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Chapter 409: The Fall of Kyushu [Three Watches]

[Today's third update, 20,000 words have been updated, double the chapter owed yesterday]

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The cannon roared in the sky above Jishan, and the shouts of killing shook the sky. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info╔╗^//^ Netizens hit by hand

Under the powerful ground-to-air fire of the Chinese Empire, the Jishan defense line constructed by the Japanese 7th and 13th Divisions was already in danger, and the Japanese army was making the last resistance.

Because the naval guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy could no longer reach the base mountain, in the absence of strong naval fire support, the Chinese Imperial Navy aviation became the main fire strike force against the Japanese army, and within a week, 11,000 sorties of combat aircraft dropped 3,000 tons of bombs on the Japanese positions in the base mountain, cutting the entire base mountain down by one meter.

Since Kiyama is the gate of the right flank of the Japanese army's entire anti-landing defense line in Kyushu, once Kiyama is lost, the main force of the Japanese army in Kumamoto will be flanked by the Chinese Emperor** in front and rear, and there is a danger that the whole army will be annihilated. Therefore, the base camp of the Japanese state has issued a strict order, ordering the Japanese 7th Division and the 13th Division to defend the Jishan defense line.

It is precisely because of the importance of the Jishan defense line that the Chinese and Japanese teams are bound to win here.

To this end, the Chinese Emperor mobilized the Third Army, the 45th Army, the First Marine Division and the Second Marine Division, with a total strength of 150,000 people and more than 1,300 artillery pieces, including 200 155-mm heavy howitzers, 40 combat vehicles, and more than 1,000 aircraft. However, the two divisions of the Japanese army had less than 50,000 men, only 330 artillery pieces, and only 40 120-mm mountain guns of heavy artillery.

Since the Japanese army did not have air support, and in view of the lesson that the artillery was destroyed first in the battle of Tachibanayama, and thus had no counterattack force at all, the Japanese army carried out a lot of camouflage of artillery units to prevent them from being attacked by the fighters of the Chinese Imperial Naval Aviation, and was able to provide artillery support to the Japanese army at the most critical time.

On July 21, the first large-scale artillery battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies broke out since the beginning of the war.

Because of the foggy weather, the naval aviation of the Chinese Empire did not take off to bomb Jishan until after noon, during which time the Japanese army urgently repaired the fortifications that had been blown up yesterday.

At 8:30 a.m., the 45th Army of the Chinese Empire, as a frontal initiative, mobilized 800 artillery pieces to carry out a fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions in Jishan, but the Japanese army did not carry out artillery counterattacks by virtue of natural hazards, in order not to be discovered by the Chinese Emperor ** The location of their artillery positions.

In order to let the Japanese artillery open fire, so as to lock the position where the Japanese artillery was hiding, and then completely annihilate the Japanese artillery units and pave the way for the general attack on Jishan, Xu Bangjie ordered the 1st Marine Division to advance to Dafeng Mountain in the east of Jishan, intending to detour the flank of Jishan.

On the other side, Xu Bangjie ordered the Third Army and the Second Marine Division to try to break through from the direction of Chengshan and outflank the rear of the Japanese army at Jishan from the right flank.

Two huge attack arrows were interspersed from the left and right flanks of Kishan in a roundabout way, and the center was pinned down by the 45th Army, and the strength of the two flanks of the Japanese army suddenly appeared insufficient, and the long-hidden artillery fire had to be brought out to support.

At 10:10 a.m., the 1st Marine Division concentrated 200 artillery pieces to suppress the Japanese positions on Mt. Omine, and under the cover of 10 tanks, the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Marine Division was responsible for the main attack on the Japanese stronghold at Mt. Omine.

The Japanese positions in the area of Hiyoshi Shrine were filled with artillery fire and gunsmoke, and soon a sea of fire was formed.

At this time, in a dense forest southeast of Hiyoshi Shrine, the first artillery wing of the Japanese army dismantled the artillery camouflage, and the muzzle was aimed at the artillery position of the Chinese emperor. ╔╗

Although the Chinese Emperor used smokeless gunpowder, it still produced a large amount of smoke and firelight after the cannon was fired, which was particularly conspicuous in the adjacent emerald green mountain forest.

At about half past ten, the 100 infantry guns of the Japanese artillery wing opened fire in mournful manners, only to see rows of firelight flickering near the Hiyoshi Shrine, and one shell after another shot at the Chinese Emperor's ** position with a long whistling sound.

The primary goal of the Japanese artillery was to knock out the artillery positions of the Chinese Emperor, so the Japanese artillery preparations were all aimed at the artillery group of the 1st Landing Division.

The Japanese artillery fire was very fierce, and the artillery of the 1st Marine Division quickly detonated the false targets that had been placed on the original position, raising huge clouds of fire to inform the enemy that they had "hit" the target, in exchange for respite and divert the artillery.

When the Japanese artillery positions attacked the artillery positions of the 1st Marine Division, they had already exposed their positions.

At this time, the 1st Marine Division's 155-mm heavy howitzer position, which was hidden not far away, quickly locked onto the enemy's fire point and launched a fierce fire strike.

"Knock knock!"

Four 155-millimeter howitzers opened fire violently, and the shells whistled and fired at the enemy, exploding violently, raising countless mushroom clouds hundreds of meters high.

The four 155-mm guns were each from the No. 1 guns of the four heavy howitzer batteries, and were used as a comparison fire, and the observers analyzed the position of the explosion point, obtained the corrected firing parameters, and quickly organized a saturation artillery strike using the fire and smoke on the enemy's position as a reference point.

"One shot!"

"The second cannon is good!"

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"Ready!"

"Ready—fire!"

The flag fell, and four howitzer batteries of 24 155-mm heavy howitzers opened fire one after another.

"Knock knock!"

Shells burst out from the mountainside, wrapped in a long whistling sound that drew a bright arc in the air, and fell into the enemy line in the blink of an eye.

"Boom!"

The cannonballs exploded, and in an instant, the earth and rocks splashed, the flames soared into the sky, and huge mushroom clouds rose into the sky like dark clouds.

The shells destroyed the Japanese artillery, and the violent shock wave generated instantly swept the nearby Japanese artillery more than ten meters away, and the fragments and gravel wrapped in it killed and injured a large number of Japanese soldiers, and blood and flesh flew everywhere in an instant.

The fierce artillery battle between the two sides instantly became white-hot.

The destructive power of the 155-mm heavy howitzer on the Japanese artillery positions was amazing, and in less than 20 minutes of engagement, 52 75 infantry guns of the Japanese artillery were destroyed, and the artillery personnel suffered a large number of casualties, and the firepower dropped sharply.

At 11:10 a.m., the Japanese artillery was suppressed and barely able to fight back.

At this time, the Japanese command was worried that the firepower in the direction of the Hiyoshi Shrine would not be enough, and once it was broken through by the Chinese Emperor, the consequences would be unimaginable, so it had to use the Second Artillery Wing hidden in the dense forest on the East Road of Jishan to provide fire support. ╔╗

The first to be hit was the 3rd Heavy Howitzer Company of the 1st Marine Division, which was covered by the Japanese army's full firepower, and the 3rd Heavy Howitzer Company was immediately heavily damaged, and the position was in a sea of fire, with a large number of casualties.

The 1st Marine Division reacted quickly and telegraphed to Xu Bangjie requesting air fire support and artillery support from the artillery divisions directly under the group army.

Just after twelve o'clock, the 3rd Artillery Division of the Chinese Emperor ** entered the position, corrected Zhu Yuan, and soon 400 cannons were in place, and the muzzles were aimed at the artillery positions hidden by the Japanese army.

"Target 213 heights, full firepower coverage!"

"Target Heights 213, artillery fire ready!"

"Fire!"

The order was given, and 400 artillery pieces from forty artillery positions opened fire in turn. [].

"Knock knock!"

Suddenly, the cannon roared like thunder, and one shell after another roared and smashed into the Japanese artillery position, and in an instant, the bullets rained down.

"Boom!"

The violent explosion unfolded on the Japanese position, and compared with the previous firepower of the 1st Marine Division, the power of the artillery strike group of the group army was even greater, and the Japanese artillery position was instantly turned into a hell on earth.

Under the saturation attack of nearly 1,000 artillery strike groups of the Chinese Emperor, the Japanese artillery positions were razed to the ground, and in an instant, the flames were scorching and the smoke covered the sky.

Lieutenant General Kojima Gaki, the commander of the Japanese army, saw through his telescope that the positions of his two artillery wings had been destroyed, and his heart was wrenched. In the face of the powerful artillery firepower of the Chinese Emperor, Kojima felt exhausted.

Kojimagaki has to admit that in the face of the absolute strength gap, no matter how hard the weak side tries, the outcome is the same. All Kojimagaki can do is try not to lose too badly.

After the artillery battle lasted for 2 hours, the two artillery wings of the Japanese army were completely annihilated.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, after determining that the Japanese artillery had been eliminated, the 1st Marine Division reorganized its attack troops and launched a fierce attack on Hiyoshi Shrine.

At this time, the Japanese troops stationed at the position of Hiyoshi Shrine were less than a wing, and in the face of the fierce attack of the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese Empire, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties in the absence of artillery fire support.

In less than half an hour, more than half of the dead and wounded, and all the heavy machine gun weapons were destroyed. Faced with the chariot charge of the Chinese Empire, the Japanese army launched another suicide attack. However, this time, the Chinese emperor was on guard, and specially transferred a special combat team, and snipers shot Japanese suicide personnel from a distance. Often, when Japanese suicide men rushed out of the trenches and approached the tank, they were killed instantly. Many of the bombs and grenades on the Japanese suicide attackers were detonated by sniper bullets, turning into a cloud of fire and blood in an instant.

The Japanese army was really out of options, and in the afternoon the naval aviation of the Chinese Empire arrived in time and carried out a fierce attack on the Japanese position, causing a large number of Japanese casualties.

At 4:10 p.m., the 1st Marine Division of the Chinese Empire captured the Riji Shrine and annihilated more than 3,000 Japanese defenders, thus opening the door to the left flank of Kishan.

At the same time, in the other direction, the Third Army of the Chinese Emperor ** penetrated from the right flank to the East Kishan Road, and a fierce battle broke out with the Japanese Seventh Division. The Seventh Division has participated in more than a dozen large-scale battles in the past few days, but in fact the number of troops is less than 11,000, and most of them are wounded and sick, and in the face of the fierce attack of more than 40,000 troops of the Third Army of the Chinese Empire, the difference in strength is too great. ╔╗After five hours of fierce fighting, most of the Japanese were killed and wounded, and the remaining 2,000 people retreated to Jishan.

In this way, the Third Army occupied the right flank of Kishan, and cooperated with the 45th Army and the 1st Marine Division to form a three-sided encirclement of the Japanese defenders of Kishan.

On July 22, the Chinese Emperor launched a general attack on Jishan. Under the cover of 1,300 artillery pieces and more than 1,000 fighters, the Chinese Empire launched a fierce offensive against the Japanese army in Jishan. Because the Japanese army did not have air supremacy, there were only three artillery pieces left, and in the face of the absolute superiority of the Chinese Emperor, the Japanese army in Jishan suffered more than 10,000 casualties in the first round of attacks, but the small island wall did not retreat, so that the tactics of the Chinese Emperor ** encircled three missing one failed, and had to fight with the Japanese army.

On 24 July, the Japanese army put the last 3,000 reserves into battle, and at the same time, Xu Bangjie also ordered the 2nd Marine Division of the General Reserve to be put into battle.

The two sides fought a bloody battle on the 673 heights of Jishan, and the Chinese emperor ** finally annihilated the Japanese 7th Division and the 13th Division guarding Jishan at the cost of more than 1,300 killed and more than 10,000 wounded, and captured the Japanese commander Kojima Aki, but failed to get valuable information, because Kojima was seriously wounded and died.

Ten minutes before Kojimagaki's headquarters was captured, Kojimagaki ordered all documents to be burned. However, the Chinese Emperor still found some valuable information from the ruins, one of which was that the Japanese troops on the Kumamoto Line were planning to retreat.

As early as 22 July, when Kiyama was about to fall, the Japanese Kyushu Supreme Command had already ordered the Kumamoto defense line to be abandoned and the entire line to retreat.

However, the Japanese army left a group of death squads on the front line to block the follow-up pursuit of the Chinese Emperor.

Just three hours before the capture of Kiyama by the Chinese Emperor, the Imperial Allied Army of Joseon took advantage of the large retreat of Japanese troops to quickly capture Yatsushiro City and take control of Kumamoto Port.

The next day, the mines, piles, locks, and nets in Kumamoto Port were all dismantled, and the capital ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were able to enter Kumamoto Port and provide naval artillery fire support to the Korean Imperial Allied forces on the shore.

With the support of the powerful naval artillery fire of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the First and Second Armies of the Korean Imperial Allied Army continued to maintain the excitement of taking aphrodisiacs, and pursued and attacked the retreating Japanese troops.

At the same time, the 3rd and 4th armies of the Imperial Allied Army of Korea, which had arrived from the Korean Peninsula, also arrived in Kumamoto Port and quickly landed in Yatsushiro City, following closely the 1st and 2nd armies in front of them, and pursued them all the way.

In Baichuan, the Japanese army saw that the Korean army was pursuing all the way, and when it was separated from the fire support of the naval guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Japanese army took advantage of the fact that the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Imperial Naval Air Force could not take off in the dark night, and carried out a large-scale counter-charge against the Korean First Army, which was advancing all the way.

The vanguard of the First Army of the Korean Imperial Allied Army was caught off guard, and the three main regiments were attacked by the Japanese Ninth Division, two main regiments were defeated, and one was eaten by the Japanese army.

Xu Bangjie then urgently telegraphed to order the Second Army of the First Korean Army to stop the pursuit, wait for the rendezvous with the Third Army and the Fourth Army, and ordered the Second Army to advance northward, preparing to return to the division with the main force of the Chinese Emperor ** attacking from the north to the south, and connect the occupied areas together.

Kim Pyong-mi was very annoyed that the First Army of the Korean Imperial Association was severely defeated, so he ordered the First Army of Korea to retaliate on the spot, and washed Baekcheon in blood, causing 70,000 civilians to be slaughtered and 120,000 homeless.

Due to the heavy losses of the First Korean Army, the Japanese army was given a respite. The Kyushu Command immediately organized the remnants of the main force of more than 40,000 Japanese troops, cooperated with the 60,000 reserve troops, stabilized the battle line in Takeda from the beginning, and built fortifications at Mt. Aso, Rensan, Mt. Hase, and Mt. Takatori. ╔╗

Beginning in August, the Chinese Empire organized an attack on the Japanese defense line of Mt. Aso and Mt. Hase, but because these places were located in the Hengduan Mountains in central Kyushu, the terrain was dangerous, and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Coupled with the poor rail and road network of the Wa Kingdom, there was no railway for the Chinese Empire to transport troops, except for a trunk railway around the island of Kyushu from Kitakyushu and Fukuoka to Kumamoto. On the one hand, trucks and military vehicles have improved the transportation capacity of the Chinese emperor's troops, but on the other hand, they have fallen into the bad road conditions of the Japanese state, and the transportation is inconvenient. At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Army was particularly fond of the 155-mm heavy howitzer, a heavy weapon with extremely destructive power, and it became a problem to transport it in the mountainous areas of the Japanese Kingdom.

This led to a sharp reduction in the offensive of the Chinese Emperor ** against the Japanese army, although it was supported by powerful naval aviation fighters, but the logistics could not keep up with the Chinese Emperor ** did not dare to advance, so that the whole of August failed to break through the defense line built by the Japanese army in the mountainous area of central Kyushu and gave the Japanese army a respite.

The Chinese Emperor was unable to break through the Japanese ridge defense line in a short period of time, so Xu Bangjie on the one hand transferred troops to occupy the entire eastern part of Kumamoto Prefecture, and then expanded to Nagasaki Prefecture and Saga Prefecture in the northwest of Kyushu, and Miyazaki Prefecture in the south of Kyushu, and successively captured these areas within a month, strategizing three-quarters of the land of Kyushu Island, and compressing the Japanese army in the eastern area of Oita Prefecture and Fukuoka Prefecture in the northeast of Kyushu Island.

On the other hand, after Xu Bangjie asked the Imperial General Staff for instructions, he successively mobilized troops from the country and landed at the four major ports of Sasebo Port, Kumamoto Port, Hakata Port, and Miyazaki Port, and soon assembled 200,000 Chinese Emperor ** troops by mid-September, and another 150,000 Korean Imperial Army.

At the same time, the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese State also believed that the Chinese Empire would focus on attacking Kyushu Island, and in order to keep Kyushu Island and hold the gateway to Shikoku Island and Honshu Island, the Japanese army also successively transferred troops from Honshu Island to reinforce it.

By mid-September, the Japanese army had assembled 12 divisions and 8 reserve divisions in central and northeastern Kyushu, with a total strength of 500,000. However, in addition to the equipment of the eight main divisions and regiments, the armament of the eight reserve divisions and regiments was not as good as the configuration of the National Guard of the Chinese Empire.

War is a continuation of politics and a redistribution of interests. When the Chinese Empire went to war against the Japanese state, it was natural that it would fight for interests.

Throughout August and September, every time the Chinese Emperor occupied a city in the Japanese Kingdom, he would carry out a three-light policy. Because the Chinese Empire was hindered by its own international image, this three-light policy was handed over to the Korean Imperial Army. When the international community condemned it, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire shifted the full responsibility to the Korean Imperial Army, saying that the Korean people were deeply persecuted by the Japanese and that such a thing would inevitably happen. The Chinese Empire regretted this, but it was inevitable to point out that the Japanese people should be prepared to die in war.

In two months, the Korean Imperial Cooperative Army plundered a total of 300 million dragon coins worth more than 300 million dragon coins from more than a dozen cities in Kyushu, of which more than ninety percent was handed over to the Chinese Empire, and in fact, the Korean Imperial Cooperative Army only left less than 30 million dragon coins.

Although the Chinese Empire took the lion's share and Korea's smallest, 30 million dragon coins was a huge amount of money for Korea, and the Joseon King Yi Hee was very satisfied with this, and instructed Kim Pyong-mei, the commander of the Korean Emperor's Army, to continue to do so.

Due to the fact that it was very difficult to break through the dangerous and important places such as Mount Aso and Mount Hase, which were heavily defended by the Japanese army, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire decided to carry out a strategic detour along the coast around Kyushu Island, and implement counter-encirclement tactics against the Japanese army along the coastline and under the cover of naval and air forces.

Beginning on October 3, the Chinese Emperor ** divided into two routes, with a total strength of 100,000 troops on the left flank, including 50,000 Korean imperial allies, along the coastal area of Miyazaki Prefecture, to outflank the Japanese army in Oita Prefecture on the left flank. The Right Wing Corps advanced along Fukuoka Prefecture toward Kitakyushu with a total strength of 100,000 men, including 50,000 Imperial Allies. The 150,000 Chinese Imperial ** troops, including 50,000 Korean Imperial Allied Army, facing the Japanese army's ridge defense line, were responsible for containing the Japanese army.

At noon on October 3, the right-wing corps of the Chinese Empire took the lead in launching a fierce attack on the 17th Division of the Japanese Army in Koga, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides at Jiming Mountain. With the fire support of more than 30 warships of the naval fleet and more than 300 fighters of the naval aviation, the Chinese emperor used 300 artillery pieces and under the cover of 30 M10 combat vehicles to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese position.

The powerful naval artillery fire and the army artillery fire soon suppressed the fire of the Japanese artillery positions, and the air fighters swooped down with a roar and carried out fierce machine-gun fire on the Japanese infantry positions and machine gun positions, causing a large number of casualties to the Japanese troops.

After a few months of actual combat, the infantry gradually learned to cooperate in combat, and further carried forward the original infantry and artillery coordination tactics, the infantry and the combat vehicle complemented each other's strength and covered each other, the Japanese suicide attack mode no longer worked this time, and before they could get close to the combat vehicle, they were killed by the artillery and machine guns on the combat vehicle, as well as the infantry fire next to the combat vehicle.

In this way, the Chinese Emperor quickly broke through the defense line of the three positions of the Japanese army, and the chariot easily crushed and destroyed the horses, barbed wire, and trenches arranged by the Japanese army in the center of the battlefield with an unstoppable attitude, so that the Chinese Imperial infantry could pass through.

The Japanese soon thought of a new method, they built a large number of machine gun bunkers, so that they could avoid fighter attacks from the air, and the machine gun bunkers located on the anti-slope plane, the artillery strike groups of the Chinese Empire were also difficult to hit.

"Da Da Da!"

The Makqin heavy machine guns in the Japanese concave fort and dark fort spewed tongues of fire, and bullets rained down on the Chinese emperor's ** soldiers who were attacking.

"Thunderbolt! Knock out the enemy machine gun at 2 o'clock for me! ”

The commander of the sharp knife company that was advancing in the assault shouted, and immediately a lightning artillery platoon quickly approached the Japanese heavy machine gun bunker and quickly mounted the lightning cannon.

"Knock knock!"

Three lightning shells were fired at the Japanese machine-gun bunker, which was quickly destroyed with a series of explosions.

"There's one more at 11 o'clock!"

With a roar, an M10 tank rolled up clouds of sand and dust and quickly approached the machine-gun bunker.

"Stop!"

"Get on the cannonball!"

"Fire!"

Since the vehicle at this time did not have a rotator equipment, it was not allowed to fire while on the move, because it would not hit the target at all. The vehicle had to stop, aim, and fire again.

With a "bang", the 37-mm smoothbore gun spewed out tongues of fire, and a 5-kilogram shell fired straight at the Japanese machine-gun bunker 300 meters away.

With a "boom" explosion, the brick-built machine gun bunker was destroyed in an instant.

On the other side, three tanks form an attack echelon, and although they cannot fire while on the move, the heavy machine guns on the vehicles can fire.

"Da Da Da!"

The marching chariot used heavy machine guns to frantically strafe the Japanese troops in front, which immediately suppressed the Japanese firepower and caused a large number of Japanese casualties.

"Stay in shock formation and hurry up."

The commanders of each company took the lead in the assault and soon broke through the Japanese defense line one by one.

There was a loud "boom", and a chariot that was in the midst of the impact suddenly exploded.

The regimental commander who supervised the battle behind him suddenly asked, "What's the matter?" Didn't you ask you to cover the attack of the chariots? ”

"Report to the regiment commander, it's a mine, a mine of the Japanese army."

"Damn! The little devil really has a trick! The regiment commander took a sip and ordered: "The tank company stops advancing, each company maintains suppression of enemy fire, and the minesweepers immediately go up to clear mines." ”

Due to the Japanese planted mines, the Chinese Emperor had to suspend the charge. The artillery groups from the rear and the fighters in the air immediately suppressed the Japanese position, and the heavy machine guns and lightning guns of the same companies were quickly erected to cover the actions of the minesweepers.

The minesweepers of the Chinese Emperor are the most elite in the world, equipped with the most advanced professional minesweeping troops, they grew up rapidly in the Sino-Russian War, and the Russian army was in a passive defensive state, so the Russian army laid a large number of mines in order to block the advance of the Chinese Emperor.

After the Sino-Russian War, the Chinese Empire vigorously developed minesweepers, equipped with advanced minesweepers. Since the mines of this period were all made of steel, the minesweeper was also simple and had a magnetic detector installed.

Of course, this is not absolute. There are also many mines whose shells are not made of steel, which requires the minesweeper to judge with his own eyes and experience.

An hour later, the minesweepers cleared the mines ahead, and the Chinese Emperor ** continued to attack, and soon captured the last line of defense of the Japanese army.

On the 14th, the 2nd Marine Division of the Right Wing Army of the Chinese Empire broke through more than a dozen defensive positions of the 47th Wing of the 17th Division of the Japanese Army, and was the first to tear through the defense of the 17th Division on the eastern line of Jiming Mountain, opening a gap. Subsequently, the Third Army of the Korean Imperial Allied Army was responsible for containing the Japanese army on the Western Front, and after the main force of the Second Marine Division of the Chinese Emperor ** broke through the gap in the Eastern Front, it then detoured from the flank of the 17th Division of the Japanese Army.

On the 15th, the 17th Division of the Japanese Army was attacked by the Chinese Emperor, and the entire defensive front collapsed. After suffering heavy casualties of two-thirds, the remnants of the Japanese army broke through and retreated to Kitakyushu City.

Subsequently, the Right Wing Army of the Chinese Empire eliminated the Japanese garrison wing (security regiment) in Zongxiang City and occupied Zongxiang City.

Kitakyushu City was the link between Kyushu and Honshu, and once Kitakyushu City fell, the Japanese army's supply to Kyushu would be completely cut off, and the 400,000 Japanese troops would be in danger.

The Japanese General Staff Headquarters immediately mobilized two divisions and three reserve divisions to quickly reinforce Kitakyushu City and build fortifications on Mt. Adachi on the southwestern outskirts of Kitakyushu City.

On the other side, the Left Wing Corps of the Chinese Empire bypassed Miyazaki Prefecture and, supported by naval aviation and naval gunfire, routed the Japanese garrison brigade in Hyuga City on the 13th.

At dawn on the 14th, the Left Wing Army launched an attack on Yangang City, and the Japanese 11th Division and the Yangang City Garrison Brigade, as well as the Japanese civilian self-defense force, a total of 130,000 people, stubbornly resisted the attack of the Chinese Emperor.

From 8 o'clock in the morning of the 14th to the evening of the next day, under the cover of powerful naval and air force firepower, the Chinese Emperor ** used combat vehicles to quickly break through more than a dozen lines of defense arranged by the Japanese army on the periphery of Yangang City, forcing the Japanese army to retreat into the urban area. However, during the attack on the urban area, the Chinese Emperor ** was stubbornly resisted, and almost every street had to be fought over several times.

For the first time, fierce street battles broke out between the Chinese Emperor and the Japanese army, and the Japanese army was completely inferior to the Chinese Emperor ** in terms of firepower, so whenever the Chinese Emperor ** called for artillery support, the Japanese army always hid to avoid the battle. When the artillery was over and the Chinese Imperial infantry attacked, the Japanese drilled out again.

Scuffles often broke out between the two sides, so that the air power and naval artillery power of the Chinese Empire were completely ineffective, for fear of accidentally injuring their own people.

The two sides fought fiercely for three days, and the entire Yangang City was completely destroyed, and there was not a single building higher than two meters. The city was littered with fires and smoke, and the streets were covered with corpses and blood.

Due to the lack of support, the Japanese army was forced to withdraw from Yangang City, and the next day the Chinese Emperor ** occupied this scorched earth city.

In this battle, as the first city battle after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army suffered more than 30,000 casualties, 213 Chinese emperors, and more than 10,000 Korean imperial allies were killed and more than 5,000 wounded. More than 80,000 civilians were killed and wounded in urban warfare, most of them were attacked while delivering supplies to the Japanese army, and the city was razed to the ground, leaving about 200,000 people homeless.

After the Japanese army evacuated Yangang City, they retreated to Xingteng Mountain in the northwest suburbs of Yangang City. Because the further retreat is the main force of the Japanese army gathered in Aso Mountain, and the Japanese army Kyushu headquarters Zhutian City, so the Japanese army increased 80,000 troops, plus the previous rout, the total strength reached 150,000 people, and a large number of fortifications were built in Xingteng Mountain to prevent the Chinese Emperor from advancing.

In the following more than a week, the Chinese Emperor used more than 600 fighters to make more than 8,000 sorties to carry out a fierce attack on the Japanese army's Xingteng Mountain position, but the terrain of Xingteng Mountain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Chinese Emperor ** tried to attack many times, but they were blocked.

In particular, the Korean Imperial Allied Army, which was cannon fodder, paid the price of more than 5,000 casualties and still failed to move forward.

Xu Bangjie quickly studied the terrain of Xingteng Mountain and believed that it was difficult to break through from the front, and even if it was forcibly broken, it would inevitably pay a high price. To advance from the edge of Mt. Gyodeng to the next seaside city of Saeki, you have to pass through a narrow plain between Arashiyama and Rinkai. And the Japanese army deployed heavy troops in Lanshan, which was condescending, and could completely block the passage, and could not pass at all.

Soon, Xu Bangjie came up with a tactic, the 3rd Marine Division of the Left Wing Corps broke away from his own team, and was escorted by a troop carrier to the Monkey Yuan Bay, 60 kilometers east of Lanshan, to secretly land, and then interspersed with the flank of Lanshan from behind.

After the plan was finalized, Xu Bangjie immediately ordered it to be executed immediately.

On 29 October, the 3rd Marine Division, escorted by the Navy, secretly carried out a landing operation in Ape Yuan Bay. Since the surrounding area of Kyushu Island is full of bays, and there are many bays suitable for landing, the Japanese army has limited strength and cannot defend against it, so it can only pick some key areas for defense.

The Chinese Emperor sent an elite special operations brigade to quietly land in Ape Yuan Bay at night in rubber boats, and eliminated the outpost set up by the Japanese army in Ape Yuan Bay by silent killing.

That night, the 3rd Marine Division landed at Aruyuan Bay, and the first batch of 3rd Battalions to land quickly occupied the heights of Aruyuan Mountain, built fortifications, and prevented the Japanese from counterattacking after being discovered.

At noon on the 30th, the Japanese base camp in Kyushu failed to receive a report from the Ape Yuan Bay outpost, and knew that something was wrong, so they immediately sent a wing of troops to Ape Yuan Bay, but by the time the Japanese army arrived, the Chinese Emperor ** had already built a fortification on the high ground of Ape Yuan Mountain.

The Japanese then launched a fierce attack, trying to drive the Chinese emperor back to the sea. However, the Chinese Emperor **, with its powerful naval and air forces, quickly routed the Japanese army.

The 3rd Marine Division continued to land without fear, and the Japanese saw that the 3rd Marine Division had completed the landing and knew that the general trend had gone, so they had to retreat.

At the same time, the 3rd Marine Division, which had landed on the ground, quickly advanced towards Arashiyama. The Japanese army in Arashiyama was worried about being attacked on their backs, so they had to give up and retreat to Xingteng Mountain.

The 3rd Marine Division took control of the Arashiyama main road, and the left flank corps quickly passed, and then the large army joined forces in one place and launched an attack on the Japanese Xingtengshan from the flank and rear flank.

At the same time, the Chinese Emperor ** in Aso Mountain continued to storm the main Japanese force of Aso Mountain, forcing the main force of the Japanese army to be unable to support Xingteng Mountain.

Three days later, under the fierce attack of the left flank corps, the defensive line was declared a failure, and the main force of the Japanese army was forced to abandon Xingteng Mountain and shrink its forces on the whole line.

At this point, 300,000 Japanese troops were forced to retreat to Saeki, and Kyushu could no longer be defended, and the Japanese army base camp immediately launched a rescue plan, hoping to bring back the more than 300,000 Japanese troops stranded in Kyushu back to Honshu.

At the same time, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire also issued an order to annihilate the 300,000 Japanese troops, and the two sides raced against time.