The Japanese army continues to brave large-scale air raids by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and deploys new divisions from the south for reinforcements. Except for the 58th Army, which is currently trapped in Jeju Island due to the cutoff of sea transportation lines, almost all available forces are fighting desperately
The deployment to Seoul turned the entire battlefield around Seoul into a huge meat grinder, constantly devouring Japanese troops.
The Seventeenth Front Army stationed in North Korea, regardless of the anti-Japanese attack fleets in the sky, continuously transferred divisions and independent mixed brigades one after another from depth to the direction of Seoul, which resulted in a serious shortage of troops on the eastern front. Perhaps the Seventeenth Front Army thought that
The eastern front was located in the Taibai Mountains, and the Anti-Japanese Alliance offensive could only be launched along the narrow strip between Taibai Mountains and the Sea of Japan, which did not require much defensive force.
But they did not expect that under the command of Sui Changqing, the main force of the Korean Independence Army and the First Department of the Anti-Japanese Alliance would not only launch continuous attacks along the eastern foot of Mount Taibai with one force, but also use a considerable part of the force along the
The area was an uninhabited area of the Taebaek Mountains going south, bypassing the Japanese defenses along Japan's coastline.
Suddenly appeared at the western foot of Taebaek Mountain, and successively captured Yeongwol and Jecheon. The troops attacking along the eastern foot of Taebaek Mountain also successively captured Sokcho and Gangneung. If Du Kaishan is willing to turn this force to the west, then it will
Cut off the entire Japanese retreat route in front of the center line.
As the battlefield on the eastern front progressed relatively quickly, the anti-alliance forces on the middle line captured the Chuncheon and Hengseong lines, and the forwards approached Wonju. They quickly forced their way through Chungju and attacked the entire Seoul.
Attacks were launched on the flanks of the battlefield to coordinate with frontal battlefield operations in Seoul.
Du Kaishan advanced in three directions in Korea, fighting steadily and advancing the front southward step by step. He constantly took shallow and deep detours to isolate the enemy forces on the front line of Seoul and divided the entire Japanese army in southern Korea into three large pieces. But on the east coast,
But they continued to speed up their attacks along the Taibai Mountains.
Yang Zhen's order to Du Kaishan was very simple. Complete the division of the entire Korean army by early August, open up the Gyeong-Bu line railway, and complete the capture of Busan Port. As for the heavy Japanese troop cluster in Korea, there is no need to pay too much.
The cost is to annihilate it, even causing too many casualties.
In order to control Du Kaishan's offensive in the Korean battlefield to a certain extent to avoid causing greater casualties, Yang Zhen asked Guo Bingxun to fly to North Korea and personally sit in the Korean battlefield to supervise Du Kaishan. After the Jinhua Battle, he immediately
Yang Jicai and the 17th Division, who were eager to rest and recuperate, were transferred back to the northeast to recuperate and recuperate.
In order to prevent these two daring guys from getting together and causing some trouble. Even if the two of them hit the Japanese mainland, it would not matter to Yang Zhen. But at this time, if these two guys act without authorization, it will cause too much trouble.
The casualties were unacceptable to Yang Zhen.
For Yang Zhen, when the war has reached this point, there is no longer any need to pay a heavy price and fight to the death. Some things should be done by the US military. The Chinese have shed enough blood for this war over the years.
.There is no need to fight to the death with the Japanese army, which has become a grasshopper after the fall and cannot jump around for a few days.
He ordered Du Kaishan to open the Gyeongbu Line Railway and seize the two ports of Busan and Ulsan in order to implement certain plans after the war. As for annihilating the entire Japanese and Korean army and completely liberating Korea, he believed that there was no such thing.
It is necessary to compress the North Korean army to the area south of Cheonan, Cheongju, Jianchon, Sangju, Gimcheon, and Geochang to the west of the Sobaek Mountains. It is enough not to cause trouble to our own operations after the war.
Yang Zhen, who did not want to pay too many casualties at this time and believed that there was no need to seize the entire Korean Peninsula, controlled Du Kaishan's offensive quite strictly. And with Guo Bingxun personally in charge of North Korea, Du Kaishan did not have the courage to disobey.
Order.
Although Guo Bingxun, who went to North Korea to personally supervise the war, never interfered with Du Kaishan's specific command. As long as Guo Bingxun was in charge of the Korean battlefield, it put a lot of pressure on Du Kaishan. For Du Kaishan, it was true for Yang Zhen
Afraid. But for Guo Bingxun, Du Kaishan was not only afraid but also had more fear.
To put it in his words, No. 3 just sat there without knowing anything, but his eyes were like X-rays, able to reveal everything you were thinking. In front of No.
It's like standing there naked, unable to hide anything. Compared with No. 1, No. 3's eyes are even more frightening.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Du Kaishan, who was sent out by No. 1 and No. 3. After Guo Bingxun took some personnel from the headquarters and personally arrived in North Korea to take charge, he was quite honest and did not dare to make any more mistakes. He strictly followed the instructions issued by the headquarters.
The battle plan comes.
Of course, Yang Zhen sent Guo Bingxun to North Korea at this time, with the intention of supervising Du Kaishan not to take too many risks and to control this guy's appetite, but it also meant to send Guo Bingxun away to protect him. Yang Zhen knew that he had revealed the truth.
There is a possibility of settling accounts in the future. At this time, transferring Guo Bingxun away is to protect him.
Guo Bingxun, who is very attentive, does not know much about some of Yang Zhen's actions to avoid him. But with Guo Bingxun's personality, it is impossible not to be aware of it. He is well aware of the reason why Yang Zhen transferred him to North Korea at this time.
After Yang Zhen finished talking to him, Guo Bingxun took a flight to North Korea that afternoon.
Under Guo Bingxun's personal supervision, Du Kaishan really didn't have the guts to dare to cause trouble in the Heavenly Palace. No matter what his previous thoughts were, but with No. 3 personally supervising them, they could only suppress them. After Du Kaishan settled down, Yang Zhen
I also got rid of my biggest heartache.
However, according to the original plan, Du Kaishan should not rush to seize Seoul, but only increase the offensive east of Seoul, assuming a posture of penetrating and encircling the Japanese troops in Seoul and the deep areas to the south, forcing the Japanese troops to retreat to Suwon.
South, trying to control the entire Taibai Mountains.
However, they did not expect that the Japanese troops on the Seoul front line would fight to the death and continue to mobilize reinforcements to the Seoul front line. In order to seize the most important transportation hub on the entire Korean Peninsula as soon as possible and complete the requirements of the headquarters to open the Gyeongbu Line.
After the troops on the middle line captured Yuanzhou, Du Kaishan made a 90-degree turn on the troops on the middle line.
In cooperation with the all-out frontal attack of the Fourth Tank Division, which was subsequently invested, an armored brigade was used as the forward to launch a forcible penetration operation towards the Pyeongtaek and Cheonan lines south of Seoul. After five days of hard fighting, the troops on the center line of the Korean battlefield completely successively
Seize Pyeongtaek and Cheonan, and cut off the connection between Seoul and Daejeon Japanese troops.
Immediately, Du Kaishan concentrated five infantry divisions, two armored brigades, and three independent tank regiments to launch the Battle of Seoul. On the eastern battlefield, the Korean Independence Army, supported by an armored brigade from the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the center line
An armored brigade and two divisions from the Anti-Japanese Alliance attacked in the direction of Chungju and Daejeon.
Forcibly moving southward along the Taebaek Mountains, the main force of the Korean army was attacked by the Seoul battlefield and the Anti-Japanese Alliance's flank attack on Daejeon. In early July 1945, they captured Gyeongju and Ulsan successively, and the forwards had already entered Busan.
On the outskirts of the port, the whole of Busan can clearly hear the rumble of cannons coming from the east.
On the battlefield in Seoul, Du Kaishan concentrated half of the troops entering North Korea and launched a full-line attack on Seoul. However, despite the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, progress was always sluggish. After half a month of hard fighting, even
Three brigades of the Korean Independence Army in reserve and one division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance were all put in to finally capture Seoul and Suwon south of Seoul.
The Battle of Seoul was also the last large-scale battle fought by the Anti-Japanese Alliance during the entire Anti-Japanese War. In this battle, although Du Kaishan defeated three divisions of the Korean Japanese army and two independent mixed brigades of the Japanese army, they completely defeated them.
Destroyed the last remaining strength of the Japanese army in Korea.
However, the troops invested in the Seoul battlefield also suffered serious losses. Especially the tank troops lost more than half of their strength in street fighting. The three independent tank regiments and an armored brigade that were invested were all disabled. The entire Seoul Battle
During this period, more than 300 tanks were lost. The entire city of Seoul and all surrounding villages and towns were also reduced to the ground.
The Battle of Seoul suffered heavy losses, especially heavy losses to the armored units. Du Kaishan, who had basically lost his assault capability, could only temporarily stop the offensive on the western front. Fortunately, the eastern and central fronts were progressing smoothly, and the strategy had basically been reached.
Objective. Stopping the offensive while seizing Tianan and Pingze will have little impact on the outcome of the battle.
Behind Du Kaishan, the four railway corps that had entered North Korea after the South Manchurian War at the end of 1944 were also working hard to repair the badly damaged Gyeongbu Line Railway. Du Kaishan sent a message to
As we advanced a section south, these railway soldiers rushed to repair a section.
By the time Seoul changed hands, the Japanese and Korean troops had been compressed to Cheonan, south of the Chungju line, Yecheon, west of Daegu, and a corner of the entire Korean peninsula. The remaining Korean troops of more than 50,000 people had withdrawn from all directions, as well as a large number of Japanese expatriates who had withdrawn southward.
Being compressed into such a palm-sized area, life is quite difficult.
Fortunately, after the loss of Busan, the anti-union offensive on the Korean battlefield suddenly stopped completely, which made the North Korean army, which had already felt unsustainable, heave a huge sigh of relief. However, the North Korean army, which had been cut off from all contact with the mainland, along with a large number of withdrawals
With a large number of expatriates trapped in the southwestern corner of North Korea, the food problem has become the biggest dilemma for the North Korean army.
The limited amount of food can only ensure that the more than 100,000 Japanese troops and a large number of overseas Chinese, including the North Korean military headquarters that has withdrawn to Gwangju, can only eat two meals of gruel a day. The helpless North Korean army can only mobilize a considerable part of them.
The army must find ways to be self-reliant and go fishing in the sea to ensure the most basic survival needs of these people.
After the offensive in the Korean battlefield stopped, in addition to the continuous small-scale tactical battles on the front line, and the anti-Japanese attack aircraft groups constantly passing through the remaining Japanese-controlled areas in Korea, and bombings from time to time, the entire Korean battlefield showed that
An eerie calm.
At the same time, the anti-alliance transport fleet, under the cover of the fighter group, began to station at the airports of Ulsan and Daegu one after another. The small anti-alliance fleet returned from Okinawa, as well as several sea sweepers that had been renovated in Tianjin,
They also entered Ulsan Port one after another and secretly began to clear mines on the west coast of Japan. They also carried an anti-alliance division and suddenly seized Tsushima Island opposite Busan Port.
After the completion of the Jianghuai Battle in the Guan Nei battlefield, the entire army also entered the replenishment stage. The central government was also constantly adjusting the troop establishment under the new situation. According to the unified deployment of the central government, some of the anti-alliance troops who entered the customs were transferred back to the Shandong Military Region.
In addition to the sequence, the main force and the main force of the New Fourth Army were completed and organized, and the anti-alliance forces entering the Guanhai Pass were officially reorganized into the New Fourth Army.
At the same time, the central government abolished the original Huainan, Huaibei, Northern Jiangsu, and Central Jiangsu Military Regions, unified the four military regions into the Jianghuai Military Region, and formed the Jianghuai Military Region Headquarters with the New Fourth Army military headquarters. Chen Hanzhang served as the commander of the Jianghuai Military Region and the commander of the New Fourth Army. The New Fourth Army was originally
Acting Army Commander was transferred to political commissar.