On the day when China and Japan officially declared war, Cai E and Liu Gengyun were both in the office building of the former Military Reclamation Bureau in Dandong, with them, and Lieutenant General Zhang Zizhong. The three of them spread the map of North Korea together to study

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The military commander has been sent, Cai E is the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Forces of the Central Defense Forces, and the commander-in-chief of the Southeast Defense Forces is Lieutenant General Yan Houhua, this defense minister Chen Houfu, who has been appointed as the new secretary of defense due to the Sandu-Ao Naval Battle, and the General Secretary of the Central Committee.

Chen Jiliang, Chief of Staff of the General Staff, awarded the rank of Admiral together.

Former Defense Minister Chen Qicai turned to serve as the National Defense Coordinator of the Central Defense Commission and the Logistics Director of the Central Military Department, and exchanged positions with Cai E.

These are all good news, but Cai E was under great pressure at this time. The emperor's decree had arrived, requiring the Northeast Army to temporarily ignore the strategic victory, loss, gains and losses, and to attack Seoul first to ensure the second place between Seoul and Incheon and the second place.

More than 100,000 citizens were able to retreat smoothly. After the general retreat of the people living in North Korea, it would be acceptable to abandon Seoul due to military strength and strategic gains and losses, and it would not be a serious problem to lose Pyongyang.

These are the emperor's original words.

This posed a big problem for Cai E, because there has always been a strict mutual agreement between China and Japan about the garrison in North Korea. The Imperial Defense Forces only stationed the 22nd Infantry Division of the CSKA in Pyongyang, North Korea, and the CSKA in Kaicheng.

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The 22nd Infantry Division is a conventional mechanized division, and it is feasible to rely on railways to quickly attack Seoul. However, because the Japanese army is concentrated in military strength and more fully prepared, it may soon directly draw several divisions to siege, once it is in Incheon and Seoul.

If you defend the dead, the 22nd Infantry Division will likely not be able to be pulled back.

In addition, the 10th Infantry Brigade stationed in Seoul was also considered an elite Japanese army. The 8th Division stationed in Quanzhou was once considered a steel army, but it is hard to say how it is now.

Cai E and Liu Gengyun discussed that the Northeast Defense Forces will mainly be organized by the Changchun Military Region and the Beijing Military Region. According to the plan of the Central Defense Commission, 1.7 million demobilized soldiers will be recruited in the next three months, and within the next year.

Replenishing 3.3 million new recruits, four divisions and two brigades continued to be dispatched from the Wuhan Military Region to reinforce.

The entire strategy is very clear, which is a strategy that is not afraid of long-term consumption, but requires a higher mutual loss ratio, and the casualty rate of this side is lower than that of the Japanese army, which consumes the Japanese army's vitality.

From a long-term strategic perspective, although Cai E is not very familiar with the Japanese army, he does not have much pressure. He just needs to urgently attack Seoul to ensure the retreat of the people. This is still very difficult.

Cai E discussed the matter here with Liu Gengyun.

After talking for a while, Cai E couldn't help but say to Liu Gengyun in confusion: "Actually, I haven't thought it clearly yet. I don't understand why the emperor suddenly wanted to command this war?"

Liu Gengyun sighed with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't know. Anyway, anyone who commands can win, just don't make big mistakes."

After a moment of pause, Liu Gengyun added: "Actually, this matter is relatively simple, because you have never fought the Japanese army and have been resting for seven or eight years in the middle. This battle must be cautious and cautious. If it were Lao Zhao and Lao Zhang

Those guys, the little Japanese they beat back then, might underestimate the enemy."

Cai E smiled bitterly and said, "Is this an advantage?"

Liu Gengyun thought about it and asked, "Why not count? A arrogant soldier will be defeated. This is a taboo for military strategists. What do you recommend? It is easy to blindly believe in what you play in the Korean Peninsula and our army over the years.

The trend of change is contrary to the rules. At the beginning of the year, when the emperor asked me to inspect North Korea again, he said something to me. I think it would be inspiring for us?"

Cai E asked curiously: "What?"

Liu Gengyun replied: "The emperor said that we have been too concerned about the threat from the Soviet Union over the years and have not paid much attention to Japan's defeated general and a small country. If we really fight, we may suffer a loss. Therefore, if we really want to fight with Japan, we must extend the cycle.

In the war, explore new changes and new tactics, and use changes to fight against Japan's unchanging."

Cai E felt that there was nothing surprising about these words. He just said simply and thought about it for a while before he gradually thought about it.

Only then did he realize that the emperor wanted to use the Japanese and Korean battlefields as a test site to explore new military tactical ideas and new changes. He has basically not kept up with the wave of great mechanization in recent years. This is a problem, but it is also

One advantage is that it is not easily bound by some inherent theories of the Central Military Department.

In fact, Song Biao was quite cautious in thinking about this war.

Whether it is the third or second time, the geographical situation of the Korean Peninsula determines that it is difficult to make major changes in the direction of the major tactics. If you want to defeat Japan in this area, you must continue to adhere to the kind of Northeast Army era.

The theory of maneuvering and rapid combat, while increasing the tactical absorption of air force and mechanized combat, must also be more mature in the use of small-scale elite troops.

The Air Force is very important on the Korean Peninsula, but it is hard to say that it has decisive significance. When the U.S. war was so powerful that it did not win the war in the end. This shows many problems.

The development and progress of the Japanese Army are generally not as good as the Chinese Army, but they are more suitable for combat in areas such as the Korean Peninsula, whether in terms of equipment, training, or the overall organizational structure and tactical advantages.

In this specific area, the weapons and equipment of the two sides are not very different. Many heavy tanks of the Imperial Army are basically unable to drive in. There are also many anti-tank and small troops of Japan's individual anti-tank weapons, especially in anti-tanks.

In the field of light tanks, it has invested in research and equipment in a large scale, especially the 37\47mm machine gun it equipped, which poses a great threat to the Chinese Army.

The Japanese Army has invested a lot of energy and material resources in the research of positional warfare and mountain warfare over the years, and its level is definitely very high. The military center of the Chinese Army is in the field of armor, but it will definitely not be worse than Japan in these fields.

No advantage either.

Song Biao's overall feeling is that the Third Sino-Japanese War will be very difficult. The Imperial Central Army's absolute advantage cannot be exerted in this area, so he can only regain the tactical theory of the Northeast Army that year.

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Therefore, it is a more appropriate choice to use Cai E in this war.

If it is old-fashioned, it is enough to be useful.

Cai E's current situation is the same as Yamamoto Izuru. He knew very well that it was very difficult for Incheon to take down Seoul and was very risky, but he still had to do so.

Because the other troops had not arrived yet, Cai E had the only ones in his hands, the 23rd Infantry Division stationed in Dandong and the 30,000 troops stationed in northern North Korea, which could be mobilized. No other subordinates and generals were there, just Zhang Zizhong, the northeast.

The deputy commander of the military region is here to accompany him.

Without saying anything else, Cai E had to let Zhang Zizhong go into battle personally, and led the 23rd Infantry Division to reinforce Kaicheng. The 22nd Infantry Division stationed in Pyongyang went directly to battle, demanding that Seoul be captured within five days.

After all, Cai E was a veteran veteran army general who had experienced many battles. He fought the Russo-Japanese War, the War of Resurrection, the Sino-Soviet War, but he had never fought the famous Sino-Japanese Xinhai War that was back then.

He retired for twenty years and was also a war-capable person. He used one division to fight others and a brigade and wanted to conquer Seoul within five days. How could that be possible?

The emperor's decree cannot be implemented, but the matter still needs to be done.

Cai E generated power to the central government in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Forces. He said that the army was too late and would definitely not be able to get through. Let the navy come up and organize a large rescue from Zhendan Port, Pyongyang, Dandong Port, and escort from the navy and the air force.

The lower general lived in Seoul, and the Chinese in Incheon rescued them first to help them retreat. What the army can do is to fight the delayed war in Seoul, and fight to the death without hesitation, delaying the Japanese troops stationed in North Korea.

Of course, Song Biao also knew that the army could not mobilize the main force to attack Seoul in such a short time. He was also thinking of a way. The method was basically the same as Cai E's idea, which was to use the army to buy time, use the Navy, the General Coast Guard, and the Air Force together.

Evacuate the nationals.

Currently, China has nearly one million citizens in North Korea, while Nampo accounts for half. Incheon and Seoul have a total of about 200,000. The rest are scattered in Pyongyang, Hyecheng, Mosan, Shin-yiju and other places. In fact, it is also close to Busan and Posco.

More than 10,000, this part can no longer be managed.

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Things go back to the Battle of Sanduao.

After the defeat of the Sandu-Ao naval battle, the Japanese cabinet immediately claimed that it did not declare war on China. The Japanese Navy's First Air Combined Fleet was just going to demonstrate offshore China, forcing China to recognize the illegality of North Korea's rebellious government in northern China and had no plan to start a war. Instead, it was

Sudden attack by the Chinese army.

Prime Minister Mine Mitsumasa is objectively not a person with no moral character, but this is the case in Japan's entire country and this is the characteristic of this nation.

If they make money, they are wise and great and the superiority of the Japanese race. If they lose, they are framed by others. They cannot make mistakes. The most important point is that the Emperor of the Great Japanese Empire will definitely not make any mistakes or mistakes. The navy and army under the emperor.

The same is true.

After China officially declared war, the Japanese cabinet declared war on "China" for the second time.

Going back to another question, why did Japan never repent about the term "China"? Because the imperial edict was established by Emperor Meiji. If the Japanese cabinet admits the mistake and apologizes, it means that Emperor Meiji is wrong.

This matter is an absolute taboo in Japan, and no one dares to refute or raise objections.

Including why Japan cannot apologize for the war after the war, etc., it is ultimately a problem of the emperor system. The emperor system is not only a political system, but also a religious system, which itself is a very complex problem.

The Emperor is a God.

How can God be wrong?

Including the Yasukuni Shrine, what kind of religious sacrificial occasion is this shrine?

Of course it is Shintoism.

Who is the final Shinto worship?

The Emperor of Japan.

So, Japan is a very special country.

Of course, it doesn’t matter whether Japan admits these things. The war has begun, and it will be the winner in the end. War is basically the only way to deal with countries like Japan.

It's like talking about a psychopath on the street. It's useless to say it, because its thinking logic is absolutely different from yours. If you slap it twice, stab it a few times, and swing it a few times with a brick.

It may be better for the time being. After a few days, it will still look like a bird when it recovers.

It's just a very healthy and normal psychopath and hooligan.

There is no way, continue to swing the brick and smash it again, and it will be quiet if it hits to death.

In fact, as long as you pick the emperor's stubbornness, it will be quiet.

We always say that men are animals that think with their lower body. This is actually the case in Japan. The emperor is the one who cuts the ** and Japan can become a real normal country.

No matter what, the third Sino-Japanese War has come unstoppable.

A more similar point to previous wars is that the empire has invested a lot of new weapons. In fact, most of the so-called new weapons have appeared in the East African War. The army mainly focuses on the update of light weapons.

During this period, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, the famous Popning submachine gun in the Sino-Soviet War had been withdrawn from the Imperial Wehrmachine Army, replaced by the Browning light machine gun and the cheaper MP30\33 submachine gun.

This submachine gun is very similar to the Stend submachine gun, and is also a product of the era of the development of the imperial stamping technology. It is characterized by its cheapness, simple structure and reliable mechanism.

In the field of machine guns, although Browning heavy machine guns are more common, the MG34\38 general-purpose machine gun jointly developed by the Empire and Germany also appeared on the battlefield on a large scale.

In the development and transformation of the great mechanized army of the Empire, one basic point is to strengthen the firepower of the first-level troops of the squad, and to continuously strengthen the replenishment of baggage and troop ammunition for this purpose. The regular arrangement of the first-level troops of the Imperial Army is still very light
To be continued...