Chapter 406: The Battle of Tianjin

The key to the troops in charge of sending reinforcements is to conceal their own attempts and prevent the Japanese army from discovering their traces, which is also easy to do, anyway, around Pingjin now, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Japanese army and the independent division are frequently transferred, and the ceasefire line demarcated is the fault of the dogs, and the troop movements of the independent division should be normal.

The troops of the 29th Army immediately ended their rest and recuperation, joined up with the troops commanded by Tang Qiuli, the commander of the independent division, and entered the area of Langfang, Xianghe, and Jixian at the boundary of Pingjin and Jiāo, and was responsible for blocking the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Beiping.

The independent division and the troops of the 29th Army, 130,000 people to send reinforcements, is enough, the situation is developing well, and I am willing to take a handful of them, and wrap the Japanese troops who came to help from Beiping into dumplings, that is, additional interest.

Liu Tiehan's troops, stationed at the border between Hebei and Shandong, transferred 90,000 troops, set out from Dezhou and Leling in Shandong, formed an attack on Tianjin, and immediately went north, responsible for the general attack on Tianjin, with 90,000 against 60,000, Tang Qiuli wanted local strength and firepower superiority.

This is the basic unit of the pure Northeast Army, and they have long been holding back a fire in their hearts, and the independent division won a great victory in the first battle, but they were greedy, and they were pushed into the pass from the northeast by the xiǎo devils, this bird breath has been held in my heart for six years, but there is no order, and I am in a hurry.

The order of the division headquarters reached the northeast tǐng march headquarters, and Liu Tiehan immediately summoned the commanders of all brigades to the headquarters for a meeting to implement the order of the division commander, because there must be troops left behind, and all troops could not participate in the battle.

These eight brigade commanders, plus the cavalry brigade commander He Zhuguo, as soon as they heard that there were more than 60,000 devils to attack Tianjin, where there were more than 60,000 devils, the division commander had already arranged them, and they were waiting to pounce on it and swallow this piece of big féiròu, and immediately began to debate.

Each brigade has put on its own merits and strengths, nothing more than wanting to participate in the attack corps, everyone has a strong desire to be ashamed, no matter how the troops are reorganized, the division commander still retains the word "Northeast", that is to leave a trace of blood for our Northeast Army, the hat of 918, worn for six years, is a man holding his breath.

In the end, the fight was red-faced, coupled with the high voice of the Northeast Han, the conference room was noisy and deafening, and the staff officers who came and went outside the house exchanged incomprehensible glances with each other, and in the end, everyone moved their livers, so they didn't want to fight on the spot, and no one wanted to stay in Shandong.

This is the first battle since the establishment of the Northeast Tǐng Command Headquarters, and it is also the first battle between the old troops of the Northeast Army and the Japanese army, which must be fought well to inspire the morale of the army.

In the end, there was no way, to adopt the old habit of the Northeast, to catch the brigade commanders who sent troops, they were elated, and they jumped high on the spot with joy, and those who didn't catch it hung their heads and asked jealously, "Alas, I said buddy, the mouth is like a scoop, xiǎo's heart jaw fell and hit the surface of his feet, do you know where the north is?" ”

Tang Qiuli concentrated nearly 360,000 troops on the outskirts of Tianjin and in the city, of which the troops responsible for sending reinforcements had as many as 250,000 troops, which shows that the key to the Tianjin campaign lies in the troops that send reinforcements and block, and if they fight well, Liu Tiehan's attack on the Tianjin Corps can let go of their hands and feet, take Tianjin at the fastest speed, in the shortest time, and eliminate more than 60,000 Japanese defenders in Tianjin.

In the early morning of 15 July, the troops of the six infantry brigades under the Northeast Tǐng Advance Headquarters of the Independent Division, under the leadership of Commander Liu Tiehan, divided into two routes, set out from Leling and Dezhou in Shandong, like two sharp arrows, and arrived in the Jinghai area on the outskirts of Tianjin on the evening of 15 July.

From the starting point to the outskirts of Tianjin, the normal marching speed would take a day and a night at the earliest, but the Tianjin Attack Corps only took twenty-six xiǎo hours to arrive at the designated attack location, which can be described as superb.

Tang Qiuli, who had already established a command headquarters in Jinghai, was very surprised that Liu Tiehan's troops could rush to the battlefield so quickly, he looked at the appearance of the commanders of the brigades in the northeast tǐng into the headquarters, and the sweaty war horses were tied outside, and he knew how they ran over this way, and the troops' request for battle was very high, he secretly thought.

The people in Jinghai County, Tianjin, woke up and found that their village was already full of soldiers, and they were in their sleep, unaware, and panicked for a while.

The panicked villagers whispered to each other, where did this army come from, did your family's mén, last midnight, have they smashed it open, and the eldest girl of that family, xiǎo daughter-in-law, has it been ruined by them?

There are so many soldiers, and the people have not been harmed at all, but it is strange, since ancient times, the troops that have not harmed the people, but this is a thing, and this is the case, and this is the case, these soldiers, the attitude towards the people, that is called a good, buying things is given according to the price, and a mouthful of uncles and aunts are called, the world has really changed?

But there is one thing, these soldiers, the village is tightly surrounded, you are not allowed to enter but not out, no matter what urgent matter you are, you have to stay in the village honestly, they have an official who said, delay the big guy's livelihood, after the battle, will be compensated.

If we don't compensate, we ordinary people don't dare to have any hope, don't harm us and burn high incense, but if you want to fight here, my God, isn't this another disaster? The people were in a state of panic and anxiety, and they were nervously guessing the outcome of the matter.

The troops who participated in the attack on Tianjin did such a good job of secrecy that the 90,000-strong army lurked under the noses of the Japanese army in Tianjin, and they were stunned that the Japanese did not sniff out the slightest movement.

Tang Qiuli's request was to ensure that the campaign was launched suddenly, and in order to cover the actions of Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang's Shanhaiguan Blocking Corps and Liu Tiehan's Tianjin Attack Corps, he asked the blocking corps in the direction of Beiping to make the movement bigger.

Under the noses of the Japanese troops in Beiping and Tianjin, 130,000 people were wedged in, and if they wanted to completely hide from the Japanese, this could not be done, so they would turn this road army into a Ming army, attract the attention of the Japanese in the Pingjin Jiāo boundary area, cover the eastern road blocking troops and attack the Tianjin troops, even if the Japanese were full of suspicions, they could not guess what it meant.

The time for the general attack on Tianjin was set at 8 o'clock in the evening of 16 July, which required Feng Jiwu's blocking troops to arrive at Shanhaiguan at 5 p.m. on 16 July and capture him.

Feng Jiwu killed this security detachment, it was a matter of a blink of an eye, the key is the way of the march, along the way to ensure the concealment of the troops, but also to maintain the speed of the march, so Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang's 120,000 troops took the mountain road.

This is the old base unit of the independent division, although the soldiers are exhausted, they still grit their teeth and rush forward, and the orders of commanders at all levels are, run, run to Shanhaiguan is victory.

The units of the artillery brigade were even more difficult, because their guys were all big guys who were generally heavy, and they couldn't get to the mountains at all, but the troops stationed in the blocking positions and had little artillery support, which made Li Honggang worried, and according to the division of labor, he was in charge of the artillery units.

The artillery of the three brigades could not fly to Shanhaiguan with wings, and the commander of the special detachment who cooperated with the operation of the troops had a flexible brain, and he gave the chief of staff an idea, all the trucks were disguised as Japanese transport troops, and the special detachment had a large number of Japanese military uniforms in their hands.

As a result, nearly 1,800 or so large-caliber guns of the three artillery brigades, under the traction of automobiles, rushed along the highway like a long dragon towards Shanhaiguan

Look at the officer who led the team again, my Amaterasu God, either a major general or a big Zuo, Cao Chang who has a xiǎoxiǎo sentry card, he doesn't dare to put a fart, let alone check, a word is not right, don't say anything about "Yamahama", it's normal to lose your head, these generals, your Excellency, are grumpy?

On the night of the July 7 Incident, the troops stationed in various police substations were surrounded by the Japanese army at their current station.

If it weren't for the ending of the 77 incident. In the event of a fundamental reversal, these units, which were regarded by the Japanese army as the Chinese police, were either disarmed or eliminated on the spot, and in fact, the troops sent by the Japanese army were responsible for dealing with these police.

Now, the Japanese troops surrounding them, although they have no intention of making a move, have not withdrawn, they are building fortifications nearby, closely monitoring their every move, it seems that the Japanese treat them as a piece of ròu that they don't like to put on their lips, and they can eat as much as they want.

Even so, they attracted about 8,000 Japanese troops, which also relieved the pressure on the troops attacking Tianjin, because they could only hold on to their positions without receiving orders from the division headquarters.

On the night of the 15th, they received an order from the division headquarters that the main force of the division was scheduled to launch a general attack on Tianjin at 8 o'clock on the evening of the 16th.

The order of the division headquarters cannot be questioned, and Liu Feng, the former deputy chief of staff of the Independent Second Brigade of the Independent Division, the current commander-in-chief of the Tianjin Joint Operations Command, and the chief of the Tianjin Municipal Police Bureau, Shen Yín Liangjiu, his troops, now facing the situation of being surrounded, took the initiative to attack, which means fighting hard with nearly 10,000 Japanese troops, and the casualties of the troops can be imagined, but he does not intend to report the situation here to the division headquarters.

He gave an order to the troops of each sub-bureau, and together with the sound of the artillery of the general attack on Tianjin, the troops of each sub-bureau immediately launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army surrounding us, and did not care about casualties.

Liu Feng is in the mood of death, he gave this order, he also knows what it means, maybe after this battle, the Tianjin police combat force will be canceled, but it is worth it.

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