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Chapter 1951 Logistical Issues

On 15 October, the two headquarters of Gu and Li met in Daejeon, and in accordance with the instructions of An Yi and the Central Military Commission, they formally formed the headquarters of the Korean army, appointing Gu Changfeng as commander, Li Jinlong as political commissar, Xie Chi as deputy commander, Gao Guodong as chief of staff, and Wu Xianwei as deputy political commissar. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Immediately afterwards, members of the command held their first meeting to discuss how to resolve the war on the peninsula as soon as possible.

Major General Bai Feiping, Chief of the Intelligence Division, gave a briefing on the current situation facing the troops.

"Since our army crossed the Han River on the 7th, our initial advance has been rapid, and in less than a week we have liberated most of the area north of Daejeon. However, from Daejeon to the south, the progress of the various divisions began to slow down, and they began to fall into bitter battles. At present, our Fifth Tank Group and the First Group Army are engaged in tug-of-war operations with the Japanese army on the front line between Qunshan and Penshan; our Second Group Army and the 55th and 57th Divisions of the 19th Group Army are confronting the Japanese army on the Yongtong and Jinquan lines; the 56th Armored Division of the 19th Group Army is deployed along the railways and highways in the west to ensure the safety of supply routes, protect the engineering units in repairing the railway and highway bridges, and support the armed police forces in actively carrying out anti-bandit operations to maintain local law and order. As a strategic reserve, the Second Tank Group was directly dispatched by the headquarters and responded in the center. ”

Li Jinlong frowned and asked puzzledly:

"What is the main reason for the slow progress of the troops? Based on the comparison of the strength of the enemy and the difference in equipment, the current situation should not be formed! ”

Major General Duan Mo, Chief of Operations, explained: "The southern part of the peninsula is mountainous, with a small number of plains concentrated in the western coastal areas, and between these plains, a large number of mountains and hills stand. Although after more than 40 years of colonial rule, Japan built railways and highways from Daejeon to Daegu and then from Daegu to port cities such as Pohang, Ulsan, and Pusan, but when the Japanese army retreated, the railroad tracks were dismantled, and the railway embankment was blasted, mines and anti-tank trenches were laid all over the roads, and ambushes were laid in the mountains on both flanks to cause nuisance, and many times used the night to carry out counter-raids, resulting in the slow progress of our army. ”

Seeing that Li Jinlong, Wu Xianwei, and the generals and colonels of the East Route Army attending the meeting were all contemplating and thinking, Duan Mo continued: "At present, the main problems we are facing are as follows: First, after the two armies of the East and West Routes meet, the main force of our army on the peninsula has reached as high as seven motorized infantry armies and two tank armies, with a total strength of nearly one million.

"Nowadays, most of the Korean natives have been expelled by the Japanese army to the south of the peninsula and sent to the Japanese mainland, and the possibility of collecting food supplies on the spot is no longer there, and it can only be transported abroad, and here is close to the Japanese mainland, and Japan has the most powerful navy in the world, so it is impossible for us to replenish by sea transportation, but the capacity of rail and road is limited, and although part of the difference is made up by air, but in general, we can no longer fight as openly as before, This restricts the display of the combat effectiveness of our troops!

"Second, the Japanese counterattack at night was very aggressive. Although we tried every means to equip the front-line officers and soldiers with infrared night vision devices, after all, people are not machines and need to rest, and the Japanese army made full use of the rugged and changeable terrain and topography in the southern part of the peninsula, as well as the mountain bunkers and tunnels built in advance. Sometimes, even next to our camp, there may be a devil's tunnel, which leads to a very sudden attack by the enemy, and the mountainous terrain here restricts the deployment and advance of our army, so that the superior strength of our army cannot be brought into play! We should take this into full consideration when formulating the next battle plan;

"Third, we can't tell the difference between ordinary North Korean civilians and armed violence. After entering the southern part of the peninsula, more and more civilians managed to escape from Japanese enslavement, and many Korean civilians who successfully escaped from the southern coastal port areas returned to their homes, and under the auspices of a working group sent by the Democracy Movement Corps, they were allocated land and started a new life. However, a large number of Koreans who had been brainwashed by the Japanese were mixed in, and they often carried out suicide attacks on our garrisons and work teams. These people have no regard for the safety of their relatives and neighbors, and often cause mass deaths and injuries, and the impact is very bad! In view of this, we must screen out the saboteurs hidden among the North Koreans, otherwise there will be no peace in the rear;

"Fourth, in the mountainous and hilly areas, we can only rely on infantry to force a surprise attack, and the role that tanks and armored fighting vehicles can play is very limited, and the fighters of the Air Force and the armed helicopters of our army aviation can play a role in timely reinforcements, but after continuous confrontation with us, the enemy has also pondered some air defense skills, and they have also summed up some anti-helicopter skills, hiding anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns in some mountainous areas, or equipped with marksmen, sniping our helicopter pilots, It has caused us a huge amount of trouble......

"There are many similar troubles, as the front moves south, the enemy's nuisance intensifies, our supply is becoming more and more difficult, and I believe there will be more problems!"

After listening to the systematic and comprehensive introduction, Li Jinlong nodded with relief:

"It seems that at the end of the day, it's a matter of logistics. Fighting all the way down from the east coast of the peninsula, problems began to arise with the ammunition and food stored by our troops, and now there is very little left, and it is simply impossible to replenish the huge consumption of the front line. Fortunately, with the connection of the Eastern Railway, our rail capacity can at least double. We can also work on widening roads and making rational use of automobile transportation! In addition, we have to build as many airfields as possible, especially large airship airships, as far as I know, with the advancement of airship technology and the popularization of containers, the latest airships are already capable of carrying 200 tons of cargo, and of course the volume is quite impressive.

"The consumption of one million of our people, calculated at one and a half catties of staple food and vegetables per person per day, is 7,500 tons, plus the consumption of ammunition and fuel, at least 15,000 tons of supplies per day can be supplied to ensure the normal operation of the troops. Now, with the east-west railway being connected, more than 9,000 tons can be solved by railways, more than 4,000 tons by road transport, and 2,000 tons by air.

"However, there is a lot of potential to be tapped by road and rail, and the same is true for air transportation, so my opinion is that we should shrink our defense first, and strive to increase the daily supply to 20,000 tons, so that it will only take a week for us to stock up enough supplies for the offensive and break up the Japanese defense in one go."

Xie Chi asked with some hesitation: "The order of the Military Commission and the General Staff is to settle the battle at the end of October, and now it is the fifteenth, and in another seven days it will be the twenty-second, is the remaining nine days enough?" ”

"Gather your fists and come back, so that you can better hit the enemy!"

Li Jinlong said: "Instead of attacking weakly and weakly, so that the enemy can slow down again and again, it is better to save some strength and strive to defeat them in one go!" Moreover, why did the Japanese army work so hard? Isn't it just to buy time, send all the Koreans in those ports in the south to Japan, and then transport them to the Americas for reclamation?

"Since it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe, and suicide bombing accidents occur one after another, it is better to simply let the devil transport everyone away, and it will be a hundred...... Wouldn't we have avoided casualties by setting up some refugee shelters in the areas where we are facing each other, and then recruiting proper and reliable North Koreans from the occupied areas to manage them, and killing those who refuse to obey them?

"In my opinion, one week is still too short, two weeks of preparation time is more appropriate, just make sure that the battle is resolved before mid-November, so that when the enemy's sharp spirit disappears, our army will launch an attack, which can not only avoid huge casualties and attrition of the troops, but also have the effect of surrendering the army without a fight!"

Gao Guodong hesitated a little, and looked at Gu Changfeng, who was smoking and thinking: "Why don't we call and ask for instructions?" ”

Gu Changfeng snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, shook his head and said: "There is nothing to ask for, the political commissar's opinion is very pertinent, just handle it according to the political commissar's opinion, and I will call the chairman directly after the meeting!" Just as the political commissar said, the war has developed so far, and there have been repeated repeats, to put it bluntly, the domestic supplies cannot be delivered, and the troops are seriously short of shells and bullets, so we can only watch the enemy go wild...... Now there is really no need to fight the enemy to the end, it is purely boring to train troops in this place where birds don't, let's first set up a fence, sort out the occupied areas well, and thoroughly ensure the safety of logistics and supplies. I have heard that the population of this peninsula is about 13 million, and now the northern and central regions are at best less than 1 million people. ”

"I guess it's a bit difficult!"

Wu Xianwei said with a wry smile: "The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has just ended, and after years of war, there is a lot of land abandoned in North China and Shandong...... In recent years, China has exported more than 200 million people to the outside world, and now I am afraid that the country will not even be satisfied with itself, so how can it be possible to immigrate to us? ”

"Not necessarily!"

Gu Changfeng smiled and waved his hand: "I often talk to the boss on the phone, I know the domestic situation much better than you, the current most populous places are Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Huanghuai and Lianghu areas, although there have been continuous immigrants over the years, but the supply and demand of land in the countryside is still tight, the landlords occupy most of the fertile land, due to continuous inflation, the majority of the population of the peasants have no land at all, and they can hardly live happily."

"The current situation is that if the Nanjing government does not thoroughly carry out the redistribution of rural land, then the various contradictions caused by land will never be reconciled. If you think about it, if we want to ease the current class antagonism in the rural areas, what the government is most willing to see is to let the landlords take the initiative to reduce rents and interest rates because of the shortage of labor in the rural areas, so as to attract the peasants to rent their land, so that the peasants can live and improve their lives a little, so as not to let those with good intentions take the opportunity to sow discord..... In this way, the government has no choice but to continue to emigrate!

"If you were Chiang Kai-shek, would you rather send these people to North China and Shandong, and let them become a force that your potential opponents could let go of and turn their heads against themselves, or would you simply send them abroad and not give your opponents a chance to develop and grow? Well!? ”

The generals suddenly realized, and Li Jinlong nodded again and again: "What the tiger head said is very reasonable!" And there is also a problem, according to the agreement reached by Gong Qian, Uncle Dao, Hu Zi, and Wu Tingyan with the Nationalist Government and the representatives of the ** in Kulun, it is necessary to maintain the continuity of the business that has been carried out before, and immigration is one of the projects that we have cooperated with the Nanjing side. ”

Speaking of this, Li Jinlong instructed the staff officer to take out a dossier, opened it, glanced at it a few times, and said to everyone with a smile:

"This is what our intelligence community found in a mountain of documents abandoned by the colonial government in Seoul...... The Korean Peninsula is not a place where birds don't, on the contrary, it is extremely rich in resources, such as gold, silver, copper, tungsten, molybdenum, lead, aluminum, magnesium, zinc, iron ore, etc., in addition to non-metallic resources such as limestone, mica, asbestos, barite, fluorite, graphite and magnesite, as well as coal. The Joseon dynasties are known as the 'gold-producing country', and gold often coexists with silver, copper and other minerals, especially magnesite and graphite reserves are in the forefront of the world, especially about nearly 500,000 tons of magnesite accounts for about half of the world's reserves.

"The most strategic for us is the mining of the iron ore mine in Maoshan. This iron ore was discovered in the early thirties, and after the exploration of Japanese geologists three years ago, it was confirmed that its guaranteed reserves are more than one billion tons, and the prospective reserves may even be as high as five billion tons. The peak of the development of the Moyama Iron Mine occurred after Ishihara Wanji presided over the General Staff Headquarters, and 8 million tons of high-grade iron ore were transported to mainland Japan every year by a 100-kilometer railway connecting the mine area with the Kiyotsu Port.

"The Japanese used to attach great importance to this place, and as early as three or five years ago, they stationed a large number of troops in the Moshan Iron Mine, but now they have not hesitated to give up easily, because they have discovered a larger-scale, higher-quality iron ore mine in Australia...... According to this information, many cities in western Australia have become steel capitals integrating mining and steelmaking. Because Japan completely took over the American Chinese Group and the British iron and steel enterprises that transferred assets from Shanghai to Australia to engage in mining and smelting, plus some of the equipment that Japan moved from the mainland and the northeast, it was only in less than a year that 12 million tons of steel were produced, which made the Japanese royal family, the army, and the capital enterprises overjoyed, and they had the intention to develop Australia as a new home. ”

Everyone took the information and read it carefully, and they all smiled.

Xie Chi said: "I really didn't expect that this narrow peninsula not only has amazing iron ore reserves, but also has coal reserves of more than 10 billion tons, and the available hydropower generation capacity is at least more than 10 million kilowatts. In addition, the peninsula has a forest area of up to 20 million hectares and a cultivated land area of 57 million mu. ”

Gu Changfeng thought for a while and instructed, "We just need to know this in our hearts...... Among the various group armies under the Mongolian Military Region, there are quite a few Korean compatriots, including Lieutenant General Jin Hongmo, a classmate and friend of our boss An, who certainly do not want to watch their homeland become like this......

"Whether the peninsula region will eventually support the establishment of a first-class national government or directly incorporate it directly under the central government, before the final determination, we can't make a statement, just quietly implement policies such as immigration and land division to households, and I think the central government will not take this into account at that time!"

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