Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 412 Robbery of Tianjin

Liu Tiehan walked through the smoke everywhere and in the thin light of dawn, walked into the city of Tianjin where the sound of gunfire had subsided. At exactly 6 o'clock in the morning on July 17, Tianjin, an important industrial and commercial town in northern China, had completely fallen.

**Master's hand.

Although the troops captured Tianjin on time in accordance with the orders of the division headquarters, Liu Tiehan was not very satisfied. In his expectation, the battle could be completely ended before five o'clock in the morning.

However, the progress of the battle exceeded his expectations, especially the casualties suffered by the troops, which greatly exceeded the bottom line he required. It also made him see the shortcomings of the Northeast Army's old base units. Urban street fighting was a serious problem for the troops affiliated with the Northeast Advance Command.

It's a completely new topic.

The casualties that occurred in the troops were all caused in street fighting. If it were the main force of the ** Division, there would never be such heavy casualties. For coordinated infantry and artillery operations, each brigade uses a highly skilled team. Of course, there are some of them.

The main reason was that he had not thought carefully and planned poorly before the war. He was already preparing to make a written inspection to the division commander and request punishment.

Accompanied by several brigade commanders, Liu Tiehan came to the Japanese Tianjin garrison headquarters. The huge basement still exuded a strong smell of gunpowder smoke. The bodies of Japanese soldiers and officers were laid out in a mess in the basement, and their blood was already there.

It solidified, with a pungent smell of blood that made people almost suffocate.

Takashima Kazuo's body was lying sideways on the tatami. On the table were a bottle of sake, a snow-white handkerchief, and a command knife inlaid with gold flowers on the handle, which were thrown not far from his body.

He was shot five times in the forehead and chest, and blood spattered on the golden star of the Lieutenant General's collar.

It seemed that Takashima was planning to commit suicide by caesarean section when the city was breached. He would end his life honorably in the unique way of Japanese samurai. The soldiers did not give him a chance. Liu Tiehan silently looked at Takashima's body for a while.

This Japanese adopted correct tactics and caused great casualties to the troops.

Although he is a sworn enemy, he is also a respectable opponent. If he and he fight repeatedly for the outer positions of Tianjin, the subsequent battle in Tianjin city will be much simpler, and the time to capture Tianjin will be greatly advanced.

Liu Tiehan dictated an order to the communications staff: "From the division headquarters, our Tianjin Attack Corps will capture Tianjin at 6:00 a.m. on the 17th. The enemy's garrison will consist of more than 63,000 people starting from the commander, Lieutenant General Takashima Kazuo.

, all were wiped out, our unit suffered more than 14,000 casualties, including more than 7,500 killed in action. The troops are currently restoring order in the urban area, Liu Tiehan, commander of the Tianjin Attack Corps."

Tang Qiuli, who was at the frontline headquarters in Peiping, received a telegram from Liu Tiehan. He was quite shocked at the heavy casualties suffered by the troops. In the Battle of Tianjin, ten hours of fighting disabled a field brigade in the East Point. The troops should not

There were so many casualties? He wisely did not send a telegram to ask for the reason. The old man would definitely give him a satisfactory explanation.

After the troops took control of Tianjin, they immediately entered the Japanese concession. According to Tang Qiuli's order, at the entrance to the concessions of other powers, except for sending troops to protect them, not a single soldier entered. In Tang Qiuli's words,

There is no need to offend so many opponents at the same time.

The three detachments of the urban combat team that occupied the port got a big deal. The eighteen coastal defense guns placed by the Japanese army on the fortress fell into their hands intact. A squadron of Japanese coastal defense troops stationed here,

Caught off guard, more than 230 people were wiped out before they could react.

Liu Chunke, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the ** Division Artillery, had his eyes gleaming. He kept circling around the thick, stocky, behemoth-like coastal defense artillery, touching here, patting everywhere, and kept saying "

"Tsk, tsk", with a look of envy on his face.

He is a great expert and knows the power of these big guys. They are used to attack warships. Their calibers are above 240 millimeters, and their range can reach more than 15 kilometers. The shells are like trumpet drums, and they require four strong men.

Only a Han Dynasty can carry it, but a warship can only take a few hits and it will be seriously damaged even if it doesn't sink.

He immediately transferred the soldiers from his brigade, regiment and battalion and assigned them to various artillery positions under his command. They were familiar with the operation essentials of coastal defense artillery. He didn't know why he did this. He only knew that he would have a chance to learn.

Liu Chun couldn't let it go. What made Liu Chun rather regretful was that these big guys were too bulky and couldn't be dismantled and taken away. Otherwise, he would definitely put these big guys in his brigade.

According to the old rules of the Japanese Army, every time a city occupied by the Japanese army was conquered, a three-guang policy should be implemented for local Japanese-owned enterprises and Japanese expatriates.

To do this kind of work, the troops in the East Point are obviously novices and rookies. They are facing the huge city of Tianjin with a population of nearly one million. They simply don’t know where to start. There is a kind of tiger that eats the sky and has no place to eat.

Feel.

No way, Liu Tiehan sent the first and second brigades pointed east to the front line of Peiping. On this condition, in exchange for the 3rd Brigade of the ** Division, the Han Railway Department, and the 4th Brigade of the Wang Chengye Department, these two brigades were

The basic troops of the ** division have been doing this kind of work very easily since they came from the Northeast.

After the troops arrived in Tianjin, they first detained all Japanese nationals in their homes. There were as many as 70,000 to 80,000 Japanese nationals in Tianjin. A Japanese concession was like a small Japanese country. They then registered them and restricted their free movement.

The next step is to inventory Japanese and puppet assets, confiscate property, affix seals to all machinery and equipment of Japanese-funded enterprises, raw materials in stock, and semi-finished products, requisition all trucks in Tianjin, confiscate Japanese cars, and form a transportation team.

Transferring to Huangyadong Base Area in Taihang Mountains and Dingbian Special Economic Zone day and night.

Except for the bricks and tiles that cannot be transported, not a single nail is left behind. More than 1,500 vehicles travel between Tianjin and the Taihang Mountains. All transport vehicles are unified under the command of the ** Division Transportation Headquarters, Commander

Zhou Yushan was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night. When had his army ever been so prosperous?

As the most important port in the north that has been operated by the Japanese for many years, Tianjin has accumulated countless arms and supplies. What excites Zhou Yushan the most is that there are hundreds of thousands of tons of high-quality steel and copper ingots. This is Huangyadong and Dingding.

It is something that is urgently needed. With it, it is easy to make guns, robes, and tanks.

In order to speed up transportation, the engineering troops under Zhou Yushan's transportation headquarters urgently built a simple highway between Tianjin and the Huangyadong base area in Taihang Mountains. The engineering commander was very smart. After obtaining Zhou Yushan's consent, he launched

The people along the route participated in the road construction army.

One piece of ocean for three days per person was a sky-high price at that time. Farmers could not see a piece of white ocean all year round. What's more, the army had to provide a meal at noon, including snow-white steamed buns and fragrant fat meat slices.

Enough to make.

For a time, hundreds of thousands of people joined the road-building army. More importantly, this was an army to fight against Japanese invaders. They paid and took care of the food. They were so kind-hearted that they made you feel embarrassed. If you don't work hard, you would be sorry.

force.

In order to prevent the highway from being used by the Japanese army in the future, Zhou Yushan set up explosion points in many dangerous areas and deliberately built many bridges. If the Japanese mechanized troops drove along the highway into the hinterland of the Taihang Mountain base, the bridges would be demolished and the dangerous places would be blasted.

, the Japanese army became a turtle in a urn, unless it grew wings and flew away.

Zhou Yushan couldn't help but not be anxious. He knew very well that the troops could not occupy Tianjin for a long time. Now he was competing with the Japanese for time. If the supplies from Tianjin were transported away one day earlier, the safety of the troops would be greater. Later, he recruited many carriages

, forming a separate transportation team to transport some daily necessities.

As a result, the road from Tianjin to the depths of the Taihang Mountains was full of traffic, dust, and people coming and going all day long. Zhou Yushan became cruel and determined to evacuate Tianjin and leave no place for the little devils.

A little something.

The fourth detachment of the Special Operations Detachment and the fifth detachment of the Urban Combat Team made a fortune this time. After the Tianjin General Offensive began, they quietly entered the Japanese airfield.

A good player in the village knows how to fight this kind of battle.

Taking advantage of the attention of the Japanese airport security forces, they were attracted by the fighting outside. They used the cover of night to sneak in quietly. When the Japanese army realized that the cold swishing sword light had reached their bodies, a burst of swords, slashes and arrows were fired, guarding the airport.

A Japanese brigade, pilots and ground crews all fell in a pool of blood. Only a few shots were fired during the whole process.

Thirty-six fighter jets, eighteen bombers, and five transport planes are neatly parked on the airport. Almost all of the Japanese air power in North China is here. It is a good thing that it is surrounded by Japanese troops. Otherwise, Zhou Yushan

The transportation line will not be so peaceful. At least it will have to go through a few bloody battles.

But Zhou Yushan was worried. These precious lumps could not be loaded in the car or pulled by the carriage. No one in the entire army could lift this winged guy to the sky. How could he get it back to Dingbian?

There are still many people who can find a way, so I came up with an idea. It was okay to dismantle the aircraft and transport it. The wings and other parts of this guy were put in place. A truck could barely fit one fuselage, and all the instruments on the control tower were removed.

All instruments were dismantled, and all oil and accessories were transported away. The cement blocks on the runway were useless. Otherwise, Zhou Yushan would have to dig them out and haul them away. This fully demonstrated Zhang Quan's "domestic tiger" skills of the ** Division's Logistics Director.

True color.

Zhou Yushan was busy between Tianjin and the Taihang Mountains, while Tang Qiuli was idle and panicking on the outskirts of Peiping. Xiangyue Qingsi did not fight with the ** division troops in the suburbs anyway, and insisted on holding key points in the city of Peiping.

During this period, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing sent a telegram to Tang Qiuli, but he said nothing about him tearing up the agreement and taking the initiative to fight. He only forwarded Xiangyue Qingsi's telegram of protest to him.

Chairman Chiang probably also understood that the reason Tang Qiuli agreed to sign a ceasefire agreement was to paralyze the Japanese and provide cover for the capture of Tianjin. He asked about the battle situation and the Japanese reaction.

Tang Qiuli's performance was beyond his expectation. Just ten days after the July 7th Incident, half of the Japanese in North China were killed. What else could he say besides congratulations? Obviously, Chiang Kai-shek's affairs in North China

The Chairman can't intervene.

(To be continued)