Chapter 168: Battle of Tianjin

June 1932, Northeast, Jinzhou area, Japanese occupation area
This is a mountainous area, two mountains cross the road, the more common terrain in the northeast mountains, not far from here there is a blockhouse built by the Japanese army, a group of devils, standing high, using heavy machine guns to block this place The complex traffic channel, where Jinzhou battles fought for months, has been one of the main traffic routes for the Japanese army to the Jinzhou battlefield.
In the morning light, a Japanese convoy came from a distance, and the Japanese devils inside the bunker also drilled out, holding the 38th lid with the Japanese plaster flag on it, saluting, and sending a signal flag to the team to indicate that everything is normal and watch This batch of heavy materials passed.
After receiving the security notification from the Japanese army at the checkpoint, the Japanese heavy convoy restarted the car engine again, and was ready to pass this somewhat long valley under the open road of the Japanese checkpoint patrol motorcycle.
At this time, in the bushes not far from the highway, there was a group of camouflage on his body, his face was covered with ink, and guerrillas with branches on their heads.
This is an excellent resistance field. Compared with the terrain within a hundred miles, it is very helpful for setting. However, it is for this reason that the Japanese army also set up checkpoints on both ends of the valley, sending out patrol motorcycles, and monitoring the main road day and night. The guerrillas have been lurking here for most of the night for this ambush.
"hit"
When the last truck of the convoy entered the valley road, the captain of the guerrilla squad finally made an attack order.
I saw two guerrillas who had been preparing for a long time, carrying a long cylindrical object, stood up slightly, pulled the trigger, and two beeps, the two shells were fired at the two trucks of the Japanese army.
It was almost a blink of an eye. The first and last two cars of the Japanese army were hit by rockets and produced a violent explosion. The rockets that were originally designed to hit tanks and fortifications were scary at this time. As soon as the artillery went down, the Japanese army's military truck turned into a big fireball during a violent explosion.
Almost at the same time, in the grass less than a hundred meters away from the two bunkers of the Japanese army, a guerrilla was also standing, carrying a southwestern-made rocket launcher on his shoulder, pulling the trigger, and firing the revenge rocket fiercely. Go out.
Slightly slower than the bazooka is the mortar team. The four guerrillas quickly adjusted the mortars hidden in the grass. They fired two shells at the same time with a small shot and pulled up. After two parabolas, they 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 at this time. Although the guerrillas were few and only 13 people, they were very fierce and stronger than the guerrillas encountered by the Japanese elsewhere.
The Japanese squadron suddenly sounded something. One Japanese army cao said in a whisper: "Baga, it must be the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance."
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This is just a very ordinary guerrilla warfare, and similar battles have been staged in various parts of the northeast. The most common type of road guerrilla warfare is this.
After the occupation of the Northeast, the Japanese bayonet protected the road at the beginning. The road originally built by Zhang Zuolin became only used by the Japanese army. Barbed wire was pulled up on both sides of some important sections. Not to mention that the Chinese were passing through. Remember the bayonet took his life. This transport corridor is highly efficient and has completed a considerable part of the logistics supply tasks of the Jinzhou battlefield.
The reason why the Japanese army was heavily guarded was that after the battle in Shenyang, the Japanese army was attacked in various places in the northeast. These attacks were basically initiated by the former Northeast Army ’s former ministry. They had no time to withdraw to the border, and they could not start a large-scale battle with the Japanese army. Encouraged by a Northeast Army officer named Qu Zhongyi, a guerrilla war in full swing began in the Northeast.
After Qu Zhongyi left Shenyang with the remnants of the special war camp that day, he quickly drilled into the mountains of Northeast China, and established a guerrilla base in a ravine named Qifeng Ridge.
At the beginning, although Qu Zhongyi's guerrillas were quite crowded, with nearly 200 people, they even had problems eating, let alone getting long-term supplies. At that time, Qu Zhongyi's troops retreated too quickly from Shenyang and did not carry any materials, food, machinery, and other important things that could be used by the special war battalion.
However, until one day, Qu Zhongyi's old instructor when he was in the southwest came to his door, which shocked him and completely figured out all the problems. It was not until that moment that he received further orders from the instructor.
The Special Situations instructor who specially trained him in the southwest of the year not only brought him a paper order, but also brought him a batch of weapons, ammunition and food. In addition, there was even a batch including small power generation. Small machinery and equipment including engines and diesel engines.
It was not until that moment that Qu Zhongyi understood how the superior's arrangements were in place. He had already planned in the Northeast for a number of necessary supplies to support his future guerrilla operations.
In this way, Qu Zhongyi, who was formally appointed as the commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Second Front Lieutenant Colonel of the Southwest People's Army, stayed in this Qifeng Ridge and began to interact with his instructor, the omnipotent special in his eyes. Special agent Wen Bingyin joined forces to develop and expand the guerrilla cause in Northeast China.
Led by the two, after the guerrilla base was established, the special war 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 the Northeast in the Qifengling area.
Then, the special guerrillas, officially renamed 'Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces', organized a number of operations against Japan.
On one occasion, the devils in a nearby county were moved away from the mountain by the soldiers of the League of Resistance, and the guerrillas stormed into the city and opened the granary searched by the Japanese to put in grain. Not only they grabbed a batch of important supplies, they also capped the Japanese army captain and several others. The Japanese traitor lit the sky lantern on the spot.
Soon, the anti-Japanese coalition guerrillas spread. Military actions such as killing devils, punishing traitors, blowing up bunkers, and sniping Japanese devils in the middle range were quickly imitated by anti-Japanese heroes everywhere.
Because the main forces of the Northeast Army retreated to Jinzhou after losing the battle in Shenyang, many local troops stationed in the Northeast Army far from Jinzhou were weak, and soon suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the Japanese army. Many troops were broken up. Although the soldiers were full Angered, but the situation is not as good as the man, after the helpless command of the dissolution was returned, he returned to his hometown with a bullet.
These returning soldiers, after seeing the atrocities of the Japanese army in various parts of the Northeast, regretted their actions at that time, thinking that even if they were dead, a few Japanese devils should be desperately killed. In many places, even one or two or three Northeast Army soldiers took guns to hide on the side of the road and beat the Japanese cold guns. There was even a Northeast Army company commander and the Japanese when the Japanese devil was about to defile a weak woman. They scuffled together, and finally rang the grenade they hid when they returned home.
However, these spirited battles of skirmishers will only gradually disperse the scattered anti-Japanese forces until the guerrillas led by Qu Zhongyi fight the banner of the Northeast People's United Resistance Army and publish 'Letters to Northeast Fathers and Villagers' and 'Northeast China' After the People ’s Anti-Japanese Coalition Army ’s anti-Japanese propaganda, these enthusiastic men scattered in the northeast of China suddenly realized that only by relying on the strength of the organization and combining these anti-Japanese forces can they cause substantial damage to the Japanese army instead of relying on themselves. Insidious suicide attacks.
As a result, a group of anti-Japanese guerrillas began to spring up from all parts of the northeast. Once these guerrillas were established, they would soon receive some outside help. The northwestern intelligence personnel lurking in the northeast secretly lurked in the northeast. In their capacity as comrades, they gave them special guidance. In addition to providing a certain amount of weapons and ammunition, they also taught them how to conduct guerrilla warfare.
These small guerrillas have recognized the leadership of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Forces, and began to echo each other through various liaison methods, staged guerrilla wars in the Northeast.
Compared with the raging Northeast guerrilla war, Zhang Xueliang ’s Northeast Army still guards the Ning Jin defense line, and has repeatedly repelled the Japanese ’s fierce attacks. Nearly 100,000 Japanese troops are firmly blocked from the solid fortifications of the Ning Jin defense line.
What made the Japanese army extremely angry was that although it caused heavy casualties in the Northeast Army and even broke through several lines of defense and reached the city of Jinzhou, it not only failed to break through Jinzhou, but was repelled by the Northeast Army officers and soldiers' sworn back .
When the fighting was fierce, some nearby farmers ran to the battlefield, learning what they are using now, picking up the weapons of the Northeast Army officers and soldiers who were killed, and helping to resist the Japanese, let alone those recruits who only trained for a week or even a few days. Fearlessly rushed to the battlefield.
What makes the Japanese feel more pressure is that as the battle in Jinzhou goes on day by day, the Northeast Army ’s positions have become more and more complex. Compound defense positions and underground tunnels have all appeared on the Jinzhou battlefield. In a raid that broke through the gates of Jinzhou, the Japanese army could not enter the city half a step, because the Northeast Army regarded 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 the Southwest Army attacked the Japanese fleet, it was equivalent to completely destroying the Japanese air force in Tianjin. They borrowed Daxing Airport near Peiping and bombed the Japanese army to cover the Chinese army's retreat to the new line of defense under Peiping while sending transport aircraft northward to Japan. According to the "reliable intelligence" acquired by the traitor, Southwest dispatched at least several batches of transport aircraft troops north after the "May 14th Attack" and sent a large number of old-style anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, recoilless guns, and new styles. The heavy machine guns and ammunition were sent to the Northeast, but the heavy guns were not directly delivered to Zhang Xueliang.
For the method of arming Zhang Xueliang in the southwest, Japan does not quite understand it. In their opinion, the Chinese have always liked internal fighting, and the northeast is not the sphere of influence of the southwest. Why do they not sit by and watch what they should do instead? What did you do to support Zhang Xueliang's resistance to Japan?
June 29, 1932
The long-awaited Beijing-Tianjin battle between China and Japan finally broke out.
Chiang Kai-shek issued the "Declaration of Cooperation on Uniting All Forces to Further Resist Japan" in Nanjing. In the wave of anti-Japanese protests across the country, weighing the pros and cons of various parties, and finally with the support of Britain and France, the Nanjing National Government finally made a final determination to focus military forces on a local assembly battle with the Japanese army.
In the declaration, Chiang Kai-shek first affirmed the heroic battle of the Kuomintang and the Southwestern Army on the anti-Japanese battlefield and the rich results achieved. The chairman believes that the country has reached the point of danger and survival, and it should hold the invincible courage of jade and jade to fight the Japanese army.
He called on the men to join the army enthusiastically, and hoped that the Chinese and overseas Chinese around the world would support this battle for national survival in the same way they supported the Prime Minister. In his speech, the reporter was asked by reporters how to view the results of the Southwest Air Force, and he stated that he would further build the Air Force and the Navy in order to compete with the Japanese in the future.
During the beginning of the battle, the Nanjing National Government successively mobilized 4 central elite divisions including the 18th Division and the 19th Division (two divisions of Chen Cheng were supplemented during the war) and six reorganization divisions (A division). Song Zheyuan and other eight divisions of the eighth division, a total of eighteen divisions, 130,000 soldiers. It even dispatched fist troops including the Iron Armored Convoy and the Nanjing Air Force Brigade to participate in the battle.
The movements in the southwest are equally large.
Under the large establishment of the 19th Route Army of the Anti-Japanese War, UU read the book www. uukanshu.com has a total of four divisions, including the former No. 3 Division in Chengdu, No. 4 Division in Chongqing, No. 8 Wei Division, No. 12 Wei Division, and more than 60,000 troops. .
Jiang Jieshi, who has been hit by real fire and is unwilling to embarrass himself in front of the people of the country, not only tacitly approved the Southwest People ’s Army ’s frontline airport at Peiping—Daxing Airport, but also acquiesced to the Southwest ’s 19th Route Army. . Before the final battle, the two sides had a total of 190,000 troops.
The reason why so many troops are mobilized is not without reason. After Japan ’s two aircraft carriers were sunk or seriously injured, the domestic political situation was severely shaken, and the crazy Japanese people could n’t accept the fact that they were defeated by the Chinese. Attack to the end. Some militarists even called for help in front of the palace, and the entire nation was completely insane.
The emperor, who had been forced by almost all powers, almost personally instructed the military to immediately come up with a plan and organize further military operations to calm the situation. The authorized military department quickly dispatched two aircraft carrier special mixed formations with numerous air defense firepower to China. At the same time, the support forces of the two divisions also arrived in Tianjin.
With five divisions and more than 110,000 troops, the strength of the dispatched troops in Tianjin has surpassed the regular Japanese troops in the northeast. A battle between life and death between China and Japan will soon be staged in Peiping. ()