Chapter 410: The Beijing-Tianjin Corridor Blockade

After Liu Tiehan's corps attacked Tianjin for five xiǎo hours, the Japanese reinforcements in Beiping were finally dispatched, according to the normal marching speed, five xiǎo hours of time, enough time for the troops to come to the city of Tianjin, rescue the soldiers like fighting fires, why the Japanese army's reaction speed was so slow, has always been a mystery, according to the words of Kazuki Kiyoji after the Battle of Tianjin, it was the troops scattered in various places, and it took a lot of time to assemble làng.

However, it was circulated within the headquarters of the Japanese North China Garrison Army that after receiving the news of the attack on Tianjin, His Excellency the Commander was extremely painful, seemed to be indecisive, and had many worries, and completely lost the indomitable jīng spirit of a Japanese soldier, and the reinforcements were only dispatched after Tianjin was attacked for five xiǎo hours, which subtly illustrates the complex psychological activities of His Excellency the Commander.

The direction of the march of the Japanese reinforcements in Beiping happened to be the key blocking area arranged by Tang Qiuli, and it should be said that the net was waiting, whether this shows that the Japanese reinforcements returned in vain, or the end of the bloody outcome, however, it is no wonder that Xiangyue Qingji, through Langfang, is the nearest passage to Tianjin.

Knowing that the Japanese Beiping reinforcements were crashing into their arranged pockets, Tang Qiuli was greatly invigorated, and seeing that there was no one else in the headquarters, he shouted at Mei Ting: "Madam, bring the gun" Mei Ting was so angry that she pinched him fiercely, and took out Tang Long's gun, Tang Qiuli stepped on the gun in a chic posture, turned around and left, and saw Mei Ting's beautiful eyes again and again.

Tang Qiuli is also addicted to guns, can he still let him go to the front line? Needless to say, in terms of strength, Tang Qiuli is really scared of the mountain tiger, that guy is simply a pervert, like a strong King Kong.

It was the soldiers of the special guards under her command who held them with guns and didn't let go of themselves, Mei Ting was sad at this level, especially with tears in her eyes and worried looks, which made Tang Qiuli feel distressed to death.

No wonder one of the famous generals sighed, the more troops he commanded, the farther away from the sound of guns, and going into battle to kill the enemy, it could only be a dream.

The area around Langfang, Hebei Province, in the Beijing-Tianjin Corridor, is a flat field, with open terrain and no dangerous terrain to defend, which is most suitable for large-scale armored clusters to advance or surprise the defenders' positions.

The Xiǎo Zhao Chariot Wing is the only armored unit in the establishment of the Japanese army stationed in North China, equipped with 235 "Izu III" light tanks, more than 80 armored vehicles, and 30 mén self-propelled guns.

Captain of the Great Zuo Wing, Xiǎo Zhao Yifu, graduated from the Armored Command Department of the Imperial Japanese Army University, is an authentic Japanese army armored unit commander, since stationed in North China, Xiǎo Zhao Yifu's mood is not very good, he is eager to make meritorious contributions, in the battlefield of China, for the family to win glory, Xiǎo Zhao family, but Japan's famous mén family, has been a famous general in the past generations.

However, looking around the Chinese army in North China, there were not even a few trucks, so where did he go to find an opponent? Even looking at the entire army of the Chinese government, there is no formed armored force, and the master is lonely, xiǎo Zhao sighed helplessly.

On the night of the 77 Incident, Xiǎo Zhao, who was stationed in Tianjin, asked Commander Tashiro Wanichiro for war several times and asked for support for the Beiping battlefield, but he was all refused, and after being transferred to Beiping, he was even more uncomfortable.

In the command car, he ordered all the vehicles to turn on their headlights and move at full speed, he wanted to be the first to rush to Tianjin, so that those soldiers who fought only with rifles could wash the chariots with the blood of the soldiers of the Chinese soldiers under the tracks of the tanks.

In order to ensure that there was enough assault force, Xiǎo Zhao refused to divide the troops into two parts, evenly distributed in two directions, and he concentrated all his forces in the direction of Langfang, in his expert eyes, the area around Langfang is a natural tank battlefield in North China, even if the Chinese army has a blocking position, it cannot withstand the surprise attack of his own wing.

Xiǎo Zhao asked for speed, but in this way, the distance between the tank and the infantry was widened, and the armored troops without infantry cover were very vulnerable to attacks from different directions.

When the Xiǎo Zhao Chariot Wing appeared in the sight of the soldiers of the Independent Division, it had already opened a distance of fifteen kilometers from the Japanese infantry that followed.

In the pitch-black field, a large area of snow-white light appeared in the telescope of the observation post at the forward observation post of the independent division, in fact, you can see it really without a telescope, and in the dark night, the lights of hundreds of motor vehicles, like flashing wolf eyes, are extremely clear.

The situation was quickly reported to the command headquarters, and Tang Qiuli and the generals in the command headquarters also saw a light on the vast field, and the Japanese tanks could only go in this direction.

The artillery positions of the blocking troops of the independent division, a ménmén large-caliber artillery, slowly raised the thick muzzle, and the artillery observation posts at the front constantly reported the distance, movement speed, and orientation of the Japanese armored units approaching the blocking position.

The dozens of Japanese tanks moving at high speed at the front suddenly turned headlong into the anti-tank trench dug by the independent division, almost vertically erected, with stubby barrels, directly plunged into the soft soil, the engine snorted a few times, and a puff of smoke went out.

However, the Japanese troops in the tank car couldn't get out, and they shouted loudly on the radio in a hurry, and when Zhao Yifu learned of the situation, he was somewhat surprised, and there were still people in the army who knew how to do it? Know how to dig an anti-tank ditch?

However, this is not difficult to do Xiǎo Zhao Yifu, xiǎo pediatric tricks, he ordered the follow-up tanks and armored vehicles, along the road opened by the tanks planted in the ditch, with these tanks as stepping stones, continue to advance, the big deal is to finish the battle, drag it up again, and repair it.

According to the order, the Japanese tanks divided into several roads and prepared to pass through the anti-tank trench in turn, when suddenly, in the dark and silent field in front of them, bursts of fire broke out, followed by the rumbling sound of huge artillery.

The bright lights of the car in the dark night were the best target, and the artillerymen of the independent division, who did not even need the artillery observer to report the coordinates, fired the shells fiercely against a piece of light.

The fierce artillery fire shrouded the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles in a steel storm of death, and the artillery fire was so dense that some Japanese tanks were directly hit by several shells at the same time, and exploded into a ball of fire, and the turrets that blew up flew into the sky.

The earth was burning, trembling, the Japanese tank assembly area was blown into a sea of fire, in the duel between artillery and tanks, the tanks could not take advantage, and the Japanese tanks began to fight back, but their tanks were equipped with direct-aim artillery, and the shells from the shè exploded at a distance from the artillery positions of the independent division

On the contrary, the 30 mén Japanese self-propelled guns exerted their might, and in a rapid round of fire, the artillery positions of the independent division burst into flames, and more than a dozen mén guns were blown up, and the artillery also suffered casualties.

However, the good days of the Japanese self-propelled artillery were obviously coming to an end, and the ballistic trajectory was captured, and it immediately attracted the retaliation of nearly 100 mén artillery shells, and the raindrops of shells smashed on the gun positions of the Japanese self-propelled guns, and the disproportionate fire density was predictable.

When the Japanese infantry arrived behind, the vast battlefield was full of smoking tanks and armored vehicles, and from time to time there were explosive bullets, exploding a ball of fireball wrapped in smoke, and the Zhao Chariot Wing was wiped out, and none of them escaped such a fate.

Xiǎo Zhao Yifu can no longer display his ambitions and make achievements, and in the command car, he has been burned into a ball of black coal, and only the dull command knife and the name engraved on the handle can identify him.

The Japanese infantrymen looked at this qiē in amazement, opened their mouths and stuck out their tongues, and a thick chill came out of their hearts, the armored warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, all of them were shattered like this, and we who were not protected by steel shells would not end up even worse?

The commander of the Japanese army who reinforced Tianjin did not allow him to be frightened, and ordered his troops to quickly pass Guò, Tianjin was in a tight situation, Takashima had already sent several telegrams for help, his fortifications were under fierce siege, and were gradually compressed, and without foreign aid, Tianjin would be lost.

The Japanese army of the brigade was chilling in their hearts, trembling through the burning armored vehicles, and did not encounter the bullets and artillery fire of the squadron, but the Japanese tanks that exploded killed many soldiers, and the Japanese commander felt this bad luck in his heart.

Less than a kilometer after crossing the anti-tank trench, the pitch-black field in front of it suddenly came to life, bursting out with sparks, light and heavy machine gun bullets, and a gust of wind blew on the flat ground, sweeping towards the dense Japanese formation.

Then, countless mortar shells and large-caliber artillery shells fell like a meteor shower into the ranks of the Japanese army, and in the direction of their advance, they exploded into a wall of fire, an impenetrable sea of death.

The Japanese army retreated like water, leaving corpses everywhere, and the Japanese reinforcement troops, the 8th Advance Guard Division, suffered a heavy blow, the chief of staff of the division was torn apart by the shells, the division commander was seriously wounded, the troops were reduced by one-fifth, and the formation was disabled.

The artillery of the Japanese army hurriedly built a position and launched a fierce artillery bombardment of the artillery position of the independent division, and it was an artillery battle, and the shells of both sides, dragging the dark red tail flame, shuttled back and forth like meteors, and the artillery of the independent division showed their might, and the Japanese artillery was dumbfounded.

At the end of the battle, as soon as the Japanese artillery fired, it would attract the siege of more than five mén artillery of the independent division, and the Japanese artillery commander almost vomited blood.

There are not a few mén left of the intact artillery, as far as he knows, the squadron ** does not have so many artillery pieces at all, and there are not so many shells, but the shells of the squadron ** did fall on their heads, and the power is much greater than the shells of the imperial army, what the hell?

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