Chapter 393: Battle of North China (Final)
Han Yunhua has really been beaten out of the fire by Ushijima in the past few days, although in Han Yunhua's eyes, Ushijima and his troops have long been caught in the urn, but Han Yunhua didn't expect that he was stunned by a boiled duck and pecked hard, and after Ushijima's department escaped, Han Yunhua asked Han Yunqian to count the casualties of the troops, and the result was that there were only more than 580 people left in the entire guard regiment of more than 3,300 people, and more than 2,800 casualties, of which more than 2,000 died directly.
Han Yunhua felt guilty for such a heavy loss to the guard regiment, if he accepted Han Yunqian's suggestion to retreat early, then the loss of the guard regiment could have been completely avoided, so Han Yunhua was full of guilt for the soldiers who died in the guard regiment. But Han Yunhua also knew that only if he stayed in Daqingshan could he contain the Niudao Department in Daqingshan, otherwise, how could he achieve such a big result. If this pit is not dug for Niudao, this North China battle will be a draw, and how can a city like Zhangjiakou be recovered in just a few days.
Despite this, Han Yunhua hated the Ushijima headquarters that besieged him for eleven days, so he ordered all the troops who had no combat mission for the time being to besiege and annihilate the Ushijima subsidiaries.
Not to mention the embarrassment of Lieutenant General Ushijima's hasty escape, the siege of Beiping City at this time has also entered the most critical time, although Master Chen knows that there are not many Japanese troops in Beiping City, but he did not expect that the fortifications of Beiping City will be so complete. General Binshan Yuan also saw this, so he gathered all the troops around Beiping City into the city and fought to the death with the independent 77th Division.
The battle in the first two days went well, because the Japanese army was overstretched, so the outer positions of Beiping City soon fell into the control of the independent 77th Division, and Miyun and Changping counties were also recovered one after another. However, Master Chen was soon met with desperate resistance from the Japanese army, and the Japanese army, for the sake of insufficient troops, armed all the more than 20,000 Japanese expatriates living in Beiping and pulled them to the city.
Although these expatriates are not professional soldiers, many of them are retired veterans, so their combat effectiveness is not as weak as imagined by the independent 77th Division. In addition, this is the nest of the puppet regime of the Wang puppet regime in Beiping, so thousands of Han Jiān lackeys of all sizes live here, so the safety of Beiping City is also related to the life and death of these people. If other troops attack Beiping, although these Han jiāns will also make a little resistance, they will definitely not be too fierce, and everyone is familiar with Mingzhe to protect himself. But who let the troops of the Great Demon King Han Yunhua attack Beiping, Yunhua is a signboard in North Korea, and almost all Han Jiān know that there is no other way to survive if they fall into the hands of Han Yunhua except to be executed in public.
With this superficial consensus, when the Independent 77th Division attacked Beiping City, the big and small Han Jiān in Beiping City were stunned and gave all the strength in their hands to the command of Binshanyuan, which greatly moved Binshanyuan, an old devil.
If these more than 40,000 miscellaneous armies and the independent 77th Division fight a positional battle, Master Chen is confident that he will eat up more than 40,000 people in one day, but this time people will not fight a positional battle with him, and General Binshan Yuan will pull all the troops into the complete fortification group and the city wall to confront the independent 77th Division.
Although the Independent 77th Division was in an absolute advantage in all aspects, like Han Yunhua's insistence on Daqingshan, the huge geographical terrain advantage still caused the Independent 77th Division to pay great casualties. On the night of September 1, Master Chen organized a large-scale night raid and also used special forces, although the Beiping city of Mén was taken, but the troops were caught in street fighting.
Master Chen knew that as far as a big city like Beiping City was concerned, it would not be possible to completely occupy Beiping without a week of street fighting. Although the 50,000 cavalry allocated by Han Yunhua arrived in Beiping on the afternoon of the 1st, the cavalry in the street battle could not help at all, and the arrival of these 50,000 cavalry was also an ornament.
To make matters worse, the Japanese troops besieging Qian'an had all withdrawn and returned to Beiping City, while Yoshio Shinozuka's 10th Division had already arrived in Tangshan, and if you took the train, the 10th Division would be able to reach Beiping in a day at most, and the other troops would be able to return in two days at most.
Master Chen knew that it was not a way to carry it down with Bin Shan Yuan in Beiping, the environment was becoming more and more unfavorable for the independent 77th Division, and the Japanese army had the help of aircraft in the daytime battle, and they had to lose a lot of troops every day, so the independent 77th Division's attack was mainly placed at night, and street fighting at night was also very unfavorable for the attacking side. Therefore, the gain of the independent 77th Division after two days of fighting was not great, so Master Chen had a plan to withdraw the army. ,
Master Chen couldn't decide on this kind of thing by himself, so he had to ask Han Yunhua. Han Yunhua agreed in principle to the withdrawal of the independent 77th Division, but Han Yunhua thought that it was not cost-effective for the troops to finally fight in the Beijing-Tianjin area and come back in disgrace, so he ordered the cavalry troops to immediately go south to Tianjin, and they must take Tianjin City within half a day.
Master Chen will not discount Han Yunhua's order, although he does not agree with Han Yunhua's seemingly risky action this time, because Master Chen is very aware of the current battlefield situation on both sides, and the Japanese army seems to be losing battles everywhere, a bit like the end of the sunset and the crossbow in the West Mountain, but in fact, the losses of the Japanese army in eastern Hebei are not large. In addition to the 15,000 cavalry of the cavalry group, the 80,000 troops sent by the North China Front to eastern Hebei lost less than 10,000 troops, so at least 50,000 Japanese troops returned to Beiping at this time.
The corresponding independent 77th Division still has less than 35,000 troops with combat effectiveness, and the cavalry units are quite numerous, but the cavalry troops are okay to fight a good battle, after all, the fighting will of these troops who have just been transformed from the puppet army is still very weak, and it is not yet possible. So in a battle of this level, the help of the cavalry units to the independent 77th Division was extremely limited.
Master Chen was very worried that the troops and the Japanese army would fight a tug-of-war in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and the result would be troublesome. After more than a month of continuous fighting, the troops were already exhausted, and if they continued to fight, the casualties of the troops would definitely rise in a straight line, which was not consistent with the fact that there were related jīng gods in the center. But thinking about the huge victory achieved by the military region in the process of sweeping dàng this time, Master Chen still decided to take this risk with Han Yunhua.
Tianjin, referred to as Tianjin, is located in the North China Plain. After more than 600 years, especially in the modern century, Tianjin has created a unique urban style that combines Chinese and Western, ancient and modern. As the most important satellite city of Beiping, "Tianjin in the modern century" has become the consensus of the world. After Tianjin became a treaty port in 1860, many Western countries set up concessions in Tianjin, and Tianjin became the frontier of northern China's opening up and the base of the "Westernization" movement in modern China. The military modernization that began in Tianjin, as well as the construction of railways, telegraphs, telephones, postal services, mining, modern education, and justice, all set a precedent in China. Tianjin became one of the second largest industrial and commercial cities in China at that time and the largest financial and commercial center in the north.
In 1937, the Japanese army occupied Tianjin. Japan basically ruled Tianjin by force. The Japanese soldiers wantonly burned, killed and looted Tianjin, and the floods in Tianjin at that time made Tianjin a veritable hell on earth, and the people suffered unspeakably. And because Tianjin was the most important port city in northern China at that time, it became an important port for the Japanese army to transport the industrial raw materials and wealth plundered in China, and the Japanese army plundered labor in addition to wealth, and Tianjin was captured by 30,000 "laborers" in just two years.
For Tianjin Han Yunhua, there is an essential difference between Tianjin and other places in China, perhaps in terms of politics, Tianjin is not as good as Nanjing and Beiping, and in terms of economy, it is not as good as Shanghai at this time, but on the whole, Tianjin's important xìng is not worse than several other first-tier cities. Politically, Tianjin is an important satellite city of Beiping, the most important foreign port in northern China, almost 70 percent of the supplies of the invading Japanese army were disembarked through the port of Tianjin, and almost all of the wealth plundered by the Japanese army in northern China was transported to Japan through Tianjin. Not to mention the economic aspect, the whole Tianjin is a new city that developed after the Westernization Movement, in terms of the pace of modernization, Tianjin is not much later than Shanghai, and Tianjin at this time is the second largest city in Asia and the most important financial city, far from Beiping and Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuhan can be compared. More importantly, in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Tianjin was one of China's major intelligence centers, and its strategic position was second only to Shanghai and as important as Hong Kong.
Because Tianjin has a concession and connects North China and Northeast China. It is precisely because of these understandings that Han Yunhua is very greedy for Tianjin's wealth. According to the telegram sent by the intelligence officers lurking in Tianjin, almost all the troops of the Japanese army have been concentrated in Beiping at present, and all the defenders in Tianjin at this time are less than 1,000 people, and the armed forces of the underground party and Qian Zhuangfei's intelligence department in Tianjin are as many as more than 500 people, how can Han Yunhua miss such a good opportunity, so this time he wants to borrow some silver from Tianjin.
With Han Yunhua's instructions, Aolige's cavalry troops soon arrived in Tianjin, and because he was afraid that Han Yunhua's troops would break the defenders of Tianjin, Bin Shanyuan ordered all the defenders of Tianjin to concentrate in Tianjin. All the counties and districts on the periphery of Tianjin were lost to the squadron. ,
According to the commander's intentions, the task of their cavalry group this time is to rob Tianjin, as long as Tianjin City is captured, the cavalry troops will immediately rush all the Japanese puppet wealth in Tianjin City back to the base area.
The attack on Tianjin went well, and although the fortifications of Tianjin were no worse than those of Beiping, it is not at all true that the strongest fortresses often broke through from the inside. After receiving Han Yunhua's order, the Chinese intelligence agencies lurking in Tianjin, in accordance with Han Yunhua's instructions, contacted the "Anti-Japanese Hoe Jiān Regiment," an organization on the periphery of the Kuomintang military command, overnight, and cooperated with the cavalry units together with the intelligence department of Han Yunhua's department.
At the first moment of the siege of the city, more than 300 Jīng Rui agents under the command of Qian Zhuangfei's intelligence department quickly occupied the Tianjin railway station and port, while the more than 100 armed forces of the Chinese underground party and more than 400 people of the anti-Japanese hoe Jiān regiment attacked the northern Mén of Tianjin with the Aolige headquarters, and the northern Mén of Tianjin was lost in less than an hour.
At the same time, Aurege ordered the troops to immediately take over all the strategic points in the city, including railway stations, ports, banks, municipal governments, Japanese concessions, foreign banks, etc., and more than 40 Japanese cargo ships anchored at the Tianjin wharf became the trophies of Aurege's troops.
After the occupation of Tianjin, Aolige immediately contacted the underground party organization of **, asking them to immediately organize people to rush to transport materials, in order to thank the hoe jiān regiment for their help this time, after obtaining Han Yunhua's consent, Aolige suddenly gave all the equipment of an infantry battalion of the hoe jiān regiment.
Han Yunhua still knows a lot about this anti-Japanese hoe jiān group, speaking of which, Han Yunhua also pretended to be someone else's hoe jiān group when he was in Shandong. Han Yunhua knew that the anti-Japanese hoe group was formed by Feng Yunxiu, a 16-year-old student of Tianjin Zhongri Middle School, and others, and that most of the members of the "anti-Japanese killing group" were high school students from famous Tianjin middle schools such as Beiman NV Middle School, Yuying Middle School, Tianjin Zhongri Middle School, Nankai Middle School, and Datong Middle School. Almost all of these Huā Ji's student killers have prominent backgrounds, including Zheng Tongwan and Zheng Kunwan, the grandsons of Zheng Xiaoxu, the puppet Manchurian Prime Minister, Yuan Shikai's nephews Yuan Hanxun and Yuan Hanjun, Tongrentang's eldest lady Le Qianwen, General Sun Lianzhong's NV son Sun Huijun, and General Feng Zhi'an's nephew NV Feng Jianmei...... The assassination weapons they used were also usually the lightest and most well-behaved weapons in the world at the time, such as the "palm thunder", and even had jewels on the hilt of the gun. Feng Yunxiu is one of the core members, and Feng Yunxiu's family background is not simple. Because his uncle was the supervisor of the North China Puppet Public Security Bureau, Feng Yunxiu often had the opportunity to go in and out of the barracks, and trained to become a sharpshooter in the name of learning to shoot and hunt.
However, at this time, the anti-Japanese hoe jiān regiment was no longer an independent organization, so Han Yunhua had to be cautious when asking for help from the anti-Japanese hoe jiān regiment. The reason is that Dai Li, the head of the National People's Political Fǔ Army, quickly took a fancy to this assassination group composed of "young masters and lambs", and ordered Wang Tianmu, the head of the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, to form a brother with the members of the "Anti-Japanese Killing Regiment", and ordered Zeng Che, the secretary of the Tianjin Station, to infiltrate Nankai and become a member of the "Anti-Japanese Killing Regiment". Zeng Che, who was later promoted to head of the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, regarded the "Anti-Regiment" as a peripheral organization of the Military Command, but the members of the "Anti-Regiment" did not know about it.
However, Han Yunhua clearly remembers that the outcome of the anti-regiment in history was not good, the main reason is that on September 27, 1939, Zeng Che, the head of the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, was arrested on Tianjin Dajing Road, and after being arrested, Zeng Che went on a hunger strike to die, and the Japanese forcibly injected him with a supplemental injection, and escorted him from Tianjin to the Beiping Military Police Reformatory. After Zeng Che's death, the "August Raid" opened a wide net in Pingjin and Tianjin. The Japanese blocked the news, abandoned the police forces in Pingjin and Tianjin, and mobilized the puppet Manchurian military and police to enter the customs, and the rich social relations and powerful intelligence system of the "anti-regiment" completely failed.
The prelude to the defeat of the anti-Japanese hoe group was about to begin, so Han Yunhua also reminded this group of young patriots while seeking help from the anti-Japanese group. And this opportunity, Han Yunhua smoothly settled about 100 special combat personnel in Tianjin, waiting for future needs.
**The underground organization and the Aurege department moved quickly, because the wealth contained in Tianjin City was too huge, fortunately, the Japanese army stored a large number of cars in Tianjin City, and the cavalry troops were most indispensable for war horses, so the rush to transport supplies was still very smooth.
However, because the Japanese army plundered too many materials, and some of them were really not suitable for transportation, and some of the things captured this time really could not be taken away, such as the dozens of cargo ships and speedboats of the Japanese army, there was no way to reach Guisui at all, even if the Yellow River river transport could reach Baotou and other places, but the Japanese river defense force in Jining, Shandong Province, could not let a fleet of such a scale reach Guisui smoothly. Therefore, for the seized materials, Ao Liege gave priority to rushing to transport the weapons and equipment with the greatest value, as well as medical equipment, food and cultural relics, and the grain and cultural relics were ranked last, while the gold, silver, jewelry, and silver dollar currency were only transported away, and the vast majority were left to the local underground party, and directly deposited into the Tianjin branch of the United States Huāqi Bank under the contact of the underground party. ,
On September 6, the Japanese 10th Division finally rushed back to Beiping under the disturbance of Li Dingguo's department, but at this time the 10th Division was also exhausted, and Li Dingguo, as the best commander of Han Yunhua's special forces, was one of Han Yunhua's most expected officers. After being transferred from the Flying Dragon Special Operations Squadron to eastern Hebei, Li Dayong used the Flying Dragon Special Operations Squadron as a strategic force, even if it was surrounded by heavy Japanese troops in Qian'an this time, the situation was precarious, but Li Dayong never used Li Dingguo's department.
This time, it was learned that the Japanese army had returned to Beiping City, so Li Dayong gave Li Dingguo, who had been lurking for nearly a month, and the entire Feilong Special Combat Team the first combat order since the Battle of North China -- to block the enemy's reinforcements.
Li Dingguo was a commander who went out of the country, and he knew very well that the best way for the Japanese army to return to Beiping as quickly as possible was to take a train, and the train from eastern Hebei to Beiping would arrive in a maximum of one and a half days by train, but it would take at least five and a half to six days to walk on foot. After more than a year of development, there are now more than 4,000 people in Li Dingguo's department, and in addition to the more than 3,000 people who reinforced Li Dayong at the beginning of the North China Campaign, there were 1,100 people in Li Dingguo's department at this time, of which more than 200 were special combat personnel, and the rest were all trained by Li Dingguo using the training methods of special forces.
It is indeed difficult to use 1,110 people to block the 50,000 Japanese troops, but it is still very easy for Li Dingguo to contain and slow down the marching speed of the Japanese army. After blowing up the railway from Qian'an to Tangshan, the Japanese army could only march on foot, and along the way more than 30 snipers of the special combat team beat the Japanese army into a disillusionment, and finally it took the Japanese army nearly seven days to rush to the periphery of Beiping, but there were still more than 40 kilometers away from Beiping City.
After learning that the Japanese army had returned to Beiping to aid the troops of Beiping, Master Chen knew that the opportunity to take Beiping had been missed, although there were less than 10,000 Japanese troops left in the city, but it was impossible to recover Beiping, and the headquarters of Aurige had all withdrawn from Tianjin City in the morning, and only the independent 77th Division was left in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, so Master Chen also decisively issued the order to retreat.
And just two days ago, the remnants led by Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru were also surrounded by the squadron that rushed from all directions near Shangyi, this time Ushijima did not order the troops to resist stubbornly, but made a surprising move, he went alone to the headquarters of the 300th Division to negotiate with Han Yunhua, after Han Yunhua promised to guarantee the basic conditions for the safety of his subordinates with the honor of a soldier, Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru led the remnants of about 20,000 people to surrender to Han Yunhua's department. However, it is a pity that Ushijima, a Japanese lieutenant general, ended his life with a pistol in the barracks after giving the surrender order, which made Han Yunhua feel extremely sorry.
At the same time, the instructor in southern Hebei also received Han Yunhua's order to immediately march east to Shandong, and withdrew the battle sequence of attacking Shimén, ending the battle in southern Hebei. At this point, the Battle of North China, which lasted for one month and eleven days, finally came to an end, and all the units of the Inner Méng Ancient Military Region withdrew from the battle to digest the results of the battle, and Han Yunhua's unit ushered in a short vacation with the Japanese army.