Chapter XVII: A Hundred Men Fight Ten Thousand Men

When Lin Yuan announced the next stage of the battle plan, Chen Fei and Han Mingguang both frowned, because Lin Yuan's next stage of the battle plan was to completely annihilate the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula.

The other people in the combat conference room also felt that this plan was too crazy, because the people who attended the meeting were all department chiefs of the Beijing ship, and these ** were all technical officers, and they all felt that they were laymen in land warfare, so they did not express their opinions.

Because everyone knows that the number of marines on the Beijing ship is more than 100 people, and the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula originally had 16,000 people, excluding the Chenghuan Battle and the Pyongyang Campaign, how can it be said that the losses will be about 13,000 people, and how to fight 100,000 people with 100 people?

Lin Yuan said: "Comrades, I know that everyone has no idea about this plan, how can a hundred people fight 10,000 people?" Here we will analyze the next step of the Japanese army's situation, due to our electromagnetic interference, so the communication between the Japanese base camp and the combined fleet has been interrupted, the Japanese army will not rashly cross the Yalu River and strike at our territory without sea supremacy, so they will definitely continue to retreat in Pyongyang, a small part of the troops that arrived in Uiju should also be withdrawn, and they will definitely rely on the victory of the land battle to force the Qing government to agree to Korea's separation from the vassal relationship with the Qing government. Pyongyang is bordered by the Taedong River in the south and the Peony Terrace in the north, the terrain is dangerous, and the elite Japanese army is stationed in the city, so if we attack it, it will definitely not work. ”

Lin Yuan said this, paused for a moment, and then said: "The city of Pyongyang is full of all the elite Japanese troops in Korea, the main force is the Third Division and the Fifth Division, as well as artillery units, baggage troops and telecommunications troops, these troops are organized into the First Army, the commander is Yama County Aritomo, Yama County Aritomo is the number one person in the Japanese Army. Think about it, what would happen to this unit if the highest echelons of the Japanese army were wiped out at the same time? ”

Hearing Lin Yuan say this, everyone's hearts suddenly lit up, and Lin Yuan made a "beheading" gesture and said: "So our first step is to decapitate the operation, and at the same time knock out the command structure of the Japanese First Army and two divisions. ”

Xu Feng, who also attended the meeting as the head of the carrier-based aircraft unit, added: "Yes, we have to strike not only at the command structure of the Japanese army, but also at their ammunition depots, granaries, including their artillery. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said: "Xu Feng is right, the Japanese army's food and ammunition must be transported from the mainland to Incheon Port, and then turn far away by land, so we should attack Incheon Port, once the Japanese army's food and grass are cut off, the army's morale will be chaotic." ”

Han Mingguang said: "I don't know if you have noticed a problem, due to the lack of Japanese ship capacity, so the Japanese government chartered foreign merchant ships for transportation, most of which were British ships, the British in order to balance the power of the Russians in the Far East, vigorously supported Japan, those ships were almost free for the Japanese to use. ”

Xu Feng said with a smile at this time: "Political commissar, aren't you afraid of causing international disputes, in this era, our aircraft carrier is not afraid of anyone!" ”

His words caused many comrades present to laugh, Han Mingguang also laughed, he said: "The British are not a good thing, they robbed us of many cultural relics, and they also burned down the Old Summer Palace in partnership with the French, so what I mean is that we don't directly bomb the British transport ships, we are full of mines in the port, so that they will suffer a big dumb loss." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, the first step is to plan like this, our carrier-based aircraft will carry out a decapitation operation, knock out the enemy's command structure, and then knock out their logistics supplies." But even so, our marines will not be able to wipe out all the Japanese troops, so the second step is that I will go to the Qing army garrison on the border between China and North Korea and find a way to get them to send troops, and then we can annihilate all the Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula in one fell swoop. ”

Han Mingguang hesitated and said, "If you go to the generals of the Qing army, will it be dangerous?" ”

Lin Yuan said nonchalantly: "No, the Japanese fleet has not been able to do anything to me, and the Qing army can be regarded as our compatriots no matter what it says, and it will not harm me." ”

When Lin Yuan said this, he looked at the department chiefs present and said: "Okay, that's it, that's it, the collection of target intelligence and the specific plan for air strikes will be implemented by the relevant departments. ”

At 12 o'clock on 19 September, an hour and a half before the end of the combat meeting on the Beijing ship, in the city of Pyongyang, the commander of the Japanese army, Aritomo Yamagu, was agonizing over the food problem.

The Japanese army has always had a tradition of despising logistics supplies, which was vividly reflected in the Russo-Japanese War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Pacific War.

Youpeng of Shan County originally planned to occupy Pyongyang City so that he could grab the grain of the Qing army, but as soon as he saw Ye Zhichao, the commander of the Pyongyang garrison, abandon the city and leave, he already expected that this plan would fail, and the food in the city was pitiful.

Youpeng in Shan County turned his hopes on the grain transportation in Incheon, but although there was grain in Incheon, there was no one to transport it, and the strength of the Japanese army was already thin compared to the Qing army on the other side of the Yalu River. Then there are only Koreans, but the Koreans are not willing to work for the Japanese at all, and the Japanese army is not good at tearing their faces to force the Koreans, after all, Japan is sending troops on the grounds of helping Korea get out of the control of the Qing court, how can it coerce the Koreans?

What made Youpeng in Shan County even more depressed was that the Japanese Combined Fleet had disappeared, the telegram could not be contacted at all, and even the base camp did not know where the Ludao Combined Fleet had gone, and the Korean Peninsula was so narrow that it was facing the sea on three sides, and if the Qing army landed behind itself under the cover of the Beiyang Fleet and surrounded itself with the Qing army on the other side of the Yalu River, then his entire army would have to be shattered.

Suddenly, Youpeng in Shan County saw a black dot flying in the sky in the distance, and his first reaction in his heart was: What a big bird, and then a black dot fell from it, and his heart moved, and the place where it landed was the station of the command post of the Third Division.

Then he saw the place where the black dot landed, a large cloud of white smoke rose, he naturally thought of the smoke after the explosion of the cannonball, and then there was a muffled sound, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, the sound of the cannonball was not like this, suddenly, the white smoke made a loud noise, and a huge and dazzling fireball rose into the air in the white smoke.

Just as he was wondering, there was an explosion behind him, and an unknown object entered the room through the window of the telegraph room, exploding in the room, followed by a loud bang, and the roof was blown off, and a huge fireball engulfed him in an instant.

According to Lin Yuan's order, the early warning aircraft successfully locked the position of the Japanese command post according to the Japanese telegraph signal, and a J-24 made a sortie and fired napalm at the designated target. This kind of ammunition has great lethality to personnel, especially the napalm burns in an instant, consumes a lot of oxygen, produces a large amount of carbon monoxide, and the personnel in the bunker are not spared.

In less than half an hour, the command posts of the 3rd Division and the 5th Division, the main combat force of the Japanese army, were all destroyed, all the division commanders were killed, and all the commanders and personnel of the Japanese forces in Korea, including the commander Yama Yama Aritomo, were killed.

For the ordinary officers and men of the Japanese army, the loss of command was not the most terrible thing, and their supplies in the port of Incheon were soon reduced to ashes, and the Japanese army would soon be in a situation where they were running out of ammunition and food.

Lin Yuan was on the helicopter at this time, flying to the Qing army station, he didn't know what to do, and a more difficult battle was still waiting for them.