Chapter 786: 5 Minutes
In the mountains and forests of a certain part of northern Korea, the entire land has been dyed snow-white because of the snow. But even so, in the rugged paths of the mountains and forests, there were still large numbers of Wehrmacht troops walking on them in thick cotton boots.
The winter in Korea is very cold, and for the National Defense Forces, apart from the troops stationed in Siberia, the Outer Northeast and the Northeast, there are probably few areas that can get used to marching and fighting in such climatic conditions.
Fortunately, the troops participating in the war this time, the Beijing Military Region and the Shandong Military Region both belong to the north, and although the winter weather cannot be compared with that of North Korea, it is at least the same. And the main force of this campaign was the Northeast Army, whose climatic conditions were similar to those of North Korea, so there were no major problems.
After all, the climate here is basically the normal temperature for the troops of the Northeast Military Region in winter in previous years. This is especially true after a large number of padded clothes, cotton boots, etc., which are specially designed for winter use, have been delivered.
In comparison, the situation of the Japanese army was somewhat pitiful.
Not only because there was a large gap between the equipment of the Japanese army and the Wehrmacht, but also because with the southward movement of the 21st Army, at least on land, the Japanese troops on the front line were rarely able to get supplies from land, and most of the supplies came from the sea, which is the only place where Japan still has an advantage...
The Wehrmacht already had an advantage in equipment, but now that it was like this, the Japanese army suddenly fell into a disadvantage.
The unit in front of him is specifically responsible for chasing the fleeing Japanese army. This unit was originally stationed in Heilongjiang by the Shenyang Military Region. Heilongjiang, in the original map of China, Heilongjiang is located in the northeasternmost part of China. The northern and eastern ends of China's territory are located at the provincial borders. It is named after Heilongjiang in the northeast of the province, referred to as black. Heilongjiang is located in the eastern part of the Eurasian continent, the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, and the northeasternmost part of China, and has a temperate continental monsoon climate. The annual average temperature of the province is mostly between -5 Β°C ~ 5 Β°C, decreasing from south to north, roughly taking the Nenjiang and Yichun lines as the 0 Β°C contour.
At the same time, Heilongjiang is definitely the coldest province in China in the original Chinese territory. Especially one of the coldest towns in the province, Mohe Town...
Mohe Town is located in the northernmost part of China. It is known as the 'Arctic Village of China'. Here, one can easily see a magical astronomical landscapeββββββ the Northern Lights.
It is precisely for this reason that Mohe Town is also known as the 'City That Never Sleeps'. Mohe Town, also known as Mohe Township, is now known as Beibei Township and belongs to Mohe County. In the history of later generations. Mohe is located on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River, the Sino-Russian boundary river at 53Β° north latitude. It is cold all year round, only about half a month in summer, the maximum temperature is only 20 Β°C, and the night is only about 10 Β°C, and the days are long and the nights are short, and the days can reach more than 19 hours. The reason why Mohe is the coldest place in the country is because the winter temperature in this area is often minus 30~40 Β°C, and the extreme minimum temperature has reached minus 52.3 Β°C.
-52.3Β°C...
Such temperatures. I believe that no matter who it is, it can already be called extreme.
Nature. For today's China, because of the seizure of a large territory, especially after the seizure of a large territory including Siberia, China's territory has not only greatly increased, but also the area of cold climate has also increased a lot, in today's Chinese territory, there are many areas that are colder than Mohe Town, but even so, this army originally stationed in Heilongjiang Province still has the ability to fight in the snow that ordinary troops do not have...
Merely...
No matter how strong the ability to fight in the snow is, in this environment, it is still a bit difficult to walk...
At least when these soldiers in thick cotton shoes walked on the snow, it was difficult for them all to...
"Hell, these little devils don't know how to pick some good roads to go, they have to go to such a place..."At the front of the line, a thickly dressed officer couldn't help but curse in a low voice as he struggled to move.
Although he is also a native of Heilongjiang, fighting in this climate is still something he is unwilling to do.
"Alright, bear with me..."Glancing at the officer, the battalion commander of the team shook his head slightly, and then looked at the rows of messy footprints in front of him. At least judging from these footprints, those little devils should not be very far away from us, and it won't be long before we can catch up with them..."
With that, the battalion commander was already beckoning to the back.
After receiving the officer's order, the whole team, although very tired, still increased the speed of their feet as much as possible. It's just that in this situation where there is snow everywhere and there are mountain roads, there is really no way to get out much faster...
Fortunately, they were not much faster, and the same was true of the Japanese in front.
And in a way, the Japanese are probably even more troublesome than them...
Isn't there such a saying, there is no road in this world, because there are more people walking, and there is a road. This is the case right now, there may have been a road in the mountains, but after the onset of winter, this situation has been completely reversed...
Heavy snow fell from the sky, making the whole land covered with snow...
In this case, whether there is a road or no road, there is not much difference anymore...
And the Japanese army, who fled for their lives, had to make a way out of this road on this road where there was no road, and you can imagine how difficult it was.
In comparison, although this Wehrmacht is also very troublesome, it is at least much easier than the Japanese army to walk on the snow and land that the Japanese army has stepped on. Even with the speed of the march, it was much faster than the Japanese army...
It seems that this is indeed the case, and after some effort, despite the exhaustion, the unit eventually caught up with the Japanese army...
"Dada..."
The sound of machine guns continued to ring, even though the Japanese army numbered only a little more than a hundred. There is not much ammunition left, and many soldiers have not eaten anything for more than two days, but even in this case. They still don't seem to have considered surrender.
After finding that they were being caught up, these Japanese troops quickly organized their defenses on the spot, and with what little ammunition they had left, stubbornly resisted the Wehrmacht's attack...
"These little devils are really hard to fiddle with..."
Standing in the temporary headquarters, looking at the Japanese troops in front of him who were still resisting stubbornly, the previous battalion commander frowned slightly.
Despite this time. As long as he ordered the whole army to press, he could easily win the victory in a normal battle, and even compress the victory time to half an hour. However, he still did not give this order, preferring to fight in a less efficient way.
The battle has been fought to this point, and anyone can see that the victory of the Wehrmacht is beyond doubt. In other words. This will most likely be the last battle they will ever experience. So, is there anything worse in this world than dying in the last battle?
Although this officer does not consider himself a good commander, he is not willing to sacrifice the lives of his subordinates in vain.
On the other hand, those Japanese soldiers are still dying...
It's just that although their resistance is still very tenacious, these Japanese are probably already aware of their fate ββββββ death!
It doesn't seem to make a difference whether you die in battle or are executed directly after being captured...
Although there has been little evidence. But in fact, the Japanese army who loved Korea was well aware, except in very few cases. Otherwise, after the Wehrmacht captured the Japanese prisoners, they usually did not leave them alive.
Simpler, it is to shoot directly on the spot. Some of the more cruel ones were forcing Japanese prisoners of war to dig their own pits and tricking them into saying that they were burying dead Japanese soldiers. But in reality, they all got them into the pit they dug themselves and buried them alive.
There are even a few very cruel acts that happen, but there are too few cases of such things...
Naturally, the Kokusha government never admitted that such a thing had happened, nor did the Japanese government inquire about itββββββ because the Japanese government had claimed that no Japanese soldier had ever been captured during the war, in order to boost the morale of the military and civilians in the country, and that those soldiers who had fought for the empire, for the emperor, and for the Yamato nation in Korea had never succumbed to the despicable Chinese until their deaths..."
Because of this propaganda, the morale of the military and civilians in Japan is very high.
Naturally, everyone knows what the real situation is. There are not many people in this world who are not afraid of death. Even after 20 years in the original history, there are still many people in Japan who are afraid of death, let alone this era that is not very crazy?
At least in the records of the Wehrmacht, there are no Japanese soldiers who voluntarily surrendered.
It's just that the Japanese can't take the initiative to say such a humiliating thing after all, so in fact, almost everyone in Japan has always insisted on fighting to the death, as for the real situation...
But because of this, in the end, the Japanese really have a little bit of meaning to fight to the death. After all, even if they are captured by the Chinese anyway, they will not escape the end of the road, in this case, it is better to really simply fight to the end ...
In this way, even if he dies, he can bite off two pieces of meat from the Wehrmacht's body before he dies...
At least this part of the Japanese army in front of him planned to do so, and the battalion commander obviously didn't intend to let go of these Japanese in front of him.
"Take your time, these guys won't last long...", saying this, the battalion commander raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the Japanese position again...
But at this moment, a soldier suddenly ran behind him, with a telegram in his hand.
"Battalion commander, this is a telegram that has just been sent from the headquarters." As he said this, the soldier's expression was slightly strange. Although he is just an ordinary soldier, there has always been a troop education program within the Wehrmacht, that is, to allow soldiers to learn in the army.
Of course, it is certainly not possible to run a school in the army, which is usually organized by a certain platoon, and the officers with a higher level of education in the platoon, usually the deputy platoon commander or platoon commander, are involved. Educate the soldiers below, teach them to read and write, and so on.
Although it is a combat unit, the educational opportunities available to the soldiers in the army are likely to be inferior to those of ordinary elementary school students. But three years of service came down. Soldiers who have retired from the army usually know a lot of words.
The young soldier in front of him was able to understand the content of the telegram because of this, but it was precisely because of this that his expression was so...
As if noticing that something was wrong with the soldier's expression, the battalion commander frowned slightly, but he still took the telegram from the soldier's hand. Then I read it carefully.
It's just that just after seeing the first few lines, the battalion commander couldn't help frowning.
ββ¦β¦β¦ It was the armistice, and now the Korean National Defense Forces troops. Immediate and general ceasefire..."
The content of the telegram was simple: the headquarters located in the territory of Liaoning Province notified the units of the Wehrmacht fighting in the territory of Korea. At present, the news that the Kokusha government has temporarily ceased war with the Japanese government has been received from the moment the telegram is received. All IDF units fighting in Korea should immediately cease fire...
A temporary truce...
"Is there a temporary truce?" he looked at the telegram in his hand. The battalion commander muttered repeatedly, and while looking at the battalion commander, the officer standing next to him couldn't help but speak. "Battalion commander, what do we do now? Could it be that there is a real ceasefire? β
"This..."Hearing his subordinates ask like this, the battalion commander couldn't help frowning slightly, but he was a little bit of a little bit about how to answer...
After all, the chase has been chased for such a long distance. Just let them go back like this, but this is something they would never want...
But if you keep fighting. But it is contrary to the orders of the command...
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Just when the battalion commander was still a little entangled, the Japanese troops on the other side, who were still resolutely resisting, suddenly let out a sound similar to the howl of a ghost crying wolf.
This sound reached not only the Wehrmacht in front of the Japanese position, but even to the headquarters.
After hearing this ghost-crying wolf-like scream, the battalion commander and the other Wehrmacht troops in the headquarters couldn't help but frown.
In the headquarters, after hearing this voice, the battalion commander hurriedly put aside the telegram in his hand, and then raised the telescope in his hand to look at it. I saw that in the Japanese position opposite, those Japanese who were fighting extremely tenaciously and even crazy were as if they were crazy at this moment, not only fighting desperately with the Wehrmacht who rushed up, but some even held explosives and directly launched a suicidal attack, which had never been done before...
"What the hell is going on...", who also saw what was happening on the Japanese position in the distance, the deputy battalion commander standing next to the battalion commander couldn't help but mutter, completely unable to understand what was happening in front of him.
However, the battalion commander quickly reacted after a deep sigh. "These Japanese have also received telegrams!"
Yes, these Japanese also received the telegram, but the telegram did not come from the side of the Communist government, but from the Japanese government...
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After determining that victory in the Korean battlefield was no longer possible, and continuing to fight would only make the losses even greater, Yamasan-cho Youpeng decisively chose to negotiate peace. And let the Japanese minister in China formally request an armistice and peace to the Kuomintang governmentββββββ this is just a superficial statement, in fact, people with a discerning eye know very well that the Japanese are bowing their heads and admitting defeat...
In this regard, Yan Shaozhi did not embarrass the Japanese, but only expressed his willingness to accept Japan's request for peace, and at the same time agreed to a temporary truce, and the two armies stopped military operations in Korea.
At the same time, however, Yan Shao also put forward a condition, that is, Japan must stop its military mobilization at home. This was also a prerequisite for a temporary armistice, and if the Japanese government violated this article, China could attack the Japanese again at any time.
Although Yan Shao was unwilling to fight, it was impossible for the Japanese to implement the strategy of delaying the army.
Although the Japanese are reluctant to do this, there is nothing they can do, after all, the shape is stronger than the peopleββββββ Yuanshan County Youpeng really plans to implement the strategy of delaying the army through guΓ² to reorganize the strategy, after all, it is definitely not an easy thing to let him bow his head and admit defeat so lightly, but since he has been discovered by the Chinese, he will naturally not do it, after all, with the ability of the Special Affairs Bureau, it is too light to find out about the Japanese military mobilization.
On the other hand, just like the Kokusha government, after the armistice was formalized with the Kokusha government, the Japanese government also conveyed this message to the troops still fighting in Korea. It's just that at this time, most of the Japanese troops on the front line have been defeated, and it makes no difference whether they receive it or not.
They were also lucky, although the troops they caught were only more than 100 people, but in fact this was the core unit of a Japanese infantry wing, carrying a certain number of radio stations and many important items, if it weren't for this, even if the telegram was really sent, they might not be able to receive it...
But...
I found that the Japanese troops on the opposite position seemed to have become extremely confused after venting, and the battalion commander who had been in the command headquarters pursed his lips, and his eyes flashed.
"Pass my order and launch a full-scale attack immediately...", the battalion commander said and looked at the deputy battalion commander on the side. In addition, a telegram was sent to the regimental headquarters saying that at 11:45 we had captured and annihilated a small group of enemy troops, and now we were cleaning up the battlefield ...
Hearing the battalion commander say this, the deputy battalion commander, who was about to stop him, showed a clear expression.
At 11:45, exactly 5 minutes before the telegram came... (To be continued......)