Chapter 219: The Siege of Tianjin (1)
The high-level leaders headed by Chairman Chiang were also quite excited to reject the Japanese request for negotiations, and they also really experienced the excitement of directly rejecting the opponent with a haughty attitude. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At the beginning, the little devils were so arrogant, and they rejected the peace talks with the Chinese side in their nostrils to the sky many times, and now, feng shui takes turns, so that their arrogant little devils can also taste the taste of being rude.
"Baga, it's really hateful...... Receiving such a resolute reply from the Chinese side, the Japanese base camp and the cabinet were all angry, but they were helpless, after all, the initiative is now in China's hands.
"Immediately support armor in North China and Northeast China, first of all, we must not lag behind China in terms of quantity...... After learning from the pain, the Japanese army decided to imitate China's armored cluster tactics if they wanted to learn and sell it now, but first they had to transport the armor to China, after all, their armor in China was seriously insufficient.
At the same time, the Japanese base camp ordered all the armored forces of the Kwantung Army to concentrate, and then support to North China, and then ordered the main forces in North China to shrink the defensive line, and Shanxi, Chahar, and the western and southern regions of Hebei could be abandoned in order to keep Pingjin and the northeast of Hebei.
As soon as the order was issued, the Japanese army in North China was very unwilling to shrink the defensive line, and as soon as they retreated, the Chinese army quickly followed, and when the Japanese army attacked Shanxi, it paid a heavy price.
But this time the Chinese army counterattacked, but it was withdrawn without much large-scale fighting, which made Yan Laoxi excited. However, he immediately became sad again, because the current situation no longer allowed him to be the king of Shanxi, and some of the remaining Jin Slow Army in his hands were also forcibly reorganized by the Democratic Political Consultative Conference, and now Shanxi has been controlled by the army belonging to the state, even if he wants to re-recruit the Jin Sui Army, it will not work.
Even Chairman Jiang can't dictate anymore, he Yan Laoxi wants to be the king of Shanxi, how can it work. can't be the king of Shanxi, Yan Laoxi's joy has cooled down a lot at once, it is really Wei Qidong who is successful, and Wei Qidong who is defeated.
The Japanese army withdrew from Shanxi, and the Chinese army immediately followed into Zhangjiakou, while the Central Route Army, led by two armored divisions and six mechanized infantry divisions, had already passed through Baoding and entered Langfang. The 30 regular armies in the back were divided into 150,000 men to directly enter Beiping and threaten the Japanese troops in Beiping.
However, the Chinese army did not immediately launch an attack on Beiping, which is an ancient city and the location of the imperial palaces of several dynasties and generations, which belongs to China, and if it is destroyed by the war, the loss and regret will probably never be able to make up. After discussion, it was necessary to avoid a large-scale battle in Beiping as much as possible.
It was precisely because of this consideration that the armored forces did not directly attack the city of Beiping, but penetrated into the Langfang area, which was separated from Pingjin.
However, this also gave the Japanese army time to breathe, and the Japanese also seemed to feel the fear of the Chinese army, so they tried to shrink their troops into Beiping. The Japanese armored forces reinforced from the northeast also did their best to reinforce them, and quickly reinforced them from Chengde to Beiping.
It seemed that the Chinese army, led by two armored divisions, continued directly north, occupied the entire territory of Langfang, and then detoured back to Tangshan and encircled Tianjin.
At this point, the strategic purpose of the Chinese army was obvious, to monitor Beiping, take Tianjin first, and once Tianjin was lost, the Japanese army's retreat at sea would be directly captured.
At this time, the Japanese army in Tianjin had three divisions and two independent mixed brigades, with a total strength of about 90,000 troops. The Chinese army besieging Tianjin had two armored divisions, six mechanized infantry divisions, and ten conventional infantry divisions, totaling nearly 200,000.
The ratio of troops was more than two to one, and the Japanese army in Tianjin had almost no air support, but the Chinese army was able to maintain the support of more than 100 aircraft, and this intensity would increase when the two airfields in Zhangjiakou were put into use.
In addition, the Chinese army has more than 600 artillery pieces, while the Japanese army has less than 200 guns, and the heavy firepower is also a considerable advantage for the Chinese army. The only advantage that the Japanese army has is the geographical advantage, Tianjin is a big city, and the city defense is relatively strong, which the Japanese army can rely on.
On April 6, the Chinese army officially launched a fierce attack on Tianjin, but unlike the attack on Baoding and other cities, the Chinese army did not use a large-scale aircraft group to bomb it, on the one hand, because it did not want to accidentally injure the civilians in the city, and on the other hand, it did not want to bomb the city defense into ruins, thus affecting the movement of the armored forces.
In fact, this tactic was proposed by Wei Qidong, and he learned the lessons of the German battle at Stalingrad, when the German army attacked Stalingrad, and first used planes and artillery to bomb the entire city.
As a result, the armored forces were completely unable to deploy, and they had to engage in hard street battles with the Soviet troops, wasting their huge advantage in vain, and instead allowing the enemy to play to their advantages. The end result, as everyone has seen, was that the Germans suffered a defeat.
Looking at the situation in Tianjin, the troops stationed in Tianjin are all elite Japanese troops, and they are no longer as good as the Chinese army in terms of strength and firepower, but the Japanese army must have an advantage in the quality of individual combat, especially in marksmanship, and ordinary Chinese soldiers still have to admit that they are not comparable.
If Tianjin is bombed into ruins first, the frenzied Japanese army will definitely turn into street fighting, and then the armored units and mechanized infantry divisions of the Chinese army will not be able to enter the city, and the regular infantry divisions will enter the city to clear up step by step, which will not only consume a lot of time, but also increase a lot of casualties.
The fact that the Chinese army does not use aircraft to bomb does not mean that they will not send planes, but the planes have been ordered not to carry bombing and to provide ground support directly with airborne machine guns.
Therefore, under the cover of the aircraft group, two armored divisions were dispatched to directly attack Tianjin's city defense, and used tank guns to arrive and bombard, trying to blast open the strong city wall one by one.
The Japanese army had no effective anti-tank weapons, only a small number of Type 97 anti-tank rifles and anti-tank guns, and they naturally did not abandon the strong city defense and rushed out to confront the Chinese army, arranging all kinds of firepower on the city walls to counter the armored groups under the city.
In the sky, the planes of the Chinese army diveted and strafed from time to time, and the main targets were the artillery units and anti-tank weapons units of the Japanese army.
Outside the city, the Chinese army flattened the flat-firing guns and 88-mm anti-aircraft guns as the flat-firing guns, and selected several city walls for concentrated bombardment, in order to open a few gaps as quickly as possible.
The cannon roared, and the city wall to the west of Tianjin was blown to pieces, and under such a dense artillery fire bombarding the same area, no matter how strong the city wall was, I am afraid it would not be able to withstand it. Several breaches were blown open in the wall, and on top of these breaches, the Chinese army continued to bombard, further widening the breaches.
The Japanese troops in the city also desperately counterattacked with artillery, but once the hidden firepower was exposed, it would quickly usher in the low-altitude strafing of the Chinese Air Force, and the firepower was suppressed at once.
......After successfully opening several gaps for two tanks in parallel, the Chinese army quickly gave the order to attack.
The "Rumble ......" armored cluster rushed straight to the breach, ignoring the fierce blocking fire.
The Japanese army desperately blocked the attack, and the few anti-tank weapons could not be hidden, and from time to time they could also cause some damage to the armored divisions of the Chinese army, but this could not stop the determination of the armored divisions of the Chinese army to attack quickly.