At the same time that Liu Jianli led the Second Brigade to occupy Tangshan, Zeng Zhongsheng commanded the Hu Laohu Cavalry Brigade and the attached Second Field Artillery Regiment to launch an attack on Langfang.

"Langfang was originally called the waiter's room, and it became famous a thousand years ago. One south and one north Longfeng River, Baojing Tuzhu Zhao auspicious. Langfang is the hometown of Lu Duan, the famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, who "Zhuge is only cautious in his life, and Lu Duan is not confused about major things". When Lu Duan's father, Lu Qi, served as the waiter of the Later Jin Military Department during the Five Dynasties period, he built a well-known mansion in his hometown, and the local people called it the waiter's room.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Langfang was still a remote village, in 1897, the Jingfeng Railway was completed and opened to traffic, and a station was set up here. Later, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Langfang was changed to Langfang.

Due to the relationship between the railway stations, Langfang slowly formed a market town. At this time, the population of Langfang was about 4,000, and the urban area was only 0.4 square kilometers, with four main streets in the southeast, northwest and major urban streets such as Dongxiao Street, Nanxiao Street, and Triangle.

However, because Langfang is located between Beijing and Tianjin, and guards the railways and highways, its strategic position is important, so the North China Army lives here with a squadron and a battalion of Qi Kuiyuan's security army.

The cavalry brigade entered Tianjin with the first echelon, and after receiving the order to be incorporated into the Western Front Group, after resting in Tianjin, it transferred its troops to the west, and advanced to Langfang with the Second Field Artillery Regiment, hiding near Langfang.

After the instructor occupied Tianjin, he quickly took control of the railway, and in the 24th day, the train between Yanjing and Tianjin had been interrupted, and Chang Qiankun's Second Flying Brigade kept attacking the military airfield, even a fool knew that there was something wrong with Tianjin.

The North China Front has ordered the Langfang garrison to strengthen its vigilance and closely monitor the movements of Tianjin. Therefore, at this time, the puppet army in Langfang was already on high alert, built fortifications, and sent a guard post to the direction of Tianjin, ready to meet the attack from Tianjin at any time.

At this time, no matter who pretends to be a sneak attack, there is no other way to think of it except to fight hard. Fortunately, there is a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, with more than 6,000 cavalry brigades, more than 180 Chinese troops, and 300 puppet troops, and our army has an absolute advantage. Zeng Zhongsheng was also not polite to the army, and after conducting reconnaissance, he concentrated artillery fire on the army's firepower points.

How could the defenders of Langfang support the firepower of a field artillery regiment, they immediately lost their positions at the entrance of the four main streets of the town, and had to shrink into the town in an attempt to hold on to street fighting.

How could the puppet army think that as early as when the 18th Regiment occupied the passage, Liu Yimin began to train the troops in street fighting tactics, and it was a classic army street fighting tactics summarized by later generations. Three years have passed, even a rookie can learn it, let alone the elite of the instructor? Therefore, the attempt of the puppet army did not succeed, and the strength was already weak, and under the attack of the cavalry brigade, the squadron leader of the army stationed in Langfang quickly sent a farewell message to his superiors.

After receiving the report of the fall of Langfang, the headquarters of the North China Front Army was in a panic, thinking that the squadron was going to take advantage of the situation to attack Beiping, and hurriedly ordered the surrounding troops to shrink to Beiping, recruit overseas Chinese from Beiping, and urgently organize and train to prepare to hold Beiping.

General Terauchi Shouichi was in a good mood these days, Taiyuan was successfully recovered, although it was an empty city, but General Terauchi Shouichi believed that the Chinese in Taiyuan had only escaped temporarily, they could not run far, or not long, they would naturally return. There is an old Chinese saying that it is difficult to give up the homeland, and I believe that those citizens who are used to living in Taiyuan will not be able to leave their homes. Besides, where can you run, what the imperial army thinks, where is not the place where the sun flag is flying high, no matter where you run, it is not the same as being a citizen of the empire? As for the supplies requested by Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi, General Terauchi Shouichi did not take it to heart, first let the Shijiazhuang garrison provide supplies, and then transfer them from Tianjin, guarding the railway line, still afraid that the army would not be hungry? In addition, after the formation of the provisional political axe of the Republic of China planned and established by General Shouichi Terauchi, it worked well, although Wang Kemin and others became Han annihilation in the eyes of the Chinese, but after all, they were experienced politicians and had experience in the operation of the political axe, and in time, they would definitely become the right-hand men of the imperial army.

With the two happy events of recovering Taiyuan and forming the provisional political axe of the Republic of China, coupled with the victory of the Second Army in Shandong to capture Jinan, General Terauchi Shouichi felt that he was worthy of being a giant in the army and a hero of the empire.

The bad news came from the attacks on Beiping Airport and Baoding Airport.

When he received the reports from the Beiping and Baoding airfields, General Terauchi immediately judged that the Chinese air force that had attacked the Beiping airfield last time had done it, and immediately ordered all airfields to strengthen their vigilance, and ordered the air corps to dispatch fighters from the Tianjin airfield to prepare for annihilation of this Chinese air force, which was specially designed to play tricks with the imperial army and inflict heavy losses on the imperial army.

When the report of the attack on Shanhaiguan and Shenyang airports came, General Terauchi Shouichi felt that his head was dizzy, and his eyes were full of gold stars, flying and jumping in a fluff, as if he was not careful, he might fall to the ground and never get up again.

The chief of staff, Naosaburo Okabe, saw that His Excellency the commander was out of shape, and hurriedly called the military doctor. After examination by the military doctor, it was reported that His Excellency the Commander was not ill, but only seemed to be frightened, and that it would be good to rest.

Okabe Naosaburo had no choice but to ask someone to bring hot tea to General Shouichi Terauchi, and ask His Excellency the Commander to take a sip of tea, calm down, and now it is most important to determine the enemy's intentions, and this man doesn't know what he wants to do!

After taking a sip of hot tea, General Terauchi felt a little better, and temporarily put aside the punishment of the base camp that might be brought about because of the attack on the airports again, and the two of them began to analyze why the [***] team took a risk at this time and boldly attacked the North China Imperial Army airfield.

The reason is very simple, Taiyuan has been recovered, and the small air force that stole the original Taiyuan Airport fighters of the Imperial Army should have already been transferred to the direction of Shaanxi, and it is difficult to say whether they still have aerial bombs, you must know that the ammunition reserves of Taiyuan Airport were limited at that time, and the people of China were desperately attacking the air, and there should not be many aerial bombs, and they could not support such continuous operations. Besides, taking off from a hidden airfield in Shaanxi is a long distance, and the reserves of aircraft fuel tanks cannot meet such long-distance operations. Then it is worth thinking about where this Chinese Air Force came from.

In fact, there is no need for General Terauchi Shouichi to think about it again, first the navy reported that the marines stationed in Tanggu reported that they were attacked by an unidentified unit disguised as the imperial army, and then when they contacted again, the marines reported that the eastern Hebei defense communist autonomous political axe security team had defected, and after attacking the defenders of the army stationed in Tanggu, they attacked the marines under the guise of the imperial army, and although the rebels had been eliminated, the officers and officials of the marines were basically all killed, and asked the North China Front to quickly order the Tianjin garrison to reinforce Tanggu, find out the truth, and report to the navy. Then the railway reported that the train that was supposed to be from Tianjin and Tanggu to Beiping did not arrive on time for unknown reasons.

When Terauchi Shouichi heard these two reports, he could no longer pretend to be calm, stumbled into the war room, thought about the map for a moment, and immediately ordered to contact the garrisons in Tanggu and Tianjin to find out what was happening.

At this time, General Shouichi Terauchi had already called for Amaterasu to appear thousands of times in his heart, so don't let anything bad happen.

Amaterasu seems to have really heard the call of Shouichi Terauchi, and Tianjin reported that a train derailment accident occurred at Tianjin Terminus, causing the interruption of railway transportation, and is now organizing emergency repairs. However, due to the large accident, it is estimated that it will not be reopened until tomorrow. The Tianjin garrison also reported that they had received a request for reinforcements from the Tanggu Marines and had sent troops to Tanggu by train at the East Railway Station for reinforcements. It was initially ascertained that it was indeed a rebellion by the Autonomous Political Axe Security Corps of the Eastern Hebei Defense, and the imperial army suffered heavy losses, and the reinforcements were pursuing the fugitives and dealing with the aftermath. The air force regiment also reported that the air force stationed in Tianjin had been contacted, that everything was normal at the airport, and that a flight squadron had been dispatched to the Shanxi-Shaanxi border to reconnoitre, and that it would definitely find the air force airfield in China and resolutely destroy it.

At this time, General Terauchi Shouichi felt a little better, scolded a few times in his mouth, and began to order the troops of Shanxi, Pinghan Road, and Jinpu Road to step up reconnaissance, pay attention to the movements of the Chinese army, and report immediately if there was any situation. Then he asked the aviation group to quickly find out the losses at Beiping Airport and Baoding Airport, and once again ordered other airports to strengthen their vigilance to strictly guard against a sneak attack by the China Air Force.

Terauchi Shouichi couldn't have imagined that just when he was relieved and thinking about how to report the losses of Beiping Airport and Baoding Airport to the base camp and seek the emperor's forgiveness, in the afternoon, Shijiazhuang and Jinan successively reported that the airport had been attacked. Shijiazhuang Airport also insisted that it was the U.S. Air Force or the British Air Force that attacked the airfield, because the pilot spoke English. Moreover, the planes are all planes of the Imperial Army, and judging from the numbers on the fighters, they should be fighters of the Air Wing of the Imperial Army stationed in Tianjin.

At this time, Terauchi Shou couldn't hold it anymore, and fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, unconscious.

Okabe Naosaburo saw that the commander had become like this, and his heart was also full of sadness. Naturally, he did not believe that the US or British troops would go to war against the Imperial Army, but he knew that there were Soviet and American volunteers in the Chinese Air Force, and that Soviet volunteers flew planes to participate in the battle during the Battle of Songhu. Could it be that the remnants of the Battle of Songhu were resurrected, parachuted into Tianjin Airport, controlled the airport, and then used Imperial fighters to attack airports in North China? Thinking about it, I feel that it is impossible, the squadron does not have airborne troops, and it is impossible to carry out airborne operations.

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, who couldn't figure it out, decided to make a serious inquiry, so while calling the military doctor for rescue, he personally called the garrisons in Tianjin, Tanggu, Baoding, Langfang, and other places to inquire about the situation. This time, Okabe Naosaburo learned to be cunning, and he had to ask the garrison commander to answer the phone in person. As a result, there was no abnormality in Baoding, Langfang and other places, and the garrison commander answered the phone. The Tianjin side reported that His Excellency, the commander of the second wing of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade of the garrison army stationed in Tianjin, seemed to have gone to a certain bookstore for recreation and could not be contacted. Tanggu reported that they were reinforcements, and the captain led two squadrons to pursue the fugitives, but they could not be contacted.

At this moment, he was a little scared in his heart, he intuitively knew that Tianjin was afraid that it had changed hands, so he kept urging the military doctor to hurry up and rescue His Excellency the commander, and hurriedly contacted Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi of the First Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo of the Second Army and Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara of the 14th Division on the Pinghan Line, and asked whether the Chinese Army had any major combat operations.

After receiving the report that the three major operational directions were relatively calm, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe became more and more suspicious in his heart: If something really happened in Tianjin, where did that army rush to Tianjin?

Puzzled, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo ordered the troops stationed in Langfang to closely monitor the direction of Tianjin and send reconnaissance to Tianjin to find out what was really going on in Tianjin.

Finally staying up until the evening, General Terauchi Shouichi also woke up, lay on the bed, transfused liquids, and listened to the report of Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo.

After listening to the report, two cloudy tears flowed from the corners of General Terauchi's eyes, and then he said that Okabe-kun was worthy of being a loyal and brave general of the imperial army, and he was thoughtful and properly handled at a critical time.

After the nonsense was finished, General Shouichi Terauchi dictated the order: "1. All troops around Peiping immediately enter a state of combat readiness and are ready to destroy all invading enemies at any time. 2. The 20th Division and the 109th Division of the Second Army in the Taiyuan direction should hold the Taiyuan and Zhengtai lines and resolutely eliminate the resistance forces around Taiyuan and the Zhengtai line; The southward corps of the Kwantung Army immediately prepared, waited for orders, and was ready to transport vehicles to other places for combat at any time. 3. The main force of the Second Army on the Jinpu Line will shrink its forces to Jinan and prepare for operations in other directions. Fourth, the troops stationed in Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and other places should strengthen their fortifications, strengthen their vigilance, and strictly guard against camouflaged sneak attacks by the Chinese army. 5. Immediately report to the base camp the fact that the North China Air Corps had suffered an air raid and had lost its combat effectiveness. Taking into account all the circumstances, the front army judged that Tianjin had been secretly attacked and occupied by the Chinese army, and that the public security situation in North China had become unprecedentedly difficult, and that the rights and interests of the empire in North China were facing great challenges. Therefore, he requested that the base camp transfer the 6th Division, the 16th Division, and the Guoqi Detachment, which were originally part of the North China Front, to be rebuilt, and implored the base camp to transfer another elite brigade, cavalry wing, artillery wing, engineer wing, and baggage wing to the 5th Division, and restore the 5th Division, which had lost its combat effectiveness due to the fragmentation of the 21st Brigade. I implore the Navy to send an aircraft carrier cluster to the Bohai Bay to prepare for the bombing of Tianjin. 6. The base camp is requested to send more fighters to the North China Front to bomb Shaanxi in turn, and to destroy the air force of the Shaanxi side of China. 7. Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff of the North China Front, was to be in charge of immediately drawing up a plan for recovering Tianjin. ”

After finishing speaking, General Terauchi Shouichi took a breath and continued: "The telegram to the base camp must be written clearly, I am determined to gather and annihilate the troops of the sneak attack on Tianjin, and I implore the base camp for guidance, and I implore His Majesty the Emperor for guidance. ”

After recording the order of General Terauchi Shouichi, Okabe Naosaburo asked for instructions: "Your Excellency, Commander, is the telegram to the base camp sent a little later, after all, the situation in Tianjin has not been completely clarified, and that is only our judgment. It is not too late to send this telegram after further clarification. ”

Shouichi Terauchi shook his head: "Let's send it." I already have a score in my heart, this Tianjin incident must have been done by Liu Yimin, who attacked Taiyuan. I have carefully studied the information of this man, who is scheming, bold and dark-hearted, and accustomed to running long distances. The situation in Tianjin this time is exactly the same as his tactics of sneaking up on Chengdu, Sichuan, which is to camouflage the enemy, sneak away, and then block the news, continue to disguise, and expand the results of the battle. Why didn't I let the troops immediately reinforce Tianjin just now, because this Liu Yimin is good at sneak attacks and then ambushes. We can't fall for him. Study it well and make a perfect plan, this time, I want to make him come and go, this North China Plain is his burial place! ”

Only then did Okabe Naosaburo know that the commander was not just climbing on a woman's belly every day and galloping, but he had a special hill and valley in his heart, and he couldn't help but glance at General Terauchi again, and his inner reverence was raised to another level.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, the news of the loss of Langfang finally reached the headquarters of the North China Front.

Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo had already conveyed the order of Admiral Terauchi Toshiichi to the ministries at this time, and a telegram to the headquarters had also been sent. Although I have a spectrum in my heart, I can't help but panic when I hear that Langfang has fallen, and now the situation is completely clear, Tianjin must have fallen into the hands of the Zhina people, and there are not many garrisons in Beiping, if the Zhina army takes advantage of the situation to attack Beiping, the situation will be even more severe.

Ignoring the fact that General Terauchi was in poor health, Naosaburo Okabe still knocked on her bedroom and handed him the telegram of the loss of Langfang.

When Terauchi Shou saw the fall of Langfang, he was also very panicked, so he immediately got up and forced himself to the headquarters. Seeing that there was a panic in the headquarters, Terauchi Shou said sharply: "Don't panic, the [***] team will not storm Beiping, it is safe here." ”

After speaking, Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo analyzed the map for a while, and then ordered the Yue army around Beiping and Qi Kuiyuan's security army to concentrate in Beiping overnight, mobilize armed expatriates, and make preparations for holding on.

After the arrangements were made, Terauchi Shouichi asked Okabe Naosaburo to send a report to the base camp again, asking the base camp to quickly order the 6th Division, the 16th Division, and the Kunichi Detachment to be rebuilt. Ordered Okabe Naosaburo to lead the staff officers to draw up a battle plan overnight, and be sure to submit it to him for review before dawn.

Seeing that Okabe Naosaburo led the staff officers to start busy, Terauchi Shouichi no longer went back to the bedroom, and directly asked the guards to bring a marching bed and lie on it wrapped in a coat to rest. When I was lying down, I thought, why am I so unlucky, I met Liu Yimin, a disaster star, first lost so many troops in Taiyuan, and then lost Tianjin, and I lost the face of the family in the temple. Matsui Shigen is lucky, he didn't meet Liu Yimin, if he meets Liu Yimin, I don't know if he will be unlucky than me?

(To be continued)