At dusk, the last strong defensive line of the Japanese army on the periphery of Tangjiahe was broken through, and only 14 hours passed. The Japanese army was defeated, and the troops took advantage of the victory to pursue. Several boat bridges appeared on the Tangjia River, and various military supplies and artillery units advanced to the north bank through the boat bridge. The 1st Army completed the task of forcibly crossing the Tangjia River and temporarily withdrew to recuperate. In a small village on the north bank of the Tangjia River, Zhang Yusheng and his sharp knife company temporarily rested here. As an assault force, the Sharp Knife Company paid a heavy price in the battle to forcibly cross the Tangjia River.

There were 135 people in the company, including instructors, two platoon commanders, and 4 squad leaders, including 48 soldiers killed and 52 wounded. Only 28 officers and men remained in the company. At this time, Zhang Yusheng was in a very heavy mood and sorted out the relics of the instructor. Zhang Yusheng knew in his heart that the instructor was the orphan of a martyr and grew up in the army. said that after conquering Tianjin City, they would go to visit their parents together, but he stayed on the bank of the Tangjia River forever. At this moment, seeing things and thinking about people, the instructor's voice and smile still appear in my mind.

The sound of a truck engine came from outside, "Report to the company commander, the new instructor has arrived with additional troops!" "Correspondent's report!" Order the whole company to assemble and welcome the new comrades! Zhang Yusheng took the steel helmet and walked out of the room and came to the threshing floor. At this time, the whole company of 28 people lined up, although the clothes were ragged, but they showed more mighty bodies. A young officer led a group of recruits to wait in a queue. "Listen to me and salute the heroes of the Knife Company!" The young officer shouted loudly and raised his hands in salute. Zhang Yusheng returned the military salute, and the young officer stepped forward.

"Company Commander Zhang, my name is Wang Wei, and I was ordered to serve as the instructor of the Sharp Knife Company!" "Instructor Wang, welcome, welcome new comrades-in-arms to join the Sharp Knife Company!" In order to quickly replenish battle losses, each division of the field unit of the Eighth Route Army has a supplementary regiment, with the purpose of ensuring the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops. As the troops continue to expand, veterans who have recovered from injuries have to join the newly expanded units, in order to rapidly improve the combat effectiveness of the newly expanded units. At present, according to operational needs, the 1st Corps of the Eighth Route Army has been newly expanded into three corps.

The Japanese army stubbornly sniped on the front line of the Tangjia River to no avail, and had to retreat north. A Japanese army truck struggled on the road, carrying the wounded. The roads were terrible and muddy, and the trucks were bumping up and down, leaving the wounded on the vehicles tormented. Goro Sugimoto was hit by a grenade and suffered more than a dozen shrapnel wounds on his body. Maybe it was Amaterasu who was sheltered and didn't have fatal injuries. After Goro Sugimoto recovered from surgery at the field hospital, the troops began to retreat. Unbeknownst to Goro Sugimoto, his squadron no longer exists.

A convoy of wounded Japanese soldiers entered the city and reached a hospital. Goro Sugimoto was carried out of the car, "Sir! Sir! "A soldier who got off another truck ran over. Goro Sugimoto looked up and saw that it was Jiro Oda. "Sir, it's really you!" Jiro Oda was very excited. "You're wounded!" "The arm was hit by a machine gun bullet and injured the bone, and the military doctor said that it was not a big problem!" "You're good, don't disgrace me!" "Take care, sir!" Goro Sugimoto noticed tears welling up in Oda's eyes.

In early August, Yeji moved from Qingxian to Jinghai, which also heralded the arrival of all units of the Eighth Route Army in Tianjin as scheduled. The personnel of the headquarters were busy and nervous, and the military map and sand table changed greatly, and the red arrows and the small red flags inserted on the sand table showed that they had formed a three-sided encirclement of Tianjin City. At this time, Chief of Staff Peng Xuelan said with a relaxed expression: "Commander Su, Political Commissar Luo, the new 22nd Army took Tanggu Port at midnight yesterday, and the new **** captured Binhai Airport, and together with the 5th Army, formed a situation of outflanking in the east. ”

Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan said: "After the 1st Army broke through the Tangjia River, the officers and soldiers were very tired due to the continuous campaign of the 1st Army. The newly formed 23rd Army took over the offensive position of the 1st Army, and the 3rd Army is currently advancing from the south to the city of Tianjin. The three new armies have fought well, and it is expected to launch a final general attack on Tianjin City on the 10th, and the conditions for a general attack have been met. "After our troops broke through the Tangjia River on the southern front, Banheng Zhengshiro quickly reduced the infantry and even abandoned Tanggu, with the intention of holding on to the city of Tianjin. It seems that Banheng is determined to hold on to the city of Tianjin. ”

Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan said: "In the peripheral offensive and defensive operations, our tactics are appropriate, and there is not much difference between us and our pre-war prediction. The tactics of the Japanese army are rigid and will not change much. At present, our offensive means and firepower strike intensity have already undergone earth-shaking changes, but the tactics of the Japanese army are not much different from those of the heyday of 37 years, and this is the sorrow of the Japanese army. "Brother Luo, the Japanese army is not useless, in the depth of defensive operations, we have adopted our tactics, but the Japanese army underestimated the opponent who has been tempered by cruel warfare."

"Brother Su, history has repeatedly verified that once the Chinese nation forms a strong cohesive force, any enemy armed to the teeth will never want to defeat us. The century-old humiliation of the Chinese nation was caused by a mediocre ruler. Although the war of aggression launched by the Japanese army caused great sacrifices to the nation, it also made us wake up in the purgatory of blood and fire. "Yes, the war against Japan has created an opportunity for us to rise again, and I firmly believe that the rising Chinese nation will not make the second mistake again, and our generation has made great sacrifices to ensure permanent peace for future generations!"

In the headquarters of the Japanese army in the north of Tianjin, Ban Heng Seishiro looked at the city defense map with a pale face and was silent. After more than 20 days of fighting, he has obviously aged a lot. The loyal and brave soldiers had tried their best, but they still could not stop the onslaught of the Eighth Route Army. In those years, he led a division to challenge more than 100,000 Northeast Army, and led half of the division to sweep Shanxi, and the glorious record is gone. At present, he led more than 100,000 people in five divisions to defend Tianjin, but the great Japanese warriors who could fight well now fell to this step.

Banheng's temples have turned white, a pair of slender eyes are a little collapsed, and he looks 70 years old with cold eyes, but in fact, his age is only 59 years old. In the defensive operation in Shanxi last year, he learned the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, and this time he even more learned the strength of the Eighth Route Army. The opponent in front of him is worthy of the elite troops of the Eighth Route Army, and its ferocious offensive means do not lose the tactics of the regular army, but its flexible and mobile tactics are vividly reflected in the offensive.

In the process of fighting on the periphery, he used a lot of flexible tactics, but they were all defused by the other party. The opponent almost knew his mind and even knew what he was thinking, and as a result, Seishiro Itayoko's sharpness and self-confidence suffered a major blow. Now Banheng's only thing is to fight for honor, Tianjin City will be his final destination, of course, his inner thoughts can't tell anyone. "Your Excellency General, all the wounded have retreated to the north, but there is nothing we can do about the Japanese expatriates, and we have ordered them to retreat to the north spontaneously." Report from the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army.

Ban Heng said: "The enemy's heavy troops have formed an offensive posture in the west, south, and east, and I estimate that a general attack on the whole front will be launched tomorrow morning." For the sake of the overall situation of the war, we must hold on to Tianjin and inflict heavy losses on the enemy, and I will make the enemy pay a heavy price in the city of Tianjin. Itako Seishiro's expression was cold, and the chief of staff of the Japanese army felt a chill. There was a roar in the sky, and the fighters of the Eighth Route Army flew into the sky again. Soon, a deafening explosion came, and Ban Heng seemed to be used to it.

At dusk of the same day, the convoy of wounded people in which Goro Sugimoto rode arrived at Qinhuangdao. At the docks of the military port the wounded were sent to the transport ship, and Goro Sugimoto was an officer, enjoying the treatment of an officer, and was placed in a private room. There were two beds in the private room, and on the other bed lay a more seriously injured captain. At present, Wei Lihuang's corps has been successfully intercepted in Qinghe, so the front line of Shanhaiguan is relatively safe. At this time, Goro Sugimoto was lying on the bed, looking at the white clouds floating in the sky, and the scene of departure from Tianjin appeared in front of him.

The bomber group of the Eighth Route Army, considering the safety of the people, never bombed the railway line, so the Japanese army could calmly transport the wounded. Yesterday morning, before boarding the train at the station, Jiro Oda came to the station to see him off. "Sir, my injuries are not serious, and I have decided to stay and continue the fight. The commander is right, as an imperial soldier, you must fight to the last breath and be loyal to the emperor. Sugimoto Goro took Oda Jiro's hand and said, "Oda-kun, you didn't disappoint me, and you will definitely become a real samurai!" "World War II for the Emperor!" Jiro Oda raised his hand in salute.

It seemed that Odajiro's resolute face was still showing in front of him, and a sour feeling welled up in Sugimoto Goro's heart. He knew in his heart that the imperial army had been fighting for many years, and the soldiers were drying up day by day, and it was a last resort for fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys to replenish the front-line combat units. With a long whistle, the transport ship slowly left the dock, and Sugimoto Goro knew that their destination was Yingkou, but his mood became heavier.

Darkness covered the land, and several trucks were parked in the first defense area of Binhai Airport in the east of Tianjin. Zhang Yusheng jumped out of the truck, and a second lieutenant officer under the reflection of the gas lamp said, "Excuse me, is that Zhang Yusheng?" "I'm Zhang Yusheng!" "Battalion Commander Zhang, I am the operational staff officer of the 2nd Battalion, welcome to you!" The commander of the 2nd Battalion of a regiment was killed during the attack on the Japanese airfield. To participate in the battle of Tianjin City, Noji transferred some lower-level officers to support **** in the resting 1st Army. Zhang Yusheng was unexpectedly promoted to the commander of the 2nd Battalion.