Chapter 190: Annihilate the Shining Stars
War is a war of attrition, not only to consume ammunition and materials, but also to consume human lives, although it has absolute superiority in tactical deployment, equipment and total strength, the Northeast Army is accompanied by a large number of combat casualties while quickly destroying the opponent, especially in the Eastern Front, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Even so, the Northeast National Defense Revolutionary Army of the Imperial CSKA completed the general strategic plan in its entirety.
From April 5 to April 10, 1911, in five days, the Northeast Army invested a total of 448,000 troops in the two major battlefields of the east and west, requisitioned more than 1.4 million militia and civilians, pulled 450,000 horses, invested more than 2,000 artillery pieces, fired a total of 325,000 shells, built 52 kilometers of temporary railways, built more than 400 kilometers of temporary roads and fortifications, annihilated 103,000 officers and soldiers of the Syrian army and the DPRK, captured 21,800 people, and eliminated four divisions and regiments of the Japanese army. Three reserve brigades and one artillery brigade inflicted heavy losses on the 6th and 10th divisions of the Chinese army.
By the evening of April 11, 1911, the main forces of the Northeast Army had advanced to Taecheon-gun, Guseong, Jeongju, Yongbyon, and Bocheon, which many years later were the areas where North Korea's nuclear bases were concentrated.
Song Biao also arrived in Bochuan at this time and personally observed the preparations of the army on the front line.
The Daning River and the Qingchuan River form a delta between Bochuan and Anju, which is dominated by hilly slopes about 100 meters high, which is the focus of the defense of the Yue army at this time, and the Koreans call it Anbeiling.
Song Biao observed the front of the Yue army in front of the sentry post on the north side of the Daning River, and Chen Qicai and General Martos also accompanied him to observe together.
The North Korean nation is very strange, and sometimes if you think about it carefully, you can only use the word obscenity to describe it, whether it is the Majima incident or the Suyanjiao incident, from top to bottom, this strange national surname can be fully revealed, it is simply the Poland of Asia.
Summing up this nation in two simple words - guilty of cheapness.
To sum it up in one word, cheap!
The average width is less than 100 meters, and the river channel that is less than 300 meters wide at the mouth of the sea is called a river by the DPRK, and the same is true of the Qingchuan River on the opposite side, and the 100-meter-high river is called a ridge.
How big does a country's territory have to be, and is it really necessary to have an extra square kilometer? Whether it is a politician or a ruler, for the sake of this one-square-kilometer territory that does not belong to him at all, it is really necessary to make trouble in the whole country, to break out a war, and to kill and injure hundreds of thousands of people?
Song Biao carried a horsewhip, looking at the south in the light and cool evening sea breeze, thinking in his heart, in the war with the Northeast Army, the army completely miscalculated, and did not expect such a powerful offensive at all, and was pushed to Bochuan by him in one breath.
He did not expect at all that he would avoid the coastal railway line on the Korean Peninsula, and the line from Kwandian to Bochuan would build a supply route around large and small basins, relying on 400,000 men and horses, so that the role of the navy could not be brought into play at all.
From Shuozhou to Taichuan, the First Railway Brigade and the Far Eastern Railway Corporation were urgently dispatching local North Korean laborers to build a railway, and bombed ships to fill the river at the mouth of the Daxie River in Pearl Mouth and Taiping Bay, so that even the 300-ton Saiben Navy boat could not go north.
This temporary railroad has many unreliable surnames, and it is always re-laid, but it is definitely an important shortcut to transportation in times of war, but it is only a gesture.
At this stage, the main material replenishment still relies on manpower and horsepower, and more than 1 million laborers and more than 600,000 horses transferred in Zhili, Northeast China, and Korea have begun to continuously use the Sobo Passage to transport materials, which is enough to ensure that the Northeast Army will fight a large-scale battle from Bocheon to Pyongyang.
Song Biao looked into the distance, thought for a while, and asked Chen Qicai: "I heard that the 11th Division of the Yue Army has arrived in Fukuoka and is about to ship to Seoul for reinforcements?" ”
Chen Qicai said: "Yes, the Ministry of Intelligence has confirmed this news through multiple channels, but the war has reached this point, and the whole army basically has a judgment on the current level of the army, no matter whether the evaluation in their hearts is high or low, in general, it is nothing more than that, there is nothing terrible, and a division coming over really does not play much role." At present, we have a 400,000-strong army sweeping through the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and in two days we will go further south for a decisive battle and completely annihilate the Manchurian Army. ”
Song Biao bowed slightly, but reminded: "Not to mention that in the history of world wars, even in the history of wars in China, it is not uncommon for hundreds of thousands of troops to be defeated by tens of thousands of troops, don't take it lightly." ”
Chen Qicai said: "Your Majesty's foresight, after I go back, I will ask the General Staff to order all units to guard against arrogance and rashness, and must continue to maintain their original combat effectiveness, and strive to defeat all the Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible." ”
Song Biao snorted, although he didn't have a plan for this.
The terrain in the south of Korea is more complicated than in the north, and the supply is more difficult, and he really has no intention of continuing the attack, and breaking through to Seoul is considered the limit.
A lieutenant from the General Staff hurriedly came over and handed over the telegram book to Chen Qicai.
Chen Qicai opened the telegram and glanced at it, and reminded Song Biao: "Your Majesty, it is said that the Lushun fleet of this navy has arrived in Nanpu, and for the time being, it has not directly gone to Dingzhou to threaten the North Korean coastal railway. ”
Song Biao sighed without surprise, and said: "This time it was really careless, it was obviously a battle in which they gambled on the fortunes of the country, but in fact, they were really not completely prepared. ”
Chen Qicai thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”
Song Biao's words were not wrong, he really didn't expect the army to be defeated so badly, judging from each other's casualty rates, the performance of the army in the Battle of Yishuo was not too bad. They suffered 125,000 casualties and were captured, and only less than one brigade withdrew south to Anzhou, while the Northeast Army suffered 43,000 casualties.
War is attrition, especially the attrition of "people".
The Northeast Army must not be afraid of attrition, and must have the courage to consume "people", because the Northeast Army relies on overall superiority to fight, rather than relying on the individual quality of soldiers, and war is always cruel.
Song Biao has always thought so, he just never said so, because this statement is too cruel and too unsurnamed, but the fact is that there is no surname in the war.
War is also bloody.
Although the battlefield of Anzhou has not yet begun to shed blood, but two days later, it is destined to be a river of blood, as the commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, General Oshima Yoshimasa, of course, will lead the troops to evacuate Anzhou at this time, but where can he retreat?
Now as long as he retreats, the Northeast Army will go all the way south to occupy Pyongyang, and the army will not even have time to destroy the railway.
Oshima Yoshimasa still had the 2nd Division, the 2nd Artillery Brigade, two general reserve infantry brigades, and some fragmentary baggage brigades and other forces, adding up to only 45,000 men.
Right in front of Song Biao's eyes, the army had been strengthening the fortifications, and at a distance of about 500 meters, they were holding thousands of Koreans to strengthen the defensive line along the south of the Daning River and build additional earthen ramparts.
Song Biao took a rough look at it and felt that it didn't mean much.
It is clear that the army is also very aware that they concentrated the main fortification area in the northern part of Anju County in the Ungu Mountain area, which is a continuous mountainous area, surrounded by plains and hills, and the Ungu Mountain Range stretches for 40 kilometers long and 12 kilometers wide, stretching from Anju in the north to Pyongyang in the south, which can be said to be a natural fortress in the north of Pyongyang.
Oshima Yoshimasa still has the courage to defend the south of Pyongyang under such circumstances, and it is the Ungusan area that he relies on.
It was getting late, and Song Biao gradually couldn't see the scenery on the other side, so he returned to the front-line headquarters to hold a combat meeting, if according to the rhythm of the Russo-Russian War, after the army advanced to Bochuan, how could it be necessary to build fortifications, and adjust a few days before launching a full-scale decisive battle.
Starting at 9 o'clock this evening, the Third Infantry Division will continue to launch an encirclement campaign against the Jiechuan Army from Dingbian, take a detour through the mountain road, directly outflank the rear road of the Jiechuan Army, and join forces with the 14th Infantry Division to encircle the Fourth Reserve Brigade of the Army and force the Army to divide its forces to support.
If the army supports, the 15th Infantry Division will carry out an ambush on the south side of the Cheongchon River, and if the army does not come to the rescue, the two infantry divisions will attack and destroy the 4th Reserve Brigade in front and back, and directly move south to Sunchon and Jiangdong, and march 50 kilometers in 12 hours to advance to Pyongyang, directly cutting off the retreat of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army.
During this period, the 1st Infantry Division and the 22nd Infantry Division would continue to launch attacks in the area of the Qingchuan River and the Yungu Mountains to contain the Yue Army so that the Yue Army could not easily retreat, and finally the 4th and 15th Infantry Divisions would cut through the 2nd Division and the two general reserve brigades and regiments, and continue to complete the siege of the 2nd Division of the Yue Army within three days, striving to annihilate the 45,000 troops in five days.
There is only one word for the standard of everything, that is, "fast", the faster the better, and there is no room for adjustment in the army.
The next day, when the dawn sun illuminated the earth from the Qingchuan River on the east side, the roar of artillery in the distance came from time to time, resounding throughout the land, on the defense line of the Daning River, the artillery of the Northeast Army continued to burst out, and the sharp artillery sound came and went, bombarding the fortifications of the army continuously.
The glorious and magnificent offensive prelude officially kicked off from this moment.
The attack is not that tens of thousands of soldiers can crush the opponent in one rush, which will only easily tear apart the crowd for the opponent's machine-gun position, and in the same way, there is no hope of gaining anything without any sacrifice, the attack is to pile up human lives.
In order to achieve the goal of breaking through the Anju and Jiechuan defense lines as soon as possible, after collecting the artillery of the Yue Army, the Second Artillery Brigade was expanded into the Second Artillery Division, which was deployed on the Anzhou battlefield and had 422 artillery pieces, while the more powerful Northeast First Artillery Corps was located in the Yongbyon area, and carried out a frenzied bombardment of a brigade of the Jiechuan defense line with the strength of 1,782 barreled artillery, so that the continuous explosions could be heard at a distance of 20 kilometers, as if it was a volcanic eruption, and the earth trembled.
It is hard to imagine what a spectacular scene of 1,782 artillery guns firing a thousand bullets in unison, in the Anzhou defense line, the attack of only 422 guns set off a crazy rain of bullets in the sky, coupled with the close range of mortars to break the defense, the army was constantly suffering from blasting and destruction along the entire defense line.
Song Biao adopted the method of attacking at multiple points, and six infantry regiments scattered attacks at multiple points at the same time, opening a 10-kilometer-long attack line, forcing the Yue army to make it difficult to distinguish between the key points and the main forces.
As for the Dingbian battlefield, it is probably difficult for the Yue army to imagine how the more than 2,000 artillery pieces were transported to Dingbian and Bochuan in two days, and how they could ensure the ammunition for these artillery, because the two sides took a completely different path, and it was normal for the Yue army to be unable to understand it.
On the entire battlefield, from Jinzhou to Shenyang, from Shenyang to Benxi, Kuandian, and Dandong, to Shuozhou, Dingbian, and Bochuan, the Northeast Army has recruited more than 2 million people and militia members, and the number of horses drawn from the three eastern provinces and Inner and Outer Mongolia has continued to increase to 600,000, meeting the pre-set requirements.
It is always difficult for the army to imagine that there are always many things, and it is even more difficult to imagine what kind of scene it is like for the rain of bullets fired by 2,000 guns, although such a situation is a very common situation in the First and Second World Wars, but in Asia, this is the first time in the history of Asian warfare. During the Russo-Russian War, the artillery of both sides did not reach this scale combined, but in the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War, with the addition of mortars, the number of artillery pieces invested in a large-scale battle could reach 8,000, and about 70% of them belonged to the Northeast Army.
In the Anju campaign, this proportion was further expanded to 90 percent.
From artillery to machine guns, from mortars to submachine guns, from shotguns to self-loading rifles, from grenades to grenadiers, and from the number of troops to material supplies, the Northeast Army occupies a real and absolute superiority; no matter what the combat level of the army is or what the level of the generals is, this is a gap that is difficult to make up; on the whole, the operational thinking and leading policy of the two sides are the gap between the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The gap of 45 years is really not something that can be easily reversed by the army.
When it comes to the history of warfare in Northeast Asia, people always think of the Battle of Shangganling and the Battle of the 203rd Heights, which were two very tragic battles, but they were also very rare battles, and it is almost impossible to encounter similar situations.
With the equipment level and training quality of the army, they have the ability to repeat the tragic positional battle on the 203 heights in Anzhou, and the truth is close to this.
In order to cross this 100-meter-wide river, the Northeast Army quickly paid heavy casualties, and the number of thousands of casualties in the eyes of Song Biao, the commander-in-chief, was already a very low damage, if it was the other way around, the army attacked, he could make the army suffer tens of thousands of casualties in two hours, and it was impossible to cross the river at all.
Blood stained the river red, four pontoon bridges were erected, and three infantry regiments had already rushed through the first line of defense of the army.
In the command room of the front in poor conditions, Chen Qicai summarized the latest situation and presented it to Song Biao for his attention, and at this time, the First Infantry Division had already seized the Qingchuan River Railway Bridge.
This news surprised Song Biao slightly, he didn't expect that the second division, the elite main force of the army, did not destroy the bridge.
Chen Qicai stood silently beside Song Biao, waiting for the emperor to make a new assessment and decision on this, and naturally understood that the emperor had made a wrong decision at his level, if the artillery troops were concentrated on the Anzhou defense line at the beginning, then there would be no need to divide troops to raid Pyongyang, and the battle of the Qingchuan River could be ended within two days, and the third army of the Manchurian Army would be annihilated here.
He did not dare to speak, and no one dared to stand up and accuse.
Song Biao sorted out the latest more than a dozen pieces of battle information, re-marked the positions of each unit on the combat map, and kept calculating new changes in his mind, and the situation was changing too fast, beyond his initial estimate.
After thinking carefully for a while, Song Biao unhurriedly adjusted his previous miscalculation, and instructed Chen Qicai: "Telegraphed Zhang Xiaohuai, asking the Fourth Infantry Division to cut off the Anping Line within an hour, prevent the retreat of the Second Division of the Yue Army, and concentrate the artillery regiments of each division to fully support the Fourth Infantry Division. The artillery regiments were ordered not to rush to cover the enemy's lines, to focus on attacks in depth, and that the two infantry divisions should be good at solving small forts and machine-gun points with mortars. In addition, the 15th Division and the 22nd Infantry Division were sent up, and all divisions in the Jiechuan area were ordered to defeat the Fourth Reserve Brigade of the Japanese Army before noon, and the newly formed regiments could go into battle directly at all costs, and the Northeast Artillery Corps should be transferred over by tomorrow to concentrate fire on the Anzhou defensive line, so that the Engineer Brigade and the Baggage Brigade could make relevant preparations. ”
Chen Qicai nodded yes, and then asked, "Your Majesty, do the 3rd and 14th Infantry Divisions still need to continue to move south?" ”
Song Biao did not intend to correct his strategic layout, and said: "We must go south to occupy Pyongyang as soon as possible and cut off the Pyongkyo line railway." There may be some controversy in this matter, but the matter has come to this point, and all units must continue to adhere to the original operational policy, and instead of temporarily changing the policy, it is better to speed up the matter and achieve a quick solution. ”
Chen Qicai paused again, and hurriedly walked out, in fact, he had considered different proposals yesterday, but he didn't dare to risk putting it forward, after all, the opposite side was the second division, the most elite of the army.
After Chen Qicai left, Song Biao called Han Linchun over, and together with him, he re-marked the deployment of the army on the topographic map, trying to guess Oshima Yoshimasa's true thoughts at this time.
After many troops were forced to withdraw from the battlefield, the Yue army mainly retreated to the Yungu area, rather than strictly guarding the railway line, which can be seen that the Yue army still had to defend Yungu to the death, taking advantage of the mountainous area and the Northeast Army to delay.
The terrain around Cloud Valley is very complicated, and those who want to attack it quickly may have a relatively low surname.
After this calculation, Song Biao decided to continue to attack Pyongyang in advance, and on this basis, he used multiple divisions to besiege the Yue army.
By 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the main force of the Northeast Army had crossed the Qingchuan River and cut off the retreat of the 2nd Division, and it was only then that part of the artillery regiments of the Northeast Artillery Corps was transferred to the Anzhou battlefield to provide support for the main forces.
After the 14th Infantry Division annihilated the 4th Reserve Brigade of the Yue Army with great sacrifices, it was refurbished on the spot, and the 3rd Infantry Division led two new regiments to attack Pyongyang in the south, all the way to a quick attack, with the input of the 15th Infantry Division, in the Anju battlefield, Song Biao had used four infantry divisions and 1,400 artillery pieces to besiege the 2nd Division, the 2nd Artillery Brigade and the only remaining 1 general reserve brigade.
Since the outbreak of the whole battle, there has not been a minute of rest, the artillery fire has never been interrupted, and it is getting more and more fierce, the two sides gather in the area of Tongqian Ridge in the south of Anzhou City, which is a typical volcanic ridge, the mouth of the mountain is cone-shaped, shaped like copper coins.
The army established long-term fortifications on the mountain ridge to hold on, and the artillery of the Northeast Artillery Corps was mobilized in more and more numbers, and the artillery fire frantically covered the entire mountain range.
This is the last base camp of the Yue Army, and once it is lost, the Second Artillery Brigade of the Yue Army will face the siege of the two infantry divisions, and it will be too late to retreat.
The battle continued until the evening, the casualties on both sides were very heavy, the corpses on the hillside were strewn, the blood also stained the soil slope, and most of the trees were broken by artillery fire, and they fell everywhere, becoming a common barrier for the Northeast Army to attack upward.
Several mountain paths became the focus of contention between the two sides, and after repeated battles, each other's blood had long been smeared on the cecal path, and the corpses were piled up, burning in the raging fire.
From the Russo-Russian War to the Second World War is the craziest stage of the spirit of bushido, during this period, the middle and lower level officers and soldiers of the army can be called crazy belligerent, foolish and loyal, and do not hesitate to die, in the previous battles of the Yalu River and the Tumen River, the two divisions of the Korean army only suffered 20% casualties and attrition before they collapsed, and many brigades and wings of the army were still able to persist in fighting after the combat attrition reached 50%, even under the casualty rate of 70%. The officers and men of some military units may still have an extremely strong will to fight, and in extreme cases, they will usher in almost frenzied white-knuckle combat and counterattacks.
Such a will to fight cannot be achieved even by the Northeast Army.
During the entire Yalu River campaign from April 5 to April 10, the total casualties of the Northeast Army on the first day were as high as 13,000, and even the lowest last day had more than 2,000 casualties.
It's just that before deciding to start a war with the Yue army, Song Biao was already mentally prepared for this.
No matter what the cost is, an advantage is an advantage, and a victory is a victory after all.
The Battle of Anzhou was the first vicious battle in which the First Infantry Division was really responsible for the main attack since it entered the DPRK, and Zhao Tingzhu and the whole division couldn't wait to fight a beautiful battle, so much so that Zhao Tingzhu, the division commander and deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Front, also went into battle in person and led the two most elite infantry regiments to rush to Tongqian Ridge.
At this time, the 1st Infantry Division of the Northeast Army and the 2nd Division of the Chinese Army in Tongqianling were the most elite units of the two armies, and they also represented the highest level of the Chinese and Chinese armies at this stage.
After the three consecutive attacks were stubbornly held by the army, Zhao Tingzhu couldn't wait to go into battle in person, mobilized all the submachine guns of the division to the 1011th and 1012th infantry regiments, organized 7 stormtroopers, and transferred a large number of mortar squads and heavy machine gun squads from other regiments and attached new regiments, and used two elite infantry regiments to attack at the same time, and dispatched two new regiments to fight together and advance crosswise.
The battle of Shangganling can prove that in this kind of mountain fortification area, the power of artillery will be greatly weakened, at this time it is necessary to rely on more accurate mortars, especially like the Northeast Army equipped with M1910 new 60mm mortar, this new mortar is not improved in power and range compared with the previous one, but the progress in shooting accuracy is obvious, and the error in the effective range of 600 meters can be less than 5 meters.
Simply comparing the training and combat quality of the soldiers and the level of non-commissioned officers, even the most elite First Infantry Division may not be superior to the Second Division of the Japanese Army, and may be a little worse, but the gap between the two sides in terms of equipment and tactical superiority is very large.
The adaptability of the front-line commander is very important, and after several failed attacks, Zhao Tingzhu temporarily made a lot of emergency adjustments, using stronger firepower and infiltration tactics to tear apart the defense line of the Yue army, as well as to prevent the counterattack of the Yue army.
The Northeast Army did not have an absolute advantage over the Japanese army in other equipment, but the number of light machine guns and submachine guns was really beyond the reach of the Yue army.
The army was not equipped with light machine guns and submachine guns, and each infantry squadron still had one heavy machine gun, while the Northeast Army was equipped with 11,000 light machine guns and 17,000 Popning submachine guns on a large scale on the eastern and western battlefields. On the regular three-kilometer defense line of a brigade or regiment, the Northeast Army can often draw 3,000 submachine guns for penetration.
Even during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the gap between the Chinese and US militaries in terms of firepower was not so large.
Objectively speaking, if it were not for the extremely brave and strong bushido spirit of the officers and men who are not afraid of death, this battle would actually be completely impossible to fight, and the army did not know that the Northeast Army was equipped with such a large-scale light machine gun and submachine gun, including when fighting the Beiyang Army, the Northeast Army did not use such equipment as submachine guns, and the whole army retreated to the northeast before it was urgently distributed, and it was equipped with 17,000 surnames at one time, and the additional light machine guns were close to 6,000.
The Madsen machine gun is indeed very expensive, and the cost of the navy is too staggering, and it can't hold it up, so it is reluctant to buy light machine guns for the army, including the military's military thinking has not kept up with the development of the times, and it feels flashy and unrealistic after simply comparing light machine guns with heavy machine guns, and the price is still high, so it does not take into account the new idea that light machine guns should be installed at the squad level.
As a result, in the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War, it was very painful to pay a very heavy price.
The excellence of a front-line commander depends to a large extent on his adaptability, and half of this ability comes from talent and thinking, and the other half comes from experience and knowledge.
The Fourth, Ninth, and Sixteenth Infantry Wings of the Yue Army were all cut into three sections, unable to take care of each other, while the 1st Infantry Division of the Northeast Army surrounded and besieged the 4th Infantry Wing at the forefront, while suppressing the 9th and 16th Infantry Wings with artillery fire.
At night, the Japanese army launched a white-edged counterattack, but the Northeast Army is also known for its night-edged warfare, and the special flares made by the Shenyang Arsenal have a detention and burning time of nearly 3 minutes in the air, and the combination of flares and light machine guns is the great nemesis of the night bayonet offensive of the Yue army.
The Northeast Army used to use shotguns, but now it doesn't even use shotguns, and submachine guns and light machine guns are used together.
At 9 o'clock in the morning of the following day, the 1st Infantry Division, with the cooperation of the three newly formed regiments, launched another wave of powerful offensives to annihilate the 9th Infantry Wing of the Yue Army and annihilate the main force of the 2nd Division of the Yue Army at the cost of 3,400 casualties.
In the battles of the Yalu River, the Tumen River, and the Qingchuan River, about 35 percent of the casualties of the Yue army came from the counter-struggle for key and vital areas, and the normal troops would not do this, because it had been clearly proved in the battle of the Yalu River that the cost of counterattacking the defense line of the Northeast Army was very tragic, but the thinking of the Yue army was very powerful, and they often did what they knew they could not do, not so much because they were foolish, belligerent, and courageous, not so much because they were rigid in their tactical thinking and did not treat soldiers as human beings.
In the first battle of Tongqianling, the troops lost in the four counteroffensive positions accounted for half of the casualty rate of the entire Second Division, and it was obvious that the more fierce the counterattack and the more dead the troops were when they encountered the elite and machine-gun formations of the main force of the Northeast Army, such as the First Infantry Division.
On April 13, 1911, the Battle of the Qingchuan River was basically over, and the commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, Yoshimasa Oshima, committed suicide in the Yunguling, and the chief of staff, Matsunaga Masatoshi, was killed, and the Manchurian Army was also exhausted during this period, with a total of 134,000 casualties and 35,200 prisoners.
It is said that the military headquarters has strangely organized this unit into the "Great Imperial Army and the Manchurian Army", which means that it is naturally going to attack all the way into the three eastern provinces, and the main theater of operations is also in the northeast.
After this battle, Jiang Yanxing, Zhao Tingzhu, Chen Wu and others of the Northeast Army also seemed to be among the famous generals, just like Song Biao back then, using the corpses of the army all over the field as the cornerstone to ascend to the ranks of famous generals in China.
The Northeast Army, which will shine brightly!
Heroes are like dragons, starting from the grass, seizing the opportunity to stand out in this stormy era, like a bright star illuminating this vast land, making the Chinese people proud and proud, and making the enemy frightened.
Before provoking this Sino-Xinhai War, there were three inferences: the first was that the army defeated the Northeast Army, and then continued to send troops north, using the Anglo-Japanese alliance and Anglo-French relations to contain Russia, occupying the South Manchurian region without stimulating the Russian army to participate in the war, and sending the main force to land in Tianjin under the cover of the navy, giving China another eight-nation alliance to capture Yanjing, completely defeating the Northeast Army, overthrowing Song Biao, re-establishing a new political axe, and completely trampling on the self-esteem of the Chinese; The second is that if the army does not defeat the Northeast Army and cannot break through the mountainous area of Liaodong, then it will hold the defense line on the Yalu River, and then use Taiwan as a springboard to occupy Fujian and Hainan with the assistance of the navy, and cooperate with the local military forces in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou to split China for a long time; The third is that the army will be defeated, retreat to the front line of defense in Pyongyang, continue to use Taiwan as a springboard, and even if it cannot occupy Fujian, it will occupy Hainan Island, use Hainan Island as a springboard to support the southward strategy of the Yueben navy, and at the same time use Hainan Island as a base to support the southern local armies of Liangguang and Yunnan-Guizhou.
In just 10 days after the start of the war, the Northeast Army occupied Pyongyang and completely annihilated the main force of the Army, and although the Northeast Army also paid heavy casualties, it still had sufficient troops to continue fighting, while the Army completely lost the capital to contend with the Northeast Army on the Korean Peninsula.
(To be continued)