Chapter 661: A Temptation

The second stage of the Shijiazhuang peripheral campaign, according to the original plan began, the Japanese army's largest heavy army group around Pingjin, originally to recapture Shijiazhuang troops, by Tang Qiusheng's Sulu mobile corps, with lightning momentum, repelled to the first line of Suning and Xianxian, in the face of the offensive of the independent division troops, the more than 100,000 already exhausted, repeatedly hit by the Japanese army, in a state of hard defense, the two sides in Suning and Xianxian line, fierce battles.

The purpose of this attack of the Sulu Mobile Corps was not to completely annihilate the Japanese army, Tang Qiuli did not have such a big appetite, and swallowed more than 100,000 Japanese troops in one bite, but tightly twisted the only heavy army group of the Japanese army around Pingjin, so that the Japanese army could not be separated.

Three of the four brigades attached to Feng Jiwu's troops, which had always been used as a strategic reserve by Tang Qiusheng, had secretly moved to the vicinity of Baoding a few days ago, and Tang Qiusheng's order to them was to quickly seize Baoding, where the Japanese garrison was empty, in the shortest possible time, and then move eastward to participate in the campaign to attack Tianjin.

The remaining brigade, attached to Liu Chunbu of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Independent Division, marched north to the front line of Huailai and Xin'an, and joined up with a brigade that had been monitoring the movements of the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou where it had been there

In addition, Tang Qiusheng also drew three brigades from his own troops, attached to the Tong Batu Department of the Second Cavalry Brigade of the Independent Division, to form an attack corps, led by Chief of Staff Yu Guanghan, through the Beijing-Tianjin corridor, the goal was to take Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, and then go south, cut off the connection between the northeast and North China, and attack Tianjin.

Tang Qiusheng formed an attack on the Tianjin Corps with the strength of six infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade, and the only thing that made him uneasy was the more than 60,000 Japanese troops in Zhangjiakou, two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade, and the strength was still less than that of the Japanese army.

In fact, Tang Qiusheng sang about the empty city plan, the troops that attacked the Japanese army on the front line of Suning and Xianxian County only had more than 60,000 troops in five brigades, and compared with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, the strength was at an absolute disadvantage, but he had the cooperation of the air force, and the Japanese army had been beaten dizzy, and he couldn't react for a while, so there would be no problem for the time being.

This is also a matter of no way, all the troops of the independent division are entangled with the Japanese army, there is no force that can be mobilized, with Tang Qiusheng's steady and cautious character, this dangerous move, when it is a last resort, he still hopes to increase the pressure on the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou, so that it does not dare to move, for this reason, he sent a telegram to the division commander Tang Qiuli, Jian yì coordinate the Jin army troops, attack Zhangjiakou, contain the Japanese army, so that it can not join the Tianjin battlefield, then the Tianjin campaign, can ensure that there is no worries.

Looking at the telegram, Tang Qiuli was quite hesitant, with six infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade of more than 70,000 troops, attacking the huge Tianjin, the strength was obviously insufficient, and the Japanese garrison in Tianjin, although there was only one division of troops, but it was one of the Japanese nests in North China, the city's military and police gendarins, plus the puppet army and traitor armies, no less than 100,000 people, the Japanese army in the periphery of Shijiazhuang and Cangzhou could draw troops to support Tianjin at any time, this battle was not easy to fight.

As for Yan Xishan's Jin army, Tang Qiuli has dealt with them enough, if the Jin army can contain the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou and attack the troops in Tianjin, it will be able to reach more than 100,000 troops in eight infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades, and it is enough to fight Tianjin, Yan Xishan's Jin army, Tang Qiuli will not move from command, the situation was so good at the beginning, they can't intercept the Japanese army fleeing west, let alone take the initiative to attack Zhangjiakou, Yan Xishan will not do such a loss-making deal.

He knew that Brother Qiusheng was worried, a total of less than 180,000 troops, but to be divided into several battles, that direction is weak troops, but Tianjin must be fought, Yan Xishan can not be counted on, can only mobilize the troops in Shandong, the battle can be divided into two stages, the first stage is to fight Baoding first, see Okamura Ningci's reaction, and then attack Tianjin in the next step.

The battle plan, after reading Tang Qiusheng's telegram, made a slight adjustment, and the order he issued to the Sulu Mobile Corps was that the current combat mission was mainly to attack Baoding, the purpose was to test Okamura Ningji's reaction, and then decide the next combat direction, and the rest of the troops would continue to sweep the Japanese troops on the periphery of Pingjin and give the northeast advance headquarters; The order of Liu Tiehan's troops was to quickly transfer five brigades of troops to the west to the area of Baoding and join the sequence of attacking the troops in Tianjin.

The three brigades of Li Honggang's division of the 29th Corps of the Independent Division and the two brigades of the Han Tiebu of the Yellow River Henan Garrison Corps of the Independent Division were temporarily under the command of Liu Tiehan, deputy commander of the independent division and commander of the East Command, and Liu Tiehan's task was not easy; once a fight broke out in Tianjin, the Japanese troops in Cangzhou would never sit idly by; the main task of Liu Tiehan's troops was to maintain strong pressure on the Japanese troops in Cangzhou, and never let the Japanese troops reinforce Tianjin.

Tang Qiuli once again used all the troops in his hand, ten fingers pressed the flea, that could not relax, looking at only four brigades, more than 50,000 troops, defending the huge Shandong, Tang Qiuli felt weak for a while, if at this time, the Japanese landed at any port in Shandong, it would be too late for him to cry.

Thinking of this, he hated Yan Xishan so much that his teeth itched, if he took the initiative to deal with the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou, why would he draw troops from Shandong, so that he had no bottom in his heart, this Yan Laoxi, he must get rid of him, Shandong reinforced the troops on the Pingjin battlefield, and when he was still on the way, Tang Qiuli issued an operational order to attack Baoding, Huailai, Xinbaoan, Fengning, and Chengde.

The Sulu Mobile Corps and the subordinate Niangziguan Corps launched a surprise attack on their respective combat targets at the same time, attacking the troops of Huailai and Xinbao, fighting fiercely for more than three hours, and comprehensively conquering the two places, the Japanese troops stationed here are only one brigade, but there are nearly 10,000 puppet troops, these puppet troops, I don't know what ecstasy the Japanese have eaten, and they are even more fierce than the Japanese soldiers.

Staring at the blood-red eyes, and the troops house-by-house fighting, but unfortunately, the Japanese equipped them with weapons are really not good, in the independent division troops overwhelming the artillery fire, the Japanese army retreated, but these puppet troops were used as substitutes for the dead, covering the retreat of the Japanese army, the two brigades of Japanese troops, escaped most of them, all the way to Zhangjiakou in a panic, the troops did not pursue.

With the capture of Huailai and the new security, the connection between Zhangjiakou and Pingjin has been cut off, Zhangjiakou has become a lonely city hanging in the northwest of Hebei, more than 60,000 Japanese troops, there is no way out, then, the troops are divided into multiple roads, the main force goes north to attack Fengning, the rest of the troops, all the way across Pingbei, the size of the Japanese strongholds, in the artillery fire turned into a grave to bury them, during the period, only encountered the resistance of the Mongolian Autonomous Army cavalry troops of the Mongolian Autonomous Army of the traitor Wang Gongde, but to Liu Chun's cavalry brigade, sent a lot of horses and prisoners.

Yu Guanghan, chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Corps, led three infantry brigades, the second cavalry brigade of Tong Batu, marched overnight, through the Beijing-Tianjin corridor, and served as the vanguard of the Tong Batu cavalry unit.

This cavalry brigade, in accordance with the orders of the Japanese instructor, rushed to the Xinglong area of the Beijing-Tianjin corridor to block the troops of the independent division advancing northward.

Succeeded by the command, a Japanese cavalry Shaozuo, no matter what, Bagena is also the rank of major general, but this little Japanese called around, often reprimanded, Bagena's guards couldn't see it, and collided with a few words, this can stab the hornet's nest, the Japanese Shaozo had to shoot this, the Mongols who dared to contradict the officers of the Imperial Japanese Army, Bagena and many officers begged bitterly, received a whip, and finally picked up a life, and the whole brigade held their breath.

Despite the repeated urging and scolding of the Japanese officers, the cavalry still marched slowly, grinding slowly, and the cavalry reached the speed of getting out of a heavy army, and was originally ready to establish a blocking line on the Xinglong line, but because Tong Batu's cavalry advanced rapidly, they encountered Tong Batu's troops in the area of the big stick outside Chengde.

Both sides are cavalry, both are Mongolian men who grew up on horseback, the reaction is not slow, the top soldiers and platoons suddenly collide together, almost at the same time show their sabers, a round down, there are casualties among each other, or the second cavalry brigade has a slight upper hand, circle back the horse's head, and so on to hear each other's orders, they can't help but stop, dare to love, they are all Mongols

The situation was quickly reported to the respective commanders, Tong Batu frowned, he met the puppet Mongolian army or compatriots, to his surprise, thinking about his past, like them, fortunately met such a heroic figure as the division commander, and changed his life, Tong Batu made up his mind to incorporate these compatriots who worked hard for the Japanese.

The Japanese instructor who received the report, issued an order with only one sentence of "kill the machine to" The cavalry on both sides confronted each other, a bright guy, the pseudo-Mongolian cavalry were dumbfounded, the cavalry troops on the opposite side, the guy in his hand exceeded himself I don't know how many times, just the light machine gun in the hands of the front row cavalry, I couldn't see the edge at a glance, the cavalry in the back, holding a mortar, and most of them were carrying submachine guns, God, is this still a cavalry unit? The equipment of the entire field infantry

That's right, this is Tang Qiuli's standard equipment for the cavalry troops of the independent division, not only moves quickly, but also can fight tough and defensive battles, unconsciously, the heart of the pseudo-Mongolian cavalry is cold, the cavalry charges, and the other party is splashed with a rain of bullets, how many brothers can still ride on the horse?

The shouting and scolding of the Japanese instructor was particularly harsh, and under the nascent morning sun, nearly 10,000 cavalry confronted each other, and the scabbard shone in the sun, shining with a faint luster, and the atmosphere was tense to the extreme.

(To be continued)