The 11th Field Division, having received the order, left the prepared front line of the offensive and, in battle formation, advanced towards the port of Sasebo.

While the artillery fire was being prepared, the 11th Field Division was ready for a full-scale attack, and under the cover of night, the front line of the attack advanced to the mountainside less than two kilometers from the port of Sasebo.

About 60 meters from the basin where Sasebo is located, the pioneer battalion has set up a simple attack position here.

After the shelling began, some of Sasebo's lucky soldiers fled into the range of the shelling.

The barracks of 100,000 reservists escaped a lot of people, many of them were sentries on duty in the barracks, all with weapons in their hands, and more Japanese soldiers who rushed out of the camp after waking up from their sleep, without any clothes on their bodies, fortunately, with good training, let them instinctively grab their weapons, and then ran out.

It's just that the trained reserve troops are not front-line combat units, and the weapons in their hands do not have standing ammunition in them.

Except for the sentries, the soldiers who did not even have clothes had weapons in their hands and burned sticks.

The barracks were destroyed under heavy artillery fire, and the makeshift camps, whether wooden houses or tents, were not intact.

Most of the soldiers were burned to death by the fire, and a considerable number died directly from the explosion.

At this moment, these Japanese soldiers, who were completely at a loss, were lying at the foot of the mountain, looking at the camp and Sasebo that were under artillery fire hundreds of meters away.

Some of the officers who escaped tried to restore the courage and combat effectiveness of these soldiers who had escaped from the scene of death in order to cope with the ensuing battle.

The attack came from the enemy fleet outside the port, and there were also artillery pieces that came from the mountains on both sides of Sasebo, which was well known to the Japanese officers of all ranks who survived.

These Japanese officers, who graduated from military schools, knew very well what they should do at this time.

Constantly collect the escaped soldiers and count the weapons and ammunition.

However, the result was very unsatisfactory, and the two of them could not share one weapon, and one rifle could not even share two bullets.

This made all the surviving Japanese officers' hearts sink to the bottom in an instant, not because they didn't want to counterattack the mountains on both sides and destroy the enemy's artillery positions that they didn't know when, but because they were powerless.

Under the organization of these officers, the surviving Japanese soldiers did not sit and wait for death.

It was almost impossible to enter the barracks that had been covered in artillery fire and fire to rescue people and supplies, and the only thing a soldier could do was to notify the Sasebo and Nagasaki warlords as soon as possible, and hold on until reinforcements arrived.

In the vicinity of Sasebo, there are two fully armed castles, one is the Sasebo Castle Castle, which was established five years ago, and the other is the Nagasaki Castle Castle.

Both of these towns had their own garrisons, each with a brigade of soldiers, a part of active soldiers and a part of the reserves, and a cavalry wing in Sasebo and a field artillery wing in Nagasaki.

The total strength of the army is almost a standing division, and there are many newly recruited retired soldiers and strictly trained recruits, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of the DPRK troops at the moment.

The Sasebo Castle must know about the situation at the Sasebo port, so as long as you stick here, reinforcements from the Castle will arrive soon.

As the artillery fire continued, the surviving officers prepared to build their defenses on the spot, choosing to stay close to the foot of the hill to avoid the opposing hilltop fire.

However, when the 11th Field Division began to operate, these surviving Japanese soldiers hiding at the foot of the mountain were shocked, and the two field artillery brigades had already known about it.

Will be Sasebo Port. Handed over to the Second Fleet, two field artillery brigades began to cooperate with the infantry in preparation for the offensive.

Although it is impossible to attack the surviving Japanese soldiers hiding at the foot of the mountain where they are located, they can easily attack the target at the foot of the opposite mountain.

The artillery that fired at Zhuyuan was readjusted, so that the sound of explosions in Sasebo suddenly became much more relaxed.

However, the surviving Japanese officers did not immediately realize that this was most likely enemy artillery, and they were making themselves the next target.

Readjusting the firing of Zhu Yuan, part of the artillery of the two artillery brigades, again roared, whistling shells, streaked across the night sky.

A large number of Japanese officers who were reorganizing their troops instantly felt a little numb as the shells approached, and a quick lieutenant only had time to shout: "Hurry up and get down......

Most of the soldiers have not yet reacted, the shells have already exploded at the foot of the mountains on both sides, and although the lethality of field howitzers is not as good as that of naval guns, they are more than enough to deal with these targets without cover.

The dense shells whistled, and the large number of surviving Japanese soldiers in the woods at the foot of the mountain were once again dominated by heavy artillery fire, and the fear of being finally suppressed was once again spontaneously born.

Several rounds of shells fell one after another, and the Japanese soldiers who were still alive were lying dead among the dead branches and leaves, and many of them were wet with crotch cloths, crying and shouting for their fathers one after another.

Stumps and severed arms, exploding burning trees, corpses torn apart by the explosion flying.

The Japanese soldiers who have not yet been dominated by bushido only have been instilled with patriotic thoughts, and although a year's training is very effective, don't expect these people who have not yet been on the battlefield to be afraid in the face of the great fear of death.

An age may look like only eighteen. The nine-year-old young Japanese soldier was holding his head in the dead leaves, and suddenly there was a sound of smashing in front of him.

When he mustered up the courage to raise his head, under the light of the burning fire not far away, what appeared in front of him was the upper body of half a corpse, the stomach was blown up, the mutilated upper body, the intestines and liver were dragged all over the ground, the bloody face was blurred, the mouth was still gurgling with blood bubbles, and one eye was staring straight at him, and the eyes were full of palpitating desire to win. Hope.

He just looked at the eye, watching the last of the sparkle in the eye fade.

"Ahh

The stunned gaze swept over a intestine that was close at hand, and the next second the feces and urine came out, and the young soldier, who could no longer bear it, got up from the ground with a shout of "Even-gasang", and ran frantically towards the outside of the woods.

A second lieutenant on the side wanted to hold the collapsed young soldier, but he was still a step slower, and after running out for dozens of meters, a shell exploded right in front of him, and in the firelight, his fragile body was instantly torn to pieces.