Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 405: Leaving sadly

On July 12, China and Japan reached a ceasefire agreement. Both sides sent personnel to survey the site and draw a ceasefire line. The agreement stipulated that the ceasefire line should be the midpoint between the armies of both sides and extend five kilometers in the opposite direction as a demilitarized zone.

To ensure that the armies of both sides disengage.

On the night of July 11th, the Japanese troops stationed in Peiping went out all night in various places on the outskirts of Beijing, busy seizing various key points abandoned by the 29th Army in order to occupy more territory. The Japanese are very thoughtful.

made.

After receiving the report from the special operations detachment, Tang Qiuli laughed loudly and let the Japanese perform monkey tricks. Our attention was not on Peking at all. However, in order to make the trick come true, he instructed the people responsible for demarcating the ceasefire line with the Japanese army.

Li Honggang fought hard and refused to give up an inch of ground.

On July 13, fine drizzle fell in various places in Pingjin and Tianjin. The sky was overcast with low clouds and the raindrops were weeping. The great plains of North China, which are thousands of miles away, were shrouded in smoke-like drizzle.

At Tianjin Airport, a transport plane flying from Japan, escorted by four fighter jets, landed on the drizzly runway, splashing water.

On the plane, several Japanese soldiers with the rank of general got off the plane, got into the car, and rushed towards the headquarters of the Japanese North China Garrison Army in the rain.

Tashiro Anichiro and Nishimura Masahashi were waiting in the conference room with sad expressions. Yesterday, he had received the decision from the base camp regarding the failure of the Peking Campaign.

The base camp decided that in view of the fact that Lieutenant General Anichiro Tashiro, the former commander of the North China Garrison Army, and Lieutenant General Nishimura Masahashi, the chief of staff, were not aware of the enemy when they commanded the Peiping Campaign, and neglected to take precautions against Tang Qiu's departure from the North China Army Division.

, resulting in a disastrous defeat in the first battle in North China, and the troops suffered heavy losses.

However, when their troops were surrounded by the enemy, the two men commanded improperly, behaved in a panic, and failed to take effective measures to get the troops out of passivity, causing the war situation in North China to deteriorate beyond control and affecting the empire's overall strategic deployment towards China.

As a result, Anichiro Tashiro is deprived of his position as the supreme commander of the China North China Garrison and Nishimura Masahashi's position as chief of staff. He will be immediately transferred back to the mainland to accept the decision. The vacant positions will be taken over by personnel from the base camp. From the moment you receive the order, you

The people immediately handed over military affairs and returned randomly.

Tashiro and Nishimura were full of bitterness. They were like brothers in trouble, sharing the same pain. That guy Matsui Kutaro had seriously neglected his duties, but nothing happened at all. He was still leisurely in front of his secret service chief.

The two of us ended up being dismissed from our posts and returned to our country to stand trial. It is hard to predict what the outcome will be. Our ambitions to expand overseas territory for the Japanese Empire, conquer China, and establish immortal achievements have all come to nothing. Sunshine

Dissipated like smoke below.

As soldiers, they lost the battle and could not hold their heads high in the military for the rest of their lives. The two of them were filled with unwillingness and dissatisfaction. Their hearts were so depressed that they were almost burning. They had the urge to smash everything in the house. With the outcome of the war, could it be that I was waiting for it?

fault?

They were not allowed to think too much. The person who took over their duties was waiting outside the door. Several agents from the Special Higher Education Division of the General Staff Headquarters took Tashiro Amiichiro and Nishimura Masahashi to the airport as if they were protecting or escorting them.

Anichiro Tashiro took one last nostalgic look at the splendid rivers and mountains of North China, thousands of miles of fertile wilderness. After several years of hard work, he worked hard for the empire and almost sacrificed his fortune and life, but it ended like this. Why did I have to face off against the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli?

, was it the result of Amaterasu drinking too much sake and having sex after drinking?

The drizzle was miserable, and Anichiro Tashiro looked gloomy and felt gloomy. He left North China in panic and returned to Japan. From then on, he disappeared from the Japanese military circles and was never heard from again.

On July 13, 1937, the former commander of Japan's North China Garrison, Anichiro Tashiro, was dismissed from his post as commander by the base camp and sadly left China. The deputy chief of staff of the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters, Kozuki Kiyoshi, took over as commander.

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In fact, Anichiro Tashiro need not be so sad. He was not the first Japanese theater commander to be dismissed by Tang Qiuli. As early as in the Northeast, the Kwantung Army Commander Masayoshi Muto also suffered a defeat at the hands of Tang Qiuli.

, I resigned from my official position and left sadly. My companion on the road to losing my official position was Anichiro Tashiro. Is this road lonely?

As soon as Xiangyue Qingji took office, he immediately adjusted his deployment and deployed the Second Division, Eighteenth Division, Twenty-first Division, Eighth Brigade, Hasada Detachment, and Inoue Task Force Detachment stationed in Tianjin, totaling 140,000

All the troops were mobilized to the periphery of Peiping, forming two lines of defense with dense firepower and troops.

Xiangyue Qingsi's move was intended to prevent the Japanese division's troops from trying to recapture Peiping while the Japanese troops were damaged. He believed that the Chinese people reacted violently to Tang Qiuli's loss of Peiping, and with Tang Qiuli's strength

With his character and personality, he will definitely take back Peiping, as if the people have an explanation.

In this way, there are only the Japanese Seventh Division, the Ninth Division and the Military Police Headquarters in Tianjin, with about 75,000 troops. He also moved the Japanese North China Garrison Headquarters to Peiping City. Now, he has

I hope Tang Qiuli will come and capture the city of Beiping. In that case, corpses of the Japanese army will be scattered all over the field, causing heavy losses, and it will also help the Japanese army in North China regain their glory.

At the same time, Xiangyue Qingji deeply felt that the Japanese troops in North China were insufficient, so he could still defend several key cities in North China and occupy the entire territory of North China. It was beyond his power, let alone attack the Central Plains of China in the south.

He requested the Japanese base camp to increase military power in North China. After careful consideration, the base camp found that North China was the starting point for the Japanese strategic offensive and the place where strategic resources were raised. It was crucial to the Empire of Japan's strategy against China. He felt that Kozuki Kiyoshi's request

, which was very reasonable, so we decided to increase our troops in North China.

The elite Itagaki Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, the 14th Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, and the 8th Mixed Brigade, with a total of 170,000 troops, formed the Southward Corps and joined North China.

battlefield.

The Third Army, Fifth Army, and Sixth Division of the Korean Garrison Army, totaling 260,000 people, formed the China North China Dispatch Corps and immediately set off to North China. The command was vested in the North China Garrison Army Headquarters.

The newly formed 25th Division, 26th Division, 28th Division, and 31st Division were transferred from the mainland, a total of four first-class divisions with a total strength of 140,000.

The China Battlefield Support Corps will depart from the mainland from now on, disembark at Tianjin Port, and join the North China Battlefield.

The Japanese base camp spent a lot of money in North China, adding 570,000 troops to the North China battlefield. In addition to the remaining 200,800 troops from the North China garrison, the number of troops Japan invested in the North China battlefield reached an unprecedented level.

850,000 people.

The Japanese Army Air Force's 1st and 3rd Air Force were mobilized, with a total of 850 fighter jets and 230 dive bombers.

If Japan devotes most of its forces to the North China battlefield, it will be an unprecedented huge pressure for Tang Qiuli. The mobile forces in his hands are only 11 infantry brigades, five artillery brigades, and five cavalry brigades of the ** Division.

brigade, an air defense brigade, and a special operations detachment, totaling 210,000 people.

Against the existing strength of the Japanese army in North China, Tang Qiuli could guarantee that all the Japanese troops would be eaten up in less than two months. If all the Japanese reinforcements rushed to the battlefield in North China, Tang Qiuli would have no choice but to take a defensive stance.

He still had a force that he could mobilize, which was the more than 40,000 troops of the 29th Army assembled in Baoding. However, Tang Qiuli still had no confidence in the combat effectiveness of the 29th Army. Even though on the night of July 7th,

All units of the 29th Army fought well.

He now has a plan to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese army before the Japanese reinforcements arrive in North China, and the chosen target of the attack is Tianjin, where the Japanese army's defense force is relatively weak.

The Japanese reinforcements from North Korea and Japan are unlikely to arrive in a short time. This is Tang Qiuli's fighter plane. The Kwantung Army's troops are what he is most worried about. Once an attack on Tianjin is launched, the Kwantung Army's southward troops

, suddenly joining the battlefield was a great threat to the troops. From Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan to Tianjin, it was closer than to Peiping. The Kwantung Army could rush there all day and night.

If Tianjin does not fight, there will never be another opportunity to annihilate the Japanese army on such a large scale in the future. The key to this battle is to block it on two sides, one side is the Japanese army in Peiping, and the other side is the Kwantung Army troops moving south.

Although the Kwantung Army's southward marching corps at this time has not yet made any move to enter the Pass, once Tianjin starts fighting, the Kwantung Army's southward marching corps will definitely do its best to rescue. In this way, the number of Japanese troops gathered around Tianjin will reach nearly 400,000.

The troops, even if their bellies were bursting, would not be able to eat so many Japanese troops. If not, they would be entangled by the Japanese troops outside Tianjin, creating a mess of raw food.

Tang Qiuli spent the whole day thinking in front of the battle map, repeatedly weighing the balance of power and various unexpected situations. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Tianjin's 60,000 Japanese troops were definitely a piece of fat. If he didn't eat them now, I'm afraid.

There would be no chance.

He also has a secret force in his hand, which is the main force disguised as the Tianjin Police Department police force, which consists of two reinforced regiments with more than 7,000 people, and the eight urban combat teams of the Canal Gang.

There are more than 8,000 people. In this way, there are 15,000 troops of the *** division lurking in Tianjin.

On the evening of July 14, Tang Qiuli finally made up his mind to attack Tianjin. At midnight, he issued a mobilization order for the Tianjin campaign to all troops.

In the Zhangjiakou area, the Feng Jiwu Corps on standby set out immediately, bypassed the Japanese strongholds on the outskirts of Peiping, passed through Chengde, and moved covertly to the front line of Shanhaiguan to build fortifications in preparation to block the Kwantung Army's southward march.

In the Baoding area, the Li Honggang Corps on standby passed through the junction of Pingjin and Tianjin and rushed to the Shanhaiguan line to join Feng Jiwu's Corps to form a blocking corps, jointly responsible for blocking the Kwantung Army's southward marching corps.

The two armies have a total strength of 120,000 troops, which is more than sufficient for the 170,000 troops of the Kwantung Army's marching south. After all, the Japanese army is on an expedition, while our army is waiting for work. Moreover, the two armies have concentrated **

With the firepower of the division's three artillery brigades, the Japanese army had to have a good mouth if they wanted to break through the blocking defense line.

To be on the safe side, he strengthened the air defense brigade to the blocking corps. The high-level dual-purpose machine guns of the air defense brigade are definitely the nemesis of infantry and thinly armored vehicles. Moreover, Japanese aircraft may also join in the fun.

(To be continued)