Age of Conquest Reborn

The grand chess game on the battlefield of the Liaodong Peninsula has not yet reached the level of clarity. At least from the appearance of the battlefield, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Yoshijiro Umezu, devoted his forces to the four main divisions of the Third Army, plus two Kwantung Army divisions.

A brigade-level detachment was the main attack force, while Tang Qiuli defended with the strength of two corps and seven main field brigades. It seemed that the Kwantung Army had the advantage.

However, the two decisive figures in the chess match, the independent division commander Tang Qiuli and the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Yoshijiro, had completely different moods and judgments of the battlefield situation at the moment.

In the first battle of the Liaodong Peninsula, the three Marine Corps brigades were defeated for the first time and had to abandon the defense line from Gaizhou to Andong. If the Japanese army did not continue to pursue and try to regain the entire Liaodong Peninsula in one fell swoop, but instead stationed troops here, the navy could be contained in the south.

The Marine Corps is facing the danger of Fengtian. Dongke can defend the six brigades commanded by Han Tie and take the opportunity to enter the northeastern territory. A stalemate will inevitably form on the line from Gaizhou to Andong.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Yoshijiro Umezu, had too much appetite. He tried to take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the depleted strength of the independent division in the Liaodong Peninsula. With the remaining power of the victory in the first battle, he would annihilate the Liaodong Peninsula in one fell swoop and regain all the lost ground.

Threatening future troubles in Fengtian and the hinterland of Northeast China.

From the moment the Japanese army began to pursue rapidly, Tang Qiuli seized the fighter plane and used retreat to advance. He ordered the aviation force to block and delay the Japanese advance, and quickly mobilized the troops of six main field brigades to attack Zhuanghe in the central part of the Liaodong Peninsula.

As far as the Bayuquan line, a solid blocking line was established. The pursuing Japanese Third Army and Kwantung Army troops hit the iron plate and were repelled across the entire line.

Tang Qiuli realized that it was time to reveal his trump card on the Liaodong Peninsula battlefield, and this trump card was the six brigades commanded by Marine Corps Commander Han Tie, who was stationed in Tokugawa, a mountain town in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

At the border between China and North Korea, we fought against two detachments of the blocking Kwantung Army. This was the moment when all the situations on the Liaodong Peninsula battlefield became clear, and it was also the moment when the campaign to regain the Northeast began!

The icing on the cake, Tang Qiuli had just finished issuing the order to Han Tie. Colonel Chen Feng, director of the Division's Communications Division, hurriedly walked into the temporary headquarters and said, "Report to the division commander. After receiving the intelligence from the Intelligence Division, our Busan Intelligence Station learned that,

The Japanese army's reinforcements for the Korean Peninsula battlefield, a total of four first-class divisions, have arrived at the port of Busan. Among them, there are the 51st Division and the 53rd Division of the Third Army, and the other two divisions are Japanese

Newly formed troops in the country!"

"Okay!" Tang Qiuli shouted happily. Ma Chaoyang, commander of the Southeast Mobile Corps, has seen results in his plan to fight a long-term war of attrition in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. I am afraid that the Japanese troops in these four divisions

, is the limit of the forces that the Japanese base camp can assemble in the shortest time. Especially after the two main divisions of the Third Army are deployed on the Korean Peninsula battlefield, it is impossible for the Northeast battlefield to be mobilized in a short time.

More reinforcements for Umezu Yoshijiro!

"The pattern of the Northeast battlefield has been fixed. There will be no fundamental changes for at least a month. Yuhe and the external interference factors in the campaign to regain the Northeast have been eliminated!" Tang Qiuli said meaningfully to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe

said.

Zhao Yuhe was also very excited. After preparing for such a long time in the battle to regain the Northeast, more than a million troops were mobilized frequently, and finally the favorable situation emerged. "Commander, the key to the battlefield of the Liaodong Peninsula lies with the Marine Corps," he said.

The troops commanded by Commander Han Tie quickly occupied the Andong line from Gaizhou and cut off the retreat of the Japanese Third Army. Can the division commander clarify the specific time when Commander Han Tie's troops arrived at the line from Andong to Gaizhou?"

He put forward his opinion and said.

Tang Qiuli pondered for a while and said: "Okay, in the name of the division commander, I order Han Tie not to get entangled when he breaks through the third and fourth detachments of the Kwantung Army. Today is July 3rd. Give him four days.

, that is, before 6 o'clock in the evening on July 7, all key points between Anton and Gaizhou must be captured to block the Japanese Third Army's retreat!"

"Haha! July 7th is a very meaningful day, Yu He. In 1937, I was also the vice chairman of the Hebei-Cha Government Affairs Committee and the deputy commander of the 29th Army.

I was a witness to the July 7 Marco Polo Bridge Incident and was also a participant in the war. Yu He, I remember you at that time, when you were the deputy director of the divisional staff office. Four years later, you are now the chief of staff of a major general!"

"Time flies. On July 7th, let's put an end to the fate of the Japanese Third Army. Let's also remind Emperor Hirohito so that the Japanese will not forget July 7th, a day that they will remember deeply!"

There seemed to be infinite emotion in Tang Qiuli's tone. The iron-blooded years of the fierce battle in North China four years ago were suddenly as vivid as yesterday. The independent division had truly established a foothold in the pass. Even after regaining North China, it also started from North China and gradually

Developed and expanded!

Zhao Yuhe listened quietly to the teacher's words and seemed to be immersed in memories. He smiled brightly and said: "Sir, when I first joined our independent division, I was full of scholarly energy and wanted to fight away the Japanese devils.

Who would have thought that I would be the chief of staff of a major general today!"

"Hahaha!" Tang Qiuli laughed and said something that would be widely circulated in later generations, "Yuhe, remember, anything is possible!"

Telegrams, one after another, flew from the front line to the hands of General Umezu Yoshijiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army who was in Liaoyang and commanded the Third Army and the two detachments of the Kwantung Army to regain the Liaodong Peninsula.

They all state the fact that on the front line of more than 170 kilometers long from Zhuanghe to Bayuquan in the central part of the Liaodong Peninsula, the independent division troops have assembled no less than twelve brigades.

The three offensive forces were all blocked to varying degrees, and all suffered heavy losses and were forced to stop. All the telegrams mentioned that "the independent division's blocking troops were under heavy fire and had a large number of troops!" Among them,

General Umezu

The most important thing is the telegram from Lieutenant General Shinyuemon, the commander of the 107th Division of the Third Army, which is the most brave and skillful in fighting. General Umezu can ignore the telegrams from other unit commanders, but he does not pay attention to the telegrams from Lieutenant General Shinyuemon.

Telegram, he believed it completely.

Looking through the telegram, General Umezu Yoshijiro's heart kept sinking. The sudden appearance of the independent division troops in the middle of the Liaodong Peninsula was definitely not a good sign for him. It meant that he would quickly go south to Lushunkou and regain the entire Liaodong Peninsula.

The battle plan encountered unprecedented obstacles. He became worried that if the battle of the Liaodong Peninsula could not be resolved quickly, then the threat from the rear would become fatal. This threat was the six independent divisions in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

Main brigade troops.

As for the frontline generals, he did not fully believe that the China devil Tang Qiuli had mobilized as many as twelve brigades of troops just to prevent the Third Army from moving south. General Meijin still knew the organization of the independent division.

A main field brigade has a full strength of 15,000 to 16,000 troops. Doesn't that mean that the independent division that blocks the Third Army and the Kwantung Army's first and second detachments has a strength of more than 200,000?

?

"If that Chinese devil Tang Qiuli had about twice as many troops as himself on the Liaodong Peninsula battlefield, why would he need to take a defensive position? After excluding water, there should be five to six brigades of troops, but that's only about 100,000 people.

Such a large-scale troop mobilization and reinforcement will make a big noise, but why didn't the intelligence department get any information in advance?"

General Meijin raised his eyebrows and thought deeply, that is, the independent division only has a strength of nearly 100,000 people. If it blocks the Third Army's continued advance, it can completely achieve its goal. If Tang Qiuli's blocking line in the central part of the Liaodong Peninsula cannot be broken for a long time, he will not be able to defeat it for a long time.

How?

Retreating? Easier said than done. We have already penetrated hundreds of kilometers into the central part of the Liaodong Peninsula. If we retreat, once the troops of the Independent Division from Zhuanghe to Bayuquan are pursued, the six brigades of the Independent Division in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula will outflank the retreat.

The first and second detachments of the three armies and the Kwantung Army are in danger of being flanked from both sides and cutting off their retreat, and they do not have any mobile troops in their hands to rescue them!

General Umezu was horrified, "The intelligence department responded so slowly. Hundreds of thousands of independent divisions suddenly appeared on the battlefield of the Liaodong Peninsula without knowing anything about them. Then, the movements of the independent divisions in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula also mean that

, the intelligence department is like the blind and deaf, knowing nothing?" Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Now, what General Umezu is most worried about is not the hundreds of thousands of independent divisions lying across the central Liaodong Peninsula, but the independent division on his side with unknown movements. That is the most deadly danger, a line hiding behind

The poisonous snake in the corner will bite the Third Army in the back at any time.

"Immediately send a telegram to Major General Kimura, the head of the Headquarters Intelligence Headquarters, focusing on asking about the latest movements of the independent division in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The military situation is urgent. Kimura must give me a reply within an hour!" General Umezu called over.

The staff officer ordered in a hurried tone.

The Kwantung Army Intelligence Headquarters responded very quickly. Within twenty minutes, the telegram came. General Umezu grabbed it without waiting for his staff to read the contents of the telegram. After reading the contents of the telegram, he was so angry that he almost fainted.

"The head of the Intelligence Headquarters, Masao Kimura, reported to the Commander-in-Chief that the Ministry of Defense is unable to do anything about the intelligence collection work on the Korean Peninsula, because that is the jurisdiction of the Imperial Korean Garrison Army. According to regulations, the Kwantung Army Intelligence Headquarters is not allowed to be under its jurisdiction.

An intelligence network has been established within the scope, but this information can be obtained by contacting the Intelligence Department of the Imperial Korean Garrison through the General Administration of Military Intelligence at the base camp!"

"Baga! It's another damn faction fight!" General Umezu yelled angrily. The faction fight in the imperial world is a stubborn disease. Each faction has its own sphere of influence and there is nothing he can do about it. "Tell Kimura, no matter what

What method did he use? I will see the information in an hour, otherwise..." General Umezu said to the staff in a gloomy tone.

(To be continued) (To be continued..)