A New World 1930 RP

As the fight continues on the Korean peninsula the Japanese decide to reinforce their forces at Port Arthur, sending hundreds of thousands of men through the Yellow Sea on merchant ships to help in the defence of the city. When night comes, Chinese begin launching raids in the dark against the numerous transports, sinking many with the Japanese being relatively incompetent and spotting and destroying the fast moving torpedo boats, with some destroyers on convoy protection duty even being routed and damaged by surprise attacked from destroyers on the Chinese side. The Japanese move additional ships from ground support to convoy protection, which drives off most raids, with the transit of the troops saved with only a few losses on the Japanese side.









The fight on the Korean peninsula continues, and now with the declaration of Korea and an independent country by China, Koreans begin forming partisan groups across the still Japanese occupied area of Korea. Many begin doing hit and run attacks on Japanese troops, leaving small groups of demoralized Japanese wounded or dead whenever they stray away too far from their larger units. Moral returned to the Japanese as the line finally stopped moving in favor of the Chinese as tens of thousands of fresh Japanese troops came from the homeland with much equipment to hold the line against the Chinese.



With the Chinese being relatively unaware of the newly arrived troops and equipment, they continued pushing, the Chinese attack the province of Chungcheong, splitting an army available to the, totaling 50,000 men with the 3 German trained divisions being among them. With no lack of speed they launched a combined offensive in the state of Chungcheong, one group from the north west and the other from the north east.

The east flank broke, with them abandoning their positions after a relatively intact Chinese infantry force drove them out of their defensive positions. The Japanese reinforcements in the south reacted, heading north with haste before counterattacking the Chinese, killing many with artillery and taking out the enemy ability to fire back with precise air strikes against artillery positions and officer HQs. However, not all of the targets were conventional ones as the Japanese aircraft inentinally bombed many tents marked as hospital tents, killing the weak and helpless of the Chinese Army at the time.

The Chinese were pushed back with heavy casualties but once back at their original line, the Japanese stopped their pursuit. Many Korean partisans were about behind the Japanese lines, disrupting supply lines and even attempting to do hit and run attacked on Japanese units near the front lines, although doing only average in these attacks. The line stayed relatively the same, with many raids happening on both sides as they found no opportunity to advance as of yet, with the Chinese employing the tactic to often dress their men in Japanese uniform and send them into the Japanese defensive positions to cause chaos and confusion.





The Chinese began their offensive into Gyeongsang right on the heels of their advance in Chungcheong, with an equal amount of men being sent to continue the push against the Japanese. Here the Japanese reinforcements got here before any major coordinated pushes were made, with the initial artillery barrages shaking but not demoralizing the men. The Japanese shot back at the Chinese, now outnumbering them in long range artillery. In addition to this, Japanese air support came to bomb many artillery positions, doing so successfully as the Chinese were left at a huge disadvantage at long range.


The Chinese did not stay put for long, as they marched with the limited support they had, with them being shredded in the process as they approached with limited artillery support. Eventually, they got into mortar range, at which point the Chinese deployed their large amount of mortars and shelled the Japanese positions opening fire from a hilltop. The Japanese now were receiving the bad end of the stick as they had virtually no fortifications to cover them from above, they exchanged fire but ultimately suffered more casualties in the engagement.


After this exchange of fire, the Japanese aircraft came in for a second run, pinning the Chinese infantry and destroying many mortar positions before the Japanese infantry took the initiative, shouting, “ Tennōheika Banzai!”, as they charged in a human wave up the hill to the Chinese positions. The Chinese conscripts, seeing this terrifying sight retreated in a panic with them trampling over each other as they tried to get away. As they were charging down the hill, the Japanese stopped and began to fire on the routing Chinese, killing many before stopping and consolidating their position atop the hill. Suddenly they saw Japanese prisoners of war running frantically back to the new Japanese position. The soldiers, happy to see their comrades and tried to tend to them, but then once they tried to take off their clothing they exploded. The Chinese had rigged many of them with explosives, which now had killed many Japanese. The Japanese at this point were both seeking revenge but extremely shaken at seeing their comrades as bombs.
They regrouped, took care of their wounded, and began the pursuit of the Chinese until the 100,000 Chinese reinforcements came from the north, stopping them in their tracks.

Japanese tactical victory