Chapter 1155: The Siege of Seoul Smoke Rises
c_t; It is less than sixty miles away from Seoul, Wu Shijian sits on the war horse, majestic and heroic, and his heart swells with a burst of pride, it will not be long before such a military feat as the capture of Seoul will become his own, what a proud stroke this is!
Wu Shijian kept urging the army forward, and at this time, the chief of staff, Wang Jiazhu, caught up and said, "Division commander, the commander-in-chief sent a telegram. ”
Wu Shijian was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took the telegram: order, the second division of the cavalry division advanced towards Seoul, launched a feint, attracted nearby Japanese troops to support Seoul, and after besieging Seoul for two days, the fifth and sixth brigades advanced to Lingxiu Mountain, preparing to ambush the Japanese army to help the division! Xu Huaijin.
Wu Shijian frowned, attracting the Japanese army to rush to Seoul? What does that mean? Could it be that the situation has changed with the Chief?
Wu Shijian asked Wang Jiazhu: "Jiazhu, what do you mean by talking about the chief?" Do you want us to feint on Seoul? Attracting Japanese troops to help? Encirclement and reinforcements, I do understand, why let us hold on for two days before launching an ambush war? ”
Wang Jiazhu pondered: "Division commander, I wonder if the commander-in-chief plans to change the landing location, not from Xinfeng, but to land on the central coast of North Korea?" ”
Wu Shijian shook his head and said: "No matter, since the commander-in-chief has an order, let's just execute it according to the plan, a small Seoul, no soldiers and no generals, even if it is a brigade, we are sure to take it down, we can't turn the sky!" Order, the army stepped up its march and arrived in Seoul before dusk today! ”
The 2nd Cavalry Division rushed towards Seoul like a hurricane, and at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the Cavalry Division arrived in Seoul, and immediately, the Cavalry Division launched a fierce attack on Seoul!
More than 10,000 cavalry continued to attack Seoul, morale soared, the dust raised by the war horses shrouded the entire Seoul, dozens of infantry guns also began to bombard Seoul indiscriminately, and the entire Seoul was already in chaos.
In Seoul, the supreme commander of the Japanese army was Inoue Yoshikura, chief of staff of the Tongsan Wing. led two Japanese brigades to stay in Seoul, all the troops combined, only about 1,000 people, facing the boundless Chinese revolutionary army outside the city, Inoue Yoshikura already had six gods and no master in his heart, and the difference in strength was too great, how to fight?
Now Inoue Yoshikura is also fighting hard. All the troops were sent to the head of the city to defend Seoul. Together with Seoul, the Korean puppet army has been pulled up, and they are stubbornly resisting!
I have to admit that once the fighting spirit of the Japanese army is aroused, it is indeed not to be underestimated, and Wu Shijian only feints, although the Japanese army has lost some troops, but Seoul is still very stable!
The two sides fought until late at night, and Wu Shijian stopped the battle!
After several hours of siege, I am afraid that now the Japanese army has already become a frightened bird. [ ] Surround it, just wait for the Japanese army around to come to help.
Xu Huaijin's calculations were too shrewd, from the beginning of Wu Shijian's siege of Seoul, Inoue Yoshikura's urgent telegram for help was sent to all the cities around Seoul, asking for support, and now the Japanese troops in Busan, Yunzhou and other places have already been urgently dispatched to march frantically towards Seoul.
The first to arrive is the closest to Seoul. The most powerful reinforcements from Busan, the Busan garrison received an urgent telegram from Kodama Gentaro, and Osa Yamada Yu urgently gathered the forces of two brigades in Busan and rushed towards Seoul, and the army arrived in Seoul that night. After entering Seoul, they began to assist the Japanese army in repelling the siege of the cavalry division, and now the Japanese army in Seoul has reached 2,000 troops, and it is no longer as panicked as it was when it was first launched.
But what about two thousand?
The cavalry division led by Wu Shijian has 13,400 people, such a strong force, if you want to swallow Seoul. It's almost effortless.
Early the next morning, Wu Shijian ordered the Fourth Brigade to start a fierce attack on Seoul again, the Japanese army did not dare to be careless, 2,000 Japanese troops struggled to support the city, and the two sides fought fiercely.
Inoue Yoshikura and Yamada Yu in the city are anxious, relying on only these two thousand people, they can't support it for long, why haven't reinforcements from other cities arrived yet?
What they didn't know was that there were not many garrisons in each of the surrounding cities, the minimum of one or two hundred squads and squadrons, and the maximum of six or seven hundred brigades, such troops poured in from all directions, and it was simply a group of rabble;
Wu Shijian ordered the Fourth Brigade to attack, and the other two brigades had already dispersed, and launched a series of volleys around Seoul, in one direction, at least two cavalry battalions, and the most Japanese troops who came to help were about 600 people, how could it be the opponent of the cavalry, and it didn't take long for the soldiers of the cavalry division to eat all of them!
The unfortunate Japanese reinforcements had not yet arrived at the city of Seoul, and all of them became ghosts of the cavalry division, and the entire central part of Korea had already become a pot of porridge, and almost all the nearby cities were threatened by the Chinese Revolutionary Army, and the telegram for help flew like snowflakes to the headquarters of the Japanese army in Sinuiju.
Kodama Gentaro spent a day, didn't do anything else, just busy reading the telegram!
Everywhere there is smoke, everywhere is in a hurry, just one cavalry division, the Japanese strategic deployment in Korea has been disrupted, the current Kodama Gentaro is anxious to jump to his feet, there is no way to do it in a hurry, I knew this, the 16th Division that stayed in Busan launched a landing operation towards Huludao, and now it is really stealing chickens and rice!
Kodama Gentaro shouted: "Order, immediately send an urgent telegram to the 10th Division, let them march day and night, and be sure to rush to Seoul in the shortest possible time to encircle and suppress the cavalry of the Chinese Revolutionary Army!" ”
The current 10th Division, under the urging of Kodama Gentaro, is simply playing with its life, and in one day and one night, the army will run out of a distance of two hundred miles!
The Japanese soldiers were tired and complained, and it took three days to run at this speed and reach Seoul, but after three days, even if the 10th Division arrived in Seoul, they were already tired and about to see the king of Hades, and they had a fart battle!
The commander of the division, Taro Harukawa, has been urged by Gentaro Kodama's telegram to explode in his head, we are not a cavalry division! We are an infantry division, run like this, and after arriving in Seoul, the army of 16,700 people will become called Hanako, how can we fight, no, even if we are in a hurry, we have to let the soldiers take a breath!
Taro Harukawa personally drafted a telegram asking His Excellency the Commander to give him a grace period and march the army towards Seoul as soon as possible while ensuring combat effectiveness!
No matter how anxious Gentaro Kodama is, it's useless, it's impossible to let the Japanese army work so hard for the sake of Seoul, when the time comes, Seoul will be lost, and if you put the elite of a division into it, it will be even more fun, and now you can only pray that the Japanese army in Seoul will be blessed by Amaterasu to hold on until the arrival of the main reinforcements! (。 If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
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