Chapter 362: All-out war
On the issue of the deployment of an all-out war at home, Chen Zhong said: In the past two years, China's Hainan army has completed its nationwide strategic deployment, and from now on, Hainan's war coordination headquarters will begin to enter a state of all-out war. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The War Coordination Command is the highest authority for the overall coordination and command of our Hainan during wartime, and in the past, the War Coordination Command has carried out many run-ins and drills, and has also commanded a series of local wars, so it should be said that it already has a fairly mature operational mechanism.
Therefore, the current functions of this department should be very clear, commanding all-round warfare at home, and at the same time dealing with attacks and emergencies by foreign forces.
After more than two years of planning for the battlefields of the whole country, our Hainan army has occupied the four main strategic lines in China.
The war against the Qing Dynasty that is now being waged is bound to be a comprehensive and thorough war.
Our Hainan army is preparing to launch a large corps of operations against the Qing court on four fronts.
In the past, we were limited by a variety of conditions and could only engage in local and regional wars. There is not much experience in fighting large-scale wars.
This requires all of us here to make rapid adjustments at any time in light of the changes in the battlefield across the country, so as to ensure that the four-route army in Hainan can smoothly resolve an all-out war in which the whole country coordinates and cooperates.
In accordance with the needs of wartime, after discussion and study by the War Coordination Headquarters, the following arrangements were made for our troops in Hainan:
The First Route Army fought on the Eastern Front and attacked all the way north along the southeastern coast. The commander-in-chief of the First Route Army is Qi Gang.
The Second Route Army fought on the central front, advancing north along Guangxi and Sichuan. The commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army was Ling Zhan, the former commander of the Tenth Army, who commanded the Tenth, Eighth, Nineteenth and Eighteenth Armies.
The Third Route Army fought on the Western Front as a special forces unit of Blade.
The Fourth Route Army was the Li Chuang Group Army, which was responsible for fighting in the northeast.
The Bohai Fleet fought in conjunction with the large armies of the Eastern Front, while taking into account the interference of Japan and foreign powers at sea, and was responsible for transporting troops and military supplies.
The Hainan Fleet is responsible for the security of Hainan and the Taiwan Strait, ensuring regional security in the South China Sea during the outbreak of civil war.
The unification of the Fourth Route Army was commanded by Ben Wang, with Zhou Zhiguang as deputy commander-in-chief, and Zhang Tong as chief of staff of the War Coordination Command and commander-in-chief of the group army in the Hainan base camp. Xiao Yang served as the head of the General Logistics Department, responsible for the organization and coordination of materials on the battlefields across the country.
Chen Fangzheng served as the commander-in-chief of the Admiralty, responsible for maritime security and combat readiness transportation. Su Qun served as the head of the military intelligence department, responsible for obtaining military intelligence and providing accurate wartime information to the war coordination command.
During the military meeting of the Hainan Royal War Coordination Headquarters, MI6 sent an urgent telegram from the northeast: the 2nd Infantry Division of the Seventh Army of the Li Chuang Group Army, stationed in Korea, was besieged in Kaesong, North Korea. The army that attacked Kaesong was the Itagaki Aritomo Army of the Japanese garrison in Korea.
Li Chuang asked for instructions on how to deal with the situation in front of him.
Chen Zhong believed that this was the Japanese army's brazen undeclared war against the Hainan army. With the tacit consent of the Qing court, and with the covert support of Russia, they ventured into a tentative military operation. Our Hainan army will never give the Japanese army any chance to make illusions.
Chen Zhong gave Li Chuang's group army an order to resolutely fight back against the Japanese army, and resolutely pushed the battle line southward; this time in the self-defense counterattack against the Japanese army, we must drive out all the Japanese troops in Korea, and make clear our attitude towards these resurgent Japanese militarism, and if we dare to offend our Hainan army, our army will resolutely wipe them out
Yesterday night, the Japanese army was already lying in ambush fifty kilometers south of Kaesong in North Korea.
On the night of the same day, the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division were doing night patrols in the city of Kaesong, when they suddenly heard a dense sound of gunfire coming from the direction south of the city.
The soldiers of the 7th Battalion of the 3rd Regiment immediately climbed the tower and looked in the direction of the gunfire.
Li Keliang, the commander of the seventh battalion, found that not far from the outside of the city, there were a lot of fires flickering in the dark.
Li Keliang immediately reported this situation to the division headquarters, and after receiving the information that Kaesong was besieged, Zhu Yuxin, the commander of the infantry division, immediately gathered his troops and began to fight to block the attack of the devils. At the same time, a signal of support was sent to the military department.
After the Seventh Army received the news that Kaesong was besieged, General Jing Namtian, commander of the army, transferred a cavalry brigade and two artillery regiments of the 1st Division in Pyongyang to Kaesong to support the 2nd Division's defense of Kaesong.
The attack on the castle was the Japanese 16th Division, and the commander of the 16th Division was Major General Jiro Okamura.
Now the first line of defense on the periphery of the city is the third wing of the 16th Division, and the third wing of Itagaki is there.
Zhu Yuxin, commander of the Second Infantry Division of the Seventh Army, faced with the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, told the officers and men that our Second Infantry Division is a unit mainly equipped with infantry equipment, and our advantage is strong flexibility. The Japanese Itagaki Triple Wing was a heavily armed unit with many heavy artillery, and their mobility was very slow.
If we can gallop around in the wilderness, we can make the most of our advantages.
Now that the outer positions of Kaesong have long been occupied by the Japanese army, if our defenders of Kaesong are cowering in the city, our city defenses will be breached sooner or later, and our flexibility advantage will be lost
If we retreat to the fortified city, the Japanese artillery will be able to play to its heart's content, causing us unimaginable casualties and losses.
Zhu Yucheng said that it will take some time for our reinforcements to arrive, so it is very important whether we will defend Kaesong or take the initiative during this time.
As the saying goes, the best defense is offense, and instead of staying in the city and being beaten passively, it is better for us to strike decisively and rely on our powerful assault firepower and flexibility to deal with the enemy in the field.
The next day, in the early hours of the morning.
On the artillery position of the third company in Itagaki outside Kaesong, a whole company of Japanese soldiers was ready to go.
They had already broken through the first line of defense outside Kaesong last night, and at this moment, there was an artillery squadron of the third company in Itagaki that was preparing to carry out an artillery bombardment of Kaesong.
Zhu Yugong decisively ordered the first and third regiments to go out of the city from the west gate, which was the weakest place for the devils, and the two regiments tore a hole from this direction, detoured back to the rear of the devil's heavy artillery position, and directly faced the devils.
The heavy artillery unit of the devil reacted very slowly, and the second regiment of our defending the city held out until the first regiment and the third regiment arrived behind the enemy, and if they fought out of the city again, they would have three wings to attack the front and rear of Itagaki and force them to start a positional battle with our army, so that their artillery would lose its power and give full play to our advantages.
In this way, our passive situation of being bombarded by the Japanese in Kaesong will immediately change.
Even though two other wings of the Japanese 16th Division came to support, our reinforcements had already arrived in Kaesong.
Then, we can completely annihilate the Japanese army in the open area south of Kaesong.
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