Vladivostok, the news came relatively suddenly, the 37th Army of the Army, which was originally used as the last reserve, did not expect to suddenly receive the order to attack, and the 37th Army of the Army will become the first army unit to land on the Japanese mainland. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But for some reason, they were not the first troops to land in Japan, they were still the same, and the first troops to land could only be marines.

Vladivostok, on the other hand, was not equipped with any marines, but yesterday morning, an order was suddenly received to prepare war supplies and to prepare them for landing.

On the evening of the 6th, the five columns of the army entered the Vladivostok station in less than two hours, and the five columns were full of soldiers of a marine brigade.

Therefore, after getting off the train at Vladivostok station, the marines immediately walked to the military port of Vladivostok, where the 37th Army had prepared everything for them, and all the quilts, rations and spare ammunition had been loaded onto the steamer.

Most of these steamers were captured from the Russians, and were mainly used for maritime support throughout Korea and for the maritime support of the Sakhalin garrison, and although the military port of Vladivostok was very large, in fact there were only more than a dozen cargo ships captured from Russia, two captured cruisers, and two frigates built from the Arthur shipyard.

In this way, a total of four warships, escorting more than a dozen ships, and carrying a brigade of marines, went directly to Hokkaido, Japan, nearly 800 kilometers away.

After the fleet left, the 37th Army also received the latest order to immediately rest and recuperate, and it was expected that the 37th Army would begin to land on the Japanese mainland two days later.

Wang Bo, the commander of the 37th Army, was also confused, so far he didn't even know the rest of the specific circumstances except for the news he received suddenly, and he didn't even know where the headquarters was, and perhaps the only thing he knew was that the commander-in-chief was Cao Kun, a rising star who had become famous in military circles in recent years.

At this time, Japan's Hokkaido, economic transportation or something is not particularly developed, the entire Hokkaido only has a population of about 800,000, although the area is quite large, but the environment of Hokkaido makes many Japanese people unwilling to live, where the winter is unusually cold, if there is not enough warm clothing, the winter will die.

Hokkaido, as a coal center, is the main industry of Hokkaido, which supplies more than half of Japan's coal needs, followed by agriculture, and Hokkaido's fishing industry is also particularly good, mainly because the Japanese warm current intersects with the northern cold current, which has transformed it into a natural fishing ground.

The Japanese people living in Hokkaido are all related to these three industries. And the garrison of Hokkaido also has only one division, originally there were two divisions, but later a division was transferred to support Taiwan, and then it was gg.

Nowadays, the remaining division, the division headquarters is stationed in Sapporo, which is the most developed city in the whole of Hokkaido, and the other is Hakodate, except for these two castles, the others can be ignored or even have no cities.

At present, the primary task of this division is mainly to inspect the coastal areas suitable for landing, but what they can do is only to inspect, and the area of Japan's second largest island has to be defended by a division and regiment, and the defensive pressure is by no means what people imagined.

And now Hokkaido is also mobilizing with all its might, and then filling their military vacancies.

However, what the Japanese did not expect even more was that the troops landing in Hokkaido were even more embarrassed than they had imagined, and not to mention other preparations for the time being, even the landing craft for landing on the most basic facilities.

The original plan was for two divisions in Weihai to land first, so more than 200 landing craft, as well as the only landing ship of the Chinese Empire at present, were deployed there, what is a landing ship? It is an enlarged version of the kind of landing craft that can be driven directly to the shore, when carrying tanks, the landing ship needs to put down the pedals at a depth of about one meter for the tank to land, if all the carrying is infantry, or the water depth is enough, the landing ship can drive directly to the shore.

In addition, if the underground sediment is soft and slippery, it can also be directly collided.

Because the productivity of the shipyard is not enough, the landing ships are not mass-produced, but can only be manufactured slowly one by one, so as to put more productivity into the manufacture of combat ships.

In order to solve this problem, the empire built a new shipyard in Haicheng, which does not undertake the task of manufacturing combat ships, but is dedicated to the manufacture of auxiliary ships, that is, landing ships, transport ships, etc., which can build ten ships at a time after being put into production.

Of course, this is all for later, but the important thing is that the marines who have left the port of Vladivostok and headed for Hokkaido have very simple landing equipment, only a few small ships that the military port usually uses for training and patrolling, and some hand-paddled fishing boats that have been urgently recruited from nearby.

There was no way, the order changed too suddenly, the landing ship and all the landing craft were all rerouted to the Ryukyus, and they could only figure out their own way, but fortunately, there was only such a batch, and after the landing in the Ryukyus, these equipment would return here.

Perhaps the only good news was that they tricked the Japanese into deploying a large number of troops on the island of Kyushu, only to land in Hokkaido.

The two-day journey in a row made the officers and men of the Marine Corps feel tired, but they did not have any good solutions, originally they were not the vanguard of the landing operation, and even in this combat arrangement, the Sixth Marine Division was not in the combat sequence at all.

However, the order changed very quickly, and the other units did not have time to transfer at all, so the 6th Marine Division stationed in Lushun could only be urgently transferred to Vladivostok and let them serve as the operational vanguard.

First of all, if the troops are not well prepared, the landing failure is possible, and the more serious problems are not impossible, and they will even be annihilated because of this.

The empire has a total of six marine divisions, and the marine divisions do not currently have any clear requirements for them in other battles except for landing operations. According to the original training syllabus, the main task of the Marine Corps is to land operations, open up landing grounds, or occupy docks, and then hold there, and when the subsequent army units arrive on the battlefield, their mission will be over.

They do not have the duty to fight frequently in the future, and their greatest advantage is the impact force, relying on the impact force in the short term to tear a gap and then let the infantry land.

The sky gradually brightened, and at this moment the fleet was ready to land, which was only less than two kilometers away from the shore, and the landing ships they carried could at most put a company of troops on the shore at one time, and the difference in landing capability was definitely the worst in the history of the Marine Corps.

Brigadier General He Xin, who is the commander of the first brigade of the Sixth Marine Division, is also helpless at the moment, He Xin is also from the army, as early as the second Sino-Japanese war, he was just a small platoon commander, in just a few years, he passed all the way to be promoted to brigadier general, his own strength is naturally not said, but no matter how strong the strength is, he can only express helplessness in this embarrassing situation.

However, the danger of putting only one company of troops ashore at a time is still too high, and at least one battalion must be put on it, so that they can gain a foothold and wait for the entire brigade to land successfully.

There are very high requirements for the selection of the landing site, first of all, the landing terrain, and there can be no mountains behind, so that the troops have no way to deploy, it is easy to squeeze together, and the opponent only needs a shell, or a row of bullets, to hit it, it will suffer heavy losses.

And this time the place they chose was a place called Ezamachi, and there was a small port nearby, mainly for fishing boats to come and go, and Chinese transport ships were just able to enter. However, this place was also targeted by the Japanese army, and two squads were arranged to garrison it nearby.

There were only two squads, and not even a single machine gun was arranged, and most of the machine guns of the Japanese army were arranged in a more suitable place for landing.

The black smoke on the sea attracted the attention of the Japanese troops here, a small group of Japanese soldiers hurriedly ran to a place with a good line of sight to take a look, and almost fell down the mountain in fright, and hurriedly sent someone to report, and called for reinforcements, more than ten kilometers away, there was a squadron of troops, there was a heavy machine gun and a mortar, this unit was actually a mobile unit, where the enemy situation was found, they quickly rushed over.

Originally, there was nothing wrong with such a plan, but the reality was cruel, and the night provided excellent cover for the fleet, allowing them to be discovered before landing, and the Japanese troops from a distance of more than ten kilometers did not have time to react at all.

And just when the Japanese army ran in a panic to report the situation, on the sea not far away, He Xin officially ordered the troops to land. He had no more time to delay, and the longer it dragged on, the fewer troops would land.

In the same way, he had no other choice, so he could only choose a ridiculous way, using equipment that could only drop one company at a time, to send a battalion of troops to the shore.

Except for one company, which could take the boat, the other three companies would carry the equipment of the other three companies, and then the troops of the three companies would swim directly to form a battalion of troops to successfully land and provide cover for the follow-up troops. (To be continued.) )