Chapter 216: The War of Resistance in Tianjin

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Tian Zheng took the fighter back to the Tai'an base. This time and again, when Tian Zheng returns to the Nanyuan battlefield, it will be a few days at the earliest. During this time, the command of the combat units of the 54th Group Army in Tongzhou City was carried out by the Chief of Staff Wang Zilu. The deputy army commander Yan 13 is responsible for logistics and supplies.

After the Wolf Tooth Special Combat Team carried out the sabotage mission of the Japanese army's East Bureau Airport, Tian Zheng gave the order to let the captain Ren Biao freely choose the combat method and combat objectives before receiving the new order. However, the premise is to ensure the concealment and safety of the special combat team.

After Tian Zheng and others left, Ren Biao quickly gathered the team members and issued a combat order: After the fighter plane raided the headquarters of the Japanese garrison, all the members of the team did the second round of combing! Strive for a group of senior commanders who can capture the garrison army headquarters!

The headquarters of the Japanese army "Huaxia Garrison Army".

The commander who had just come out of the bomb shelter, Kiyoshi Kazuki, and a group of more than a dozen Japanese major generals and colonels, as well as their personal guards, looked at the mess all over the courtyard, and Kiyoji Kazuki's serious anger climbed!

"Yaga! Can anyone tell me! What the hell is going on! Kazuki Kiyoji didn't know where to vent his anger, and in the blink of an eye, all the Japanese commanders behind him lowered their heads, for fear that if they were not careful, they would meet Kazuki Kiyoji's anger!

Kiyoji Kazuki looked at the group of officers who bowed their heads, but he didn't intend to let go of this matter in his heart.

"Tokugawa, you are the commander of the Provisional Aviation Corps, what do you have to say?" Kazuki Kiyoshi looked at an officer dressed in the uniform of a Japanese lieutenant general beside him with a pair of elite eyes, this person was strong and slightly stubble, it was Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, the commander of the Japanese Provisional Aviation Corps in Tianjin!

"Your Excellency, I think this is a planned attack by the soldiers of China! At present, our army is weak in Tianjin, and the Dongjuzi Airport is even less defended! This time the enemy took advantage of it! "Tokugawa is not a fuel-efficient lamp either. At this moment, I saw that Kiyoji Kazuki pointed the finger at him. He immediately began to fight back, deducing that it was caused by the weak strength of the army! Otherwise, with the loss of so many fighters and supplies at an airfield this time, even if Tokugawa Yoshitoshi is the lieutenant general and commander of the aviation regiment, I am afraid that it will not be so easy to resist this responsibility!

Kiyoji Kazuki was pushed by Tokugawa Yoshitoshi. Thinking that there were only more than a thousand troops in the Tianjin area, Kazuki Kiyoji snorted dissatisfiedly. No more finding fault!

"Hurry up and restore order! I'll check it out myself! Seiji Kazuki said this hatefully. The group of officers behind was even more silent.

"Dada! Da-da-da-da! "A crisp burst of gunfire rang out in the streets! It made Kiyoshi Kazuki and his party immediately nervous. Their guards all clenched their pistols tightly!

"Your Excellency, Commander! I'm afraid this is a raid by the Shina people! Your Excellency the Commander, please retreat and break out immediately! Kiyoshi Kazuki's personal guard said loudly. Kazuki Seiji frowned, but immediately agreed to the guard's suggestion.

"You are responsible for organizing the resistance! Please come to the nearest troops! Seiji Kazuki ordered to a group of school officers. Then he followed his retinue and retreated with a group of officers of the rank of general!

Not long after Xiangyue Qingji and his party left, the entire garrison military compound was surrounded by people from Ren Biao and the wolf's tooth special combat team!

"Put down your weapons, put your head in your hands, and get on your knees! Otherwise, they will be killed on the spot! Ren Biao ordered a member of the wolf tooth team to shout in Japanese!

A group of Japanese officers and soldiers immediately became indignant, and they all took the weapons in their hands and shot indiscriminately around the compound! Ren Biao waved his hand, and the Bayi bar automatic rifle in the hands of the wolf tooth team members fired a short shot. Accurately hit those stubborn Japanese army fanatics! Only a few officers remained. When the Japanese military officers saw that the general situation was gone, except for the two lieutenant colonels who committed suicide by disembowelment on the spot with sabers, three others were hesitating. One of the three is a colonel and two are lieutenant colonels. The colonel glanced at the two lieutenant colonels. The two lieutenant colonels knew that this was the colonel who wanted to surrender, but they were afraid of being infamous and wanted to kill the two! The two lieutenant colonels glanced at each other, and the pistols in their hands suddenly raised, and one hit the colonel's eyebrows! The pistol in the colonel's hand was only half raised!

The wolffang warriors who were lying in ambush were puzzled. Ren Biao smiled, as if talking to himself. "It turns out that the little devil is also greedy for life and afraid of death! These high-ranking officers are not as good as ordinary soldiers of the Japanese army on the battlefield! Those soldiers will basically resist, but these high-ranking officers are intrigued and ruthless! ”

After the two Japanese lieutenant colonels killed the colonel, the two immediately threw away their weapons according to Ren Biao's request. Get down on your knees, beg for mercy with your head in your hands, and wait to be captured by the warriors of the wolf's fangs!

Ren Biao looked at his watch, this sweeping battle has lasted for five minutes, I am afraid that the nearest Japanese army unit here has heard the information and will arrive at the battlefield soon! Ren Biao waved his hand and ordered the troops to retreat! As for the two Japanese lieutenant colonel prisoners, Ren Biao didn't even have the heart to take a look. Just let the fighters escort them away!

This time, only a group of school officers were caught. Compared to the primary target, Kazuki Kiyoji and a group of lieutenant generals and major generals, these school officers can only be regarded as small miscellaneous fish! Of course, Ren Biao was unhappy. I was still run away by the old fox of Kazuki Kiyoji!

However, since the operation is over, two lieutenant colonels have been arrested. It's also a slight gain. Ren Biao led the team to quickly evacuate the battlefield!

However, what Tian Zheng and Ren Biao did not expect was that this time their actions directly or indirectly promoted the early start of the Tianjin War of Resistance!

The Tianjin War of Resistance was the last battle before the fall of Beiping and Tianjin in history, and it was also the only battle in which our army took the initiative to attack since the Lugou Bridge Incident, so historians of the Anti-Japanese War called it "Tianjin's Great Attack".

The various garrison units of the 38th Division of the 28th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which were originally located in Tianjin and its surroundings, were all ordered by Li Wentian, the head of the 38th Division, to move closer to the urban area of Tianjin. In addition, Li Wentian informed the principal responsible persons of the military and political affairs in Tianjin that a military meeting was held. The participants of the meeting included: Li Wentian, deputy commander of the 38th Division and chief of the Municipal Police Bureau, Huang Weigang, commander of the 112th Brigade, Li Zhiyuan, commander of the 26th Independent Brigade, Qi Guangyuan, commander of the pistol regiment of the 38th Division, Liu Jialuan, commander of the Tianjin Security Corps, Ning Dianwu, captain of the Tianjin Security Corps, and Ma Yanchong, secretary general of the municipal government.

The meeting made the following decisions: First, taking advantage of the shortage of Japanese troops, they took the initiative to launch a surprise attack, and the attack time was set at 2 o'clock in the morning of the 29th. The second is to take unified command of the 38th Division and the local security forces, and elect Li Wentian as the provisional commander-in-chief of all units in Tianjin, and Liu Jialuan as the deputy commander. The third is to deploy the troops participating in the battle, and the first squadron of the security team captured the East Railway Station (today's Jin Station), which was commanded by Ning Dianwu; The Pistol Regiment, the 3rd Squadron of the Security Brigade, and a battalion of the 26th Independent Brigade attacked the Japanese barracks at Haiguang Temple, commanded by Qi Guangyuan; The 26th Independent Brigade and the 2nd Squadron of the Security Force attacked the Tianjin Main Station (today's Jinbei Station) and the Dongjuzi Japanese airfield, under the command of Li Zhiyuan; The armed police are responsible for the guidance and guidance of traffic on all battlefields; The Huang Weigang Brigade, which was stationed far away from Tianjin, served as the general reserve. Fourth, at the same time as launching the attack, an anti-Japanese telegram was issued to the whole country, saying that "the Japanese are transporting troops every day and provoking everywhere," and "for the sake of the survival of the country and the nation, our side immediately responded to the battle, vowed to live and die together with the city of Tianjin, and fought against Japan with blood, without hesitation." Tianjin's Yishi Bao published the full text of the telegram on July 29.

The meeting, which lasted 12 hours, basically determined the plans and steps for the various units in Tianjin to counterattack the Japanese army. However, just as the meeting of the seven people had just ended, the correspondent went directly to the meeting venue at that time, that is, Li Wentian's home, and reported a major piece of information: the Japanese army's Dongjuzi Airport was attacked by unknown armed forces! A large number of buildings were blown up at Dongjuzi Airport, and all the fighters were destroyed! And the headquarters of the Japanese garrison was also attacked! There were many Japanese officers and soldiers killed and wounded! The headquarters of the garrison army was in shambles, covered by gunsmoke and war!

Li Wentian and the other six people immediately gathered around the topographic map for a while to compare and study.

"At present, the one who can have this strength in the Beijing-Tianjin region should be Tian Zheng's headquarters in Shandong, the 54th Group Army! Legend has it that they have a small elite force that is invincible and invincible! There is no doubt that this unit should be able to destroy the Japanese army's East Bureau Airport and the garrison headquarters at the same time! Brothers, now that someone has opened the way for us, let's take advantage of the situation and launch an attack! At present, the Japanese army in Tianjin is less than 2,000 troops, and it will take time for reinforcements to arrive in time! We will take this opportunity to fight to take down the Japanese army in Tianjin in one fell swoop! Li Wentian said after thinking for a while!

"Everything is arranged by Brother Wentian!" The six of them said together.

Li Wentian no longer left everyone behind, and the seven people rushed back to their respective units one after another and began to deploy the battle plan!

Of course, Tian Zheng didn't know all this here! It wasn't until two days later that the news came that the Japanese troops in Tianjin had been wiped out and that the officers and men of the 28th Division had suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, that Tian Zheng received a front-line telegram from the radio soldiers on the way!

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