In the Provisional Command in Pyongyang, Gao Wensan and the staff officers in the headquarters were busy nervously. On the wall of the headquarters, a huge map of Pyongyang was already hung. At this time, the situation in Pyongyang is being mapped in detail, so that people can see the situation in the city at a glance.

Of course, compared to the sand table, the ability to interpret the map is definitely much worse. After all, the map can't express all of it in a three-dimensional way like a sand table. In fact, Gao Wenshan does have Pyongyang's sand table in his hands.

It is not surprising that the Special Affairs Bureau has been busy in Pyongyang for so many years, and it must have something to gain. In addition, although Pyongyang is the largest city in the north of North Korea, it is actually not very big, at least not as big as cities such as Beijing and Tokyo.

Merely...

Now at least half of Pyongyang has been burned to the ground, and even if you have the sand table of the whole city in your hand, I am afraid that in this case there is not much reference value, so it is better to use a map to calculate...

"How's the situation in the city now?"

"The 7th, 13th, and 21st districts have been suppressed, and now only the 33rd and 11th districts are left, and there are still some Japanese troops who are resisting stubbornly, but I believe that within three hours, the battle can be completely ended..."

Although Pyongyang has not yet been completely occupied, it is now very visible. Even the atmosphere in the headquarters has been much more lively, especially not long ago, when a telegram has been sent from the navy. It is said that the ships loaded with supplies have begun to sail towards Pyongyang, which is like a boost to the whole of the 17th Army...

"Hmm..."Hearing the staff officer say this, Gao Wenshan bowed slightly. It was half a bell before he spoke. "As for the artillery position, we must get it done as soon as possible, otherwise if the Japanese really block the entrance to the sea, things will be troublesome..."

"Yes! Rest assured, the artillery has already begun to transport the captured Japanese heavy artillery in trucks, and now they are building artillery positions on both sides of the estuary with the help of the engineering units. If the Japanese really dared to come in, they would definitely be able to let them come and go without returning...", but the staff officer was full of confidence.

Although now the heavy artillery of the Wehrmacht is no longer equipped with ammunition. But quite a few were seized from the Japanese. Of course, these could not be used on Wehrmacht artillery, but there was no problem with using captured Japanese artillery.

As once said, there was a British admiral who once said a famous saying. Only a madman would bombard a battery, and that's no different. In a situation where the battleship simply could not sail into the mouth of the sea. If the Japanese really dared to send ships in. The artillery units on both sides are absolutely sure that the Japanese ships that come in will die without a place to be buried!

What's more, the ships carrying supplies have also begun to sail to Pyongyang, as long as the supplies are delivered, the hundreds of guns of the Wehrmacht itself can be reused, and at that time, let alone ordinary warships, even if the battleships come in, they can not please them...

Seeing that Gao Wenshan seemed to be very satisfied. The chief of staff whispered again. "And then there's the matter of the remains of Utsunomiya Taro..."

Saying this, the chief of staff's face was also a little wrong. After all, the scene was a little too terrifying. What's more, all the people who died this time were high-ranking officers of the Japanese army, and even two or three lieutenant generals were among them...

As long as he thought of the scene at that time, the staff officer had a chilling feeling.

"Are they..."Gao Wenshan was silent for a moment, thinking of the scene at that time, Gao Wenshan also had a feeling of 'rabbit dead and fox sadness'. In the final analysis, after all, they are all soldiers, and they are all high-ranking officers, and seeing others end up like this, even if it is a hostile party, Gao Wenshan's heart will still feel a little uncomfortable. "Let's find a way to place their bodies first, as for what to do next, it depends on what the central side says..."

"Yes! I see..."

Gao Wenshan also bowed slightly, and then didn't say anything more...

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The battle in the city continued, and while most of the defenders had been annihilated, only a small number of Japanese troops remained in Pyongyang. It's just a matter of time before their resistance is resolved...

This is not surprising, without the command of the headquarters, the defenders in the city were originally fighting on their own, and there was no coordination at all. In addition, Gao Wenshan and they are fighting again, and there is almost no other way to choose except to move forward, and it is strange that these Japanese can resist the attack of the Seventeenth Army...

Especially when it's late at night...

Originally, the Japanese in the city, who were still stubbornly resisting, thought that after nightfall, the Chinese troops outside should be suspended. Who would have thought that they had no intention of stopping at all, especially when the surrounding flames were raging, and the city was actually not much different from daytime...

Although those Japanese were like desperate beasts, they were still trapped and fighting, but the gap in strength between them was still too big after all, and by the next day, when the sun had just risen over the horizon, the Japanese troops in the city had been completely wiped out, and only a small part of the Japanese troops fled from Pyongyang in a hurry...

What did not surprise Gao Wenshan at all was that by the end of the battle in Pyongyang, not many prisoners had been captured, and even some were wounded. Gao Wenshan is of course very aware of the reasons for this, on the one hand, because few Japanese soldiers surrendered on their own initiative, and most of the prisoners were captured after they were taken.

On the other hand, it was because this time was so difficult that many soldiers held a grudge against the Japanese―――――― so many people had already died anyway, so naturally they didn't have to worry about how many more people had died. Moreover, since the establishment of the Nationalist government, the government has never stopped propagating things about the Lushun Massacre and so on, if it was ten years ago, perhaps no one would have cared about such things. At that time, the people of Japan did not care about anything but themselves, but now the whole country is full of disgust with Japan.

What's more, this conflict was provoked by the Japanese, if not for them. The Seventeenth Army would not have died so many people. Therefore, after capturing some Japanese soldiers, some troops would secretly execute them, and some of the more tyrannical ones even threw the captured Japanese soldiers into the fire.

As I said earlier, there are so many people who have died anyway, and they don't care about how many more people have died, and the bloody battles in the past few days have also completely awakened the brutal personality of the 17th officers and soldiers.

Fortunately, these people still know what is important. I didn't do this kind of thing in front of outsiders, so I don't have to worry about being discovered, at least by outsiders...

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Domestic. Although the war in North Korea has little to do with ordinary people, the mood of the people of Korea has been affected slightly.

In the final analysis, this is a matter closely related to the whole country, even if the vast majority of Chinese people care more about things like firewood, rice, oil and salt. But they are still more concerned about it.

And the crisis of the Seventeenth Army and the Thirty-third Army. It also cast a shadow on the faces of many Chinese people.

"Look at the newspaper! Newspaper! The 17th Army of the National Defense Army captured Pyongyang and killed four generals and more than 130 adjutants under the commander of the Japanese Korean Front, Taro Utsunomiya! The siege of Pyongyang was resolved, and the president issued a proclamation saying that China would win the final victory in this conflict..."

"Look at the newspaper! Newspaper! The 21st Army smashed the Long Dragon, destroyed countless Japanese factories, and suffered heavy losses to Japan..."

On the streets, the mood of the people was somewhat affected by the Korean war. Suddenly, a large group of newsboys ran out of nowhere, waving the latest news in their hands...

After hearing the news. The pedestrians in the streets were all in a stir, almost not believing their ears―――――― and not long ago, the experts in the newspapers were confidently claiming that the besieged Seventeenth Army and the Thirty-third Army could not hold out for long. It will not be long before the greatest defeat of the Nationalist government since its founding is about to befall.

But what's going on now? How long has it been? Why did the 17th Army bring down Pyongyang, did they hear it wrong, or did it mean that today is April Fool's Day...

But that's not right, it's November now, but April Fool's Day is in April, so it can't be April Fool's Day, right? ―――――― may be because China has more contact with the outside world nowadays, and has a better understanding of some Western festivals. Among them is the festival of April Fool's Day, which is why the first thought of pedestrians on the street after hearing the news is that today is not an April Fool's Day.

After all, not long ago, the experts in those newspapers sighed one by one and claimed with great confidence that the 17th and 33rd armies would not last long. The Wehrmacht is about to face its biggest defeat since its inception.

Some newspapers that opposed Yan Shao also began to publish articles blaming Yan Shao for this failure, and believed that it was precisely because Yan Shao was given too many rights that the conflict expanded, and finally led to the defeat coming.

In addition, the newspapers run by some foreigners in China are different from ―――――― past, and now there are many Western newspapers in China, and because of the threat posed by China to the West, these newspapers usually do not have a very friendly attitude towards Yan Shao...

And after the news of the siege of the 17th Army and the 33rd Army came back, these newspapers kept jumping up and down, and they were very busy...

This series of events naturally made the Chinese people unhappy, but it also made them acquiesce in the fact in their hearts, that is, the 17th Army and the 33rd Army, the more than 100,000 national defense forces, really have little hope, and their annihilation has almost become a foregone conclusion.

The reason why the atmosphere in the streets is a little silent now is because they are already waiting for news. Waiting for the news that the 17th Army and the 33rd Army were wiped out by the Japanese, who would have thought that they had waited for a long time, and the news they were waiting for in the end was actually this, which suddenly made them a little...

Some of the reactions can't be over? Some Chinese people were even more stunned to look at the newsboys running around them, listening to them selling today's news in extremely happy voices――――――Well, strictly speaking, they can't be called newsboys." Because with the gradual investment of the national government, free and compulsory education has begun to be promoted nationwide.

Some of the more remote villages are also counted, after all, even the China of later generations. In the era when Yan Shao traveled over, there was no way to guarantee that all school-age children could go to school, especially ten or twenty years before Yan Shao crossed over...

When Yan Shao was young, he remembered watching a movie organized by the school, a very famous movie "No One is Missing", ―――――― seems to be called this name, right?

("No One is Missing" is a feature film released in 1999, based on Shi Xiangsheng's novel "There is a Sun in the Sky".) The film uses a group of lay actors to make a documentary-like film about rural areas, poverty and illiteracy. In the film, Zhang Yimou retains the name of the actor himself. The film has won ten international film awards, including the Golden Rooster Award, the Golden Lion at the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. The content of the story is also very simple, it is a very young student who owes debts to his family. I had to go to the city to work, and the story of the young substitute female teacher who ran to the city alone to find her students. Because the teacher who asked female teachers to substitute at that time said that no one should be missing. Therefore, the name of this movie is also called one... ）

Even in the later era. The matter of compulsory education has not been completely resolved, let alone in the era of Yan Shao. Moreover, when the Kuomintang government was established at that time, China's foundation was much thinner than that of the later opening up...

Therefore, even if the Ministry of Education has Cai Yuanpei and other powerful people in charge, it still cannot guarantee that all children in remote rural areas can have books to read, go to school, etc...

However, at least in the city, Cai Yuanpei and they have done a very good job to ensure the promotion of compulsory education.

It was about two years ago. Officials from the Ministry of Education, including Cai Yuanpei, even came to Yan Shao en masse. It is required to strictly introduce a law related to compulsory education.

The content of this law is also very simple, that is, to give the police the right to send school-age children to school when they are found to be working, and the parents of the children have no right to interfere with the right...

Although Yan Shao felt that such a request was too extreme, he finally nodded and agreed, after all, this is also for compulsory education...

It is precisely because of this that even in the city, the role of the original 'newsboy' has gradually begun to be replaced by some 'newsboys' who are older and have missed the school age.

But seriously, by this time, the profession of 'newsboy' began to gradually be phased out, and was replaced by a role such as a newsstand. Even some of the more avant-garde newspapers have even opened up such a business as newspaper subscription, and there is no need for newsboys to go to the street to sell newspapers, and there will already be young 'newsboys' riding bicycles and delivering newspapers from door to door...

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The news that came out of the mouths of the newsboys shocked almost all the pedestrians on the street. But after the jaw-dropping, they immediately reacted, and soon everyone gathered around the newsboy, wanting to know the details from the newsboy's hands, to see if the news was true, or just an April Fool's joke?

And this is exactly what the newsboys want to see, after all, the more they sell, the more money they can earn.

In a short time, the newspapers in the hands of the newsboys disappeared. The streets and alleys are full of people holding newspapers and reading, or people who are surrounding these people who want to know the details at the first time...

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Not only domestically, but with the news of the victory, the news of the capture of Pyongyang by the 17th Army spread almost all over the world. Those who had been waiting for China's bad luck were all shocked by this news, and Britain and the United States and other countries even inquired about the news, wanting to know how the 17th Army, which had fallen into a dead end, finally captured Pyongyang...

However, even if Britain and the United States tried their best, the final information obtained was extremely vague, only the Chinese used new weapons, almost burned Pyongyang This very vague description...

Burned out? Naturally, this description could not satisfy Britain and the United States, but when they wanted to get some more detailed information, they found that the secret service had blocked all the dead spots in time...

On the other hand, after learning that Pyongyang had been captured by the Wehrmacht, the Japanese army, which had been slow to move on both flanks, suddenly became crazy, and the offensive became even more like a stormy wave...

However, at this time, the 33rd Army gritted its teeth and held its position.

Because at this time, they need to buy time for the 17th Army, and fight for enough time for the 17th Army to clean up Pyongyang―――――― with the current situation in Pyongyang, it is very difficult for the 17th Army and the 33rd Army to hold Pyongyang, so they must repair some fortifications on the periphery of Pyongyang, and this requires the 33rd Army to find a way to buy more time...

It's just that compared with the original, after learning the news that Pyongyang has been captured, the officers and men of the 33rd Army obviously have more hope, so although the Japanese offensive is very fierce, they have never been able to break through the defense line of the 33rd Army... (To be continued......)