Chapter 377: Suwon Hwaseong
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The first and second divisions of the 10th Army of the Liaodong Group Army of the Hainan Army cooperated with each other and fought a beautiful battle. All the movements within the pen %fun % pavilion www.biquge.info can be seen. It is convenient for the army guarding Suwon Fortress to be in command.
Suwon Hwaseong Fortress was built in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province during the Joseon Dynasty era and the Lee Dynasty.
Suwon Fortress is also an important southern pass of Seoul and is a military stronghold for the defense of Seoul.
The axis of Suwon Fortress was built in the 18th year of King Jeongjo, the 22nd King of the Yi Dynasty, to show his filial piety to his father, Jang, and to show his economic strength.
The walls of Suwon Hwaseong Fortress are 5.52 kilometers long and are equipped with various military facilities that cannot be seen in other castles.
A female wall was built above the walls, with multiple firing ports on which it was possible to both cover itself and monitor and attack the enemy.
There are city gates in four aspects, east, west, north and south, the north gate is called Chang'an Gate, the south gate is called Bada Gate, the east gate is called Canglong Gate, and the west gate is called Huaxi Gate. There is also a small stream flowing through Suwon Castle, and there is a water gate where the stream meets the city wall, and there are seven arched water gates for the stream to flow through, and a pavilion called Hwahong Gate is built on top of it.
Hwaseong Fortress was built using stone and bricks, and its structure was able to defend against enemy bows and spears, as well as to shoot at them.
Suwon Hwaseong Fortress has three hollow piers, which are observation posts used during wartime, and there are holes under the walls of the castle wall where you can observe movement outside, and each floor has a hole where you can fire guns.
Therefore, the defense of this Suwon Fortress is extremely strong.
According to the structure of Suwon Castle, Ma Chong erected many machine guns and cannons within the city walls, which is really an iron wall.
At this time, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the 10th Army of the Hainan Liaodong Group Army in Lichuan received Chen Zhong's order to outflank the rear of the 349th Infantry Wing of the Japanese army after a short rest.
The commander of the 349th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, Abe Ohuandan, ordered the artillery brigade to erect fifty cannons outside Suwon Fortress and prepare to forcibly attack the city.
The artillery brigade immediately loaded the shells and carried out the first round of shelling of Suwon City.
In the early days of the construction of Suwon Fortress, in order to prevent the high-destruction ammunition from breaking through the city defenses, a solid boulder was used as a bunker and thickened by three layers. Its defenses are quite solid.
At the same time that the Japanese bombarded Suwon Fortress, the artillery and machine guns under the bunker of Suwon Fortress also fired fiercely at the Japanese artillery positions.
This style of play, the Japanese artillery could not support it for long. The artillery battle was attacked, and the Hainan army in Suwon City was carried out under cover.
The Japanese bombardment did no harm to the defenders of Suwon Castle. The Japanese were different, they were almost completely exposed to each other's guns.
In less than half an hour of fierce fighting, the Japanese artillery group was almost lost.
The captain of the infantry wing, Abe Daihuan, saw that the shelling had no effect, and he was very impatient.
Because, Yama Ann Youpeng ordered their wing to rush to Seoul by tomorrow afternoon.
With the current style of play and situation, this is almost an impossible task!
The captain of the Abe Daihuan Single Wing, who was in a hurry, learned the meat bullet tactics when Nogi Noshinori attacked Lushun back then.
This kind of meat-bullet style of play is to charge with all the soldiers' ** until they reach the city.
Abe Dahuan singled the command of the first round of flesh-and-bullet attacks began, and the Japanese soldiers rushed frantically towards Suwon Castle.
A large number of Japanese soldiers fell under Suwon Fortress. The first round of the charge reimbursed the strength of two squads of the Japanese army.
Abe Daihuan saw that this style of play did not have much effect, but the charge of these two squads advanced the Japanese offensive position by more than 100 meters.
So, Abe asked everyone to hold machine guns in their hands and shoot at the peak. In the second round of the charge, the Japanese lost two more squads.
The chief of staff of the 349th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, Tada Inuzuka, couldn't stand it anymore, so he said: "Abe Daisa, please stop this suicide attack!" If this continues, our wing will be almost wiped out. Think again! ”
Abe Daihuan san frowned and said: "Tian Zhongzhong, this is no choice, we must carry out the orders of the general of Yamagu, Seoul is vital to the interests of our great Japanese empire, we must fight at all costs!" Until the American warship sailed to Ganghwa Bay! ”
After speaking, he waved his command knife and said to a group of Japanese soldiers who were already crazy: "The time has come for our warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, our excellent Yamato nation, to need the allegiance of excellent imperial soldiers like you!" The interests of our empire are being harmed, and our enemies are threatening our empire day by day. ”
Thousands of madman-like Japanese soldiers in front of Abe roared: "We are willing to serve the Japanese Empire, we are willing to serve His Majesty the Emperor of Japan!" Storm into Suwon Castle. ”
It was clear that Abe's incendiary speech had been a success, and that the group of emotionally charged Japanese soldiers had gone completely insane.
After saying that, these Japanese soldiers picked up their guns and rushed to Suwon City. In an instant, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers fell outside Suwon City.
The Japanese army was getting closer and closer to Suwon City, and although there were heavy casualties, the combat effectiveness was still there. Nearly a brigade of Japanese soldiers had already attacked the city. They began to ascend the city.
Judging from the strength of the current defenders of Suwon Fortress in Hainan, they are much weaker than the Japanese army.
If the Japanese army succeeds in breaking through Suwon City, then it is almost impossible for the Hainan army defending the city to win this battle.
Ma Cheng frowned, the current battle situation has been scorched in this place, and Suwon City may be lost at any time.
When Ma Cong was anxious, he heard a burst of cannon sound from outside the city.
He picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and was taken aback.
Ma Cong saw that behind Abe's Dahuan Dan's infantry wing, there was a large area of Japanese troops who were pressed by black.
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