Chapter 680: Attack on Pyongyang III

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Even if the war in Korea is tense, not a single tank has been transferred to North Korea, because the Third Armored Army not only has to shoulder the task of strategic defense against North China and East China, but also if a large-scale war breaks out in Siberia, it can be expected that once a war of millions of scales is fought, the consumption of front-line troops will be extremely great, and the Second Panzer Army deployed on the front line is estimated to be greatly hit. At that time, the 3rd Panzer Army will have to reinforce the Siberian direction by iron transport as soon as possible.

The Third Panzer Corps is the only strategic mobile armoured force in it, and it is not something that can be easily mobilized.

It has to be said that the long-term strategic confrontation with Soviet Russia has contained a considerable amount of the strength of the Chinese army and air force, and if you count some military assistance to the Russian Republic, the amount of power spent is a huge number.

But if this is not done, once the Soviet Union and Russia are allowed to unify Russia, then China will face the threat of the Soviet Russian army on the long border, and then it will not be able to use three or four hundred thousand troops, but millions of troops to be able to maintain strategic security. When he thought of the millions of troops deployed by China on the northern border in later generations, he still planned to sacrifice the strategic arrangement of the entire northern region, and Chen Jingyun's scalp was numb.

As for peaceful coexistence with Russia, Chen Jingyun has never thought about it.

In Chen Jingyun's mind, a united Russia was the biggest threat to China in the past, present, and future. Even if he was at war with Soviet Russia in the Omsk region for many years, he would never allow Russia to be reunited.

Britain and France hope to see China and Russia lose both, and Soviet Russia sees China defeated, which is very bad news for China's international environment.

If the United States still stood firmly behind China in the war in 1923, then after 1923, China's national strength grew rapidly and replaced China as the number one power in East Asia, and the Americans did not continue to support China as firmly as before.

For example, in this war, the United States officials did not express their clear support for China in public, and to a certain extent, the attitude of the United States has gradually become the same as that of Britain and France, that is, it hopes that China and the United States will contain each other so as to ensure the interests of the United States in Asia and the South Pacific.

The United States is happy to see the current confrontation between China and China continue.

It has to be said that the situation in Asia in 1930 was very favorable to the United States, and China was seeking the support of the United States, and at the same time it was also seeking the support of the United States.

To put it bluntly, China in 1930 was very isolated in the international environment, with the exception of the Republic of Russia, an ally, and could hardly find a single friend.

However, this is not a situation peculiar to China, in fact, after the end of World War I, the international relations of all countries were very isolated, and there was no alliance between the major powers in the world.

Everyone has interests and is thinking about their own interests, and there can be no true alliance until the interests of both sides are aligned.

The isolation of the international environment facing China has forced Chen Jingyun to think more about the war not only on the Korean side, but also on the Siberian side of the Soviet Union and Russia, and at the same time to avoid getting the United States, Britain and France and other countries to support the Soviet Union.

"Britain and the Netherlands have rejected our proposal, insisting that the oil trade with Ben is a normal international trade activity!" Foreign Minister Gu Weijun said.

Although the navies of the two countries have carried out a naval blockade against each other, this blockade is not an unlimited blockade, and it only intercepts and sanks merchant ships flying their own flags, and merchant ships flying foreign flags still do not seize each other without authorization.

It is also said that "it is also to use foreign merchant ships to transport a large number of strategic materials to the mainland, especially the oil that is urgently needed in the country." China has protested against the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, but with little success. As a result, China began to use other methods, such as intercepting and buying oil destined for Ben, in an attempt to stop international oil from being transported to Ben, but it was met with fierce opposition from other countries.

China itself was desperately short of oil in the early twenties and heavily dependent on imports, but since the discovery of several major oil fields in the country, domestic oil production has increased dramatically, and now there is no need for imports, and there is even a surplus of oil exports.

However, China has almost exhausted all means to suppress its oil imports, but it still has little effect.

"Hmph, aren't they just thinking that 'they could have lasted longer!'" Chen Jingyun also hates this situation, but even so, he will not order an unrestricted lockdown, which is not a good thing for China itself. You must know that during the war, China also relied heavily on the ships of other countries for international trade, and the Pacific transportation between China and the United States has not stopped.

Although China and China are now at war, the two countries still have many scruples, not that they can do anything for the sake of victory in the war.

The victory of the war depends on the soldiers of the two countries to distinguish the real victory and defeat on the Korean battlefield, and Chen Jingyun does not want the troops to drag on in Korea for too long, because if the war does not end, it will cause a serious drag on China's economy.

"The president's intention is very clear, he hopes that we will launch the Pyongyang campaign as soon as possible, so as to completely take the southern part of Korea!" Chen Yi once again said to the others with a serious face at the meeting of senior generals of the First Group Army.

The participants were all generals above the rank of major general, including several major army commanders who fought in Korea and some major generals and division commanders.

Fang Dashan of the First Panzer Army said: "Pyongyang really can't delay too long, the longer the time passes, the more troops Ben has, the better the fortifications, and the more difficult it will be for us to attack!" ā€

Li Lianyang looked at Fang Dashan and said, "What is the situation of the First Armored Army?" ā€

Fang Dashan said: "The Ninth Division of our department has completed its rest, and the main force of the Fifth Division has also been rested, but the number of tanks in the tank battalion under the Fifth Division is seriously insufficient. As for the 1st Panzer Division, after replenishing a battalion of T9 tanks, the strength was restored to about seventy or eighty percent! ā€

After the Battle of Anzhou, the First Army incorporated the T9 Tank Battalion, which was originally attached to the Eighth Army, into the First Armored Division, and also transferred more than 20 T6 tanks and more than 10 T8 light tanks from China.

However, this still did not allow the First Panzer Army to return to full strength, and the number of tanks missing from all units was still as high as more than 50.

"The First Panzer Army of such strength is enough for a battle!" Chen Yi next to him said: "With the cooperation of the infantry troops, it is not a big problem to open the gap in the Pyongyang defense line and let the First Armored Army carry out a surprise attack!" ā€

"Now the Eighth and Sixth Armies are in good shape, the Seventeenth Army is in good shape, and the Eighteenth Army has arrived. The strength of our army is much larger than that of the Anju Campaign, and it should not be a big problem to smash the Pyongyang defense line of the Japanese army! Lieutenant General Huang Anyuan, chief of staff of the First Group Army, said the same.

"The current material reserves are enough to launch a large-scale campaign, and there is no need to encounter the problem of ammunition shortage as some time ago!" Deputy Chief of Staff Cao Yangqing said the same.

After hearing these words, Li Lianyang, who was at the top, nodded and said: "Since the various departments have been prepared, then there should be no further delay, let's start implementing the third battle plan!" ā€

The No. 3 operational plan was a series of operational plans drawn up by the First Army in order to conquer the Pyongyang defensive line, and there were several plans drawn up by a large number of staff officers at that time, and finally the plan proposed by Lieutenant Colonel Sun Liren, a staff officer of the First Group Army, was adopted as the initial plan, and finally it was formally submitted after a large number of staff officers refined it in detail.

The staff officer system in the Chinese Army is very important, and almost all operational plans are formulated and perfected by operational staff officers at all levels. The important surnames of the staff system can be seen from the important surnames of the operations department in the general staff, which draws up almost a nationwide combat plan. And the staff officers of each unit also drew up their own campaign plans.

In the formulation of a campaign plan, there are basically very few examples of one person reading and formulating, generally a person proposes a general plan, and then it is adopted and refined by a large number of staff officers, and the army hopes to give full play to the collective wisdom in this way, and to improve all the details of the battle plan as much as possible, taking into account all the matters that should be considered.