As soon as the gates of Peiping City were opened that day, the guards guarding the gates discovered that the people leaving the city this time were no longer the ordinary people from the past few days. There were actually many literati inside. How could these guards know this? Look at this
Everyone who wears glasses knows this, and there are a few people in Forty-Nine City who don’t know these great scholars. These are people who even Commander Song must respect.
Although most of these people were in disguise, the most important thing as a guard was their sharp eyesight. The guards quickly reported to the captain, level by level, all the way to Song Zheyuan.
Song Zheyuan looked at the reported information and asked people to go to various universities to inquire. Sure enough, all well-known scholars suddenly took sick leave, and not only scholars, but also a large number of students disappeared for no reason.
Song Zheyuan sighed, "They're gone, they're all gone, alas - these people will leave as soon as they see a war." Song Zheyuan still thought that these people were just temporarily taking refuge in the countryside.
Zhang Yueting, who was standing next to him, said, "Since ancient times, small chaos has entered the city, and big chaos has gone to the countryside. This is normal. These literati usually like to shout. If the fight really starts, we, the big-headed soldiers, are not required to come forward."
Song Zheyuan shook his head and said, "So we must resolve this matter as soon as possible, otherwise the whole of Hebei will be in chaos."
The professors and students on the other side gathered in Changxindian. Ji Xingwen here had received the secret order and treated these people as invisible. He only saw the young people among them chattering as if they were participating in a spring outing. Some professors also
Looking at the beautiful scenery, I kept sighing and even composed two poems from time to time.
Xiang Jun, a member of the Special Branch of the Red Party who watched them not far away, sighed, "This is too unorganized and disciplined. Transporting all these people to Yan'an? It's not going to be easy for us."
A strong man next to him touched the gun in his arms and said, "This is the highest order of the Party Central Committee. We must complete the task even if we die. And it said that we should go to Baoding and wait until the end of July. Then an army will come to help."
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Xiang Jun pointed to the direction and said, "There are comrades not far ahead who have prepared food and water. Let's rest for a while and then hit the road. Let these literary stars catch each other with ropes. Be careful of falling behind. If someone falls behind, let them arrive."
Find a big team in Baoding.”
——Yan'an
After more than ten days of war of words in Lushan, the White Party's preliminary reorganization plan for the Red Army has been determined to be three divisions, which is very different from the five divisions originally determined. However, for the sake of the overall situation of the resistance against Japan, the Red Party is not willing to reorganize the Red Army.
The struggle continued. However, the White Party demanded that the management and education of the three divisions must be directly under the central battalion of the Nationalist Central Committee; the chiefs of staff of the three divisions should be dispatched from Nanjing.
The Red Party's response plan was to immediately reorganize the three front armies into three divisions, each with a full strength of 15,000 people. All troops except the Central Guard Regiment would be organized into three divisions, and at the same time strengthen cadres so that the troops could operate immediately.
Finally it becomes an established fact.
Countries in the League of Nations, which Chiang had been expecting, also expressed concern about the situation in China. However, out of consideration of the powers' own interests, most of them only expressed strong concern. Only the Soviet Union's "Izvestia" pointed out that the "July 7th Incident" was the result of the long-term process of Japanese imperialism.
Thoroughly prepared for the beginning of the second phase of the conquest of China.
This greatly disappointed Chiang Kai-shek, who was preparing for war. At the same time, he was determined to fight a big war in a place with international influence. Various military supplies were gradually transferred to Shanghai.
On July 23, the staff officer of the Chinese garrison in Japan, Chitakaji, reported to Prime Minister Sugiyama Genriku: "My front-line officers and soldiers are murderous and noisy, accusing the headquarters of being weak... Don't cling to the policy of not expanding. Now it has been
It’s time to change the situation.”
Sugiyama Gen explained that although it is necessary to avoid causing an incident as big as a full-scale war, it is necessary to resolutely counterattack based on the facts and circumstances."
Subsequently, Japan's 71st Parliament opened, centering on the so-called "North China Incident", and passed 33 proposals, which enabled Japan to begin the transition from a quasi-wartime system to a wartime system from political, economic, military and other aspects. August 7
The meeting ended on the same day. This meeting increased temporary military spending by more than 500 million yen.
Since then, the Japanese army has only five divisions left in the country, and the others are on standby to prepare for battle.
At the same time, a large number of Japanese overseas Chinese began to return home. Looking at the ships filled with Japanese overseas Chinese, even the dock workers knew that a war was about to begin.
Zhang Zizhong, who was watching a large number of Japanese expatriates leaving Tianjin, felt very uneasy, so he visited Xiangyue on the issue of Japan's withdrawal of troops. Xiangyue excused herself from illness. Zhang Zizhong looked at the heavily guarded Japanese headquarters, and his fists were about to bleed, and he was angry and angry.
Angry, he actually fell ill like this. When Song Zheyuan found out, he was worried about the general's health and asked him to go to Peking for treatment. However, this trip made Zhang Zizhong suffer a lifetime of infamy.
July 25, 1937
After two weeks of desperate preparations, the Japanese army finally transported all the troops, ammunition and weapons into place. Xiangzuki Kiyoshi looked at the military map, which clearly marked the 29th Army's military deployment in detail down to the layout of each company.
The Japanese army on the map is no longer the strategic situation of only having an encirclement posture but insufficient troops in early July. On the current strategic map, the Japanese army's combat strength has doubled that of the 29th Army.
Xiangyue Qingji nodded and said, "Order the troops to prepare for the attack. First, cut off the traffic in Peiping!"
The night of July 25th
Langfang is the midway point between the Tianjin and Peiping railways. It was here that the Eight-Power Allied Forces were blocked by the Boxers in history. The 226th Regiment of the 113th Brigade of the 38th Division is stationed here today. The entire regiment is stationed along the railway line.
Nowadays, there are not only Chinese troops in Langfang, but also a Japanese troop stationed there. It is the main force of the 77th Regiment of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army. The leader of the brigade, Captain Deng Gaozhi, secretly looked down from a high ground and was almost laughing.
From ear to ear. I saw that there was not even a decent permanent fortification in the entire Chinese position. It was just some simple fortifications such as sandbags, horse barriers, and barbed wire, and they were full of loopholes. Such defenses meant that the troops here did not do anything at all.
Good preparation for battle, Nagato Takashi simply couldn't understand this. Two weeks had passed since the incident in Japan, how come the troops here were still the same as in peacetime.
In fact, it is very simple. In order to prevent the Japanese from having an excuse, Song Zheyuan ordered all troops not to make any preparations for war or any defensive fortifications.
Nagato Takashi chuckled to himself, thought of a plan, and gave an order to the squadron leader Hanazawa Takuya next to him.
I saw Hanazawa Takuya leading a squadron in a truck and driving to the station in a swaggering manner. The people on the roadside were already surprised when they saw it. Nowadays, except for some places where the 29th Army is stationed in Hebei, the Japanese army has become as if there is no place.
In the human realm, you can enter when you want to, and leave when you want to.
The second battalion of the 226th Regiment was stationed at Langfang Station at this time.
Yan Basi's original name was Yan Basi. His parents gave him this name because he was born at eight o'clock. Now he is a company commander, and he considers himself to be the ancestor of Guangzong. He feels that he should have one.
I didn’t want to give up the name given by my parents who worked hard to raise me, so I chose such a homophonic name.
Yan Basi turned out to be a member of the Northeast Army. After withdrawing from the customs, he was incorporated into the 29th Army. When he saw the Japanese military vehicles coming from a distance, he squeezed his hands tightly and then let go bitterly.
Yan Basi waved his hand to signal to Mark Xin beside him to prepare for battle. He stood in front and shouted loudly, "In front of you is Langfang Station. According to the agreement between our two armies, your army is not allowed to enter. I wonder if there is something wrong with your army?"
Hanazawa Takuya waved his hand, and the soldiers on the military vehicles got out of the car together. They saw that they spread out their battle formations as fast as possible, and several military vehicles set up crooked handles.
Hanazawa Takuya smiled and said, "Our Imperial Army's wires passed through your station, and now they suddenly broke. We suspect that it was caused by anti-Japanese elements, and we want to enter the station to search and repair it."
Yan Basi looked at the crooked handles facing him. They were not repairing anything, they were just trying to occupy the station.
Yan Basi suddenly thought of Wanping City more than ten days ago. He immediately said, "Sorry, we will help you repair it. Please leave to avoid misunderstandings."
The two of them stared at each other for a moment, neither of them giving in.
Hanazawa Takuya suddenly bowed and said, "Then please."
Yan Basi took a breath and finally got over it.
Yan Basi stared closely at Huazawa Takuya and retreated behind the military vehicle. Suddenly he felt something was wrong. Why didn't the soldiers get on the vehicle yet? He was alert and shouted, "They are cheating."
The Japanese army started firing loudly, knocking down several machine gunners and Yan Basi at the intersection in one fell swoop. All of them were fatally shot.
Hanazawa Takuya hid behind the military vehicle and shouted "Shoot!!"
Nagato Takazhi, who was hanging at the back, heard the sound of Sanba Daigai and said excitedly, "Kun Huazawa has succeeded, the whole army is attacking."
The 226th Regiment was not slow to respond. Xi Xincai, the commander of the 226th Regiment at the station, heard the voice of 38 Dagai shouting, "I knew it, I knew it, the military seat is unwise!!"
The second battalion commander next to him asked anxiously, "What should we do?"
Xi Xincai roared angrily, "What should we do? Fight! We are all from the Northeast and have already escaped once. Do we want to escape again? From the sounds of it, the Japanese don't even have heavy artillery. What are we afraid of? We ordered the first battalion not to move and the third battalion not to move."
Come over from the east and swallow them up for me!!"
It has to be said that the 29th Army, which fought in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, is very offensive. Since several division commanders are all tiger generals, and the troops are all from the Northeast and Northwest. No matter what the situation, their first reaction is often to counterattack.
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As mentioned before, the light weapons and equipment of the 29th Army are actually very good, but because the 226th Regiment is stationed in Langfang, which is not very important (God knows why the 29th Army thinks this transportation hub is not important), it only has 4 82 mortars.
However, the attacking Japanese army had even one mortar. Since it was a sneak attack, they only had heavy machine guns and grenade launchers. They were immediately suppressed by the 226th Regiment. It was already dawn.
Nagato Takashi looked at the sky and shouted to the signal soldier, "Report to the commander of the regiment and ask for tactical guidance."
At this time, the captain of the 77th Regiment, Kouta Se, who was waiting outside Dongmaquan Town, received the telegram and excitedly said to Fujiwara Hayato next to him, "Order the tank squadron to be the forward, immediately break through the town position, intersperse to Langfang, and cooperate with the Nagato Brigade."
His Majesty the Emperor, please take Langfang."
Fujiwara Hayato saluted and said, "I promise to complete the mission."
Nagato Takashi then said to the communications corps, "Commander of the Power Generation Division, please ask for tactical guidance from the aviation corps."
Guarding Dongmaquan Town is a security brigade. This is also part of the agreement between Song Zheyuan and the Japanese. All guards on non-key traffic arteries were replaced by second-line troops.
The captain of the security brigade looked at Langfang worriedly, where the faint sound of artillery fire in Langfang could already be heard.
Suddenly he heard a strange sound coming from the far suburbs. It seemed to be a truck, but it didn't look like it. He looked into the distance from the lookout and saw only a dozen terrifying steel monsters appearing in the morning fog.
He recognized these war machines with the aura of death. They were Japanese tanks.
In fact, these tanks are not powerful. The main force is the famous Xiaoduding tank of later generations - the Type 94 tank. There is only a small team of the Type 95 light tank.
But this security brigade only had one heavy machine gun. They only saw a Type 95 tank suddenly stop and slowly turn the fort towards the observation deck. This was the last scene the security captain saw.
—— Langfang
At this time, the 226th Regiment had already surrounded Changdeng Brigade in a frantic attack. Xi Xin knew clearly that these people would not be the only enemy, and their reinforcements would arrive soon.
However, the two battalions of the 226th Regiment only had more than 2,000 people, while one Japanese brigade had nearly a thousand combat strengths. Faced with the siege, the Nagato brigade took it easy and quickly occupied the commanding heights of nearby houses. Although there was no artillery support,
Relying on the precise shooting of grenades, heavy machine guns and rifles, they actually managed to draw with the 226th Regiment, and even staged small counterattacks from time to time.
Xi Xincai looked into the distance at the station and walked around anxiously.
Chief of Staff Shi Bang asked, "Regiment leader, why don't you let the third battalion also come? The gap between our soldiers and the Japanese is too big. Even if we have the firepower advantage now, it will be very difficult to fight. What if the Japanese come to reinforce us again?"
Xi Xincai waved his finger and said, "Don't I know? The third battalion is to prevent the Japanese from getting reinforcements. If they are all thrown in, what will we do to stop the Japanese from coming to reinforce us?"
At this time, I saw a dozen small black dots flying over in the distant sky.
Xi Xincai knew it was a Japanese aircraft at the first sight, and said anxiously, "The damn iron birds are here, let's conceal our firepower, concentrate our machine guns, and drive them away!!"
The 29th Army does not have many professional air defense troops. Although it has a small number of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, they are concentrated in several big cities such as Tianjin and Peiping. Places like Langfang are really not qualified to have such weapons.
Only a dozen Japanese planes were seen flying unsteadily over Langfang. Changdeng Brigade cheered when they saw the planes. The soldiers of the 226th Regiment who faced them all looked pale. They only had rifles and it was hard to face the planes.
They had no power to fight back. They could only shoot in vain for psychological comfort. Some timid soldiers simply threw away their guns, took off their clothes, and ran into civilian houses to become deserters.
Xi Xincai looked at the plane in a hidden fortress and sighed, "The bloody devils know how to bully people!"
These planes dived and fired from time to time, and from time to time they dropped bombs at high altitudes at the machine gun points. Although they did not dare to drop too low due to the threat of the machine guns, the fire network that had originally blocked the Changdeng Brigade was temporarily stopped.
Seeing an opportunity, Nagato shouted, "Emperor's warriors, charge!" Suddenly, another street was controlled by Nagato's brigade.
The only good thing is probably that the Japanese aircraft of this era were still Type 95 fighter jets, which were poor at carrying bombs and staying in the air. As long as the soldiers of the 226th Regiment were well concealed, their casualties would not be huge.
But soon the next Japanese attack arrived.
The 20th Division is a veteran division, and the 77th Regiment is not only equipped with a tank squadron, but also an artillery unit.
They easily captured the 77th Regiment in Dongmaquan Town and set up their artillery positions in Dongmaquan Town. In this way, the Chinese artillerymen would resort to counterattack even if they wanted to counterattack.
What's more, the 226th Regiment only had four mortars. When the first shell landed at Langfang Station, Xi Xincai knew that the real main force of the Japanese army was coming.
His suspicion was quickly confirmed. The impact of a group of tanks easily tore through the defense line he had set up. Even though many of the soldiers of the 226th Regiment were very brave and carried explosive bags to act as human bombs, they only created a little trouble for the Japanese army.
Little trouble.
Shi Bang asked anxiously, "Regiment leader, the Japanese tanks rushed over from the east. The security brigade in Dongmaquan Town was completely wiped out. Our mortars were hit by artillery and couldn't fire three shells in one place. Only
What should we do if we can escape?"
Xi Xincai looked at the artillery fire in the city and the flow of people fleeing, and said with a sad smile, "What can we do? What else can we do? We are all from the Northeast, can we retreat again? Why don't we die here today to serve the country."
After resisting the Japanese army for a day and night, the 226th Regiment suffered more than half casualties. Xi Xincai was seriously injured and was dying. Chief of Staff Shi Bang led the remaining soldiers to lose Beicang, Yangcun and other stations. They retreated to Weishanzhuang to hold their position. From then on, Beiping City was destroyed except for
Traffic in the direction of Marco Polo Bridge was cut off.
News of the attack on Langfang reached Nanyuan. After receiving the news, Tong Linge and Deng of Nanyuan immediately took out the information left by Li Qian and took a look. They found that even the numbers of the attacking troops were exactly the same. Only then did they determine who was behind Li Qian.
It truly has the power to reach heaven.
At this time, another elite force of 500 people suddenly broke into Beiping City and headed directly for the Japanese Embassy. The 132nd Division tried their best to stop it, but the enemy did not fight at all and actually rushed in at the cost of more than 200 people.
The Japanese ambassador area, combined with the Japanese army's 500 troops already there, set up defensive positions outside the embassy.
Tong Linge understood as soon as he heard this that the Japanese army was preparing for the 29th Army to attack the overseas Chinese first in order to blackmail the Japanese army. This was a signal that the war was about to begin.
Tong Linge immediately sent a message to Song Zheyuan, saying that the Japanese army would attack soon and requesting a battle order.
Song Zheyuan received the information but was a little hesitant. He actually sent a message to Xiangyue and asked Xiangyue if there were any more Japanese troops acting on their own. Xiangyue, who laughed when she saw Song Zheyuan's telegram, immediately called back and said that there were indeed belligerent Japanese troops acting on their own. The 29th Army did not need to be nervous.
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Song Zheyuan was still a little worried and sent another message to ask about Tong Linge's situation. Tong Linge saw that the Japanese army's actions were exactly the same as the information provided by Li Qian. Looking at Song Zheyuan's hesitation, he knew that if this continued, the 29th Army might really tell the people behind Li Qian.
In this way, the entire army was wiped out. At the same time, he also believed the information that Li Qian said about Song Zheyuan's surrounding Japanese spies.
Tong Linge simply asked the communications troops to send electricity. Song Zheyuan expressed that the situation was critical. Seeing that Song Zheyuan had been hesitant, he simply pointed it out and said, "The Japanese army has always been cunning. If the enemy attacks secretly, our unprepared army will be defeated. Although we do not ask for a battle, we must prepare for a battle.
As soon as this incident happened, the Northwest Army was destroyed. Mr. Feng would be so sad."
Tong Linge deserves to be a scholar. As Mr. Feng said, Song Zheyuan had to start preparing for war. After all, Song Zheyuan was helping Feng Yuxiang become the home of the Northwest Army. Song Zheyuan was now the nominal leader of the Northwest Army, but not everyone
He was regarded as Feng Yuxiang's reasonable successor, and many generals believed that their leader was still Feng Yuxiang, and Song Zheyuan was just acting as an escrow. This was why Song Zheyuan was reluctant to start when he heard about Feng Yuxiang, but he didn't want his people to lose heart.
Prepare for war. But in my heart, I began to secretly hate Tong Linge.
Song Zheyuan immediately sent electricity to Zhao Dengyu to go north to Nanyuan and take full charge of military command. From this moment on, the Battle of Pingjin and history changed.
After all, Song Zheyuan is a veteran who has been fighting for decades, and he is really good at arranging troops. Today, the biggest vitality of the Japanese army is actually Fengtai. Fengtai is under the city of Peiping, and there are a large number of Chinese troops around it. Fengtai
Now that it was the headquarters of the Japanese army, Song Zheyuan ordered the 37th Division to be ready to attack the Japanese army in Fengtai at any time.
The Japanese army in Fengtai also knew that they would be besieged by the 29th Army, and they were actively preparing for defense.
Once the war started, the entire situation became a competition. Which one would be the 29th Army to break through the Japanese headquarters first, or the Japanese army would be the first to break through the 29th Army's Nanyuan Camp.