Chapter 684: The Battle of Wonshan I
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In order to avoid being surrounded and annihilated by China like the previous First Army, the Third Army, which was originally deployed on the Pyongyang defensive line, chose to retreat to the central and eastern regions of Korea, and finally converged with the Second Army.
However, even though these two forces had already converged, at this time, except for Busan, which was still in the hands of the Yue army, the rest of the southern part of Korea had been taken by the Chinese troops, resulting in the second and third armies of the Yue army adding up to more than 200,000 troops could only retreat in the Wonsan area.
"The top priority now is to successfully withdraw them, not to let them counterattack!" He said: "In the base camp of the country, a large number of high-ranking military officials are arguing.
"Now our army in the Wonsan area still has more than 200,000 troops, and it is fully capable of breaking through the enemy's blockade and re-occupying the southern part of Korea!" There are also people who have different opinions.
And Hirohito, who was above, watched these people arguing, and did not speak as before.
Some people want the North Korean army to counterattack and regain contact with Busan, while others suggest that they directly resist in Wonsan and resupply the drama through Wonsan Port. However, some people are pessimistic that the Korean War has been lost, and the most important thing at the moment is to withdraw the more than 200,000 troops in the Wonsan area, and that when the time comes, whether it is to encircle the mainland or counterattack Korea, these more than 200,000 troops can play a pivotal role.
A country's standing strength is limited, and although the standing strength before the war was said to be 30 divisions, most of these divisions and regiments were not in a state of full strength during the war, but were all in a state of peace. Among the 30 divisions and regiments of the Chinese army, only some of the divisions and regiments of the troops stationed in the DPRK were fully established during the war, and after the outbreak of the war, priority was given to replenishing the troops stationed there, so don't look at the fact that the army troops stationed in the DPRK are only about 15 divisions and regiments, but the combat effectiveness that these 15 divisions and regiments can exert cannot be compared with that of the rest of the Japanese army.
Of the 59 infantry divisions of the Chinese Army, there are only about a dozen combat-ready divisions that can really maintain full strength under the equipment of peace, including the several combat-ready infantry divisions that have been stationed in the northeast and Siberian regions. The remaining 30 divisions were kept in a state of peace, not at full strength. After the outbreak of the war, the troops participating in the war were replenished one after another, and the troops in Korea and the northeast region were greatly increased to a full strength.
He said: "The more than 20 armies of this army now trapped in the Wonsan area can be regarded as the only elite troops of the army, and once it is lost, it can almost be said that "this army has lost the ability to continue fighting."
If it is said that the Third Army and the Second Army of this army will be destroyed, then the army will only be able to shout to defend the homeland, and use the remaining dozen divisions and regiments and some of the second-line troops formed by temporary mobilization to defend the homeland."
At present, it is said that "the top level of the Chinese army is not sure what to do with the army in the Yuanshan area, and when the top level is hesitating, the armies of the First Army and the Second Group Army of the Chinese Army have already surrounded the Yuanshan area to death, and the Chinese troops can still receive reinforcements in a steady stream, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the army in the Yuanshan area."
However, in order to avoid the retreat of the army in the Yuanshan area from retreating directly from the sea without a fight, Li Lianyang and Xu Lishan decided to launch an attack directly without waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the rear. So I planned to fight while waiting for reinforcements.
When the 400,000-strong army began a large-scale attack, the Yue army in Yuanshan was immediately under great pressure, and this pressure not only came from the disadvantage of troops, but also from the lack of logistics supplies.
He said: "Originally, there was only one Second Army in the Yuanshan area, and the strength of the Second Army was actually only two divisions and regiments for a day, and the total was about 50,000 people, but the Third Army had more than 100,000 troops, and in the past few days, more than 200,000 troops of the Yuanshan Army have been gathered near Yuanshan." As a result, the logistical supply of the army in the Wonsan area has been put under great pressure.
Now the southern part of Korea has been controlled by the Chinese army, so it is naturally impossible to obtain supplies from the southern part of Korea, and the supplies that the army in the Wonsan area can obtain can only be transported from the mainland to the port of Wonsan by the navy, except for a part of the previous hoarding.
However, Wonsan Port is not comparable to Busan Port, and the infrastructure is poor, so it is simply impossible to dock a large number of transport ships to unload a large amount of military supplies in a short period of time. In addition to the poor infrastructure of the port itself, it is difficult to transport materials, and the port will also face the threat of the Chinese navy.
Wonsan Port is located in the northeastern part of North Korea, east of the Honhae, and only about 550 kilometers away from Vladivostok, an important Chinese naval base in the coastal area of the Honhae.
Although the Chinese Navy's naval strength deployed at the Vladivostok base is not strong, there are only two old cruisers and four old destroyers, these warships are all warships purchased from the United States in the early years, and the age of the ships has been as high as 17 years, and they have already withdrawn from the main lineup of the Chinese Navy and have been dispersed to various important naval bases as garrison fleets, in addition to a number of auxiliary warships, these warships have become the only existence of the Chinese Navy in the Benhai Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk.
Since the Tsushima Strait is under the control of the Tsushima Strait, and in the event of a war with the Tsushima Strait, the naval vessels of the Shanghai Navy, which will basically fight alone, have specially used these ships to form the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet, which belongs to the Third Fleet and is specially responsible for combat missions in the waters of the Tsushima Strait.
With the strength of the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet, it is basically impossible to control the sea control in the Honhai, but with the support of the navy's land-based air force, it is still possible to carry out operations in coastal areas to a certain extent, and even after the war began, it ventured close to the Soya Strait and the Tsugaru Strait to carry out mine-laying operations, but the overall results were not great.
Unlike Vladivostok, which was an important naval base for Soviet Russia or Russia, Vladivostok has not received much attention since it was controlled by China, and the important reason here is that China does not lack excellent ports, Lushun and Qingdao are China's excellent military ports in the northern region, and the central and southern parts are too far away to be said. In addition, since Vladivostok is surrounded by several straits, and almost all of these straits are controlled by the navy, once it engages the navy, the fleet deployed in Vladivostok can only be trapped in the sea.
Therefore, the Chinese Navy did not deploy too many capital ships in Vladivostok, only a few old warships.
Since the beginning of the war, the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet in Vladivostok has gone south along the coastline to the western coast of Korea several times, on the one hand to provide naval artillery support to the 13th Army, and on the other hand to combat the sea transport to the port of Wonsan.
Now the port of Wonsan has become the only port for the supply of more than 200,000 troops in the Wonsan area, the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet has made repeated sorties, of course, it is impossible to engage the main fleet of the Navy, which is escorting the ship, but the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet has laid numerous mines outside the port of Wonsan, and it is necessary to know that the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet in Vladivostok is also a location relationship, so in the task distribution within the Navy, it is hoped that the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet will be able to blockade several important straits in the Wonshan Sea. And this blockade naturally relies on mines, so there are quite a few minelayers in the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet.
The mine blockade of the Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet caused great trouble to the navy's sea transportation, and it did not take long for it to blow up and sink a destroyer and a number of transport ships escorting the ship, forcing the navy to transfer demining forces from the country to Wonsan Port to clear mines.
The material throughput of this Yuanshan port was already small, and now it is disturbed by China's Fourth Coastal Defense Fleet, which makes the amount of materials that this army can obtain even more reduced.
In addition to the limited availability of supplies, in fact, the Wonsan area said that the threat to Ben was far more than just the threat of the navy and the army, and they also had to face the threat of the Chinese air force.
In this war, on the surface, it seems that the planes of the air force are not dazzling, and some of the limited dazzling achievements were also achieved by the naval aviation, and most of the air force's operations were concentrated in the airspace over the Korean battlefield, and its task was to seize air supremacy over the DPRK and provide air support to the army.
However, it is said that the strength of the army's air force is relatively weak, and it has always been at a disadvantage on the Korean battlefield, and it has been firmly suppressed by the Chinese air force.
Just like the Wonsan Campaign, the Air Force dispatched more than 200 sorties of planes to participate in the battle almost every day, and a few days ago it dispatched more than 400 sorties in one day to carry out a large-scale bombardment of Wonsan Port.
The air force and navy are cooperating with the army for the Wonsan operation, and the army is naturally impossible to be idle, and hundreds of thousands of troops have been deployed one after another, and they have launched a fierce attack on the Yue army in the Wonsan area.
This time, Li Lianyang was determined to wipe out the 200,000-strong army in Yuanshan and completely lay the foundation for the victory of this war.