461 Japan Increases Troops
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After the Japanese army retreated into Korea, fearing that the Russians would launch a landing operation, General Daeshanam sent the 8th Division to garrison Seoul. After the annihilation of a wing of the Incheon Port garrison, there were only 5,000 troops left under the command of Rimi Sho-mun, and only 3,000 men were stationed in Seoul.
If all the members of Shangwen's Eighth Division were stationed near Seoul, Chen Hao would definitely not dare to launch a landing operation, but after the Russians had no idea of landing, they immediately saw that Shangwen's Ministry of Shangwen had half of his troops to go north. After the fall of Incheon Port, it was difficult for 3,000 people in Seoul to resist the approach of the Cam Ranh Bay troops, but Immediately Sang-moon still tried his best to arrange a garrison.
There was too little time to meet Sang-moon, and when he got the news of the fall of Incheon, the troops in Cam Ranh Bay were already only twenty kilometers away from Seoul. Wu Peifu commanded the troops to march all the way, appeared in Seoul the next day, and after a short rest, launched a fierce attack on Seoul.
Tatsumi Naowen organized simple fortifications, but he was not confident in defending against the Chinese, and planned to engage the enemy in street battles if Seoul was breached. The Chinese attacked Inchon with naval artillery support, and because of their rapid march to attack Seoul, they did not carry sufficient artillery, and it was impossible to carry out a covering artillery bombardment in Seoul, after all, Seoul was much larger than Incheon.
Immediately saw that Sang-wen's judgment was very accurate, and without a large amount of artillery support, the Cam Ranh Bay troops encountered difficulties in attacking Seoul. The player's individual soldier attributes are not as good as the NPCs, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is not weak, and the 10,000 player troops that Chen Hao relied on for the main attack are unlikely to capture Seoul without artillery support.
Chen Hao still has 3,000 elite NPC marines, but his troops may waste the marines in siege warfare, and the hope of taking Seoul is even slimmer. However, according to Wu Peifu's battle plan. They don't have to take Seoul, as long as they put on a posture to disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army, and contain a part of the enemy for the Russian army in the northeast, they will complete the task.
When the Japanese commander Daesan Iwa learned that Cam Ranh Bay troops had landed at Inchon and besieged Seoul, he immediately sent Nogi Noshinori's Third Army south to support him. The Third Army was the main force to capture Arthur, and forcibly took the fortress during the Battle of Arthur. But Nogi Noshinori's performance is only average. With the support of 11-inch train guns, he commanded three strong attacks without progress, and Oyama Iwa ordered Nogi Noshinori to hand over command and replace it with Chief of Staff Kodama Gentaro.
Gentaro Kodama was far stronger in the use of artillery than Nogi, and after adjusting the deployment, he conquered the 203 heights in one day. The fall of the highlands basically decided the fate of the Lushun war. The Japanese set up observation posts on the high ground, corrected artillery fire, and attacked the Russian fleet with 28cm large-caliber howitzers for coastal defense. December 15th. General Kondrachenko, whom the Russians called the "soul" of the Russian army's defense in Lushun, was killed. On January 2, the Russian side formally signed the instrument of surrender.
Nogi Noshinori couldn't defeat Lushun many times, but Kodama Gentaro easily defeated it, so the Battle of Lushun was a major victory for the Japanese army, but it was a fiasco for Nogi Noshinori to collect it. After receiving the report of the attack on Seoul in Cam Ranh Bay, Nogi judged that the Chinese were only trying to disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army and create an opportunity for the Russians to enter Korea to fight.
Nogi Noshinori wanted to stay in the Northern Dynasty and participate in the defense against the Russian attack, and personally led the Third Army to a great victory. Oyama Iwa rejected Nogi Noshinori. He praised Nogi Noshinori's Third Army for performing well enough in the Battle of Mukden and the Battle of Heigoutai, and it was because of this that he entrusted Nogi with a heavy responsibility. Let Nogi Noshinori stand alone against the inevitable landing force.
Nogi Noshinori was very dissatisfied, he thought that the Chinese who landed in the south were only harassing and would never fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army. If, after the departure of the Third Army, the Japanese defenses in the north are insufficient, if the Russians attack on all fronts, the northern defense line may get out of control. No matter what he said, Oyama Rock insisted that he obey orders. Because Dashanyan believed that the Russian army's combat effectiveness was not strong, but that the Chinese troops in Cam Ranh Bay had won many battles, and if they were not destroyed as soon as possible, it would become a big problem for the Japanese troops stationed in Korea.
Nogi Noshinori could only carry out Daesonam's order and lead the Third Army to rush south to aid Seoul, and at this time, the Russian army in the northeast also launched an attack. The first to launch the main offensive was the Second Army. This army group suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Mukden and has been resting on the spot for several months.
Kuropatkin gave priority to the replenishment of the Second Army as a vanguard group to the south, under the unified command of Kaulbas. After the successful landing of the Cam Ranh troops at Incheon, the Tsar gave Kulopatkin a death order, telling him that "even if the entire Far Eastern cluster is destroyed, he will die on the way to the south, and if Kulopatkin retreats indecisively, the Tsar will order him to be shot."
This was the condition that Chen Hao agreed to put forward when he landed in the south, because he was worried that the Russian army would give up halfway, resulting in the encirclement and suppression of the Cam Ranh Bay troops that landed in the south. So this time Kulopatkin was very determined, and in the first round of the offensive the forces of a group army was dispatched, and the Japanese and Russian sides launched a fierce battle on the Yalu River.
Dashan Yan was surprised this time, he had many confrontations with Kulopatkin and completely looked down on the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in the Far East. Oyamaam believed that as long as the Japanese First and Second Armies in the north of Korea were tightly defended, the Russians would abandon the battle plan if they suffered casualties, but after he commanded two battles of annihilation, the Russians were still fighting and charged at any cost, making the defense line he organized precarious.
The Russians suffered more casualties than the Japanese, but the Russians amassed a large number of troops in the northeast, and the Japanese retreated to Korea without any reinforcements due to the cut off of sea communications. The two battles of annihilation organized by Dashanyan with concentrated manpower and materials were won, but the munitions and materials began to be scarce, and he could not afford to cook in the face of the Russians' attack at any cost.
Dashan Yanken fought two wars of annihilation at any cost, which was to find out Kulopatkin's character, thinking that the two battles could make the Russian commander frightened and give up. As he expected, after losing more than 10,000 people in two consecutive defeats, Kulopatkin sent several telegrams to the Tsar, believing that it was not time to enter the Korean War, but the Tsar still forced him to continue the offensive, and if he did not attack, the Tsar would immediately change the commander and order him to be shot.
After the Japanese began to run out of ammunition, Kulopatkin commanded the troops to capture the entire Pyongan Province. At this time, Kulopatkin finally had the determination to fight in Korea, and Tsar Nicholas II was even more happy with his persistence, and he shouted the slogan of driving the Japanese out of Korea.
Daesan Am regretted sending the Second Army south to support, resulting in a shortage of troops from the north and allowing Russian troops to enter Korea. The Japanese base camp was shaken by the Russian invasion of Korea, and they ordered the navy to send men and supplies into Korea at any cost to support Daesanam, and at the same time ordered Daesan Rock to rebuild its defensive line.
The Japanese Navy developed a battle plan, using two cruisers and three destroyers to attract the Russian fleet of broken diplomatic relations, and then organized a large number of transport ships to deliver supplies to land at Wonsan. With a large number of troops and supplies, the Northern Dynasties fought against Oyama Rock to recover their decline, but the Japanese fleet that acted as a decoy also lost two destroyers.
After Chen Hao led his troops to land, the Cam Ranh Bay fleet has been cruising in the Yellow Sea, and the reconnaissance fleet composed of Zhao Yun and Ma Chao includes the Sea of Japan. After the Japanese transport fleet was detected, Zhao Wenxi, who was in charge of leading the reconnaissance fleet, immediately reported to Chen Shaokuan, who formulated a battle plan to prepare to attack the Japanese transport fleet, but was vetoed by Chen Hao and Yang Du.
Chen Hao wanted the Russo-Japanese War to continue, and hoped that Japan and Russia would fight to the death on the Korean Peninsula. After the Russians broke through the Japanese defense line on the Yalu River, Japan was completely outstretched, and if the Japanese in Korea could not get any supplies, it was likely that they would temporarily abandon the North and wait until the navy was re-established before counterattacking.
If Chen Hao helped deal with the Japanese supply fleet, the Russians would have a greater advantage on the peninsula, and after controlling the northern part of Korea, they would have firmly grasped the northeast in their hands. Therefore, Chen Hao not only couldn't help the Russians deal with the Japanese supply fleet, but also couldn't send a message to the Russians, he needed to maintain a temporary balance of power between Japan and Russia.
This balance of power could not be maintained for long, it was too difficult for the Japanese to resupply, and in the end it was the Russians who had the upper hand on the Korean Peninsula. By the time the new ships purchased by the Japanese are commissioned, Japan will gradually regain its superiority at sea, but Russia will have the upper hand in terms of overall national strength, and the period of control of Korea will definitely replenish its forces in a steady stream, and the fighting between the two sides is likely to escalate at that time.
The Russo-Japanese War was a gamble on the fortunes of the country, and it was extremely unfavorable for them to fall into a protracted war, and the only way to survive the country was to continue to inject a large amount of money into the country. In the real world, Japan is an economic powerhouse, but it will also be greatly damaged by relying on foreign blood transfusions, and when the Japanese rely on the strength of players to defeat the Russians, the amount of money that Japanese players can continue to invest will be reduced, and there will be no advantage against Chinese players.
At the same time, Chen Hao received the news that Nogi Noshinori's Second Army was heading south, and he ordered the player troops not to continue attacking Seoul, but to bypass Seoul and go north along the railway line. Three thousand marines took over the attack from the player troops, and the individual combat effectiveness of the marines reached 1.7, which already surpassed the Japanese troops stationed in Seoul, and there was no problem in harassing the Japanese troops in Seoul when they were single-mindedly defending.
The 10,000 player troops, led by Chen Hao himself, arrived all the way to Panmunjom, posing as if they were marching north to intercept the rear of the Japanese army. After the rout, the Japanese army concentrated on the front line of Pyongyang, Yangdeok, and Jiangdong, and temporarily stopped the decline after the supply fleet provided supplies, and the number of troops under Chen Hao's 10,000 people was not much, but the Japanese army had to pay attention, otherwise it would be troublesome for the Russians to charge from the front by this 10,000 well-equipped troops. (To be continued......) (To be continued......)