He Zhishan's feeling was not wrong, the chaos that the Japanese Concession was in at the moment was indeed the battalion of the 3rd Division and the 9th Regiment trapped in Hexi after the destruction of the Japanese Bridge. At present, the Japanese army is defending in Tianjin, and the former Japanese concession in the key defense area is making trouble in the Heavenly Palace and rampage.

The Japanese Concession was hiding the secrets of the Japanese army, and the defending enemy had to completely destroy them before the enemy threatened them, whether they wanted to or not. It was just a matter of moving the whole body, and in order to contain the Japanese defenders in the Japanese concession, they did not send reinforcements from other directions. Tao Jingfei deployed a division of troops on the battlefield in the Japanese Concession and the adjacent battlefield in the French Concession.

Coupled with a regiment attacking from south to north in the British Concession in the south, although the defending enemy in the Japanese Concession was not under much pressure on the front, the overall pressure was great. The use of forces along the entire front line is also highly tense. In addition to the feint attack taken by the Anti-Japanese Federation in this direction, a series of fierce battles have fallen on the forward positions, and the two sides are also staggered.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for the enemy in the Japanese concession to send troops back for reinforcement without causing a certain amount of confusion in the forward deployment. Moreover, it weakened the strength of the defenders on the front line, and created a rare fighter for the 11th Division troops that were very close to the front line. He Zhishan reacted extremely quickly, and immediately stepped up the offensive against the Japanese concession, changing the battlefield of the conditional Japanese concession from a feint attack to a main attack.

As for the troops of the Third Division trapped along the Haihe River in the Japanese Concession, the reason why they turned the Japanese Concession, which had always been stable, into a pot of porridge is also very simple, they have a battalion commander who dares to fight and fight, plus the battalion commander who is most familiar with the terrain of Tianjin among the entire 11th Division.

Behind the Japanese bridge was destroyed, after the connection with the main forces was cut off. Liu Guanghua, who served as the commander of the first battalion of the Ninth Regiment of the Third Division of the Anti-Japanese Federation and the commander of the sharp knife battalion of the regiment, after the Japanese fleet on the Haihe River behind him was completely wiped out and the threat behind him was lifted, he did not retreat but advanced in the face of the Japanese troops rushing up from the surrounding area.

Taking advantage of the fact that he was a native of Tianjin, before he was caught by the Japanese army and sent to the northeast to work as a laborer, he was a dock worker at the British Wharf in Tianjin, and he was very familiar with the topography of Tianjin's urban area, especially the urban structure on both sides of the Haihe River. With his own troops, he plunged into the depth of the Japanese concession.

This Liu Guanghua is none other than the Liu Heiwa who fought with Yang Jicai at the recruit training base when he joined the army. Maybe if you don't fight, you don't know each other, but after that fight, he and Yang Jicai became friends of life and death. When he was in the recruit camp, Yang Jicai not only helped him complete the recruit training, but also helped him subsidize the culture whenever he was free.

After leaving the army, as long as he has the opportunity to meet Yang Jicai, Yang Jicai will do his best to help him and improve his ability and military literacy. For this brother who doesn't fight and doesn't know each other, Yang Jicai almost unreservedly teaches his experience in every battle.

Even after the large-scale expansion of the army, it is already difficult for the two to meet each other. But Yang Jicai always wrote to him, telling him his experience in every battle, as long as it does not involve leaking secrets, he will tell him without reservation. Although Liu Heiwa was selected into the teaching team after completing the recruit training like Yang Jicai because of her low level of education, she was directly assigned to the combat unit.

But in the past few years, with the painstaking help of Yang Jicai, he also relied on his performance on the battlefield to step by step from a recruit to the position of battalion commander. It's just that unlike Yang Jicai, who spent most of his time in staff positions, his military career was spent in the field army. Relying on personal efforts, I came up step by step from the squad leader.

With Yang Jicai's help, his military theory level has improved rapidly. Coupled with their own efforts, the progress is still considerable. When he was the platoon commander, he brought out a platoon of sharp knives that was famous in the whole army. When he was the company commander, he brought out the famous company of the whole army that could attack and defend well.

When he was the commander of the grass-roots troops, the troops he led were always the sharp knives and fists of the troops to which he belonged. Before the start of the battle, when the unit was expanded, it was from the post of deputy battalion captain and operational staff officer of the division, and the division commander personally ordered the generals to serve as the battalion commander of the grass-roots units.

The name of his Liu Guanghua was also changed by Yang Jicai for him. It can be said that in his growth trajectory, Yang Jicai is a very important person. However, the old saying that things gather like and people are grouped is still very reasonable. In terms of tactics, this guy has been greatly helped by Yang Jicai. But in terms of personality, he was more influenced by Yang Jicai.

Originally, because he was born poor and was a filial son, he was very restrained by nature, but he has long been different. Under the influence of Yang Jicai, he became quite daring to fight. However, he has been in the field army, and he is far less fortunate than Yang Jicai. After several years of bloody battles, there are large and small scars all over his body.

The rear road was cut off, and the radio station it carried was blown up on the bridge when the Nippon Bridge was covered by Japanese artillery fire because it finally crossed the river. In the previous battle, one of the three walkie-talkies was lost, one had problems, and the only remaining one was damaged by machine gun bullets as soon as it crossed the river.

With the superior and friendly troops in Hedong, almost all contact was lost. After crossing the river, they were besieged by a large number of Japanese troops. Liu Guanghua knew that if he stuck to the bridgehead of Japan, he could only be polished by the swarming Japanese army. It will even be directly torn apart by the Japanese army, who does not care whether the Chinese live or die, using artillery fire.

The wooden bridge behind him had been completely destroyed by Japanese artillery fire. The main force could not come up, and almost all the radios and walkie-talkies in their hands were lost. And under the suppression of the fire of the Japanese ships on the sea and river behind him, the flag liaison officers sent by himself were almost knocked out one by one, and they did not work at all.

At present, because of the large popularity of walkie-talkies, the current method of flag language communication and horn communication only plays the role of an auxiliary and backup means of communication in the anti-union movement. He had only one person in each company of one battalion, and with one battalion headquarters, he only had four flag liaison officers and three trumpeters in his entire battalion.

Of the four flag speakers, except for one who had been killed in the previous battle, the remaining three were knocked out by the Japanese in just a few minutes. Now, Liu Guanghua can't send a single chess player. Although the instructors of each company also knew the flag language, in this case, let the three instructors go into battle, not to mention that the instructors would definitely not agree, even if they were reluctant to do so.

The trumpet communication was also greatly affected by the battlefield environment, and the effect was very unsatisfactory. He, Liu Guanghua, is also from Tianjin, and he knows that sending people to swim across the Haihe River to deliver letters at this time is tantamount to sending people to death. According to the temperature of the river at this season, I am afraid that this man will freeze as soon as he goes down.

Losing contact with the rear, the Japanese army was rapidly mobilizing, and with the firepower of several gunboats behind them, they quickly besieged it, putting on a posture of driving themselves down the Haihe River, Liu Guanghua knew that at least for a short time, he could only fight alone.

When he was cut off from the main force behind him, Liu Guanghua was extremely difficult. The Japanese ships on the Haihe River behind him kept firing shells into his control area. The flat-firing 25-mm anti-aircraft guns and 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns made him unable to even raise his head. And the Japanese army on the front fought back with all their might at any cost, desperately squeezing him to the edge of the Haihe River.

If it weren't for his quick start, ignoring the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, in the shortest possible time, he seized several Japanese foreign companies and warehouses on the edge of the Haihe River, and used the sturdy buildings of these foreign banks and warehouses as fortifications to support him, I am afraid that he would have been squeezed into the Haihe River by the Japanese troops who frantically counterattacked from the surrounding areas.

As soon as his troops crossed the Haihe River, Liu Guanghua felt like he had stabbed a hornet's nest. The Japanese troops in the entire Japanese concession actually ignored the pressure of their own brother troops in front of them, mobilized heavy troops to quickly counter-outflank their periphery, and as soon as they came up, they ignored the narrowness of the terrain and adopted a posture of heavy siege.

And the Japanese fleet on the Haihe River also divided a considerable part to deal with itself. The caliber of the shells that fell on their own heads is getting bigger and bigger. The Japanese troops on the east bank of the river also had a considerable part of their firepower, pressing on their backs. As soon as he crossed the river, a battalion led by Liu Guanghua fell into a situation of being attacked by the enemy on the back and being attacked from all sides.

Liu Guanghua was able to support it, except for the two double 25 anti-aircraft guns and one 13-mm machine gun captured by the Japanese army in the west of the bridge, which strengthened his defensive firepower. It is relying on the tenacity and willpower of himself and the troops, as well as the sturdy buildings of the Japanese foreign company in the dock area of the Japanese concession, that they are desperately struggling to support. It survived the most difficult moment before the Japanese fleet was solved and the follow-up troops in Hedong were deployed to the north, so that the Japanese army in Hedong was unable to take care of the Hexi battlefield.

After the pressure was reduced, Liu Guanghua's mind was a little fluctuating. He knew that his original battalion had suffered heavy casualties in the face of the Japanese army's two-sided attack in the previous nearly four hours of hard fighting, although he had held his existing position.

When he was put into the battlefield, he was a reorganized battalion, and now there is only more than half a battalion left. That is, in the four hours of fierce fighting, he lost half of his troops and his control was reduced by a third. Of the few foreign companies occupied, except for Okura Foreign Company, which survived because of its relatively strong buildings, the rest have all been completely destroyed into ruins by Japanese artillery fire.

Liu Guanghua knew that although the threat behind him had been lifted, the strength of the frontal Japanese counterattack had not been reduced, but was still increasing. Positive pressure, in particular, is now increasing. If you continue to be beaten in such a passive way, I am afraid it will be difficult for you to hold out until the main force arrives.

After the Japanese army was defeated again, Liu Guanghua discussed with the instructor Li Meng: "Lao Li, this little devil is really fucking evil today, as if he has recognized us." Since we crossed the river to now, for such a long time, the momentum of this counterattack has not weakened. If we continue to fight like this, I am afraid that we will not be able to hold on to the arrival of the main force, and we will have to annihilate the whole army. ”

"We have now lost all means of communication with the main force of the regiment behind us. Although it is only a river away from the main force, we are now unable to get close to the main force. The main force doesn't know the battle situation on our side, and the superiors have strictly ordered the use of artillery in the city, and they can't give us any support, so we are basically fighting alone now. ”

"I don't think we can stay here. Otherwise, they will either be squeezed into the river by the Japanese troops who surround them, or they will be polished here little by little by the Japanese army. I don't think that's the case, let's adjust our tactics, and divide the troops into two routes, and you and I will each lead one road. I took three platoons to fight in depth with the Japanese army, leading the battle to the depth of the Japanese army and dispersing the pressure here. ”

"You take a reinforced platoon plus all the lightly wounded who can still hold guns, protect the seriously wounded who are unable to move, abandon the surrounding positions, and stick to Okura with all your might. Now that the threat behind us has been lifted, and I am attracting most of the Japanese troops in the past, you can hold on here until the main force arrives, and there is still no big problem. ”