Tianjin in 1937 was a typical immigrant city. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of people Liu Yimin said, Tianjin's population at this time was as high as 1.17 million. The main sources of the population are as follows: local residents, the old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Beiyang political axes, the descendants of the Huai army originally stationed in Tianjin, immigrants from Hebei, Henan, Shandong, and Northeast China, and refugees who poured in after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. The demographic composition is also very complex, in addition to the workers of various industries, there are also a large number of pure consumer groups, such as the old and the young who are hiding in various concessions.

After the army occupied Tianjin, it did not block the sea traffic, foreign trade could still be carried out as usual, and many anti-Japanese fighters who had retreated from Beiping also went south from Tianjin. Therefore, Tianjin at this time had a kind of abnormal prosperity.

On the evening of December 23, the first, second, and third echelons of the instructors, under the guidance of the task force and the Tianjin underground party, disguised themselves as the Japanese army and swaggered to the city of Tianjin.

The son of a fisherman in Hokkaido, Inukai Goro was conscripted after graduating from high school, and after recruit training, he was assigned to the Second Wing of the Reading Brigade of the North China Front.

When I was young, due to the large population of my family, my father who was a fisherman worked hard, and the family barely survived. Whenever he saw rich people coming to Hokkaido in cars for vacation, Inukai Goro's father told him that he must live like a rich man. Of course, Inukai Goro thought about the son of a rich man, but in the thirties, it was very difficult for a fisherman's son to become a rich man. Inukai Goro knew that if he didn't have a special opportunity, he would, like his father, marry the daughter of a dark Hokkaido fisherman and spend his life on a small boat and a fishing net.

Since the army invaded the Northeast, the teachers at Inukai Goro's school have been telling the students all day long how rich Manchuria is, where there are endless coal mines and gold mines, very sweet apples, and large areas of fertile black soil, and just sprinkle a handful of seeds to grow rice, millet, wheat, and corn. The people of China are not worth mentioning, as long as they are driven away with bayonets, all coal mines, gold mines, copper mines, and fertile fields will belong to the people of this empire. Now that the heroic imperial army has occupied Manchuria, as long as it occupies North China again, the empire will gain great strategic space and become a first-class power in the world, and all the emperor's people will be able to live the life of a man who stretches his hand for clothes and opens his mouth for food.

Later, as the teachers said, the neighbor of Inukaiichiro's family, a fisherman's family as poor as his family, quickly became wealthy because of a son who served in the Kwantung Army, and he became close to a merchant in the city. Inukai Goro's father was very hot-eyed, and often said that it would be nice if our family Gorou could go to Shina to open up in the future. We can move to the city and marry Gorou a city girl.

Inukai Goro has been yearning to open up in China since he was a child.

Inukai Goro had good luck and successfully enlisted in the army after graduating from middle school, and soon arrived in Tianjin. Inukai Goro's first letter to his parents after arriving in Tianjin reads: "You can't imagine how beautiful and rich Shina is. Tianjin, where I live, is full of banks, factories, and shops, and there are too many Jiyuan to count. There are many high-rise buildings, and they are more prosperous than Tokyo. There are a lot of Europeans here, and I am dazzled by the beauties of various countries. My comrades-in-arms said that the Great Empire will soon go to war with China, and this place will soon be ours. I have already thought that when the war starts, I will first go and rob the banks in China, get a lot of money, and send it back to the capital, so that you can buy a big house in the city and live the life of a rich man. ”

The North China Incident happened, and Inukai Goro got his wish and went to the battlefield. This guy who wants to be a rich man has had enough of robbery and murder addiction in battle. In one of his memoirs, he wrote: "The moon is round and white tonight, like the breasts of the virgin of the Shina I just played with today. Since the beginning of the war, I have killed 23 Shina people. Today, my comrades-in-arms and I went to the house of a rich man in China, who had a lot of houses, and when we went in, we first killed all the men, and then we started to arrest the women. I was lucky enough to catch the family's daughter. She was tall, very white, and her eyes were full of horror. I love the scareless Shina beauty! I jumped off her clothes with a bayonet and pressed her to the ground and entered her. When I ran out, I wanted to stab me to death with a bayonet, but His Excellency the Squad Leader said that this woman was younger and more beautiful than the woman he caught, and that he wanted to enjoy it. In this way, after His Excellency the squad leader enjoyed it, his comrades-in-arms lined up to take turns to enjoy her. In the end, I tied this woman who had completely fainted to the pillar of the house, and took the lead in practicing stabbing, and only then under the leadership of His Excellency the team leader, I burned down the house of the Chinese people, sang "Jun's Generation", and returned happy. I feel that Shina is really the paradise of the Imperial Army! ”

On the night of December 23, Inukai Goro, who had transformed from a fisherman's son and a middle school student into a wild beast, stood guard at the west gate of Tianjin.

The checkpoint setup is simple, with a watchtower, a machine-gun bunker, and a horizontal railing in the middle of the road.

Although he was standing guard, no one took it seriously or not. It is clear that the Chinese army has long since fled thousands of miles away, and Tianjin has become a royal paradise, and the duty of standing guard is no longer to guard against the sneak attack of the enemy's regular troops, but to search for suspicious elements.

The only thing that makes Inukai Goro unhappy is that since he stayed in Tianjin, he has rarely had the opportunity to go to the battlefield, thinking about the guys who are constantly conquering behind the tank, Inukai Goro feels a knot. It's better to go to the front line, it's so big, there are countless beauties, countless gold, silver and jewelry waiting to be conquered and captured. No, you have to apply for a transfer to another division!

Inukai Goro, who had made up his mind, decided to go to the squad leader and squadron leader after deciding to go to the sentry and ask to be transferred to the field division. If you don't go, the money and beauties of China will be robbed by the guys of the 20th and 14th Divisions.

Inukai Goro was thinking wildly when His Excellency the squad leader came to check the sentry. Seeing Inukaigoro's absent-minded posture, the team leader crackled and slapped him, making Inukaigoro dizzy, and hurriedly stood up straight, looking straight ahead.

Looking directly at these two eyes, Inukai Goro suddenly noticed that there was a light on the road ahead. On closer inspection, it turned out that a group of cavalry had come, and it seemed that there was something urgent. Otherwise, in the middle of the night, those arrogant cavalrymen would not have hurried away with flashlights.

Inukai Goro hurriedly reported to the squad leader, and when the devil squad leader saw it, there was indeed a group of cavalry from a distance, judging from the lights, that is, more than a hundred horsemen. The squad leader didn't care, and smiled with a cracked mouth: "It's so late, and there are cavalry coming." These guys are probably drunk and on the wrong track! ”

It didn't take long for the cavalry squad to arrive at the outpost, and as soon as Inukai Gorou shouted the password, he saw the cavalry led by him roll off the saddle and come over, and he slapped Inukai Gorou with a crackle. Then the arrogant cavalry shone flashlights on the faces of several sentries, as if to see if they had bird droppings on their faces.

The captain of the devil squad covered his eyes to dodge the direct shot of the flashlight, and asked the other party's number why he entered the city so late.

The devil squad leader's question completely angered the cavalry, and the cavalry Shao Zuo who led the team dismounted, walked to the squad leader, grabbed his collar and lifted it, crackling and beating him violently, until the devil squad leader's nose was blue and his face was swollen. After the battle, the cavalry Shaozo still did not understand his hatred, waved his hand, ordered the cavalry behind him to dismount, and lifted all the sentries standing guard in the machine gun bunkers and sentry posts, and all of them slapped their work.

When the cavalry was tired, the soldiers standing guard were not angry, especially Inukai Goro, who may have done too much evil, and his entire head was flattened and burned by a cavalryman, and his eyes were beaten out.

Seeing that the sentries all fell to the ground softly, the cavalry Shaozuo waved his hand, and immediately several cavalrymen picked up the sentries' guns and stood on the sentry post. Soon, a black, silent cavalry contingent appeared on the main road, rushing towards the city.

The instructor task force has entered Tianjin!

Needless to say, the cavalry Shaozuo was disguised by Zhao Zhiyu, the leader of the third squadron of the special operations brigade. During the Battle of Taiyuan, Wang Laohu led a squadron to attack Pingyao, Qi County, and Taiyuan, which was not good. Even Zhao Yonggang, the leader of the second squadron, showed great strength in the battle of Xiapanshi. Only Zhao Zhiyu's Third Squadron failed to exert its might because it cooperated with the Seventh Brigade to serve as the task of luring the enemy on the Western Front. Zhao Zhiyu was so angry that he snatched the job of attacking the first battle of Tianjin.

Seeing that everything was going well, Li Lingfeng, Wang Dahu, and Wang Tongsheng, who had caught up, did not hesitate at all, made a gesture, and let Zhao Zhiyu's squadron divide into three, and under the leadership of the underground party, guide the second battalion to control the east gate, west gate and south gate. Zhao Yonggang's squadron guided the 3rd Battalion to take control of the Tianjin Post and Telecommunications Bureau. Wang Laohu's squadron led the first battalion straight in the direction of the airfield.

As soon as Li Lingfeng's side began to act, the three echelons of the instructor army entered the city, and each battalion had a guide, and they rushed directly to the military barracks such as Haiguang Temple, Tianjin Main Station, and the Concession.

There is really nothing classic or special about the process of teaching the instructor to Tianjin. Compared with the sneak attack on Yibin, Leshan, Chengdu, Xi'an, and Taiyuan, it is much simpler. Even Chairman Jiang couldn't have imagined that there would be a Chinese [***] team that would dare to attack Tianjin, so how could the Yue army think of it? Not to mention that the guarded, patrolling, and vigilant troops were deceived by the special combat teams that were good at camouflage and sneak attacks, even if they found out that the Eighth Route Army was camouflaged and sneak attacked, what could they do? 100,000 troops quietly arrived at the city of Tianjin, how could the thousands of troops in their sleep be able to resist? Even if someone tried to resist, it only caused a few more drops of blood from the tips of the warriors' bayonets. The whole process is like killing pigs and slaughtering sheep, except for the thick bloody smell in the air, Tianjin in the early morning is still quiet, so quiet that I don't even know if I have changed the world.

The headquarters and barracks of the Haiguang Temple, the military airfield of Li Mingzhuang of the East Bureau, the Tianjin Main Station, the military barracks of the East Railway Station, the military barracks of the concession area, the military police, the military station, the secret service organs, the police station, the puppet army barracks, and other key points were all occupied by the Eighth Route Army overnight. Due to the underground party leading the way and the special combat team opening the way, the instructor's actions were exceptionally smooth, except for the use of bayonets and daggers, he did not even fire a single shot.

Of course, this is not true, the instructor did not fire a single shot, but fired a few shots. After arriving at the military airfield in Li Mingzhuang, Wang Laohu saw that the airfield was too big, covering more than 2,000 acres, and he was afraid that if any of the military troops slipped away and it would be difficult to explain to the division commander, he insisted on using the method of occupying Taiyuan, and he fired more than a dozen poison gas bombs, suffocating all the troops guarding the airport and those proud men in the air.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, Liu Yimin, the instructor and teacher, and Luo Ronghuan, the political commissar, led the division to the Haiguang Temple Army Headquarters in the south of Tianjin.

After arriving at Haiguang Temple, after listening to the reports of various troops, Liu Yimin learned that the army in Tianjin was not 3,000 people, but 5,000 people, in addition to the second wing of the Reading Brigade of the garrison army and the concession guard troops, there were also the personnel of the military stations of the divisions and regiments of the North China Front Army, plus the military police and spies, the total number of troops reached 6,000. The puppet army is not a regiment as Yao Yilin said, but a full 3,000 people. Fortunately, it was a night attack, and it was a night attack in disguise, and the devils were all wiped out in their sleep. Otherwise, the belligerence of the army will at least be fought for a while.

Liu Yimin immediately ordered Gao Yuan and Li Lingfeng that the troops should not stop, and immediately marched to Tanggu by train and quickly took Tanggu.

Seeing Yao Yilin standing beside him with a face full of surprise and excitement, Liu Yimin directly asked him to pull a list of Han annihilation in Tianjin, mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized in Tianjin, lead the way for the troops, and find Li Qing to send troops to cooperate, so as to sneak these Han annihilators out of the bed as soon as possible and put them in the prison of the military police of the Yue Army.

When Yao Yilin heard this, he knew that this legendary hero was going to completely uproot the pseudo-forces, and shouted in his heart, "Dog Han Annihilation, you also have today!" In a hurry, he organized manpower and deployed the largest hoe and annihilation operation in the history of Tianjin according to Liu Yimin's request.

Then, Liu Yimin ordered Chang Qiankun, who had returned to China early from the Soviet Union and was sent by the headquarters in Taiyuan to work as a instructor, to serve as the captain of the Second Flying Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and led David and other three US military flight instructors and the remaining Kang Da Aviation Department students to immediately take over the Li Mingzhuang airfield, and ordered the third battalion of the guard regiment to follow Chang Qiankun and be responsible for protecting the safety of the airport. Liu Yimin's order to Chang Qiankun was concise and forceful: "Quickly check the flight data of the Yue army, find the accurate location of the air fields of the Yue army in Beiping, Baoding, Shijiazhuang, Jinan, Shanhaiguan, Dalian, and Shenyang, immediately organize a formation to take off, carry out continuous flight operations, and resolutely destroy it!" ”

Chang Qiankun is a native of Yuanqu, Shanxi, admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy in 1925, admitted to the Guangzhou Aviation School in 1926, went to study at the Soviet Aviation School in the same year, and served as the navigator of the Soviet Red Army after graduation, and entered the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy of the Soviet Union in 1933. After Feng Dafei led the team back to Shaanxi for training, the headquarters sent him to teach the instructor and lead the remaining trainees to act with the team, the purpose of which was to serve the military aircraft in Tianjin.

Seeing that the instructor had completely occupied the military airport, Chang Qiankun had already followed Liu Yimin's buttocks, waiting for the division commander to give an order. As soon as he heard Liu Yimin's simple order, Chang Qiankun saluted with a "snap": "Comrade division commander, Chang Qiankun, captain of the Second Flight Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, reports to you and guarantees to complete the task!" After speaking, without waiting for Liu Yimin to return the salute, he hurriedly ran out, and the third battalion of guards and the cadet team who had already gathered in the courtyard got into the car of the army, turned on the headlights, and sped away towards Li Mingyangzhuang's military airport.

After Chang Qiankun left, after a brief meeting between Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan, he ordered Wu Zheng to take immediate action, pretending to be the army to take over all the warehouses of the army, take over all the banks, firms, and enterprises in Tianjin, and confiscate all the property of the overseas Chinese. Cai Zhong was ordered to immediately take over all radio stations and newspapers in Tianjin and impose news control. The units that ordered Li Qing's third echelon to take up patrols, stand guards, and arrest Han annihilation tasks were all still disguised as the army, and when they contacted the concession, they all carried out under the banner of the army. He ordered Qian Zhuangfei to maintain normal contact with all aspects of the army in the name of the army. Liu was ordered to establish a second echelon, quickly go out of the city, and use the cars and motorcycles of the various units and military stations of the Yue army and his own war horses to disguise the Yue army and control the outlying areas of Tianjin. In short, it is necessary to provide at least one day for Chang Qiankun to sneak attack the military airfield.

After issuing the order, Liu Yimin personally drafted a telegram to the chairman and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army: "Our unit attacked and occupied Tianjin in the early morning of December 24, and eliminated a total of 6,000 troops, military police, police, and spies stationed in Tianjin, and 3,000 people of the puppet North China Security Army. At present, our army has launched a search and arrest of Han Jian, an attack on Tanggu, and a sweep of the periphery of Tianjin, and plans to use the military planes of Tianjin Airport to attack the military airfield in Beiping. For this reason, our unit plans to continue to camouflage the Japanese army, and after the completion of the sneak attack on the military airfield, we will announce to the outside world the news of our army's occupation of Tianjin. Our department is determined to sweep away the puppet forces around Tianjin, fully mobilize the masses, and make preparations for the establishment of a base area in the Tianjin-Hebei border region. ”

After drafting, sign your name and hand it to Luo Ronghuan for signature, and send it out directly.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, in the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Shanxi, Mr. Zhu and Mr. Peng, who had been waiting, finally waited for the good news from the instructor. Mr. Peng laughed and shouted to bring wine.

Mr. Zhu also laughed, but he told Mr. Peng that he should not drink wine, because it is late at night, and it is easy to alarm others.

Mr. Peng said: "Mr. Peng, have you forgotten the scene when Liping received the telegram from the 18th Regiment to eliminate the three divisions of the Hunan Army? At that time, you ordered all the personnel of the headquarters to shout the news of our army's victory on the streets. I think the capture of Tianjin is greater than the results of the Battle of Xiaoshui, so don't let the propaganda or talk about it for the time being, and the wine must be drunk! ”

Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "That's different, what was our situation at that time?" Now that the instructor is such a powerful force, it is not uncommon to take Tianjin. Okay, if you don't drink the wine, the two of us will fight at night and kill it a few times. ”

(To be continued)