Chapter 188 Panic in the evacuated 29th Route Army City
Chapter 188 There was a panic inside the evacuated 29th Route Army City
Author: Entertainment Cat
Chapter 188 There was a panic inside the evacuated 29th Route Army City
With the fall of Yuanping City, the entire city of Beiping was increasingly shrouded in fear and panic. Especially under the influence of some citizens who had escaped, the people's morale was even more dispirited and panicked.
But for these citizens, they still hope and believe that the 29th Route Army can still protect the city where they are located, so there are still many citizens staying to fight against the Japanese invaders.
In the early morning of July 27, 1937, the people in Peking City spent the most panicful and difficult night. Of course, traitors from all walks of life and the Japanese intelligence agents were exceptions. Then from the morning of the 28th, outside Peking City,
The sound of gunfire kept ringing out, intermittent, all day and night without interruption. The night before, the patrol police went door to door and told them to seal the cracks in windows and doors to prevent the Japanese aircraft from launching at night.
poison gas……
However, the Japanese troops' attempts to ambush the remnants of the 29th Route Army that had evacuated from the Yuanping side, as well as the combat deployment of more than 7,000 student soldiers of the student corps, all came to nothing.
Because they didn't know that Zhou Wenhua had changed his mind and asked the German weapons troops he sent to take all the student soldiers to another safe place for temporary reorganization and change of clothes.
As for Deputy Commander Tong of the 29th Army, and Commander Zhao Dengyu of the 132nd Division, they gave up the black Dodge sedan they were riding in, and instead took their remaining troops on horseback, heading towards Baoding and other places that had not fallen, and evacuated completely.
"Damn the 29th China Route Army? Why didn't they withdraw to Beiping City?"
"Didn't Yuanping City fall under the iron heel of our imperial army?"
"What the hell is going on?"
Facing the remnants of the 29th Route Army in Yuanpingcheng, who had not appeared for a long time, and the evacuation of the student army,
Oda Hide, the Japanese officer in charge of ambushing here, cursed angrily,
"Then your Excellency, the regiment commander, should we immediately report this matter to your Excellency, the division commander, and obtain new instructions?"
"Should we continue to stick here and conduct ambush operations, or should we immediately evacuate back to Yuanping City and join our empire's army? Make other plans?"
Japanese staff officer Tada Sakae also asked quickly.
Because the weather here was getting colder and colder, he no longer wanted to stay outdoors and suffer the cold.
"Baga! Ask!"
Japanese officer Oda Hideya responded grumpily.
Because he also felt extremely cold, his temper became angry.
After hearing the order, the Japanese staff officer Tada Sakae immediately became energetic and asked the Japanese communications soldiers under his command to immediately send a telegram to the Japanese military headquarters in Yuanping City for instructions and conduct inquiries.
At night, inside the city of Peiping,
Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai was crowded with officers from the 29th Route.
Zhang Kexia, Chief of Staff of the 29th Army, announced in public the message Commander Song asked him to deliver: "Tonight, Chairman Song has gone to Baoding. He believes that fighting alone, the war can no longer go on. Let me announce his order. We will go to Baoding today."
We must fully evacuate from here at night and continue our fight against the Japanese invaders in the rear area."
"Commander Song has accepted the conditions proposed by the Japanese army. All troops will be withdrawn from Beiping City before 1 o'clock tomorrow morning. No soldiers are allowed to be left behind. The current security of Beiping City will be maintained by the acting mayor Zhang Zizhong."
"So all brothers who are leaving, please evacuate immediately to Baoding via Langfang. Those who are unwilling to leave will be given travel expenses and dismissed on the spot."
After the words fell,
The whole city was dead silent,
Because all the officers and soldiers of the 29th Route Army never thought that they would evacuate secretly in the middle of the night, leaving all the residents of the city inside the city, so that the Japanese army that would later attack here would harm them.
Therefore, most officers and soldiers could not accept such a cruel order for a while.
But if they stayed, they knew that they would not be able to have any useful impact on the incoming Japanese army, let alone hold on to the city of Beiping, and they might even end up being wiped out here.
So soon, many officers and soldiers began to waver in mentality and began to be willing to follow the troops to evacuate.
Of course, there are also many tough-minded officers and soldiers who stay.
Or be dismissed on the spot.
The army was defeated like a mountain.
All of a sudden, some very bad scenes appeared.
But that night, all the remnants of the 29th Route Army still began their secret evacuation.
They did not dare to alert the citizens of the city, so they could only evacuate quietly at the opened city gate late at night.
During evacuation,
Many officers and soldiers of the 29th Route Army recalled the time when the battle at Marco Polo Bridge just broke out.
The citizens of Peiping, many of whom braved the scorching heat, came to deliver big watermelons and tea. More than 20 groups, including the Peiping National Salvation Association, jointly sponsored a large amount of materials, including clothes, medicines, food, and weapons.
touching scene,
There were even those patriotic Peiping students and those who had fled from the Northeast, marching around holding slogans of "Comfort Group", hoping that the officers and men of the 29th Army would protect their homes and the country to prevent the city of Peiping from falling to the Japanese soldiers.
Under the front, it became an occupied area like the three eastern provinces that had been occupied for many years.
Thinking of these passionate scenes of support against the Japanese invaders,
Many soldiers and officers of the 29th Route Army who were evacuating were restless and sad.
However, they still had many people and continued to evacuate the city, leaving the unarmed citizens in the city to face the menacing Japanese army alone.
At dawn on July 29, the Japanese independent 11th mixed brigade attacked the independent 39th brigade and the northern Hebei security forces in Beiyuan and Huangsi. By 6 p.m., Huangsi was captured by the Japanese army. Subsequently, the independent 39th brigade in Beiyuan and Huangsi were captured.
Ruan Xuanwu, commander of the 39th Brigade, surrendered to the enemy, and the 27th Independent Brigade in Peking City was also disarmed by the Japanese army.
Originally in the original time and space history,
On this day, Peiping fell. Then, one day later, Tianjin also fell one after another.
The eight-year war of resistance also officially began.
However, because Zhou Wenhua's German weapons troops had already been stationed in Beiping City and carried out deployment operations,
As well as the more than 7,000 student soldiers outside the city, they can still be mobilized to carry out operations such as ambushing the Japanese reinforcements and logistics supply teams on the outside.
So it hasn't completely collapsed yet.
But when some brave citizens braved the courage to go to the Peking Tower to check the situation the next morning, they discovered that Song Zheyuan and Qin Dechun, the top generals of the 29th Route Army, had quietly brought them with them late at night.
The main force carried out a comprehensive evacuation and fled out of Beiping City.
Throughout Beiping City, the city gates that were usually closed were opened at this moment.
Overnight, the people in Beiping City felt as if the sky had collapsed and they were helpless.
At the same time, these brave citizens who learned the truth of the matter,
He also went crazy and started running around, carrying out propaganda, and informing the citizens in the city who did not know that the troops of the 29th Route Army had secretly evacuated in the middle of the night.