Chapter 596: Cleaning up the mess

No matter what kind of defense line, as long as it is breached a little, it will be followed by a complete collapse, and the same is true of the 38th Parallel, which Japan painstakingly managed, after being breached head-on, it suffered the fate of a complete rout, and a full 300,000 Japanese troops fled frantically to the south.

Most of them were trying to flee to Seoul, and Shunroku Hahata was also gathering his rout as quickly as possible, knowing full well that the next bloody battle would break out in Seoul, and that the Chinese army would continue to converge outside Seoul.

However, the Chinese side did not launch a quick attack, but advanced in the direction of depth around Seoul, and the tank corps was still the lead of all the troops, as if they were two giant dragons, completely encircling the Japanese army in Seoul.

The battle situation is getting worse and worse, the Chinese army is rapidly developing in depth, and Seoul has become an isolated island, especially the fall of the port of Incheon has hit Hata Shunroku even harder, the sea route has been cut off, just a few hours before the fall of Incheon, the railway from Seoul to the port of Busan has also been cut off.

The more than 200,000 Japanese troops in Seoul have completely become a turtle in the urn, and Shunroku Hata actually has the intention to give up Seoul on his own initiative, but the Tokyo base camp categorically rejected his request, and asked Shunroku Hata to defend Seoul until the last soldier!

Hideki Tojo even conveyed Hirohito's will, either a humiliating death, or entering the Yasukuni Shrine, and let Shunroku Hata choose one.

Moreover, the Japanese base camp has promised that as long as Shunroku Hata can rely on the fortified city to hold back the Chinese army, reinforcements will arrive soon, and it is with this guarantee that Shunroku Hata has strengthened his determination to resist.

He ordered all the troops that had retreated to Seoul to be reorganized, and the troops that had been defeated at the front had lost their morale and needed to be reorganized, and Shunroku Hata selected the most determined officers from the Japanese army to reorganize the Japanese army. Get back to life quickly. Deploy city defenses.

What surprised Shunroku Hata was China's actions. The Chinese had besieged Seoul for more than two days, but had not launched a formal attack, which gave Shunroku Hata time to calmly arrange, and the fortifications of Seoul were becoming more and more perfect. The morale of the soldiers has also been restored.

The fact that China did not take Seoul in one fell swoop was really unexpected, and on the third day, the Chinese army finally began to move, and a total of more than 4,000 cannons were concentrated outside Seoul, and the muzzle of the black hole was facing the direction of Seoul.

The actions of aerial bombers are also becoming more frequent. A large fleet of more than 100 planes frequently visited Seoul, turning the city into almost ruins, and incendiary bombs and high-explosive bombs were constantly dropped on the Japanese fortifications.

As the so-called black clouds overwhelmed the city, Shunroku Hata felt fear from the bottom of his heart, with the strong Chinese army, I don't know how long Seoul can resist, whether it can withstand Japanese reinforcements, and Shunroku Hata also knows that even if the reinforcements can arrive, whether they can break through the defense of the Chinese army or not. Through this encounter, Shunroku Hata already has a relatively deep understanding of the Chinese army.

Very well equipped. The performance of the weapons is superior, the soldiers are well-trained, and in particular, the cooperation between the various branches of the armed forces is like an arm command, without a trace of delay, and the air force and the army, the armored force and the artillery can cooperate closely with each other to give full play to the combat effectiveness to the greatest extent.

In fact, the Chinese army does not occupy a very obvious advantage in terms of equipment, but the combat effectiveness that broke out after the war is far beyond imagination.

In fact, it is very easy to do this, that is, continuous training, training close to actual combat, sweating more in peacetime, and less blood in wartime, Germany is also doing very well in this regard, whether it is World War I or World War II, Germany's equipment advantage is actually not obvious, and the number is in an absolutely weak position, but Germany can rely on the excellent officer corps to maximize the combat effectiveness.

From the day of its founding, the Sichuan army imitated Germany and established an officer training system, and after World War I, Germany turned around and learned from China, and the two armies understood each other most deeply, so they were also very similar in tactics, the difference was that China's resources were more abundant, and they could spend more money on equipment.

In addition, the Chinese population resources are more than eight times that of Germany, so China can select talents from a larger base, making the quality of Chinese officers higher.

Hata Shunroku increasingly felt that it was a very wrong choice to go against China, but he had no choice but to do his part as well as possible and hold Seoul to the death.

The Japanese are like ants on a hot pot, but there are also some people who are more excited, that is, the South Korean resistance group, which has received weapons and funds from China, and at the same time has attracted a large number of North Korean puppet troops and organized a large number of young students, and the number of people who can mobilize has exceeded 40,000.

This is not a small number, there is a siege of the Chinese army outside, there are 40,000 people in the rebellion, Seoul can be captured immediately, the Korean resistance groups have been unified and reorganized into the National Front, and Park Zhengdong has been elected as the chairman, at this time Park Zhengdong is in a secret stronghold in Seoul to give the final mobilization speech.

"Comrades, the Chinese side has sent instructions that as soon as we launch an uprising, the general offensive will be launched, and when the time comes, we will join forces with the outside world and regain Seoul in one fell swoop. Expelle the Japanese colonists, expel Syngman Rhee, a Japanese lackey, and establish an independent and unified Korean state, and hope that all the monarchs will fight for our nation, our country, and our compatriots, and completely settle the grievances of these years with the Japanese colonizers! ”

Park Chung-dong's speech was unanimously applauded by all the leaders present, and all the South Koreans were very excited, and they discussed the specific battle strategy, and then went separately to make arrangements, and a storm was already brewing in Seoul.

The Korean resistance has existed for a long time, from the moment the Japanese occupied Korea, a large number of underground organizations have emerged, the more brutal the Japanese rule, the more prosperous the Korean resistance organizations, and today finally broke out, just after nightfall, the Koreans launched an attack on the Japanese patrol soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers did not expect that the cowardly and incompetent Koreans would attack them, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed on the side of the road without the slightest preparation, and the Koreans quickly seized their weapons, and then attacked from all directions, capturing the presidential palace, telegraph office, police station, station, bank, warehouse, arsenal and other important strongholds.

At the same time, the South Koreans also used the radio to send a secret telegram to the Chinese side, asking the Chinese army to launch a full-scale offensive as soon as possible, and the actions of the South Koreans made the entire Seoul into a mess, and the Japanese military was not prepared at all, and all their energy was used to deal with China, and they did not expect that there would be problems behind them.

By the time they reacted, most of Seoul had been controlled by the rebel army, and ordinary Koreans, who were still a little scared, had organized themselves to provide food for the rebel troops and help them transport the wounded.

Of course, he knew that the fortress was breached first from the inside, and without the cooperation of the Korean people, his street battle plan was simply a joke, so Hata Shunroku hurriedly ordered the army to suppress it as soon as possible.

But at this time, there was unfortunate news that the two Korean servant divisions had officially declared an uprising, and these well-trained puppet soldiers fought back, which caught the Japanese off guard.

The first order of Shunroku Hata was to control all Syngman Rhee and others, the Japanese no longer have any trust in the Koreans, no matter how obedient and flattering Syngman Rhee usually is, it can't change the fact that he is a North Korean, as long as he is a North Korean, he is not trustworthy.

The puppet regime of the Republic of Korea was arrested at the first time, and all the Korean servant troops were disarmed, stuffed into the barracks and guarded, and all of them were killed on the spot if they resisted a little.

The Japanese are cruel, and the Koreans are also not good, and the genes of Koreans contain a special fever gene, the so-called fever is manic syndrome, it can be said that the sickness and madness of Koreans are infiltrated from the bones, and the bloody conflict is becoming more and more intense.

A large number of Korean rebels were killed, and once the Japanese expatriates and soldiers fell into the hands of the Koreans, they did not end well, and their bodies were dismembered and burned to countless people, and in the blink of an eye, Seoul became a hell on earth, with shouts of killing everywhere and dead bodies everywhere.

The Japanese did not expect the Koreans to resist so strongly, far beyond their imagination, so the Japanese even had to draw troops from the front to suppress the uprising, and at first Hata Shunroku hesitated, believing that the Chinese army would take advantage of the situation.

However, instead of attacking, the Chinese army even stopped shelling and bombing, and the Japanese, who were still waiting for China to attack, were suddenly dumbfounded, and did not know what the other side was planning to do.

But in any case, the Chinese stopped attacking, and they were given enough time to suppress the uprising, and Shunroku Hata ordered his men to mount machine guns on the streets of Seoul, and Japanese soldiers launched a frenzied attack on the Korean rebels under the cover of machine guns.

The Japanese and China suffered a crushing defeat, and all the Japanese soldiers were full of anger in their hearts, and they all poured it on the Koreans, and tens of thousands of Koreans were slaughtered in the first hours of the rebellion. The Japanese are no longer attacked, whether they are insurgents or not, whether they are old people or children, as long as they are living Koreans.

In the blink of an eye, Seoul was stained red with blood, and some of the streets were covered with blood on the pavement, which was more than a foot deep, as if it were a pool of blood.

The chaos lasted three days, with more than 100,000 South Koreans killed in the bloody Japanese crackdown, and it was only then that China began its official assault on Seoul, with a mission to clean up the pieces. (To be continued.) )