On the morning of July 28, 1937, the Japanese army first launched an all-out attack on the 37th Division of the Chinese defenders defending the area around Beiping. At this time, the strength of the 29th Army stationed in Beiping was mainly concentrated in Nanyuan, Wanping, Babaoshan and Beijing.

The Japanese army attacked Beiping City from the east Jianguomen, and attacked the Chinese defenders of Wanping and Nanyuan from the south in two ways, of which Nanyuan was the main direction of the Japanese army's attack.

Because Wanping County is only a traffic artery, even if Wanping is occupied in advance, the Japanese army still has to continue to attack Nanyuan, which is heavily stationed.

After the Lugou Bridge War of Resistance at the beginning of the month, the Japanese army knew that Lugou Bridge and Wanping County were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the defenders fought tenaciously. So this time, the Japanese army did not choose Wanping as the main attack site.

The Japanese army attacking Jianguomen in the east was not the main direction of attack, and the main purpose of attacking Jianguomen was to prevent the military and civilians in Beiping City from reinforcing the Chinese defenders in Nanyuan and several other places.

Although the Japanese attacking Wanping County were also a feint, they also had the purpose of mobilizing the nearby Chinese defenders, hoping to eliminate the Chinese defenders in the process of mobilizing the Chinese defenders.

The Japanese strategy was completely successful, and in order to resist the Japanese army attacking Wanping, the Chinese defenders of Babaoshan also moved closer to Wanping County, in order to prevent the Japanese army from occupying Lugou Bridge and occupying Wanping County. As a result, due to the betrayal of the traitors, the reinforced Chinese troops were ambushed by the Japanese army and suffered heavy losses.

As the main target of the Japanese army, the Chinese defenders of Nanyuan originally had 12,000 people, but just the day before, Song Zheyuan had just withdrawn the military headquarters of the 29th Army to Beiping City, and at the same time took 4,000 elites with him. So at this time, the real defenders of Nanyuan were only 8,000 people.

When Commander Song Yuanzhe went to Beiping, he left Tong Linge, deputy commander of the 132nd Division, Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, and Zheng Dazhang, commander of the Cavalry Division, to jointly command the battle against the Japanese army.

Song Zheyuan committed a military taboo here, that is, he divided the command of Nanyuan to three people. But Song Zheyuan can't be blamed for this.

Because although they are all national armies now, in fact, their armies come from many different armies such as the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army.

More importantly, because of the Xi'an Incident, Song Zheyuan's 29th Army had just absorbed two more divisions under the former Yang Hucheng. In this way, Song Zheyuan's army was still dominated by the original warlord style.

The soldiers of almost every division can only be commanded by their own division commander. Fortunately, Deputy Commander Tong Linge has always been in charge of the defenders of Nanyuan, and he is extremely familiar with the environment and surrounding terrain of Nanyuan.

At the same time, Division Commander Zhao Dengyu was a combat hero during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, and he personally led the broadsword team to participate in the battle of Xifengkou, and Division Commander Zhao and Deputy Army Commander Tong were old acquaintances and old comrades-in-arms during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War.

As for Zheng Dazhang, the commander of the cavalry division, he is also a brother and sister to Deputy Commander Tong and Division Commander Zhao in private, so even if Song Zheyuan delegates the command of the entire Nanyuan to the three of them to deal with it together, in fact, the main person in charge is still Deputy Commander Tong.

However, because Commander Song did not have enough understanding of Japan's full-scale invasion of China during the Lugou Bridge Incident, he fell for the Japanese army's strategy of delaying the army, so during the half month that Japan was waiting for reinforcements to arrive, Song Zheyuan did not actively repair the overall defense as the main garrison of the 29th Army.

So much so that until the Japanese launched a general offensive on the 28th, Nanyuan's defense was only a three-meter-high wall surrounding the entire station.

Fortunately, knowing that the war was about to start, the defenders of Nanyuan had already erected countless escalators inside the courtyard wall. It allows soldiers to stand on the inside of the courtyard wall and shoot at the enemy outside the wall, so it can be regarded as having a certain defensive ability.

As for the current garrison of Nanyuan, although there are as many as 8,000 people, there are 1,500 civilian personnel, and at the same time, there are 1,500 new troops enrolled in the school, mainly middle school students.

The 1,500-strong student army also began formal military training half a month ago after the Lugou Bridge Incident, and as for what they have trained in the past half month, they will not know anything except being able to shoot.

And fortunately, Li Tie's ammunition was delivered in a hurry, otherwise the 1,500-strong student army might not even be able to fire a gun by now.

It can be seen from this that the combat effectiveness of these student armies cannot be expected.

The 3,000 men and horses of the 132nd Division of the other division commander Zhao are all veterans who survived the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger.

There are also 2,000 men and horses that are the cavalry brigade of Commander Zheng, who also participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance and has rich combat experience, so it can be said that these 5,000 men and horses are the elite of Nanyuan.

The Japanese army, as the attacking side, was also the best of its best, and this time it was an elite division sent by the Korean Dispatch Army, the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, that came to reinforce the Chinese garrison.

The 20th Division of the Japanese Army alone had a strength of 30,000 troops. At the same time, reinforcements were also carried out by two elite brigades of the Eastern Army, totaling more than 20,000 people, and a brigade of the former North China Garrison Army of more than 10,000 people. Three Japanese forces, totaling 60,000 men, surrounded Tianjin in Beiping.

The attack on Nanyuan was a brigade of the 20th Korean Division and a wing of the North China Garrison Army, totaling 15,000 elite soldiers, which can be said to account for half of the 30,000 Japanese troops besieging Beiping.

On the morning of the 28th, the first wave of Japanese offensive troops had been assembled a few hundred meters outside Nanyuan. This first wave of troops had more than 3,000 people, forty heavy artillery pieces and more than a hundred tanks, armored vehicles, and the cover of more than forty aircraft, and the attack power was quite powerful.

And the position that these Japanese troops were going to attack was the weak point of the Nanyuan defenders, the north courtyard wall of Nanyuan that the student army was responsible for defending.

Outside the wall of the north courtyard of Nanyuan is a sorghum land, yesterday when the commander of Song Zheyuan retreated to Beiping City, he had already asked the student army to harvest the sorghum land, in order to open the horizon.

However, because the student army did not think that there was any inevitable connection between mowing grass and the Anti-Japanese War, these sorghum sorghums were cut in different lengths, some cut a large area of several hundred meters, and some only cut a few dozen meters away.

This allowed the Japanese troops a few hundred meters away to have enough shelter to slowly approach the north courtyard wall of the Nanyuan garrison to carry out an approaching attack.

As soon as Commander Tong and the two division commanders saw the vanguard of the Japanese army appearing from the north courtyard wall in the direction of Beiping, they immediately shouted in their hearts that something was wrong.

Because according to the normal military strategy, Nanyuan is backed by the direction of Beiping City, and it is very vulnerable to reinforcements from Beiping City. So in addition to the north, the other three sides are the normal offensive positions.

However, the Japanese army appeared on the weakly defended north courtyard wall, and gathered so many soldiers and tanks and armored vehicles, it was obvious that the Japanese army had taken the north courtyard wall as the main direction of attack.

The Japanese army so blatantly revealed the direction of the attack, either the commander of the Japanese army was a genius among geniuses, or it showed that the defensive layout of Nanyuan had been obtained by the Japanese army.

Several people were shocked, and then remembered that many of their troops were attacked and harassed by the Japanese army yesterday, and if they had no traitors here, they would not be able to believe that they had killed the three of them.

However, it was too late to temporarily adjust the Defense Bureau, so Commander Tong immediately took Commander Zhao to the north courtyard wall to personally command and cheer up the student army.

However, what Commander Tong did not expect was that the morale of the student army was high, and he was not at all frightened by the appearance of groups of Japanese troops and hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles a few hundred meters away.

On the contrary, everyone joked and claimed: "There are only 3,000 Japanese soldiers, and each student army only needs to kill two Japanese soldiers to wipe them out."

It's a distance of several hundred meters, and when the Japanese army attack the wall, we won't have to fire a hundred and eighty shots? 100 bullets, not to mention 100 shots, even if two shots hit two Japanese troops, they could wipe out these 3,000 Japanese troops.

As for those tanks and armored vehicles, don't be afraid, our wall is high and thick, and the tanks can't climb down, so we're afraid of him. ”

Hearing the blind optimism of the student army, Commander Tong and Division Commander Zhao looked at each other and smiled bitterly, this is the egg of a recruit who has never been on the battlefield. Without being baptized on the battlefield, they will never grow up.

The two generals first affirmed the optimistic attitude of the student army to war, and then painstakingly explained to everyone some common sense of combat that will be used soon.

"First of all, you can shoot when you see it. Second, once a bullet flies by, hide immediately, and don't appear in the same place when it reappears.

Thirdly, at any time, the upper body should not be exposed to the fence, and at most half of the head should be exposed when shooting. When you shoot a shot, you have to shrink your head, keep an eye on the enemy's direction, shoot quickly, and aim quickly.

Fourth, take a good look at your comrades-in-arms, because this is likely to be the last time you will see each other, and in a few minutes, many of you will donate for your country.

But the brothers who can survive are the brothers you will die by your hands in the future, and whether you are in a high position or in a foreign country in the future, these brothers are your most trusted brothers.

Fifth, you must listen to orders, you must not make your own opinions, act without authorization, hear the captain shouting to lie down, everyone must lie down as soon as possible, even if there is a piece of in front of you, you must not hesitate to lie down, because you lie fast, the chance of survival is the greatest. ”

Seeing that many student soldiers in front of them were still smiling and disapproving, the two generals once again loudly taught a lesson:

"The Japanese army is not stupid, they will not stand still, let you fire a hundred and eighty shots, they will also return fire, and the range of the Japanese rifle is much farther than the rifle of our 29th Army.

What is more important is that before the attack they will first shell, even aircraft bombing, and then tanks and armored vehicles will attack.

Don't underestimate armored vehicles and tanks, one can fire a machine gun and the other can fire, and every armored vehicle and tank is not easy to deal with except with cluster grenades. ”

Just when the two generals were still conducting pre-war emergency training for the student army in front of them, there was a sudden change in the sorghum field in front of them.

Before the two generals could give the order to shoot, the hundreds of student troops on the entire north courtyard wall who had found unusual movements had already opened into the sorghum field dozens of meters away.

Not to mention that it was really a blind cat that touched a dead mouse, and as soon as the gunfire passed, two Japanese soldiers rolled out of the sorghum field, and then they died after a few twitches.

Seeing that two Japanese soldiers were killed in the first battle, the morale of the student army was even higher, and they thought that the Japanese army in front of them was too indifferent, so they were killed after only a few shots, and they were now more confident that they would completely destroy the 3,000 Japanese troops in front of them.