank, which has the largest output, has only more than 90 in total, and these three tanks add up to more than 100, plus the dozens of tanks originally imported, it can barely raise 200 units. And this number is, at most, the number of tanks of one armored division and one motorized infantry division in China.

More importantly, among the thousands of tanks in active service in China, early tanks such as T1, T2, T3, and T4 have long been withdrawn from active service, and now the army is now equipped with T6 medium tanks, T7 heavy tanks, and T8 light tanks. And in 1928, the Army's new generation of medium tanks, the T9 medium tank, began to enter service on a small scale.

In 1930, in order to stimulate domestic demand, the army purchased a new type of tank on a large scale is the T9 medium tank, this tank is designed by the Chinese Army according to the problems exposed by the T6 and T7 tanks in the war, after the war, the Chinese Army proposed that the difference between the actual combat performance of the T6 and T7 tanks is not obvious, because it is recommended to develop a new tank that can take into account the operational needs of the two, the army requires that this new tank must be mass-produced, and the price must be cheap enough. At the same time, it is also required that the new tank must have a field travel speed of more than 35 kilometers per hour, have the protection ability not inferior to the T7 heavy tank, and must be equipped with a 75 mm tank gun.

To put it simply, this is a requirement to have the speed of the T6 tank, but also to have the protection and firepower of the T7 tank, and this is an extremely contradictory design, and what is even more desperate is that the equipment department requires that the cost of this tank should not exceed 120% of the existing T6 tank.

After combining the above requirements, plus the Wuhu Tank Factory has made many improvements to the T6 and T7 tanks over the years, and soon came up with the corresponding design products, and in order to solve the power problem, it also specially imported the technology of new gasoline engines from the United States. In recent years, because of the development of automobiles, the technology of gasoline engines in the United States can be said to be much more advanced. After a comprehensive multi-faceted design, the T9 tank was quickly finalized, the new design used a large number of parts of the original T6 tank, the total weight of the vehicle was 27 tons, the maximum speed can reach 34 kilometers per hour, although its armor protection was only 30 mm, but it was imitated by the inclined armor design of the battleship, and the front part adopted a 30-degree inclined design, which successfully achieved the protection ability that was not inferior to the T7 heavy tank. The firepower is a new 75-mm tank gun specially developed by the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Company, although the diameter of the barrel is 35 times that of the 75-mm tank gun on the T7 tank, but the weight and turret volume are much smaller, otherwise the 27-ton hull alone will not be able to equip it.

This tank takes into account the advantages of the T6 medium tank and the T7 heavy tank, and more importantly, this tank is relatively low in cost due to the use of a large number of mature technologies, and the army can be equipped in large quantities.

This T9 tank was finalized in 1928 and put into service in small quantities, and in 1930, the army began to purchase in large quantities, and the number of orders was as high as hundreds, plus orders for more than 100 T8 light tanks, which made China's armored forces purchase orders in 1930 as high as 300 units, and this number alone is said that "the total number of tanks in this army is not comparable."

I couldn't fight with armor, but I was stupid to say, and soon shifted the focus to infantry anti-tank and began to deploy a large amount of anti-tank firepower in infantry units.

The Army, which had been hiding his courage for many years, had long wanted to take revenge, so after an armed conflict broke out between the lower-level officers and the Chinese troops without authorization, the division commanders and other generals above did not restrict them, but continued to send additional troops to meet them. In this way, China naturally cannot sit idly by.

When the air force's reconnaissance plane discovered that a large number of troops had entered the military buffer zone, the news was reported to Chen Jingyun, who did not give too much thought to it, and although he did not plan to say that he would launch a war against foreign countries in the next few years, it did not mean that he did not have the determination to fight another war with him, so he immediately ordered the troops on the border of the Yalu River to enter the DPRK immediately. When the time comes, whether it is a real fight or a negotiation, you will not put yourself in danger.

China's tough response was said to be deliberately provoked by the lower-ranking officers of the army, that is, the two sides broke out again on the third day after the outbreak of the first armed conflict, and this time, not in the name of the Koreans, the Chinese and Chinese military flags were already erected on the positions of both sides without reservation, when the front-line troops of both sides began to fight with bullets and shells.

On November 28, 1930, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese National Socialist Party, the "National" published a pseudonymous article, in which he said: "Ben has unilaterally torn up the Sino-London Treaty and entered the Korean military buffer zone.

On November 30, 1930, Chen Jingyun officially issued a first-class mobilization order, and all troops in the northeast, Shandong, Yangtze River Delta, Fujian and Guangdong coastal areas entered a state of combat readiness. And in order to imitate the Soviet Russia, as in 1923, the troops of the Omsk region and the Kazakh region also entered a state of combat readiness.

On December 1, 1930, Chen Jingyun did not hesitate to sign an order against the Korean military buffer zone, and in the face of the rising tide of opposition in China. At 12 o'clock that night, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over a declaration of war to the ambassador of China.

Before the official declaration of war, on the Anzhou front, the 47th Division of the Chinese Army, which was the first to enter North Korea, had already launched a fierce battle with the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army.

"Division, look, my shelling has weakened, and the suppression of the shelling has been effective!" One of the colonels next to him was also looking into the distance with a telescope, talking as he watched.

Tang Qiang put down the binoculars and led everyone down the hill to walk back: "When will the support from the Air Force arrive?" ”

"They just came in the morning, and according to the Air Force liaison officer, Major Chen, the next wave of support is estimated to arrive after three o'clock in the afternoon!" The chief of staff of the colonel's division next to him explained.

Tang Qiang nodded after hearing this: "This time the river crossing operation must not be lost, our division, as the sharp knife of the whole army, must open a road for the follow-up troops, and must take Anzhou tomorrow at the latest!" ”

After saying that, he looked at Anzhou, which was smoking in the south, and showed a trace of ruthlessness on his face: Seven years ago, the Korean operation made him promoted to a major general, and this time his 47th division happened to be deployed in Dandong, and as soon as North Korea had an accident, his unit crossed the Yalu River and became the first unit of the whole army to enter North Korea.

(To be continued)