In Tianjin City, the former Japanese Concession Yamato Guild Hall was originally the office location of the Japanese Expatriate Deer Group, and it is also the de facto concession management agency. This is a three-story building. At the beginning of construction, considering the needs of war, the materials were all steel and cement, and a solid basement was built.

Yamato Guild Hall is not located on the street, but in Yamato Park. At this moment, the park is not rich, and the cherry trees have grown a little green. In the past, there were always people who came to the park in groups, hoping for the beautiful cherry blossoms. But now, the cherry blossoms are gone, and the park is full of murderous aura.

Trenches were digging everywhere in the park. A group of soldiers in rural areas were undergoing training in a corner of the park. Seven or eight anti-aircraft guns were raising their muzzles and stretched into the sky. The guild hall was covered with sandbags, and each window was blocked by sandbags, leaving only the muzzles for shooting from outside. On the roof, seven or eight anti-aircraft machine guns were facing the surroundings with murderous aura.

The atmosphere in the guild hall was even more tense. Few people walked around in the corridor, but all the doors were open, and the officers in the room listened carefully to the sounds coming from outside.

Yokoyama Yong is the same as most Japanese soldiers, but unlike most Japanese soldiers, he looks very thin and always looks a little hesitant. Yokoyama Yong never fought in the pass. During the Lugou Bridge Incident, he served as the General Affairs Minister of the Planning Institute in the base camp, and then went to the Kwantung Army as the commander of the First Division. In the battle against the Soviet Union, he was promoted to the commander of the 4th Army of the Kwantung Army. This time, the Kwantung Army reinforced the pass, and almost the entire army of his 4th Army was transferred to the pass. However, anyone who knows Yokoyama Yong knew that this guy was a very tough person and very cunning.

"No! You must attack and don't stop! Don't care about the flanks or the back! Do you understand! As long as you keep attacking the Chinese army! They will have no chance to counterattack!" After Yokoyama Yuki said that, he hung up the phone without waiting for the other party to answer. Chief of Staff Kinoshita looked at him admiringly. The phone was called by Lin Fangtaro, the commander of the 110th Division who was fighting back.

The Chinese army approached Tianjin Okamura Yasuji from three sides and ordered the transfer of five divisions and two chariot brigades from Tianjin to retreat north to Qingyun Town to assemble, leaving three divisions and two mixed brigades to defend Tianjin. In addition, there were about 30,000 soldiers in the township (all soldiers in the township, regardless of men, women, and young).

The five divisions headed north and had to be carried out under the fierce attack of the Chinese army. The difficulty of this adjustment can be imagined and is almost impossible. In order to complete this almost impossible task, Yokoyama Yong drew the 110th Division from the front to fight back in the east of the city.

The reason why it is in the east of the city is because the offensive of the First China Army was extremely fierce. The First China Army took the 55th Army as the vanguard and continued to detour northward, bypassing the military ration city and rushing towards the Chishi, approaching the Zaojia City, and directly threatening the northward retreat passage. The temporary third army is attacking the Military ration city. In order to prevent the Chinese Army's actions, Yokoyama Yong ordered the 110th Division to counterattack in the east of the city.

The 110th Division launched an attack on the temporary third army that was attacking the military ration city. The 0th Division resolutely counterattacked and defeated the 8th Brigade of the temporary third army. Then it repelled the counterattack of the new 110th Division and Tandem, approaching the military ration city.

Faced with the attack of the 110th Division, Lan Yundong was forced to draw the 180th Division from the 55th Army from the north to counterattack the flank of the 110th Division. The 180th Division's counterattack was very sharp. From Shanlingzi, he went south and conquered Dadongzhuang Longfeng Liming Neng House to the flank of the 110th Division. Lin Fangtaro, the commander of the 110th Division, was forced to draw the 139th Regiment to counterattack. The two armies repeatedly killed in the Xiaodong Town area to form a stalemate.

Faced with the counterattack of the 180th Division, Lin Fangtaro felt great threat. He attacked alone without subsequent reinforcements, and had no flanking protection. The Chinese army mobilized troops from all over the place to counterattack. The division was in danger of being surrounded and he didn't want to fight, but Yokoyama Yuk firmly wanted him to continue the attack.

Lin Fangtaro had to continue attacking. Under the military ration city, Shi Guantao mobilized the newly formed 110th Division and the newly formed B Division to block the attack, rectified the 8th ** Brigade, and ordered it to counterattack on the flank. Lin Fangtaro did not dare to touch the hornet's nest, and changed his gun to adjust the main attack direction, and used the 110th Regiment to penetrate the cracks between the 55th Army and the newly formed 3rd Army, and launched a raid from the flank to the 180th Division. Two regiments of the 180th Division were defeated, and the entire front was shaken. Huang Botao was furious when he heard the news and personally led the old division to reinforce. He immediately removed Dong Shengtang, the commander of the 180th Division, and shot Cui Zhenfang, the commander of the 538th Regiment, who had lost his position.

Huang Botao killed the generals at the last battle, shocking the entire army. The generals of various units did not dare to retreat without authorization, and fought to the death, stabilizing the battlefield. Then Huang Botao personally led the 6th-43rd Brigade of the 18th Division to detour into Lin, and Lin Fangtaro's offensive was suppressed.

Lan Yundong was not idle either and ordered the newly formed 108th Army's new 6th Division to surround the 110th Division from the south. Lin Fangtaro could no longer withstand it and turned into defense in full swing, shrinking into Tianjin while fighting. This time, Hengshan Yong sent the 16th mixed brigade out of the city to respond.

After delay, Lan Yundong failed to detour in Wuqing on time and closed the Beida Gate of Tianjin. Four of the five divisions drawn by Okamura Yasuji from Tianjin retreated north, but the 132nd Division blocked by Wuqing was bitten by Pan Wenhua and could not escape, so he had to retreat to Tianjin in the end.

Around Tianjin, there was no sound of cannons all night, and citizens were waiting in the tense joy. The streets were crowded with people. Japanese soldiers patrolled the streets with guns. Occasionally, two military vehicles drove past the streets. The streets were covered with barricades, and the buses were converted into fortresses, security headquarters, military police, municipal government and other important facilities, such as the current department, and the troops were heavily deployed, and almost every room was transformed into combat units.

As the 132nd Division retreated into Tianjin, Tianjin has been separated from the territory of Pingjin's combat today, becoming an isolated city, surrounded by the "China-China team".

...The 55th Army and the 47th Army met east of Wuqing. At this point, our army had surrounded Tianjin. To the east, the 7th Division of the Tanggu defenders puppet peace rescue announced that anyway, Commander Lan sent a regiment to take over the defense.

", "China Group, Langfang, Hebian Zhengsan led the main force to retreat northward. Commander Song commanded his troops to pursue and block Langfang. After the 22nd Army annihilated the Gu'an defenders, the main force crossed the Yongding River and joined the attack on the 56th Division and the 8th Division."

"The General Staff judged that Okamura's troops were dispatched from various battlefields to rescue the 56th Division. The General Staff suggested that "using the 56th Division and the 8th Division as bait" severely damaged Okamura's reinforcements. To achieve this goal, the General Staff suggested that the First Mechanized Army and the Fifth Army withdraw from the battle and assemble south of Panggezhuang. The 23rd Army and the 7172nd Army undertake the encirclement and annihilation of the 56th Division and the 8th Division. The 22nd Army is responsible for blocking the Japanese army in the Daxing area, the New Eighth Army and the Kou Army, and the Second Army gather east of Yuwu, the Second Tank Division and the Third Fourth Brigade of the Tank were assembled in Lixian.

As the Tianjin surrounds, the atmosphere in the combat room is filled with ease and excitement. If Zhuang Jihua and Bai Chongxi were not present, these young officers would have cheered long ago.

Zhuang Jihua didn't say anything. Under the dim light, his expression was not so excited. What he was most worried about was not the Japanese army in Tianjin. Instead, the Japanese army retreated to the north. Okamura Yasuji shrinks his troops. What did he want to do? The purpose of shrinking the troops is definitely not to escape, but to counterattack. Where are these troops going to counterattack?

He Wei and others judged that Okamura Yasuji would rescue the 56th Division. This is one possibility, but another possibility exists. Go north to attack Huailai. If the tank troops are withdrawn at this time, it will give the Japanese army a chance to retreat safely.

Retreat is a very complex form of combat, and Zhuang Jihua has a deep understanding of this. "Seven years ago, the frequent retreats in the Nanjing Defense War, and the Sixth Division crossed Taihu Lake. He had to adjust at the moment. That retreat that took a huge risk" was held from beginning to end. He believed that Okamura Yanji was like this now.

The troops retreat, rectify, assemble, and re-enter the battle, and there will inevitably be chaos. If they are hit at this time, the chaos of the troops will become even more chaotic and may collapse. Zhuang Jihua wants to continue the attack instead of waiting for the Japanese army to attack.

Bai Chongxi didn't speak either. He sat by the sand table with a cup of coffee in his hand, staring at the enemy and us situation chart just marked on the sand table with a calm expression.

"What's going on in Huailai?"

Zhang Lingfu's capture of Huailai was beyond the expectations of Zhuang Jihua and Bai Chongxi, and also made them excited. Taking Huailai was equivalent to completely closing the gate of the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou to flee east and directly intimidating the Japanese army in Peking. This was equivalent to laying a machine gun in front of the Beida gate of Okamura.

This is also what Zhuang Jihua is worried about. Okamura Yasuji has drawn such troops from the southern line. Is it the purpose of counterattacking Huailai? Rescue the Japanese army in Pingzhang Highway.

"The 105th Division repelled the attack of the Second Division. The Japanese army's guided division and our new guided division, the guerrilla corps, and the 115th Division special detachment rushed to the battlefield one after another. Zhang Lingfu reported that our army had defeated the Japanese army's counterattack, and the Japanese army is currently retreating to the end of the bottom."

He Wei said and pointed at the new security guard again: "The battle between the new security guards is still continuing. Our army failed to rush to the city three times. Guo Xunqi issued a military order to conquer the new security guard in 24 hours, and there are still eight hours left."

Guo Xunqi Wanquan did not expect that the 15th Mixed Brigade of the New Security Guard was so tenacious. The 102nd Army rushed to the city three times and was defeated three times. When night fell, the troops were still parked at the city.

He Wei mentioned the military order specifically, which was not a ridicule. He Wei was a general in the fourth Red Army and had fought with the Sichuan Army. The biggest battle was the six-root anti-siege. Although the Red Army won that battle, it suffered heavy losses and finally had to give up the Sichuan-Shaanxi base.

However, after the Red Army entered Sichuan, He Wei looked down on the Sichuan Army from the bottom of his heart. However, after arriving at the Fifth War Zone, He Wei found that the troops formed by the Sichuan Army performed completely differently on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. The 22nd Army, the 24th Army, and the 102nd Army, these troops were completely different from those in terms of fighting will and equipment tactics. He even thought in his heart that if he had such will and spirit back then, the Red Army would have probably been expelled from Sichuan long ago.

"Sun Liren's command of the attack on Zhuolu was relatively smooth. The Japanese strongholds outside Zhuolu had been cleared. Sun Liren called and launched an attack early tomorrow morning."
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