The devastating fire that ignited in and around the two hospitals was also well prepared, although it also caused a certain amount of chaos. However, under the effective control of a large number of workers in the surrounding troops and underground party organizations, although it burned for a whole day and a night, fortunately it did not spread on a large scale in the end.

Only under the power of thirty napalm, when the fire was finally extinguished. All the buildings in this area have been burned to the ground. Even if there are bacteria-carrying fleas and rats that escape, they will not survive the heat of the fire.

Yang Zhen's quick decision to minimize the risks posed by the dying and struggling of the Japanese bacteriological warfare troops. However, the fire in Tianjin has made Tianjin people remember it deeply. Decades later, some people still lamented that thanks to Yang Zhen's fire, the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare troops were completely destroyed. Otherwise, once those viruses spread, Tianjin may not know how many people will die.

However, after the fire was extinguished, the Tianjin Working Committee and Tao Jingfei, who were still a little worried, organized a large number of people under the supervision of Yang Zhen to spray low-concentration acetic acid on a large area in the population area of Hexi in Tianjin all day long. The entire Japanese concession used aircraft and manpower to spray a large number of anti-poison solutions.

Distributed rodenticide in the urban area of Tianjin, and launched a huge anti-rodent campaign. Even the sewers are sprinkled with a lot of lime. At the same time, the banlangen in various traditional Chinese medicine stores in Tianjin will be centrally controlled and transferred to the reserve to prevent possible outbreaks of large-scale infectious diseases.

In Tianjin, two to three hospitals with the best medical standards are selected, isolation wards are set up, and patients with unexplained illness must be isolated first. The Tianjin Working Committee should organize a number of medical reserve teams and come up with a set of emergency plans related to medical care, transportation, and public health.

At the same time, Yang Zhen found a way to mobilize a large number of protective clothing and medical masks from the northeast to Tianjin, and directly transferred five Chinese jeeps and ten Japanese trucks captured from the battlefield in Tianjin, which were temporarily converted into ambulances and allocated to the Tianjin Working Committee.

Although no pattern of contagion has been found in Tianjin at present, Yang Zhen has brought the methods adopted by the state during the SARS epidemic in later generations to the present. Of course, the financial and material resources available now cannot be compared with those of the future. But Yang Zhen still asked for more perfection as much as possible under the limited conditions.

Even after the second phase of the battle began, Yang Zhen, in the name of the General Front Committee, continued to send reports from the front line, putting forward requirements for Tianjin's epidemic prevention work. This is extremely rare for Yang Zhen, who basically never interferes in local work. But it wasn't until the winter of four or four years that there was no large-scale outbreak in Tianjin and its surroundings, and even a small-area infection did not appear, that Yang Zhen finally put his mind at ease.

Compared with Yang Zhen, who received the interrogation report and learned that there were no other bacteriological warfare units of the Japanese army in Tianjin, the 1855th unit of the North Branch of the Japanese North China Front Army, except for some personnel in the secret base in Qingdao, had almost been wiped out by himself, and Yang Zhen was slightly relieved in his heart.

Under the influence of the changes in the Japanese concession, the situation in the entire Tianjin battlefield was quickly reversed, but Tao Jingfei, who had been under great pressure in his heart after taking over the Tianjin battlefield, was also relieved because of the long battle situation.

At the same time as the fierce battle in Yamato Park, the battalion that had previously advanced north along Fukushima Street was blocked by the Japanese army on the front line of the Christian Church. However, it cut off the southern area of the Japanese Concession and the previous connection with the Chinese Concession. It created a favorable fighter for the troops attacking from the Chinese boundary between the Japanese concession and the South Canal.

After receiving He Zhishan's report, Tao Jingfei immediately keenly seized the favorable opportunity of the change in the war situation in the Japanese Concession and immediately inserted a fully formed regiment diagonally from the Japanese Concession to the adjacent Huajie. Along the line of Zhi'anli and Guangshan Street, and the line of Guangxing Street was interspersed with attacks.

Tao Jingfei's investment in this regiment was quite accurate in timing and position. This punch happened to hit the waist and eye of the defending enemy in the north of the Japanese concession and the entire Chinese border on the west bank of the Haihe River. This is the junction of the two divisions of the entire Hexi garrison of the Japanese army, and it is the most critical position of the entire Hexi Japanese army.

The defensive posture of the Japanese army in the entire Hexi region of Tianjin was to form two major defensive areas in the north and south with the dividing line between the Japanese concession and the Chinese boundary. The Japanese Concession and the British and French Concessions south of this line were the 48th Infantry Wing of the 48th Division, the main force of the Japanese army defending the enemy in Tianjin, plus some baggage and engineering units, which were independently mixed into an infantry brigade of the 15th Brigade and Regiment. As well as the main forces are already on the periphery of the battlefield, the remnants of the 11th Independent Mixed Brigade.

The entire Chinese border north of the Japanese Concession, including the old county town of Tianjin, was based on an infantry brigade of the 1st Infantry Wing of the 48th Division of Taiwan, plus the remnants of the 59th Division and the 110th Division that had been withdrawn from the Beiping battlefield. In addition, after the 27th Division was completely annihilated, the only four remaining infantry squadrons, as well as two squadrons each of the engineers and baggage soldiers who remained behind.

On the one hand, it is an elite that has been recuperating for a long time, and has also suffered certain losses in peripheral operations, but its vitality is still there. On the one hand, it was closed and the rest of it was fought in Beiping, and it was already exhausted, relying on the inertia and willpower unique to the Japanese army, as well as a complete defense system and a super shameless battle plan, and still insisting on the defeat of the remnants.

Undoubtedly, the infantry wing of the 48th Division in the Japanese Concession played a backbone role in the entire Hexi battlefield. At present, the backbone of the Japanese Concession is already in a difficult situation and can no longer give any support to the defenders of the Chinese Concession. The psychological blow to the remnants of the defeated generals in the Chinese community is quite huge.

Tao Jingfei's punch from the Japanese army on the entire backbone position in Hexi undoubtedly made the remnants of the Japanese concession north of the confidence completely shaken. In addition, this regiment was in their core position, constantly interspersed with detours. and increasing pressure from the front, which shook the overall defensive posture of the Japanese army north of the Japanese concession.

After six hours of repeated killings, this regiment, which had attacked north from the Japanese concession, finally leveraged the entire west bank of the Haihe River after several bitter battles, and the battle situation was originally stalemate. The regiment interspersed from the flanks and disrupted the entire deployment of the Japanese army on the south bank of the South Canal up to the Japanese concession.

On the east bank of the Haihe River, the main force of the Third Division, which attacked from the Nippon Bridge to the Jintang Bridge, successively won important targets such as the Social Bureau and the Manchurian Railway after hard fighting. After paying a lot of price, he finally won the Jintang Bridge, which connects the east and west banks of the Haihe River.

After the whole division quickly passed the Jintang Bridge, it successively seized the Public Security Bureau, the First District Office, the Federation of Trade Unions and other important strongholds along the river, and joined up with the troops in Hexi. After the main force of the 3rd Division crossed the river, the entire defense line of the Japanese army in Hexi began to collapse like a crumbling building.

As for the Hedong war, the time of collapse was even earlier than that of Hexi. After the 37th Division and one regiment of the Third Division, which were engaged in the battle south of the 3rd Division, successively captured the British merchant Taikoo Wharf, the Asia Petroleum Company, and the Kailuan Mining Bureau in the former Russian Concession, they captured the Wanguo Bridge connecting the French Concession with Hedong after a full four hours of fierce fighting.

Defeated the second and first infantry brigades of the **** second and first wings deployed by the Japanese army in Hedong, plus an ad hoc wing temporarily formed by armed Japanese expatriates, and the defenders composed of two infantry brigades of independent mixed brigades, and seized the entire former Russian and Italian concessions.

Immediately after capturing the first line of the Wanguo Bridge, the division crossed a regiment and entered the French Concession. The fraternal troops that cooperated with the frontal attack of the French Concession quickly captured the entire French Concession. Forty-eight hours after Tao Jingfei adjusted his tactical deployment, most of the city of Tianjin had been cleared, except for some remnants of the enemy in the British Concession who were still stubbornly resisting.

The battle north of the South Canal was the earliest battle to end in the entire urban area of Tianjin. At the same time that the overall defense of the Japanese army in Hedong and Hexi completely collapsed, the Japanese defenders north of the South Canal, who were already struggling to support, had been divided and encircled in several strongholds.

After the main force of the Japanese reinforcement division was sunk in the Bohai Sea, the remnants of the only remaining wing that lost all its heavy weapons were mainly composed of an infantry brigade of the 1st Wing of Taiwan, plus the main force of the 48th Division Search Wing, and the personnel of the Japanese Navy in Tianjin. In terms of combat effectiveness and will to fight, it is not as good as the defenders composed of the remnants of the 110th Division and the 59th Division in the Hexi Huajie Region.

In addition, this area already belongs to the periphery of Tianjin, and after the cooperation with other friendly and neighboring troops was cut off, the combat effectiveness declined quite rapidly. The troops north of the South Canal again adopted the tactic of eating meat first and gnawing bones later, ending the battle north of the South Canal at the earliest. When the Jintang Bridge and the Wanguo Bridge were occupied by the anti-coalition forces one after another, the gunfire north of the South Canal had already ended.

The overall situation of the Tianjin war came to an end, which made Tao Jingfei completely relieved. When No. 1 transferred himself to the Tianjin battlefield after the end of the Beiping War to replace Wang Xiaoming, who was urgently transferred back to the Northeast, he knew that the Battle of Tianjin would be a hard bone. But he didn't expect that this battle would be so difficult to fight.

Although Wang Xiaoming had completed the encirclement of Tianjin before, he had laid a good foundation for himself. But whether it was the battle for various key points on the periphery or the street battle in the urban area, Tao Jingfei felt that the fight was extremely difficult. Since joining the army, the battle of Tianjin can be said to be the most difficult battle he has ever experienced.

But even though it was the most difficult battle I've ever experienced, I've basically gnawed it down. At present, in the entire urban area of Tianjin, except for a small number of remnants, the enemy is still being cleared. Most of the Japanese army has been dealt with, and it can be said that the overall situation is basically decided. Although the factory area in Tianjin has also been damaged to a certain extent, it is basically intact.

Although there were some mistakes in the battle, fortunately, the handling was timely and did not cause any major consequences. At present, Tao Jingfei has also unloaded the biggest burden in his heart. This kind of battle for a large city, which is to completely destroy the defending enemy without causing too much damage to the city, and to complete the battle to protect the factory area, is really not something that ordinary people can fight.

At the same time that the situation in Tianjin had begun to collapse, the anti-coalition forces participating in the battle in the direction of Tanggu, with the cooperation of a half-track armored vehicle battalion, had completed the Tanggu offensive and completely recovered this new outlet to the sea in Tianjin. It's just that at the last moment, the Japanese army preemptively blew up all the Japanese munitions warehouses around the Tanggu wharf.

However, although the warehouses around the Tanggu wharf were all blown up by the Japanese army first. However, the entire wharf of Tanggu Port has been completely preserved. The complete preservation of these docks and equipment is far more valuable to the Chinese than those Japanese munitions depots.

At the same time as the liberation of Tanggu, the Japanese army set up a labor camp in Tanggu to transfer laborers from North China to Japan, and the more than 7,000 surviving laborers and prisoners of war who were ready to plunder Japan were basically rescued safely. The recovery of Tanggu indicates that the war on the entire Tianjin battlefield has basically ended.