After thinking about it, Guangwu still felt that this was a very serious problem. He even felt that if the Ming army's landing attempt was true, it would be more serious than the current advance in the south. Although the Ming army was aggressively attacking south of the Huaihe River,
After all, they are still busy annihilating hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in the encirclement, and the momentum of the northward offensive has stopped. The strategic offensive seems to have come to an end for the time being.
Now in the second stage of the war, Guangwu planned to wait for work and did not take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army to clear Huainan and let the Xuzhou Corps go south to rescue the siege. Regarding the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops trapped in the siege, Guangwu judged that it was in pieces and there was no way to rescue them at this time.
If it makes sense, you can give up.
Guangwu's judgment is still very accurate. Now the advantages of the Ming army are very obvious, one is air superiority, and the other is ground mobility. To deal with such an army, we must make full use of its strengths and avoid weaknesses, and give full play to the advantages of the positional defense line. Those who have strength advantage but no mobility advantage
When the time comes, you should remain unchanged in response to all changes. You should defend a key place, defend it to death, build a complete fixed position, and wait for the opponent to attack.
You must not make the mistake of the first stage again. Take the initiative to attack wherever the Ming army is. Use your two legs to compete with the wheels of the Ming army's cars. As a result, before you have even gone a third of the way, they will surround you again.
.This obviously fell into the trap of the Ming army's mobile warfare. In the end, they were either surrounded and eaten, or the troops were bombarded continuously for a long time during the march. Finally, they were blown apart alive and the troops collapsed.
The biggest advantage of the Qing army is that it has strong troops and can withstand heavy losses. Even if the Ming army comes twice in such an encirclement, the Qing army will still have the advantage. Guangwu decided to sacrifice these Qing troops in exchange for time, and within this time, Xuzhou
The Corps rushed to build defensive positions with barbed wire, trenches and machine guns.
To fight the Ming army in a fixed position battle, and strive for an East Asian version of the "Meat Grinder of Verdun". The Qing Dynasty has plenty of troops, and it doesn't matter if one or two million people die with the Ming army. As long as it can reach 1:
With an exchange ratio of 1, this war is won. Next, we can go south and unify the entire China.
According to the experience of the European War, with the help of perfect barbed wire and machine gun positions, the exchange ratio will not be only 1:1.
But now, it seems that the Ming army is not a fool. They have the intention of landing in Shandong, and they obviously want to stab the Xuzhou Corps in the back. It seems that they also want to use their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
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Although the Ming army might be deceiving here, Guangwu knew not to think like this. He was not going to take any chances.
Guangwu summoned the two deputy chiefs from Sticking Office and asked them to urgently investigate the Ming army transporting troops north by sea. The two deputy chiefs returned with the order and immediately made arrangements. Just as they were about to investigate, they found that there was already a copy below
The information was delivered and has been sitting there for almost a day.
This information was sent back by a spy who was lurking at Nanming Ningbo Port Pier 3 at Niangan. He reported that on the night of the 11th, Ningbo Port Pier 3 was sealed tightly, preventing anyone from entering.
, a total of four container trains entered in one night, with a total of 130 knots. Three 10,000-ton freighters were moored in the port near Pier 3. At around 11 o'clock at night, these three ships quietly
has left the port.
Since the spy was unable to enter Pier 3, he has no idea what happened inside the port.
Guangwu immediately reported this information to Guangwu. Guangwu analyzed it suspiciously. This was obviously a secret transport of troops. If they really planned to attack Shandong, then the Ming army was indeed very secretive. If not,
If the detail of the waterline is revealed, then even Japan has really concealed it. On the other hand, if the Ming army is deceiving, then the acting is too good.
There are several mountains outside Ningbo Port, one of which is called "Mao Mountain", which is the closest to Pier 3. Guangwu ordered the spy to go to Mao Mountain with a telescope tomorrow day and lurk on the mountain. During the day, first
Observe the situation in the harbor, and then see if they are indeed transporting troops at night and how many there are.
On the night of the 12th, as it got dark, the Japanese reconnaissance planes broke away from the Ming fleet. However, according to the voyage calculation, the Ming fleet should arrive at Changchun in the middle of the night, that is, at three or four o'clock in the morning on the 13th.
Mountains and islands.
The Japanese side was very enthusiastic and said that they would continue to send reconnaissance planes to search the Yellow Sea tomorrow and day to see if they could find the fleet returning from the Ming army. However, Guangwu did not intend to let little Japan take care of everything. He did not intend to let the Qing Dynasty's intelligence
The system is so dependent on Japan. This will do a lot of harm but no good. He also sent a message to the Air Force to arrange reconnaissance aircraft to conduct a reconnaissance flight over the Yellow Sea during the day tomorrow to search for the Ming fleet.
During the day on the 13th, five reconnaissance planes took off from Dongying Airport to search the Yellow Sea waters between the Shandong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, trying to find the Ming army's returning fleet. Of course, the Ming army's fleet may not necessarily return on the same day, but if it returns on the same day
If so, he will definitely not be able to escape the aerial search.
At 5:30 pm on the 13th, Ming fighter jets suddenly appeared in the Yellow Sea on the north side of the Shandong Peninsula. These Ming fighter jets were arranged in groups of two. There were more than a dozen such two-plane formations, as if they were specifically hunting Qing reconnaissance aircraft.
Came. Within half an hour, two Qing army reconnaissance planes were searched for and shot down without saying a word. The remaining three received radio warnings and were too frightened to fly more at sea.
Stayed, immediately turned around and flew back to the base.
Guangwu was very angry when he received the report. He planned to send fighter jets out to sea for reconnaissance, and at the same time look for Ming fighter jets to fight. But he looked at the darkening sky outside the window and finally gave up the idea... Ming pilots had the ability to land at night.
, the pilots of the Qing army are not necessarily capable. Now every Qing aircraft is precious and cannot be made unnecessary sacrifices. It would be too useless to lose a few more fighter jets because of landing problems.
At around 8 o'clock in the evening, intelligence from Japan came again. The Japanese pilots discovered three 10,000-ton ships of the Ming army heading south on the Yellow Sea at around 6 o'clock in the evening, under almost completely dark conditions.…
…Of course, the pilot still landed at night.
...After all, the Qing Dynasty itself still failed to accomplish this. After all, it relied on the Japanese to accomplish it.
With his pride hurt, Guangwu once again lamented that the training level of the Japanese army and the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties or death were really beyond the reach of the Qing Dynasty. Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even the Southern Ming Dynasty was far inferior to others in this aspect.
He had imagined many times that if the Qing Dynasty had huge military strength and war potential, coupled with the quality of the Japanese army, not to mention the overthrow of Nanming, maybe it would be able to dominate the world, right?
...Unfortunately, this can only be a fantasy.
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Japanese intelligence said that these three Ming Dynasty 10,000-ton ships were the same three that were in the fleet yesterday. But now there are only these three ships. There are no other four 5,000-ton cargo ships, and there are no warships to escort them.
This is obvious. The three troop transport ships of the Ming Army have finished transporting troops and are now returning home. They should be transporting troops again. As for why only these three ships have returned, it is also very simple, because the "cargo" of these three ships is soldiers.
, and the soldiers disembarked very quickly. The other four ships carried cargo, and unloading was much slower.
At night, outside Ningbo Port, the Beiqing spies lurking on Maoshan held telescopes and used the moonlight to observe Pier 3 a few hundred meters away. Sure enough, just like last night, the Ming army sealed the pier again, one after another.
Four freight trains drove in. This time he saw more clearly. Thousands of Ming troops got out of the carriages. A large number of bright steel helmets under the moonlight quietly boarded the three freighters. The total force was about eight
Around 1,000 to 10,000 people.
Then, the three cargo ships still quietly left the port without blowing their whistles.
At noon on the 14th, Nigan received Japanese intelligence again. These three 10,000-ton ships did not line up together, but were separated by dozens of nautical miles, each heading north. There were no warships to escort them. This time there was no sight on the deck.
It's the Army officer. Moreover, the waterline of the freighter is very low this time, and it seems to be fully loaded with cargo.