dognovel Chapter 126: A full-scale counterattack, kicking off the battle for the throne in the north
Chapter 126: A full-scale counterattack, kicking off the battle for the throne in the north
After dealing with the Fuso Army in the northern border area, the Fuxing Army can now free up its hands to deal with the northern border and Tsarist Russia at the same time.
The battlefield inside the pass is mainly in three directions.
They are the Yuguan, Longhe and Zhengtai railway lines.
At this moment, Yuan Shicheng did not know that the Fuxing Army had annihilated four Fuso divisions and successfully recovered Andong Province.
Not to mention Yuan Shicheng, even Lieutenant General Nakajima Takahiro, commander of the Zhili garrison army, did not know about it.
It was not until the next day that the Fuxing Army directly sent a telegram to the whole country to inform them of the incident, and it became known to the whole country.
The reason why Fuso is so secretive.
One reason is because it’s embarrassing.
They painstakingly planned the Yangfu Incident and quickly sent troops to occupy Songjiang and Andong provinces.
And to be on the safe side, they also cooperated with Tsarist Russia.
As a result, only 20 days later, the four divisions that entered Andong Province were completely wiped out by the Fuxing Army like fallen leaves swept away by the autumn wind.
Not a single soldier returned to the Korean Peninsula.
Fuso has no face left.
So if the news can be kept secret, it will be kept secret.
The second reason was the fear that the morale of the troops in Northern Xinjiang and Zhili Fuso would be disrupted.
Especially the Northern Frontier Army.
The combat effectiveness of the northern border is very poor and the morale is not high because of the loss of elite troops.
If this news spreads further, I am afraid that the morale of the Northern Frontier Army will plummet.
The entire northern war situation will completely collapse.
This is a price they cannot afford.
But how could Jiang Hua do what they wanted?
Since the Fuso army kept the news secret, he insisted on spreading it to the world.
On the one hand, it can shake and disintegrate the morale of the Northern Frontier Army.
Secondly, it is also to deter the Yugoslavia from making any further moves.
Even the Fuso Army, a powerful country, was easily defeated by the Restoration Army.
If the Southern Alliance wants to take advantage of the situation at this time, it should consider its own strengths.
At the same time, they also announced to the world that they had expelled the Fuso army and recovered the Andong Province.
Sure enough, after this news was spread across the country, it caused a huge shock.
Especially on the Northern Frontier Army side, after hearing the news, Yuan Shicheng's heart sank to the bottom and a chill spread throughout his body.
Fuso's four divisions in Andong Province are all gone, so they are completely hopeless.
Even Yuan Shicheng had this mentality, so one can imagine the mentality of his generals.
Unless those who are determined to follow Yuan Shicheng.
Everyone else could see that the Northern Frontier ship was about to sink.
If you don't jump off the boat now, you will sink to the bottom with this broken ship.
This also caused many Northern Frontier Army soldiers on the front line to start working without putting in any effort, and even directly resisted orders.
The Northern Frontier Army was just one step away from collapse.
The Southern Alliance has already eliminated Lu Mingcheng, the governor of the two ridges, and regained the two territories of Lingdong and Lingxi.
As for Governor Lu Mingcheng, he fled to the Nanyang region with his belongings.
Although the two ridges belonged to the territory of the Southern Alliance before, they were only dependent on the Southern Alliance.
The actual control over the two provinces is still in the hands of Lu Mingcheng.
Now we have obtained the two ridges, especially the rich land of Lingdong Province.
This makes the Southern Alliance stronger than before.
In particular, fiscal revenue increased by 200 million yuan.
After swallowing up the land of Liangling, the Northern War broke out.
The situation then changed dramatically.
After the Northern Frontier declared war on the Fuxing Army and launched an attack.
The three giants of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), namely, Governor-General Wu Zhichang, Premier Gu Ziqi, and Minister of Finance Lu Jianzhang, held a secret meeting.
If the Northern Frontier is defeated by the Fuxing Army, they will directly send troops to Jingbei and Zhongyuan provinces to take these two important provinces for themselves.
From now on, the Southern Alliance will divide the world with the Renaissance Army.
However, by this time, the Southern Alliance will occupy nine provinces, including Huaijiang, Dongjiang, Jiangnan, Minyue, Nanyue, Lingdong, Lingxi, Jingbei, and Central Plains.
Although the territory of the Renaissance Army is not smaller than theirs.
But it is different from province to province.
The SAARC occupied the rich and most populous areas of the South.
The three provinces of Dongjiang, Huaijiang and Lingdong alone account for almost one-third or even nearly half of the world's wealth. This is no joke.
The population is about 300 million.
Therefore, SAARC is likely to be the final winner.
Of course, it wouldn't matter if the Fuso Army and the Northern Frontier Army defeated the Fuxing Army.
They also resolved the threat of the Renaissance Army, and the Northern Frontier Army would also suffer a great loss of strength.
The strength of the Southern Alliance is still the strongest.
So no matter who wins or loses, the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation will benefit.
But now the situation is a little different.
The Restoration Army won too quickly. The Fuso Army was like the Northern Frontier Army and was vulnerable in front of the Restoration Army.
This also made the Southern Alliance a little confused.
Weren't the Fuso army very capable? How did they get defeated so quickly?
The four divisions have a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops, and there are three permanent divisions, all of which are elite veterans.
It is simply unbelievable that they were wiped out by the Renaissance Army in just twenty days of fighting.
But the fact is before our eyes.
At this time, they need to consider whether they can withstand the retaliatory attacks from the Fuxing Army after occupying the two provinces of Jingbei and Zhongyuan.
Although they have been training during this period, their weapons and equipment have been greatly strengthened.
But compared with the Fuso army, they are still inferior.
If they can't even defeat the Fuso Army, how can they beat the Fusion Army?
Therefore, the Southern Alliance began to hesitate on whether to send troops.
Naturally, all sectors of society were delighted by this incident.
The fact that the Restoration Army dealt with the invading Fuso Army so quickly and efficiently was very encouraging to the Chinese people.
The prestige of the Fuxing Army in the country has once again been raised to a higher level.
Many people have even shouted slogans, calling for the Fuxing Army to march south to unify the country and end the domestic chaos.
Going south is the strategy after dealing with the Northern Frontier Army and the three northern provinces.
For Jiang Hua now, the focus is still on the northern border.
Yuguan, the number one pass in the world, has collapsed under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Fuso Army, and there are potholes and craters everywhere inside and outside the pass.
In the direction of Yuguan, the 100th Infantry Division had been holding out for five days in the face of attacks from hundreds of thousands of Northern Frontier Army and Fuso Army.
During these five days, the 100th Division did not lose a single position.
This battle also made the 100th Infantry Division famous. They used their strength to prove that even as a second-line infantry division, they could still fight.
But it also came at a heavy price.
The infantry division, which once had more than 8000 people, now has only more than 3000 people left, and the casualties have reached more than , nearly .
There is already a shortage of an infantry regiment.
Today, the 100th Infantry Division's hard times have come to an end.
Because reinforcements finally arrived.
However, the reinforcements this time were not infantry, but artillery.
The Second Artillery Division has arrived and is deployed outside the Great Wall, pointing its guns at the Northern Frontier Army and the Fuso Army inside the Great Wall.
As the commander of the 100th Division, Qiao Qingyuan personally rushed to the position of the Second Artillery Division in the rear.
All you see are cannons placed on the plain, and there is no end in sight.
This scene was still very shocking to him.
"I'm afraid the entire Northern Frontier Army's artillery combined doesn't have this many."
Qiao Qingyuan sighed from the bottom of his heart.
When I was in the Northern Frontier Army before, even cannons larger than 120 mm were rare.
Although there are 105mm caliber guns here, there are only dozens of them.
The rest are all of 155mm caliber or above, and there are even dozens of 203mm caliber ones.
In addition to the nearly one hundred peculiarly designed rocket launchers, the entire artillery position has four artillery regiments with 256 artillery pieces.
Including the more than 90 rocket launchers, the entire artillery division has more than 300 artillery pieces.
What a shocking number.
If the Northern Frontier or Fuso Army knew about this, they probably wouldn't have the courage to attack Yuguan.
Although the Fuso army was very brave, they were not brave enough to catch artillery shells with their bare hands.
Affected by the nationwide electrification of the Restoration Army.
The morale of the Northern Frontier Army in the direction of Yuguan was very unstable and extremely low.
Many soldiers are no longer willing to fight.
If we use tough measures to force them to attack Yuguan at this time, it may even lead to a mutiny.
So the Fuso army prepared to go on their own this time.
The 3rd Division and the 11th Division took turns launching attacks, trying to break through the Yuguan defense line at all costs.
To prevent the Fuxing Army from threatening the Zhili region with the help of Yuguan.
If Yumen Pass was in their hands, they would be able to block the Fuxing Army heading towards the northern border and prevent them from entering the pass.
At that time, they only need to focus on guarding against the Fuxing Army in Qidong Province.
The 3rd Division deployed two infantry regiments on the Yuguan front.
These two divisions are also the 7th and 19th Regiments of the th Infantry Brigade.
They jumped out from the starting position and launched a charge towards the Yuguan city defense under the cover of artillery fire.
"Onboard!"
The Fuso soldiers shouted and rushed forward.
Then they all saw an extremely shocking scene.
They saw shells whistling towards them from the direction of Yuguan, and then falling towards them at lightning speed.
“Boom…Boom…”
In an instant, hundreds of shells fell, causing an extremely dense explosion.
"Swish swish..."
Immediately afterwards, a barrage of 300mm rockets fell, dealing a heavy blow to the two squadrons.
"Retreat, retreat!"
They had just jumped out of the attack starting position when they were bombarded with artillery fire.
The two squadrons were running back the same way they had set out.
In less than ten minutes of shelling, more than 2000 Fuso soldiers were killed.
Moreover, the shells were still bombarding them, and their casualties were still rising rapidly.
Lieutenant General Takahiro Nakajima, who was commanding the front line at Yuguan, witnessed this with his own eyes.
It almost made his eyes pop out.
Such a large-scale bombardment was simply unprecedented.
The artillery bombardment on the Yuguan front also kicked off the Fuxing Army's full-scale counterattack against the Northern Xinjiang and Fuso coalition forces.
The Fifth Column (the Third and Fourth Motorized Infantry Divisions) on the Zhengtai Railway Front and the Third and Fourth Column on the Qidong Front launched full-line attacks respectively.
A massive battle for supremacy in the north has begun.