But Liu Hailong didn't know that Hu Weidong actually didn't trust Matsumoto Shingo as he said, after all, Matsumoto was too positive, which made Hu Weidong a little worried that he was a devil's spy, and even after the Japanese army's comfort station in Tianjin really rescued Matsumoto's sister named Xuezi, Hu Weidong was still not completely relieved. Therefore, in this battle, Hu Weidong specifically asked Liu Hailong to let Matsumoto participate in the battle, and asked him to kill the enemy with his own hands, especially the officers of the devil, in order to test Matsumoto, but it turned out that he was suspicious

However, it is not necessary to say that Matsumoto really had such a strong revolutionary nature, and what he did at the beginning was actually just a momentary impulse under a special environment and atmosphere, but the Japanese have a paranoid personality, and since he has already done it and can never turn back, he decided to do it honestly for the Red Army, unlike the Chinese, who always have a fluke mentality and often regret it. But at that time, Matsumoto Shingo only had a negative attitude of executing orders and waiting without orders, until the Red Army actually captured Tianjin and rescued Matsumoto's sister Yukiko from the comfort station

Matsumoto's parents died before he was a minor, and he and his sister have been dependent on each other since childhood, and the depth of their relationship can be imagined. In fact, Matsumoto joined the army because he thought that his income was higher than that of being a miner (Japanese society is hierarchical, and it is difficult for civilian children to advance, not to mention that Matsumoto only has a primary school education, and it is difficult to even enter the factory, so if you want to live a little better, you can only become a soldier.) ), can make my sister live better, who knows that not long after I arrived in China, my innocent sister was deceived into China and entered the fire pit of the comfort station. Although the two of them hugged and cried after recognizing his sister at that time, Matsumoto, a small senior soldier, was unable to rescue his sister no matter what, but what he did not expect was that the Red Army, a former enemy, had rescued his beloved sister

"Japan is one of the great powers, and its economy is much more developed than China's, but the vast Japanese people still live a life of poverty and misery? The Japanese warlords deceived the people that the high tax rate was to accumulate funds to catch up with the West, but the Japanese chaebols and high-ranking officials were much richer than the common people, and they refused to pay for it themselves? ”

"The soldiers complained that the salaries were not enough, and the officers let us snatch them from the Chinese, but even if we did, what if we did? The officers took most of it, and the soldiers who shed their lives and shed blood could only get a fraction of the penny, and here in the Red Army in China, even if there was not enough food to eat, the officers would starve with the soldiers, and they never mistreated and insulted me, the former enemy", the more Matsumoto Shingo thought about it, the more resentful he became, and his gratitude to the Red Army for rescuing his sister made him almost resolute to break with the past, and now these enemies who died under Matsumoto's guns are proof that he said Zaijian to the past

Other Japanese "liberation fighters" did not have Matsumoto's experience, nor did they have no scruples like him when they had no relatives at home, and their attitudes were obviously much more negative, but because of Matsumoto's leadership and the deterrence of battlefield discipline, coupled with the fact that the guilt of long-range killing was relatively small, they were still able to operate the grenadiers in their hands more seriously, and successively killed many Japanese officers and machine gunners

Due to Matsumoto and the others' full of Japanese and skilled jishu, the remnants of the Fifth Division soon recognized them as Japanese, which dealt an unprecedented huge blow to their morale, and finally some officers began to die in battle and were divided and surrounded by the Red Army Small groups of Japanese troops abandoned their weapons and surrendered, but after some surrendered soldiers saw Matsumoto, these traitors who served the Chinese, they could not help but look disdainful and even ridiculed. Matsumoto snorted coldly when he heard this, unbuttoned his clothes, showing scars all over his body, "When I was fighting for the country, the country sent our sister to the comfort station, I am worthy of Japan, but Japan is sorry for me!" ”…,

Although Matsumoto's experience was not extremely common among the Japanese army, it was by no means an exception, and almost every Japanese officer and soldier had at least heard of it, and even if those soldiers were deeply poisoned by militaristic ideology, they had not yet reached the point of stubbornness (or would not have surrendered), and they all kept their mouths shut. A few of them even resonated and soon followed the same path as Matsumoto.

In addition, in order to achieve a quick victory, Hu Weidong not only once again adopted the artillery offensive tactics with serious accidental injuries, but also imitated the method of "tearing down the wall and opening the way" invented by Siye in history, and did not attack along the streets and alleys, but bombarded the houses with artillery all the way along the straight line, and unexpectedly inserted directly into the Japanese headquarters in Tanggu. Due to the lack of troops and unpreparedness, the Japanese command was quickly terminated, so the remnants of the Japanese army in Tanggu City were not only forced to fight separately, but also suffered a further blow to morale, and soon after, the extremely powerful 8 240mm heavy howitzers were also put into battle, and all the devils within a radius of dozens of meters were blown away, the scene was extremely bloody and tragic, and the Japanese army's will to resist was finally completely defeated.

So far, the Red 15th Army only took less than two days to occupy the entire city of Tanggu, annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese troops in the city, killed more than 7,000 enemies, captured more than 5,000 people, captured more than 10,000 rifles, more than 100 light and heavy machine guns, more than 200 grenadiers, 5 anti-aircraft guns, 8 mountain guns, 27 105mm howitzers, 4 150mm howitzers, and 13 Type 93 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns. More than 200 cars

So far, the Red Eighth Army has annihilated nearly 40,000 Japanese troops (not counting the armed Japanese overseas, but including the Japanese officers in the puppet army and the non-combatants in the Japanese army. During this period, Snow, who had been operating with the army, made an exclusive report on it within the scope of the Red Army's permission, which shocked Shijie in one fell swoop, and the domestic people and overseas Chinese were even more jubilant, you must know that the number of enemies destroyed in the previous "128" Songhu War of Resistance and the Great Wall War of Resistance was only a few thousand. Naturally, the Japanese army vigorously denied this, and Lao Chiang's royal literati also wrote articles saying that the achievements were exaggerated and inaccurate, but the rows of Japanese heavy artillery, automobiles, tanks, and armored vehicles captured by the Red 15th Army in the photos that were immediately released were undoubtedly ironclad evidence, and the national government and the Japanese side were immediately speechless.

In fact, a large part of this equipment was seized from the Fengtai warehouse, but it is impossible for Japan to disclose the truth about the loss of Fengtai, such an important warehouse was only guarded by 90 military policemen, and the enemy picked up a big bargain, are they embarrassed to preach this kind of trouble? But the acquiescence to the 40,000 Japanese annihilation also made them lose face internationally, and the outcome of this battle attracted the special attention of the two strongmen