The river stretches for hundreds of miles, the river surface is as wide as 800 meters, the widest part is thousands of meters, the water flow is not urgent, but it is wide, it is the first line of defense of the Japanese Tianjin garrison to defend against the attack of the People's Liberation Army.

The Japanese army deployed a mixed infantry brigade, two infantry wings, a chariot wing, and an artillery wing on the north bank of the Jianhe River, with about 11,000 troops, and in addition to the Japanese army, there were two regiments of the Wang Puppet Security Brigade and a cavalry regiment of the Mengzi Army Cavalry Division, which also had about 10,000 men.

With this moat, Sumida Shiro still has some confidence that he can block the PLA on the south bank of the Minus River.

What's more, Sumida Shiro still has a killer weapon that he hasn't taken out, and he won't take it out until the PLA officially launches an attack.

As long as Tianjin can be held for half a month, the reinforcements of the two divisions promised by the army headquarters should have arrived.

One division was transferred from the Kwantung Army and traveled by train to Tianjin, where it is currently resting and replenishing in Shenyang.

The other division will depart from the Japanese mainland, and the navy will send one aircraft carrier and five transport ships directly to Tanggu, and the naval forces will also participate in the defense of Tianjin.

The Japanese were equally aware of the importance of Tianjin to them.

North China has lost most of it, and Pingjin is the gateway to the Mongolian puppet and Manchukuo controlled by the Japanese army, and it cannot be lost any longer, and both the Mongolian puppet and Manchukuo will face the danger of being attacked, and Japan's achievements in the past seven years will be wiped out, and the northern front will be beaten back to the state before 1937.

Gangcun Ningci was dead, but the army headquarters did not let Gangcun Ningci go, and the main responsibility for the defeat in the North China War was imposed on Gangcun Ningci.

The emperor issued an edict to dismiss all honors received by Okamura Ninji during his lifetime, and his descendants were not allowed to serve in the army or politics.

This is also fucking ruthless enough, and he won't let it go even if he dies, and it will also affect his children and grandchildren.

The Army Headquarters has not yet made a decision on how to deal with Yamada Yoshizo, this old thing has made an unforgivable mistake, and the First Battle of Jiaying Guan and the First Battle of Jingcheng caused the elite of the Japanese army in North China to be lost, even if this old thing is cut with a thousand knives, it is not an exaggeration.

However, Hideki Tojo was trying his best to defend Yamada Kozo, and the only way to deal with it was to remove Yamada from his military post and still temporarily act as commander-in-chief of the Central China Front Army, and wait for the end of the war to deal with it.

There is no way, Yamada has already bent on death, as long as someone succeeds him as commander-in-chief of the Central China Front, this old thing will commit suicide by caesarean section.

However, Hideki Tojo's opinion on the handling of Yamada has been opposed by the vast majority of people at the Army Headquarters and has not yet been adopted, but the Army Headquarters has not come up with a unified opinion on how to deal with it, and it is still being debated.

It's not easy to deal with, Hideki Tojo has a headache.

Shiro Sukita counts on his fingers every day, since the People's Liberation Army has reduced the south bank of the river, he has already counted the date of entering the city to defend the city, and it has been a full nine days now, as long as he holds on for a few more days, the support of the army headquarters will arrive, and he can step down as the commander-in-chief of the North China Army.

As a result, Shiro Sukita used it as the most relied on to reduce the river line, and the river was actually dry, dry, and dry......

Sumida Shiro knew that it must have been Xie Baoqing's troops who cut off the upper reaches of the river, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Although he mobilized more than 20,000 troops to defend this line of defense, it was really stretched to defend such a long section of the river with more than 20,000 troops on the embankment of hundreds of miles.

What made him even more jealous was that the weapon of mass destruction in Xie Baoqing's hand made him dare not over-assemble his troops, and the more than 20,000 troops could only defend one section of the unit with the squadron as a unit, and too many would attract PLA planes to bomb, and too few would have no defensive role at all.

In the words of the Chinese, it is really difficult to kill the monkey brother.

Shiro Sumida could only display the troops in his hands in the form of a ladder on the north bank of the Minus River, so that although the troops were scattered, if the PLA crossed the river, it could quickly replenish the forward forces.

However, as the water in the river dried up day by day, Shiro Sumida also quietly adjusted the order of the three troops in his hand.

Now the troops defending the foremost fortifications on the north bank of the Jianhe River have been replaced by the two regiments of the Wang Puppet Security Brigade, and the second sequence is the cavalry regiment of the Mengzi Army, and at the same time, the cavalry regiment of the Mengzi Army and part of the Japanese tank units are also responsible for patrolling.

The third sequence of the battle was the Japanese tank wing and artillery wing, the artillery moved back, and the artillery fire could still cover the south bank of the Minus River, but the range was almost close to the limit.

The most surprising thing was that Shiro Sumita put the two infantry wings of the Japanese army's main force mixed into brigades in the fourth sequence at the rear, which was already infinitely close to the second line of defense he had built on the outskirts of Tianjin.

With such a troop arrangement, even a fool can see that Shiro Sumida is treating the puppet army and Meng Zijun as a substitute for the dead, but the puppet army and Meng Zijun dare not speak out.

Although the Japanese army strictly sealed off Tianjin's information transmission channels, Jiefang Daily, Central Daily, and Xinhua Daily could not be seen in Tianjin at all, and unauthorized dissemination was a capital offense.

However, the Japanese army could not control the radio station, and many people already knew through the broadcasts of the Central News Agency and the Xinhua News Agency that the Chinese army had launched a nationwide counteroffensive, and now that the PLA troops had reached the outskirts of Tianjin, it was enough to confirm the authenticity of this news.

The Japanese are coming to an end.

However, although they are both puppet soldiers, there is still a big difference between Wang Puppet and Meng Zijun, if Wang Puppet is compared to a piece of, then Meng Zijun is a stone in a pit, smelly and hard.

Meng Zijun does not admit that they are Chinese from the bottom of their hearts, they are still immersed in the glorious history of their ancestors who once conquered half the world, although these guys were raised by the Japanese, but they still consider themselves the most powerful nation in the world, and now they have the opportunity to prove their strength again, and their combat style is even crazier than the Japanese in battle.

As the river dries up, everyone knows that a big war could happen in the next second.

Wang's puppet army was trembling, and many people were already thinking about how to get out when the big war was about to break out and escape back to a dog's life.

However, Meng Zijun stepped up patrols, sharpened their knives, and prepared to show their might.

As for the Japanese army, the officers above the captain of the Japanese army had already received an order secretly from Shiro Sumida.

But all the soldiers on both sides of the river have begun to get nervous.

With Xie Tian's order, the artillery unit of the 52nd Army, which had been preparing for a long time, took the lead in launching an attack on the north bank of the Jianhe River.

The battle to liberate Tianjin began at this moment!!

Hearing the sound of 10,000 cannons on the other side of the river, the Japanese puppet army guarding the north bank of the reduced river already understood that the time for a decisive battle had come.