Chapter 846: It's the Huaxia Army Again
3/6/43, stunned.
As a spring thunder sounded in the early morning over Zhongdu, the orders issued by Meng Xiang also spread throughout the major military regions in China.
On the Korean Peninsula, when the Japanese garrison was still celebrating the occupation of Melbourne, Australia, by the Japanese garrison, which had been intermittent for many days, suddenly erupted into an earth-shattering roar, like thunder rolling down in the sky.
"What, the army of China is coming? No way! Okamura Ninji, who had been reminding his subordinates to guard Huaxia, woke up from his sleep and couldn't help but lose his voice when he heard the urgent report from his subordinates.
He still has some confidence in the defense of the Korean Peninsula.
Although the border of the Korean Peninsula was also shelled by the Chinese, the extent of the shelling was weaker than that of the south.
As soon as the Korean Peninsula is lost, the Japanese mainland will be affected. Meng Xiang will not touch the sensitive nerves of the Japanese too early.
And the Japanese obviously did not have much confidence in the fact that China would not attack, and after losing the puppet Manchuria, they had already learned enough lessons that they did not dare to be negligent in the Chinese vanguard army at all.
After retreating to the Korean Peninsula, they mobilized the forces of the entire Korean Peninsula to build a defensive line that spread across the entire border, and although it could not be said to be comparable to the Maginot No, it was impregnable by taking advantage of the terrain of the border such as mountains and rivers.
The reason why Okamura Ninji is so confident is purely that this line of defense has been tested even in the most intense days of Chinese shelling, and there is not much damage.
After all, in order to build this defensive line, the Japanese drove millions of Koreans to dig more than a dozen mass graves around the border in just half a year to bury the Koreans who died of exhaustion, hunger or disease.
Even those puppet Manchus who withdrew with the Japanese to the Korean Peninsula were driven to join in the construction of border fortifications, and at the most tense time, even the puppet Manchus who served around Fu Yi were understaffed.
For this line of defense, the Japanese invested huge amounts of cement and steel. However, because the Japanese occupied too many areas, each place needed to be defended. The tension between cement and steel, which led to the small number of Japanese people, especially the border of the Indochina Peninsula in the south, was also a focus of defense.
As a last resort, the Japanese drove a large number of Koreans to open mountains and quarry stones, and used stones to replace part of the consumption of cement and steel. At its peak, more than a million Koreans were quarrying and transporting stones, and even some women and elderly people joined the quarrying.
They also felt that the fortress without a steel skeleton might not be able to withstand the bombardment of the large number of heavy artillery and cannons in Huaxia, so they moved more fortifications and fortresses into underground and caves.
At most, they tended to recruit more than one million Koreans to dig holes and caves, directly turning the entire border with China into a three-dimensional defensive front.
Although this is only the beginning of Japan's vast defense system, it has already paid off.
Okamura Ninji is confident. Even if the most powerful tank army of the vanguard army rushed over, it would not be possible to bargain for a break through the defense system 100 kilometers deep from any place.
was silent before, how could there be a Chinese army coming?
"Is it the Airborne Forces of the China?" The disheveled Okamura Ninji pretended to be calm and groaned, and then looked up and asked his adjutant.
The Japanese also roughly understood the tricks of the Chinese army, and in addition to tanks and heavy artillery, the air force of the Chinese people was strong enough to dominate the world.
Now that you have seen the ground forces of the Chinese, it may not be a bomber that will cast a shadow over the Japanese mainland. It may be another great winning weapon of the former vanguard army - paratroopers.
When Okamura Ninji was in China, he was deeply impressed by the paratroopers.
Huaxia landed in Beiping, and then all the way to Shanxi. Nanjing and many other big cities have created classics in military history. And the fragile anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese can only be in vain like a sieve that has been pierced with holes, which makes people laugh.
However, the Japanese are very good at learning and are very good at learning certain lessons.
Even though Japan's defense and control system was trapped in backward industry and could not meet the air defense requirements of the huge territory it had conquered, the Japanese still set up a large number of anti-aircraft firepower in key areas of the Korean Peninsula. Even the Type 3 120-mm anti-aircraft guns that had just been equipped on the territory were placed in 18 units.
...... made in Japan Anti-air warning radars installed on the ground have also begun to be used on the Korean Peninsula.
However, only more than 80 ground-based air defense radars were produced in later generations, and although the maximum distance of air alert was 145 kilometers, the production was obviously insufficient.
In order to make up for the lack of radar, the Japanese still organized tens of thousands of puppet troops from the DPRK and South Korea to keep an eye on the movements in the air. Manpower was used to make up for some deficiencies in the air defense system. In the Yellow Sea and along the coast of the Korean Peninsula, many ships have been equipped with radio stations to guard the air and sea at the same time.
In this case, Okamura Ninji believes that even if the Huaxia people are airborne, they will lose a lot of money, and how big can the scale of the airborne land be?
Even the Chinese expedition to the Urals and the airborne landing of Siberia. The production of thousands of transport planes is only the size of one or two divisions of tens of thousands of people in a short period of time.
The Japanese and Korean garrisons could wipe out these airborne invaders at any time.
This is not an exaggeration by Okamura Ninji,
Japan's current elite troops are mainly concentrated in two places, one is Australia, and the remaining one is not the mainland, but the Korean Peninsula.
In order to achieve the final victory in Australia, the Japanese army mobilized elites from Indochina, and at this time, there were not many elite troops left in Indochina and India.
In order to resist and threaten China, among the 1.2 million Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula, elite veterans accounted for half, and even elite troops on the Japanese mainland were transferred for this purpose.
It is impossible for the 1.2 million troops to be concentrated on the border between the Korean Peninsula and China, and many of them are distributed in major cities on the Korean Peninsula in order to prevent the paratroopers from China from suddenly descending. Generally, a small parachute force can easily be wiped out by the heavily guarded Japanese army.
After tearing through that veil of mystery, the paratroopers were constantly used by various countries while also exposing their shortcomings.
Due to the restrictions of airlift and airborne landing, it is impossible for paratroopers to be supported by heavy weapons, and with those light weapons alone, let alone a surprise attack, it is not even possible to break through the enemy's encirclement.
The Germans played two large-scale airborne operations on the island of Great Britain, both of which reached the scale of divisions, and even though they landed smoothly with superior aerial firepower, they were soon silent under the encirclement of the British army.
After the elite of the airborne troops under Goering also got in, now the Germans have not organized large-scale airborne landings, but only small-scale airborne infiltrations.
Okamura was confident that even if the heavy weapons of the Japanese were not at the level of the British, the crowd tactics of the parachute troops, far exceeding the number of parachutes, would be able to wipe out the invading Chinese paratroopers.
"The Great Army of China, from ...... Coming from the sea! The adjutant said urgently.
"At sea? Army? Okamura Ninji stepped forward, grabbed his collar, and glared angrily.
The cruelty of the landing war is known to everyone who understands military affairs, even if the Germans are as powerful as the Germans, they suffered great losses when they landed in Norway, and now even at the peak and most powerful moment, they are stuck in the quagmire of the British landing operation because of the difficulties in the transportation of logistical supplies and support troops.
The Korean Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and it is impossible for the Japanese not to pay attention to the defense of the coastline.
In addition to the formation of the Coastal Guard with the use of the powerful Japanese Navy, troops were stationed at important points along the coast, and coastal fortifications were built. Especially around the West Korean Bay, which is relatively close to China, it is heavily garrisoned. Let Okamura Ningji have the confidence to intercept all incoming enemies at sea, not to mention that it is still a cold weather in the last winter, and there are ice blocks along the coast, how can it be possible to go to the sea to land and fight?
It was the painstaking management from the air to the coast, and then to the bordering land, that made it difficult for Okamura Ninji to believe that the army of the Chinese would suddenly kill, and he was a little out of control for a while.
"That's it...... It's the Chinese army, they, they've landed at Incheon and Hamhung! The adjutant looked at Okamura Ninji's red eyes, and although he was scared in his heart, he still replied truthfully.
Incheon ...... Hamhung! "You don't have to look at the map, Okamura Ninji also knows the importance of these two places to the Korean Peninsula.
One is adjacent to Seoul and the other is an important city on the Korean Peninsula in the north.
And that's not even the most critical thing.
Although there are many military industries in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, they are not completely self-sufficient, and many of the ammunition supplies come from the mainland, as well as many military materials such as oil. If, after the Chinese army takes control of Seoul and Hamhung, once it cuts off Pyongyang's passage to the south and strangles the sea transportation lines together with the Shandong Peninsula and Vladivostok, I am afraid that many large armies in the north will be in a dilemma of logistical supply and will be difficult to support.
"Beat them back and drive them into the sea!" Okamura Ninji loosened the adjutant's collar and clenched his fists in the air.
He had no time to investigate how the Huaxia army landed, and now the most important thing was to dispatch the army to drive them into the sea while the Huaxia army was unstable.
"Report to the base camp! Let's just say...... "There must be a conspiracy in China behind such a thing, and those bigwigs in Japan need to urgently discuss countermeasures."
But before he could finish speaking, a young staff officer hurriedly came in and said, "Your Excellency, urgent call!" ”
"Huh? Read! When Okamura Ninji saw that this was an officer from the confidential radio station, he already had a premonition.
"The Chinese army landed in Taiwan and Hainan!" The young staff officer said in a trembling voice.
"What? Another Chinese army? ”