Chapter 38: The Far East Crisis

"It's nothing, who said it must not work, you know, North Korea is the closest country to the Japanese mainland. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 In particular, Busan, North Korea, is only about 200 kilometers away from Fukuoka, Japan, and only about 1,000 kilometers away from Tokyo, Japan, which is much more advantageous than attacking Japan from the Philippines. "The movement of the Dangkou army is naturally from Zhuo Fei's command, but Zhuo Fei's actual intention is North Korea.

Questions such as how to get Japan to stop its military aggression against other Asian countries have been innumerable in the Internet forums of later generations. The vast majority of them agreed that a large bombing of the Japanese mainland by sending an air force from Korea should force the Japanese cabinet to make an armistice. In later generations, Zhuo Fei, who is a senior otaku, pays much attention to forums like this, but his thoughts are different from those angry youths.

Japan is not a philanthropic nation, on the contrary, because of geographical restrictions, the Japanese have hidden ambitions for foreign expansion from birth. Korea and China are the two countries closest to Japan, and China's vast land and the weakness of Korea are the best choices for Japan's external expansion. Zhuo Fei never believed in the phrase "repay grievances with virtue", this ancient saying has been passed down in China for thousands of years, but no dynasty can be passed down for thousands of years, and it has been invaded by countless foreign races in history.

Benevolence and generosity cannot be the foundation of China's vision of the world, and only with the absolute guarantee of force can China have the opportunity and ability to truly participate in international affairs. How to let China have the right to speak in the international community, Japan is an excellent target, taking North Korea, Zhuo Fei will have the opportunity and springboard to directly attack the Japanese mainland, and how to capture the Japanese mainland is the umbrella and the Chinese government to show the strength of the stage.

The unstoppable Dangkou army came from Dandong with all its capital, and the Japanese troops stationed in Dandong urgently asked the Shenyang garrison for help, but it was a pity that the Japanese troops stationed in Shenyang were also facing the attack of the new First Army and the New Second Army. Whether to ignore the crisis in Shenyang or to send troops south to support, Umezu Yoshijiro did not make a decision on his own, but reported the situation to the Far Eastern Front Command. If the Far Eastern Front Command insisted on attacking the Soviet Army in the Far East with all its might, then Umezu Mijiro had no choice but to transfer the remaining forces of the Kwantung Army to rescue Shenyang, and then part ways with the Far Eastern Front.

Umezu Mijiro seemed to think too much about the influence of himself and the Kwantung Army, and in fact, the Far Eastern Front Command did not take the situation he reported seriously at all, and the rescue of Shenyang could only be solved by the Kwantung Army itself. Zhuo Fei, who commanded the Dangkou Army remotely, did not know the contradiction between the Kwantung Army and the Japanese army in the Far East, and the Dangkou Army, who was ordered to approach Dandong, only acted according to Zhuo Fei's original plan, and the person who really cared about it was Zhuo Yan, who was ordered to respond to the Dangkou Army.

Not to mention the telegrams intercepted by Zhuo Yan and the others, just the abnormal behavior of the Dandong Kwantung Army troops in the past few days has already been able to attract Zhuo Yan's attention. "Send a report to the headquarters immediately, our department learned that the Kwantung Army headquarters will deploy heavy troops to support the Dandong defenders, so I suggest that the headquarters revise the action plan, and our department plans to send Kuandian directly to Benxi or Shenyang." This is the first time that Zhuo Yan has taken the initiative to choose the direction of action after leaving Zhuo Fei's side, and Zhuo Fei fully supports this.

Geographically, the Korean Independence Army commanded by Zhuo Yan went west out of Kuandian and approached Benxi in order to assist the New Army troops in attacking Shenyang, but in fact, Zhuo Yan's ultimate goal was to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army in Dandong. If he could, Zhuo Yan wanted to trap the southward support troops of the Kwantung Army on the front line of Dandong, and once the Dangkou Army was in place, these Kwantung Army troops gathered in Dandong would only have two ends, either they would become prisoners or corpses.

As the old saying goes, the plan is not as fast as the change, just when the Dangkou army marched into Dandong and Zhuo Yan led the Korean Independence Army west out of Kwandian, the Far East battlefield broke the news again. In addition to about 50,000 Soviet soldiers who laid down their arms and surrendered to the Japanese army, the remaining hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops were either called corpses or deserters, and the Soviet back garden was finally opened a gap by the Japanese army.

The Soviet defense line in the Far East had completely collapsed, and the army, which was steadily moving north according to the original plan, had no choice but to switch to the same position and defend itself, depending on the reaction and attitude of the Japanese army. In order to cope with Germany's all-out attack on the Soviet forces in the Far East, the Japanese army has gathered more than one million troops in the Far East, and after defeating the Soviet forces in the Far East, these Japanese troops can completely turn south and resume their aggression against China, and Chongqing is worried about this.

"Damn the Slavs, can't you just hold on a little longer? Even if it's for a week. When the news of the defeat of the Soviet army in the Far East reached Australia, not only Zhuo Fei was scolding the Soviets, but even MacArthur, who was training troops on Kalimantan Island, was also scolding non-stop. Because of the defeat of the Soviet forces in the Far East, the Japanese troops assembled in the Far East are likely to send troops south to support the Southeast Asian theater, and the US-Australian coalition forces commanded by MacArthur will become the first target of the Japanese army.

"The Soviets in the Far East failed, so what about ours? Why don't you withdraw them first, the British are still urging them to send people to Africa. Angela was a little worried about the safety of the Bandit Army, which would face a siege several times the size of her own once the Japanese turned south.

Angela's worry did not make Zhuo Fei change his original plan, he shook his head at Angela, Zhuo Fei smiled, "Don't worry, the Dangkou Army is a stronger force than the Chinese New Army and the Jewish Independent Army, as long as the Japanese army makes a few moments, as long as our people don't make mistakes themselves, we don't have to worry about the counterattack of the Japanese army." The fundamental purpose of the Dangkou army to help in the war was to seize control of Korea, and only by taking Korea or occupying key points could we carry out a surprise attack on the Japanese mainland. ā€ļ¼Œ

Angela, who was in charge of the logistics affairs of the umbrella base in Australia, didn't know that Zhuo Fei was secretly making a plan to raid the Japanese mainland, and it wasn't until Zhuo Fei said the reason at this time and took out the action plan that had not yet been finalized, and Angela suddenly realized. "If we want to get the interests that really belong to us from the British, we must show them the strength of our umbrella, and strike at Japan first, which is in line with the interests of our umbrella in Asia, and at the same time show our strength to the United States and Britain."

After reading the action plan handed over to him by Zhuo Fei, Angela had to admit that this battle plan was indeed possible, but the risks contained in it were also very large. "Where in the world can there be a free lunch, although it is very risky, but the benefits are also huge. If our cross-sea bombing succeeds, the U.S. government, which is anxious to defeat Japan, will launch a new round of support for us, and of course, if the Americans want to win our support, they must pay a suitable price in exchange. ā€

From the very beginning, in cooperation with the U.S. government, Zhuo Fei has secretly prepared a backhand. Once Dr. Tony, who returned to the weapons lab, was able to shrink the cloudburst to the point where it could be fired with rocket launchers, the Japanese heavy firepower and offshore fleet were no longer a threat. MacArthur's Philippine counteroffensive plan, in Zhuo Fei's opinion, was a joke at all. Without the cooperation of a fleet, no matter how good the ground forces of the US-Australian coalition are, they will not be able to successfully land in the Philippines, not to mention that the Japanese army still has a South China Sea fleet in the Philippines.

Zhuo Fei had a sharp weapon in his hand to deal with the Japanese Navy, but he didn't want to cooperate with the Americans to fight the Japanese army in vain, and if the U.S. government couldn't come up with a price that made him happy, Zhuo Fei would certainly not be stupid enough to jump out and take the initiative to help MacArthur. The Japanese army finally defeated the Soviet army in the Far East, and when most of the Chinese army was stagnant, the Dangkou army still approached Dandong according to the original plan, while the two Kwantung Army divisions drawn by Umezu Mijiro had already rushed south to Dandong to help in the battle.

Sending additional troops to hold the Shenyang defense line became the only decision that Umezu Mijiro could make, and at the same time, the Japanese army in the Far East, which had just won a great victory, also sent a large number of heavy weapons south to support the Kwantung Army. As far as individual infantry combat is concerned, the strength of the Chinese recruit units is no different from that of the Japanese army, but once the Japanese army is equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, it will burst out with super combat effectiveness.

Most of the technical arms in the Japanese army have a high school education, and even ordinary soldiers mostly have a primary and junior high school education, and compared with the Japanese army, even in the Chinese new army, which has a large number of student soldiers, there are still many illiterate old and coarse people. Cultural knowledge and the ability to accept new things determine the efficiency of a force to use the power of heavy firepower weapons, and this is precisely the gap between the Chinese army and the Japanese army.

The umbrella of the Dangkou Army is not the same, the Dangkou Army's soldiers are mostly from the descendants of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, most of these descendants of overseas Chinese in Nanyang have received secondary education or above, and their ability to accept new things is far beyond that of the Chinese New Army or the Japanese army.

Zhuo Fei single-handedly created the Dangkou Army, so he was naturally full of confidence in the Dangkou Army, while Angela and the others only considered the problem from the overall environment, and invisibly underestimated the real combat effectiveness of the Dangkou Army. With Zhuo Fei's recognition and full support, the Dangkou army immediately launched an attack on the Japanese army in Dandong according to the original plan, but it was only a few days of bullets, and the Dangkou army did not launch a full-line attack on Dandong, and most of them played small-scale local battles with the Japanese army.