On June 18, 1932, on the 9th day of the outbreak of the Japanese-South Korean War, two offensive and defensive battles that determined the life and death of the Korean nation were in full swing. A sudden heavy rain cloud swept across the entire peninsula from the sea in the southeast.

This was not a good thing for the soldiers who were fighting fiercely in front of both sides. As waves of thunder flashed, heavy rain fell, covering the entire battle area in the central peninsula. In just half a day, the battlefield, which was already filled with smoke, became a mud. The water in the trenches flooded the defenders' thighs, and countless rapidly rotting corpses were soaked in the water! The torrents like mountain torrents destroyed the roads everywhere, causing the logistics officers of the Japanese and Korean armies to live a nightmare life.

On the eastern and central fronts of the already broken 38th Line defense line, the Japanese infantry risked their lives to attack in the mud. The artillery fire splashed with reddish-brown mud mixed with human blood. The wounded soldiers rolled in the puddles in mud. The visibility was extremely poor on the battlefield covered by rain. However, both sides still shot, dropped bombs, and bombarded them wildly, even if they killed the enemy and friendly forces indiscriminately!

On the battlefield of Nanjiang that had just been set up, the heavy rains in the sky did not show any sign of ease between the Japanese and Korean ethnic groups. This heavy rain was mixed for both the offensive and defense. For the attacking Korean army, the flood cut off the road from Yuanshan to Yangde and Wenjing, delaying the marching speed of Japanese reinforcements. However, the heavy rain also brought sufficient water to the almost dry Nanjiang River, making this stream that could have been crossed a "natural chasm" for the Japanese army. The assault boats were transported from Pyongyang in the shortest time, and each was well-trained.

The North Korean Infantry Battalion Infantry Company, which had been fighting with the Japanese on the 38th Line battlefield for several years, was riding on these small boats and rushed to the east bank of the Nanjiang River. After a while, they lost all their losses on this battlefield like a flesh-and-mill, but more infantry battalions and infantry companies entered the battlefield. After all, on the Nanjiang battlefield, the South Korean army had a four-fold advantage and concentrated heavy weapons. They launched a strong attack that did not care about casualties, and were still quite sure to defeat tens of thousands of Japanese troops here before the Japanese reinforcements arrived or the South Korean army collapsed on the southern front.

Therefore, under the strict supervision of Peng D-huai and Li Fanshi, the five armies and 15 divisions of the South Korean army launched a series of attacks on the two infantry divisions of the Japanese mecha army, one tank division and one cavalry group on the east bank of the Nanjiang River.

For the Japanese army guarding and waiting for assistance, the biggest crisis was not the Korean army's fierce attack without regard for casualties. Of course, such a fierce attack was difficult to deal with, but compared with the shortage of supplies by the Japanese army, it was still a minor problem. The current Japanese Red Army was born from the Imperial Army of Japan, and naturally inherited the old habit of the Imperial Army not paying attention to logistics. In fact, they could not pay too much attention to logistics, and Japan was in a very shortage of materials and they were still hoping that these Red Army soldiers would go abroad to fight against the local tyrants! Where can they have the spare time to provide them with complete logistics support?

However, weapons and ammunition are still sufficient. At least before the raw materials reserved by Japan before the war were exhausted, the heavy industry developed by Japan's national strength in recent years could still ensure the supply of the frontline. However, food became a big problem! Japan's domestic grain production was insufficient. Although it had already spent money to import a batch of wheat from the United States before the war, it still could not resist the consumption of tens of millions of mouths. Therefore, when formulating a plan to attack North Korea, the Japanese General Staff required the troops below to "fight to support the war" as much as possible. Well, if in the past, such a policy meant to rob the enemy's people. And under the leadership of Japan's GCD, this policy should be understood as... fighting the local tyrants? fighting white stripes? or something else, in short, it is very just.

But no one expected that the evil Chinese imperialism and the Korean reactionaries would actually adopt extremely reactionary scorched earth tactics regardless of the life and death of the Korean people! Since the mecha army invaded North Korea's territory, they saw completely abandoned fields, completely burned villages and towns, blown bridges, landfilled wells, and the working people in North Korea did not know where to go. There was no place to collect food at all. Faced with this situation, the Japanese Red Army Command had to grit their teeth and go from the country.

Thousands of tons of rice were mobilized in the large inventory, and wheat was transported to South Korea for emergency response. However, each unit could only get the minimum supply. When the mecha army left Yuanshan, it only carried food that could be consumed for 10 days of combat. However, the road to reinforcements was washed away by floods. The Nanjiang Battle could not end within 7 days (3 days of food stocks had been consumed before the war started)! It seems that the Japanese Red Army on the front line could only fight on hunger.

Temporary hunger can be overcome. If reinforcements can arrive within 14 days, but what should North Korea use to feed millions of mouths waiting for the Japanese Red Army to "liberate"? By interrogating captured Korean military officers, the Japanese side knew that the entire North Korea would definitely not have much harvest in 1932. North Korean refugees who fled north of the 40th line all rely on food aid provided by the Chinese. If these people were "liberated" by the Japanese Red Army, then I really don't know where to find food to feed them?

Moreover, as millions of strong laborers participated in the Japanese Red Army, Japan's grain planting area in 1932 also showed a significant decline, and a food crisis was almost foreseeable in the next one or two years. In order to solve the food shortage that will occur in the country, the suggestion of rushing troops to liberate the working people in Nanyang has been repeatedly mentioned at the front meeting in Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul.

But for ordinary Japanese Red Army soldiers on the front line, they were fighting in a trench, they did not think of such a long-term thing. They thought of only when they could get enough food for the field. If they could have a good meal of hot food, it would be even more perfect. A more luxurious idea was to let the damn rain pass faster, and then drain the accumulated water in the trench and eat hungry all day long. It was really not a comfortable thing to do when these soldiers on the battlefield required them very limited. However, such limited requirements are sometimes difficult to meet, and some good things they had never thought of came down.

Starting from June 21, the North Korean army, which had launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army on the Nanjiang front for four days, suddenly stopped their offensive operations. The entire battlefield suddenly became quiet, leaving only the sound of gunfire and the sound of rustling rain.

"Hisser Commander, the Eastern Route Army Command called, reinforcements from the west of Yuanshan were stubbornly blocked by the Korean army in the Dongshanli area. The Korean army of this unit adopted the same tactics as us, burying dozens of tanks into the soil halfway up the mountain as fixed firepower points, causing major casualties to our army..."

Tamen Jiro did not look at the Chief of Staff Qin Yansanro who reported to him. Instead, he turned his attention to the layers of rain outside the tent. What frustrated the North Korean army's attack, and it was also the heavy rain that blocked its reinforcements halfway. If the flood had not destroyed the road, the heavy weapons of the reinforcements would have been transported long ago. How could a fixed firepower point transformed by a few dozen tanks stop the Japanese Red Army from ten divisions?

Tamen Jiro took a picture of the map spread over a pile of empty ammunition boxes and whispered: "How many days will it take for this heavy rain?"

"Maybe there will be one week left. You are the rainy season in North Korea, but today's climate is a bit abnormal and the rain is getting heavier..."

"The enemy has switched to the siege tactic!" Tamen Jiro's eyes swept the map several times. He shook his head and said, "More than 200,000 people besieged tens of thousands of us... It is impossible to break through, I can only wait for the relief. How is the situation on the southern line? Can it threaten Pyongyang within a week?"

"I'm afraid it's unlikely. The heavy rain also caused great difficulties to the attack on the southern front." Qin Yansanlang said: "At present, the Eastern Route Army has just broken through and surrounded Pingshan, but the South Korean army built Pingshan into a fortress, and it is estimated that it will not be able to fight in less than ten days or half a month."

Duomen frowned. Pingshan is on the main road from Seoul to Pyongyang. Although infantry can bypass Pingshan to go north, heavy weapons and supplies are not so easy. Now it has been raining for days, and many rural dirt roads have turned into mud ponds...

"I will send a call to Commander Kingu of the Eastern Route Army and ask him to break through the North Korean army's blockade as soon as possible... Tell him that if he cannot save the siege within 10 days, the Japanese Red Army Mecha Army may face a shattered end!" After saying these words, Tamen Jiro's face was already filled with anxiety, as if he had expected something big would be wrong.

"Bombardment! Hidden..." Hu Zongnan, who was observing the battlefield situation at the forefront of Dongshan, was suddenly pushed into the mud and water by someone. He accidentally drank two sips of dirty water. He was about to start cursing Xipi, but he heard a harsh roar coming through the air!

"Boom boom boom..." Japanese artillery shells fell one after another, stirring up smoke columns mixed with mud and water. However, from the sound of the shell explosion, these should be bombardment of the Japanese Meiji 41-year-old mountain cannons. The regiment-class artillery of the Chinese National Defense Forces imitated this kind of Japanese mountain cannon, so Hu Zongnan was very familiar with them. Now the Japanese are still bombarding with this kind of mountain cannon, which means that the road washed away by the rain has not been completely restored, otherwise the Japanese would have greeted themselves with 150mm cannons!

The Japanese 75mm mountain cannon did not seem to have many shells, and it stopped abruptly after less than 15 minutes of bombardment. As soon as the shelling stopped, Hu Zongnan jumped up and found that the person who was pressing him was a serviceman sent to him by the North Korean army. He scolded him with a calm face: "Xipi, I can't die! I dare to press me into the mud and water next time I will shoot you!" This lieutenant general of the National Defense Army, who was a primary school teacher, seemed to have no cultivation as a role model.

He spitted a few mouthfuls of foam, wiped the mud on his face, and looked at the opposite side. At first, the layers of rain were blocking it and it was still hard to see clearly, but he could only hear the shrill screams coming faintly through the sound of rain. The Korean soldiers who were avoiding artillery in the trench just now also climbed up, set up rifles, and machine guns to be ready to shoot. After a while, he saw countless yellow figures in the heavy rain attacking the hillside. At the front of these yellow figures were Japanese Red Army suicide squadrons with long cloth strips tied on their heads and bayonets in their hands.

Hu Zongnan looked at everything in front of him in amazement: "Niang Xipi, what kind of tactic is this? He plans to drown me in a sea of ​​people..."

A North Korean officer who knew Chinese next to him laughed loudly: "Captain Hu, the Japanese invaders are already crazy! It seems that the situation in Nanjiang is tight, and maybe their offensive on the southern front will be frustrated. It seems that it won't take long before we can drive the Japanese devils back to their hometown!"

Hu Zongnan glanced back at this blindly optimistic guy. It turned out to be Colonel Jin Wuting of his anti-tank ranger, oh, he was a major general. The ambush in the north of Tongchuan City was whitewashed into a super victory by the North Korean government. All the North Korean officers participating in the war were promoted to the next level, and Jin Wuting also received a "first-class martial arts medal". It seems that the future is good, and it is normal for him to be optimistic now.

At this time, on the Korean artillery position, six 105mm howitzers pulled out of Tongchuan City, and thirty-six 75mm mountain cannons added after the Tongchuan war were already neatly arranged. A North Korean artillery officer suddenly waved the signal flag in his hand and shouted loudly: "Let's fire!"

In the midst of the Japanese charging sea, suddenly a column of smoke rose, shrapnel flew around, and each roar swept down a large number of charge Japanese officers and soldiers. However, the Japanese army showed no sign of stagnation. In a blink of an eye, it approached the frontier positions of the North Korean army.

"Shoot! Free shooting!"

With the squad leader on the front line of the North Korean army and the platoon leaders loudly issued an order to open fire. Rifles, machine guns, mortars, and dozens of Type A-type tanks buried in the soil began to emit fire of all sizes.

The North Korean army's artillery shells and bullets poured out. However, the Japanese army still did not stop. The ones who rushed in front were killed. The ones behind continued to follow, continuing to die, and they were ready to go, but the speed of advance was faster. Everyone shouted at the same time, covering their heads and rushed upwards.

The Japanese mortars and heavy machine guns also began to fire, and the casualties on the Korean military positions began to increase. However, the Korean army, who had long been red-eyed, forgot to die, and only knew that ammunition was generated at the charge of the enemy at the highest speed. The biggest killing of the Japanese army was the 37mm guns of dozens of A-type tanks. Although the caliber of this gun was not large and the lethality was limited, it was almost every shot at a close distance, and the firing rate was high. In a short while, the dead people in front of these tanks were piled up in pieces. It was impossible to estimate. What made the charge Japanese army even more desperate was that they had no anti-tank weapons available.

As heavy rain destroyed the roads and the floating bridges built at 0:00, the Japanese troops who were in reinforcements to the Nanjiang River were as light as possible. With the heavier weapons, they brought 75mm mountain cannons, 80mm and 120mm mortars and machine guns. Moreover, the armor-piercing shells of the 75mm mountain cannons were not carried, so they could only rely on infantry to use grenades to destroy tanks. However, these tanks were not charging towards the Japanese positions, but acting as fixed firepower points on the Korean positions. With the strict protection of the Korean infantry around, how could they be successful by the Japanese suicide squad? In the end, the Japanese army's round of charges only had the rising number of casualties.

The frontline reports quickly gathered at the North Korean Front Command in Seoul. Takeda Hiroshi, who was personally visiting North Korea to supervise the war, was sitting in his temporary office listening to Ken Kato's report, while Soviet adviser Buliuhell sat on the sofa beside him, smoking his pipe without saying a word.

"Jingu Fan San reported that the Eastern Route Army's offense against Dongshanli was completely frustrated, the South Korean army had a strict defense, and used tanks as a fixed offensive. My vanguard, lacking heavy weapons, did his best, but it was still difficult to get in.

Saburo Tamen called, and the mecha army repeatedly slammed the Korean army's offensive and gave the Korean army major damage. Tens of thousands of corpses floated on the Nanjiang River, and the country was stained with blood! At present, the South Korean army has improved its attack to encirclement. The defense line of our army is solid and has sufficient ammunition, but the food and grass are insufficient. Even if all the troops are slaughtered, it will be difficult to maintain for more than 10 days...

The Western Route Army Command reported that the vanguard of our army had bypassed Pingshan and arrived near Shariyuan. After fire reconnaissance, the North Korean army deployed a multi-layer defensive system around Shariyuan. The city has been fortified, and the defenders are about to be around a North Korean infantry army, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to attack in the short term."

Ken Kato's voice was full of anxiety. Seeing that Takeda Yuki's slightest statement, he put down the telegram and whispered: "Chairman, the situation is very dangerous now... On all fronts, our army is in a tough battle. Especially the mecha army is surrounded by the Korean army on the east bank of the Nanjiang River. If the supply is insufficient, there may be a danger of annihilation of the entire army!"

"Comrade Consultant, look..." Takeda Yuki looked up at Buluhell. The latter was still smoking slowly. After a while, he slowly said: "Do you have any signs of sending troops?"

"No." Kato Ken replied after flipping through the telegram in his hand. Now the intelligence agencies of Japan and the Soviet Union are closely following the Chinese every move, but the Chinese seem to have no intention of sending troops to interfere in the Korean War. This news seems very unsatisfactory to Buluhel, but Takeda Yuki sighed. His Japanese Red Army Army has struggled to fight North Korea, how can he beat the Chinese Army?

Buluheer sighed and shook his head and said, "Actually, the progress is quite smooth, but this heavy rain is a bit unexpected... But it doesn't matter, the weather forecast shows that the heavy rain will stop tomorrow. At that time, our frontal attack will be more powerful. As long as it can advance to the city of Pyongyang within 10 days, the mecha army will not have any problems." (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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