From to 1935 2020

"The landmines he made for our 29th Army were designed to maim people instead of killing them, and he also said that a wounded soldier needs two people to carry him, and blowing up the soles of his feet is equivalent to disabling three little devils, which is really reasonable. His brain is really easy to use, and he can use the twists and turns in his stomach, fortunately, he is our own comrade!"

Zhang Zizhong sighed, now he calls Huang Ke, the famous fellow spy, "our comrade" even if he opens his mouth and shuts his mouth, and he has completely transformed into the shape of the Communist Party psychologically.

The person who called Zhang Zizhong "Old Zhang" was the political commissar of the Fifth Red Army, Zeng Risan—this was also a senior Red Army cadre from the Ruijin base area. Historically, he and Dong Zhentang usually died in the battle of the West Route Army .

Zhang Zizhong was taken aback, and after thinking for a while, he understood the meaning behind Zeng Risan's words.

He shook his head and said: "Tanggu's geographical location is very important. If the Japanese army occupies here, they can use the navy to send the troops directly to Pingjin in Tanggu through ships."

Dong Zhentang shook his head and said: "The entire Bohai Bay area is full of landing sites. In fact, if the Japanese want to use sea landing operations, any site is fine. From Tangshan to Tanggu, it is only a hundred kilometers away. Take the train It only takes three hours to go south to Beiping. And Qinhuangdao, north of Tanggu, is only more than 200 kilometers away from here. From the overall perspective of the Anti-Japanese War, Tanggu only looks very important, but in fact it is not a very important port.”

Dong Zhentang paused, seeing that it was difficult for Zhang Zizhong to digest this passage, he thought for a while, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, put it in front of Zhang Zizhong, and explained to him: "Actually, I also spent a lot of effort, Only then did I understand the meaning behind the chairman’s words. To put it simply, there are only 4000 remaining Japanese soldiers in Binhai, even if we kill them all, there will be only 4000 people... and in the past eight days, Our two coalition forces are here in Tanggu, and the number of Japanese troops wiped out is 8000...."

Zhang Zizhong spread out the paper that Dong Zhentang handed him. It was a detailed report comparing the casualties of the Red Army and the Japanese Army during the eight days of the Tanggu Battle. (Note: At this point in time, Song Zheyuan had succumbed, and the 29th Army was under the full command of the Red Army. Therefore, the 29th Army will only be used as a number in the future. When it cooperates with the Red Army, it will be called the Red Army.)

"Old Zhang, do you see what's wrong?"

"Our casualties are greater than those of the devils!"

"That's right!"

Dong Zhentang said solemnly: "In the battle of Tanggu, we had comprehensive advantages in tanks, artillery, and air force, but we actively attacked the fortress that the devils have been running for a long time. The ratio of casualties between the two sides was an ugly 1.4:1 ratio."

Dong Zhentang pointed to the numbers on the paper and said, "Have you noticed? On the first day, the casualty ratio was 5.5 to 1, and on the second day it was 4.6 to 1... On the sixth day, this number dropped to 0.9 to 1." 0.6. It was already 1 to [-] on the last day, have you seen any tricks?"

Zhang Zizhongda replied: "The little devils in the early stage are a complete army with sufficient ammunition. After fighting in the back, their elite soldiers are getting fewer and fewer, and their ammunition is also insufficient."

Then he sighed: "Your statistics are really detailed,"

Zeng Risan interjected from the side: "This number is actually not very accurate. For example, when fighting in the front, the Japanese can transfer the wounded soldiers to the rear. When we cleaned the battlefield, we counted the casualties of the Japanese soldiers. They were basically corpses and soldiers. Wounded soldiers who could not escape. After the sixth day, the casualties of the Japanese became more and more serious, and more and more wounded soldiers were abandoned. Counting only the deaths, the number of soldiers we sacrificed in the first five days was still 2.5 times that of the Japanese army, and it was not until the sixth and seventh day, when the Japanese army's defense line collapsed, that the ratio of casualties began to reverse."

Zeng Risan paused, and then explained to Zhang Zizhong: "Many of the little devils who are fighting with us in China now are elite soldiers who have been trained for three years before going to the battlefield. Those veterans have at least trained with 200 rounds of bullets. , and those urgently recruited recruits and mobilized soldiers have at least fired one or two hundred rounds of ammunition, and have rich experience in live ammunition shooting. The soldiers on the front line reported that when shooting within 400 meters, their first hit rate was astonishingly high. [-] meters There's still a big threat out there."

The First Division, as the elite Imperial Forest Army in the Japanese army, had a very strong combat power. The core of the more than 1 Japanese troops stationed in Tanggu was formed by that brigade.If it is a pure and complete first division unit, it will be even more difficult to chew.

Dong Zhentang concluded: "Here in Tanggu, our army occupies the right time and place. The Japanese army defends, and we attack, and it is so ugly. If we take the initiative to attack the Japanese army in Tangshan area, we will not have those home court advantages. The comparison of casualties between the two sides will only be worse. Ugly."

Zhang Zizhong's eyes lit up, and he said clearly: "You want to besiege the city and fight for aid?"

Zeng Risan and Dong Zhentang smiled and nodded together, then Dong Zhentang frowned and said:

"It's not just that! That old devil, Kazuki Kiyoshi, is much more difficult than Tani Hisao. He clearly sees that the situation here in Tanggu is not good for the Japanese army. He has been standing still for so many days, obviously because he wants to wait until he has more troops in his hands." We will go south. We deliberately ceased fire and showed goodwill so that the gang of devils in Tanggu could breathe a sigh of relief. In fact, we wanted to take the opportunity to put pressure on Xiangyue Qingsi who was desperate to save him through newspaper propaganda."

During the eight-day battle of Tanggu, the Red Army, like Zhukov, also discovered a lot of problems in the armored units through harsh battles.

The concentrated use of tanks is indeed astonishingly powerful, but the loss is also astonishing.When armored forces are used to attack the enemy's prepared defensive positions, even if they are captured, the survival rate of tanks after the war is frighteningly low.In the Battle of Tanggu, the Red Army dispatched 24 heavy armored assault tanks and [-] T[-] light tanks.

After fighting for eight days, 84 tanks suffered permanent damage and could only be "organ donation" and returned to the furnace for disposal. One-third of the tanks needed major repairs to replace spare parts. 4 times.When the Red Army announced a temporary truce, there were still more than 30 tanks waiting for repairs on the rear front.

The Red Army's attack on Tanggu was actually just a positional battle that took place at the "doorstep".Except for the first day, the tanks did not conduct long-distance mobile operations, but short-distance assault operations, and the real consumption of motorcycle man-hours was very small.

If the "combat in front of the gate" is changed to an expedition to attack Tangshan, the logistics burden, maintenance burden, and motorcycle wear and tear in the middle will be even more numerous.On the surface, the strength of the Red Army in the Pingyang area is far higher than that of the Japanese army, but the current overall national strength of the Japanese is also far higher than that of the Red Army.The reason why the Japanese are in such a mess is that the Soviet Red Army has attracted most of their attention in North Manchuria.

But Stalin just wanted to use the Japanese to train and fight in rounds, and the actual number of troops invested in the Far East was limited.The Japanese still have more than a dozen divisions in the country that have not been mobilized.When these troops are transported and deployed, the pressure on the North China battlefield will be extremely high.

Although Chairman Lee Yoon-seok could ask Stalin to step up his offensive in the Far East to attract more Japanese troops, he did not want to do so unless it was absolutely necessary.Some tuition fees must be earned by yourself.If you rely too much on others, you will not be able to walk by yourself in the end.

Now Li Runshi, also relying on the strength in his hands, carefully calculated the use of the elite armored troops.

On the Red Army's side, if the Tanggu defenders were killed early, and then tens of 10 people attacked Tanggu with all their brains, it would be a completely reckless military adventure.The Japanese army seems to have only more than 7 main forces in eastern Hebei, but if necessary, they can get southward support from other Japanese divisions from the northeast through the main railway line within a few days.

The most favorable strategic goal is naturally to use the Tanggu remnant army as a bait to besiege the city and fight for aid, luring the Japanese army away from Tangshan, where they have been operating for many days, to go south, and then gather them at a suitable location to annihilate them.

At present, in North China, the main forces of the Red Army and the Japanese army are facing the same problem: both of them are more than enough to defend themselves.Whichever side gives up the home court advantage and takes the initiative to attack, will actually lose the advantage and become passive.For the Red Army, the most favorable situation was that the Japanese troops in Tangshan rushed southward and fought on the predetermined battlefield chosen by the Red Army.

The downside is that the commander of the Japanese garrison, Kazuki Kiyoshi, is also very aware of his own disadvantages, and he is still shy away. Under great pressure from the Tokyo headquarters, especially Emperor Yongren. The leaflets that were dropped in Nagasaki on the 26th specifically mentioned the "tragedies" of the Japanese army in Tanggu, in order to increase political pressure on Kiyoshi Koyue, who "will not save him".

And more pressure will start next.

That day, Wu Hao, who had just returned from the south, looked at the things that Huang Ke left behind before returning to the Soviet Union, and laughed.

"This is how politics influences the military! Xiao Huang, that brat, really has a good brain, and he can think of such a way to force Xiangyue Qingsi to send troops."

When the front-line Red Army temporarily ceased fire, Wu Hao came to the British Concession, held a press conference, and announced two news to reporters from various countries as a representative of the CCP.

The first one is: "Humanitarian ceasefire" here on the Tanggu front line for 32 hours.

The second is that, based on the principle of humanitarianism, the Red Army will release more than 1000 Japanese wounded captured in the early battle through the relationship of the British Concession, and ask international people to help them receive and send them back to Japan.

When Wu Hao made his speech, the Red Army had already released all the personnel from the Japanese embassy in the Pingjin area captured in the previous battle.Then, regardless of whether the Japanese were willing or not, they forcibly threw the first batch of hundreds of devils, wounded soldiers and prisoners of war in front of them.As for the prisoners of war who were in good health, they were temporarily sent to the mines in Shanxi for reform through labor.

Huang Ke was very happy to release the devil's wounded soldiers.The Red Army did not kill prisoners of war, and treated them too well.These wounded were kept in their hands, and they were served with good food, drink and medicine. Huang Ke felt uncomfortable after seeing them.So he encouraged Li Runshi and others to release as many wounded soldiers as possible among the captured Japanese prisoners of war - and then let the Japanese kill them by themselves.Although Huang Ke knew that the Japanese would kill the released prisoners of war, he still pretended to be stupid and did not report it to the higher-ups.

On the day when the more than 1000 wounded prisoners of war were released, reporters gathered in the British Concession, and the cameras kept flashing, gritting the Japanese officials who were also hiding in the concession. To the Pacific Ocean.

But what made the Japanese reporters at the scene even more resentful was still to come.

At the press conference, Wu Hao took out the "Surrender Letter to the Japanese Army in Tanggu" written by Chairman Li Runshi, which he had prepared a long time ago, Huang Ke proposed, and read it in front of reporters from all over the world.

This "Letter of Surrender to the Japanese Army in Tanggu" is similar to the famous "Letter of Surrender to the Du Yuming Group" in history, but it deliberately leaked a big secret in the text: the Tanggu defenders fought bravely, while the tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Tangshan, But he was dying a hundred kilometers away.In the article, Li Yunshi deliberately stated that the reason why Xiangyue Kiyoshi refused to save him was that Emperor Yongren was deliberately borrowing a knife to kill people because of the February [-] Mutiny, and you were all abandoned...

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The Chinese and Soviet armies fought on April 22, until the [-]nd, when they saw the ferocious offensive of the Soviet army in North Manchuria, the Japanese army actually had the intention to withdraw from the peace talks.

The most obvious manifestation is that the war lasted until the 26th, eight days have passed, and Japan and the Soviet Union have not yet declared war on each other.To the outside world, the Soviet Union called this war, which dispatched 45 troops, a "war in the pocket" and "an insignificant skirmish between Japan and the Soviet Union." It seemed that it would not declare war on Japan for this reason. .

In words that everyone can understand, it is: I only use one hand, no, it is one finger to fight with you...

It doesn't hurt much, it's extremely insulting.

If the Japanese had the courage to formally declare war a few days before the start of the war, after a week of being beaten by Zhukov's three axes, the Japanese's courage to "fight an all-out war" was all lost.

On the 25th, before the DB-3 bombers dropped tons of leaflets on Nagasaki and Fukuoka, the Japanese had "colluded" with the Soviet Union through private and secret channels, seeking the possibility of a reconciliation and armistice between the two sides.

Stalin responded: In the North Manchuria area, the two sides ceased fighting with the existing line of control as the boundary.In North China, the Japanese army completely withdrew from Shanhaiguan, and at the same time withdrew from the troops stationed in China south of the Great Wall, and at the same time promised not to "intervene in China's internal affairs by force."

This is not a peace negotiation condition, it is almost as if Japan directly surrendered.If he really agreed to his condition, even Emperor Yongren would be punished by the people.So there is no way to talk about negotiations.

However, the Red Army held a press conference, voluntarily released prisoners, voluntarily ceased the war, and even invited the International Red Cross to Tanggu to "help" receive the withdrawal of Japanese wounded soldiers. nectar" good news.At least they can take a break, get a day's respite, and adjust the deployment of troops.In order to send more reinforcements to Northeast and North China.

After a telegram was sent between the Tokyo Military Headquarters and Hori Husband on Binhai Beach, he knew that his troops were on the verge of exhaustion.His remnant army is now on the verge of collapse, and the opponent really only needs to kick lightly, and he will collapse.

The people in the military department don't care about the life and death of the horse dung below, but they care about the "scandal" caused by the annihilation of a brigade and the entire army stationed in Pingjin.And the article that Wu Hao read publicly made the Japanese lose their crotch with mud on this matter, and it became shit if it wasn't shit...

With the permission and help of the Red Army, journalists from various countries and members of the International Red Cross went by car to the coastal area of ​​the Tanggu battlefield.

The news reached Japan that night. In Chichibu Palace, Emperor Yongren was roaring angrily at a room full of high-ranking devil officials who had been summoned.

"Tanggu has been besieged by the Communist army for eight days! Why has Xiangyue Qingsi remained on hold until now!"

"Now Li Yunshi is openly laughing at me to the whole world for killing people with a knife. Do you want me to lose face internationally?"

Under the seat, Hisuchi Shouichi had a dark face, and secretly glanced at Konoe Fumimaro, but didn't say a word.

In fact, Xiangyue Qiusi stood still and refused to save him. They knew it a long time ago, but they deliberately and secretly acquiesced.

The Chinese and Soviet armies took the initiative to attack in Northeast China and North China, which directly disrupted the deployment of the Japanese army. In a short period of time, it was inevitable that the Japanese army in North China would be insufficient.But as long as they are given half a month to 20 days to adjust the deployment of the army, the situation will change.

"In North China, the CCP has an armored force of about [-] tanks! There is also a complete Soviet air force division, plus its own air force - judging from their attack speed in Nanyuan and the concession The fact that the Tanggu garrison can persist for so long is not because they are really good at fighting, but because Li Runshi is deliberately releasing water. He just wants to lure Tangshan's imperial army to go south when they are short of troops, and then fight on the preset battlefield he wants .”

In fact, a few days ago, an expert in the Japanese military department saw through Li Runshi's strategy. That person was Neiji Okamura, and like Toshiro Obata, he was a China hand.Since the Battle of Shanxi, he has put all his attention on studying the Red Army and Li Runshi, and realized the danger of this person very early.Even when Xiangyue Qingji went to Tangshan to work, he specially sent him a telegram, explaining his worries, which is why Xiangyue Qingji has been stubbornly refusing to go south.

However, when Li Runshi’s article entitled Persuading the Japanese Army to Surrender, which mocked the Tangshan Japanese Army’s death-defying “Report to Tanggu Japanese Army to Surrender” was published in front of Chinese and foreign journalists, there was no need for the emperor to send a message to urge him, but Kazuki Kiyoshi already understood this. It's Li Runshi's conspiracy!He had to jump into the fire pit in Tanggu now, and he had to jump into it immediately, and he couldn't do it any slower.

Early the next morning, under the urging of an extremely harsh reprimand telegram from the Tokyo base camp, and under the joint pressure of the heads of the three divisions under his command, Shinji Kazuki gave an order to station the three divisions around Tangshan. The main force of the Japanese army pulled out their camps together and attacked the Pingjin area.

As soon as his troops moved, Li Runshi, who was far away in Taiyuan, immediately received a telegram from the underground party ahead.

After receiving the news, Li Runshi said to Mr. Zhu beside him:

"You can order Dong Zhentang to attack Binhai with all our strength once the cease-fire time is over, and we must destroy the remnant army as quickly as possible."

Zhang Wentian on the side was puzzled, "In that case, wouldn't Xiangyue Qingji order the troops to withdraw?"

"His previous crime of neglecting to save him has been confirmed, but now it is too late to rescue him, and he has not seized the opportunity to mend the prison after a dead sheep. Now that the arrow is off the string, he can't take it back! If he wants to get rid of his infamy and crime, he can only do it like Like a gambler, he frantically gambled on this gambling table in Pingjin..."

Li Runshi said it easily, but his expression was not relaxed at all. He said meaningfully to the people around him:

"The defense of Pingjin will start soon... The Japanese are in North China, in China, and on this gambling table, the bets will be bigger and bigger!"

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In the early morning of April 27, a large number of Chinese and foreign journalists and Red Cross rescuers began to enter the Binhai area of ​​Tianjin.

The Battle of Tanggu lasted for eight full days, and both the Red Army and the Japanese army suffered numerous casualties on this land.Including journalists from various countries, more than 100 people entered here in more than 20 large trucks. What they saw along the way were shocking bomb craters, broken building ruins, and large corpses of the two armies lined up in a row that had not had time to bury them.

The British reporter John, who always grabs the big news in time, is also among these people.Relying on his "old acquaintance" whom Dong Zhentang met at the private seat, he got a pass, got a car, and was led by the Red Army cadres, wandering around the battlefield to take pictures.

During this period, the political cadre who received him asked him curiously: "Aren't you going to interview the Japanese on the beach with other people?"

"Colleagues from all over the world are gathered there to stare at them, and any news will be dug up. Interviewing them will not give you anything new. It is better to interview you and follow you, but there will be a lot of new things—like me His American colleagues, Smellett and Mr. Snow, didn’t he get a lot of big news just by interviewing you?”

Then, the British reporter began to interview the Red Army cadres in front of him.

He asked about topics related to the Japanese.

On the other side, on the beach by the sea, the surviving Japanese troops had already let go of the line of defense after obtaining the consent of the Tokyo headquarters, allowing Chinese and foreign journalists and personnel from the Red Cross to enter.

The current Japanese defense line in the Binhai area does not look like a battlefield at all, but like a large concentration camp for wounded soldiers. A large number of seriously wounded Japanese soldiers accumulated from previous battles are densely piled up on the beach.

"Bandages, gauze, medicine, all used up long ago, all the wounded are thrown on the ground like garbage, unattended, quietly waiting to die. In fact, people die here every moment... ...Because the water source was cut off by the opponent, the lips of each wounded were severely chapped." - An American reporter

"The supreme commander of the Japanese army, Hori. Husband, told me that nearly a hundred seriously wounded died here overnight overnight. Our European army, in such a desperate situation, would have surrendered a long time ago, but this group of terrible Japanese , are still insisting, and are still preparing to serve their emperor to the death - what a horrible and crazy people." - A French reporter

"I have no sympathy for what happened to you here. Japan and China are separated by a vast ocean. You appeared here and became what you are now. Have you ever reflected on your crimes? That's how I questioned these Japanese people , but they didn’t answer me, their eyes showed only animal madness, I don’t sympathize with them, I only hope that the troops of General Dong Zhentang and General Zhang Zizhong will quickly flatten this place with tanks!” ——A young reporter from Tianjin Daily .

Reporters from all over the world gathered here, and everyone found the news they wanted, and even took countless photos.Afterwards, under the arrangement of the International Red Cross and with the help of the Red Army, they transported thousands of seriously injured Japanese soldiers and thousands of Japanese overseas Chinese from here—this group of wounded were not sent directly to the hospital. The local hospital, but sent to the nearest port, and then taken away by a chartered passenger ship.

These seriously wounded were directly sent to the ship in such a rough manner without treatment. After experiencing the rough seas, another batch of people would definitely die on the way.Just as Huang Ke predicted, even if these seriously wounded people recover from their injuries, most of them will have life-long sequelae, making it difficult to return to the battlefield. In the eyes of the Japanese, these cannon fodder worth 0.25 yen actually died directly It is the lightest burden on the country.

Reporters from various countries took pictures of what they saw and heard on Binhai Beach, and then according to their respective national positions and political views, they wrote various reports and published them in newspapers from various countries.There are those who clamor for peace, pretending to be the Holy Mother, and want the two sides to negotiate a truce.There are also large paragraphs with ulterior motives describing the tragic conditions of the wounded Japanese soldiers on the beach, shouting that "the communist army should stop its atrocities against these poor people" and so on.

One hour before the deadline for the start of the war the next day, the Japanese soldiers on the beach raised their military flags and took a picture with their backs to the rising sun. The picture was very tragic.Then a mysterious person wrote it and used it as an illustration to publish an article on the "Dayang Daily" in the Shanghai Japanese Concession: "The Flag of the Sun Never Falls"

Author's signature: Yamato Kotoshiyuki.

This plagiarized article earned the original author a [-]-yen manuscript fee, which was later donated to the underground party in the Japanese Concession as an activity fund.

Its content was obtained by someone from later generations. During World War II, the Japanese army promoted the idea of ​​militarism, and described a heroic story of a Japanese soldier who fought bravely in the Pacific Ocean and finally died for the country. He ordered people to modify it as needed, and replaced it. It became the background of the battle of Tanggu.

On the day the article was published in the Japanese Concession in Shanghai, the coalition forces of Dong Zhentang and Zhang Zizhong launched the final offensive. It took only two hours to destroy the last resistance of the Japanese army on the beach. Suicide—after his death, he returned to his post and was promoted, and was posthumously named a general by Yong Ren and entered the Yasukuni Shrine.

The Japanese in the Shanghai Concession, who were deeply saddened by the annihilation of the Tanggu garrison, sent this article back to Japan and published it in Tokyo newspapers, attracting more young cannon fodder to join the army.

Lieutenant General Akiji Kazuki, who was accused of committing suicide because of the author's private goods in the article, was dismissed by the Tokyo headquarters less than [-] days after taking office because of the outrage of the public and the great public outrage.

Then the Japanese army directly abolished the establishment of the Chinese garrison troops and placed them under the unified command of the Kwantung Army.