Andong County, Northeast Army General Headquarters.

Zhang Xinghan had just had dinner and was picking his teeth with a toothpick. The kitchen had prepared a sumptuous dinner, with two dishes, one soup, and a roast chicken, which he almost ate by himself.

It's not that he's a good eater, it's just that he didn't sleep well all day and night, and he didn't eat much. As the battle progressed smoothly, he relaxed and felt hungry, and he naturally ate more food than before when he had a big appetite.

Usually it is more than double.

Guo Zhong, commander of the Jingwei Battalion, came in with a cup of hot water, placed it in front of him and said, "Commander, you want boiled water."

"Well." Zhang Xinghan picked up the tea cup and asked casually: "Where is the chief of staff? Where did he go?"

"Our army's northern and southern armies on the front line are advancing too fast, and the logistics troops cannot keep up. The ammunition is okay, but the fuel required for the armored vehicles is completely exhausted. The North Route Army has Minister Zang in charge of coordinating logistics.

The chief of staff has gone to arrange and organize supplies for the Southern Route Army." Guo Zhongdao...

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xinghan turned to look at the map, nodded and said: "The two armies of our army have advanced more than 400 kilometers? The front is getting longer and longer."

"Yes, the longer the front is, the longer the logistics and transportation time and pressure will be." Guo Zhong nodded.

Zhang Xinghan pondered for a moment and said: "Immediately send me an order. Starting tomorrow, the Air Force Transport Group will fully devote itself to the task of airdropping fuel and other supplies to the frontline troops.

In addition, inform the South Route Army that if they can capture Pingcheng tonight, they can rest in Pingcheng for one night and leave the pursuit to the forward troops. They will wait for the arrival of logistical supplies before continuing to march towards Seoul."

"Yes." Guo Zhong hurriedly stood up and responded, then turned around and took the order.

However, not long after, Guo Zhong left and returned, excitedly reporting to Zhang Xinghan: "Commander, we just received a reply from the South Route Army. The main force of the Japanese army fled without a fight. Our army has fully controlled Pingcheng."

"Oh? Is the damage to Pingcheng Airport serious?" Zhang Xinghan asked.

"The victory message mentioned that Pingcheng Airport was blown up by the Japanese before the main force of the Japanese army evacuated, and the damage was quite serious," Guo Zhong replied.

"Immediately send power to Commander Wang and ask them to organize manpower as soon as possible to repair the airport at all costs. The damaged areas must be repaired within three days." Zhang Xinghan immediately ordered.

"Yes." Guo Zhong responded and took the order again.

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Dingzhou, South Route Army Headquarters.

Zhao Zhenfan came in with the telegram and said to Wang Yizhe: "Commander-in-Chief. The Commander-in-Chief has called."

With that said, he handed the message to him.

After reading the telegram, Wang Yizhe raised his head and said to Zhao Zhenfan and others: "Everyone, Pingcheng has been captured by our army. In order to facilitate command, I have decided to move the headquarters to Pingcheng. This will also facilitate our organization of manpower and material resources to repair the airport."

"The commander-in-chief has decided, and we have no objection." Zhao Zhenfan took the lead.

Liu Jianguo and others nodded in agreement.

So that night, Wang Yizhe, Zhao Zhenfan and others moved the headquarters to Pingcheng overnight.

At the same time, Liu Jianguo, Wang Tiehan and others, who were responsible for personally leading the team, also received orders to temporarily leave the main force in Pingcheng. Each division only sent one regiment or two battalions of pursuit troops to continue southward along the pipeline in pursuit.

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On the pipeline from Seoul to Busan, Okamura Neji was riding in a car.

Suddenly there was a light and a three-wheeled motorcycle came speeding up and blocked the front of his car.

The driver suddenly stepped on the brakes, and Neji Okamura, who was closing his eyes to relax, suddenly became furious, but he saw that the person blocking the car was a communications adjutant.

He had already got off his tricycle and came outside his car. He stood up and saluted: "Your Excellency, General, I just received a telegram from the 9th Division. According to the report from the troops left behind, Pingcheng has been captured by the Chinese Army. In addition, Yuan

The mountain was also captured by another Lucchinese army two hours ago, and both Lucchinese armies were advancing towards Seoul."

Neji Okamura suppressed his anger, nodded, and waved his hand towards the communications adjutant to signal him to leave.

Then he said to the driver: "Keep driving."

"Hai." The Japanese driver quickly started the car and continued to drive forward.

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Gao Chu led a tank regiment to fill up the tank with fuel and marched quickly. At about 1 a.m., they advanced more than 100 kilometers and arrived near the northwest of Kaicheng.

At the same time, part of the Japanese 9th Division, which had withdrawn from Pingcheng, also rushed to Kaicheng after a forced march.

Although they evacuated Pingcheng earlier than Gao Chu's North Route Army left Yuanshan, the speed of the fully mechanized march of the North Route Army led by Gao Chu made up for this time difference.

Arriving at Kaicheng almost at the same time as the vanguard of the retreating Japanese army.

Knowing that Kaicheng was to the southeast, Gao Chu had no interest in attacking Kaicheng. Instead, he ordered his troops to continue marching directly to the southeast, aiming directly at Seoul.

The Japanese troops in Kaesong also continued to retreat toward Kaesong without stopping, and the two sides encountered each other south of Kaesong.

"Master's seat, Japs have been spotted ahead, the strength of the troops is unknown." A subordinate's alarm came from the radio in the tank in which Gao Chu was riding.

"What kind of army are the Japs?" Gao Chu asked, holding a walkie-talkie.

"They are infantry, but most of them ride in military trucks, and there are also some cavalry."

"This should be the Japanese troops retreating from the front line." Gao Chu pondered for a moment and said, "Order each company to attack them immediately and eliminate them."

"Yes." A cheerful response came from the intercom.

Nearly a hundred Panzer IV tanks quickly prepared for battle, adjusted their muzzles and barrels, and headed straight for the Japanese retreating team.

The Japanese army apparently also discovered this Chinese tank force that suddenly appeared behind them.

At the same time, they all turned around and ran away.

Having exchanged fire with the Northeast Border Guard Army more than once, they already had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness and threat of the Northeast Border Guard Army's tank units.

Therefore, in this case, when encountering the Northeast Army tank troops, there will no longer be Japanese cavalry waving sabers and lances to launch active suicide attacks on tanks and armored vehicles.

More than a thousand Japanese soldiers turned around one after another, but it was easy for the cavalry to turn around. How could dozens of Japanese-style military trucks turn around so smoothly in a hurry?

At the moment of panic, Gao Chu commanded the tank regiment to attack. Dozens of tanks suddenly appeared like a pack of wolves on the grassland.

The black tank barrel fired a round of death flames that hit the Japanese truck that was unable to turn around.

"Boom, boom, boom..." In the earth-shattering explosion, more than a dozen Japanese military trucks were blown into a pile of scrap metal. The Japanese soldiers on them disappeared before they even had time to scream.

In the light of the fire, the other Japanese were so frightened that they jumped out of the car and fled for their lives.

Gao Chu gave an order, and nearly a hundred tanks rushed forward with a rumble. Nearly two hundred vehicle-mounted machine guns fired wildly, and the dense rain of bullets felled the Japanese in pieces like wheat.

Such an encounter was obviously a one-sided massacre.

Except for the more than 300 Japanese cavalry who managed to escape by running fast, the more than 600 Japanese infantry and a dozen military trucks were all destroyed.

The remaining twenty or so military trucks became prisoners of the Northeastern Army. During the previous battle, Gao Chu saw that the Japanese infantry had jumped out of their vehicles to escape, so he ordered the troops not to continue shelling the Japanese trucks.

Because he was interested in the gasoline in the Japanese mailbox. More than 20 military trucks passed by the Japanese and consumed all the way, and there was not much gasoline left.

But it is better than nothing. For the high school tank regiment, every drop of gasoline is extremely precious now.

After annihilating more than 600 Japs, an adjutant asked for instructions: "Master, what should we do? Should we continue to advance toward Seoul?"

Gao Chu had already jumped out of the tank, looked at the battlefield, and said: "Judging from the equipment of these Japanese, they should not be the last batch of Japanese to escape from Pingcheng. They are probably the first one. If they are the last

If there are a batch of evacuated Japanese troops, then there should definitely be a pursuit force from our Southern Route Army behind them.

The Japanese would definitely not dare to turn around and run back again.

Otherwise, with the fierce battle between us and them, why haven't the pursuit troops of the Southern Route Army made any movement in the past half day?

The adjutant nodded and asked, "What do you mean, Master?"

"Immediately use the radio to send electricity to the South Route Army headquarters, inform them of our current position and the battle situation just now, and ask them where the main force of the defeated Japanese army should be now. Where is their forward pursuit force?" Gao Chu ordered.

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"Yes." The adjutant wrote down his words quickly, turned around and took the order.

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Pingcheng. Wang Yizhe and others had just settled down and were so exhausted that they didn't even have time to close their eyes.

A communications soldier ran in quickly with a telegram in hand, saluted Wang Yizhe, Zhao Zhenfan and others: "Commander-in-Chief, we have received an urgent telegram from the Northern Route Army."

After speaking, he handed the message to them respectfully.

Wang Yizhe and Zhao Zhenfan looked at each other and reached out to take the message.

Zhao Zhenfan saw that Wang Yizhe's face was dull and there was no reaction, so he quickly asked: "Commander-in-Chief, what's going on with the North Route Army?"

"They have advanced to Kaicheng and just fought a battle with a Japanese army. Gao Chu suspected that it was probably the first batch of Japanese troops to escape.

He asked us to provide the locations of the pursuing troops of our divisions and the locations of the areas where the main force of the Japanese army may have fled," Wang Yizhe said.

"Really?" Zhao Zhenfan said: "Their marching speed is really fast. So it seems that the Japanese army retreating from Pingcheng has probably been cut off by our army?"

Wang Yizhe nodded solemnly and said: "It's very possible. We can look at the map. The distance from Pingcheng to Kaicheng is more than 150 kilometers. It has only been more than ten hours since the Japanese retreated.

They are not fully mechanized like us, and their marching speed is fast. Even if they march in a hurry, they can barely reach Kaesong at best."

"Then this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If the main force of the Japanese army that evacuated from Pingcheng can be wiped out in one fell swoop, then the next battle in Seoul will be much easier to fight." Zhao Zhenfan was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "Old sir, let's hurry up.

Contact Gao Chu and ask him to block the Japanese army's southward escape, buy time for my pursuit troops to arrive, and strive to annihilate the Japanese army in the Kaicheng area."
Chapter completed!