Chapter 519: The Verge
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Urgent as fire, swift as the wind!
The ideal offensive state is to continuously concentrate superior forces to continuously break through and advance in a certain point or direction, and never stop until it is unnecessary or strongly blocked. Xie Ruyi fully abided by this principle, and less than two hours after the Japanese army broke through the Cheongchon River and contracted Anju City, he used two brigades to encircle Anju, and at the same time mobilized three brigades of fresh troops and one Korean Independent Army division to bypass Anju City and continue to make great strides in the direction of Sunchon and Pyongyang along the east side of Yanphong Lake, which also included a cavalry brigade from the Northeast Theater.
The first wave of the Qingchuan River has not been blocked, and the second wave has already been formed! The superiority in strength and equipment overwhelmed the Japanese army and did not know how to respond.
In the base camp of the Korean army in Seoul these days, no one knew how to crack the Wehrmacht's typical European superior force play, and even Nagata Tetsuyama pulled open the collar with great force, and the buttons on his white shirt fell to the ground without noticing. Okamura Ninji next to him picked it up for him, and after taking a look at Ryosuke Isoya, he asked him, "Nagata-kun, is there no way?" ”
In just a few days, because of like-minded words and speculation, the three of them became inseparable friends. In particular, the bloated, rigid and dissatisfied with the old officer system of the feudal lords made the three of them sympathize with each other, so as long as they were free, they would sit down and talk about the military situation and the future. Today, as soon as Okamura Ninji and the others came to the dormitory, they got the news that the first line of the Qingchuan River had been broken through. The three of them found it very tricky for the Wehrmacht's style of play, which completely let go of the left flank and went on a rampage like a brute. The front line is not without troops. There are two divisions and 40,000 troops along the Qingchuan River, but they are of no use. Because the Wehrmacht only needs a breakthrough. They will be left behind, and the traditional transverse truncation limits the speed of the march because of the terrain. Even the cavalry was helpless in the face of the mountains of northern Korea, so by the time the troops arrived to encircle, the Wehrmacht forward had already crossed the assault point and moved south, and the main force that followed closely followed kept the encirclement troops out.
The sheer weakness in firepower turned the encirclement into attrition, and the Wehrmacht mortars, which had been equipped to the company or even the platoon, inflicted great casualties on their own troops. But even if the superiority in firepower was obvious, the main forces of the Wehrmacht did not engage in a decisive battle. It's a very simple block, separating the passage so that the follow-up troops will continue to assault Pyongyang! Simple, very simple, it is a complete copy of the tactics of "one point breakthrough and horizontal expansion" adopted by the German army in the early European war. Breakthrough. Break through continuously, regardless of the concentration of superior forces, and then extend from the main force to the two flanks after they can't run, and then occupy a large area of land in one breath and then slowly clean up.
Nagata Tieshan dropped his pen and wanted to scold "bullying", because this set of tactics is the most typical tactic of bullying people! Artillery fire, troops, and tactics are combined to take advantage of the advantages and continue to penetrate in depth! Belgium was penetrated within 7 days, the army did not even react, and the German army was left behind, and even the French border was dug through more than 100 kilometers, and finally stopped because the German General Staff was worried about its own mistakes on the Eastern Front.
Does Japan have an "Eastern Front"? Theoretically, there is. There are about 10,000 troops in the direction of the Holtsk Sea and Sakhalin, and there is a close-knit partisan detachment of poor parties, but this damn weather!
The "Eastern Front" could not be counted on, and the North Korean army was not a French army with full firepower, so the easiest way was to retreat back in stride. According to the current mobilization and supply capabilities of the Wehrmacht, the longest combat radius of its group army level operations should be within a radius of 100 kilometers of the railway supply line. However, the National Defense Forces had previously used the Minbajo Agreement to control North Pyongan Province and extended the railway line there. The straight-line distance from Pyongyang, the northern branch of Pyongan Province, is only 120 kilometers. What's more, they have also mobilized nearly 100,000 domestic and North Korean civilians to maintain supply lines, and such a large number of transport troops is enough even if the mountain roads are difficult to walk. Moreover, the Pyongyang Railway from Sinuiju was repaired in 1904. Even if they retreat and destroy the opponent, they can quickly repair it, and their special rapid bridging technology can also help break through the water network. What's more, it's winter! You don't even need to build a bridge, just be patient enough and wait for a few days for the river to freeze.
Thinking of this, Nagata Tetsuyama felt a sense of frustration that he couldn't use his strength at all.
8 years without going to the battlefield!
Is there an army in this world that has not been on the battlefield for 8 years? 8 years is enough time to train a docile puppy into a bloodthirsty wolf! It was in these 8 years that Yang Qiu built the Wehrmacht he created into a precision machine, not to mention that Qin Zhangshu also had an outstanding performance in the Battle of Rainiwell, even if it was replaced by ordinary people, this army would fight in its own way, so in just 20 days, their troops could point to Pyongyang, the northern center of Korea.
"Lieutenant General Yoshinori Shirakawa is in Anju, can you take advantage of them?" Ryosuke Isoya saw that he was full of worries, and before he finished proposing the plan, he interrupted: "Isoya-kun, the Chinese army will not stupidly set the decisive battle in Anju, and the ultimate goal must be Pyongyang!" "The map, which had been drawn with lines, lay quietly on the table. These lines tell the trio that the three F-FDTL forward brigades are moving rapidly south, having abandoned a large number of baggage and heavy artillery. On his side, two divisions have already assembled to the north, and about three divisions of the retreating troops are also blocked in Pyongyang.
The formation of a decisive battle in Pyongyang cannot be stopped, and now it depends on when the domestic troops arrive, whether the navy can ensure the safety of the Taedong River estuary, so that the army can reach Pyongyang by boat, otherwise everything will be over when the main force of the national defense force arrives. So he turned his head and asked, "Okamura-kun, when will the domestic troops arrive?" ”
Speaking of domestic reinforcements, Ryosuke Isoya was very annoyed: "We can't count on those old bureaucrats, they don't understand what the Great Japanese Empire needs!" The threat of the Chinese had been there for several years, but they had been talking about reducing their army a few years earlier. Now at this moment of life and death that requires the mobilization of the whole country, they are thinking about the ideas of allies and foreigners! So until yesterday only two wings arrived in Busan, and there is no news about the rest. ”
"These damn bureaucrats! Tanaka and those who surrendered should all be ousted from power, and the crown prince should take over the country himself! Okamura also vented all his anger on the bureaucracy and the feudal army system, kicking away his stool and looking out at the night sky, as if wondering how to replace Emperor Taisho, who was idle and often insane.
When the Battle of Pyongyang, which decided the fate of the two countries, came to an end, a storm began to ferment in the ocean 50 nautical miles off the island of Shikoku, 50 nautical miles off Tosa Bay. The Saigo Maru, emblazoned with the Mitsubishi chaebol logo, rises and falls with the waves, and on the three black sailfish-like submarines next to it, sailors busily carry wooden crates to the deck, pass them to the sailors, and stuff them into the empty ballast tanks at the bottom. In the cabin of Jiao No. 47, Bai Yutang handed over the transportation list to the intelligence officer, and the first mate next to him was very curious and asked, "I said brother, what is in the box?" If we had to be dispatched, we even dropped the Japanese fleet and rushed overnight. ”
The informant was a man of about forty years of age, thin and small, wearing a dirty Japanese seaman's suit, with a samurai belt tied around his waist, straw sandals and bare feet, and he looked no different from the seafarers in the Kobe area. It's really hard to know how many years he has been lurking, and even the tone of his speech and walking has changed, and everyone almost took a gun when they first saw him. He also looked at the first mate and Bai Yutang curiously: "Have you bought and opened it?" ”
"Nope." The first mate pointed to a wooden box in front of him: "Isn't it printed with Japanese characters that prohibit private demolition?" ”
The intelligence officer smiled at once and put the box on the nautical table: "Let's dismantle it." After saying this, the first mate and the sailors, who had already aroused their curiosity, opened the wooden box with all their hands, but after opening it, everyone was dumbfounded, because at the top of the box was a pile of Japanese printing sheets. In the front is a photograph of a young man with a resolute face holding up a legal text, followed by a full text of incomprehensible Japanese. Although you don't know much Japanese, the people in the photos are all too familiar! Because this young man has become the second idol of all young people in China, the first idol is naturally Chairman Yang Qiu, who started from scratch and was indomitable, and gradually led China out of the shackles with iron and blood.
"Teacher Cheng Cheng?!" A sailor who benefited from the Cheng Cheng Act and immigrated to Changchun with his family called out.
The intelligence officer smiled slightly, and when he put aside the propaganda poster on the upper floor, everyone's eyes lit up, but in an instant, it turned gray again. The first mate smiled wryly: "What is this thing!" ”
It turned out that there were neat 10 pistols under the box, but they looked so strange and ugly! The soldiers around him were indescribable. The shoddy wooden handle was wrapped with strips of rotten cloth with engine oil, the bolt was irregular, even the barrel was of different lengths and calibers, rusty, and many of them were not rifled, and even if they were rifled, they were cut off with scrapped rifle barrels. As for even firing, don't even think about it, the best one can only hold 3 bullets, and you need to manually pull the bolt every time you load it. If the Minyuan-style pistol, which is now ranked among the world's most famous guns, is a work of art, then this thing is not even a burning stick.
But the intelligence officer was very satisfied with the guns, and after reading one he took the other. Bai Yutang thought about it and understood: "This is deliberately to create the illusion of a small factory, right?" "Yes." The intelligence officer nodded: "This batch of guns are all made of waste parts from small domestic factories, all the inscriptions have been smoothed, the number of each batch is different and the shape and manufacturing methods are different, the bullets are also varied, and the cost of each one is more expensive than the revolver according to manual calculation." ”
Spending the money of the revolver to build a batch of garbage The first mate and several officers couldn't help it, and patted their shoulders: "Brother, why did you build this thing?" Lighting a fire? The intelligence officer smiled and didn't speak, sealed the box and handed it to his subordinates to move, and smiled slightly before leaving: "Wait to see the news in the newspaper." ”
"News?"
The first mate and the sailor looked at him and then at Bai Yutang, but the latter stretched his waist as if he hadn't seen it, and waited until the sound of Saigo Maru's departure motor was heard before giving the order: "Close the hatch, head to 090, let's go to North Korea." ”…… (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )