As for the others inside and outside Beiping City, I also have some unclear memories. The exact number and location of the large and small palaces and yamen in Beiping City, the temples in various places outside the city, and the mausoleums of the royal relatives and nobles, etc., even the old Beiping people who were born and raised do not know how many there are. The ancient buildings inside and outside the thousand-year-old capital of Beiping can almost be described as many.

In this case, only God knows how much will be left after a fierce battle. What the boss and Yang Zhen can do now is to do their best to protect the famous and large-scale ancient buildings, as well as the large imperial tombs such as the Ming Tombs.

As for the other large and small ancient buildings, no one can guarantee that they will not be harmed in the slightest, and there is no way to do it. If you completely avoid all the ancient buildings and imperial tombs around Beiping when fighting, then this battle will not be fought.

It's not a question of whether or not heavy weapons such as artillery and tanks can be used, but the problem is that there are too many of these ancient buildings around Beiping. The ruins of large and small temples, mausoleums, and palaces are almost all over the suburbs and suburbs of Beiping City. In the northwest suburbs alone, there are more than a dozen famous temples.

The Xishan and the suburbs, where the main battlefield is located, have a large number of ancient buildings and tombs. The closer you are to the suburbs, the more numerous and denser the number of ancient buildings and tombs. Avoid it completely, you won't even be able to deploy your troops. The boss can only say that he will do his best to ensure that some of the larger ancient buildings will not suffer too serious damage as much as possible.

Do your best, whether it is the boss or Yang Zhen, you can only do this. It's just that compared to the boss, I'm afraid that the person who will have a bigger headache after this battle will be Yang Zhen. Not to mention others, the two couples who love ancient architecture in Harbin at the moment and are almost obsessed will never let him go after this battle. Unless he can really guarantee that not a single shell will fall inside and outside the city of Beiping.

With the issuance of these orders by Yang Zhen, the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region on the front line of the battlefield around Beiping, with the support of artillery and aviation, launched a general attack on the Japanese troops in front of them. The first general attack on the entire Beiping battlefield was the encirclement and annihilation of the 63rd Division on the Pingbei battlefield, which had already been divided.

It is supported by two directly subordinate 150 howitzer artillery regiments and two 122 rocket artillery battalions. The two divisions of the Anti-Japanese Union launched a final general attack on the remnants of the 63rd Division that were encircled on the line from Goryeo Camp to Mapo. Yang Zhen was in charge of commanding Tao Jingfei in Pingbei, and gave a death order to complete the combat mission in the shortest possible time at all costs.

Tao Jingfei, who received the order, adopted the tactic of killing chickens with knives, concentrated the forces of the two regiments and marched in unison, and launched attacks on Xiaotangshan and Mapo on both flanks respectively. At the last moment before the general attack, Yang Zhen assigned a tank regiment to him, as well as most of the artillery, and a Blenheim bomber squadron, directly launched a strong attack on the headquarters of the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army in the Goryeo Battalion.

After identifying the civilians in these three strongholds, they had been forcibly driven away by the Japanese army at the beginning of the battle. In order to speed up the progress of the battle, Tao Jingfei concentrated the artillery directly under him and the artillery at the division and regimental level, and carried out intensive covering fire on the only three positions of the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army.

Within two hours, more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition were dropped from the position of the 63rd Division on the front line from Mapo in the east to Xiaotangshan in the west. The entire defensive position of the Japanese army was bombed into ruins. After the shelling was completed, the air force again used high-explosive bombs and napalm, which gave another baptism to the Japanese positions.

The frenzied anti-coalition artillery even pushed the 150-millimeter howitzer to a thousand meters in front of the Japanese position and fired flatly. As for the seventy-six-mm cannon at the division and regimental level, it was simply a bayonet on the cannon. Under the cover of the rear artillery group, it was directly pushed under the nose of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army's field fortification group and the fortifications rebuilt by the Japanese army in the village were accurately named one by one.

The artillery of the division and regiment had been completely wiped out two days earlier, and under the ground-air fire of the Anti-Japanese Union, there was almost no room for a counterattack. Even though the remnants of the Japanese army survived under artillery fire, they were beaten by the anti-aircraft machine guns fired by the Anti-United Nations and did not dare to show their heads.

After painstaking training in the second half of last year and the first half of this year, as well as adjusting tactics, the ability of the Anti-United Nations to attack tough problems has been greatly improved. In this battle, the results of these painstaking training, like eighteen kinds of martial arts, were all displayed.

In this battle, the Anti-Union also used the Spitfire tank that appeared for the first time among the weapons and equipment invested. Using a combination of Spitfire tanks and infantry firepower, the Japanese army was burned out of the ruins and destroyed with intensive firepower. The 63rd Division, which had suffered more than half of its casualties in the previous battle, could withstand such an attack combination.

The line from Xiaotangshan to Mapo is located in the Chaobai River Plain. The Japanese troops who lost the mountainous areas north of Niulan Mountain were in a situation where there was no danger to defend. However, the condescending offensive of the Anti-United Nations, with the cooperation of tanks, artillery, and aircraft, adopted special offensive tactics, which made the progress of the battle extremely fast.

On the day of the attack on the Pingbei battlefield, the overall defensive posture of the 63rd Division was divided. The Japanese troops trapped in three places were the 67th Brigade of the 63rd Division and the 67th Brigade of the 63rd Division, which was trapped on the front line of Xiaotangshan and suffered heavy losses on the front line of Niulanshan. After only resisting for more than six hours, the unit was completely annihilated on the front line of the big and small Tangshan mountains.

After seizing the front line of Xiaotangshan, Tao Jingfei did not hesitate at all. The first-line troops of Xiaotangshan were ordered to immediately forcibly move south to seize the front line of Houshayu. At the same time, the offensive was intensified on the front, and a continuous offensive was launched against the Goryeo camp and the Mapo line. In order to resolve the battle as soon as possible, free up hands to deal with Beiping.

It has withstood the first round of attacks of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and it is also the heaviest loss around the Beiping battlefield at present, with less than 5,000 existing troops, and the first round of overall defense has been divided into chaos. After the first day of the offensive, the last bit of vital force was consumed by a third.

Especially after the loss of the Tangshan front, the entire flank has no covering forces, but there are no troops to fill the vacancy. In the face of the first wave of the general attack of the Anti-Japanese Federation, it fell on his head, and he was almost at a loss for the commander of the 63rd Division, Lieutenant General Shiro Hayabuchi. Countless times he sent a telegram to Admiral Okamura Ninji asking for reinforcements, but he did not receive any answer.

In fact, it was not that Okamura Ninji sat back and watched the plight of the 63rd Division, but that he really had no troops in his hands. After stubbornly transferring an infantry brigade from the Tongzhou battlefield, Okamura Ningji could no longer send a single soldier to reinforce the Pingbei battlefield, which was currently the most tight.

Although he also knew that if he could not reinforce at least one wing of the 63rd Division in a short period of time, then the end of waiting for the 63rd Division would be the annihilation of the entire army. In particular, the loss of the first line of Tangshan and the loss of the entire core defensive position of the 63rd Division was completely exposed to the offensive of the Anti-Japanese Union, and the resistance of the 63rd Division was already unsustainable.

That is to say, the total collapse of the 63rd Division is already in sight. Once the 63rd Division is encircled and annihilated, then the entire Pingbei will no longer have troops to defend. As long as the Anti-Japanese Federation is willing, it can go straight to Beiping City at any time. But at the moment, all the forces have been sent to Okamura Ningji in front, and there are really no soldiers to send in his hands.

Okamura Ningji, who really couldn't find reinforcements under the patchwork, forced the Wang puppet Nanjing government, the director of the Beiping Sui Bureau, the former commander of the Chongqing Group Army, to drain all the puppet troops and all the armed police in Beiping. tried to use these as cannon fodder for the puppet army, at least barely holding back part of the forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

After all, these two puppet armies were formed by the Chongqing government army captured in the first half of the fourth and third years when they were sweeping Linxian County. Although it is not reassuring to fight against the Chongqing side, when fighting against the communist army, there is still some combat effectiveness, and these people can still be trusted. However, considering some factors, Okamura Ninji still sent a gendarmerie to supervise the battle.

As a result, they did not expect that these puppet troops who had participated in the defense of Linyi and inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, and were not willing to fight for the tiger, collapsed as soon as they left Beiping City and received a few bombs. The Japanese military police supervising the war not only failed to play the role of supervising the war, but were also attacked by these former national troops who were dissatisfied with the puppet army because of the surrender of the commander-in-chief.

One division even tied up all the officers above the battalion level, along with the Japanese advisers, and surrendered to the Anti-Japanese Union en masse. After the mutiny of these two puppet army divisions, in addition to more than 100 gendarmes and two brigades of guards, there was not even a single caretaker in the huge Beiping City, where did he go to Lieutenant General Shiro Hayabuchi to find reinforcements.

Tianjin's counterattack has been slow to make progress. The main force of the 27th Division, which was encircled in more than a dozen key points on the south bank of the North Canal, was also dying. The two wings of the 48th Division, which were later transferred, were unable to recapture Baodi and get in touch with the 27th Division, despite trying all kinds of methods and even launching a group-style wave charge.

Even if it had reached a place less than 10 kilometers away from the 27th Division, it was unable to get close to the 27th Division. Moreover, because of its heavy casualties, it had to turn to the defense of the whole line east of Baodi. Relying on several surrounding rivers to build a position, prepare for the counterattack of the Anti-Union.

In Pingxi, the 110th Division and the Independent Mixed Eighth Brigade were also completely cut off from Beiping City by the enemy. The 110th Division transferred the strength of two brigades and continuously launched assaults in the direction of Sanjiadian. But he was never able to recapture the three stores, and he was beaten to Wanping City by the enemy.

The main force of the 110th Division was trapped on the line from Xishan to Fangshan, and the somewhat messy defensive circle that was originally hastily thrown into the battlefield and was divided by the terrain of Xishan had been torn apart by the enemy. The entire Pingxi battlefield has formed a situation where you have me, and I have you. The main force of the 110th Division is no longer completely complete.

Under the general attack of the enemy, although the 110th Division adopted the tactics of fighting point by point. However, within one day, he still lost several commanding heights in the Fangshan area, such as Dafang Mountain, Laolongwo, and Chestnut City, and his own depth was also quite threatened. There is no possibility of transferring the 110th Division back to Beiping City.

The pressure on the 59th Division in the Tongzhou direction was the smallest among the surrounding divisions. However, the whole division has been entangled by the enemy, and it is entangled in the front line of Songzhuang, Lucheng, and Zhangjiawan on the front line of Tongzhou, and no one can help anyone. Although it is already close to Beiping City, it just can't get over.

The erosion of the entire battle situation made Okamura Ningji quite anxious. He believed that he still underestimated the threat posed by the anti-Japanese alliance moving south, and also underestimated the determination of the enemy army. He had already expected that the Anti-Japanese Federation would sooner or later go south to enter the pass, but he did not expect his opponent to dare to transfer so many troops south to the battlefield in North China under the situation that the Kwantung Army's heavy troops were gathered in the south.