Chapter 197: The Battle for Seoul

On July 2, the first year of Guangming, the captain of the 5th Wing of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Front of the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army, Inazo Yoshimototaro Osa, followed the brigade on the way to Seoul. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He recalls that life in Daegu City, North Korea, was very satisfying, where the rice was as good as Gormatsu's rice, the same aroma, and more importantly, he and his subordinates ate beef.

It's so refreshing to recall the taste of beef! As you can imagine, the shredded meat spreads out layer by layer in your mouth, and the umami of the miso soup makes it impossible to enjoy it better.

In front of North Korea's Daejeon Castle, I hope that there is such a delicacy waiting for us somewhere, this is the first time that many soldiers have gone abroad, and it is also the first time to fight abroad, Inazo Yoshimototaro Osa knows that the Chinese army in front must not be the opponent of the Japanese Imperial Army, because now almost all Korea has been attacked, and the Chinese army has not appeared.

Along the way, the Japanese army did not encounter any resistance at all, they were all some militia groups in Korea, these people have really good weapons in their hands, but they are not opponents of the regular Japanese army at all, but the guerrilla warfare of these people is indeed a very headache, you must know that the Japanese Imperial Army is here to rescue you.

Today's Japan is like a rising empire, but the Chinese Empire is already dying and is no match for the Japanese Empire, so Korea should be at this point as soon as possible, and come together with the Japanese Empire to meet the best tomorrow.

This was another time that the gun commander sounded in front, but it was quickly suppressed by the Japanese heavy machine gun, and there was no sound after a few screams in the woods opposite, Inazo Yoshimoto Taro Osa thought to himself, why are these Koreans bothering!

Along the way, Inazo Yoshimoto Taro Osaku found dead animals and the corpses of Koreans, almost on both sides of the marching road were these dead bodies, Inazo Yoshimoto Taro and the soldiers' hearts, the fourth wing that opened the road in front of them scolded countless times, why are these ghost animals so wasteful!

The carcasses of these cows or horses can be seen to have just been killed. These are all invaluable good things, and if they are wasted in Japan, they will be condemned by the gods at that time, and there are also the corpses of Koreans along the way, so they can't take this person to a farther place and do it again! I really don't know how to do things!

In this way, the Japanese Second Front Army almost all the way, eating hot pot and singing songs, came to Seoul, Seoul is now almost an isolated city, and now the army of the Chinese Empire in Seoul is less than 20,000 people, and it is impossible for the troops of 20,000 people to stop the pace of General Dashanyan, and we will definitely reach the Yalu River!

On July 31, Meiji 27, the company led by Inazona Yoshimoto Taro Osa came to Seoul, and finally saw such a magnificent big city, which would not have been such a big city in Japan, because of Japan's unique historical background, there was no need for Hongda's city walls.

Inazona Yoshimototaro Osaku followed his commander Yamachi Genji Division Commander, and came to the headquarters set up fifty kilometers south of Seoul, when he came to the command, Inazona Yoshimototaro found that the defense work of the military headquarters was very well done, and all the Koreans here were buried and disposed of, and the Koreans who had not yet been dealt with were also very quiet, everything was so harmonious and orderly!

When I came to the military headquarters, Inazona Yoshigentaro Osaku felt that the atmosphere was very solemn, all the senior officers of the second division commander were already sitting in their seats, and their division commander, Lieutenant General Sakuma Zuo Matthew, sat on the left side of the central position, it seems that we are late, if we are earlier, our division commander Motoji Yamachi can sit on the left!

Our military staff officer is just a fool, can't he think of such a thing?

But Inazona Yoshimototaro did not have much say in this matter, he honestly sat down behind his brigade commander, Major General Nogi Noshinori, and at this time the Japanese staff officer who saw that all the officers had already arrived shouted; "Commander of the Second Front Army of the Imperial Japanese Expeditionary Force, General Oyama Iwa has arrived!"

At this time, all the officers stood up, stared ahead, and waited for the arrival of General Oyama Iwa, who was a traditional soldier, single-handedly created Japan's modern army, known as the father of Japan's modern army, has a very high status and reputation in Japan's military circles, and is the first marshal in Japan to enter the marshal's office!

Da Shanyan is one meter six tall, and the folds on his face have been piled up on his chin layer by layer, but Da Shanyan still tries to open his eyes so that he can accept more information.

Dashan Yan came to his seat, waved his thick arms a few times, and then said sit down!

All the officers nodded and said hello!

Dashan Yan jumped on this very high chair, sitting on the chair, his legs could not touch the ground, which made it very uncomfortable, but he did not ask to change the chair, he adjusted his posture, "Condescending!" He looked at Major General Suchen Yamaguchi!

Dashan Yan spoke in a buzzing tone; "Tell me about it!"

At this time, the sweat on Yamaguchi Suchen's head was already soaking his back, and his palms were already soaked, but he tried to calm down himself, and said to Dashan Yan; "The Huaxia soldiers in the city are too cunning and hide heavy firepower in the city, so it is my troops who have suffered losses!"

Dashan Rock said; "Yaga! We have not been defeated since we landed on the territory of North Korea, and we must remember that we are the army, not a bunch of waste rice buckets that we don't like like those guys in the navy!

Therefore, I ask you to show all your loyalty and courage to take Seoul in one fell swoop, after the destruction of Korea, you are all heroes, and your great achievements will be written into history, and you will be the object of worship of future generations of Japanese, so we must not lose!

At this time, Dashan Yan spoke again; "Yamaguchi Suchen! You're still a Pioneer Officer, and the next time we meet, I hope to be able to treat you with a medal! Instead of listening to you here tell the reasons for the defeat, I just want to hear the news of victory! ”

Yamaguchi Sochen stood up and spoke; "Hey! Your Excellency, I will not let you down! ”

At this meeting, it was decided that the 2nd Division would be responsible for attacking Seoul, the 1st Division would be the reserve, and the first would be responsible for the work of raising food and supplies locally.

On August 2 of the first year of Guangming, Japan launched an offensive against Seoul again, this time the Japanese offensive was obviously much more fierce when the department first came, and Yamaguchi Suchen's top boss, Lieutenant General Sakuma Zuo Matthew, was very clear about Oyama Yan's temper, and this time was not the time to preserve his strength.

Therefore, the 2nd Division, which was responsible for the siege, concentrated all its artillery fire and attacked the southern wall of Seoul. At this time, the gates of Seoul had long been filled with sand, gravel and earth, so there was no difference between attacking the city walls and the city gates.

The Chinese troops and the Korean defenders in the city could only stay inside the fortifications, avoiding the blows of these artillery fires, and Zuo Guigui and Zhou Lemin, who were in the headquarters, also stood in the corner of the fortifications, both of them listened to the sound of the rear artillery outside, and then stared at their watches.

The sound of artillery stopped after the bombardment lasted for a full twenty minutes, which made Zuo Guigui and Zhou Lemin feel the pressure, which showed that the main Japanese force had arrived, and such artillery equipment was already the firepower of a Japanese division.

When the artillery fire stopped, Zhou Lemin looked at Zuo Guigui, who was deep in thought, and said; "Don't hesitate, we don't have much time, let's carry out the original plan!"

Zuo Guigui took out a cigarette, just put it in his mouth, a match was handed over, Zuo Guigui's eyes didn't look at who handed over the match, put it in the usual time, Zuo Guigui would be very hearty to step over the sentence; "The kid has a future!"

Zuo Guigui said while smoking; "Give me ten more days, and we won't have to retreat!"

Zhou Lemin himself lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then began to cough, and then extinguished it very interestingly!

While coughing, he said; "Obviously, we don't have ten days, during this time they will definitely attack like crazy, we don't need a bunch of dead people to be here to entangle! It's wisest to start a retreat right away! ”

At this time, a military doctor with a red cross on his right arm came to Zhou Lemin, and he rolled up Zhou Lemin's sleeve while talking; "I said Head Zhou, you know that our medicine is very expensive, don't smoke and drink anymore, don't you old man, hurry up and get better!"

Zhou Lemin didn't dare to speak, it was undoubtedly very unwise to offend this doctor at this time, these military doctors were very good, especially the military doctors who experienced the First Great Patriotic War, these people were very domineering in their principles, no matter how high the official rank was in their eyes.

Zhou Lemin pressed his sleeve by himself, this is a syringe made of military medical glass After drawing the medicine, he pierced it on Zhou Lemin's right shoulder, Zhou Lemin's face deformed little by little with the movements of the military doctor, at this time, Zhou Lemin didn't dare to cry out in pain!

In the first year of Guangming, on August 2, the Second Division of the Japanese Second Front Army, more than 30,000 people were completed under Seoul, and the commander of Sakuma's Zumathew Division gathered all the artillery fire of the entire division to concentrate on attacking the southern wall of Seoul, the ancient city wall has been standing for almost a hundred years.

However, before the modern artillery fire, like paper paste, first the outer layer of bricks peeled off and collapsed, and then the inner layer of rammed earth collapsed and slid down, and the entire southern wall of Seoul was destroyed by the Japanese artillery fire.

As soon as the Japanese artillery fire stopped, the artillery fire of the Chinese Imperial Army began to return fire, which was the beginning of the traditional fire, and most of the Japanese artillery positions were destroyed, and in the following time it was no longer able to provide dynamic support, but Sakuma Zamathew did not regret it.

Because destroying Korea first, taking the capital of Korea is the final thing.

Under the organization of the Japanese officers, the things that best exemplified the discipline of the Japanese took place. Yamaguchi Suchen used the most modern infantry drill in Germany in this era, and all the soldiers were neatly arranged in a phalanx, walking towards Seoul, which had opened the embrace of the "city wall"!

At this time, the troops of the Chinese Empire on the opposite side and the new army of the Korean guards began to assemble in an orderly manner behind the collapsed city walls, forming a dense first line of defense, and at this time the Chinese artillery was still firing at the Japanese artillery.

A lot of the Chinese artillery fire fell on the Japanese infantry positions, and many Japanese soldiers fell, and the soldiers behind immediately stepped forward to fill this vacancy.

In the modern army of Japan in the new era of the Restoration, individual bravery is no longer an important criterion for evaluating the quality of soldiers, discipline is the most important criterion, collective training makes ordinary soldiers overcome their fears, and in long-term training, every movement and behavior of soldiers has become a habit.

Habits and long-term training have made every soldier know what kind of situations they will encounter on the battlefield and what to do when they encounter them!

The Chinese Army behind the city wall is now very determined, according to the advance plan and battle plan, the tactics that Japan may use left and right are this routine, for which Zuo Guigui put his own direct troops 3182 Regiment and Zhou Lemin's 3156 Regiment, the two main regiments in this direction, and at the same time equipped with sufficient artillery support!

When the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese army soldiers appeared in front of the soldiers of the Chinese Empire, and at this time, the soldiers of the two countries fought head-on for the first time, and the veterans of the Chinese Empire were pressing the muzzles of the recruits, waiting, waiting for the Japanese army to advance a little more!

At five hundred paces, the Japanese Spring-style rifle was already firing. At this time, the heavy machine guns and infantry guns of the Huaxia Empire also fired, and the Huaxia Empire was in the mood to go to the phalanx, so at this time the fire was in full swing.

The Japanese soldiers began to fall in pieces, and the Japanese soldiers in the back still tried very hard to get closer to the front, trying to fill the empty seat in front of them, but before they could walk up to that empty seat, they had already been shot, and they went down!

At this time, the Japanese officers who were still alive were still shouting loudly, keep in formation, don't panic, and walk forward in the standard, without any sign of stopping, they still maintained a belief in their hearts; "Victory belongs to the Imperial Army of Japan!"

It wasn't until the first Japanese brigade fell that Yamaguchi Suchen felt that something was vaguely wrong, why didn't these armies of the Chinese Empire line up to shoot at us!

These cowards, these shameless people, these people still have the face to call themselves a civilized people, and they don't even have the dignity of a soldier at all, and it's a shame to fight with such a unit! There must be no disgrace to the Imperial Army of Japan!

Yamaguchi Suchen sent another brigade of soldiers and began to charge, this brigade was the same fate, the soldiers of the Huaxia Empire told them with bullets and shells that they could be killed!

At this time, on the position of the 3182 regiment, a soldier handed the company commander a kettle, at this time, the habit of the company commander, whenever there was a big battle, he would ask for water to drink, so this soldier prepared three kettles of water for him to ensure that he could drink enough for his company commander!

The warrior asked; "Company commander! Why did these people themselves send them to death like this! ”

The company commander poured the last drop of water from this kettle into his own mouth; "This is very exquisite, phalanx shooting is the best way to reflect courage and discipline in combat!"

The warrior asked again; "Then why don't we line up!"

The company commander, seeing that the Japanese army had reappeared, first pulled the bolt of the heavy machine gun down, and then spoke to the soldier; "Because our people are expensive, none of them can die!"

After finishing speaking, the company commander pressed the trigger with two thumbs, and at this time, the six-barreled left-hand wheel Suzaku III heavy machine gun began the work of harvesting human lives!

When Yamaguchi saw that his troops had not been able to rush to the entrance of the alley after crossing the city wall, and all the gunfire was transmitted on the edge of the city wall, Yamaguchi decided to give it a go.

He ordered Tsunekuro Ibe to lead his entire wing to attack, and this time he had to disrupt the formation and not be able to attack forward in the line of users. Tsunekuro Ibe stood up, bowed to Yamaguchi Sutomi, and left the headquarters with his men.

At this time, a big Zuo outside the order who was in charge of the attack came to the brigade headquarters and reported the situation on the front line to Yamaguchi Suchen, all the situation Yamaguchi Suchen saw it in his eyes, it was all the Chinese army too cunning, timid guys!

Tsunekuro Ibe gathered his troops and began to divide in three directions, first using weapons such as infantry guns and grenadiers in front to open the way, and then advancing in alternate echelons. This brought a challenge to the Chinese Empire.

Looking at the approaching Japanese soldiers, the two sides began to enter the stage of street fighting, at which time the scattered Japanese troops and the 3182 and 3156 regiments came into close contact. The soldiers of the two regiments are also about to start to disperse and fight, and at this time, the soldiers of the two regiments are also scattered into companies and platoons, scattered in various places at the mouth of the alley, and use the wolf submachine guns in their hands to reap the lives of the Japanese soldiers!

With the passage of time, the soldiers of Huaxia are gradually retreating, although the losses of Ibe Hengjiuro's wing are huge, but it is indeed effective, they have begun to advance into the inner city, at this time Yamaguchi Suchen ordered Ibe Hengkuro to speed up the advance, and strive to enter the city before it gets dark!

At this time, Jingbian Hengjiulang also fought hard, regardless of casualties to attack the city, the soldiers of Huaxia effectively killed the enemy's living force at the same time, in the gradual retreat, the gunfire began at ten o'clock in the morning, until more than seven o'clock in the evening, after a day of fighting, all the soldiers were exhausted. As the sky darkened, the gunfire slowly became smaller in the night!

At this time, the reserves of the Huaxia Empire began to reinforce the front line, and at the same time, Zhou Lemin also came to the front line, because it was ten minutes at night, so neither side lit a fire, and the soldiers also ate the food they carried!

Now the best food is luncheon meat, this kind of meat is made of fine ground pork, then added starch, spices, monosodium glutamate, salt, sugar mixed evenly, and nitrate is added to turn red. It is steamed and put in a can to keep it fresh.

At this time, the best food for the Chinese Imperial Army is now, mainly because it tastes particularly good and is easy to preserve, so the logistics department equips each soldier with a can of such canned food every day! But the fighters always choose to eat it first, who knows if they will be alive in the next second!

Zhou Lemin's eyes were a little not good, his physical condition in this battle was obviously a little unable to keep up, it seemed that it might be the last time he commanded on the front line, he looked at the situation in the direction of the Japanese army with binoculars!

The battalion commander, company commander and staff officers next to him were all gulping down biscuits and drinking strong tea, and then they all looked at Zhou Lemin's figure, ready to answer their questions from the regiment commander and deputy division commander at any time!

At this time, Zhou Lemin put down the binoculars, he coughed a few times, and then turned around and said; "Order the troops to retreat two kilometers further back while it is night!"

At this time, the officers who were still eating or smoking cigarettes raised their heads to look at Zhou Lemin, the deputy division commander!

Zhou Lemin squatted on a map illuminated by a horse lantern at this time, and at this time a military map of Seoul, Zhou Lemin skillfully drew a line on this map, and then said; "In two hours, we must withdraw behind this line, and the artillery will carpet bombard the opposite side of the line!

Therefore, if you see the sun tomorrow, it is best to be diligent in your legs and feet, and try to win as far as possible. After the artillery bombardment, flares are fired, and then the whole regiment will have to regain all the positions lost during the day!

Do you understand!

At this time, all the officers and staff officers understood Zhou Lemin's order, and the staff officers began to get busy, and they wanted to break down this idea into specific orders to be carried out by each battalion and company!

At this time, Zhou Lemin coughed a few more times, and a battalion commander told him; "Tuanza! You might as well go to the field hospital! ”

Zhou Lemin took a few deep breaths and said; "Now we have a lot of wounded, and I can't die yet, so don't make trouble for them!"

This battalion commander said; "Tuanza! Then take a break! ”

Zhou Lemin nodded and said; "Feel free to notify me of any circumstances!"

In the first year of Guangming, at about 22 o'clock in the evening of August 2, the southern city of Seoul was in a sea of fire.

Of course, many sleeping Japanese soldiers were treated as seeds and planted in the soil at the southern end of Seoul, although they will not grow anything at all next year, but the artillery of the Chinese Empire is such "willful!" ”