Chapter 679: Attack on Pyongyang II

readx; In fact, it is not news that the T6 tank could not stop the Type 81 anti-tank gun, which appeared as early as the war in 1923, but at that time, the number of Type 81 anti-tank guns in the book was not large, and the victory of the armored cluster at that time was too simple, so that many people ignored this. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info But this is also related to the level of domestic tank technology, the T6 tank at that time was already the most advanced tank that China could come up with, even if it couldn't stop the Type 81 anti-tank gun, it had to continue to be equipped in large quantities. Twenty years later, the mid-to-late army also felt that the T6 tank could not meet the needs of future wars, so the T9 tank was developed.

A series of reports of the First Panzer Army focused on the fact that the T6 tanks in service in the army could no longer meet the needs of the war, and demanded more advanced T9 tanks.

However, the First Group Army obtained the first batch of T9 tanks but did not directly allocate them to the First Panzer Army, but set up a separate Reading Tank Battalion and cooperated with the Eighth Army to fight, which made Fang Dashan of the First Panzer Army very dissatisfied.

Because the generals of the armored units in the army have always insisted that tanks should be used in a centralized manner, except for some training tanks in the Chinese army, all the other tanks are in the three major armored armies, and there is not a single tank in the infantry unit.

Therefore, the practice of assigning infantry units to the Reading Tank Battalion made Fang Dashan and a large number of other generals of armored units extremely dissatisfied, for fear that the army would still disassemble the armored units for use, but there were a large number of infantry generals within the army who asked to be equipped with tanks in the infantry units. Moreover, even if a divisional unit cannot obtain a tank annex, a corps-level infantry unit should also receive at least one tank regiment.

In terms of China's current industrial capacity, there is no problem at all in producing thousands of tanks a year in wartime, but the problem is that the army does not have so much military spending to purchase so many tanks in peacetime, and war does not happen every day, after the T9 tank was finalized, the army spent two years to equip a total of dozens of tanks, and the real large-scale procurement was only because of the economic stimulus policy in 1930 to obtain enough military spending. Therefore, in peacetime, the number of tanks that the army can obtain is limited, and if ordinary troops are equipped with tanks, then it will further weaken the number of tanks and the problem of replacement of the three armored armies.

At the insistence of Lieutenant General Fang Dashan, the T9 tank battalion assigned to the Eighth Army was incorporated into the First Armored Army, but because the number of newly replenished T9 tanks was still too small, Fang Dashan's request for more T9 tanks was mentioned every day, not only to the headquarters of the First Army, but also directly reported to Chen Jingyun.

Looking at the telegram sent by Fang Dashan requesting the allocation of more T9 tanks, Chen Jingyun smiled bitterly, these front-line generals are fighting for new equipment, and they don't care about eating too ugly.

After shaking his head and smiling, Chen Jingyun put down the telegram and left it alone, not that he didn't want to equip the First Armored Army with more T9 tanks, but the reality did not allow it.

Fang Dashan only needs to take care of his First Armored Army, and Li Lianyang only needs to take care of his First Group Army, but he, Chen Jingyun, has to keep his eyes open and pay attention to the global situation.

According to the report sent back by the Military Intelligence Department, even after the disastrous defeat in the Anju Campaign, although many high-ranking generals of the army were held responsible, it did not dampen the confidence of the people themselves, and they still wanted to continue fighting.

Even if Chen Jingyun didn't want to believe it, he had to admit that he was like a madman, who chose to continue fighting regardless of their domestic economic situation and the huge disadvantage on the Korean battlefield. Unless the Chinese Army can completely capture Korea and eliminate the troops that are supposed to be in Korea, don't think that they can bow their heads.

He said, "It's okay on my side, even if the fight continues, Chen Jingyun is confident that he will be able to win, but the war between China and China has been going on for more than two months, and because of the war between the two countries, the navies of China and China have carried out a naval blockade of each other." The Chinese Navy has imposed an Italian-Turkish blockade outside the Tsushima Strait, and has also sent submarines and surface ships to other waters to attack transport ships.

In the same way, the navy is doing the same thing with China's maritime transportation, and many Chinese ships have been sent to the bottom of the sea in the past two months.

Although this will not stop the import and export trade between China and the two countries, the transportation cost is also rising rapidly, which will further increase the cost of international trade, which is even worse for the international trade that has been seriously shrinking because of the world economic crisis.

Although there are many problems, if you are determined to continue fighting, you will say, "The problem on this side is not really big, and the key to the problem is how determined China can be to fight this war."

In addition, after the outbreak of war between China and China, it also caused a series of reactions in the international community, and Europe and the United States naturally had no opinion on and supported the war between China and China, and on the surface they said that they should calm down and solve the problem through peaceful negotiations, but Britain and France and other European countries were eager to say, "Ben and China have a life-and-death war, and it is better to have a lose-lose situation, and the two countries in the province will challenge their colonial rule in Southeast Asia." After World War I, the two Asian countries became more and more active in the international community, and China, in particular, made more and more voices in the international community, and even spread the argument that Asia belongs to Asians.

What is very interesting is that as a sworn enemy, I actually very much agree with this argument put forward by China, and put forward the idea of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, claiming to build an East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere with the principle of "this as the mainstay, supplemented by China."

China and the two countries both advocate that Asians control Asia, but their disagreement is that they believe that the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere should be based on the principle of "Asian", supplemented by other Asian countries. China, on the other hand, believes that it is the boss of East Asia, and other countries, including myself, must be obedient.

China said that the war between the two countries is, to a certain extent, a war for dominance in East Asia, and whoever wins will be able to have the right to speak in the Asian region.

No matter who is the boss of Asia, Britain, France, and other European countries do not want to see this kind of thing happen, so they are eager for China to say that the two countries will fight to the death, and it is better to lose both, and then Britain, France, and other countries will return to Asia and regain control of China's military and economic affairs.

Britain and France thought so, but Soviet Russia thought it was simpler.

China is the enemy of Soviet Russia, Chen Jingyun is the biggest murderer of splitting Russia, Soviet Russia can't wait for China to fall into a place of no return, without China's backing, with a Russian republic that wants industry but no industry, no population, and no agriculture, it will not be able to stop the attack of the Soviet Russian army at all.

As long as China could not support the Russian Republic, it would be easy for Soviet Russia to unify Russia, but Chen Jingyun regarded Omsk as the most important barrier in northwest China, regarded Siberia as China's strategic defense zone, and divided Russia, so as to avoid the threat of the Soviet Russian army at any time on China's long northern border.

Otherwise, why would China devote so much force to supporting the Russian Republic, in order to protect China's long northern border?

He would rather have 300,000 or 400,000 troops stationed in the Omsk region all year round to engage in strategic confrontation with Soviet Russia than let Soviet Russia be forced to deploy millions of troops along the entire northern border after the reunification of Russia.

It is precisely because of this conflict of interest that Soviet Russia has always regarded China as an enemy, and even strictly speaking, China is still in a state of war with Soviet Russia, and what the three parties signed between Soviet Russia, the Russian Republic, and China is not a peace agreement, but a temporary armistice treaty, and the reason is very ridiculous humanitarianism. If war breaks out between Soviet Russia and China and Russia, it is simple and convenient to go to war without declaring war.

Soviet Russia, which longed for China to be torn apart and in chaos, put a lot of thought into it, and the large-scale strike that broke out in China in 1924 was supported by Soviet Russia.

Even if Soviet Russia does not send troops in the end, it will exert great pressure on China by increasing its troops on the front line, forcing China to invest more troops in Siberia while fighting a war with itself.

This is also why it has been two months since the war began, but the Chinese garrison in Siberia has not been transferred back to China, but has been placed on high alert. Not only are the Chinese garrisons on high alert, but even the allied Russian Defense Forces have already carried out internal military mobilization, canceled vacations for troops, and replenished a large number of combat materials and troops to the Omsk front.

Although the Omsk region is still said to have maintained a superficial calm, both sides are already on high alert, and the front-line troops are actually in a state of combat readiness.

In the Omsk theater, China has more than 200,000 troops, the Russian Defense Forces have more than 400,000, and in the Kazakh region there are more than 200,000 troops on both sides, and there are hundreds of thousands of reserves in the rear not far away.

On the other side, there are also a lot of Soviet and Russian troops, adding up to more than one million, and the number of troops on the long strategic confrontation line between the two sides is as high as more than two million.

Once such a large force fights, the intensity is far from comparable to that of the war on the Korean side.