[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 644: Capture a lot (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Since the opening of the port at the end of the Qing Dynasty under the pressure of foreign warships, Tianjin has a very important place in China's history. The www.biquge.info was once used as the residence of the governor of Zhili, and also became the main base for Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai to run foreign affairs and develop Beiyang forces. In 1860, the British and French forces occupied Tianjin, Tianjin was forced to open up, and the foreign powers successively set up concessions in Tianjin, which also became an important window for northern China to open its eyes to the world.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Tianjin played an important role in the political arena, with hundreds of bureaucrats and politicians from the lower field and the remnants of the Qing Dynasty taking refuge in the Tianjin Concession and attempting to restore it, including the President of the Republic of China, Li Yuanhong, and the former Qing Emperor Puyi.

In June 1928, the National Revolutionary Army occupied Tianjin, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government established Tianjin Special City. In June 1930, Tianjin Special City was changed to Tianjin Municipality under the direct jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan of the Nanjing National Government. In November, due to the relocation of Hebei Province from Beiping to Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality was changed to a provincial municipality. In June 1935, Hebei Province moved to Baoding, and Tianjin was changed to a municipality directly under the central government.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the Japanese army sent heavy troops to besiege the Pingjin area. At 2 a.m. on July 29, the Kuomintang troops simultaneously launched an attack on the Japanese invaders at the Japanese barracks at Haiguang Temple, the railway station, the Dongjuzi Airport, and the Japanese concession in the urban area. This was the last battle before the fall of Beiping and Tianjin, and it was also the only battle in which our army took the initiative to attack since the Lugou Bridge Incident, so historians of the Anti-Japanese War called it "Tianjin Attack". A day later, Tianjin fell.

After the Japanese army occupied Tianjin, it transformed Tianjin into a large military port in a short period of time, and the ships were flowing every day, sending a steady stream of weapons and equipment and soldiers produced in Japan to the Chinese battlefield. At the same time, it transported the property and resources plundered by the Japanese army in China back to Japan, which has become a transit point for the Japanese army to plunder the wealth of the Chinese people.

At five o'clock in the morning of 10 November, after receiving a telegram from Yang Chengwu's headquarters, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the naval fleet that had arrived off the coast of Tianjin to dock south of the port of Tianjin, so that the army on the warship could immediately land ashore.

Under the command of Xie Wensheng and Liang Shangren, the three brigades totaled more than 20,000 men and landed at Lijiatan in the south of Tianjin. An hour later, the large force arrived outside Tianjin.

After a short rest, Xie Wensheng and others ordered the nine regiments under their command to launch a full-scale attack on the Japanese-controlled city of Tianjin in nine routes. And Xu Haifeng went straight to Tianjin Port with the special combat team.

At the same time, Ma Zheng and Hu Yanbing commanded more than 40 warships to rush towards the port, and before the Japanese warships could react, a large number of shells bombarded them.

I have to say that Ma Zheng's plan is indeed very good, and the Pingjin area is impregnable in the eyes of the Japanese army, so there are not many garrisons in the two major cities. In addition, this time the North China Front Army attacked Shanxi in a big way. A lot of the garrisons in the Pingjin area were withdrawn, so the garrison in the Pingjin area was already reduced by more than one-third.

After Yang Chengwu's troops besieged Beiping City, Tada Jun had no choice but to continue to transfer troops from Tianjin, so when Ma Zheng arrived in Tianjin with an army of 20,000, there were only regular troops in Tianjin with less than one infantry brigade and a squadron of port and coastal garrisons.

Although the Japanese troops in the city were very vigilant, after all, Beiping was only a few dozen kilometers away from Tianjin, and it would take two hours to arrive quickly, so after the independent mixed Seventh Brigade reinforced Beiping. The Japanese troops in Tianjin all canceled their vacations, and everyone stuck to their posts to prevent the Chinese from sneaking up on Tianjin.

But despite this, when Ma Zheng's troops suddenly launched an attack, the defenders of Tianjin were still stunned. More than 20,000 troops attacked in nine directions, which immediately exhausted the defenders of Tianjin, and the defenders of more than 1,500 troops were divided into nine places, and each place did not even have one squadron.

There was a huge disparity in strength, so as soon as the battle began, Ma Zheng's headquarters broke through many defensive lines of the Japanese army and broke into the city. Half an hour later, except for the fighting in the direction of the port, the defenders elsewhere were basically wiped out. At 6:50 a.m., the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Brigade came to report that the port had been successfully taken and that a squadron of the defenders had been completely annihilated.

After the occupation of Tianjin, Ma Zheng immediately sent a report to Yan'an. At the same time, Tianjin was ordered to immediately impose martial law, and the troops searched for Japanese nationals throughout the city and sealed the property of Japanese nationals.

After Ma Zheng entered the city, it was already dark, and after a hurried breakfast, Ma Zheng urgently convened a military meeting in the Tianjin Garrison Headquarters of the Japanese Army, which was attended by all officers above the regimental level.

Since it was a war period, there were not so many rules, and after everyone brought it, Ma Zheng immediately asked: "The people are almost here, let's have a meeting first, how is the situation in the city now?"

"There is chaos, some remnants of the Japanese army have not been cleared, and there is also a group of people who take advantage of the fire to rob, several stores have been smashed and looted, and the second regiment is maintaining law and order." Liang Shangren immediately replied.

"This will not work, we must maintain the basic order in Tianjin. Liang Shangren, this task will be handed over to your first brigade, and I will announce a few disciplines for you: 1. If the Japanese puppet and the enemy are the calamity of the citizens, kill! 2. Kill those who smash and rob and disrupt the normal order in the city! 3. Those who rape women are killed! Fourth, harbor and hide the Japanese pseudo-traitors, kill! 5. Those who obstruct military affairs, kill! Just follow these five prohibitions, regardless of whether it is a Japanese puppet army or not, as long as those who dare to make trouble at this time are all executed. Ma Zheng said coldly.

The five killing orders made all the officers in the conference room feel frightened, and they all secretly said that the commander was not very old, but there was always a boundless murderous aura lingering on his body, which was called domineering.

"Are all the important military departments in the city under control?" Ma Zheng asked again.

"All of them are under control, the railway station, the military port wharf, the military police headquarters, the city defense headquarters, the airport, the prison, the barracks, etc., are all under the control of our army, and now the troops are counting the spoils of war." Xie Wensheng replied.

"There's no need to count it, there are so many loot in Tianjin City, it's not something we can count in a short time, instead of wasting that time, it's better to think about how to transport all the loot back." Ma Zheng said.

"The commander is right, there are so many loot that we can't count them at all, so it's better to think about the reality of how to rush it." Wang Dechuan also responded.

"This time, I brought more than 100 warships, and all the weapons, ammunition, and food were loaded onto the ship, and we will transport them to Shandong, which is the capital for us to form the Shandong Military Region. In addition, you now immediately collect all the cars in Tianjin, whether they are military or ****, not one can be left behind, load all the rest of the loot, and then send it to the vicinity of Beiping, and directly hand it over to the reorganized Second Division, who is responsible for transporting the loot back to the military region. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "In addition, the rush to transport the spoils of war pays attention to such a strategy, first rushing to transport those high-value gold, silver and various currencies, followed by seized weapons and equipment and industrial equipment, and finally grain, cloth, cotton and other daily necessities, and finally antiques and cultural relics and other things that cannot be directly circulated. ”

"Now we divide the work, the first and second regiments are responsible for security and patrol tasks inside and outside the city, and the third regiment is responsible for the defense of the port, erecting all the coastal defense cannons and loading the shells to prevent attacks from the sea by the Japanese army. The Fourth Regiment was responsible for guarding Japanese nationals and confiscating their belongings. The rest of the troops were all turned into stevedores, and coordinated with the transport team to rush to transport supplies overnight. ”

"Yes!"

"Commander, we found a large number of Japanese tanks in the warehouses in the port, and in addition, we captured more than twenty large warships in the port of Tianjin, what should we do?" Hu Yanbing asked.

"Tanks?" Ma Zheng asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's a tank, I've checked it myself, it's all 94-type bean chariots and 95-type medium chariots, there are about more than 300 vehicles, and all of them are temporarily new, and some don't even have paint spent, and they look like they have just gotten off the production line." Hu Yanbing replied. (To be continued.) )