Chapter 664: Withdrawal of Troops (Fifth Update!) )
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Considering that the materials in Tianjin City have basically been rushed, and the rest are either distributed to the citizens of Tianjin City or given to the concessions of various countries, and the rest are some things that cannot be moved, after thinking about it again, Ma Zheng still issued a retreat order to the defenders in Tianjin. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ma Zheng ordered Xie Wensheng to take charge of the retreat of all troops in Tianjin, with the planes and chariots going first, followed by the newly recruited recruits, and the old birds brought from Shandong behind the palace.
After consuming more than 5,000 tons of explosives, Tianjin's port collapsed, the railway station was destroyed, the headquarters was burned, the barracks were flattened, and all the factory buildings and equipment of the warehouse company were also destroyed.
What's more, under Ma Zheng's order, when the troops retreated, they took away more than 8,000 young Japanese expatriates in Tianjin, and it seems that these were also their trophies.
When Ma Zheng formulated the battle plan, the purpose of attacking Tianjin was not to defend Tianjin at all, but to divert attention. From the very beginning, he was planning to run away with one vote, and he never thought about fighting with the Japanese in Tianjin.
Due to the early preparations, it only took one day for all the troops from Tianjin to be withdrawn. Then the troops in the direction of Beiping also began to retreat, before the retreat Ma Zheng personally commanded the troops to launch a final attack on the city of Beiping, this time Yang Chengwu's troops once captured the city wall of the West Gate, but finally fell short due to the tenacious counterattack of the Japanese army.
In the second half of the night of November 21, Ma Zheng ordered all troops to withdraw from Beiping, and it was not until the morning of the 22nd that the Japanese army found that the Chinese army that had been besieging the city for more than ten days had disappeared.
After receiving the news of Ma Zheng's retreat, Lieutenant General Tada Jun not only did not feel very happy, but was greatly furious. Just yesterday he received a telegram from the base camp that the Eighth Division and the 16th Mixed Brigade of the Kwantung Army had arrived in Zunhua, and it was expected that they would arrive at Sanhe and Pinggu at 10 o'clock this morning.
Although Tada Jun was not happy, the Japanese puppet army in Beiping City was happy, and after so many days of fighting, Beijing City was already full of corpses. Not only did the Japanese army suffer heavy casualties, but even the residents of the city suffered heavy casualties, and the besieging troops finally withdrew, which was a good thing for the soldiers defending the city or the people in the city.
At 10 o'clock in the morning of November 22, the city of Beiping, which had been closed for 11 days, was finally opened, and to the delight of the citizens of Beiping, as soon as the city gate was opened, they saw Japanese soldiers transporting corpses outside the city one by one. The city was full of ruins, and the traces of smoke and fire were everywhere.
While the Japanese army was busy disposing of the corpses of soldiers killed in battle, Ma Zheng returned to Zhangjiakou with tens of thousands of troops.
I haven't seen it for a few months, and the city of Zhangjiakou is much more lively than before, and as soon as the army entered the city, it was learned that there was an endless stream of refugees fleeing from the Pingjin area to Suinan in the past few days. In addition, it is not very safe for a large number of materials to be piled up in Zhangjiakou, so under Ma Zheng's instructions, these materials were urgently transported by train to Datong, Jining and Guisui in the rear. So now not only Zhangjiakou City is busy, but the entire railway line from Zhangjiakou to Guisui is very busy.
Busy is busy, but Ma Zheng doesn't dare to relax. Some time ago, although they took the Japanese army by surprise, the Japanese army's losses were very limited, except for the 16th Division, which was already half-disabled, the rest of the troops did not suffer much losses, and the North China Front still had the strength to fight.
What's more, now that the Kwantung Army has entered the customs to fight, the troops in Shanxi have returned to Beiping, and the more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Shandong are about to arrive in Tianjin. Soon there will be a large army in the Pingjin area, and there will be at least 100,000 elite troops in the hands of this old thing, with such a huge force, Ma Zheng doesn't believe that Tada Jun has no idea in his heart.
But what's next for this old thing? Is it to shrink the force and accumulate strength? Or do you want to get back to the field right away?
After all, Xuanhua is too close to Beiping, less than 200 kilometers away, and it will be there in one day, and Ma Zheng's headquarters will control Xuanhua for one day, and the North China Front Army Headquarters will not be at peace for a day, and a large number of troops must be retained at any time to prevent Ma Zheng's troops from coming to the city again.
However, this time Ma Zheng was wrong, the Japanese army did not seize the time to counterattack, but began to shrink its forces in a large area.
In fact, it's not that Tada Jun doesn't want to counterattack Xuanhua, but the mess in the Pingjin area still needs time to clean up, so now the entire North China Front Army is busy licking its wounds, plus the *** troops on the Taiyuan front are still attacking, although the First Army stationed in Shanxi temporarily withstood the attack of the 14th Army and the Sixth Army in the Second Theater, but it did not have much advantage, so the North China Front Army now has no energy to continue the war with Ma Zheng's department.
The Japanese army only reoccupied several counties and districts around Beiping after the retreat of Ma Zheng's headquarters, but the front of the troops stopped at Huailai County, which was 55 kilometers away from the position of the reorganized second division of Ma Zheng's headquarters.
After finding that the Japanese army had no signs of launching an attack on Zhangjiakou, Ma Zheng was temporarily relieved, although they achieved brilliant results this time, but the attrition of the troops was also very serious, and it was really not suitable to continue to fight with the Japanese army.
On November 27, 1939, just a week after the end of the battle, Ma Zheng convened a meeting of divisional and brigade-level officers in Datong, which was attended by full-ranking officers of all units.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Ma Zheng arrived at the conference room on time, and all the officers attending the meeting had already arrived.
"Stand up!"
"Salute!"
Ma Zheng returned a military salute to all the officers and said loudly: "Sit! ”
After everyone sat down, Ma Zheng immediately said: "According to the latest battle report, the Japanese army has no signs of continuing to attack Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, and Tianzhen, and the 8th Division of the Kwantung Army has withdrawn from Beiping to the northeast overnight yesterday, leaving only the 16th Mixed Brigade in Beiping, but it seems that it has also been withdrawn in the past three or two days, do you have any other news?" ”
Xu Yinghui, head of the intelligence department and chief of staff of the military region, got up and said: "Commander, I just received the news today that the Second Group Army of the Sulu Theater of the Nationalist Government captured Linyi the day before yesterday, posing a huge threat to Jinan and Jining, the shipping center, while at the same time, the main force of the 35th Division of the Japanese Army has also set out from Tianjin and returned to the Shandong battlefield in the south. ”
Ma Zheng thought for a while and said: "In this way, the Japanese army in the Pingjin area only has two complete divisions and two complete infantry brigades left, so the Japanese army will not attack our army for the time being, and this battle is over!" ”
"Bang Bang!" As soon as Ma Zheng's words fell, warm applause rang out in the conference room, and Xie Wensheng, Huang Sicheng, Bi Lige, Wu Xiuda and others applauded, and the atmosphere was extremely lively. (To be continued.) )