At dawn on April 22, three Japanese divisions in Chunchuan suddenly launched a full-scale counterattack.

This counterattack was a situation of undeclared war, and it took advantage of the cover of darkness in the dawn to launch a raid. At the same time, it was easy to fight, and nearly 10,000 combat troops were invested in almost the same time.

Although the Chinese team stationed outside Chunchuan was prepared, they did not expect that the Japanese raid would be so large, and not all positions and defense lines would be promptly reflected. Soon, the positions of several small villages and towns were broken by the Japanese, and the Chinese defenders suffered heavy casualties. However, after more than 20 minutes of the battle, all the Chinese main troops woke up, and the artillery, strengthened firepower and air force units immediately entered the battle, and the entire situation eased.

Especially the main positions outside several county towns, even if they were suddenly attacked from the beginning, they still stubbornly defended the defense line and took advantage of the emergency repair position to cause considerable damage to the Japanese army.

By eight o'clock, the Chinese follow-up troops organized an emergency counterattack, using heavy artillery fire to seize all the positions thrown away at dawn. Before noon arrived, the Japanese offensive had already shown signs of fatigue.

News of the rekindled Korean war quickly spread along the Korean Peninsula to the inland. Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai were the first to receive the war telegram, and it was also the fastest to make political responses.

Feng Guozhang held a press conference for the new meeting before nine o'clock, solemnly announced to the reporters from all countries that had happened in North Korea a few hours ago, and issued a series of harsh criticisms. When he was excited, he couldn't help but stamp his feet on the table, which scared the reporters all over the audience.

"What kind of despicable country does such despicable things? What kind of shameful nations treat international diplomacy as a joke? What kind of dirty politicians use national credibility as a bet? Look, the Dukes keep their eyes open and take a closer look. Japan has gone back on its word and used the excuse of seeking peace agreements. After the peace agreement was signed, it was simply shameless and despicable!"

"According to the latest news we have received, when the Japanese army launched a raid, there were originally many innocent Korean people near our army's camp. They were waiting for the end of the war to return home, and they have been assisting our soldiers in cleaning up the ruins of the battlefield. The Japanese army rushed over at night without warning, and even these innocent civilians were not spared. In just one hour, it was an hour, and about 6,000 Korean people and our soldiers were massacred."

"On behalf of the Nanjing Central Government of the Republic of China, I announced that the Republic of China and Japan have no match for the country. This time, Japan's despicable move will definitely be with us! "

The content of the Presidential Palace held a press conference immediately spread throughout Nanjing in just a few dozen minutes. In the following ten hours, it was out of control like a virus and spread wildly throughout the country.

All the Chinese who heard about this were shocked, and the shock turned into uncontrollable anger.

The expressions of righteous indignation can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys talking about this matter. All Chinese criticize Japan without trust and use these despicable means to try to win back the war.

After the newspaper reported that the Japanese launched a raid at dawn, causing casualties among many Chinese soldiers and North Korean civilians, the public became more restless. People went from being indignant to being gritted, and a remark of "killing all Japanese devils" gradually spread in the market.

The nationalist atmosphere that the central government has been creating before quickly contributed to the fire. Some crazy nationalists made big remarks: "How can the noble dignity of the Chinese nation allow the despicable Japanese nation to be trampled on by the despicable Japanese nation?"

Driven by nationalism, the people are increasingly supporting the government to persevere in the war, and must completely defeat the Japanese country and the Japanese nation, and not give Japan any chance to turn things around.

After noon, just as the country was in a stir, the 8th Division of Japan launched an attack on Kaesong again. Less than two hours later, the First Fighting Brigade of France joined the 19th Division, quickly advanced to the left and right flanks of Kaesong, and launched a pincer attack almost at the same time.

However, because the battle in Chunchuan started in the morning, Kaesong had already given advance warnings, and the 37th Division and five naval and marine brigades stationed in Kaesong were on high alert. At the beginning, they curbed the attack of the Japanese 8th Division, and then used the fire support of the air force, heavy artillery and train guns to repel the 8th Division at one time.

Even though the British and the 19th Division rushed over to help later, they used the Kaicheng position left by the Japanese army earlier, and the recent three consecutive days of repairing fortifications, even if they faced three times their own enemy forces, they also tied the firepower. The two sides were in a stalemate.

Xu Yongchang, the acting commander of the 37th Division, personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, and at the same time, he used a telescope to see the British flags in the southwest. Although there were not too many British troops appearing on Kaicheng, at best, only 3,000 or 5,000 troops. However, he considered that the British army was transporting for a long distance after all, and it would take time for the subsequent troops to arrive, so this unit was very likely just a vanguard.

Immediately, Xu Yongchang ordered the division headquarters to send the news to Pyongyang and Fengtian, informing the headquarters that the General Staff had confirmed the location of the British attack.

During this period, Cai E was still in Pyongyang. After receiving the news from the 37th Division, he immediately convened a meeting of the General Staff to discuss specific combat strategies to deal with the British and Japanese troops.

"Now it is certain that the British army will land in southern Korea and join forces with the Japanese army to advance north. The most urgent task is that we should mobilize the 38th Division and the 4th Division of the National Defense Force to support Kaicheng, and use positional warfare to first defeat the British army's spirit. When the British and Japanese troops consumed almost the same amount, we should focus on counterattacking and break through Seoul."

"Since you are going to mobilize the 38th Division and the 4th Division of the National Defense Forces, why not just take advantage of the British army's foothold and fight a big attack in one go and attack Huanglong?"

"After all, we don't know the facts of the British army. The intelligence says that there are about 100,000 troops. How strong is the combat power of these 100,000 troops? How much firepower equipment does it have? We don't know any of these. We must be careful when dealing with strange enemies. On the contrary, the British army and Japan have joined forces to know the details of our army. At this time, the enemy is still dark and I am in the open. It is inappropriate to attack rashly."

In the meeting room of the General Staff Department, all the staff members expressed their opinions, which sounded reasonable on the surface, but no one could make up their minds for a while.

During the debate, many people's eyes fell on Cai E and Wu Peifu. These two commanders-in-chief and chief of staff of the North First Army were currently the top two commanders in the Korean War, and the final decision naturally fell on them.
Chapter completed!