Chapter 955: The battle is imminent

Three days later, the *** official finally responded to the atrocities that occurred in the Tokyo Embassy in Japan. On the one hand, it was because of the official personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who were killed in this unfortunate incident, and on the other hand, it was even more considering the pressure from the Chinese side to seize diplomats and expatriates stranded in China. The *** Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to hire a third-country investigation team to conduct a detailed investigation of the Chinese Embassy in Japan in Tokyo. Then the investigation team went to China in person to make a formal report to the Nanjing Presidential Office, and then negotiated compensation.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is of course very clear that this is a show for the people of the *** people. The purpose is to spread the civilized side of the *** government to the world through the so-called "third-country investigation team", and by the way, it can also compare with the retaliatory detention of *** citizens of the Chinese side. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not care much about this, but repeatedly emphasized in major newspapers and communication institutions that the tragic situation occurred in the Chinese embassy in Japan that day, including the serious violation of the thirteen-year-old girl.

As for negotiations, Wu Tingfang followed Wu Shaoting's instructions and decided to ask for cash compensation from ***. However, all this will have to wait for a series of procedures before the "third country investigation team" can further talk. The Nanjing Presidential Office has made an estimate that 80% of the amount claimed from *** will be paid to the victims, and the remaining 20% ​​will be included in the treasury. Although it is not good to do so in name, *** will never pay such expensive compensation without the support of the state.

On this day, the First Route Army of the Three Northeastern Provinces, which had been assembled in Jinzhou, began to attack the Lushun Fortress. From another perspective, the First Route Army of the Three Northeastern Provinces entered the battle at this time, which was more or less like responding to the Tokyo Embassy incident.

Although it has passed away for nearly ten days since the war started today, the three armies on the Sino-North Korea border have already begun to take action, while the First Army of the Three Northeastern provinces seems to be slow in their own territory, and it has not officially launched the first round of attacks until today. The main reason for this is not because of the First Army's own factors, but to coordinate the strategic deployment of the overall situation of the Sino-Japanese decisive battle.

Objectively speaking, the First Route Army needs to rectify the South Manchuria Railway, which has just been nationalized, and lay a military transportation system. Secondly, it is necessary to reach an agreement with the Qingdao German Command to ensure that naval fleets come to support them anytime and anywhere. In addition, delaying the First Route Army's offensive date will greatly reduce the burden on economic expenditures in the early stage of the war.

At the strategic meeting of the Group Army Command, Cai E formulated the main strategy to gain absolute advantage in the front battlefield, while on the battlefield of the Lushun Concession, it was only an auxiliary main strategy, which turned the Lushun Concession into a continuous bleeding wound in the military as a whole. Therefore, after the South Manchuria Railway was reclaimed, it only formed a confrontation with Lushun on the Jinzhou front line, and restrained the Fifth Division from moving in Lushun and did not dare to move at all, and was not in a hurry to launch an attack.

In fact, after the First Route Army of the three eastern provinces completed their organization and entered Jinzhou one after another, the Fifth Division had lost the last chance to evacuate Lushun. For the Fifth Division, after experiencing the large bombing during the Qingdao War, facing the long-prepared Chinese troops at the city, they did not even have the confidence to take the initiative to launch an attack.

*** The Army Provincial and the General Staff have always been very upset about this matter, and can only accuse China of unilaterally starting a war, which has led to the castration of the most important part of the plan. The General Staff has to admit that the Fifth Division has now become a turtle in the jar, which is more appropriate to describe it as becoming a hostage to China. With the strength of the Fifth Division, even if all the expatriates in Lushun participate in the battle, they can only be passive defense in the end. If the advantage cannot be established on the front battlefield of the Sino-North Korea border, the Fifth Division will never be able to launch a counterattack.

Not only that, the Navy also had to share more pressure. The Fifth Division had more than 10,000 troops standing, and they could not give up. Since they had lost the land transportation line of the South Manchuria Railway, they could only rely on maritime transportation to provide logistical support for the Fifth Division. Although starting from June 5, while the German Far East Fleet was still preparing, *** urgently sent several batches of supplies to Lushun by hiring third-country merchant ships, these could only meet the temporary needs.

Starting from June 10, China announced the Bohai and Huanghai military restriction order, stipulating that the coastal areas near the Liaodong Peninsula are war zones, and all unauthorized ships are prohibited from approaching military restricted waters. Starting from this day, the Lushun Fortress was completely paralyzed, and if the local government wants to continue to assist Lushun, it must rely on warship escort.

The first day of the battle in southern Jinzhou was not as fierce and had heavy casualties as the Yalu River in Dandong. Both sides only relied on artillery fire for a tepid time, and then the tentative attack of the scouts. Zhang Zuolin ordered the troops to remain cautious and avoid short-range large-scale firefighting as much as possible, and to keep the progress of the entire battlefield to the slowest level.

During this period, the *** Army Province and the General Staff held several days of meetings to determine the latest strategic ideas for Sino-Japanese war, overturned the illusion plan formulated before, and decided to focus on strategic defense first, try to make use of the advantages of North Korea's geography, and build a number of position defense lines in deep grooves and solidify the bases. Using position defense as the main response measure, on the one hand, delay time on the front line, laying the foundation for reinforcements of subsequent troops, and on the other hand, use position warfare as much as possible to create lethality and eliminate the vitality of the Chinese team.

Given that the fortifications arranged along the Yalu River line on the Sino-North Korea border were too simple, the General Staff Headquarters even made a preparatory plan and immediately began to build a second line of defense. Once the Yalu River defense line was lost, the frontline troops and subsequent troops could immediately retreat into the new line of defense to continue fighting. Although it had paid a certain price, relying on a stronger second front would inevitably cause more serious obstacles to the Chinese team, and sooner or later they could make a comeback.

After some argumentation, the General Staff decided to set the second line of defense in the section of Akutagawa to Ham-sung, and the main positions were still Akutagawa, Miaoxiang Mountain, Matsuyamari and Ham-sung. The undulating mountain terrain between Miaoxiang Mountain and Matsuyamari traveled with a very complicated road condition, which was a natural barrier. If you master the two parts of Miaoxiang Mountain and Matsuyamari, you can control the only mountain highway that runs through Akutagawa to Ham-sung.

Therefore, for the defenders, they can calmly deal with the mutual support and logistics support of each position defense line. On the contrary, for the Chinese team, since there is no available transportation line to provide follow-up troops and logistics supplies, it is impossible to try to bypass the frontal positions to launch an attack. Whether it is concentrating troops to break through a little or launching a full-scale attack, they will fall into the terrible consumption of position war.
Chapter completed!