At this moment, the 27th Division of the Japanese Army finally dispatched and rushed to reinforce the 22nd Division. Although it was blocked by the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division of the KPA on the way, the Japanese left one brigade to maneuver with the KPA, while the other brigade bypassed the 2nd Division and 1st Regiment and rushed to reinforce the 22nd Division. This is also due to the fact that Luo Yue was too optimistic about the battle, and only prepared a regiment to block the reinforcements, and now it seems that the troops are indeed a little thin.

After receiving the report, Luo Yue immediately ordered to abandon the battle and the whole army retreated. Retreating at this time is the correct tactical choice and will not adversely affect the mentality and morale of the army. However, Luo Yue also decided that in the future battles on the Japanese mainland, as far as possible, he should not engage the Japanese army head-on, but should focus on surprise battles, otherwise such battles would not be beneficial to the People's Army.

The People's Army took the initiative to retreat, which also made the 22nd Division desperate, and the division commander Sanosuke Yamamoto also breathed a sigh of relief, and some staff officers even cried with joy.

After the KPA landed in Japan, the first battle between the main Japanese forces ended with 627 KPA killed, 873 wounded, 23 missing, and 512 Japanese captured, while the Japanese 3,581 killed, 5,287 wounded, and 817 missing. The ratio of losses on both sides reached 1:6, and most of the KPA casualties were inflicted during the attack on the 22nd Division, while the casualties of the entire army were less than 100 during the attack on the 23rd Division.

On the Japanese side, the casualties of the 22nd Division amounted to more than 4,000 people, and the casualties of the 23rd Division were about 5,000 people.

The battle report reached the Japanese War Department, and the Minister of War Terauchi Masatakeshi and the chief of staff Aritomo Yamaguchi were shocked, but they did not expect a division to be easily defeated by the People's Army, although the 22nd Division blocked the follow-up attack of the People's Army and saved some face, but for the Japanese army, this was still a major defeat. Moreover, it also seriously affected the planning and arrangement of the Japanese army.

Originally, the three divisions of the Japanese army were arranged in an inverted "pin" lineup, and the 22nd and 23rd divisions blocked the KPA and blockaded the KPA on the Noto Peninsula, and in consideration of the large number of recruits and inexperience of the Japanese army, the 27th division was arranged in the rear as a receiving support, and if these three divisions could hold steady for 10-15 days, the Japanese army would gather the strength of another 3-4 divisions and regiments to fight a decisive battle with the KPA.

But now only 3 days later, the 23rd Division was completely defeated, although the 22nd Division held its position, but also suffered heavy casualties, the battle attrition exceeded 20%, and the blockade line of the People's Army was also opened a gap, although the 27th Division immediately moved forward, and the People's Army did not march immediately, finally let the Japanese plug this gap. But there was no army behind the two divisions. In addition, judging from the situation of this battle, the lack of experience of the Japanese army is the biggest shortcoming, and if the KPA launches another offensive in the near future, no one is sure whether the Japanese army will still hold the defensive line.

Therefore, after consultation with the War Department, the 28th Division was urgently transferred to Ishikawa Prefecture to replace the 22nd Division, while the 22nd Division retreated to Gifu Prefecture to respond to the 27th and 28th Divisions, and the remnants of the 23rd Division were temporarily transferred to the 22nd Division.

At the same time, the War Department also ordered: The 22nd Division was collectively commended, and the division commander Yamamoto Gonnosuke was personally commended, but considering that he was directly promoted from the captain of the brigade to the commander of the division, this time he was not promoted to his position and rank, but in order to reward Yamamoto Gonnosuke's military exploits, the emperor gave him a saber and personally wrote the four-character commendation "Turn the tide" with his own hand. For the Japanese, it is of course a great honor to be able to receive a saber from the emperor and to be rewarded with a letter.

In fact, the 22nd Division just held its position, and it itself suffered heavy losses, which is really not a great achievement, not to mention that Gonnosuke Yamamoto himself was promoted by skipping grades, and he really can't afford such a high honor, but now that Japan has suffered defeats, the enemy has hit its own homeland, and it is necessary to establish a few heroic images to improve morale, and in the case of the defeat of its companions, the 22nd Division firmly held its position, so that the Japanese army would not collapse on the whole front, and in a way, it can be regarded as turning the tide.

Of course, there must be a reward and a punishment, and if the 22nd Division is rewarded, the 23rd Division will naturally be punished, not to mention that a complete division and regiment will be defeated by the enemy in just one hour, no matter what the excuse is, it is unjustifiable, so the War Department is quite dissatisfied with the performance of the 23rd Division, although the division commander of the 23rd Division, Major General Ono Shov, committed suicide at the command headquarters, and he will no longer be held responsible, but there are still deputy division commanders, division and regimental chiefs of staff, deputy chiefs of staff, etc., and the brigade and regimental level, Naturally, all wing-level officers and personnel cannot be taken lightly.

As a result, the War Department decided that the 23rd Division would be permanently removed from the Japanese army, all officers above the wing level would be removed from their posts and demoted to three ranks, and the rest of the personnel would all be demoted to one rank and one rank, and they would be temporarily assigned to the 22nd Division for meritorious service.

This punishment is not only quite severe, but also very rare in the history of the world's military to use a division as the object of punishment, because it is in a country like Japan with a strong feudal color, and it is very likely that the personnel of the entire division and regiment will not be able to wash away this shame for the rest of their lives, so when the punishment order was transmitted to the 22 nd division, a total of 53 officers at the division, regimental, brigade, and regimental levels, including the deputy division commander, committed suicide by caesarean section.

Two days later, the 28th Division was in place, and the Japanese army finally established a complete blockade again, but this time the Japanese did not dare to be careless, and strengthened the monitoring of the beaches within 50 kilometers of the blockade line to prevent the KPA from landing and attacking again.

Five days later, the 24th and 29th divisions also arrived on the battlefield, and at this time, the Japanese army had concentrated five divisions in front of the Noto Peninsula, plus the remaining troops of the 23rd division, totaling about 100,000 troops, and formed a layout pattern of 2 in the front and 3 in the rear, and the blockade line was very thick. It was only then that the Japanese War Department was relieved and no longer had to worry about the loss of the blockade.

And at this very moment. The Japanese army also began to try to launch an attack on the KPA defense line, on the one hand, to test the KPA's defensive strength, and on the other hand, to divert the attention of the KPA, so that the KPA did not have the energy to launch another landing raid.

Three days later, the Japanese army basically figured out the reality of the KPA defense line, and a batch of artillery also arrived at the front line of the battlefield, so the Japanese army also strengthened the offensive, intending to break through the KPA defense line in one go. So two days later, the Japanese army paid a total of more than 5,000 casualties, and finally broke through the KPA defense line, and the KPA retreated to the central part of the peninsula.

In fact, in the frontier area of the peninsula, it was not the preset battlefield of the KPA, so the KPA did not plan to stay here for a long time, and the fortifications were relatively simple.

The central part of the peninsula is the battlefield where the People's Army has selected a good defense line to defend against the Japanese attack, the People's Army has built two lines of defense here, and after nearly 20 days of construction, now the various fortifications of the defense line have been very perfect, the front line trench as the main body of the defense line is nearly 5 meters deep, and a large number of hidden bunkers and firepower points have been built along the line of the defense line, and there are artillery positions in the rear, and fire points and artillery positions are also arranged on the top of the hill through which the defense line passes, and at the same time, the living and auxiliary facilities are also very complete. It can be said that everything is ready, just waiting for the Japanese army to attack.

Of course, whether it is the People's Army giving up on its own initiative or the heroic fighting of the Japanese army, it is always a fact that the People's Army has successfully broken through the forward defense line of the People's Army, and for the Japanese Army, this is naturally an exciting good news, and it is a long-lost victory for the whole of Japan, and the War Department can finally breathe a sigh of relief. As a result, many people were optimistic that the Japanese army was not far from victory.

Within the War Department, there were also differences on the next step of the war plan, and some people thought that they could take advantage of this victory to breathe a sigh of relief, because after all, the number of troops invested by Japan was still insufficient, so it was better to stop fighting for 5 to 7 days, and then gather 3-4 divisions and regiments, as well as some artillery units, and put them into the battlefield, on the one hand, to completely defeat the KPA with absolutely superior force firepower, and at the same time, at the same time, to let as many divisions and regiments of the Japanese army experience as possible in actual combat and make full preparations for future battles with the British and French expeditionary forces; while the other part believed that relying only on the current five divisions and regiments would be enough to break through the KPA defense lineIf the war is truceed at this time, it will undoubtedly give the KPA a chance to breathe, give them time to lay out defenses and build a defensive line, so they advocate that the Japanese army should take advantage of the victory to attack at this time, completely defeat the KPA in one fell swoop, and completely drive the KPA out of Japanese territory.

After discussion, the War Department concluded that it would be more beneficial for Japan to expel the KPA from Japanese territory as soon as possible. After all, this is the first time that the Japanese mainland has been attacked by external hostile forces since the Black Ship Incident 50 years ago, and this has dealt a major blow to the dignity of the Japanese emperor, the prestige of the government, the glory of the army, and the morale of the people.

Even if these five divisions fail to break through the defense line of the People's Army, they can still consume the strength and morale of the People's Army, so that after the follow-up army arrives, it can also succeed in a battle and completely defeat the People's Army.

Therefore, the War Department commended all five divisions and regiments that participated in the war and encouraged them to continue their offensive and drive the KPA out of Japanese territory. At the same time, Lieutenant General Shinroku Ishimoto was appointed as the front-line commander, after all, five divisions and regiments were fighting, and of course unified command was needed.

Lieutenant General Shinroku Ishimoto was one of the few high-ranking officers in the Japanese Army who did not originate in Satsuma, and during the Russo-Japanese War, he assisted Minister Masashi Terauchi as a vice minister of the army (who also served as the director of the Justice Bureau), and was promoted to lieutenant general in October 1904. He is currently one of the few candidates in Japan who has the qualifications to serve as a front-line commander.