Chapter 412: Seize Tianjin

At 6 o'clock in the morning of 17 July, Tianjin, an important industrial and commercial town in northern China, had completely fallen into the hands of the Independent Division.

Although the troops took Tianjin on time according to the orders of the division headquarters, Liu Tiehan was not very satisfied, and he expected that the battle would be completely ended before five o'clock in the morning.

However, the course of the battle exceeded his expectations, especially the casualties of the troops, which greatly exceeded the bottom line of his requirements, and also made him see the shortcomings of the old base troops of the Northeast Army.

The casualties of the troops were all caused in street battles, and if it was the main force of an independent division, there would never be such a large casualty, and for the coordinated operation of infantry and artillery, the brigades used perfect fire, of course, there was its own main reason for this, that is, he did not think carefully before the battle, and the plan was not rigorous, and he was ready to make a written inspection to the division commander and ask for punishment.

Accompanied by several brigade commanders, Liu Tiehan came to the Tianjin Garrison Headquarters of the Japanese Army, the huge basement, still exuding a strong smell of gunsmoke, the corpses of Japanese soldiers and officers, in a mess, lay in the basement, the blood has coagulated, a pungent smell of blood, people almost suffocated.

Kazuo Takashima's body, lying on its side on a tatami mat with a bottle of sake on the table, a snow-white handkerchief, and a command knife inlaid with Jin huā on the hilt, was thrown not far from his body, his forehead and xiōng department, he was shot five times, and blood splattered on the Venus of the golden lieutenant general Huā.

It seems that Takashima was ready to commit suicide by disembowelment when the city was broken, and ended his life in a way unique to Japanese samurai, the soldiers did not give him a chance, Liu Tiehan silently looked at Takashima's body for a while, it was this Japanese who adopted the correct tactics and caused great casualties to the troops.

Although he is an enemy who does not share the sky, he is also a respectable opponent, if he repeatedly fights with himself for his position on the outskirts of Tianjin, the next battle in Tianjin will be much simpler, and the time to occupy Tianjin will be greatly advanced.

Liu Tiehan dictated the order to the communications staff officer: "The division headquarters, our Tianjin Attack Corps, will conquer Tianjin at 6 o'clock in the morning of the 17th, and the enemy's garrison troops, from the commander Lieutenant General Kazuo Takashima, to more than 63,000 people, were all annihilated, and our troops suffered more than 14,000 casualties, including more than 7,500 killed in battle. ”

Tang Qiuli, who was at the Beiping Front Command, received a telegram from Liu Tiehan, and was quite shocked by the heavy casualties of the troops, a Tianjin Campaign, ten hours of battle, disabled a field brigade in Dongzhi, the troops should not have such large casualties? He wisely did not go to the telegram to ask the reason, the old man would definitely give himself a satisfactory jiāo generation.

After the troops took control of Tianjin, they immediately entered the Japanese concession, and according to Tang Qiuli's order, the concessions of other powers, at the entrance, in addition to sending troops to protect them, did not enter a single soldier, in Tang Qiuli's words, there was no need to offend so many opponents at the same time.

The three detachments of the urban combat team that occupied the port picked up a big bargain, and the 18 mén coastal defense guns placed by the Japanese army on the fortress position fell intact into their hands, and a Japanese coastal defense squadron stationed here was taken by surprise, and more than 230 people were wiped out before they could react.

Liu Chūn, the commander of the 1st Artillery Brigade of the Independent Division, was broken, his eyes were shining, and he was surrounded by stout and stocky, behemoth-like coastal defense artillery, constantly turning in circles, mōmō here, patting everywhere, and his mouth kept "tsk" with envy.

He is a big connoisseur, he knows the power of these big guys, this is used to fight warships, the caliber is more than 240 mm, the shè range can reach more than 15 kilometers, the shells are like the waist drum of the xiǎo, it takes four strong men to carry it, and the warship only needs to take a few shots, and it is not sinkable and seriously injured.

He immediately transferred the soldiers of the first regiment and one battalion of his brigade and assigned them to various artillery positions, which he commanded and was familiar with the coastal defense artillery, and he didn't know why he did it, but he only knew that if he had an opportunity to learn, he couldn't let it go, which made Liu Chūn quite regretful, these big guys were too cumbersome and could not be taken away, otherwise, he would definitely have these big guys in his brigade.

According to the old rules of the independent division, every time the Japanese army occupied a city, it was necessary to adopt a three-light policy for local Japanese-funded enterprises and Japanese expatriates.

Doing this kind of work, the troops of the East Finger are obviously novices and rookies, and they face a huge Tianjin city with a population of nearly one million, and they simply don't know where to start, and there is a feeling that a tiger eats the sky and has no place to eat.

There was no way, Liu Tiehan sent the first and second brigades of Dongzhi to the Beiping front, and on this condition, in exchange for the third brigade of the independent division, Han Tiebu, and the fourth brigade Wang Chengye, these two brigades are the old foundation troops of the independent division.

After the troops arrived in Tianjin, they first stranded all the Japanese expatriates at home, and the number of Japanese expatriates in Tianjin amounted to as many as 70,000 or 80,000.

Next, it is to check the Japanese assets, confiscate the property, seal all the machinery and equipment of the Japanese-funded enterprises, and the raw materials and semi-finished products in stock, requisition all the trucks in Tianjin, confiscate the Japanese cars, form a transport team, and transfer them to the Huangya Dòng base area of Taihang Mountain and the Dingbian Special Economic Zone day and night.

Except for the bricks and tiles that could not be transported, not a single nail was left, more than 1,500 cars, going back and forth between Tianjin and Taihang Mountain, all the transport vehicles were unified under the command of the transportation headquarters of the independent division, and the commander Zhou Yishan was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night, when did his troops be so prosperous?

Tianjin, as the most important port in the north operated by the Japanese for many years, has hoarded countless arms and materials, and what excites Zhou Yishan the most is that there are more than 100,000 tons of high-quality steel and copper ingots, which are urgently needed by Huangya Dòng and Dingbian.

In order to speed up the transportation, the engineer unit under the transportation headquarters of Zhou Yù Mountain urgently built an improvised road between Tianjin and the Huangya Dòng base area of Taihang Mountain.

Each person has a piece of ocean for three days, which was a sky-high price at that time, and the Zhuang family can not see a piece of white huāhuā in the present ocean all year round, not to mention, the army still has a meal at noon, snow-white steamed buns, fragrant féiròu slices are enough to make.

For a time, hundreds of thousands of people joined the road construction army, and more importantly, this is a army that fights devils.

In order to prevent the highway from being used by the Japanese army in the future, Zhou Yiù Mountain set up explosion points in many dangerous places, and deliberately built many bridges, if the Japanese mechanized troops drove along the highway to the hinterland of the Taihang Mountain base area, the bridges were demolished, and the dangerous places were blasted, and the Japanese army would become a turtle in the urn, unless the wings flew off.

He knew very well that it was impossible for the troops to occupy Tianjin for a long time, and now it was a time to compete with the Japanese to transport the materials from Tianjin one day earlier, and the safety factor of the troops would be greater.

As a result, on the road leading to the depths of Taihang Mountain in Tianjin, cars and horses neighed all day long, dust was rolling, people came and went, so it was not lively.

The fourth detachment of the special operations detachment and the fifth detachment of the urban combat team made a windfall this time, and after the general offensive of Tianjin began, they quietly entered the airfield of the Japanese army.

Taking advantage of the attention of the Japanese airport guards, attracted by the battle on the periphery, under the cover of the night, quietly lurked in, and waited until the Japanese army found out, the cold swishing knife light had reached the body, a burst of knives and arrows, a Japanese brigade guarding the airport, the pilots and ground crew, all fell in a pool of blood, and only a few shots were fired in the whole process.

On the airfield, there are 36 fighters, 18 bombers, and 5 transport planes parked neatly, and almost all of the Japanese air power in North China are here, and they are connected by independent divisions.

But Zhou Yishan is worried, these baby bumps, the car can't fit, the carriage can't be pulled, the whole army, no one can nòng this guy with wings to the sky, how can he nòng go back to Dingbian?

There are still many people who have a way, and they came up with an idea to disassemble the plane, okay, this guy's wings are placed and placed, a truck can barely fit a body, and all the instruments and instruments on the control tower are removed, all the oil and accessories are transported away, and the cement blocks on the runway are useless, otherwise, Zhou Yishan will have to be planed down and pulled away, fully carrying forward the "Jiahu" of Zhang Quan, the logistics minister of the independent division.

Zhou Yiyi Mountain was busy between Tianjin and Taihang Mountain, but Tang Qiuli was idle and panicked on the outskirts of Beiping, and Xiangyue Qingji did not fight with the independent division troops in the suburbs no matter what, and stuck to the key points in Beiping City.

During this period, Chairman Chiang in Nanjing sent a telegram to Tang Qiuli, but he tore up the agreement with him, and did not say anything about the initiative to fight, but only forwarded the protest telegram of Xiangyue Qingji to him.

Probably Chairman Chiang also understood that the reason why Tang Qiuli agreed to sign the cease-fire agreement was to paralyze the Japanese and use it as a cover for the capture of Tianjin, and he inquired about the battle situation and the reaction of the Japanese.

Tang Qiuli's record was beyond his expectations, just ten days after the July 7 Incident, he killed half of the Japanese in North China, what else could he say besides congratulations, obviously, the affairs of North China, Chairman Jiang was not in charge.

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