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    The railway bridge across the Datong River has been broken in the middle, and the rails and bridge deck have been twisted into twists, telling the story of the destructive power of war under the scorching sun.  The formerly busy rivers became desolate and empty, and the wide water surface was empty. Amidst the bursts of gunfire, most Pyongyang citizens had fled into the countryside with their families. On the contrary, more and more Japanese soldiers entered the city.  , burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil.

    But the Japanese army, which was overwhelmingly on the peninsula, suffered heavy losses today.

    25 kilometers away in the northern suburbs of Sunchuan, three 305mm railway heavy artillery comparable to the German K5 were lined up on a cross-shaped track. Under the command of the Yunqi artillery guidance machine, they continuously bombarded 30 kilometers away with 450kg low-pressure heavy bombs.  In the city of Pyongyang, urban buildings continued to collapse under giant cannons, and dozens of mushroom-shaped explosion clouds surged on both sides of the Taedong River.  "Hurry up! Speed ??up and get further away from the bridge!" Colonel Fujisueyoshi, captain of the 35th Regiment of the Ninth Division, stood on the shore in distress, shouting desperately for the soldiers to speed up.  The Japanese soldiers on the bridge were nervous all over, and looked at the sky from time to time, for fear that those terrible shells would fall again.

    But the more you feared something, the more it would come. A few minutes later, there was another earth-shattering explosion from the river five hundred meters away.  "Boom!" A water column as high as 100 meters rose into the sky from the river, and the waves rushed toward the pontoon quickly.  "Get out of the way, get out of the way." A team leader on the bridge wanted to rush across the river, but a one-meter-high wave broke off the pontoon bridge, and more than a hundred Japanese soldiers were swept away by the waves.  Before Fujii could lament his loss, another shell fell from the sky.  "Colonel, be careful." Several observing infantrymen quickly pushed him to the ground, but it was still too late.  The shell exploded less than ten meters next to them, and the shock wave tore several people apart at the same time, leaving only a large crater several meters deep.

    Without air superiority, a mere three heavy railway artillery pieces suppressed an entire Japanese division on the ground, unable to move.  The unprotected Japanese soldiers groaned and screamed in the explosion. Such a long-range attack prevented them from even using their best charge tactics.  "Baga! These are cowards!" Higuchi Kiichiro in the bunker saw this scene.  He was so angry that he yelled and scolded his own artillery: "Have you found the position of the Chinese artillery?" Colonel Serikawa Hide, the commander of the artillery regiment, even had blood on his cheeks. He clenched his fists and shouted: "General, the Chinese have used it."  It's a railway gun, the distance is too far, and my field gun has insufficient range" National resources are insufficient, and the Japanese Army lacks artillery. A few 105 field guns for division-level troops are good, but there is no way to develop prices.  Expensive cannon.  As for the naval guns eliminated by the Navy, they are basically used for coastal defense in mainland China, Ryukyu, Rabaul and other places.  No air superiority.  There is no giant cannon that can match it, so no wonder he is so anxious that his face turns red.

    "Then organize a death squad! Stopping here will only cause more casualties!" Kiichiro Higuchi looked bad, but he did not give up. After all, the Ninth Division followed Nogi and fought the cruel Battle of Lushun. Facing  The Russian machine gun formation lost thousands of people in one day without complaining. How could it be trapped on the surface by a few cannons?

    When the Ninth Division was defeated by three railway cannons and lost its troops, Li Zongren also climbed up to the observation platform.  "Chief of Staff." The guard handed over the telescope, but he was not in a hurry to see the results after taking it.  Instead, he walked up to Yue Peng and saluted and said hello.

    After the two shook hands, he was about to ask why he was called back when Yue Peng smiled and pointed in front of him: "No rush. Take a look first, there won't be much left of this scene." Zhang Xiaozhun, who was next to him, also stared at it and said with a smile: "  De Lin, you have good eyesight. You can see this kind of thing less and less every day." Li Zongren was puzzled, isn't it just three railway cannons?  Six similar artillery pieces have been deployed in the northwest, and ultra-long-range artillery strikes of more than 50 kilometers have been carried out.  Not too surprising.  Just when he was wondering, an unusual explosion suddenly came from the direction of Pyongyang. When he raised his telescope, he discovered that a cloud column hundreds of meters high appeared on the ground.

    There was a tremor on the ground that was more violent than before, making Higuchi Kiichiro and the officers of the Ninth Division pale with fear.  Looking at the mushroom cloud produced by the explosion, they immediately understood what was attacking them.  "Navy heavy artillery! It's a battleship of the China Navy! Quick, send a telegram. Damn Navy idiot, how could you let the China battleship get close to the coast!" Kiichiro Higuchi hid in the bunker and stamped his feet, so anxious that he wished he could fly out of the naval gun with wings.  scope.  But he had no wings, and the entire division didn't even have a few trucks. How could he escape when faced with a large-caliber naval gun with a range of more than 40 kilometers?

    "Boom, boom, boom" In less than two minutes, the second extremely powerful artillery shell fell again, and at the same time, Hue's three railway guns also opened fire again.  After the explosion, the Pyongyang Stadium not far away had been razed to the ground, and most of the entire squadron of Japanese troops hiding there were killed.  Such terrible destructive power caused a chill to rise from the soles of the feet of Higuchi Kiichiro and all the Japanese officers.  They really couldn't figure out what caliber of a giant cannon could cause such great damage?  If we can't break through as soon as possible, I'm afraid the entire division will be killed here!

    ? ??Are bombers dispatched?  Li Zongren was also startled and thought it was the Air Force using special bombs. Zhu Peide, who was standing next to him, saw him looking at the sky and explained with a smile: "On the sea at the mouth of the Qingchuan River, there is the Navy's 480mm experimental gun."  "As a senior general, Li Zongren knew that the Navy had developed a 480mm super gun a few years ago and installed it on the cruiser Qingdao (the original Austro-Hungarian armored cruiser Queen Elisabeth in the Battle of Qingdao) that had been decommissioned and converted into a test ship.  But because of the rate of fire and some other reasons, the Navy finally chose the more mature 406mm naval gun. Since it is an experimental gun, there will definitely not be many shells. In addition, this is the era of air supremacy, and the Navy will not order any more shells. No wonder Lian Yue  Pengdu said that he would not see it often.

    The shell weighing 1.5 tons fell on the ground, and its power was unimaginable. Coupled with the cooperation of three 305mm railway guns, the city of Pyongyang was completely enveloped in smoke and dust in less than half an hour.  It can be clearly seen through the lens that the city buildings quickly collapsed and disintegrated, the fortifications built by the Japanese army were in pieces, and several Japanese tanks were lifted several meters high by the explosion shock wave and fell heavily into the Datong River behind them.  Li Zongren even believed that with these four guns, as long as air supremacy could be ensured, the Japanese army would not be able to get even half a step beyond the Lei Chi.  "The North Korean armored division is up." When everyone was watching the power of the cannon, Xue Yue shouted first.  Following his finger, he saw more than a hundred Type 25C (c is the pinyin at the beginning of North Korea, indicating that this is a model exported to North Korea) tanks jumping out of the hidden firewood pile and launching a counterattack against the Japanese Ninth Division.

    The North Korean National Defense Forces have two armored divisions.  All are equipped with Type 25 tanks. Only the guard brigade modeled on the domestic Central Guard Division has more than fifty export-type 31c tanks.  Because the North Korean Armored Division and the Chinese Armored Division had conducted many exercises, the offensive formation was maintained quite well, which made Xue Yue and Yan Youbing murmur.  But Li Zongren was very puzzled. He tugged at the corner of Zhu Peide's clothes and asked in a low voice with confusion: "Yizhi, why did you counterattack so quickly? Where did Kim Jiu and the North Korean government withdraw to?"

    Although the General Staff Headquarters will adjust its combat deployment according to changes in the war situation, the overall strategy will not change.  From the beginning, North Korea has used them as bones.  Tempt Japan, the mad dog, to invest troops here.  Therefore, in recent years, the government has deliberately leaked the iron and copper mine reserves of Mushan and Huishan, just to take advantage of Japan's greed.  The General Staff's actions were also aimed at the weakness of the Japanese army's insufficient manpower and resources. Otherwise, allowing the 1.3 million troops in Korea and Southeast Asia to withdraw to the mainland or Ryukyu would be detrimental to subsequent campaigns.  Now that he saw that not only four giant guns but also armored divisions were deployed, he thought the General Staff had changed its strategy.  "This time we are cooperating with the navy to put pressure on the Japanese army to prevent them from unscrupulously adding troops to the south." Zhu Peide said with a smile: "The North Korean government has withdrawn to Sinuiju. As for Kim Gu, he is in dire straits now. I heard that Pyongyang has been lost.  Later, many North Korean officials were dissatisfied with his early exports to Japan, saying that he had enriched the Japanese army. So they went to Beijing to find the president."

    "Will the president support him to continue to be in power?" Li Zongren sneered.

    "I don't understand these things. If you are interested, you can ask the chief of staff later." Zhu Peide smiled.  As the chief of staff of the Northeast Theater Command, he actually knows many things.  I don't understand because he, like Cai E, Yuepeng and others, doesn't like to get involved in politics.  At this time, Yue Peng had put down his telescope and saw the two of them chatting.  He asked: "De Lin, are you used to life in the northwest? I see you have lost a lot of weight." Li Zongren is from Guangxi and is not very accustomed to the bitter cold in the northwest.  He smiled and said, "Thank you, Chief of Staff, for your concern. As a soldier, you go wherever you need me. Besides, didn't I just follow your order and hide away for a vacation?"

    Xue Yue laughed at the side: "Chief of Staff, look, I said that De Lin will be lazy. How about you let me go? I stay in school all day, and my bones are so idle." On the way, Li Zongren said  He guessed that there might be a new mission for him. When he heard these words, his eyebrows lit up: "Chief of Staff, is there a new mission?"

    It¡¯s no wonder he was impatient. Chu Nan, Long Yun and Sun Chuanfang, who were at the same time as him, were already group army commanders. Liu Mingzhao, who had always been secretive, even fought in the Zhezkazgan Counterattack and Petropavlovsk.  He showed great brilliance during the war, and even Europe and the United States called him the second-largest army general to emerge in China in the past 20 years, second only to Cai E and Yue Peng, and he is likely to be promoted to the first-level general at the end of the year.  Zhu Peide and Bai Chongxi are already commanders at the theater level, and even rising stars Zhuo Fan and others are showing signs of success.  But although he holds the rank of lieutenant general, he is still at the military level. If he cannot take advantage of this battle to gain prestige, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to make further progress in his life.

    Of course everyone knows what he is thinking, otherwise Song Ziqing would not recommend bringing him back.  However, there were many people talking now, so Yue Peng did not say anything immediately. Instead, he called everyone to walk towards the armored vehicle waiting behind.  After entering wartime, the army's internal regulations stipulated that more than two senior officers were not allowed to be on the same plane or in the same car.  So after avoiding everyone and closing the car door, Yue Peng took out the information about India and handed it over: "Take a look at this first." Li Zongren was secretly surprised when he saw the document. He didn't expect it to be India.  He doesn¡¯t know much about India?, but the general situation is also known, because the General Staff sends military intelligence briefings to senior officers every week, telling everyone the situation in various countries and the surrounding war situation.  But neither he nor anyone expected that the situation in India would deteriorate to this extent in just a few weeks.

    "The situation is not very good. Nehru and the Communist Party of India are very fast and have divided their troops to move south. Especially those Soviet veterans have fully recovered their strength after resting. There are also many heavy weapons provided by Japan, and they have defeated many  British division. At present, the western front has captured Lahore, and the forward is less than 50 kilometers away from Hyderabad. The middle route reaches the coast of Kempad Bay, 350 kilometers away from Mumbai. The fastest is the east, which has joined the Japanese army in Calcutta and is still moving south.  Cuttack and other places were captured. Bangladesh has basically fallen, and Chandra has been suppressed to the north of Bangladesh and Sikkim. Moreover, their operation has been supported by many local Indians, with sufficient money and food, complete supplies, and weapons and ammunition.  Very much. According to intelligence, if the tide cannot be stemmed as soon as possible, there is no possibility of dispatching two to three million troops!"

    "So many?" Li Zongren gasped, but think about India's population and the organizational capabilities of the Communist Party of India.  Not surprising.

    "The Military Intelligence Bureau has built airports in Sikkim and Assam and other places, and has also formed some guerrilla groups. Our local person in charge is called Fei Wenhua, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and is the commander of the Indian Northeast Independent Division of the Asian Alliance. People  Not bad, and his mind is flexible." Yue Peng said while taking out another document: "This is the deal reached between the president and the British government a few days ago. The British government has promised to transfer Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam and Nagaland to  The jurisdiction of the state was handed over to us in exchange for us sending troops to India.¡±

    Li Zongren knew that these four places used to belong to southern Tibet and Shan ethnic areas.  In the early to mid-morning, it was once incorporated into the country.  But with the Qing Dynasty's rebellion and British influence infiltrating, they were eventually ceded.  At the time of the Shanghai communiqu¨¦, Yang Qiu once wanted to regain these places, but the British refused, thinking that this was an agreement from the early Qing Dynasty and had been in effect for many years, but he did not expect that this time he would be willing to take it out.  Although it is a helpless move, these places are economically backward and have complex powers.  And after China stood up.  The southwest border has been stabilized and it is no longer possible to continue to expand the so-called Sino-Indian buffer zone, so even if it is taken out, it will not be a big loss.

    "Don't think it's good news." Seeing that he didn't find the key point, Yue Peng reminded: "Britain has brought it out. But it has evil intentions! Look, this is Assam's Digboy. There is a  The oil field is now the largest in India, with an annual output of 300,000 tons of oil. There is also a fully equipped refinery. In addition to the oil field, the UK also sold us the Makum coal field and the Moran coking coal plant.  Don¡¯t underestimate these oils and coals. India is short of oil. Stalin sent several groups of experts and only found a small oil field with an annual output of 80,000 tons in the Punjab desert. The coal in the Makum Coalfield is also very special, with a very high combustion calorific value.  High. Moran is also the largest coking coal base in India, and half of the coking coal of Tata Steel Plant relies here. Therefore, the Japanese army and Nehru are already actively deploying troops to seize oil fields and coal mines."

    The annual output of 300,000 tons of oil is neither too much nor too little, which is even more precious to the oil-deficient Indian and Japanese armies.  What's more, it involves coking coal used for steelmaking by Tata Steel Group. No wonder Yue Peng said that the United Kingdom has evil intentions.  This was basically a deliberate attempt to lure Nehru and the Japanese troops to the northeast and reduce the pressure on Bombay in the west.

    "At present, the British army has a total of twelve British-Indian divisions in India, with a total strength of about 200,000, 150 aircraft, and several destroyers and submarines. The headquarters is located in Bombay, and the commander-in-chief is the Governor-General of India Orin Lake  , the actual controller is Lieutenant General Quinan who was transferred from Egypt. This man is brave and resourceful, and is a good army officer. I have negotiated with the British army, and you will be the commander-in-chief of our troops in India. In terms of military strength,  The two infantry divisions in Afghanistan will go to Mumbai as soon as possible, the 16th Mountain Brigade will be airlifted to Assam, and Bai Chongxi can also give you two divisions. The Air Force can only support one group (about 118 aircraft) at most, more than  I'm afraid the logistics are overwhelming. The Navy's Third Fleet can't help you for the time being, because they and the British Mediterranean Fleet have a big mission recently, which will take about a month. Originally, I wanted to call in troops from the Muslim League and Afghanistan to give you, but the British are afraid that they will take advantage of it.  The expansion only allows for diversion and support in the Muslim League-controlled areas on the western front, and is not allowed to enter the central plain, so I can't give you too many troops for the time being. But don't worry, Chandra and Fei Wenhua have three divisions in their hands.  They are all under your command. The Muslim League's transportation channels are basically open. As long as you keep the airport in Assam in the northeast, the air force can still ensure basic supplies. But if you want to have enough food and continue to recruit troops, you have to wait until Iran is captured early next year.  It also depends on whether you can seize a coastal dock. As for officers, Wu Huanxian and Fei Wenhua of the 16th Brigade are both good officers. I will ask Xu Xiangqian to bring some young people to support you in the next year."

    After hearing these words, Li Zongren felt a little confident.  He did not take the guerrillas of Chandra and Fei Wenhua into consideration, but the four groups supported by the Afghan and Persian theatersAn infantry division and an elite mountain brigade were enough for him to stabilize the situation first.  Logistics is more troublesome. There is no problem in the direction of the Muslim League, but the Bay of Bengal is still in the hands of the Japanese army, and the route for the Air Force to fly over the Himalayas is even more difficult. I remember how many aircraft the Air Force crashed in order to explore aviation experience in high-altitude areas.  Barely maintaining a military airport in southern Tibet.  But despite the difficult conditions, he decided to accept the task.  After all, this is an independent command of theater-level operations, and one can consider one's own abilities.  Seeing that Yue Peng agreed, he raised four fingers again: "Remember four things. First, India can use any system in the future, but it cannot adopt GC and national socialization, so you can't fight Nehru.  I don¡¯t care, I must beat the Communist Party of India to death! Secondly, the caste system must be preserved. Don¡¯t engage in land reform or other messy things. In terms of money, just loot as much as you can. Thirdly, don¡¯t trust the Muslim League too much. Now  The Muslim League needs us, so you must make good use of the opportunity of assistance and compress the Muslim League forces and immigrants in Bangladesh to the south of Siret. At worst, we will help them steal meat from India in the future. We must also try to reduce the number of people in our control area.  religious population! Fourth, the Hindu region cannot be divided, but it cannot be united, because we need India to contain the Muslim League and ensure the balance of power in the South Asian subcontinent. You must keep these four points in mind. I told Chen Guofu, he  I will send a few political people to help you."

    Li Zongren was stunned for a moment, but he didn¡¯t expect that there was such a complicated political background and game behind it.  But unlike Zhu Peide and others, he prefers politics.  Only the first one gave him some trouble. He asked: "Chief of Staff, I heard that before Chandra took refuge with us, he was bent on imitating the German fascist stuff. After joining us, he started to carry out the policies promoted by our country in the controlled areas.  The country is undergoing social reforms and promoting universal welfare. Now I have to support him. If this continues, wouldn¡¯t it be"

    Yue Peng took out a cigarette and handed it to him to interrupt. After lighting the cigarette, his eyes suddenly turned cold. A sense of chill enveloped Li Zongren, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.  Listen to him say: "In this world, how many people die before leaving the army? If there is another Chandra, what's so surprising? What I want is that India cannot be independent now!"  Total annihilation! Chaos will continue in the future!"

    Li Zongren completely understood and nodded vigorously: "Then when should I set off?"

    "Don't worry, Britain still has a breath. You and I will go see the president later, and it won't be too late to have a good rest for three to five days before going." Yue Peng laughed. If it weren't for the coercion just now, I'm afraid everyone would  They have forgotten that he is one of the double walls of national defense

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