Chapter 362 Recovering North Korea
As the main fleet of the Chinese Empire naval forces returned one after another, the Japanese Navy quickly withdrew from the East Ocean, the North Ocean and other waters, and retreated to the coastal areas around Japan.
The situation of the Sino-Japanese war reversed, and the Emperor of China changed from local defense to offense, while Japan moved into a defensive state.
As the Pacific battlefield lasted for more than half a year, the ships of the Imperial Navy sank and suffered serious damage to the war. Even the most powerful battleships of the Xiongfeng-class were forced to return to the domestic shipyard to replace the gun barrel because the main gun rifle was flattened and the gun barrel was in service for a long service life.
In addition, in half a year, each ship sailed tens of thousands of nautical miles on average, which is equivalent to a voyage of a circle of the earth. The bottom of the ship and the propeller were covered with moss and aquatic plants. The transmission was affected and the speed also dropped significantly. It was urgently necessary to return to the dock for cleaning and maintenance.
In this way, although the main battleships of the Imperial Navy returned to their homeland, they could not immediately enter the counterattack against the Japanese Navy. They needed to stay in the shipyard dock for ten days and half a month before they could be released from the dock after maintenance.
Of course, after this Pacific War, most of the nine Dingyuan-class ironclad ships were scrapped and there was no value of repairing and re-serving.
The Ministry of War, General Staff, Military Command and Navy jointly issued an order to remove the five Dingyuan-class ironclad ships that were sunk and scrapped, and the remaining four ironclad ships were withdrawn from the Navy's active service. After maintenance, they were transferred to the Coast Guard and served as national and coastal defense patrol ships.
In addition, nine Haiqi-class dome cruisers also received similar orders, six warships were removed from the Navy's active service, and the remaining three warships were also withdrawn from the Navy's service and transferred to the Coast Guard after maintenance.
The nine Xiongfeng-class battleships and nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers were all overhauled in the dock. The shortest one only takes five days and the longest one takes twenty days.
According to the Navy's plan, it will take as soon as one month for the naval fleet to be put into the battlefield.
However, the Army Department did not wait for the navy. After learning that the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet had withdrawn from its homeland, it immediately launched a large-scale ground war and a full-on counterattack began.
This time, the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire mobilized 135,000 troops, all from the troops of the towns of the Northeast War Zone.
Originally, there were only five towns in the Northeast War Zone. As a standing army, the 38th town fought against the Japanese army on Sakhalin Island, and the total strength of the four towns was only more than 50,000 (4x1212).
Obviously, the Chinese Empire had conducted a general mobilization of war, with the standing army as the backbone, and three times expanded to form a wartime division.
The wartime division was somewhat different from the standing division. The troops and equipment of each town increased significantly. Originally, there were only 1,212 people in each town, but after becoming a wartime division, each town increased to 1,000 people. The organization was also adjusted. The direct troops of the division headquarters include a guard company, a mapping platoon, a reconnaissance battalion, an engineering battalion, a vehicle-mounted infantry battalion, a medical battalion, a recruiting supplementary battalion, and a logistics battalion. The front-line combat troops were under the jurisdiction of three infantry regiments, each regiment included a direct troops of the regiment headquarters and three infantry battalions. The artillery regiment was under the jurisdiction of a light artillery battalion and a heavy artillery battalion.
Weapons and equipment include 3681 units, 12609 units, 200 heavy heavy machines, 0 sniper units, 36 mm guns, 36 10 mm light howitzers, 18 1 mm heavy howitzers, 9 flamethrowers, 2 command vehicles, 696 trucks, and 36 carriages.
It can be seen that the proportion of equipment in each town of the wartime division of the Chinese Empire Shen Ce Army has increased significantly. This is a consideration that when close forces are connected on the battlefield, they can better exert combat effectiveness and effectively kill the enemy. The number of artillery has more than doubled. It used to be only 2 artillery pieces, but now it has increased to 90, indicating that the combat mode of the Chinese Empire Shen Ce Army is focusing on artillery fire to defeat the enemy.
The significant increase in the number of artillery was due to the large-scale equipment of military trucks by the Chinese Empire, which could tow more heavier artillery and transport more shells.
However, considering the mountainous environment in North Korea, this time the Northeast War Zone added a large number of carriages to each town to adapt to the Korean battlefield environment, which is perfect.
On the 9th of the month, on the west bank of the Yalu River, the Chinese Empire's artillery suddenly launched an attack on the Japanese positions on the other side.
With the sound of cannons, the entire North Korean mountainous area on the east bank of the Yalu River suddenly fell into a sea of fire, just like the end of the world.
Under the cover of fierce artillery fire, the engineering battalions directly under the towns of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire quickly began to build pontoon bridges. The usual training effect was reflected at this moment. In less than two hours, twenty temporary pontoon bridges were added on the Yalu River.
As early as after learning that the Chinese Navy won the victory on the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese army began to actively prepare for war. Even without the support of the navy, the Japanese Army clamored to win the ground war and protect the Korean Peninsula.
For the poor and weak Japan, mainland dreams have always been their goal. Now that they have just occupied the Korean Peninsula, how can they be easily given up?
During the more than half a year of battle, the Japanese army fought against the Chinese Empire's Shen Ce Army on Sakhalin Island and Ryukyu Islands for many times, thinking that the legendary Chinese Empire's Shen Ce Army was not that powerful, which gave them the confidence to continue fighting.
However, when the Chinese Empire Shen Ce Army concentrated 800 artillery to bombard Yizhou on the other side of the Yalu River, the overwhelming shells suddenly dazzled the Japanese army. Especially the 1mm grenade, which exploded incredible power, and the Japanese army's small arms and legs were torn apart in an instant.
The sound of cannons rumbled, the mountains were swallowed by smoke, and even the streams in the mountains were dried up by violent high temperature and air waves.
The Japanese army's positions were like hell on earth, with corpses everywhere and blood flowing into a river.
When the charge of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire sounded, the Japanese troops on the Yalu River defense line were already empty.
Three hours later, the Emperor of China passed the Yalu River without any danger. The front-line field army had captured the nearby small highlands and built a security line.
Soon, trucks transported heavy equipment to the North Korean side one after another, and the Japanese army was unable to stop it.
The Korean battlefield kicked off like this. The Chinese Emperor was step by step. Whenever he encountered a heavy Japanese defensive position, he first shot overwhelmed the Japanese shells and carpet-style shells, which made the Japanese army overturn, and then the infantry charged, suppressing the Japanese firepower with heavy machines and burning the Japanese army in the castle with fire-breathing tubes. Once he failed, he would do it again. This routine fighting method immediately abused the Japanese army.
In the mid-1870s, the whole world had just entered the post-installation era, and the Chinese Emperor had already advanced to the era of automatic firepower. The heavy machine alone beat the Japanese army very hard, not to mention the cold-blooded special forces of the Chinese Empire Shence Army, the commander, gunner and Gatling organs of the Japanese army, were constantly assassinated, causing the Japanese command to be frequently interrupted. The Chinese Emperor Emperor took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, capturing the Japanese positions again and again, killing Japanese corpses everywhere and blood flowed into a river.
In just one month, the Emperor of China burned the war from the Yalu River to the banks of the Qingchuan River, and launched six battles, winning six battles, annihilated more than 60,000 Japanese troops, and wiped out all the Japanese First Division, which shocked the Japanese Army Department, and a national panic broke out. The Japanese Emperor ordered the Japanese Army to quickly evacuate North Korea.
Although the Japanese Army was very unwilling to give up, they still had to choose to retreat. However, the Japanese Navy shrank its head and was afraid that the Imperial Chinese Navy would suddenly come over and refused to cover the Japanese Army's retreat.
The main reason why the Japanese Navy and Army is that as the highest commander of the navy, Moritsuki Saigo betrayed the Japanese Emperor and prepared to lead the Navy to overthrow Meiji's rule. However, the news leaked, which made Meiji prepare. As a result, the Japanese Army raided the Navy headquarters where Takamori Saigo was located, killing Takamori Saigo, and implicated a large number of Japanese Navy officers, causing a large number of tragedies. Although Emperor Meiji stopped the actions of the Japanese Army in time, the Japanese Army and the Navy have since formed enemies.
Of course, at the request of Emperor Meiji, the Japanese Navy dispatched a fleet to transport the Japanese army to withdraw from the Korean Peninsula.
However, it was time for the Japanese Army to be unlucky. A month later, all the main battleships of the Imperial Navy of the Chinese Empire completed overhaul and reorganized the fleet to head to the East Ocean, which happened to hit the spectacular scene of the Japanese Army's retreat.
So, the Chinese Empire Navy joined the war without hesitation.
The Japanese Navy was severely damaged by the Chinese Navy twice and almost completely destroyed. It was already very scared of the Chinese Navy. Based on the principle of protecting ships, the Japanese Navy turned around and fled after resisting. The Chinese Navy was not in a hurry to chase the Japanese Navy, but aimed the muzzle at the Japanese troops transport ship on the sea.
Bang! Bang bang!
In the Tsushima Strait, Japanese troops carrying ships exploded one after another and then sank. Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers struggled in the sea. What was waiting for them was not rescued, but the rapid-fire cannons of the Imperial Navy were strafing wildly, killing the Japanese army crying for their parents.
In the blink of an eye, the sea was filled with corpses, and blood stained the entire sea red.
The retreat of the Japanese army was forced to be interrupted, and more than 10,000 Japanese troops were trapped in Busan, North Korea, and their fate would be completely eliminated by the Emperor of China.
On June 13, the last Japanese army was destroyed by the Chinese Emperor in Busan, and the entire Korean Peninsula fell into the hands of the Chinese Empire.
North Korea King Lee Hee was very happy that he was convening his government in exile meeting in Shengjing to discuss the country's construction after the end of the Korean War.
However, Li Xi didn't know that he had no chance to return to his hometown at all. The Chinese Empire had used various reasons to prevent Li Xi from returning to North Korea.
In particular, Li Weiguo directly invited Li Xi to the capital in the name of the Emperor of the Chinese Empire.
Li Xi didn't want to go to the capital. He wanted to return to Pyongyang as soon as possible, but his arms couldn't resist his thighs. In the end, Li Xi still had no choice but to go to the capital under the protection of the Emperor of China. He never returned to the land of North Korea again. He didn't need to explain in detail.
The Korean Peninsula was first ravaged by the Japanese army, and then beaten by the Chinese Emperor. It was already ruined. Under the secret operation of SHIELD, the Korean people were furious at Lee Hee and asked the Chinese Empire to take over Korea.
Therefore, Li Weiguo reluctantly adapted to the North Korean public's opinion, mobilized funds and materials to provide large-scale relief to North Korean refugees, and soon won the support of the North Korean people.
The relationship between master and servant in China and North Korea, which had been stalemate for many years, finally settled and ended with the victory of the Chinese Empire.
At the same time, the full-scale counterattack of the Emperor of China was also underway on various other battlefields.
The Japanese troops in the Ryukyu Islands and Sakhalin Island quickly withdrew from the Japanese mainland, but under the joint attack of the Chinese Empire's navy and army, many casualties were also injured.
As of June 19, all Japanese troops that failed to withdraw in time were eliminated. This time, the Chinese Imperial Army did not leave any prisoners, and set a precedent for the Chinese Imperial Army to massacre prisoners of war. However, the whole world did not pay attention to this matter, just like the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in history, international public opinion did not pay attention to the Japanese army during the massacre in Lushun.
In this world where the strong are respected, in this era where public opinion is not developed and is only for the tools of the government, no matter how big a massacre is, it will not attract attention. At least before World War I, no one except the parties involved would pay attention.
Of course, Japan is not favored by the European and American powers at all. It is just a pawn. Even Britain will not stand up, let alone other countries.
Finally, the Japanese Army conducted statistics. In the nine months since the war was launched, the Japanese army has successively invested 304,000 troops, killed 121,000 people, injured more than 6,000 people, and invested 294 warships, 494 artillery pieces, and 482 Gatling machines. It consumed a total of 220,000 tons of various ammunition and military supplies, but did not gain any benefits to the war and lost 210 million yen.
The Chinese Empire successively invested a total of 28,000 troops in the war against Japan, of which 200,000 troops were invested in the last half of the war, 2,122 killed and 24,000 injured. 144 warships were successively invested, including 98 ships, 140 artillery pieces, 286 heavy bloodstorms and 822 Gatling machines, and 300,000 tons of various ammunition and military supplies were consumed in the last half of the year. The consumption of 2.9 million tons in the last month caused a heavy blow to the Japanese army. The results of the last month exceeded the total results of the previous six months.
However, the Sino-Japanese War was not over yet, and the Chinese Empire still did not agree to Japan's request for summons, but instead ordered the main force of the Chinese Empire's Navy Pacific Fleet to go to the coastal areas of Japan to carry out large-scale attacks on major coastal cities and naval bases in Japan.
This is a pure act of revenge. There is no human hiding, and he will come to the door to slap the Japanese in the face.
Chen Shaoyi did not command this maritime military operation. After doing the handover work, he handed over the command of the fleet to Li Weijun, the chief of staff of the fleet, and Li Weijun commanded the Pacific Fleet to carry out this military operation retaliating against Japan. Chen Shaoyi immediately went to the capital to report the details of the Pacific War related work to the Emperor Li Weiguo of the Chinese Empire in the past six months. Finally, he would explain to the General Staff of the Imperial Empire's naval warships, as well as the casualties of naval officers and soldiers to the Imperial General Staff to the Imperial General Staff.
For the Chinese Empire's Shen Ce Army, such routine explanations must be conducted whether they win or lose. In Li Weiguo's words, this is called a post-war work lesson summary meeting. For various problems that occur during the war, relevant commanders and front-line soldiers will hold a review meeting of the Imperial General Staff, and then a congressional hearing. Criticism and punishment should be given to mistakes made, and outstanding performance should be affirmed and rewarded.
Chapter completed!