Chapter 169 Guanhai Tower

Until now, the Japanese army stationed in Anzhou has not figured out what this sudden Qing army wants to do. Fujino Aso Nakasa also thought that the Qing army might attack the city, but in his opinion, this is unlikely.

Since the Qing-Japanese War, the Japanese army has turned to a full-scale attack, while the Qing army has been retreating steadily. Under this big *, it is difficult to imagine that a small group of poorly equipped Qing army dares to attack the important towns garrisoned by the Japanese army.

Therefore, Fujino Aso only strengthened the vigilance of the Anzhou city wall and paid close attention to the movements of the Qing army outside the city. In his opinion, this Qing army should have come to pick up or rescue the troops who had entered the city. Based on this consideration, Fujino Aso focused on the search and arrest in the city. Based on this consideration, he reported the enemy situation to Aoki Gen, but did not ask Aoki Gen for help.

Fujino Aso's attitude prompted Aoki Gen's serious misjudgment of Anzhou. And the order of friends in Shanxian County forced Aokiyuan to take care of Anzhou.

Zhou Charter has bought time! At 6 a.m., Zhou Charter issued an order to attack the city.

The two battalions launched a resolute and rapid attack on the West Gate.

The Japanese army stationed at the west gate did not expect that the Qing army would launch a mountain and sea-like offensive. Although the cannons on the city gate were unloaded, and although the Japanese officers and soldiers entered a first-class alert state, they were still caught off guard by Zhang Jun.

In just half an hour, Feng Guozhang's direct battalion rushed under the city wall with a rain of bullets, climbed up the city wall with bare hands, expelled the Japanese troops stationed at the west gate, opened the gate, and the Anzhou commandos of Zhang army attacked the west gate and resisted the Japanese counterattack with the tall and strong wall.

After standing firmly at the west gate, Zhang Jun quickly attacked the inner city.

The 401 battalion quickly captured the government office garrisoned by North Korean officers and soldiers, including Han Lingjun, who were arrested by the Japanese army last night. However, Lu Wenjun, the magistrate, ran to Guanhai Tower, where the Japanese Garrison Command was located.

The battalion directly under the division was progressing smoothly. The troops quickly controlled the east gate, north gate and west gate, and advanced to the south of the city. There was no strong resistance from the Japanese army along the way.

The North Korean officers and soldiers in Anzhou dispersed after Zhang Jun entered the city. North Korean officers and soldiers have no combat effectiveness in the first place, and at this time, they are unwilling to work for the Japanese.

The people of Anzhou are basically neutral towards Zhang Jun. Anzhou has not experienced the war. Ye Zhichao did not enter the city when the Qing army was defeated and did not harass the people in Anzhou. The Japanese adopted a policy of appeasement against Anzhou, which did not cause great damage to Anzhou. Therefore, the people of Anzhou have no position on the war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan. After Zhang Jun entered the city, the people closed their doors and settled their fate.

However, in Guanhai Tower, Zhang Jun encountered the tenacious resistance of the Japanese army, and the attack was seriously blocked.

Guanhai Tower is located in the south of Anzhou, bordering the sea. This granite high-rise building built 300 years ago is actually the south gate of Anzhou City, which is also the gate of Anzhou.

Anzhou is a coastal city bordered by the Yellow Sea in the south. Since the Ming Dynasty, North Korea has established a strong clan relationship with China. China, which originally frightened North Korea, has become the great rear of North Korea, and the Yalu River has become an undefenced border.

However, the border troubles from the sea have increased. Since the Ming Dynasty, Japan has been eyeing North Korea. Japanese troops and warriors have launched an attack on North Korea from the sea. In the 19th century, Western powers also pushed North Korea from the sea, and North Korea's maritime border has been infestation.

Therefore, North Korea has adopted a strategy of defense over inland. Every coastal town is a coastal fortress. The city gate facing the sea is the most important of the four gates. In most cases, the gate facing the sea is a fortification.

The Guanhai Tower in Anzhou City is such a fortress.

In view of the special strategic location of Anzhou, the North Korean court built a coastal defense fortress with Guanhai Tower as the core in Anzhou. The fortress covers an area of about 1 square kilometer, and there are two forts, as well as traffic trenches, chest walls and fortresses. The fort is equipped with large-caliber cannons, and there are trenches between the fortresses.

In the eyes of modern military strategists, the Guanhai Tower Fortress is not dangerous. The North Korean army seriously lacks modern military talents. This fortress built with the assistance of the Qing Dynasty is almost the epitome of Weihaiwei Fortress, and the topography of Weihaiwei and Anzhou are completely different. The North Koreans make it nondescript. Moreover, Guanhai Tower Fortress has vividly learned the strategic defects of Weihaiwei - the side facing the sea is like a copper wall and iron wall, and its back road is almost undefed.

In Aso Fujino's eyes, the Guanhai Tower Fortress is useless. However, Guanhai Tower is a military facility after all, and Fujino Aso still used it as the location of the garrison. With the assistance of the local government of Anzhou, Fujino Aso redesigned the defense position of the fortress and made an all-round revision of the defense of Guanhai Tower, focusing on strengthening the defense of the side and rear of Guanhai Tower.

The amount of work is huge. According to Aso Fujino's plan, private houses within 300 meters behind the side of the Guanhai Building should be demolished. At the same time, the chest wall should be strengthened and raised, and fire points and gun positions should be built on the chest wall.

The buildings inside the Guanhai Tower Fortress are also easy to do, as long as there are money and laborers. The problem is that it is troublesome to demolish houses.

The basic strategy of the base camp for North Korea is to regard the land and people of North Korea as nationals of the Japanese Empire and make North Korea the second Ryukyu. Under this guiding ideology, the base camp requires the troops stationed in Japan not to cause great damage to the lives of the local people. In particular, strategic places such as Seoul, Pyongyang and Anzhou should minimize harassment of civilians on the basis of strict control of local military and government.

The civil affairs of Anzhou have been handed over to the local government. Fujino Aso wants to demolish private houses, which cannot be directly implemented by the Japanese army, which will arouse people's dissatisfaction with the occupying forces. Therefore, Fujino Aso pressured local administrative officials to force local North Korean officials to demolish their homes.

Lu Wenjun, the governor of Anzhou, relied on the power of the local Dongxue religion to ascend the throne of the magistrate, and the vast majority of Dongxue believers are local ordinary people, and the demolition of houses will inevitably be resisted by the people. zhi. If the house is forcibly demolished, the Dongxuejiao tu will absolutely break Lu Wenjun's support and go to his opposite side.

Lu Wenjun did not dare to act rashly and dared not disobey the occupying forces. He had to delay the time. On the surface, he promised well, but secretly delayed the construction period with various excuses.

In this way, the progress of the project is extremely slow. After half a month, several houses have been demolished, and some ownerless thatched huts have been demolished. Fujino Aso was very dissatisfied. Two days ago, Fujino Aso couldn't stand it and decided to do it himself. He sent the Japanese army to forcibly divide 300 meters behind the side of the Guanhai Tower into the military warning zone, forcibly drove the local residents out of their homes, and then forcibly demolished the houses in the warning area.

The conflict between the occupying forces and the local residents intensified.

The forced demolition had just begun, and Zhou Charter's troops invaded Anzhou City. The private house behind the Guanhai Tower became a bunker for Zhang Jun's attack on Guanhai Tower.

However, Fujino Aso did not achieve nothing. The main project of the Guanhai Tower Fortress was basically completed, and the defense behind the side of the fortress was greatly strengthened.

Therefore, after Zhang Jun invaded Anzhou City, Fujino Aso made the most correct choice so far.

He ordered the defenders in the city to stop the street battle with the Zhang army, quickly retreat to the Guanhai Tower fortress, and fight against the Zhang army with the tall and strong fortress.

Fujino Aso has found that the Qing army captured Anzhou City by 2,000 people, while the Japanese army stationed in Anzhou was only 800. Although the Qing army was poorly equipped, the number of people had an absolute advantage. In this case, the Japanese army is scattered in the streets and engages in street battles with the Qing army. Its advantages in equipment and tactics will be difficult to play, and it will be easy to be defeated by the Qing army.

And concentrate all the troops in the Guanhai Tower Fortress. With strong fortifications, the Japanese army can maximize its firepower advantages.

Fuchino Aso knew that with the previous performance of the Qing army, the 2,000 Qing army was not the opponent of the 800 Japanese army. What's more, the Qing army had no heavy weapons at all. If they wanted to break through the Guanhai Tower fortress, it was completely crazy. Fujino Aso deliberately showed weakness and ceded more than half of Anzhou city to the Qing army. The real purpose was to use this half of Anzhou city as bait to drag the Qing army and wait for the mixed brigade to return to Anzhou to annihilate the Qing army in Anzhou.

This idea is the same as Zhou Charter's idea of the peak in the fetus!

Zhou Charter is going to use the tire peak as bait to delay the mixed brigade, so as to capture Anzhou, cut off the back road of the mixed brigade, and then annihilate it.

Fuchino Aso used Anzhou as bait to delay the Zhou Charter. After the mixed brigade took down the fetal peak, he surrounded and annihilated the Zhou Charter.

Both sides' ideas are correct. In this case, what determines the outcome of the battlefield is no longer the strategic intention of the commander, but the specific tactical implementation!