War is fought to the death, and unscrupulous means are used to achieve the end, and only the victor is qualified to evaluate right and wrong.

That forced face is really worthless in the war.

Xie Tian never cared about face, every battle he fought since he raised his army was unscrupulous, but now he met Umezu Mijiro, who was even more shameless and bottomless than him, which made him thunderous.

It's the same for everyone, the same means are righteous when I deal with you, and it is unacceptable when you deal with me, just like Xie Tian used Red No. 1 to deal with Sumida Shiro in the Battle of Liberation of Tianjin, that old bastard was happy when he threw Red No. 1 to the People's Liberation Army, and in turn Xie Tian began to scold his mother when he threw Red No. 1.

Pang Yuan rushed to Tangshan, and when he saw the tragic situation in Tangshan, Pang Yuan's eyes turned red.

Pang Yuan quickly took over the rescue and disaster relief work in Tangshan, set up a rescue and disaster relief headquarters, urgently mobilized personnel and materials from Tianjin to support Tangshan, set up more than a dozen temporary hospitals and dozens of aid stations and hundreds of resettlement points in various parts of the ruins of Tangshan, organized transport planes to airdrop medicine and food to Tangshan, and arranged for the governments of various localities in the liberated areas to organize the people to donate clothes and food to support Tangshan and Zunhua.

"Jiefang Daily" devoted two pages to reporting on the inhumane massacres and atrocities carried out by the Japanese army against Tangshan and Zunhua, and the unprecedented public opinion momentum made the people of the whole country impassioned and filled with righteous indignation, and the people donated materials one after another to organize volunteers to go to Tangshan and Zunhua.

The anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the Chinese people was unprecedentedly high, several drunken Japanese businessmen in Nanjing were beaten to death in the streets in the middle of the night, gasoline bottles were thrown at the Japanese consulate in Harbin, a Japanese weaving factory in Qingdao was set on fire, and the fire could not be extinguished after burning for three days and three nights, and a bomb was planted at a Japanese association in Shanghai, killing and injuring more than 10 Japanese, including the Japanese consul general in Shanghai......

The Japanese military warned all Japanese nationals in the Japanese theater to avoid travel after dark.

Emperor Hirohito personally sent a telegram to Umezu Mijiro to euphemistically remind him not to massacre the city, otherwise the Japanese government would be isolated in the international community, and some countries that secretly supplied strategic materials to Japan might also break off their trade with the Japanese.

Li Zongren and General He originally planned to go to Tianjin, but now that such a big thing has happened, the two of them can no longer get out, and they have to sit in Chongqing to deal with public opinion, arrange the army to take retaliatory actions against the Japanese army, and gather heavy troops to prepare to recover Wuhan in one fell swoop.

Due to the miscarriage of the secret negotiations between the Chiang father and son and the Japanese, Wuhan is still under the control of the Japanese, and this is also a hard bone in the throat of the Chongqing government, which must be eliminated first and then quickly, otherwise Chongqing will always be within the bombing range of Japanese planes, and it will not be able to sleep at night and day.

Although Li Zongren and General Chief He were unable to make the trip, they arranged for eight transport planes to provide a large amount of medicine and supplies to Tangshan, and also dispatched a medical team from various hospitals in Chongqing to provide support, thus showing that the Nationalist Government and the liberated areas are one family.

On the contrary, Yan'an only strongly condemned the atrocities of the Japanese in Xinhua Daily, and called on the people of the whole country to unite as one to resist the Japanese aggression.

It's just, Xie Baoqing, can you fucking force your face? Well?

The eight transport planes arranged by the Chongqing government to deliver supplies to Tangshan were temporarily 'borrowed' by Xie Baoqing and used as bombers to participate in the military operation to drop Red No. 1 at Shanhaiguan in Qinhuangdao.

When Li Yunlong led the First Army of Dongye to Beidaihe, on the outskirts of Qinhuangdao, it was already noon, and the tank division and cavalry division arrived almost one after another.

Li Yunlong was appointed commander-in-chief of this campaign, and immediately after the headquarters was set up, he ordered the communications staff officer to send a telegram to Xie Tian, reporting that the troops had rushed to the outskirts of Qinhuangdao.

Xie Tian responded to Li Yunlong briefly, and immediately ordered the air force units that had already been preparing to launch an air attack on Shanhaiguan in Qinhuangdao.

The air force of the Japanese Army had been crippled by thanksgiving, and the Kwantung Army's limited two army aviation brigades were all fighting against the Soviet Far East Army in the northeastern part of the country, and they were simply unable to provide air support for the Qinhuangdao battlefield.

Umezu Mijiro knew that the PLA had received a large number of US fighters, and the Kwantung Army had no air superiority over the PLA, so it had to mobilize a large number of anti-aircraft guns and deploy them on the front line of Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan.

Shanhaiguan is a strategic point in and out of the Northeast, and Umezu Mijiro knows that if Shanhaiguan is lost, it is equivalent to the opening of the entire Northeast Gateway.

So Shanhaiguan can't be lost.

The Kwantung Army stationed more troops at Shanhaiguan in Qinhuangdao than Xie Tian and Zhang Xueliang had estimated.

The Kwantung Army originally stationed a brigade and a tank wing in Qinhuangdao, and when Pingjin was in an emergency, Umezu Mijiro was ordered to mobilize the Yamamoto Division from Dalian to support Pingjin, and as a result, the Yamamoto Division had just arrived in Qinhuangdao by train, Tianjin had been liberated, and the Yamamoto Division was stationed on the spot in Qinhuangdao.

Also because of the emergency in Pingjin, the 110th Division transferred by Japan from the mainland also diverted from the sea to Jinzhou Port and disembarked, and also went to the front line of Shanhaiguan.

Now the Kurosawa Brigade, which was originally stationed in Tangshan and stationed in Zunhua, also retreated to Qinhuangdao after the massacre.

Some scattered troops and security forces that were originally stationed in the counties near Tangshan and Qinhuangdao were also ordered to retreat to the front line of Shanhaiguan in Qinhuangdao.

At present, there are two complete divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, two full-fledged brigades and a large number of Category C troops stationed on the front line of Shanhaiguan in Qinhuangdao, with a total strength of 130,000 troops, not counting more than 10,000 people of an infantry brigade and an artillery regiment of the Manchukuo puppet army stationed here.

Umezu Yoshijiro ordered the 130,000 Japanese troops to be reorganized into the provisional First Army Corps, and the commander of the corps was Lieutenant General Yamamoto Daio, the commander of the Yamamoto Division.

Yoshio Shinozuka's First Legion in North China has been destroyed by Xie Tian, and this number was used by Umezu Mijiro for this temporary legion, and I don't know if Yamamoto will be happy to get this number.

Yamamoto didn't expect the PLA's pursuit to come so quickly, as soon as the Kurosawa Brigade arrived at Qinhuangdao, the PLA troops caught up, and there were tanks, cavalry and infantry, at least 70,000 or 80,000 people.

Yamamoto was most worried about the PLA's air force, and at the same time, he also knew that the PLA had weapons of mass destruction, so he immediately ordered all units to abandon the fortifications on the periphery of Qinhuangdao, and disperse to various parts of Qinhuangdao with squads as combat units, and use streets and houses as fortifications to strictly defend them.

Yamamoto's decision is undoubtedly extremely clever, which is equivalent to kidnapping 730,000 people in the whole city of Qinhuangdao and using them as shields.

But who the hell would have thought that Xie Baoqing would be so crazy that he would order the air force to throw Red No. 1 at the entire city of Qinhuangdao, and even the common people would blow it up.