At the same time that the tank armored brigade and the second division jointly attacked Tianjin, the guard regiment and the vanguard of the first division finally annihilated the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in the Forbidden City after a fierce battle, so that the resistance of the Japanese puppet army inside and outside Beiping City was completely wiped out, and the Beiping City was successfully recovered.

Qiao Youhua, Zuo Quan and others temporarily set up the headquarters of the Pingjin Battle in Beiping City, and at the same time issued a good news to the whole country and even the world, informing the largest city in North China, Beiping City, an important town in the ancient capital of thousands of years, was finally recovered by the anti-Japanese forces led by the Chinese Eighth Route Army.

In the next step, the Eighth Route Army will concentrate its forces on launching a general attack on Tianjin, completely eliminate the Japanese invading army and its puppet army entrenched in the pass, and then recover the whole of North China, so that there will be no more war in the pass.

As soon as the news was issued, the whole country was shaken, and both the Nationalist Government in Chongqing and the Eighth Route Army in Yan'an were very excited, and countless large and small cities in the recovered regions broke out to celebrate the recovery of Beiping.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians spontaneously carnivaled, and for a time the whole country rejoiced, and Chairman Chiang had no choice but to announce the promotion of Qiao Youhua to lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army, and at the same time to promote officers at all levels of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and to reward 100,000 yuan in the ocean as encouragement.

The leaders of Yan'an changed the original overall strategic plan with great excitement, and urgently transferred anti-Japanese troops from all over Jin, Chaji, and Hebei to enter the base area of the Longya Column and go north to participate in the Battle of Pingjin.

In order to make up for the lack of strength of the Dragon's Tooth Column, the strategic plan to recover the Shandong Peninsula was postponed.

In order to ensure the successful end of the Battle of Pingjin, the capture of Tianjin, and the end of the rule of the Japanese army in North China in Guannei, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army mobilized at least 200,000 troops to the north to aid the Longya Column.

After Qiao Youhua received the news, he immediately sent a telegram to Guo Meng, who was sitting in the base area, and asked her to fully deploy all kinds of military materials to support the more than 200,000 anti-Japanese armed forces of the Eighth Route Army to go north smoothly to participate in the next battle to attack Tianjin.

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Tianjin, the headquarters of the Japanese army.

"Your Excellency General, in the process of supporting the Jinghai defenders, the Navy's carrier-based aircraft group was fiercely blocked by the ground anti-aircraft fire of the Zhina people, suffered heavy losses, and returned in vain. Now the Jinghai defense line has been broken through by the enemy, the county seat has been lost, and the defenders have almost been wiped out! Mamoru Iizawa came to Okamura Ninji with a solemn expression and reported to him the latest news he had received from the front.

Okamura Ninji was obviously stunned when he heard this, then turned around and walked to the battle map to observe for a while, then turned his head and asked Iizawa Mamoru: "Where has the armored unit of China that came from Langfang now?" ”

"At present, it is still in the Wuqing area." Iizawa Mamoru hurriedly replied: "However, the various blocking troops we sent out have paid a very heavy price for casualties, the firepower of the Chinese army is too fierce, and they are all extremely defensive equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles, so if our blocking troops want to stop them from advancing eastward, heavy casualties will be inevitable!" ”

Okamura asked again, "Then how are our outer defensive line fortifications being built?" ”

"It's basically almost finished, however, I'm afraid our troops are insufficient, and now Beiping has completely fallen into the hands of the Chinese army, with only the current strength in our hands, I don't know if we can withstand the onslaught of the Chinese dragon's tooth column!" Iizawa said with a worried face.

"Since the fortifications are basically completed, then notify all the blocking troops on the periphery to retreat to the first line of defense and hold on, and the baggage and engineering units will immediately forcibly recruit the civilians in China inside and outside Tianjin, and continue to rush to repair and build the second line of defense outside the city." Okamura Ninji said confidently: "The first line of defense of our army is already within the range of the absolute effective firepower of the Imperial Navy's fleet artillery group and land and sea-based aviation.

Relying on these, even if the 100,000 troops of the Zhina Army attacked, how could it be so easy to break through our outer defense line? ”

After speaking, Okamura Ningji continued: "Go back and send a telegram to the base camp to ask, when will the second batch of reinforcements arrive, we urgently need reinforcements now, please send reinforcements to come quickly." ”

Mamoru Iizawa nodded and took the order to leave.

Okamura Ninji gave an order, and the Japanese puppet troops who were still scattered on the outskirts of Tianjin retreated to their first outer line of defense after receiving the order.

The Devil's outer defense line in Tianjin was located ten kilometers away from the city of Tianjin, and it was probably less than twenty or thirty kilometers away from the Tianjin wharf, which was completely within the absolute range of the naval fleet's naval artillery group.

The Tank Armored Brigade and the 2nd Division were no longer hindered in front of them, and quickly drove straight into the Japanese perimeter defense line, and launched tentative attacks respectively.

The Japanese army's defensive strength has not been greatly improved by the outer fortifications they rushed to repair, and in the face of the attack of the Dragon's Tooth Column, especially the tank armored group of the tank armored brigade, the devil's blocking firepower is still very weak.

When the attacking troops of the Dragon's Tooth Column were about to approach and broke through their defensive line in one go, a batch of powerful large-caliber shells suddenly flew out of the sky.

This is the devil's naval fleet got the request, so it mobilized dozens of large and small battleships, warships, gunboats, and hundreds of large-caliber naval guns to open fire one after another, pouring a wave of ferocious shells like raindowns.

The front of the devil's outer position suddenly shook, and the flames soared into the sky, and it didn't take long for it to fall into a monstrous sea of fire.

In the sea of fire, whether it was infantry, tanks, or armored vehicles, they were all destroyed by the earth-shattering blast of explosion, turning into a rain of blood and countless steel wreckage fragments.

Hit by the powerful artillery fire of the enemy's ship artillery group, the attacking troops of the 2nd Division and the Longya Tank Armored Brigade suffered heavy casualties, and in desperation, they had to suspend the attack, retreat to a safe distance, and urgently report to Qiao Youhua.

"Commander, as you expected, our attacking troops were indeed hit by the powerful fire of the enemy's naval guns, and the losses were extremely heavy." After Zuo Quan came back from the confidential room, he held a telegram in his hand and said with a solemn face.

Qiao Youhua stretched out his hand to take the telegram, read it, and said decisively: "Send a telegram to Liu Jianhua and Ma Biao immediately, and order them to postpone the attack and wait for my follow-up troops to arrive before making plans." ”

After speaking, Qiao Youhua said meaningfully: "It seems that the little devils have completed the construction of their outer defense line, and now they rely on the superiority of the navy and air force, and rashly let the tank armored forces attack, which will only increase the unnecessary casualties, under the coverage of the enemy's powerful naval artillery firepower, even if the defensive armor of the No. 4 tank is twice as thick, it may not be able to withstand the bombardment of large-caliber naval guns." ”

"Well, that makes sense, so how do we attack next? The devil has the absolute superiority of the navy and air force, and if he attacks from any direction, he will be attacked by the three-dimensional firepower of his navy and air force. Zuo Quan nodded and asked.