Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 753: Recover North China

The Battle of Shanhaiguan, which lasted for more than ten days, ended. The North China Army and the Kwantung Army invested more than 800,000 troops in this land of only a few hundred square kilometers in western Liaoning. It can be said that this is the end of the battle between Tang Qiuli and the Kwantung Army.

A strategic decisive battle of the Kwantung Army. Looking at the entire battle, except for Feng Jiwu's regiment's Liuguhe blockade, which was a head-on confrontation, the rest were all masterpieces of Tang Qiuli's superb strategy.

In this battle, Tang Qiuli's North China Army Division invested three corps, totaling more than 320,000 troops, plus cavalry and aviation troops. The Kwantung Army invested ten divisions and five brigades, totaling 300,000 troops.

With a strength of 80,000, plus a large number of armored troops and heavy artillery units, as well as a fleet to assist in the battle, the Kwantung Army's vitality was severely damaged in one battle, and its mobilizable mobile forces were almost completely lost.

In the bloody battle that lasted for more than ten days, the ** Division suffered heavy losses to the Kwantung Army's southward troops at the cost of more than 78,000 casualties. The Kwantung Army's troops who were able to escape back to the hinterland of the Northeast numbered only about 120,000, and suffered more than two-thirds of the losses.

, and they were all incompletely organized, and the division was killed

There are five commanders and four brigade commanders. As for the officers below the rank of colonel, the Kwantung Army Headquarters will never disclose the specific number. Of course, there is not a single prisoner. In the words of division commander Tang Qiuli, the food of our Chinese people

, will not be used to raise a bunch of beasts.

Jinzhou, a strategic location in western Liaoning, fell into the hands of Tang Qiuli. His vanguard troops captured Linghai on July 2. After that, the ** division with six cavalry brigades and five infantry brigades fell like leaves in the autumn wind.

The momentum swept across the western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning areas in only two days

In the meantime, more than 20 county towns were captured. The Kwantung Army's garrison troops stationed in various places, with more than 20,000 people, resisted extremely weakly in the face of the peak-like offensive. From Jinzhou and Yixian to Fuxin, and to Kulun in the east.

All the land west of Chifeng belonged to Tang Qiuli.

The Kwantung Army's largest field airport in western Liaoning, Songshan Airport, was captured intact. Inside the airport, there were more than 100 fighter jets, more than 40 bombers, and more than 10 transport aircraft parked, which became the two troops of Liu Chun's first cavalry brigade.

The trophies of the entire regiment were another generous gift from Liu Chun to Tang Qiuli.

As for the other weapons, ammunition and materials seized, there are countless more. Major General Zhang Quan, the logistics director of the ** Division and the commander of the Joint Service Command of the Yellow River Basin Theater, personally led the logistics personnel from the Huangyadong base and saw mountains of piles everywhere.

His eyes were shining, he kept rubbing his hands, and kept chanting: "I've made a fortune, I've made a big fortune!" Tang Qiuli felt a chill at the sight.

On the day the Linghai battle ended, Tang Qiuli ordered the entire Le Yiqin Air Force to station at Jinzhou Songshan Airport. The excess aircraft immediately flew back to Dingbian. All air defense units immediately entered a state of first-level combat readiness. The Jinan Airport radar station

Key technical personnel were immediately mobilized to set up a forward radar station in Jinzhou. The requirement was that the surveillance range of the radar should include the entire Northeast, Liaodong Bay and Liaodong Peninsula, as far as the Yellow Sea.

The eleven field brigades of the Corps directly under the **Division, Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan Garrison Corps, and Sun Zhenbang's Yellow River Defense Corps were deployed along the Jinzhou, Yixian, Fuxin, Kulun, and Chifeng lines, preparing to counterattack the Kwantung Army's attack on western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.

The repeated battles for the *** area and combat preparations have been very solid. It will take a certain amount of time for the Kwantung Army to gather its forces again, and it is still unknown whether they can gather their forces.

Tang Qiuli's feet finally set foot in the Northeast. From the Northeast, which had been occupied by the Kwantung Army for decades and regarded as a strategic rear area, he cut off Liaoxi, the chokepoint to North China and the interior of the Pass, and laid out a plan

The attitude of a big fight is that once it comes, it will not go away. It tells the Japanese with a tough attitude that they can have another decisive battle.

In this battle, due to the lack of troops, Tang Qiuli was unable to completely surround the Kwantung Army's southward troops on the Niuxin Mountain battlefield. He could only adopt step-by-step attacks and interceptions with surprise troops to eliminate the effective strength of the Kwantung Army to the greatest extent within one night and half a day.

, from ambushes to air strikes, to side attacks and cavalry attacks, this series of strategies and deployments were dazzling. He himself also tried his best and racked his brains, and finally severely weakened the Kwantung Army.

If Tang Qiuli had enough troops, he would definitely take advantage of this opportunity to attack the Northeast and take advantage of the situation to regain the entire Northeast. However, he could not. Even if the Kwantung Army defeated Liaoxi, there would still be more than 500,000 troops in the Northeast.

There were hundreds of thousands of Manchurian troops who were under the orders of the Japanese. The troops fought for a long time and suffered huge losses. The number of troops was reduced by as many as six field brigades. Although he wanted to continue the fight, his strength was limited and he could only stop.

In Jinzhou.

Tang Qiuli very much hoped that the Kwantung Army would attack again on the Jinzhou front line. With the hastily assembled troops, he was sure to annihilate them all. He would continue to consume the strength of the Kwantung Army, drain the blood of the Japanese bit by bit, and wait for the strength of the troops.

When the contrast reaches a certain level, he really wants to send troops to invade the hinterland of Northeast China.

Contrary to his wishes, the Kwantung Army's ground force did not wait, but a large-scale retaliatory air raid by the Kwantung Army's air force came. On July 3, the Kwantung Army's air force dispatched more than 200 fighter jets and more than 100 bombers.

, carried out crazy bombing on the ** division positions starting from Jinzhou in the south and reaching Fuxin in the north.

Among them, Jinzhou, Linghai, Yixian, Qinghekou, and Fuxin were the key areas for bombing. Jinzhou was bombed the most violently. An unprecedented and fierce air defense battle broke out in western Liaoning. Tang Qiuli was not aware of this situation.

, it had long been expected that the Kwantung Army troops would not sit back and watch Jinzhou fall into their hands. The army could not assemble for a while, and the Japanese planes came at the drop of a hat.

Tang Qiuli, who has experience in commanding the Nanjing Air Defense Defense War, is familiar with all kinds of air defense firepower, mainly anti-aircraft guns equipped with "Sky Eye" artillery sighting radar, supplemented by anti-aircraft firepower such as anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns. The ** Division Aviation

The air defense brigade was used as a mobile force. Tang Qiuli had four full air defense brigades in his hands. Compared with Nanjing, the firepower was even more intense and intense.

After a fierce battle that lasted all day, the Kwantung Army Air Force did not gain any advantage. All the Japanese pilots lamented that they had never encountered such fierce and intensive anti-aircraft fire, such accurate anti-aircraft guns, and the clouds of smoke exploding all over the sky.

What came out were deadly shrapnel, blossoming fireworks, and fragments of Japanese aircraft exploding in the air. In the evening, the Kwantung Army Air Force ended its operations in shock with the loss of more than 70 fighter jets and more than 60 bombers.

During this period, Le Yiqin's air force made eight sorties, and achieved the result of shooting down 16 Japanese fighter jets and 21 bombers at the cost of losing seven fighter jets. For these losses, Le Yiqin was so distressed that he almost vomited blood.

Teacher Tang

Qiu Li expressed satisfaction with the aviation team's performance. After the air battle, the badly beaten Kwantung Army Air Force never launched any large-scale air raids again. The air raids in western Liaoning stopped. Tang Qiuli's ** division troops

Establish a firm foothold on the front line in Jinzhou.

No battle exists in isolation. If the Kwantung Army had not insisted on going south to preempt the dangerous situation of more than 400,000 troops in Tianjin and North China, it would not have suffered a devastating blow in western Liaoning, let alone Tang Qiuli's occupation.

Jinzhou penetrated deep into the hinterland of Northeast China and cut off the road transportation between Northeast China and Kanchi. This alone was enough to cause an uproar in the Japanese base camp and raise Emperor Hirohito's blood pressure, shouting that he wanted to kill people.

There was also a heavier blow to Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese base camp. When the Battle of Shanhaiguan was going on intensely, the Battle of Tianjin was also in full swing. Liu Tiehan and Tang Qiusheng commanded four corps with nearly 500,000 troops, attacking from eight directions at the same time.

A fierce attack on more than 400,000 Japanese troops in Tianjin.

With no way out, the North China Japanese Army, the last heavily armed group, launched a desperate resistance in despair. Every street and alley in Tianjin became a battlefield. The intensity of the battle exceeded Liu Tiehan and Tang Qiusheng's expectations.

, every time the troops advance forward, they have to pay a considerable price. It can be said that the troops attacking Tianjin used artillery shells and grenades to blast every step forward.

On June 29, Liu Tiehan and Tang Qiusheng, together with Chang Feng, commander of the Taihang Mountain Field Corps, and Shaanxi local garrison commander Yuan Jinghao, who left Henan to join the battlefield in Tianjin, sent a telegram to division commander Tang Qiuli, "Division Commander's Honor

, the war in Tianjin was extremely fierce, and the degree of stubborn resistance of the Japanese army was beyond imagination, especially the street fighting in the urban area.

Because the Japanese army had already built fortifications, the troops retreated slowly and suffered heavy casualties. On the 28th, the entire front advanced less than one kilometer, and the number of casualties reached more than 10,000. In view of this, the original plan was to capture Tianjin within two days.

, it is really difficult to complete. Please forgive me, division commander. After our department adjusts the deployment, we will report the plan to the entire Tianjin frontline headquarters of the ** division."

Tang Qiuli, who was organizing troops to set up an ambush in the Niuxin Mountain area, sighed slightly. What could he say? He limited the capture of Tianjin to two days because he was afraid that the 100,000 Kwantung Army troops coming across the Bohai Sea would reinforce Tianjin. In that case, Tianjin would be attacked.

The troops were very passive. Even Liu Tiehan and Brother Qiu Sheng complained about the battle. Even if they were personally commanded, the results would not be much better.

He sent a telegram back to the headquarters of the troops attacking Tianjin with only thirteen words: "The war in Tianjin can be handled as appropriate, no need to report again!" He completely delegated power and left the attack on Tianjin to two veteran generals, Liu Tiehan and Tang Qiusheng.

Not necessarily worse than myself.

The Kwantung Army moved south to rescue the besieged Japanese troops in Tianjin and failed miserably, causing dramatic changes in the battle situation in Tianjin. In view of the irreversible war situation, in order to save the Japanese troops in Tianjin from the fate of total annihilation, the Japanese base camp and the Kwantung Army Headquarters decided to send out

A large number of ships evacuated the besieged troops in Tianjin. The arrival of the first batch of ships immediately shattered the will of the Japanese army in Tianjin. With the opportunity to escape, who is still foolishly risking his life?

The 100,000 Kwantung Army reinforcements could already be seen at the Tianjin port. They received the order to divert to Qingdao. The Kwantung Army commanders were puzzled by such a strange order. The number of Japanese troops evacuated from Tianjin was only about 160,000.

, the remaining more than 200,000 people were all annihilated in Tianjin.

On July 4, the ** Division troops fully occupied Tianjin. This was the third time that the ** Division occupied Tianjin since the July 7th Incident. This time, Tianjin would not give up. On July 5, more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Peiping

, after learning the news of the fall of Tianjin, he had no intention of fighting. Tang Qiusheng sent his troops to Peiping and attacked with light infantry. The Japanese army broke through to the east of Hebei and were annihilated on the way. Peiping was slightly damaged.

On July 6th, the war in North China ended completely. So far, there was no longer a communist soldier on the land of North China. On the first anniversary of the July 7th Incident, Tang Qiuli fulfilled his promise and North China was recovered.

(To be continued)