Chapter 239: The Curtain
After the retreat began, because it was night and both sides had fought for a day, Duan Qirui's army that withdrew from Jiulian City did not encounter any obstacles, and reached the third line of defense after Jiulian City, which was also the cemetery that Wang Bin chose for the Japanese: Phoenix City Defense Line.
At dawn on the second day of Duan Qirui's retreat, all Japanese troops set off from the camp and rushed towards Duan Qirui's position under the order of Limi Shangwen.
This time, Lijian Shangwen divided his army into a fan shape and approached Jiulian City, preparing to launch an attack on Jiulian City.
Originally, in the opinion of Tachimi Shangwen, this attack was nothing more than another meaningless war of attrition, but Limi Shangwen decided to fight such a war of attrition.
Through continuous attrition, the soldiers under Duan Qirui were consumed, and when the soldiers under Duan Qirui had to give up part of their positions because of the continuous reduction, it was time to see Shangwen's entire army go out to eliminate Duan Qirui.
According to this tactic, there have been a lot of results in a week, and yesterday I saw that Duan Qirui's position was obviously shrinking, and it seemed that he would be able to eliminate Duan Qirui in a few days, and he thought in his heart while moving forward.
However, because of the heavy fog this morning, "the dense fog is indiscernible at hand", and the Japanese army led by Tsumi did not start attacking in a hurry, but waited for the fog to dissipate before attacking.
After a while, the fog continued to dissipate because of the rising sun, and after the big thing dissipated, he immediately saw Shang Wen looking towards Duan Qirui's position, and there was not a single soldier on the entire position.
Seeing this situation, immediately saw that Shangwen immediately guessed whether Duan Qirui had to give up his position outside the city because his troops were not enough to defend the position outside the city, and began to stick to the city instead.
In order to get a feel for the situation in the city, he ordered the artillery to shell the Jiulian City, and then the shells fell in the Jiulian City, but there was no response in the city.
But because of the sound of shelling, flocks of birds flew up from the city, and other than that, Jiulian City did not react at all, as if the current Jiulian City was like a dead city.
Seeing this situation, Shangwen was even more confused about what was going on in the city, so he sent a small force to climb through the walls of Jiulian City.
After these soldiers turned into the Nine Links City, they found that the city was so empty and silent, only the chirping of insects was no longer a single soldier of the Qing army, and soon the situation of no soldiers in the city was reflected in the ears of Lijian Shangwen.
Immediately saw Shang Wencai realize that Duan Qirui's troops in the city must have retreated overnight last night, and the large number of footprints found behind the city after the Japanese army entered the city also proved this: the army stationed in Jiulian City had retreated last night.
After confirming that there were no soldiers in Jiulian City, the soldiers sent by Shangwen immediately inspected a radius of ten miles and did not find the enemy, so it was determined that Jiulian City was only an empty city now.
Yesterday the two armies were still confronting each other, but today the city was empty, the day before was still fighting for Jiulian City to the death, but today they took Jiulian City without losing a single soldier, such a sharp contrast made Lijian Shangwen really a little uncomfortable.
After it was completely determined that Duan Qirui's headquarters had completely retreated, he immediately saw that Shangwen issued an order to move the Japanese army's camp forward as a whole and began to camp in Jiulian City.
After completing this, Naofumi Takami began to decide to start marching in the direction of Phoenix City at noon.
At this moment, after a night of marching, Duan Qirui's vanguard finally arrived in Phoenix City to join the defenders of Phoenix City, and the rest of the army still needed an hour to reach it because of the wounded and sick.
After the Sino-Japanese war in Mukden went on to the present situation, the 19th Division basically drew troops from Korea to support Tachimi Naowen because of the war.
The entire 19th Division of the DPRK only left a wing of military strength to suppress the DPRK, and the military strength of a wing was only a mere 4,000 people, so naturally it was impossible to suppress the DPRK, so this wing was only distributed near Seoul, the capital of the DPRK.
Due to the fact that the Japanese army was drawn from Korea, the entire Korean army was empty, so the Japanese army began to prepare for the transfer of troops from the country to the military port of Sasebo by sea to Pusan, North Korea.
The first batch of landing troops was tentatively set as a wing, and when the news reached Korea, some people began to sit still, and once the Japanese began to land from the port of Pusan.
The increase in the number of Japanese troops in Korea was a very bad thing for some of them, and it would hinder some of their movements, so these people began to gather together and start discussing some issues.
In Pyongyang's province in the west of Pyongan Province, a group of people gathered and began a heated discussion on an issue, one of whom was Park Young-joon, who had spoken with Mr. Wang.
"Guys, what should we do about this?"
The person who asked the question had short hair and an ordinary appearance, the kind of face that you might not even recognize in the crowd.
But this person sat at the front, and at first glance he was a person of very high status.
"Chief, we should really seize such a good opportunity, now the Japanese garrison in our Korea is only a wing, once the Japanese follow-up army arrives, we will never have such a good opportunity."
The person who spoke was none other than Park Young-joon, and it is not difficult to see from Park Young-joon's words that this leader has only one identity: that is, the leader of the resistance group.
This time, the leaders of the rebel groups came here to discuss the need to raise troops against Japanese rule in Korea and thus liberate Korea from the Japanese.
The origin of the rebellion was to completely liberate Korea from the hands of the Japanese, rather than allowing the Japanese to control all aspects of Korea.
In this regard, many ministers and some officials in the Korean court are extremely supportive, so there are many supporters of the resistance organization among the North Korean government and the common people.
But now that the time had come for the uprising, the leaders of the rebels hesitated.
"Don't hesitate, chief, there are not a few opportunities like this, once we miss this opportunity, I don't know when we will be able to have such a good opportunity again, besides, this time Governor Wang has dragged most of the Japanese military strength, and Governor Wang will also support us.
So don't miss the boss opportunity! ”
Seeing that the leader was a little hesitant, Park Yingjun immediately said again.
Governor Wang in Park Yingjun's mouth naturally refers to Wang Bin, and Wang Bin naturally agrees with the independence of Korea from the Japanese, once Korea is really independent.
Then it means that the Japanese mainland policy has completely failed, and they can be regarded as having a buffer with the Japanese after this war.
After Park Yingjun's words fell on the ears of this leader, it finally made this leader make up his mind.
"In that case, then launch an uprising, after you go back, first secretly launch all the soldiers and people loyal to us, and then take advantage of the current strength of the Japanese army with only one wing of our army, and quickly launch an uprising, as for the official uniform, I will go to seek support."
With the mobilization of the rebel groups, the entire territory of Korea was swept through the country, and later generations called the Korean Rebellion, which was called the beginning of the Korean uprising, in which Japan's great national power turned from prosperity to decline after the Meiji Restoration. (To be continued.) )