Since the opening of the port at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Tianjin has played a very important role in China's history. It 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 the power of Beiyang. In 1860, the British and French forces occupied Tianjin, and Tianjin was forced to open up, and the foreign powers successively set up concessions in Tianjin. In July 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Tianjin, and Tianjin fell.

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 the capital of Hebei Province from Beiping to Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality was changed to a provincial municipality. In June 1935, the capital of Hebei Province was 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 Chinese army 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 Sortie".

After the battle began, Li Wentian set up the general headquarters at the southwest outpost gate, and listened to the battle report with Liu Jialuan, Li Zhiyuan, and others at any time. The war went well at first. By dawn, our army attacked the Dongjuzi airfield. and burned more than a dozen Japanese planes; The enemy in the Japanese concession was surrounded on three sides, and the Japanese expatriates were also pushed into battle; The Japanese soldiers in the Japanese barracks at Haiguang Temple cowered in the fortifications and waited for rescue; The Tianjin terminus was occupied by Chinese troops, and the Japanese troops at the East Station were forced to retreat to a warehouse.

In a telegram to the Japanese Embassy in Peiping, the Japanese consul general in Tianjin exclaimed: "Since about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of 29 July, our side has been in a state of great danger due to the attack by the Chinese side. "At half past two o'clock in the afternoon, dozens of Japanese planes wantonly and indiscriminately bombed the East Railway Station, the Tianjin Main Station, the City Government, the Telephone Office, the General Post Office, and Nankai University, causing heavy casualties among the Chinese troops and more than 2,000 victims in Tianjin.

On the evening of the 29th, a large number of Japanese reinforcements arrived from the northern area. Chinese troops were forced to withdraw from the city and fight in the Jinghai area. July 30th. Tianjin fell.

After the occupation of Tianjin. In a very short period of time, the Japanese army transformed Tianjin into a large military port, and the daily flow of ships sent a steady stream of Japanese-made weapons and equipment and soldiers to the Chinese battlefield, and at the same time transported the property and resources plundered by the Japanese army in China back to Japan itself. It has become a transit point for the Japanese army to plunder the wealth of the Chinese.

At 7 o'clock in the evening of the 26th. Yeherina arrived outside Tianjin with a cavalry group of more than 23,000 knights. Take a break. Yeherina then ordered her nine regiments to launch an all-out attack on the Japanese-controlled city of Tianjin. And Yeherina herself took a regiment of cavalry and her own guards and went straight to the port of Tianjin.

It was also the luck of the cavalry group, the Pingjin area was impregnable in the eyes of the Japanese army, so there were not many garrisons in the two cities. In addition, this time the North China Front launched a large-scale attack on the territory of the 61st Army. A lot of the garrisons in the Pingjin area were withdrawn. After Chen Feng besieged Beiping City, General Terauchi Shouichi had no choice but to continue to transfer troops from Tianjin, so when the cavalry group arrived in Tianjin, there were only regular troops in Tianjin City that were less than one infantry brigade plus 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, so since the 30th Brigade reinforced Beiping, all the Japanese troops in Tianjin City canceled their vacations, and everyone stuck to their posts in case the Chinese army attacked Tianjin.

But despite this, when the cavalry group suddenly attacked, the defenders of Tianjin were stunned. More than 20,000 cavalry attacked in nine directions, which immediately exhausted the defenders of Tianjin, and the defenders of more than 1,500 people were divided into nine places, and each place did not even have one squadron.

As soon as the battle began, the cavalry group broke through several Japanese defenses and broke through 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 eight o'clock, the 6th Cavalry Regiment came to report that the port had been successfully taken, and a squadron of the defenders had been completely annihilated.

After the occupation of Tianjin, Yehelina immediately sent a report to Chen Feng on the Beiping front, and at the same time ordered Tianjin to immediately impose martial law, and the cavalry troops searched for Japanese nationals throughout the city and sealed the property of Japanese nationals.

After receiving Yehelina's telegram, Chen Feng handed over the command of the Beiping front to Wang Hansheng, and he himself, under the protection of a cavalry battalion and a squad of special combat personnel of the guard regiment, rushed to Tianjin overnight, accompanied by more than 400 vehicles to the south.

It was already twelve o'clock in the evening when Chen Feng arrived in Tianjin, and after a hurried dinner, Chen Feng urgently convened a military meeting in the Tianjin garrison headquarters of the Japanese army, and all the officers above the cavalry group regiment attended as observers.

The last time they met Yeherina was when they attacked Xilinhot a month ago, when they were worried about Tana's safety and were busy avenging the slaughter of the Siziwang tribe, so the two of them just met in a hurry and separated again, and didn't say anything at all. So after seeing Yehelina this time, Chen Feng's first feeling was that this girl had lost weight, and she was very thin.

Seeing Chen Feng frowning and looking at herself, Ye Helina couldn't help but be shocked, and she didn't know that she had made Chen Feng angry in that place.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Yeherina asked cautiously.

"Why are you so thin, and your face is almost a small strip?" Chen Feng said.

"Ahh Not that one, probably because I've been busy these days! Yeherina couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, it seems that she doesn't have any status in the heart of this strong husband, he is still worried about whether his body is thin, and suddenly Yeherina feels that all her efforts in the past half a year are worth it.

"After this battle, I will hand over the troops to Bobosha for a while, and when you go back home, my mother said that I miss you very much, and said that I was too ruthless to throw you alone on the prairie." Chen Feng said.

"I know that you didn't mean it, only me and Uncle Andre in the army know cavalry, so only me and Uncle Andre can take the cavalry, but now it's much better, Bobosha, Ye Baoguo, Li Haihan, Li Yisheng, Uzamu, Battle, Bazzat, they have all grown up, and I will go back to accompany my mother after this battle." Yeherina said with a red face.

"Okay, let's not talk about our family's affairs first, the people are almost there, let's have a meeting first, how is the situation in the city now?" Chen Feng said.

"There is chaos, some of the remnants of the Japanese army have not been cleared, and there are some gangsters who have taken advantage of the fire to loot, several stores have been smashed and looted, and the second cavalry regiment is maintaining law and order." Yeherina replied.

"This will not work, we must maintain the basic order in Tianjin. Li Haihan, this task will be handed over to you to the Second Cavalry Regiment, and I will give you a must-kill order: 1. If the Japanese puppet and the enemy are the citizens of the disaster, kill! 2. Kill those who smash and rob and disrupt the normal order in the city! 3. Whoever rapes a woman will be 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. Chen Feng said coldly.

The five killing orders made all the officers in the conference room feel that the military seat was surrounded by boundless murderous aura, compared to the sternness of Lady Yehelina, the military seat was truly domineering.

"Are all the important military departments in the city under control?" Chen Feng 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." Andrei said.

"There's no need to count it, so many loot in Tianjin City is not something we can count in a short time, rather than wasting that time, it's better to think about how to transport all those loot back to the office." Chen Feng said.

"Junzuo is right, there are too many loot, we can't count them at all, it's better to think about the reality of how to rush it." Ye Baoguo also responded.

"This time I brought more than 400 cars, and now you will immediately collect all the cars in Tianjin, whether they are military or democratic, and not a single one can be left behind. In addition, the rush to transport the spoils of war pays attention to such a strategy, first rushing to transport those gold, silver, and various currencies of high value, followed by seized weapons and equipment, and industrial equipment, the last is grain, cloth, cotton, and other daily necessities, and the last is antique 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. Chen Feng said.

"Commander, we captured three large warships in the port, what should we do?" Andrei asked.

"Warship?" Chen Feng asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's a warship, an ironclad cruiser and two destroyers, and a dozen or so large ocean-going freighters." Andrei served in the Russian Royal Cavalry Division, and he still has a general idea of the types of ships in various countries. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )