Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Battle Front Moves South
The Dangkou Army, which was subordinate to the umbrella, held the southern front and formed a state of confrontation with the Japanese army, while the Korean Independence Army in the north used guerrilla tactics to attack continuously, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese troops moving south. The bizarre war www.biquge.info the Japanese cabinet and the emperor were under pressure, and even Fumima Konoe, who had returned to Japan, felt that the empire might be about to lose control of the Korean Peninsula. What to do? The Japanese cabinet convened an emergency meeting again, but after discussion, it failed to come up with a good solution, and finally had to decide to order the Japanese army on the southern front to carry out a tentative attack on the Dangkou army.
The terrain in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula is relatively flat, and although it is not very suitable for large-scale operations of armored forces, at least the Japanese army on the southern front has been able to use armored troops in offensive operations. The battle began somewhat suddenly, at first as cold guns between soldiers on both sides, and over the next few minutes, machine guns and mortars had joined the battle, and after half an hour, the exchange of fire between the two sides had turned into a formal positional battle.
Before really figuring out the strength of the other side, the Japanese troops on the southern front hated and cunningly implemented the means of fire reconnaissance, but the Dangkou army that confronted them was not vegetarian, and they did not use too many heavy firepower weapons or expose their strength from beginning to end. "Since they are disobedient, let's teach them how to be obedient children." Zhuo Fei's order was then handed down to the front-line combat troops, and after receiving the order to attack at will, the command of the Dangkou Army immediately came up with a battle plan that had been drawn up long ago, preparing to carry out a penetrating attack on the Japanese defense line opposite.
Before the tactics are launched, they first find out a weak point in the enemy's defense line, then use covering artillery fire to open the way for the armored troops, and finally use the armored troops as the vanguard to carry out a strong fire assault on the enemy's defense line, thus achieving the tactical goal of completely penetrating the enemy's defense line. According to the scale of weapons and equipment equipped by the target of the Dangkou Army, it naturally has this kind of confidence, and the Dangkou Army has prepared as many as a dozen rocket artillery battalions to prepare for battle.
The command of the Dangkou Army did not schedule the operation at night, and compared to the Japanese army, which had been attacking tentatively, the Dangkou Army was more willing to penetrate the opponent's position and defense line in White Heaven. In the early morning of the second day of the scuffle between the two sides, the main force of the Dangkou Army, which had already been assembled, launched a surprise attack on the Japanese army facing it, and it was the independent armored division of the Dangkou Army that served as the vanguard of the raid. More than a dozen rocket artillery battalions opened fire at the same time, and at the most unexpected moment of the Japanese army, more than 1,000 rockets were smashed into the Japanese positions and defensive lines.
The new rocket, which has been improved many times, is far superior to the first-generation rockets equipped by the Jewish Independence Army in terms of charge and power, and the Japanese officers and soldiers who are within the range of the rocket's coverage have become the objects of the first appearance of this new rocket. More than 1,000 whistling rockets left a trail of smoke in the air, but in the next second, continuous fireworks had risen from the Japanese positions and defense lines, and the Japanese positions in an area of several thousand square meters had already been completely covered by these rising fireworks.
The effect of the covering strike is extremely striking, although there will be a few fish that slip through the net, but the armored forces that set off later will completely cut off the escape route of these fish that have slipped through the net. The rocket artillery units with the replaced rockets carried out progressive strikes on the Japanese positions, while a large number of infantry fighting with the armored units had already rushed into the Japanese positions with a roar, and spread out to the sides along the Japanese positions that had already broken through.
Just a strong firepower covering strike and a strong armor burst to break through the opponent's defense line is nothing to the commanders of the Dangkou Army, but for the Japanese army, this is no less than the bad news of the sky falling apart. The defense line built by Baal on his side was not able to resist the opponent's surprise attack at all, and they broke through the position in a one-time attack.
The sound of gunfire and shouting of killing was mixed together, and on this section of the Japanese defense line about 2 kilometers long, two breakthrough points had been carved out by the Dangkou Army at the same time, and no matter how the Japanese troops stationed here remedied, there were more and more Dangkou soldiers who had entered the Japanese position. The Independent Armored Division, which was the first to break through the Japanese position, did not hesitate at all, nor did it entangle with the Japanese troops on the left and right positions, but carried part of the infantry directly across Chungju and went straight to Daejeon according to the battle plan.
The ownership of Daejeon was far more important to the umbrella than to take the entire line of defense of the Japanese army on the Chungju line, and once Daejeon was taken by the Dangkou army, the umbrella could exercise full control over the west coast of the Korean Peninsula near the left of Daejeon. Zhuo Fei, who was stationed at Incheon, had already prepared to transport troops and supplies to Daejeon by sea, and once the independent armored division took Daejeon, the troops assembled at Inchon would immediately move south and land on the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula to carry out a joint attack on Gwangju south of Daejeon.
In Zhuo Fei's view, it was impossible for the Japanese army to allow the umbrella to enter and occupy Gwangju, so the Korean Japanese army had to deploy enough troops to hold on to the southwest coast, and this was exactly what Zhuo Fei wanted to see the most. The Japanese were anxious to expand their warfare on the American continent, and not only transferred a large number of Kwantung troops from the Far East to the American continent, but also transferred many troops originally stationed on the Korean Peninsula. At present, the Japanese troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula are superior to the 210,000 troops after the joint forces of the Umbrella and the Korean Restoration Party, but most of the Japanese troops in Korea are full of reserve recruits transferred from the mainland, and most of the Japanese troops are even recruits who have never actually been on the battlefield.
As a result, the Korean Japanese army, which had the advantage in strength, was not looked at by Zhuo Fei at all, and the umbrella was still recruiting a steady stream of reserve indigenous servant troops in the five South Asian countries. "Don't care about the casualty rate of the servant army, as long as our Rogues and reconnaissance troops do not have major casualties, you only need to remember one thing, that is, attack, attack, attack again, and my side will equip you with supplies and supplies." Knowing that the Independent Armored Division had crossed Chungju and headed for Daejeon, Zhuo Fei immediately ordered the 20,000 servant troops on standby at Inchon to go south by boat.
When bidding farewell to this group of servant troops, Zhuo Fei issued a secret order to the staff officers who commanded this servant army, and when the combat staff officers who understood it looked at the soldiers of the indigenous servant army under him, there was no longer any enthusiasm in their eyes. The original intention of the umbrella to form the indigenous servant army was to treat them as cannon fodder troops, on the one hand, to consume the living force of the Japanese army, and on the other hand, to reasonably consume the number of South Asian natives.
Zhuo Fei's move not only made the natives of the five South Asian countries have a feud with the natives of Southeast Asia, but also caused the number of indigenous strong men in the five South Asian countries to decline year after year. Coupled with the continuous southward movement of a large number of Chinese immigrants, Zhuo Fei believes that it will only take a few years or more than ten years for the number of indigenous people in the entire five South Asian countries to be controlled to an extremely reasonable range.
The sudden attack of the umbrella made the Korean Japanese panic, they did not expect the other side to suddenly attack and have broken through their own defenses. The casualty figure of more than 4,000 people could no longer make them feel palpitations, because what made them feel palpitations at the moment was the independent armored division that had crossed Chungju and was rapidly moving south, and the Japanese army had obviously seen that the independent armored division was targeting Daejeon, so they could mobilize troops to rush to Daejeon and try to block the independent armored division in the area north of Daejeon.
The deployment of the Japanese army in Korea has been more and more chaotic by the sudden attack of the umbrella, and the Japanese army in the chaos can only be exhausted by headaches, but they did not expect that the umbrella would take the sea route from Inchon to the south and land on the west coast. The arrival of 20,000 South Asian servant troops on the west coast and, after crushing the local defenders, flanking Daejeon, exacerbated the current predicament of the Korean Japanese.
What to do? The Japanese army in Korea, exhausted, responded to the attack of the umbrella and transmitted these new information back home, trying to get help from home. The latest war reports on the Korean Peninsula greatly annoyed the Japanese military, and once upon a time, when the imperial army galloped across the Korean Peninsula, it was so majestic. But now, the garrison deployed by the empire on the Korean Peninsula has a faint intention of being pushed out of the Korean Peninsula, which does not annoy the Japanese base camp.
In the base camp of the Japanese army itself, there were young and strong officers clamoring for a good look at the umbrella, and there were also veteran officers who calmly and patiently analyzed the current war, but the Japanese military top brass had already sent the war report back from the Korean garrison to the cabinet. "Gentlemen, it's time for us to make a choice." As if Konoe Fumima, who had aged a few years overnight, looked around at the cabinet members attending the meeting, the performance of the umbrella on the Korean Peninsula had already explained that his actions to the Chongqing peace talks had played a substantive role.
After many deliberations, coupled with the opinions of the emperor and the military, the Japanese cabinet finally decided to send a special envoy to the Korean Peninsula in an attempt to have a deeper dialogue and meeting with the umbrella. The Japanese cabinet hoped that this meeting would persuade the Umbrella to abandon its continued attack on the Imperial Army, and at the same time use the meeting to sow a gap between the Umbrella and the Chongqing side.
"Hehe, the Japanese want to meet with us? Okay, let's call them, I'm going to see what kind of tricks the Japanese are playing. When the news reached Zhuo Fei, Zhuo Fei promised to meet with the envoy sent by the Japanese cabinet, but did not order the cessation of the attack on Daejeon, and privately informed the Chongqing side of the matter, and the Chongqing side also secretly sent a joint team to Incheon for this purpose.