After spending another period of time to run in the troops, more than a dozen temporary military stations on the scheduled march route in the Japanese-occupied area of Hamgyong Province have also been built, and the weather continues to be fine, and this surprise attack force, which is called the "Rikmi Detachment" by the Japanese base camp, passed safely through the Taebaek Mountains (northern section) with an average altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and there is no large-scale frostbite that Tatsumi Shangwen fears most.

After entering the relatively easy central hilly terrain, the Limi detachment significantly accelerated the speed of the march, and even dropped all the artillery for this purpose, because the most critical factor for the success of this operation, in addition to the secrecy work, was the speed of the march.

At the same time, the ammunition carrying capacity of the troops was also reduced as much as possible to free up the load and carry more dry rations, because the operation of the Tatsumi detachment was completely rear-free, and they could not loot the Koreans to replenish food and grass until they reached the target of the attack

After entering the Western Plains, the Tachimi detachment, after a full meal, began the long-distance rapid march that was later recorded in the military history of the world, and in one day and one night, they walked a full 92 kilometers on their own footboards! Considering that it had been unrepaired for many days, such a speed was enough to amaze military experts all over the world.

The Pyongyang defenders were completely caught off guard by the rapid arrival of the Takmi detachment, and the city of Pyongyang was not even in combat readiness, the gates were wide open, and management was lax.

As a result, the Tachimi detachment easily captured the city gate using the disguised tactics prepared in advance, and Tachimi Naomun was relieved when he saw the signal fireworks, knowing that his plan was already in sight.

Due to the continuous fall of people on the road, there are only more than 2,700 people left in the Lijian detachment, and there is not much food left, if it is necessary to storm the city, even if he has seen through the real combat effectiveness of the Qing army in the Battle of Gyeongsangdo, Lijian Shangwen is still inevitably a little weak-hearted, after all, he doesn't even have a cannon now.

However, even the self-conscious victory was in his hands, and he didn't expect that victory would come so easily! Not long after the battle began, the Qing army in Pyongyang abandoned the city and fled!

It turned out that the Qing army ordered to stay in Pyongyang was the Sheng Army Wei Rugui Division, which had always had poor military discipline, and when there were people in charge of it before, they were all reckless, and after the main force of the Qing army went south to Seoul, these guys were undisciplined, and naturally they were even more lawless.

The citizens of Pyongyang suffered greatly, while the North Korean army in the city had always dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out because of the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, but now the Qing army in the city was too busy to take care of itself, which gave them the opportunity to retaliate with black guns, and the Sheng army, which had suffered from the enemy on its back, fell into unprecedented chaos and panic.

In addition, Wei Rugui not only has no way to govern the army, but also has greed, and has been deducting the military salaries of his subordinates, and the officers under his command have also learned from each other and exploited layer by layer, which makes the soldiers complain, if it is a tailwind battle with big benefits and small casualties, the soldiers can still do their best, and now the situation is obviously unfavorable, who is willing to work hard for that dog officer?

In addition, there was no combat readiness in Pyongyang at all, so that Wei Rugui could not even send a team to supervise the battle in a short period of time, which made it even more convenient for the soldiers of the Sheng army to escape.

In just a few minutes, the escape changed from an individual phenomenon to a group behavior, and Wei Rugui was already timid under the sudden attack, so he hurriedly fled outside the city with his own soldiers, lest he run slowly and be left in the city and become a prisoner of the Japanese army.

As soon as the commander ran away, even the Qing officers and soldiers who were still resisting collapsed with their morale, and those Korean officers and soldiers who had originally opposed Japan and insisted on resisting also turned their guns out of disappointment and indignation, and the Sheng army collapsed on all fronts.

Wei Rugui fled desperately with his own soldiers, and only dared to stop and restrain the defeated soldiers when he ran more than 200 miles away, but at this time, the original 6,000-strong army was less than a thousand people left

After the capture of Pyongyang, the Lijian detachment captured 29 basically intact cannons, more than 5,000 shells, 15 Green guns, more than 3,000 new rifles, more than 4 million rounds of ammunition, more than 700,000 catties of grain, 180,000 taels of silver and a large number of other goods and materials.

In fact, it was precisely because of the advance that "the Qing army was not a real new army, and it was unlikely that it would be able to take care of burning ammunition, grain and grass when it was defeated." He believed that there was a possibility of "feeding the war with war", and immediately saw that Shang Wen dared to let the troops rush into Pyongyang lightly with only a few days of dry rations.

If it is not accurate to judge how many seizures have not been made, even if Pyongyang is taken, the immediate vision detachment will have a good end.

To put it bluntly, the so-called "immediate plan" is completely desperate, if it weren't for the fact that the situation of this war was already extremely unfavorable to Japan, and Immediately Mi Shangwen also needed to make great efforts to open the door to promotion for himself, he would not have proposed such a crazy strategy anyway

However, Japan's good fortune since the Meiji Restoration is really not covered, and this big gamble by Naomun was a great success after all, and the number of seizures in Pyongyang exceeded even the most optimistic estimate of Naomun Tatsumi before the war.

So many guns and ammunition are not only enough to make up for the heavy weapons that the detachment left before leaving Wonsan, but also more than enough, and immediately saw that Shangwen immediately let people light the wolf smoke and send the predetermined code back to Wonsan, so that the reinforcements came lightly and quickly, and even the rifles only needed to carry a little to guard against the attack of the anti-Japanese forces in Pyongan Province, North Korea, anyway, the guns captured this time were enough to arm a full infantry brigade and there was still left.

Moreover, most of the captured new rifles are much more advanced than the single-shot rifles "Murata 13-year-old rifles" that are commonly used by the Japanese army

However, it is worth mentioning that Takami Shangwen did not eliminate all the Murata rifles equipped by his troops, because although the captured Qing rifles were advanced, there were also two serious problems.

The first is that there are too many models, and the management and distribution of ammunition is very tiring; Then there is the fact that these rifles are designed for a rate of fire, and even if that many rounds are captured, they may not be able to support long-term attrition.

And these rifles are basically not equipped with bayonets, once the bullets are exhausted, they are completely useless, and they cannot give full play to the advantages of the Japanese Army being good at white-knuckle assault (relative to the Qing army), while the Murata rifle adopts a French design, and the body and bayonet are very long, especially suitable for white-edged stabbing, so it still has a certain use value.

However, the previous battle with the Dongxue Party rebel army had made Tachimi Shangwen, who had always advocated white-knuckle assault, realize the terrible nature of the Green Cannon, even if he wanted to carry forward the strengths of the Japanese army in white-knuckle warfare, he would not let go of the captured Green Cannons.

In a sense, the 15 Grimm guns and a large number of matching 11mm bullets that were enough to squander were the most valuable part of the capture of the Lijian detachment, and the "Green guns" that were not actually artillery were undoubtedly more favored by him than those real guns that made Lijian Shangwen very dissatisfied.

Of course, this is not because Immediately Shangwen does not understand the value of artillery, but because the so-called "cannons" that have been captured are too chicken