Chapter 324: Bad Judgment at the Base Camp

At present, the conscription has even reached the point of consolidating Ze and fishing, and even the college students and skilled workers who were originally exempted from conscription have already been conscripted, and they really cannot mobilize enough troops to reinforce the Kwantung Army in distress. www.biquge.info This is also the main reason why the Kwantung Army's telegrams asking for reinforcements were almost piled up in one room at the most critical moment of the base camp's operation in South Manchuria, and the Kwantung Army was never able to send reinforcements.

Not only did the base camp fail to provide the Kwantung Army with any of the necessary reinforcements, but the Kwantung Army repeatedly demanded that the troops that had been transferred to the Korean Army before the war be redeployed back to the Kwantung Army in order to enhance the Kwantung Army's mobile combat strength. The base camp also did not give the Kwantung Army, any answer they wanted.

For the Japanese base camp, it is more important to strengthen the defense of various points around the homeland. Compared with the Okinawa and Ogasawara Islands around the mainland, the status of the Kwantung Army is still higher than that of the Chinese army. But the importance of the entire strategic deployment of the Japanese army has gradually begun to decline. Now there is no such direction, something more important than the defense of the homeland.

And although the Korean army, which was connected to the mountains and rivers of South Manchuria, also tried to reinforce the Kwantung Army many times. However, the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union penetrating deep into the territory of the DPRK continuously took the initiative to attack, and repeatedly attacked the southern part of the Korean Peninsula with tank clusters, firmly holding the main force of the DPRK army in the territory of the Korean Peninsula.

The armored assault cluster of the Anti-Union in North Korea cut off the railway line from Sinuiju to Seoul for quite a long time. It took a lot of effort and considerable cost for the North Korean army to reopen the Gyeongui line, drive the anti-union troops back to the mountains to the north, and save the lifeline of the Kwantung Army.

However, the northern line had just reopened the Gyeongui line, and the armored clusters of the anti-Japanese alliance on the southern front suddenly forcibly penetrated again, and even hit the parliamentary government in the suburbs of Seoul, where the Japanese Governor's Office in Korea was located, and the Governor's Palace in Seoul could clearly hear the sound of artillery from the north.

The interspersed units of the Anti-Japanese Union are usually composed of a tank battalion, plus a quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun company, a self-propelled artillery battalion or company, plus a 107 rocket artillery company, plus an infantry regiment, and its firepower density is quite high.

All anti-aircraft machine guns are mounted on half-tracks, and the guns are all self-propelled or mounted on jeeps, which are quite maneuverable. In addition, during the operation, the Japanese army did not carry out any offensive operations, but only used the protection, mobility, and firepower of the tanks to avoid the key points of the North Korean army's defense, and rushed the Japanese army in a certain direction along the mountain road.

After breaking into the depth of a certain arming direction, he went on a rampage and stirred up a mess, and immediately retreated quickly, looking for the next breakthrough again. This kind of tank guerrilla tactics of the Anti-Japanese Union troops in the DPRK made the DPRK army extremely uncomfortable. If you can't catch it or hit it, if you don't pay attention, you will be beaten by the enemy when you grab a certain point of your own.

The troops dispatched by the North Korean army finally surrounded the enemy troops who had broken through. The assault troops of the Anti-United Nations immediately turned their tank guns to a regiment in the outer city, and in the fortress made of tanks, with the support of flat-firing quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns, twin anti-aircraft guns, and artillery, they formed a fire hedgehog that made people have nowhere to go.

Coupled with a large number of rapid air support, it often occurred that more than half of the besieging troops were killed or wounded by their dense firepower. After the encirclement was weakened, the encircled people walked away unscathed. The North Korean army tried to control the surrounding mountains, but the enemy's artillery fire and napalm dropped by the air force made it difficult for the North Korean army to hold on even if it controlled the commanding heights.

It is impossible for the North Korean army to build all the areas into permanent fortifications. However, relying solely on infantry field fortification groups, it is difficult to prevent the rapid penetration of enemy troops, and this has become a rather difficult problem for the Korean army. As a result, a situation has been formed in which it is fortified everywhere, but it cannot be prevented everywhere.

The most important thing is that when the enemy forces are interspersed, they usually adopt the tactics of interspersing multiple roads in one direction and cooperating with each other. Let the North Korean army, which can only stick to the main points, often take care of one at the expense of the other. By the time reinforcements arrived, the enemy had already finished killing and wounding the defenders in one direction and was leaving.

In the face of the strange tactics of the anti-coalition forces on the Korean Peninsula, as well as the full use of the mobile ability of tank clusters, the mobile operations carried out on a large scale. At present, the North Korean army can only deal with the anti-coalition forces on the Korean Peninsula with all its energy, and has no time to support the Kwantung Army in the operation.

Although the Korean Peninsula is mainly mountainous, the North Korean army also has an advantage in terms of strength. However, the long mountainous terrain of the entire Korean Peninsula has also caused great trouble for the North Korean army. The DPRK army fortified everywhere, but it was in a hurry everywhere, neglecting one thing and the other, and could only passively put out fires everywhere.

After the tank cluster of the Anti-Japanese Federation broke into the Ui government, in order to free up its hands to concentrate part of its mobile forces, and in response to the tank interspersing tactics of the Anti-United Nations, the North Korean Army simply abandoned the area west of the line from Tokugawa to Icheon. Instead, they concentrated their forces on securing the railway line from Seoul to Sinuiju, as well as securing stability in the areas south of Goseong, Gimhwa, and Icheon.

In particular, the Korean army has greatly strengthened the deployment of troops in this direction, which is directly related to the connection between Korea and the Japanese mainland. In almost every valley, on every road, a large number of troops and firepower were deployed. Adopt the clumsy method of all-out rigid defense and the deployment of a large number of mobile troops on the second line to deal with the enemy's changing tactics.

It can be said that this tactic of the Anti-Japanese Federation, which makes the DPRK army unable to defend itself, and specifically seeks the weakest place to attack, has become a nightmare for the DPRK army. Under the supervision of the Japanese base camp, the North Korean army could only try its best to deal with the rampage of the United Armored Cluster in North Korea.

What has caused trouble for the North Korean army is not only the strength of the Anti-Japanese Union in North Korea, the tactics adopted to make it unable to deal with it, but also the threat of the Anti-Japanese Union and the US air force in North Manchuria. At present, all the roads, railways, ports, wharves, and other communication lines on the entire peninsula are also within the scope of the air attack of the Anti-United Nations.

At the same time, the US military also mobilized some air forces stationed in North Manchuria to join the air blockade of the Korean Peninsula. The addition of a more powerful U.S. military made the already passive North Korean army even more helpless. The DPRK military air force, which is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of both numbers and aircraft performance, can only retreat to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and even withdraw most of its troops directly to the mainland.

If you go to heaven, you will be sent to death, and if you don't go to heaven, you will be bombarded indiscriminately on the ground. During a joint air raid by the Anti-Japanese Union and the US military, dozens of planes were blown up at the Jeju Island airport. Interceptor groups took off from other airfields, and more than 30 were shot down in air battles. Such huge losses are difficult for the North Korean army to bear.

After this battle, the North Korean army surrendered the struggle for air supremacy. In addition to relying on ground anti-aircraft guns, the DPRK army was almost helpless in the face of the air force jointly dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Union and the US military. The sky of the Korean Peninsula no longer belongs to the North Korean army.

After losing air supremacy, the attack aircraft group jointly dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Union and the US military paralyzed the railway lines of the entire Korean Peninsula. The two major transportation hubs of Seoul and Pyongyang were bombed, repaired, repaired, and bombed. Since the start of this battle, there has been no passing by train. The interruption of the railway line made it difficult for the Japanese army, which had always relied on the railway, to move an inch, and at least one fold in mobility was made.

Every car on the highway will also become a target for the anti-United Nations air force and the US air force. Anti-United States made SBD dive bombers, A20 attack aircraft group. The U.S. Army's P-51 and P-38 fighters, as well as a small number of B-26 bombers transferred from other theaters, took off from North Manchuria, and their range basically covered the entire Korean Peninsula.

Under the double firepower of the Anti-Japanese Union and the US military, the entire communication line on the Korean Peninsula has basically been completely paralyzed. For the Japanese army, South Manchuria was indeed the lifeline of the empire, but the Korean Peninsula was the barrier of the empire's western defense. If the North Korean army really entered South Manchuria because of the large number of troops, once something happened on the Korean Peninsula, it would directly threaten the empire's homeland security.

At present, the empire itself is already being bombed every day, and if it is facing an enemy army attack, then the impact on the morale of the army, the people, and morale will be too great. Therefore, after several hesitations, the base camp still ordered only one brigade of the North Korean army to enter the Andong area to serve as a defense. As for the DPRK army, it is still necessary to seize the time and ensure the security of the Korean Peninsula as the top priority.

And the base camp also knows that after the Anti-Japanese Federation takes the entire South Manchuria, I am afraid that the next target should be North Korea. Therefore, the base camp was not very active in the repeated requests for reinforcements from the Kwantung Army. From the very beginning, the base camp believed that although the Kwantung Army no longer had offensive capabilities, it had no problems in self-preservation.

South Manchuria is not Jilin, except for the Liaohe Plain in the central part of the country, where the water network is crisscrossed, the east and west lines are mountains and hills. These mountainous areas are vast, especially in the eastern Liaodong region, which has spread throughout the Liaodong Peninsula. Such a vast mountainous area is not a mountain range with a natural pass like Yinshan.

And the base camp insisted that the whole of South Manchurian was backed by the sea, and the enemy army did not have a strong navy. In this case, the terrain is limited for the enemy's armored clusters to exert their power. As for the small fleet deployed in Tanggu, the base camp believes that this fleet will not be able to participate in any operations at least for a short time.

Moreover, the base camp believes that the enemy has indeed carried out tank mountain interspersing many times, but has not used tanks to participate in large-scale attack operations in the mountainous areas. Therefore, the base camp believes that as long as the Kwantung Army makes good use of the advantages of the terrain, it is still very certain to hold on to South Manchuria. The lack of intelligence made the Japanese base camp make the most unfavorable choice for the Kwantung Army in terms of judgment.

The Japanese army did not have the intelligence that the two airborne divisions of the Anti-Japanese Union had fully formed their combat effectiveness. At the same time, before the war, the Anti-Japanese Union had practiced a large number of tactical applications of tank warfare in mountainous areas. The most important thing is that the Japanese army, which has always relied on local materials to erect pontoon bridges, does not know that the Anti-Japanese Union has been equipped with American-made gate bridges and boat bridges that can be used for tanks to quickly cross the river.

In the absence of intelligence, the confrontation coalition dared to adopt new tactics on a large scale in the midst of this war. In addition, a series of tactical responses to the front, as well as the mental will and military quality of the combat troops, have declined sharply. As a direct result, in this battle, the Japanese base camp made a comprehensive mistake in strategic judgment.

Coupled with the importance of the Korean Peninsula to the defense of the Japanese mainland, the Japanese base camp has always been hesitant to reinforce the Kwantung Army. In the end, only one brigade originally transferred from the Kwantung Army was transferred back to the Kwantung Army's organizational sequence. It's just that such a brigade was blown up on the way to a half-body.

First the attack aircraft group of the Anti-United Nations, and then the P-38 fighter group of the US military full of bombs also participated. The U.S. military even dispatched the B-29 bomber group, which had always been enjoyed only by the mainland, to bomb the military train that was transported, and then the follow-up echelon that was transported by road. Before the brigade could reach Sinuiju, it was blown up and left half-paralyzed, and had to go home.