Kaesong was originally in a semi-encircled state, and the 8th Division, which was attacking head-on, fought very fiercely, leading most of the troops of the 37th Division. The 1st Division of the French Legion on the western flank and the 19th Japanese Division on the eastern flank immediately launched a strong attack to take advantage of the situation, and soon conquered the positions of several towns outside Kaesong.

The 37th Division suffered heavy losses, and the five marine brigades were also in chaos. Although the British and Japanese coalition forces could not have invaded Kaicheng City for a while, most of the peripheral positions were lost, and the defense space was greatly reduced, and Kaicheng was in danger.

The battle situation in Kaesong was reported to the Pyongyang Frontier Staff. Cai E was puzzled by the sudden powerful offensive of the British and Japanese coalition forces. Although it was speculated to a certain extent that the British and Japanese coalition forces must have been preparing for a long time and were waiting for the right time and place to launch this large-scale general offensive. However, even though the British and Japanese coalition forces succeeded and advanced some fronts, the price paid by the British and Japanese coalition forces was definitely not low. After all, every inch of the advancement of the tough battle was made up of the blood of many soldiers.

Cai E could easily guess that the damage caused to the British and Japanese Allied Forces by the Kaicheng Battle was quite large, which definitely exceeded the casualties of the 37th Division and the Marine Corps. The reason why the British and Japanese Allied Forces attacked so strongly must have another purpose.

That night, the Frontier Staff held a meeting, and many staff officers believed that the 38th Division in Pyongyang should be sent to Kaesong, which can support the battlefield on the one hand, and can also wait for an opportunity to launch a counterattack. In the minds of many people, the Sino-Japanese War should have ended long ago, and we must not stand in and stand because of the 100,000 British corps.

Coupled with the increasing national confidence in the country, most of the front-line commanders are eager to win.

Cai E calmly analyzed the current situation. Although he could not guess the next plan of the British and Japanese coalition forces for the time being, he was sure that as long as the British and Japanese coalition forces continued to attack like today, the Chinese team would be able to drag down the British and Japanese coalition forces in less than a month.

The British French Legion crossed the ocean to fight, and it was very difficult to replenish troops in the future. It was good to be able to replenish troops once every six months. As for Japan, although there are many standing troops in China, Japan has long lost confidence in the war as a whole. Originally, peace talks were the best ending, but after the downfall, the war started again because of Okuma Shigeshinobu's words. In addition, the "East Asia Economic Recovery Plan" has entered a white-hot stage, Japan's economy is becoming increasingly fragile, and the wealth of the country and the people is inexplicably losing a large amount of money. Now it is very difficult to maintain the replenishment of the front-line combat troops. Where can there be extra finance to send more troops to fight?

Because of this, Cai E was very confident in fighting attrition with the British and Japanese Allied Forces, so he transformed strategic offense into strategic defense like he is now. The British and Japanese Allied Forces lacked momentum, and this war could not be delayed for them.

In the end, Cai E did not intend to send the 38th Division to support Kaicheng immediately. Instead, he issued an order to Kaicheng. Once he could not defend the city, he could retreat to Pyongyang to build a new line of defense.

Cai E may not have thought that thanks to his 38th Division's stubbornness, he retained the reserve force for the reversal of the battle situation that took place two days later.

In the early morning of May 20, the Japanese Southern Qing Fleet and Tsarist Russian temporary formation suddenly appeared on the sea surface in the northern part of the Sea of ​​Japan. Behind the two fleets were camouflaged American cargo ships. In the previous month, these American cargo ships had undergone a series of modifications in Taiwan and Japan, and had added many landing crafts and external devices to facilitate landing operations.

At the same time, the Tsarist Russian Eastern Expeditionary Corps, which had long been ambushed on the Sino-Russian border, immediately crossed the Sino-Russian border and launched an attack on Hunchun County.

Apart from a border guard camp stationed in Hunchun, there was no other force. Faced with the huge Tsarist Russian army that suddenly fell from the sky, the old border guard camp was so scared that they fled without fighting, so they let the Eastern Expeditionary Legion occupy the county town. The Tsarist Russian soldiers with corrupt military discipline robbed wildly outside the city, and only after noon did they start to carry out the second step of action before the constraints of their respective commanders.

The Eastern Expeditionary Legion was divided into two, the main force continued to advance towards Yanbian in the northwest, and the logistics force was responsible for landing the Second Division of the French Legion escorted by the Southern Qing Fleet.

On the evening of the same day, the main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Force began to attack Yanbian. This night was the most tragic night in nearly a hundred years for Yanbian. The few military and police in the city fought hard, but they had no choice but to face the enemy dozens of times their own, as well as heavy firepower such as cannons and heavy machine guns, and their defense was as fragile as paper.

After the city was broken, Tsarist Russian soldiers carried out crazy looting and massacres in the city. Any young and middle-aged Chinese people they met were shot with guns and slashed with knives. Some red-eyed officers even ordered piles of Chinese people to be escorted to the Yalu River, lined up side by side, and scattered with heavy machine guns. The entire Yalu River bank was full of incomplete corpses.

According to later records, after this battle, Yanbian had an unforgettable smell of blood for a whole month. The grounds of several streets and alleys were all dyed red and not a single inch white.

The killing did not stop until the early morning of the next day, and the entire Yanbian City was already filled with blood.

The morning after the fall of Yanbian, the provincial government of Jilin Province, Changchun, received the notice that it was the second morning after Yanbian fell, Governor Meng Enyuan was surprised and hurriedly sent a telegram to the command of the three eastern provinces to seek help, and urgently mobilized the reserve troops in Changchun City, and recruited strong men to form militias. However, even so, the total force in the entire Changchun area was only more than 4,000 people, five 75 mm cannons, and twelve heavy machine guns. Such firepower was not enough to deal with the Tsarist Russian army, not to mention the First Division of the French Legion.

After receiving the telegram forwarded by Fengtian in Dandong, Wu Peifu had almost no thoughts and ordered the two locomotive regiments of the Second Division of the National Defense Forces, who had just settled in Yingkou, to quickly set out to Jilin Province for assistance. At the same time, he ordered other troops of the Second Division of the National Defense Forces to terminate all current operations and turn north to Jilin.

At present, there are the First Division and the Third Division of the National Defense Forces on the Western Front, the First Route Army of the Three Northeastern Provinces, with a total force of nearly 70,000, which is enough to cope with the two British military divisions and the Fifth Japanese Division. Originally, Wu Peifu planned to use the forces of the three national defense divisions to launch a round of counterattack at the end of the month, but now it seems that this plan can only be put on hold for the time being. Jilin Province has weak troops. If you do not rush to rescue in time, it will easily allow the enemy to capture the entire territory, which will threaten Hei Province and Fengtian Province.

Not only that, after receiving a telegram from Black Province in Pyongyang, Cai E also realized that something was wrong.

It turned out that before Kaicheng, Chunchuan's enemy launched a forcibly attack, with the purpose of attracting attention and providing cover for the surprise attack on Jilin Province. Cai E analyzed that the army attacking Jilin Province this time was obviously not just the Tsarist Russian Army and the Second Division of the French Army, but also the last third division of the French Army. The Second Division of the National Defense Forces went to reinforce the enemy alone, so he decisively ordered the 38th Division, which had been stationed in Pyongyang to maintain energy, to set off today, and directly attack Yanbian from northern North Korea, cutting off the enemy's retreat.

Although the Second Division and 38th Division of the National Defense Forces rushed to Jilin Province to support it, not all problems were solved.

From Liaodong to Jilin Province, more than 20,000 troops carried supplies. Even if there were railways and airships, it would take at least more than ten days to transport them all. This did not include the time for the troops to rest and formulate counterattack strategies. As for the 38th Division, it would be even further away from Pyongyang. Even if everything went smoothly, it would take more than twenty days at the fastest.

During the half month that the support troops needed to rush, Jilin and Hei Province were in a vacuum period. With the attack speed of the Tsarist Russian Army and the French Army's Second Division and the Third Division, no one knew where they could fight in half a month.
Chapter completed!