In the sixteenth year of Zhongxing, the sixteenth of January.

Indonesia is almost full of China's golden dragoons, especially the more than one million allied troops placed on the island of Sumatra, which collapsed under the joint attack of the Southeast Asian theater and the first part of the jungle army.

China, which had completed the occupation of Sumatra, immediately began an offensive against the islands around Java.

In the snow-capped northeast region, following China's frequent successes in the southern theater, the atmosphere here has also begun to become "enthusiastic." Especially at the beginning of spring, the temperature is still slowly rising, and the smell of gunpowder among the millions of troops concentrated here is becoming stronger and stronger.

However, because of the cold winter, both sides are still dominated by mechanized troops. So it's all quite restrained.

As Japan's most elite Kwantung Army, it has always been a representative of the Japanese Army. The country has been bombed continuously for more than a month, and the discipline of these howling Kwantung Army is not bad under the control of Commander Okamura Ninji, Deputy Commander Tada Jun, and Chief of Staff Kimiyama Yi. Because they all believe that as long as the ice and snow melt, it will teach China a hard lesson.

However, the Soviets shouted the most fiercely, and the staff headquarters of the Eastern Military District Command of the Soviet Union was formulating a new attack plan every day. Zhukov, a national hero of the Soviet Union with experience in fighting with China, was appointed commander of the Eastern Military District by Stalin. Governed an army of almost two million.

The Chinese side did not show weakness, although it was not possible to launch a large-scale offensive in winter, and the Northeast Theater did not organize any large-scale offensive. But the preparations never stopped. The Northeast at the moment, in those close to the border. They are already heavily armed.

By the time winter had not yet arrived, the people from the border areas had been largely evacuated. The remaining towns and villages have become sprawling military camps. Large quantities of weapons, ammunition and supplies arrive every day.

The busy railway line has sent countless pieces of equipment. Especially after the Spring Festival, the Royal Praetorian Guard Army was also dispatched, two Janissaries were assigned to the Northeast Theater, and the remaining one army was assigned to the Siberian Theater of the former Mongolian Theater. Units of the Royal Air Force, the Pacific Fleet of the Royal Navy, began routine combat missions. (Royal Force = Red Alert Weapon)

The thick canvas covered the trains, the long troop carriages, and the endless train queues, heading northeast.

Command center. As the soul of an army. Moreover, in the face of world-famous general-level opponents, the command center of the Northeast Theater has also assembled a group of outstanding Chinese commanders. Kong Wenhong, vice minister of the Chinese Army, was appointed commander of the Northeast Theater, and Zhang Zizhong was appointed deputy commander. Chen Cheng served as chief of staff.

The three group army groups under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Theater belong to the front-line troops. One of them was dominated by the Janissary Army. The newly formed armored cluster is full of armored units. The other two clusters are multi-arm joint attack clusters, which are mainly used to cooperate with armored clusters to carry out large-width, large-depth, and large-scale armored assaults.

The second-line troops are the units that have been converted from reserve forces to regular units. In conjunction with the armed police force, it carried out defense and rear guard, guarded airfields and communication arteries, and also carried out the task of clearing and destroying small enemy units in the newly occupied areas.

The total strength of the two sides can be called the largest in a historical war, and the total number of Soviet-Japanese joint forces has reached more than 4 million, while the main force of China also has more than 1 million, plus hundreds of thousands of second-line troops, it has also reached more than 1 million troops. It was a quarter of China's total military strength at this time. Even if the troops of the Southeast Asian Theater and the Pacific Theater are combined, they are not as many as the Northeast Theater. Moreover, the Northeast Theater is also the unit with the highest proportion of armored forces and infantry in the Chinese Army.

Combined with the air force assembled in the northeast, this is already a military force that makes the world tremble.

In Fengtian City, in the Northeast Theater Headquarters, Kong Wenhong and Zhang Zizhong were discussing something fiercely, and a figure hurriedly came in.

"Lao Kong, Lao Zhang, good news!" The tiredness on his face had not yet dissipated, and Chen Cheng, who entered the headquarters, was excited.

"Lao Chen, when did you come back? Is the Hanking Conference over? Kong Wenhong was the first to speak.

"Yes, I just got off the plane, and I brought back good news today." Chen Cheng took the fur coat covered with snowflakes on his body, and the excitement on his face did not dissipate.

"Lao Chen, it's better than grinding, say it quickly." When Zhang Zizhong heard the good news, his heart began to itch.

"Let me take a sip of ginger tea!" Hearing Zhang Zizhong's words, Chen Cheng took a slow step, and as a result, the ginger tea handed over by the guard, regardless of the hot steam, took two sips. In the expectant eyes of Kong Wenhong and Chen Cheng, he slowly spoke:

"According to the detailed comparison of the Imperial Meteorological Department, this year's cold winter will pass quickly, and the weather will gradually warm up in the next half month. This year's spring will come quickly. So! ”

Speaking of this, Chen Cheng saw the expressions of the two of them, and he no longer grinded, "So, Your Majesty approved our request and allowed us to take North Korea first." ”

"Really, Your Majesty really agreed to the war plan against North Korea?" Zhang Zizhong hurriedly asked back, and his face also showed an excited look.

"Yes, Your Majesty really agreed." Chen Cheng said with certainty.

"Great." Zhang Zizhong couldn't help but say.

"According to Your Majesty's temperament, since the weather is starting to warm up, it is not surprising to promise us that the Janissary Army is heading north, which is already the most telling thing." Kong Wenhong is quite calm compared to the two of them. However, from the corners of his upturned mouth, it is enough to explain his mood at this time.

In fact, it is no wonder that Zhang Zizhong and Chen Cheng are so happy, after all, the two of them surrendered from Nanjing. Now that he has become the commander of a large military region, he has not made an inch. Especially when they saw that the war in the south was red, they were anxious! They are eager to prove their abilities with practical results.

And the enemies in front of them are the best military medals, waiting for them to take them. It was cold in the winter, and they knew it was not a good time to fight. At this moment, spring is slowly approaching, and the weather is not so cold. The sense of urgency in their hearts has been pressing them all the time.

"Commander. Then let's not be cautious and start arranging! Chen Cheng focused his gaze on Kong Wenhong.

"Yes, let's get started." Zhang Zizhong also chimed in.

"Pass my order, follow the third set of battle plans, and start the final battle adjustments." Kong Wenhong didn't answer the two of them directly, of course, his order was already the best answer, and naturally it was the answer that the two of them wanted to hear the most.

As layers of orders were issued, the entire Northeast Theater came alive. On the Korean front, which was already heavily assembled, the Chinese army has completely entered the state. Just waiting for the order to attack.

From time to time, snowflakes fell in the sky, which was not suitable for a large-scale sortie of the Air Force. But. On the first line of the North Korean border. Countless artillery groups have been assembled, and all the gun jackets of the artillery groups have been removed, revealing countless hideous cannon muzzles.

Behind the artillery group, there are neatly placed rocket launchers. Rocket artillery from caliber 127 mm to 305 mm. Occupies a large area of snow.

The front of the artillery. It is an endless cluster of tanks, with all Chinese King Tiger tanks at the forefront, and Chinese Leopards and Chinese Tigers in the middle. In the rear of these tank units. All are all infantry fighting vehicles. These infantry fighting vehicles have all the functions. Depending on the combat mission, there are flamethrowers, grenades, anti-aircraft, cannons and other weapons, and what these tanks have in common is that they can carry infantry or anti-tank troops to the front line.

On the other hand, in the direction of North Korea, the troops of the Kwantung Army were not aware of such a large-scale movement of China. In fact, Japan is not to blame for this, their reconnaissance planes are simply not able to get close to the Chinese army, and Chinese reconnaissance planes come to their skies every day.

As a result, many of Japan's fortifications have been fully explored. The Japanese side, on the other hand, knows very little about the actions of the Chinese side.

However, after the offensive began, a large number of Chinese reconnaissance planes visited Korea, which still aroused the alarm of Okamura Ninji. Because it is only when an offensive is launched that large-scale complex reconnaissance is carried out. Suddenly, this was a harbinger of China's attack.

Although the weather outside is still very cold, it is not very suitable for large-scale military operations. However, Okamura Ninji still cautiously gave the order for the entire Korean army to be on alert.

It's just that Okamura Ninji's order is not like that when it comes down. In the cold winter, many Japanese soldiers thought that China would not attack, and they were relatively slack in the orders laid down from above. It is better to do useless work than to hide in a warm underground bunker.

That's how tragedies often happen.

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Three days later, after the Chinese army was fully prepared.

With an order, the offensive came with a loud explosion.

Two hundred kilometers north of Pyongyang, which is only about 100 kilometers from China, was the main defensive position of the Japanese army.

This is the line of defense set by Okamura Ninji in order to deal with the large-scale Chinese tank charge, using a hundred kilometers as a buffer zone to offset the advance of the Chinese armored forces. And here, too, will not be hit by Chinese ground artillery.

In between, there were a number of small, independent defensive positions, and many more were squadron-sized units except for one or two places where they were guarded by squadron-sized troops. These small positions were held along the plains and highways with only one purpose, to prevent the Chinese armored forces from passing comfortably. Slow down the pace of China's offensive and buy time for the defense of the large forces behind.

I have to say that Okamura Ningji's decision is a bit difficult for China. If the troops are placed on the front line, the Chinese tank troops can be quickly crushed, and placed in the rear, which is not only more convenient in terms of material supply, but also gives themselves enough time to react.

However, there is no way for China to deal with this, and these small defensive positions have already been marked in detail on the model map of the Northeast Theater Command. By the time Okamura Ninji received a large-scale attack by the Chinese army on Korea, his small defense groups had been almost wiped out.

The fall of the small defensive positions at the front immediately made the main Japanese defense line the forefront of the battlefield, and nearly 300,000 troops of the Japanese Kwantung Army were gathered on this line. The air defense positions scattered everywhere formed a dense anti-aircraft fire, which calmed the Japanese troops on these lines. Because they can be protected from the attacks of China's powerful air force as much as possible, and of course this is where their confidence lies.

However, wars are not always as they should be.

The calm sky seemed to be filled with the sound of whizzing air-to-ground missiles and wireless-guided bombs in an instant, and one after another fire dragons accurately bombarded the two connected mountains and a clearing between the two connected mountains from more than a dozen kilometers away. Everywhere there was a violent explosion and flying steel fragments, and more than a dozen fortifications set up by the Japanese Kwantung Army were reduced to scattered fragments in a cloud of black smoke.

The Chinese fighters did not mean to appear in the air defense range at all, and the Globemaster bombers dropped bombs above the range of the Japanese air defense forces below. Even if there is no guided bomb, it will not be wasted, because there are targets that can be hit everywhere below.

Although there is also a large amount of heavy equipment in other theaters, China's extremely developed manufacturing industry has undoubtedly made all countries truly feel China's almost terrifying war potential.

Especially in the continental war in the Northeast Theater, the Japanese army felt a steel feast that was completely different from the original battle with the Soviet Union.

In China, as long as the military has sufficient needs, tanks, artillery, and combat vehicles will be added to active service one after another from the assembly line like cars.

Dense large-caliber rocket artillery rained down on the positions of the Japanese Kwantung Army. It's like a copy of the war sixteen years ago. There is no high-tech contest, everything is just a contest of the number of shells, in the rising columns of smoke. The mortar units, anti-aircraft machine-gun units and sniper groups of the Japanese Kwantung Army, as well as a large number of infantry, were disintegrated into pieces.

The Japanese on the defensive line were instantly stunned, didn't they say that the Chinese artillery fire here could not reach? What is that exploding overhead? Rocket artillery? But can rocket artillery shoot at a range of hundreds of kilometers?

If these questions go to ask the Chinese rocket artillery. Then he would gladly answer. China's rocket artillery can hit hundreds of kilometers.

"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”

It is on the first line south of Dandong, China. Five huge amphibious assault ships, five star arches stayed in the Yellow Sea. At the same time as the battle began. Under the cover of 20 armed helicopters, hundreds of Nighthawk transport helicopters of the Chinese army were directly inserted into the rear of the Japanese Kwantung Army's positions from low altitudes, and the dense 70-mm uncontrolled rockets and dozens of airborne high-speed artillery pieces smashed into the air more than 200 Japanese Kwantung Army soldiers who were rushing forward to reinforce the defenders of the two heights in a burst of frantic fire. A road of several hundred meters was littered with fragments of corpses and broken weapon parts, and the Chinese army's air firepower superiority in local areas was almost on par with that of the American army.

"Hold your ground! Fire suppression! "Nearly 1,000 Chinese Marines jumped from the transport helicopter and quickly took advantage of various terrain to point their light mortars and heavy machine guns at the positions of the Japanese Kwantung Army on the high ground.

"Attack! Offensive! The commander of the Chinese army shouted like an angry shout, and with the strong support of light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, more than 200 Chinese army soldiers launched a rapid charge towards the Japanese Kwantung Army position on the top of the hill.

The sound of dense firefighting was connected on the hillside in the blink of an eye, and the Japanese Kwantung Army soldiers who rushed out of the dilapidated tunnel, although they did not have much heavy equipment, barely nailed the Chinese army's forward footsteps firmly to the hillside with machine guns, individual grenadiers and countless flying grenades.

"Damn! Launch wireless guidance! Destroy your opponent's firepower! Hide in place! Get ready to charge! The commander of the Chinese army did not panic in the slightest after seeing that the attack was blocked, and after ordering the soldiers to send out a guiding beam with a small laser launcher, he quietly waited for the support of aerial fire, and in less than three minutes, twenty 500 attack radio-guided bombs dropped by two Globemasters fiercely enveloped the most ferocious areas of the counterattack fire in flames and steel fragments.

Taking advantage of the moment when the firepower of the Japanese Kwantung Army weakened, the charge of the Chinese army was surging again, and as more than a dozen helicopter gunships that had replenished their ammunition quickly returned to the field, all the Japanese Kwantung Army soldiers on the surface positions were once again swept away by the powerful firepower.

"Search all the pit entrances! Destroy them all with a cloudburst bomb. "The order of the commander of the Chinese army has not yet been fully given, and a Japanese Kwantung Army soldier who has been buried in the ground is about to blast it to pieces with a large grenade. By the time he unplugged the safety of the grenade, a bullet had already passed through the head of the Japanese soldier, and the grenade was about to be thrown out of his hand. Weak landing.

"Bang!" The explosion sounded, and the Japanese soldiers who had turned into dead people, and in the explosion of the annihilation of the poor corpses, dozens of pieces of minced meat fell heavily to the ground after flying up for several meters, and the scarlet pieces of flesh were so obvious in the charred black earth.

"Onboard!" An awkward roar sounded, and one or twenty two devils suddenly ran out of the pit and rushed towards the attacking marines.

"Click! Click! Click! On the offensive position, the machine gunners of the Marine Corps pulled the trigger wantonly, and dozens of whistling bullets cut some of the two devil soldiers to the ground in an instant, and the thin body and fragile bones had no way to resist the continuous fire of the machine gun at a distance of tens of meters. In a cloud of blood. All the two devils who were shot stopped breathing in pain.

There were also three second devils who survived, but they were also frightened by such a killing scene and became incontinent. Doesn't it mean that China is the sick man of East Asia? Wasn't the Imperial Japanese Army the first in the world? Could it be that Taijun is deceiving people. The three second devils were confused.

"Yaga!" In the tunnel, I saw three two devils who were standing still. A Japanese soldier scolded angrily. Hit a triple shot with the submachine gun in his hand. The three second devils, who did not have any protective equipment, fell directly forward to the ground after being pierced through the three blood holes, and the splattered blood made a "bang" sound on the hot barrel scattered on the ground.

Facing the entrance to the already exposed tunnel, the soldiers of the Marine Corps. And there was not the slightest politeness.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! More than a dozen individual cloud burst bombs were quickly fired into the entrances of several tunnels, and the billowing smoke and dust immediately churned in the deep tunnels, and a large amount of oxygen was instantly consumed in the firelight. As the smoke and fire gradually dissipated, dozens of Marines cautiously descended into the tunnel.

Soon there was a rush of fighting, but soon the sounds fell silent.

"Report to the landing fleet and the Northeast Theater Command! The predetermined target high ground was successfully captured! Rapid 3rd Battalion of the Marine Corps Separate Brigade. Walking through the soft dirt, a Marine officer wearing a captain's epaulette said to the communications officer beside him.

More than 100 kilometers away, the Northeast Theater Command of the Chinese Army.

"The 1st echelon has conquered the intended goal! The assisting Marines have completed their assigned combat missions, and a large-scale landing operation will begin immediately. After receiving the report from the front, the operational staff officer hurriedly reported it to Zhang Zizhong through the field command system.

"Order the 2nd and 3rd echelons to accelerate the attack! Heavy artillery clusters began to move forward, and self-propelled artillery units, as soon as they arrived at the established positions, immediately carried out fire support. The 172nd, 173rd, and 174th Army Aviation Regiments were ordered to immediately join the battle and be sure to advance the tank units to the front line of the Japanese defense within half an hour. Caution the troops that their front is already covered by the artillery fire of the Japanese Kwantung Army! Stay safe! Zhang Zizhong hung up the intercom and looked through the bulletproof glass on the armored car to the war zone a few kilometers away.

In front of us is the first time since the establishment of the Northeast Theater that a large corps has been engaged in cluster operations. In the rear, there were Kong Wenhong and Chen Cheng to defend the Kwantung Army and the Soviet army on the other side. Here he is the commander-in-chief. Although the current war situation is good, the risks faced are still very huge, and the Japanese Kwantung Army, which has a large number of American-style equipment to join, has obviously improved rapidly in all aspects, and the most important thing in the face of such an opponent is to underestimate the enemy and be arrogant, otherwise it will suffer an unexpected fatal blow.

After receiving the signal of front-line support, after a rumbling tremor, 12 203-mm rocket launchers bombarded more than 100 large-caliber high-explosive grenade warheads to the other two positions of the Japanese Kwantung Army under the dual guidance of reconnaissance planes and artillery sighting radars. The light of the fire, mixed with the surging airwaves, easily blew the exposed trenches and the soldiers inside into fine powder.

The Chinese army's frenzied firepower suppressed the Japanese Kwantung Army's damage to the point that it could not be repeated, shells of various calibers were destroying almost everything on the surface in turns, one body after another was torn to pieces in the violent air waves, and even the solid tunnel fortifications were broken and collapsed little by little in the face of large-caliber high-explosive grenades. (To be continued......)