444 Pyongyang changed hands
"Yagi-kun, hurry up! Hurry up! Leaning against the door, a young Japanese officer nervously urged his companion behind him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
His companion was throwing stacks of documents from the Japanese General Headquarters into the gasoline drums in front of him, there were so many documents that they had not been burned for more than an hour.
The officer who called Yagi grabbed a handful of documents related to the supplies, threw them into the burning gasoline drums, and continued to turn around and repeat his actions, despite the black ashes flying out.
Some of the half-burned documents floated out of the gasoline barrels due to the churning heat, and he didn't care, just threw another pile of documents in his hand and burned them.
"I should have set this house on fire! Damn it! He grumbled loudly as he worked, letting the ashes fly into his mouth.
The army of the Ming Empire was only a few hundred meters away from this headquarters, and not far in front was the battlering defensive line, where Japanese soldiers were killed every second.
The unexpected death of Mitsui Takanomiya plunged the Japanese troops stationed in Pyongyang into a state of confusion, and some troops began to break through, only to be annihilated outside Pyongyang by the armored forces of the Ming Empire.
Some troops sent emissaries and chose to surrender when Zhang Jianjun, the commander of the 1st Army of the Ming Empire, pledged not to massacre the prisoners.
For example, the defenders of the two Japanese divisions on the Nanpu side chose to surrender rather than fight to the death, and with their surrender, the port of Nanpu officially became the territory of the Ming Empire.
Although some of the docks were destroyed, the Ming Empire still had a port that would soon be operational, and this port was closer to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
As long as there is this port, the 1st Group Army under Zhang Jianjun will be able to obtain more adequate material supplies, and it can move south at a faster speed and seize more places.
Mitsui Takanomiya was sniped to death by a sniper while inspecting the front line and died a humble death -- this incident not only shook Japan's defensive and operational thinking in Pyongyang, but also completely destroyed the courage of the Japanese defenders.
Hundreds of Japanese soldiers chose to surrender, and among the remaining people, hundreds of people were buried in vain because they could not get resources and fell into the chaos of command.
Before several high-ranking Japanese commanders could argue whose decision was right, they had already discovered that the army of the Ming Empire had divided and surrounded several of their divisions in several encirclements.
Originally, the tactics used by Zhang Jianjun were the tactics of division and encirclement in the center, and Mitsui Takanomiya inspected the front line to encourage morale and organize counterattacks in order to prevent the Ming army from embedding in the deadly wedge of Pyongyang.
As a result, he died, and his efforts to counterattack or insist on defense and prevent the 1st Army of the Ming Empire from expanding this wedge came to naught.
After several hours of hard work, Zhang Jianjun commanded his troops to attack the center of Pyongyang, and then engaged combat troops, which blossomed along several blocks in all directions, dividing and encircling the Japanese troops in Pyongyang in four areas.
What the Japanese commander Takanomiya Mitsui feared most before his death all happened within a day of his death. The Japanese army has become a trapped beast and can no longer reverse its fate.
"Did you burn it? The men of the Pyongyang division are leaving, they are going to break through to the south, we better follow them! The officer, who was carrying a rifle at the door, urged anxiously again.
Yagi glanced at the still piled up of papers in the room, gritted his teeth, and kicked over the gasoline barrel in front of him, causing the flames burning inside to spread out at once.
The situation of the battle changed too quickly, and all day yesterday, the division commanders of the various divisions who were busy surrendering and resisting, as well as the corps-level headquarters above, did not care about the follow-up matters of retreat or collapse.
When the soldiers of the Ming Empire had already attacked a place not far from here, Yagi and a few other officers were sent over to deal with those classified headquarters documents.
The intent to set a fire was denied by the defenders stationed here, who had planned to use it as a bunker a few hours earlier.
Yagi didn't have a choice, he didn't want to listen to the other party, but at this time, someone with a gun was the uncle, and everyone was surprised by what happened to the next gram, so Yagi had to endure it.
Who knows, so soon the other party changed his mind and was going to leave here to break through to the south, so there would be no reason to keep this headquarters.
Therefore, after hearing the news that the other party was going to retreat, Yagi immediately kicked over the gasoline barrel in front of him. Seeing the flames ignite the waste paper all over the floor, Yagi picked up the rifle in the corner and walked out of the house.
Because the whole house was covered in smoke and flames, Yagi came out with a dark face, just like he had fought on the front line.
He passed by the doorway, glanced back at the room where the fire had been burned, and then jumped out of the building through the window on the other side.
Only separated by two walls, on the other side, the soldiers of the Ming Empire were using bayonets and submachine guns to harvest the lives of Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese soldiers, who had lost effective command, were slow to move, and their weapons and ammunition could not keep up with the supply.
By the time the soldiers of the Ming Empire rushed here, the room that had once served as the office of the commander-in-chief of the front line on the Korean Peninsula had already burst into flames, and it was impossible to extinguish it.
And the Japanese officer named Yagi actually did not escape his fate, and near another block, he and the troops that broke through to the south were intercepted by another attacking force of the Ming Empire, and then died there.
On January 16, the dragon flag of the Ming Empire covered the streets of Pyongyang, and armored vehicles rumbled through the main streets with the nature of a military parade, indicating that the city was completely in the hands of the Ming Empire.
It was also on this day that the British fleet, which sank the cruiser Chaoyanghu, signed a "Temporary Docking Treaty" with India and officially entered the Indian Ocean.
The fleet of the Ming Empire in the Indian Ocean had to face such a powerful opponent, using its weak forces to delay as much as possible to prevent the British naval fleet from reaching Malacca.
Compared with the singing and singing on land, the disadvantage of the Ming Empire in terms of navy, with the arrival of the British fleet, began to be highlighted, and it seemed that the battle would be in the hands of the deer and the deer seemed to have become confusing again.