At this moment, the 27th Division of the Japanese army finally dispatched to reinforce the 22nd Division. Although it was blocked by the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Division of the People's Army Corps, the Japanese army left a brigade to deal with the People's Army, and the other brigade bypassed the 1st Regiment of the 22nd Division. This was also because Luo Yue was too optimistic about the battle and only prepared one regiment to block the reinforcements. Now it seems that the troops are indeed a bit weak.

After receiving the report, Luo Yue immediately ordered the fight to give up and the entire army retreated. Retreat at this time is the correct tactical choice and will not have an adverse impact on the army's mentality and morale. However, Luo Yue also decided that in the future, in the Japanese local war, try not to fight head-on with the Japanese army, but should focus on raids, otherwise such a battle would not be beneficial to the People's Army.

The People's Army took the initiative to retreat, which also made the 22nd Division survived in a desperate situation. The division commander Sainosuke Yamamoto was relieved, and some of the staff members cried with joy.

After the People's Army landed in Japan, the first battle with the main force of the Japanese army ended like this. The People's Army lost 627 people, 873 people were injured, 23 people were missing, and 512 Japanese soldiers were captured. The Japanese army lost 3,581 people, 5,287 people were injured, and 817 people were missing. The loss ratio of the two sides reached 1:6. Most of the casualties of the People's Army were caused when the attack on the 22nd Division, and when the attack on the 23rd Division, the entire army suffered less than 100 casualties.

On the Japanese side, the 22nd Division suffered more than 4,000 casualties; the 23rd Division had about 5,000 casualties, and the casualties of the two divisions were almost the same, but the outcome was very different. The 23rd Division was completely defeated by the People's Army, while the 22nd Division finally defended its position.

The war report reached the Japanese Army Department. Army Minister Masato Desunauchi and Chief of Staff Aritomo Yama Prefecture were shocked. Unexpectedly, a division was easily defeated by the People's Army. Although the 22nd Division blocked the People's Army's subsequent attack and saved some face, it was still a major failure for the Japanese army. It also seriously affected the Japanese army's plans.

It turned out that the three Japanese divisions were arranged in the inverted "品", two divisions of 22 and 23 blocked the People's Army and blocked the People's Army on the Nodeng Peninsula. Moreover, considering that the Japanese army had many new recruits and lacked experience, the 27th Division was arranged to support the rear. If these three divisions could be stabilized for 10-15 days, the Japanese Army would gather the forces of 3-4 divisions to fight the People's Army.

But now just three days later, the 23rd Division was completely defeated. Although the 22nd Division defended its position, it also suffered heavy casualties, with more than 20% of its combat personnel reduced. A gap was also opened for the blockade of the People's Army. Although the 27th Division moved forward immediately, and the People's Army did not march immediately, finally blocking the gap. However, there was no army behind the two divisions. In addition, judging from the situation of this battle, the lack of experience of the Japanese army was the biggest shortcoming. If the People's Army launches another attack in the near future, no one will be sure whether the Japanese army will still defend the defense line.

So after the Army Department negotiated, it urgently dispatched the 28th Division to Ishikawa Prefecture to replace the 22nd Division. The 22nd Division retreated to Gifu Prefecture. As the 27th and 28th Divisions, the remaining troops of the 23rd Division were temporarily assigned to the 22nd Division.

At the same time, the Army Department ordered that the 22nd Division be commended collectively and the division commander Kiyonosuke Yamamoto was awarded personal commendation. However, considering that he was directly promoted from the brigade commander to the division commander, he did not make any promotion to his post or military rank this time. However, in order to reward Yamamoto Konosuke's military achievements, the emperor gave him a saber and wrote the four-character commendation with him personally. For the Japanese, being able to get the saber given by the emperor and commend the sacred words is of course a very high honor.

In fact, the 22nd Division just defended its position and suffered significant losses. It was not a great achievement. Moreover, Yamamoto Kiyonosuke himself jumped to the level and was promoted, and he really couldn't afford such a high honor. However, now that Japan has suffered consecutive defeats, the enemy has hit its own homeland, and it needs to establish a few heroic images to improve morale. Moreover, when his companions were defeated, the 22nd Division firmly defended its position so that the Japanese army would not collapse on the entire line, which can be regarded as turning the tide in a way.

Of course, there must be punishments when rewarding the 22nd Division. Naturally, the 23rd Division will be punished. Moreover, a complete division was defeated by the enemy in just one hour. No matter what the excuse is, it is unreasonable. Therefore, the Army Department is quite dissatisfied with the performance of the 23rd Division. Although Major General Ono Shoo, the division commander of the 23rd Division, committed suicide in the command center and no longer held him responsible, he was also not easily forgiven, as well as the deputy division commander, the division chief, the deputy chief of staff, etc.

Therefore, the Army Department decided that the 23rd Division would be removed from the Japanese army forever, all officers at the corps level and above were removed from office, demoted to the military street by level 3, and all other personnel were reduced to the first-level military rank and first-level military rank, and temporarily assigned to the 22nd Division for their crimes and meritorious service.

This punishment is not only quite severe, but also a division is a very rare object in the world military history. Because it is a country like Japan with a feudal feudal color, the entire division may not be able to clear the shame for the rest of his life. Therefore, when the punishment order was passed to the 22nd Division, a total of 53 officers at the division level, brigade level, and corps level, who were demoted to the deputy division commander, committed suicide by committing suicide by collectively taking a caesarean section.

Two days later, the 28th Division was in place, and the Japanese army finally established a complete blockade line. However, this time, the Japanese army did not dare to be careless and strengthened surveillance on beaches within 50 kilometers of the surrounding blockade line to prevent the People's Army from landing and attacking again.

Five days later, the 24 and 29 divisions also arrived at the battlefield. At this time, the Japanese army had already concentrated 5 divisions before climbing the peninsula. Together with the remaining troops of the 23rd Division, a total of about 100,000 troops, and formed a layout of front 2 and back 3. The blockade line was very thick. It was not until this time that the Japanese Army Department was relieved and no longer had to worry about the blockade line being lost.

At this moment, the Japanese army began to try to attack the People's Army's defense line. On the one hand, it was to test the People's Army's defense, and on the other hand, it also restrained the People's Army's attention and made the People's Army lose the energy to launch a landing raid.

Three days later, the Japanese army basically understood the virtuality and reality of the People's Army's defense line, and a batch of artillery also arrived at the front-line battlefield. Therefore, the Japanese army also strengthened its offensive and planned to break through the People's Army's defense line in one go. So two days later, the Japanese army paid a total of more than 5,000 casualties, and finally broke through the People's Army's defense line, and the People's Army retreated to the middle of the peninsula.

In fact, the frontier of the peninsula is not a battlefield preset by the People's Army, so the People's Army did not intend to garrison here for a long time, and the fortifications were constructed relatively simple. After the Japanese army strengthened the offensive, the People's Army did not defend the position, but decisively gave up the position, retreated back, and retreated to the middle of the Peninsula.

The central area of ​​the peninsula is the battlefield where the People's Army chose to defend against the Japanese attack. The People's Army built two lines of defense here. After nearly 20 days of construction, the various defense fortifications on the defense line have been very complete. The front trenches, as the main body of the defense line, are nearly 5 meters deep, and a large number of castles and fire points are built along the defense line, and there are artillery positions in the rear. In addition, fire points and artillery positions are also arranged on the top of the mountain where the defense line passes. At the same time, life and auxiliary facilities are also complete. It can be said that everything is ready, just waiting for the Japanese army to attack.

Of course, whether it is the People's Army's voluntary abandonment or the Japanese heroic battle, it is always a fact that it has successfully broken through the front line of the People's Army. This is naturally exciting good news for the Japanese Army, and it has been a long-lost victory for the entire Japan. The Army Department can finally breathe a sigh of relief. In fact, the Army Department has been under a lot of pressure for this period of time, and now it can finally put the burden on it. Many people even became optimistic, believing that the Japanese army is not far from winning.

In the Army Department, there were also differences on the next war plan. Some people believed that they could take advantage of this victory to take a breath. After all, Japan still had insufficient troops to invest, so it was best to have a truce of 5-7 days, and then gather 3-4 divisions and some artillery troops to put them into the battlefield. On the one hand, they should completely defeat the People's Army with absolute superior force and firepower. At the same time, they should also let the Japanese divisions experience as much as possible, and make sufficient preparations for cooperating with the British and French expeditionary forces in the future. While the other people believed that relying solely on the current 5 divisions would be enough to break through the People's Army's defense line. If the truce at this time, it would undoubtedly give the People's Army a chance to breathe, give them time to arrange defense and build defense lines. Therefore, they advocated that the Japanese army should take advantage of the victory to attack, completely defeat the People's Army in one fell swoop, and completely drive the People's Army out of Japan's territory.

After discussion, the Army Department believed that it would be more beneficial to Japan to drive the People's Army out of Japan's territory as soon as possible. After all, this was the first time since the black ship incident 50 years ago, the Japanese mainland was attacked by external hostile forces. This severely affected the dignity of the Japanese emperor, government prestige, army glory, and people's morale. Moreover, the People's Army has a considerable destructive power to Japan. Therefore, the longer the People's Army stays in Japan, the more unfavorable it is to Japan. If the People's Army is driven away one day earlier, Japan can reduce its losses for one day.

Although five divisions may not be able to achieve this goal, they can attack while gathering subsequent troops. Even if these five divisions fail to break through the People's Army's defense line, they can still consume the People's Army's troops and morale. In this way, after the subsequent troops arrive, they can successfully fight and completely defeat the People's Army.

Therefore, the Army Department commended all the five divisions participating in the war and encouraged them to continue their efforts, continue to attack, and drive the People's Army out of Japan's territory. At the same time, Lieutenant General Ishimoto was appointed as the front line commander. After all, the five divisions and regiments of course require unified command.

Lieutenant General Ishimoto Shin-6 is one of the few senior army officers from the Japanese Army who are not from Satsumaban. During the Russo-Japanese War, he assisted the Minister of Army Masato Desakana with his injuries as a secondary army officer (also served as the Director of Justice) and was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Army in October 1904. He is one of the few candidates who are currently qualified as front-line commanders in Japan.
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