readx; In the area from Anzhou to Suchuan, more than 100,000 troops of the First Army are facing a fierce attack by China's First Group Army, and the troops in the encirclement are as high as four infantry divisions, a number of field artillery brigades, a number of anti-tank artillery brigades, and a series of auxiliary units, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

And these 100,000 troops were struggling under the attack of up to eight infantry divisions of the Chinese First Army and the interception of one of the Chinese armored corps.

A large number of Chinese hoplite units broke through the defense line of the Chinese army little by little in a bloody battle, and then continued to carry out infiltration attacks, from the breakthrough of one combat group after another, to the breakthrough of platoon after platoon, and finally to the breakthrough of the company and battalion level, which was everywhere on the front line that spread for dozens of miles.

At the beginning of the war, the First Army had a strong strength, with five standing divisions and a large number of artillery, cavalry, and other units, and these five divisions and regiments of the Army were all stationed in Korea all the year round, and were built as the first-line troops against China's heavy troops, and their equipment and training were superior to those of other divisions of the Army, and the first large-scale battle that broke out between China and China was fought between the Fifth Division under the jurisdiction of the First Army and the Chinese 47th Division. As a result, the Qingchuan River Bridge was captured by the Chinese 47th Division, but it still held on to Anzhou, and has been resisting the follow-up reinforcements of the Chinese 14th Army.

After the arrival of the main force of the First Army, the Fifth Division transferred its own defense line to the Seventh Division, and the Fifth Division, which had suffered a lot of losses in the fierce fighting in the first half of the month, was temporarily transferred to the south of Anzhou about 15 kilometers away to rest, and later the Chinese armored troops broke through the defense line of the Yue Army from the line between Anzhou and Akutagawa and went all the way south, the Fifth Division was also ordered to rush to Suchuan, originally intended to intercept the Chinese First Armored Army, but the marching speed of the First Armored Army was far faster than that of ordinary infantry units, and the Fifth Division could not catch up at all. After the First Panzer Army was blocked on the outskirts of Pyongyang, the troops of the Chinese Seventeenth Army had already penetrated into the passage, and the 38th Division commanded by Feng Yuxiang also arrived near Suchuan and engaged the Fifth Division, and when the 39th Division of the Seventeenth Army also came up with reinforcements, the Fifth Division was unable to protect itself, let alone rushing to Pyongyang.

In addition to the 5th Division, the 1st Army also had the 2nd, 7th, and 8th Divisions on the Anju front, and a 3rd Division in the Akutagawa direction. However, the connection between Akutagawa and Anju had been severed by China's 1st Panzer Army and the 17th Army more than a week earlier, and although Akutagawa could not be captured for the time being, the 19th Division of the 17th Army was also holding them back, so as to prevent the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army from reinforcing Anzhou.

Although China's infantry divisions are still smaller than the standing divisions of the Chinese army, a standing division of the Chinese army can reach a full strength of more than 20,000 in wartime, and the absolute main force of the army's fifth division is as high as 25,000 people. And China's current main division is only about 18,000 people at wartime.

However, the firepower of the two sides was about the same, the number of machine guns and rifles was about the same, and the artillery regiments were also about the same, the divisional artillery regiment had 36 guns, and the regimental artillery also had 12 75-mm mountain guns. The difference is that the divisional artillery of the Chinese Army is generally already equipped with a battalion of 105-mm howitzers, which occupies a certain advantage in this regard.

The reason why the personnel of the Chinese army is more than that of China's divisions is that there are more auxiliary personnel such as logistics, and China's divisional artillery has begun to use trucks to pull them one after another in the 20s, although the domestic second-line troops are still in the stage of mules and horses, but the front-line troops fighting in Korea are all China's first-line troops, and in order to supply the materials needed for the Korean war, the logistics department has concentrated almost all the army transport vehicles in the northeast, north China, and other regions, which has greatly increased the number of trucks of the Chinese troops in the Korean region. The logistical transport of these front-line troops generally began to be transported by truck. However, the army's logistical transportation still basically stopped at horse hauling and manpower transportation.

As a result, China's infantry divisions have been reduced by a large number of non-combatants.

And judging from the combat soldiers on both sides, in fact, both sides are about the same.

One-on-one, with the combat effectiveness of both sides being similar, it is unlikely that either the Chinese 19th Division wants to conquer Akutagawa or the 3rd Division of Akutagawa wants to break through the defense line of the 19th Division to reinforce Anju.

From the perspective of the entire Anju Campaign, the battle between the 19th Division and the 3rd Division of the Akutagawa direction was only a secondary front, and it could no longer affect the overall situation.

In the face of unfavorable external reinforcements, the First Army fought very hard, and after the Chinese in front of Anju invested the entire Eighth Army, it was even more difficult to fight, and the defensive lines of the Second and Seventh Divisions were successively porous, which made the breakthrough of the First Army extremely difficult.

"Now the First Army of Anzhou is facing great danger, we must not sit idly by, I am willing to personally lead the troops to launch a decisive charge against the enemy's armored forces, and it is bound to be able to break through the enemy's defense line and reopen the line of communication to Anzhou!" Inside the city of Pyongyang, a major general of the Third Army shouted loudly.

Since the outbreak of the war, there has been a kind of slogan of death in the army, claiming to be the shame of the war in 1923, and he believes that after many years of lying on his salary and hiding his courage, he said, "The strength of this army has risen greatly, and it is entirely possible to defeat China, a seemingly huge enemy, and this view is especially obvious among middle and lower-level officers."

However, among the top leaders of the army, there are many high-ranking generals who have maintained a pessimistic attitude, and one of them is Kanaya Fansan, who proposed to take the initiative to abandon the Cheongchon River defense line, and then take Pyongyang, which has been built by the army for many years, as the core, to form the Taedong River defense line, and take a strategic defensive position, taking advantage of the mountainous terrain of Korea to force China's armored forces to lose their mobile surname. Use a strong defensive line to crush China's strategy of quickly conquering southern Korea.

Although such a war would last for a long time, and the domestic industrial potential and finances would not be able to support it for too long, it was better than taking the initiative to advance into the Cheongcheon River area and use the hastily constructed Cheongcheon River defense line to fight against the superior enemy.

However, this conservative pessimistic attitude could not satisfy many people in the army, so the army still took the initiative to go north and engaged in a fierce battle with the Chinese army in the Anzhou area.

After the fierce battle in January, he said: "Although I have been hiding my courage for the past seven or eight years, the Chinese Army in front of me has not stopped advancing, and compared with those years, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army has not decreased, but it has surpassed that year in terms of equipment and soldier training."

At the beginning of the war, the army was full of confidence that it could reach the Yalu River in one fell swoop and even enter northeast China with its large army. But I didn't expect that after more than a month of fierce fighting, I couldn't even cross the Cheongcheon River, and now it was counterattacked by China, from the beginning of the offensive to the defensive, China's armored forces have reached outside Pyongyang, and the nearly 100,000 troops in Anzhou are also in danger of being surrounded.

Although he was still pessimistic in his heart, it was not Kanaya Fansan's surname to sit back and watch the friendly troops live or die, and although he knew that there was little hope, Kanaya Fansan still transferred troops to carry out a large-scale counteroffensive against the Chinese troops outside Pyongyang, and in addition to the counterattack on Pyongseong, he also transferred the remaining forces of the Third Army and a division that was urgently reinforced from southern Korea to launch a fierce counteroffensive against the 1st and 9th Divisions of the 1st Armored Corps of the Chinese Army outside Pyongyang.

In addition to investing a large number of infantry units, Kanaya Fan San also transferred all the heavy artillery to this area, trying to forcibly tear through the defense line of the 1st and 9th Divisions of the Chinese Army with heavy artillery fire.

Outside Pyongyang, where the frontline was most fierce, Gentaro Yamashita looked at the faint white smoke in the distance with a calm expression, and when he saw these white smokes, he didn't have to think that he knew that those should be Chinese tanks.

"Don't worry, wait for them to get closer!" Gentaro Yamashita waved his hand to let his men not be impulsive, it is still too far away, let's not talk about whether it can hit the enemy tank at such a long distance, even if it hits his own 37mm anti-tank gun at such a distance, it is impossible to cause any actual damage to the enemy tank.

Gentaro Yamashita was injured in the previous battle, although there was no obvious outward damage, but the shock wave of the explosion caused him to suffer minor internal injuries and concussions, and he was treated in a hospital in Pyongyang for several days before returning to the army.

At this time, he looked at the Chinese tank in front of him with an expressionless face and was slowly approaching, which was obviously different from the nervousness of several other members of the anti-tank group around him.

If anyone who knew Gentaro Yamashita before the war saw him like this, they would definitely be amazed that the war really changed a person dramatically.

Yamashita Gentaro silently calculated the distance in his heart, and about five minutes later, Yamashita Gentaro had clearly seen that two tanks of the Chinese Army not far away were slowly approaching them, and there were seven or eight infantry sitting on the tanks, and they obviously hadn't noticed that a 37mm anti-tank gun of the army was aiming at them not far away.

Closer, closer, just as Gentaro Yamashita was about to give the order to open fire, suddenly the Chinese infantry on the two tanks shouted loudly, and then those soldiers quickly jumped off the tank, and the guns began to sound, and the machine guns on the tanks also began to strafe towards Gentaro Yamashita.

Gentaro Yamashita scolded secretly: "Yaga! At the same time, he did not hesitate to order the cannon.

A crisp sound of artillery rang out, and a 37-mm anti-tank shell streaked through the air and sped towards one of the Chinese tanks.