Sniper warfare and submarine warfare made the Japanese army furious, and the lack of intelligence and logistics prevented the Japanese army's plan to quickly attack northward, and although the 1st Army had captured Phoenix, the twelve 280mm fortified guns could only barely reach Andong through the frozen river despite the destruction of the Yalu River Bridge. But the only way to Andong was to follow the previously drawn up offensive plan along the Anbong Railway to the foot of Motianling, and it would have to wait for the new military railroad to be paved by conscripted laborers from North Korea - according to the estimates of Manchurian railway engineers, it would be twice as fast as repairing the damaged Anbong line.

However, at this time, the problem arose again, because it was expected that Japan's newly built military railway would choose the old road before the expansion of the Anbong Railway, so countless geographical areas were buried by the reconstruction army on this route, so the military railway was stopped because of mines within a few days of construction, and when the Japanese were trying to find a way to clear mines, more than 30,000 Korean laborers who were forcibly recruited rioted, although the rebellion was finally suppressed, but it was hopeless for the railway to start construction before the year.

Andong came to a standstill, and the 4th Manchurian Army in the direction of Ji'an failed to advance as quickly as planned to Tonghua, which was only 70 kilometers away in a straight line, and it was completely trapped in the continuous mountains of Liaodong. The well-prepared winter offensive was blocked at the beginning, and the chief of the general staff of the General Staff Headquarters, General Hasegawa Yoshimichi, was criticized by everyone, but in fact, he was not responsible for formulating this plan, and the real drafter of the plan was Yamaguchi Aritomo's confidant, Major General Tanaka Yoshiichi, deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters, and the real reason why Tanaka Yoshiichi made such a wrong plan was that the General Staff Headquarters made a strict mistake in the intelligence work of the branch, and at the same time, the base camp was confused by the combat strength of the Revival Army in Mukden two years ago. It is impossible to assess the true strength of the Chinese government and the Renaissance Army.

However, it is a fine tradition of the Japanese Army and even the Japanese to never admit mistakes, and when the Cabinet blames the Army. Chief of the General Staff, Admiral Yoshimichi Hasegawa, immediately pointed the finger at the navy, believing that the navy could not effectively protect the transport routes. As a result, the army's personnel and materials could only be transported to Manchuria by land, which caused a shortage of soldiers and supplies, and gave the army a chance to breathe. The Army's practice of completely muddying the waters and interfering with the country's audio-visual was unacceptable to the Navy, and Admiral Goro Ijiin of the Naval Command Department immediately counterattacked, accusing the 4th Army in the direction of Ji'an for having sufficient supplies, but its attack was still unfavorable......

In the first month of the third year of Taisho, the war against China was spent in a war between the Japanese army and navy, and the Japanese Manchurian army that invaded the northeast was only camped on the front line of Andong Phoenix. Dashanyan and others continued to find ways to probe the reality of the Fuxing Army in order to finally determine the attack plan. However, a few days before New Year's Day, after various attempts and the loss of several destroyers, the Military Command Department finally frankly admitted that under the current technical conditions, the navy could not effectively guarantee the safety of the sea transportation line under the threat of the submarine in China.

The Navy's sentence of 'under the current technical conditions' immediately made the Army dumbfounded, even though the Army veteran Yamaprefecture Aritomo personally came to the door to discuss with the Minister of the Navy, Saito. However, this still could not change the fact that surface ships in this era could not effectively attack submarines, so the wheels of Japanese Manchuria began to turn from north to west, and the Xiuyan Huanghuadian line-shaped shì that stood in its way suddenly became tense.

When the Japanese army was waiting and watching. The revival army in the Guannai continued to march into the northeast, and before the Spring Festival of the second year of Shenwu, including the original 1st, 6th, and 7th armies. In addition, the 4th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th armies, a total of five armies, also arrived in Liaoning one after another in the wind and snow. According to the previous arrangement of the General Staff, the 1st Army originally stationed in the northeast was responsible for the direction of Ji'an Huairen, the 6th Army was responsible for the direction of Andong, and the 7th Army was responsible for the direction of Gaizhou Yingkou. However, as the Japanese army broke through the defense line of the Yalu River, the deployment of various armies was adjusted again. The Zhang Guochang Department of the 1st Army is responsible for the first line of Ji'an Huairen, the Li Liezu Department of the 6th Army, the Pan Chengye Department of the 10th Army (stationed in Jinan), and the 11th Duan Qirui Department (stationed in Baoding) are responsible for the first line of Motianling Kuandian, the Xiang Xiang Department of the 4th Army (stationed in Taiyuan) and the Li Shutong Department of the 7th Army are responsible for the first line of Xiuyan Yingkou, and the 8th Army's He Zhaoxian Department (stationed in Wuchang) and the 9th Army Shan Yunian Department (stationed in Xuzhou) are the general reserves, one stationed in Jinzhou and the other in Shenyang, in order to respond and support all parties.

The 14 armies of the country, except for the 2nd Army in Beijing (Lei Yizhen), the 3rd Army in Nanjing (Lin Wenqian), the 5th Army in Jinhua (Fang Yanchen), the 12th Army in Chengdu (Xie Cheng), the 13th Army in Zhaoqing (Huang Dajun), and the 14th Army in Lanzhou (Peng Qingpeng), have all been mobilized in the northeast. Among these armies that have not been transferred, one army can be drawn from the 3rd and 5th armies, and one division can be drawn from the 12th, 13th, and 14th armies to go north, but Gyeonggi, Baoding, and Shandong also need at least one army to garrison after the original garrisons are out of the customs, so there is only one army that can really reinforce the northeast.

Nine armies, because the 1st Army has only two divisions (the tank test division is not listed due to secrecy), so there are a total of 26 divisions, according to the establishment of more than 18,500 mountain divisions and more than 12,600 field divisions of the Fuxing Army, this total has more than 337,000 people, and the strength has exceeded the total number of Russian troops during the Russo-Japanese War, but because the armies are stationed in various places, especially from Zhaoqing, Lanzhou, and Chengdu, it is extremely inconvenient to transfer troops, these 330,000 people must all arrive, I am afraid that they will have to wait until the end of February after the year, and before the 20th of the first month. The other eight corps of 300,000 men could rush to Liaoning.

Two or three days before the Spring Festival, the Shenyang Command held a routine operational intelligence meeting, and as usual, the meeting was attended by the chiefs of staff and deputy chiefs of general staff of the various armies, but because the Taishang Wang Zhu Wanxu, Premier Yang Rui, Chief of Staff Lei Ao, Speaker of the National Assembly Yang Du, and many representatives of parliamentarians came to Shenyang in person, the commanders of the eight armies also gathered in Shenyang on the morning of this day.

Zhu Wanxu is the father of King Min, and is usually called Emperor Taishang, but because Zhu Kuansu did not ascend the throne at the request of Yang Rui, he became King Taishang. This person is still talented and learned, Guangxu was raised in the middle of the 20th year, and later served as Henan Supplement, but his son was 'abducted' away by the revolutionary party and resigned and went home. During the uprising, the Fuxing Society occupied the capital and most of the country, and the Zhu family, who wanted to pack up their belongings and rush to the concession for refuge, suddenly added a dragon robe and turned into a dragon, which only made people ecstatic. Fortunately, the head of the family, Zhu Changlin, has seen the world. The family has changed so dramatically, but it can still be stabilized. After trembling and walking on thin ice to negotiate with the Fuxing Society, the Zhu family finally entered Beijing. Restored the ancestral foundation.

Before the Sino-Japanese war, Yang Rui had informed the royal family, he thought that the Zhu family would oppose it, but he didn't want to go from Zhu Changlin to Zhu Kuansu, there was no one who didn't want to fight, which really made him strange. In fact, Hunan is already extremely popular, and it is no accident that Huaxing will come out of Hunan, and Hunan is not a problem to resist foreign humiliation and protect the family and defend the country. China wants to declare war on Japan. The royal family was only worried about whether they could win the battle, and when Yang Rui personally promised that the battle would be won and not lost, the princes and grandchildren had no intention of being cautious.

Although it was not clear at first why the Revival Army did not stop the Japanese army on the east side of the Yalu River, the National War column and sniper column of the China Times also made it clear to Zhu Wanxu and others: In order to prevent Britain from entering the war under the pretext of entering the war, the Fuxing Army could only defend but not attack in Liaodong, and it was extremely difficult to defend the river when the Yalu River was frozen in winter, and the loss of Anton and Ji'an was not a mistake of war, and the occupation of Phoenix City was because it was easy to attack and difficult to defend.

The real key in Liaodong is the first line of Motianling in Saimaji, the first line of Xiuyan Yingkou, and the first line of Jinzhou Shanhaiguan. And because of the deployment of submarine troops in Huludao, the Japanese army could not land arbitrarily, and now the most important thing in Liaodong is still Motianling in the northeast and Xiuyan Gaizhou in the south. On the way to Shenyang, although Zhu Wanxu did not ask Yang Rui directly how the battle would be fought in the future. But seeing that Yang Rui was full of confidence when he talked about the war, he was completely relieved.

Just like the welfare of the company in later generations, the Chinese government will pay attention to the end of the year. In the name of the royal gift, some welfare souvenirs will be distributed, and these things are cheap. However, because it is a royal thing, exquisite workmanship, and outstanding quality, it is very popular with officials and soldiers. This time, Zhu Wanxu, Yang Du, and the deputies of the National Assembly came to Shenyang to work in the army. The generals don't say it, even the soldiers can have some gadgets printed with the royal logo in addition to the reward, and for a while, the soldiers are grateful to Dade and the voice of Chitose Banzai.

The foolish and loyal illiterate believe in the emperor, and the sensible officers believe in the revival society, but there is still an alternative in the army, that is, the 11th Army. After the Shenwu Fuxing Association negotiated peace with Yuan Shikai the year before, the remaining troops in Beiyang were reorganized into four divisions according to the establishment of the Fuxing Army, and the four town numbers of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 27th were changed to the 32nd, 33rd, 34th, and 27th divisions in turn. Yuan Shikai was appointed as the commander of the 11th Army during the period, and Duan Qirui's position remained unchanged after Yuan Shikai was assassinated, and he was still the commander of the 11th Army. This time the declaration of war against Japan, without waiting for the order of the General Staff Headquarters, Duan Qirui's telegrams asking for war were one after another, and the 11th Army was the closest to the northeast, so it was the first to be transferred to the northeast. Two years after the reorganization and reorganization of the General Staff Headquarters, the level of technical warfare of the troops has been greatly improved, and there have been exchanges of fire between Saimaji and the Japanese 3rd Army in the past half month, but there have been some sporadic results.

Before the intelligence meeting, when meeting with the commanders of the various armies, seeing Duan Qirui, the commander of the 11th Army, the smile on Yang Rui's face was even worse, and he said with a smile: "Zhiquan, the old Beiyang was founded by Yuan Gong with countless efforts, and your expression during this period is obvious to everyone." The next battle will be more intense, you must play the spirit of the old Beiyang, and you must not let the Japanese invade the defense zone! ”

The 11th Army ranks 11th in the hearts of the General Staff Headquarters, just like his number, and the reason for this is that the officers above the company commander level of the unit are all old people from Beiyang, and even after retraining, their company and regimental tactics still look old. According to the principle that the weakest troops are at the forefront, they were arranged on the front line of Kuandian Horse Race, and their defense was good, but the counterattack was not so sharp, so Yang Rui could only ask the 11th Army not to let the Japanese invaders enter the defense area!

The prime minister personally admonished, Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng, chief of staff of the 11th Army, immediately saluted and said in unison: "I swear not to disgrace my life!" ”

After telling Duan Qirui, Yang Rui looked at Xu Shuzheng, with a big face, white skin, and short head, and he was a cream student, this person took advantage of Tsarist Russia to fall into World War I to recover Mongolia in later generations, which really made the Chinese people excited, but Mongolia has not lost this time and space, plus historical changes, then there is nothing to do with him. When Yang Rui was thinking about this, his eyes only wandered around Xu Shuzheng's face, which made Xu Shuzheng's back sweat. The reason why he did this was that he was worried that the revival would turn the old Beiyang into pieces, and the small shares would be transferred to the Northeast, and even if the blood of the old Beiyang was drained, the merits would also be the Fuxing Society, so it was the best policy to ask the whole army to be transferred to the Northeast earlier.

Yang Rui stared at Xu Shuzheng for a moment. didn't say anything, just smiled: "Youzheng is indeed young." Very good! Very good! After that, I went to the front desk of the conference room.

The prime minister left, taking advantage of the gap between meetings and meetings. Duan Qirui asked, "Have you seen the Prime Minister before?" ”

"I haven't seen it." Xu Shuzheng shook his head, he had relaxed at this time, only felt that his back was cold, his hands and feet were cold, and he said: "There are many capable people in the East Factory and West Factory under the Prime Minister's Palace, I am afraid that I have already known my person." ”

Hearing the worries of his subordinates, Duan Qirui comforted: "The prime minister has always treated people fairly and unsympatheticly. He was appointed with talent, and Beiyang was not suppressed, and the ordnance and food were no different from those of the Fuxing Army, and they were all replenished, and Yuan Gong did not change his original intention after he was killed. With such a character, I really don't know what you have to worry about. ”

Although Duan Qirui is a martial artist, he is still disciplined, and his heart is also solid, and he has never believed in the conspiracy theory of the General Staff that Xu Shuzheng talks about every day. Many times, he was persuaded not to discuss without permission. At this time, seeing that Duan Qirui was still talking like this, Xu Shuzheng sighed, and when he was about to say something to refute, Huang Fujin, chief of staff of the Northeast Theater on the stage, had already begun to speak. He had no choice but to suppress the conversation and listen.

As the curtain on the wall opened, a huge map of Liaodong was revealed. Our army is marked in red. The Japanese army marked in blue, on the side of the Yalu River in Liaodong and the side of Gaizhou in Yingkou. They are marked with small red and blue flags. Huang Fujin first pointed to the Japanese 4th Army at the location of Ji'an and said: "After the Japanese 4th Army occupied Ji'an and advanced 30 kilometers, it has completely lost its earlier sharpness. It was blocked by our 1st Army on the front line of Laoling, and the other part attacking from the mouth of the Hunjiang River was also intercepted by our 1st Army in the area of Shajianzi. The 19th and 20th divisions here are newly organized and regular divisions and regiments in Japan, and although their weapons and equipment are no different from those of the 5th and 8th divisions in the direction of Ji'an, there are many gaps in combat effectiveness. ”

Huang Fujin, a native of Anqing, Anhui Province, was born in Nanjing Army Middle School earlier, dropped out of school and went to Shanghai during the anti-Russian movement, so he joined the Revival Association. He is the second phase of the South African Military Academy, and he has been in the Northeast for a long time, and his Anhui accent has been completely Northeastern. After briefly comparing the new division of the Japanese army with the teacher's regiment, he went on to introduce the other two aspects.

In more than 20 days, the Japanese army gathered in the area of Andong Phoenix now has the 1st Army, the 3rd Army, the 5th Army and the 6th Army that has not yet arrived, three and a half armies and 13 divisions, the 1st Army and the 5th Army form the 1st Front Army, which is commanded by the Japanese General Kuroki Zhen, and the 3rd Army and the 6th Army that has not yet arrived constitute the 2nd Front Army, commanded by the former Japanese Korean Governor Terauchi Masaaki. The 1st Front was responsible for the area west of the Anbong Railway, while the 2nd Front was responsible for the area east of the Anbong Railway. At present, the armies of these two fronts are pointing in the direction of Saimaji and Motianling, and are facing the 11th, 10th, 6th, and 7th armies of our army.

According to the reconnaissance findings, because of the damage to the Anbong railway, it was not easy for the Japanese army to advance northward, especially to advance the artillery to the north, before the railway was paved. A few days ago, the Korean labor rebellion, which was forcibly recruited by the Japanese army, caused the date of its offensive to be postponed again and again. Judging from this, the day when the two front armies launched an attack should be after the Lantern Festival of the first lunar month. However, at this time, the strength of the Japanese army attacking this direction is not limited to these 13 divisions, and the 55st regular divisions and regiments of the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 25th formed in China this year, as well as the 18 reserve divisions that are being mobilized, will rush to Andong one after another.

However, thanks to the Navy's submarine forces, the Japanese army mobilized more troops than we had previously expected, with 43 divisions and regiments and a total strength of nearly 600,000, but its mobilization speed, especially the speed of rushing to the battlefield, was only a quarter of what we had expected. When all these units are formed and arrive on the battlefield, I am afraid that it will be in late March and early April. Moreover, even if these troops reach the northeast, it will be difficult for them to cope with the daily and operational attrition of their troops by relying on a single Gyeongui line, which is also the reason why the Japanese army began to lay a double line of the Gyeongui line, and because of the 'voyage', our submarines can only interfere with Japan's transportation in the sea ports of Luhai, and cannot interfere with the transportation of Japanese troops in the ports along the Korean coast......"

As soon as Huang Fujin said that the submarine's 'voyage' was caused, several people who understood the meaning suddenly smiled mysteriously on their faces. In the middle of the year, military attachés of various countries were allowed to visit and sink the Japanese submarine for a purpose, and because the submarine was built on a trial basis, the range was extremely short, the maximum was 500 kilometers, and it could barely reach the sea off the eastern ditch of Anda, and it would not work further east.

"Although the Japanese army is now in a posture to break through the line of Motianling to the north, considering various factors, it is not appropriate to make a conclusion about the real direction of its attack as soon as possible. During the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan's strategy was to move westward to occupy Xiuyan Haicheng. When it occupied the southern Liaoning Zhenhai City, the Qing court was greatly panicked, this place is the four directions, to the north to Liaoyang, to the west can be along the Jinxi corridor, close to Shanhaiguan, and now there is an extremely critical reason, that is, the base of our navy's submarine force is in Huludao. Eighteen years ago, the second ship of Dingzhen of the Beiyang Navy was not sunk on the sea, but was captured in the military port, when the Japanese army first landed at the entrance of the garden in Jinzhou and occupied Lushun within one day, but at this time it was found that the Beiyang Fleet was not in the military port, and then immediately became the Shandong Combat Army, across the Bohai Sea, landed from Rongcheng Bay in Shandong, and directly hit the side of the fort in the Weihai Naval Port.

Looking back on the past and thinking about the present, it is very likely that the Japanese army will repeat its old plan. In the westward expansion strategy, in addition to capturing Haicheng by land to threaten to seize Huludao, another way is to use the cover of night to suddenly land the Japanese army in the area of Qinhuangdao, which is also unavoidable. It is now winter, and the Bohai Sea coast is already frozen, and the ice is thick and thin, making it extremely inconvenient to land, but when the ice and snow melt along the coast in February and March of the next year, the landing will be much less hindered. Therefore, it is not enough to rely on only one corps of the 8th Army to garrison the 200-kilometer defensive line of the western Liaoning corridor from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan, and among the 20 newly mobilized reserve divisions, the 101st, 102nd, and 103rd divisions will be strengthened in the western direction of Liaoning, and the remaining 17 reserve divisions will be deployed on the line from Haicheng to Liaoyang and from Liaoyang to Benxi.

If the Japanese army goes west, then these divisions will make every effort to reinforce the Xiuyan Huanghuadian line; If the Japanese army went north, then they would reinforce the line of Saimaji Motianling; If the Japanese army does not take the north road or the west road, but takes the northwest, it will pass through Qingchengzi and Simenzi between Tongyuanbao and Huanghuadian, in a vain attempt to take only Anshan, then the troops in the west and north will go all out to seize Phoenix, in order to encircle these Japanese troops in the diamond-shaped area with a side length of only more than 50 kilometers from Anshan in the west, Motianling in the north, Huanghuadian in the south, and Phoenix in the east.

Japan fought a war of aggression, and although Korea could support its military supply, after all, Korea had not long since it was newly annexed, and there were constant rebellions everywhere. After our army resolutely clears the wilderness, because of the lack of manpower and supplies, it will be more looted in Korea, and the more it is looted, the more fierce the Korean resistance will be, the more unstable its logistics line will be, and the more troops will remain in the rear to ensure smooth logistics. However, our army is an anti-aggression operation, the soldiers and people of the whole country are united, and the logistics are even more on the plains, supported by the five railways of Dongqing, Beijing-Shenyang, Anshen, Tongchang, and Tongshen, which are greatly superior to the Japanese army. The two armies of the enemy and us are fighting fiercely here, and the success or failure of the war is related to the fortune of the country. That's my introduction. ”

Major General Huang Fujin was still full of passion, and the last expectation made the originally straight bodies of the generals sitting there straighten again, but his introductions, except for the increase of Japanese troops, the other enemy and friend shapes were repeated, and their purpose was to introduce Yang Rui. After all, Yang Rui is now the prime minister of a country, and although he will intervene in the war, the General Staff is still responsible for the specific affairs arrangements.

But even if all the information is old information, the generals still have an indescribable excitement and pride, Japan's 25 regular divisions and 18 reserve divisions, even if these 600,000 people are stationed in Korea, and more than 550,000 can be transferred to the northeast; With the addition of 26 regular divisions and 20 reserve divisions, there will be nearly 1.2 million troops fighting in the entire northeast, of which more than 1 million will be in the Andong direction.

After the introduction of Major General Huang Fujin, he only waited for the map to be changed, and the next person to come to the stage to introduce was Lieutenant General Pei Shoutong of the General Staff Headquarters, who did not say anything politely, and said directly as soon as he took the stage: "Although the general principle of the General Staff Department for this war is to defend and counterattack, in order to prevent the rhythm of the war from being grasped by the Japanese army, our army still needs to make appropriate sorties at the appropriate time to disrupt the rhythm of the Japanese army, so that it cannot influence the situation of the war according to its own intentions, then choose the first line of Xiuyan Huanghuadian ......" (to be continued......)