Age of Conquest Reborn

The two major field corps of the Independent Division on the Far East battlefield were separated by more than 500,000 Japanese troops from the Far East. After fighting for several days and eating up more than 40,000 Japanese troops, they finally met on the Temple Street battlefield.

There were bomb craters everywhere, and Liu Tiehan's armored command vehicle was parked on the battlefield. He stood outside the vehicle and looked around. There were fragmented corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere. Zhao Yuhe's armored command vehicle came quickly with smoke and dust.

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Liu Tiehan hurriedly greeted him, and Zhao Yuhe quickly jumped out of the car, ran over in a few steps, raised his hand and saluted, "Deputy Division Commander Liu, Zhao Yuhe, acting commander of the corps directly under the independent division, came to report, please give instructions to Deputy Division Commander Liu!"

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"Yu He, we are all old acquaintances, there is no need to be formal! We fought all the way from Outer Mongolia to the Far East, Yu He worked hard!" Liu Tiehan said with a smile after returning the courtesy.

Zhao Yuhe smiled and said: "Deputy division commander, it's not hard to say that it's hard, but you have been fighting Zai Ren's troops in the Far East. The East Point troops are even harder than the directly affiliated corps!"

"Hahaha!" Liu Tiehan laughed and said: "Okay, let's stop flattering each other. Yuhe, the direct-affiliated corps came all the way and marched hundreds of kilometers. Are there any specific difficulties?"

Zhao Yuhe was not polite and said: "Yes, there is a shortage of ammunition and supplies. My heavy artillery brigades have three bases of existing shells, which are only enough to sustain a small-scale battle. The ammunition of each brigade is

There is not much left, especially fuel for tanks, armored vehicles, and motor vehicles, which are in urgent need! The soldiers’ marching rations are only enough to last three days, so I hope Deputy Division Commander Liu will provide supplies for the directly affiliated corps!"

"This is not a problem!" Liu Tiehan said cheerfully, "The East Finger is backed by Outer Mongolia and Chita, and the supply line is smooth. Not to mention one of your directly affiliated corps, even two or three more corps, I, Liu Tiehan, can afford to support

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"Chief of Staff Yu!" Liu Tiehan shouted loudly, pointing east to Chief of Staff Yu Guanghan, and hurried over to say hello to Zhao Yuhe, taking Liu Tiehan's order with him.

Liu Tiehan said: "The chief of staff immediately ordered the director of the East Point Logistics Department to immediately contact the logistics department of the directly affiliated corps to provide all ammunition, materials, and oil supplies. This must be completed in the shortest possible time. From now on, the logistics supply of the directly affiliated corps will be

It will be borne by the East Point Logistics Department!”

"Yuhe, come and sit in the car. I want to hear your plan for the next battle!" Liu Tiehan said. He saw a lieutenant colonel officer who was closely following Zhao Yuhe and became a little confused. "This

Is it...?" He looked at Wu Zhenmin and asked.

"Oh! Deputy division commander, this is Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhenmin, the acting chief of staff of the directly affiliated corps. He is also the deputy director of the divisional command and staff office!" Zhao Yuhe introduced succinctly.

"Wu Zhenmin! I'm impressed!" Liu Tiehan said thoughtfully, "Commander Wu, let's sit in my car together!" Wu Zhenmin didn't show any pretense. Together with Zhao Yuhe, he got into Liu Tiehan's armored command vehicle.

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"Yuhe! Now the focus of the battlefield has shifted. The main force of Japan's Far East dispatched troops has withdrawn to the direction of Magadan. The war of attrition has turned into a pursuit war. What suggestions do you want?" Liu Tiehan asked straight to the point.

Zhao Yuhe said succinctly: "We have combined forces together, with a total of more than 1.2 million troops. However, there is no suitable terrain along the way from Temple Street to Magadan. Let us deploy so many troops to pursue and annihilate

Therefore, the force used in this pursuit should not exceed ten brigades. In addition, I have a plan!"

"What's the plan? Tell me!" Liu Tiehan asked with great interest.

Zhao Yuhe said: "Except for the ten brigades that pursued the Japanese army head-on, all the troops of the East Point and the directly affiliated corps left their heavy equipment on Temple Street, and then advanced lightly, detouring from both wings, and got in front of the retreating Japanese army.

Surround as many Japanese troops as possible

During the retreat, we must detour and encircle at the same time, because we have enough troops. In this way, even if Zai Ren retreats to Magadan, the remaining troops will not be too many, which will create an advantage for you, deputy division commander, to encircle and destroy the Japanese Far East Expeditionary Force in Magadan.

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"In addition, we can coordinate aviation units and carry out non-stop bombing to slow down the Japanese army's retreat. If things go well, our outflanking troops on both sides can reach Magadan earlier than the Japanese army!"

"I agree!" As soon as Zhao Yuhe finished speaking, Liu Tiehan made a decision immediately. They were both veterans on the battlefield, and the stakes were clear at a glance. "The task of frontal pursuit will be undertaken by the East Point Force, directly under the

The Corps has already been divided into six brigades, it is not appropriate to reduce the strength any further!"

Of course Zhao Yuhe had no objections. After a moment of silence, Liu Tiehan suddenly said: "Yuhe, judging from the current battlefield situation, it is somewhat beyond my original expectations. It seems that the plan I made at the beginning was to dispatch military prisons to Japan's Far East.

The war of attrition strategy of entangling tightly on the front line of Temple Street, gradually consuming its troops, and finally encircling and annihilating them is too conservative!"

"If the directly affiliated corps arrives at Temple Street and forms a two-sided attack on the Japanese army, if we immediately start an east-west attack, with our absolutely superior strength, it will not be a problem to defeat the Japanese army, and then take advantage of its chaos to divide, encircle and gradually annihilate it.

It’s much better than chasing the Japanese troops now!”

"Or, accept your suggestion and send troops directly to Magadan to cut off Zai Ren's other escape route and leave him with no way out. This will not be the current situation!"

Zhao Yuhe smiled and said nothing. It was useless to argue about things that had already passed. Each tactical issue had its own merits, and he could not say that his tactics were 100% correct. During the long-distance attack on Magadan, only the directly affiliated corps was in the best position. However,

After a large-scale division of troops, the remaining troops of the direct-affiliated corps were only more than 200,000. Can they stop the continuous attacks of more than 500,000 Japanese troops on the Temple Street front line?

Zhao Yuhe could not guarantee that if the Japanese attack was blocked, the casualty price paid by the directly affiliated corps would be staggering. The conversation between the two corps commanders shocked Wu Zhenmin's heart.

Wu Zhenmin did not expect that Deputy Commander Liu, the second most important person in the independent division, would admit his tactical conservatism so frankly. Or in front of two subordinates, how much courage and magnanimity this required. Originally, in Wu Zhenmin's heart, it was

There were some issues regarding the use of tactics in the Far East campaign that needed to be stated face to face to the supreme commander of the Far East battlefield, including the tactics that Zhao Yuhe had proposed before. Now, Wu Zhenmin has given up on this idea.

"Yuhe, the six brigades directly under the corps that block the blockade along the way will be under great pressure. I don't want the troops to block the blockade too strongly. The Japanese troops who flee will be like a flood that bursts the embankment. They are blocked from the front and are full of dangers.

, not to mention the huge disparity in military strength!" Liu Tiehan broke the silence and said, with a hint of worry in his tone.

Zhao Yuhe smiled and said easily: "Deputy Commander Liu, I have ordered the interception troops along the way to do their best to slow down the retreat of the Japanese army and consume the Japanese troops. We will not risk casualties in the interception!"

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"That's good!" Liu Tiehan was relieved, "Staff, tell the cooking team to prepare the meals. I will have a good gathering with Chief of Staff Zhao and Chief of Staff Wu!"

Although Zhao Yuhe said it was easy, in fact he was also thinking in his heart that the six brigade commanders he sent out were all ruthless guys who would beat the little devil to death on sight, even though the order was to intercept and delay.

, but it’s really hard to say if there’s going to be a fight?

Antkan, about one hundred kilometers northeast of Temple Street, is a small town with less than 300 households. It is adjacent to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to the east and to the north is the only way to Magadan - Zhuge

A mountain pass in the Erzhu Mountains, a wide and winding dirt road,

It is fairly flat and passes through the middle of the town. The town is located between the mountains. Because of the war, all the residents in the town have long since fled. This is the first road into the Zhugelzhu Mountains.

At the pass, the brigade headquarters of the First Brigade of the Corps directly under the Independent Division is located here.

Brigade commander Major General Liu Hongzhang, deputy brigade commander Colonel Gao Jingkun, brigade chief of staff Colonel Liu Chenglin, as well as the commanders of four subordinate mechanized infantry regiments, two heavy artillery regiment commanders, a thunder rocket launcher battalion commander, and other auxiliary force commanders

Officials, more than thirty people are crowded into an ordinary house, facing the large military map on the wall, studying this battle, how should it be fought?

A cold and strong sea breeze blew through the dilapidated door and blew out the candles in the room. "Guard, bring more flashlights!" Liu Hongzhang shouted in a loud voice. Soon, more than a dozen people

The light of a flashlight illuminated the dilapidated house.

Liu Hongzhang looked at the officers, his eyes gleaming, like hungry wolves who had not eaten meat for several days, and then said: "After receiving the notification, the Japanese Far East Expeditionary Force has withdrawn from Temple Street.

The order is to intercept and delay. Everyone knows that there are four to five million little Japs retreating from the direction of Temple Street. What a piece of fat is this. Our brigade is the first level, we cannot let the little Japs.

The devil passed easily!"

"I, Liu Hongzhang, don't have a big appetite. I swallowed four to five hundred thousand little devils in one go, and I don't have such good teeth. No matter what, I have to keep five to sixty thousand little devils. Okay, let's talk about it now.

, how can I cut the most without hurting the knife?"

Seeing the look in the brigade commander's eyes, the officers all knew that the brigade commander was moved by so many retreating Japanese troops. Deputy brigade commander Gao Jingkun said: "Brigadier Commander, the location of our brigade is the only way for the retreating Japanese troops, and

, is still the first pass, so it will inevitably be attacked by the Japanese army the most fiercely. A frontal interception is absolutely undesirable. If things go wrong, the entire brigade will be overwhelmed by the Japanese army!"

"Therefore, my opinion is to give up the blockade in Antkan town, deploy all troops in battalion units along both sides of the road, try to lengthen the interception line, give full play to our firepower advantage, and peel off layers of skin.

, once the Japanese army launches an attack on our positions on both wings, the troops should withdraw immediately, follow along the two wings, find opportunities, and attack again. This is the safest way to attack!"

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