41. Capture Korea
"Xiu Xiu Xiu", a sharp trajectory, a roar that breaks through the air, stirs the heavens and the earth.
"Is it finally getting started?" Muto Nobuyoshi was on a high ground in Anju, south of the Qingchuan River, looking at the "cannonballs" with tail flames flying from the sky on the opposite bank. When he learned that the Chinese army had successfully landed in Busan, he understood that the goal of the Chinese side to attract their main force to defend head-on had been achieved, so there was no point in waiting, after all, the great powers had already intervened, and although the Chinese side refused, it was still necessary to hurry, lest the repeated refusal of the great powers make the great powers angry and angry.
Umezu Mijiro on the side said: "It's faster than expected, it seems that China is also very urgent, and if you want to occupy the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible, it depends on whether they have the ability to do it." ”
"Hopefully!" Muto Nobuyoshi tightly defended the line of the Qingchuan River, hoping to take advantage of this natural danger to inflict heavy casualties on the attacking Chinese side, and also make the Chinese side dare not despise Japan.
The "boom" shells finally fell, and in an instant the entire defense line of the Japanese army on the Qingchuan River was overwhelmed by the violent explosion and fire.
Muto Nobuyoshi and Umezu Mijiro's eyes almost didn't protrude, and their mouths were so open that they couldn't close them for a long time. They heard from the Shandong side that this strange artillery in terms of public security was extremely powerful, which was equivalent to a 300-millimeter cannon strike. But who believes? If there is such artillery, then why do you need cannons, howitzers? Why even infantry? The battle was directly shelled, and when it was over, people went up to collect the corpses.
But when they actually saw it with their own eyes, the shock in their hearts was beyond words.
I saw a cannonball fall, a violent explosion rose up a hundred meters of flames, the terrifying impact burst into the sky to stir up the sky of gravel dust and sand swept across a range of several hundred meters, the shock wave and other shells on the side provoked the impact of the collision, it is even more flying sand and rocks, and you can even see the soldiers who were swept away by the shock wave impact instantly by the shock wave rolled up by the gravel into pieces, directly divided into corpses. Hundreds of such shells fell, and in an instant several kilometers of the Qingchuan River defense line was submerged
Muto Nobuyoshi and Umezu Mijiro no longer have a cold feeling in their hearts, but despair. The so-called strong defensive line they arranged along the river, in fact, is just a fortification that took two days to repair, and this kind of fortification is a bit of a protection against the offensive artillery of the ordinary army, after all, they have repaired the anti-artillery hole, but that standard is only the standard of army artillery, and in this kind of cluster strike with a power of 300 mm giant cannon strike, it is even more scum.
With only such a round of artillery fire, the "heavy troops" they arranged on the front line of the Qingchuan River were finished, and those who could survive were simply burning high incense, which was rarer than pandas.
A few minutes later, the dust and smoke dissipated, and they saw that there were actually a lot of tanks drilling out of the dust and smoke, and they had already crossed the Qingchuan River, and their eyes almost didn't protrude. You must know that the Qingchuan River is two or three hundred meters wide, and in September it is in the wet season, and the water depth can reach about two meters, and even in the dry season in winter, the water depth is about 1 or 5 meters.
"Baga, the people of China must have secretly sent someone to bring a submersible at night to lay a passage underwater with stones." Umezu Mijiro reacted instantly, because in this tank is still in its infancy, no one has thought about any amphibious tanks at all, after all, normal tanks have not been built, so they will think of so many uses?
Muto Nobuyoshi understood when he saw this scene, Qingchuan Jiang was unable to stop the Chinese attack, and he suddenly felt remorse in his heart, because if he chose the Datong River or the Han River as the defense line, the Chinese side would not be able to break through so easily, but when he thought of the terrifying shelling just now, his heart was gloomy.
Umezu Mijiro said hurriedly: "Commander, you should let the follow-up troops go up and resolutely block the Shina army from crossing the river." ”
Muto Nobuyoshi said bitterly: "There is no point anymore, it's just a matter of consuming a round of cannonballs." The troops were ordered to retreat into the mountains and entangle with the Chinese army in large squadrons, without fighting to the death, but they must not let China easily occupy a stable Korea, and not let the supplies of China pass safely to attack the empire itself. ”
According to the psychology of a normal commander, this decision is correct, and in the case of heavy losses in the troops, it is impossible for the tens of thousands of horses in his hands to stop the attack of the Chinese army of hundreds of thousands, and it is better to rely on the geography to be more familiar than the Chinese side and attack along the way, so as to prevent the Chinese side from continuously transporting material resources to Pusan and using Busan as a strategic support to attack the mainland. But Muto Nobuyoshi never expected that Li Bufan had a perverted base expedition vehicle in his hands that would be able to scan targets within a radius of 100 kilometers regardless of the terrain.
Li Songshan, Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Xiaozhun, and Guo Songling all watched the amphibious tanks cross the river, and more than a dozen tanks were wrapped with ropes, and after crossing the river, the ropes were straightened, and the thick iron chains were pulled to the opposite bank, and the iron chain bridges were formed by fixing them on the rocks and other solid places on the opposite bank. Some officers and soldiers crossed the river with iron cables, and some took bamboo rafts to cross the river quickly, in order to hold the bridgehead; Some of the iron cables were immediately pontoonized by sappers to allow large forces to pass.
Zhang Zuolin, Guo Songling and Zhang Xiaozhun saw that their eyes were about to fall, and they never dreamed that those more than ten tons of chariots could actually cross the river on the water, and what kind of cannon was that just now? It's too powerful, right? With such a big killer, what battle can't be won?
Zhang Zuolin muttered to himself: "Damn, if Lao Tzu wants this thing, will he be bullied by Little Japan for so many years?" ”
Guo Songling said suspiciously: "This chariot shouldn't be made of wood to scare people, right?" ”
Zhang Xiaozhun rolled his eyes and said, "How is it possible? I've sat on it myself, and it's made of absolutely steel, fifteen tons."
Before they finished speaking, they heard Li Songshan shouting a little angrily: "Bastard, Little Japan has run away." ”
Zhang Xiaozhun hurriedly looked over, and sure enough, he saw that the Japanese army did not attack, but quickly dispersed and evacuated. couldn't help but say: "Was the artillery just now too fierce and scared the Japanese away?" ”
"Possibly!" Zhang Zuolin and Guo Songlin nodded, they thought it was very likely, but if it was them, they would definitely withdraw when they saw such a fierce artillery fire. Under such heavy artillery fire, to let the troops go up is to send them to death. Even if you want to fight, you have to find a position where the opponent's heavy artillery can't play.
Li Songshan quickly came back to his senses, although he regretted that he could not annihilate the Japanese army in a battle, but his goal had been achieved, and he said at the moment: "That's fine." The troops marched quickly and fully occupied all parts of Korea. He also sent a telegram to the high command, hoping that the president would send his adjutant Li Hengshan to help command the Japanese troops fleeing in the mountains. ”
When Li Songshan's telegram came out, outsiders would only think that Li Hengshan might be an expert in mountain warfare. However, in the hands of Li Bufan, Wu Di, Li Huashan, and others, they immediately understood that Li Songshan wanted the help of the base vehicles, so that he could quickly find out and eliminate the Japanese troops who had fled into the mountains and resisted. The technological gap of several centuries is even more unthinkable to others, even if it is well hidden, it will not be able to evade the three-dimensional holographic search of the base vehicle, and as long as it is within a hundred kilometers, it will not be possible to evade the accurate encirclement and suppression of Li Hengshan, a "mountain warfare expert".
"Hehehe, the Japanese still want to fight guerrilla warfare with us, they have found the wrong opponent." Li Bufan and Wu Di both laughed relatively dryly.
Yang Yongtai said with some suspicion: "President, this day the army fled into the mountains and forests to make trouble, I'm afraid it can't be wiped out in a short time, right?" ”
Seeing that it was not only Yang Yongtai, but also many staff officers were suspicious, Wu Enemy's military division immediately said: "Don't worry, we have experts in mountain warfare, and Li Hengshan, the adjutant of the president, is the ancestor of mountain warfare, and no one in the mountains can escape his pursuit, encirclement, and suppression." ”
Yang Yongtai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then how will this result be announced?" ”
Li Bufan hesitated slightly, thought for a while, and said: "In this way, it is announced that under the onslaught of our army, the Japanese army was defeated on the whole line after resisting for less than two hours, and our army has won a complete victory in the battle of the Qingchuan River. You can't say that if you hit a round of artillery, the enemy will be scared away, right? Well, this seems to be too simple, let's just say that our army sent tanks. "The appearance of tanks in the world war did cause panic among the front-line combat troops, causing the Germans to panic and rout several times, so as to slightly disguise the power of rocket artillery.
The Chinese side held another press conference to announce the results of the war, which caused an uproar among diplomats and Chinese and foreign journalists from European and American powers.
The first reaction of British representative Smith, American representative Conger, and French representative Hollande was that the Chinese side was lying.
Smith said on the spot: "No way. Although the Japanese are not very strong in combat, they have defeated the Russian army after all, and even if they will be defeated because of the weakness of their forces, it is absolutely impossible to lose the Qingchuan River and rout in less than two hours, which is simply a fantasy. ”
American representative Conger Zhengse said: "However, on such a big issue, it is impossible for the Chinese to deceive the whole world. In any case, this shows that the Chinese army is very combative. And they had tanks, the Japanese were attacked by a large number of tanks, and a rout was possible. ”
Hollande nodded and said: "The Chinese have tanks, as early as the Shandong battlefield, the Chinese dispatched tanks, and the Japanese Fifth and Ninth Divisions were annihilated in a short time after the Chinese dispatched tanks." This shows that the tanks of the Chinese are very advanced, and I estimate that they are even more advanced than ours. This is terrible, after the Nanjing government reorganized the Northern Group, China's active troops have reached 2 million, and this is only the army, and their navy is also expanding rapidly, it is said that their navy active force will be expanded by 100,000. ”
Smith howled: "The damned Chinese must be prevented from continuing to be strong, otherwise the huge interests of our countries in China cannot be saved." ”
Conger sneered: "How to stop it? They already have a complete military industry, and they can even design and build battleships themselves. The threat of war is useless, and don't forget that the current Chinese president fought the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun, and fought against your army in the most brutal battlefields. Unless it's a real war"
Smith and Hollande looked at each other and couldn't say a word.
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