North Korea, a country connected by mountains and rivers with China, has been a vassal of China's central government for most of the time since recorded history. The North Korean governments of all dynasties have attached great importance to Chinese language learning. A typical example is the second year after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, North Korea
Taking the initiative to go to the table to confirm the suzerain-vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to the spread of Chinese in North Korea.
, it is specially allowed that Koreans can go to Nanjing to take the joint examination after taking the provincial examination in their own country. All high school students will be regarded as our Chinese sons and will be awarded generous salaries. Those who are not willing to serve as officials in China will be specially promoted by the Korean royal family.
, the North Korean government was also willing to use this as the main basis for promoting officials, so the style of Sinology in North Korea was extremely prosperous until the Ming Dynasty.
Until the end of the last century, before Japan occupied North Korea, the North Korean government stipulated that all Koreans must learn Chinese for more than two years. With the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated China and made North Korea its colony, Sinology lost its mystery.
Halo. After the Communist resistance spread throughout North Korea and consolidated its rule, the Korean government began to vigorously promote the de-Sinicization movement, abolished Chinese teaching schools throughout cities and villages, and opened Japanese schools instead, so that all North Koreans
People learn Japanese instead.
Therefore, in the 26th year of the Republic of China when the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full force, most people in northern North Korea could still understand the words of the soldiers of the 15th Division. Moreover, since the Chongjin area borders China, there are frequent economic exchanges with the Northeastern region.
Most of the men, women, and children can basically speak fluent Northeastern dialect, which allows the officers and soldiers of the 15th Division to communicate with the Korean people in Chongjin City without any obstacles.
At nine o'clock in the morning on September 18, the commander of the 15th Division, Colonel Yang Chao, was in the conference room on the second floor of the former Puppet Government Building in Chongjin.
The list of seizures was continuously collected at the division headquarters. Yang Chao and a group of officers smiled and narrowed their eyes.
As the largest port city in northeastern North Korea on the Taiwan Strait, Chongjin Port is responsible for transporting grain, iron, coal and other strategic materials to Korea. The gold sand and silver ingots seized from the port alone are worth five million.
The ocean, coupled with the huge amounts of precious metals such as copper, iron, aluminum, zinc, and mountains of coal, made Yang Chao exclaim that this trip was worth thousands of dollars.
At the same time, during the raids on Japanese banks, commercial banks, and factories, hard currencies such as U.S. dollars, pounds, gold bars, and silver dollars worth eight million oceans were also recovered. As for tens of millions of Japanese yen, Kwantung Army military notes,
Japanese copper, nickel and aluminum coins, etc., are not included in the account books because they have other uses.
"Teacher, good news!"
Major An Hansheng, captain of the 15th Division's Special Forces Battalion, rushed into the room excitedly like a gust of wind, saluted the division commander Yang Chao and chief of staff Xiao Zilan, nodded to his colleagues, and then said with a smile:
"Just now the captain of the second squadron reported to me that since the army entered Chongjin without committing any crimes, it also distributed military pay to the people. Each household was given military stamps worth 100 yen, metal currency and Japanese banknotes, and all were distributed
Food, coal and other living supplies, now our army's support rate in Chongjin has skyrocketed. Just now some North Korean people took the initiative to report to us that there is a person in the Musan area north of Chongjin.
This iron mine with huge reserves has not been well developed before. Since 1933, the Japanese army and the warlords in the pass have colluded with each other to abduct a large number of young Chinese laborers to Maoshan to develop the iron mine. It is said that the large iron mine is now
There are already more than 100,000 Chinese miners working in the iron mines. Commander, if these miners can be rescued, it will be of great help to the expansion of our army!"
An Hansheng was an orphan adopted by An Yi in Shandong in 2028. When he was fifteen years old in 31, he skipped a grade and was admitted to the Xufu Military Academy. After two years of systematic training and study, he was assigned to the 16th grade after graduating in 2033.
Division, served as sergeant squad leader, participated in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, was promoted to second lieutenant for meritorious service, and served as platoon leader. In the division-wide competition the year before last, An
Han Sheng ranked fifth in the division and was recommended to the command major of the Xufu Military Academy. After a year of hard study, he felt that there was still room for improvement and applied to stay in school to enter the special major for another year of further study. This year
I had just graduated in July and before I could return to my original unit, I was urgently transferred to join the Northeast Army's combat order.
Due to the exemplary role of the First Army, there is now a sense of competition within the Northeast Army.
As we all know, the more soldiers we harvest in battle, the more we seize, the faster our troops expand, and the brighter our personal future will be. With Hu Jiyang, a vivid example who was promoted from colonel to lieutenant general in a few years,
There, in the entire group army, which officer leading the troops was not holding his breath and wanted to make a career in the land of Northeast China?
After listening to An Hansheng's report, Yang Chao was overjoyed and quickly asked: "The specific location of the iron mine? How many defenders are there? How strong is the defense?"
"ah!?"
An Hansheng scratched his head and stuck out his tongue: "I was so excited after hearing the news that I forgot to ask the captain of the second squadron. I'm going now." After saying that, he turned around and ran out in a hurry.
The sound of "thump thump thump" coming downstairs came quickly.
Yang Chao shook his head and laughed dumbly.
Although the captain of the Special Forces Brigade under him is already a veteran with six years of military service, in the final analysis, he is just a young man who has just turned twenty-one, and it is inevitable that he will be a little irritable in his work.
Just when Yang Chao lowered his head and continued to count the harvest of the trip with a group of generals, An Hansheng had already returned from downstairs, but his expression was full of solemnity, contrary to his previous relaxation:
"Commander, I have asked. The iron mine is located northwest of Chongjin Port, about fifty kilometers away from here. More than 10,000 Japanese and Korean troops are stationed in that iron mine. It was the North Korean governor who fought in the Songhu War in 1932.
The model mixed brigade established during this period is said to have fought on a par with the Japanese 19th Division in actual combat exercises.
The strength is not inferior to the main division of the Japanese army. Moreover, the railway branch line leading to the iron mine is on the main railway line we go back to. If our whereabouts are discovered by the Japanese troops stationed at the iron mine, or they receive a call from the top
Order, go south in time to block the railway pass, we will face the situation of being attacked from the north and south by the superior Japanese army!"
After listening to An Hansheng's report, the group of generals who were happily checking the harvest were stunned.
Colonel Xiao Zilan, the chief of staff who graduated from the Munich Military Academy in Germany, put aside the list of harvests on the table in front of him, quickly spread out the large map of North Korea confiscated from the puppet government building on the table, lowered his head and looked at it carefully, and finally discovered that in the Qing Dynasty,
There is a place marked with a red triangle in the northwest direction of Tianjin Port, and between the red triangle and the main railway line, there is a red dotted line. It is immediately clear that this place should be the location of the Japanese iron mine.
This railway leading to the iron ore mining area branches off at a "Y" intersection called Gumao Pass. However, this Gumao Pass is an important pass back to Tumen. It can be said that one man can guard the pass and ten thousand people cannot open it.
All the officers who came up to watch took a deep breath.
"We only have 6,000 people, but we have to control a city of more than 100,000 people. And we don't know how many Japanese and Koreans who hate us in this city. It can be said that even without the existence of this Japanese army
, our current situation is also full of crises.
"Division Commander, I suggest that we gather our troops and retreat immediately. Otherwise, the Japanese army in the north only needs to block the Gumao Pass, and then rely on the two wings to mark the highlands of Wufeng Mountain and Sefeng Mountain, the only entrance of the canyon for the Japanese to enter and exit. We will become
A turtle in a urn." Xiao Zilan suggested loudly.
"ah!?"
Major Chen Shouting, the fourth eldest child in his family who owns a dyeing workshop in Xufu, the logistics department director, widened his eyes: "There are so many things in the Chongjin Port warehouse, what a pity it would be to throw them away? Even if we can take away valuables such as gold and silver,
But the iron, copper, and zinc that cannot be taken away
How many guns and ammunition can we get in exchange for non-ferrous metals, coal, grain and other materials? Also, don’t we save those miners? If the Japanese army blocks the mountain pass on the east bank of the Tumen River, we will have to wait thousands of times to enter North Korea.
It’s extremely difficult!”
A group of staff officers immediately began to discuss, with half of them advocating leaving and half advocating staying. The two sides couldn't argue, and finally focused their attention on the division commander Yang Chao.
Yang Chao paced back and forth, lowered his head, and calmly weighed the pros and cons.
This cross-border operation was completely impromptu. The entire Fifteenth Division was completely confused about everything in North Korea. Now they were confused and defeated a large city with a population of more than 100,000. It can be said that they were extremely lucky.
At this time, Yang Chao did not know that the Japanese army had always been closely guarding the area bordering the Soviet Union in northeastern Korea. However, recently, the Japanese government had just expressed its solemn disapproval to the Far East Red Army, accusing the other party of blatantly supporting the uprising in Manchuria.
The anti-government armed forces have crudely interfered in the internal affairs of Manchuria as a sovereign country. The Japanese government, the Manchurian government and the army will retain the right to hold them accountable.
But behind the fierce voice, there is an inexplicable guilty conscience. The members of the Communist cabinet and the generals of the base camp unanimously believed that even the guerrillas supported by the other side were so powerful and defeated the Kwantung Army in consecutive battles and were defeated. Then how powerful the Soviet Far East Red Army itself was.
Horrible, who can say clearly?
Therefore, in order to express its peaceful goodwill and urge the other side to rein in the situation, the Japanese government specially invited well-known journalists from major newspapers and magazines around the world to completely withdraw the Japanese troops from the border area between North Korea and the Soviet Far East in front of the media.
Only a few military and police personnel were left to maintain public order to show sincerity and to use facts to show that the Japanese government and army had no intention of becoming enemies of the Far East Red Army, hoping to obtain a kind response from the other party.
But no one expected that such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would come to the 15th Division led by Yang Chao. They marched straight in and attacked Chongjin, the most important port city in northeastern Korea, inflicting a bloody blow to the Japanese army.
The wound was sprinkled with a pinch of salt.
Yang Chao stopped, with a determined look on his face: "A man will not be rich without windfall, and a horse will not be fat without night grass. Now that we are here, how can we enter the treasure mountain and return in vain? Immediately call the military headquarters and request to mobilize more troops to join the war in North Korea.
, this Chongjin Port is an industrial base that is vigorously developed by small countries, including smelters, steel plants, machinery plants, military factories, and chemical plants.
When all the factories and enterprises are ready, we will have to dismantle it no matter what! Moreover, this northeastern region of North Korea is backed by the Soviet Far East Red Army. Judging from the terrain along the railway line when we enter North Korea, it is similar to the Changbai Mountains. Many places have
It's easy to defend but difficult to attack. If we can manage it well, it will be a good base location."
Seeing that the chief officer had made a decision, the people below could only cooperate unconditionally. Soon, the situation was fed back to the Second Army headquarters via radio waves.
An Chunlu, commander of the Second Army, who was counting the losses and gains from last night's battle, was stunned when he saw the message. After the 15th Division occupied Tumen, a brief battle report was sent, but there was no news after that.
An Chunlu thought that the 15th Division was repairing defenses in Tumen
To prepare for the reinforcements that the Communist Party was about to send from North Korea, Yang Chao was so bold that he quietly ran to North Korea and went nearly a hundred kilometers deep into North Korea. This made An
Chunlu couldn't accept it for a while.
However, An Chunlu was deeply moved by the bright prospects described by Yang Chao in his report. As the highest military commander of the army, An Chunlu was still anxious about the huge losses of the troops last night.
If the mine rescues the more than 100,000 miners, the shortfall in the army can be quickly replenished, and a supplementary division dedicated to the Second Army can even be established to make up for battle losses at any time.
After thinking about it, An Chunlu decided to leave this matter to the Army Group Headquarters. After all, crossing the border to join the war is not a trivial matter. It not only involves the mobilization of large corps, but may even affect the Northeast War situation and the international situation. Currently, the Army Headquarters is planning an offensive.
Dunhua, once the Second Army deploys troops to advance eastward, it will inevitably affect the subsequent battle.
Moreover, a series of issues such as the coordination of various ministries and the allocation of troops must be decided by the head of the group army, otherwise a big mistake will be made.
Li Fuqiang was very surprised when he received An Chunlu's report. He immediately called Tang Honglei, Zhang Jie and An Mingqi. After a short discussion, he issued the latest instructions:
First: The Second Division, the Ninth Division, and the 44th Brigade of the 15th Division of the Second Army sent their troops to North Korea. The 12th Division stayed in the Yanji area to establish the anti-Japanese communist regime and control the Japanese puppet government and Japanese overseas Chinese.
The land owned is distributed to landless farmers, the economic policy of rent reduction and interest rate increase is implemented, and the base area is consolidated;
Second: The 15th Division quickly seizes the north and south passes of Chongjin to buy enough time for the main force to move south. If the Japanese army is strong, it can escape into the mountains around Chongjin, wait for the opportunity, cooperate with the main force to attack from the north and south, and give the Japanese invaders a fatal blow;
Third: The Second Army completely annihilated the Japanese troops in the Maoshan Mining Area, and after rescuing the miners, it should temporarily stay in the northeastern part of North Korea, reorganize its troops, and deal skillfully with the Japanese invaders as they advance north, and then withdraw after Jin Hongmo's Seventh Army enters North Korea.
Tumen River, looking for an opportunity to capture Dunhua City.