Chapter 127 - The Destination (I)

The moonlight was quietly sprinkled on the sea, and the sound of the waves was so clear in the night. Chen Shaokuan raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said to the adjutant beside him: "Let's go!" ”

"Yes!!" The adjutant replied in a deep voice, and then turned solemnly to give the order. After a while, the otherwise quiet beach began to boil. Countless warriors gathered and rushed towards the converted transport ships in the port.

In another place, the heavy anchor of the Wehrmacht Combined Fleet was slowly lifted. The ship began to sail out of the harbor, lingering offshore. In just over an hour, tens of thousands of soldiers boarded the transport conversion ship.

The fleet began to move towards its intended destination, led by the warships of the Combined Fleet. The transport fleet followed, and the whole fleet kept a constant speed and slid towards the deep sea......

Jiaodao is about 200 kilometers away from the planned landing place of the Wehrmacht. At this time, the fleet maintained a speed of 20 knots per hour. To reach the intended place of operation, it will take at least five hours or more.

And in order to ensure the concealment of the operation, the entire fleet maintained radio silence. The connection between the fleets was simply taken by the light of the word. And before arriving at the intended combat location, even Tu Mengben will lose contact with them......

At this time, Tu Mengben closed his eyes and recuperated in the front headquarters of the 38th parallel. The battle plan has been decided. In three hours, the Wehrmacht will launch a strong assault on the Japanese forces on the 38th parallel.

In order to attract the attention of the Japanese and at the same time avoid the detection of troops carrying out landing operations in the rear. As long as the Japanese army could not be taken care of the rear, then the Wehrmacht would be equivalent to half the victory.

Minutes and seconds passed. In the night, gray shadows flashed out of the Wehrmacht positions. They cautiously and step by step towards the Japanese position.

In order to avoid a sneak attack by the Wehrmacht, the Japanese planted a large number of mines in front of the position. And these gray-white figures are the ones who came to dismantle the mines.

They must act with extreme care. If they accidentally detonated a mine, it would attract the attention of the Japanese army. If they find out that the Wehrmacht is dismantling mines in front of their own and opposing positions, even fools will know what it means.

There is no doubt that the plans of the Wehrmacht offensive will be leaked. Although the work is not easy, the workload of these Wehrmacht engineers has actually been reduced a lot.

Previously, the Wehrmacht had taken advantage of its artillery superiority to clear a large number of mines in front of the Japanese positions. Now all that remains are a few sporadic mines. Just clean them out for the most part, so that the Japanese positions attacked by the Wehrmacht do not have to worry about these killers who suddenly appeared.

Groups of gray-and-white figures crouched out of the Wehrmacht positions. Towards the Japanese position. This isn't the first day they've been doing this.

Ever since Tu Mengben began to prepare for the Third Korean Campaign, they had been organized and rushed to Korea to begin their demining careers.

The Japanese army did not even know that the mines in front of their positions had been destroyed by tenths. Even sometimes they found that there were fewer mines in front of the position. It is only believed that it was destroyed by Wehrmacht fire.

Numerous artillery shelling was carried out on both sides, destroying traces of the activities of the Wehrmacht engineers. The fact that the Wehrmacht did not attack the Japanese positions after the Second Korean Campaign also led to a kind of inertia on the part of the Japanese army.

They naturally believed that the Wehrmacht could not afford to lose the attack on the 338th parallel and chose to abandon the offensive. Yes. Although the top brass of the Kwantung Army repeatedly ordered the troops to intensify patrols. But very few teams have actually done this.

On cold and snowy nights, they prefer to spend time in a nearby comfort station. Even Japanese soldiers and officers, who no longer had a holiday, preferred to be in warm fortifications rather than in the snow outside the tunnels.

Once, they also walked vigilantly in snowy nights. It is a pity that after such a few months of walking the Wehrmacht did not even show signs of an offensive. The several thunderclaps were just the chaos caused by wild objects stepping on landmines.

Here I have to talk about the insidiousness of the former commanders of the Korean theater of operations, who from time to time would buy some live wild animals. Then released on the position.

Many of these wild animals can't distinguish between southeast and northwest. Running around in the dark of night naturally caused the explosion of mines in front of the Japanese positions.

And the explosion sounded. The frightened Japanese troops had to go into a tense state of alert. If it was a few times, it would make the Japanese army nervous. The Wehrmacht, on the other hand, never attacked.

The Japanese were also worried that the assault would detonate mines in front of the Wehrmacht positions. And they themselves are not sure to attack. So it can only be consumed.

Time passed minute by minute, and some Japanese soldiers on the position who could not stand it were finally replaced. And while they handed over their posts, these Wehrmacht soldiers also wrote down their posts.

The sappers then quietly withdrew to the Wehrmacht position, taking advantage of the dark clouds covering the moon.

In the middle of the night, Tu Menghu suddenly opened his eyes and raised his hand to look at his watch. Then he looked at his adjutant with inquiring eyes, but saw the adjutant say to Tu Mengben.

"All our sappers have been withdrawn, and more than 30 light and dark posts of the Japanese positions have been discovered. We also figured out the timing of their changing of the guard. At the same time, the artillery has already adjusted the gun emplacement......"

The adjutant didn't hit a single one, and he didn't need to look at anything or ask to answer the questions Tu Mengben wanted to ask at one time.

"Fifteen minutes to prepare, then fire right away!" Tu Mengben stood up and did a few chest expansion exercises, and said to the adjutant: "Pay attention to the movements of the navy, and report to me as soon as they have news." ”

"Yes!!" The adjutant replied loudly, and then went down to give orders. In the command of the forward positions of the Wehrmacht, which had been silent for a long time, there was a sudden uproar.

Countless battle orders were transmitted to the various units along the telephone lines, and all the soldiers opened their eyes and slowly stepped onto the position with their steel guns in their hands.

At the same time, the crows in the night quietly cleared the Japanese sentry in front of the position. At the same time, explosives were planted near the fortifications......

"It's time, fire!!" With an order, the suddenly quiet position suddenly rumbled like a thousand thunders!

"Tom tom tom...... Rumble! Rumble!! Boom ......" Countless artillery fire tore through the air, dragging the flow of fire in the night and swirling towards the Japanese position.

At this time, most of the Japanese troops were hiding in the fortifications of the tunnel, and the artillery bombardment did not cause many casualties. But what it caused was the panic of the entire Japanese army.

Countless Japanese soldiers and officers hurriedly got up and kept asking what was going on on the phone. The Japanese soldiers were frantically assembling towards the position.

"Red Deer Noro! What the hell is going on?! I'm running away right now to find out what the hell is going on, is it the Wehrmacht who has launched a general offensive against us?! The current commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Mijiro, roared in his own command.

However, no one was able to answer his words, and now the command and the forward positions have lost contact. Now no one here knows what the hell is going on.

"Immediately assemble all the troops and march to the bunker group behind the position of the 38th parallel!" Umezu Mijiro blushed and said, "Local security, hand over to the North Korean garrison to suppress." All regions, all under martial law! ……”

Umezu Mijiro issued more than a dozen orders in one breath, and after the task was assigned, the officers below shouted yes. Then he quickly gave orders everywhere.

The Japanese troops who were originally in the rear began to assemble frantically, and then marched rapidly towards the 38th parallel.

"Whoosh...... Rumble! Rumble!! Boom ......" Li Yannian and the Second Artillery Corps were striking at the targets that had been marked on the Japanese position, and countless rockets flew onto the Japanese position.

Each explosion kicked up endless smoke and a huge amount of dirt. The Japanese troops in the underground fortifications felt their heads shaking incessantly, and everyone had gathered and waited for the order to rush to the position.

"How's it going?! Did you get in touch with the command?! General Yoshio Kamitsuki, the commander of the 17th Front Army, who was in charge of the position, asked in the telecommunications department with an ugly face.

"Report to Your Excellency, Commander, we have not been in contact with Command until now. We're working on it! ”

"Hard! We need to get in touch with Command as soon as possible, and we need tactical assistance from Command. So, for the safety of the position and the safety of the empire, please you! ”

"Hail!!" The Japanese officers in the telecommunications room replied loudly. For unknown reasons, the Japanese lost contact with their headquarters. And this is extremely fatal for the troops caught in the battlefield.

The rumbling cannon continued, and Yoshio's face gradually became gloomy. The Wehrmacht had never carried out such an artillery bombardment for more than an hour and a half.

At the same time, the intensity of shelling was more than usual. Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, Yoshio was certain that most of the fortifications and tunnels on the surface of the earth had been destroyed.

"Keep sending reports to command! Our department is under attack, and the Wehrmacht is on the offensive in a big way! Urgent request for tactical assistance! Yoshio took a deep breath and said, "Until we wait for the response from the headquarters......"

In fact, Umezu Mijiro had already received a telegram from Yoshio last month. He has now gathered his troops and is frantically rushing towards his position in the 38th parallel......

"Bang!" On Iwo Jima, Koga Mineichi's room was slammed open. The frightened Koga Feng suddenly jumped up, rolled over and got out of bed, and grabbed the pistol at the head of the bed.

"Koga! It's me! At that moment, a voice rang out. Immediately, the lights came on. Koga Mineichi found out that it was Yamamoto Fifty-six who broke in.

"Koga-san, it's rude! But now that it's an emergency, I've discovered the intentions of the Wehrmacht......" Seeing Yamamoto Isoroku hurriedly open the map, his finger slammed into a location on the Korean Peninsula.

"Their purpose: Incheon !!" (To be continued......)

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