Early in the morning at the Seventh Theater Headquarters, "Dear, good news, the Japanese army has retreated." Commander Su's personal adjutant, Yulia Xing, hurriedly entered Su Tong's office and handed a message to her husband.
After receiving the telegram and reading it, Su Tong breathed a long sigh of relief, lay down on the armchair and closed his eyes slightly: "Well, we finally captured Peiping. This ancient capital is finally back in our arms. Now I feel relieved."
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"Dear" Yulia blinked her beautiful big eyes and asked curiously: "I found that you seem to have deliberately released the Japanese army from Peiping, right?"
"Haha" Su Tong laughed. He reached out and scratched the bridge of his wife's straight nose. He immediately held Yulia in his arms and cursed with a smile: "You are the only one in the entire Seventh War Zone who dares to ask me this question in front of me."
this problem."
"Well, I'm just curious. Just tell me." Yulia twisted her body and acted coquettishly.
"Well, I am doing this for Peiping. Do you know why the Japanese army did not carry out large-scale massacres of civilians after capturing Peiping, and no Japanese army entered the Forbidden City occupied by the Second Division?" Su Tong smiled slightly
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Yulia shook her head in confusion.
That's because Okamura Neiji and I have a tacit understanding. I won't force him into a dead end, and he won't destroy every brick in the Forbidden City in exchange for my openness.
"Why is the Forbidden City just a palace? If it breaks down, it can be rebuilt. But the Second Division is Japan's ace division. Wouldn't it be a pity to let them go like this?" Yulia didn't understand.
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"No, you understand Yulia." Su Tong shook his head: "The Forbidden City is a witness to the history of China, and ten second divisions are not as good as one Forbidden City. If it is destroyed because of me, I will
I have become a sinner of history, and I will never let the Forbidden City be destroyed in my hands."
"Do you understand? The aerial reconnaissance report said that there were no Japanese soldiers in the Forbidden City, but there were Japanese soldiers guarding outside. I knew that Okamura Neji was leaving a way out for himself.
Telling me that I have no intention of destroying this city. And I have not ruled out large-scale bombing of them by planes. This is also my response to Okamura Neji. Do you understand?" Su Tong looked at his wife lovingly and kissed her gently.
Kissed her delicate and crystal clear face.
"Oh, God, your Eastern thinking is too complicated. I finally understand. I will never be able to see through you in this life." Yulia wrinkled her straight nose delicately.
"Haha" Su Tong laughed: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, as long as I can see through you."
"Well, dear, you have been busy all night, let's go in and have a rest, okay?" At this time, Yulia's delicate voice came to Su Tong's ear.
Su Tong raised his head and saw that the beautiful woman in his arms had watery eyes. Chief Su always responded to his wife's requests.
So amid a burst of tender laughter, Chief Su picked up his wife and strode into the lounge inside, closing the door.
The sky was starting to get gray and gray. Chengde's garrison commander, Lieutenant General Caochang Tatsumi, commander of the 28th Division, was in a hidden observation post. He bent down uneasily and used an observation glass to observe the situation outside Chengde.
During this period, Lieutenant General Caochang Chenmi went to the front line every day to observe the situation on the battlefield. The encirclement of the Chahar army on the opposite side was getting tighter and tighter, and ground contact with the outside world had been completely cut off. Chengde had long become an isolated city, with only three people in the city.
Thousands of Japanese troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians.
A few days ago, the Commander-in-Chief of the Seventh War Zone, Su Tong, had informed Lieutenant General Caochang Chensi that if the Japanese army dared to massacre the people to vent their anger, then the Seventh War Zone would execute all the thousands of Japanese expatriates captured in Rehe without mercy.
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At that time, this tough wording angered Lieutenant General Kenta Nakajima, the commander of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army who had just returned from a major defeat. That day, he killed more than 300 civilians in the city to vent his anger. This news
The agents of the Investigation Bureau hidden in Chengde City reported this, and the next day the Chahar troops outside the city immediately pushed the same number of Japanese nationals to the Japanese army's position outside Chengde City and beheaded them all.
And he also forcefully announced that as long as the massacre by the Japanese army continues, the revenge of the Seventh Theater will never stop. If the Japanese expatriates in Rehe are not enough to be killed, then there are still millions of Japanese expatriates in the three eastern provinces.
Wait for us to kill and see who can kill whom.
"These stupid Chinese people on Bagaya Road will pay the price for their stupidity." In anger, Lieutenant General Kenta Nakajima wanted to take his troops to the city to kill people to vent his anger, but he was informed and rushed to Caochang Tatsumi.
The lieutenant general slapped him several times.
"You are not a samurai. You only know how to kill civilians. If you are capable, take your division outside the city and fight Chahar's army. This way at least you will have a decent way to die." Kusaba Tatsumi.
The lieutenant general was furious at Kenta Nakajima's stupid behavior.
"You idiot, there are 450 million people in China, can you kill them all? Blind massacre can only arouse the hatred and anger of the people. Do you know why the Chinese army opposite has so many heavy artillery but there is no shelling?
Chengde, that’s because they are afraid of hurting the civilians in the city. If you kill all the civilians in Chengde, the Chinese army on the opposite side will be free to bombard Chengde. At that time, we can only be loyal to the emperor amidst the artillery fire."
"Hey" Kenta Nakajima was also slapped awake several times.
" Mr. Caochang is right, I was confused."
Seeing that Kenta Nakajima had admitted his mistake, Lieutenant General Tatsumi Kusaba didn't take it seriously. He hurriedly gave him a few words and went back. Because the Kwantung Army had already sent a telegram, they sent the 1st Brigade of Reading Force Tanks.
The reinforcements are coming with the 139th Division and are expected to arrive the day after tomorrow. As the garrison commander, Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi must make preparations as soon as possible.
The atmosphere outside Chengde City was particularly tense this morning. Observers outside the city came to report that a large number of Chahar troops on the opposite side entered the position and were expected to launch an attack. Lieutenant General Caochang Tatsumi immediately ordered the entire army to prepare for battle.
On the Chahar army's position, the 3rd Armored Division, the 5th, 102nd, and 11th Infantry Divisions have all entered the advance position. On the airport behind Chahar's Gantry Post, a series of Stukas are carrying
The heavy bombs soared into the sky, and above them were groups of Me109 fighter jets produced by Messerschmitt. Hu Lian, the commander-in-chief of the siege, was standing in front of the observation mirror at the forward headquarters, observing the sun carefully.
The situation of the army's outer positions.
Hu Lian looked at the Leighton luminous watch on his wrist, which was specially equipped for senior generals. The current time was 7:59 in the morning.
"Order the troops to start," Hu Lian said.
At eight o'clock in the morning, all the cannons of the Fourth Artillery Division outside Chengde City took off their gun jackets, revealing the cold light of the artillery.
The artillery commander stood next to each artillery position, holding a small red flag pointing straight into the sky and shouting commands.
"Get into position"
"Decoration of all elements"
"Zhuyuan Zhuding"
"One shot is good, two shots are good, three shots are good, six shots are good"
"Ready to load"
Following the officers' orders, four burly loaders, each two holding a lifting tong, worked together to clamp a 203mm artillery shell weighing nearly hundreds of kilograms and placed it on the loading trolley.
, a loader immediately used the feeding rod to push the shell into the barrel of the flattened 203mm heavy howitzer.
"Bang, bang!" The gunner closed the heavy gun bolt with force and quickly stood at attention and loudly announced: "Loading is complete."
"Ready to release"
"Woooooooooo!" Hundreds of kilograms of artillery shells flew out of the barrel and toward the intended target.
"Boom boom boom"
The Japanese artillery position opposite seemed to be stomped by a huge beast. It shook violently, and then exploded like an exploding watermelon, with bricks and rubble flying around.
Immediately, hundreds of artillery pieces of 75, 105, 122, 155 and other calibers on other positions also spoke. On the outer positions of Chengde, the bunkers built by the Japanese army and driven away countless civilians were just like this.
It was easily blown to pieces.
Most of the people stationed in the outer positions were Manchu and Mongolian puppet troops. Their morale was low. They had only two results from the huge explosion: one was that they were blown away by the shells without a trace. The other was that they were frightened. In human creation.
In the face of the murderous weapons that emerged, the heroic words before the war that they vowed to drive Chahar's army out of Chengde had long been blown away by the air waves of the artillery shells.
Twenty minutes after the bombardment, Stukas flying from the direction of Longmen also joined the carnival party. The dropping of heavy bombs weighing one hundred to five hundred kilograms made the Japanese army in the city feel the impact.
The earth shook.
Lieutenant General Tatsumi Kusaba stayed silently in the underground command post, feeling the trembling of the earth. He couldn't help but feel a little confused. Such ferocious artillery fire from the Chahar army made him, a man who had been in the army for more than 20 years, shocked. He knew,
Under such fierce artillery fire, the hastily constructed civil structure fortifications on the outside must have been completed.
He couldn't imagine what kind of terrible blow Japan would suffer if this war happened in China. No, it wouldn't happen. Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi shook his head violently and drove the terrible thoughts out of his mind.
Then it became funny again. China has no navy at all. Could they have wings and fly there?
"boom"
Half an hour later, the sound of cannons, like thousands of drums beating in the ears at the same time, suddenly stopped, and hundreds of cannons stopped firing in a tacit understanding.
When the few remaining Manchu and Mongolian puppet troops emerged from the remaining fortifications like gophers, what they saw was a surface as desolate as the surface of the moon, well, if they had ever seen the moon.
At this time, the Manchu and Mongolian puppet troops on the ground felt another tremor on the ground. What caught their eyes was a group of small black dots that seemed to appear from the horizon. Soon, they got closer, and the black dots became more and more intense.
The big one appeared in front of them.
"The chariot is the Chinese chariot." A frightened cry echoed in the deserted position.