Chapter 415: One Step Late
It was not until the Japanese were a thousand meters away from Jiulian City that the KPA attack ended.
Duan Xiaolou, the commander of the 19th Division, did not blindly send people out of the city to pursue the Japanese invaders, and the 19th Division killed tens of thousands of enemies in this battle, but the remaining troops of the Japanese Pioneer Army were already much more than the 19th Division.
What's more, the Japanese who attacked the city just now were only the vanguard army, and the large Japanese army was still behind, and the strength of the 19th Division was far less than that of the Japanese army, and the task of the 19th Division was to hold the Jiulian City, and there was no need to lose troops in other battles, let alone deliberately capture prisoners in this kind of battle.
As the Japanese invaders went away, the gate of Jiulian City opened, and the soldiers of the first ascending army held their shields in front, and the soldiers of the 19th Division of the Ordinary Regiment followed behind, and their task was to clean up the battlefield.
A large number of corpses of Japanese robbers have been piled up on the battlefield outside the city of Jiulian, and there are still some injured Japanese robbers who are still struggling to survive, and these corpses must be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise it is easy to produce epidemics.
The People's Army's medical development has been slow, and it is not yet effective in treating the disease, and once the epidemic occurs, it can only be isolated, and it is not known how many people will die because of the epidemic.
Since there is no cure for the disease, it is necessary to eradicate the breeding ground for the disease as much as possible, and at the same time speed up medical research.
Far away from Jiulian City, Governor Konishi gathered the soldiers who fled behind, counted the number of people, and only nearly 30,000 people remained.
When listening to his subordinates report this number, Governor Konishi was directly stunned, the 50,000 vanguard army attacked a small Jiulian City, and before many enemies were killed, his own side lost more than 20,000 people?
It's incredible, it's terrible, it's the enemy is too strong, or it's your own side that's too weak.
"This is a trap, we have fallen for it, the enemy has put the most elite army in Jiulian City, it is really hateful!" Governor Konishi said resentfully.
"Yes, it's an enemy trap."
"It's not that the enemy is strong, it's that we fall for the enemy's conspiracy."
"If you are hateful, the enemy will not dare to fight with our army in a dignified manner."
Hearing Governor Konishi's words, his subordinates echoed him.
Being able to destroy Goryeo and the Hercynian Jurchens successively, the Japanese army understood that it was "powerful", and the Japanese army was the most powerful army in the world, and no enemy could defeat the Japanese army one-on-one.
The Japanese army was so powerful that it was defeated by the People's Army, and it was certainly not that the People's Army was stronger than the Japanese army, this was a conspiracy of the People's Army, and the vanguard army suffered heavy casualties.
In this way, Konishi Yukinaga directly pushed the reason for the defeat of the vanguard army to the "enemy's conspiracy and tricks", he was at fault for defeating the battle, but it was more of the enemy's problem, even if another person led the attack on Jiulian City, it would be a fiasco.
This is what Yukiko Konishi really thinks, not an excuse that he came up with.
Following this line of thought, Konishi Yukicho sent someone to the Chinese army to report to Ukita Hideya.
Two hours later, Ukita Hideya received a battle report from Konishi Yukinaga, and regardless of what caused the defeat of the vanguard army, Ukita Hideya was furious and lost 20,000 people, which was the first time that the Japanese army had encountered such a large loss since the Japanese army conquered Goryeo and Hercynian Jurchen.
Ukita Hideya mobilized a total of 200,000 troops to attack Liaodong controlled by the People's Army, and lost 20,000 people in the first battle, one-tenth of the army.
Although Ukita Hideya was angry, he accepted Konishi's words, and the vanguard army suffered heavy casualties because of the enemy's conspiracy, and only this rhetoric can explain why the invincible our army suffered a great defeat.
Like Governor Konishi, Ukita Hideya also believes that our army is the best in the world and invincible, in this case, the Vanguard Army was defeated by the People's Army, it must be other reasons, and Konishi Yukicho's words explain very well why the Vanguard Army was defeated.
In the future, as long as the Japanese army is careful and does not fall for the enemy's schemes, they will definitely be able to defeat the enemy.
And no matter how powerful the conspiracy and trickery are, it is not inferior to the absolute strength, and now the Japanese army still has an army of 180,000, and a small Jiulian city cannot stop the Japanese army, not to mention the 100,000 army of the Jianzhou Jurchens.
We must avenge the Japanese soldiers who died in the battle and kill all the enemies in Liaodong.
The vanguard army of the disastrous Japanese army rested far away from Jiulian City, waiting for the large army behind to converge, outside the vanguard army, there was a Jianzhou Jurchen man who had been staring at the vanguard army, and when he saw the defeat of the vanguard army, he immediately sent people back, wanting to report the battle report to the leader Nurhachi.
As long as this war report is in Nurhachi's hands, Nurhachi will be able to understand the strength of the People's Army more deeply, and he will not easily test the People's Army, even if it is just a test, it may cause heavy casualties to the Jianzhou Jurchens.
However, the distance between Jiulian City and Parrot Pass is not short, and when the Japanese Pioneer Army attacked Jiulian City, the Jianzhou Jurchen army was not far from Parrot Pass.
Because the Jianzhou Jurchens nominally submitted to the Wa Kingdom, Ukita Hideya sent a team of people into the Jianzhou Jurchen army and urged Nurhachi to lead the army to attack the People's Army.
Under the pretext that the march was tired and needed to take a break, Nurhachi asked the Jianzhou Jurchen army to postpone the attack on Parrot Pass, but the Japanese in the army kept asking Nurhachi to launch an attack quickly, and Nurhachi was upset when he heard it, and he wanted to kill all these Japanese invaders.
The Japanese can be killed, but not now, and now the Japanese are killed, once the Ukita Hideya knows, I am afraid that the Japanese army will turn around and attack the Jianzhou Jurchens first, which is what Nurhachi does not want to see.
Irritable by the Japanese invaders, Nurhachi finally decided to lead a large army to attack Parrot Pass.
With 100,000 horses in hand, the garrison of Parrot Pass is not even 20,000, and the Jianzhou Jurchens have an absolute advantage in troops, and Nurhachi thinks that if he wants, he will definitely be able to capture Parrot Pass.
But Nurhachi did not plan to take Parrot Pass now, so he first tested the People's Army at Parrot Pass, and took those who were not very willing to obey his orders as the vanguard to test the attack on Parrot Pass, and it was best for these people to die.
If you eat a "defeat" first, you can rest for more time, let the other way of the Japanese invaders charge forward, and let the Japanese invaders kill and wound some more people, then the pressure on the Jianzhou Jurchens will be greatly reduced.
It doesn't matter if the territory is occupied by the Japanese invaders, when the People's Army subdues Liaodong, the two sides will fight, and the Jianzhou Jurchens can watch the play on the sidelines and accumulate strength, and one day the Jianzhou Jurchens will also have the opportunity to enter the land of China.
The person who sent the report of the "Great Defeat of the Vanguard Army of the Japanese Invaders" rode a horse and was about to catch up with the Jianzhou Jurchen army led by Nurhachi, but Nurhachi had already ordered the army to advance towards Parrot Pass, preparing for a tentative attack.