Chapter Forty-Seven: Good News Again
Zhuo Fei, who returned to Australia, accompanied Jin Jiu and his entourage to inspect everywhere, and on the other hand, secretly ordered the shipyard in Kuala Lumpur to speed up the construction of ships, and at the same time ordered the flight team to provide full support to the Dangkou army advancing eastward. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhuo Fei tried to use the help of the new army troops to draw the attention of the Japanese army to the Korean Peninsula, although he did not understand why the Dangkou army wanted to move into the Korean Peninsula, but the Japanese army, which had gone south to the Changchun line and had completed the assembly of large forces, had begun to notice the unusual behavior of the Dangkou army.
The members of the Japanese cabinet who were far away in Japan also held an emergency meeting for this purpose, and the Dangkou army went north to help in the war, and the answer given by the umbrella was that it would not fight the Japanese army head-on, but now, the Dangkou army has broken through Dandong and strangely turned to the Korean Peninsula, is the purpose of the umbrella to unite the troops of the Chinese New Army and completely cut off the back road of the Japanese army in the northeast. Now that most of the Dangkou army has entered the Korean Peninsula and the military operations in Korea are becoming more and more intense, if Japan does not react, the Japanese troops concentrated in Northeast China and the Far East are likely to be cut off by the Dangkou army, and then the Dangkou army and the Chinese New Army troops will join forces to fight.
There is once again a full-scale fierce war on the Korean Peninsula, and there are many people who are worried about this situation, and there are also many who are cheering. While the Japanese government is scolding the umbrella for being 'despicable and shameless,' it is also naturally trying to prevent the military operations of the Bandit Army in northern Korea. It was only because of the guerrilla warfare carried out by the Korean Independence Army for several months that the Japanese troops in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula were able to hold out in the north of Korea after a long and hard battle without sufficient rest and replenishment. The rest of the troops were almost all defeated after facing the Dangkou army, and at this time, the Japanese government obviously had not yet discovered what the real purpose of the Dangkou army was.
At a time when the Japanese Cabinet was actively looking for countermeasures, a very special force was advancing at a rapid pace on the Loess Highway from Sinuiju to Pyongyang. The reason why it would be said that this is a very special force. This is because the composition of this unit is very special, this fast-moving force not only has a certain number of tanks and armored vehicles, but even the entire unit does not use its feet when marching, but on the wheels of cars.
The armored unit of the New First Army commanded by Dai Anlan can already be called the ace army of the Chinese army, and this unit is not only equipped with a considerable number of tanks and armored vehicles, but also equipped with a considerable number of trucks, and they are already one of the very few mechanized units in the Chinese army at present. However, if the armored unit of the New First Army commanded by Dai Anlan is compared with the mechanized unit of the rapid New Army in front of him, there is still a big difference, because in the middle of this mechanized army, there are more than 20 rocket launchers that are called big killers by the umbrella.
Compared with Soviet-style rocket artillery weapons, the rocket artillery weapons of the umbrella company have been upgraded several times to have more powerful power and longer range. In the armored unit of the new First Army commanded by Dai Anlan, when the battle is carried out, not only the tanks and armored vehicles will rush to the front and directly enter the battle, but at the same time, the soldiers on the trucks behind will also jump off the trucks and fight together.
However, the mechanized troops in front of them are moving towards Pyongyang, but they are the elite of the Dangkou Army, and the combat mode of the mechanized troops of the Dangkou Army is diametrically opposed to the tactics of the armored forces of the new army; once they encounter and exchange fire with the Japanese army, the infantry covering tanks and armored vehicles will definitely not immediately enter the battle, and only tanks and machine-gun armored assault vehicles will rush to the front line, and the second echelon will be armored personnel carriers, and the infantry of the armored division of the Dangkou Army will rarely directly participate in ground assault operations. Because most of them are technical and logistical maintenance personnel.
In the view of the command of the Dangkou Army, the mechanized troops should mainly focus on rapid rush operations, and the tactics of a fixed mode of assault and defense are too rigid, and the mechanized troops with a high degree of mobility should fight and move quickly. In an armored car in the center of the convoy, Xie Juncheng, the commander of the mechanized division of the Dangkou Army, glanced at the staff officer beside him and asked in a low voice, "How far are we from Pyongyang now..."
The operational staff officer took the map from the side and looked at it, and after careful identification, he replied to Xie Juncheng, "Division commander, there are less than 30 kilometers left, don't worry, we will definitely be able to reach Pyongyang within an hour..."
"That's good!" Hearing the chief of staff say this, Xie Juncheng nodded when he heard this, and then a hint of triumph appeared on his face. "The credit for winning Dandong was taken away by Gao Dashan, but our luck is not bad, and the credit for winning Pyongyang will be received by our armored division..."
The entry of the Dangkou army into Pyongyang was definitely not accidental, but another major decision made by the command of the Dangkou army after taking Dandong and Sinuiju. In order to provide air support for the troops of the Dangkou Army on the Korean Peninsula and along the western front, if the Dangkou Army can take Pyongyang first and control the Nampo area, perhaps the fighters taking off from Weihai in Shandong Province will be able to land in Pyongyang.
If they can get a steady stream of aerial fire support in the battle, this can be said to be a big help for the lonely Dangkou army, and perhaps with one blow, the Dangkou army moving south along the western front of the Korean Peninsula can still succeed in taking Incheon. The raid on Pyongyang was a task that Xie Juncheng snatched from the forward division, and since the forward division of the Dangkou Army took Dandong, Xie Juncheng has always been angry, always thinking that the military headquarters does not take his armored division seriously.
In this raid on Pyongyang, Xie Juncheng was full of energy, and he was ready to let the infantry commanders of that gang see what mechanized warfare is. In fact, when the Dangkou army succeeded in taking Dandong and attacking Sinuiju, the Korean Independence Army had already successfully severed the connection between the Korean Japanese army and the Japanese army in the Far East.
Just when the Japanese army was still anxious about the offensive launched by the New Army troops on the front line of Shenyang, at this time they obviously did not find the real killing of the Dangkou army, so when Xie Juncheng's armored division arrived under the city of Pyongyang, the Japanese army was dumbfounded. Strictly speaking, Pyongyang was not the focus of the Japanese defense in Korea, because they did not expect that the Dangkou army, which had just taken Dandong, would advance so quickly.
At this time, although the Korean Japanese army also had some troops in Pyongyang, it was only an infantry wing at most. However, the armored division of the Dangkou Army commanded by Xie Juncheng had more than 20,000 people, and the ratio of forces between them almost reached the point of seven to one. In addition, Xie Juncheng's armored division is the ace unit in the Dangkou army, and the equipment can also be called rare in the Japanese army. On the other hand, although the Japanese troops left behind in Pyongyang had sufficient weapons and ammunition, their equipment was obviously much worse, and all this was enough to show the gap between them.
Therefore, when the armored division launched an attack on Pyongyang, the Japanese troops in Pyongyang had no other way but to seek reinforcements from other Japanese units in the vicinity. Within a day, the Japanese troops stationed in Pyongyang had lost most of their defensive lines, and the city of Pyongyang was in danger. After learning the news of Pyongyang's attack, the Korean Japanese army also desperately mobilized other troops to reinforce Pyongyang, although they also knew the importance of Pyongyang, but at this time, the ferocious offensive launched by the Dangkou army had made it impossible for them to pay attention to Pyongyang at all.
The Dangkou army not only wanted to press Pyongyang, but also wanted to control the Nampo area by the way, so when Xie Juncheng's armored division besieged Pyongyang, more Dangkou troops chose to directly cross Pyongyang and continue to march south towards the Nampo area, with a great momentum of crossing the Taedong River and continuing southward. Of course, the Korean Japanese army could not sit idly by and watch the Dangkou army continue to move south, and although a small number of Japanese reinforcements arrived during the period, they were all killed by the southbound troops of the Dangkou army like swatting flies.
Faced with the situation of being isolated and helpless, the Japanese troops north of the Taedong River were forced to cross the Taedong River and retreat southward, while the armored division of the Datong Army commanded by Xie Juncheng also successfully captured Pyongyang City. After the news of Pyongyang's breakthrough to the Dangkou army was transmitted back to Australia, Jin Jiu and others were overjoyed, and the cooperation with the umbrella company allowed Jin Jiu and others to finally see the hope of recovering the country, but the fall of Pyongyang caused a great blow to the morale of the Japanese army in Korea. On the other hand, after learning that the Dangkou army had successfully captured Pyongyang, Zhuo Fei's shipyard in Kuala Lumpur also accelerated the construction of ships.
"Mr. Jin Jiu, I said that the Umbrella Company will be your loyal friend, and it will definitely help you drive out the Japanese." After the ecstasy, Jin Jiu and the others expressed their gratitude to Zhuo Fei, but Zhuo Fei took them to the weapon test site of the umbrella. After Jin Jiu and others saw the high-power weapons developed by the umbrella company for live-fire tests, they all became more interested, and their determination to restore the country became more firm.
"Ladies and gentlemen, after seeing these things, do you know that Mr. Kim Koo didn't lose money selling Jeju Island to me?" After visiting the live-fire test performance at the weapons test site, Zhuo Fei broke the gap between Jin Jiu and the others in person. Those who argued that they did not agree to sell Jeju Island to Zhuo Fei at the beginning also changed their attitude after seeing the live-fire tests of those new weapons. Because they know that the umbrella can't help them for free, and they can't ask for too much now, for now, it may be very cost-effective to exchange an island for the whole country.