Chapter 775: Attack Pyongyang
February 18, 1945. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the first good news came, and the small town of Suchon in the north of Pyongyang was recovered.
The first internal press release also came: the 20,000 troops besieging the city, led by twenty tanks, especially two super tanks, attacked from the rear of the Japanese defense line, destroyed a dozen firepower points that had not been cleared in the bombardment, and occupied forward positions. The tanks then turned back and attacked Suchuan Castle. Soon, the tanks destroyed the city defenses, smashed several buildings, and crushed a series of houses, crushing the devils in the houses to death.
At this time, the Japanese army in Suchuan was already frightened, and some Japanese soldiers of old and young surrendered with leaflets.
In this battle, we annihilated 2,000 Japanese troops, 500 puppet troops, captured 2,000 Japanese soldiers, and captured 4,000 puppet troops. At present, our army is expanding its gains and approaching Pyongyang.
This time, the Northeast Coalition Army avoided the heavy and light, avoided the third and second lines of defense, and landed from the sea with all ships. This time, the heavy industry of the Northeast exerted its might and built more than a dozen improvised landing ships. One or two tanks were hoisted on the landing ship. The Army rode on fishing boats.
This was the first landing operation, and it was later concluded that two improvised landing ships had leaks, and two tanks sank in shallow water several tens of meters from the sea. The other landing ships, although mostly leaky, all landed successfully.
The next day, February 19. Yan'an received a war report that five Japanese garrisons near Pyongyang had been recovered, destroying more than 20,000 enemies, capturing more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers and capturing more than 50,000 puppet soldiers.
On February 20, the second line of defense arranged on the front line of Anzhou and Yuanchuan broke through to the north. The Northeast Coalition launched an offensive on the third line of defense on the northern flank.
February 21.
Wu Ting issued a policy of uprising in Uiju. The policy was basically the same as that of the Eighth Route Army, with several levels of policy on uprisings, surrenders, and prisoners.
The policy gave the original puppet army, puppet police, and puppet government officials a way out.
On the same day, except for two cities, the Anju and Yuanchuan defense lines were all breached, and the second line of defense ceased to exist.
In the afternoon, the Japanese troops in these two cities, seeing that the other side had tanks, attacked fiercely, broke through to the north, went to the third line of defense, and tried to resist stubbornly by the strong fortifications of the third line of defense. That night, the second line of defense was fully occupied, and more than half of the northeastern coalition forces of the Japanese army that broke through the northern extension were wiped out.
Over the past few days, guerrillas in towns and villages in various parts of northern Korea have launched attacks on local police stations and puppet governments, and a large number of Korean puppet policemen have surrendered and revolted, killing a large number of Japanese armed civilians in various places, the number of which is to be counted.
On the first day of the offensive, only partisans from dozens of towns north of Pyongyang went on the offensive. The next day, the guerrillas south of Pyongyang went into action. To this day, the guerrillas near Seoul have gone into action.
In the afternoon, Woojeong issued an order in Uiju asking the Korean people near Pyongyang to take action to help resettle the wounded of the troops, and to take special care of the wounded Han brothers.
On February 25, more than a dozen large and small towns near Pyongyang were liberated.
On February 26, the vanguard of the Second Route Army of the Northeast Coalition Army arrived under the city of Pyongyang.
Three days later, several large armies surrounded Pyongyang with 400,000 troops.
In the past ten days, a name has frequently appeared on the front pages of major newspapers around the world, and a large number of articles and news covering the war situation in East Asia have repeatedly mentioned two names, one is Mao Gong of Yan'an at the time, and the other is General Wuting of Korea.
Who is General Wuting? In the first few days, everyone had questions. In the days that followed, Yan'an continued to send out General Wuting's personal information, his participation in the Long March, the only Korean who survived, his participation in the anti-Japanese resistance, his outstanding contribution in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, and his artillery talents.
There is an article about his deep friendship with General Peng, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army.
Next, the press release issued by Yan'an began to introduce the situation of the local anti-Japanese army in North Korea, and gradually learned that the Korean guerrillas were all branches of the Northeast Coalition Army, their guerrilla warfare, and the suffering they suffered.
The outside world also knew that General Wojeong was the deputy commander-in-chief of the campaign to liberate Korea. The army under his command consisted of 50,000 men, most of whom were separated from the Northeast Coalition Army, and a small part were local Korean guerrillas
Now it is clear to everyone that General Murjeong is the future head of North Korea.
The North Koreans in the United States and Chongqing were in an uproar, sobering up from the excitement of liberating their homeland. They keep their eyes open, staring at the DPRK and studying the development of the situation in the DPRK.
In the past few days, an argument has spread from Chongqing to the rest of the world. According to this view, although the Northeast Coalition Army bombed most of the North Korean airfields on the first day, and although the Northeast Coalition Army landed with fishing boats on the same day and tore through the Japanese defense line from behind, the offensive of the Northeast Coalition Army had weakened in the north for a few days. The Japanese army in Seoul was massing and could be reinforced north. The Northeast Coalition will be in a very difficult situation, and it will be almost impossible to recover North Korea.
There is some optimism that it will take at least a year for the Northeast Coalition to recover North Korea.
Some people came up with the idea of asking for reinforcements from the US military in an effort to recover North Korea within a year.
In the afternoon, an exciting news was released to the world that the two remaining cities of the Japanese army's original third defense line, Cheongju and Guseong, were recovered by the Northeast Coalition Army. Now, the army attacking Pyongyang no longer fears harassment from the Japanese army in the north.
There is also good news, which only the Northeast Coalition Army and Yan'an know, that is, the railway has been repaired to the vicinity of Cheongju, and ten trains departed from Andong to transport supplies to the Korean battlefield overnight.
The last wave of the offensive had been going on for eight days, and the attacking troops had run out of ammunition and food, and the pace of the attack had slowed down.
This batch of supplies is mainly materials and ammunition for tanks, elixir for artillery, weapons and ammunition for replenishment, as well as medicine and food. If this batch of supplies is not available, it will be difficult for Pyongyang to capture it.
In addition to serving as a front-line commander, Xiaolu also served as the deputy commander-in-chief in charge of logistics. In his opinion, now, the equipment and supply level of the Northeast Coalition Army is worse than that of the historical War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but it is much better than the War of Liberation. Then the seven-day curse must exist.
What's the Seven Days Curse?
The Seven Days Spell is the name that Xiaolu took himself when he was reading history. But the truth is widely known. Each time the Volunteer Army attacked, the cycle was about seven days, and after seven days, the strength of the attack weakened. The U.S. military quickly grasped this law and understood that this was caused by the limitations of logistics supply. As a result, the U.S. military avoided the advance of the volunteers for the first seven days, and as soon as the seven days arrived, the well-supplied U.S. troops began to counterattack.
Xiaolu felt that the Northeast Coalition Army's dependence on modern materials was not so serious now, and the troops had to collect Japanese weapons in every major battle to support the war, otherwise, they would not be able to hold out for seven days. So he presided over the hiding of a large number of materials in Andong and Uiju, recruited a large number of migrant workers to build the railway, and built this section of the railway in just ten days.