The vanguard of the 5th Army of the Japanese Army, which had just stepped out of the lofty mountains and mountains in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, ran into the Ming Dynasty army that had just captured Hamhung before it could catch its breath. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These unfortunate Japanese troops lacked the corresponding supplies, and in fact, since they entered the Gaima Plateau and entered the mountainous area of Zhanling, they rarely received timely supplies.

It is already very difficult for an army of 100,000 to replenish the food and grass needed by the people and horses through the rugged mountain roads, let alone heavy materials such as ammunition? In order to keep the troops from starving to death in the mountains, the few dilapidated roads were used to deliver food.

Because there were no troops from the Ming Empire chasing them south along the mountains, except for the rearguard troops with a tense atmosphere, most of the soldiers threw away their excess ammunition despite the dissuasion of their commanders.

Carrying weapons and ammunition in the deep mountains and old forests is indeed a very painful thing. Especially when there are no enemies.

So the army of 100,000 people swept through the mountains like locusts, raiding several small villages in the mountains, followed by small mammals such as rabbits and mice, which hid in the mountains.

When they were depressed walking through the mountain road, who would have thought that Xianxing, which was shielded by mountains and far away from the rear, was inexplicably lost to the 2nd Army of the Ming Empire, which was going to encircle the 2nd Army.

"What are you kidding? Xianxing has been occupied by the Ming dogs? The commander of the Japanese forward unit who got the news was so frightened that he almost vomited the big cake in his mouth.

He knew best how much combat strength his troops still had - most of the ammunition had been discarded, and many of the soldiers had not eaten anything decent for a day.

In such a state, letting these soldiers attack the Ming Empire troops entrenched in their positions is no different from persuading them to die.

The most important thing is that when he gives such an order, will any of these subordinates, who are already extremely dissatisfied, immediately rebel and shoot him to death here.

"Get the deputy captain and the captains!" The wing commander pressed his command knife, looked at Xianxing, who was still smoking in the distance, and gave an order to the officers beside him.

As soon as he heard the order not to attack immediately, the officer who gave the order did not dissuade him, and hurriedly sent people to find the commanders who were scattered in the troops.

Soon several people rushed over, stood in front of the wing commander, and looked at their commander. It could be seen that they had all seen Xianxing change hands, and they all had shocked and frightened expressions on their faces.

"We were cut off...... You are well aware of this. I can't make up my mind what to do now, so let's talk about it. "This wing commander is also very single, and directly puts his responsibility on all the officers present.

"Sir...... We listen to you! "His subordinates are naturally not fools, who wants to take on the responsibility of giving orders at this time? So when they heard their superiors say this, they immediately rejected in unison.

The wing captain saw that his subordinates would rather die than buy it, and after sighing, he opened his mouth and discussed helplessly: "Our current situation, everyone knows that it is a problem to hurry, let alone launch an attack to seize the city. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the smoking city in the distance, and finally swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "As soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, as courtiers of His Majesty the Emperor, I think we should do something that must be done. ”

Seeing that the tone of the wing's voice was biased towards attacking, everyone became nervous, and they wanted to dissuade them, but they didn't know how to open their mouths under the righteousness of the emperor raised by the other party.

"I'm not saying that you should really forget your life and leave your life in such a place." Seeing that his subordinates were already resistant, the wing captain began to appease these subordinates with a twist.

As he spoke, he pointed to the city in the distance that was emitting black smoke in the wind and snow, and said, "It seems that the Ming army has just captured there, what if it is just a small force of the Ming army?" Shouldn't we try it out and think again? ”

These words of the wing commander made everyone present realize that they should indeed launch an attack, at least to give an account to the assistant of the 5th Army behind, and also to give an account of their honor and loyalty.

"That's right, the Ming dogs came from afar, even if they captured Xianxing, it was a big loss in comparison. We should test it and then make plans. Hearing that their co-captain proposed a solution, everyone nodded in agreement.

His subordinates regained some confidence, which relieved the Japanese co-captain. He began to issue orders for his men to prepare for the next attack.

"Each squadron sends out a squadron, and then concentrates the ammunition of the other squadron, and puts together a tentative attack." He pressed his command knife and took out his greatest courage to order: "If the Ming army resists resolutely, retreat." ”

The heavy snow was falling slowly, which was very good news for the Japanese army as a whole that was suppressed by the air force of the Ming Empire. But for the Japanese 5th Army, which was short of food and medicine, it was not good news.

It had been a full two hours before the wing had formed its men so-so, and they began to stagger forward in the heavy snow, the chaos of snowflakes obscuring their view. The soldiers had reluctant expressions on their faces, and so did the officers.

The other side also seemed to want to bring them closer, so they didn't fire for a long time to interrupt their advance. Just a second before everyone thought that the Ming army had not stayed in Hamhung, the fierce gunfire began to spread with the explosion of a mine.

Because of the heavier and heavier snow, which covered the bloodshed on the battlefield, the Japanese soldiers fell one after another, the blood melted the ice and snow, and the sound of gunfire covered up the wailing.

After only a few seconds of delay, all the Japanese soldiers began a difficult retreat. Their boots got stuck in the muddy snow and then died in the disgusting mixture of ice water from the bullets that came from behind.

No one asked them to continue the attack, everyone was running away, no one had the determination and courage to fight, everyone just ran away, trying to escape from the range of Ming bullets as soon as possible.

Then the artillery of the Ming army, which had not fired, also joined the massacre, and these self-propelled guns that marched to Hamxing with the troops exerted their power, and the 100 mm caliber shells fell among the Japanese troops, and a group of unlucky guys flew away. (To be continued.) )