At about the same time, the Wehrmacht began to attack around the Japanese defensive circle. The command of the Eighth Army hoped that even if the loss of Hoengseong County caused a setback on the Gangneung front, it might succeed elsewhere. There was not much expectation for this diversion attack, and the mobilized forces were only a regiment of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and the 18th Mechanized Infantry Division, which had just fallen up, but the results of the attack surprised everyone.

The Fourth Division made a triumphant turn almost after being bombarded by the Wehrmacht artillery, and the whole army was rushing up and down, throwing light and heavy weapons all over the mountains, but it was very good at stopping the pursuit of the Wehrmacht's mechanized troops. Duan Debiao, commander of the Fourth Mechanized Infantry Division, and Fu Yisheng, commander of the Eighteenth Mechanized Infantry Division, were taken aback. As a result, after the reconnaissance of planes and motorcycles, the four wings of the Japanese Fourth Division actually retreated to the division headquarters in Daejeon, completely abandoning the unformed outer defense line of Pyeongtaek. If Wu Chenxuan and Wu Daguan were here, they would popularize this wonderful flower of the Japanese army.

In the impression of many people, the Japanese army is all outlaws who dare to die and dare to bury. However, few people know that there was an alternative unit in the Japanese army at that time that was known for its poor combat effectiveness, and it was the Osaka Fourth Division, which was known as the "first abandoned division in the Imperial Army". Later, the Japanese historian Seki Kosuke described in detail various anecdotes of the Fourth Division in his article "The First Abandoned Division of the Japanese Army". Interestingly, this famous "weak brigade" actually retained its name after the war, and to this day, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force still has the 4th Division.

The 4th Osaka Division was established in 1888 and consisted mainly of vegetable vendors and traders in Osaka, making it one of the oldest standing divisions in the Japanese army. This unit has four wings under its command and is equipped with first-class weapons and equipment. It can be called the "elite" of the Japanese army. However, not long after it was founded, the reputation of "wreck" spread throughout the Japanese army. In particular, the 8th Wing, the core unit of the 4th Division, was nicknamed "the 8th Wing that is not afraid of defeat" because of its repeated defeats in the Russo-Japanese War (including the Jinzhou Campaign in which they failed to trap the Wuyi New Army and was chased by Lao Maozi for more than 100 miles).

After that, until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Fourth Division never went to the front line. However, this does not mean that it does not have the opportunity to show the spirit of "bravery". In 1933, Private Matsui of the 4th Division ran a red light in the center of Osaka. As a result, there was a conflict with the police, and the division commander Terauchi Shouichi resolutely led his troops to smash the police station in order to "maintain the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Army." I really didn't expect that the Terauchi marshal who bullied the British in the Malay Peninsula would have such a brave performance.

After two years of intensive training, the Fourth Division finally had a chance to show its face. 1939 year. In the event of a war between the Soviet Union and Japan in the Nomenkan area on the Sino-Mongolian border, the Kwantung Army ordered the Osaka and Sendai divisions stationed in the northern part of the puppet state of Manchukuo to urgently mobilize and reinforce the front line. After receiving the order, the Sendai Division (i.e., the 2nd Division) forcibly marched from Hailar to Nomenkan for 4 days, and entered the battle on the day of arrival on the battlefield, but was soon defeated by the Soviet army.

On the contrary, the order for the dispatch of the 4th Division was issued, but it was delayed. The reason is that after the mobilization order was issued, there was a surge in the number of sick patients in the division and regiment, and as far as the eye could see, the battalion was full of officers and soldiers who asked to stay behind for various reasons. The excited captain of the Japanese army, under the fury, personally sat in the infirmary to participate in the diagnosis, and then reluctantly organized the troops to march to the front line. The joke that "the wing commander changed his career to become a doctor" also spread among the Japanese army. However, the matter was not over, and the soldiers of the Fourth Division played a new trick -- passive sabotage. It only took 4 days to get from Hailar to Nomenkan, but the 4th Division walked for 8 days, and a large number of personnel were left behind. Coincidentally, on the day that the advance team of the 4th Division arrived at the front, the Soviet Union and Japan declared an armistice. When the news came, the officers and men of the Fourth Division who had fallen behind quickly followed as if they had taken a strong pill, and even many of the officers and men who stayed behind rushed to the front line "sick," while complaining with great regret that they had no chance to fight a battle.

Ironically, on the way back, the 4th Division, which was fully manned and full of spirit, became the most formidable unit in the Japanese army, while the 2nd Division, which was the first to arrive at the battlefield, lost its armor and was full of wounded soldiers. The officer in charge of news and propaganda of the Kwantung Army really couldn't look past it, so he picked up his pen and changed the headline of the news "My Invincible Fourth Division of the Imperial Army Returns with Might" submitted for review by the Japanese newspaper to "I Return with Majesty Without Injury to the Fourth Division of the Imperial Army," and ridiculed this "soft egg" unit in a roundabout way.

This Pyeongtaek rout was actually the normal performance of the 4th Division. The hundreds of artillery pieces of the Chinese army of more than 75 are no joke, let the vegetable sellers and unlicensed traders of the Fourth Division lie in the trenches and endure the fierce shelling for many hours, and after the casualties are nearly 10%, they will face the guns and machine guns of the hounds of hounds and octopus armored vehicles that are pouring in on the opposite side, and use their bodies to carry the explosives bag to drill the tracks, don't make a fuss, we are not talking about fantasy, right?

As soon as the Fourth Division retreated, the pit cried that the 19th Division that had just been rebuilt, the enemy had arrived in Daejeon, and there was a good one, Lieutenant General Yoshiharu Ozaki of the 19th Division in Chungju jumped to his feet and scolded the vegetable sellers of the Fourth Division for not being shallow, retreat, otherwise you can still take a group of uncles in their forties to carry the tanks and artillery of the Chinese army, they are all adults, although they were once loyal and brave soldiers of the Imperial Army, but they married a wife and had children, and the days of having a field and a geothermal kang have passed for more than ten years, so that these people are still as desperate as the stupid boys of seventeen or eighteen, Even Ozaki Yoshiharu himself thinks that all of them must be saint warriors, otherwise where would I find so many old middle twos?

The retreat of the two divisions on the Western Front was still a matter of righteousness, and he sent a telegram to Suzuki Shoroku of the Fifth Division before he pulled out his head, which probably meant this: "The Osaka vegetable seller is not benevolent, and the cold pot stickers slipped out first, Lao Tzu's team has just opened, and a dozen or so people are old, weak, sick and disabled, and seven or eight broken guns, but they can't withstand the ravages of those biao-shaped men on the other side, so they have to carry forward the spirit of our army and turn in the direction of Dian Village and Shangzhou." Your elder brother forgives the sins, if you can persevere, the younger brother doesn't compete with you, if you can't bear it, no one will laugh at you if you don't stride south. I'm good if you're good, and I've got to be good if you're bad, right? For the sake of the honor of the empire, why don't you work hard and give our two divisions a backup? ”

After Suzuki Shoroku received the telegram, although he did not eagerly verbally have a super-friendly relationship with Ozaki Yoshiharu's elder women, he secretly drew a lot of small circles. Suzuki said in his heart, you two dare to retreat with your whole body, half of my troops are wandering around the wolf's mouth more than 300 kilometers to the north, I want to hold on to the embankment, and I have to have soldiers, but if I retreat regardless of it, even if the 21st Brigade explains, the Fifth Division might as well be renamed the Ninth Reinforced Brigade, and he Suzuki Shoroku probably had to get a one-way ticket back to China, and whether it was packed in a coffin or curled up in a porcelain jar depends on the meaning of Shangfeng.

When the Eighth Army was marching forward, the headquarters of Suzuki Shoroku moved directly to the tent of the communication station, and the only thought was to quickly contact the 21st Brigade which bastard plus the third rank of Major General Kusaka, and convey the order to move in quickly.

"Division commander, it's through." When the signal soldier heard the call sign of the other party's answer, he hurriedly gave the microphone to the division commander.

"Yagaya Deer's, is that bastard there? Call him here, and I'm going to order him to get back to Jecheon immediately, and don't do anything about his mother's big dream of sneaking up on Gangneung. The Chinese have an aircraft wing stationed in Gangneung, and you" Suzuki Shoroku, who was scolding, was startled by a deafening explosion, only to find that it was an explosion from the earphones.

"Report to the division commander, our brigade was ambushed by the enemy on the periphery of Linho, His Excellency the brigade commander has been shattered, and now the chief of staff Jingchuan Dazuo is in command, at present, our army has more than forty percent casualties, and Dazuo ordered to ask for tactical guidance from the division and regiment." The headset was accompanied by the rumbling sound of artillery was an officer's urgent and panicked call for help, and Lieutenant General Suzuki Shoro's head was covered, and now the Fifth Division was going to be smashed.

It turned out that the situation was urgent, Du Zicheng took the risk of mobilizing the 211th Airborne Regiment on secret standby in Xianchuan to the periphery of Linho, arrived at Heshan more than two hours in advance, and used the terrain to set up an ambush circle, the soldiers of the Airborne Regiment are the top selected by each unit, and each has the skill level of non-commissioned officers, although the number is only more than 2,000 people, compared with the ratio of less than one to three between the two wings of the 21st Brigade and Regiment, but with the firepower advantage of 107 rocket artillery, 82 mortars, Type 08 howitzers and ruler general-purpose machine guns, The Japanese army was eaten to death, trapped in the valley, and the rats ran in chaos.

Ishihara can be regarded as an eye-opener, not to mention the other party's kind of rockets that explode a large area, and the imperial army does not have the equipment in this area. And the other party is less than half of his own troops, but the guy in his hand is too high-end, light machine gun (general-purpose machine gun is generally used in paratroopers with a bipod, no wonder it is considered a light machine gun) is like a chainsaw logging, even a rifle bullying people, one shot at a time, the fight is endless, and they are obviously veterans, guns bite meat, and even the officers who poke their heads out to command are not safe, and from time to time they open a hole in the back of their heads, and turn their backs to the sky to report back to the nine and a half paragraphs.

Fortunately, the enemy seems to have just arrived, and the number is indeed limited, in the case of a brigade fighting to the death, the other three brigades fought hard to escape, a little bit of numbers, the 21st Brigade can already be renamed the 21st Wing, look at the body of the grass deer on the stretcher, Ishihara feels that his future is probably numbered, but he has not given up the obsession of attacking on the Eastern Front. What he didn't know was that the current front had retreated 300 kilometers in the direction of Daejeon and Sangju, and it could be said that the Nakdong River had become the last natural line of defense for the Japanese army.