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Chapter 12** Fighting Tianjin Again (1)

Beiping, Huairou County. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The headquarters of the 21st Independent Brigade, Koichi Ishikawa carefully read the two telegrams he had just received, and was silent for a long time.

The news of the successive fiascos of the Japanese army in the Pingjin War had reached Huairou, and the commander of the 42nd Independent Wing, Yasudazo Murakami, cautiously asked: "I wonder what countermeasures the headquarters has for the fiasco of the 20th Division?" ”

Koichi Ishikawa sighed: "Commander Itagaki has said that he will take full responsibility, and the base camp is currently discussing how to deal with this matter, given that the current war is stalemate, and the whole body will be affected, I estimate that the base camp will not change the commander so soon." However, the disposition of the 20th Division and the 109th Division has already come down. ”

Wing Commander of the 41st Independent Wing, Mori Saburo Nakasa, asked in surprise, "So fast?" ”

Hiroshi Ishikawa nodded and handed one of the telegrams to Mori Saburo, and then everyone circulated it one by one, with a hint of joy on their faces.

"General Ishikawa, congratulations on your promotion to lieutenant general and taking over as the commander of the 20th Division of the Army!" Saburo Mori was the first to congratulate.

"Yes! General Ishikawa has excellent ability, and his study of the Shina army is not in any way inferior to that of several well-known military predecessors, and the appointment of the general as the commander of the 20th Division will surely wash away the humiliation suffered by the 20th Division and revive the prestige of the Standing Division of the Imperial Japan. Not to be outdone, Yasu Murakami sent his congratulations in time.

In addition to the appointment of Koichi Ishikawa, this telegram also contained an order to integrate the 21st Independent Brigade into the 20th Division, which also means that from today onwards, the 21st Independent Brigade will be upgraded to a standing brigade under the Standing Division of the Japanese Army, and will no longer be the previous temporary number. With the promotion of Koichi Ishikawa, one of the two independent wing commanders of the 21st Independent Brigade will inevitably be promoted to the commander of the brigade, and it is nothing to promote the rank to one level, the key is the honor of the representative of the standing division, which makes everyone's blood boil.

Koichi Ishikawa naturally knew what these officials under him were thinking, and nodded slightly: "The headquarters ordered that the numbers of the 39th Brigade and the 40th Brigade of the original 20th Division will be inherited by one of them. Our department is ready at any time, once it is attacked by the Chinese army, it will abandon Huairou County, withdraw to Gubeikou, and join the 1st Independent Brigade, which will inherit the number of another brigade. In addition, Major General Sakai, the former commander of the 1st Independent Brigade, will rush to Qinhuangdao to assist Yamaoka-kun in reorganizing the 109th Division. ”

The entire brigade headquarters was full of surprise, Sakai left the 1st Independent Brigade, and he would definitely take a large number of henchmen and officials, so the people of the 21st Independent Brigade could naturally fill the vacancy of the 1st Independent Brigade, and everyone could be promoted and rich.

"General, why give up Huairou? With the combat strength of our troops, even if the 13th and 14th armies of China attack with all their might, we will have the confidence to support it. Could it be that the situation has eroded to the point where it is necessary to abandon Pingjin? Brigade staff officer Kiyohide Morimoto asked puzzled.

Koichi Ishikawa shook his head: "It's a matter of the base camp secret, even I have no way of knowing, but I believe that this move will not be untargeted, you accept the order!" ”

"Hi Yi!"

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August 2, dawn.

As a red signal flare pierced the sky, a raging fire suddenly ignited in Tongxian and Xianghe City, and for a while the guns rang out in unison, and the uprising of the Jidong Security Force officially began.

A Japanese brigade stationed in Xicheng, Tongxian County, was suddenly attacked and stubbornly resisted, and due to the fierce fire of the Japanese army, several attacks by the rebel team were repulsed. At the critical moment, Zhang Qingyu ordered the officers and soldiers to push the gasoline barrels from the nearby gasoline depot to the Japanese position, and soon the Japanese garrison was surrounded by rolling gasoline barrels. The rebel officers and soldiers fired at the gasoline barrels, which were quickly ignited, filled with black smoke and flames, and then most of the oil barrels exploded due to the high temperature, and the Japanese officers and soldiers were reduced to flying ashes along with the station.

The gate of Tongxian City was quickly opened, and the two brigades of Song Zheyuan, who were approaching Tongxian overnight, quickly rushed into the city to participate in the attack, and the traitor armed forces and the Japanese garrison troops inside and outside Tongxian County were quickly cleared, and Tongxian County returned to the hands of the Chinese people like a ripe melon.

Subsequently, after the convergence, the force rapidly expanded to 25,000 troops to attack the county town of Xianghe, and with the cooperation of the second brigade of the Jidong Security Corps that revolted in the city, a brigade of the Japanese army stationed in Xianghe was completely annihilated.

It is reported that after being directly threatened by the squadron in Tongxian and Xianghe last night, the traitors fled to Baodi, Ninghe, Yutian and other places in the name of inspection and family visits.

Song Zheyuan and a group of generals of the rebel army issued a telegram to the whole country: Tongxian and Xianghe will be reattached to the central government in Nanjing from now on, and the eastern Hebei security force will wait for the reorganization of the Central Military Commission and fight for the interests of the country and the nation.

The recovery of Tongxian and Xianghe means that the defense line of the Jingdong puppet army, on which the Japanese army relied on the barrier, has completely fallen, and from then on, the squadron can face the vast area east of the Grand Canal and directly threaten the Beining line, the transportation artery of the Japanese army.

After receiving the news of the liberation of Tongzhou, Liu Zhi announced as soon as possible that he would set up the headquarters of the former enemy in the theater in Tongxian County to lead the operation against Japan in a unified manner.

......

South of Tianjin.

The sun had just risen over the eastern horizon, and I was surprised to find that someone had gotten up earlier than myself, and tens of thousands of people had gathered on the campus of the Beida Camp in Jinghai, silently, was it a demonstration to himself? He couldn't help but shake his body in annoyance, and suddenly emitted a blazing light.

In front of the team, Wan Fulin, whose whole body was sprinkled with a layer of golden glow from the rising sun, said loudly with grief and indignation in his eyes:

"Brothers, remember the pain of leaving home? From the third year to the present, it has been almost seven years, and our brothers in the Northeast Army have been wandering like lonely ghosts in the pass for seven years! Back then, we didn't fire a single shot and lost the three eastern provinces, can we still lose North China now? No, brothers, if we take another step back, not only will we be poked in the backbone for the rest of our lives, but we will also shame our ancestors and ancestors, and the banner of our Northeast Army will also be nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever!

"Today, the Japanese have been defeated in Pingjin and Tianjin, and the devil is like a grasshopper after the autumn, and it can't grow anymore, if we can attack Tianjin City in one go today, then the last stronghold that the Japanese inserted into our belly in North China like a nail will be lost, and we will be able to take advantage of the situation to recover Tanggu and Dagu, and along the Beining Railway, we will fight all the way out of Shanhaiguan, recover Shenyang, Changchun, and Harbin, and completely drive the Japanese out of China!

"Brothers, it's time to break the grievances and grievances between us and the Japanese, and today we will him vigorously like a grandfather!"

Wan Fulin's words aroused a strong resonance among all the brothers in the 53rd Army. As the only remaining unit of the Northeast Army in northern China, the 53rd Army has not found its true belonging.

"Kill—"

The deafening shouts of killing suddenly sounded, and at this moment, it seemed that only this killing sound could express the impassioned indignation of the soldiers.

The same scene was staged in the Wangzhuang school field in the southeast of Jinghai, and all the soldiers were so stimulated that they screamed, and they couldn't wait to go to the battlefield immediately and fight to the death with the Japanese invaders.

With the end of the mobilization meeting of the 53rd Army and the 40th Army, the officers and men of each division entered the positions, and on the front-line attack positions, the officers and men of the eight regiments of the former Eastern Hebei Army who received their weapons and took the lead were already in place, and they were scattered on the long front on the south bank of the Liuli River, waiting for the horn of the charge to sound, and wash away the humiliation with blood and lives.

Because of the air supremacy, the time of the general attack on Tianjin was set at 9 o'clock in the morning, so that the Central Air Force Group could reinforce it in time when the attack reached a stalemate.

At nine o'clock, as the trumpet of the charge sounded, a roar of rage shouted from the throats of the officers of each company and platoon on the front line, and the officers of the company and platoon with pistols jumped out of the trench one after another, waved their arms forward, raised their pistols, and took the lead in charging forward.

"Kill!"

An earth-shattering roar rang out one after another, and nearly 1,000 soldiers jumped out of the trench on a frontline several kilometers long, following their respective company and platoon commanders, and rushed frantically towards the Liuli River.

"Da Da Da ......"

At the same time as the officers and men jumped out of the trenches, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns rang out at the same time, and the flames flashed at the muzzles, suppressing the Japanese firepower on the other side of the Liuli River and covering the charge of the opposing troops.

The artillery behind the Japanese position roared, and waves splashed on the surface of the Liuli River. At the same time, the Japanese machine guns and grenadiers also began to exert their power arbitrarily, and there were casualties among the squadrons that were swimming across the river, but fortunately, because he was familiar with the Japanese army's tactics, An Yi specially reminded that the distance between officers and soldiers should be separated a little when charging, so the casualties were not obvious.

The mortars of the squadron quickly aimed at the exposed firing points of the Japanese army to carry out precise strikes, and the Japanese machine guns and grenadiers were silent, and the charging officers and men took the opportunity to rush to the river bank and pounced on the Japanese position.

An Yi and the principal generals of the 53rd Army were observing the situation on the front line in a bunker five kilometers away from the front line at the moment, and when they saw that four or five hundred officers and men were approaching the enemy's defensive line, Wan Fulin and the generals and colonels of the 53rd Army applauded one after another.

At this time, there was a sudden change, and there was a sharp whistling sound in the air, An Yi suddenly thought of something, and asked loudly: "Has the mortar been transferred in time...... The voice did not fall, and the mortar unit exposed by the 53rd Army had been hit by the Japanese artillery fire and quickly fell silent.

Just when Wan Fulin and others were so distressed that their chests were stunning, a dense muzzle of guns suddenly appeared on the original sparsely populated Japanese front-line position, and with the sound of gunshots, the charging officers and soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and within a few minutes, there was no longer a standing Chinese officer or soldier on the other side of the river.

"Fuck, little Japan's marksmanship is too accurate!" Feng Zhanhai, commander of the 91st Division, scolded and scolded.

Wan Fulin frowned slightly: "I originally thought that the morale of the Japanese army had been lost, but now it seems that it is still as difficult as before......"