Chapter Ninety-One: Taking Tianjin lightly
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The Japanese army has always regarded the trump card of the tank troops are also wiped out in this storm of iron and fire, more than 20 tanks in front of hundreds of artillery pieces of the Red Eighth Army appear vulnerable, especially the 44 150mm caliber heavy guns are even more powerful, even if they do not hit directly, as long as they fall near the tank, even if the armor blocks the splashing shrapnel, the devils in the tank will be shocked to death or stunned by the powerful shock wave, especially the Japanese tanks have applied a large number of relatively backward riveting processes, Under the detonation of the shock wave, many rivets flew off and splashed out, bursting out in the cab like bullets, which became the biggest cause of death for the Japanese tank soldiers, and almost all those who were lucky enough to not die became pockmarks
More than 100 remnants of the Japanese army struggled to escape back into the city, trying to resist stubbornly with their comrades in the city, but at this time, the total number of Japanese troops in the city was less than 300 people, and where could they stop the 30,000 troops of the independent division? As for the puppet army, after seeing the powerful artillery fire of the independent division, even if they were not killed, they all surrendered immediately, can they really expect these soft bones to work for the "Great Japanese Empire"?
Because the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, the independent division occupied the entire city of Tianjin without much effort, and Hu Weidong also learned the good news that Xu Chengji and they had captured the Dongjuzi Airport, set up a bureau to kill and capture dozens of Japanese pilots and crews, and captured 36 planes, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, "Who said that the special forces are useless in the operation of the large corps?" Without them, Fengtai's arsenal would have to be blown up at most, and don't count on the plane this time."
However, after seeing those planes, Hu Weidong couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, "A flying wing, 12 bombers and 24 fighters is indeed a great gain, but this model is really a cheat!" Even if the fighters are all backward biplanes (Note 1), the bombers are all Type 93 heavy bombers that were later evaluated very poorly (the speed is extremely slow, the range is not far, and the accident rate is high)"
But in any case, it is always a great achievement to be able to capture so many aircraft, and after the capture of the airport, a large amount of aviation gasoline that the Soviet zone cannot currently produce on its own (ordinary gasoline has a low octane number and can be used, but the performance of the aircraft will be reduced a lot, and the life of the engine will be shortened. )。 Therefore, Hu Weidong still did not hesitate to ask for merit for the great man for the special combat team, and Xu Chengji and his subordinates also became the first batch of personnel to make collective special merits after the Red Army's reform of the meritorious service standards, and Xu Chengji's merits were fully qualified to be awarded individual special merits, but when Hu Weidong originally proposed, for the sake of fairness, he proposed that cadres at and above the company level (including the company level) should not participate in the selection of individual awards (only martyrs can make exceptions), and the special operations brigade is a regiment-level establishment, and because it is a special branch of the army, all of them will be promoted to one level. Therefore, as a brigade-level cadre, Xu Chengji naturally had no choice but to miss the award for personal special merit
Even though the Japanese army saw that the enemy was defeated and destroyed a lot of equipment, they still captured thousands of guns of various types, dozens of grenadiers, eight Type 92 infantry guns, and seven Type 89 medium tanks, and the economic benefits were even more than those gained in the first battle of Hangzhou.
It turned out that although Tianjin in 1936 was not as rich as Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou, it was the base camp of the Japanese in North China, and over the years, the Japanese-funded enterprises in Tianjin, especially the banks, all made a lot of money, and a considerable part of them were used by the greedy Japanese as the capital to further suck blood from North China, and as a result, all of them were unceremoniously confiscated after the occupation of Tianjin by the Independent Division. As usual, the independent division also charged them the "accommodation fees" they owed, and the two received a total of more than 10 million yuan worth of gold and silver foreign exchange, as well as countless antique calligraphy and paintings. In addition, at this time, Tianjin was still the largest concentration of traitors in the mainland, more than half of the famous traitors in North China lived here, most of them hid in the Japanese concession, in case the people with lofty ideals attacked them, but now the independent division occupies Tianjin, which has become a "turtle in the urn", and the traitors are basically soft bones, and they can't hide any secrets under torture, so for their illegal property, the independent division is much more thorough, but unfortunately a considerable part of it is the homestead that the independent division can't take away, Otherwise, I am afraid that this income will only be more than what I get from the Japanese...,
In addition, there are many industrial enterprises in Tianjin, and some of the government-run industries can be confiscated according to regulations, and Hu Weidong will naturally not miss them, and Hu Weidong will not let go of the talents of Tianjin colleges and universities such as Beiyang Institute of Technology and Nankai University
In addition to Japan, Tianjin also has many concessions, and Hu Weidong originally planned to take them all back and make some foreign fortune by the way, but because of the opinion of a foreign friend, his methods were much gentler
"Have a reporter interview? And foreigners? Political commissar, you don't know foreign languages, what are you looking for me to do? Hu Weidong said with a bitter face, now that Zhang Hao is the political commissar, he is no longer worried about saying the wrong thing, but he still has no good impression of reporters who eat with his mouth and pen, and he still can't ignore it.
"But they must see you, the legendary general." , Zhang Hao couldn't help but shake his head, but still insisted, "Okay, at least you have to meet this one, this is a political task!" ”
"The New York Daily News correspondent in China and the Daily Herald special correspondent of the British "Daily Herald?" Hu Weidong had no impression of the name, but as soon as he saw the American, he immediately recognized it, "It turned out to be Edgar, the author of "Journey to the West". Snow, why does he call himself "Xerox" now? He didn't know that "Xerox" was Snow's original Chinese name, but because the translator did not know that Snow had a Chinese name when "Westward Manga" was later translated into Chinese, he translated it as "Snow", a name that was later more well-known to Chinese, and few people knew the original Chinese name "Xerox".
Note 1: All are 35 years before joining the active service of the Japanese 95 type fighter, this is also the Japanese army equipped with Zuihou type 1 biplane, the power is extremely good, the ceiling is also quite good, in fact, in 36 years is also a good fighter, but as an outdated biplane, it makes people feel unconfident at a glance