Chapter 405 departed gloomily

On 12 July, China and Japan reached a ceasefire agreement, in which the two sides sent personnel to survey the site and demarcate the ceasefire line, which stipulated that the armies of the two sides would take the ceasefire line as the midpoint and extend five kilometers in the opposite direction as a demilitarized zone to ensure the disengagement of the two armies.

On the night of 11 July, the Japanese troops stationed in Beiping were dispatched overnight and were busy seizing all the key points abandoned by the 29th Army in various places on the outskirts of Beijing, in order to occupy more territory.

After receiving the report of the special operations detachment, Tang Qiuli laughed and said, let's let the Japanese be busy like monkey plays, our attention is not at all in Beiping, but in order to make the trick real, he instructed Li Honggang, who was in charge of dividing the ceasefire line with the Japanese army, to fight the basis of reason and not give up an inch of land.

On the 13th of July, in various parts of Pingjin and Tianjin, there was a fine rain, the sky was low-hanging clouds, the rain was like crying, and the great plains of North China were shrouded in a drizzle like smoke and fog.

At Tianjin Airport, a transport plane flying from the Japanese mainland, escorted by four fighter jets, landed on the drizzling runway, splashing water.

On the plane, a few Japanese soldiers with the rank of general immediately got into the car and galloped towards the headquarters of the Japanese garrison in North China in the rain.

Tashiro Wanichiro and Nishimura Masahashi waited gloomily in the conference room, yesterday, he had received the base camp, the decision on the handling of the defeat in the Battle of Beiping.

The base camp decided that in view of the fact that Lieutenant General Tashiro Wanichiro, commander of the former North China Garrison Army in China, and Lieutenant General Nishimura Masahashi, chief of staff, were in command of the Beiping Campaign, they did not know the enemy and neglected to take precautions against Tang Qiu's departure from the North China Independent Division in China, resulting in a disastrous defeat in the first battle in North China and heavy losses to the troops.

When their troops were surrounded by the enemy, they miscommanded and behaved inappropriately, and failed to take effective measures to get their troops out of passivity, resulting in the war situation in North China being eroded to an uncontrollable point and affecting the overall strategic deployment of the empire against China.

Depriving Tashiro of the post of Supreme Commander of the North China Garrison Army and the post of Chief of Staff of Nishimura Masahashi, he was immediately transferred back to the mainland and accepted the ruling, and the vacant posts were taken over by the base camp.

Tashiro and Nishimura, full of bitterness, the two can be described as difficult brothers meet difficult brothers, sympathize with each other, Matsui Kutaro that guy, Yan zhòng dereliction of duty, but nothing at all, is still leisurely in front of his secret service chief.

It is difficult to predict what the outcome of the two of us will be disgraced from our posts and return to China to stand trial, and it is difficult to predict what the ambitions of the Great Japanese Empire to open up overseas territories, conquer China, and establish immortal feats have all come to naught, and the smoke in the sun has dissipated.

As a soldier, he lost the battle, he couldn't hold his head up in the military world for the rest of his life, the two of them were full of unwillingness and disobedience, they were so depressed that they almost burned, and they had the urge to smash things all over the house.

They were not allowed to think too much, and the people who took over their duties waited outside Mén, and several agents of the Special High Division of the General Staff Headquarters sent Tashiro Wanichiro and Nishimura Masahashi to the airport as if they were protecting and escorting.

Tashiro Wanichiro, the last nostalgic glance at the splendid rivers and mountains of North China, thousands of miles of fertile fields, several years of hard work, painstaking efforts for the empire, almost took out his net worth, but it is such an ending, why did I fight against Tang Qiuli, the devil of China, is it the result of Amaterasu drinking too much sake and drinking luànxìng?

The drizzle was miserable, Tashiro Wanichiro was gloomy, his mood was gloomy, and he left North China in a panic and returned to Japan.

On 13 July 1937, Tashiro Wanichiro, the former commander of the Japanese North China Garrison, was relieved of his post as commander by the base camp and left China in disgrace, and Kiyoji Kazuki, deputy chief of staff of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, took over the post of commander.

In fact, Tashiro Wanichiro doesn't have to be sad so far, he is not the first Japanese theater commander to be picked out by Tang Qiuli, as early as in the Northeast, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Muto Masayoshi, is also because of the defeat under Tang Qiuli, he lost his official position, left gloomily, and was accompanied by people on the road to lose his official position, Tashiro Wanichiro, is this road lonely?

As soon as Kazuki Kiyoji took office, he immediately adjusted his deployment and transferred the 2nd Division, 18th Division, 21st Division, 8th Brigade, Bōtian Detachment, and Inoue Special Hún Detachment, a total of 140,000 troops, stationed in Tianjin, to the periphery of Beiping, forming two lines of defense with very dense firepower and troops.

He believed that the people of China, in reaction to Tang Qiuli's loss of Beiping, would definitely recapture Beiping with Tang Qiuli's strength and xìng Ge, as if the people had a Jiāo generation.

In this way, in Tianjin, only the strength of the Japanese Seventh Division, the Ninth Division and the Military Police Headquarters, about 75,000 people, he also moved the Japanese North China Garrison Army Headquarters to Beiping City, and now, he hopes that Tang Qiu will leave to seize Beiping City, in that case, the independent division will be scattered all over the field, heavy losses, and also for the revival of the Japanese army in North China.

At the same time, Kazuki Seiji deeply felt that the Japanese army in North China was insufficient, so there was still room for him to defend several key cities in North China, and he could not capture the entire territory of North China, let alone attack the Central Plains of China in the south.

After careful consideration, North China was the starting point of the Japanese army's strategic offensive and the place of raising strategic resources, which was very important to the Japanese Empire's strategy toward China.

The Japanese Kwantung Army's Jīng Rui Itagaki Division, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, the 14th Division, the 3rd Hún Brigade, and the 8th Hún Brigade, with a total of 170,000 troops, formed the Southward Corps and joined the North China Battlefield.

The 3rd Army, 5th Army, and 6th Division of the Korean Garrison Army, totaling 260,000 people, formed the North China Dispatch Corps, which immediately left for North China, and the command was vested in the North China Garrison Command.

The newly formed 25th Division, 26th Division, 28th Division, and 31st Division, a total of four first-class divisions and regiments, totaling 140,000 troops, were transferred from the mainland to form the China Battlefield Support Corps.

The base camp of the Japanese army has invested a lot of money in North China, increasing the number of troops to the North China Battlefield to 570,000, and with the remaining 208,000 troops of the North China Garrison, the number of troops that Japan has invested in the North China Battlefield has reached an unprecedented 850,000.

The 1st and 3rd Air Squadrons of the Japanese Army Aviation were mobilized, with a total of 150 combat planes and 230 dive bombers.

If Japan threw most of its troops into the North China battlefield, it would be an unprecedented pressure on Tang Qiuli, and the mobile forces in his hands were only 11 infantry brigades, five artillery brigades, five cavalry brigades, one air defense brigade, and one special operations detachment of the independent division, totaling 210,000 people.

Against the existing strength of the Japanese army in North China, Tang Qiuli can guarantee that he will be able to eat all the Japanese troops in no more than two months, and if all the reinforced Japanese troops rush to the battlefield in North China, Tang Qiuli can only take a defensive position.

He still has one unit in his hand that can be mobilized, that is, the more than 40,000 people of the 29th Army assembled in Baoding, but Tang Qiuli still does not have a lot of support for the combat effectiveness of the 29th Army, although on the night of 7 July, all the units of the 29th Army fought well.

He now has a plan to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese reinforcements did not arrive in North China, and to deal another heavy blow to the Japanese army, and the target of the attack he chose was Tianjin, where the Japanese defense was relatively weak.

The Japanese army from Korea and Japan to reinforce North China is impossible to reach in a short period of time, this is Tang Qiuli's fighter, the troops of the Kwantung Army, but he is most worried, once the attack on Tianjin is launched, the Kwantung Army goes south to the corps, and suddenly joins the battlefield, the threat to the troops is too great, from Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan to Tianjin, it is closer than to Beiping, and the Kwantung Army can arrive in a rapid march for a day and a night.

If Tianjin does not fight, there will be no chance of such a large-scale annihilation of the Japanese army in the future, and the key to this battle is to block the attack on two sides, one side is the Japanese army in Beiping, and the other side is the Kwantung Army troops in the south.

Although at this time, the Kwantung Army went south to the corps, and there was no action to enter the pass, once Tianjin started, the Kwantung Army southward corps would definitely go all out to rescue, so that the Japanese troops gathered around Tianjin would reach nearly 400,000 people, and the existing troops of the independent division would not be able to eat so many Japanese troops even if they broke their bellies.

Tang Qiuli was in front of the battle map, thinking all day, repeatedly weighing the balance of forces, all kinds of unexpected situations, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the 60,000 Japanese troops in Tianjin were definitely a big féiròu, and if he didn't eat it now, I was afraid that he would have no chance.

He also has a secret force in his hand, that is, the main force, disguised as the Tianjin Police Station Police Force, which is the strength of two reinforced regiments, with more than 7,000 people, and the eight urban combat teams of the Canal Gang, with more than 8,000 people, so that in Tianjin, there are 15,000 troops of this independent division.

On the evening of 14 July, Tang Qiuli finally made up his mind to attack Tianjin, and at midnight, he issued a mobilization order for the Tianjin Campaign to all troops.

In the Zhangjiakou area, Feng Jiwu's corps, which was on standby, immediately set off, bypassed the Japanese strongholds on the periphery of Beiping, passed through Chengde, and secretly marched to the Shanhaiguan line, built fortifications, and prepared to block the southward movement of the Kwantung Army.

In the Baoding area, Li Honggang's corps, which was on standby, passed through the boundary of Pingjin and Jiāo, rushed to the front line of Shanhaiguan, and joined Feng Jiwu's corps to form a blocking corps, which was jointly responsible for blocking the southward corps of the Kwantung Army.

The two troops, with a total of 120,000 troops, are enough for the 170,000 troops of the Kwantung Army's southward corps.

For the sake of safety, he strengthened the air defense brigade to the blocking regiment, the air defense brigade's high-level dual-purpose machine gun, which is definitely the nemesis of infantry and thin armored vehicles, and the Japanese planes may also come to join in the fun.

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