Chapter 620: The End of the Kwantung Army (18)
December 2 is a memorable day for all North Koreans, because it is a day when the entire North Korean people see the dawn of the restoration of national sovereignty. At 6 o'clock in the morning, about 800 Chinese warplanes took off from airports in the northeast region, and soon the group converged in the border area between China and North Korea and headed straight for North Korea.
In accordance with Han Yunhua's order, the joint air force began to carry out uninterrupted and irregular air raids against the Japanese puppet army in Korea, and the main targets of the air raids were the Japanese barracks and strongholds in Korea, as well as important ports controlled by the Japanese, such as Busan. In order to strike a blow at the Japanese and at the same time to arouse the will of the Koreans to resist, Han Yunhua ordered the Korean personnel of various units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to print a large number of propaganda slogans and pamphlets in Korean, and these things were dropped on various parts of the DPRK along with bombs and other things, causing a strong reaction in the DPRK region.
Choe Shiquan and Kim Sung-ju are active in the northeast region as anti-Japanese elements of the DPRK, and because of their prestige and status in the hearts of the North Koreans, they have now both become middle- and high-ranking cadres of the Northeast People's Liberation Army; Choi Shiquan is the deputy chief of staff of the First Field Army of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, and Kim Sung-ju is the quartermaster chief of the Third Field Army of the Northeast People's Liberation Army; when Han Yunhua's battle plan against the DPRK was put on the table, Choi Shiquan and Kim Sung-ju became the cadres that Han Yunhua focused on.
Speaking of Kim Sung-ju, everyone may not know, but when it comes to another name of Kim Sung-ju, everyone will know who this person is, Kim Sung-ju, also known as Kim Il Sung, is the supreme leader of North Korea in later generations. When Han Yunhua first got Kim Il-sung's information, he didn't know that this guy who was about the same age as him was the Kim Prime Minister Kim Marshal in the later generations, and he specially asked Qian Zhuangfei who this guy who suddenly popped out was who he was, who was so prestigious among North Koreans, and where was that Kim Il Sung, which made Qian Zhuangfei cry and laugh, and immediately explained to him that Kim Sung-ju was Kim Il Sung.
When he saw Cui Shiquan's information, Han Yunhua did not make this mistake, although that Cui Shiquan is very different from the Cui Yongjian of later generations in terms of photos and resume, but based on Han Yunhua's judgment, it can still be seen that this guy is Choi Yongjian, the Premier of North Korea.
Han Yunhua had previously investigated the current situation in North Korea, and knew that the situation in North Korea was not ideal, and under the strong bombardment of the Japanese, the vast majority of Korean rebels were forced to go into exile in China, and some of them participated in anti-Japanese activities in the northeast region, such as Kim Il Sung, who fled to China with his father in 1925, and on July 6, 1930, Kim Il Sung formed the Korean Revolutionary Army in Lone Elm, Itong County. The Korean Revolutionary Army was the first armed organization of the Korean communists and a political and semi-military organization in preparation for the anti-Japanese armed struggle. The following year, Kim Il Sung joined the Chinese Communist Party. In the spring of 1932, Kim Il Sung was sent by the East Manchurian Special Committee of the Communist Party of China to Antu County to create the Antu Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force. Later, he successively served as the political commissar of the Wang Qing Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade, the political commissar of the Third Regiment of the Independent Division of the Second Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, the political commissar of the Third Regiment of the Second Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, and the commander of the Third Division (later changed to the Sixth Division) of the Second Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. On April 25, 932, Kim Il Sung established a standing revolutionary armed force, the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Force (later reorganized into the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the predecessor of the current Korean People's Army), and served as its commander. On June 4, 1937, Kim Il Sung commanded the 6th Division of the Anti-Japanese Union to attack the Japanese garrison of Butianbao in Korea, which was known as the "Great Korean Revolutionary Struggle" in the history of the Korean War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In 1938, Kim Il Sung was the commander of the Second Front Army of the First Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army (equivalent to a battalion), during which time he was named Kim Il-sung and later changed to Kim Il Sung, although people still used to call him Kim Sung-ju. There were many others like Kim Il Sung, who fought in the anti-Japanese struggle in northeastern China and then returned to China with the support of the Soviet Union. …,
Some of them served in other units of the CCP, and some even participated in the Long March, and this part of them was later called the Yan'an faction. Although Han Yunhua was a military officer from later generations, he knew very little about the history of North Korea, and in his time, the relationship between China and North Korea was not as close as it was a few years later, but there were disputes and contradictions between the two sides.
However, Han Yunhua of the Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party of North Korea, still knows something, this party was formed by the union of four main factions shortly before the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the guerrilla faction headed by Kim Il Sung was dominant, although it was small in number. Most of the members of the Yan'an faction were military leading cadres who played an important role during the war, including not only high-ranking generals such as Wu Ting, but also the backbone of the formation of the Korean People's Army. The Muscovites (ethnic Koreans from the Soviet Union) and the Southern (or domestic) factions, although less powerful, also had individual leaders who were influential within the party.
Although the war has not yet ended, Han Yunhua believes that it is necessary to support the Koreans in their anti-Japanese struggle, and the withdrawal of the Japanese from Northeast China is a foregone conclusion, and it is just around the corner. However, the withdrawal of the Japanese from Tohoku does not mean that the Japanese will not come back, and if the Japanese are not completely wiped out, the Japanese will make a comeback sooner or later. Therefore, it is very likely that the army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will take advantage of the situation to attack the DPRK, but entering the DPRK to fight and fighting in Northeast China are two different concepts, and if you enter the DPRK at one point, many of the advantages that the Northeast People's Liberation Army and all the units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region now have will suddenly become disadvantages. For example, if you have an understanding of the terrain and fight in the northeast, there is such an old foundation as the Anti-Japanese Federation, whether it is deep mountains and dense forests or lakes and rivers, there is no Inner Mongolia Military Region that you dare not go. But on the territory of North Korea, all the environment is new, and the geographical advantages are not reflected at all. On the contrary, the Japanese have been entrenched there for decades, and in this respect they have a certain advantage over the Inner Mongolia Military Region.
In addition, when fighting in the northeast region, the people of the northeast often reported to the troops, and as soon as the Japanese army made a fuss, the troops would soon get the news. But no, once they enter North Korea, will the North Koreans help the Chinese troops like this, obviously not.
In terms of language, the official language of North Koreans in North Korea is Japanese, and Korean is used for private communication. There are quite a few people in the Inner Mongolia Military Region who can speak Japanese, but they are only limited to simple communication, and even fewer can speak Korean, which is also a major obstacle for Han Yunhua to consider.
Therefore, it is not a simple matter to want to enter North Korea to fight, so Han Yunhua thought of the idea of forming the Korean People's Army in advance. However, in later generations, the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was also filthy and politically brutal. During the war, the purge of leading cadres of various factions who posed a threat to Kim Il Sung's position and prestige began. In December 1950, Wu Ting was dismissed for the loss of Pyongyang, and soon after Park Il-woo and Fang Hushan were demoted and arrested, these things were no different from Stalin's actions in the Soviet Union.
Han Yunhua is not a politician, so he is not interested in political struggle, originally he did not plan to let Kim Il Sung participate in the formation of the Korean People's Army, but thinking of Kim Jong-il's status in the eyes of the Korean people, he finally dispelled this idea, but Han Yunhua urgently transferred Wuting and others to the north, and at the same time transferred Korean soldiers from various units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to form the Korean People's Army. Han Yunhua is reluctant to use his own weapons and ammunition for the DPRK armed forces. …,
The impact of the air raids on December 2 was enormous, as Korea had been annexed by Japan for 32 years, and Japan took control of Korea by taking control of Korea by making up for the lack of soldiers, and implemented a series of policies to enslave Koreans, such as the "Imperial Nationalization Movement" and the "Creation of Surnames". As with the consequences of Japan's similar policies in Taiwan, many Koreans were raised to be loyal subjects of Japan, volunteering to serve as Japanese soldiers and cannon fodder for the Japanese. According to the statistics of the Japanese Defense Agency in 1973, there were 1.6 million Korean soldiers among the about 2.5 million Japanese troops invading China, and 380,000 in the puppet "Manchukuo" army. Despite this, there are still a large number of Koreans who know the history of their country and hate the Japanese enslavement of Korea very much. Although Kim Il Sung had a previous battle of Putenburg, this battle was far less famous than in later generations.
In the history books of North Korea, the Battle of Butenburg is described as follows: "During World War II, the Korean armed forces also fought a great battle ---Battle of Butenbo". But it would be a joke to say that the battle took place at 10 p.m. on June 2, 1937. At that time, Kim Il Sung and more than 90 people traveled from the northeast to Botian-ri in Putianbao, Jiasan County, North Korea, which was actually a small village with 284 Koreans, 26 Japanese and 2 "Manchurian" households. In this battle, Kim Il Sung and others snatched several guns, killed the daughter of the devil policeman, as well as the owner of the hotel, Kozaburo Hane, and burned down a small post office in the village. This is the "great victory of Putianbao" that was boasted by North Korea in later generations! In Han Yunhua's view, this is just the work of Li Xiangyang and Xiaobing Zhang Ga. So this battle in 1942 can only be said to be mediocre, and many people don't know that there was such a battle.
However, the air raid on the 2nd was different, although only more than 800 fighters of the United Air Force participated in the war this time, and the Soviet Air Force did not participate in the war, Han Yunhua ordered the troops to bomb all the important ports and major cities of North Korea, and almost all the North Koreans knew that it was the Chinese army that fought it. Coupled with those propaganda slogans printed in Korean characters, many North Koreans knew that after this war, there was a North Korean army called the Korean People's Army, and a general called Wu Ting, of course, the names of Kim Il Sung and Choi Yong Jian were also among them, but they were deliberately listed by Han Yunhua after Wu Ting.
After December 2, Han Yunhua ordered his troops to continuously attack Korea, and at the same time ordered the aviation units of the Soviet Red Army to immediately go south to look for fighters, so as to cripple or even completely annihilate the Japanese air force.
At the same time, Han Yunhua also moved his command to the front line, and the army also went south with 450,000 troops from six field armies of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. With the addition of Chen Geng and Su Yu, the Chinese army besieging South Manchuria reached 1.05 million, not counting the large number of aviation units of China and the Soviet Union.
On the 3rd, Han Yunhua reported to the Central Committee of the Yan'an Party and officially proposed the last battle against the Japanese army in the Northeast. In the afternoon of the same day, the chairman personally approved and agreed to the operational plan of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and granted Comrade Han Yunhua all the operational powers of the front.
Han Yunhua sent someone to inform Yu Zhishan that the army would launch a full-scale attack on the Japanese puppet army in South Manchuria a day later, that is, in the early morning of December 5, when more than 1 million army forces, 100,000 mechanized troops and more than 1,400 warplanes would launch an attack on the Kwantung Army. At that time, the army will open a gap in the front line of Tieling and Vonberburg, and his troops must pass through the gap within three hours, move to the rear to rest, and then accept reorganization. At the same time, in several other places, the army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will open up and let the troops of the puppet Manchukuo be transferred first.
Yu Zhishan's reply was very happy, but he hoped that Han Yunhua could send someone to pick up Yu Zhishan's family first, and the Japanese would be "protected" by the Japanese in order to control these government officials of the puppet Manchukuo, including Pu Yi himself and his wife and concubine, of course, Yu Zhishan was no exception. There is a gendarmerie squad stationed outside the house all year round, although this gendarmerie squad has only less than 30 people, but it will be seen to death by the families of Zhishan. …,
The uprising was imminent, but some of Yu Zhishan's family members remained in Shenyang. Although Yu Zhishan was prescient, his wife and daughter had long prevented him from being sent to a safe place in the name of separation, and only his brothers and parents remained in the dangerous area. Yu Zhishan can imagine how he, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Manchukuo Defense Forces, will hate him after the puppet army on the front line revolts on all the battlefields, and the family members who stayed in Shenyang will not be in the mouth of a tiger.
After receiving Yu Zhishan's telegram, Han Yunhua immediately ordered the underground party in Shenyang City to immediately start rescuing Yu Zhishan's parents and brothers, and at the same time told Yu Zhishan that the troops on the front line must wear red armbands when they are transferred to distinguish them from other puppet troops. Moreover, the time for the troops to pass was only three hours, and as soon as the three hours arrived, the troops immediately closed the gap and launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese puppet army in South Manchuria.
On December 5, at 3 o'clock in the morning, the entire Tieling front line was brightly lit. Lieutenant General Takekawa Ichiro, the former commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, instructed the Japanese puppet officers in the conference room with a gloomy face. In one night, the Chinese had launched three attacks on the imperial army at the front, and each time it became more and more fierce. At the most dangerous time, the Japanese positions on the front line were already crumbling and could be crushed at any time, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.
"Report!"
"Come in, what are you working on, don't you know we're in a meeting?" Wu Chuan Yilang yelled angrily at the adjutant.
"Report to Your Excellency the Commander, the emergency call from the front line must be reported to His Excellency the Commander as soon as possible, and ask His Excellency the Commander to punish him." The adjutant said tremblingly.
"Yo Xi, you are in a good place, say, what kind of telegram, you are in such a hurry, read!" Wu Chuan Yilang's face softened slightly.
"Hai, the commander This telegram is from the Takeda Wing at the front, the 23rd Division of the Imperial Allied Army stationed at Vonberburg west of Tieling was suddenly defeated, and the First Army of the China Field has opened a gap, Takeda Osa led an infantry brigade to block the China Army, and now it is confronting the China people, but according to the Takeda Osa report, the China people are tens of thousands of people, and there are a large number of chariot troops, he is now just taking advantage of the terrain to block the attack, at most he can hold out for an hour and a half, and if it is a long time, I am afraid that it will be devastated, So I asked the command to send reinforcements immediately. The adjutant said loudly.
"Baga, have you found out, whose unit is the 23rd Division of the Imperial Cooperation Army, is it from Yuzhishan or Jixing, can you say it quickly?" Lieutenant General Takekawa Ichiro said loudly.
"Report to Your Excellency Commander, it's Yu Sang's troops, but it seems that the 23rd Division of the Imperial Allied Army has only one infantry regiment, and it was Gisan who ordered this force to be stationed in Vonberburg."
"Baga, when is it, the people of China are still fighting openly and secretly, and their government, no wonder the predecessors all said that China is a country of disunity, they obviously have a vast land and a large number of people, but they do not have a cohesive government, which is also vividly manifested in Manchuria." Wu Chuan said angrily, and there was no lack of ridicule in his tone.
"Your Excellency, what shall we do now?" The adjutant asked.
"Order Yu Sang to lead his troops to actively reinforce the Wuchuan Wing, and at the same time mobilize the 87th Division of the Imperial Army to set up a defensive position behind Vonberburg, in case the Chinese people pass through there and attack Shenyang."
"Hay!"
Yu Zhishan, who received the order, had just received a telegram from Han Yunhua, saying that his parents and family had left the city safely and were fleeing north, and the Japanese did not notice it in the slightest.
The sudden collapse of the 23rd Division was caused by Yu Zhishan, and with his understanding of Wuchuan Yilang, that old devil would definitely let him clean up the mess, and he would also make a statement to intimidate him. This is Wu Chuan's usual trick once, is it a combination of grace and power, but the old *** only has Wei and no grace. It's often done to intimidate, but it never gives you any benefits, which makes many puppet army officers, including Yu Zhishan, very dissatisfied