The medium and heavy tanks in the net, but the soldiers' bravery was even more powerful than they were back then.

Fu Zuoyi looks like a typical Chinese man with a loud voice and straightforward voice. In fact, he is also a very scheming person, with a fierce outside and strict internal training.

Like most middle and senior generals in the empire, Fu Zuoyi also had an interest in studying history. He was always known for his proficiency in the war history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In addition, although he did not study in Japan, he was very proficient.

In the history of the Warring States Period in Japan, when he was free, he often discussed the princes of the Warring States Period with the senior officials of the Central Military Department.

Unlike the mainstream officers who supported mechanization within the Imperial Central Army, Fu Zuoyi had another special feature that he specialized in positional warfare rather than mechanized warfare.

Various factors led to the Central Military Department's votes for Fu Zuoyi when electing the commander of the Kaicheng Campaign.

Shortly after the Incheon Air Battle ended, the Kaesong Battle started quickly. The Japanese army began a large-scale attack on Kaesong, trying to open the first gate to attack Pyongyang and North Korea. Fu Zuoyi, who was responsible for guarding the place, also made careful efforts to do so.

Arrangements are made in order to buy more time for the Northeast Defense Forces.

Fu Zuoyi's military rank is the fastest among the Central Military Academy of the same class. It is very appropriate to serve as the commander of the First Army of the Northeast Defense Forces with a military rank like him, but his acting chief of staff

But he was just an army colonel.

This is strange.

Fu Zuoyi was not very happy about this at first. Although he had no major problem with his ability to set up a chief of staff, even if he could not arrange a suitable chief of staff for the time being, he should at least serve as the acting chief of staff at the level of major general.

The Imperial Army gathered in all the elites, and there were countless middle-aged and young generals called military geniuses. The first-class rank of major generals was as numerous as stars after the rain.

But this matter was made by the emperor himself, and Fu Zuoyi could only accept it.

The Army Lieutenant Colonel Su Bin is very young. He was admitted to the Central Military Academy in 1926. After graduation in 1929, he was assigned to the 8th Infantry Division. He was transferred to the Inner Court of Staff in 1933 to serve as a third-class staff officer. In 1937, he was second-class in 1937.

He served as an adjutant to General Jiang Yanxing as a staff officer, participated in the Spanish Civil War as a Free Alliance. He returned to China in April 1938 and served as the instructor of the 14th Infantry Division.

Anyway, a young school official who was just in his early thirties was suddenly sent to a group army to serve as the acting chief of staff, which must be too abnormal.

After all, Fu Zuoyi has a deep connection with the General Administration of the Inner Court. According to the information he found out, the emperor should be very impressed by Su Bin's talent. He had never dealt with Su Bin before, and he had only been together for more than ten days.

I do think this person is very smart and has a quick thinking, and is indeed a rare talent.

It is rare to be among the CSKA, which is now full of talents, at the age of thirty-two.

In the past few days, the Japanese army's attacks were extremely fierce, with artillery fire roaring and almost never stopped.

Even so, Fu Zuoyi took Su Bin and several other staff officers to the front line for inspection regardless of the risks. On the 307th Highlands at the front line of Kaicheng, Fu Zuoyi could see the Japanese army's front line fortifications at a glance.

In this area, the 22nd Infantry Division of the First Army guarded four important high grounds, connected each other into a line, opening a four-kilometer-long defense line to defend against the attacks of the two Japanese divisions.

Fu Zuoyi's First Army currently has three infantry divisions, one light tank brigade, one engineering brigade, one baggage brigade and one expanded artillery division, plus the subsequent continuous supply of more than 100,000 troops drawn from the Northeast Patrol Force to supplement it.

With the support of the Air Force, he was not afraid of long-term consumption of the Japanese army in this Kaicheng area.

Even if he is forced to attack his opponent, he is fearless.

This time, the Japanese Army organized the troops into the East Asian dispatched army in the Korean combat, with the level of the General Army, with the First and Second Front Army, each with four armies under its jurisdiction, each with 3 divisions and 3 brigades.

The regiment, the front army itself directly under the command of 5-8 ** brigades, and the Army Aviation Forces are under direct command of the General Army.

According to the Japanese Army's plan, the final chief officer will reach 800,000, so as to fight the Chinese Army in Korea. According to the needs of war development, the Japanese Army may continue to send a front army into the Korean Peninsula and expand its total force to 120.

The scale of ten thousand.

The military system of the Chinese Empire is different from that of Japan. The army usually directly has 5-7 divisions and 10 brigades. There is no military-level organization in the middle. It emphasizes that operating on the scale of the mainland army is conducive to the army commanders in planning.

Use more troops and resources to concentrate on encirclement and annihilation.

Therefore, the Imperial Army Commander is usually the front-line commander, who directly commands operations on the front line.

During the war, the overall organization of each division was basically unchanged, but it would expand rapidly at the battalion level, from 3 companies per battalion to 7-10 companies, and the division level would expand to 50,000-60,000-60,000 troops at the battalion level.

The size of the people has increased the total force of each army to the maximum scale of 350,000 people.

Among the lieutenant generals of Fu Zuoyi's generation, he and Zhang Zizhong had the most qualifications, and the latter even participated in the liberation of the ** and the Xinhai War.

In the initial design stage of Kaicheng Defense Line, Fu Zuoyi participated in this matter as a staff officer of the Central Military Department at that time, and was very familiar with it. He was also very sure of this defense line.

The Japanese army sent the 2nd Army of the East Asian Expeditionary Army to attack Kaesong this time, which is under the jurisdiction of the 10th Division, the 16th Division and the newly formed 37th Kumamoto Division, and has two other ** brigades and the 2nd Pilot Division.

Regiment, 2nd Artillery Division.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1911, Japan summarized the entire war. The biggest influence on the entire Japanese army was the artillery army that swept half of the Korean wall at that time. For this reason, the Japanese army also formed its own artillery division before and after World War I.

There are currently four artillery divisions, representing the development of the Japanese army towards the field of artillery. However, due to the limitations of the Japanese army's funding, traditional concepts and other issues, the transformation of Japanese artillery thinking was not very successful. The internal artillery faction,

The debate between the infantry faction and the armor faction was very fierce and restrained each other.

In terms of artillery caliber and production, the development of the 120mm\150mm caliber light howitzer was not very smooth. The Japanese artillery division mainly uses 105mm howitzer and is equipped with a small number of new Type 96 15cm howitzers.

After the Incheon Air Battle, in order to quickly break through the Kaesong defense line that the Chinese Army deployed, the Japanese army quickly transferred the main forces of the Army's aviation troops to the Kaesong front. Even so, the Japanese army was unable to break through Fu Zuoyi's Kaesong defense line.

Times are different.

The period from World War II to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea was the period when position warfare developed to a peak level, and it was also the most glorious stage in modern position warfare theory. Since the Napoleon era, the center of modern military warfare was to annihilate the enemy's military forces, rather than simply pursuing occupation.

Land and cities are the fundamental reason why modern military constantly pursues maneuverability.

Similarly, the essence of positional warfare is not to defend against opponents' attacks, but to use fortifications to effectively protect oneself and military forces. All the sudden pursuit of positional warfare is to destroy the opponent's self-protection and eliminate it.

The enemy army, destroy all the enemy's military forces.

Why is the core of modern army tanks rather than artillery? It is precisely because tanks can ignore the enemy's fortifications and force the opponent to engage in mobile combat rather than defensive combat. In mobile combat, the role and value of tanks are far better than artillery.

However, in a battlefield like North Korea and Vietnam, the value of tanks was greatly reduced. Therefore, during the Korean War, although the US military had completed major mechanized changes, it could only retreat to the battlefield I theory era of the First World War.

War and infantry, artillery maneuver warfare.

Even in this era of great mechanization and change, position warfare is still one of the key abilities of the Imperial Army. Coupled with the special terrain and situation on the Korean battlefield, it is indeed difficult for the Japanese army to break through the Imperial Army's defense line.

At the forefront of the long and rugged positions, Japanese corpses were everywhere, and the bodies of officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army were also confused. The color of the autumn and winter uniforms of both sides, as well as the fierce battle situation and the frequent hand-to-hand combat, make it difficult to identify the corpses of both sides.

The Japanese military uniforms in the fifth year of Showa were mainly tea green, while the imperial Shenwu 20th year of the army's spring and autumn uniforms were mainly light brown and green. The main colors of the two were not much different. Many people always thought that the Japanese military uniforms were that.

In fact, this is a deliberate ugliness. The Japanese military uniforms have always been at the forefront of the world in overall design. In addition to the styles being relatively outdated, the colors have been constantly improving. The so-called octopus is the 38th style of the Meiji era.

And the four- or five-year-old red tea brown color. Since the ninth year of Taisho and 1920, the main color of the Japanese Army's uniform has changed from red tea brown to green tea brown color.

By 1930, in Showa 5, Japan launched a new Showa 5-year-old military uniform, with the main color changed to dark green tea brown. The overall color was basically similar to the light brown green of the Shenwu 20-year-old military uniform launched by the Empire in the same year.

, it is just a matter of the depth of green. The former is greener, while the latter is closer to light brown.

On the battlefield, the main identification of both sides can only be that Chinese army soldiers have steel helmets, and Japanese soldiers have leggings, while Chinese soldiers have buckle-type canvas leggings.

In addition, the height difference is because the Northeast Defense Forces were mainly formed by drawing troops from North China, Northeast China, and Shandong. The average height of the soldiers is higher than 173mm, while the average height of the Japanese army is only 163mm, with an average difference of ten centimeters.

At that time, Japanese soldiers and officers were generally very short, which was a fact, but most of them were short and strong, with good physical strength and endurance.

The battlefield is always cruel and bloody.

Because of the lack of tanks and armored vehicles that can effectively break through the defense line, Lieutenant General Tokurimiya Minorhiko Hiroki can only use the human-metal tactics of the first battle style and rely on more soldiers to advance and defend.

The artillery covers the attack, trying to break through the defense line.

In order to make up for the lack of military strength, Lieutenant General Minorhiko Higakijimura also mobilized two Korean military divisions to participate in the attack.

On the rugged battlefield, among the gray-yellow mountains, the bodies of Japanese soldiers and Korean soldiers were spread all over the mountains and fields, and thick smoke rolled. Under the twilight, the entire battlefield seemed even more rugged and bloody.

Just opposite Lieutenant General Fu Zuoyi, Lieutenant General Tokurimiya Minorhiko also personally led the staff officer to the front line for inspection. The two were no longer apart without knowing each other.

Carrying a saber and wearing Bai Jie's gloves, Lieutenant General Tokurimiya Minorhiko looked at the battlefield ahead ruthlessly. He seemed to be indifferent and his heart was full of entanglements. The identity of the royal family allowed him to avoid others.

Japanese generals pondered the status quo.

He had many thoughts unique to the people and military and political circles in his heart, but he could not say them. Even as a royal family, he could not say those words.

As a general who commanded the front line, his experience at this moment was full of helplessness. He had already drawn as much as possible to the 97th Middle School Chariot and 95 Light Battle.

Car assisted combat, but judging from the actual situation on the battlefield, the effect is really poor.

The anti-tank guns equipped by China are Pak35/36 secretly developed by China and Germany in the 1930s. They can easily penetrate the front armor of these two tanks, especially the Nine Five Light Combat Vehicles, and even connect to the Chinese Army at close range.

Even the first-class equipment 12mm caliber Browning M2.2 heavy machine gun cannot resist it.

This situation made Lieutenant General Minami Minorhiko Tokuromiya particularly helpless. In the previous battle in Seoul, he heard that the heavy tanks that the opponent had were actually as flexible and fast as light chariots. All Japanese anti-tank guns did not have any of them.

The effect was so that the defense forces were caught off guard and easily tore the defense line by dozens of such tanks.

This made Lieutenant General Minorhiko Higakijima believe that even if he barely conquered Kaesong at all costs, the possibility of completing the military order to capture Pyongyang was slim, and the aviation force did not have any advantage.

He simply didn't believe in the nonsense data of the two major generals Saburo Ando and Masato Masato, the Flight Division of the Air Force, how could it be that the Japanese army shot down thousands of opponents, but he only lost hundreds of them.

absurd.

Lieutenant General Tokurimiya Minorhiko, who likes to inspect the current situation on the battlefield, also watched with his own eyes several 97 land battles of the Second Flying Division be shot down in front of him, although he did not see the battle situation in the air.

But that still feels bad.

In the past few days, he only knew that the Second Army's planes had suffered great losses. Even if Ando Saburo repeatedly emphasized that the Chinese Air Force suffered even greater losses, he did not believe it at all.

Looking at the bodies of Japanese soldiers on the rugged battlefield ahead, Lieutenant General Minorhiko Higakurimiya looked up helplessly at the blue sky, silently closing his eyes, and asking himself in his heart why the Japanese Empire fought like this.

A stupid war?

Why does this have to be done?

He is actually very painful and entangled, but he still looks ruthless and indifferent.

Of course he believed in the superiority of the Yamato nation and the supreme power of the Emperor. Under the light of the Emperor, the Great Japanese Empire must be fearless, but this war is really stupid.
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