Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 408: Xiangyue Qingji’s mistake

The moment Liu Tiehan attacked the corps and bombarded the Japanese positions outside Tianjin, Kozuki Kiyoshi, the commander of the Japanese North China Garrison in Peiping, immediately received an urgent telegram from the Tianjin defenders and sat down on his chair.

What does it mean for the main force of the ** Division to suddenly attack Tianjin? It means that his overall deployment has been completely in vain. Xiangyue Qingji has always believed that Tang Qiuli will compete with him for Peiping, for no other reason than what the Chinese call "face"

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With Tang Qiuli's current status, the issue of face is particularly important. Xiangyue Qingsi also read the reactions of newspapers across China to Tang Qiuli's abandonment of Peiping, which further strengthened his judgment and the next target of the Japanese army's attack.

, Peking must be in the hands of the Imperial Army of the Empire of Japan, Xiang Yue Qingji said at the military meeting.

His subordinates asked why the commander was so convinced that Tang Qiuli would attack Peiping. He smiled reservedly and said: "You don't understand the Chinese. They are very proud of themselves. The more powerful they are, the more powerful they are."

"The more we pay attention to this," therefore, he transferred all Tianjin's troops to Peiping in order to compete repeatedly with the Japanese Division on the periphery of Peiping, relying on solid city defenses to give the Japanese Division vitality and a large number of casualties.

If Xiang Yue Qingji thinks about it in reverse, on July 8, when the Japanese army occupied Peiping, was there a large-scale battle for the city, was there fierce street fighting? Was there any stubborn resistance? None, tens of thousands of people were in Peiping.

The Japanese troops who were beaten all over the outside could be said to have occupied Peiping without a single shot being fired.

In addition, he believed that the ceasefire agreement on the Peiping front line was absolutely binding on the Chinese Communists. Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, all the rules for playing games with the Chinese were made by the Japanese. It was war or peace.

People have the final say.

Although there was a Tang Qiuli who wanted to overturn the rules of the game, he was finally forced to sign a ceasefire agreement under the pressure of their government. If only he, Xiangyue Qingji, would not give up so easily, and with the power of victory, fight with all his strength

If you go down and turn North China upside down, you are not a general of the Japanese Empire. The Chinese will never have this spirit.

The agreement is for the Chinese to abide by. Wherever the soldiers of the Japanese Empire go, the agreement is made. In addition, in the heart of Xiangyue Qingji, he really hopes that Tang Qiuli will come to fight for Peiping, so that he can win the war.

The main force of the * Division is firmly attracted to the outskirts of Peiping. It only takes two weeks for reinforcements from all directions to arrive.

Nearly a million imperial troops, even with their feet, could crush Tang Qiuli, who was called the China Devil by the timid Japanese soldiers, into a pulp. To this end, Xiangyue Qingji specially formulated a plan.

When the Japanese Army began to attack Peiping, it deliberately gave up some non-important strongholds to give him some sweetness.

Now, the game started, and Xiangzuki Seiji painfully discovered that instead of being able to formulate the rules of the game, he felt like a rookie being brought into the casino. When he realized it, he had lost all his jacket and only had a pair of pants left.

He was very aware of the fate of the Tianjin garrison. The telegrams contained unprecedented bombardments, unprecedentedly violent artillery fire, the most ferocious blow the Imperial Army had faced since they entered China, countless enemies, etc.

Wait for the words that make him tremble with fear.

Tang Qiuli, the devil of China, is a villain who does not abide by the agreement. It is the fault of the soldiers that he dares to openly tear up the agreement. This job is the specialty of our Japanese soldiers. We raise the strongest protest to the Chinese government against this kind of indiscretion.

Kozuki Kiyoshi himself finds the people and behaviors of public international law amusing. Whenever a Japanese person has ever thought of public international law, he is probably the first one. His mouth can never be as tough as his fist. This is the public international law in the minds of Japanese people.

He ordered his secretary to immediately submit a letter of protest to the Nanjing National Government. The superficial article was finished, and the Tianjin matter still had to be resolved with fists.

Xiangyue Qingsi ordered the 8th Division, 11th Division, and 15th Division stationed in Peiping, with a total of more than 100,000 troops, to be assigned to the Xiaozhao Chariot Regiment to form a reinforcement Tianjin Corps, commanded by the Deputy Chief of Staff.

Langfang, emergency reinforcements to Tianjin.

He did not dare to invest all the troops in Peiping in the direction of Tianjin, to save Tianjin and lose Peiping. Xiangyue Qingsi would not do such a stupid thing. He knew very well the Chinese tactic of "making claims in the east and attacking in the west".

At the same time, he sent an urgent telegram to the southward marching corps of the Kwantung Army headed by the Itagaki Division, claiming that the China Army suddenly tore up the armistice agreement and attacked Tianjin. The situation in Tianjin was critical, and he hoped that the southward marching corps of the Kwantung Army would enter the country immediately and join in quickly.

To the Tianjin battlefield.

Before the Japanese reinforcements in Peiping were assembled, Liu Tiehan's regiment had already broken into Tianjin. After an hour of saturation bombardment, the Japanese troops outside Tianjin had been wiped out. All trenches, bunkers, bunkers, fortifications, and firepower points were wiped out.

was razed to the ground.

The soldiers of the Northeast Advance Command imagined that they would face flaming muzzles, fight over and over again, with corpses lying on the ground, and blood staining the ground under their feet. This did not happen, and they encountered almost no resistance.

Under such circumstances, he easily rushed into the city.

The remaining Japanese soldiers have not yet woken up from their semi-coma state. The shelling just now destroyed not only their lives, but also their will and spirit. They were lucky enough to escape the roaring shrapnel and the deafening shock wave.

He was so shocked that he almost lost consciousness.

I had just woken up and my eyes could barely see clearly. The sharp bayonet of the Chinese had already been pierced into my chest. The screams and occasional resistance of the Japanese soldiers before their death seemed insignificant in front of the angry waves of attacking troops.

Less than an hour and a half after the general attack on Tianjin started, more than 35,000 Japanese defensive troops outside Tianjin were submerged in the fierce volcanic eruption of artillery fire and the tide of attacking troops. They were wiped out and no trace was found.

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As soon as the Tianjin Peripheral Battle started, Japanese Tianjin garrison commander Lieutenant General Takashima Kazuo was in the headquarters, listening to the thunderous sound of artillery. Pieces of dust were shaken off the ceiling of the headquarters from time to time. He was in pain and despair.

He closed his eyes and sighed secretly, the more than 30,000 defenders on his outer position were finished.

As a senior Japanese general, Takashima had already judged from the density of gunfire that the Chinese army attacking Tianjin had used at least four artillery regiments and more than a thousand artillery pieces. In such a ferocious attack,

Under the attack of artillery fire, any fortifications and fortresses in the wild are as vulnerable as pieces of paper.

Contrary to Kōgetsu Kiyoshi's view, Takashima Kazuo did not think that Tang Qiuli's attack target must be Beiping City. As a personal experiencer of the July 7th Incident, he knew very well how the imperial army occupied Beiping City.

An empty city.

Since Tang Qiuli had no intention of holding on to Peiping, what reason did he have to recapture him? Kazuo Takashima had raised objections to the Supreme Commander's decision to concentrate most of his troops in the direction of Peiping. Unfortunately, he was not the top decision-maker in North China, Japan.

Or, therefore, he did not need to follow Xiangyue Qingsi's order to put all Tianjin's defenders into peripheral positions.

Moreover, he also ordered the Military Police Headquarters to surround the Chinese police forces in Tianjin. Once there is a war in Tianjin, these Chinese policemen may be a serious problem. If they cooperate inside and outside, it will be enough for him to have a headache and must be solved.

Takashima Kazuo stared at the lights that were flickering by the artillery fire, and issued an order. The troops in the city were not allowed to reinforce the outer positions. They built barricades on the spot, resisted step by step, and went house to house with the Chinese army.

In the battle, every street and every house must become a battle fortress.

Use the densely packed buildings in the city to offset the artillery superiority of the Army Division, allowing Tang Qiuli's troops to gnaw at each other piece by piece. Every step they take, they have to pay a price and engage in a street battle with the Chinese Army.

Hold on until reinforcements arrive.

Takashima's deployment is absolutely correct. Facing the overwhelming artillery superiority of the Army Division, even ten times more troops cannot fill the defensive holes in the field fortifications. This old devil's battle command ability and military literacy must not be underestimated.

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The deployment of Gao Dao brought a lot of trouble to Liu Tiehan's attack corps. The offensive was frustrated, the speed of advancement immediately slowed down, and the troops also suffered casualties.

Wang Mancang, captain of the Second Detachment of the Tianjin Urban Combat Team of the **Division, was ordered to lead more than a thousand local team members familiar with Tianjin's terrain and a guide team composed of the **Division's Third Special Warfare Team to appear on time and be the first to rush into the city.

The ** Division advanced northeastward in front of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade.

Soon, the guides were dispersed to various troops. Under their guidance, the 90,000 troops were divided into countless small troops in battalion units and rushed toward their respective goals.

The troops of the Second Brigade, Regiment and Battalion of the Northeast advanced, turned around a road, and rushed into the Danan River area. Suddenly they encountered fierce fire resistance. Thick sandbags were piled up on the street to form a fortress, and the gun holes were filled with spray.

There were tongues of fire, and in the dark night, the roar of the crooked light machine gun and the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun was particularly harsh.

On both sides of this sandbag fortress, there are two buildings with more than ten stories high. Behind each window, dense rain of bullets is sprayed out, forming a crossfire. The bullets hit the hard road and spattered little sparks.

Ricochet's scream makes people's skin crawl.

If the troops want to pass, they must take down the sandbag fortifications and two buildings in front. Upon seeing this situation, the commander of the vanguard company immediately ordered a platoon to prepare cluster grenades according to the combat method of attacking fortresses, and the entire company provided fire cover to blow up the fortress.

Rush into the building and open the way forward.

Under the cover of fierce firepower, a platoon of more than 30 soldiers braved the dense rain of bullets and used skillful tactical movements to approach the fortress that the Japanese army had defended.

It should be said that after Tang Qiuli changed his equipment several times, the firepower of the troops advancing in the Northeast has been greatly strengthened. The light and heavy machine guns were blowing like wind, causing dust to fly everywhere in the sandbag fortifications. Sparks were shooting out of the windows of the building. According to the company commander's idea, they gathered together.

Use grenades, take out the sandbag fortifications, rush into the building, and fight for it floor by floor, that's another way to play!

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