Chapter 411: Siege of Beiping

The commander of the Japanese artillery, a telegram sent to the Supreme Commander Kazuki Kiyoji, asking His Excellency the Commander to quickly mobilize the artillery units to support, and the artillery of the reinforcement troops, under the blow of the squadron artillery, had no strength to fight again, and their artillery firepower was several times more than ours.

If this continues, the artillery unit of the imperial army will exist in name only, and there are only four words for Kazuki Kiyoji to call back: "Continue to attack" The Japanese artillery commander, holding the reply from His Excellency the commander, his hands are trembling, let him take what to continue the attack? With the only remaining dozens of mén artillery? Or let the artillerymen go to the charge with the shells? He felt that His Excellency the Commander was simply unreasonable

The same is true of the order given to the infantry divisions and regiments, to continue the offensive and to relieve the siege of Tianjin at any cost.

Beiping, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Garrison Army, Kazuki Kiyoji scolded the artillery commander in his heart, doesn't this hún egg know? In the establishment of the imperial army, there has never been an independent artillery unit, and you, the commander, were appointed temporarily in order to concentrate the artillery fire of the reinforcements.

Let me go there and transfer artillery again for you? This is in the telegram, if it were in person, the commander, he would slap him hard and scold the pig's head.

After sending reinforcements, Xiangyue Qingji will no longer suffer from gains and losses, Tianjin will be saved, but the process of making up his mind is more painful, until now, he still thinks that Tang Qiuli's ultimate goal is to recapture Beiping and fight Tianjin, just to mobilize the defenders of Beiping.

However, Tianjin cannot afford to lose, if Tianjin is lost, Beiping will fall into a lonely city, Tashiro Wanichiro's chair, the butt is not yet hot, he doesn't want to be like Tashiro, leave in a hurry.

The Japanese commander who received the death order, the arrogance and arrogance in his heart, the ferocity in his bones, was sent out, the army of the Japanese Empire, swept through Manchuria, and occupied North China, when was he beaten so shrunk and shrunk, hesitated, and feared?

As a result, in front of the blocking position on the front line of Langfang, there was a frenzied scene, and the Japanese army launched a decisive bōlàng attack on the front of the independent division on a frontage more than ten kilometers wide.

Officers of all levels of the Japanese army, holding high command knives, without the cover of artillery fire and armored vehicles, led the soldiers, braving the fierce artillery fire of the independent division, and rushed over like an outlaw.

The artillery fire, which greeted the Japanese army, was the eruption of the volcano of the independent division, and on the flat field, the explosion points of the shells were connected into a series of jumping lightning, and each lightning bolt was an insurmountable place of death.

The làng head of the Japanese charge was like encountering a hard rock, which was shattered by the impact, and one làng head disappeared, and another surged up and was smashed again.

Tang Qiuli was in the command headquarters, witnessing the spectacular scene of the shelling, reflecting half of the sky, feeling drenched with joy and addicted, this is exactly the way he hoped to play, let the Japanese use the ròu body, go and fight with my cannon bayonet, to see if your bushido is powerful, or my cannon is powerful.

History is really strikingly similar, when the Japanese army fought with the squadron, it relied on fierce artillery fire, before launching an attack, it was first a fierce artillery bombardment, giving a large number of casualties to the defenders, often without waiting for the Japanese infantry to charge, the positions of the Chinese defenders have been bombed and shattered, and in the face of the Japanese army such as cháo, the undefeated are almost rare

Later, the ratio of all troops, infantry and artillery reached two to one, and each field brigade included four infantry regiments, two artillery regiments, and one air defense regiment, and the division headquarters formed an artillery headquarters.

At more than four o'clock in the morning, the Japanese commander stopped in shock, and when only two people came, the Eighth Division and the Eleventh Division that participated in the attack had already lost more than 12,000 soldiers, plus the sudden encounter in front, the two divisions had more than 70,000 troops, and had lost more than 18,000 people.

They can't stand it anymore, they continue to fight like this, they put all their forces into it, and they can't fill this bottomless dòng, the shells of the squadron, like stones that don't want money, have never stopped where did they get so many shells?

The Japanese reinforcements, the deputy chief of staff of the North China garrison and the commanders of the two divisions secretly cursed that the artillery of the independent division brought the meanness and cunning of the Chinese to the extreme, large-caliber artillery, cut off the connection between the second echelon and the first echelon, and blocked the retreat route of retreat.

Xiǎo caliber artillery and mortars, in front of the blocking shè fire, fire cover, Japanese soldiers, like a pig put into the oven, pi jiao ròu rotten, many soldiers, before they heard the gunshot, were blown up in the air by shells, luckily broke through the fire net, they were greeted by the roar of light and heavy machine guns, and the occasional sound of rifle fire, that is the sniper in jīng did kill the Japanese commander.

They jointly sent a telegram to Xiangyue Qingji: "On the front line of Langfang, the artillery fire of the Chinese army is extremely fierce, and the front area more than ten kilometers wide is controlled by the enemy's artillery, after many assaults, all of them have not worked, and our casualties have been close to one-third, if it continues, not only Tianjin will not be rescued, but our department will also fall into a catastrophe, please make a decision as soon as possible and allow our department to return to Beiping."

Historically, Japanese generals pursued the principle of attacking and attacking again, and the commander who demanded the retreat of the line of fire was regarded as a cowardly ghost and would be laughed at by his colleagues.

The 15th Division of the Japanese Army, which reinforced Tianjin from the direction of Chaichangtun and Hexiwu, was not pleased, and the terrain here was not as flat as that around Langfang, and the terrain was relatively dangerous, which was suitable for blocking or ambush warfare.

When the 15th Division of the Japanese Army entered this area, it was hit by a sudden and fierce artillery fire, and then it ate a dense meal of bullets, and hurriedly retreated to a safe place.

However, the commander of the 15th Division was more intelligent, he did not carry out a wing-scale assault, but only made many multi-directional assaults on the scale of a squadron, although he did not gain any benefits, and the casualties of the troops were much greater, and he also sent a telegram to the commander.

Xiangyue Qingji received a telegram, Jī Ling had a cold war, and there was an ominous premonition in his heart, Tianjin could not be saved, and the devil Tang Qiuli of the Zhina, this time the sudden launch of the campaign to attack Tianjin, the purpose was not only to capture Tianjin, but to consume the garrison strength of our Beiping, I am afraid that it was his real purpose.

Continue to reinforce Tianjin, 100,000 troops will be consumed on the way to reinforcements, and the remaining 100,000 troops will defend Beiping, how to ensure that Beiping is not lost? After losing Tianjin and Beiping, I am afraid that I will really go to a military court.

He sent a telegram to the two reinforcements, ordering them to leave the battlefield immediately and quickly withdraw to a defensive point in Beiping to prevent the independent division from attacking Beiping.

In fact, Xiangyue Qingji really considered Tang Qiuli's thinking complicatedly, Tang Qiuli didn't have the idea of fighting Beiping at all, otherwise, he would not have given up at the beginning, and he could consume the living force of the Japanese army in the field, and he also took advantage of it.

Xiangyue Qingji farted in the middle of the night, scared himself awake, and after arranging for the reinforcements to withdraw to Beiping, he sent a telegram to Gao Dao, who was trapped in Tianjin, truthfully explaining that the reinforcements were blocked in Langfang and Hexi on the front line, and suffered heavy losses.

Wangtakashima Jun carried forward the god of bushido jīng of the Japanese emperor, resisted the attack of the Shina army alone, attracted the Shina army under the city of Tianjin, and waited for the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army's southward corps

This telegram, Xiangyue Qingji himself didn't believe it, Tang Qiu left such a big capital, if he didn't take Tianjin, he wouldn't stop, the implication, Tianjin's buddies and compatriots, you ask for more blessings, I really can't help, this is a mess

The 15th Division of the Japanese Army in the area of Chaichangtun, when they heard that the troops on the South Road had suffered heavy losses, had retreated to Beiping, and hurriedly turned around and ran.

The reinforcements of the two routes were all sent back to Beiping, and Tang Qiuli also vaguely guessed the idea of Xiangyue Qingji, he was afraid that I would take the opportunity to recapture Beiping, so I would do a fake show, and besiege Beiping, and give Tianjin a period of time to accept and fight for stability.

From the blocking troops on the front line of Langfang, he sent a brigade from the direction of Wuqing, a northern suburb of Tianjin, and suddenly attacked the urban area of Tianjin, stabbing the recalcitrant Japanese army in the flank.

The rest of the troops, holding the shadow of the Japanese army, rushed to Beiping like a tsunami, and the art of war: "Five times the encirclement, ten times the attack," Tang Qiuli dared to surround Beiping under the condition that the strength of Xiangyue Qingji was equal, or even slightly weaker than the Japanese army, and what he saw was that Xiangyue Qingji was afraid of his psychology of retaking Beiping.

The troops chased the heels of the Japanese army, and swept away the stronghold of the Japanese army along the way, and the Japanese army retreated in such a panic that they did not leave a blocking force, it seemed that they were frightened, and the pursuing troops of the Independent Division and the 29th Army, as if they were in a no-man's land, quickly killed to the outskirts of Beiping.

This move really worked, and Commander Xiangyueqing hurriedly abandoned the outlying strongholds of Beiping, and shrank all the troops back into the city, even Wanping City was abandoned, intending to rely on the strong city walls of Beiping to defend it.

At about 5 a.m. on July 17, 1937, the Japanese army provoked a full-scale war of aggression against China, and Wanping City, which fired the first shot, changed hands again and fell into the hands of the 129th Regiment of the 38th Division of the 29th Army.

And the 219th Regiment, originally stationed in Wanping Jixingwen Regiment, I don't know whether it is a historical coincidence, or Tang Qiuli's intentional arrangement, this is also the first town recovered by the ** squadron since the start of the war in North China, at that time, the Battle of Tianjin has come to an end.

Tang Qiuli's troops who entered a brigade in the city from the northern suburbs of Tianjin became a fatal straw that crushed the Japanese army, and the Japanese army, which was already on the verge of a desperate situation and was fighting for trapped beasts, in the face of this sudden blow, the last trace of the will to resist completely collapsed, and it was only a matter of time before they perished.

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