Chapter 774: Rushing to the beach, unexpected
February 18, 1945. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the morning, Murjeong issued a proclamation in Uiju asking the Korean people to take action and start the battle for national liberation. At the same time, it was announced that the Korean People's Army was established. He announced that the guerrillas in various localities would be integrated into the People's Army. He also announced to the whole world that the Korean people had begun the climax of the national liberation movement. The Korean People's Army was to fight in conjunction with China's Northeast Democratic Alliance Army to destroy the Japanese invaders in Korea.
The announcement said that after the DPRK eliminated the aggression, it would establish an independent state. He appealed to the anti-Japanese fighters around the world, especially in China, to return to China and jointly build a new country.
He also issued a proclamation asking the puppet army and puppet police throughout Korea to revolt in the War of Liberation of Korea and atone for your previous crimes. Government employees, officials, and workers throughout Korea are urged to protect public facilities and wait for liberation.
The announcement was issued in several languages and was broadcast simultaneously on several radio stations.
At noon, the embassies of various countries in Chongqing received this announcement. The announcement has been translated and sent by the Eighth Route Army Office.
Embassies of various countries have a question: General Wu Ting? Who is he?
February 18, 1945. North Korea, Pyongyang North, Sucheon.
Sucheon is a small town. More than 60 miles to the south is Pyongyang, 30 miles to the north is Anju City, not far to the east is the Yellow Sea, and the east side is the mountains. This is the key to entering Pyongyang from the north, the choke point.
The north of Pyongyang is mountainous and hilly, with only a slightly gentler terrain near the coast, where communication lines, including roads and railways, are located.
The Northeast Coalition Army and the Korean Japanese army have been facing each other here for a long time, and for several months, there has been a steady stream of information about the Northeast Coalition Army. The Japanese were unable to move north, so they realistically chose to prevent the Northeast Coalition Army from moving south.
In order to defend Pyongyang, the Japanese army laid out three lines of defense north of Pyongyang.
The periphery of Pyongyang and the urban defenses of the outskirts of Pyongyang are the first line of defense and the final line of defense for Pyongyang. This line of defense of the Japanese army was mainly city defense, with mesh fortifications, reinforced concrete pillboxes and rammed earth plank tunnels on the outskirts of the city. The army could go straight to the front from the city.
There is a problem with this defense line, that is, the south of the city is the Datong River. Here the north is used as a rear, there are no large warships, and the defense is weak.
They also laid out a line of defense on the front line of the big city of Anju, Price, which is the second line of defense.
The second line of defense was not the point, it was only fortified in towns and communication lines. The fortifications were relatively weak, and the army was relatively small.
The third line of defense of the Japanese army was in the area of Cheongju, Guseong, and Daecheon on the northeast side of the Anju Yuancheon line. Sucheon was at the forefront, and the main fortifications were located here.
The Japanese army has been operating here for two years with good intentions, and the number of troops in Pyongyang is much stronger than the fortifications. The Japanese army was determined to fight a war of attrition with the Northeast Coalition forces here.
The third line of defense is the middle zone in the area of about one kilometer to the north, and then to the north is the defense line of the Northeast Coalition Army.
The Japanese army focused on the third line of defense and built a large number of fortifications. The terrain of northern Korea is mostly mountainous, and the coastal area is hilly, which is conducive to the deployment of troops and the movement of troops, and the armies of both sides are deployed here.
The Japanese army decided that the offensive route of the Northeast Coalition Army was this coastal road, and built the defense line like a turtle shell according to the town. In order to build the fortifications, a large number of local North Koreans were forcibly recruited, and countless people died. There were not many people left, but this time, more people fled, a large number of villages were deserted, and the cultivated land on the hillsides was barren and overgrown.
In the past few days, various signs indicate that the Northeast Coalition Army is about to attack, and the Japanese army is on high alert in the third line of defense, preparing to give the Northeast Coalition Army a head-on attack and consume them in front of the fortifications made of stone and steel.
In the early hours of the morning, the Seoul command and the superiors in Pyongyang sent orders to prepare for battle: the Northeast Coalition began bombing, first the airfield, then the main communication route, and now it has begun to bomb the fortifications on the outskirts of the city and other places. The time to attack the third line of defense is approaching.
However, by ten o'clock in the morning, the third line of defense was silent.
At ten o'clock in the morning, there was a sudden artillery bombardment outside Suchuan City, and soon, dozens of mountains ran and rockets bombarded Suchuan together. Suchuan's defenses were already weak, and after the second wave of shelling, the fortifications were blown up. Soon, the infantry attacked Suchuan from the south to the north.
The Japanese defenders quickly returned fire and immediately reported the news to Pyongyang and Seoul. At this time, the Suchuan defenders had already seen that the Northeast Coalition Army was constantly attacking from the direction of the coast.
Su Chuan was shocked and hurriedly reported the situation to Pyongyang. Soon, even the Tokyo base camp knew.
This dynamic was like a mine that blew up the Japanese army: no one in the Japanese army thought that the Northeast Coalition Army would attack from the coast, and they openly deployed troops in the north and a large number of ambushes in the east. The Northeast Coalition Army is good at mountain warfare, they are not good at strong attacks, and they will definitely attack from the mountains on the east side. As a result, the army on the east side is like a big net, waiting for the Northeast Coalition Army to be deceived.
On the west side, the coast was not well defended. To prevent the beachhead landing, that is the advanced army of the West, here is the soil bun of the Northeast Coalition Army, and if the army is defended against the army, it will be able to gain the initiative in the campaign.
And the Northeast Coalition Army attacked from the sea, and all of a sudden panicked. Pyongyang commanded. Troops were quickly dispatched to meet the beach-grabbing troops.
This time, the Northeast Allied Army landed at dawn in the morning with ships of various sizes on a completely defended coast in Suchuan, and under the guidance of the guerrillas, it was only half an hour after the landing that the Japanese troops who blocked the attack and the landing anti-Japanese allied troops engaged fire.
In just an hour, the landed anti-Japanese coalition forces won a great victory. The units were equipped with the best weapons, half of the men in each squad used submachine guns, and each ship had bazookas. The Japanese troops who arrived in a hurry were carrying light weapons, and they were completely invincible.
After a few hours, the landed anti-Japanese coalition troops quickly occupied the nearby town, occupied the road, and the pointed troops attacked from the rear of the line: a sharp knife, inserted into the soft underbelly. By the morning, the baggage was ashore, the artillery was arranged, and without waiting for the tanks to come ashore, the attack was immediately launched.
Soon, the Japanese troops who were ambushed on the east side turned back and ran for more than ten kilometers to meet the anti-Japanese coalition troops who were grabbing the beach. No, as soon as these troops left their positions, the eastern hills began to shell several positions, and then, the large forces flanked the Japanese from east to west.
On the eastern slopes, the grass of the wasteland was full of attacking infantry, and the sound of infantry killing was shocking, both in Chinese and Korean. There is also the roar of tanks.
The Japanese realized that the previous intelligence was correct, and that the eastern region was indeed the main direction of the attack. There are many people, and they can divide the troops.