He gritted his teeth and gave orders to his forward troops that they must capture Xichuan first, and abandoned the prepared camp, and led the main force of the 2nd Army to continue the attack to the south, trying to occupy the pre-arranged cities, villages and towns along the line before the 1st Army bit the Japanese 2nd Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because of the 1st Army as its own example, the 2nd Army also frantically rushed forward, and in just one hour, the 2nd Panzer Corps of the Praetorian Guard, the forward force, rushed forward for a distance of more than ten kilometers, and successfully defeated the rear guard of the Japanese 20th Division.

In Qingyunli, the 2nd Armored Division under the 2nd Armored Corps of the Praetorian Guards attacked frantically and annihilated a brigade of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army. Killed the captain and captured the battle flag of the brigade, and captured the gateway to Heecheon.

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Ming army still did not stop the pace of attack, especially the 1st Army, which had already made an advantage in Guicheng, directly pushed the armored troops into the city of Guicheng, and drove the remnants of the Japanese army out of this important northern city on the Korean Peninsula.

Guseong was an important supply point for the Japanese army on the northern plains of the Korean Peninsula, and it stockpiled a large amount of arms and ammunition in the city, as well as food reserves that the Japanese army looted for the winter. Of course, it is also a transportation hub, connecting several railway lines in northern Korea.

Because of this importance, the Japanese were reluctant to abandon the city, or they wanted to turn it into a ruin before retreating, leaving nothing left for the Ming army. However, because of this hasty rout, the Ming army found a large amount of food in the city that had not had time to burn, as well as dozens of tons of light weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese army.

Unfortunately, because the Japanese army had a very low degree of mechanization, the amount of oil reserved for Turtle City was very limited. Moreover, most of this fuel has not been burned by the Japanese army, so the Ming armored forces did not receive the fuel supply they urgently needed.

But the Ming army did not stop moving south, and the troops of the 1st Armored Division of the Praetorian Guard, that is, Fan Ming's unit, passed through Guicheng and continued southward, and at about 3 p.m. crossed the 5th Division of the Japanese army and captured Fangxian. And Fangxian is less than 20 kilometers away from Dingzhou, the most important transportation hub of the Japanese army.

The losses inflicted by the Ming army on the Japanese army that day were not limited to these, because of the retreat of the Japanese 5th Army, the Ming army occupied a major border town in northern Korea almost without bloodshed. The degree of fracture of the highway bridge blown up by the Japanese army here is not high, so the Ming army is rushing to repair it, once this road is repaired, the Ming army will have another supply line in the northern section of the Yalu River.

With this passage, the other group army of the Ming army crossing the Yalu River was able to temporarily become self-sufficient, relieving the transportation pressure of several pontoon bridges built by the 2nd Army. Now the advance of the Ming army has reached the original expectation, but it is regrettable that not a single Japanese unit has been surrounded.

The operational plan of the two main army groups advancing in parallel was originally drawn up for the purpose of encircling the main forces of the Japanese army in the plain area and annihilating them. However, because the 2nd Army encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army in the process of advancing, and the 1st Army advanced too fast, it destroyed the Ming army's own plan.

As it turned out, the Japanese were not fools, and when they found themselves in danger on their flanks, they decisively began to retreat, avoiding the fate of being surrounded and annihilated. But it is still too early to conclude that the Japanese army has escaped from the encirclement, because Japan still has at least 5 main divisions, which are still being chased by the Ming armored forces biting their tails.

These five divisions could be caught up and bitten by the Ming army at any time, so the Japanese army could only keep retreating in the direction of Pyongyang. The defense line of the Yalu River was not able to stop the advance of the Ming army, and the Japanese army did not have the courage to fight any unreliable blocking battles near the Qingchuan River.

Because of the passivity of General Miyamoto Arihito's command, the entire Japanese defense system has collapsed, and at this time, the commanders of the Japanese armies know that the base camp will definitely replace the main general of the front line.

With this judgment, several reserve divisions of the Japanese army along the route immediately began civil engineering operations near Suncheon. They planned to build a similar line of defense to stabilize their own foothold, converge the retreating troops, hold the line and stabilize the situation on the peninsula.

General Miyamoto Arihito, who had collapsed, also acquiesced to this unenterprising plan, and he was in no mood to reprimand the troops and engage in any inexplicable counterattack plan. He was already guilty, and he only wanted to save the last blood of the Japanese Empire and leave a trace of face for himself and his family.

Because of this, Miyamoto has no shock about the loss of a place like Huishan now. While urging the troops he still has control to build fortifications along Sunchon and other places, he can only remind the troops on the front line to blow up important facilities and supplies before retreating.

"Mr. Jiro Yamaguchi, as an already general, I have done my best to save my troops. This war was not a fault of my personal command, but an inevitable result of the Ming army being too strong. He looked at the map and said this, not knowing if he was excusing himself or if he had some other purpose.

Jiro Yamaguchi stood there and didn't speak, waiting for Miyamoto Yuren to continue, and sure enough, Miyamoto continued his words on his own, as if he didn't care whether Yamaguchi replied or not. He paused for a moment, then continued: "But as a soldier of the Great Japanese Empire, I will not shirk my responsibility......

He closed his mouth and looked at the map silently, as if he had lost his soul. Now that they have moved to the headquarters in Suncheon, everyone knows that Japan has fallen into a very disadvantageous situation in this war, because the northern mining areas of Korea, which are vital to Japan, are now destined to fall into the hands of the Ming army.

Without these rare metal ores, Japan's already weak metallurgical capacity will fall by at least 30%. This is undoubtedly worse for Japan, which has lost the supply of ore from Anshan in Liaodong, and has opened up a wider gap between China and Japan.

However, these are the difficulties of the future, and they seem far away...... At present, the problem facing Japan is even more thorny -- who will stop the armored forces of the Ming army, which are rapidly moving south, behind the Japanese army? (To be continued.) )