The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 10, the Wild Tide, Section 7, Lightning

The spring sun shines on the land of North China, under the warm sunshine, the earth is dressed in green, the swallows fly back from the south, the ancient city wall of Beiping, it looks more majestic and magnificent in the sun, looking at it from afar, people can't help but rise in awe. /.qb5, c0М//

But the ancient city wall seemed lonely and lifeless in this sunlight. Except for the occasional swallow that swept by, all that remained was the cold muzzle of the gun, and the once lively street market was now untouched.

Since meeting Zhuang Jihua, Okamura Ningji has stopped going to the city wall, and he has been sure that the Chinese will not storm Beiping, at least not at this stage, and Zhuang Jihua will definitely ask him to meet. But what will he say next time we meet?

He could see that Zhuang Jihua very much wanted him to surrender, of course, he also knew that this hope was more for the preservation of this ancient city, and as for the tens of thousands of Japanese in the city, he didn't care about it.

In spring, the Forbidden City has also regained its vitality, with all kinds of flowers blooming one after another among the red bricks and green tiles, willow trees blooming green on the south coast, thin branches gently swaying in the spring breeze, and the lake gently wrinkling and rippling.

After returning from outside the castle, Okamura Ninji sat on the shore in a kimono, and after meeting with Zhuang Jihua, he no longer wore a military uniform; Facing the clear South China Sea, he played the guqin leisurely, and there were only a few guards in the four corners, standing quietly aside, not daring to disturb in the slightest. The sound of the piano is crisp, with a hint of ethereal, a hint of trembling, gurgling, and drifting around with the spring breeze.

Okamura plucked the strings intently, as if immersed in this ancient music. Tokunaga hurriedly walked over, and when he arrived, he shouted a report, but Okamura didn't seem to hear it and was still focused on the piano, so Tokunaga had to stand there and wait for Okamura's reaction.

After Okamura Ninji returned, he told him about the meeting with Zhuang Jihua, which surprised him that the Chinese had made such a big bet in order to get them to surrender.

Surrender or continue to resist, Deyong doesn't know, long-term education makes him unwilling to lay down his arms, but the realistic desperate situation makes him unable to find a way out, holding on to helplessness, and there is no hope of breaking through; The Chinese can trap them for ten years as long as they want, and then they only need to come in and collect the corpses, of course, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who have not fled in the city also have to be martyred for their tens of thousands of imperial soldiers.

The method proposed by General Shina made him moved, which could not only save the lives of tens of thousands of Japanese in Beiping, but also protect the safety of His Majesty, but what did he say.

Tokunaga doesn't know much about the piano, and Okamura Ningji's piano is not very clever, but Tokunaga still heard the hesitation and helplessness from the sound of the piano, Tokunaga sighed secretly in his heart, now all the Japanese generals in Beiping City are like this, the commander of the 47th Division, forced Tongzhen to simply propose a breakthrough of the whole army, the whole army to the east, all the way to Tianjin, rendezvous with Hengshan Yong, and then the whole army to Tanggu to break through, please send a fleet to Tanggu overseas to meet them.

The commander of the 15th Division, Yamauchi Masafumi, opposed the breakthrough to Tianjin, and instead proposed to concentrate all the troops, Beiping, Tianjin, and the two troops broke through at the same time, and broke through to the east of Hebei.

These two hysterical gamble-style schemes illustrate the state of the entire army, from the generals to the ordinary soldiers, who are in a state of desperate anxiety, and this feeling of not seeing any hope and waiting for death is the most frightening.

"Commander," after listening for a while, Tokunaga had to interrupt Okamura, but Okamura Ninji didn't seem to hear it, and the sound of the piano continued, so Tokunaga had to take out a telegram: "Commander, Commander Isamu Yokoyama reports that the army outside Tianjin is moving frequently, and a new military number appears in Yixingbu in the north of the city, and in the north of the city.... ”

Okamura Ninji's piano sound stopped abruptly, he slowly stood up, Tokunaga's voice gradually lowered, Okamura Ninji did not wear a military uniform today, he wore a traditional Japanese kimono, and he pedaled double clogs under his feet. Tokunaga didn't read the contents of the telegram anymore, and after being by Okamura's side for so long, he was well aware of some of the commander's hints.

In fact, Tokunaga knew from the moment he got the telegram that nothing would come of it. Beiping City is larger than Tianjin, and the full number of troops is less than 40,000, and Yokoyama Yong commands nearly 70,000 troops, if he has no way, Okamura Ningji has no choice.

Okamura Ninji clasped his hands in his sleeves and looked at Yingtai in the green trees: "Deyongjun, the Guangxu Emperor of China is locked up there." ”

Tokunaga sighed softly, of course he knew about this, he quickly used his brain, what does Okamura Ninji mean by this; Okamura Ninji sighed softly: "The cherry blossoms in Ueno have been thanked, Tokunaga-kun, how many years have you not seen the cherry blossoms in Ueno?" ”

Tokunaga's mood suddenly felt heavy, he had a feeling of being stabbed in the chest, he hadn't been home for six years, he received a letter from his wife last year, his fifteen-year-old son was conscripted into the army and sent to the Jiangnan battlefield, and now he doesn't know what happened. Now that he is trapped in the city of Beiping, who knows how many days he will live?

"I haven't seen it in six years, so I'd love to see it." Okamura didn't wait for Tokunaga to answer before answering himself, in his previous life, Okamura was transferred back to China for a period of time after the occupation of Nanchang, but he did not have this experience in this life, and he was directly transferred from the position of commander of the 11th Army to the North China Dispatch Army as the commander.

"yes." Tokunaga sighed, as if remembering the clouds of tourists in Ueno Park when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, the women dancing in beautiful kimonos, and the men singing loudly under the encouragement of alcohol, and all this beauty would be far away from them, unless .......

"I'm always thinking about Tokyo these days, and you know, in Shibuya, Tokyo, there's a little shop where his noodles are the best in the world." Okamura seems to be stuck in a memory, and he always has a faint smile on his face.

Tokunaga had a bad feeling in his heart, and he hurriedly interrupted Okamura's fugue: "Commander, General Isamu Yokoyama has called, the Shina Army may be attacking Tianjin, he asks for the strategy." ”

"Strategy?" Okamura Ninji shook his head slightly, Isamu Yokoyama is not a fool, General Shina must also be persuading him to surrender, for General Shina, Tianjin is a city that can be stormed, and he has no scruples.

"What is the strategy now, tell Yokoyama Yong, I will give him full power, and any actions of the Tianjin troops will not need to be reported to me again."

Okamura Ninji seemed very decisive, giving Tokunaga the feeling that Okamura Ninji made a decision without thinking at all, Tokunaga was silent, he wanted to say something, but after thinking about it for a long time, he felt that Okamura Ninji's decision was the most appropriate. No matter what happened in Tianjin, there was nothing he could do but sit and watch the situation change.

Thinking of this, Deyong couldn't help but feel a little gloomy, once upon a time, the imperial army was majestic, vertical and horizontal to the land, but only in the past few years, it has fallen to such a point, can only sit and wait for death.

Tianjin, the sky is full of light is dispersed by war clouds, the earth is cut by criss-crossing trenches, there are open and dark forts everywhere near the city wall, the water of the moat has been put to the maximum, all the houses near the city wall have been demolished, the city wall is full of machine guns, the streets in the city are cut off by sandbags and buses, the buildings on both sides are arranged with fire points, the closer to the Japanese concession, the more fire points, all the buildings around it have been requisitioned, all the residents have been expelled, all the rooms in the building have been opened, and sandbags are piled up on the windowsill.

Yokoyama did not waste time, he made full use of the time that the Chinese army was waiting for logistical materials, strengthened the fortifications, trained the soldiers in the township, and the more than 30,000 expatriates in Tianjin, regardless of gender, were all incorporated into the army and trained all day. The policemen in Tianjin were also incorporated into the army, and Yokoyama knew that these policemen could not be trusted, so he broke them up and replenished them to the troops in the form of supplementary soldiers, and they were forcibly fixed on fixed fire points, and once the battle began, they were either killed in the position or killed by the soldiers behind.

But even so, Yokoyama still felt that the troops were insufficient, a city like Tianjin needed at least 100,000 troops, and he had now collected more than 60,000 people, which was not enough.

Isamu Yokoyama stood on the roof of the Yamato Public Hall, where he could see the entire park in full view, holding the telegram he had just received from Okamura in his hand, his face gloomy. Two Chinese fighters were hovering in the sky, and instead of dropping bombs, the planes dropped a pile of pieces of paper, which flew in the air and were blown all over the city by the wind.

Yokoyama knew what was on the pieces of paper, and the Chinese outside the city shouted to the city every day with loudspeakers to inform them of the progress of the current war situation, and the three troops of the river side and the three troops of the last elite were all destroyed, the Chinese army recovered Rehe, and hundreds of thousands of troops approached Shanhaiguan. The Chinese army went out of the fortress and launched an attack on Mongolia, the Chinese air force bombed Jinzhou, the Chinese air force bombed Shenyang, the Chinese army launched an attack in northern Jiangsu, and so on, and so on.

These shouts and leaflets dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the soldiers in the city, and almost all of them knew that they had no hope of breaking through, were unable to hold on, and were completely desperate.

Before the war, a large number of Tianjin residents fled, but there were hundreds of thousands of people left in the city, most of these residents were relatively poor, Hengshan Yong requisitioned more than 100,000 residents, strictly ordered them to build fortifications, after nearly a month of busyness, the fortifications in the city were repaired, and then let them go home, as soon as the residents returned home, they closed their doors and rarely went out, and the whole city was as silent as death.

Yokoyama felt that the attack of the Chinese army was imminent, and the Chinese troops outside the city had been moving frequently yesterday, and a new Chinese army number had appeared in the north of the city, and the front line also reported that there was the sound of tank engines on the opposite side of the position, and the Chinese army was transferring tank troops.

All this proved that his judgment of the direction of the main attack of the Chinese army was correct, and he placed the 9th Division and the 110th Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, in this direction, these two divisions suffered great losses in the early battle, and each division had less than half of its strength left, but even so, their combat effectiveness was the strongest in the city.

In addition to the 9th Division and the 110th Division, there are also the 69th Division, the 132nd Division, the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade and the 16th Independent Mixed Brigade.

Although 30,000 soldiers in the township were organized, Yokoyama did not dare to pin his hopes on them, and even the professional soldiers who were trained and brave and good at fighting could not stop the attack of the Chinese army.

He reached out to catch a leaflet that swayed to his side, and on it was written in Chinese and Japanese scripts, a list of prisoners of war currently captured by the Chinese army, along with photos of Shozo Kawabe and Toshio Tani.

Although the photo is a little blurry, Yokoyama still recognizes them, both of them are wounded, Tani Shofu has a bandage on his head, and the river side is hanging on his arms, and the second photo is a huge prisoner of war camp, full of captured Japanese soldiers.

The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 10, the Wild Tide, Section 7, Lightning

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