Chapter 222 The Korean Military Region's Great Counteroffensive

On April 20, 1895, there was a loud noise over Seoul, which woke up all the Japanese, and the Japanese soldiers and officers, who were accustomed to the sound of guns all day, were also disturbed by such a loud noise. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The planes that flew in a few days ago just came here for a circle and went back, but when I saw that the planes outside the sky began to circle over Seoul for a long time. Prince Akihito Komatsumiya was also alarmed by what was going on outside.

He took his staff officers outside and saw more than thirty fixed-wing planes in the sky, these planes did not seem to be very tall, so the Japanese troops on the ground were still shooting with weapons such as machine guns and mortars.

In fact, the plane flies at an altitude of at least 800 meters, this altitude. Now the weapons on the ground of the Japanese army are simply unattainable!

The airships in the sky were concentrated in the sky over Seoul, Prince Akihito Komatsumiya knew what it was, but that thing had not come much before, and it circled in the sky and went back, and Japan knew that this was a plane sent by the Chinese Empire to reconnoitre.

But today it is particularly strange why these planes have not left!

About half an hour later, the sky northwest of Seoul seemed to be a dense cloud, and the heavy rain was about to fall, looking at the airship in the sky, Prince Akihito Komatsumiya, the supreme commander of Japan in Korea, understood, he said; "Whoosh Disnes!"

At this time, the later Japanese soldiers recalled, Prince Akihito's last words, as the airship approached Seoul, it really rained heavily over Seoul, and it was a heavy rain of bombs.

Now bombs and torpedoes are the same as firing pins, the weight is very large, and there is a tail behind to try to keep the balance, because the weight of the airship is very limited, 1.7 meters long, 35 cm diameter bombs can only carry 170 bombs per airship fully loaded.

In this way, the airship can have enough fuel to return home, and in order to be able to carry more bombs occasionally, the officers and men of the Air Force have exerted a lot of ingenuity, so the most airship can carry 179 bombs.

This time, the air force of the Chinese Empire has almost poured out, with 153 airships. In particular, there are more than thirty fixed-wing aircraft, which weigh as much as gold. Therefore, Air Force Commander Cai Wenqiang took out almost all his worth to fight Japan.

The Chinese Imperial Air Force, which carried a total of more than 2,000 bombs, began to bomb Seoul in a covering manner, and in two hours, the airships of the Chinese Imperial Red Army dropped all the bombs over Seoul in sections, sequences, and rules.

Seoul was in flames, and even though there was nothing left to burn in Seoul, the Air Force, after bombing Seoul, returned to its base in Kaesong, replenished fuel and ammunition again, and began the bombing cycle again.

Yuan Shikai of the army, after the air force flew over his head, began to organize the army to attack, and the Japanese troops near the 38th parallel have now died a lot, and the thick corpses are piled up on the 38th parallel.

The smell of corruption was disgusting, if it weren't for the presence of the Ministry of the Interior of the Chinese Empire, antibiotics and disinfectant filled the fortifications on the front line, but Japan had no way to improve its own hygiene.

When they crossed the battle line that Japan had piled up with corpses, the sight in front of them surprised the soldiers of the Chinese Empire again.

These were thirteen or fourteen-year-old children, scrawny and struggling with rifles, staggering towards the soldiers of the Chinese Empire, looking at these Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer, many of the soldiers of the Chinese Empire were shocked.

But now is not the time for pity and sympathy, the submachine guns in the hands of the fighters opened fire, and the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side were not frightened by death, they stepped over the bodies of the dead Japanese soldiers and rushed again!

As the number of soldiers of the Chinese Empire who crossed the first line of defense of Japan increased, the soldiers behind also began to join the ranks of shooting, and the soldiers of the Chinese Empire began a counteroffensive against Han Cheng. The pace of the offensive on the entire front was very fast, and the speed was a little too fast for Yuan Shikai to be a little caught off guard.

When he attacked Seoul, Yuan Shikai knew the reason. It turned out that Japan's central headquarters in Korea had been completely blown up by the air force of the Chinese Empire, and Prince Akihito Komatsumiya and his headquarters had been bombed to the ground.

However, the Japanese soldiers, who admired the spirit of the samurai, did not give up resistance, and in the absence of the highest command, the Japanese army began to fight on its own, and began the most resolute resistance in various places. But this kind of resistance is like a nail, which was pulled out one by one by the army organized by Yuan Shikai, Wang Shizhen, and Zhou Lemin.

Yamano was in the port of Incheon and was injured by a warship of the Chinese Empire. Without naval escort, supplies from Japan were often sunk by fleets led by the battleship Xuanwu of the Chinese Empire.

The Xuanwu commanded the sinking of the cargo ship and left, because the Japanese army in the port of Incheon also set up shore defense artillery fire, but in late April, the battleship Xuanmu approached the port of Incheon little by little.

Finally, at 2 p.m. on April 30, the battleship Hyunmu led a frigate to sink a Japanese merchant ship carrying supplies near the port of Incheon. However, this time the battleship Xuanwu did not leave immediately.

Instead, it began to shoot at the artillery of Incheon Port, which meant that the Chinese Empire began to attack Incheon Port, which made Yama have an unusual atmosphere, which was the military rations of the Japanese army, and also the supply of medicines.

Now that the Japanese army is on the verge of collapse, is it true that the Chinese ceremonial gang will not give our empire a way to live? Let's starve to death in North Korea?

Yamagutomo ordered the fortress guns of Incheon Harbor to fire back fiercely at the Xuanmu, and a 202-mm howitzer hit the battleship Xuanmu, leaving a huge crater on the starboard side of the battleship.

The commander of the battleship, Cao Zhongshan, immediately ordered the fleet to begin an attack on the port of Incheon. The battleship Xuanwu, the ironclad ship Inwon, the cruiser Jiwon, and the cruiser Jingwon began the attack on the port of Incheon.

Yamakutomo originally only wanted to express a breath of anger in his heart, but he didn't expect that the navy of the Huaxia Empire really attacked, and Yamakutomo regretted it very much in his heart! scolded in his heart; "What are you going to do, follow the rules!"

Usually you don't come and have a look, and then leave!

This time it was obviously different, the battleship Xuanwu, led three other battleships, began to carpet bomb the port of Incheon, knowing that all the shells had been poured, and then left with a whistle in satisfaction.

But Yamado Tomotomo, who had come to the port to receive the supplies in person, was injured by a flying bomb, which was perhaps a kind of luck for him, because what happened during that time was definitely something he did not want to see.

Japan's famous generals Gentaro Kodama and Genji Yamagi organized a new defense line in Jeonju, North Korea, hoping to block the attack of the Chinese Empire, but the air force of the Chinese Empire was always flying in the sky, as well as those hateful bombs.

Gentaro Kodama sent a telegram to Japan for tactical guidance, and at the same time selected death squads from among the Korean army and began to organize a counteroffensive against the Chinese Empire, using suicidal attacks.

On May 7, the city of Qingzhou was breached by the Chinese Empire, and the Japanese officer Yamachi Motoji under the command of Qingzhou committed suicide, so the door for the Chinese Empire's army to go south was opened, and Yuan Shikai ordered the troops to repair between the two cities of Daejeon and Qunshan for three days, waiting for the arrival of supplies and the cooperation of the air force.

However, there was one unit that was not repaired and went straight to the city of Jeonju, and this unit was the Fifth Army of the Silla Militia. Jeon Bong-joun of the Fifth Army of the Silla Militia looked through binoculars at this city that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

Not far behind him, there was a very fierce quarrel, at that time, the military police of the Sixth Army of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, they wanted to take over the Japanese soldiers who had just been captured by the Quanfeng Quasi-Army, and it was very difficult to capture the Japanese soldiers.

Little Japan really did not surrender to the death, but now there are a lot of children in the Japanese army, and these people are still blank sheets, so the army of the Chinese Empire, the Silla militia, and the Korean New Army have begun to capture more and more Japanese soldiers.

However, the Chinese Empire found that the Fifth Army of the Silla militia had almost no prisoners, and later found that this army had too much hatred for Japan, whether the Japanese were soldiers or poor people, whether they were men or women, the commander of Quan Fengzhun didn't care at all, and let his soldiers kill them.

So Yuan Shikai now sent the military police, and every time the battle was over, he would come over to pick up the captured Japanese soldiers, but this time Quan Fengzhun's army ran too fast, and the large troops behind him and the distance came.

Now the soldiers of the Fifth Army began to bully the large army of the gendarmes and did not keep up, and they wanted to get by in the dark and kill these damned Japanese brutes first!

But the gendarmes of the Chinese Empire still don't let these Silla militiamen do it!

Jeon Feng Jun knew in his heart that these Japanese children should not be sent to the battlefield to die, and they were worthy of sympathy, but he thought about it again, just a year ago, when he led the Donghak Party team to leave Jeonju to Silla, the Japanese warships and artillery did not sympathize with them.

At that time, if it weren't for the rescue of the navy of the Huaxia Empire, Jeon Fengzhun and his Dongxue people would have all been reimbursed at the port of Incheon, so the Dongxue people must be grateful to the Huaxia Empire at any time.

But it should not be a matter of killing a few Japanese prisoners, at this time there was a gunshot in the distance, and the gendarmes of the Chinese Empire were pressed to the ground by many Silla militia, and then the Silla militia began to machine gun fire at the Japanese captives.

In less than three minutes, more than 200 Japanese prisoners fell in a pool of blood, and at this time the Silla militia let go of the gendarmes and dispersed in a hurry, leaving only the captain of the gendarme to curse and shout to take you to the military court, and not a single one of them could escape.

Quan Fengzhun is very good in Chinese, of course, he can understand Chinese, and he knows very well in his heart that he has violated many military orders, this time violating Marshal Yuan Shikai's orders to rush forward without authorization, and he is also besieging Kodama Gentaro's large army in Jeonju.

This is a taboo for soldiers, killing prisoners, and in front of the gendarmes, as well as privately dividing the seized materials and the property looted by the Japanese, etc., which is enough for Quan Fengzhun to sit in prison for a lifetime.

But Quan Fengzhun can't manage so much, he wants to take the ancient city of Quanzhou, all because he started, he will end all this!

He put down the telescope in his hand, and then spoke to a staff officer beside him; "Order the troops to hurry up and repair, replenish food and water, and in three hours we will start attacking the ancient city of Jeonju!"

The staff officer looked at the sky that was about to darken, and said; "General! Three hours later, it was dark! ”

Quan Fengzhun said lightly; "I know!"

This staff officer had no choice but to convey Quan Fengzhun's order!

At about 18:20 on the evening of May 7, the Fifth Army of the Silla Militia began its attack on Japan's last important city in Korea.

But the fortified city, is not able to stop the bombardment of artillery fire, the artillery fire of the Fifth Army began a fierce bombardment of Jeonju City, at this time Quan Fengzhun is already completely crazy, in fact, there are still a lot of Koreans in Jeonju City, but under such fierce artillery fire, I hope to have a few points!

Kodama Gentaro's heart is very bitter, this bitterness is a kind of bitterness that there is no way to say, the best result of the battle with the Chinese Empire is peace talks, to ensure the current vested interests, and then after development, in the competition with the Chinese Empire.

But not only the low-level people in Japan, but also the lower-ranking officers did not dare. Even when the well-spoken Huaxia Empire became very tough, and even the entire Northeast was almost lost, the little emperor of the Huaxia Empire just didn't surrender.

Listening to the sound of artillery outside, it has been four hours, the Japanese army is resisting, and the number of Japanese who died in Jeonju City has been counted by hundreds of thousands, but there is no way to control all this.

The best option for Gentaro Kodama now is to surrender, but that's not possible. What the Japanese soldiers of today hope for most is that he, the commander, will be able to do what a samurai should really do.

The guards who followed him didn't just protect his safety at this moment, and at this time, their biggest responsibility was not to let Kodama Gentaro do something that insulted the spirit of bushido.

Listening to the gunshots getting closer and closer, Gentaro Kodama knew it was time for him to hit the road. He said that his long sword was handed over to the guard, and then he sat down on the ground, took out his short sword, and began the most sacred moment of a samurai, seppuku suicide!

Kodama Gentaro's body was already very weak because of the hard work of the past few days, and when the ceremony was halfway through, he had no way to continue, he raised his eyes full of sweat beads like beans, looked at the guard holding the sword beside him, and nodded!

The guard understood what Gentaro Kodama meant, he raised his sword and shouted, and Kodama Gentaro's head rolled several times on the floor, stained with dust and mud, while blood was everywhere on the floor.

At this point, almost all the high-ranking Japanese officers on the Korean battlefield were killed, the Japanese army began to be leaderless, and the army of the Chinese Empire began to continue to regain lost territory on land from north to south.

On May 12, after Japan received the news that Gentaro Kodama committed suicide, two hours later, Japan announced that the Emperor of the Korean Empire, Lee Hee, died in Japan after suffering from an acute illness during his visit to Tokyo, Japan.

Li Xi's body was cremated, and then hastily buried, the king of a country in the Tang and Tang Dynasties, the arduous mileage from a king to an emperor, in the last period of his life, he accomplished many things that men did not succeed in.

Became the emperor of an empire, albeit a shattered empire!