Chapter 407: General Attack

At 4:38 p.m. on 16 July, Feng Jiwu sent a telegram saying that all the troops had arrived at their designated positions, and that the Fourth Brigade and one regiment of the Forward Brigade were making combat preparations to occupy Shanhaiguan.

Tang Qiuli put a heart in his stomach, as long as Feng Jiwu's troops were in place, the Tianjin Campaign could be carried out according to the original plan, and what made him strange was that before a xiǎo hour, the artillery units of the three brigades commanded by Li Honggang had already arrived at the designated position.

He was eager to send a telegram and ask, how did he run past the soles of people's feet when he walked on mountain roads and cannon wheels? What's the secret?

At 6 p.m. on the 16th, Liu Feng, chief of the Tianjin Police Department, was studying a map of Tianjin's urban area in his office, preparing for the evening's action.

The adjutant brought in two people, Liu Feng was overjoyed, one of them, he was very familiar with, was one of the members of the Tianjin Joint Operations Command, Wang Zhanqun, the head of the Tianjin Urban Combat Team, after the police station was surrounded by the Japanese army, the external liaison and communication had long been cut off by the Japanese army, Liu Feng was also very anxious, and he could not contact the other members of the command, and the radio station of the police station, why they could not have horizontal contact.

After the introduction, the other one is Li Shan, the leader of the third division of the special operations detachment of the independent division, both of whom are wearing military uniforms with the rank of lieutenant in the Japanese army, Liu Feng understands how they got in, Li Shan brought the instructions of the division commander, and judging according to the situation, the current situation of the Tianjin police combat unit should be very dangerous.

After the start of the general offensive in Tianjin, the eight detachments of the Tianjin City Combat Team cooperated with the police force on the periphery to firmly hold back the Japanese army.

Liu Feng choked in his throat, although he did not report the situation of the troops, the division commander also expected it, and deployed corresponding measures, originally with the determination to die, the eight urban combat detachments, that is nearly 9,000 troops, and his own troops should be combined with the outside, not to mention dragging the more than 8,000 Japanese troops surrounding him, even if they are all destroyed, it is also very possible.

Subsequently, the three of them re-studied the battle plan, and the police force used various terrain to hold on to the position, and when the battle with the Japanese army was at its most fierce, five urban combat teams suddenly joined the attack on the Japanese army, and three urban combat detachments were responsible for occupying the port, and Liu Feng also issued new combat orders to the troops everywhere.

In addition, from the eight urban combat teams, Chōu transferred some members who were familiar with the terrain of Tianjin, and formed a guide team with the third special operations team, which was responsible for guiding the attacking troops, quickly breaking into the urban area, and directing the artillery targets, focusing on the Japanese artillery positions, barracks, and defensive positions.

At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of 16 July, Liu Tiehan's attack corps on the outskirts of Tianjin had all entered the attack position, and the artillery position, with more than 1,000 mén artillery, was deployed along the line of Hangou, Shuangkou, Liqizhuang, and Guanputou in the southwest of Tianjin.

The artillery command staff officer, on the tense coordinate map, added the coordinates of the latest target of the Japanese army sent from Tianjin, and adjusted the shè Zhuyuan, the communication staff officer, was nervously debugging the call frequency, and there was a tense atmosphere.

Some careful soldiers found that on the night of the 77 Incident, the "Lugou Bridge Steel Company" fought bloodily on the Yongding River, and captured the 12 mén 150 caliber cannons of the heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army, which also appeared on the artillery position.

Compared with the busyness of the artillery unit, the starting position of Liu Tiehan's corps who participated in the attack was quiet and full of tension, and the soldiers were nervously holding the guns in their hands, their bodies tense, waiting for the order to attack at any time.

It's no wonder that the soldiers are nervous, this old unit of the Northeast Army is the first time to face the Japanese army, although they are the first troops in China to contact the Japanese army and go overboard, but what kind of battle is it fighting?

Hundreds of thousands of horses, beaten by more than 20,000 xiǎo devils behind their buttocks, sa girl ran into the pass, six years, the time has come to take this breath.

Tang Qiuli's order to Liu Tiehan's troops was to take Tianjin in ten xiǎo, that is, before six o'clock in the morning of July 17, the battle of Tianjin must be over, and he was full of confidence in this.

The hat on the head of the Northeast Army has been worn for six years, so that these Northeast men can't raise their heads, and he also hopes that Brother Han Qing's old troops can turn around.

At seven o'clock in the evening of July 16, the sunset on the horizon, put away the last rays of afterglow, the earth darkened, the huge shadow of Nuruer Tiger Mountain, engulfed the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan, the tall and majestic city tower of Shanhaiguan, the cháo wet sea breeze blew, bringing the salty smell of the sea, the night of the land of eastern Hebei came, the Shanhaiguan at the boundary between eastern Hebei and the northeast Jiāo, and the garrison of the Shanhaiguan garrison of the Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communist Party.

In such weather, no one wants to stay outside, the whistling sea breeze is poured into the stomach, Zhang Lixiang, the captain of the Shanhaiguan garrison, nicknamed the captain of the dog ròu, is in the house at this time, and several captains under his command, around a pot of fragrant, ròu soup tumbling dog ròu casserole, drinking is energetic.

For the current position, Captain Dog Ròu is quite satisfied, since three or four years, the independent division troops, like locusts transiting, swept here, there has never been a battle, Xiǎo life is very comfortable, outside Shanhaiguan, there are nearly a million Japanese Kwantung Army Imperial Army, backed by hundreds of thousands of imperial troops in Pingjin, this Shanhaiguan is a place of double insurance.

Thanks to his brain, he dedicated his sister to His Excellency the captain, and he was able to get this beauty difference, the past trader, the one who didn't take care of himself, ate the dog ròu every day, drank soju, had money in his pocket, and ròu in the pot, hey, this xiǎo day, he really moisturized, and he didn't change it for a god.

There was movement outside the mén, not like the sound of the sea breeze blowing on the window, and Zhang Gou Ròu said nonchalantly to a few captains who wanted to check it out, "Look at the bear-like appearance of you guys, the slightest movement is scared of the fart, the guy in our hand is a burning stick?" ”

"It must be the xiǎo son who doesn't open his eyes, smelling the dog ròu smelling greedy, hiding outside the mén and smelling the smell, hurry up to find out who it is, first beat him with fifty military sticks, cure his gluttony well, come and drink, how about two punches?"

The room was wide open, the strong sea breeze poured in, and the fire under the casserole shook a few times and almost went out, Captain Zhang Dog Ròu was furious, and he scolded when he opened his mouth: "You are ** blind, don't you see Lao Tzu is busy?" He cursed and reached for his gun.

Immediately, he froze, and a group of soldiers broke in outside, the guy in his hand flashed with a cold light, he was not a layman, he knew it all by piece, all of them were loaded, and they could be hit at any time.

Looking at a few more subordinates, they were all stuck there like clay sculptures and wood carvings, and Captain Zhang Gou, who was pointed at the head with a gun, secretly glanced at the xiōng chapter of these soldiers, and with a "bang" of his head, the sweat on his face came down, my mother, it was the gang of people from the North China Independent Division, and his predecessor was throwing his life into their hands.

The people of the independent division, the people of the independent division, why did they aim at Shanhaiguan again? Captain Ròu, the dog who was escorted outside, looked at his more than 1,500 men, and there was no one left squatting against the wall.

On the main road leading to the outside of the Guan, countless troops and artillery carriages, cháo water gushed out of the Shanhaiguan Pass, running towards the land of Kanto, Captain Ròu rolled his eyes, fainted on the spot, such a scene, he had never seen it in eight lifetimes, before losing consciousness, he still had a question, did the independent division go to fight the Kwantung Army?

The whole process, less than 20 minutes, more than 1,500 garrisons, one of them was blocked in the quilt, it is funny to say, such an important pass, they didn't even put a sentry, all of them hid in the quilt and slept in the quilt.

Immediately, the troops drove to the front line of Yong'an Fort and the avant-garde outside the Guan, built a position, and alerted the Japanese army from the direction of Jinzhou to help the southward corps.

No one thought that the general attack on Tianjin was first started from Shanhaiguan, which was far away from Tianjin, and it can be seen that the blocking troops on the front line of Shanhaiguan were important to the Tianjin Campaign.

At eight o'clock in the evening of the 16th, the downtown area of Tianjin was already brightly lit, and the nightlife of dignitaries and wealthy businessmen had just begun.

The Japanese positions on the outskirts of Tianjin, except for a few searchlights, in the night, emitted a miserable white pillar of light, aimlessly scanning the surroundings, and the rest of the place was as dead and silent as a cemetery, only the ghost-like lights faintly shining from the bunkers proved that there was still a group of cattle panting.

Three red sè signal flares, rising in the night sky, after drawing a graceful curve, slowly falling, and then, the earth trembled violently as if it was cracking, and in the dark night, countless fire meteors suddenly flashed, dragging the dark red sè tail flame, whistling across the sky, and falling on the opposite Japanese position.

The Japanese positions were immediately covered by artillery fire, barbed wire, deer firewood flew into the air, pillboxes were overturned, trenches were blown up, and in the middle of the night, the explosion points were one after another, and soon the number could not be distinguished, and the Japanese positions were like a furnace of boiling molten iron.

Inside the trenches, the soldiers of the attacking troops, their eyes widened, these soldiers of the old Northeast Army, where have they seen this scene of more than a thousand mén artillery shelling, the ground under their feet is shaking violently, and there are groups of cannonballs flying overhead, if we have so many cannons at that time in 918, more than 20,000 xiǎo devils, it is not enough to stuff the teeth

When the artillery bombardment was carried out for a full time, the Japanese position on the opposite side, the frontal five kilometers in depth, the terrain and topography had been completely modified by artillery fire, and the soldiers of the attacking troops suddenly became anxious in their hearts, so many shells, how many gasps could the xiǎo devils have left? Don't we have nothing to catch then?

While pondering there, three signal flares, one red, two green, rose into the night sky again, and the commander's order sounded in his ears, and all of them attacked.

Ninety thousand soldiers, stepping on the soft and somewhat warm Japanese positions blown up by artillery shells, poured into the city of Tianjin.

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