Age of Rebirth

Chapter [-]: Leaving Sadly

On July [-], China and Japan reached a ceasefire agreement. The two sides sent personnel to survey the scene and delineate the ceasefire line. The agreement stipulated that the ceasefire line between the armies of the two sides would be the midpoint and extend five kilometers in the opposite direction as a demilitarized zone. To ensure the disengagement of the armies of both sides.

On the night of July 29th, the Japanese troops stationed in Beiping were dispatched overnight, and they were busy seizing various key points abandoned by the [-]th Army in various places in the suburbs of Beijing, in order to occupy more territory. .

After receiving the report from the Special Operations Detachment, Tang Qiuli laughed, and let the Japanese work like a monkey. Our attention is not in Beiping at all. However, in order to make the trick real, he instructed the person in charge of dividing the ceasefire line with the Japanese army Li Honggang fought hard with reason and refused to give up an inch of ground.

On July [-]th, there was a fine drizzle in various parts of Pingjin, the sky was overcast, and the rain was like weeping, and the great North China Plain was shrouded in the drizzle like smoke and mist. [

At Tianjin Airport, a transport plane flying from mainland Japan, under the escort of four fighter jets, landed on the drizzled runway, splashing water.

On the plane, a few Japanese soldiers with the rank of general got off, got into the car, and galloped towards the headquarters of the Japanese North China Garrison in the rain.

Tashiro Kanichiro and Nishimura Masahashi waited in the conference room with a gloomy expression. Yesterday, he had received the decision from the base camp regarding the defeat of the Beiping Campaign.

The headquarters decided that in view of the fact that Lieutenant General Tashiro Wanichiro, the former commander of the North China Garrison Army, and Lieutenant General Nishimura Masahashi, the chief of staff, were not aware of the enemy when they commanded the Beiping campaign, and they neglected to take precautions against Tang Qiuli, the North China Independent Division of China, As a result, the first battle in North China was defeated and the troops suffered heavy losses.

However, when the troops they belonged to were surrounded by the enemy, they miscommanded, behaved in a panic, and failed to take effective measures to get the troops out of passivity, causing the North China war situation to deteriorate to the point of no control, affecting the empire's overall strategic deployment towards China.

In order to deprive Tashiro Kanichiro of the post of supreme commander of the Chinese North China Garrison and Nishimura Masahashi as chief of staff, he will be transferred back to the mainland immediately to accept the ruling. The vacant posts will be replaced by personnel from the headquarters. The people immediately handed over the military affairs and returned randomly.

Tashiro and Nishimura, full of bitterness, they can be said to be brother in need, brother in need, sympathetic to each other, Matsui Kyutaro, who has seriously dereliction of duty, has nothing to do, and is still leisurely in front of his chief of the secret service.

The two of us ended up being dismissed from office and returned to China for trial. The outcome is still unpredictable. The ambitions of opening up overseas territories for the Great Japanese Empire, conquering China, and establishing immortal feats have all come to naught. Sunshine Dissipated like smoke.

As soldiers, after losing a battle, they could not lift their heads up in the military world for the rest of their lives. The two of them were filled with unwillingness and disobedience. Their chests were so depressed that they almost burned, and they had the urge to smash everything in the house. Could it be that we were waiting for the outcome of the battle? fault?

Don't allow them to think too much, the person who replaced them was waiting outside the door. Several special agents from the Special Higher Section of the Staff Headquarters sent Tashiro Kanichiro and Nishimura Masahashi to the airport as if they were protecting and escorting them.

Kanichiro Tashiro, with nostalgia for the last time, he took a last look at the beautiful rivers and mountains in North China, thousands of miles of fertile fields, years of hard work, painstaking efforts for the empire, and almost sacrificed his wealth and life, but this is the ending. Why did you let me face off with Tang Qiuli, the devil of China? , Is it the result of Amaterasu drinking too much sake and having sex after drinking?

The drizzle was desolate, and Tashiro Kanichiro looked gloomy and depressed, and left North China in panic, returning to Japan. Since then, he has disappeared from the Japanese military circles, and there is no news.

On July [-], [-], the former commander of the Japanese Garrison in North China, Tashiro Kanichiro, was relieved of his position as commander by the headquarters, and sadly left China. Kiyoshi Kazuki, the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, took over the post of commander .

In fact, Tashiro Wanichiro need not be so sad. He is not the first Japanese theater commander to be picked down by Tang Qiuli. As early as in the Northeast, the commander of the Kwantung Army Masayoshi Muto was also defeated by Tang Qiuli. , I lost my job and left sadly, my companion on the way to lose my job, Kanichiro Tashiro, is this road lonely?

As soon as Kazuki Kiyoshi took office, he immediately adjusted his deployment. The second division, No.18 division, No.20 first division, eighth brigade, Hada detachment, and Inoue special mixed detachment stationed in Tianjin totaled 14 troops. , were transferred to the outskirts of Beiping, forming two lines of defense with dense firepower and troops.

Xiangyue Qingsi's move was intended to prevent the troops of the Independent Division from attempting to take back Beiping by taking advantage of the damage to the Japanese army. He believed that the Chinese people reacted fiercely to Tang Qiuli's loss of Beiping. Personality, will definitely take back Beiping, as if the people have an explanation.

In this way, in Tianjin, there are only the Japanese Seventh Division, Ninth Division and Gendarmerie Command, about 5000 troops. He also moved the Japanese North China Garrison Command to Beiping City. Now, he hopes Tang Qiuli came to capture Beiping City. In that case, the corpses of the independent division would be scattered all over the field, causing heavy losses, and it would also restore the glory of the Japanese army in North China.

At the same time, Qingzu Xiangyue deeply felt that the Japanese army in North China was insufficient, so it was still possible to defend a few key cities in North China. It was beyond their capabilities to occupy the whole of North China, let alone attack the Central Plains of China in the south.

He asked the Japanese army base camp to increase the military power in North China. After careful consideration, the base camp found that North China was the starting point of the Japanese army's strategic offensive and the place where strategic resources were raised. , very reasonable, and decided to increase troops to North China. [

The elite Itagaki Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, No.11 Division, No.12 Division, No.14 Division, the Third Mixed Brigade, and the Eighth Mixed Brigade, with a total of 17 troops, formed the Southward Corps and joined the North China battlefield .

The 26rd Army, [-]th Army, and [-]th Division of the North Korean Garrison Army, with a total of [-] people, formed the China North China Dispatch Corps and immediately marched to North China. The command was assigned to the North China Garrison Command.

The newly formed No.20 Fifth Division, No.20 Sixth Division, No.20 Eighth Division, No.30 First Division, a total of four first-class divisions, with a total strength of 14 troops, were transferred from the mainland to form China The Battlefield Support Corps will start from the mainland, land at Tianjin Port, and join the North China battlefield.

The base camp of the Japanese army invested heavily in North China, adding 57 troops to the North China battlefield, plus the remaining 20 troops stationed in the North China Garrison, the Japanese military force on the North China battlefield reached an unprecedented 85 people .

The first and third aviation teams of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps were mobilized, with a total of 850 fighter jets and 230 dive bombers.

If Japan devotes most of its troops to the North China battlefield, it will be an unprecedented pressure for Tang Qiuli. The mobile forces in his hands are only eleven infantry brigades, five artillery brigades, and five cavalry brigades from the independent division. , an air defense brigade, and a special warfare detachment, with a total of 21 people.

Against the existing strength of the Japanese army in North China, Tang Qiuli can guarantee that the Japanese army will be eaten up in no more than two months. If all the Japanese reinforcements rush to the North China battlefield, Tang Qiuli can only take a defensive position.

He still has one unit that can be mobilized, that is, more than 29 people from the 4th Army assembled in Baoding. However, Tang Qiuli is still not very confident about the combat effectiveness of the 29th Army. , played well.

He now has a plan to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese army when the reinforcements from the Japanese army have not arrived in North China, and the chosen target is Tianjin, where the Japanese army's defense force is relatively weak.

It is impossible for the Japanese army to reinforce North China from North Korea and Japan in a short period of time. This is Tang Qiuli's fighter plane. The troops of the Kwantung Army are what he is most worried about. Once an attack is launched on Tianjin, the Kwantung Army will go south. , Suddenly joined the battlefield, the threat to the troops is too great, from Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan to Tianjin, is closer than to Peiping, the Kwantung Army can rush to the day and night, and they can arrive.

If Tianjin does not fight, there will never be such a large-scale opportunity to annihilate the Japanese army in the future, and the key to this battle is to block the Japanese army from Beiping on one side and the Kwantung Army troops going south on the other.

Although the Southward Corps of the Kwantung Army at this time has not yet entered the customs, once Tianjin is fired, the Southward Corps of the Kwantung Army will definitely rescue with all its strength. In this way, the number of Japanese troops gathered around Tianjin will reach nearly 40. The army, even if its stomach is broken, can't eat so many Japanese soldiers. If it is not done well, it will be entangled by the Japanese army in the outskirts of Tianjin, forming a pot of raw food.

Tang Qiuli spent the whole day thinking in front of the battle map, repeatedly weighing the balance of forces, and various unexpected situations. The more he thought, the more he felt that the [-] Japanese troops in Tianjin were definitely a big piece of fat. If he didn’t eat it now, I’m afraid There is no chance.

He also has a secret force in his hand, which is the main force, disguised as the police force of the Tianjin Police Department. It is the strength of two reinforced regiments, with more than 7000 people, and the eight urban combat teams of the Canal Gang, with 8000 troops. Many people, in this way, 5000 troops of this independent division are lurking in Tianjin City.

On the evening of July [-], Tang Qiuli finally made up his mind to fight Tianjin. At midnight, he issued a mobilization order for the Tianjin campaign to all the troops.

In the Zhangjiakou area, Feng Jiwu's corps on standby set off immediately, bypassing the Japanese strongholds on the outskirts of Beiping, passing through Chengde, and marching covertly to the front line of Shanhaiguan to build fortifications, preparing to block the Kwantung Army's southward corps.

In the Baoding area, Li Honggang's corps on standby passed through the junction of Pingjin and rushed to the front line of Shanhaiguan, and joined Feng Jiwu's corps to form a blocking corps, which was jointly responsible for blocking the Kwantung Army's southward corps.

The two troops have a total of 12 troops, which is enough for the 17 troops of the Kwantung Army's Southward Corps. After all, the Japanese army is working on an expedition, and our army is waiting for work. Moreover, the two troops have concentrated three independent divisions. With the firepower of the artillery brigade, the Japanese army had to have a good mouth if they wanted to break through the blocking line of defense.

To be on the safe side, he strengthened the air defense brigade to the blocking corps. The high-level dual-purpose machine guns of the air defense brigade are definitely the nemesis of infantry and lightly armored vehicles. Moreover, Japanese aircraft may also come to join in the fun.

(To be continued)