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-------------------- Chapter 227 The Longest Night --------------------

The captured Soviet pilot said in front of Inaba Shiro:

"Comrade Stalin asked us to tell you that Japan's invasion of China is a stupid war! You are falling into the trap that Roosevelt's warmonger dug for you. China is a quagmire, and Japan will exhaust its national power here. After that In three years, a new round of war between Britain, France and Germany is about to break out in Europe, and you will get nothing if you are still stuck in China!"

Inaba Shiro was taken aback when he heard it, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it seemed to be very moral, and also felt that this remark seemed familiar.Fortunately, the people from the intelligence department who came to take over these Soviet prisoners of war told Inaba Shiro: All the Soviet Air Force prisoners of war captured in North Manchuria were "endorsed" in this way, which was what Stalin meant!

It was only then that Shiro Inaba remembered that the words of these Soviet prisoners of war, and after February [-] last year, were not the content of the "Chichibu palace right" that was very popular in the Japanese military headquarters?

"That communist spy Huang Ke, did what he said at the time represent the opinions of the CCP or Stalin?"

Inaba Shiro didn't know the answer, but he soon lost the mood to care about it.

In the early morning of April [-]th...

There is a canal connecting Tianjin to Beiping (commonly known as the North Canal).

Looking at the map, this North Canal connects Zhouzhou in the north, Tianjin in the south, and flows from northwest to southeast, with a flow direction close to [-] degrees.

This canal is also the southwestern boundary of the so-called "Eastern Jidong Autonomous Region" in the "After the Ho-Mei Agreement".Before the Red Army entered Hebei, the administrative power of the entire area north of the river belonged to the "Eastern Hebei Autonomous Government (pseudo)" supported by the Japanese in name.

After the war broke out on April [-], the Red Army regained a large area of ​​towns within tens of kilometers northeast of the canal in a short period of time.It took ten days to transport most of the residents away in a semi-forced way. With the main force of the Japanese army going south, they fortified the walls and cleared the country, and then gave up at an extremely fast speed, leaving only a small amount of infiltration and sabotage troops lurking in the local area as eyeliners.

During this period, due to the Red Army's "wartime policy" forcibly confiscated all ships, the originally busy North Canal shipping was interrupted.Most of the ships in the canal are docked on the west and south sides of the river section.

During the war, strict lighting control was implemented throughout Hebei Province.However, during the period from the evening of the 29th to the early morning of the [-]th, the Wuqing section on the southwest side of the North Canal, which seemed to be calm, suddenly flooded with people on the banks of the river.Countless boats crowded the river, and nearly a hundred simple pontoon bridges connecting the two banks were built within an hour. ——Because it is a canal dug by hand, in fact, the river surface is usually only tens of meters wide. During the dry season, the water is so shallow that adults can directly walk across the river.And when the upstream Qinghe River section closed the water level, the water level dropped even lower.It is very easy to build a pontoon bridge here. Just find more than a dozen wooden boats and arrange them in parallel, lay them on boards, and a pontoon bridge will be built.Even simpler, find four or five wooden boats connected end to end, which can also connect the two sides of the canal.

In the nearly ten kilometers from northwest to southeast, there is a pontoon bridge every 30 meters, and countless people and horses take advantage of the cover of night to cross the river quickly.On the other hand, near the northeast bank of the canal in Xianghe County, a section of the river where the embankment is not high, a newly built underwater bridge has emerged from the water, and there is constant roar of cars and horses.The first to cross the river was the T27 tank.Two such bridges were built in this area. Within an hour, more than [-] tanks and self-propelled artillery were sent to the opposite bank, and then more than [-] wheeled armored vehicles passed by, followed by Dodge full of soldiers and pulling cannons truck.The lighter "T[-]" tank rumbled directly from the pontoon bridge built with wooden boats elsewhere.

By dawn, including the T76T[-]M[-] (self-propelled artillery), the equipment of a reinforced armored division, more than [-] Red Army troops, and [-] trucks had all crossed the North Canal.

All the tanks and armored vehicles crossing the river were "covered" with as many soldiers as possible.The largest number of soldiers mounted on a T26 tank reached as many as twelve.

Among the armored vehicles crossing the river, Colonel Kravchenko, the commander of the armored division, crossed in a BA6 armored vehicle. This was new equipment that was transported from Mongolia to Baotou through the Suiyuan border not long ago, and then transferred to Peiping.This six-wheeled armored vehicle was just mass-produced last year. The BA-26 uses the American-made GAZ-AAA chassis. The original model is equipped with the same turret as the T5.5 tank. The total weight exceeds [-] tons, but the armored vehicle with this chassis is only suitable for roads Wait for driving in good road conditions.

The batch of command models that were sent to China specially removed the turret, lost nearly two tons of weight, and then replaced it with a 12.7mm high-level dual-purpose anti-aircraft machine gun turret-the improvement plan of the car was actually Huang Ke. It is proposed that the armored command vehicle manufactured according to China's national conditions and road conditions, after losing nearly two tons of load, the natural off-road performance will be greatly improved.

Colonel Kravchenko and campaign commander Xu Zijing each crossed the river in a BA-[-] (K) armored vehicle (K stands for China-specific type).

The common instructions received by the motorized armored divisions of the tank and car groups at the forefront are: forward, forward, keep forward!Until you meet Lin Husan's troops going south!

After the Battle of Huainan, Lin Husan's main force in Baotou was transferred south into Hebei during this period.He entered Hebei with him, as well as Fu Zuoyi's troops who had gotten along well with him in the past.

Compared to now, they are still nesting in the Datong area, unwilling to enter (actively resist Japan), unwilling to retreat (bow their heads and admit defeat like Song Zhe), and do not want to be a traitor, just want to be a "household dog". "Facing the general situation of the national war of resistance, Fu Zuoyi's attitude is quite positive.

He is learning from the Red Army in everything: taking the initiative to carry out land reforms in Zhangjiakou and Guisui, taking the initiative to move closer to the Communist Party, all of which are more progressive than Feng Yuxiang before April [-]th.Although he still can't get rid of the "little ninety-nine" thinking of the old warlords, Chairman Li Runshi sees everything he does.

After learning about his life story from Huang Ke, Li Runshi believed that Fu Zuoyi, like Zhang Zizhong, was an object that could be won, transformed and transformed.

When the general direction was confirmed, Fu Zuoyi's department quickly enjoyed the benefits of "actively moving closer to the Communist Party".

After the Battle of Bailing Temple, Fu Zuoyi's army, which was constantly expanding, not only received tank assistance from the Red Army, but also received a large number of firearms and mortar supplements.In the era of Chang Kaishen, although Fu Zuoyi was born in the Jin-Sui Army, after the Central Plains War, Chang Kaishen dismembered the Jin Dynasty and appointed Fu Zuoyi as the chairman of Suiyuan. , Constantly dividing the Jinsui army.

Since then, although Fu Zuoyi, who has been an official to the chairman of Suiyuan, has formed his own school, his status is very embarrassing.

In Chang Kaishen's eyes, he is just a pawn that can be used to divide the Jinsui army. He is a standard miscellaneous background and belongs to the "not human" series that is "temporarily useful".In the heart of Yan Xishan, the old chief of the Jinsui Army, he was the "two or five boy" who betrayed me.

Fu Zuoyi, who is not a man on both sides, has been operating in the poor and miserable Suiyuan for many years. Among the many warlord forces in North China, his strength is the poorest, the most miserable, and the worst equipped.

"When it's useful, throw a bone in the middle. When it's useless, you just want to kill us and hurry up!"

In fact, Fu Zuoyi had had enough of this kind of remarrying a young daughter-in-law.

But after meeting Li Runshi, just like Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi was soon conquered by Li Runshi's "magnificence".

Li Runshi knew that Fu Zuoyi began to study the use of armored units very early.After the Bailing Temple battle, as many as sixteen tanks were sent to Fu Zuoyi successively.In addition, after the Shanxi campaign ended, Fu Zuoyi recruited more than 2 new troops, and the Red Army made up for the lack of guns and artillery according to his own standards.

Before the war started in April, the channel between Baotou and Mongolia had been opened.The first batch of equipment for trial transportation came directly from Mongolia, 27 armored vehicles (mostly B37, equipped with [-] guns).All the military resources transported through Mongolia will finally pass through the railway between Guisui and Zhangjiakou. Fu Zuoyi is very clear about the approximate number and nature of the arms received in Baotou.

Then with a swipe of his pen, Li Runshi directly sent half of the armored vehicles to Fu Zuoyi, a total of thirty vehicles in total.

Compared with Chang Kaishen's petty personality who racked his brains to exploit miscellaneous brands, Li Runshi, as the "co-owner" of the Northern Anti-Alliance Alliance, with his grandeur and courage, at that time suppressed Fu Zuoyi subduedly.

When the war started on April [-], Fu Zuoyi participated more actively in the battle to clear the puppet Mongolian army in the west and north of Beiping.

Beiping City and Tongzhou are close together and connected by railway.After passing Tongzhou to the north and slightly west, there is still a railway continuation, [-] kilometers away is Shunyi County, and [-] kilometers away is Huairou County.Before April, it was all under the control of the puppet Mongolian army supported by the Japanese army, with a total of more than [-] soldiers.

The railway extending thousands of miles to the north stops at Huairou, and the north of Huairou is the famous Miyun County, and the northeast of Huairou, about [-] kilometers away, is the Great Wall, where there is a famous pass, Gubeikou.

After the outbreak before the war, the coalition forces formed by Lin Husan and Fu Zuoyi concentrated their efforts to eliminate the puppet Mongolian army in this area.Each of the two families dispatched 30 elite troops, including Peng Xuefeng's 4st Cavalry Division and Fu Zuoyi's Cavalry Division. They assembled more than [-] tanks and more than [-] armored vehicles. It took a few days to station [-] puppet Mongolian troops here. Many people are easily eliminated.In one fell swoop, the threat to the northern part of Beiping and Tongzhou was lifted.

In the middle of the night on the 29th, Xu Zijing, the future Marshal of the Republic at that time, yelled "Forward, forward, until you meet Lin Husan's southward troops", because at the same time, Lin Husan's troops were leaving the Shunyi area Going south, encircle and intersperse the Fifth Division from the north.

There is a railway connecting Shunyi and Tongzhou, and the distance is only [-] kilometers. Before the main force of Banyuan attacked Tongzhou, the coalition forces of Lin Husan and Fu Zuoyi pretended to go south to support Tongzhou, but in fact they moved diagonally to the southeast halfway. After night falls, march at high speed while taking advantage of the night.

——In fact, the straight-line distance from Xianghe to Shunyi is only [-] kilometers.Xu Zijing's department crossing the river and Lin Hu's Sanfu Zuoyi's department going south were moving towards each other at the same time. The distance in a straight line was [-] kilometers. Taking into account the influence of terrain and river course, it was only [-] kilometers. Even if they were walking, they could meet up in half a night.

In order to encircle the Sakagaki division as quickly as possible, Xu Zijing sent out his best troops and mobilized 100 trucks to help transport troops that night, while Lin Hu and Sanfu Zuoyi also had more than [-] trucks coordinating the operation—— Theoretically, it takes only an hour for the cars on both sides to meet each other.In order to fight this battle well, Li Runshi threw nearly half of the trucks in the hands of the Red Army into this battlefield.

The tracks of the tanks rumbled across the North China Plain, and the two armies from the north and the south were advancing crazily like torrents with an unstoppable momentum.Occasionally, a small group of Japanese troops encountered an attack, leaving some troops at random to crush it, while the main force ignored it and forcibly rushed through.

At two o'clock in the morning on April [-], whether it was Seishiro Sakagaki, [-] miles southeast of Tongxian County, or Shiro Inaba, who was sleeping in Baodi County, the two division heads were woken from their dreams by their subordinates almost at the same time.

"At least two hours ago, the Communist Army took action at night and crossed the North Canal on a large scale. The scale is unprecedented. The forward troops have captured Xianghe County!"

"At least 150 tanks are rushing forward! The connection between the Fifth Division and the Sixth Division is being cut off!"

The gap between the Fifth Division and the No.60 Division was as wide as 200 kilometers, and the Japanese army did not really have a single soldier.Some reconnaissance and a small number of advancing road-finding troops were put in to some extent. When more than [-] troops gathered together and charged forward frantically with an armored division as the vanguard, the tracks of more than [-] chariots rolled over the North China Plain at the same time. The rumbling sound is so amazing in the quiet night, it can be heard more than ten miles away.

Less than an hour after the start of the assault, both Seishiro Sakagaki and Shiro Inaba were awakened from their dreams by their subordinates, and they rushed to the headquarters in a hurry. At this time, what they received came out of nowhere. Night attack alert.

Not only was the connection between the two divisions encountered fierce assaults, tears, and partitions by the opponent.The first division in the east also encountered a large-scale night attack from Dong Zhentang and Peng Shichuan from the direction of Pingjin at the same time.But yesterday and the day before yesterday were fairly peaceful, and the "Jidong Anti-communist Security Zone" on the north side of the North Canal was also sparking everywhere overnight.The Communist Party's subterranean troops who had been hiding in the dark like pepper two days ago also emerged one after another this night, firing cold guns everywhere, attacking Japanese troops everywhere, and carrying out various sabotage activities.

Their attack was not strong, but at the same time, a large number of "attack messages" flooded the command centers of the three divisions in an instant.

Seishiro Sakagaki rushed to the command center with a dark complexion. It took him half an hour to figure out what was going on.The reason why Seishiro Sakagaki was able to sleep peacefully that night was because during the six hours after dark to before he fell asleep, the good news came back from the troops on the front line: within six hours, they continuously penetrated the opposing Red Army. The three outer lines of defense laid down.It has advanced a full distance of six miles!

In the last Sihuali distance, there is no Red Army anymore, and the ancient city wall of Tongzhou City is close in sight. The attacking troops suffered the biggest losses. The opponents on the defensive line have very weak firepower, but the minefields laid down are very disgusting... The troops hope Can suspend the attack and wait for dawn.

"Li Runshi is nothing more than that, it's just this sneaky trick of planting mines..."

With such a mood, and considering that his subordinates were exhausted from marching for a day, Seishiro Sakagaki agreed to his subordinates' request for a truce to rest.That night, before the armistice, the fifth division had the farthest offensive line, only one li away from the city wall of Tongzhou.

Sakagaki Seishiro thought it over, and when it dawned, he ordered his subordinates to launch a fierce attack and take Tongzhou within a day.

However, just two hours after he fell asleep, the situation changed drastically.On the map in front of them, almost all the strongholds and logistical depots stationed by the imperial army, as long as they can send a telegram to contact them, almost all report urgently that they have been attacked.If these reporting locations were marked on the map, then no location in the entire area north of the canal was safe.

Of course, Seishiro Sakagaki knew that most of the attacks and alarms were nothing more than thunderous noises and minor disturbances, which were only disgusting and caused little loss. However, the real purpose of the opponents was to create a surplus of information so that they could not do anything in a short time. However, the opponent's general goal is already clear at a glance with a little brainstorming during this period.

"They are targeting our Fifth Division!"

"Li Runshi, he has really set his sights on our Fifth Division! His troops crossed the river and made surprise attacks to encircle us!"

"What they are doing tonight is to cut off our connection with the Sixth Division and Tangshan!"

But the most critical question is, where is the main force of the opponent who has crossed the river now?

The police were calling the police everywhere, and everyone was talking about being attacked. In this chaotic night, at this time, Seishiro Sakagaki could confirm that a squadron was stationed. In Xianghe County under the control of the Japanese army, more than 200 people were attacked. Contact was lost an hour later.Before the loss, the ministry reported that they saw an "endless" convoy of tanks and trucks heading northwest across Xianghe County.

"Your Excellency, the Communist Army is coming to our Fifth Division, look at us..."

His staff officer moved his lips, but finally swallowed the word retreat.

"Are you trying to say that we are about to be cut and surrounded by the Communist Army? Don't be ridiculous! The Sixth Division is only 3 kilometers away from us, and the Third Division is only [-] kilometers away from here! I have [-] Ten thousand people, even if we stay where we are, how many days will it take for Li Runshi to dispatch ten times as many troops? We only need to persist for two days, and any support army can reach here and join our army as long as they need to attack casually on the periphery. "

Seishiro Sakagaki's eyes were red, the veins on his forehead were trembling, and his face was flushed, not from fear, but from excitement.

"Do you think I've been tricked by greed? No, Li Runshi has been tricked!"

"My Sixth Division, nailed here, is a bait! Li Runshi wants to eat me, 40 elites of the imperial army, how many people will he dispatch to surround me? There are still [-] main forces of the imperial army outside, and they will all be there in the next half. Landing in North China in the middle of the month! This is a rare opportunity to wipe out Li Runshi's main force in World War I!"

Seishiro Sakagaki looked at the map on the table, looked at the friendly troops "close in front of him", and laughed.

"Our imperial army is not the Kuomintang army. The warriors of the imperial kingdom are not like a mountain of friends! Li Runshi's biggest mistake is to judge our imperial army by looking at Chang Kaishen's men and horses! We only need to nail here and lure He comes to attack, the center blossoms..."

Sakagaki Seishiro patted the table and laughed, thinking that Lin Husan, who was going south, and Xu Zijing, who was going north, the vanguard of the two armies, had easily joined forces about [-] kilometers southeast of Tongzhou. Successfully surrounded the Fifth Division in the narrow area between Tongzhou and Tangjia Village.

The first to arrive are all "flying cavalry" mounted on cars and mounted on tanks and armored bodies.

During this period, the encirclement was actually very sparse, and a large number of infantry were still advancing on foot in the rear.If at this time Seishiro Sakagaki decisively issued an order to break out of the siege and retreat, and took immediate action to break out of the siege at night, although many troops would be lost, there was still a chance to break through the encirclement with a large mesh.

However, how could he, who had just killed Tongzhou City, be so decisive and retreat immediately after slapping his face?

The car convoy that transported the infantry to the front line drove away after completing the task, and the original line retreated. With the help of four wheels, they continuously pulled people and transported troops to the tens of kilometers of road sections to fill in the gaps in the defense line.During this process, the encircling net is gradually squeezed towards the inner circle, getting tighter and tighter.

By dawn on the 100th, an encirclement circle targeting the Fifth Division had been completely formed.Among them, an armored force composed of more than [-] tanks and more than [-] armored vehicles was blocked between the Fifth Division and the Sixth Division, and could be used as a mobile force at any time to crush any possibility of the Fifth Division trying to break through.

In fact, throughout the night, because it was dark and difficult to confirm, the people in the headquarters of Seishiro Sakagaki's entire division did not realize that the opponent had completed the initial encirclement network within less than three hours of crossing the river.

From the evening of April 29 to dawn on the [-]th, this night is definitely the longest night in April.

The besieged Fifth Division, in addition to dealing with more than 14 main forces of the Red Army and an armored division in the east, south, and north directions, in the west, his original attack target, the river bridge connecting Tongzhou City and Beiping, A large number of troops are pouring into the city overnight to strengthen the defenders here.The defenders also increased to 155 overnight, and more troops had arrived at the reserve position on the other side of the river separating Tongzhou and Peiping.The sixteen [-]mm Schneider artillery captured on the Huainan battlefield were also placed at the predetermined position in Beiping west of the river that night.

Tongzhou, which is connected by railway, has an extremely well-developed transportation network.For the river between the two places, the upstream river was first released with water in advance, and now it is blocked in advance, the water level has dropped to the lowest level, and it is even shallow enough to cross the river directly before dawn.And a large number of simple bridges, strong underwater bridges for vehicles, artillery and even tanks to pass have also been prepared long ago.

Everything is just waiting for dawn.

During the longest night, Li Runshi and Stalin were communicating overnight telegrams in an underground headquarters in Beiping City.

Li Yunshi: We have completed the siege of the Fifth Division, and we will launch a full-scale attack at dawn.

Stalin: The Soviet Air Force will launch a full-scale offensive bombing against the Japanese army tomorrow, making a violent offensive gesture.Comrade Zhukov's command of the Soviet Red Army will launch a second round of onslaught as soon as possible.

In this matter, Stalin ordered the Soviet Red Army to cooperate very hard.But Li Runshi knew that in the Northeast, the land had begun to thaw and was turning into mud. In the next May, affected by the road conditions, it would be difficult for the Soviet Army to launch a truly powerful and effective offensive in the Northeast.

But even so, with the suppression of the Soviet Red Army in the north, the Japanese army was like a thorn in their backs, and the Kwantung Army of more than a dozen divisions was bound to be restrained and unable to go south.In the next two months, the total force they can invest in the North China battlefield is probably around fifteen divisions.The number of air forces and tanks must also be greatly reduced.

Li Runshi also knew that the pressure faced by the Red Army would be unprecedented.

"The Fifth Division is one of the six main forces of the Japanese army! There are nearly 3 elite Japanese troops, and I only have 48 to 72 hours..."

That night, in the command center, everyone stayed up all night.

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-------------------- Chapter 7 Qianlang died on the beach --------------------

At this time, Fang Bingbing in the hotel was wearing a facial mask to read the news, and the assistant had hurried back.

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"Oh? Tell me, what is the origin of that and the woman."

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With those words, he stepped on Sophia, and gave Fang Bingbing a rainbow fart, which coaxed Fang Bingbing into a burst of physical and mental joy.