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Chapter 875 Siege and Call for Reinforcement (Part 2)

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    After receiving the news that the 2nd Division of the People's Army appeared behind the Gumi Brigade, Lieutenant General Fukuda Hikosuke was instantly petrified as if he had been electrocuted.

    After surrounding five Japanese units, does the People's Army still have the appetite to swallow the sixth unit?  He is also paying attention to the movements of the 3rd Division: when the battlefield situation has reached a stalemate, any side that retreats will bear the risk of a complete defeat. In this way, there is no guarantee that the Chinese army, which is accustomed to attacking halfway, will not take the opportunity to gain battlefield benefits.  opportunity, it is very likely that the 3rd Division is waiting for such an opportunity!

    As the confrontation continues, a brigade is no match for a fully-equipped infantry army. If we continue to wait, who can guarantee that this army will not be the sixth to be surrounded?  The Japanese troops in Korea no longer have mobile power.

    The fighter plane passed in a flash, and Commander Guo Xipeng understood that if such a good opportunity was missed, it would no longer be possible to retain this elite Japanese army.  He ordered the 2nd Division to launch a battalion and company charge towards the periphery of the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army to defend as much as possible and delaying the Japanese army's chance of retreat.

    Whether to go or to defend, Gumi is also in a dilemma.  Under the fierce attack of the People's Army, his confidence began to waver.  It is not about the situation on the battlefield, but about the current situation that the Japanese army is stretched thin on the Korean Peninsula.

    He knew very well that if he did not withdraw from the battle at this time, his 12th Brigade would be the beginning of disaster if the battle went unfavorable again.  Even if they were victorious after going through untold hardships, their vitality was severely damaged, and the Japanese army no longer had strategic reserves. This was unimaginable on the eve of the war.

    But the consequences of retreat are also unimaginable: his troops fled, and the four trapped troops in the north were absolutely defeated, that's for sure.  Moreover, there is always the invisible 3rd Division spying around him, waiting for an opportunity to deliver a strong blow. This invisible enemy is the most terrifying.

    In this case, it is better to give it a desperate try and annihilate the 1st Division that has been caught in internal and external attacks in a short period of time, and then work with the border garrison in the "inner circle" or stick to Yongxing Bay to wait for the arrival of the navy.  In this way, although the two units of the 6th Division

    The troops are divided into the East and West Korea Bay respectively, but they are defended by the sea. With the support of a powerful navy, they can avoid the risk of the entire army being annihilated.  Moreover, with this base area, the defeated army in the north also had a direction and would not fall into the siege of the Chinese army. Based on his rich combat experience, he judged that the area from Miaoxiang Mountain to Mengshan was likely to be the tomb of the Japanese army.  .

    The best way to prevent friendly forces and your own troops from being completely wiped out is to exchange blood for life!  Therefore, the entire army was ordered to violently attack the People's Army in the circle, trying to kill the blood in a short period of time and integrate internal and external forces.

    His judgment is generally correct, but he doesn¡¯t necessarily think it will be much better here.

    Although the 1st Division is an infantry division, its combat effectiveness is not bad at all.  The heaviest firepower of the lightly-armed People's Army soldiers was the hand grenades and company-level infantry artillery they carried. Before the war, the achievements of the 100th Division's Broadsword Team made these warriors excited: It turns out that the Broadsword Team can also have  Such excellent results, not to mention we have guns and ammunition!

    Now they all know that this is a crucial battle against Japan, and they are full of confidence that they will win the battle: the arrogant and domineering Kwantung Army was completely wiped out in less than a day. We have more than 40,000 troops, and those on the opposite side are  It is the last army that the Japanese army can fight on the Korean battlefield!

    When we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins!  In the coastal corner of the north-central part of the Korean Peninsula, four teams trapped in encirclement and counter-encirclement fought a bloody battle.  Both sides know that this is a battle between you and me, and it is a key battle that determines the success or failure of both sides, so the fight is extremely cruel.

    Unlike the Battle of Kanto Prefecture, the People's Army had superior strength and firepower, and had the surprise of tanks. Therefore, it was a one-sided war. In the words of a League of Nations observer, the People's Army achieved a "cheap knife to cut butter" style.  victory.

    Here, the Japanese army has the advantage of firepower and the People's Army has the numerical advantage. Both sides are evenly matched. They are both aiming at the balance of victory. They both have the belief that they must win and have high fighting spirit. Therefore, the fight is particularly fierce.

    From noon to evening, the gunfire from both sides never stopped, and both sides paid a heavy price.  But what is gratifying for the People's Army is that after suffering 4,000 casualties, the Gumi Brigade was still unable to break through the flesh-and-blood Great Wall of the People's Army.  The KPA's positions remained unmoved.

    There is no point in continuing to stay here. The 8th garrison, which could give the Japanese army a little comfort, has completely lost its voice. This made Major General Gumi sensitively realize that this unit loyal to the country should have given up every last drop for the emperor.  Blood.

    After being exhausted, the commander of the Gumi Brigade ordered the Japanese troops to retreat to the south - he judged that the 3rd Division should ambush on the road to the west to Pyongyang, because this would not only effectively block the Japanese reinforcements from the direction of Pyongyang, but also wait for opportunities to move north.  Mengshan blocked the way for the four Japanese armies in the north to escape south.

    It cannot be said that Gumi¡¯s judgment is incorrect. The 3rd Division is indeed on the mountainside less than 20 kilometers south of Mengshan.volts.  But his purpose was not Gumi, but to intercept the Japanese troops fleeing south.  The People's Army also suffered huge casualties in this battle. More than 5,000 officers and soldiers of the two divisions withdrew from the battle, and more than 3,000 of them stayed on the Longxing River permanently.

    Without time to reorganize, Guo Xipeng ordered the 1st and 2nd Divisions to launch a rapid and non-stop following attack on the defeated army in Gumi.  It took three days to defeat Wonsan, Anbyon, and Sanfang Gorge, and advance the front to the west side of the Beihan River.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? After leaving more than 2,000 corpses and tens of thousands of square kilometers of land, Gumi finally safely gathered the defeated troops on the bank of the Imjin River, and together with the local Pyeongkang and Seongbuk-ri defenders, set up a new line of defense.  Compared with other Japanese troops, Gumi was lucky, although the 12th Brigade lost nearly half of its troops and all 3,000 men of the 8th Border Guards.

    Battle reports from other battlefields were received one after another; as expected, the 20th Division was completely wiped out - the 40th Brigade was forced to retreat south after most of it was wiped out, and encountered heavy troops from the People's Army at the source of the Longxing River east of Mengshan  Surrounded, the whole army died in battle.  The battle-hardened Lieutenant General Hayashi Ichiro's division commander also died on the beach, and the two branches of the 39th Brigade were completely wiped out when they fled south from Gumi.

    The 19th Division also did not benefit: the commander of the supporting 38th Brigade Matsushita Brigade also followed the example of his senior Lieutenant General Akai and performed a disembowelment. However, his men did not have as much perseverance as him. Except for some who died in the war, they were not killed in the war between China and Japan.  After the war broke out, the People's Army captured nearly a thousand prisoners in a very rare battle.

    In this battle, the People's Army dispatched 7 corps and 16 divisions totaling more than 260,000 people, and annihilated one Japanese reorganized division (the 20th Division), half each of the 19th and 6th Divisions, and the 8th Border Guard Corps  all.  At a cost of less than 20,000 people, the Japanese suffered a huge victory of about 45,000 casualties and about 3,000 prisoners.

    The Western People's Army advanced forward to the Dae Nam River line, and nearly one regiment of remaining Japanese troops huddled in an area of ??less than a hundred miles west of the Dae Dong River from Pyongyang to the Nampo line; Lieutenant General Juichi Terauchi, who was alone, led the remnants of the 37th Brigade.  Starry Night retreated to Pyongyang, waiting for reinforcements with the 11th Brigade, the remnant of Fukuda Hikosuke's 6th Division.

    After losing three more entire brigades, the situation of the Japanese troops in North Korea has become very dangerous.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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