Chapter 152 Jin Hongji

In order to preempt the Manchurian Campaign, some friends in Shan County ignored the fatigue of the troops and the serious lack of combat materials and ordered the mixed brigade to immediately march north to attack Yizhou.

According to the expectations of friends in Shan County, after capturing Pyongyang, the First Army should keep pounding the Yalu River. At this time, the mixed brigade acted a month later than he expected. There are friends in Shanxian County who can't wait any longer.

However, it will take half a month for supplies to reach Pyongyang, and it is difficult for the First Army to move the whole army.

Youpeng's intention in Shanxian County is to capture Yizhou with a mixed brigade, resulting in the situation of Chen Bing's Yalu River, thus forcing the base camp to recognize his strategy of first Manchuria and then Shandong.

In the case that the supply did not keep up, the attack of the mixed brigade was a little aggressive. However, some friends in Shanxian County know that the Qing army in Yizhou is a group of soldiers scattered and reassemated by the Japanese army. They are large in number, but their equipment is extremely poor.

Therefore, in the eyes of friends in Shanxian County, there is no risk in the action of a mixed brigade, and taking Yizhou is just a search for things.

However, the brigade commander Aokigen is not optimistic about this.

The fatigue of the troops and the lack of food and ammunition are certainly one of the reasons.

But the most important reason is that Aoki Yuan believes that the commander of Shan County underestimated the ability of the Yizhou garrison.

The Yizhou garrison is the headquarters of Zhou Charter! In Hufeiling, Aokiyuan has learned the interests of this army!

The Japanese hero Oshima Yoshimasa Brigade died under the bayonet of this unit! At the same time, more than 400 elite Japanese soldiers and Major Yamazaki, known as the spy elite of the Japanese army, were killed.

The army of that branch is poorly equipped, but they have incredible combat effectiveness!

And their commander Zhou Charter is simply a fox!

The current mixed brigade is different from the mixed brigade at the beginning of the war. That army is well-staffed, well-armed, full of morale and disciplined, which is a real sharp knife force. After the Battle of Hufeiling, the brigade seemed to have faded by the continuous autumn rain.

The troop commen reduced seriously. In addition to the dead officers and soldiers, there are also a large number of attritions caused by illness and hunger. Since the beginning of the war, the soldiers of the mixed brigade have never been replenished. The brigade has two regiments with a total of more than 6,000 people, but now the mixed brigade has less than 5,000 combat personnel. Moreover, the food supply is only enough for four days.

The morale of the troops was also severely damaged, and Yoshimasa Oshima was killed, which frustrated this proud army. This army was once the pride of Japan, and it created an impressive record of entering other capitals. However, the huge casualties made the living officers and soldiers begin to suspect that their invincibility seemed to be just a kind of luck.

When luck is always useful!

However, Aokiyuan did not disclose his concerns to Commander Youpeng of Yamagata.

Because, from the perspective of pure tactics, he is like a friend in Shan County, and he really can't see what's wrong with capturing Yizhou.

There is a flat river outside the city of Yizhou, and there is no danger to defend. The Qing army has no basis. The only thing they can rely on is a bridge river, which is just a small river. The Japanese Zhouqiao troops can set up three pontoon bridges on the bridge river within half an hour, and then the Japanese army can cross the river like a flat land.

In addition, the Qing army can only rely on the peak to contain the Japanese army. Although the peak is steep, the peak is located south of the Qiaochuan River, which cannot play a decisive role in the battle of Yizhou.

As for the equipment of the Qing army, it is even more worth worrying. Intelligence shows that nearly two-thirds of the soldiers in the so-called "Zhang Army" are using cold weapons.

Aokiyuan was unable to raise a convincing objection to Commander Youpeng of Shan County.

More importantly, as the new commander of the mixed brigade, Aokiyuan knows that whether it is Commander Youpeng of Shan County or the base camp, he has high hopes on him! They hoped that Aokigen would win a victory and sweep away the haze brought to the Japanese army by the death of Major General Yoshimasa Oshima. Some friends in Shanxian County even hinted that after the mixed brigade captured Yizhou, he would report to the base camp and promote Aokiyuan to major general.

Before the war, Aokigen was only the captain of the Zhongzuo United. In just three months, he was promoted from Lieutenant General to Major General, which was an irresistible **.

In public and private, Aokiyuan had no choice but to lead this tired teacher to leave Pyongyang without hesitation, brave the continuous autumn rain, and follow the muddy and rugged road to Yizhou.

After a two-day trek, the troops arrived in Anzhou, which is nearly 100 kilometers away from Yizhou. It is the largest city between Pyongyang and Yizhou. It is also the most populous and largest city in northern North Korea except for Pyongyang.

The geographical location of Anzhou is very different from that of Yizhou. Anzhou is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the west, with well-developed fisheries and relatively rich, and its economic situation is better than other parts of North Korea. It is an important transportation road from Pyongyang to Yizhou. To the south is the Qingchuan River, surrounded by mountains and jungles. The city is tall and strong, and the Qingchuan River is dangerous, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

With Anzhou as the base, you can attack Pyongyang in the south and Yizhou in the north. Guarding the mouth of the Qingchuan River, you can also go out of the Yellow Sea and go directly to the Liaodong Peninsula of the Qing Dynasty.

In a word, Anju is a strategic location in northern North Korea. It is puzzling that the Qing army took the initiative to give up Anzhou after its defeat in Pyongyang.

If the Qing army gathers its main force in Anzhou, even if it is unable to recover Pyongyang, it can still prevent the Japanese army from going north. It is much easier to guard Anzhou than to guard Yizhou.

Obviously, the Qing army did not have the determination to fight to the death. Anzhou is hundreds of kilometers away from the Yalu River, and the Qing army is afraid of being bitten by the Japanese and difficult to escape. In addition, the Qing army did not believe in the North Koreans. They were afraid that the local North Koreans would be their enemies, so they could not extricate themselves from the mudflats.

And the Japanese army has the same concerns. The Japanese army has just captured Pyongyang and is suspicious of the North Koreans. The Japanese also know that the puppet emperor they support is difficult to be accepted by the North Korean people. Resistance movements occur from time to time in southern Korea and even around the capital.

In northern Korea, the people are much more closely connected with the Qing Dynasty than in the south, especially the Anzhou generation, where the people are relatively rich. The main reason is that the people of Anzhou have close contact with the Liaodong Peninsula of the Qing Dynasty. Most of their wealth comes from maritime trade and fishing with the Qing Dynasty.

The people of Anzhou are very likely to take a hostile attitude towards the Japanese army.

However, Anzhou is also a strategic place, a fortress for the Japanese army to further northward. Crossing Anzhou, it is a horse of Pingchuan. The Japanese army can directly attack Yizhou and break through the Yalu River defense line of the Qing army.

The First Army has long recognized the importance of Anzhou. Shortly after capturing Pyongyang, the Japanese army sent an advance team of hundreds of people to follow the defeated Qing army into Anzhou.

The purpose of this advance team is not to pursue the Qing army, but to quickly occupy Anzhou and consolidate the occupation of Anzhou. And Anzhou was built into another military town after the capital and Pyongyang.

There are more than 100 North Koreans following this advance team. They are all North Korean bureaucrats and members of the palace guard who swore allegiance to the Korean emperor Lee Hee, whose leader turned out to be Kim Hongji, the then Prime Minister of North Korea.

Jin Hongji, the character Jingneng (a Jingneng), known as Daoyuan, Yi Zhengxue Zhai, is originally from the Kim family in Gyeongju. Kim Hongji belongs to the North Korean Kaihua school. He is stable, open-minded, and has excellent administrative ability. He is known as the "talent of saving the times". It enjoys a high prestige among the North Korean people. Jin Hongji's political attitude was originally close to the Qing Dynasty and was a member of the "Big Party".

Jin Hongji had a deep personal relationship with Huang Zunxian of the Qing Dynasty. In 1880, Jin Hongji sent an envoy to Japan and frequently met with Huang Zunxian, the minister of the Qing Dynasty in Japan. Huang Zunxian once wrote "North Korea Strategy" to Jin Hongji. The central meaning of the North Korean Strategy is that North Korea should be close to China, United States and Japan to jointly resist the tsarist Russia. The country went south and accepted advanced Western technology at the same time in order to achieve self-improvement. Jin Hongji was deeply convinced and dedicated the "North Korean Strategy" to King Gaozong, which was affirmed by Gaozong.

However, the North Korean Strategy caused a great uproar in North Korea, and many Confucian students held high the banner of defending the good and rebuking evil and strongly criticized the North Korean Strategy. Among them, Li Wansun, a Confucian student of Qingshang Taoism, united with more than 300 Confucian students in 1881 (Xin the year of Xinsi) in Fuque, North Korea, known as "ten thousand people sparse", scolded Huang Zunxian as a "beast" and scolded Jin Hongji for "the theory of hiding and falsely slandering the saint". Jin Hongji became the target of public criticism for a while, so he had to resign and withdraw from the government.

Before the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, Kamio Mitsumi sneaked into North Korea and secretly searched for collaborators with Japan. Kim Hongji was also one of the targets of Kamio Mitsumi.

Jin Hongji advocates reform. However, his views are completely different from those of Jin Yujun.

The Kaihua Party, led by Jin Yujun, advocates radical reform and requires the severance of clan relations with the Qing Dynasty and carry out all-round reform under the premise of North Korea's independence. Jin Hongji advocated prudent reform and demanded the maintenance of clan relations with the Qing Dynasty, while making a good relationship with Japan to jointly resist Russia.

In this sense, Kamio Mitsumi seems to have found the wrong person if he wants Kim Hongji to cooperate with the Japanese.

However, Shenwei Guangchen hit a wall everywhere in front of Li Guangying, Liu Ying and others, and only Jin Hongji found a breakthrough here.