The headquarters of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army in Seoul. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The commander of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, Jiro Okamura, was neatly dressed, equipped with a general's saber, and wore white gloves with an awe-inspiring expression, looking at the direction of Kaesong in front of the map of the division headquarters. Behind him stood a division chief of staff wearing a large saber, Shigemoto Oshima.

Jiro Okamura looked at the map for a while, then turned around and asked Shigemoto Oshima, "How are the troops supporting the Itagaki Wing prepared?"

Shigemoto Oshima suddenly stood up and reported to Jiro Okamura: "Your Excellency, General, the 2nd Infantry Wing of the 16th Division is ready for battle and ready to attack Kaesong at any time. ”

"Yo Xi." Okamura Jiro nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Order Itagaki Yuzo to launch a general attack on Kaesong immediately, and our 16th Division must take Kaesong to avenge the Manchurian Army of our Japanese Empire."

"Hai," Shigemoto Oshima replied with a bow of his head suddenly.

At the same time, Okamura Jiro also gave an order to Saburo Ono Inu of the 2nd Infantry Wing of the 16th Division to be immediately deployed.

After the commander of Okamura's Jiro Division gave the order, the Japanese 3rd Artillery Wing outside Kaesong carried out a heavy artillery bombardment of Kaesong. Kaesong was instantly ablaze.

At the same time, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in Kaesong, Zhu Yuxin, gave a death order, ordering the 2nd Regiment to hold on to Kaesong until the 1st Regiment and the 3rd Regiment successfully detoured behind Itagaki Yuzo, and Kaesong could not be lost.

A regiment and three regiments quickly opened the city gate, and a small team of Japanese troops at the west gate did not expect that the army from Hainan would rush out from the west gate.

Division Commander Zhu Yuxin ordered three machine-gun companies to fire in a circular manner, firing three times in each round and advancing forward once.

These devils are also very tenacious, they saw that the opponent's strength and firepower were far superior to their own, and they began to charge forcibly, and in an instant, the devils of the West Gate let out a hoarse cry and swarmed in the direction of the West Gate of the Kaesong defenders.

This large-scale charge of the Japanese army did not have a good effect, but caused many losses to its own troops.

In Kaesong City, Liu Mingren, the commander of the second regiment of the defending army, asked: "Battalion Commander Zhang, how are the first and third regiments at the West Gate?"

"Report to the regiment commander, the first and third regiments are breaking through, the Japanese resistance is very stubborn, and they have begun hand-to-hand combat," said Zhang Zhongxiang, commander of the first battalion.

Liu Mingren said: "Brothers, the division commander has given us a death order, and we must break out of the encirclement and reach behind the enemy army before the brothers of the first and third regiments can do so, which is an extremely difficult task. However, the situation of the first and third regiments will be even more dangerous, so I order you brothers to be prepared to die, and you are not afraid to resist the Japanese siege with me."

All the soldiers replied in unison: "I am not afraid to fight with Little Japan to the end."

Commander Liu Mingren said loudly: "Good brothers, our regiment has no bad seeds, all of them are good, now I order, the first battalion guards the east gate, the second battalion guards the west gate, the third battalion guards the north gate, and the guard company follows me to collect the south gate."

"Yes"

"All the soldiers are leaving"

After Liu Mingren finished speaking, the three battalions of the first regiment and the guard company immediately arrived at the designated position.

The artillery fire of the Japanese 3rd Artillery Wing was intensively fired towards Kaesong, and they would cross the fire between the artillery to continuously advance the infantry.

The battle at the west gate of Kaesong entered an extremely tragic white-knuckle battle, and the soldiers of the first and third regiments were all good.

Half an hour later, the infantry squad of the Japanese army guarding the west gate was annihilated by the two regiments in Kaesong. The losses of one regiment and three regiments were also very large.

After dealing with this group of Japanese troops, they quickly rushed to the artillery position of the third wing of the Japanese army, and they wanted to rush behind the Japanese army before breaking through Kaesong, and hit the tactical purpose of flanking the front and rear.

The infantry brigade of the 3rd Wing of the Japanese Army was also a hard-fought unit, having attacked the Battle of Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War.

They inherited Nogi Noshinori's method of attacking with flesh-and-bullets, and began to force their way into the city under the dense artillery fire of their wings.

Of the four gates of Kaesong, the South Gate was hit the hardest. The south gate was guarded by the soldiers of the guard company led by the regiment commander Liu Mingren.

The south gate was once breached by the Japanese army, and fierce hand-to-hand combat began on the city wall. Several times he was beaten down by the soldiers defending the city.

After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, there were only 18 people left in the guard company led by Liu Mingren.

The Japanese troops besieging the city were like cockroaches that were multiplying rapidly, surging towards the city walls in waves.

With this attack of the Japanese army, Liu Mingren was almost desperate. Because this time the number of Japanese troops was larger, there were fifty or sixty Japanese soldiers who landed in the city, and they also had extremely fierce fire support.

Liu Mingren told the last 18 people: "Brothers, let's make the last charge, and after 18 years, we will be good again, and if the Japanese army is still there at that time, I will pick up the gun and fight with them again."

Eighteen soldiers, ready with the only ammunition on their bodies, were going to fight the Japanese for the last time

At this moment, suddenly, the Japanese artillery fire stopped, and all the fire of the heavy machine guns was suddenly extinguished.

Liu Mingren looked at the Japanese army under the city, and had begun to retreat back quickly, and suddenly sat on the ground in surprise, he knew that the first regiment and the third regiment had detoured behind the third wing of the Japanese army and began to counterattack the Japanese wing.

Therefore, he ordered the three battalions of the 2nd Regiment to open the city gate and rush to the Japanese artillery position, and in an instant, the Japanese position was in disarray, and it was completely besieged by the three regiments of the 2nd Infantry Division of Kaesong.

On the positions of the first regiment and three regiments, the machine gunners of three machine gun companies carried out close strafing fire on the Japanese artillery positions.

More than half an hour later, the Japanese Second Infantry Wing had also reached the periphery of Kaesong and immediately entered the battle.

Zhu Yuxin was very anxious when he saw that the Japanese reinforcements had arrived, and if our reinforcements could not arrive, Kaesong would basically not be able to hold it.

The little wild dog Saburo Osaku ordered their soldiers to carry forward the spirit of the Manchurian army's capture of Lushun and annihilate all the 2nd Infantry Division in Kaesong

The officers and men of the 2nd Infantry Division seem to have sensed that this battle has reached the final moment.

Division Commander Zhu Yuxin ordered all officers and men to load their bayonets, and this battle must be fought to the end by the Japanese army. Even if they are all killed, they will never give up

After a brief silence, in a vast area outside Kaesong, the Japanese began the first round of the most intense attack with twice the strength of the 2nd Division.

Itagaki had three orders: "Immediately carry out the first round of heavy artillery bombardment on the positions of the defenders of Kaesong, do not skimp on the shells, and bombard them fiercely"

In an instant, there was another burst of fire outside Kaesong.

Zhu Yuxin, commander of the Second Division, ordered all the officers and men to charge the Japanese positions under artillery fire

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