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Chapter 168: Battle of Tianjin and Beijing

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spn June 1932, Northeast, Jinzhou area, Japanese-occupied area

This is a mountainous area with a road between two mountains. It is a relatively common terrain in the northeastern mountains. There is a bunker built by the Japanese army on a hill not far from here. A squad of Japanese soldiers are stationed there. They are condescending and use heavy machine guns to block this place.

The complex transportation channel was one of the main transportation routes for the Japanese army to reach the Jinzhou battlefield during the Jinzhou War for several months.

In the early morning light, a Japanese convoy came from a distance. The Japanese soldiers in the bunker also came out, holding a 38-year-old Japanese flag with a Japanese plaster flag, stood at attention and saluted, and waved a signal flag to indicate everything to the convoy.

Normal, watch this batch of baggage materials pass.

After receiving the safety report from the Japanese troops at the checkpoint, the Japanese army's baggage convoy started the car engine again, and prepared to pass through this somewhat long valley with the Japanese patrol motorcycles at the checkpoint leading the way.

At this time, in the bushes not far from the road, there was a group of guerrillas wearing camouflage, their faces covered with ink, and branches on their heads.[

This is an excellent blocking site. Compared with the terrain within a hundred miles, it is very conducive to setting up an ambush. However, it is precisely for this reason that the Japanese army also set up checkpoints at both ends of the valley and sent out patrol motorcycles to monitor day and night.

The guerrillas had been lurking here for most of the night in preparation for this ambush at this important traffic road.

"beat"

When the last truck of the convoy entered the valley road, the leader of the guerrilla team finally gave the order to attack.

I saw two guerrillas who had been preparing for a long time, carrying a long cylindrical object, stood up slightly, pulled the trigger, and with two whizzing sounds, the two cannons "fired" at the two trucks at the head and tail of the Japanese army.

go out.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the first and last two vehicles of the Japanese army were hit by rockets, causing violent explosions. The rockets, which were originally designed to hit tanks and fortifications, played a terrifying role at this time.

When the cannon went down, in the violent explosion, the Japanese military truck turned into a fireball.

Almost at the same time, in the grass less than a hundred meters away from the two Japanese bunkers, a guerrilla also stood up, carrying a Southwest-made rocket launcher on his shoulder, pulled the trigger, and fired the revenge rocket fiercely.

Got out.

A little slower than the rocket launcher was the mortar team. The four guerrillas quickly adjusted the mortars hidden in the grass and fired the two cannons almost simultaneously with a relatively small shot.

’ went out, pulled up two parabolas, flew over a distance of more than 100 meters, and fell into the Japanese convoy.

"Da da da..."

Light machine guns and rifles also started firing at this time. Although the guerrillas were small, with only 13 people, their firepower was very fierce, much stronger than the guerrillas the Japanese army encountered elsewhere.

The team escorting the Japanese army suddenly heard something. A Japanese sergeant lost his voice and said: "Baga, it must be the Northeast Anti-Resistance Alliance."



This is just a very ordinary guerrilla war, but similar battles are being staged across the Northeast. The most common one is this kind of road blocking war.

After occupying the Northeast, the Japanese army protected the roads with bayonets at first. The roads originally built by Zhang Zuolin were only used by the Japanese army. Barbed wire fences were pulled up on both sides of some important road sections. Not to mention allowing the Chinese to pass, even if they got closer, they would be shot or fired.

Remember that the bayonet took away the "life". This transportation channel is very efficient and has completed a considerable part of the logistics supply tasks on the Jinzhou battlefield.

The reason why the Japanese army was heavily guarded was that after the Battle of Shenyang, the Japanese army suffered a number of large and small attacks across the Northeast. These attacks were basically launched by the former Northeastern Army. They had no time to evacuate to the pass and did not Fafa launched a large-scale battle with the Japanese army. Encouraged by a Northeast Army officer named Qu Zhongyi, guerrilla warfare began in full swing in the Northeast.

After Qu Zhongyi left Shenyang with the remnants of the special operations battalion that day, he quickly penetrated into the mountains of Northeast China and established a guerrilla base in a ravine called Qifengling.

At the beginning, although Qu Zhongyi's guerrillas had a large number of people, nearly 200 people, they had a problem even eating, let alone obtaining long-term supplies. At that time, Qu Zhongyi's troops retreated from Shenyang too quickly, and They did not carry any supplies that could be used by the special operations battalion, and they did not carry any important things such as food and mechanical equipment.

However, it wasn't until one day that Qu Zhongyi's old instructor from his days in Southwest China came to his door. This shocked him and made him completely think through all the problems. It was not until that moment that he received further action orders from the instructor. .

The instructor from the Special Intelligence Department who conducted special training for him in the southwest not only brought him a piece of order, but also brought him a batch of weapons, medicine and food. In addition, there was even a batch including Small mechanical equipment including small generators and diesel engines.

It wasn't until that moment that Qu Zhongyi understood how well his superiors' arrangements were, and that he had already hidden a batch of necessary supplies in the Northeast to support his future guerrilla operations.[

In this way, Qu Zhongyi, who was officially appointed as the lieutenant colonel commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Second Front of the Southwest People's Army, stayed in Qifengling and began to communicate with his instructor, the special intelligence officer who was incompetent in his eyes. Agent Moon Byung-in joined forces to develop and expand the Northeast guerrilla cause.

Under the leadership of the two men, after establishing a guerrilla base, the special operations battalion first stepped up training of reserve soldiers and then tried to plant a new wheat variety suitable for the soil and geological conditions of Northeast China in the Qifengling area.

Then, the special warfare guerrilla force, which was officially renamed the Northeastern People's Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, organized several operations against Japan with great success.

On one occasion, the Japs in a nearby county were diverted away from the mountains by the Anti-Japanese Alliance fighters. The guerrillas took advantage of the situation and invaded the city. They opened the granary that the Japanese had plundered and released food. Not only did they seize a batch of important supplies, but they also surrendered the Japanese squad leader and several others. The Japanese traitors lit sky lanterns on the spot.

Soon, the anti-Japanese coalition's guerrilla deeds spread. Their military actions such as killing Japanese traitors, punishing traitors, blowing up bunkers and guarding checkpoints, and sniping Japanese devils from medium distances were quickly imitated by anti-Japanese heroes everywhere.

Since the main force of the Northeastern Army retreated to Jinzhou after losing the Battle of Shenyang, many local garrisons of the Northeastern Army far away from Jinzhou were weak. They soon suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the Japanese army. Many troops were dispersed. Although the soldiers were full of Angry, but the situation was not as good as others, after the commander gave the order to disband, he returned to his hometown with a gun.

After seeing the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in various parts of Northeast China, these soldiers who returned home regretted their actions at that time and believed that even if they were to die, they should fight to kill a few Japanese devils. In many places, one or two or three Northeastern military leaders even appeared. He hid on the roadside with a gun and shot the Japanese coldly. There was also a Northeast Army company commander who had a fight with the Japanese when the Japanese were about to rape a weak woman, and finally started the war to return home. The hand grenades I kept with me.

However, these stragglers' fighting of spirits will only cause the scattered anti-Japanese forces to be lost step by step, until the guerrillas led by Qu Zhongyi unfurled the banner of the Northeastern People's United Resistance Army and issued a "Letter to the Folks in the Northeast" and "The Northeastern People's United Resistance Army"

People's Anti-Japanese Allied Forces

After the telegram was declared, these passionate men scattered across the Northeast suddenly woke up and understood that only by relying on the power of the organization and blending these anti-Japanese forces together can they cause substantial harm to the Japanese army, rather than relying on their own courage.

"Suicide" attack behavior.

As a result, anti-Japanese guerrilla groups began to spring up from all over the Northeast. Once these guerrilla groups were established, they would soon receive some outside help. Southwest intelligence personnel secretly lurking in various parts of the Northeast used the Northeast to resist the Japanese invasion.

As comrades in the alliance, they were given special guidance. In addition to providing a certain amount of weapons and medicine, they were also taught how to conduct guerrilla warfare.

These small guerrilla groups recognized the leadership of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and began to respond to each other through various communication methods, staging guerrilla wars one after another in the Northeast.

Compared with the guerrilla war in full swing in Northeast China, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army still defended the Ningjin Defense Line and repelled fierce Japanese attacks many times. Nearly 100,000 Japanese troops were firmly blocked from the solid fortifications of the Ningjin Defense Line.

What made the Japanese army more angry was that although they once caused heavy casualties to the Northeastern Army and even broke through several lines of defense and reached the gates of Jinzhou City, they not only failed to break through Jinzhou, but were pushed back to their original position by the desperate counterattack of the Northeastern Army soldiers.

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When the fighting was at its fiercest, some nearby farmers ran to the battlefield, learned and used it now, picked up the weapons of the fallen Northeastern officers and soldiers, and helped resist the Japanese army, not to mention the new recruits who had only trained for a week or even a few days.

Charge into the battlefield bravely without fear of death.

What made the Japanese even more stressed was that as the Jinzhou War continued day by day, the Northeastern Army's positions became more and more complex. Compound defensive positions and underground tunnels and other defensive methods appeared on the Jinzhou battlefield one by one.

During a raid to break through the city gate of Jinzhou, the Japanese army could not enter even half a step into the city because the Northeastern Army treated every house in the city as a battlefield. The Japanese army only attacked half a street and suffered heavy casualties.

In addition to these, southwestern China is particularly irritating to the Japanese.

After sneak attacking the Japanese fleet, the Southwest Army completely eliminated the Japanese air force in the Tianjin area. They borrowed the Daxing Airport near Peiping to bomb the Japanese troops, cover the Chinese Army's retreat to the new defense line under Peiping City, and dispatch transport planes northward.

, the Japanese exchanged money by buying traitors

According to the 'reliable intelligence' we received, after the 'May 14th Sneak Attack', the Southwest at least dispatched several batches of transport aircraft troops northward, bringing a large number of old anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, recoil rifles, and new heavy machine guns to the north.

The "medicine" was delivered to the Northeast, but the heavy artillery was not directly delivered to Zhang Xueliang.

Japan does not understand Zhang Xueliang's approach to arming the Southwest. In their view, the Chinese have always liked internal fighting. The Northeast is not the sphere of influence of the Southwest. Why don't they just sit back and watch the fight, but instead do what Chiang Kai-shek should have done?

What did you do to support Zhang Xueliang in the fight against Japan?

1932, June 29

The Beijing-Tianjin battle that had been brewing for a long time between China and Japan finally officially broke out.

Chiang Kai-shek issued the "Declaration of Cooperation on Uniting All Forces to Further Resist Japan" in Nanjing. Under the wave of anti-Japanese calls across the country, after weighing the pros and cons of many parties, and finally receiving the support of Britain and France, the Nanjing National Government

Finally, the final determination was made to concentrate military forces on a local battle with the Japanese army.

In the declaration, Chiang Kai-shek first affirmed the heroic battles of the Kuomintang and the Southwest Army on the anti-Japanese battlefield, as well as the rich results achieved. The Chairman believed that the country had reached a critical moment and should fight the Japanese army to the death with the courage to die together.

He called on hot-blooded men to join the army and hoped that overseas Chinese all over the world would support this battle for national survival just as they supported Prime Minister Xi Jinping. In his speech, when asked by reporters what he thought of the Southwest Air Force's results, the Chairman expressed the need to

Further build the air force and navy in order to compete with the Japanese army in the future.[

Throughout the early stages of the battle, the Nanjing National Government mobilized four central elite divisions, including the 18th and 19th Divisions (Chen Cheng's two divisions were supplemented during the war), six reorganized divisions (A-class divisions)

), Song Zheyuan and other eight second-class divisions, totaling 18 divisions with 130,000 soldiers. Even fist troops including armored chariot convoys and the air force brigade guarding Nanjing were dispatched to participate in the battle.

The actions in the southwest are also huge.

Under the large organization of the 19th Anti-Japanese Route Army, a total of four divisions were organized, including the main 3rd Division originally stationed in Chengdu, the 4th Main Division stationed in Chongqing, the 8th Garrison Division, and the 12th Garrison Division.

division, four divisions with more than 60,000 troops.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had been really fired up and unwilling to embarrass himself in front of the people of the country, not only acquiesced to the Southwest People's Army's frontline airport in Peiping - Daxing Airport, but also acquiesced to the Southwest Army's '19th Route Army' for the sake of the overall situation of the war of resistance.

.Before the final battle, the two sides totaled 190,000 troops.

The reason why so many troops were mobilized was not without reason. After Japan's two aircraft carriers were sunk or seriously damaged, the domestic political situation was severely shaken. The crazy Japanese people could not accept the fact that they were defeated by the Chinese, and they shouted hoarsely.

They demanded that the "government" attack to the end. Some militarists even committed suicide in front of the palace to plead for mercy. The entire nation has completely fallen into madness.

The emperor, who was "forced" to the point of despair by all forces, personally instructed the military to immediately come up with a plan and organize further military operations to calm the situation. The authorized military quickly installed two emergency installations.

An aircraft carrier task force with several anti-aircraft firepower was dispatched to China. At the same time, support forces from two divisions also arrived in Tianjin.
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