A cannon sound at the foot of Suli Mountain opened the curtain of the entire southern battle of North Korea.

At 10:00 am on May 17, the First Army of the Northeast Defense Forces of Fu Zuoyi's troops took the lead in launching a full-scale attack on the Japanese East Asian Expeditionary Force. Ten thousand artillery fired at the same time, and the shells were vented like storms on the Japanese positions. The earth roared, and the sky was

The bomber group attacked in batches of hundreds of bombers. Above the Japanese positions, the mountains and fields were filled with fire.

Tan Zhengfu is the battalion commander of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division. He is from Guangdong. He graduated from the Army Command Department of Guangzhou Military Academy. He is 30 years old this year. He is the army captain. He serves eight times in this Imperial Ace Mountain Division unit.

In the year, if he entered Foshan Youth Military Academy at the age of 14 to graduate from the Guangzhou Military Academy at the age of 22, he also received a professional military education for half a year before serving. According to the Imperial Military Service Act, his military service is 16 years.

He recalled his youth, because his family was poor and he had to apply for a free military academy to make a name for himself, so he embarked on this road. More than ten years passed in a daze, leaving him with countless pieces of memory.

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Although the salary allowance of military officers is not as high as in the past, the welfare benefits and various preferential terms can still satisfy Tan Zhengfu. His wife is an accountant at Jixian Textile Factory and was also the Military Security Association at the time.

The person in charge of the introduction is also considered happiness in marriage.

The 10th Mountain Division is the ace mountain division of the empire. It is stationed in Jixian County and arrives at the capital of the Guards for four days a month. If you are a school official, your family can arrange work with the army, which will be better.

Therefore, Tan Zhengfu also wanted to be promoted to the rank of major as soon as possible, but this was not the main reason why he participated in this war. He came to the war because of his duty, and his duty was to obey the command of his superiors and the Central Military Department.

Every soldier and subordinate lieutenant in the camp was his subordinate. His friends, when the troops were transferred to the Korean Peninsula, promised them not only to lead them to defeat the Japanese army, but also to bring them home alive.

They come from the entire China, and their current common home is the 110203 battalion headquarters in Yukou Town, Jixian County. There is their home. They are a family and they will go back.

Even if he died in battle, he would take everyone's body back to the National Martyrs Cemetery in Ji County.

When artillery fire erupted on the Japanese position opposite, Tan Zhengfu, who was in the trench on the front line, silently took out a silver pocket watch from his pocket, opened it and looked at the time, his eyes were at the same time on the photos of his family in the pocket watch, he and his wife were

On both sides, two children are in the middle.

This is his family photo.

He missed his daughter and young son, and he missed his wife. He silently put his pocket watch close to his mouth and kissed him. He felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, and tears were shining in his eyes.

War is so cruel.

At this moment, he was really able to feel this cruelty more and more, as if he was in the hell of the human world.

During the raid battle, the main force of the First Army will start from Baoen County to attack Shangzhou, while the 10th Mountain Infantry Division will start from Yongtong County to attack Jinquan, and with the cooperation of the 2nd Airborne Division, the Japanese army will go north to support Shangzhou.

Perhaps, after taking a detour to attack Qigu, we still have to cooperate with the main force to cut off the Japanese line supporting Guiwei. Both times were intercepting wars, and there was basically no time to receive supplies during the two battles. The plan of the Central Military Department was to arrange the 243rd chapter.

The airlifter landed a batch of supplies three days later from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. three days later, and there were only three suitable airborne locations. He had to report the exact airborne point before the morning after tomorrow, so that he could arrive and control the airborne area to report.

Tan Zhengfu's task is to receive supplies, occupy and defend the airborne zone in advance, and before that, he must cooperate with the 1st regiment to occupy Jinquan.

This is true in every battle. All grassroots commanders have different tasks. Cooperating closely with each other is a battle. One point error means more mistakes and mistakes. The entire Second Army has 755 battalion commanders.

There are 755 divisional combat plans, and everyone's plans are interrelated, one link corresponds to another.

Although everything was arranged in advance and calculated, it is difficult to have a plan that can be completed smoothly in actual wars. There are always various situations, including the Joint Operations Staff of the Military and the Northeast

The General Staff of the National Defense Forces and the Second Army General Staff will make mistakes, and even the basic intelligence will be wrong.

The battalion headquarters had made all preparations in advance. Tan Zhengfu just waited quietly for the time. The 22nd and 23rd Light Armored Divisions were responsible for attacking Shangzhou. They had to wait until the night before the entire battalion attacked the Japanese army on the high ground as the vanguard.

Several frontier positions opened up the road for the 2nd Regiment to infiltrate the Jinquan.

Although there is no need to participate in the frontal attack on the first day, the entire battalion must still hide in the fortifications as much as possible, because the Japanese artillery fire can also hit their garrison.

The Japanese artillery fire came over, and the sky was filled with the whistling of fighter planes. Tan Zhengfu sat in the trench. At his level, there was usually no so-called command post. All commands were carried out simultaneously on the front line. His deputy battalion commander was

Lu Renqi, a Fujian native, also serves as the head of the instructor, and the staff officer is Wu Zheng from Jiangsu.

The three of them are the three "commanders" of the battalion headquarters. Because they are not graduated from the most popular Central Military Academy and Far East Military Academy, they sometimes make themselves accused of being the small battalion commander of the ace division who was born in the second-rate military Academy.

Wu Zheng was inquiring about the latest information from the Staff Bureau and could not come back at noon. Tan Zhengfu and Lu Renqi were stationed in the trenches together, sitting in the mud and smoking, muttering about various situations that might have encountered behind them.

It is inevitable that he will be surprised.

This is Fu Zuoyi's catchphrase, and now everyone in the Second Army knows it.

The following company commanders were not very satisfied with the tactical arrangements for sneak attacks on the Japanese high ground at night. The non-commissioned officers knew very well that this kind of thing was simply the most risky, but everyone could only accept this arrangement. What Tan Zhengfu could do was to send two first.

A reconnaissance team used to find out the situation, and the Air Force also dispatched aviation reconnaissance aircraft to provide them with the clearest and comprehensive aviation photos as much as possible for their reference.

Although the Air Force seized the entire air supremacy and completely suppressed the Japanese Army's aviation team, the number of high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was limited after all, and it was impossible to constantly reconnaissance and photography 24 hours a day. Usually, the front-line information of each unit can be updated once a week, like

In this special situation, aerial photography information will be updated every three days, which is very important data for grassroots troops command.

Before the latest aerial photography information came out, Tan Zhengfu could not send troops without authorization, so he could only wait silently.

It was not until noon that before Wu Zheng came back, Tan Zhengfu had already noticed that the frequency of Japanese artillery counterattacks had decreased significantly, and the Northeast Army seemed to be advancing very quickly, much faster than he expected.

The 22nd Division is a light armored infantry division, mainly equipped with light tanks and armored infantry fighting vehicles. Since the beginning of the year, dozens of helicopters were arranged in small numbers. That thing is very interesting, and it is still very interesting for grassroots lieutenants like Tan Zhengfu.

New equipment.

Unfortunately, their mountain masters do not have such equipment yet.

Not long after, staff officer Wu Zheng returned to the position in an off-road vehicle and brought the latest military intelligence back. As a result, Tan Zhengfu felt a little incomprehensible. The Japanese army's fortifications on many high grounds on the front line were not significantly enhanced,

The number of artillery in multiple artillery positions in the rear positions has been greatly reduced.

Staff Officer Wu Zheng was also surprised by this situation. He asked Tan Zhengfu, and Lu Renqi said: "What do you think is the situation?"

Tan Zhengfu pondered for a moment and said, "No matter what the situation is, we will still attack in the early morning of tomorrow as per order. Since the Japanese army has not strengthened the fortifications, let the brothers take a rest in the afternoon, prepare well, and start leaving in the evening."

Lu Renqi said: "The evening is similar to the afternoon. The Japanese army has no air superiority, so it is impossible to have a way to reconnaise our operations. We can attack in advance in the afternoon and launch an attack after darkness, instead of waiting until the early morning, I will lead the team."

Tan Zhengfu thought for a while and said, "It's okay, but I'll take the team to help the brothers prepare quickly and officially set off at 2:30 pm."

As a staff officer, Wu Zheng had no objection. He just felt that the Japanese army's actions were abnormal. Similarly, Tan Zhengfu also knew that this situation seemed to be closely related to the rapid advancement of the main force of the Second Army, but it was difficult for him to explain the Japanese army's motives.

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Perhaps it is to give up the defense on the first line of defense and shrink the troops significantly, or it may be to shrink the troops and ambush them. This depends on what the highest policy of the Japanese army is.

Tan Zhengfu doesn't need to think too much. His task is to carry out the orders of the Second Army of the Northeast Defense Forces, but he always had such questions in his mind.

Obviously there is a problem.

The entire battalion was well prepared. As the most elite ace mountain division in the empire, the 203rd Battalion was well equipped, with 12 mountain light tracked reconnaissance vehicles. When the situation was complicated, they would give up these reconnaissance vehicles.

If the entire battalion attacks, these reconnaissance vehicles will also carry a large amount of supplies to act as transport vehicles.

They have no logistics team, everyone is a logistics soldier, and they need to carry about 10 kilograms more than the soldiers of other troops on average. There is no way to do it, because they are mountain troops, and they don’t even have towing artillery, and there are only mortars in the battalion.

and the bazooka.

The Mountain Division is different from other troops. They are the first troops to use camouflage uniforms in the CSKA. All the members are wearing newly-equipped 40-style military uniforms. This time, the entire army began to be equipped with camouflage uniforms, but in terms of color, the mountain troops.

Or brown and green camouflage.

12 mountain light tracked reconnaissance vehicles are the treasures of the entire battalion. They are not only camouflage painted, but also fresh green branches and leaves for camouflage. There are 5 companies in the entire battalion, plus a total of 773 people in the battalion command team, and artillery soldiers directly under the battalion headquarters.

The company is equipped with six 105mm mortars, the company's artillery team is equipped with two 80mm mortars, the first-level mortar squad of the platoon is equipped with a 60mm mortar, and the mortar squad of the conventional infantry division is equipped with

80mm mortar.

Compared with the world, the Chinese army has always been relatively alternative in terms of overall military organization. The infantry squads of Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Japan are usually 10-12, and the Soviet Union is usually about 12, while each infantry squad in the Imperial Central Army is usually in

Between 13-15 people, such as Chen Wu's special situation, an infantry squad at the grassroots level can be arranged to about 20 people.

Taking the Japanese army as an example, each infantry squadron of the Japanese army will have a mortar squad, while the Imperial Army is equivalent to splitting the mortar squad and placing it inside each infantry squad. Each infantry squad of the Imperial Army is usually

It has 1 light machine gun, 12 M35 assault rifles, 2 M1930 sniper rifles, and 1 60mm bazooka. Two of them are equipped with 30mm grenade launchers. In the mountain division, an infantry squad usually has 3-4

Assault rifle is equipped with grenade hanger.

Chen Wu made an adaptation in the Fourth Army, combining each mortar squad and a conventional infantry squad into a large squad. Each infantry squad has a 60mm caliber mortar, and the number of all personnel has increased to about 20 people.

In addition, Chen Wu convinced Jiang Fangzhen through his relationship with the Central Military Department and replaced most of his Fourth Army's light machine guns with M38 universal machine guns.

After the decoration, Tan Zhengfu took his 203rd Battalion from the battalion at around 3 pm and advanced along the mountain road to the west side of the Japanese position. The reconnaissance battalions of the Mountain Division and the conventional infantry divisions were replaced before the war.

The most important of the new equipment is the low-light night vision device. This equipment was issued on a large scale by the troops, which greatly enhanced the troops' field and night combat capabilities.

Before this raid battle, since the degree of equipment of the Northeast Defense Force's low light night vision instruments had been popularized to the first level of the squad, on average, each infantry squad was equipped with a set. The entire combat plan was greatly arranged to be carried out at night, emphasizing that

Each unit took advantage of the advantages of night vision and assault rifles to actively search for fighter jets at night. The 1st Special Operations Division and the 2nd Division, which are directly under the Central Military Department, have been deployed to the Korean battlefield, referred to as the 1st Special Division and the 2nd Special Division.

The total number of divisions, the 1st Airborne Division, the 2nd Airborne Division, and the 3rd Airborne Division, 5 divisions are directly under the Northeast Defense Forces headquarters, and they are personally deployed by Commander-in-Chi E. This time, half of them are also involved in the raid battle.

If the battle goes smoothly, Tan Zhengfu's 203rd Battalion will attack the southern part of Xingzhou alone in advance to prepare for the large-scale airborne of the 3rd Airborne Division. If the battle is extremely unsuccessful, the 203rd Battalion will also go to the residential area according to another plan.

On the north side of Chang County, the Guanjili area, cooperated with the Airborne Division to assist in the defense to protect Wei Lihuang's troops from being attacked - of course, Tan Zhengfu is not clear about the specific arrangements for Plan B, and only when necessary, Liu Gengyun directly ordered it.

Let his battalion go south early and occupy the Kiry at all costs, even if all the staff lose.

This is how war is. There are always some troops who are destined to be cannon fodder. If you fight, you are in the hero camp. If you lose, this is your fate.

The army has no human rights, only results.

Tan Zhengfu knew this well, and he left the camp headquarters with trepidation and took his 203rd Battalion to a dark itinerary.

The vast night is coming, dozens of kilometers away from the main battlefield. Tan Zhengfu and Wu Zheng can still hear the continuous artillery sounds of the Imperial Army. This is a major battle that has relied on artillery to decide the end of the battle over the years. The complex terrain conditions have made

The armored troops were forced to retreat to the second line, and only a small number of light tanks were used as the main force of the current line to speed among the mountains.

Tan Zhengfu sat on a tracked armored vehicle and staggered across the mountains.

He actually violated a conventional military code. At such a moment, his battalion may be ambushed by the Japanese army. He and Wu Zheng knew very well that for this, they were not moving forward quickly and sent a dispatch
To be continued...