Pyongyang, Japan's main stronghold in Korea, is slightly more prosperous than the rest of the country. North Koreans do not have to worry about being beaten or even slaughtered by the Japanese when they walk the streets of Pyongyang―――――― this kind of thing can happen at any time in other parts of North Korea, after all, the Korean resistance has never stopped all these years, not to mention that the Japanese army is not a good person in the first place.

However, Pyongyang is the main stronghold of the Japanese army in Korea, so this situation is relatively rare, at least there is no situation where a North Korean will be killed suddenly while walking on the street.

However, the Japanese side pursued a predatory policy in Korea, so although Pyongyang was already the largest city in Korea, the scale of the city was actually not as natural as Dandong before ――――――it was destroyed, and the Japanese would never care about it.

Hundreds of officers were busy going back and forth in the headquarters of the Korean Front, and the once quiet and majestic building was now noisy.

In the battle conference room, Utsunomiya Taro looked at the sand table placed on the table with a solemn expression. On the sand table, the enemy and enemy postures of the Chinese and Japanese armies are clearly marked on it, which makes people clear at a glance.

However, it is precisely because of this that these people standing near the sand table are so heavy...

Because the Chinese offensive marked on the sand table at this time was very large, almost far more than any offensive in the past year. In particular, the position they chose was very tricky, and it happened to be a weak point in the Japanese defense line in the northern part of Korea.

This situation also came as a surprise to many officers in the command. Because they didn't expect that there was such a gap in the line of defense that they thought was impregnable. And the urgent telegram from the front made everyone frown.

"Your Excellency. The Captain of the Shochiku Wing in Pukou sent another telegram requesting reinforcements..."

Just when many officers were solemn in the headquarters, an ordinary officer suddenly walked in, holding a telegram from Pukou in his hand.

Of course, it is impossible for a place without a name, even if it does not have a ......... You must know that such a thing as a name is taken by people, and even if there is no one, it is enough to take another one.

And because of this. The place that didn't have a name has the name of Pukou.

And the wing commander named Shochiku is naturally the unit commander of the wing stationed there.

Hear the news coming. The faces of everyone in the room sank.

If this weak point is broken by the Chinese, then the entire defense line may be torn apart, and by that time, the battle situation that should have been in a stalemate is likely to be irreparable.

Therefore, soon an officer looked at Utsunomiya Taro and said. "Your Excellency. Send two wings from Longlin to reinforce it. Otherwise, the pressure on the captain of the Shochiku United is too great! ”

"Yes, Your Excellency," agreed the other officers.

But there were also officers who spoke. "When Longlin's reinforcements arrive, the Pukou side will really be able to hold it, and I think we should reorganize a defensive line in some positions behind Pukou, so that we can hold on for a little longer..."

Immediately afterwards, a few more mentions were also mentioned, and the room suddenly became chaotic...

However, in this case, Utsunomiya Taro never spoke. I just stared at the position of Pukou on the sand table, and I didn't know what I was thinking.

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Pukou. Just in the headquarters of the Korean Front, those staff officers were arguing one by one. The battle situation in Pukou was already extremely dangerous.

At this time, several forward positions in Pukou had been occupied by the Wehrmacht, and several positions that had not yet been occupied had also been plowed by artillery fire, and the entire defense line was in disarray, full of shelled craters and objects destroyed by shelling―――――― some of which were really objects, and some of which were ......... Once belonged to people...

The Chinese in front are pressing step by step, while the so-called reinforcements have not yet arrived, and the atmosphere in Pukou has been suppressed to a limit. However, even the Japanese people in Pukou still did not collapse, but because of this repression, they became more and more crazy.

Whenever the Wehrmacht rushed to the position, Japanese soldiers would rush up with bayonets howling. The Japanese soldiers on the position were also not afraid of artillery fire, and operated the Hazikaith machine gun, which was not very good, to fire at the Wehrmacht troops who rushed to the position. Some Japanese soldiers even used shotguns to meet the enemy―――――― although the number was very small, but there were indeed some shotguns, as for the source of these shotguns, some were obtained from the dead Wehrmacht, and some were purchased from the United States!

That's right, buy from the USA!

Although the pump-action shotgun is the first one in China to put on the battlefield, this does not mean that China is the only country that uses this weapon. At least during the European War, whether it was Britain, France, the United States and other Allied countries, they had imported this kind of weapon from China, and caused great casualties to Germany, such as Britain and France, countries even simply bought relevant technology and production lines from China, and produced them themselves...

As for the United States, after buying it from China, it developed some [pump-action shotguns] on its own, and the performance is not much different from the shotguns equipped in China. Now that China and Japan are in conflict in Korea, Britain and the United States have given Japan some support behind the scenes, both financially and in terms of weapons and equipment.

During the armed conflict that lasted for nearly a year, Japan was extremely impressed by the submachine guns and shotguns equipped with the Wehrmacht. Because these two weapons not only caused great casualties to Japan, but also made it difficult for the Japanese side to display their superb assassination skills!

Of course, this is not to say that bayonets are useless, after all, during this period, whether in Japan, China or some parts of Europe, large-scale white-knuckle battles still occurred from time to time. Especially on the Eastern Front in those years, Germany and Russia fought large-scale white-knuckle battles.

And at the time of the Battle of the Dardanelles, the British and Turkish armies at that time. The bayonets were washed with seawater.

There is no way, who calls this period, although both sides have begun to equip some more powerful weapons. But the mainstream is still a hand-drawn rifle...

What's more, even the Wehrmacht, which attaches great importance to equipment, not every unit is armed with shotguns and submachine guns―――――― it is not that they do not want to, on the one hand, there is not so much money, and on the other hand, there is a problem of production capacity.

And with the end of the First World War, the likelihood of another large-scale war is already slim. Even if there are some wars, they will be small-scale, in other words. There is no pressure in this regard, so naturally there is no need to rush to change clothes, anyway, with the strength of the Wehrmacht at this stage. Ordinary conflicts can basically be resolved, there is no need to be in such a hurry, just take your time.

Yan Shao also agrees with this view.

For it is exactly as those men say. Large-scale conflicts are largely unlikely. Naturally, there is no need to be in such a hurry.

Despite this, even this incomplete reload of equipment was enough to make the Japanese army's superb assassination skills a joke in some conflicts. In some battles, the Japanese troops who launched the white-knuckle battle were completely solved by the Wehrmacht with submachine guns and light machine guns before they even got close to the Wehrmacht, which also made the Japanese side extremely angry, scolding Chinese all cowards who did not dare to fight bayonets, without the slightest bushido spirit―――――― it is estimated that only the Japanese will be brainless. After all, there are submachine guns, who will use any bayonets.

However, the equipment of the Wehrmacht is able to meet the needs at this stage. But the Japanese army's...

You must know that although the Japanese Navy is very strong, the equipment level of the Japanese Army can only be regarded as ...

If in the past, the Japanese did not pay much attention to this, now they have come to their senses after a year of armed conflict. Therefore, after Britain and the United States provided some support to Japan, Japan soon put forward a request to Britain and the United States to purchase new weapons, including submachine guns and shotguns―――――― anyway, Japan has already purchased Renault tanks from France, and these things are not bad.

Even some Japanese arsenals are still developing relevant equipment according to their own needs. Even though it looks like it's just a copy...

It's just that the quantity of this part of the import is not very large, and the number of equipment in Pukou is even less, but there are only some shotguns, so it has not been able to bring too much trouble to the Wehrmacht.

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Although the atmosphere of despair on the positions made many Japanese soldiers like wild beasts, and even when many positions were about to fall, Japanese soldiers launched suicidal attacks on the Wehrmacht with explosives in their arms, but this still did not change the fact that Pukou was about to fall.

By the time night was about to fall, there were only a few positions left in the hands of the Japanese army in Pukou.

In a relatively safe place in the rear, it was the headquarters of the Shochiku Wing.

In the headquarters, almost everyone's face was gloomy, after all, the defeat was already very obvious.

"Your Excellency, Captain!" Seeing that the Chinese were getting closer and closer, a staff officer walked in front of Shochiku and said miserably.

However, before he could say anything, Shochiku spoke first. "Hold the flag and leave first..."

"Your Excellency!" Hearing Shochiku say this, the staff officers were slightly taken aback, obviously they didn't expect Shochiku to say this, especially the staff officer just now. "Your Excellency, hasn't the headquarters already allowed us to break through, why..."

Since he plans to use Pukou and the Shochiku United as bait, this kind of thing must be said first before it can be coordinated. Therefore, Utsunomiya Taro once wrote a letter to inform Shochiku of this situation―――――― although he could not have told Shochiku about it, he believed that a true Japanese soldier would not be afraid of death, especially if it was for the sake of the empire.

However, with the guilt of sacrificing the Shochiku United, Utsunomiya Taro privately allowed a small number of people to 'break through'. In fact, it's a retreat, but the retreat is not good after all, but if it is replaced by a breakthrough, it will sound much better...

As for the reason for the breakout, it is also very simple, in Japan, each wing will have a wing flag, and this flag is awarded by the emperor of Japan. It must never fall into the hands of the enemy, and even if it is burned when necessary, it must not fall into the hands of the enemy.

At the time of the Second World War, especially at the beginning of the war. The Japanese flag that fell into the hands of the coalition forces can almost be described as a handful...

Therefore, if you use the excuse of protecting the military flag to evacuate, it is too perfect, and the one that Utsunomiya Taro gave to Shochiku is this excuse. There are also some things that Utsunomiya Taro didn't say explicitly, that is, if he wants, Shochiku can also evacuate with him.

It's just that if you evacuate as a wing captain. In the future, he will surely be burdened with a series of dishonorable things. After all, with most of the entire wing killed on the battlefield, in the Japanese concept, Shochiku, the captain of the wing, should not have survived at all. Instead, they should die on the battlefield with other Japanese soldiers on the battlefield―――――― in fact, such a concept seems to be shared by the Eastern countries...

But it is precisely because of this that it is inconvenient for Utsunomiya Taro to say it clearly, after all, if Shochiku really withdraws. Then even if he doesn't have to go to court-martial. I'm afraid it's hard to raise your head in this life.

It's just that...

Looking at the subordinates in the headquarters, Shochiku said with a miserable face. "In a Chinese phrase, you have to do enough drama, not to mention that so many subordinates have died on this position, how can I survive and steal my life..."

Although Shochiku had obtained permission for Utsunomiya Taro to retreat, so many of his subordinates died on this position, even if they died for Japan, Shochiku still felt guilty in his heart. In his opinion, it seemed that all he could do was to follow his subordinates to the Yellow Springs road...

Such a meeting at the Yasukuni Shrine. He can be ashamed...

What's more, he is not willing to carry a series of dishonorable things to survive, so not only will he not live comfortably in this life, but even his family may be implicated in a series of things―――――― although Utsunomiya Taro told him that this wing will become a bait, but the deployment of the entire strategy did not tell him, but even so Shochiku can guess that this must be a big strategy, and only in this way is it worth the command of the Korean Front to come up with a wing as bait.

And if the plan succeeds, then the Shochiku United, as a decoy and outcast, will probably become the heroes of Japan. But this will not alleviate his predicament, after all, when the entire wing is 'broken', he, the captain of the wing, is barely living, which makes it easier for people to despise him, and at that time, I am afraid that it will be more uncomfortable to live.

In that case, it's better to die with your own subordinates...

In this way, even if he dies, he will be crowned a hero, and his family will be treated well―――――― from a certain point of view, it is precisely because he knows that Shochiku will choose this way that Utsunomiya Taro said so generously that he can evacuate.

"But Your Excellency!" Hearing Shochiku say this, those staff officers and other officers were immediately anxious.

But before they could say the rest of the words, Shochiku had already raised his hand and stopped them from saying the rest of the words. "Well, do you want to let the sacrifices of the front-line soldiers go in vain, do you want to let the flag of the wing fall into the hands of inferior Chinese!"

Saying this, Shochiku glanced outside the headquarters, perhaps because of the relationship between the positions that had just been seized, the Wehrmacht's actions paused slightly. After noticing this, Shochiku spoke to several of his subordinates.

"Well, the Chinese should not attack for a while, you better break through quickly, but before that..." Speaking of this, Shochiku's eyes flashed. Before that, you have to do enough drama first..."

Having said this, Shochiku had already ordered the staff officers in the headquarters to send a telegram asking for help to the headquarters in Pyongyang again, and the telegram was very urgent, and even very straightforward, saying that if the reinforcements could not arrive in a short time, the Sonchiku Wing would only have jade shatters.

After sending this telegram, the only remaining part of the Shochiku Wing began preparations for retreat, which, naturally, were carried out in secret. In addition to some staff officers and other officers in the headquarters, there is only the flag guard team of the military flag who is ready to retreat and "break out".

As for the others, including many in the forward positions, they all stayed behind to create a false impression...

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On the other hand, at the headquarters of the Korean Front, while people were still arguing, a telegram from the Sonchiku Wing came.

Looking at Shochiku's telegram, everyone in the room looked a little ugly, because it meant that it was likely that Pukou would fall before the reinforcements arrived.

On the other hand, looking at this telegram and the code on the telegram, Utsunomiya Taro's solemn expression was slightly weird. His expression was followed by one of the few people in the headquarters who knew the details...

Although, from a strategic point of view, there is no problem in doing this well, but at the expense of a wing ...

Thinking of this, Utsunomiya Taro began to move things to other things.

After about an hour, the Wehrmacht finally rushed to the last line of positions at Pukou, and at this point, the Wehrmacht finally tore a big hole in the Japanese defensive line in northern Korea.

On the other hand, looking at the telegram sent by the Shochiku United, Utsunomiya Taro's eyes were shining... (To be continued......)