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At this time, the base camp was also holding a military meeting.

"How are the three newly recruited divisions ready?" In the current base camp, Saigo Congdao, the Minister of Navy and Minister of Army, undoubtedly became the number one figure.

"Report to you, the three divisions of Kurume, Fukuoka and Sendai recruited from Kyushu, China, Northeast China and other regions have been recruited. Now we are waiting for the Russians' weapons to arrive and the equipment can be completed. However, General General, Seoul's urgent telegram said that reinforcements are urgently needed. Should we give priority to the existing division and quickly support North Korea?"

Major General Ao Baogong, the head of the base camp, is on the road.

"Don't wait for the Russians' arms. Use our own weapons to arm several troops first. At the same time, order the Kurumi Division to stand by on site, and the other two divisions move to Kanto. In addition, order the conscription department to immediately mobilize the Kinki and central regions to mobilize the reserves of three to four divisions to be put into service!"

"This..." Ao Baogong was a little puzzled. "I am very foreseeable, your Excellency, the battle situation in North Korea is tense now, but you have to transfer the already formed division to Kanto. Even if you re-enlist a new division, you cannot complete the assembly in a short time. I don't understand what your arrangement is for!"

Saigo Congdao looked at the major general and said slowly: "With Japan's current ability, how long does it take to transport a division of troops to Seoul?"

"The fastest way to transport troops from Japan is of course to Seoul. However, the current situation is that whether it is a frigate or a freighter or a merchant ship, it is not enough to support the delivery of troops directly to Seoul. It is still possible to transport to Busan Port. It takes about five days from the troops' equipment, assembly to loading and landing. This refers to the transportation of the Fukuoka Division, which is already near the port."

"So, how long does it take to get from Busan to Seoul?"

"Under normal circumstances, it takes twelve days. Considering the possible problems of the journey, it may take fifteen days. Your Excellency."

"In other words, it will take at least twenty days for us to arrange a division to go to Seoul, right?"

"Yes, that's about that." Obaogong said.

"So, do you think that the thousands of soldiers trapped in Seoul can last for twenty days under the attack of tens of thousands of elite Qing troops?"

"This..." O Baogong was immediately stuck. Only then did he realize that Saigo Congdao wanted to give up Seoul. Because there was no way to save him!

"But...but...Your Highness of Prince Komatsu Palace..."!

"We'd better think about how to protect His Majesty the Emperor first!"

"What? His Majesty the Emperor?"

Saigo Kotomi looked at Obogong and sighed in his heart, 'It would be great if Otago Gentaro was there'. "What do you think the Qing Dynasty is now in a great attack and is going to clear out the military existence of the Empire in North Korea, for?"

"for what?"

"It's just to send troops to the empire and sweep away the worries! You now understand why I want to assemble the conscripted divisions to Kanto and recruit soldiers again?" When he said this, Saigo Congdao inexplicably remembered what Okumoto Wuyang said. He suddenly couldn't figure out whether his preparation was to deal with the Qing Dynasty, or Russia, or both?

Both were there? Saigo Congdao was suddenly shocked by this idea in his heart! If he had to face the joint attack between the Qing Dynasty and Russia, what would the Japanese Empire be like?

This idea made Saigo Condao shudder!

"Yes, I understand! I will implement your instructions immediately!" Obaogong pulled Saigo back to reality from Dao.

"In addition, find this person." Saigo threw a piece of paper at the adjutant Kotobui Yamamoto.

This is a piece of letter paper, and the person who wrote the letter was Akiyama Matsuyuki. The red pen circled the following passage: The commanders of the joint fleet are all laymen in naval battles. Without knowing the location of the Qing fleet, we should first imagine that the Qing fleet is also trying to find the joint fleet to fight to the decisive battle, rather than taking it for granted that the Qing fleet has shrunk due to insufficient troops. If the joint fleet attacks rashly at this time, it is very likely that it will be defeated by the Qing fleet that is looking for the fighter plane.

Yamamoto Honbud was shocked. This letter was written by Akiyama Masao to his friends at the end of August. At that time, Masato Tsukii Kozo was about to lead the last fleet of the Japanese Navy to attack and welcome the "Yoshino". It was also during this naval battle that the last joint fleet of Japan's last united fleet was wiped out and completely lost its control of the sea, which even directly affected the situation of the Korean War.

The development and results of the naval battle were exactly the same as what this young man had guessed!

"Hi! I'll make arrangements right away and I'll find this person!"

Yamamoto Kyotoe sees the star of hope for the future of the Japanese Navy.

While Japan began to recruit troops and expand its troops in a crazily, the preparations for the Qing Dynasty were almost done.

In North Korea, with Cao Kun's 11th Division arrived, the Japanese army fighting against the Qing army in southeast of Pyongyang was attacked by two divisions of the Guards, and Cao Kun's division also carried artillery - so he walked slowly. After a little resistance, the Japanese 11th Division began to retreat northwards. Then the Guards took Cao Kun's division as the main force and continued to pursue the Japanese army. Yang Yong's 3rd Division continued to rescue Pyongyang.

On the fifth day, with the arrival of Duan Qirui Division, the 10th Japanese Division attacking Pyongyang was completely defeated. The regiment commander Chong Yuan Guangfu committed suicide, and more than 3,000 remaining troops surrendered. Then Duan Qirui Division crossed the Datong River to the east and cooperated with Cao Kun to encircle the remaining Japanese Division in the small town Jiangdong.

On October 6, the first batch of 30,000 cotton jackets were delivered to Shanghai. The 14th and 15th divisions of the Second Qing Army of the Qing Dynasty were urgently replaced. The army was waiting for the battle, and was only waiting for the battle. At the same time, the court also squeezed out some ammunition for Liu Shaoqing through sea transportation. Now, the Muller division has advanced to Hongen, and the city wall of Seoul is right in front of us, and the attack can be launched at any time.

October 7th.

This is a memorable day. On this day, more than 28,000 people from the 14th and 15th Divisions of the Second Guards vowed to fight in Shanghai and rushed to Japan by boat. On the same day, the 8th Division and the 13th Temporary Brigade of the First Guards also launched a general attack on Seoul, which was occupied by the Japanese army!

The brigade of the First Division belonging to the Japanese Third Army was stationed in Seoul. In the previous battle of the Iron-Zinjiang River, the commander of the First Division, Motoji Yamaki led a brigade to cooperate with the Fourth Army of Kawakami Kawakami Kawakami, and was broken on the south bank of the Iron-Zinjiang River. The troop of the Iron-Zinjiang River, the third division of the Iron-Zinjiang River was also joined the Battle of the Iron-Zinjiang River because Kawataro was eager to avenge his teacher, and now he is trapped in Kaesong. The hard-working Prince Yui-hin, the No. 3 Army, was nominally the commander of the Third Army, but his actual subordinates only had such a brigade and a temporary security army composed of more than 2,000 ronin people to command. The slim force made Komatsu Miyako unable to even go out of the city to defend, so he could only watch the Qing army advance to the city.

At 8 a.m., the general attack began!

The Qing army took advantage of the Japanese army's opaque intelligence and insufficient troops and used a strengthening regiment to launch a feint attack from the East Gate. The 13th Brigade temporary assembly wanted to launch an attack from the Dalindongfang, while the main force of the division launched a fierce attack towards the West Gate.

The Xidae Gate was built in the early days of North Korea in 1396. It was originally Dunyi Gate, one of the four gates in Seoul. It is commonly known as the Xidae Gate because it is located in the west of Seoul. At the same time, the Taizu of the Lee Dynasty used Pansongfang, Panshifang, Changpingfang, Yanxifang and Yingenfang areas near the Xidae Gate as the passage of contact with China. Therefore, the Xidae Gate is also called the "Yingenmen"!

Liu Shaoqing set this place as the main attack direction, and his intention was self-evident!

To this end, he set up all the 105mm heavy artillery that the First Army could mobilize here. In contrast, the Japanese army deployed a garrison force here.

The first thing to launch the attack was the artillery! Twelve 105mm cannons and twenty-four 75mm cannons launched an attack at one point at the same time. Even the walls of a capital like Seoul could not bear it! While suppressing the firepower, the infantry began to advance, and at the same time, they also advanced small-caliber mortars and a small number of Maxim.

The firepower attack was accurate and the shooting was fierce. The infantry attack was launched just right, and the fire cover of heavy machine guns was also accurate, and the infantry attack was always escorting the infantry. Through the telescope, you can even see the small Mars with bullets collapsing on the Japanese fire line.

The Grandmaster of the Third Squadron was like falling into hell. The soldiers of the garrison brigade of the First Division, who had not participated in the Battle of Pyongyang and the Battle of Imjinjiang could not imagine the fierce firepower of the Guards. The bullets on the opposite side came over like a pour and repeatedly washed his defense points. This was an indiscriminate strafing. The soldiers under his command could not raise their heads at all. If a soldier launched a counterattack, in less than two minutes, a shell or a dozen bullets would come. Seeing the soldiers let out long or short screams and fell down, the infantry team outside the city that had been advancing tenaciously made a shocking shouting sound. Bayonets surged, and had already launched a final impact on them. Ikka Taro jumped up in despair, waving the saber in his hand and hissed: "You guys, die here in battle!"

At the foot of the city, a guard soldier was rushing towards the city gate with a bundle of cluster grenades. Although the artillery had blown up a huge gap in the city wall, attacking from the city wall was obviously not conducive to the upcoming hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, the guards still needed to try to open the city gate.

Of course, the Japanese army would not give up the city gate so easily. In fact, the guards paid the price of hundreds of people just to fill out a passage on the moat.

Liu Shaoqing looked through the telescope at the sergeant who didn't even know his name and led the grenade into the smoke, and silently prayed in his heart that he would succeed.

On the other hand, in the Third Battalion of the Eighty-11 Regiment, which was responsible for the ground assault, battalion commander Liu Peng took advantage of the smoke, picked up his rifle, stood up, and turned around to wave his hand to the brothers behind him. "Brothers! Charge with me! Come on!"

Liu Peng ran and plunged into the smoke. The Japanese gunshots filled his ears, making him unable to hear the echo of his own people, and the smoke blocked his sight. For a moment, he thought that after passing through the smoke, he would see a whole row of soldiers who looked like playing cards rushing towards him. This fantasy made him involuntarily look down at his body, sure that he had not been beaten into a sieve.

At this time, a loud noise came from the front, and the cluster grenade detonated!

Finally, the young captain rushed through the smoke and everything in front of him suddenly became clear. He happened to see the bullets shot out of the Japanese sandbag bunker, piercing the chest of the same young sergeant.

"My grass!" Liu Peng picked up his rifle and opened fire at the Japanese army in the city gate.

The firepower points set up by the Japanese army in the city gate are difficult to deal with. The Guards had replaced all the light machine guns to the troops supporting North Korea. Their battalion still wanted to launch an assault, so they gathered a little grenade from the entire division, and now they are all used up.

Outside the city gate, the guard soldiers who lacked cover were constantly falling down!

"Damn it! Go and see if there are any remaining grenades on the dead brothers!" Liu Peng ordered loudly.

Previously, more than one stormtrooper was sent out in the camp, but only one person successfully rushed to the city gate and detonated the cluster grenade. Then, other comrades who fell on the way should have grenades to use.

Soon after, a soldier came over, "Sir, the grenade has been found!"

"Give it to me!" Liu Peng quickly took it, pulled out two and opened the insurance.

‘One, two, three, four.’ Liu Peng counted silently in his heart. At this moment, there was only this sound in his mind, and even the sound of cannons not far away seemed to have quieted down.
Chapter completed!