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    On the morning of August 13, hundreds of tactical bombers taking off from Dalian, Kaesong and aircraft carriers began to carry out continuous and violent bombing on the outskirts of Seoul.  Literary Museum  Acting as a human shield, trying to avoid air strikes.

    No matter how much the frontline soldiers hoped to use aerial bombs to solve the problem, considering that North Korea was an ally and could not completely wipe out the city like it did with Japan and the Soviet Union, the theater commander Zhu Peide took the initiative to reduce the scale of bombing and only allowed some tactical bombers of the navy and air force to carry out precise operations.  Strike to minimize accidental injuries.  Faced with this situation, Zhuo Fan had no complaints and immediately changed his plan. At two o'clock in the afternoon, he dispatched the 3rd Infantry Division and the North Korean 9th Infantry Division to take the lead in attacking the North Gate.

    The rapid fall of Bukhan Mountain and Uijeongbu made Itagaki panic-stricken, especially the news that the Uijeongbu's second line of defense could not be held even for one night, forcing him to consider an early breakout.  But Seoul was too heavy, so Hirohito was not willing to give up so easily. After receiving his telegram requesting a breakout, he vetoed it and also asked Itagaki and the troops to persist until the end through Anami Ekichi.

    This order made Itagaki very helpless, so he had to let the troops use the urban terrain to defend while actively deploying breakout operations.  The battle was not as smooth as expected. The urban landscape of Seoul was very similar to that of Japan. The streets were narrow and the city was messy. The Japanese soldiers who were determined to die also made full use of the most familiar skirmishing tactics, hiding in every window and every pile of rubble.  , even every tree, every sewer, and the East Asian coalition forces fought over and over again.  The special environment also caused the coalition forces to encounter a large number of suicide attacks. The 3rd Infantry Division Armored Regiment alone encountered nearly a hundred soldiers armed with various explosive packages and cluster grenades in three hours.  Japanese soldiers jumping out.  Many armored vehicles were damaged and dozens of soldiers died.

    Zhuo Fan stood on the second floor of Uijeongbu, holding a telescope to carefully observe the details of the battle.  In the lens, two light T25 tanks of the North Korean 9th Infantry Division were wrapped in a burst of smoke rising from the ground as soon as they approached Seoul University.  Zhuo Fan, who has rich experience in urban warfare, knows very well that this is what happens after the sudden explosion of landmines and explosives, and judging from the smoke, the yield is very large. He directly overturned a T25 light tank and detonated it, causing the turret to fly.  A few meters away.  The Korean infantry who followed also suffered heavy casualties.  But before they could rescue the wounded, hundreds of Japanese soldiers opened fire on them from behind the university walls.  In an instant, the ground was covered with the corpses of Korean soldiers.  At the critical moment, an engineering tank belonging to the 3rd Infantry Division pushed to the house on the left, blocked the Japanese shooting sight with bricks and smoke, and began to cover the retreat of the North Korean army.

    Luo Binghui, who was next to him, also saw this scene. He grabbed the herbal tea on the table and drank it with a gulp: "Madeh! Little Japan can really fight hard! Commander, just let the 104th Division and the Assault Artillery Battalion go up. I don't believe it."  They can hold off our armored demolition teams!"

    Wu Qiwen of the armored demolition team pursed his lips next to him, wanting to laugh but unable to.  During the attack on Alkarek last year, Zhuo Fan's tactic of using a large number of engineering tanks and self-propelled assault guns to flatten city buildings to clear blind spots for shooting spread.  The good guys called this tactic "armor demolition". It didn't take long for it to spread throughout the army, and it was also used extensively in Petropavlovsk and subsequent urban battles.

    "Don't worry." Zhuo Fan pressed his hand, but strangely did not agree.  This made Luo Binghui secretly surprised.  He knew that Zhuo Fan was not the kind of person who would tie himself up by politics in order to win.  Even if he doesn't hesitate to wipe out Seoul, why has he changed his character now?  "The opponents are different." Zhuo Fan handed the binoculars to the guard and explained: "We have been fighting the Japanese army for a year, but how many times have you seen an example of an organized siege?"

    When he said this, he really reminded Luo Binghui.  In addition to the islands with nowhere to escape, there have been cases of large-scale formations surrounding Japanese troops from south to north.  "The Japanese army and the Soviet army are different." Zhuo Fan picked up the multi-purpose kettle and said while drinking: "The Japanese army relies heavily on logistics, or there is no modern supply concept at all. This is their weakness, but in a certain way  The conditions are good, but it is also an advantage. The lack of logistics means that they do not need to carry too much baggage, which allows them to often use light-armor tactics. In the early days of going south, many Japanese veterans relied on one rice ball a day and carried hundreds of rounds of ammunition.  Then they penetrated lightly in the depths of the unfamiliar rainforest and ate up the British troops who were unfamiliar with this tactic. It can be seen that the Japanese infantry has a strong penetration ability, can endure hardships, and has a tenacious will to fight. Like Ryukyu  As in the past three months, unless injured, few people surrendered voluntarily. The current North Korea happens to be the most suitable area for using field skirmishing tactics, and we currently have only about twenty divisions in our hands. Zhao Dengyu took them away  Five, Ruixing has three. The rest, except for you, are all Russian and Korean troops. If the investment is too strong, Itagaki will definitely be frightened and he will be killed early.Deploy a breakout, and when the time comes to encounter the Japanese troops who are desperately trying to break out, do you think they can handle the important task of blocking them?  "

    Luo Binghui understood that Zhuo Fan wanted to boil the frog in warm water.  Although the battle ahead was not going well, compared to the Japanese army, the losses were much smaller. It was possible to take advantage of the superior armored forces to wear away the more than 200,000 Japanese troops in Seoul little by little, preventing them from desperately breaking through and drilling into the central mountainous area.  When the Japanese army realizes that the losses are too high and then wants to break out, let alone how to gather tens of thousands of elite forwards, I am afraid that even the most capable veterans will not be able to escape.

    "But Itagaki is so obedient?"

    "Of course not, but Seoul is the heart of North Korea. He can't just run away with more than 200,000 troops without firing a shot. So he will definitely fight a dozen, as for ordering a breakout." Wu Qiwen interrupted, and  Zhuo Fan looked at each other and smiled: "I'm afraid he has no chance."

    "No chance?" Looking at the mysterious two people, Luo Binghui was about to ask, but the staff officer hurried in: "Commander, the 177th Division reported that tens of thousands of North Korean civilian bodies were found in the woods to the northeast. It seems that  They were massacred!"

    "You read that right?" Zhuo Fan had heard about Ryukyu's "Jade Broken Order", but he didn't expect it to happen in Seoul, so he quickly picked up his helmet and walked out.  Wu Qiwen followed behind, and after thinking about it, he grabbed the staff officer and said, "Call the war reporters, and also let the officers of the Korean and Russian troops come and take a look, so that they can understand the brutality of the Nazis and see clearly the face of the enemy."

    "yes."

    After Zhuo Fan went to inspect the massacre scene, the first day of the attack ended quickly.  Defeat heavily armed troops several times in succession.  The news that dozens of tanks were successfully destroyed suddenly revived Japan's spirits. Many officers even clamored to turn Seoul into an "armored cemetery" for their opponents.  But Itagaki knew very well that in order to eliminate dozens of tanks, he had to join thousands of elite veterans in one afternoon.  It would be fine if there were enough troops, but now one person is dead and one is missing, and it is impossible to hold on for a long time.

    "Nishimura-kun, the situation is not good." Itagaki Seishiro sat in front of a kerosene lamp with his eyelids drooped.  Looking at the map carefully, the casualty report from the day's battle is placed in the upper corner of the map.  "Yes, although the Chinese army was repulsed, the casualties were too great!" Nishimura also understood: "Tokyo's idea is too irreconcilable with reality. Fortunately, we used torpedoes to block the mouth of the Han River, and China's heavy naval guns could not fire  Come here, otherwise you will have no chance to be loyal."

    Itagaki took out Anami's telegram and looked at it twice before sighing deeply, as if he was very undecided.  Seeing this, Nishimura couldn't care less and said hurriedly: "Commander. Defending Seoul can certainly show the empire's bravery, but in my opinion, this kind of sacrifice is a waste! We should break through to the eastern mountains at full speed while the soldiers' courage is still there! As long as  If we can join forces with Mr. Obata, we can use the mountainous areas to carry out long-term harassment wars and make the China Army restless."

    These words reached Itagaki's heart, and he immediately waved his staff to leave first, and asked: "So where does Nishimura-kun think we should break out from?" "Here." Nishimura's finger just clicked on the map.  The staff officer closed the blast door, and Takeda Takeo outside had no choice but to look away angrily and walk quickly towards the exit.

    "Stop! The general has an order. Seal the fortress." But as soon as he reached the door, he was blocked by several military police.

    Takeda did not expect Itagaki to order the fortress to be closed, and sweat suddenly oozed from his vest.  You know, in half an hour, the air force will bomb the fortress, and if you don't leave, it will be too late.  So he frowned and immediately took out his ID: "Baga! Don't you know who I am? Open the door quickly. I just received intelligence that someone is instigating rebellion against those evil officials in North Korea. I want to rush there immediately to see! If  They colluded with the Chinese people to cause sabotage in the city to support the enemy, who can bear this responsibility?"

    The evil ministers mentioned by Takeda Yixiong refer to Li Eun, a descendant of the Li Dynasty, and his family members, as well as the Korean officials who vassalized Japan.

    Changdeokgong Palace Ri Eun was a puppet supported by Japan. In order to control him and North Korea, Yamagata Aritomo persuaded Emperor Taisho to betroth Princess Fangzi, the daughter of Prince Shomasa of Rimoto Palace, to him.  After Hirohito came to power, he was also allowed to lead troops and serve as a division officer as a symbol of the integration and amity between Japan and North Korea.  Although North Korea has long since lost its emperor, the Lee family lineage is still valuable in the hearts of many older Koreans. Therefore, before the Battle of Seoul began, Banhuan gathered these valuable North Korean officials together and took them out together when preparing to break out.

    Takeda was the head of the intelligence section and was going to check on important North Korean hostages. The military police had no idea and had to call the fortress commander.  The commander originally wanted to ask Itagaki and Nishimura for instructions, but the two were studying the breakout route, so they had to let Takeda leave first and sent two military policemen, saying they would escort him all the way to the palace bunker.

    The air outside was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke, and Takeda finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at his watch and saw that there were only a few minutes left, and quickly walked towards the palace at a faster pace.  After three days of massacre and one day of fierce fighting, Seoul has turned into a real ghost, with no movement visible on the streets.?Human figures, except for a flare every few minutes, the whole city is as silent as death.  The streets and alleys were full of bomb crater rubble and mutilated corpses. You could also see many naked female corpses, which looked like they had been raped and killed.  The two Japanese military policemen following behind were pointing and commenting on which female corpse had a better figure. They did not notice that Takeda had pulled out the pistol from his arms and quickly installed the silencer.

    After two soft sounds of "Gonggong", Takeda quickly stuffed the body of the military policeman into the gutter, then took out a small telescope and found a hidden location to hide.

    Three minutes later, the buzzing sound of engines rang out in the sky. Anti-aircraft guns at Nanshan Fortress and throughout the city opened fire immediately, and strings of fire points blindly shot up into the night sky.  Soon, two H-10 bombers took the lead in dropping two incendiary bombs directly above the Nanshan Fortress.  By the fire on the ground, eight H-7 long-range bombers at high altitude quickly opened their bomb bays, revealing the No. 25 radio-guided earth-penetrating bomb weighing 3,370 kilograms that had bombed the Deshan oil depot and the "Fury" extra-heavy bomb used in the raid on Guam.  .

    "Target locked!"

    "Boulder No. 1 breaks away and starts radio guidance!"

    "Ten second countdown 4, 3, 2, 1."

    "Boom!"

    Combining the falling kinetic energy with the sharp tungsten alloy warhead, the No. 25 bomb quickly penetrated the 15-meter-deep soil layer on the Nanshan surface, and then penetrated a full 3-meter-thick cement layer, exploding inside the underground fortress.  Hundreds of kilograms of aluminum-magnesium mixed powder.  A high temperature of thousands of degrees burst out in an instant, directly vaporizing all people within a ten-meter radius of the explosion point.

    From Takeda's perspective, the Nanshan Fortress, known as the No. 1 fortress on the Han River, is like an earth dragon turning over. The explosion-proof steel door that can block the direct fire of 240 mm heavy artillery was exploded from the inside, and the ventilation holes all over the mountain were sprayed out almost simultaneously.  flame.  Before the surrounding Japanese troops could react, four more No. 25 ground-penetrating bombs were drilled into the underground fortress centered on the explosion point.  After the surface of the mountain was torn apart, to ensure that the people inside were killed, the bombers dropped three more "Rage" extra-heavy bombs similar to Tallboy bombs.  The total weight is 5,500 kilograms and contains 2,400 kilograms of explosives.  A giant bomb that could penetrate a 5-meter concrete layer was undoubtedly so devastating that all the glass within a kilometer radius of the fortress was shattered, and the ground shook violently, as if a small earthquake had occurred, causing the internal structure of the fortress to rapidly collapse.

    Looking at the ¡°stripped¡± Nanshan Fortress under the mushroom cloud and the Japanese soldiers rushing to rescue them, Takeda laughed happily.  He believed that Itagaki was not killed by the ground-penetrating bomb.  There is absolutely no way to avoid the earthquake collapse caused by "Rage".  After the bomber left, he quickly packed up his things and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

    His mission is not over yet, and it may never be over.

    It was just as Takeda expected.  Thirteen senior generals, including Japanese Korean Army Commander Itagaki Seishiro, Chief of Staff Nishimura, and Hisao Tani who escaped from the Uijeongbu, more than 20 staff officers, dozens of officers, and more than 3,200 fortress defenders were all destroyed by ground-boring bombs and  The "Rage" heavy bomb killed no one.

    There is no unified command from Itagaki.  The Japanese army suddenly fell into panic, and Matsui Iwane, who was inspecting the troops on the south bank of the Han River at the time, had to shoulder the heavy responsibility.  But because Banhuan died too quickly, Matsui was not informed of the breakout plan.  Therefore, he continued to lead his troops to defend according to Anan Weiji's previous telegram.

    This order completely ruined the Japanese army in Seoul. In the next few days, Zhuo Fan took advantage of his armor and deliberately invested less troops at each time, so that the Japanese army could see hope of long-term persistence.  In order to consume the energy of the Japanese army, he also deliberately launched attacks regardless of day or night and time of day. He also stuffed loudspeakers into the plane and flew back and forth over Seoul for several hours in the middle of the night, so that the enemy could not rest or sleep.

    After five days of exhaustion and torture, and the loss of tens of thousands of people, Matsui Iwane realized something was wrong and came up with the idea of ??organizing troops to break out.

    But it¡¯s too late now!  In the early morning of August 19, before Matsui had made arrangements to break out of the encirclement, Zhuo Fan immediately deployed 10 "Siberian Tiger" tank battalions, 3 multi-functional engineering tank battalions, 6 Russian and North Korean uzp34/152 assault gun battalions, and also  There were 62 self-propelled 203/210mm howitzers, cooperating with 3 infantry divisions, and began a mighty "demolition offensive."  The two Korean infantry divisions, stimulated by the massacre, went crazy. All the Japanese soldiers they saw were not alive at all.  The Russian army also showed bravery this time, making full use of the bayonet tactics of the Soviet artillery, driving the uzp34/152 assault gun and uzpkv/203 to a place dozens of meters away from the Japanese position, and then fired flatly!

    The Japanese army was not good at urban warfare to begin with. They were able to hold on before because Zhuo Fan did not exert any force.  Not to mention this first encounter, which is completely unreasonable and eliminates all shooting dead spots.  Many Japanese soldiers were crushed to death by rubble and gravel without even seeing the enemy. It was useless even if they hid in the sewers, because Zhuo Fan ordered that whenever he saw the drainage outlet, he must put his flame gun in and burn it.  By the afternoon, Matsui Iwane had lost control of his troops, and there were people everywhere.In order to fight, the Japanese soldiers were first cut and surrounded by armor, then bombed to death by artillery, and finally fired several times with submachine guns and flamethrowers.

    At eight o'clock that night, the 104th Division took the lead in setting up a pontoon bridge and crossing the Han River into Nancheng.  Seeing this, Matsui Iwane had no choice but to send out telegrams for their respective breakouts, and then led the remaining troops to break out south.  However, as soon as the troops arrived in Suwon, they were attacked by four battleships on the sea and Zhao Dengyu's two divisions and were completely wiped out.

    On August 25, after the last Japanese army entrenched in Yeongdeungpo was killed, Zhuo Fan sent a telegram to Zhu Peide, announcing the end of the Seoul Campaign.  In three weeks of fighting, a total of more than 220,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, and more than 50,000 people were captured or surrendered (North Korean puppet troops). With the help of the North Korean underground party, they successfully captured former members of the North Korean royal family, including Ri Eun.  .  But what Zhuo Fan looked down upon was that Li Yin, in order to save his life, actually took the initiative to tie up his Japanese wife and let him be disposed of after seeing him.

    No matter what, the recovery of Seoul laid a good foundation for a comprehensive settlement of the Korean Peninsula.  After Zhu Depei learned that the Battle of Seoul was over, he also concentrated 6 divisions, quickly defeated the two divisions left behind by Hideyoshi Obata, who had no intention of fighting, and liberated Pyongyang.  Park Eun-sung, the commander-in-chief of the North Korean army, also personally led 12 divisions to liberate Chongjin and Hamhung, and launched a general attack on Wonsan on February 27.  The three men's joint attack forced Tokyo to order the abandonment of major coastal cities. Finally, Obata Hideyoshi led the remaining 570,000 Japanese troops and 400,000 Japanese expatriates to hide in the central mountains and prepare to fight a long-term guerrilla war.

    After three days of rest, Zhuo Fan temporarily abandoned the rugged and complicated central mountainous area and moved his army southward again. It took only seven days to liberate Gwangju in the southwest of the peninsula, only one step away from Busan, an important seaport in the south.

    At this time, Yang Qiu finally arrived in Cape Town, where he will open a new chapter in the world's political landscape (To be continued)
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