505:โAt 5 a.m. on June 4, 1920, a platoon of our forces departed from Samdunja on the Wolsingang River in Hwaryong-hyeon and crossed to the upstream of Gangyang- dong, Jongseong-gun, about 5 ri north of Jongseong-gun, and met Gunjo Fukue (็ฆๆฑไธๅคช), the head of the Japanese enemy post in the area. They defeated about one platoon of enemy soldiers (military police) led by Gu, and as the weather was just about to set, they crossed the river and returned to guard against the enemy. While they were guarding against the enemy, Lieutenant Shinmi-gu, Infantry Lieutenant, commander of the Japanese Namyang Garrison, After investigating the report of Hwaryonghyeon's defeat, he immediately led one company of his subordinates and about 10 military police patrolmen, crossed the river with a revenge war strategy, and advanced toward the friendly forces. When the friendly forces' search troops discovered this and immediately alerted the main unit, the friendly commander Choi Jin-dong hid his subordinate's 1st platoon in the shadowy area southwest of Samdunja, sent out some soldiers, made a false attack, and then falsely retired, so the Japanese took chase action and took Eunbok. As soon as they arrived at the front line of our army's unit (at 10 p.m. on the 6th), the enemy's unit was destroyed by rapid fire, and the remaining soldiers retreated to the northern part of Samdunja, and the commander of the Japanese enemy's 39th division received urgent news of the defeat in the war and headed Yasukawa (ๅฎๅท). ) Order to dispatch to the major.โ
458:-gun, Hamgyeongbuk-do. A platoon-sized Japanese military police border post was attacked and annihilated. At that time, the Japanese military obtained secret information about the independence army's operation to enter the country and was interested in the activities of the Korean independence army roaming around the border area of Manchuria and was seeking defense measures, which became the trigger for the battle. A small unit of the independence army, consisting of about 30 people, departed from Samdunja at dawn on June 4 of that year as part of the usual domestic invasion operation, crossed the Duman River, and advanced to Gangyang-dong (ๆฑ้ฝๆด), 5 ri (about 2 km (1.22 miles)) north of Jongseong-gun, from there to Fuku. After defeating the Japanese military police patrol platoon led by an officer named Fukue (็ฆๆฑ), they returned across the Duman River at dusk and ended the operation. On the morning of June 4, when the Jongseong-gun military police patrol station was devastated, the Namyang Garrison recognized that it was the work of the independence army and immediately dispatched troops.
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located on the left and right valleys with the mountain in the middle, all of which were inhabited by
Koreans. The combined forces of the independence army, with Hong Beom-do as commander-in-chief, camped on the ridge, dispatched a scouting party to the surrounding villages, and waited for the Japanese army to arrive. However, when the Japanese army did not appear easily, they planned and launched a preemptive attack.
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into the open. Upon learning of defeat in the battle, the
Japanese Army's Namyang Garrison Headquarters and the Japanese Army's 19th Army Infantry Division dispatched troops around 6 a.m. on June 6, 1920. It was around 10 a.m. on June 6 when the Japanese pursued the Independence Army unit to the front of Beomjinryeong, where they were hiding.
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by force. Therefore, small independent warlords in
Manchuria attempted to enter Korea. At this time, large and small independence armies were organized in the Manchuria region, and the Korean Independence Army led by Hong Beom-do in eastern Manchuria, the Nationalist Army led by An Mu, and the Gunmu
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Japanese Army's 19th Infantry Division dispatched the Wolshin Pursuit Battalion, an infantry and machine gun battalion commanded by Major Jiro Yasukawa (ๅฎๅทไบ้). Hong Beom-do and Choi Jin-dong, who learned of this fact within an hour or two through a letter sent by an Independence
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Japanese army pursued the hidden independence army unit. By noon on June 6, the Independence Army fired simultaneously from a mountainous hill about 100 meters high, killing 60 soldiers from one company of the Japanese Army's Namyang Garrison. Two independence
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On June 4, 1920 , one platoon under the Korean Independence Army 's Hong Beom-do Unit and Choi Jin- dong Unit each departed from Samdunja , Hwaryong-hyeon, North Gando, crossed the Wolsingang River, passed through Gando , and crossed the Duman River and were stationed in Gangyang -dong, Jongseong
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When these troops reached Samdunja and could not find the independence army, they slaughtered some civilians. The independence army hid in the hilly area southwest of Samdunja. Choi Jin-dong (ๅดๆฏๆฑ) of the North Korean Military Department lured the army into an ambush and destroyed the subordinate
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Launched on May 28, 1920, the combined independence army unit of the Korean Independence Army and Northern Korean Military Department attempted to invade Korea for the first time. On June 4, a platoon of the Korean Independence Army under the Korean New People's Army entered Gangyang-dong,
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Dokbu Army commanded by Choi Jin-dong were linked and united with each other from the early 1920s . The first victory at the Battle of Samdunja boosted the morale of the Korean Independence Army and served as an opportunity to win the Battle of Bongo-dong that took place soon afterward.
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fighters were killed, and nine residents of a nearby village were killed by stray bullet fragments. The guidance operation of Platoon Commander Lee Hwa-il, who displayed outstanding skills in this battle, is highly regarded.
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Jongseong-gun, Hamgyeongbuk-do and patrolled the Japanese army's Jongseong. The platoon was attacked. That evening, the Japanese army dispatched a platoon of troops for the purpose of retaliation and crossed the
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company of the Namyang Garrison. Arayoshi quickly fled with his remaining troops. With this, the battle ended in the early morning of June 6.
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