Chapter 651 Qingchuan Riverside (II)

Green hills and valleys, dense forests. If there had not been a war, the scenery would have been better.

In this picturesque landscape, several soldiers in Japanese army uniforms are rushing from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, although they are indeed wearing Japanese army uniforms and even carrying samurai swords, but in fact they are not Japanese soldiers, their real identities are "Korean Independence Army" officers.

Among these soldiers disguised as officers of the Japanese Army, Koreans accounted for the majority, and only one of them was Chinese, his name was Jiang Yiwu, an active officer of the Chinese Defense Forces, with the rank of colonel, and he was currently the main commander of the "Daejeon Force", which was a unit subordinate to the "Goryeo Independent Army."

The "Goryeo Independent Army" is actually the former "Xikang Engineering Force", this unit has been training in China's Xikang Province, this Sino-Japanese war, this international force composed mainly of Koreans had secretly entered the Sino-Korean border before the outbreak of the war, and when the Chinese air force task force was ready to attack Lushun, this Korean unit wearing Japanese army uniforms immediately crossed the Yalu River and quickly occupied Uiju on the other side of the Yalu River with lightning speed. After a long march of one day and one night, they finally arrived at Anju on the banks of the Cheongchon River, and it was in Anju that the army was officially renamed the "Goryeo Independent Army".

To tell the truth, Jiang Yiwu was very unhappy to wear this Japanese army uniform, and if he had a choice, he would rather fight the Japanese army in straw sandals and coarse cloth clothes than disguise himself as a Japanese officer to attack Anzhou.

However, it is not possible to do it without disguise, in order to reach Anju as soon as possible, it is necessary to control the railway by surprise, and this Japanese military uniform is the best cover, in order to carry out this surprise attack, there are many Korean translators who are 'proficient' in Japanese.

As soon as they got off the train, they occupied Anju with lightning speed, and after a short battle, they wiped out the Japanese garrison in Anju City; because they were wearing Japanese military uniforms, the Korean civilians in Anju City even thought that the Japanese army had mutinied, so from the morning until now, the 'doors' and windows of every household in Anzhou City were tightly closed, and if it had not been for the commander's order to block the city's 'traffic' at the first time, I am afraid that most of the people would have fled.

Anju is located at the mouth of the Cheongcheon River. It is an important strategic base in the west coast of Korea, and the international railway connecting the ports in the south of Korea and the border cities of the Yalu River passes through Anju City, as long as Anju is controlled, it is equivalent to controlling the railway 'traffic', then it will also cut off the land passage of the Japanese Army to reinforce Lushun and Dalian by land, and the Japanese reinforcements cannot cross the Yalu River in time, so the attack force of the Chinese Army on the Liaodong Peninsula has no worries, so in a strategic sense, the "Goryeo Independent Army" is also an important chess piece in this Sino-Japanese war, As the military representative and military adviser of the Chinese military stationed in this unit, Jiang Yiwu has a heavy burden on his shoulders.

On the one hand, how to control Anzhou smoothly, on the other hand, is to collect information on the Japanese army, and report to the General Staff and the Army Staff, in order to arrive in Anzhou as soon as possible and occupy the railway station, Jiang Yiwu and his staff members have not closed their eyes for a day and a night, no, they have just established a headquarters in Anzhou City, and they are busy leading the staff officers to survey the terrain in the suburbs. Prepare for defensive operations.

As the main force controlling Anzhou, Jiang Yiwu must command the troops here to meet the Japanese troops who went north to reinforce Lushun and Dalian, from the very beginning, the General Staff took Anzhou as the support point of the blocking war, and the "Daejeon Force" is also one of the main forces to undertake the frontal blocking mission, although the air force has incorporated the strategic reconnaissance of Anzhou into the entire reconnaissance mission before the war, but from the sky after all, the ground is not clear, so Jiang Yiwu had to personally survey the terrain to decide where to arrange artillery positions, Where to place counter-shock positions.

According to the air force's reconnaissance report in the morning, the reinforcements of the Japanese army have already departed from Seoul and are now 'advancing' toward Pyongyang by train, and its forward troops have already arrived in the southern suburbs of Pyongyang.

However, this defense plan was difficult to formulate, because there were still Japanese garrisons in the northern area of Anju, and in order to control Anju as soon as possible, the "Daejeon troops" did not pay any attention to the Japanese garrisons outside the railway line, so if the Japanese army understood what had happened, Anzhou might be attacked from the north and south, and the logistics line might also be cut off by the Japanese troops from the north to the south.

It would be a tough battle, Jiang Yiwu knew this very well, in order to cope with the attack from the north and south, he carried a large amount of baggage and logistics materials with the army, even if the logistics line was cut off by the Japanese army, he was confident to hold on for a few days, and in order to protect the railway. On the other hand, in order to delay the advance of the Japanese troops in the south in case of not being able to hold Anzhou, Jiang Yiwu also prepared a large amount of intense "explosives" to completely destroy the railway bridges near Anzhou.

Now that Jiang Yiwu has completed the deployment of the last defensive position, the soldiers have begun to dig trenches and bunkers in the mountains, and the artillery is also establishing positions, all that remains is to rush back to the headquarters in the city, draw the location of the defensive positions on the map, and send people to set up a field airfield in the rear.

According to the report of the Korean officer who escorted them, the two Japanese soldiers disembarked from the plane, and their "Wazan" plane landed at the mouth of the Cheongchon River, and it was there that another independent army unit captured them, and after a brief interrogation, the officer decided to escort them to Anju. They were 'handed over' to the "Daejeon troops" and then escorted to China by rail, where they were 'handed over' to the Chinese military.

The two Japanese soldiers were very stubborn, they refused to cooperate, and refused to 'reveal' their identities, names, and missions, but judging from the Japanese naval plane, they should have been officers of the Japanese naval aviation, and as for the plane, which had run out of gasoline, it was now also sent to Anju with the prisoners.

Jiang Yiwu immediately decided to leave the plane behind, and the prisoners were immediately sent back to Yizhou. But before his order was carried out, Zhao Qi, the supreme commander of the "Daejeon Force", returned.

Zhao Qi is a North Korean, and the name "Zhao Qi" is also a pseudonym, and like Zhao Liu, the supreme commander of the "Goryeo Independent Army", Zhao Qi was also a leader of the "Volunteer Movement" in North Korea that year, and he stayed in China for two years, and his Chinese was already very authentic, and he no longer needed an interpreter for dialogue with Jiang Yiwu.

Knowing Jiang Yiwu's decision, Zhao Qi did not object, but for Jiang Yiwu's suggestion to evacuate the civilians in the city, Zhao Qi could not fully accept it, he only agreed to evacuate those old and weak, "women" and "women", and did not agree to evacuate the young and middle-aged, because the "Daejeon Army" was not strong enough and a reserve force must be formed, for his idea, Jiang Yiwu only partially agreed, in his opinion, these Korean people who have never received military training cannot have a strong will to fight, leaving these people in the city, It would only increase the burden on the garrison, but considering Zhao Qi's status, Jiang Yiwu did not insist on his opinion.

Zhao Qi did not stay in the headquarters for long, and after ordering all the officers in the headquarters to change into the uniforms of the "Goryeo Independent Army", he took several officers to inspect the position.

The military uniform of the "Goryeo Independent Army" is also provided by the logistics department of the Chinese War Department, and the color of this military uniform is also gray and gray, and the style is similar to the military uniform of the Chinese National Defense Army, except that there is no rank mark, and the military cap is the kind of boat-shaped hat that is not pleasing to officers.

Jiang Yiwu had worn this kind of boat-shaped military hat before, and although the 'elite' troops in the Wehrmacht were still equipped with this kind of military hat that basically only served as a top hat, most officers did not like this kind of military hat very much.

"He is wearing like a monk, and he is wearing it like a hooligan. This hat, it can't be the thing that the 'door' of the logistics department took out to ballast the bottom of the warehouse, right? ”

Jiang Yiwu was dressed neatly, glanced at the North Korean officers who also looked strange, and made a joke, causing everyone to laugh, but this was said again. This kind of military uniform is also more pleasing to the eye than the Japanese military uniform, especially for those Korean soldiers, the issuance of this military uniform symbolizes that they have become an independent armed force, and from now on, the Korean anti-colonial independence cause officially has its own regular armed force.

"Okay, don't talk about this hat, now let's quickly deploy defenses. In addition, he ordered the two Japanese prisoners of war to be taken to the railway station, and when the train went to Uiju, they were to be taken with them, and they were not allowed to be tortured or beaten on the way, because if they were killed, they would not be able to get information. ”

After ordering the two Japanese prisoners of war to be taken away, Jiang Yiwu was busy with the staff officers in the headquarters to deploy communication between various positions, and this time deep into the territory of Korea, the independence army carried a large number of field equipment and equipment, field telephones can ensure that each company has one, a total of five radio stations, can get in touch with the telegraph relay station in the city of Yiju at any time, it can be said that the equipment level of the Goryeo independence army is not as good as that of the Chinese defense force. The elite troops are poor, and because they are fighting in their homeland, the morale of the DPRK officers and men is very high, and in addition, with the help of the air force, Jiang Yiwu is 70 percent sure that he will hold Anju for at least half a month.

Considering that Japan has been operating in Korea for many years, and the Japanese army in the northern area of Anzhou has not been completely wiped out, the Chinese General Staff believes from the beginning that a variety of tactics should be adopted to contain the Japanese land reinforcements, therefore, guerrilla warfare is also indispensable, in fact, just when Jiang Yiwu was arranging defenses in Anzhou City, the guerrilla detachment led by Liu Fuji was making a far-reaching flank detour from the upper reaches of the Qingchuan River, once the Japanese reinforcements arrived at Anzhou from the southern region, This guerrilla force would strike at the Japanese army's logistical line and wait for an opportunity to carry out strategic deception.

As an expert in guerrilla warfare, Jiang Yiwu also wanted to lead his troops deep behind enemy lines to conduct guerrilla warfare, but since the military order was like a mountain, he could only stay in Anzhou to fight positional warfare, which was not his forte, so he now trusted his staff officers very much, although these staff officers were all Koreans, but they had studied at the Army University in Wuhan, specializing in positional warfare, which was of great help to the commander.

As for Zhao Qi, the supreme commander of the "Daejeon Army", his military quality is not high, but his prestige is very high, and it is more appropriate for him to control the troops, but this person's 'character' is a little stubborn, and Jiang Yiwu is not completely sure that he will obey his words, so he can only hope for his superiors, and after he finished arranging the defense work, he immediately took a coded telegram, asking Deputy Commander Sun Yue to 'negotiate' with Zhao Liu, commander of the "Goryeo Independent Army", and be sure to give Jiang Yiwu a "Shangfang Sword".

Without waiting for Sun Yue's callback, the roar of aircraft engines was heard in the northwest sky, and a squadron of light bombers of the Chinese Air Force was finally transferred to Anzhou, which made Jiang Yiwu breathe a sigh of relief, but the aerial bombs and fuel were still far away in Yizhou and could not be delivered until the afternoon, so the Air Force could not immediately put into operation.

The Japanese army did not give Chiang Yiwu time to wait for the aerial bombs, and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the vanguard of the Japanese Korean garrison arrived 20 kilometers south of Anju, and it was only then that the commander of the Japanese army completely 'figured out' the situation, and the Japanese did not hesitate, and after reorganizing the troops, the Japanese army immediately launched the first tentative 'sexual' attack.

The Anju Blockade began.