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Chapter 1252 is a non-disciplined way of playing

On 21 July, the flames of war, which had been spreading for three days, finally burned into the city of Beiping. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason was that the headquarters of the 1st Wing of the Japanese Army stationed in the city was suddenly attacked by the "North China Youth Anti-Japanese Hoe Troop Team" in the early hours of the morning, and the two Japanese sentries guarding in front of the gate were beaten into honeycombs by machine guns.

The newly built wooden watchtower inside the wall was riddled with holes by machine guns, the top of the wooden tower covered with rainproof linoleum was half gone, and the body of the sentry in charge of lookout and guard on the tower fell half into the air and swayed in the wind, and the two-story office building, which was more than 50 meters away from the gate and the wall, was blown up beyond recognition by more than 20 grenades flying from afar. The Japanese officers and men who urgently put on their clothes and picked up their Type 38 rifles and rushed out of the building to meet them suffered heavy casualties under the fire of machine guns and submachine guns at close range.

The whole attack took less than three minutes from beginning to end, and when more than 100 Japanese soldiers rushed out of the courtyard without fear of death amid the sound of a hurried whistle, they detonated two powerful mines because they touched the corpses scattered all over the ground, and once again paid the tragic price of more than 20 dead and wounded.

After the smoke of gunpowder, there was no figure on the street, and at the entrance of the Japanese headquarters, there were wails and messes for a while, and the courtyard walls made of blue bricks were full of mottled blood stains and slimy broken flesh and brains.

At this time, the sound of violent explosions, gunshots, and shouts of killing continued to sound everywhere in the city, and 17 well-known traitor shops and residences in the bustling Qianmen and Xidan area were all bombed and shot, and four notorious traitors and their families were shot to death by masked killers who rushed into the house, and their money and property were looted. The shop was bombed to a sad end, and three grenades thrown into the yard almost killed Hou Wuliang and his newly married Japanese wife. In order to protect Hou Wuliang, 14 spies of the Beiping secret service were killed, and more than 10 others were injured.

The Guard Brigade of the Headquarters of the 29th Army, the garrison unit of the Pingjin Garrison Command, the police of the various sub-bureaus of the Peiping Police Station, and the four squadrons of Japanese troops who had forcibly occupied the four city gate areas under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese for several months were all dispatched to launch a tense confrontation on the streets and important strongholds in the city.

Tens of thousands of expatriates from Europe, the United States, France, Italy, and Germany frantically flocked to Dongjiaomin Lane, and the big traitors who escaped death also fled with their families and mouths into the big trading companies controlled by the Japanese consulate and the secret services under the timely protection of the Japanese secret services.

In the confusion, a "lone Japanese soldier" fired five shots at the patrol car of the Beiping Garrison Headquarters that was under martial law not far away, and before it entered the alley, he threw out three more Japanese grenades, and a lieutenant colonel and three 29 officers and men who jumped out of the car to avoid fell into a pool of blood, and the patrol team of the Peiping Garrison Headquarters behind the car chased and fired back in anger, and a dense rain of bullets shot at the mouth of the alley, and after a burst of gunsmoke, only a half-old and half-old Type 38 rifle was left on the ground more than 10 meters on the inside of the alley.

This attack on the patrol of the garrison of the 29th Army finally led to a street battle on a small scale, and the officers and men of the 29th Army, who had been angry for a long time and were on the verge of breaking down their self-esteem, finally broke free from the shackles of their hearts and opened fire on all the Japanese search teams they encountered.

The Japanese army, which was already furious and irritable and searched for the murderer everywhere, did not hesitate to launch an attack, but when the upper echelons of the two armies realized that the situation was wrong and wanted to control the situation, it was too late.

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At 10 o'clock in the morning, Chiang Kai-shek, who was presiding over an emergency meeting of the central government after returning to Nanjing from Lushan yesterday, received an urgent report from the Beiping side, immediately left the venue, and rushed to the compound of the Central Military Commission. Chen Cheng and others were recalled to Nanjing.

Half an hour later, a secret telegram sent by the Beiping Station of the Fourth Department of the Central Military Commission made Chiang Kai-shek happy and worried.

The good news is that the Beiping guard troops and garrison troops under the command of Song Zheyuan finally broke out completely, defeated the once invincible Japanese troops on the streets of Beiping, and defeated the Japanese garrisons that had occupied the four ancient gates of Beiping City for a long time.

What worries us is that there was a fierce exchange of fire in Beiping, the thousand-year-old capital, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, will it frantically attack Beiping City because of this, and whether the hundreds of thousands of people in the city who have not had time to evacuate and the tens of thousands of expatriates in Europe and the United States will be affected because of this, and how should we deal with the diplomatic protests and even diplomatic crises that have been triggered?

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Just when the gunfire in the city of Beiping was constantly chaotic, the special forces of the three main divisions of the Eastern Front of the Fifth Army Corps were already in full swing in attacking the Japanese troops on the first line from Wuqing to Langfang. Within 10 hours, 27 Japanese sentry posts were eliminated, more than 200 Japanese sentries and patrol officers and men were killed, four bridges were blown up, and nearly 10 kilometers of railways were destroyed.

When the large and small artillery of the Japanese army rumbled and fired at suspicious targets, most of the operational units of our 17th Army had retreated quickly, and when the annoyed and angry Japanese army set out to look for the enemy, there was no longer a single person in sight on the 50-kilometer front, and the only thing waiting for them was a corpse of the Japanese army with no belts or leather shoes left and a pool of bloodstains, as well as two railway bridges that were finally repaired but were blown up again.

Looking at the position of the Anjia Army five kilometers to the west, the generals of the 10th Division could only swallow the blood of the knocked out teeth, and after roaring angrily, they had to rush back to the division headquarters in Wuqing County, and urgently report to the Tianjin Garrison Army Headquarters for the next order.

With the current strength of 18,000 officers and men of the 10th Division, under no circumstances could it rush forward without regard to the consequences, and fight desperately with the Anjia army, which was twice as numerous as itself, and was well-equipped to work at ease, occupied favorable terrain early, and built three lines of fortifications, otherwise not only would no benefit be gained, but more casualties would be inflicted.

The generals in the headquarters of the Tianjin garrison army felt even more uncomfortable, the Anjia army suddenly launched an all-round attack on the 10th division from Wuqing to Langfang, and it had been contacted by the chief of staff of the garrison Hashimoto group to the protruding battle in Beiping City, and the sensitive Hashimoto group did not think that this was two isolated incidents without any connection, especially the action of the An Jia Army sending a group of elite small troops to attack the troops along the 10th Division, which undoubtedly released a strong signal - the strong An Jia Army, It's time to take the initiative to attack yourself!

At the suggestion of Hashimoto's group, the commander of the garrison army, Kiyoshi Kazuki, urgently summoned Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki to attend the meeting, and a group of generals held intense discussions on the current situation and possible situations.

After the Japanese garrison in Beiping was driven out, the 29th Army seemed to have sorted out the relations between the various battlefields in the Beiping area like a mess, and became one with its main force of the 37th Division, the 132nd Division, the 38th Division, and the six garrison brigades stationed on the outskirts of Beiping.

The Huangcun battlefield in the southeast of Beiping has been fruitless for a long time, and the stubborn officers and men of the 29th are still resisting one after another, the Huangcun position has changed hands three times, and it has once again returned to the state at the beginning of the battle, and the 20th Division of Lieutenant General Bunzaburo Kawagishi, who is arrogant and invincible, is already very tired, and the original plan is to transfer the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division of Ryosuke Isoya to the north today to help in the battle, and strive to defeat the defenders within 24 hours, take Huangcun, and complete the strategic purpose of connecting with the riverside brigade on the line from Changxindian to Fengtai. The sudden small-scale all-round attack by the Anjia army completely disrupted the strategic deployment of the garrison army headquarters.

How can you tell? How to deal with it? It has become a headache for the generals of the North China garrison, and before the follow-up reinforcements arrive, every decision is related to the victory or defeat of the entire battlefield, and there is no room for mistakes.

The arguments were endless, and the opinions of the participating generals were very different, and the chief of staff, Hashimoto Group, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and loudly signaled quiet, and laid out in detail the situation that he and Kazuki Kiyoji had painstakingly analyzed:

"Ladies and gentlemen, after repeated analysis by the headquarters, we believe that the key point of the entire battlefield at present is not the gain or loss of Beiping City, although our first stage of purpose is indeed to occupy the two major cities of Beiping and Tianjin, and open up the connection between Pingping and Tianjin, and establish a stable and safe channel, but according to the current actual situation, due to the sudden crisis in Beiping City, Song Zheyuan, Zhang Zizhong and other high-level North China military leaders who have declared their rebellion against our Japanese Empire have quickly unified their positions, and since then they have moved towards complete confrontation with us. And took the opportunity to defeat our Beiping defenders and control Beiping City in one fell swoop.

"This unexpected mutation has made Song Zheyuan's divisions and brigades one, and the plan we have previously formulated to 'divide the enemy and attack on three sides' Beiping City will be very difficult to continue to implement, and the 109th Division under the command of Lieutenant General Yamaoka Chonghou will continue to attack Beiping It is of little significance, at least we believe that within three days, the divisions and mixed brigades will not be able to defeat the defending enemy in the eastern suburbs of Beiping.

"Secondly, the original plan to order the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division to go north to reinforce the 20th Division could not be carried out because of the sudden attack of the Anjia Army, and the sudden attack of the Anjia Army contains a major conspiracy that we still can't see, at this time, if the 10th Division divides half of its troops to the north, the important strategic transportation line from Wuqing to Langfang is likely to be attacked by the superior forces of the Anjia Army, and then threaten the security of Tianjin, if Tianjin is besieged by the enemy, the whole battle situation will take a sharp turn and fall into incomparable passivity. Therefore, what we are now facing is no longer the question of how to attack Beiping, but how to ensure our hard-won battlefield superiority. Ladies and gentlemen, please correct me! ”

After Hashimoto finished speaking, he bowed 90 degrees, and the generals thought carefully against the map, and there was no more noise, and everyone already understood that the key point at present was indeed no longer "occupying Beiping and attacking the will of the Chinese to resist", but that it was necessary to consider the next move of the squadron, study and judge in advance, and make targeted strategic deployments.

The commander of the 10th Division, Ryosuke Isotani, took a step forward: "Kazuki-kun, Hashimoto-kun, I think that the 109th Division of Yamaoka-kun should be transferred to the Huangcun battlefield to attack the enemy in Huangcun from the east, and the faster the better, as long as Huangcun is taken, we can occupy Daxing by the trend, and then connect with the riverside brigade to form a horn against each other, and the Anjia army will not dare to attack us easily, as long as we hold on for three to five days, the two newly opened divisions in the country can land in Tianjin, and at that time, we can completely concentrate on dealing with the insidious and cunning Anjia army." ”

Ryosuke Isoya's words are exactly what Seiji Kazuki and Hashimoto mean, but Kiyoji Kazuki, who has a slow personality, still respects the opinion of Seishiro Itagaki very much: "Itagaki-kun, what do you think?" ”

Itagaki Seishiro, who had been in the Kwantung Army for eight years, was extremely familiar with his old opponent An Jiajun, and after examining the map for a while, he bowed slightly:

"I agree with Isogu-kun's opinion, and I suggest that Your Excellency the Commander should immediately exert sufficient pressure on the 53rd Army south of Tianjin, and that our division and regiment can cooperate closely to slowly exert pressure to the south, forcing the 52nd Army of Wan Fulin, which is stationed on the line of the Liuli River south of Tianjin, not to dare to act rashly; Second, on the basis of mobilizing Lieutenant General Tokugawa's North China Air Corps to fight, the Kwantung Army Air Group Army was requested to provide great assistance and carry out intensive bombing of the Anjia Army and the Huangcun defenders, so as to cut off the enemy's plan to attack on their own initiative.

"As long as we hold on for three days, maintain a three-day balance of power with the Anjia army, with the arrival of reinforcements, the initiative on the battlefield will return to our hands again, as for Beiping City, as long as we occupy Huangcun and Daxing, taking Beiping City will be just around the corner, don't forget that there are still our three independent mixed brigades attacking in the north of Beiping, and the seventh mixed brigade guarding Tangshan can also be transferred west to besiege Beiping at any time!"

Itagaki Seishiro explained in detail, and Kazuki Kiyoji thought about it for a while, and his spirit was greatly lifted: "Okay! Very good! Ladies and gentlemen, it's so decided, Isogu-kun, your 10th Division will continue to be on strict alert for the Anjia Army in the west, and the 20th Division will work with the 109th Division to flank Huangcun! Be sure to do it all! ”

"Hey!"