Chapter 139: The Secret of the Japanese Concession
Relying on the experience of fighting on the battlefield in the past few years, Liu Guanghua judged that the Japanese army would at least launch another onslaught before it was completely dark. But after dark, I'm afraid I won't continue to attack. According to the current situation of the Japanese army, it must completely solve its own troops in Hedong.
The visual distance is limited after dark, and launching an attack at this time will form a loophole. If the Japanese attack for the last time and fail to solve themselves, they will resort to siege tactics instead. And they don't risk the danger of easily slipping through the net and attacking at night.
Because of the special structure of the city, even if flares are used in battle, the effect will not be too obvious. As for the street lamps in this area, they have long been blown up into the sky by the Japanese army's own shells. And in a street battle of this scale, using a searchlight to illuminate the battlefield is a slow death.
So before waiting for the Japanese army to attack for the last time before dark, he took advantage of the paralyzing thoughts he had caused to the Japanese army by being passively defending. Before the Japanese launched this last attack, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army had deployed its forces, it was mainly concentrated on the front and southwest sides, and concentrated its forces to protrude from the northwest corner of the battlefield.
Before the Japanese could react, they rushed through Fukushima Street and entered the residential area around the Nanihankan. As long as you can rush through Fukushima Street and enter the residential area to the west, it can be said that you will be in the sea for those who are familiar with every street and alley in the Japanese Concession. When the time comes, it will not be so easy for the Japanese army to catch itself again. This is the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake.
Although Liu Guanghua knew very well that the Japanese army would definitely mobilize as many troops as possible during the last attack before dark. The northwest corner, which turned out to be the focus of the Japanese army's deployment, may also be blocked. Choosing to break through at this time is not a favorable situation.
However, Liu Guanghua still chose this time to break through, in addition to achieving the greatest tactical suddenness, it can also attract the surrounding Japanese targets to the greatest extent. He couldn't leave all the Japanese troops to the instructors who had only one platoon in his hands and a lot of wounded.
The Japanese army in front of Liu Guanghua did not leave him much time to prepare. Just as Liu Guanghua had just gathered to the west of Okura with the troops scheduled to attack, the Japanese army began artillery preparations before the attack. Nine infantry guns, four mountain guns, and two 120-millimeter howitzers once again covered the Okura Yoko that Liu Guanghua had firmly guarded.
As if the attack was to be done in its entirety, the artillery cover before the Japanese attack lasted quite long. Half an hour passed, but it still did not subside, and a large number of shells continued to explode inside and outside the Okura Foreign Company, blowing up the already damaged Foreign Bank and the attached warehouses even more dilapidated.
Even if the Japanese did not cut corners and built this foreign company stronger, after all, it was just an ordinary civilian building. Moreover, under the artillery fire of the Japanese army for a long time, it was already beaten and dilapidated, and even the roof of the house was completely opened, and it looked crumbling under this intensive shelling.
In the face of the Japanese shelling, which had lasted for half an hour, but had not yet subsided, Liu Guanghua was unusually steady. He and his troops patiently hid in the foreign store, waiting for the Japanese bombardment to end. Behind him, Li Meng insisted on transferring a Japanese 25-mm anti-aircraft gun, ready to open fire.
In front of Okura & Co., all the cadres and soldiers of the stubborn troops under the command of Li Meng, together with all the lightly wounded who could fight, also neatly stacked the grenades and the magazines of the automatic rifles in their hands to their sides, ready for a decisive battle. The seriously wounded clutched a grenade in his hand, waiting for the final moment.
Although the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, there was still a moment of end in the end. As soon as the Japanese artillery preparations were over, as Liu Guanghua's raised left hand slashed down fiercely, the 25-millimeter anti-aircraft gun behind him took advantage of the large hole opened by the Japanese artillery fire and immediately opened fire, striking vigorously at the northwest corner of the foreign company.
Under the cover of this anti-aircraft gun and all the machine guns, Liu Guanghua jumped out with a submachine gun and all the attacking troops. With a dense rain of grenades and the intensive fire of the squad with machine guns hanging on the chest, the road was opened and the Japanese troops in the northwest rushed rapidly.
And a squadron of Japanese troops who had just concentrated on the opposite side and was preparing to launch an attack was obviously blinded by Liu Guanghua's hand. The fire of the 25-mm anti-aircraft guns that were swept over was instantly knocked down. And before these Japanese troops could recover their strength, Liu Guanghua and his three reinforced platoons, under the cover of machine guns and grenades, had already rushed to the front of the Japanese army.
At present, the anti-union is completely automatic firepower, and the Japanese army is simply unable to compete with this kind of close combat. The troops under the command of Liu Guanghua easily tore a hole in the front of the Japanese army in the northwest. Before the Japanese artillery reacted to the fire blockade, they rushed through Fukushima Street and entered the Japanese ghetto to the west.
Then the soldiers divided into two roads and quickly rushed towards the depth of the Japanese concession. And Li Meng, who was behind him, was also greatly relieved after seeing his partner disappear across the street from Fukushima with his troops. Regardless of Liu Guanghua's hand, whether he could attract the surrounding Japanese troops to the past, but now it seems that the first step has succeeded.
Liu Guanghua's hand caught the Japanese army off guard. It was only when Liu Guanghua's troops had disappeared to the west of Fukushima Street that the Japanese officers in charge of the command reacted. After discovering that the main force of the Anti-Japanese Union in front of him had escaped from the net, the Japanese officers who were responsible for directing the attack on Okura and knew what kind of consequences would be caused if these forces were allowed to drill behind him, immediately gave up the continuous attack on Okura and the United Nations.
Immediately transferred troops to pursue Liu Guanghua's troops, and transferred troops to Qiaoli Street and Xu Street to outflank them. As for Okura's foreign company, he couldn't take care of it for a long time. Even if there are anti-United Nations forces in it, they are much less threatening than the anti-United Nations forces that came out of the network.
As a result, he didn't expect that his actions were timely, though. But the anti-union troops that stood out were slipperier than fish, and their movements were quite fast. By the time his outflanking troops were in place, the three platoons led by Liu Guanghua were already west of the Bank of Korea, interspersed with Xubei Street.
And take advantage of the hutongs that extend in all directions south of Xu Street, between No. 41 and No. 43 Fukushima Street, and jump to the east of Fukushima Street. The Japanese troops who were responsible for outflanking on the front line of Qiaoli Street were directly hung on the front line of Qiaoli Street. At the same time, they got rid of the Japanese pursuing troops behind them and were biting up quickly.
Just as Liu Guanghua judged at the beginning, the Japanese defenders in the entire Japanese concession are now deployed in a situation that is heavy at both ends and light in the middle. The Japanese army, which had concentrated too many forces at both ends, did not have much strength in depth. After Liu Guanghua crossed Xu Street, he almost did not encounter a large number of Japanese troops, and the speed of interspersing was extremely fast. Although it took a little detour in order to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army behind him, the speed of the march was quite fast.
Originally, Liu Guanghua's move was to avoid the pursuit and outflanking of the Japanese army behind him. But he did not think of the Japanese gendarmerie in the front of the former Japanese concession in front of the interspersed route he chose. Together with the Japanese gendarmerie, the Zhonghe Hospital, which is close to the Japanese gendarmerie, and the Renai Hospital, which is across the road from the Zhonghe Hospital, hide the biggest secret of the Japanese army in Tianjin.
In fact, when Liu Guanghua crossed Xu Street, the breakthrough point he chose, there was another secret hidden in the underground vault of the Bank of North Korea. However, at that time, Liu Guanghua quickly passed through Xujie, and did not pay attention to the heavily guarded Tianjin branch of the North Korean bank.
At that time, when he crossed Xu Street with the Tianjin branch of the Bank of North Korea, Liu Guanghua was still a little surprised. There were quite a few Japanese alert troops here, and when they passed quickly, they did not intercept or pursue any of them, but just stuck in the bank.
But when the Japanese pursuers behind him were already about to chase up, Liu Guanghua didn't care to carefully check what was strange here. With the troops, they quickly bypassed the heavily guarded bank and quickly interspersed in the southeast direction. Since the Japanese troops here took the initiative to make way for themselves, what else did they have to worry about?
However, although Liu Guanghua broke through Xujie, he did not pay attention to the strangeness in the North Korean bank where he broke through. But he hit Rong Street, but he really poked a hole in the entire Japanese Concession. The secret here is extremely fatal to the entire Japanese North China Front, and even the entire Japanese army, once it is revealed.
In order to keep this secret, almost all the Japanese troops in the entire Japanese concession were mobilized. And the supreme commander of the Japanese defenders in Tianjin also gave a death order to all Japanese troops. At all costs, even if the front line is shaken, this small anti-United Nations force inserted into his stomach must be completely eliminated. Not a single soldier of this small anti-United Nations force is absolutely not allowed, even if it is close to Zhonghe Hospital and Renai Hospital.
There is no other reason for the Japanese defenders in Tianjin, risking the risk of shaking the entire battlefield of the Japanese Concession, to wipe out all Liu Guanghua's troops. In the Zhonghe Hospital in the Japanese Concession and the Renai Hospital across the street from Miyajima, there is a hidden Japanese army transferred from Beiping, the so-called North China Front Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department.
The North China Front Army's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department is just the code name for this unit to cover the Japanese army to the outside world. Just like Unit 731 back then, it was known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department of the Kwantung Army. The real name of this Japanese army is Unit 1855 of the North Branch, which is a bacteriological warfare unit under the North China Front of the Japanese Army.
And this bacteriological warfare unit of the Japanese North China Front Army was completely annihilated by the Anti-Japanese Union after Unit 731 and Unit 100 of the Kwantung Army. Quickly joined forces with the Rongzi 1644 Unit in Nanjing and the Bozi 8604 Unit in Guangzhou to become the only three remaining bacteriological warfare units of the Japanese army.
This unit, codenamed North Branch A 1855 Unit, was originally stationed in the Kagura Department of the Temple of Heaven in Beiping, and was the largest and most technologically powerful bacteriological warfare unit among the three Japanese bacteriological warfare units in the entire Guannai battlefield. After the annihilation of Unit 731, the bacteriological warfare unit to which the Japanese North China Front belonged became the backbone of the Japanese army's development and launching of bacteriological warfare.
It's just compared to Unit 731, which brought together almost all of Japan's best bacteriological warfare experts back then. The technical capability of this bacteriological warfare unit under the North China Front of the Japanese Army is the strongest among the three bacteriological warfare units of the Japanese army in Guannai. However, the overall strength and scale, as well as the ability to develop bacteriological weapons, are far inferior to those of Unit 731.
At the end of last year's battle, Beiping was already under the guns of the Anti-Japanese Union. In order to cover up the secret of this bacteriological warfare, the Japanese army urgently moved this bacteriological warfare unit from the original station of the Temple of Heaven on the outskirts of Beiping to Tianjin. So that in the event of a critical situation, the ship can be urgently boarded and evacuated. If the situation really does not allow it, the worst thing will sink all the things in the Haihe River, and the corpses can be destroyed.