Chapter 208: The Revolt of Seoul

The defensive positions arranged by Dashanyan near the 38th parallel would collapse at any time under the attack of the Chinese Empire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 But now the Japanese army in Korea has more than half a million people, and these troops are scattered in various trenches, many of them holding wooden guns.

Dashanyan knew that if there was no way to stop the offensive of the Huaxia Army, then all the advantages that Japan had gained in Korea would be in vain immediately, so Dashanyan ordered that all the troops on the front line could not retreat if they were on the ground.

Therefore, these Japanese troops began to rush out of the trenches, and under the firepower of the Chinese army, they formed a human shield to block the attack of the Chinese imperial army. At the same time, Dashanyan ordered the artillery to immediately organize artillery to carry out a centralized counterattack on Huaxia.

The young Japanese soldiers, desperately rushed out of the trenches, and then shouted Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Holding a Chuntian-style rifle that had no bullets but had already loaded its bayonets, he rushed towards the soldiers of the Chinese Empire.

In fact, at this time, as a brave soldier, it should be time to fight bayonets, and this is the time to best reflect the courage of soldiers, but the experienced veterans of the Chinese Empire simply ignored the Japanese soldiers who rushed up, but the sound of submachine guns sounded, and these young Japanese soldiers fell to the ground.

If you want to fight bayonets, you don't deserve it. In this way, in the early offensive, the speed of the Chinese army's attack was very fast, and the order on the scene was already chaotic. Many of the military formations have been broken up.

In addition to his own direct troops, the troops below were all lost contact because they rushed too fast. Even this did not stop the pace of the imperial army's attack, and it was only when approaching Seoul that the Chinese Empire's army met decent resistance.

After more than half a year, the army of the Chinese Empire fought back, and this time the scene surprised many Silla militia and people who had come to Seoul.

Because of the implementation of the gun holding order of the Chinese Empire, the Koreans also began to own their own weapons, many of which were eliminated and sold to the Korean people after the Chinese Empire's army was renewed, and a large number of weapons were purchased by the people during the private trade between China and Korea.

Therefore, during the period of Japanese occupation of Korea, the Korean people and the Korean militia never stopped resisting, and there was also the support of the Chinese Empire on the opposite side. This has given the North Korean people the determination to win.

There were a lot of guerrillas in Korea, and they were constantly causing all kinds of problems for Japan. If Japan wants to move out of the city or outside the bunkers, it has to be in droves. Because I really don't know if these North Koreans will pull out a pistol and kill you at any time.

Therefore, the Japanese imposed a reign of terror in Korea and implemented the armor protection system in Korea. All Koreans were organized into administrative units of 10 households, and everyone supervised each other, and if one of these 10 families attacked the Japanese, all 10 Korean families would be killed.

In addition, the Japanese army began to forcibly requisition grain in the local area, which made it even more difficult for the Koreans to survive. The North Koreans began a fierce resistance, and in just half a year, the population of a country with a population of more than 10 million in North Korea has now dropped to less than 8 million.

The remaining Koreans are also struggling on the edge of life and death, and many Koreans who can't survive have begun to gather towards their last hope, Seoul, hoping that after coming to the national capital, they can have a way to live, but they don't know that Seoul is not only the capital of the "Korean Empire", but also the murderous cave of the Japanese army.

The Koreans who came to Seoul were still helped by the Japanese army in the early stage, but later it was found that the Koreans who came to Seoul had too many things, and even if the Japanese took out all the military rations, they would not be able to feed these people.

So Oyama Rock gave a secret order!

These Korean refugees were ordered to pay a certain amount of labor to help the Japanese army build fortifications after receiving relief food, so a large number of Korean people began to help the Japanese army build fortifications.

Almost all of the fortifications were built around Seoul, and these Koreans generally built fortifications far from the city. The foundations of the large permanent fortifications are very deep, on the Han River Plain east of Seoul.

The Japanese sappers and soldiers, spread out the military map, carefully let go of the waterway of the Han River, and began to dig a huge foundation pit in the middle of the river. A contingent of more than 3,000 North Korean workers can dig a foundation pit that is 1 kilometer long, 600 meters wide, and 3 meters deep in three days.

The Japanese were very cruel, and usually in the middle of the night, they would wake up the sleeping Koreans and go to the next assembly area to dig trenches and fortifications. But on the night of a new moon. These North Koreans were beaten up at one time and rushed to the next location overnight.

In the dark night, there were curses from the North Korean people, as well as the cries of children and the pleading of women. But the Japanese simply do not pay attention to these voices. They drove these North Koreans, man after man, step by step, and marched forward with difficulty.

After marching about five kilometers, the North Korean people walking in front accidentally fell into the foundation pit of the fortification, and after falling here, only Asia and Europe found a roundabout step. You can go back to it, but it's not right anymore.

There are more and more North Koreans who have fallen into the foundation pit. In the end, it was the Japanese soldiers who began to drive these Koreans into the pits, and even the Japanese had already opened fire. Throughout the night, there was the sound of people falling into the pit. Panic spread among the crowd, and fear lingered in the hearts of every North Korean citizen.

The night passed, and nothing more terrible happened, and the sky gradually brightened. When the sun shines on the foundation pit, the hearts of North Koreans are filled with hope to live. They were desperately trying to climb up, hoping to get back to the ground, but were knocked down by the Japanese soldiers above.

It is the big mountain rock that comes to the periphery of these foundation pits, and when you stand high, you can see that these foundation pits are built according to the spiral formation, and you can walk on the middle road during the day. But at night, if you deviate a little from the direction, you will definitely fall into these carefully built foundation pits.

At this time, Dashan Yan asked; "These foundation pits can wipe out the Chinese who kill more North Korea?"

Nogi Noshinori next to him said; "We have dug a total of nineteen group formations in such foundation pits, and each group formation can accommodate up to 50,000 people!"

Dashan Rock said; "Yo Xi! We don't have much food, and there's really nothing we can do. Let them suffer a little less! Please make a good French style for the priests! ”

Then Oyama Iwa stood up and led all the Japanese generals present to bow deeply to the east, as a way to pay their respects to the Emperor of Japan!

After the salute, Dashan Yan said; "Let's get started!"

At this time, the staff officers standing behind the officer corps began to wave a red flag, and when all the Japanese soldiers saw it, they began to run away into the distance.

In the distance, it can be seen that someone has already succeeded, and they have climbed out of the foundation pit. But when he came outside, there was no one on the ground around him. Gradually, more people climbed out of the pit, and many of them began to run away, but others began to try to help those who were still in the pit to get out.

At this time, the sound of explosions began to sound, and the explosion occurred on the ground. Explosives were buried under these walkable roads, and the loud explosion tossed the soft dirt, which was constantly tumbling in the sky, and the explosion first started in the outer ring, and then gradually spread inward.

Finally most of the foundation pit was buried, after a loud explosion. It's just that it's silent forever, and there's no more noise in the land. Then the same explosion was heard not far away, unaware of each other, for several days in a row.

In those days, near the 38th parallel, the Japanese offensive was not very strong.

Now the Chinese Empire is attacking, near Seoul. At the beginning, Yuan Shikai was very worried. The Japanese would use the Koreans to threaten the troops of the Huaxia Empire, so this charge. Yuan Shikai specially arranged for the soldiers of the Silla militia and the Korean New Army to set off half an hour in the evening.

But this did not leave these soldiers of the North Korean New Army too far behind, and in less than a day, they overtook the other regiments. Along the way, they saw too many dead people, and knew that they had come under the walls of Seoul, and the troops of the Chinese Empire had not encountered the situation where the Japanese and Koreans came to serve as human shields.

According to the plan, Lu Yonghu's first attack column stopped when it reached the city of Seoul, and then the second attack column after Yuan Shikai personally attacked forward to capture Seoul or besiege Seoul.

The 3rd Assault Column commanded by Zuo Guigui was in reserve, and when Yuan Shikai's troops were repaired, Zuo Guigui moved forward to become an attacking force. I came to the bottom of Seoul and looked at the high walls of Seoul. The old city wall is mottled and broken, and the east wall of Seoul has been completely destroyed.

Although the remaining three walls are still there, they also have no way to block the attack. Yuan Shikai ordered the siege of the city to begin, first of all, the all-round coverage of artillery fire. The Japanese defenders in Seoul did not have any decent artillery fire to return fire.

After tilting the shells for thirty minutes, Yuan Shikai ordered the infantry to start attacking and began the actual occupation of Seoul, but when the infantry penetrated deep into Seoul, Yuan Shikai found that this Nogi Noshinori was really a perverted guy.

Dashan Yan did not build any decent fortifications on the front line of the 38th parallel, and what decent defensive and offensive troops were used. Therefore, the Chinese army could attack the city of Seoul so quickly.

However, Daesan Rock and Nogi Noshinori built an unusually strong fortress in Seoul, and at the same time deployed elite troops, setting up a fortress almost every ten steps in Seoul, and these forts were connected by fortifications such as corridors or secret tunnels. During the artillery attack of the Chinese Empire, these Japanese soldiers hid in the tunnel.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, they rushed out to resist, and Nogi Noshinori had stored enough supplies in Seoul so that the Japanese could not have to resupply them for a long time, and the army of the Chinese Empire caused great difficulties.

The troops led by the Chinese Empire, if they did not take a pillbox or stronghold, had to pay the price of their lives, and this price was the first time since the start of the war. On the first day of the Seoul counteroffensive, the Chinese Empire's army lost 3,000 men.

After paying such a price, he still did not attack the core area of Seoul, Yuan Shikai stared at the city map of Seoul, a city that must not be a big city compared to Dacheng in China, but let Yuan Shikai burn the most brain cells.

At this time, Lu Yonghu said; "Marshal! Let's let Zuo's precious army go, he is very familiar with this place! ”

Yuan Shikai said; "After transferring the precious army of the left, what about the defense of the old doctrine and the two places?"

Lu Yonghu said; "Marshal! If we can't take Seoul quickly, then our counteroffensive will be meaningless, and if Daesan Rock gathers troops from the south of Korea, we will become a positional war again! ”

Yuan Shikai took off his steel helmet, reached out and ripped off the bud hat on his left shoulder, and then wiped the sweat beads on his bald head with a cotton beret, and then put on the steel helmet again, saying; "That's a big fight!"

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The Zhenyuan, the flagship of the Royal Navy's Third Combined Fleet of the Chinese Empire, which was cruising in the waters from Ryukyu to the east, raised the naval flag of Thang Long with a blue background and gold on a blue background, with two cargo ships in front of it. The cargo ship did not start with the flag of any country.

Because it was now the Chinese Empire and Japan were at war, the Chinese Imperial Navy began to blockade the entire Japanese seas, and the Third Fleet commanded by Hayashi Tseng-tai was responsible for blockading the waters south of Japan, and these days, there were many merchant ships from Phileu to Manila, New Zealand in the South Pacific, and Australia.

These ships were all to Japanese merchant ships, most of which were British. Most of them heeded the warnings of the Imperial Navy, and the goods they transported could be directly diverted to the coastal cities of the Chinese Empire, wherever the port city was, and where the government could buy the supplies transported by these merchant ships.

However, if the navy insisted on delivering goods to Japan despite the warnings, it would be tantamount to declaring war on the navy of the Chinese Empire, so most of the ships obeyed the orders of the navy of the Chinese Empire, and there were very few merchant ships in this area that led to the Japanese seas.

But now the two merchant ships in front of them have no national flags, and they don't stop to accept the inspection of the imperial navy when they see the army of the Chinese Empire, and now they are actually at full power, ready to escape, seeing such a situation, Lin Zengtai has no way to laugh.

Because of the different functions of commercial civilian ships and warships, the design of the two types of ships is very different, and it is a merchant ship full of goods, even if it is full of horsepower, it is impossible to escape the pursuit of the warship.

Lin Zengtai immediately ordered the Zhenyuan to speed up, warned the merchant ship in front for the last time, and opened fire to sink it without stopping the ship!

But at this time, the merchant ship in front actually raised, the British flag!

Sa Zhenbing said; "Commander! This is a British merchant ship, if it is sunk, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain diplomatically! What's more, there are quite a few British officers on our battleship! ”

Lin Zengtai rubbed his hands on his face twice, let his nerves relax for a moment, and then spoke into the microphone; "I'm Lin Zengtai, I crossed the shooting warning and sank the merchant ship in front of me directly!"

Thirteen minutes later, the 205 mm forward secondary guns on the Zhenyuan ship opened fire, the first was to test fire and adjust the gun position, and at the time of the third firing, although there were already people flying white flags on the mast of the merchant ship, it was obviously a little late, the shells flew out again, the merchant ship in front was shot, the hull was crooked, the water entered, and it was inevitable to sink.

Then the sailors of the two merchant ships began to abandon the ship, and when the frigate "Jiyuan" of the Zhenyuan arrived, these sailors who fell overboard began to be picked up. These whites were fine, but many Asians refused to be rescued by the Jiyuan, and it turned out that these people were Japanese.

Through the British sailors who came up, they knew that the original merchant ships were transporting shells used by naval warships, and they were also shells used by the 305 mm main guns of warships, which were all shells that Japan bought in Britain at a sky-high price!

When Lin Zengtai heard this, his intestines were full of remorse. Now Lin Zengtai's navy's supplies are all carried out in Naha, and the rest is easy to say, but artillery shells are a very expensive thing, and the Second Fleet now only has three supply ships, which go back and forth between Naha and Shanghai, that is, it can meet the use, and now Ding Ruchang wants to store a little material in the naval base of Naha, it is very difficult!

Lin Zengtai was too impulsive, if only he could capture these two merchant ships.

At this time, Sa Zhenbing said; "Commander, Cheng Guangbi, the commander of the Jiyuan ship, is asking us, what should we do with those Japanese prisoners of war in the sea!"

Lin Zengtai said; "Aren't all Japanese prisoners of war dead! Leave these dead bodies alone and keep cruising south! ”

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The commander of the Japanese Coalition Fleet, Ito Yuhiro, received a telegram from the Japanese Admiralty, which told him two more news, and His Majesty the Emperor had raised another three million yen for the purchase of ammunition and other military expenses for the navy.

At the same time, he was told the bad news that the ammunition of the navy, which could have been delivered soon, had been sunk by Hayashi Tseng-tae's Zhenyuan in the southern waters of Japan due to the blockage of the Chinese Empire's navy.

Ito stood up and spoke in a very atmospheric manner; "Something's going on with this Lin Zengtai, I'm not done with you, I must sink you!"

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At the same time, the First Combined Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, under the leadership of Liu Buyun, imposed a blockade on the waters east of Japan, and the matter had to be handled very carefully, although the relationship between the Chinese Empire and the United States was very good, but it was still necessary to try to give the Americans face, and many American merchant ships, Liu Buyun would organize warships to escort to the coastal ports of the Chinese Empire.

Although the original destination of many merchant ships was not China, now is not the time for the United States and other American countries to be capricious.