Chen Wu is really here.

For Chen Wu, he just wanted to find an opportunity to complete his redemption, restore the rank of general, and be able to retire with the rank of army general, after retiring from the Wehrmacht, he went to Afghanistan as a military adviser for several years under Jiang Fangzhen's arrangement, and then went to Chile and Iran as a military general adviser.

In the past ten years, Chen Wu has been in Iran, serving as the vice president of the Tehran Army Academy in Iran, and the president has not done a lot of things, but in the position of Iran's military general adviser, he has built a very strong army for Iran, so it cannot be said that Chen Wu has stayed away from the military field over the years.

is older, his surname Gege is much better than before, and it is rare to return to China twice in the middle to have the opportunity to meet the emperor under the arrangement of Zhao Tingzhu and others. He should say that he regretted his impulsiveness back then, and now it is too late to regret it, but he has never had a chance to remedy it.

As for the emperor's punishment of him, Chen Wu was willing, he would always be the most loyal to the emperor's old lineage, and the emperor had no choice when it came to severe punishment.

Now there is such an opportunity, Chen Wu can't wait to fly back to China, several times through Zhao Tingzhu and others to petition, even Jiang Yanxing, Yang Tiesheng and other old colleagues have come out to intercede, coupled with Jiang Fangzhen, Chen Qicai's persuasion, the emperor finally approved this matter, and made a favor for Chen Wu to be demobilized as a major general of the army, and formed the Fourth Army to participate in the war.

It is said that it is the Fourth Army, which is actually the strength of two infantry divisions and six brigades, and three of them are Iranian army units, one of which participated in the East African war, and it can be said that Chen Wu helped Iran form an elite mountain brigade of the army.

China is not only a member of the Asian League, but also the leader of the Asian League, and if China goes to war with Ben, all member countries will definitely have to contribute money and efforts, and Iran has contributed both money and strength, and the only two battleships have been sent to Brunei to assist in the defense.

Anyway, Chen Wu still came, and he came very quickly.

On December 30, 1939, before the beginning of January next year, Chen Wu couldn't wait to fly to Kaesong, and did not go to Pyongyang, but went directly to the front headquarters.

His surname is like this, Cai Yi also knows it very well, I heard that he flew over directly, put down the phone and went to pick up the airport.

Kaesong Military Airport.

A SE35 military special plane flew down and stopped at the end of the airport, and Chen Wu walked out of the airport alone, without even a single orderly by his side, and there was no adjutant to follow.

He had been away from the Imperial Wehrmacht for too long, as if he were an outright stranger.

Walking out of the cabin, he raised his eyes and saw Cai Ye in the pick-up team not far away, Cai Ye is still wearing a dark blue general's uniform, but he can only change into a dark brown and green major general's uniform.

Such a visual gap made Chen Wu quite emotional.

Time flies, he found that he is really a lot older, but that heroic spirit will never be lost, in this land, he once slashed more than a dozen soldiers, he commanded his 3rd division to sweep tens of thousands of troops, more distant times, he once followed the emperor in the Liaoyang battlefield together to kill more than 100,000 troops.

Seeing Chen Wu, Admiral Cai Ye seemed very happy, and couldn't wait to walk up quickly to greet him, Chen Wu also walked down the gangway quickly to shake hands with Cai Jie, the two were very happy to see each other, especially Chen Wu, who has worked in Iran for so long, and it is not easy to finally be able to meet old friends.

Cai Ye naturally understood his mood, couldn't help but pat Chen Wu's shoulder, and sighed: "Old Chen, it's good if you can come, I can't ask for it, come, I will introduce you to all the cadres of our Northeast Defense Force." ”

After saying this, Cai Ye accompanied Chen Wu and Wei Lihuang and others present to meet and greet him, and introduced these new generation of army major generals and lieutenant generals to Chen Wu one by one.

It has been fifteen years since Chen Wu left the Imperial Wehrmacht, and in these fifteen years, the speed of the renewal of the Reichswehr is very fast, Wei Lihuang's group of major generals and lieutenant generals are all young officers who stood out during the First World War, and they were only lieutenants and captains back then.

Chen Wu was a general back then, and he must have lacked understanding of the group of lieutenants of that year, so Chen Wu was not familiar with Liu Yazhao, Bai Chongxi, Huang Baitao, and Xue Yue.

Seeing such a group of people, Chen Wu also sighed.

After introducing this group of colleagues to Chen Wu, Cai Yi personally accompanied Chen Wu back to the front-line headquarters, and when he arrived at the headquarters, Cai Yi had to arrange a place for Chen Wu to stay first, and after preparing a room in the temporary guest house, the two sat down in the room and talked about each other's recent situation.

After talking a few words about the topic, Cai Ye said to Chen Wu: "I am really happy that you can come here this time, we are also difficult brothers, and it is not easy to have such an opportunity, I really hope that it is a beautiful turnaround, even if I retire again, I can be beautiful." ”

Chen Wu sighed: "Who said it wasn't! ”

Cai Yi patted the position next to the bed, invited Chen Wu, who was pouring tea, to sit down, took out a cigarette and lit a fire with Chen Wu, and said: "Actually, you can come, the more I think about it, the happier I become, to be honest, I have been away from the army for a while, and the current battlefield has changed too much, I can't adapt to it, fortunately, Liu Gengyun, an old thing, has been the dean of the academy, and has commanded the East African war before, and his ability to accept it is much faster than mine." ”

Chen Wu also went to the East African battlefield, and told Cai Ye the truth: "It's really not a big scene in East Africa, the Italian army doesn't fight at all, and whoever goes can be swept away by dividing it by two, but then again, Lao Liu's battle was indeed very beautiful, very stable, and he broke up the opponent safely, and it was really a void to attack the enemy with the truth of being undefeated." ”

Cai Yi smiled and said: "What you said is fair, it's rare that you Chen Leopard also has a time to convince people!" ”

Chen Wu sighed unhappily: "What is the leopard, the old leopard is old, the old leopard is not even as good as the hyena on the grassland, only lying on the tree and waiting for death." ”

Cai Yi dusted off his cigarette ash and said, "Don't say it so bleakly." ”

Chen Wu said: "It's a good thing to lower your posture, I didn't know how to converge when I was young, but now I understand convergence, but I don't have any chance." ”

Cai Yi smiled: "Isn't this your chance now?" ”

Chen Wu replied disdainfully: "What kind of opportunity is this, it can't do anything to our army at all, now is the time for the Air Force and Navy to be angry, they have won, and we can win this battle with our eyes closed." If we really want to fight, let's fight the Soviet Union, and then fight a real Sino-Soviet war is the protagonist of our army. But that opportunity, I don't think it's the turn of the two of us, Lao Zhao and Fu Liangzuo, the two bastards have been preparing for a long time, as long as they really fight, they won't let us wipe our hands, let's just clean up the little book. ”

Cai Yi sighed and said insider: "At the beginning, the emperor actually wanted Zhao Tingzhu to come over, but he didn't say that he couldn't come, but secretly found Jiang Fangzhen to recommend me, saying that it was more appropriate for him to stay in the northwest and stare at the Soviet Union." The emperor pondered for a while, and really let me come over. ”

Chen Wu and Zhao Tingzhu have been dealing with each other for a lifetime, and there is nothing to say, so he commented in one sentence: "That thing is a human spirit, and the essence is the same as a monkey, and the two of us are still comparable." Let's just say that this is a bad thing, in fact, my point of view may be different from yours, Xiao Yueben's group of grandchildren are notoriously proud, the commander above is notoriously stiff and conservative, and the following is notoriously not afraid of death, so this battle may not be really easy to fight, even if we win with the advantage of equipment, they are not convinced, sooner or later they will have to provoke trouble, so if this battle wants to really convince them, it is still necessary to fight for courage, blood surname, and convincing to let them know who is the boss. ”

Cai Ye agreed: "What you say makes sense, but how are you going to fight?" ”

Chen Wudao: "If we fight hard, we will have the advantage, it is impossible to say that we will throw good equipment aside, and we will fight hard without the help of the navy and air force, then we will be too stupid." Therefore, if you want to fight in the First World War, Xiao Yuben will not dare to toss with us at all, then you must fight harder, I suggest that we fight a ruthless battle directly, fight hard to Busan Port in one go, block Xiao Yuben's retreat, let them throw all the millions of troops on the Korean Peninsula, all the 10,000 will wipe them out, completely destroy their blood surnames, and they will not challenge us within 500 years. ”

Cai Yi was slightly stunned, and said: "Isn't your idea too ruthless, if you want to fight Busan directly, the middle is all mountainous highlands, and you have to travel hundreds of miles, this battle is not easy to fight, even if you have this opportunity to fight hard, the damage will be very serious." ”

Chen Wuman replied nonchalantly: "Fight, there is nothing that can't be done, as long as we make up our minds." ”

Cai Ye asked, "Did you tell the emperor about this idea before you came?" ”

Chen Wu replied: "Having said that, the emperor is still thinking about it, and it may take two days to reply to us." ”

Cai Yi thought to himself, you Chen Wu still can't change the dog to eat, this ambition is still not small, as soon as he comes up, he wants to eat other people's millions of troops.

…… Song Biao and Jiang Fangzhen discussed Chen Wu's proposal twice, but in the end they did not accept it, because the navy and air force already controlled the Korean Strait, which meant that it would be very difficult for him to retreat from the Korean Peninsula now.

With the transfer of Chen Wu's Fourth Army and two airborne divisions to the Korean battlefield, the Empire's great counteroffensive against the Yue Army was about to arrive.

The Chinese are a nation that is very good at saving money, and the Central Military Department of the empire has always done so, every year, the Central Military Department will use 7% of military spending to reserve strategic materials and ammunition, and the central cabinet political axe also has a good habit of thrift and saving every year, and through the Central Reserve Bureau, it has continuously accumulated national reserves in important strategic materials and grain and other fields.

Reserve.

Just as Germany had stored enough grain, sugar, lard, and butter for the whole country to consume for two years before the war, the Reich also did this kind of thing, but the Reich did it for a longer time, and it was more powerful, and as long as it needed to import, it would engage in strategic reserves, and the total amount of grain reserves was even more astonishingly high, so that every year a part of the old grain had to be donated free of charge or sold to other countries at a low price.

Because the empire lacks iron-rich ore, the refined iron ore powder imported from Brazil and Australia will be specially stored in the country, and the reserves of tin, copper, aluminum, nickel, and zinc are also very high.

If the annual savings work is done well, it is only necessary to consume a large amount of strategic reserve resources in wartime, and because one-third of the country's strategic reserves are in the northeast, it is very convenient and fast to even transfer materials in the war against the Chinese army.

In the end, to sum up, fighting a war with a country like the Chinese Empire, it must be crazy, a little too sick.

If you unexpectedly win against China and unexpectedly go to the northeast to rob for a year or two, wouldn't it be a doubling of money, and the whole country will become the top power of the world powers?

It's really beautiful to think that the army base camp really supported the so-called Manchukuo emperor before the war, and wanted to mobilize the Manchu relics and Qing relics in China to fight together to be loyal to the Manchukuo emperor and establish a truly free Manchukuo, and really secretly sent spies to China to distribute leaflets, publish secret books, and contact the old and young of the previous dynasty.

After the Battle of Jeju, Mitsumasa Yonechi really couldn't be the prime minister, and he didn't want to be either, and the military department didn't want him to be, so he was elected by Konoe to be the prime minister......

It is really difficult for China to say that it can understand China, and it is really even more difficult for China to say that it can understand China.

In short, both sides have indescribable confused accounts.

The contradiction is too deep.

If you can't win, you have to fight.

Just like an unknown little boxer who challenges the world boxing champion for dignity, how inspirational, righteous and brave can always be seen in the movie, as if to encourage everyone to challenge authority and the strong, in reality, as long as the boxing champion is not drunk, or is terminally ill like the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia, he can basically beat the other party out of the.

Said that Ben was very lucky before, and he really won two terminally ill world veteran boxing champions, so he always thought that he was also a boxing champion.

This time it's really going to be beaten, and even feces, urine, plasma and brain plasma will shoot out of the miserable situation all over the place.

Previously, in the air battles of Samduao, Incheon, Kaesong and Jeju, the Chinese Empire actually did not gather all its strength to deal with Yuben, and by January 1940, the empire was ready in all aspects, which really showed the strong strength of the world's first empire.

The army has always thought that it is at the peak level of active war preparations, and it is difficult to match it in the world, and China does not have too many active preparations, so it will definitely be able to occupy an advantage in the early stage of the war, and what it should have to do is to sink China's navy as soon as possible, defeat the main force of China's army, and force China to sign an armistice agreement that is extremely favorable to Yuben, of course they are wrong, China's preparations for war are not visible scientific and technological lines and national strategic reserves, and such preparations are called a higher level, and it only takes half a yearChina's scientific and technological level, abundant strategic reserves, and national industrial strength in the military industry will be able to increase its military strength by four or five times.

Before the outbreak of the Battle of Sanduao, the Chinese Army was equipped with a total of 11,500 tanks and armored vehicles, including 1,320 MT22 light tanks, and by January 1940, the total equipment of MT22 light tanks in the army had increased to 5,540, the number of Air Force fighters and other aircraft increased from 9,770 to 17,500, and the number of Tiger Shark fighter-bombers reached an astonishing 4,300.

Under such circumstances, once China's counteroffensive against Yueben began, it would be impossible for the Yue army to resist it.

Although he was crazy, it was also based on the frenzied pursuit of national interests, as well as the internal compromise and appeasement of militarism, so that even the last reason would not be lost, and Konoe Fumiro has been trying to negotiate an armistice since he returned to power.

On the surface, the military base camp was controlled by the Imperial Daoist faction, but behind the scenes, it was Prince Zaihito, who represented Emperor Showa, who also decided to negotiate with China, but put forward a basic negotiation condition to Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe, that is, he could neither cede land nor give any financial compensation, and at the same time would not bear any responsibility for war crimes.

Despite the harsh conditions, Konoe Fumiro had great hopes of sending the foreign minister to China to negotiate, but of course it was impossible to reach any result.

It was under such circumstances that in mid-January 1940, the Northeast Defense Army launched the Seoul Offensive on an unprecedented scale, kicking off the prelude to the great imperial counteroffensive.

It was Wei Lihuang, the commander of the Second Group Army, who was in charge of commanding the operation, and General Cai Ye was nominally in charge, and Wei Lihuang had been preparing for this battle for a long time.

During the renovation period in Pyongyang, he and Huang Baitao went to the front line many times to inspect the actual situation, and combined with the topographic map, the two of them conducted many exercises and tests by means of military flag deduction.

The Second Army has three armored divisions, the 4th, 14th, and 15th, the 35th Infantry Division, the new 56th and 57th Infantry Divisions, the 134th and 135th Tank Brigades, the 55th Self-Propelled Artillery Division, the 104th Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade, the newly formed 180th Artillery Division, the 153rd and 154th Engineering Brigades, the 172nd Baggage Brigade, the 184th and 185th New Baggage Brigades, and the Eighth Division and Eight Brigades, with a total establishment of 357,000 people, of which one-quarter of the strength was recruited from the patrol army and local militia in the past six months. 1/10 of the soldiers were recruited after the war.

Such a force composition determined that the Second Army would be the absolute main force of the army throughout the Third Sino-Chinese War.

After half a year of preparations, all divisions and brigades under the Second Group Army have carried out large-scale equipment replacement and adjustment in accordance with the operational terrain of the Korean Peninsula, as well as special large-scale military exercises and training.

It was not until the end of 1939 that the Second Army was reinforced from Pyongyang to the front line and was responsible for attacking the fortified positions as the main force of the Seoul offensive.

Originally, according to the intention of the Central Military Department, Fu Zuoyi's First Group Army was transferred back to Pyongyang to replenish and repair the defense, and new troops were added to Pyongyang on the spot to supplement and adjust them, so as to prepare for the subsequent attack on the landing battle on the mainland.

After all, Fu Zuoyi is Fu Zuoyi, and he has a deep network around the emperor, so he directly walked the road of Chen Jiayou's chief of the inner court through the relationship of the year, and sent several telegrams to the emperor to ask for war, not looking at the merit and hard work, after all, their second army has been defending Kaesong for half a year, and now they are going to fight a big battle, and the whole army is gearing up to fight for honor, but they want to go back to rest and recuperate, the brothers are not convinced, they can't stand it, and he, the commander of the second group army, will also be looked down upon by his subordinates, thinking that he has no status in the upper echelons of the army, That's why it ended up like this.

During the war, all operational plans and overall arrangements were made by the Joint Operations Staff Department under the Central National Defense Military Commission, and the actual responsible persons were Jiang Fangzhen, Pan Zhaoqin, and Fu Liangzuo, and the specific plans for the Seoul offensive were also drawn up and submitted to the emperor for approval.

After reading Fu Zuoyi's telegram, on the one hand, he personally telegraphed back to appease Fu Zuoyi and the officers and men of the Second Army, and on the other hand, he also consulted with Jiang Fangzhen, and finally made some adjustments to this operational plan, allowing the Second Army to be stationed in Seoul and Kaesong on the spot for rest and reinforcement, so that there was no need to be transferred back to Pyongyang. Zhang Zizhong's Third Army could send two main divisions up to fight together.

It happened that Chen Wu's Fourth Army was also transferred to the Korean battlefield, so the Fourth Army was asked to speed up its crossing of the peninsula and reach the Wonsan area and Gangwon Province in eastern Korea.

As we all know, Wei Lihuang is a talent who is extremely good at fighting.

Fu Zuoyi can fight, Wei Lihuang can fight, and Wei Lihuang previously served as the deputy commander of the Yanjing Military Region, and before he was transferred to the commander of the Second Group Army, he not only asked for orders to transfer several divisions that he relied on the most, but also pulled over more than a dozen of his most powerful subordinates.

Wei Lihuang also has a difference from other army commanders and commanders; he pays special attention to cultivating staff officers around him, and his staff office is directly drawn from the Yanjing Military Region, and many of them are a group of high-achieving mathematics students who he specially recruited from the Central Science and Technology University in his early years, and he also attaches great importance to those talents who are excellent in both arts and sciences when selecting lower-level officers.

Wei Lihuang also has a special advantage, his qualifications are not as senior as Fu Zuoyi, but he is not shallow, basically among the graduates of the Central Lu University, he is the first imperial gift group, known as the first protégé of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, among the generals who rose after World War I, he is an extremely special one, who has been immersed in the great mechanized military revolution for more than ten years, and can also be said to be an expert in the mechanized war of the empire.

During the six-month period of Pyongyang's readjustment, in order to fight a hearty battle, he not only personally went to the front line several times to observe the combat level of the Japanese army, but also made hundreds of large and small adjustments to the Second Group Army of the headquarters, and also made everything in the replacement of equipment in a light and simple manner, and equipped more than 4,000 MT22 light tanks, in order to use the advantages of the MT22 light tank to quickly cut through the defensive line of the Japanese army.

The intelligence work of the book was still very good, so as soon as Wei Lihuang took the Second Army into battle, the base camp of the Yue Army knew that the situation was not good, and hurriedly asked the Third Army led by Okamura Ninji to step forward to support the Second Army of Lieutenant General Minoru of the Higashikure Palace, and General Matsui Ishine also arrived in Seoul in person, adjusted the defense of the whole line, and tried to resist the offensive of the Second Army in the northeast.

The Great War is imminent, and almost all of the elite talents cultivated by the armies of the two countries in the past 20 years are gathered here.

Even if you are a genius, without education and first-class training and opportunities, you can only be an illiterate worker, farmer, or fisherman, but with education, you can become an engineer, mathematician, physicist, entrepreneur...... It is also possible to be the best military strategist.

Like Wei Lihuang, their generation still hasn't caught up with the good times, and when they were fourteen or fifteen years old, there was really no better way to get ahead than to be soldiers, so they invariably continued to choose to be soldiers, cultivated and grew up in the first-class military education system of the empire, absorbed the best military education and training, and learned to understand the real war.

The group of major generals and colonels who are five or six years younger than them are more lucky, they have experienced a complete series of modern military education of the Youth Military Academy, the Non-commissioned Officer School, and the Military Academy, which lasted for ten years, and then they can be reborn from the ashes and transform into a second lieutenant of the Imperial Wehrmacht, and then they will be promoted and developed step by step from second lieutenant, from platoon commander all the way to regiment commander, brigade commander, and division commander.

You can't win 'em all.

When the Imperial Wehrmacht became such an army, the officers and sergeants were no longer blind and ignorant, no longer vulgar and contemptuous, and they may have bid farewell to the barbarism and bravery of the Northeast Army era, and now even if they are brave, it is also a kind of intellectual tenacity in another sense.

They were lucky.

They are not the generation that is blind and arrogant, nor is they the generation that is ignorant and inferior, they are the generation of the imperial martial and reformist currents, they are the generation of the liberation revolution, and they are the heroic generation under the light of the glory of the empire.

They build on the past.

They inherited honor and bravery, loyalty and tenacity from the era of the Northeast Army, and also understood the rule of law, freedom, nationality, and people's livelihood in the great wave of the imperial recovery revolution and the great wave of imperial modernization, and understood the glory of history, the glory of the nation, and the professionalism and dedication of soldiers.

They are responsible for protecting everything in the empire.

What about Ben?

In Seoul, the two sides are destined to play the most tragic swan song in the history of the struggle for hegemony in Asia, where the victorious side will dominate the ups and downs of history, and the losing side will be completely destroyed and left with nothing.

(To be continued)