Chapter 413: Itagaki Division

Tang Qiuli commanded the troops and captured Tianjin in one fell swoop, the news came out, the whole country was shocked, North China for ten days, two battles and two victories, 200,000 Japanese troops were wiped out, Lieutenant General Kazuo Takashima of the Japanese chief was killed, Tianjin was recovered, this Tang Qiuli, could it be the martial god descending to earth?

Because the abandonment of Beiping and the call for Tang Qiuli to cut himself down to thank the people of the country disappeared, it is obvious that abandoning Beiping and recovering Tianjin was General Tang's strategy, and it was a strategic issue, and we misunderstood, although these people did not understand Tang Qiuli's true intentions.

The whole country was full of praise, and some enthusiastic young students spontaneously formed a condolence group to go to the North China front line to express condolences to the troops of the Independent Division.

Tang Qiuli, who heard the news, was taken aback, North China is a battlefield, bullets don't have eyes, those student dolls came here, didn't they add luàn to themselves? He hurriedly sent people to set up two reception offices for labor army students in Zhengzhou and Jinan, and all the students who came to labor army were detained in place, and finally stopped this trend.

At the same time, Chairman Jiang's ears were constantly filled with rumors, what Tang Qiuli was able to fight is a fact, but it is also a fact that he lost Beiping City, and now, he has an army of nearly one million in his hands, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not become the second of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, support the army and respect himself, and the central government, and even row the Yellow River to rule, the chairman of the committee must not be guarded?

The strange thing is that the people who said these words were all civilian officials, on the other hand, the generals who led the troops did not have so many nonsense ideas, they were quite envious of Tang Qiuli's achievements in North China, and asked Ying many times to lead troops to North China to support Vice Chairman Tang.

Chairman Jiang didn't know whether it was okay or not, the current situation in North China, Tang Qiuli had already gained the upper hand, and then sent troops to do more, the words of those civilian officials, Chairman Jiang thought that it was the words of scholars, and he was more jealous of it, especially those cadres of the CC department.

Tang Qiuli will never become Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng, Chairman Jiang firmly believes that he understands Tang Qiuli, Xi'an mutiny, Zhang Yang rebellion, Tang Qiuli at that time, has the strength to win the highest throne of power, why bother to have two hearts today?

Based on his confidence in the situation in North China, Chairman Chiang, after soliciting Tang Qiuli's opinions, transferred 100,000 troops from the Central Army troops stationed on the front line of Hebei and Henan to strengthen them in the direction of Songhu.

The remaining 100,000 troops, the formation of the ** Tenth Army Corps, appointed Tang Enbo as the commander of the corps, unified command of the Central Army troops, subordinate to Tang Qiuli's Yellow River Basin Theater Command Headquarters, transferred 100,000 troops, Tang Qiuli has no opinion, jīng Rui's **, can not always be in his own hands, in the final analysis, the Central Army is only subordinate to himself, not his own team.

Tang Enbo can be appointed as the commander of the Tenth Army Corps, especially to defend the Henan section of the Yellow River defense line, Tang Qiuli's heart "sighed", for this duke, Tang Qiuli also knew too much, typical military incompetence, political zhìjīng ming, plus courage xiǎo fear of death, ungrateful.

He is in charge of the overall situation of the Yellow River defense line, and he is really not at ease, but he can propose a change of general, and there is no legitimate reason, and there is no excuse that can be obtained, Chairman Jiang can't pass that level, and he can't say to Chairman Jiang that Tang Enbo will definitely break a big thing, what will he do in the future, I know, that's beautiful, who believes that?

The only thing that can be done is to add a line of defense behind Tang Enbo, otherwise, the Japanese soldiers are on the bank of the Yellow River, and Tang runs away, and the overall strategic layout of North China is to be nòng a big hole, and the Japanese drill into it along the hole, and they have only one way to retreat except for being passive or passive.

However, the troops in their hands are full of calculations, Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang are on the front line of Shanhaiguan, waiting for the Kwantung Army to go south, surrounding Beiping, Liu Tiehan occupies Tianjin, and also defends Shandong, not to mention, there is a more reassuring Han Fuyu in Shandong, and Brother Qiusheng is staring at the direction of Songhu.

Ten fingers pressed the flea, and that one could not be released, Tang Qiuli once again felt that the troops were insufficient, and he had no choice but to transfer two regiments from the Yellow Cliff Dòng Garrison Brigade Chōu, the Recruit Supplementary Brigade Chōu to transfer one regiment, one regiment from the Independent Division Transport Command in Zhou Yù Mountain, one brigade from the Shaanxi Provincial Local Garrison Brigade Chōu, and one brigade from the Yellow River Garrison Command.

The corps has a strength of 29,000 troops, with Su Jingfeng, former commander of the Second Independent Brigade of the Independent Division, as the commander, the post of brigade commander taken over by Deputy Brigade Commander Ma Chaoyang, and Xia Xiaoguang, chief of staff of the Second Independent Brigade, as the chief of staff of the Corps.

Tang Qiuli could only equip Su Jingfeng with so many troops, the Shaanxi Provincial Local Garrison Brigade and the Yellow River Garrison Brigade were both C-class brigades reorganized from the original 17th Route Army, and each brigade was only about seven or eight thousand people, which was also Tang Qiuli's best efforts to do, and it was better than nothing

On July 25, eight days after occupying Tianjin, the Kwantung Army's southward corps finally made a move, and there was a fire on the front line of Fengtian Suizhong and the troops of Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang.

Feng Jiwu reported on the battle: "At about 5 o'clock in the morning of the 25th, the vanguard of the Kwantung Army's southward corps, the Akiyama Brigade of the Japanese Army's Jīng Rui Itagaki Division, launched an attack on our blocking position with the strength of a wing, and the Japanese army attacked fiercely. ”

"At eight o'clock, the Japanese army took the initiative to leave the battlefield and withdrew to Suizhong, and I suspected that this was a tentative attack by the Japanese Itagaki Division, the purpose of which was to test the firepower and troop allocation of our army, the Japanese army lost more than 1,000 troops, and our division also suffered more than 300 casualties, and the combat effectiveness, tactical movements, and firepower of the soldiers of the Itagaki Division were higher than those of other Japanese troops, and the battlefield was calm at present."

For the southward corps of the Kwantung Army, when it was attacked in Tianjin, it did not rescue immediately, but only took action after Tianjin was lost, Tang Qiu was puzzled, and Kazuki Kiyoji was depressed.

Was it the assembly and marshalling of the troops of the Kwantung Army, which took a lot of time? Or did the Japanese army base camp have other plans, and what was their purpose? Tang Qiuli secretly guessed.

It is strange that the base camp actually agreed to their plan of ignoring Tianjin and waiting for the local troops to land from Tianjin and join the Kwantung Army to attack the independent division with the southward corps.

The guy who formulated this plan was either a genius or a madman, and he used more than 60,000 people of the Tianjin garrison as bait, just to attract the main force of the independent division in the Pingjin area and create conditions for the joint attack of the north and south.

However, after receiving the battle report from the southward corps of the Kwantung Army, he changed from secretly slandering himself to being surprised, and part of the main force of the independent division appeared on the line from Shanhaiguan to Suizhong, the purpose was obvious, that is, to go to the southward corps of the Kwantung Army, how did so many troops move to Shanhaiguan?

Why don't you have any information, and the outposts along the way are all blind and deaf? Where did the devil Tang Qiu come from so many troops? Surrounded Beiping, captured Tianjin, and fought with the Kwantung Army's southward corps?

Kazuki Kiyoshi Mu took the battle report expressionlessly, his head swelled up, and he had a hunch that his life in North China was not much better than his predecessor who left gloomily, Tashiro Wanichiro.

Tang Qiuli put aside other thoughts, his interest and attention had been attracted by the Itagaki Division that appeared on the line from Shanhaiguan to Suizhong.

After being transferred from Korea to the Northeast, Hideki Tojo, then chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, was a classmate of the 16th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and a friend for many years, so he received extra care.

By the end of 1936, the Itagaki Division was already a behemoth with three brigades and nine wings, a heavy artillery wing, a cavalry wing, a search wing, an engineer wing, a baggage wing, and a chariot brigade, with a strength of more than 56,000 troops, and most of the soldiers came from the mountainous areas around Hiroshima, Japan.

Itagaki graduated from the 16th phase of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and there were many Japanese cadres who invaded China in this period, such as Okamura Ninji, etc., which was known as the glorious 16th phase in the Japanese military circles at that time.

Seishiro Itagaki was well aware of China's geography, politics, economy, and military situation, so he was regarded as one of the "three major China experts" in the Japanese Army, along with Kenji Tokuhara and Ryosuke Isoya, and he was a fanatical militarist, who was known in Japanese military circles as Ishihara no Zhi and Itagaki no Guts, who planned and participated in the launching of the September 18 Incident.

Historically, the Banyuan Division, once swept through North China, World War I Niangzi Pass, the Jin army of more than 100,000 troops retreated, World War II Xinkou, the Chinese general star fell, more than 100,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, three battles in Taiyuan, Yan Xishan Yan Commander abandoned the city and fled, more than 50,000 people were corpsed under the city of Taiyuan, in the fourth war of Zhongtiao Mountain, the 200,000 troops belonging to General Wei Lihuang of the Central Army were chased and beaten by more than 30,000 people in half of his division, and they were defeated and retreated into Henan, and the Central Army lost more than 100,000 divisions.

In the North China Battlefield, the Itagaki Division, once set a glorious record of defeating 37 Chinese divisions all the way, the Battle of Xinkou, Banyuan with a mere 30,000 people, 95 mén artillery, frontal impact on the 200,000 troops of the first squadron to defend the Xinkou solid position, the Ninth Army commander Hao Mengling below several generals and 100,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, this battle, also achieved the famous reputation of Itagaki , in addition, the Itagaki Division, also participated in the Nanjing Massacre.

For such murderers, Tang Qiuli categorically would not let go, originally thought that they would meet on the battlefield in Shanxi, it was not that the enemies did not get together, the Itagaki Division came in advance, the coincidence of fate, or the arrangement of history? Tang Qiuli was destined to be the terminator of Seishiro Itagaki and his infamous division.

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