Chapter 668: Favorable Situation

In the Tianjin Campaign, less than two hours after the start of the general offensive, the Northwest Attack Group had already entered the urban area of Tianjin, which was entirely due to the fact that Tang Qiulisheng's strategy of attacking the east and the west was implemented smoothly, and Yu Guanghan attracted almost all the Japanese troops guarding this direction to the east of Tianjin.

The troops just attacked the city, Tang Qiu couldn't bear it, he wanted to enter the city, if he was lucky, he would encounter a Japanese or a traitor or something like that who didn't have long eyes, Tang Long's spear could still open meat, hearing his words, Shanhu rolled his eyelids, looked at him suspiciously, Tang Qiuli saw it, and knew that something bad was going to happen, Shanhu definitely didn't agree.

Busy smiling and hugging the shoulders of the mountain tiger, he said seductively: "Huzi, what do you think, the troops have attacked, I, the commander, can't stay away from the battlefield to watch the excitement, I have to command the troops nearby, besides, how long have you not used the guy in your hand?" How about we pick up some leaks in the back? "It's hard enough for Tang Qiuli, hugging the shoulders of the mountain tiger, it's like hugging a hill, it's awkward to look at.

Shanhu pondered about it, several bigwigs of the independent division have warned themselves more than once that they must not let the division commander put themselves in danger, and if he is on a business trip, Shanhu speaks with his head, but what Xiaoqiu said makes sense, the regular army of the little devils has been almost wiped out, and since he did the errand of the division commander to guard the captain, he has to kill many little devils less, and he has lost

Tang Qiuli saw that the mountain tiger was moved, struck while the iron was hot, and continued to tempt, "Huzi, let's follow behind the third brigade of the East Finger, greet their brigade commander Miao Zhengliu in advance, and keep it fine" said that this guy couldn't move, he couldn't move an inch, listening to the gunfire that was gradually moving away, the mountain tiger was also anxious, and with a wave of his hand, several squadron leaders of the guard brigade who had long been enthusiastic and anxious immediately came to his side, and the mountain tiger muttered a few words respectively, and several squadron leaders happily went to prepare.

The whole guard brigade was dispatched, more than 1,200 people, to protect Tang Qiuli, Mei Ting, and Mei Xue in the middle, and thirty special guard soldiers formed the innermost protective circle, Tang Qiuli was speechless for a while, this formation, not to mention the Japanese soldiers, even if it occasionally bumped into a small shrimp, it would have been beaten into a hornet's nest by the soldiers on the periphery, could you still make a move? It's depressing

Mei Ting and Mei Xue, looking at Tang Qiuli who was depressed beside him, knew what he thought, glanced at each other, leaned close to him, one left and one right, sandwiched him in the middle, the submachine gun was flat on his chest, and he actually played the role of a personal guard, Tang Qiuli was even more speechless and depressed, if there was a move, he had to pass the level of two fragrant bodies first, yes, no play

There was no danger all the way, as Tang Qiuli expected, he didn't see a single Japanese soldier, not even a guy who looked like a traitor, Tang Qiuli wanted to scold Miao Zhengliu, the brigade commander of the Third Brigade of Dongzhi, this guy was too greedy, he went down to Lisuo, he belonged to the iron broom, and he didn't leave any residue, the sky was bright, and he was already sitting in the office of Ono Ichiro, the commander of the Japanese Tianjin garrison.

In the city, there are still sporadic gunshots, Yu Guanghan's troops, and Tang Qiusheng's troops, in the city of Tianjin, because the northwest attack group is advancing rapidly, the Japanese army in the east of Tianjin, before they have time to withdraw to the city, was wrapped dumplings, not to mention, they can't withdraw at all, Yu Guanghan's troops, bite to the death, completely attack against attack, the Japanese commander wants to carry out Ono's order, can not do it, can only be entangled with Yu Guanghan's troops, waiting for the fate of destruction.

When Tang Qiuli entered Ono's office with the guard brigade, the battle here had long ended, and the soldiers of the Third Brigade were busy cleaning the inside and outside of the building, and the brigade commander Miao Zhengliu pushed his hat to the back of his head, stepped on the shell box, and shouted at the phone, as if the Second Regiment had discovered a large arsenal, afraid that other troops would grab the loot, Miao Zhengliu ordered the armed guards, and no one was allowed to move, this was the trophies of the Third Brigade.

Seeing Tang Qiu leaving, he hurriedly put down the phone, trotted over, and saluted: "Report to the division, the third brigade of the east refers to the battlefield is cleaning the battlefield, please instruct the brigade commander Miao Zhengliu." In the words, with the joy of victory and the pride of winning the battle, among the four brigades that participated in the Battle of Tianjin, Miao Zhengliu's third brigade fought the best, killing two formed wings of the Japanese army, and capturing the most equipment and materials.

Tang Qiuli returned the salute with a smile, he was not very familiar with the various brigade commanders of the East Command Army, strictly speaking, they belonged to another system, directly under Liu Tiehan's control, and naturally had little to do with themselves, not as good as those field brigade commanders directly under the division headquarters, along the way, the brave fighting style of the Third Brigade and the skillful individual soldiers, he saw it in his eyes, and sincerely liked this general who was born in the Northeast Army.

The fierce general will be liked by any commander, since ancient times, Tang Qiuli is no exception, however, he also muttered secretly in his heart, I knew that you Miao Zhengliu could fight like this, I didn't follow behind your ass, and I didn't even catch a chance to shoot, in fact, the troops of the East Finger confronted the Japanese army on the front line of Cangzhou and slightly exceeded their own for several months, although there were no big battles, small battles were fought almost every day, and each brigade was fully tempered in actual battles.

Liu Tiehan is a principle, small-scale battles, the East Finger Headquarters does not interfere, but to take advantage, if you suffer a loss, the loss of the general, sorry, your brigade commander will be replaced, forcing the brigade commanders, every battle will rack their brains, each brigade compares, than the number of little devils eliminated, than the number of captured materials, this has formed a kind of atmosphere in the East Finger Army, the more the battle is fought, the stronger the troops, the whole army, like a sharpened sword, it is not what it was when it was first reorganized, even if Zhang Shaoshuai came in person, I don't dare to admit that this is his old base army.

Tang Qiuli let Miao Zhengliu busy with his own affairs, several soldiers, carrying a stretcher over, Tang Qiuli lifted the covered white cloth, the body of a senior Japanese officer, a long opening in the abdomen, blue and purple intestines exposed to the body, a miserable white face, turned out to be a lieutenant general, must be the highest commander of the Japanese Tianjin garrison, Lieutenant General Ono Ichiro, he committed suicide, Tang Qiuli waved his hand to let the soldiers carry away.

This is the second Japanese lieutenant general to die at his own hands, the first Japanese lieutenant general to die, also in Tianjin, could it be that this is the grave of a senior Japanese general? Or a coincidence, Tang Qiuli was reluctant to explore more, anyway, it was the Japanese army that invaded China, whether it was a soldier or a general, it was the fate that should be killed.

The morning sun rose, spraying a thin glow, shrouded this city on the shore of the Bohai Sea, the gunfire in the urban area, has subsided, to the beginning of the July 7 Incident, in less than a year, this North China economic, industrial, commercial, military, transportation center, North China's largest port city, the Japanese army's largest supply base in North China, Tianjin, once again changed hands and fell into the hands of Tang Qiuli.

In this campaign, after 24 hours of fierce fighting, more than 52,000 Japanese garrison troops and more than 2,800 Japanese military police units were completely annihilated, the headquarters of the Japanese North China secret service in Tianjin was destroyed, more than 14,000 people of the puppet North China Jing'an Army were captured, and many Japanese supplies and arsenals fell into the hands of independent divisions.

The Sulu Mobile Corps made contributions to this battle, especially the three brigades led by Yu Guanghan, and the equal number of Japanese troops, fought for nearly 11 hours, and successfully completed the task assigned by the division commander Tang Qiuli, the number of casualties in the troops reached more than 7,000 people, more than half of the brigade's strength, of which more than 2,100 people were killed, all because at the beginning of the war, the garrison strength of the Japanese army in Tianjin was almost all pressed on the head of Yu Guanghan's troops.

In this Tianjin Campaign, the participating units of the Independent Division suffered a total of more than 9,300 casualties, of which more than 3,200 were killed, and at the cost of this, they were able to capture the heavily fortified cities of the Japanese army and annihilate more than 50,000 Japanese troops with less than 10,000 casualties.

The smoke of the Tianjin campaign has not yet dissipated, Tang Qiuli ordered Zhou Yushan's transport troops to immediately enter Tianjin, it is still the old way, the "three lights" policy, Zhou Yushan is a veteran, there is no need to worry about it at all, Tianjin has not been completely taken down, his transport troops have been assembled in Bazhou, and they look like they are making a fortune and are in a hurry.

At present, the situation in North China is extremely favorable to Tang Qiuli, Tianjin is under the periphery, Pingjin is around, there are only two isolated cities that are not connected with each other, as long as Tang Qiuli is willing, he can attack any point, the defensive strength of the Japanese army in Beiping is not necessarily much more than Tianjin, when attacking Tianjin, the Japanese army in Beiping is more honest than rabbits, which shows that their hearts are extremely weak.

Tang Qiu left the telegram to inquire about Tong Batu, who was on the front line of Shanhaiguan and monitoring the movements of the Kwantung Army, and got the exact news that there were no troops in the Kwantung Army at present, and he was not at ease, so he ordered Yu Deshui to activate the Northeast Intelligence Network, and learned that the Kwantung Army was gathering troops in the Liaoyang area, and it was expected that the assembly could be completed in five to six days.

Enough, the Kwantung Army gathered troops, just to go south to enter the pass, join the Tianjin battlefield, Tianjin was lost, Okamura Ningji would not not get the news, but he did not have the intention of returning to Pingjin, relying on the Kwantung Army troops in the south, this old devil is iron-hearted to spend in the Taihang Mountains, well, while the Kwantung Army has not yet arrived, I will eat your hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line of Xianxian and Suning.

On the day of the end of the Tianjin Campaign, Tang Qiuli's eyes were fixed on this Japanese army, attacking the troops in Tianjin, leaving one brigade to guard Tianjin, and the remaining eight infantry brigades and six artillery brigades immediately went south to the front line of Xianxian and Suning, and together with the troops of the six brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps, which were fighting fiercely with the Japanese army, they attacked front and rear to kill this Japanese army.

Tang Qiuli made another move, he wanted to see how Okamura Ningji should react?

(To be continued)