November 17, Seoul, North Korea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Senior General Terauchi Masatake, the new commander of the Manchurian Front, who had just arrived from Japan, did not care about the bumps in the itinerary and soon met with Lieutenant General Sadami Yasuto, commander of the Japanese Forces stationed in Korea, and Major General Koichiro Tachibana, chief of staff, in Seoul, and made arrangements after a detailed understanding of the current war situation.

"Commander, we know from the battle reports that General Nagaoka keeps sending back that the Chinese Army, under the command of its commander Zhang Xiaohuai, has invaded Korea in two ways." As she spoke, Anton Sadami walked to the map, stretched out her hand and pointed: "Among them, the Western Front China Army, with the 18th Army as the main force, under the command of its commander Zhang Zuolin, adopted a strategy of steady and steady and step-by-step strategy, and after successively capturing Yizhou, Yanchuan, Guicheng and other places, it has begun to advance to the line of Dingzhou and Bochuan. Although the remnants of the 38th Wing sniped at it layer by layer, the effect was not great, and their own injuries were even more severe. ”

"Shouting, what about the Zhina Army on the Eastern Front?" The temple is not shocked on his face, but his heart is very bitter. At the beginning of the war, due to the serious lack of preparation of the empire, the army and navy not only lost their troops, but also allowed the Chinese army to take advantage of the weakness to invade Korea. Although the military headquarters hurriedly transported two wings of the Fifth Division to stabilize the battle situation, they did not expect that they would be sunk on the sea by other people's submarines before they could reach the ground. Fortunately, the two wings of the follow-up transportation arrived safely, otherwise I don't know what chaos would have happened again.

"The Eastern Front is the First Army of China, and the commander is Li Hongxiang. They ...... from Ji'an"

"Wait, Anton-kun, you just said that it was the first army of China?" Terauchi Masaki frowned, and suddenly reached out to interrupt Anton Sadami, he remembered the information that the county elder gave him. The First Army of China, the trump card of the People's Army, and its third division is the most powerful, once in the Burma war, with a reinforced regiment sniped the British Army division and brigade, for six days and six nights.

"Yes, Commander. Because our army's defense in this part of the area was empty, they made rapid progress all the way after crossing the river from Ji'an, and they had already captured Manpu, Jiangjie, Qianchuan and other areas one after another. At present, the main force of the ministry is moving south along the Cheongchon River towards Xichuan. We estimate that they will join the 18th Army on the Western Front in Pyongyang. Speaking of this, Anton Sadami was a little worried: "Commander, the 20th Wing of the 16th Division is now stationed in Xichuan. ”

"Twentieth Wing?"

"They were originally stationed in the Tokugawa garrison, but after the outbreak of the war, they were transferred by Shogun Nagaoka to defend against the Shina army that was heading south. You see, is it time to send troops out of the 5th Division, which is rushing to Pyongyang, to reinforce them? ”

"No, not yet." After a pause, Terauchi Masatsuki made up his mind and said, "In addition, order the Twentieth Wing, they must hold on to Xichuan in place, at least for more than five days!" ”

Anton Zhenmei was shocked in her heart, and hurriedly said: "Commander, this is ......"

"Anton Jun, the tactic of dividing troops and adding fuel has been a taboo for soldiers since ancient times, especially for us who are now short of major generals." Terauchi Masashi was a little helpless in his heart, he knew that in this battle, the Twentieth Wing would become an outcast: "The battle situation has eroded so far, and you must be very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the empire. Our army's top priority is to defend Pyongyang with all its might, wait for more reinforcements from home, and gain more room for maneuver in the deteriorating war situation. ”

Anton Sadami was stunned, knowing that the fate of the 20th Wing was going to be the same as that of the previous 38th Wing. Although he was still a little unbearable in his heart, he also knew that this was the need of the battle situation. So, after a moment's pause, he said, "Hai! Commander, I think I understand! ”

"Roar! Anton-kun, I believe that the Twentieth Wing can complete the mission entrusted to them by the Empire! At this time, on the contrary, it was Masaki Terauchi who suddenly became a little more confident.

In his opinion, although the Chinese army now has the upper hand, it is only temporary, and it is achieved by shameless sneak attacks. After all, the army of the Great Japanese Empire is definitely not comparable to the cowardly Shina people. They have much better weapons and equipment than the Imperial Army, but isn't this the case with the Qing Army in the First Wu Year? They had defeated the British in Burma, but wouldn't the Imperial Army be able to compete with the Russian grey cattle?

Thinking of the glory of the army in the past, Terauchi Masashi is definitely confident. Of course, no one would have thought that his self-confidence would begin to waver after only lasting less than a day.

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In the north of North Korea, in the upper reaches of the Cheongchon River, in the Qingyun more than ten miles northwest of Heecheon City, the sky is dark in the middle of the night, and the stars are twinkling, and there is no end in sight.

In the camp of the "White Tiger Regiment" of the Third Armored Division of the People's Army, Bai Chongxi turned his head and began to fall asleep after running into his armored car. As the deputy company commander of the forward "Steel Seventh Company", he has not closed his eyes for more than 30 hours since Maekawa went south, and he can no longer care about anything else while there are still about three hours before the attack is launched.

The 3rd Panzer Division began to cross the river at about 2 a.m. on 14 November, and because of the mountainous terrain in northern Korea, although it did not advance as fast as in the plains, it still advanced about 50 kilometers a day. The speed of this attack is not very fast, but in the past four days, as the forward troops, they still fought all the way from Manpo to Jiangjie, from Jiangjie to Qianchuan, and now it seems that they are going to fight from Qianchuan to Xichuan again.

However, before they could attack Xichuan, they had already learned that Xichuan had been taken over by the 20th Wing of the Japanese Army. Later, they discovered that the Japanese army not only did not intend to engage in street fighting, but began to build field fortifications outside the city. As a result, the officers and men of the 3rd Armored Division could not sit still, and several senior officers quickly made a decision after deliberation: after dawn, the "White Tiger Regiment" would take the lead in launching an attack, and after breaking through the Japanese defense line set up outside the city, they would continue to penetrate in depth and annihilate the 20th Wing of the Japanese Army after the follow-up troops were encircled.

At more than six o'clock in the morning, Bai Chongxi was woken up by a squad leader under him. He took off his military coat and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"Deputy company commander, it's already 6:15, the sky is starting to brighten, and the company commander orders us to get ready for departure!" The squad leader replied.

Bai Chongxi nodded, looked at the watch on his wrist, and after getting out of the armored car, he listened to the Type 12 tanks that had been started and emitted a roaring sound in front of him, and the whole person suddenly became energetic. In a few minutes, the divisional heavy artillery group will carry out long-range fire strikes on all Japanese positions; Half an hour later, your own armored cluster will arrive at the forward position of the Japanese army and officially launch an attack.

When Bai Chongxi got into the armored car again and scanned the entire camp again, he saw that on the front less than 100 meters horizontally, more than 100 tanks of the "White Tiger Regiment", accompanied by the armored vehicles, had begun to emit faint white smoke and gradually accelerated forward. After only a few hundred meters, they have increased their speed to more than 20 kilometers per hour.

In the distance, ten kilometers away, on the Japanese position outside Heecheon City, it was quiet and peaceful, and Yujiro Sugimura walked out of his wing headquarters with red eyes.

Yujiro Sugimura has a resolute and calm personality and adheres to military dogma, which is the standard image of Japanese army officers in this era. After receiving the order from the general of the temple, he immediately led the staff officers of the wing, and after staying up all night, he worked out a more detailed defensive battle plan. First his division commander Nagaoka Gaishi, and then the commander of the front army, Terauchi Masatsuki, the successive orders all made him feel the importance of Heecheon to his own strategy.

A faint mist gradually rose from the mountains in the distance, and the busy figures of the soldiers on the battlefield kept flashing. Just when Yujiro Sugimura remembered his hometown of Hokkaido for winter, there was a sudden sharp whistling of cannonballs tearing through the air in the sky.

"Yaga! Shelling! It's the shelling of the Chinese people! Yujiro Sugimura, who reacted, opened his bloodshot eyes and immediately began to exclaim. But what about the exclamation, at this time, the soldiers who reacted quickly had already begun to hide in place, and the soldiers who reacted a little slower were quickly swept away by the artillery fire.

After being obviously stunned for a moment, His Excellency Dazuo couldn't understand why the army of the Shina people came so quickly, and why there was no news from the reconnaissance infantry released by himself.

Thirty minutes, a full thirty minutes of heavy artillery bombardment, made the survivors of the Japanese positions feel as if it was more than a century.

Finally, the sound of the cannon fell silent. Yujiro Sugimura Osa turned over and brushed the dirt off his face, immediately ran down the trench on the position, and began to bend down and shout: "Enter the position, all enter the position, and immediately prepare for battle!" Fast! ”

It has to be said that the quality of the Japanese Army is really good, and the surviving officers and men on the positions quickly entered their positions in advance after hearing the order. And almost at the same time, directly in front of their position, with the occasional explosion of shells and the flash of fire, the sudden roar of engines began to be heard.

Yujiro Sugimura naturally didn't know why there was a roar of the engine, but he still viciously ordered his soldiers: "Get ready, and shoot these damn Shina pigs for me later!" ”

The soldiers agreed, but human instinct always makes them afraid of the unknown. When the Japanese officers and men on the position kept seeing the steel monsters all over the mountains and fields with their guns raised high, they were rushing towards their defensive positions at a rapid pace, and there was an uncontrollable panic among them.

After all, this is still an era when tanks are not known; After all, the scene of hundreds of steel monsters charging collectively is definitely a scene that ordinary people can't imagine.