Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 413 Itagaki Division

Tang Qiuli commanded the troops and captured Tianjin in one fell swoop. When the news came out, the whole country was shocked. In ten days in North China, two battles and two victories were achieved. Two hundred thousand Japanese troops were wiped out. Lieutenant General Kazuo Takashima, the Japanese chieftain, was killed. Tianjin was recovered. This Tang Qiu

Li, could it be that the God of War came down to earth?

Because the calls to abandon Peiping and ask Tang Qiuli to commit suicide as a thank you to the people have disappeared. It is obvious that abandoning Peiping and regaining Tianjin is the strategy of General Tang, and it is a strategic issue. We have misunderstood, even though these people do not understand Tang Qiuli’s true intentions.

intention.

There was a sound of praise from all over the country, and some passionate young students spontaneously formed a condolence group to go to the North China front line to express condolences to the ** division troops. Among them, there were some beautiful female students who had just begun to fall in love and were secretly in love, the young and handsome Tang

The admiral has entered their hearts, and the large photos in the newspapers accompanied them in their childhood days.

Tang Qiuli was shocked when he heard the news. North China was a battlefield and bullets didn't have eyes. Aren't those student dolls making trouble for themselves when they came here? He quickly sent people to set up two labor student reception centers in Zhengzhou and Jinan.

, where all the students who came to work as laborers were detained, and the storm was finally stopped.

At the same time, rumors continued to pour into Chairman Chiang's ears. It was a fact that Tang Qiuli could fight, but it was also a fact that he lost the city of Peking. Now, with nearly a million troops in his hands, there was no guarantee that he would not become Li Zongren.

Second to Bai Chongxi, he supported his troops with self-respect, challenged the central government, and even crossed the Yellow River to control it. The Chairman must be on guard, right?

The strange thing is that those who said these words were all civil servants. On the other hand, the generals who led the troops did not have so many messy ideas. They were quite envious of Tang Qiuli's achievements in North China and asked for help many times.

, led troops to North China to support Vice Chairman Tang.

Chairman Chiang is not sure whether Tang Qiuli has the upper hand in the current situation in North China. It would be unnecessary to send troops again. Chairman Chiang thinks that the words of those civilian officials are the words of a scholar and are more filled with jealousy, especially

Those go-getters from the cc department.

Tang Qiuli will never become Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng. Chairman Chiang firmly believes in his understanding of Tang Qiuli, the Xi'an mutiny, and Zhang Yang's rebellion. At that time, Tang Qiuli had the strength to aspire to the highest position of power. Why bother today?

Have second thoughts again?

Based on his confidence in the situation in North China, Chairman Chiang, after consulting Tang Qiuli, transferred 100,000 troops from the Central Army stationed in Hebei and Henan to strengthen the troops in the direction of Songhu. He remembered Tang Qiuli's reminder.

Yes, once the Japanese army loses in North China, the possibility of landing in Shanghai cannot be ruled out.

The remaining 100,000 troops were formed into the 10th Army of the Communist Party of China, and Tang Enbo was appointed as the commander of the corps. He unified the command of the Central Army troops and was affiliated with Tang Qiuli's Yellow River Basin Theater Command. Tang Qiuli had no objection to the transfer of 100,000 troops.

The elite cannot always be in one's own hands. In the final analysis, the Central Army is only subordinate to oneself, not one's own team.

Tang Enbo can be appointed as the commander of the Tenth Army Corps, especially for the defense of the Henan section of the Yellow River defense line. Tang Qiuli's heart skipped a beat. Tang Qiuli knew this man too well. He was a typical military incompetent and politically shrewd.

Coupled with cowardice and fear of death, and ungratefulness.

He was in charge of the overall situation of the Yellow River defense line. I was really worried about it. However, there was no legitimate reason or excuse to propose a change of generals. Chairman Chiang would not be able to pass the test. He could not tell Chairman Chiang that Tang Enbo

It will definitely ruin something big. I know what his future will be like. That is beautiful nonsense. Who believes that?

The only thing that can be done is to add a line of defense behind Tang Enbo. Otherwise, if the Japanese army approaches the bank of the Yellow River, Tang Enbo will run away. The overall strategic layout of North China will be a big hole, and the Japanese will drill through it.

When you go in, you will be passive and have only one way to retreat.

However, the troops in hand were used as planned. Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang were on the front line of Shanhaiguan, waiting for the Kwantung Army to move south. They surrounded Peiping. Liu Tiehan occupied Tianjin and defended Shandong. What's more, Shandong still has

There was Han Fuju who was even more uneasy. Brother Qiu Sheng stared in the direction of Songhu.

He pressed the flea with ten fingers, but it couldn't loosen it. Tang Qiuli once again felt that his troops were insufficient, so he had no choice but to transfer two regiments from the Huangyadong Garrison Brigade and one regiment from the Recruitment Brigade, and from Zhou Yushan's **

The Division Transportation Headquarters dispatched a regiment, the Shaanxi Provincial Local Guard Brigade dispatched a brigade, and the Yellow River Garrison Headquarters dispatched a brigade. They were pieced together to form the Henan Yellow River Defense Line Garrison Corps.

The regiment has a strength of 29,000. Su Jingfeng, the former commander of the Second Brigade of the ** Division, serves as the commander. The brigade commander is taken over by Deputy Brigade Commander Ma Chaoyang. Xia Xiaoguang, the chief of staff of the ** Second Brigade, serves as the regiment's staff officer.

He is Su Jingfeng's old partner. The two of them work together tacitly. They don't have that many troops, so they try to strengthen them with more people.

Tang Qiuli could only equip Su Jingfeng with so many troops. The Shaanxi Provincial Local Guard Brigade and the Yellow River Guard Brigade were both C-class brigades reorganized from the 17th Route Army. Each brigade only had about seven or eight thousand troops. This was Tang Qiuli's reason.

Trying your best to do it is better than nothing, right?

When Zhou Yushan was about to evacuate the Tianjin Guards, on July 25, eight days after occupying Tianjin, the Kwantung Army's southward corps finally took action. On the front line of Fengtian Suizhong, there was a fierce battle with Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang's troops.

Fierce fire.

Feng Jiwu's battle report: "At about five o'clock in the morning on the 25th, the leading force of the Kwantung Army's southward march, the Akiyama Brigade of the elite Itagaki Division of the Japanese army, launched an attack on our blocking position with a regiment of troops. The Japanese offensive was fierce.

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"Three hours into the battle, at about eight o'clock, the Japanese army took the initiative to leave the battlefield and withdrew to Suizhong. Chief of Staff Li and I suspected that this was a probing attack by the Japanese Itagaki Division, and its purpose was to test our army's firepower and troop deployment.

, the Japanese army lost more than 1,000 troops, and our troops also suffered more than 300 casualties. The combat effectiveness, tactical actions, and firepower equipment of the soldiers of the Itagaki Division are all higher than those of other Japanese troops. The battlefield is currently calm."

Tang Qiuli was puzzled and Xiangyue Qingsi was depressed when the Kwantung Army's southward marching corps did not immediately rescue Tianjin when it was attacked, but took action only after Tianjin fell.

Did it take a lot of time to gather and organize the Kwantung Army troops? Or did the Japanese base camp have other plans? What was their purpose? Tang Qiuli secretly guessed.

Those arrogant guys from the Kwantung Army formed their own system. They joined the North China front to see my joke. They will have a lot of trouble in command in the future. It's strange that the base camp actually agreed with them to ignore Tianjin and

The plan is to wait for the local troops to land from Tianjin and join the Kwantung Army's southward troops to attack the Japanese division.

The guy who made this plan is either a genius or a madman. He used more than 60,000 Tianjin defenders as bait in order to attract the main force of the army to the Pingjin area and create conditions for a joint attack between the north and the south. The price is too high, Xiangyue.

Kiyoshi secretly cursed.

However, when he received the battle report from the Kwantung Army's Southward Marching Corps, he went from secretly complaining to being shocked. Some of the main forces of the ** Division appeared on the line from Shanhaiguan to Suizhong, with the obvious purpose of heading towards the Kwantung Army's Southward Marching Corps.

How did so many troops move to Shanhaiguan?

Why don't I have any intelligence? Are all the outposts along the way blind and deaf? Where did the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli get so many troops? Surrounded Peiping, captured Tianjin, and fought with the Kwantung Army's southward corps?

Xiangyue Qingsimu held the battle report expressionlessly, his head was swollen. He had a hunch that facing the demon Tang Qiuli and his army in North China, his life in North China was no better than that of his predecessor, Tashiro, who left sadly.

How much better it is for Anichiro, or even worse.

Tang Qiuli put aside other thoughts. His interest and attention had been attracted by the Itagaki division appearing on the line from Shanhaiguan to Suizhong.

The Itagaki Division of the Japanese Army is the first-class elite main force among the Kwantung Army. After being transferred to the Northeast from North Korea, Tojo Hideki, who was the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army at the time, was a classmate of the 16th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School.

, friends for many years, received extra care.

By the end of 1936, the Itagaki Division had three brigades and nine regiments, a heavy artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment, a search regiment, an engineer regiment, and a baggage regiment.

A behemoth tank brigade, with a strength of more than 56,000 people, and most of the soldiers come from the mountains around Hiroshima, Japan. The soldiers are ferocious and tough.

Itagaki graduated from the 16th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. Many Japanese generals who invaded China appeared in this class, such as Okamura Neiji, etc. In the Japanese military circles at that time, he was known as the Glorious Sixteenth Class.

Expect.

Seishiro Itagaki knew all about China's geography, politics, economy, and military situation. Therefore, he was regarded as the "three China experts" in the Japanese army along with Tofeihara Kenji and Isotani Rensuke. He was a fanatical militarist.

The elements, known as the wisdom of Ishihara and the courage of Itagaki in Japanese military circles, planned and participated in launching the September 18th Incident.

In history, the Itagaki Division once swept across North China. In the First Battle at Niangziguan, hundreds of thousands of Jin troops were defeated. In the Second World War at Xinkou, Chinese generals fell and more than 100,000 soldiers were killed and wounded. In the Third Battle at Taiyuan, Yan Xishan, the commander of the army, abandoned the city and abandoned the city.

escape,

More than 50,000 Chinese soldiers lay dead at the gates of Taiyuan City. During the Fourth Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the 200,000 troops of General Wei Lihuang of the Central Army were chased and fiercely beaten by more than 30,000 troops of half of his division, and they retreated into Henan.

, the Central Army lost more than 100,000 troops.

In the North China battlefield, Itagaki Division once created a glorious record of defeating thirty-seven Chinese divisions. In the Battle of Xinkou, Itagaki used a mere 30,000 men and 95 men of artillery to directly attack the 20th Squadron.

The strong position of Xinkou defended by tens of thousands of troops, several generals under the commander of the Ninth Army Hao Mengling and 100,000 soldiers were killed or injured. This battle also made Itagaki famous. In addition, Itagaki's division also participated in the Nanjing Massacre.

Tang Qiuli would never let go of such a murderer. He originally thought that they would meet on the battlefield in Shanxi. It was not that enemies did not get together, but the Itagaki division came early. Is it a coincidence of fate or an arrangement of history? Tang Qiuli was destined to become a murderer.

The terminator of Seishiro Itagaki and his infamous division.

To be continued

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