In the blink of an eye, it was early July. After the disbanding of the Joint Staff, all divisions and brigades of the French Legion secretly received orders to prepare for retreat. However, for various British combat troops, such retreat must not be blatant, otherwise it is likely to be pursued and beaten by the Central ** team.

French specifically advised the commanders of his subordinate divisions to use Japanese soldiers as shields, while British soldiers quietly retreated to the landing site on various reasons for combat. At the same time, he contacted the American merchant ships anchored in the Philippines, and asked the merchant ships to arrive at various landing sites early to pick up British soldiers on board.

The first reaction was naturally Kaesong. Before and after the First Division of the French Legion, Chunchuan ordered the Japanese Ninth Division and the 19th Division to defend their positions and cover the transfer of British troops. In order to win the trust of the Japanese, the First Division even left a large number of strategic materials and weapons and equipment, and said with a high sound that they should carry lightweight and simple operations.

However, the Japanese army had already had a premonition that the British army planned to launch this war, but they had no choice but to find out the matter.

Since the failure of the Battle of Chunchuan, the mental state of the Japanese combat troops on all sides has long been extremely fragile. They realized that this war was powerless to turn things around, and once the real failure was approaching, all soldiers in North Korea would face extremely dangerous consequences. After all, Japan had rebelled before and tore up the peace agreement that had been signed. It would not be easy to argue for peace again, and to continue to resist stubbornly, it would only mean more deaths.

Because of this, all Japanese troops all agreed that they must not point out this level at this time, otherwise the morale of the army will collapse quickly. Before the Chinese team can fight, they will begin to fall apart. At that time, the Chinese team will be enough to sweep all the Japanese troops in North Korea without any effort, and the casualties will inevitably be even more severe.

After the British troops in Kaesong left, they did not go directly to Chuncheon as mentioned before, but went directly to Incheon to board the American cargo ship.

Just one day later, the Fourth Division, Fifth Division and Sixth Division of the French Legion on the Liaodong battlefield also began to plan for retreat. Because the two divisions on the Eastern Front were not with the Japanese army, they did not need any concerns and directly retreated from the Donggang front line to Zhuanghe, and then boarded the ship to evacuate.

The Fourth Division on the Western Front battlefield took advantage of the night to evacuate quietly. The Fifth Division only found that the British positions several miles away were empty until dawn. The commander-in-chief of the Fifth Division, Kisaki Otani, couldn't help but sigh, what kind of motivation is this to make more than 10,000 people evacuate cleanly in one night!

The French Legion bid farewell without saying goodbye, and immediately put an end to the ups and downs of the Sino-Japanese War.

Even though the Japanese army, which still remained in North Korea, maintained firm beliefs like self-deception, a crack of collapse had already appeared between the grassroots soldiers. This crack was like the Antarctic ice sheet under the greenhouse effect. As the pressure doubled, it became more and more cracked. Only three days later, most of the grassroots soldiers lost the will to continue fighting, and their willingness to surrender, seek peace, and commit suicide filled the entire front line.

The Chinese team did not intend to enjoy the success of this. The 36th Division in Chunchuan even shouted a slogan: "The Japanese devils surrendered and caused us to suffer a lot. Today they are out of the blue. It is the time for us to settle the accounts after autumn. This time we will fight to Busan in one go and force the Japanese to go down the sea to swim back to Japan."

This appeal immediately resonated strongly. The morale of the Chinese soldiers is now extremely high. Faced with the remaining defeated Japanese soldiers, it is a great time to avenge and promote our country's power in the public, and it is a sprint stage to clean up military achievements and make up for the achievements in private. It is worth chasing wildly in public and private, and it is a fatal blow to the Japanese.

Therefore, on the third day of the Chunchuan Battle, the 34th Division was in charge of Chunchuan, responsible for handling the disorganization of the battlefield, appeased the people, and detaining prisoners to concentration camps. The 30th Division, the 35th Division and the 36th Division set out in Chunchuan, and advanced into southern Korea in three directions, chasing the remnants of the three Japanese divisions and the retreating 18th Division.

At the same time, after many reconnaissances, the 37th Division and five Marine Brigades in Kaesong were confirmed to have quietly evacuated, and only the Japanese 9th Division and the 19th Division were left on the periphery positions. So, without waiting for Pyongyang to issue combat orders, the two units decisively launched a counterattack.

The entire Korean battlefield has once again changed from strategic defense to strategic offense, and its momentum is even more turbulent than the offense at the beginning of the war.

The counterattack in Kaesong only lasted for two days. At first, the two Japanese divisions were determined to force death and refused to give in. Instead, they showed a momentum of returning to the light, which made the Chinese team very puzzled. However, this was just a burst of struggle before dying. Under the continuous bombardment of air firepower, the Japanese army was not strong enough, and the front soon collapsed. From the third day, the Japanese army immediately showed weakness. The 37th Division launched a general attack, directly destroying the strongest main position of the Japanese army, and completely defeated the morale of the Japanese army.

In the next few days of combat, the 37th Division was completely chasing two broken divisions of the Japanese army.

The 37th Division has a clear goal and must reach Seoul within five days to destroy the most important Japanese stronghold in North Korea.

Originally, the Ninth Division planned to use the radical mentality of the 37th Division to set up an ambush in the middle, but they didn't know that even though the ambush circle was set up, the 37th Division even tore a hole from the ambush circle, and instead beat the Ninth Division to scatter and flee again.

After the ambush failed, Lieutenant General Sogo Kawamura sighed to the sky and said, "This is a bottom-up defeat of the morale of the army. The morale of the army is dead. Why do you want to fight?"

He knew very well that even though the Ninth Division and the Ninth Division had previously had a self-deception, the major failure of the Chunchuan Front and the quietly withdrawal of the French Legion had already sown the seeds of despair among the entire Japanese army. The failure of the ambush battle is the best example of proof of the despair of the military! There is no way to continue this battle, even the persistence of deceiving oneself is futile.

On July 5, the 37th Division finally advanced the front line to Seoul. However, when the scouts went to spy around Seoul, they found that the Japanese army had no defense operations around Seoul. Soon, in just two hours, the Chinese soldiers occupied all the towns and villages outside Seoul like fallen leaves, and established strongholds with these places.

However, there are many differences in the tactical strategies of how to attack Seoul.

Some people think that the Japanese army is like a dog that is strayed, and even gave up the outer positions in a hurry. It can be seen that the defense in the city is even more chaotic. This is the best time for the attack, and the Japanese army should not have the chance to recover.

However, some other staff officers were concerned about the ambush of the 9th Division before. After all, the last Jedi counterattack was more or less lucky. If this rash attack on Seoul and a more serious ambush may not be able to successfully counterattack like last time. The most urgent task is to wait for the subsequent heavy attack troops and armored regiments to arrive, and fight steadily and not take a wrong step on the eve of victory.

The opinions could not be unified for the time being. The 37th Division had been directly under Cai E before. At present, it did not set up the position of division commander, but maintained the joint system of staff officers, and the deputy commander and the division chief jointly decided on the combat plan. Because of this, now that there are such serious differences in the division headquarters, it is naturally impossible to make a final decision.

However, on that night, the division headquarters received a telegram that the First and Second Brigade of the Marine Corps had landed in Incheon and would launch an attack from the back to Seoul after dawn.

Before, when pursuing the Japanese army, the Marine Corps had been serving as cover on the flanks, but was soon ordered to assist the engineering team and civilians in the emergency repair of the railway. Until the day the 37th Division encountered an ambush of the 9th Division outside Seoul, Pyongyang directly sent an order, drawing two brigades on board from the Kaesong waters and attacking Incheon Port, while the other three brigades continued to work on emergency repairs.

Now there is no defense in Incheon Port. Although the French Legion once regarded this place as an important military port, it retreated like a wind and clouds, and it was almost vacuumed overnight. The First and Second Brigades of the Marine Corps landed in the afternoon, and lasted for more than ten hours before all the troops were sent ashore.

After only two hours of rest, the Marine Corps immediately set off for Seoul and arrived in Seoul on the evening of the next day.

After the Marine Corps contacted the 37th Division, they decided to launch a tentative attack at night. Regardless of whether there is an ambush in Seoul, under the cover of night, they can retreat quickly once they find that the situation is wrong.

The plan has been decided, and the night attack will be decisively launched after a few hours.

Although the facts were different from the guessed situation, the Japanese army did not set up an ambush in the city, but they held the street positions and faced the team head-on, and refused to give in. Because the North Korean distribution of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters was stationed in Seoul, the officers of the General Staff Headquarters would never allow them to retreat. They asked soldiers and Japanese civilians across the city to participate in the defensive battle and vowed to fight with the team of the Chinese General Staff to die.

Neither Chinese nor Japanese expected that the Seoul battle would last for more than ten days, until the peace talks began, the ** team could not completely recover Seoul. There were 50,000 or 60,000 civilians in Seoul. Although the Japanese army did not have enough weapons to reserve, once soldiers on the front line were killed, his weapons would be handed over to the next supplementary soldiers and then continued to fight.
Chapter completed!