Chapter 309: Great Victory

The huge roar of the diesel engine of the Type B fighter shaking the earth. When dozens of fighter chariots were launched at the same time, bursts of blue smoke came out to cover the entire departure area. The walking dead Japanese prisoners passed by these dozens of fighter chariots and armored vehicles. Everyone's eyes were either pain or numb.

The 5th, 7th, 19th Divisions of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the 6th Division were all annihilated on June 28. In the encirclement, the bodies of the Japanese army were piled up like mountains, and rows of suicide wounded soldiers made a thrilling picture on the land of southern Liaoning. The seized weapons and ammunition were also piled up like mountains. In a small river, there were large groups of dead horses, all of whom were slaughtered by the Japanese army in a madness. The people of the South Manchurian Railway Co., Ltd., which retreated north with the Kwantung Army, had their families, and a large number of people committed suicide. The bodies of women, old and young were mixed together. The summer weather had begun to rot, and the entire battlefield was filled with a stench. This is the end of the Kwantung Army!

After several days of fierce fighting, 110,000 Japanese troops were destroyed by Jing Liluo. The number of people killed in battle was between 70,000 and 80,000, including three lieutenant general division commanders, four major general brigade commanders, and other large and small officers. Five corps flags were directly seized, and the remaining corps flags were burned by the Japanese army themselves. Tens of thousands of wounded soldiers either committed suicide or ascended to heaven with the help of other Japanese troops. And there was also a huge group of prisoners that appeared for the first time in the history of the Japanese army. When these Japanese officers and soldiers saw tanks rumble over their flesh and blood, dozens of people flew with blood and flesh as soon as the shell came over.

When the mother hugged her child and jumped into the fire, these people were mentally broken. They found it difficult to accept this tragic reality and lost the courage to commit suicide. Although they knew that they had become synonymous with humiliation in the country, they still put down their weapons! In this battle, the number of Japanese prisoners captured as many as 4,977 people! The Japanese army, with only more than 10,000 people, either took advantage of the darkness of the night or towards the beach, and finally passed through the encirclement of the Chinese army and returned to their own front. But fundamentally speaking, the Kwantung Army had been completely destroyed!

In the days to come, a lot of research has been conducted on this battle that laid the situation in the Northeast. The published articles and books have been published, and later scholars have reached a consensus that in the southern Liaoning region, the great victory of the Chinese National Defense Forces ensures that in the next few decades, there will be no most direct military threatening opponents around their territory. And they have officially embarked on the road of rise. In this battle, the bodies of 100,000 Japanese troops laid the foundation for the Asian system in the new era.

Wang Dengke stood on the chariot and was waving his hands with great enthusiasm to give an order: "Look north, the First Armored Division, advance! Kill more Japanese devils!"

"…………This Northeast War was originally an integral part of the overall situation of drastic changes in the world situation. While Europe is seeking change, Asia has also been undergoing violent changes. However, the depth of this change has been blocked by the white people's battle for world hegemony in Europe.

Why did Japan launch this sudden war and how did it embark on this path? The causes and consequences have been discussed enough. This article just wants to analyze from a military perspective how the essence of the Japanese army was destroyed in this battle. At the beginning of the war, observers from Europe or the New World did not have a high evaluation of the Japanese army.

In terms of organization, the Japanese Army has only 25 divisions, and nine of them were completely rebuilt (including the sixth, eighteenth and guard divisions that were destroyed in Qingdao). Compared with the regular troops of the Chinese Army with about fifty divisions in China, plus various northern paramilitary forces equivalent to fifteen divisions - security forces, local government military service forces, etc., in terms of force, they have never had an advantage. And because this war is

The Kanto Army and the Korean Army forced the force, and the Japanese hastily formed base camp did not fully mobilize domestic military forces in advance. Due to the influence of the expansion of the army, the Japanese side admitted after the war that they lacked about 11,000 officers and about 216,000 soldiers to fill the gap in the domestic division system. Although this number can be met in the mobilization of wartime, it became a fatal flaw when it was necessary to have military strength advantages and qualified troops at the beginning.

In terms of training, the cruelty of the Japanese army's training has been recognized by the world. But unfortunately, this kind of training is often outdated. Moreover, due to deliberately keeping a distance from the European war, the Japanese army did not gain practical experience and influence in modern combat. Their infantry also focused on shooting and assassination. The assembly movement of the troops and the supply methods can be said to be in the era of the Russo-Japanese War - it is more mean, probably in the era of the Napoleonic War. The only difference is that they have ammunition rifles and heavy machine guns, and artillery is also relatively new to that era. Whether it is offense or defense.

They are all behind the times. The positions built during defense are much shallower than those of the European era, and the infantry is too concentrated on the front line. The artillery's shooting support method is still old-fashioned, and it pays more attention to direct shooting. When attacking, except for the large troops on the front and the limited roundabout attack, the others are not good. The use of firepower is insufficient. Barrage shooting, Xu Jin's barrage follow-up, and the use of assault troops have not been trained like this. Overall, compared with their European-tested troops, the Japanese army is an old army. Although they are amazingly brave, they almost never surrender, and can tolerate a large degree of hardship.

The Chinese army has about 30,000 backbone tests of European wars. Among the three armies fighting in the Northeast, most of the officers and soldiers have experienced the Qingdao war and gained experience in large-scale combat. Although the Chinese National Defense Forces rely heavily on the supply of Europe and the United States in terms of equipment. However, in terms of military thinking, their training paid attention to the changes in modern war forms very early. They paid attention to the development of firepower and the changes in attack methods, which were reflected in the Chinese Expeditionary Force's European war. Their staff members were very new and full of spirit. Soon the General Staff of the Chinese Army became the object of attention in the world, and the Japanese side did not have such favorable conditions.

In terms of equipment, the number of cannons is simply compared. The two armies are limited in the difference. The three Chinese armies have about 1,400 suppressed artillery, and the six Japanese armies are also equipped with 1,180 suppressed artillery. But compared with other weapons, the gap between Japan is very large. Mortars are about 2,150 to 260. Machine guns are 1,260 to 4,400. Tank armored vehicles are 350 to 15 (Japan only has a small number of French-made wheeled armored vehicles, that is, a few steel plates are added to the car). The aircraft is 242 to 6 (the Chinese Aviation No. 1,250 to 15 (Japan only has a small number of French-made wheeled armored vehicles, that is, a few steel plates are added to the car). The aircraft is 242 to 6 (the Chinese Aviation

The Third Regiment joined the battlefield later). Motor vehicles were 9,300 to 870…… Putting aside the naval power, the Chinese Army had completely overwhelmed the Japanese weapons and equipment. When the main force of the Japanese Army was still a rifle soldier, the Chinese Army had initially become a joint infantry (focus on the line added by the author - translation note). The fire density of modern warfare has already given soldiers' courage to a not very important place, and replaced by how to effectively use this firepower. Under such a firepower advantage, any action of the Chinese army has become solid backed.

Especially with the emergence of the First Armored Division, this army originally intended to be used in Europe, its appearance shocked the whole world. At that time, there was a ready-made solution to the attack on the trench system! At that time, there were also a small number of experimental tanks in the British Empire, and a small number of tanks were produced as secret weapons, preparing to be put into the Battle of the Somme. In the West and the East, this trench machine gun destruction weapon was developed at the same time, and the word "tank" was used as the code name for this armored chariot. It makes people wonder if China received secret assistance from Britain. But look at the First Armored Division

The performance of the first armored division is not possible. The two types of tanks armed by the First Armored Division are more reasonable than the British design, and the creative use of elastic suspension devices makes the off-road capability of the tank stronger. The 37mm cannon that can be rotated and fired is also more practical than the British fifty-sevenmm artillery cannon. More importantly, the scale of the First Armored Division! It cooperates with the same tracked forward support infantry and combat engineers, as well as artillery for truck transportation. As a division-level unit, it can consolidate its position after opening the breakthrough, and can develop in depth!

At the beginning, the Japanese Army could resist with their usual tenacity and delay the time of being broken through. However, when the First Armored Division was put into the battlefield, the Japanese army's front collapsed. Unlike the later Germans, they had a large position depth, sufficient reserves, sufficient field artillery and trench flat-fired cannons, and they could use the imperfect performance and use of the opponent's armored forces after the position was lost. They could only be crushed on the front line. With the full cooperation of the Chinese Army's aviation force, the collapse of the Japanese army's front became an inevitable thing.

Finally, we talked about the issue of material reserves and logistics supply. Putting this issue at the end does not mean that it is at the end, and on the contrary, this may be the most decisive factor of this war. Why did the battle situation beside the Japanese army's aggressive offensive, some of the troops on the front line were wiped out, and the main Japanese army, which had more than ten divisions, could not continue to fight, but retreated step by step, and eventually became uncontrollable and suffered a complete failure. The decisive factor lies in the reserves of military supplies between the two sides before the war.

The Japanese offensive was launched in a hasty manner, forcibly promoted by military groups under the army. Before the war, the military supplies produced by Japan were largely used to expand the scale of the division. Moreover, because of the international environment at that time, the resources they could obtain for international support were almost cut off. The Japanese army was forced to launch a war in such a desperate situation. However, when they entered the battlefield, the reserves they had were very pitiful according to European standards. In Kanto, there were 2,300 tons of ammunition and 1,700 tons of materials and ammunition in Lushun. Although the domestic emergency transport was carried out, the only 320,000 shells could be provided and 26 million bullets were provided. All other military supplies were quite short of

The supply of materials, due to the lack of civilians and lack of transportation, and the harassment of Chinese cavalry and security forces, has not been sufficient for the supply of the frontline. After the successive failures of southern Liaoxi, western Liaoning, a large amount of supplies and ammunition that the Japanese army had to be kept in the hands of the expeditionary forces. In the field logistics system, although the South Manchuria Railway was kept in their hands, the Japanese combat troops had to use them to meet the transportation needs due to the fleeing of railway workers. The transportation of materials, due to the lack of civilians and the lack of transportation tools, and the harassment of Chinese cavalry and security forces, the supply of the frontline was not sufficient. After the successive failures in southern Liaoning and western Liaoning, a large amount of materials and ammunition that the Japanese army had worked hard on the frontline was destroyed. Their subsequent troops had no supply and were unable to support them with a considerable number of infantry troops to continue fighting, and could only retreat continuously and then defeat.

On the other hand, China's pre-war reserves made it hard to imagine that they were the party that was suddenly attacked! Later, the Chinese official revealed that before the war, they invested about 150 million US dollars in funds in order to reserve military supplies in the north - including military aid from Britain and France, military aid from the United States, and the government's own fiscal expenditure. What they received was a reserve of hundreds of thousands of tons of military supplies, and a large number of railway lines were improved. The procurement of a large number of transportation tools should not be forgotten. The patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese people should not be forgotten.

.They were so enthusiastic about a national war. In the whole north, they provided the military with about 5.9 million civilians, million tons of grain and forage, as well as 31,000 large trucks, and more than 100,000 civilian mules and horses. The Chinese army's offensive in western Liaoning was almost completely supported by the materials transported by these civilian forces! After the Japanese defeat, the entire Chinese army still had sufficient materials to support them in launching the offensive. The Japanese fired a shell and they could fire a hundred shells!

After having advantages in all aspects, the development of the battle situation seemed to be natural to those who were in the aftermath. The Japanese army launched a sudden attack on May 30, 1916 and captured Fengtian within six days. However, the combat operation of the 19th Division in the Shanhaiguan area blocking the inside and outside the pass was failed. Their flanks were also attacked by the Chinese army in Jinzhou area. They had to retreat along the coastline. The Japanese army launched the two armies that they had invested in in advance, one in the south and one in the west, and confronted the two armies of the Chinese army.

The generals in the temple first tried to gather the main force to launch an attack in western Liaoning, but the Chinese army in western Liaoning took the lead in launching an assault and cut off the connection between the Japanese Korean army and the Kwantung Army. While the Japanese army continued to increase their troops to western Liaoning, the Chinese army in southern Liao launched a fierce offensive. The Japanese army had to concentrate the troops and follow-up troops in western Liaoning to the south, and the strategic attempt of decisive offensive battle had to be given up. However, they also sent an army to launch an attack from the rear of the Chinese army in southern Liaoning to try to save the passive situation.

However, the operation of the Second Army was restrained by the special offensive operation of the Chinese Navy, which delayed the departure time. At this time, the Japanese army had to demand from the domestic government to speed up the increase in troops. The Fourth Army of the Third Army began to transport to the Northeast without complete preparations. At this time, the Liaonan Front was tragically broken by the Chinese Army. The famous Japanese Kwantung Army was divided and surrounded. The First Army had to retreat to Beining to prevent the attack of the Chinese army from the direction of Dahushan, Heishan. They tried to form another defense line in the Beining area. However, at this time, the Japanese base camp had a dispute. The base camp could not believe their failure and rejected the reasonable retreat request of the front line commander, desperately trying to bring the Kwantung Army out and form a decisive battle in southern Liaoning. However, the Chinese army's actions simply crushed the Japanese army's desperate strategic attempt.

On June 28, the Kwantung Army was annihilated, and more than 100,000 Japanese troops were annihilated. A large number of people were killed. Three hundred artillery pieces were lost and more than ten military flags were lost. Then when the Japanese army urgently mobilized reinforcements, the Chinese army launched a flanking roundabout attack on the 11th and 12th Divisions, which were fragile in Panjin. The base camp directly issued an order to the Kwantung Army, stupidly ordered them not to retreat. On July 5, the 12th Division of the 11th Division was destroyed. The main force of the Third Army and the Fourth Army were still blocked from the Fengtian line and were not allowed to go south.

At this time in western Liaoning, the Japanese and Korean fronts had also collapsed and had to retreat urgently to Fengtian with the remnants of the First Army. The cavalry of the Chinese army pursued the retreating troops and achieved great results. The morale of the Japanese troops around Fengtian had collapsed. The Japanese army ignited a fire in Fengtian and then retreated.

The burning of Fengtian angered the Chinese army and launched a rapid pursuit, pointing all the way to Kanto and Lushun, and heading straight to the Sino-North Korea border. The whole world was speculating where their actions would be stopped. The Japanese army also urgently drew the Second Army from the battlefield in the direction of Qinhuangdao and joined the Korean battlefield to prepare for resistance. The Chinese army crossed the Yalu River without hesitation and advanced into North Korea. Pyongyang fell on July 22. It was also besieged in Lushun. The Chinese Army and Navy Aviation and Navy Aviation began to blockade the maritime transport of Lushun with torpedo-carrying bombers. Their field airports were already very

Going forward, Japan's Lushun Fortress was bombarded with heavy artillery. Japan has realized that it is impossible for them to win on the land battlefield. The crazy young and strong officers began to prepare to use their only advantageous weapon - their navy, to completely block China's coastline, attack all merchant ships that dare to go to China, and shell out their coastal cities, including Shanghai. At that moment of making decisions, the knowledgeable people among the Japanese have already discovered that if they follow these crazy young and strong officers, the empire will reach the most dangerous time...... Change is brewing.

In that summer of 1916, the Japanese Imperial Army lost nearly 300,000 soldiers on the battlefield and a large number of active-duty officers trained before the war. The vast majority of the heavy weapons in their army arsenal were lost. In the years to come, the Japanese Army will never recover in the foreseeable future.

With the victory of this war officially called the dual meaning of revenge and revival by China (at this time, 300,000 Chinese soldiers fought bloody battles on the front line of the Somme), this empire, which had always been considered ancient and poor by Westerners, seemed to have stood on the stage of the world as a strong country. With the later collapse of Russia in the East, with the end of the European War, and with the exhaustion of the Western empire, the Western world had to seek cooperation with China on many matters in the Far East.

, to maintain their system. But at those times, many people sadly did not realize it. This instead meant the end of the Old World's dominance system in Asia... The New World and Asia almost joined hands to reach the center of the stage that was originally firmly occupied by Europeans. Especially the New World, after the threat of Japan was destroyed and after the exhaustion of the West, their powerful power broke out unstoppable in the future. In the end, it profoundly changed the world.

Yuchen won the victory, and the United States behind it won the victory. Japan lost their Asian empire, and the old continent also lost their original Asia. Amid the rumbling roar of the First Armored Division of the Chinese Army, all the old order was shattered and it was just the beginning."

————j.c Fuller's "The Battle of the Far East in 1916" and also excerpts in his other book, "The General of Yuchen".

Fengtian City was almost half burned by the Japanese army, and the former magnificent Magistrate's Mansion has become a ruin. People who have fled back are checking their past property in the ruins. On the streets of this city with embers, military and civilian relief personnel have also appeared, and tents, food and relief funds were distributed to these refugees. The Restoration Bank has also begun to register the losses of refugees and prepare to rebuild this home destroyed by the Japanese army. People come and go, and instead reflect a strange vitality on the ruins.

In front of the ruins of the Marshal's Mansion, there were a group of soldiers standing. There were reporters from China and abroad around them, and the spotlight was shining. Among the crowd, there was no doubt that it was President Yuchen, the supreme ruler of this country. He was patting a boy on the shoulder, as if comforting him something. The boy was also biting his lip and looking at his past home.

The reporter's loud questions kept ringing around.

"Mr. President, what do you think about the upcoming blockade of the Chinese coast announced by the Japanese base camp? Do you think Western countries will join this war?"

"The President, will the Japanese devils punish these responsible persons after the war for the crimes committed by the Northeast?"

"Dear Mr. President, your army has captured Pyongyang, where will the final goal stop? Does the National Defense Force still have the ability to continue the offensive?"

"I heard that a representative of the Japanese government in exile has appeared in Nanjing. Is the president ready to negotiate with Japan? Which force is used as the negotiating opponent?"
Chapter completed!