War is a war of attrition, which consumes not only ammunition and supplies, but also human lives. Although it has absolute advantages in tactical deployment, equipment and total strength, the Northeast Army also suffered a large number of combat casualties while quickly eliminating its opponents.

Especially on the Eastern Front battlefield which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Even so, the Imperial Central Army Northeast Defense Revolutionary Army has completely completed the overall strategic plan.

In the five days from April 5 to April 10, 1911, the Northeast Army deployed a total of 448,000 troops on the two major battlefields in the east and west, recruited more than 1.4 million militiamen and civilians, and 450,000 horses.

More than 2,000 artillery pieces were fired, firing a total of 325,000 shells.

Built a temporary railway of 52 kilometers, built temporary roads and fortifications over 400 kilometers long, annihilated 103,000 Japanese and North Korean officers and soldiers, captured 21,800, and eliminated four Japanese divisions, three reserve brigades and one artillery brigade.

, severely damaging the Japanese Sixth and Tenth Divisions.

In the evening of April 11, 1911, the main frontline force of the Northeastern Army had successively advanced to Taichuan County, Turtle City, Dingzhou, Yongbyon, and Bocheon. Many years later, these places happened to be the densely populated areas of North Korea's nuclear bases.

Song Biao also arrived in Bochuan at this time and personally observed the Japanese army's war preparations on the front line.

The Daning River and the Chongchuan River formed a delta between Bochuan and Anju, dominated by hilly slopes about 100 meters high. This was the focus of the Japanese defense, and the Koreans called it Anbeiling.

Song Biao observed the Japanese army's line at the sentry post on the north side of the Daning River. Chen Qicai and General Martos also accompanied him. They observed together.

North Korea is a very strange nation. Sometimes when you think about it carefully, you can only use the word "obscene" to describe it. Whether it is the Jiandao incident or the Suyanjiao incident, this weird national personality can be fully revealed from top to bottom. It is simply

It is the Poland of Asia.

This nation can be summed up in two simple words - being humble.

To sum it up in one word, cheap!

The average width is less than 100 meters. The river channel less than 300 meters wide at the mouth of the sea is called a river in North Korea. The same is true for the Qingchuan River on the opposite side. The height of 100 meters is called a ridge. In China, this place is a platform or a fortress at best.

, the slope is not seven to eight hundred meters and it is not qualified to be called a ridge.

How large is the territory of a country? Is it really necessary to have one more square kilometer? Whether it is a politician or a ruler, the whole country will be in trouble for this one square kilometer of territory that does not belong to them at all.

, is it really necessary to start a war and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties?

Song Biao was holding his riding whip and looking southward in the cool evening sea breeze. His mind was filled with thoughts. In the war with the Northeastern Army, the Japanese army completely miscalculated. He did not expect such a powerful offensive at all. As a result, he pushed it to the north in one breath.

Bo Chuan.

The Japanese army had no idea that they would avoid the coastal railway line on the Korean Peninsula, which ran from Kuandian to Bochuan and surrounded large and small basins. It relied on 400,000 manpower and horses to establish a supply channel, making the role of the Japanese navy completely

Unable to perform.

From Shuozhou to Taichuan, the First Railway Brigade and the Far Eastern Railway Corporation are urgently deploying local Korean labor to build the railway, and blasting ships to fill the river at the mouth of the Daxieshao River in Pearl Harbor and Taiping Bay, even if it is a 300-ton

Japanese naval boats were also unable to go north, so the Far Eastern Railway Company quickly laid cement piers to build a second railway bridge, extending the railway that originally extended to Yongdian Town to Shuozhou.

This kind of temporary railway has a lot of unreliability and will always be re-laid in the future. However, during the war, it is definitely still an important transportation shortcut, but this is just a gesture.

At this stage, the main supply of supplies still relies on manpower and horse power. More than one million laborers and more than 600,000 horses have been mobilized from Zhili, Northeast China and North Korea to continuously use the Shuobo Channel to transport supplies, which is enough to ensure that the Northeast Army fights a war.

A large-scale battle from Bocheon to Pyongyang.

Song Biao looked into the distance, thought for a while, and asked Chen Qicai: "I heard that the Japanese 11th Division has arrived in Fukuoka and is about to be shipped to Seoul for reinforcements?"

Chen Qicai said: "Yes, the Ministry of Intelligence has confirmed this news through multiple channels. It's just that the war has reached this point, and the entire army has basically made a judgment on the current level of the Japanese Army, no matter what they think in their hearts.

Whether the evaluation is high or low, in general it is nothing more than that, there is nothing terrible about it.

A division coming over really won't do much. We currently have an army of 400,000 sweeping across the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. In two days, we will move further south for a decisive battle and completely annihilate the Japanese Manchurian Army. Without waiting for the Japanese army to continue to reinforce, I think this war will basically be over.

If the Japanese army continues to fight, there won’t be much benefit.”

Song Biao nodded slightly, but reminded: "Not to mention in the history of world wars, even in the history of Chinese wars, it is not uncommon for hundreds of thousands of troops to be defeated by tens of thousands of troops. Don't take it lightly."

Chen Qicai said: "Your Majesty has foresight. After returning, I will ask the General Staff to order all departments to guard against arrogance and impetuosity. We must continue to maintain the original combat effectiveness and strive to defeat all Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible."

Song Biao snorted, although he had no plans in this regard.

The terrain in southern North Korea was more complex than that in the north, and supplies were more difficult. He really had no intention of continuing the attack. Breaking through to Seoul would be the limit.

A lieutenant from the staff department hurried over and handed the telegram book to Chen Qicai.

Chen Qicai opened the message and took a look at it, and reminded Song Biao: "Your Majesty, the Japanese navy's Lushun fleet has arrived in Nanpu and has not directly gone to Dingzhou to threaten the Korean coastal railway."

Song Biao said with no surprise, "Japan was really careless this time. It was obviously a battle in which they were betting on their national destiny, but in fact they were really not fully prepared."

Chen Qicai thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Song Biao's words were not wrong. Japan did not expect that the army would be defeated so badly. Judging from the casualty rates of each other, the Japanese army's performance in the Battle of Yishuo was not too bad. They suffered 125,000 casualties and captured 125,000 prisoners.

people, and only less than one brigade retreated south to Anzhou.

, while the Northeastern Army suffered 43,000 casualties. However, the Northeastern Army's post-war replenishment speed was extremely fast. The main force could mobilize a large number of second-line troops from the patrol army to supplement the damage. The new regiments of each patrol army were recruited from the Northeast and Zhili Luyu 152

A total of 70,000 recruits were mobilized for recruitment training camps in each county.

War is consumption, especially the consumption of "people".

The Northeast Army must not be afraid of attrition, and must be brave enough to consume "people", because the Northeast Army relies on the overall advantage to fight, rather than relying on the individual qualities of its soldiers. War is always cruel, with big waves washing sand and blood seas digging for gold. The rest will naturally be

Elite.

Song Biao always thought so, but he never said it because it was too cruel and inhumane. But the fact is that there is no human nature in war.

War is also bloody.

Although the Anju battlefield has not yet begun to bleed, it is destined to become a river of blood in two days. As the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchurian Army, General Oshima Yoshimasa will of course lead his troops to evacuate Anzhou at this time, but he can

Where to retreat?

Now as long as he retreats, the Northeastern Army will go all the way south to occupy Pyongyang, and the Japanese army will not even have time to destroy the railway.

Oshima Yoshimasa still has the 2nd Division, the 2nd Artillery Brigade, two general reserve infantry brigades and some scattered baggage brigades, which add up to only 45,000 troops.

Right in front of Song Biao's eyes, the Japanese army has been strengthening the fortifications. A distance of about 500 meters away, they are detaining thousands of Koreans along the Daning River south to strengthen the defense line and build additional earthen fortifications.

Song Biao read it briefly and felt that it was not very meaningful.

The Japanese army was obviously very aware that they concentrated the main fortification areas in the Ungu Mountain area in the north of Anju County. The mountains there are continuous and surrounded by plains and hilly areas. The Ungu Mountains stretch for forty kilometers.

Twelve kilometers wide, it reaches Anju in the north and Pyongyang in the south. It can be said to be a natural fortress north of Pyongyang.

Oshima Uichang still has the courage to stay south of Pyongyang under the current circumstances, and it is the Ungosan area that he relies on.

It was getting late, and Song Biao could no longer see the scenery on the other side. He returned to the frontline headquarters to hold a combat meeting. If the army advanced to Bochuan at the pace of the Russo-Japanese War, it would have to build fortifications and adjust for several days.

Only then will a full-scale decisive battle be launched.

That was the speed during the Russo-Japanese War, but it is different now. If the Japanese army cannot adapt to this new combat characteristics, it can only be the Japanese army's own business. Starting from 9 o'clock tonight, the Third Infantry Division will continue to

Dingbian launched an encirclement battle against the Japanese army in Jiechuan, detoured through mountain roads, directly outflanked the Japanese army's rear route in Jiechuan, and surrounded the Japanese 4th reserve brigade with the 14th Infantry Division, forcing the Japanese army to divide its troops for support.

If the Japanese army provides support, the 15th Infantry Division will carry out an ambush on the south side of the Chongcheon River. If the Japanese army does not rescue, the two infantry divisions will attack front and back to eliminate the 4th Reserve Brigade, then go directly south to Sunchon and Jiangdong, and march 50 kilometers in a 12-hour assault.

Advance into Pyongyang and directly cut off the Japanese Second Division's retreat.

During this period, the 1st Infantry Division and the 22nd Infantry Division will continue to launch attacks in the Qingchuan River and Yungu Mountain areas to contain the Japanese army and prevent the Japanese army from retreating easily. Finally, the 4th and 15th Infantry Division will cut off

Launch the Japanese Second Division and two general reserve brigades, continue to complete the siege of the Japanese Second Division within three days, and strive to annihilate these 45,000 troops in five days.

There is only one word for all standards, and that is "fast". The faster, the better, leaving no room for adjustment for the Japanese army.

The next day, when the dawn sun illuminated the earth from the Qingchuan River on the east side, the roar of artillery in the distance came from time to time, resounding throughout the earth. On the Daning River defense line, the artillery of the Northeast Army continued to burst out, and the sharp sound of artillery

One after another, they bombed the Japanese defenses one after another.

The glorious prelude to the attack officially kicked off from this moment.

An attack does not mean that tens of thousands of soldiers can rush forward and defeat the opponent. That will only allow the opponent's machine gun position to easily tear apart the crowd. Similarly, you cannot expect to gain anything without any sacrifices. An attack is all about heaping human lives.

In order to achieve the goal of breaking through the Anju Defense Line and the Jiechuan Defense Line as soon as possible, after collecting the Japanese artillery, the Second Artillery Brigade was expanded into the Second Artillery Division, which was deployed on the Anju battlefield, with 422 artillery pieces, and the more powerful

The Northeast First Artillery Corps is located in

In the Yongbyon area, the power of 1,782 barrel artillery was used to carry out crazy bombing on a brigade on the Jiechuan defense line, so that the continuous explosions could be heard from a distance of 20 kilometers, as if they were from a volcano

There was a huge explosion, and the earth trembled.

It is hard to imagine what a spectacular scene it would be for 1,782 artillery pieces to fire thousands of shells at the Anju line of defense. Just the attack of 422 artillery pieces set off a crazy rain of bullets in the sky. Coupled with the close-range mortars breaking through the defense, the Japanese army

The entire defense line was subject to constant blasting and destruction.

Song Biao adopted a multi-point attack method. Six infantry regiments spread out their attacks at multiple points at the same time, opening a ten-kilometer-long attack line, making it difficult for the Japanese army to distinguish between key points and the main force.

As for the Dingbian battlefield, it is probably difficult for the Japanese army to imagine how more than 2,000 artillery pieces were transported to Dingbian and Bochuan in two days, and how they ensured the ammunition for these artillery pieces, because the two sides took a completely different path.

, it is normal that the Japanese army cannot understand.

On the entire battlefield. From Jinzhou to Shenyang, from Shenyang to Benxi, Kuandian, Dandong, to Shuozhou, Dingbian, and Bochuan. The total number of civilians and militia recruited by the Northeast Army has exceeded two million, from the three northeastern provinces and

The number of horses drawn from Inner and Outer Mongolia has continued to increase to 600,000, meeting the predetermined requirements.

There are always many things that are hard to imagine for the Japanese army. What is even harder to imagine is what it would be like to see the rain of bullets fired by two thousand artillery pieces. Although this situation was very common in World War I and World War II, it can be seen in

Asia, this is the first time in the history of Asian wars

During the Russo-Japanese War, the combined artillery of both sides did not reach this scale. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, the number of artillery invested in a large-scale battle could reach 8,000 pieces, including mortars.

About 70% of them belong to the Northeast Army.

In the Battle of Anju, this proportion further expanded to 90%.
To be continued...