Age of Conquest Reborn

Lieutenant General Kase Masaga, commander of Japan's Hokkaido Defense Region Headquarters, is now very entangled and has a headache. He found that the plan to block the China Division troops in the Hokkaido area for two months is obviously unrealistic. The armed forces that have gone to great lengths to form

The civilians looked so vulnerable under the fierce and fierce artillery fire.

In Sapporo now, countless people fleeing from northern Hokkaido pour in every day. The supervisory team composed of the Imperial Army of the Hokkaido Defense Zone Headquarters seems to have lost its role as a deterrent, although people who escape without fighting are being shot every day.

Armed civilians. On the road leading to Sapporo, the bodies of armed civilians who were shot can be seen everywhere, but they can't stop the crowds of people fleeing. You can't kill them all, right?

The China Division troops landed in Wakkanai, and within a little more than a week, they were on the brink of destruction, eyeing Sapporo. Lieutenant General Kase crushed all the people of Hokkaido and perished with the enemy. His plan to slow down the advancement of the China Division was completely in vain. He had to

Spending their capital in advance, more than 400,000 regular troops were deployed on the front line in Sapporo, preparing for a decisive battle.

Lieutenant General Kase was troubled and sad. He couldn't understand why the people of the empire were afraid of death. Why were the civilians of Hokkaido, who had such tough folk customs, so afraid of war?

With deep disappointment and contempt for the people of the Hokkaido Empire, Lieutenant General Kase began to carry out the Sapporo battle plan. In his battle plan, he first massively expanded his troops. Didn't most of the armed civilians flee to Sapporo?

It is easy to handle, and they are all organized into combat troops and organized according to the establishment of regular troops.

The first is to form an armed civilian regiment, with a regular imperial army brigade as the backbone, supplemented by nine armed civilian regiments. This brings the strength of a regiment to an astonishing scale of more than 10,000 people. Such a super luxurious regiment,

Several detachments were formed, which expanded the strength of the Hokkaido Defense Zone Headquarters to more than 700,000 people.

Then, the line from Sapporo to Hakodate was divided into four lines of defense. The first line of defense was mainly composed of armed civilian regiments and was deployed on the line from Inikawa to Otaru. The defense force was more than 300,000 people. The first line of defense.

According to Lieutenant General Kase, the defense line is just cannon fodder, and everyone is put to good use. It is not expected that the armed civilians who have just learned how to shoot can withstand the attack of the China Division troops. Their role is to consume themselves and the enemy.

Of course, in this case, Lieutenant General Kase only told some senior officers at the defense zone headquarters, such as Chief of Staff Major General Yamano, that the second line of defense is centered on Sapporo and runs across the southwestern region of Hokkaido, with more than 200,000 troops deployed.

Among them, 100,000 people were fortified in the fields north of Sapporo. The remaining troops were placed in the city of Sapporo, preparing to fight a city street battle with the division troops to the death.

The third line of defense is from Muroran to Iwanai in the southwest of Sapporo. About 150,000 troops are deployed with two tasks. One is to mobilize about half of the troops at any time to engage in street fighting in Sapporo. The other is to

Yes, once the China Division troops suffered heavy losses in the street fighting in Sapporo, the troops on the third line of defense would immediately launch a full-line counterattack until they were completely wiped out or driven out of the Hokkaido area.

The fourth line of defense is the final blocking area with Hakodate as the core. The remaining troops are deployed here. Lieutenant General Kase's order to them is to fight to the end. Once the first three lines of defense fail to stop China

The Hakodate front line was the last effort to advance the division, because at this point, the troops at the Hokkaido Defense District Headquarters had no way to retreat. Behind them was the Tsugaru Strait, the heart of the empire - Honshu Island.

Yuan Jinghao commanded the leading force of the right-wing attack group, which consisted of about 150,000 troops. After occupying Iwamizawa, if he wanted to attack Sapporo, the battle he faced was to break through the first line of defense of the Japanese army, which was mainly armed civilians from Hokkaido.

At this point in the Hokkaido campaign, Yuan Jinghao and Sun Zhenbang are not in a hurry. In fact, even if they are anxious, there is no good solution. The Hokkaido area has a narrow terrain, limited battlefield space capacity, and the right-wing offensive group has 650,000 troops. It is impossible to

In full swing, the 150,000 vanguard troops under Yuan Jinghao's own command were, in his opinion, too much strength.

The narrow terrain conditions and battlefield space also greatly constrained the hands and feet of the two generals in the division. The commanders of each corps in the division were all veterans of the war for many years, and they all followed the military command ideas of the division commander Tang Qiuli.

After many years of training, I am very familiar with tactics such as outflanking, inserting in the middle, large detours, battlefield divisions, various breakthrough tactics, armored cluster two-wing assault, etc.

But these tactics are not feasible in Hokkaido. For example, outflanking on two wings is not feasible at all. The Japs' defense line runs across Hokkaido, and outflanking on two wings can only take the sea. Therefore, there is only one strategy in front of Sun Zhenbang and Yuan Jinghao.

, head-on attack, front-line push attack.

The day after Yuan Jinghao set up his headquarters in Iwamizawa, Sun Zhenbang ordered the follow-up echelons to stop advancing, rest on the spot, and detach some troops to occupy other areas and eliminate Japanese armed civilians who had not laid down their weapons. He himself was impatient.

Patiently, he took the regiment headquarters and drove hundreds of kilometers to Iwamizawa.

The two met and discussed, and then studied the military map for a while. Finally, they came to the conclusion that to launch an attack from Iwamizawa to Sapporo, the battlefield space could use up to six brigades with less than 100,000 troops at a time.

The troops could not move away.

There is another point that the two people agree on, which is to send a large number of scouts to go deep into the Japanese positions in Sapporo to conduct detailed reconnaissance and collect all aspects of intelligence. Although they have absolute advantages in terms of military strength and firepower

, but knowing oneself and the enemy is one of the basic qualities of commanders at all levels of the division.

After finishing all this work, Sun Zhenbang took a sip of water, looked at Yuan Jinghao with a smile, and said: "Old man, since the landing in Wakkanai, you have been a pioneer officer, shelling all the way here, you are so majestic, let's discuss something,

How about letting me take command of the battle in Sapporo?"

"That's not possible!" Yuan Jinghao shook his head like a rattle and refused: "You are the chief commander, responsible for commanding the overall situation and coordinating the overall situation. I am the deputy, and it is appropriate to command the troops as forwards! Besides,

The vanguard troops are all soldiers from the North China Field Corps, and you are not familiar with my troops. It is awkward to command them, but you don't dare to work hard!"

Sun Zhenbang was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but what Yuan Jinghao said was reasonable and he said: "Otherwise, we can only put six brigades on the battlefield at one time. We will divide the work and command three each."

What do you think of the brigade’s attack?”

"Is there such a way to command?" Yuan Jinghao's eyes widened in surprise, and he said: "Say, man, are you going crazy if you want to fight? The total width of the offensive front is only so much. It doesn't hurt to have two sets of command systems.

Chaos?"

"Okay, okay!" Sun Zhenbang said discouragedly: "I won't fight for it! Damn it, if I had known this earlier, why would I be the commander! Let you, Yuan Jinghao, be the commander!"

The two of them bickered for a while, and then waited for the reconnaissance force to send back the intelligence on the Japanese troops on the front line in Sapporo. In the evening, the intelligence came in one after another. After sorting it out, the operations office handed it over to the two commanders.

Yuan Jinghao was the first to see it. After reading it, he shook his head and sighed, saying: "Brother, look, that old devil named Kase is crazy. He actually released more than 300,000 people from Yingchuan to Otaru.

The strength of the troops, God, the little devils in the trenches are going to be overcrowded!"

Sun Zhenbang took the information and read it carefully. He also found it incredible and said: "We are mainly armed civilians. Old Japanese Kase is planning to kill us! Yes, it is a typical attrition tactic, blocking your advancement path with human lives!"

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"The regular main forces of the little devils are all concentrated on the Sapporo front line. They have made it clear that they will fight with us in the street. Kase, this old devil is not simple, he is a bit strategic. Jinghao, street fighting in the city of Sapporo should not be taken lightly.

ah!"

"Hmph!" Yuan Jinghao snorted several times and said: "Old Kase made a wrong calculation. If you dare to come, I will bury you. Brother, I am going to fight through the battle from Yingchuan to Otaru. I am going to fight like this, and the subsequent echelon belongs to

artillery brigade

, the self-propelled artillery regiment, the rocket launcher battalion, and several tank brigades were all mobilized, and they used artillery shells to blast open the little devil's first line of defense. Isn't that old devil Kase going to be wasted? Then let's fight a war of attrition. You see

Can it be done?"

"You are the commander of the vanguard, so you can make your own decisions!" Sun Zhenbang said sourly.

"But you must ensure that the frontline artillery has an adequate supply of shells!" Yuan Jinghao said with a smile.

In the early morning two days later, mist floated over Hokkaido. On the front line of Iwamizawa, Yuan Jinghao concentrated all the artillery and tanks of the right-wing offensive group and lined up on the position. According to the caliber and range of various artillery, they formed

Several gun groups are used to achieve all-round coverage.

More than 7,000 artillery pieces of various types are deployed in six attack directions. The density of artillery has reached an astonishing number of 280 artillery pieces per kilometer. The logistics department has urgently replenished artillery shells in the past two days.

The artillery battery reached more than ten bases.

Dawn appeared in the eastern sky. In the Yanjize headquarters, Yuan Jinghao and Sun Zhenbang sat at both ends of the shell box with calm faces. Major General Han Guangqi, chief of staff of the North China Field Corps, looked at his watch and said: "Two commanders,

It’s time for the bombardment!”

Sun Zhenbang and Yuan Jinghao looked at each other, the former nodded, and Yuan Jinghao said without any emotion: "Let's begin!"

Thunder, thunder-like loud noises rolled in from a distance, suddenly echoing in the air before dawn in Hokkaido. This dawn was no longer peaceful. More than 7,000 artillery roared at the same time, and countless shells carried whistling sounds.

Cut through the morning fog and hit the Japanese army's position.

The fire reflected the mist red, the explosion shook the mist away, and pieces of red smoke rose up. The Japanese army positions were shaking, and southern Hokkaido was shaking...

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