Chapter 372: Take Chuncheon lightly

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After the Tenth Army received the order, the commander Zhao Hong made arrangements for the deployment of the troops of the First and Second Divisions.

The 1st Division attacked Chuncheon, while the 2nd Division approached Hoengseong and Wonju, southeast of Chuncheon, and was stationed outside Hoengseong.

The Tenth Army, in this encirclement and reinforcement campaign designed by Chen Zhong, was responsible for eliminating the Japanese reinforcements on the eastern front of Seoul.

The defenders of Chuncheon were an infantry squadron of the Japanese army, the squadron leader Captain Hengchuan Minohe, and the defenders of nearly two hundred people.

After the 1st Division arrived outside Chuncheon, the division commander Xie Xiaodong ordered the troops to be stationed outside the city. He found Lin Sen, the head of a regiment.

Xie Xiaodong said: "There is only a small squad of Japanese troops in Chunchuan City, there is no need for us to make a big move, I want your regiment to carry out this mission." I don't want to cause too much movement this time. ”

After Lin Sen received the task, he called Liu Yunchang, the commander of the first battalion, and Geng Zhichao, the company commander of the sharp knife company, and asked him to quickly assemble the first battalion and go to Chunchuan.

Geng Zhichao, the commander of the first battalion of sharp knife companies, said: "Regiment commander, the Japanese army has only about 200 people in Chunchuan, we don't have to attack hard, you see, can we outwit it?" ”

Lin Sen said: "What good tricks do you have kid, let's talk about it." ”

Geng Zhichao smiled and said: "In this way, let our company's reconnaissance platoon disguise itself as civilians and blend into the city, and then, at night, the reconnaissance platoon will go directly to the city, open the city gate, and the two companies of our battalion guarding outside the city can directly enter the city." ”

"Very good, I will immediately report the battle plan this time to Division Commander Xie, the first battalion commander, you go back and prepare, select the best equipment for their reconnaissance platoon, and set off in the afternoon." Lin Sen, the commander of the first regiment, laughed after hearing Geng Zhichao, the commander of the first battalion of sharp knife companies, outwitting Chunchuan.

In the afternoon, the reconnaissance platoon of the Sharp Knife Company, under the leadership of platoon commander Xu Feng, disguised itself as a begging for food, doing business, and visiting relatives, and infiltrated Chuncheon City.

Chuncheon's administrative level is the provincial government, which is a county establishment with 1 eup, 10 myeons, and 108 ri.

Chuncheon is located in the mountains and is surrounded by the Sinyeongang River, Chuncheon Lake, Soyang Lake, and Yiam Lake in the north, south, and west directions of the basin terrain, respectively, and the watery city is often foggy.

Chuncheon is located in a basin surrounded by mountains, in the center of South Korea, in the middle reaches of the North Han River, one of the major tributaries of the Han River. In particular, the main stream of the North Han River, which originates in Mt. Kumgang, and the Soyang River, which originates in Mt. Seorak, merge to form the Sinyeon River in the south of Samcheon-dong and flow through Gapyeong and Cheongpyeong.

The river basin erodes the granite in the upper reaches and transports it to the downstream to form an alluvial zone, and the Niutou Plain and Quantian Plain are impact soils with high humus content in the soil, which are suitable for farmland cultivation.

After Xu Feng led a reconnaissance platoon of ten people into Chunchuan City, he touched the ordnance department of the Japanese army city defense.

There weren't many sentry posts in this armoury office, and there were four Japanese guards in total.

In the second half of the night, there was a heavy fog in Chunchuan City, Xu Feng's reconnaissance platoon quietly came to the Japanese ordnance warehouse, and after killing several sentry posts of the Japanese Ordnance Department, each person received enough guns and ammunition, and took advantage of the fog to come to the west gate of Chunchuan City.

They changed into Japanese uniforms brought from the ordnance depot and marched to the city walls.

On the wall of the west gate there was a squad of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese squad consisted of 13 people, including a squad leader, 4 machine gun shooters, and 8 rifle soldiers.

Liu Yunchang, commander of the first battalion outside Chunchuan City, led the soldiers and quietly approached the city gate. They waited for the reconnaissance platoon in the city to kill the Japanese troops at the west gate and open the city gate.

Xu Feng and the brothers of the reconnaissance platoon observed the distribution of the Japanese squad.

The squad leader of the Japanese army sat in a small room in the city wall to rest. Four machine gunners, two on each side of the ramparts. There is a guard every five or six meters in the middle, a total of eight.

Xu Feng decided to act in three groups, one group of two people to deal with the small squad leader, two groups and three groups of four people, starting from both sides of this section of the city wall, first to deal with the Japanese machine gunners, and then to deal with the eight soldiers.

They decided to settle it all with daggers, so as not to alarm the Japanese guards at several other city gates.

Xu Feng and Deputy Platoon Commander Zhan Ying wore the military uniform of Shaozuo, and each led the second and third groups to start the operation.

At 2:30 in the morning, Xu Feng quietly touched the city wall.

Xu Feng walked up to the two machine gunners: "Hey! "A bang.

The two machine gunners of the Japanese turned around and saw Shao Zuo and three guards coming in front of them. Immediately get up and prepare to salute.

At the moment when the two Japanese soldiers got up, three reconnaissance platoon soldiers quickly came behind them and cut their throats with daggers, resulting in the lives of the two Japanese soldiers.

Deputy platoon commander Zhan Ying also eliminated the other two machine gunners by the same means.

The squad leader of the Japanese army on that side was resting when he saw a Japanese officer wearing a Nakasa military uniform and a guard standing at the door.

He hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Report Zuo, I ......", this guy, before he finished speaking, he was killed with a knife.

After Xu Feng and Zhan Ying eliminated the four machine gunners, they then took out the remaining eight devils at a very fast speed.

They piled up the corpses of the devils in that small room, and all the sentry posts on the city wall were replaced by reconnaissance platoon soldiers in Japanese uniforms.

Xu Feng ordered the two soldiers to open the city gate and quietly let everyone in the first battalion in. The fighters of the first battalion arrived at the ordnance warehouse, and all changed into Japanese military clothing and equipment. Then, in the same way, the rest of the sentry posts were disposed of, and everything was going on quietly.

Then they came to the barracks of the Japanese army.

It was already past three o'clock in the morning, and the Japanese were asleep.

The soldiers of the first battalion surrounded them all and tied up the squad leader Hengchuan Sanhe.

Hengchuan Sanhe was still in a daze, and he was overwhelmed by what was in front of him, and before he could figure out what was going on, he had become a prisoner of the Hainan army.

Xie Xiaodong asked Lin Sen to leave one of Liu Yunchang's battalions to guard Chuncheon, and all of them changed into Japanese military clothes. At the same time, he transferred two Japanese translators from the division headquarters to Chunchuan to assist Liu Yunchang.

Xie Xiaodong received a telegram from the military headquarters, which ordered their first division to ambush Japanese reinforcements from Gangneung and Inje in the vicinity of Chuncheon and Hoengseong.

After learning that the U.S. Pacific Far East Fleet had come to the Yellow Sea to support the Japanese army, Yama Prefecture sent reinforcements from Cheonan and Yecheon to support Seoul, and also transferred two wings of troops from Gangneung and Inje to Seoul.