Chapter 667: Tianjin succeeds

Ono Ichiro, the commander of the Japanese garrison in Tianjin, felt that the troops defending Tianjin were insufficient, and the eastern area of Tianjin was attacked by the troops of the independent division from three directions, and the troops sent to block the attack were weaker than the Chinese army in strength and firepower, and the situation in the direction of the Ning River was relatively good, and the defenders and the Chinese army fought to a draw, successfully stopping the offensive of the Chinese army, and the battle line was stable in the area of Renfengzhuang south of the Ning River.

The direction of Bamiancheng and Beitang was in a precarious situation, and the 3,000 troops reinforced respectively could not stop the advance of the Chinese army, and were forced to retreat, Ono was in a hurry, and gave a death order to block the attack on the spot, according to which the Chinese army was not allowed to take a step forward, and he also knew that for the troops in these two directions, it was difficult to carry out such an order, and he could only use his flesh and blood to suspend the offensive of the Chinese army and buy time for himself to adjust his deployment.

At this time, those who could take the initiative to go to the front line, except for the Japanese, were all hardcore traitors of the Japanese, and tens of thousands of people gathered at several locations, and the momentum was quite huge, and every 500 people received guns and ammunition, and a military police officer immediately rushed to the northwestern defense line of Tianjin.

Among them, there are soldiers from the special operations detachment and the rapid reaction brigade of the independent division, the fighters of the special operations detachment are fluent in Japanese, and it is easy to get in, and the fighters of the rapid response brigade are all locals, pretending to be a traitor or a hypocrite, and it is not a problem, Ono only thinks about mobilization, where does he know, giving the troops lurking in an opportunity to take advantage of.

When the battle in eastern Tianjin began, the troops lurking in waited for the signal to start the general offensive, and the guns rang out for most of the day, and the division commander just did not give an order, and looked at the Japanese and traitors who were scurrying around the streets in a mess, and gathered at several large arsenals, where one gun after another was taken away, and the five special operations squad leaders and two regiment commanders who led the team were on fire.

A few clever fighters were sent to inquire about the situation, and as soon as the fighters came back to say that they had opened their brains, they got together to discuss, and decided to send two special operations detachments and two battalions of the quick counter-brigade to pretend to be Japanese expatriates or puppeteers, and simply blend in.

Three hours later, a temporary combat team of nearly 60,000 people arrived at the northwestern defense area of Tianjin.

The Japanese at the front, with an impassioned posture, some Japanese, are in their fifties, jumping more happily than anyone else, and have a silk belt rooted in their heads, what "must win" and other messy writing a bunch of nonsense, with an old katana with a scabbard behind him, shouting the slogan of killing the pig of the Shirena, as if recovering the feeling of the Russo-Japanese War or the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, seeing the soldiers who were mixed into the pile of dead and alive laughed secretly, walked a few steps, picked up these old Japanese scraps, and when the fight started, let you eat a bullet first.

The Japanese were very proud, and under the leadership of the Yamato national warriors, the cowardly Shina people also became brave, patted the soldiers' shoulders, stretched out their thumbs, and said again and again, "I want the west to go west" Ono Ichiro learned that the temporarily formed people's army had arrived at the position so quickly, and his eyes lit up with excitement, this is the spirit of the Yamato nation, and in addition to pride and pride, there is also great relaxation.

It is possible to organize a counter-assault, but the troops of Xianxian and Suning cannot be counted on, and the Kwantung Army cannot be completely relied on wherever the Chinese army is fighting, and it will not be able to enter the pass without four or five days, and the only thing that can be counted on is its own troops, and if the Chinese troops who break through into the eastern suburbs of Tianjin are not counterattacked, the threat to the Tianjin defense line will be too great.

Ono Ichiro issued an order to mobilize 13,000 troops from the defensive positions in the northwest of Tianjin, and to counterattack the Chinese army from the three directions of Bamiancheng, Ninghe, and Beitang at the same time, and to be sure to push back the Chinese soldiers to the east of the Ning River before dark, and restore the original defensive positions in the east of Tianjin.

The ferocious attack of Yu Guanghan's troops forced Ono Ichiro to increase troops in the east of Tianjin again and again, and the defense line in the northwest of Tianjin had only more than 12,000 regular Japanese troops, plus less than 60,000 civilian troops, including more than 2,000 soldiers of the independent division who mixed in.

The frequent movement of the Japanese army, the people's army rushed into the position, all fell in Tang Qiuli's eyes, Yu Guanghan did a very good job, and finally let the Japanese army's defensive strength drop to the lowest point, the army's campaign attempt, concealed with unprecedented success, the Japanese commander would never have thought that not far from them, six field infantry brigades, three artillery brigades, have been ready to attack, look at the time, Tang Qiuli smiled slightly, if nothing else, tomorrow at dawn, Tianjin will fall into his hands, It was a full forty-eight hours ahead of schedule.

Precious two days, can calmly deploy a lot of battles, communications chief Chen Feng sent a telegram, Tang Qiuli laughed, so interesting, on the opposite position, there are more than 2,000 soldiers of their own, okay, order down, all troops pay attention to the identification of signs, can not accidentally injure their own people, twenty minutes later, the whole line launched a general attack.

No matter how tight the fight was in the east, he was not in a hurry to attack, let the Japanese go farther, it was too late to turn back, and at this time Ono Ichiro, the mood was very different, the arrival of the second batch of reinforcements, so that the Japanese army gradually gained the initiative on the battlefield, Yu Guanghan's troops, in accordance with the order of the division commander Tang Qiuli, took the initiative to retreat more than ten kilometers, retreated to the position where the attack began, and gave the Japanese some sweetness, Ono believes that he has reversed the situation on the battlefield and obtained the initial initiative, fortunately, Tianjin finally survived the initial crisis, Safe and sound.

Before Ono could laugh, an earth-shattering cannon sound shook the window glass and startled him to jump up from his chair, what happened? A staff officer ran in with a panicked face, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, the Chinese army has launched a sudden attack in the northwest of Tianjin, and the preliminary judgment shows that the strength is about more than 100,000 troops, the artillery fire is the size of three brigades, and the forward positions have been heavily shelled."

Ono nervously rushed over, grabbed the staff officer's collar, and shouted with a fierce look: "Yaga, nonsense, did the Chinese army fall from the sky?" The staff officer was so frightened by the fierce appearance of His Excellency the Commander that his head was a little short-circuited, forgetting that he still had a telegram in his hand, staring at him with frightened eyes, and did not know how to answer.

Ono snatched the telegram and glanced at it hurriedly, the first reaction was to be fooled, and the scheming commander of the Zhina, in fact, the Sulu Mobile Corps attacked the positions in the northwest of Tianjin, and with Ono's more than 50,000 troops, it would not support it for long, Tang Qiuli didn't want to waste too much time and minimize casualties, so he adopted the tactic of attacking the west.

"Quickly and immediately order the reinforcements of Jindong's troops, return to Tianjin at full speed, and establish street fighting positions along the line" Ono ordered hoarsely, the staff officer ran out with the head of the head, Ono sat on the chair, he finally did not completely mess up, and knew that there was a street battle in the urban area, but he knew that it was too late for anything, since the commander of the branch used the strategy of attacking the east and the west, he would not let the troops in eastern Tianjin return to the city, and a burst of despair surged into the heart of Lieutenant General Ono Ichiro.

The overwhelming shells fell on the Japanese position, and those yawning puppet Jing'an troops in North China, puppet personnel, and traitors of all sizes were immediately exposed, all of them had pale faces, and their legs and stomachs were trembling

Seeing the shells falling, the Japanese who were babbling just now became a pile of minced meat in the blink of an eye, my mother, there is nothing worth anything in the head, and the soldiers who were mixed in the crowd took the opportunity to shout: "It's terrible, the planes of the Central Army are coming with more artillery, and you want to run for your life" This shout added to the terrifying atmosphere, and the civilian army of about 60,000 people ran away at once, and even many Japanese also ran down.

The so-called "defeat like a mountain" had just begun, and the artillery of the Independent Division had not yet finished firing a salvo, and the Japanese defensive positions were in a mess, and the soldiers who were caught in the fleeing crowd were not idle, and they saw the opportunity, shot at close range, or simply spoke with bayonets, and named those Japanese who had long been unpleasant, and no one noticed this, and each soldier killed at least three or four before he followed the flow of people to the city, and if he did not run, his own people's shells would fall on the top of their heads.

In the defense line northwest of Tianjin, there were only more than 12,000 regular Japanese troops left, plus the die-hard Japanese military police and expatriates, but more than 30,000 people, where could they withstand the shelling of several thousand artillery guns of the three artillery brigades, and on the Japanese position, the earth was flying, the smoke of gunpowder was billowing, and the flesh and blood were flying, and the defense line of nearly 100 kilometers had no troops, and it was impossible to establish a defensive depth at all.

An hour after the shelling, on the front of the attack, a string of red signal flares rose into the sky, and more than 80,000 soldiers of six infantry brigades jumped up and swept over like a wild wave.

The sunset put away the last touch of sunset, the troops passed through the suburbs of Tianjin, poured into the city, Tang Qiuli came out of the hidden department, took a comfortable breath of air containing gunsmoke, and said to the mountain tiger beside him: "Huzi, enter the city" with a eager posture.

(To be continued)