Putting aside the battle that is about to break out in Kamejo here, at this moment, the Japanese 8th Division, which is surrounded by the Ming army and has actually been crossed by the main force of the Ming army, is waiting for his final moment with a bitter face. Although the Ming army did not use the main force to encircle and kill his abandoned division, with the passage of time and normal attrition, he will also face a catastrophe.www.biquge.info

The encirclement was taken over by a newly formed corps of the Ming Army that crossed the river, and the 2nd Infantry Corps of the 2nd Army of the Ming Army had already handed over the defensive line three hours earlier and marched in the direction of Songquanli. The target of the 2nd Army had already bitten the Japanese 2nd Division and the 20th Division, and the crippled Japanese 8th Division was not taken seriously at all.

Although it was not the main force of the Ming army, this Ming army was strongly supported by the 300 mm heavy railway guns of the Ming army on the other side of the Yalu River. The Japanese line of defense was slowly compressed, and the Irie Wing was completely annihilated in the morning's battle, and the Wing Commander Irie died in the chaos.

Also killed were two brigade commanders, one of whom was killed during the breakout, and the other was killed by a shell hitting the command headquarters. Now that Uehara had only one wing in his hands that could fight, he knew that if he failed to break through again, he would inevitably be annihilated in the same place.

"Miyamoto Yuhito, that bastard! Let my 8th Division attack all night in vain, and when I am crippled in place, they will throw me to Minggou as bait! If I make it back to my homeland alive, I must send him to a court-martial!" Bastard! Bastard! Uehara pressed the hilt of his command knife, looked at his soldiers with black smoke on their faces, gritted his teeth and shouted.

"We can't wait here to die! Gotta break out! Now that Minggou's troops are in a hurry to move south, the encirclement must be incomplete, as long as we break through this line of defense, it is possible to pass through the gaps in Minggou's army and escape back to the area controlled by friendly forces. He pointed to the map and drew a simple route on it, which was considered to have mobilized everyone before the war.

In fact, he himself knows that it is obviously not a good idea to break through with thousands of people, and at this time he can only be broken into pieces, as long as he takes dozens of cronies and guards, disguises and carefully dodges along the way, he naturally has a way to escape the search and arrest of the Ming army. But he couldn't control the rest of the troops, so he could only let them fend for themselves and be annihilated by the Ming army.

Of course, all this is just a fantasy, and now Uehara has to convince his subordinates to desperately launch a breakthrough, because at least he must break through the Ming defense line in front of him in order for him to continue the escape plan below. So now he is still the commander of the righteous and awe-inspiring 8th Division, and he is the commander who wants to defeat the Ming army with the big guys.

Originally, it was better to break out at night, so that at least there would be cover from night, and it would be easier to hide after dispersing into small forces. But Uehara Sawa can't care about the matter of time, where can the troops in his hands hold out until the evening, I am afraid that they will collapse after two hours.

Uehara Sasawa knew that he had killed many Han Chinese in Japan back then, and he took pleasure in abusing Han Chinese and those who intermarried. If it fell into the hands of the Ming army, even if others could enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war, he himself would definitely be hanged to vent his anger. So he rejected the idea of surrendering to everyone, and incited his soldiers with loyalty to Japan and His Majesty the Emperor, so that they were ready to fight to the last man.

"Drop all the wounded and carry only ammunition!" Uehara drew his command sword, revealing his usual fierce expression, and ordered: "For the glory of the Great Japanese Empire, for His Majesty the Emperor!" Assault with me, whole army! Come on! ”

"For His Majesty the Emperor! Come on! Around him, the officers who had been agitated to the peak also brandished their command knives and let out hysterical shouts frantically. These soldiers jumped out of the trenches, holding rifles and revealing their bayonets, and desperately rushed to the positions of the Ming troops on the opposite side.

Behind them, hundreds of Japanese wounded committed suicide in bunkers, some of them pulled grenades, and in despair they took their wounded comrades around them to die in small, dimly lit caves. With the sound of their suicide gunfire and shouts, the machine guns roared on the positions of the Ming Empire......

Bullets harvested the lives of Japanese soldiers one after another, and the frantic charge of thousands of Japanese defenders also caused trouble for the Ming army. Originally, the Ming army planned to trap these Japanese troops who refused to surrender, and finally launched an attack to annihilate these stubborn enemies, but they did not expect that they were exhausted, and the opponent still had the strength to organize a breakthrough of the whole group.

Although the Ming army had an advantage in firepower when defending, and the artillery also opened fire in time to create countless troubles for the Japanese troops who broke through, it is a pity that after 2 hours of hard fighting, about 200 Japanese soldiers still broke through successfully, which also taught the Ming army a lesson to the top brass.

Originally, including Yang Zizhen and Zhang Jianjun, there was already a feeling of pride and contempt for the enemy in the high-level command of the Ming army, and many people did not take the Japanese army seriously. But this breakthrough directly hurt the faces of the commanders of the 2nd Army, and also sounded the alarm for the 1st Army next door.

The good news is that with the breakthrough of the Japanese 8th Division, there is no formed Japanese army behind the Ming army. As the 200 Japanese troops who broke out of the encirclement fled, the Ming army quickly closed the encirclement and annihilated the remaining Japanese troops who had lost their cover and command.

The 8th Division was thus completely annihilated, following in the footsteps of the 17th Division of the Japanese Army. So far, the Ming army has routed the 20th Division, inflicted heavy losses on the 5th and 2nd Divisions, and annihilated the 8th and 17th Divisions. More than 54,000 Japanese soldiers were eliminated and more than 1,100 prisoners were captured.

The reason why prisoners are so scarce is, on the one hand, that the Japanese troops currently participating in the battle are all elite, with high combat quality and firm will; On the other hand, it was also because the Ming army was in a hurry to break through and form a pincer offensive, giving up many opportunities to capture prisoners. As the battle continued, the number of surrendered troops began to increase, and the number of Japanese troops and Korean defense forces captured by the Ming army also began to increase dramatically.

The 2nd Army, under the command of Yang Zizhen, rushed all the way to Qingyunli, and on the evening of the 10th, it was only one step away from Xichuan. In the evening of the same day, the 20th Division, which had lost its armor and retreated along the way, joined the Japanese 2nd Division, and had just fled to the outskirts of Xichuan. (To be continued.) )