Chapter 107: Beiping Offensive and Defensive Battle 5
September 18, 1940, Beiping City
In the afternoon of the same day, when the units of the Eighth Route Army outside Beiping were adjusting their encirclement and deployment, Japanese fighters appeared over Beiping for the first time, and the Eighth Route Army air force that was carrying out bombing missions suffered its first losses in several days, and 12 French-made Portet-25 light bombers were easily shot down by Japanese fighters, 8 pilots were killed on the spot, 12 were captured by the Japanese army, and only 4 were rescued by our army.
Soon, the intelligence came, it turned out that this was a devil fighter plane took off from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Tianjin, this is the gap, don't look at Wang Yue to take the entire North China devil air force in a pot, but the devil is not so helpless, people have aircraft carriers.
Last night, after confirming that the North China Air Force had been almost completely wiped out, the Combined Fleet sent an aircraft carrier from Liaodong and an aircraft carrier on the Goryeo Peninsula to maneuver to this side, and the fighters of the two aircraft carriers were enough to provide battlefield shelter for the Japanese army in Beiping.
Shortly after the departure of the Japanese naval aviation, a formation of Japanese bombers taking off from Liaodong also flew over Beiping, and although it was unable to bomb at low altitudes under the anti-aircraft machine gun fire of the Eighth Route Army, nearly 100 bombers still caused considerable losses to the exposed units of the Eighth Route Army, many artillery positions were attacked, and an ammunition storage point was also hit.
According to the information that has been continuously gathered, in the northeast and northwest of Hebei, the devils have also temporarily repaired 10 field airfields, and now the sites have been leveled, and as long as the follow-up fuel arrives, the devils will deploy part of the air force there, which will greatly increase the frequency of aircraft attendance.
Several regiments in the Jin-Cha-Ji base area have already begun to attack these airfields, but the Japanese army is also resisting to the death, and the two sides are in a stalemate of not giving in to each other; although this can be delayed for a while, no one can guarantee that there are no other field airfields outside these areas that are being repaired, or it will not be long before a new field airfield will be put into use.
The Japanese comrades of the Anti-War League also sent back information that the base camp of the devils was concentrating planes from the Jidong Province, Hei Province, and Goryeo Province to Liaodong, and planned to concentrate at least 300 fighters and 5,000 tons of aviation materials, and it was estimated that by tomorrow, the bombers taking off from Liaodong alone would be able to cover the Beiping battlefield, and the situation of the Eighth Route Army would only become more difficult at that time.
For the deployment of the Japanese army in Liaodong, the Eighth Route Army was not able to make many counterattacks, and the encirclement and suppression of the devils against the United Nations had been going on all these years, and the strength of northern Shaanxi in the four eastern provinces was getting weaker and weaker, and it was even more serious in the eastern Liaodong region, not only was the strength weak, but there was no direct contact channel, and even if there was an armed force, it could not be put into battle.
At the critical moment, the military commander took the initiative to contact the local anti-Japanese anti-Japanese peripheral organization "anti-Japanese arson squad", and the two sides cooperated in the attack, burning down the port warehouse area and the warehouse of the South Manchurian Railway near the Tuchengzi airport in one fell swoop, and finally burned some materials and aviation materials.
And the devils in Beiping are not having a good time, although they rely on disgraceful means to block the Eighth Route Army, but their practice of not having the slightest bottom line has also angered the imperial alliance army and pseudo-police in the city, the big guy carries the infamy of traitors, and it is okay to be cannon fodder for you, but what about you, you still use our wives and children to block the gun holes, and threaten to slaughter the city, Nima, you are going to cut off our roots, if you really let you succeed, how can we live?
So, in the afternoon of the same day, a riot broke out in the Dongcheng Detention Center in Beiping, and more than 100 pseudo-policemen, under the leadership of the director, killed two devils and deputy directors, and then they were led by two "military policemen" to the nearby Japanese overseas Chinese clinic and coerced the wounded and medical staff in the clinic into the detention center for "protection." 33
It wasn't until this time that the devil realized that the pseudo-police had rioted again. According to the plan of the gendarmerie, it must be to sweep down the rebellion with a thunderous force and deter the puppet police in the city, but under the spread of well-intentioned people, before the gendarmerie could start its operation, the news of the large number of expatriates and wounded in the detention center spread, and many temporarily recruited expatriate volunteers began to riot and refused to carry out the order to attack.
Don't look at these guys who are ruthless in killing the common people of China, but it is different if they really want them to kill their own people, hundreds of civilians, no one wants to bear such a responsibility, if they really force the attack, I am afraid that even the expatriate volunteers in other areas of the city will riot.
Although it is not worth looking at the combat effectiveness of the overseas Chinese volunteers, the reality is that after a morning of fierce fighting, there are less than 7,000 Japanese regular troops left in the city, not to mention defending the city, even if they want to maintain the city, they can't do it, on the other hand, the overseas Chinese volunteers have 30,000 people, and now if the overseas Chinese volunteers are unstable, then what else can they do to control the imperial army and the puppet police, you must know that it can be more than 20,000 guns.
Helpless, Gangcun Ningci had to order to surround the detention center and negotiate with the other party, what can be done, fight, definitely can't be beaten, and it is not possible to threaten family members, the police station does not cooperate at all, and even the police files are gone, which shows that the police in many other areas are passively confronting and waiting, if they really ignore the attack, it is likely to cause a bigger riot.
But the Japanese army wanted to appease the police, but the people below didn't think so, because just after the Japanese military high-level made a decision, there were still moths on the side of the overseas Chinese volunteers, and the files of the police station were gone, but everyone was there, many of these expatriates had been in Beiping for many years, and they also had their own news channels, so they quickly found a lot of families of mutinous police officers, and mobilized personnel to surround them.
At that time, they began to arrest people, and these expatriate volunteers did not have a serious attack, and there were casualties after a while, but what they didn't expect was that there were already nearby police officers rushed here, and there was soon an exchange of fire on both sides, and at first the exchange of fire was only controlled near Xidan, but soon, the scope of the conflict expanded, and thousands of policemen and nearly 3,000 overseas Chinese volunteers were involved in the conflict.
Don't look at the large number of these expatriate volunteers, and the equipment is similar to that of the police, but the problem is that these 1,000 policemen are all policemen on the streets, not to mention the familiarity with the local terrain, and there are countless people who support them, it is really not easy for them to surround these policemen and annihilate them.
And just the thousands of volunteers still have to guard against the people in their martial law area, the morning incident has spread, and the people are worried that the devils will use them as meat shields next, so the situation soon became that the police led the people to encircle and suppress the overseas Chinese volunteers.
Helpless, the Beiping Military Police Headquarters had to send out the only mobile force in its hands, relying on armored forces, finally stabilized the local situation, there was no way but to stabilize, those police who participated in the riot have long been hidden, if you want to further arrest, I am afraid that you will have to fight, no way, the Japanese army now has no strength to do so.
came and went, and it was night, but both the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army were tense up, and everyone knew that this night was not easy.
Some people died, but not completely......