Chapter 403: The first battle on July 7 was won

Tang Qiuli, who was asleep, was woken up by Mei Ting, and the chief of staff, Yu Guanghan, anxiously held a telegram with an anxious face, which was sent by the commander of the first regiment of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Army, the Lugou Bridge on the bank of the Yongding River, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on our position with a field wing, equipped with the strength of large-caliber artillery, and the ninth company of our regiment was cut off by enemy artillery fire, and is now in a state of lonely fighting.

Our division tried to reinforce many times, but it did not work, but caused casualties, and asked the division commander to mobilize troops from other directions to attack the Japanese army from the flank, so as to relieve the danger of our ninth company.

Tang Qiuli suddenly came to his senses, it was already more than two o'clock in the morning, where did this Japanese wing that appeared in the area of Lugou Bridge come from? It was the direction of the attack that went wrong, and then, he denied his own judgment, this was an unexpected sudden situation, and the Japanese troops of this wing should have moved in the direction of Lugou Bridge before the encirclement.

The current situation is that all the troops of the Independent Division are in a state of war with the Japanese army, and they cannot get out, and in his hands, there is no reserve force, and the Ji Xingwen Regiment that is holding Wanping City can support nearby, but in this way, Wanping City has become an empty city.

In case the Japanese army took advantage of the weakness to enter, the independent division and the troops of the 29th Army in that direction would fall into a dangerous place where the enemy would be exposed to the enemy, and the Ji Xingwen regiment would not be able to move.

The atmosphere in the command headquarters became tense, even if a large number of Japanese troops were annihilated in this battle, because of this unexpected situation, the troops of the two regiments of the independent division suffered losses, which was a great pity, not because of the combat effectiveness of the troops or the comparison of troops, the Japanese army had heavy artillery.

Moreover, if the Lugou Bridge is lost, the passage for the troops of the 29th Army, which is fighting with the Japanese army, to retreat south, will be cut off, and the troops will retreat into Beiping City and continue to resist, so that Tang Qiuli's plan will also be in vain.

Tang Qiuli carefully observed in front of the military map, he ordered the staff officer to call the troops of the 29th Army and ask which unit was the closest to the Lugou Bridge, and soon the result was that the troops of the 39th Division of the 29th Army were gradually withdrawing from various defensive areas in accordance with the orders of the army commander and assembling in the direction of the stone camp in the western suburbs of Beiping.

The person who replied to the telegram was the deputy commander of the 39th Division, Tang Qiuli immediately ordered that the two regiments that had been assembled, led by the deputy division commander, immediately rushed to the direction of Lugou Bridge, bypassed the Jiāo battle area, and did not entangle with the Japanese army along the way, and launched an attack from the rear of the Japanese Xiǎo Field Wing, and together with the troops of the Independent Division, annihilated the Xiǎo Field Wing in the area of Lugou Bridge.

After receiving the order, the two regiments immediately set out, knowing that the troops of the independent division were fighting to the death in order to keep the road for the 29th Army to withdraw south, and that the army commander had no other troops to use.

These two regiments, which basically had no losses and were fully organized, inflicted a large number of casualties on the Japanese army after the Japanese army's fire, and then immediately ceded the battlefield to the troops of the independent division who arrived in accordance with the prior plan, assembled in the direction of the stone camp, and prepared to retreat south.

The division commander's painstaking efforts and love made the soldiers of the 29th Army very moved, and it was the independent division troops who were going to be reinforced by the independent division troops who supported their brothers.

Running all the way, from a distance, you can see the area around the Lugou Bridge, the fire is shining, the gunfire is dense, and the sound of shells exploding is rumbling.

At this time, the ninth company, the soldiers who can fight, there are less than eighty people, they are facing the crazy attack of thousands of Japanese troops, the position has been razed to the ground, the soldiers use all kinds of terrain, desperately shè attack, thanks to Tang Qiuli, to equip the troops with a large number of Suomi submachine guns, forming a dense fire network, because of the terrain restrictions, the Japanese attack troops, can only deploy more than two squadrons at a time, the ninth company has only supported until now, otherwise thousands of Japanese troops, like cháo water, drown them.

Repelled a ferocious attack by the Japanese army, Hao Lifeng looked at the soldiers around him, only twenty-three people could stand up, behind, the large-caliber artillery of the Japanese army, completely blocked the retreating road, can it withstand the next time? Hao Lifeng was not sure, he could only fight to the last man.

Suddenly, behind the Japanese position, there was a fierce gunshot, and the damn Japanese artillery was finally dumb, and the reinforcements of the first regiment took the opportunity to cross the fire net and rushed to the position of the Ninth Company, which was the troops of the 39th Division of the 29th Army, which fired in the rear of the Xiǎo Field Wing, and at once destroyed the Japanese army, and the heavy artillery position that posed the greatest threat to the Ninth Company and the first regiment.

Hao Lifeng was unbearably tired for a while, and then, commanding the remaining soldiers of the Ninth Company, following the main force, launched an attack on the Japanese troops who withdrew from Queen Cang, and swept the machine gun bullets crookedly, Hao Lifeng was suddenly shocked, and then fell to the ground on his back, and several thick gun holes appeared in Xiōng's mouth.

His eyes, refusing to close, stared at the night sky of North China for a long time, and beside him, the water-like warriors of cháo bravely rushed over.

The situation was immediately changed, and the Xiǎo Ye Wing lost its heavy artillery, and was attacked from behind, and was completely annihilated on the banks of the Yongding River, in front of the Lugou Bridge.

After the war, the battlefield was counted, and only 16 of the 246 soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 4th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Independent Division survived, and almost all of them were wiped out, the company commander Hao Lifeng was killed in battle, and only one second lieutenant platoon commander survived among officers at all levels below the deputy company commander.

The 1st Regiment and the Mortar Regiment lost a total of 863 soldiers and 38 mortars, and at the cost of this, all the troops of the Xiǎo Ye Wing, from the Wing Commander Xiǎo Ye Dazuo, and more than 5,300 Japanese troops were spared.

After the division commander Tang Qiuli learned the news, he was silent for a long time, his face showed sadness, and the pencil in his hand suddenly broke, and then he issued an order to reorganize the Ninth Company, and awarded the honorary title of "Lugouqiao Steel Company" to the Ninth Company of the First Regiment of the Fourth Independent Brigade, which was the first company to receive the honorary title among all the troops and nearly 10,000 grassroots companies of the Independent Division.

Since then, under this banner, the Ninth Company has become one of the most capable companies of the Independent Division, and it is also one of the ordinary companies of the squadron that the Japanese army most wants to eliminate.

The battle lasted until about six o'clock in the morning, the sound of guns and artillery on the battlefield gradually subsided, and the troops that Nishimura Masaqiao could contact were only 50,000 or 60,000 people in the north and east directions of Beiping.

And the squadron that fought with it disappeared into the battlefield like evaporation, and the Japanese soldiers who boarded the squadron's position looked blankly at the bullet shells everywhere, and the companions who were lying in wait for corpses behind them, and they didn't know what it was like?

They only knew that they had fought for nearly a night and did not take any advantage, and the squadron had taken the initiative to evacuate, not even a single corpse or wounded soldier left, let alone where they had withdrawn? The opponent left in such a dashing manner, leaving behind the Japanese soldiers who were beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and bleeding from all holes.

Subsequently, the Japanese army from the north and east directions, trembling into the empty, cemeteries like the dead silence of Beiping City, a few sun flags, in the rising sun, wilted and drooping up, no jīng occasionally swayed with the wind, just like a man suffering from impotence, in the face of ** beautiful NV, there is a weak look.

Does this explain the outcome of this battle, the Japanese army planned for several years, jīng was prepared, one blow shot, one night hún battle, the 29th Army retreated, got an empty city, lost 140,000 horses, occupied Beiping, is the fervent wish of the Japanese, and the dream is shouting.

However, whether such a result is too far from the original intention of the Japanese is sometimes wishful thinking, which is really funny.

The three attack corps of the Independent Division, after completing the expected operational objectives, divided into three routes and withdrew to the direction of Zhangjiakou, Laiyuan, and Baoding, but the Japanese did not dare to pursue.

In this battle, a total of about 140,000 Japanese main forces were annihilated, and more than 9,000 soldiers were killed and more than 13,000 were wounded in the independent division, of which more than 7,000 were seriously wounded, and a total of more than 23,000 soldiers lost their combat effectiveness, reaching the complete establishment of an independent brigade and a half, and the casualty ratio to the Japanese army was 1 to 8.

In the first battle in North China, nearly half of the strength of the Japanese army in North China was destroyed, so that the Japanese army was unable to launch the next offensive in the short term, and the overall plan of the Japanese base camp before the war was forced, forcing it to adjust its strategic deployment and focus its main attention on the direction of North China.

On 8 July, the sun rose as usual, Tianjin, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Garrison Army, was covered with gloomy clouds and miserable fog, and the commander-in-chief of the Beiping Campaign, chief of staff of the North China Garrison Army, and Lieutenant General Nishimura Masahashi, had several wounds on his face, a thick circle of gauze wrapped around his head, and a war knife in his hand, sitting on the sofa expressionlessly.

The supreme commander of the North China Garrison Army, Tashiro Wanichiro, with a blue face and fierce eyes, put his hands on the desk, stared viciously at the dozen or so senior officers standing on both sides, and on the ground, there were smashed teacups, and a few pieces of tea leaves that had not yet been brewed were glued to the shining riding boots of a Japanese major general standing in front of him with a blank gaze, which was particularly eye-catching.

Commander Tashiro, just after losing his temper, last night, with the gunfire under Wanping City, he was in his office, waiting for good news from the West Village, and even the telegram sent to the base camp had been prepared in advance.

In the process of waiting, he and a few senior staff officers put on the game of Go and asked shìnv to bring sake and a few plates of delicious Japanese-style jīng to xiǎo dishes for a pleasant pastime.

The good news of Nishimura has not been heard for a long time, and Tashiro's inner uneasiness is slowly growing, and several senior staff officers who accompany him to play Go are also a little restless, and it seems that the delicious sake and delicious xiǎo dishes have lost their original taste.

At 3 a.m. on 8 July, Tashiro sent a telegram to Nishimura asking if the war was going smoothly, but Nishimura did not reply for a long time, and then sent a telegram to the 3rd, 9th, and 13th Divisions, but there was no reply.

Tashiro pushed open the window irritably, listening to the faint sound of solidified artillery from the direction of Beiping, at 4:53 in the morning, the commander-in-chief of the Beiping Campaign, Nishimura Masahashi, finally sent a telegram, and the staff officer hurriedly sent the telegram.

Tashiro snatched the telegram, and the contents of it made him feel dizzy, his heart tightened, his body shook a few times, and he almost fell.

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