Yang Zhen's answer, the boss only gave a four-word answer. As for the rest, it will only depend on the development of things. After all, what Okamura Ninji thinks, and whether he can agree to the quid pro quo he proposed, they can't predict. However, in order to put pressure on Okamura Ninji, before the twenty-four-hour deadline arrives. Yang Zhen mobilized a force and launched an attack on the outer city area of Beiping.

The Japanese army never gave any reply to the demands of the Anti-Japanese Union, nor did they ask for a ceasefire before giving a reply. Therefore, this attack is not a violation of any agreement. On the one hand, the attack was to put pressure on the Japanese to accept the agreement. On the other hand, it is also to lay a good amount of advance for the siege when necessary.

The intent of this attack was to separate the inner city of Beiping from the outer city in the south. And as much as possible in the city, lay some nails. If the situation allows, the siege of the imperial city will be directly completed. Completely complete the remnants of the Japanese army in Beiping City, and complete the final attack preparations.

Yang Zhen ordered the troops who had already seized Xizhimen to adopt the tactics of continuous encroachment in the northwest city. Concentrate part of the forces and infiltrate the city little by little. Continuously, under the cooperation and guidance of the Beiping underground party, tanks and infantry were used to carry out shallow and deep roundabouts. Little by little, the strength of the Japanese army in the northwest city was separated from the main force in the city.

At the same time, the troops that had already arrived outside the city launched an attack on the various gates of Beiping, and controlled the rest of the city walls except for the south wall of the Beiping inner field as much as possible. Regardless of Okamura's final choice, capturing the city walls, as well as all the gates, is a must-do right now. But Yang Zhen still focused his attack on the capture of the outer city.

The outer city of Beiping is, to put it bluntly, the southern city of Beiping. It is connected to Fengtai in the south, and it is a number of railways such as Pinghan and Beining, and it is a necessary place to enter Beiping, and there is Zhengyangmen Railway Station between it and the inner city. Of course, because the Japanese army's actions are too hidden, the current Yang Zhen is not aware that the Japanese army has built a temporary airfield in the Temple of Heaven.

In the battle to divide the connection between the inner and outer cities of Beiping, Yang Zhen took two routes from Guangqumen and Guang'anmen respectively, and launched an attack in the opposite direction at the same time. Along the north wall of the inner city of Beiping, the attack tactics with Zhengyangmen as the central point. However, the focus of the attack was on the northern part of the outer city, which could avoid the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannong Altar in the south of the city.

The main forces of the Japanese troops in the city have shrunk to the imperial city. The troops in the outer city are mainly concentrated on the line from the Temple of Heaven to Zhengyangmen to ensure the connection between the inner and outer cities. Therefore, in this battle, the East and West of the Anti-United Nations are advancing, and the progress is quite rapid. After most of the fierce fighting for most of the day, they basically controlled the outer city except for the surrounding area of the Temple of Heaven, and cut off the ground connection between the inner and outer cities of Beiping.

Although the Japanese army in the city dispatched several squadrons from Zhengyangmen, Xuanwumen, and Chongwenmen, they tried to reopen the connection with the outer city and recapture the outer city. However, the helpless thing was that the Anti-Japanese Federation directly sealed several gates of the southern city wall of the inner city of Beiping with intensive firepower, and launched an attack on the North Xinhua Street in the peace gate with a force.

The Japanese army's repeated counterattacks ended in failure. In the end, the Japanese army, which could not afford to suffer heavy casualties, had to retreat into the Zhengyang Gate and gave up the defense of the Xuanwu Gate and the Chongwen Gate. Across Dashilar, a famous commercial street in old Beiping, confronted the anti-Japanese alliance in person.

This attack not only captured most of the outer city of Beiping, but also seized most of the gates of Beiping, and controlled 70 percent of the city wall except for the southern city wall. Moreover, troops attacking from other directions also broke into the city in many directions. There are also a lot of nails in the city.

Even the troops who attacked from the direction of Xizhimen, the forward had already hit Shichahai, and the forward pointed directly to the line of Di'anmen at the north gate of the imperial city. The forward troops of the Anti-Japanese Union in the outer city, across the Zhengyangmen to Yongdingmen Street, that is, the famous overpass in Laobeiping, confronted most of the Japanese troops trapped in the Temple of Heaven to Yongdingmen.

The Japanese army set up artillery positions in the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannong Altar. The anti-coalition troops who participated in the battle for the outer city did not bring any artillery into the city in accordance with the requirements of their superiors. The Temple of Heaven and the Xiannong Altar held by the Japanese army in the outer city made it impossible for the attacking forces of the Anti-Japanese Federation to carry out artillery countermeasures. These two artillery positions brought great threats and losses to the offensive of the Anti-Japanese Union on the outer city.

Despite the repeated demands of the front-line commanders to pull out the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannongtan Altar, the two most important Japanese strongholds in the outer city of Beiping, as well as the two artillery positions set up inside, which could pose a considerable threat to the subsequent siege. But in the case of the rat trap, in the end, he chose to be temporarily besieged.

However, in order to suppress the threat of these two artillery positions to the city, Yang Zhen sent a group of planes to hover over the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannong Altar. Although it was not possible to directly use bombs to destroy these two Japanese artillery positions, it also brought a certain deterrent effect to the two Japanese artillery positions.

After the attack aircraft group arrived over the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannong Altar, a machine gun fire was fired. The Japanese artillerymen, who originally relied on their position and had no scruples and were not very worried about being countered by the anti-union artillery, and kept pouring artillery fire into the city, immediately shut up.

After taking the outer city, the Japanese army in the city was actually completely cornered. The boss, who struck while the iron was hot, once again sent people to negotiate with the Japanese army, urging Okamura Ningji to accept the conditions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and strive for the consent of the remaining Japanese troops in the city to withdraw from the most elite imperial city in Beiping. At the same time, the Anti-Japanese Federation also sent planes to drop a large number of Japanese leaflets into the city.

In the face of the north gate of the imperial city, a small force of anti-union troops has appeared around Di'anmen, and the outer city has been lost in such a short time, and the enemy army has taken control of most of the city walls of Beiping. Except for the Imperial City and the Eastern Half of the City, the overall battle situation inside and outside Beiping City has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and the general collapse is just around the corner.

and sitting in Mentougou, in the last twenty-four hours, half of the remaining troops were lost. The tanks of the Anti-United Nations had already rushed to the front of the command department, and had entered the overall battle situation of the 110th Division at the last moment, constantly sending distress telegrams. Okamura Ningji, who had always hesitated, finally chose to conditionally accept the conditions of the Anti-United Nations.

What if you don't accept it? Could it really be that the tens of thousands of expatriates in Beiping City, as well as the remaining remnants of the two divisions, were really completely resolved? And a large number of high-ranking officers in the North China Front Command, who really want to be loyal to the emperor? Or is it true that the North China Front Command will really become the first Front Army Command to be eliminated by the Japanese Army since the establishment of the Meiji Restoration?

Although Okamura Ninji sent a telegram asking for instructions to the headquarters and the headquarters of the dispatch army before nodding. However, the reply from the base camp only told him to make his own decision, which was limited by the authority of the commander of his front army, and there was no need to consult the base camp on everything. Even the commander of the Nanjing Dispatch Army Headquarters still said a fair word about preserving the essence of the Imperial Army.

However, although the Dispatch Army Command gave a clear hint, it was just a hint. To say that it is a clear answer, in fact it is not that at all. After turning around, the answers given to Okamura Ninji were vague. In fact, it is still General Okamura Ninji who has to make up his own mind.

In fact, although the base camp and the Nanjing Dispatch Army Headquarters did not give Okamura Ningji a clear answer on the matter of abandoning Beiping. But whether it is the base camp or the headquarters of the dispatch army, they all know that at this time, Beiping is actually unable to hold it. Rather than having a front army headquarters go to the funeral and have to take a general commander, it is better to take advantage of this opportunity to withdraw.

However, neither the base camp nor the dispatch army headquarters were willing to bear the reputation of giving up Beiping. What is the place in Beiping, which was the capital of several generations of Chinese dynasties. Compared with Nanjing, the former capital of the Chinese government, Beiping, as the capital of several dynasties in modern China, is of greater significance in the hearts of the Chinese people.

Moreover, Beiping City is not only the hub of the North China Railway Line, but also the spiritual and cultural center of China since modern times. Its position in the strategic pattern of the Japanese army in the whole of North China was no more than that of Xinjing in Manchuria. For the whole of China, the city of Beiping far surpasses Xinjing, which is located in a corner of China.

The abandonment of Peiping was undoubtedly an extremely humiliating matter for the Japanese Army. So no one is willing to take responsibility, and even share it for Okamura Ninji. Until the connection between the inner and outer cities had been severed, the North China Front Headquarters, which was trapped in Beiping, was practically unable to evacuate.

It was really unacceptable that a base camp where an active army general died in battle, and that the headquarters of the dispatch army sent a vague telegram to Okamura Ninji. Despite the center's intentions, he told Okamura Ninji to run. But on the bright side, no one has said it explicitly.

Fortunately, Okamura Ninji was also a decisive person in killing, and was not affected by the vague answers of the base camp and the dispatched army. And after receiving a demand for renegotiation outside the city not so much for negotiation as for an ultimatum. The unfavorable situation made him finally make up his mind.

However, he did not send the former deputy chief of staff of the front army to preside over the negotiations. Instead, Lieutenant General Miharu Oshiroto, a more veteran and serious chief of staff of the Front Army, was dispatched to personally preside over the talks. As for the young officers of the front army, who were bent on fighting to the death, they were directly controlled by the gendarmerie he sent to them.

At this critical moment, when the life and death of the entire front army headquarters and whether or not tens of thousands of expatriates in Beiping can be withdrawn, it is not the time for them to act rashly. Okamura Ninji, who also served as a staff officer, understands the energy of these people in the Japanese Army. So before the formal negotiations, simply control them all so that these people don't mess up.

During the negotiations, the Anti-Japanese Federation agreed to give way to Zhengyangmen Station, so that the Japanese troops and Japanese nationals in Beiping City could withdraw from Zhengyangmen Station to Fengtai. Let go of the encirclement of the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannongtan, release the Japanese troops trapped in the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannongtan and the Japanese expatriates who withdrew there, and retreat to the Zhengyangmen Railway Station together.

At the same time, the 110th Division, which stopped trapping Mentougou, was finally solved by less than half of the Japanese army. Make way of a route, let the remnants of the 110th Division withdraw to Fengtai Station, join the Japanese troops and expatriates who had withdrawn from Beiping, and withdraw to Tianjin with Fengtai Station in the south of Beiping City as the starting point for the retreat.

However, the boss who presided over the negotiations behind the scenes, at the insistence of Yang Zhen, rejected the request of Lieutenant General Dachenghu Sanzhi to let go of the eastern front of Beiping and let the 59th Division withdraw into Beiping. Instead, they insisted that the remnants of the 59th Division depart from Tongzhou and board the train at Anding Station. At the same time, the Japanese troops in the Mentougou area were also required to withdraw directly to Fengtai and not enter the city of Beiping.

Along the way, the Anti-United Nations must send troops to monitor, but as long as the Japanese army does not take the initiative to attack, the Anti-United Nations guarantees to fulfill the agreement and make a difference. The Anti-Japanese Union agreed that Japanese officers and soldiers could carry weapons and ammunition with them, and overseas Chinese could also carry their belongings. The entire Pingjin battlefield was suspended for two days to ensure the withdrawal of Japanese troops around Beiping.