From to 1935 2020

Although Tashiro Kanichiro yelled embarrassingly in the telegram that the Lucia Air Force was bombing his troops crazily, and "even the 29th Army on the opposite side has more tanks than us" and other "crying poor and miserable", Kenkichi Ueda still A large number of planes and tanks were transferred to the northern front with a hard heart.The latter is allocated to less than a hundred aircraft and more than 30 bean tanks.

The contents of the headquarters telegram received by Kanichiro Tashiro are as follows:

"Tashiro-kun, this is already the greatest assistance that the headquarters can give you! As long as you defend Tanggu, domestic reinforcements will arrive by sea soon!"

Tashiro Kanichiro's eyes were black at that time.As the commander of the "North Branch Garrison Army", he can nominally command the first division, the fifth division, the sixth division, three whole divisions, and the "elite imperial army" with a total strength of more than 7 people , but he is very clear that the superior appointed him as the commander at this point in time, he has no good intentions, and he is going to take the blame.

In the original history, less than a week after the July [-]th Incident broke out, the Japanese military headquarters dismissed Kanichiro Tashiro on the grounds of "provoking the war without authorization", and transferred Kiyoshi Kozuki as the commander of the Japanese army in North China to continue fighting.

The reason for the "temporary change of generals" before the war is very simple to put it bluntly: the July [-]th Incident was another "solitary walk" tacitly agreed by the military. He still has the title of "commander", but in fact he was working in the intelligence department. The military network is not enough, and the connections are not enough. At that time, "lightning" promoted him to this position. He replaced it.

This time and space is no exception.

The poor strategic situation in North China, anyone with a little bit of strategic mind in the military understands that if a war really starts here, in the first wave of battles, the troops stationed in the Pingjin area will definitely suffer the first wave of losses, so No one wants to compete with him for the position of commander.

On the evening of the [-]th, when Kanichiro Tashiro angrily crumpled up the telegrams from the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, all the telegrams from the southern line he received were bad news.

The Tangshan area where its headquarters is located is alright, only suffered two waves of air strikes, but last night a brigade's barracks encountered precise and focused bombing by the opponent, resulting in over a thousand casualties and a large amount of supplies being destroyed, but it hasn't hurt yet to the point of bone.

The real loss was in the Pingjin area. In Nanyuan and the Japanese Concession, the main force of the imperial army lost more than 3000 people in one day-this does not include cannon fodder such as various armed expatriates.

In the direction of Tanggu Port, before the war, Tashiro Kanichiro placed a whole reinforced brigade of the First Division there, plus Japanese armed forces collected from various places, with a total strength of more than [-] troops.Now it is being besieged by the opponent's tens of thousands of troops and nearly a hundred tanks, as well as bombed by a large number of aircraft. The situation is extremely critical.

Another very bad front occurred in the Yanshan area north of Beiping and east of Zhangjiakou.There is also the direction of the Communist Army's key attack.This war zone is dominated by the Puppet Mongolian troops with the weakest combat effectiveness in the garrison plus a small amount of imperial troops. The total frontline strength is about 4.It seems that there are a lot of them, but this group of Mongolian and puppet troops has very poor fighting will. After encountering the joint attack of Fu Zuoyi and Lin Hu's three tribes, they fled in less than a day. The army was miserable.

Just as Tashiro Wanichiro cried to the base camp, "Now even the 29th Army and the Jinsui Army have more tanks than him."The garrison troops at the forefront of the battle are far behind their opponents in terms of strength, aircraft, tanks, and artillery.

On the evening of the [-]th, Tashiro Wanichiro stayed up all night, trying his best to direct the troops in his hands to fight fires and fill in holes, especially urging reinforcements from outside Shanhaiguan to enter the customs as soon as possible.

The reinforcements of the so-called fifth and sixth divisions also had problems at this fatal moment.These two divisions are located outside Shanhaiguan. The railway distance from the nearest Fifth Division to Beiping is about 280 kilometers. The railway from Shanhaiguan to Tangshan has to go through a lot of mountainous areas, and it is not complete. Yimapingchuan, and more importantly, the Eastern Hebei region was only a nominal "neutral buffer zone" before the war. Although the Japanese controlled it, it was actually very poorly controlled.

Since it was the front line of confrontation, from the second half of 1936, a large number of Red Army mountain guerrillas and armed forces behind the enemy began to infiltrate into eastern Jidong.

On the night of the [-]th, Tashiro Wanichiro, who had been up all night with red eyes, kept asking where the nearest reinforcements from the Fifth Division had arrived, but the news he got was that the entire Yidong area kept sending reports of railway encounters. A large number of communist infiltrated troops blasted and destroyed the news.

"Then build the road immediately!"

"It is already being repaired, but there are too many damaged places, and there are not enough replacement rails."

When Tashiro Wanichiro asked, he just learned that from midnight last night to now, the section of the railway from Shanhaiguan to Tangshan has encountered more than 100 explosions overnight.The infiltration troops of the Communist Party had been prepared for a long time to use a large amount of explosives when destroying the railways, and the installation locations were extremely dirty: all the joints of the railroad tracks, one kilogram of explosives were used at one location, and two sections of the railroad tracks could be destroyed at one time. It can only be repaired by directly replacing the rails. ——In the same way, the Japanese also worked on the railway line from Zhangjiakou to Guisui before the Battle of Bailing Temple, but now it is their turn to be punished by their opponents in their own way.

The railway was destroyed, and it became impossible to deploy troops at high speed.Heavy equipment transportation is greatly affected.As for road transportation, a large number of cars in the three northeastern provinces have been transferred by the headquarters of the Kwantung Army to support the northern line-the Anti-Japanese Federation is also using similar means to frantically destroy the railway network of the three northeastern provinces, forcing the Kwantung Army to do the same Cars are urgently needed to deliver military supplies.Li Runshi's Red Army rushed to attack before the Japanese were ready, which completely disrupted the rhythm of the Japanese invasion.

"Can't the railway be transported by sea? We can transfer troops from Qinhuangdao instead of relying on the red deer in the navy. Doesn't our army also have ships?"

"We don't have the right to control the air in Tanggu, and it's dangerous to go by sea! And the Chinese in the entire Northeast, especially the port workers, have also gone on strike..."

At noon on the 38th, the Japanese army outside the pass urgently removed the rails from the rear to replace the damaged rails in the front, and barely repaired most of the railroads. It has been more than [-] hours without closing eyes. Kanichiro Tashiro finally heaved a sigh of relief and closed his eyes and sat on a chair for a nap. After a while, who would have thought that just after taking a nap for less than half an hour, he was woken up again by his subordinates.

"Your Excellency, Commander, a large number of Communist Party planes are flying towards Tangshan! Please enter the air-raid shelter immediately."

"How many are there?"

"More than a hundred, just flew over from the Pingjin area!"

As soon as the words fell, the shrill air defense sirens sounded again over Tangshan City.

Kanichiro Tashiro hurried to the air-raid shelter built in winter, just to catch his breath, he suddenly thought of something, and asked in shock: "Where is the train of the Fifth Division now?"

While talking, he looked at the watch on his left wrist. It was [-]:[-] in the afternoon, and the blood on Tashiro Kanichiro's face faded in just a split second.

"Oops! Inform them immediately, stop the train, and prepare for an air attack!"

At this time, the hum of propellers came from the sky above Tangshan City.

On the railway line about 24 kilometers away from Tangshan, three trains were traveling several kilometers apart, puffing black smoke towards Tangshan Station.They set off urgently at [-] o'clock in the morning on the [-]th, but due to the serious damage to the railway, it took them [-] hours to arrive near Tangshan.

More than 8000 devil officers and soldiers were pulled on the three seriously overloaded trains. Due to the sudden incident, everyone only brought light equipment, and a large number of heavy weapons still fell outside Shanhaiguan.

Tangshan Station was right in front of us, but the train suddenly started to slow down, but at the same time as the crew on the train received the emergency alert from ahead, there was already a humming sound in the southern sky, and the Japanese driver saw the sky in fear A piece of black shadow.

Before the war, the upper echelons of the Japanese army had already attached great importance to the Red Army, but the "paralysis" of the middle and lower levels developed through years of contempt could not be changed by the superiors' attention. .In addition, the wired communication lines in various places have been largely damaged, the number of radio stations is insufficient, and the air defense warning posts are even more insufficient. Almost all the planes are about to sound the alarm.

The wheels of the decelerated train, which was urgently pulled on the brakes, rubbed violently on the rails. Sparks splashed between the wheels and the rails, and at the same time there was a piercing scream. Ten seconds later, the train finally stopped. Frantically jumping out from the car door and window.

Seishiro Itagaki, the head of the Fifth Division, was also on this train. When he jumped off the fire in a hurry, the plane from the south had already flown over the train.

At least sixty planes flew over the Fifth Division.

With the three trains separated by several miles as the center, more than 60 planes started the one-stop service of diving, screaming, bombing, and strafing.A small amount of explosive bombs blew up the train to pieces, and then a large number of napalm bombs roasted the train and a large area around it into a scorching hell.

Seishiro Itagaki hid under a slope dozens of meters away from the railway in a panic, with napalm bombs constantly falling around him, and every explosion created many burning people who were flaming and screaming crazily.Many Japanese soldiers who were bombed frantically fired into the sky with their [-]-cap or crooked machine guns, but basically had no effect.

The bombing ends after 3 minutes.The air strike plane slapped its ass and flew away.When leaving, only one plane was accidentally injured by the counterattack from the ground, and a long black smoke was drawn out.But the plane still insisted on staggering southward flight.

"Hachi! What does Kanichiro Tashiro do for food!"

After the air raid was over, Itagaki Seishiro got up cursing, his ears filled with the screams of wounded soldiers.At this time, the sides of the train were full of flames, the air was filled with the smell of incendiary bombs and the smell of scorched human flesh, and the soldiers who were splashed with gasoline were screaming and screaming, everything was like Shura hell.

Last night, when I heard that the Chinese war broke out, the communist army attacked Pingjin, and the officers and soldiers of the fifth division of Itagaki Seishiro were excitedly shouting "onboard". " and "Robbing and Robbing the Flower Girl" have a great opportunity to unleash their bestiality.

However, he was wrong.

Some pieces of paper are falling from the sky. They are leaflets dropped from a plane.Itagaki Seishiro ordered someone to pick one up and take a look. It said in Japanese: North China is not the Northeast, and the Red Army is not the Northeast Army. This place will become a hell for the invaders.

Itagaki Seishiro crumpled the biography into a ball with a livid face, and threw it heavily on the ground.

The black smoke from burning inferior gasoline bombs enveloped the sky, and everything around looked gloomy.

Soon, Tashiro Wanichiro, who was hiding in the air-raid shelter in Tangshan, got the information that the reinforcements were bombed by a large number of planes and suffered extremely heavy losses.

"Where's the fighter jet? Where's the air cover I requested!"

"There is air cover, and the planes sent by Army Aviation are already working hard to escort! But the planes sent from the south almost cover the sky!"

"idiot!"

Hearing the bad news, Tashiro Kanichiro stood up from his seat with a hush, probably because he moved too violently. The moment he stood up, he felt his eyes go black, the stars on his retinas danced wildly, and his chest He couldn't catch his breath, he wanted to speak, but his voice was stuck in the trachea......

"Your Excellency, Commander!"

A few seconds later, amidst some exclamations, Tashiro Kanichiro fell back straight with his eyes blank.

At 30:[-] p.m. on April [-]th, six hours after the Red Army assaulted the Pingjin garrison troops and launched a full-scale war, Tashiro Kanichiro, the commander of the Japanese "Northern Branch Garrison Army", died in Tangshan due to serious overdraft due to staying up late for a long time Command, the cause of death was a sudden heart attack. (Note: Historically, this person was dismissed from his post on the fourth day after the July [-]th Incident broke out, and then fell ill on the spot because of unwillingness, and died within five days. The cause of death was a heart attack.)

At this time, Dong Zhentang's Fifth Army and the 29th Army's coalition forces, with more than 5 troops, were besieging the Japanese army in Tanggu with all their strength.

And 72 hours after the outbreak of the war, neither the Kwantung Army base camp nor the military headquarters in Tokyo have yet to recover from the "three opening axes" of the Soviet Army.

"What is Stalin going to do? Is he going to start a full-scale war against the imperial army?"

"Where is Lucia's troops advancing now?"

"How is the Tenth Division in Manzhouli?"

Yongren yelled in panic. During the imperial meeting, the few words he spoke were all focused on the Soviet Union.

Under Yongren's seat, during the "temple calculation" before the war, all of them were high-ranking devils with a clear plan, but now they have collectively become a dumb party.

"What's going on with the Tianjin Concession? Now the whole world is hyping it up!"

"Can Tanggu hold it?"

"Where are the naval ships?"

After coming to power, Yong Ren, who temporarily acquired a lot of military knowledge, roared,

Mi Neiguang had already asked the navy about his political views. Knowing that it was impossible to escape, he could only bite the bullet and say: "The fleet of the navy is preparing for the south attack, and there are only a few light gunboats in the Bohai Bay. The Communist army has a large number in North China." The aircraft, in the case of being unable to obtain air supremacy...."

"Unable to gain air supremacy? Didn't you say that the Imperial Kingdom has [-] aircraft, while the Communist Army and the Lucia Army only have [-] at most!"

Minai Mitsumasa glanced at Terauchi Shouichi, and replied, "That's up to the army. Our navy doesn't have a land airport in North China."

Terauchi Shouyi scolded the navy red deer in his heart, and then he answered bravely: "Nowadays, the Lucia army is going south in a big way, and most of the army planes are attracted to North Manchuria (Heilongjiang Province), and there are very few air forces that can be invested in North China."

Then he said: "Stalin is using the whole country to support the CCP this time. He invested more than [-] planes in the Far East alone! Army planes alone..."

Toshiichi Terauchi didn't know exactly how many planes the Soviet Union had invested in the Far East, but of course he said too much when he blamed himself.

"Use the whole country to support the CCP? Did Stalin ignore Europe? What about the British, the French? And the Germans, didn't they sign the "Anti-Communism Agreement" with us? Why didn't they put pressure on the Soviet Union at this time? ?”

Yongren was already a little hysterical at this time.The news from the front was not good. On the northeast side, the armored troops commanded by Zhukov had penetrated [-] kilometers northeast, and the Soviet Red Army was fighting fiercely with the Kwantung Army.Although the people below told Yong Ren that "the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy losses", "our army destroyed hundreds of Soviet tanks in three days", and shot down hundreds of planes and other amazing battle reports. Winning report.

But Yongren is not stupid.He saw that the Kwantung Army was desperately transferring reinforcements to the north, and at the same time, Xiangyue Qingsi, the new commander of the garrison in the south, frantically asked for reinforcements before he took office, which still made Yong Ren see something.More importantly, Yong Ren was a pro-British and French faction, and especially knew many French friends.

Although he doesn't have the military ability of the dead brother Showa, he is also a little smart and knows how to use the relationship of "foreign friends" to bypass the information cocoons set up for him by these bastards.In the past two days, he ordered his wife to "communicate more" with his French friends in Tokyo, and got a lot of "news from abroad" from them.

If it wasn’t for these foreigners, Yong Ren would not have known that more than 3000 Japanese troops in Nanyuan had collectively smashed jade in one day, and that the Japanese Concession in Tianjin had been lost in the same day, let alone know so quickly that what happened in the Japanese Concession and Nanyuan, The scandal of "the Japanese army massacred their own military family" has shamed the Japanese.

"Now that the war has become like this, there are still more than a dozen reserve divisions in the country. You tell me, should they all be sent to North China, or continue the original plan to attack the South! Also, if the fight continues like this, will North China change? into a dreadful quagmire!"

People who don't understand military affairs can sometimes grasp the crux of the problem better than those who understand.

"How much support will Britain, France and the United States give us in Jiangbei? How far will we fight to end the next war?"

Yongren questioned these people directly.In the Chichibu palace that day, Huang Ke's words had an increasing influence on him.He who "does great things and cherishes his life" more than his elder brother is actually retreating in his heart.

Konoe Fumimaro bit the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, the empire has invested everything in this war, and if it retreats now, the consequences will be disastrous, and the people will not agree."

"Then, tell me, how long are you going to use to end the war! When will Lucia and the CCP surrender!"

Yong Ren asked with red eyes.He had just been notified that Tashiro Wanichiro had died, and it was reported below that he died of a heart attack, a sudden death.But if Yong Rengen, who has been deceived by these grandsons many times, doesn't believe it, he even thinks that Tashiro Kanichiro was shot dead by his opponent, and after making up his own brain, he even thinks that the place where he died was not in the Tangshan headquarters but somewhere else—objection These grandsons are always making up false news about him.

The death of Tashiro Wanichiro was actually the last straw that crushed Yongren's "confidence in war".

The following continued to shut up and not answer. In the end, Terauchi Shouichi was pressed again and again, and then he replied with a flickering tone: "As long as the imperial army can win a big victory in the Northeast and North China, they can be forced to cede the territory... ...."

Yong Ren said coldly: "I heard that Stalin had more than 60 troops in the Far East, and Li Runshi also had a million troops in the North—now you ask me, how many troops does the Empire have to destroy before they will surrender?"

"..."

Go to bed first, proofread tomorrow morning

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-------------------- Chapter 221 Sin Army. Beast Army --------------------

The three-party war between China, the Soviet Union and Japan has been going on for seven days.

Seven days later, in the Northeast, more than 20 Soviet Red Army invaded North Manchuria. After advancing more than [-] kilometers, they took the initiative to retreat, then hesitated, and began to consolidate their territory.The six divisions of the Kwantung Army who had lost the initiative arrived, and the two sides confronted each other in the North Manchuria area.

At this time, the Soviet Red Army had successfully eaten up half of the encircled Japanese troops of the 8000th Division. During the seven-day battle, Zhukov commanded the Far East First Armored Army plus twelve infantry divisions ( [-] people), and fought with multiple divisions that the Japanese army arrived later.

The advantage of the Soviet Red Army is that it has a comprehensive advantage in the number of tanks, aircraft, and artillery, as well as the advanced armored combat ideas taught by Huang Ke in advance (but the skills are not perfect).The disadvantage is that Blücher has been herding sheep for a long time, although after more than half a year of purge training, the situation has improved.But freezing three feet is not a one-day cold. The mess left by the alcoholic Marshal Blucher herding sheep for a long time and the collapsed old officer class still cost the entire Soviet Red Army a lot. After all, no matter how good the weapon is , No matter how good the tactical advantage is, it needs qualified soldiers to implement it.

The advantage of the Japanese army is that these six divisions are all well-trained ghost elites, and they fight bravely at the same time. Relying on the advantages of individual soldiers, they insist on equalizing the disadvantages in other areas in small local battles.

The first few days were blissful. Zhukov's troops defeated many Japanese divisions in a row during the fierce offensive in the first three days. Unable to keep up with the advancing troops in time.