For Tao Jingfei, as long as these anti-aircraft firepower groups along the Haihe River can be knocked out, they must be knocked out as much as possible. Because these positions are not only capable of fire blockade from the air, but also have amazing lethality when shooting at the ground. After the anti-coalition air force withdrew from the battlefield, these anti-aircraft artillery groups and anti-aircraft machine gun groups turned their guns and joined the Japanese battlefield fire support group.

In the course of the battle, it also brought considerable losses to the attacking troops of the Anti-United Nations. If the Japanese anti-aircraft fire points in the main direction of attack can be knocked out, the pressure on the front-line combat units can also be reduced. However, in his orders to the ministry, Tao Jingfei also repeatedly emphasized that only single-gun direct aim and accurate fire could be used, and the tactics of covering fire were not allowed.

The Anti-Japanese Union itself is an expert in using anti-aircraft weapons to fire horizontally to support ground operations. The various medium- and small-caliber antiaircraft weapons it is equipped with have played a very important role in ground support in almost every combat operation. As for the threat of these flat-firing anti-aircraft weapons of the Japanese army, there is no need to exchange blood for the price on the battlefield, and he already knows the stakes in the middle.

Therefore, these anti-aircraft weapons groups must be eliminated as much as possible. Because a 13-mm anti-aircraft machine gun, or a twin 25-mm anti-aircraft guns, can block a street thousands of kilometers long. The number of such streets in the urban area of Tianjin is quite limited, and they are basically the main attack routes of the attacking troops. Knocking out these anti-aircraft fires relieves the pressure on the attacking troops.

After adjusting the deployment, Tao Jingfei immediately launched a new offensive without any hesitation. But whether it is in the Hedong battlefield or the Hexi battlefield. The decentralization of the organization does not mean that the armed forces should be completely disrupted. If the attack is completely dispersed, the troops will not be able to respond to any situation.

Therefore, he demanded that in both directions, all participating units and each division, leave a fully formed regiment and not disperse. Each regiment must also retain at least one full-fledged battalion for front-line operations. The distance between the first-line combat units and the second-line combat units should not be too large.

At the same time, the troops at Jintangqiao will not be disrupted, but will still use battalions as the operational structure, and maintain sufficient pressure on the front line of Jintangqiao. While maintaining the attack force on the front line of the Jintang Bridge, the formation is intact. He equipped each company of the department with two 76-mm cannons for direct-aim fire. All the anti-aircraft machine guns and double 23 anti-aircraft guns were also transferred into the city by him to participate in the battle.

Except for the troops that originally attacked the front line of Jintang Bridge, all tank units were formed as companies and distributed to each regiment, and the focus of the attack was the Japanese artillery positions that had been exposed within the combat range of each unit, except for Jintang Bridge. He gave the commander of the tank unit an order in just one sentence, interspersed with needles and needles towards the position of the Japanese artillery position.

Tao Jingfei's order to the tank troops, just such a sentence. There is no battle plan, no combat range. Of course, there is another sentence, that is, I only need the artillery positions of the Japanese army. However, considering that you are fighting in an unfamiliar urban environment, it is quite important to have a guide who is familiar with the city where the battlefield is located.

He gave to the dozens of underground party functionaries in Tianjin who were now gathered in his headquarters. Each person was given a submachine gun, four magazines and four grenades, and after learning how to shoot and throw bombs. A steel helmet was fastened to everyone's head, and whether they wanted to or not, they acted as a guide for the front-line combat troops.

At this moment, the secretary of the Tianjin underground working committee in his headquarters was left with a propaganda minister, a secretary of the school committee, and a few underground traffic officers. Local comrades protested against Tao Jingfei's practice on many occasions. Even after the secretary learned that Yang Zhen had arrived at Haiguang Temple, he repeatedly asked to meet with Yang Zhen in order to negotiate.

The secretary held that the Tianjin Underground Work Committee has now mobilized a large number of party members who are familiar with the situation in Tianjin to serve as guides for various units of the Anti-Japanese Federation. These people who stayed at the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Federation in Haiguang Temple were all the backbone of the underground party in Tianjin and cadres at all levels. If the losses are too large, the entire Tianjin underground working committee will be completely paralyzed.

Many of them, in particular, have secret intelligence channels that are one-way contacts. Among them, there were not only the Japanese army, but also the Chongqing side and the Wang puppet regime. It can be said that the secret relations and intelligence resources of the entire Tianjin Underground Work Committee, and even the Jin-Cha-Ji Social Bureau, are in the hands of these people. Once there is a large number of sacrifices, then it means that many intelligence resources will be lost.

In order to ensure the safety of these personnel, who have a large amount of intelligence resources in their hands and have a united front relationship. As soon as the Anti-Japanese Federation entered the urban area of Tianjin, except for a very few people who could not be contacted, the Tianjin Underground Working Committee immediately withdrew all of them. It cannot but be said that the Tianjin Underground Working Committee has taken great pains to protect this group of cadres.

Tao Jingfei's actions made this veteran party member who joined the party during the Great Revolution and had a long history of underground work, but did not know that the Anti-Japanese Federation had adjusted its tactics, was very dissatisfied. What is this? I've managed to mobilize so many guides for you, and basically each of your attack battalions is equipped with one or two guides, why aren't you enough? Do you really have to meet your needs by serving all the personnel of the Tianjin Underground Working Committee in this battle?

It's just that Yang Zhen only said sorry for the protest of the party secretary, who is about the same age as himself, and did not stop Tao Jingfei's practice. Because Yang Zhen knew that Tao Jingfei, who was born as a political commissar, could make such a big determination, it means that he has decided to break the boat.

Otherwise, the comrades of the Tianjin Underground Working Committee would not have selected so many guides, and still felt that they were not enough. Therefore, Yang Zhen did not interfere with Tao Jingfei's actions except for saying a few sorry words and saying that he would ask the troops to protect these people.

Although the secretary of the underground working committee, plus the secretary of the school committee of the Tianjin underground working committee at the time, and his classmates who were studying at the law school of Peking University back then, no matter how hard they talked about their hearts and knew the benefits, Yang Zhen did not spit out. For Yang Zhen, nothing is more important than the current battle situation in Tianjin.

If the Japanese army in Tianjin is not dealt with as soon as possible, and the current war situation continues, the number of civilian casualties will become larger and larger. And once the city of Tianjin, which has a large amount of light industry, is destroyed, then the loss and cost will be too great. It's easy to destroy, but it's hard to rebuild.

Yang Zhen suppressed the position for Tao Jingfei, and Tao Jingfei in front of him adjusted his deployment as quickly as possible. Although at the time of redeployment, Tao Jingfei made the most careful adjustments. But after the tactical adjustment, what kind of fight can be made, he still has no bottom in his heart. This gossip-like urban structure of the entire Tianjin city is really a headache.

In fact, this Tianjin operation, from the beginning, has always made Tao Jingfei very nerve-wracking. Although the resistance of the Japanese army in the peripheral operations was quite tenacious, the ownership of various key points such as Yang Liuqing, Junliangcheng, Xiaozhan, Dagukou, and Beitang was finally determined after repeated battles. But for Tao Jingfei, this is not really a headache for him.

Although the battle on the periphery is also a little harder, compared with the street battle that is currently underway, it can be said that there is one in the sky and one underground. What really gave him a headache was the difficulty and uncertainty of the whole battle after entering the street fighting stage, especially the lack of intelligence.

The Japanese commander in Tianjin was very cunning, and when fighting on the outskirts of the city, he repeatedly fought for every point. However, in terms of the use of troops, he has always firmly grasped a certain rhythm. At the same time, only part of the artillery support in the city was used, and the main force of the ground artillery was hidden. It was not until it entered the city that its true artillery strength was fully revealed.

The entire city was covered by Japanese artillery, and the ruler had already been set. Each artillery group has its own fixed combat direction, and with the cooperation of the mobile artillery group, the attacking troops in all directions of the Anti-Japanese Union will be covered by a large amount of artillery fire every time they take a step forward. Tao Jingfei, who has been fighting with the Japanese army for so many years, is the first time he has encountered the Japanese army on a local battlefield, and the firepower is so intensive.

This is not the most difficult thing Tao Jingfei has encountered, the most fatal problem is the lack of intelligence. From the very beginning of the battle on the outskirts of Tianjin, the Japanese army carried out a tight blockade of Tianjin. All Chinese, including puppet army and puppet government personnel, including puppet high-ranking officials, are not allowed to leave the city.

All the senior commanders of the puppet army in the city, and all the staff members of the puppet government who have access to military issues, are all gathered in one place and strictly guarded. All the puppet armies and puppet policemen were disrupted and incorporated into the Japanese garrison to fight. Not to mention that the living are not allowed to go out of the city, and even the dead are not allowed to go out of the city.

Chinese who died during this period, regardless of the cause, were not allowed to leave the city for burial. The corpses and coffins were either temporarily stored at home or sent to a crematorium opened by the Japanese in Tianjin for cremation and then taken home. Anyway, it is a sentence, not only the living are not allowed to go out of the city, but the dead are not allowed to go out of the city.

The Japanese blockade was too tight, resulting in the inability to send information from inside the city, and reconnaissance personnel outside the city could not enter at all. Many secret radio stations of the underground party in Tianjin were destroyed by the Japanese military police in turn to blackout the power supply, and the whole city banned the sale of batteries, and lost all contact with the outside of the city.

Until the front has advanced to the urban area of Tianjin, the Tianjin Front Command still has a half-claw on the structure of Tianjin's urban fortifications and the deployment posture. Even the location of the headquarters of the Japanese army in Tianjin has not been clarified until now.

Although the Anti-Japanese Union mobilized a considerable number of intelligence and technical departments to participate in the operation, it was never able to locate the location of the Japanese headquarters. Because since the start of the Tianjin Siege, the Tianjin Headquarters of the Japanese Army, which had frequent contacts, had many high-power radio signals, as if they had all disappeared.

More than a dozen fifteen-watt radios were found, but they were distributed almost all over the entire city of Tianjin, and it was impossible to determine which one was the location of the Japanese headquarters. As for the greater number of tactical radios of five and two watts below fifteen watts, it is difficult to find out exactly what level of command of the Japanese army used.

When they entered the city, the troops could only touch and fight like a blind man touching an elephant. Even at the beginning of the campaign, the maps of Tianjin used by his headquarters were still civilian versions. If it weren't for the fact that in the battlefield of Haiguang Temple, he captured several military maps of Tianjin urban area used by the Japanese army, I am afraid that he would not even have a detailed map of Tianjin urban area.

Although a civilian map is also a map, it is not the same thing as a military map. There is no way to compare the clarity of everything on a civilian map with a military map. For a campaign of such scale as the capture of Tianjin, such preparations were undoubtedly quite inadequate.

A pitiful battle like the capture of Tianjin, which does not even have much tactical intelligence, can even be said to be less, and it can be regarded as the first time that Tao Jingfei, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, has encountered it for the first time. In such a city inhabited by a large number of residents, such a chaotic battle as the current one makes him have to make up his mind after careful consideration for every deployment adjustment.