Yang Zizhen looked at the battle report sent by his advancing troops, and his mood was very happy. www.biquge.info Because he no longer pursued the Japanese troops in front of him, but set the main direction of the attack in Underwater and Changhyeon, the speed of his troops could be described as crazy.

Because it is not a major highway, this road leading to underwater is not patronized by the bomber units of the Ming army, so the armored forces of the Ming army can quickly go east along this road, and before 10 o'clock, they will arrive at this vital transportation node in the water.

There were more than 5,000 Japanese troops there, but most of them were lightly armed Korean defense forces. When the Ming army arrived, almost 3,500 Korean troops surrendered their weapons, and the remaining Japanese troops were long gone.

Later, it became known that the Japanese army had already run along another road, but there was some confusion in the direction of their escape, and they fled not to the south, but along the road to the east.

As a result, the forward units of the Ming army, an armored division and a mechanized infantry division, occupied the vital water without wasting a single shot, and in addition to capturing 3,500 prisoners, only two were wounded on the road. At noon that day, while the Japanese army was busy blocking the attack of the 1st Army of the Ming Empire in front of it, it seemed that the troops had entered Changhyeon-ri.

Almost at the same moment, another Ming army unit belonging to the 2nd Army occupied Daxing, and it was almost in unison, leaving little time for the Japanese to make decisions.

"The 2nd Panzer Army fought well, and the 2nd Panzer Corps of the Praetorian Guard was also very fast, I thought the Japanese were so powerful, but it turned out that the troops we bumped into the day before yesterday were not very easy to bite." After reading the report in his hand, the commander of the Ming Army Group Army handed the report in his hand to Chief of Staff Liu Zhijian, and said with a smile.

Obviously, because the offensive was no longer the focus of the Japanese army's defense, the advance of the 2nd Army was very smooth. The soldiers occupied Shuili without bloodshed, and took Daxing and Changhyeon-ri almost effortlessly, which made the 2nd Army very happy.

Now the tracks of the No. 2 tank, which the Ming army is closest to the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula, are less than 50 kilometers away from the eastern coastline of the peninsula. What's worse is that between these 50 kilometers is a small plain sandwiched between two mountain ranges, and there is no precipitous terrain to defend at all.

On this narrow plain terrain, except for Shangcangli, a must-pass road, there are only two large cities left: Dingping and Xianxing. At this time, the Japanese troops remaining in these two cities added up to only one division -- a force of less than 24,000 men was obviously not enough to face an attacking force of at least 60,000 Ming troops.

Unfortunately, these troops did not have any reinforcements, and the closest friendly troops to them were the 100,000 men of the 5th Army of the Japanese Army, which was still trekking long distances in the ravines. As for how much combat power is left of the 100,000 people who fled back, only God knows.

"You can't let up at this time, Commander." Liu Zhijian looked at the gratifying results of the troops' attack, and reminded his commander with a smile: "Occupying this passage now seems to be completely achievable." But the occupation is only the first step, and what matters is what we will fight later. ”

For the Ming army, the occupation of some cities was just an additional benefit, and what they really wanted to do was to block the Japanese 5th Army moving south. Therefore, the occupation of Dingping and Xianxing is only the first step in the operation, and encircling or trapping the Japanese 5th Army is the real highlight.

Yang Zizhen heard Liu Zhijian's reminder, nodded, looked at the map and said, "It is true that we can't be careless, and urge the troops attacking in front to take Shangcangli as soon as possible...... It was necessary to occupy the cities of Hamhung and Dingping before the arrival of the Japanese 5th Army in the ravine! ”

"Yes!" After Liu Zhijian saluted, he walked out of Yang Zizhen's temporary headquarters. They left the Tokugawa, which was close at hand, not to attack, but to fight the Japanese in the other direction, and now it seems that they have indeed achieved results, and the Japanese troops in front have indeed been recuperated.

At least the Japanese 3rd Army, which was originally pursued by the 2nd Army of the Ming Empire, was given a chance to breathe, and the 2nd Division and the 20th Division, which fled in embarrassment along the way, rested in Tokugawa for 2 more hours before the 2nd Division left under the bombing salute of the Ming army and went south to the safer Beicang.

The remaining 20th Division, after receiving about 4,000 reinforcements and a large amount of supplies, was ordered to hold on to Tokugawa. The Japanese front-line command, including Miyamoto Yuhito, finally stabilized their positions and prepared to confront the Ming army going south on the line from Anju to Tokugawa to Dingping and Hamxing.

Of course, this line is also a line in a telegram sent from the Japanese base camp, ordering the Japanese army to stick to it as much as possible. After all, if the entire northern part of the Korean Peninsula was lost to the Ming army, it would really embarrass the Japanese army. Many more decided to turn defeat into victory or at least hold on to cities such as Anju under the leadership of the new commander.

In the eyes of these Japanese front-line commanders, the worst thing to do was to continue to retreat and retreat into the new line of defense that Miyamoto was building in Shunkawa. The road is so close that there are no mistakes.

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After the 2nd Army changed the direction of attack, the frontal attack had to rely on the 1st Army of the Ming Empire under the command of Zhang Jianjun. Because the group army sequence of the Ming Empire is not divided into arms, the full name is the 1st Group Army of the 1st Armored Group Army of the Ming Empire, which appears as an abbreviation on weekdays.

On the morning of December 11, the 1st Army's offensive proceeded as scheduled, capturing Luxiali and Guoshan at 10 o'clock, and Dingzhou, a key transportation point, at 11 o'clock. At noon that day, Fan Ming's Praetorian Guard armored unit drove into Qingtingli, which was only more than 20 kilometers away from Anzhou.

At this time, the Japanese army, which had gotten rid of the danger of being encircled, finally mustered up the courage to take the 9th Division as the core and set up a position in Bochuan, to gradually resist the Ming troops that had been taken. After taking Dingzhou, the Ming army launched a tentative attack on Bochuan, and after colliding with a resolute counterattack, it stopped.

Then the Ming army, which stopped advancing, swept the remaining small villages and towns around it, and easily took Bawon-ri, Yongbyon and other areas. (To be continued.) )