Chapter 19: The Storm in the North (2)
The umbrella used the weapons and ammunition of the Soviet Union to support the Chinese army to arm the Korean Restoration Army, which the Chongqing coalition government had agreed to a long time ago, but in this way, Kim Young-hee's Korean Restoration Army finally came into the eyes of the Soviets. Knowing that Umbrella Chong had joined forces with the Chinese government and had used Soviet-style weapons that had originally supported the Chinese army to arm the Korean Restoration Army, Stalin, who had always refused to suffer, immediately came up with an idea.
A few days later, a second airdrop, entirely led by the Soviets, was soon launched, more than doubling in size compared to the previous one led by the Umbrella. However, this time, there were more than a dozen so-called Soviet military observers who fell from the sky with a large amount of military aid, and Zhuo Yan and others still kept a cold eye on this.
The Soviets wanted to include Kim Young-hee's Korean Restoration Army in the Eastern Front Campaign, and even more wanted Kim Young-hui's Korean Restoration Army to contain the attention of a large number of Japanese troops for the Soviet Army in the Far East, but the Soviets mistakenly underestimated Kim Young-hee's ability and control over the Restoration Army. "Mr. Malyuko, you have to understand one thing, the Korean Restoration Army first takes it as its mission to drive out the Japanese invaders and restore the national unity of Korea. The Restoration Army launched a military operation against the Japanese army in Korea, and it can also force the Japanese army, why do we have to go to the Far East? You must know that the Restoration Army is good at local raid operations, not face-to-face positional warfare with the Japanese army. ”
Kim Young-hee understands what the Restoration Army means to her, and if she doesn't have this Restoration Army in hand, she would be an ordinary North Korean woman at best. Kim Young-hee had already seen through the thoughts of these Soviet military observers, and if it weren't for the desire to get more Soviet-style weapons and ammunition, Kim Young-hee would not have bothered to continue talking to these arrogant Soviets. "Comrade Kim Young-hee, the coalition to resist the fascist axis is the common task and mission of all our proletarian fighters.
Malyukochev, who served as the leader of the military observer team, had been trying to persuade Kim Young-hee to change her mind, but Kim Young-hee, who was worried about the loss of power, would not come in, so she simply ignored Malyukochev's words. Kim Young-hee's hardline attitude annoyed a number of Soviet officers, and even put forward the idea of supporting other leaders in the Restoration Army, but these opinions were blocked by the leader Malyukochev, who did not want to turn against Kim Young-hee until he fully figured out the details of the Restoration Army.
"Train the troops until they train troops who dare to fight the Japanese army head-on, otherwise the Restoration Army can only be a guerrilla force." When asked by Kim Young-hee what the Restoration Army should do next, Zhuo Yan rarely said his advice. "At present, the Japanese army in Korea is being transferred in large numbers to attack the Soviet army in the Far East, which is precisely an opportunity for the Restoration Army, but before the Restoration Army goes south, the existing troops must be reorganized, otherwise it seems that in a frontal battle with the Japanese army, the Restoration Army will definitely be defeated by the Japanese army head-on."
What would it be like to be defeated head-on by the enemy, but Kim Young-hee had seen with her own eyes the scene when the national army was defeated on the battlefield in Hebei. In the event of a rout, it often implicates other troops, resulting in a large-scale rout. As soon as the scene of defeat appeared in Kim Young-hee's mind, she couldn't help but tremble, and it was difficult for her to imagine what the large-scale rout of the Restoration Army was.
"Then train the troops, I still have more than a hundred military instructors sent by you here, and I will also hand them over to you to command." The materials seized from the Japanese army were enough for the Restoration Army for half a year, and Jin Yingji was not a person who did not know the times, so she immediately made up her mind to ask Zhuo Yan and others to concentrate on training the soldiers of the Restoration Army. Zhuo Yan and others did not raise any objections to Kim Young-hee's request for training, but they asked Kim Young-hee to ensure that the training content would not be known or participated in by those Soviet military observers. From the time he met Malyukochev and his group, Zhuo Yan expressed inexplicable indifference, and the training instructors sent by the umbrella to Kim Young-hee in the early stage did not have a good attitude towards these Soviets, because the Soviets were also hostile to the Jews.
Zhuo Yan and others expressed their disagreement with the Soviets, which was exactly what Jin Yingji wanted, otherwise she would not be able to hand over her troops to Zhuo Yan and others for retraining with complete confidence. Kim Young-hee's Korean Restoration Army is relatively poorly equipped with weapons and equipment, even if it is equipped with a large number of Soviet-style weapons and equipment, but if it is compared with the Independent Army or the New Army, there is still a big gap, so when Zhuo Yan and they formulated the training plan, the intensity of training was relatively weak, and the training content was even different from that of the Independent Army.
This was the main method used by Zhuo Fei to help the national army train guerrilla troops, and this was how dozens of bandits and bandits in the Yunnan-Guizhou area were wiped out by the guerrilla troops as training targets. There are also large and small bandit forces and armed forces in North Korea, but Zhuo Yan and his team cannot use the extermination of bandits as the main training method, because Kim Young-hee believes that these bandit forces can be absorbed.
If they can't encircle and suppress the bandits, then Zhuo Yan and they can only use the Japanese army as a training target, and every 400 soldiers of the Korean Restoration Army are organized into a company, and Zhuo Yan and they take turns to bring these super-formed wings out to find the Japanese army to fight. Zhuo Yan is now completely copying the guerrilla tactics that Zhuo Fei had formulated for the guerrilla troops of the Nationalist Army, training these soldiers of the Korean Restoration Army, dozens of companies with a size of 400 people went south in batches, relying on walkie-talkies and radios brought by Zhuo Yan and others to make contact, and carried out large-scale guerrilla tactics against the Japanese troops in North Korea.
The guerrilla tactics of more than 10,000 people can already be regarded as a super-large-scale military operation, and the gathering of more than 10,000 soldiers may be the strength of a regular division, but if it is dispersed, the area that can be covered is very large. Under the command of Zhuo Yan and others, the Korean Restoration Army was as excited as if it had been beaten with blood, first using the tactics of encroachment to break through the Japanese blockade line little by little, and then using the tactics of long-distance raids and mutual cooperation to wantonly exchange fire with the Japanese army in the northern part of Korea.
"At present, the main attention of the Japanese army is on the Soviet troops in the Far East, and the Japanese troops in Korea have been drawn in large numbers. There were only more than 20,000 Japanese troops left behind in Korea, and more than 20,000 were scattered, and in addition, they relied on the local conscripted servant army to serve as the main force of defense. The current situation has proved the correct tactics we have used, and there is already information that the Japanese troops who have been transferred to the Far East have the intention of turning back to Korea, and if we continue to move south, we will need to continue to improve our weapons and ammunition. ”
Kim Young-hee was talking with Malyukochev at the headquarters of the Korean Restoration Army, and Kim Young-hee was overjoyed by the battle reports from the front, but at the same time, the casualties and ammunition consumption of the troops were also sent to Kim Young-hee. The Restoration Army was able to defeat the Japanese army in the northern mountains, and Zhuo Yan and others should not be underestimated, but Kim Young-hee knew that the weapons and ammunition provided by the Soviets were the most important point.
"General Jin, it is not difficult to continue to provide you with weapons and ammunition, but I have another question here, and I hope to get a positive answer from General Jin." Malyukochev does not look like a fat fool, and it is impossible to be coaxed by a few kind words from Kim Young-hee, and until he has figured out the position of Kim Young-hee and the Korean Restoration Army, Malyukochev does not intend to provide substantial help to the Korean Restoration Army.
"General Kim, I know that there are military instructors and temporary commanders sent by the Umbrella Company, and although our Soviet government also has the intention of cooperating with the Umbrella Company, the Umbrella Company is fundamentally close to the Jews, and in a sense, the Umbrella Company is a lackey force in the capitalist countries of Europe. General Kim, our Soviet Union is a communist country where everyone is equal, and I believe that General Kim, you also want to build a pure communist state. Malyukochev looked at Kim Young-hee with a smile.
Malyukochev's remarks have touched on the fundamental category of the country, and the banner raised by Kim Young-hee is to resist the Japanese invaders and restore the national unity of Korea, and Kim Young, who is no longer the ignorant girl at the beginning, naturally knows what it means to be able to get the support of the Soviets at this time for the Restoration Army, compared to the Soviet Union, the position of the umbrella is too far away from North Korea. The meeting between Kim Young-hee and Malyukochev did not last long, and just two days after the meeting, the Restoration Army again received a large amount of military aid from the Soviet Union.
The abnormality within the Korean Restoration Army did not escape the eyes of Zhuo Yan and others, and Zhuo Yan, who had already received Zhuo Fei's instructions, did not care too much about it, because Zhuo Fei did not take Kim Young-hee and her Korean Restoration Army seriously at all. To help the Korean Restoration Army strengthen its combat effectiveness, Zhuo Fei only wanted to use the Korean Restoration Army to contain the Japanese army in the north, and to create a false impression and threat of a north-south flank attack on the Japanese army in the north when the Chinese army gathered to the north.
The Japanese are inherently contradictory, arrogant and suspicious. Zhuo Fei's move was to set up a maze array for the Japanese army, as for whether Jin Yingji would throw herself into the arms of the Soviets, Zhuo Fei's judgment was positive, because the famous Comrade Jin Fat in history did just that. Kim Ying-hee secretly had an eye-to-eye with the Soviets, but Zhuo Yan and others led the scattered Korean Restoration Army to find the Japanese army to fight, and in just one month, Zhuo Yan and others had already laid the foundation and prestige in the Korean Restoration Army.
The special forces who went north with Zhuo Yan were not idle, and while directing the battle, they also began to secretly pay attention to those materials that could be made within the Korean Restoration Army. However, all the soldiers of the Restoration Army who are agile or have certain specialties are the targets of their deliberate wooing, especially those North Korean soldiers who join the Restoration Army just to have their stomachs full.