At midnight, at midnight, the position of the Ming Empire troops in the small town of Weiyuan was still firmly in the hands of the Ming soldiers, although they lost more than 10 No. 1 improved tanks in the battle in the middle of the night, although about 2,500 soldiers were killed or wounded, but they were still in their positions. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Japanese army had a bushido spirit that was not afraid of death, and was able to let their soldiers sacrifice their lives to rush to the Ming army's position. The Praetorian Guards of the Ming Army also had a fanatical will to fight, and when they rushed to the front line and joined the battle, the Japanese found that the enemy on the opposite side was even more difficult.

It is not only the samurai of the Japanese Empire who are not afraid of death, but also the Son of Heaven and the pro-army of the Ming Empire who have been loyal to the emperor for generations. The Janissaries not only fought stubbornly in their positions, but sometimes even launched a sudden counterattack to recapture the positions already occupied by the Japanese and expel the Japanese farther away.

The two sides fought back and forth on the position for a full 2 hours, but still did not distinguish the winner. The 8th Division, driven by the madness of the division commander Uehara Sawawa, launched round after round of fierce attacks on the Ming army in a frenzied manner - in order to force his troops to fight, he even ordered his headquarters to be moved forward by 400 meters.

Looking at his pocket watch, Uehara Sawa, who was originally very confident, and even because of the initial results, was a little too optimistic, but now he couldn't hold his breath anymore on his face, with an anxious and vicious expression. The time had already exceeded zero point, but his troops were still almost so far from the center of Weiyuan that the Japanese barely advanced a single step after several hours of attacking.

What made him even more desperate was that the news that had just come out made the results of the Japanese counterattack in other directions even more tragic, or it could be described as miserable: the 2nd Division gave up the idea of entanglement after trying several attacks because of the lack of infantry, and they could be said to just watch the 8th Division attacking, and did not play its due role at all.

If the 2nd Division's Major General Ono Sa was a bit excessive, then the 20th Division on the other side was even more humiliating, when they were preparing to counterattack at night, they were preempted by the Ming army's troops, and the two sides launched a bloody attack at night, the result was that the Japanese 20th Division was driven back to Manpu, and the Ming army took the opportunity to attack Manpu overnight, and the Japanese 20th Division collapsed on all fronts and retreated to Yizhenli.

This made the 8th Division's insistence on the onslaught until now a big joke, because the Ming army had already occupied the second foothold Manpu, and whether Weiyuan was still that important or not, as long as you are not a fool, you can see the result at a glance. Even if the Ming army now cedes Weiyuan, it is impossible for the Japanese army to recapture the Yalu River defense line before dawn.

In fact, the 2nd Army of the Ming Empire achieved such results in Manpu, and even Yang Zizhen on the front line and Wang Jue in the southeast peninsula were a little unexpected. Everyone thought that the Ming army would hold the line at night and wait for dawn, but who would have thought that the Ming army would abandon its own advantages and use the tactics of attrition to fight a bayonet attack with the Japanese army at night?

The loss of Manpo and Lunan-ri completely collapsed the entire Japanese army's battle plan, and the ultimate goal of the night battle could not be achieved at all, and the battle in the first half of the night became completely useless. When the news of Mitsuura's bizarre loss reached the rear, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, Miyamoto Yuhito, did not speak in his office for a long time.

He knew he had lost, and it was an irretrievable defeat. His front-line defense strategy was completely disrupted by the Lei Gong 1 dive bomber, which had already made him lose control of the situation in front of him. By the time the 20th Division had inexplicably collapsed, he had simply not been able to do anything to reduce the possible losses of the Japanese army.

Because it had to cover the flanks of the 2nd Army, the 8th Division, which had suffered heavy losses, could only hold where it was and could not take a step back, even if it knew badly. It was necessary to withstand the attack of the Ming army and cover the retreat of the 2nd Army stationed on the defense line of the Yalu River to a safe place.

However, if this arrangement is made, it is equivalent to sentencing all the officers and soldiers of the 8th Division to death - it only takes one day for the Ming troops to cross the river and defeat the 17th Division, so it will not be difficult to annihilate the isolated 8th Division on flat ground.

If there is any accident in the 8th Division, or after the "accident" that the 8th Division is destined to happen, the 3rd Army, one of the two main forces of the Japanese army on the Yalu River defense line, can really be said to exist in name only - imagine the precedent of Mitsui Takanomiya being transferred back to China to enter the cold palace after losing a fur, and he Miyamoto Yuren estimated that he could only commit suicide by cutting his stomach to thank the world.

Miyamoto Yuren, who has almost no countermeasures in his mind, is thinking about his career at this time, and who else will be responsible for his career, there is no way to calm down and think about how to deal with the situation in front of him, the more he thinks about it, the more angry he becomes, he simply grabbed the water glass in front of him and fell directly to the ground to vent his anger.

"Bastards of the 20th Division, the entire Japanese Empire will be buried in their hands! Bastard! Bastard! They all deserve to die! They should all die in their own positions! Miyamoto gritted his teeth and looked at the debris on the ground, roaring hatefully.

The retreat of the 20th Division also directly affected the northern part of the entire Yalu River defense line, which was mountainous for a long distance and was not suitable for crossing the river or spreading out at all, so it was relatively not the focus of defense. But even so, there were still several divisions stationed here to deal with possible attacks from the Ming Empire.

These divisions were not the main force on weekdays, and now when they heard the inexplicable collapse of the 20th Division, they naturally began to retreat backwards. After all, the places where they are stationed are barren mountains and wilderness, so there is actually no psychological burden to give up. So the Japanese 5th Army, which was in the far north, made what they thought was the most correct decision at this time: to retreat.

"Let General Uehara stop the attack! Stop the attack immediately......" Miyamoto finally remembered his role, he was the commander of the entire Japanese defense line, and it seemed a little too dereliction of duty not to give even an order. So he gave an order, which was practically similar to nonsense, to stop the 8th Division from continuing the offensive.

One minute before his order was given, Uehara had already ordered the attack to be stopped, and sent a telegram that bordered on despair to his superior, Yuhito Miyamoto: "The 8th Division has lost its ability to attack. (To be continued.) )