readx; In urban warfare, if the city is a city with a large number of cement and stone buildings, then the street fighting will be very hard for the attacker, but in East Asia, in fact, except for the developed cities in China, other cities do not have too many cement and stone buildings, which is obviously different from European cities, even if it is a small town, there are a large number of stone buildings, and those big cities are all stone and cement buildings, so the street fighting in Europe is very cruel. But in North Korea, in fact, except for a few cities such www.biquge.info as Pyongyang, Seoul and Busan, the other cities are very small in scale, and there are no stone and cement buildings.

The urban defense facilities in Huangzhou were not strong, and the 24th Division of the Yue Army, which retreated to Huangzhou, had been defeated by the Eighth Army of the Chinese Army before, and its morale, strength and even equipment were far inferior to the attacking Chinese First Armored Army.

Therefore, it only took one day, and it was said that the 24th Division was once again defeated and had to withdraw from Huangzhou.

When the 1st Panzer Army took Hwangju, the situation of the Pyongyang defense line dropped sharply.

At the same time, the troops of the Eighth Army had turned to attack in a northeasterly direction, and they said to their faces: 'After the defeat of the 11th Division in the pine forest, it was no longer possible to organize a second large-scale defense, and could only retreat all the way.

On 13 February, the 18th Army under the 1st Chinese Army also crossed the river to reinforce the 8th Army to launch an offensive in southern Pyongyang.

At this time, Pyongyang, which was well fortified and heavily armed, had actually lost its strategic value, because Pyongyang was located in the northern part of the Taedong River, and once the Eighth and Eighteenth Armies continued to advance northeast, Pyongyang would be cut off from retreat, which was much more serious than the capture of Hwangju.

"The 11th Division has lost more than half of it, although it has been reinforced by the 23rd Division, but it cannot withstand the attack of the enemy's two armies, in order to avoid our army falling into encirclement in Pyongyang, I propose to immediately abandon Pyongyang and move to the northeast!" A major general of the army said to Kanaya Fan San.

In the past few days, the situation on the Pyongyang defense line has been extremely unfavorable for the Japanese army, and this unfavorable situation is increasing day by day.

Huangzhou has been captured by China, and it is almost impossible to counterattack back, and it has been fully proved in the last Battle of Anzhou that if the army does not have absolute superiority, it is basically impossible to counterattack with the defense of a whole Chinese armored army.

"The only way now is to withdraw to the central part of Korea, and then cross the mountains in this area, and then return to the south of Korea, or make peace with the Third Army!" The major next to him will continue to say this.

Jin Gu Fan looked at the group of generals below with a heavy face, and sighed after a while: "Immediately evacuate from Pyongyang and transfer to central Korea!" ”

After saying this, Kanaya Fan San told in his heart that the Third Army would never be destroyed in his hands, so he knew that once his Third Army withdrew, it would be almost impossible for southern Korea to resist the attack of the Chinese troops. But he still decided to do so, because if he didn't do so, the main force of his Third Army would be taken in, and then it would not be southern Korea that would be conquered, but the destruction of more than 100,000 people of the Third Army.

Once the Third Army is destroyed, there will be no talk of defending southern Korea.

Therefore, in the heart of Kanaya Beomsan, the most important thing now is to preserve the Third Army, even if it is impossible to return to the south of Korea, but it can also go to the east of Korea to join the Second Army.

After the order was quickly issued, although many lower-level officers were dissatisfied and unwilling to abandon Pyongyang, which had well-fortified areas, and were unwilling to take the initiative to retreat when the Chinese troops on the opposite side had not yet launched an attack, an order was an order, so the retreat of the army was quite fast.

The two divisions deployed in Pyongyang were quickly evacuated, and the evacuation operation began after nightfall, so that the Chinese Air Force's aerial reconnaissance did not learn of this in time. By the time the Seventeenth Army discovered that Pyongyang's troops had retreated, it was already the next morning.

"This Jin Gu Fan San is so timid, he plans to run away in a few days!" After learning of the retreat of the Japanese army in Pyongyang, Li Lianyang of the First Army Headquarters frowned.

In this Pyongyang Campaign, what he Li Lianyang wanted was not only to break through the defense line of the Pyongyang Army, but not even to take the southern part of Korea, he wanted to do another Anju Campaign, to encircle and annihilate the Pyongyang Defense Line, otherwise he would not have sent the Eighth Army and the Eighteenth Army to attack in the northeast direction after crossing the river, and even the First Panzer Army stopped continuing to attack in the south, in order to give the defenders in Pyongyang a defensive battle, even if they could not encircle the entire strength of the local three armies. But encircling two or three divisions should be possible.

But I didn't expect Kanaya Fan San to run so fast.

"Now the troops of the Eighth Army and the Eighteenth Army have not yet been fully deployed, and the two divisions of the forward are blocked by the Eleventh Division and the Twenty-third Division, and I am afraid that they will not be able to reach the predetermined area in a short time.!" Chen Yi next to him also frowned: "And although the 17th Army has accepted Pyongyang, almost all the bridges on the Datong River have been blown up by the Yue Army, which is more difficult to cross the river, and only need to bring the lightly armed troops over in a short time, and the heavy artillery will have to wait for two days!" ”

The first group army's boat and bridge units were basically concentrated in the pine forest, and there was no longer a professional boat and bridge unit to build large pontoon bridges, and although the engineering units in the 17th Army were also able to build pontoon bridges, their strength was too small, and it was difficult to transport a large number of heavy equipment in a short period of time.

Without heavy equipment, it is difficult for lightly armed troops to gain an advantage. In addition, although he was evacuated from Pyongyang, he also left a certain amount of defensive strength on the south bank of the Taedong River, and it was not so easy for the 17th Army to cross the river.

Things have developed to the point where the strategy of encircling and annihilating the Pyongyang army can basically be declared a failure, and Li Lianyang has no good way to deal with it, so he can only use another plan.

"Since Pyongyang's army has fled, but it also has to eat up their broken troops, let the Eighth Army and the Eighteenth Army increase their offensive, and it is bound to leave their 11th and 23rd Divisions behind!"

Li Lianyang soon made other decisions: "In addition, let the First Armored Army not have to stay in Huangzhou, and quickly go south, hmph, I don't see the entire southern part of Korea, and after there is no supply line in Busan, I say, 'Where can I get a large amount of supplies!'" ”

"This is also said that if we can capture the southern part of Korea, even if the main force of the Third Army of the Yue Army escapes, they can only withdraw in the direction of Wonsan, and there is only one place where they can get supplies at most. With a small Yuanshan port alone, there is no way for the Yue army to get too many supplies at sea! ”

Chen Yi on the side also agreed.

"Since it is impossible to surround them in Pyongyang, then completely annihilate them in Wonsan!" Li Lianyang said again: "Inform the Thirteenth Army of the Second Army, let them speed up the pace of attack, if they can take Wonsan is the best, if they can't take it, they will occupy favorable terrain for defense!" ”

The 13th Army on the Wonsan side was not a unit of the 1st Group, but a unit of the 2nd Army. For this Sino-Chinese war, China set up two group armies, the first of which was the first-line troops from Dandong to Anju and then to Pyongyang. It was also the main force of this invasion of Korea, and there was also a 13th Army, which attacked from the northeastern part of Korea and was assigned to the command of the Second Army.

As a result of the operation in the northeastern part of Korea, two of the three divisions under the command of the 13th Army were mountain divisions, and in these months of fighting, although they also achieved small victories against the troops of the Second Army of the Sayong Army and forced the Second Army to retreat to the Wonsan area, there was no large-scale fighting.

However, now it seems that the Wonsan area, which was originally only a secondary front, is likely to become the main battlefield.

When the Third Army retreated to the mountainous areas of central Korea, the Chinese troops also quickly adjusted their strategy, and the Eighth and Eighteenth Armies continued to pursue the Eleventh and Twenty-third Divisions and prepared to meet the Seventeenth Army across the river. The First Armored Army did not catch up, but chose to continue southward, because central Korea is mountainous, which is not conducive to the movement of armored troops, and Li Lianyang does not want the tanks in the armored troops to climb the mountain.

Although the rapid retreat of the Third Army avoided their annihilation, it still did not change China's absolute superiority on the Korean battlefield.

As a broken force, it was said that after the 11th Division was defeated again, its main force was annihilated by the Eighth Army, and only a few thousand people escaped, and the 23rd Division would also be severely damaged by the 18th Army.

The 1st Panzer Corps, which continued to move south, also defeated the 24th Division again, and then engaged in a fierce battle with the 15th Division, which had been reinforced from southern Korea.

Although the battle of Pyongyang, which was originally on a grand scale, came to an end quickly, and although it did not encircle and annihilate any of the divisions and regiments of the Chinese army in a structured manner, it inflicted heavy losses on the three divisions of the Chinese army, saying that the 11th Division, the 23rd Division, and the 24th Division had basically lost their combat effectiveness.

On February 16, the First Panzer Army conquered Seoul, and on the 20th, its forward troops had arrived near Busan, and the army gathered more than 20,000 remnants in Busan to resist stubbornly.

Except for the First Army, which sent two divisions south to support the First Panzer Army, the other main forces had already turned around and marched to the central and eastern parts of Korea, closely following behind the Third Army.

By about the 25th of February, the southern part of Korea had been taken by China except for Busan, and at this time, the Third Army had also converged with the Second Army.

Faced with the fall of southern Korea, they could no longer continue southward and could only rely on the Wonsan area for resistance.

At this time, the main forces of the First Army and the Thirteenth Army of the Second Army also converged, and the Fifteenth Army, which was urgently reinforced by the Second Army, was also about to arrive at Wonsan.

At that time, the Chinese forces surrounding the Wonsan area will gather up to six armies, with a total strength of nearly 400,000 troops.