723, Pingjin riots
"News from our war correspondent: Our defenders in Tianjin rose up to fight back against the Pacific monkey invaders and won a great victory! At about 3 o'clock in the morning on July 30, 1937, four ships, including the Pacific monkey invaders Muzuki destroyer and Sakuramaru troop transport, were sunk. The 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, which reinforced Tianjin, was destroyed and killed, and the brigade commander, Major General Guan Guizhi, was killed! ”
According to the analysis of relevant military experts, the brigade has lost more than 2,000 direct troops, its complete structure is no longer there, all light and heavy weapons have been destroyed, and the most basic combat effectiveness has been completely lost. Military experts speculate that the Tanggu wharf will not be operational for at least half a year. I hope that the vast number of military and civilians will unite and fight the Pacific monkey invaders! ”
This was the headline of a special issue of the Chengde Front Daily on the morning of July 30, 1937, and in order to prove the truth, the newspaper also published three photos.
One of the long shots is blurry, but a large black shadow can be seen broken in two. Anyone with a modicum of common sense can understand that this is a large ship that has broken in two and is sinking.
The other two photos are very clear, which are the "tragic scene" near the Tanggu Wharf! The corpses in Japanese uniforms lay on the ground and floated on the water, and three ships were half lifted into the sky and the other half in the water.
This is a huge win!
After the fall of Beiping and Tianjin, this victory was enough to inspire. The only pity is that I don't know who did this!
According to the "Chengde Front Daily", "Tianjin My Defender" should be the 38th Division of the 29th Army. However, the Military and Political Department of the Nanjing Government sent a telegram to Li Wentian, deputy commander of the 38th Division, but received a negative reply.
No one recognized the great military exploits, which can be regarded as a great miracle that appeared at the beginning of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the land of China.
The Second Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade suffered a catastrophe, and the navy also suffered huge losses, so that the little devil who was still celebrating the crown a moment ago was suddenly hit on the head, and the entire front was stunned.
This sudden and huge victory also created a rare respite for the chaotic front-line armies of Pingjin.
First of all, the little devils in the occupied area, who are now completely dizzy and don't know what to do.
It turned out that after the little devil drove away Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division, he was not greedy enough and occupied the British and French concessions. Because of the lack of troops, the rear was extremely weak. Especially in the Tianjin Concession area, there is only a small team of garrisons. It was also at this time that there was an earth-shattering riot caused by more than 2,000 people!
This time, the riot swept through the three directions of Yamato Street (now Xing'an Road), Xu Street (now Heping Road), and Fukushima Street (now Duolun Road) in the Japanese Concession, and hundreds of machine guns and hundreds of mortars bombed indiscriminately. Two hours later, there were no living creatures left in the entire Japanese Concession!
Then it spread to the entire urban area of Tianjin, and all the places wearing the military uniforms and uniforms of the little devils, all the plaster flags were hung, and all the two-legged animals wearing clogs were fatally hit. That's the real sense of the corpse piles up like a mountain, and the blood is flowing like a river!
Shops and banks were ransacked, and all vehicles and valuables were taken away. The wounded who had just been transported from the front line were all turned into cold corpses in the Little Devil Hospital, and doctors, nurses, medicines, and medical equipment were all missing.
In Beiping Castle, the commander of the North China Garrison Army, Kiyoshi Kazuki, was originally discussing with the commander of the 77th Wing, Nakajima Tetsuzo, and the brigade commander of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, Sakai Hoji, to urgently discuss the issue of coordinating operations in the future.
Because the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade was disembarking, it would soon be able to take over the defense of the city, and the troops fighting on the outside line would have an extra wing. At the same time, the 14th Division had already come out of Zhangjiakou, the 5th Division was already preparing to land at the Qinhuangdao wharf, and the 6th Division could arrive at the Tanggu wharf in three days.
Unexpectedly, an urgent message came at midnight that something happened in Tianjin City, the nest of the North China garrison army!
Without listening to the report, Kazuki Kiyoji hurriedly ordered a cavalry squadron on the front line of the Beijiang River to immediately leave the battlefield and rush to the aid of Tianjin to stop the continued spread of the riots.
Unexpectedly, it was okay that Kiyoji Kazuki did not send a telegram, and this telegram was sent, which finally brought this riot to its peak!
Because the commander-in-chief of this riot is Yang Erya, and the main force is the underground Einsatzgruppen in her hands. After five years of development, it has more than 4,000 people, including more than 2,000 people in Beiping and Tianjin.
This time, the main purpose of attacking the Japanese concession was to break through the core fortress of the secret service, that is, the basement of the police station.
Yang Erya hates this place to the core!
Because in the past five years, she has taken six actions and sacrificed more than 150 people, but in the end all of them failed.
Now, Zhang Zizhong is no longer the mayor of Tianjin, Li Wentian is not the director of the public security bureau, and the 38th Division has disappeared, so this time there is no scruples.
Yang Erya moved out mortars, howitzers, light and heavy machine guns, and formed a 700-strong machine gun brigade, a 400-strong mortar and howitzer brigade, and a 1,200-strong robbery brigade.
broke into the basement of the Japanese Concession Police Station and obtained all the code books and related materials; All the prisons were opened, whether it was the same surname or anyone else, and they were all released.
Xiangyue Qingji sent a telegram to dispatch a cavalry squadron back to the defense, and the telegraph operators under Yang Erya quickly deciphered it. Yang Erya did not delay at all, and a telegram was sent to Deputy Division Commander Wang Sanju.
746 people from the 1st Cavalry Battalion of the Cavalry Regiment of the Rao'an Independent Division made an emergency sortie, annihilated 97 people from a cavalry squadron on the way, and then swaggered into the urban area of Tianjin to "maintain law and order" and escort the rioters!
That's how it happened!
The day before yesterday, Li Wentian, deputy commander of the 38th Division, organized the 26th Independent Brigade to attack the Haiguangsi barracks of the little devil, but suffered a heavy defeat due to the loss of Yan Zòng.
Unexpectedly, this time Yang Erya asked the cavalry battalion that had come over to reinforce the temporary station in Haiguang Temple. The commander of the first cavalry battalion is naturally a human spirit, and he knows that this underground second senior sister wants to take advantage of the chaos to take down the barracks of the little devil herself.
At that time, without saying a word, the cavalry battalion rushed to the gate of Haiguang Temple and roared angrily. The little devils inside have already received an order, and a squadron of cavalry has come in to reinforce them. Now the reinforcements arrived, and they came quickly, and the big iron gate was opened at that time.
No, it opened the door of the Hades Palace! Because it wasn't reinforcements that rushed in, but a living Hades who killed people without blinking!
That's really killing people when they see them, and cutting them down when they see them alive. Wrong, these Hades can't cut without a knife, it should be called shooting when they see a living person, as if bullets don't cost money.
With the main field force "maintaining law and order," the progress of the riots was much faster. Because many guys saw the "invincible" cavalry of the "Imperial Japanese Army" appear, they immediately fled from all directions, and all rushed to their "protectors".
Well, the riot team doesn't have to look around for targets, because they're all running out now, and they're getting more and more concentrated!
Haiguang Temple, that is the territory of the monks, its mission is to transcend.
Today, I finally fulfilled my duty and overtook all the guys who came from all directions, and then gave them to Aunt Amaterasu!
The development of things took an unexpected turn, and the deputy division commander Wang Sanju immediately changed the material transfer plan, ordered reinforcements to the cavalry battalion in the urban area of Tianjin, and collected all the trucks inside and outside the urban area of Tianjin to rush to Taohuawu. There is only one task: to transport the gun production line, gunpowder, steel, and Makqin heavy machine guns to Akagi!
In order to cover the huge convoy of transports passing northeast of Beiping, the city of Beiping must not be too quiet.
As soon as Yang Erya heard Wang Sanju's decision, she knew in her heart that today's riot was not over, and the bigger riot should be behind, and the target was Beiping, which the little devil had just occupied!
An hour later, at three o'clock in the morning on July 31, 1937, the city of Peiping was in turmoil. Kiyoji Kazuki, Tetsuzo Nakajima, and Hoji Sakai rushed out of the city in a panic and hurriedly looked for their main forces to escort them.
An hour and a half after the riots in Peiping, the little devil garrison finally breathed a sigh of relief: our first reinforcements had finally arrived - and a cavalry brigade had arrived all at once! Yes, more than seven hundred cavalry is just one cavalry brigade.
Behind this cavalry brigade is a huge truck brigade with no end in sight, no, it should be called Changlong.
The leading cavalry brigade rushed directly into Beiping City from Dongzhi Gate, and then fired indiscriminately, killing all the squad guarding the city gate.
In order to gain time, the cavalry brigade rushed straight to Xizhimen. There was no need to make a detour to the huge truck queue that followed, and it passed through the city directly, and then turned around and plugged in the direction of Yanqing in the northwest, heading straight for Chicheng!
An unprecedented riot that began at midnight on July 30, 1937, had a very clear goal: to target the local garrisons of the little devils, the traitors, and their military, economic, and political forces.
The most striking thing about this riot is not how many people were killed and how much property was robbed of the little devils, but the "Chairman of the Peiping Local Security Maintenance Association" Jiang Chaozong and the "Chairman of the Tianjin Local Security Maintenance Association" Gao Lingwei, who just appeared a day ago.
As for Chi Zongmo, the "head of the Autonomous Government of the Eastern Hebei Defense Communist", who danced the most happily before, this time he finally failed to escape punishment, the dog's head was hung on the door frame of Tanggu County, and the pseudo-Jidong Bank was uprooted!
For a while, the little devil was like a mourner, and the dog traitor didn't dare to speak out.
Jiang of Nanjing, as a generation of heroes, saw a good opportunity, the Military Committee of the Nationalist Government decided to set up the Baoding camp (later changed to the Shijiazhuang camp) half a month earlier than in history, and appointed Xu Yongchang as the director and Lin Wei as the chief of staff to supervise the Hebei operation.
Jiang Mouren, commander of the First Theater (concurrently), Song Zheyuan was the commander-in-chief of the First Group Army, and Liu Zhi was the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, and he was responsible for the operational command of the northern section of the Jinpu and Pinghan Roads.
In Gu'an, the 53rd Army (commander Wan Fulin) and the 1st Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division of Wang Qifeng garrisoned the positions from Jin Gezhuang to East and West Pangzhuang on the right bank of the Yongding River;
Zhou Fucheng's 116th Division garrisoned the first-line position from Shuangying to Hejin near Yongqing, and Feng Zhanhai's 91st Division garrisoned the first-line position from Hejin to Dongxiyangcun;
The cavalry of the 26th Route Army (Army Commander Sun Lianzhong) garrisoned the first-line position from Dongxiyang Village to Matou Town from the new 10th Division, and formed a position of more than 100 kilometers long with the first-line positions of Feng Anbang's 27th Division, Zhang Jinzhao's 30th Division, and Zhang Huatang's 44th Independent Brigade in Liulihe, Fangshan, and Heilongguan.
During this period, there was no need for the 29th Army to be established, and the Nanjing Military and Political Department ordered it to be reorganized into the First Group Army, Feng Zhi'an's 37th Division was reorganized into the 77th Army, and Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the 38th Division, was not reorganized for the time being because he had stayed in Beiping and had not returned.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.