Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 554 The Fall of the Dynasty
Gyeongbokgung Palace covers an area of ​​50 hectares in a square shape, with Gwanghwamun Gate in the south, Jianchun Gate in the east, Yingchu Gate in the west and Shenwu Gate in the north.There are Qinzheng Hall, Sizheng Hall, Kangning Hall, Jiaotai Hall, Ciqing Hall, Qinghui Tower, Xiangyuan Pavilion and other halls.

At this time, Shigeru Honjo, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, accompanied by Chief of Staff Miyake Koji, was having his last supper at the Hall of Kangning there.Miyake Miyake looked at Shigeru Honjo with a painful expression, and couldn't help but said: "General, it doesn't matter if all the soldiers of the Kwantung Army die in battle, but you must leave Pyongyang and leave a glimmer of life for the Kwantung Army. If you agree, I am willing to stay and command Pyongyang's last glorious battle in your place!"

Wearing a neat military uniform, Shigeru Honjo knelt behind a low wooden table, took a glass of sake and drank it down, looked back at the command sword on the table, and said in a heavy voice: "Now the entire city of Pyongyang has been captured by the enemy. Surrounded, we have become caged birds, and it is impossible to leave. Moreover, as glorious soldiers of the Great Empire, we are obliged to sacrifice our lives for His Majesty the Emperor, and it is shameful to leave at this time!"

"Please stop being stubborn." Miyake Miyake's voice was trembling: "We still have a lot of soldiers in southern North Korea, and they are all waiting for you to command. We cannot give up the victory of the whole North Korea just because of a small Pyongyang. You It is perfectly possible to disguise yourself as a North Korean refugee and take advantage of the chaos to leave here.”

"Baga! Do you know what you're talking about? Is there any chance for North Korea to encourage the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army to be a deserter? Judging from the current situation, I doubt it very much. Do you know how long it took the Chinese to reach Pyongyang since they crossed the Yalu River? Well, 21 days, it took only 21 days to defeat the Kwantung Army, known as the most elite army, and hundreds of thousands of North Korean mercenaries. Don’t you think it’s terrible? Now I’m beginning to doubt the decision made by the military department Now, fighting against China is definitely the most stupid and ridiculous decision ever made. But we are soldiers, and we have no right to doubt the orders of our superiors. At this time, we can only serve the country with death." Ben Zhuang Fan's face was distorted up.

Miyake Mitsuji lowered his head helplessly, followed by a long silence.

At this time, the three combat engineering brigades of the 1th Division and the 27th Division of the 28st Army of the Northeast Army began to seize this historic palace building, a symbol of the highest power in North Korea.

The first thing they attacked was Gwanghwamun.Gwanghwamun is located in the south of Gyeongbokgung Palace and is also the main entrance of Gyeongbokgung Palace. It was originally a tall white marble archway. Due to repeated bombings, it has become a ruined wall. A circular defensive trench was set up around Gwanghwamun. Dead bodies piled up like a mountain, and some surviving Japanese and Korean soldiers were fighting trapped beasts.

There is an open small square to the west of Guanghuamen, and trenches and traffic trenches have been dug in the north, northwest and south, and some trenches are filled with water.All the doors and windows of the palace in this area were blocked with bricks and stones, leaving only small launch holes and observation holes, and high walls and parapets were built in front of the main entrances and exits.There are about 1200 to 1800 Japanese and Korean remnants defending the gate.

At 4 o'clock in the morning on April 27, the Northeast Army began firepower preparations before the offensive.After more than ten minutes of artillery fire, the assault battle groups of the 11st and [-]th Assault Brigades of the Combat Engineers launched an attack, attempting to rush into Guanghuamen from three directions.However, the enemy's firepower that was not reliably suppressed immediately ejected a violent wall of bullets.The assault soldiers were shot and fell to the ground one after another, and most of the tanks covering the attack were also destroyed by the opponent's bombs and artillery, and the first impact was declared a failure.

At 1:89 p.m., after a rest, the Northeast Army dispatched 30 artillery pieces, self-propelled artillery pieces, and rocket launchers to attack the firepower points in front and behind Guanghuamen for [-] minutes. The walls here suddenly became riddled with holes. The firepower points formed by blocking the doors and windows with stones and the soldiers behind were blown to pieces, and many large holes were blasted into the thick walls of many palace buildings.

While the firepower of the defenders was being suppressed, the assault detachments re-launched the attack under the cover of 23 land carrier-class assault tanks and self-explosive vehicles.They used the obstacles in the open space and the wreckage of weapons as cover to advance alternately, avoiding the frontal firepower of the defenders, and slowly advancing towards Guanghuamen.

In this way, finally at 2:25 pm, the Second Combat Engineer Brigade rushed into Guanghuamen first.The intruding army immediately divided into groups to eliminate the Japanese troops in the palace building one by one. The two sides engaged in fierce close combat in the room, on the stairs, and in the corridors, using almost all types of weapons, from daggers, bayonets, grenades to heavy machine guns, flamethrower.Automatic weapons swept like the wind, and the walls of the palace were all honeycombed.The red-eyed Chinese soldiers also used the individual grenade grenades that were originally "tank killers" against people, and sprayed randomly at the defensive troops with machine guns inside. big hole.

Due to the large area inside, after the commando invaded, they could only capture one place and consolidate one place, and it was impossible to do it overnight like other places.On the brink of life and death, the Japanese army even brought in heavy machine guns that were not used in indoor combat, and slammed at the opposite Chinese.The grenadiers that fell into the hands of the Japanese army also became a nightmare for the Chinese. When they touched a bomb, they fired it to the opposite side regardless of the three sevens and twenty ones.

Inside the dimly lit palace building filled with gunpowder, soldiers from both sides kept falling from the stairs or large holes in the floor and fell to the hard ground to die.After paying a relatively heavy price, the commando finally wiped out the Japanese troops on the lower floor of several palaces inside the gate.But the Japanese army guarding above refused to surrender, screaming and screaming to fight the Chinese to the end.

Tang Yulin saw that it was not an option to continue fighting like this, as the saying goes: kill one thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred. If the casualties are too heavy at the last juncture, I don't know how Zhang Zuolin will deal with him later.He turned around a few times in a hurry, stomped his feet at the end, and simply transferred a tank formation over, ordering to fire directly at the upper floor of the palace building. "Boom!" The tanks parked on the square in front of the palace opened fire immediately, and the mutilated corpses of Japanese and Korean soldiers mixed with bricks and stones flew around.Some old palace people in Gyeongbokgung Palace hid in the distance and saw the destruction of those palace buildings, and they couldn't help crying loudly: "Devils, all are devils!"

Tang Yulin's bombardment tactics achieved miraculous results, and the progress of the assault was greatly accelerated.At 3:15 in the afternoon, the first assault group of combat engineers finally raised the five-clawed golden dragon flag on the top of the main buildings of these palace buildings.This marks that the Northeast Army has completely occupied the Guanghuamen area.

The sound of gunfire outside Kangning Hall was getting closer and closer, while Honjo Shigeru and Miyake Mitsuji sat quietly in the hall waiting for death to come.

At this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the hall, and Miyake Mitsuji suddenly got up, thinking that a Chinese soldier had killed him, he pulled out a southern-style pistol from his waist, which is also commonly known as a bastard box, and opened the nose to face the door!

The person who came in was none other than North Korean Puppet Prime Minister Syngman Rhee and several officials.Miyake Koji breathed a sigh of relief and put the pistol away again.Li Chengman was sweating profusely in anxiety, and came to Ben Zhuang Fan in a panic, bowed deeply: "Your Excellency, the Chinese have broken through the Guanghua Gate, and the other palace gates are also being attacked by the Chinese army." If we attack by force, this palace may not be able to be kept, what should we do?"

Ben Zhuangfan drank the wine in his glass, glanced at Li Chengman contemptuously, and said lightly: "From the day you took refuge in the Great Empire, you should be ready to serve the Emperor at any time."

ah!Syngman Rhee yelled, his legs went limp, and he almost collapsed on the ground, tremblingly said: "But I am a citizen of the Korean Empire, it seems that I don't need to be loyal to the Emperor"

"What?" Benzhuang Fan's eyes suddenly shot two fierce lights, he stared at Li Chengwan firmly and said, "Li Sang, I hope you can understand that from the day you joined the Great Empire, you are no longer You are a citizen of the Korean Empire, your life and everything you have belongs to His Majesty the Emperor, Pyongyang is broken, you must fulfill your obligations and be loyal to the Emperor!"

Syngman Rhee was stunned for a while, then suddenly shouted hysterically: "I don't want to die, I don't want to die, go to the Emperor, go to the Korean Empire, my life is up to me, and none of you will take it." Don't go!" As he spoke, he reached out and touched his arms.

Miyake Miyake had sharp eyesight and quick hands, he pulled out the pistol in a jerk, and shot three shots at Syngman Rhee's chest with "bang bang bang". This document is exactly the secret agreement he signed with the Kwantung Army.It turned out that he wanted to tear up the agreement in front of Shigeru Honjo. Miyake Miyake thought he was going to draw a gun, so he took the lead in killing him.

Seeing this situation, the officials brought by Syngman Rhee turned around and wanted to run away, but they were shot one by one by Miyake Miyake and killed on the spot.

Ben Zhuang Shige didn't even lift his eyelids from the beginning to the end, it seems that he has long been numb to the murder scene, or there is nothing else that can attract his attention at this moment.

"Commander, there is also Emperor Gojong of Joseon in this palace, should we kill him together?" Miyake Miyake asked Shigeru Honjo while changing the magazine.

Ben Zhuangfan said calmly: "Give them to the Chinese. The Chinese will not let them go. Let's enjoy more of the tranquility before death."

"Hi!"

At this time, part of the Japanese and Korean soldiers guarding the palace began to break out frantically. They used 5 chariots. More than half of the participants were Koreans. At the moment when their lives were at stake, they had long forgotten the national spirit. In the end, as long as you can survive, you can do anything.The soldiers who broke out fought a fierce battle with the Northeast Army's armored grenadier division near Jiaotai Hall.Only half an hour later, four of the five chariots were destroyed by the opponent's mortars, and the last chariot was discarded by the flower pond in front of Jiaotai Hall, and he took up infantry weapons without hesitation. , and launched the final battle with the Northeast Army.After another half an hour, all the Japanese and Korean soldiers of the two regiments that broke out here were wiped out by the Northeast Army, leaving no prisoners.

A five-claw golden dragon blood flag was planted on the roof of Jiaotai Hall.At this time, there were still people fighting in the defense tunnel under the main hall. Tang Yulin ignored the three sevens and twenty-one orders, and the combat engineers used ten bags of high explosives to blow up the top of the tunnel and collapsed the Jiaotai Palace in half. .

"Pour water into the tunnel and drown all these bastards!" Tang Yulin roared loudly.

The soldiers carried all the dozens of large open-air water tanks in Gyeongbokgung Palace, and filled them into the tunnel one by one.In less than a cup of tea, white corpses floated inside.

(End of this chapter)