Age of Rebirth

Chapter [-]: Mistake by Kiyoshi Kazuki

The moment Liu Tiehan attacked the corps and bombarded the Japanese positions outside Tianjin, Kiyoshi Kazuki, the commander of the Japanese North China Garrison in Beiping, immediately received an urgent telegram from the Tianjin defenders, and he sat down on a chair.

What does it mean that the main force of the independent division suddenly attacked Tianjin?It means that his overall deployment has completely failed. Xiangyue Qingji has always believed that Tang Qiuli will compete with him for Beiping, not for anything else, which is what the Chinese call "face".

With Tang Qiuli's status today, the issue of face is particularly important. Xiangyue Qingsi also read the reactions of newspapers across China to Tang Qiuli's abandonment of Beiping, which further strengthened his judgment. The next attack target of the Independent Division, It must be Beiping, which is in the hands of the Imperial Army of the Japanese Empire, as Kiyoshi Kazuki said at the military meeting.

The people under his command raised a question, Commander, why do you believe so firmly that Tang Qiuli will attack Beiping? He smiled reservedly and said, "You don't understand the Chinese. They have a good face. The more powerful they are, Therefore, he transferred all the troops from Tianjin to Peiping, in order to repeatedly compete with the Independent Division on the periphery of Peiping, relying on the solid fortifications to give the Independent Division vital strength and a large number of casualties. [

If Kiyoshi Kazuki thought about it in reverse, on July [-], when the Japanese army occupied Beiping, had there been a large-scale battle for the city, or had there been a fierce street battle?Have you encountered stubborn resistance?None, the tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers who were beaten all over the periphery of Beiping occupied Beiping without bloodshed or firing a single shot.

In addition, he believes that the ceasefire agreement on the front line in Beiping is absolutely binding on the Chinese people. Since the Sino-Japanese War, when playing games with the Chinese, all the rules were formulated by the Japanese. People have the final say.

Although there was a Tang Qiuli who wanted to change the rules of the game, he was finally pressured by their government and signed the fire line ceasefire agreement. If he Xiangyue Qingji himself, he would not have given up so easily. With the prestige of victory, he fought furiously Go on, if you don't turn North China upside down, you won't be a general of the Japanese Empire, and the Chinese will never have this spirit.

The agreement is for the Chinese to abide by. Wherever the soldiers of the Japanese Empire step footsteps, that is where the agreement was made. In addition, in the heart of Xiangyue Qingji, I really hope that Tang Qiuli will come to fight for Beiping, so that independence can be achieved. The main force of the division is firmly attracted to the periphery of Beiping, and it only takes two weeks for reinforcements from all walks of life to arrive.

Nearly a million imperial troops, even with their feet, can grind this cowardly Japanese soldier, Tang Qiuli, who is called the devil of China, into a meat paste. For this reason, Kazuki Kiyoshi also made a special plan, When the Independent Division began to attack Beiping, it deliberately gave up some non-important strongholds to give him some sweetness.

Now, the game started, and Kiyoshi Kazuki found painfully that instead of being able to formulate the rules of the game, he was brought into the casino like a rookie. When he realized it, he had lost all his coat and only a pair of pants left.

He knew the fate of the defenders in Tianjin very well. In the telegram, they used unprecedented shelling, unprecedentedly violent artillery fire, the most ferocious blow that the imperial army had faced since entering China, countless enemies, etc. Wait for the words that make his heart skip a beat.

Tang Qiuli, the devil of China, is a villain who doesn't abide by the agreement. It's not the soldier's fault. He dared to tear up the agreement openly. This kind of work is our Japanese soldier's forte. Kiyoji himself finds the people and behaviors of public international law amused. When Japanese people think of public international law, he is probably the first one. The mouth will never be stronger than the fist. This is the public international law in the Japanese mind.

He ordered his secretary to immediately submit a letter of protest to the Nanjing Nationalist Government, saying that the superficial article had been finished, and the matter in Tianjin had to be resolved with fists.

Commander Xiang Yueqing ordered the Eighth Division, No.11 Division, and No.15 Division stationed in Beiping, with a total of more than [-] troops, assigned to the Xiaozhao Chariot Wing to form a reinforcement Tianjin Corps, commanded by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Langfang, emergency reinforcements to Tianjin.

He didn't dare to devote all the troops in Beiping to the direction of Tianjin, to keep Tianjin and lose Peiping. Xiangyue Qingsi would not do such a stupid thing.

At the same time, he sent an urgent telegram to the Southward Corps of the Kwantung Army headed by the Banyuan Division, claiming that the Chinese army suddenly tore up the armistice agreement and attacked Tianjin. The situation in Tianjin is critical. To Tianjin battlefield.

Before the reinforcements of the Japanese army in Beiping were assembled, Liu Tiehan's corps had already broken into the city of Tianjin. After an hour of saturated shelling, the Japanese army on the outskirts of Tianjin had been wiped out. was razed to the ground.

The soldiers belonging to the Northeast Advancement Headquarters, the scene they imagined facing the muzzle of the flames, fighting repeatedly, laying dead bodies everywhere, and blood staining the ground under their feet, did not appear, almost without encountering resistance Under such circumstances, he easily broke into the urban area.

The surviving Japanese soldiers have not yet come to their senses from a semi-comatose state. The shelling just now devastated not only their lives, but also their will and spirit. Shocked almost unconscious.

Just after waking up, his eyes could barely see clearly. The sharp bayonet of the Chinese had already pierced his chest. The screams and occasional resistance of the Japanese soldiers before their death seemed insignificant in front of the raging attacking troops.

Less than an hour and a half after the general attack on Tianjin, more than [-] Japanese defensive troops on the outskirts of Tianjin were submerged in the violent artillery fire like a volcanic eruption and the attacking troops like a tidal wave. less than.

As soon as the outskirts of Tianjin started, Lieutenant General Kazuo Takashima, the Japanese garrison commander in Tianjin, listened to the sound of thunderous cannons in the headquarters. Closing his eyes, he sighed secretly, the more than 3 defenders on his outer positions were over.

As a senior Japanese general, Takashima has already judged from the density of the gunfire that the Chinese squadron attacking Tianjin used at least four artillery regiments and an artillery force of more than 1000 artillery pieces. Under blows, any fortifications and fortresses in the wild are as vulnerable as pieces of paper. [

Contrary to Xiangyue Qingji's view, Kazuo Takashima did not think that Tang Qiuli's attack target must be Beiping City. As a personal experience of the July [-]th Incident, he knew very well how the imperial army occupied Beiping City. An empty city.

Since Tang Qiuli insisted on sticking to Beiping, what reason did he have to take him back?Kazuo Takashima raised objections to the supreme commander's concentration of most of his troops in the direction of Beiping. However, he is not the top decision-maker in North China of Japan, so he did not follow the order of Kiyoshi Kozuki to move all the troops in Tianjin. The defenders are all placed in the outer positions.

Moreover, he also ordered the Gendarmerie Command to encircle the Chinese police force in Tianjin. Once there is a war in Tianjin, these Chinese policemen are sure to be a serious problem, and it is enough for him to have a headache and must solve it.

Kazuo Takashima stared at the flickering lights shaken by the artillery fire, and gave an order that the troops in the urban area should not reinforce the outlying positions, and build barricades on the spot, resisting steadily, and going house to house with the squadron Every street, every house must become a battle fortress.

Use the dense buildings in the city to offset the advantage of the independent division's artillery fire, let Tang Qiuli's troops eat together, and pay a price for every step forward, fight a street battle with the squadron, and persist to the arrival of reinforcements.

Takashima's deployment is absolutely correct. Facing the overwhelming artillery superiority of the independent division, even if it has ten times the strength, it will not be able to fill the defensive holes in the field fortifications. This old devil must not underestimate his battle command ability and military quality.

The deployment of Takashima brought a lot of trouble to Liu Tiehan's attacking corps. The offensive was frustrated, the speed of the advance was immediately reduced, and the troops also suffered casualties.

Wang Mancang, head of the Second Detachment of the Tianjin Urban Combat Team of the Independent Division, was ordered to lead a guide team consisting of more than 1000 local players who were familiar with the terrain of Tianjin and the third special warfare unit of the Independent Division, and appeared on time at the Independent Division that was the first to rush into the urban area The Northeast advances in front of the Second Brigade and First Regiment.

Soon, the guides were scattered among the troops. Under their guidance, [-] troops, with the battalion as the unit, were divided into several small troops and rushed towards their respective targets.

The Northeast advances to the Second Brigade and Regiment Battalion, turns a road, and when it rushes to the Danan River area, it suddenly encounters fierce firepower head-on. On the street, thick sandbags are piled up to form a fortress. In the dark night, the howling sound of crooked light machine guns and Japanese [-] heavy machine guns was especially ear-piercing.

And on both sides of this sandbag fortress, there are two buildings with a height of more than ten floors. Behind each door, dense rain is sprayed out, forming a crossfire, hitting the hard road, splashing a little spark, jumping The screams gave goosebumps all over your body.

If the troops want to pass through, they must take down the sandbag fortifications and the two buildings in front. The commander of the vanguard company, upon seeing this situation, immediately ordered the first row to prepare cluster grenades, and the whole company to cover the fortress with fire. , rushed into the building and opened the way forward.

Under the cover of fierce firepower, a platoon of more than 30 soldiers, braving the dense rain, approached the fortress firmly held by the Japanese army with skillful tactical movements.

It should be said that after Tang Qiuli's several changes of equipment, the firepower of the advancing troops in the Northeast has been greatly strengthened. The light and heavy machine guns were blowing like the wind, and the sandbag fortifications were dusty, and the doors of the building were full of sparks. Bunch of grenades, get rid of the sandbag fortifications, rush into the building, and compete floor by floor, that's another way of playing!

(To be continued)