Although not many Anti-Japanese Alliance troops entered the city, those who entered Peiping from Xizhimen penetrated into the core of Peiping City. You must know that Shichahai is near Di'anmen, the northern gate of the Imperial City, and attacking here means that
It is close to the Imperial City District of Beiping City, and the Imperial City means the core area of Beiping.
This place is now very close to Zhongnanhai, the headquarters of the North China Front. The anti-alliance assault troops seized Xizhimen and entered the city, making Okamura Ningji realize that even the 59th Division in Tongzhou, Mentougou and Changxindian were all on the line.
The Zero Division is still resisting, but the current Beiping City is actually no longer able to be defended.
Okamura Neiji knew very well that after the troops outside the city had been cut off from the straight-line connection with Beiping City, the defensive force of less than 2,000 people was almost like a basin of water to the huge Beiping City.
Sprinkled with a little bit of pepper. Not to mention defending the entire city of Peiping, just defending more than ten city gates in several inner and outer cities. Such a small amount of troops is not enough.
The reason why the enemy has not attacked the city yet is not because he, the commander of the North China Front, has great reputation, but because he has taken advantage of the large number of monuments inside and outside the city of Peiping. Although the enemy in front of him is located on the Tubal Road in the ravine, he is obviously
Understand the significance of Peiping City in Chinese history.
If it were not for these cultural relics and historic sites, I am afraid that with only such a small force, the enemy would have attacked the city directly without any taboos. With the strength of the North China Front in the city of Beiping, I am afraid that it would not take more than a day for the enemy to attack the city directly inside and outside the city.
was broken through by enemy forces across the board.
Okamura Neiji, who is currently trapped in the isolated city, is having an unusual headache. Defending is basically impossible. The remaining troops on the periphery have been separated from Beiping City. With this little force in the city, it is impossible to defend Beiping City.
Any miracle may occur.
The remnants of the 110th Division and the 59th Division outside the city tried to withdraw into the city many times, but failed. Even Tongzhou was only a dozen kilometers away from Peiping, and the 59th Division gathered a regiment, but it was
There was no way to get close. From the top of Chaoyang Gate in Beiping City, one could hear the sound of intensive gunfire from the Tongzhou line.
But they had no troops to respond, so the 59th Division stared blankly and tried their best but could not get through. The 110th Division was compressed and struggling on the front line of Mentougou. Not only was it unable to move closer to Beiping City, but it was
He kept sending telegrams to the front army headquarters asking for help.
As for Tianjin's counterattack and many attempts to reopen the Ping-Tianjin railway line, they all ended in failure. Tianjin's reinforcements were blocked by the Northeast Communist Army moving south from Wuqing to Anci. Moreover, Tianjin's
Despite their many efforts, not only did they fail to re-open the Ping-Tianjin railway line, but their own enemy forces tightly suppressed it around Tianjin.
Even because the troops were too concentrated on the line from Wuqing to Anci, a group of enemy troops took advantage of the situation and fought from Yutian to the Ninghe and Lutai lines. They cut off the Beining Railway and cut off the land route between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army.
The connection. If the naval fleet had not used artillery fire to blockade Beitang, I am afraid that Tanggu Port would have been threatened.
The battle has reached this point. If Tianjin does not receive a large number of reinforcements in the short term, there is no hope of a comeback. The defenders of Tianjin have been unable to get closer, which is equivalent to cutting off the reinforcements closest to Peiping and the reinforcements of Peiping City.
All hope. Even if the base camp is now fully reinforcing Tianjin, can the current Beiping City hold on until the Tianjin defenders arrive?
Withdraw, all traffic on the ground has been cut off. Forcibly breaking through, it is impossible for more than two thousand troops to escort the entire North China Front Army Headquarters. And now there is not only one Front Army Headquarters in Beiping City, but also tens of thousands of troops.
famous imperial expatriates, among whom the elderly, weak, women and children accounted for the majority.
Now Okamura Neiji is sitting in the trapped city. He wants to fight without troops, but it is too late to retreat. A large number of anti-alliance troops have appeared along the line from Tongzhou to Fengtai, and the passage to the siege has been blocked. And Fengtai
The station is currently in the midst of a fierce battle, and there is no possibility of passage.
Just when Okamura Neiji was helpless in the face of the Peiping war situation, he suddenly received the following report. The Anti-Japanese Alliance and the 18th Group Army sent people into Peiping City through Xizhimen, which they had already controlled, and requested direct negotiations with the North China Front Army.
After reading this report, I understood my opponent's true intention, Okamura Neji, but he was somewhat hesitant.
However, considering the safety of tens of thousands of expatriates in Beiping City and the current situation in Beiping City, although Okamura Neiji was very reluctant, he also sent Major General Nakanishi Arisada, deputy chief of staff of the front army, to negotiate with the people sent by the Anti-Japanese Alliance at Xizhimen Station.
However, Okamura Neiji repeatedly told Major General Nakanishi Arisada that when facing enemy representatives, his attitude must be tough.
If the enemy forces asked him to surrender, there would be no need to discuss it directly. The Japanese Empire only had generals who died in battle and no generals who surrendered without a fight. And if they were not afraid of the destruction of Beiping City, a thousand-year-old capital, he would not mind personally commanding the defenders in Beiping City.
The army fought a decisive battle with the enemy in Beiping City.
It is a pity that the Deputy Director of the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region sent by the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not mention unconditional surrender at all. He only told Major General Nakanishi Arisada that if General Okamura Neiji chooses to hand over Beiping City intact and without any damage,
In terms of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Anti-Japanese Alliance will open the railway line from Fengtai to Tianjin, so that the North China Front Army Headquarters and all the expatriates in the city can safely evacuate to Tianjin.
The Anti-Alliance and the 18th Group Army outside the city promised not to carry out any air strikes or ground attacks during their evacuation. In addition, the Anti-Alliance will impound more than a dozen trains at Fengtai Station and hand them over to the Japanese army to facilitate their evacuation.
And we can agree to allow the Japanese army to take away all weapons and equipment.
However, the Japanese army must ensure not to cause any damage in Beiping City, hand over all puppet military and political personnel in Beiping City to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and ensure not to cause any damage to the existing industries in Beiping City and the Shijingshan Steel Plant. In particular, any damage to any
No damage should be done to the monuments.
All plundered Chinese cultural relics, all captured Chinese soldiers, political prisoners, and a large number of foreign nationals detained after the Pearl Harbor incident must be handed over to the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the 18th Army. In exchange, if Okamura Neiji agrees to abandon Peking
, the Anti-Japanese Alliance can leave the front line of Kamentougou and let the remaining forces of the 110th Division withdraw to Fengtai and withdraw to Tianjin together with the Japanese troops in the city.
The deputy director of the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, who was in charge of the negotiations, directly told Major General Nakanishi Arisada that the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the 18th Army could give Okamura Neiji 24 hours to consider. If Okamura Neiji
If no reply is given after twenty-four hours, the Resistance Alliance and the 18th Army will regard the North China Front Army as rejecting the proposal and will directly launch an siege.
Faced with the relatively favorable conditions provided by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, there was a fierce quarrel within the North China Front Army Headquarters over whether to accept or not. As the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ochito Sanji believed that at present, the enemy had completed the attack on Peiping City.
The siege, and with the extremely limited defensive forces in the city, the city of Beiping could no longer be defended.
In order to protect the tens of thousands of expatriates in Peiping City, preserve some of the troops, and defend Tianjin, the strategic bridgehead for the empire to control North China, we can now accept the conditions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the North China Communist Army. However, the content of the negotiations must include Tongzhou’s Fifty-Nine
The rest of the division must also be evacuated together.
The North China Front can agree to the enemy's conditions, but the enemy must also ensure that the Ping-Tianjin Railway is opened and all Japanese in Peiping can safely evacuate to Tianjin. In particular, they must ensure that no damage is done along the Ping-Tianjin Railway. Beiping's inventory of weapons
, the Japanese troops also had to take them all away.
In order to evacuate all the overseas Chinese and the remnants around the Peiping battlefield, the two sides had to cease fighting for three days not only around the city of Beiping, but also on the entire Peking-Tianjin front line to ensure that the North China Front troops in Peiping and the overseas Chinese could evacuate to Tianjin smoothly. Although it was added
There are certain additional conditions, but Ojoto Sanji's intention is to accept the conditions proposed by the enemy.
His deputy, Major General Nakanishi Yusada, also had similar opinions to him. Compared to Lieutenant General Oshiro Sanji, who was still somewhat tactful, Major General Nakanishi Yusada's attitude was more straightforward. He believed that the entire garrison in Beiping City had basically become
It is impossible to defend the entire city of Beiping, and there is even little hope of holding on to a certain part of the city.
The most critical thing is that even if the enemy forces temporarily give up the siege in the short term because of the rat-proof weapon, the existing grain and coal stores in Beiping City are only enough to sustain the residents and garrison in the city for less than half a month. Mentougou front line
Lost, the coal in Mentougou could no longer be transported to Beiping City.
If reinforcements do not arrive within half a month, all the residents in Beiping City will be in a state of hunger and cold. Judging from the current war situation, it is impossible to expect reinforcements to arrive in a short time. Let alone half a month.
There is little hope that reinforcements will arrive within a month or even within a month.
Since the enemy proposed negotiations at this time, the North China Front should agree to an agreement with the enemy to protect the lives of tens of thousands of expatriates in Peiping and preserve the empire's ability to counterattack Peiping in the future. Or at least increase the number of troops before reinforcements arrive.
The strength to defend Tianjin.
As Chief of Staff Sanji Oshiro said, stick to Tianjin as the bridgehead to counterattack Peking and Tianjin, and concentrate our forces to re-open the connection between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army. If we can really withdraw the remaining troops on the Peiping battlefield to Tianjin and reorganize
Then he entered the battlefield.
It is far better and more meaningful than being trapped in the isolated city of Peiping with no food and grass at home and no reinforcements outside, and even being eaten bit by bit by others. After all, holding on to Tianjin and Tanggu can help the empire.
In northern North China, a foothold can also be guaranteed.
It can also help the empire to regain the most important strategic point and support point in northern North China in the near future. For the current North China Front Army, ensuring the security of Tianjin on the entire Pingjin battlefield is better than being trapped in an isolated city here.
It's much more meaningful.
Compared with the two chiefs of staff and deputy chiefs of staff who tended to accept the conditions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in order to preserve their strength and the overseas Chinese, the various ministers and section chiefs of the North China Front Army, as well as a group of young combat staff officers, were furious. They thought that they would give up without fighting.
Peiping is really damaging to the empire's military might.
As an imperial soldier, you should be proud to die on the battlefield, rather than choose to live quietly and abandon Peiping, where the front army headquarters is located. Although there are not many defensive troops in the city, the North China Front Army can now arm expatriates to participate in the war. The tens of thousands of expatriates in Peiping City,
At least 10,000 troops can be gathered.
With the large number of weapons and ammunition stored in various munitions warehouses in the city, there is no problem in arming 10,000 foreigners. Putting these 10,000 foreigners into the defense of Beiping City, plus a large number of solid buildings in the city. Although the enemy has now controlled
We have to go to Xizhimen, but we can resist in the city for at least half a year.
If there is insufficient food, you can collect it from the Chinese people in the city. As long as you can defend the city of Beiping, you will not hesitate to starve to death all the Chinese people in the city. Even so, you cannot defend the city of Beiping. You can also capture the enemy's elite troops before you die.
A part of the body was buried with him. Dying in honor of His Majesty the Emperor is a supreme honor for any Imperial soldier.