Chapter 408: Kazuki Kiyoji's Mistake

At the moment when Liu Tiehan attacked the corps and shelled the Japanese positions on the outskirts of Tianjin, the commander of the Japanese North China Garrison in Beiping, Kazuki Kiyoji, immediately received an urgent telegram from the Tianjin defenders, and he sat down on a chair.

What does it mean for the main forces of the independent division to suddenly attack Tianjin? It means that his overall deployment has completely failed, and Xiangyue Qingji has always believed that Tang Qiuli will compete with himself for Beiping, if nothing else, is the so-called "face" of the Chinese.

With Tang Qiuli's status today, the issue of face is particularly important, and Kazuki Kiyoji also read the reactions of newspapers all over China to Tang Qiuli's abandonment of Beiping, which strengthened his judgment even more and more, the next target of the independent division must be Beiping, which is in the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army, at the military meeting, Kazuki Kiyoji said.

His subordinates questioned why His Excellency the commander was so convinced that Tang Qiuli would attack Beiping, and he smiled reservedly and said: "You don't know about the Chinese, they have a good face, and the more powerful they are, the more they pay attention to this," so he transferred all the troops in Tianjin to Beiping, in order to repeatedly fight with the independent division on the periphery of Beiping, relying on strong city fortifications, giving the independent division a living force, and killing a large number of people.

If Kazuki Kiyoji thinks backwards, on July 8, when the Japanese army entered and occupied Beiping, was there a large-scale battle for the city, and was there a street battle in Jīlie? Have you ever encountered stubborn resistance? No, tens of thousands of Japanese troops who were beaten and bruised on the outskirts of Beiping can be said to have occupied Beiping without a single shot or a single shot.

In addition, he believes that the ceasefire agreement on the Beiping front has absolute binding force on the Chinese people, and since the Sino-Japanese War, playing games with the Chinese, all the rules have been formulated by the Japanese, whether it is war or peace, and the Japanese have the final say.

Although there was a Tang Qiuli who wanted to overturn the rules of the game, he was finally forced by their political pressure to sign a ceasefire agreement in the line of fire, if he Xiangyue Qingji himself, he would not have stopped so lightly, with the aftermath of victory, and fought frantically with all his might, without turning North China upside down, he would not be a general of the Great Japanese Empire, and the Chinese would never have such a jīng god.

The agreement is for the Chinese to abide by, the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, wherever they step on the footsteps, where the agreement is generated, in addition, in the heart of Kazuki Kiyoji, I really hope that Tang Qiu will leave to fight for Beiping, so that the main force of the independent division can be firmly attracted to the periphery of Beiping, and in only two weeks, reinforcements from all walks can arrive.

Nearly a million imperial troops, even if they stepped on it with their feet, they could also crush this Japanese soldier who was called Tang Qiuli, who was called the devil of China, into ròu sauce, for this reason, Kazuki Kiyoji also specially drew up a plan, when the independent division began to attack Beiping, he deliberately gave up some non-important strongholds and gave him a little sweetness.

Now, the game has begun, and Kazuki Kiyoji painfully discovers that instead of being able to set the rules of the game, he is like a rookie who has been brought into the casino, and when he understands it, he has lost all his coat and only has a kù head left.

He knew too well the fate of the defenders of Tianjin, and in the telegram, they used unprecedented artillery bombardment, unprecedented fierce artillery fire, the most ferocious blows faced by the imperial ** team since they entered China, countless enemies, and so on, which made him feel terrified.

The devil Tang Qiuli is a xiǎo person who does not abide by the agreement, the military is not, he dares to openly tear up the agreement, this way of work, we Japanese soldiers are good at it, to put forward the strongest protest to the Chinese government, protest against this kind of people and behaviors that do not speak of public international law, Kazuki Seiji himself felt funny, Japanese, when did you think of public international law, you are probably the first, your mouth will never be hard as a fist, this is the public international law in the eyes of the Japanese.

He ordered the secretary to immediately submit a letter of protest to the Nanjing National Civil Affairs Fǔ, saying that the surface article had been done, and the affairs of Tianjin had to be solved by fists.

Xiangyue Qingji ordered the 8th Division, 11th Division, and 15th Division stationed in Beiping, with a total of more than 100,000 troops, with the Xiǎo Zhao Chariot Wing, to form a reinforcement Tianjin Corps, commanded by the deputy chief of staff, through Langfang, to urgently reinforce Tianjin.

He did not dare to put all the troops of Beiping in the direction of Tianjin, keep Tianjin, and lose Beiping, this kind of stupid thing, Xiangyue Qingji will not do, the Chinese's trick of "striking the east and attacking the west", he knows very well.

At the same time, he sent an urgent telegram to the southward corps of the Kwantung Army headed by the Itagaki Division, claiming that the Chinese army suddenly tore up the armistice agreement and attacked Tianjin, and Tianjin was in danger, and he hoped that the Kwantung Army would go south to the corps, immediately enter the pass, and quickly join the Tianjin battlefield.

When the reinforcements of the Japanese army in Beiping had not yet been assembled, Liu Tiehan's corps had already broken into the city of Tianjin, and the saturated artillery bombardment at the time of xiǎo time, the Japanese troops on the periphery of Tianjin had been wiped out, and all the trenches, pillboxes, hidden forts, fortifications, and firepower points were razed to the ground.

The soldiers belonging to the Northeast Tǐng Advance Headquarters, the kind of scene they imagined facing the muzzles of the flame-spitting guns, repeatedly fighting, lying in wait for corpses all over the ground, and blood staining the ground under their feet, did not appear, and almost without encountering resistance, they easily broke into the city.

The remnants of the Japanese soldiers had not yet woken up from their half-unconscious state, and the shelling just now destroyed not only their lives, but also their will and their gods, which luckily escaped the whistling shrapnel, and the deafening impact shook them to the point that they almost lost consciousness.

Just sobered up, his eyes could barely see the object clearly, the Chinese's snowy bayonet had pierced into the xiōng chamber, and the screams and occasional resistance of the Japanese soldiers before death seemed insignificant in the face of the angry cháo-like attacking troops.

Less than a month and a half after the general attack on Tianjin began, more than 35,000 Japanese defenders on the outskirts of Tianjin were drowned in the fierce artillery fire of a volcanic eruption and the attacking troops like cháo.

As soon as the battle on the periphery of Tianjin began, Lieutenant General Kazuo Takashima, commander of the Japanese garrison in Tianjin, was in the command headquarters, listening to the sound of artillery like bursts of rolling thunder, and the roof of the headquarters was shaken off pieces of dust from time to time, he closed his eyes in pain and despair, and secretly sighed that the more than 30,000 defenders on his peripheral positions were over.

As a veteran Japanese general, Takashima had already judged from the density of the artillery sound that the squadron attacking Tianjin had mobilized at least four artillery wings and more than 1,000 artillery pieces.

Contrary to Kazuki Kiyoji's opinion, Kazuo Takashima did not think that Tang Qiuli's target must be Beiping City, as a personal experience of the 77 Incident, he knew very well how the imperial army occupied Beiping City, which was simply an empty city.

Since Tang Qiuli had no intention of sticking to Beiping, what reason did he have to recapture him? Kazuo Takashima objected to the Supreme Commander's concentration of most of his forces in the direction of Beiping, but he was not the supreme decision-maker in North China, so he did not need to follow the order of Kiyoshi Kazuki to put all the defenders of Tianjin in the outer positions.

Moreover, he also ordered the military police headquarters to surround the Chinese police force in Tianjin, once there is a war in Tianjin, these Chinese policemen will be in a big trouble if they don't have it, and if they come together with the outside world, it will be enough for him to have a headache and must be solved.

Kazuo Takashima stared at the flickering lights that were shaken by the artillery fire, and issued an order that the troops in the city should not reinforce the peripheral positions, build barricades and fortifications on the spot, resist step by step, and fight with the squadron house by house, and every street, no house, must become a battle fortress.

Use the dense buildings in the city to offset the artillery superiority of the independent division, so that Tang Qiuli's troops, gnawing one by one, have to pay the price for every step forward, and fight a street battle with the squadron, and hold on until the arrival of reinforcements.

Takashima's deployment is absolutely correct, in the face of the independent division's overwhelming artillery superiority, even if there is ten times the number of troops, it will not be able to fill the defensive holes in the field fortifications.

Takashima's deployment brought trouble to Liu Tiehan's attacking corps, the offensive was frustrated, the speed of the advance was immediately reduced, and the troops also suffered casualties.

Wang Mancang, commander of the 2nd Detachment of the Tianjin Urban Combat Team of the Independent Division, was ordered to lead a guide team composed of more than 1,000 local team members who were familiar with the terrain of Tianjin and the 3rd Special Operations Team of the Independent Division to appear on time in front of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the Northeast Tǐng of the Independent Division, which was the first to rush into the urban area.

Soon, the guides dispersed into various units, and under their guidance, 90,000 troops, divided into battalions and divided into countless units, rushed towards their respective targets.

Northeast tǐng into the second brigade of the first regiment and one battalion, turned a road, and when he broke into the area of the Danan River, he suddenly encountered fierce fire on the street, and on the street, thick sandbags were piled up into a fortress, and in the eyes of the guns, tongues of fire erupted, and in the dark night, the crooked light machine guns and the roar of the Japanese-style 92 heavy machine guns were particularly harsh.

On both sides of this sandbag fortress, two buildings with more than a dozen floors high, behind each window, there was a dense rain of bullets, forming a jiāo fork fire, and the bullets hit the hard road, splashing a little spark, and the screams of ricochets made people feel pimples all over their bodies.

In order for the troops to get through, it was necessary to take the sandbag fortifications and the two buildings in front, and the commander of the avant-garde company, as soon as he saw this, immediately ordered a platoon to prepare cluster grenades in accordance with the method of warfare of the fortification, cover the fire of the whole company, blow up the fortress, storm the building, and open the way forward.

Under the cover of heavy fire, a platoon, more than 30 soldiers, braved a dense rain of bullets and skillful tactical maneuvers to approach the fortress held by the Japanese army.

It should be said that after Tang Qiuli changed his outfit several times, the firepower of the troops in the northeast has been greatly strengthened, and the light and heavy machine guns are like the wind, causing dust to blow the sandbag fortifications, and the windows of the building are full of sparks

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