In fact, Tao Jingfei, as the Tianjin battlefield commander, did not agree to launch the Tianjin Campaign now. Because as a senior commander, he knew that the battle could not be fought like this. Especially if he rushed to attack the city without detailed intelligence support, let this
This battle is full of unknowns.
Facing a cunning and ferocious opponent like the Japanese army, fighting like this will not only fail to resolve the battle in a short period of time, but will also pay a huge price. Where is Tianjin? Fighting in Tianjin is like fighting in a chicken farm
Fighting. This chicken farm needs to be taken back, but not all the old hens that lay eggs inside, as well as all the eggs that have been laid, can be smashed.
Such a battle is difficult to fight, so Tao Jingfei still thinks that he should give himself some time to figure out the deployment of the Japanese troops in the city, even a rough deployment. At least there is no need for the troops to blindly fight in the city like now.
Collision. We can only explore the actual deployment of Japanese troops bit by bit at the cost of blood.
However, the current situation in Tianjin City did not allow him much time to conduct reconnaissance. He could not watch hundreds of thousands of people in Tianjin City starve to death due to lack of food and not take any action. Of course,
After receiving the order from the headquarters, Tao Jingfei could almost be said to have launched a battle bravely.
In order to be safer, Tao Jingfei adopted the method of attacking on the east and west sides of Tianjin, the narrowest area, and using a force to feint in the south of the city to distract the Japanese army. He tried to seize the Jintang Bridge, Jingang Bridge and Wanguo Bridge to cut off the Japanese army from the east to the west.
contact, and then divide and annihilate them.
However, the lack of intelligence made him not very optimistic about this attack plan that was most suitable for the current situation. Sure enough, after the battle started, the progress was as he had originally expected. The participating troops paid a heavy price, but the progress
It was still quite unsatisfactory.
Fortunately, after many years of hard fighting with the Japanese army in the Northeast, the troops had a considerable understanding and familiarity with the characteristics of Japanese defense operations, especially urban defense operations, and have made certain progress. Although this progress is far from the development of the war situation.
It can't play a decisive role, at least it has broken into the city.
However, such a little psychological comfort is still quite difficult for Tao Jingfei to accept. However, although he has some ideas about adjusting the deployment, the headquarters' order strictly prohibiting the use of artillery in urban operations has made him hesitate. Now.
No. 1 is personally stationed at his headquarters, which undoubtedly gives him considerable confidence.
With confidence, Tao Jingfei made the move much faster. The reason why Tao Jingfei ordered the troops that had entered the original concession to turn around and attack upstream was to cooperate with the troops in Hexi who were attacking Jintang Bridge and mobilize the Japanese troops on the Haihe River.
The naval fleet gathered around the Jintang Bridge and tried to blow them all up in one blow and sink them on the river downstream of the Jintang Bridge.
At the same time, Tao Jingfei secretly mobilized two 150 howitzer battalions, as well as the entire 105 cannon battalion, and immediately secretly entered the Wenchang Palace and Nankai Middle School that had been cleared, preparing to carry out the attack on the upper reaches of Jintang Bridge to Jingang Bridge, and the lower reaches of China and Japan.
Fire coverage was implemented in the Haihe River section at the junction of the concessions.
In order to enhance the shooting accuracy of the artillery, Tao Jingfei sent all his artillery staff down. He repeatedly emphasized to the commanders of each artillery unit that no test firings were allowed. The shooting accuracy must be strictly guaranteed, and all artillery shells must be guaranteed.
They all fell on the Haihe River.
At the same time, Tao Jingfei called the aviation force and asked them to send no less than one aircraft to cooperate with the artillery attack. Although the attack aircraft suffered heavy losses, they ordered the troops that had entered the original concession to establish direct contact with the artillery troops. They also sent out the best
Artillery observers provided the most accurate data for this bombardment.
In order to keep secrets secret and prevent Japanese artillery retaliation, Tao Jingfei took great pains in the deployment of artillery. He used the range of his German-made 150 howitzer of more than 10,000 meters to deploy the artillery outside the range of the Japanese Taisho four-year howitzer. The terrain was relatively opposite.
An area that is more open and has fewer residential buildings around it.
After the participating artillery units arrived at their designated positions, various units on the front line also completed preparations for a new round of offensive. Before the attack order was issued, Tao Jingfei wanted to ask Yang Zhen for instructions. However, he found that No. 1 was having a very sexual conversation with his own college classmate.
, without even looking at himself. Tao Jingfei knew that this was number one and did not want to interfere with his specific command.
Gritting his teeth, Tao Jingfei personally issued the order for a general attack to all the frontline troops. As his order was issued, the Tianjin battlefield experienced a brief period of calm that lasted only a few hours, and was interrupted by intensive gunfire. The troops followed the instructions
The targets and order of attack were redefined, with battalions and companies as the organizational structure, and a new round of attack was launched along the dense spider web-like alleys in Tianjin City.
The troops attacking Jintang Bridge attacked inch by inch under the cover of strengthened artillery. However, this operation was different from the previous offensive. It was mainly based on pressure. At the same time, it changed the previous tactics of frontal assault.
Use two wings to outflank and cut off the Japanese reinforcement routes from other directions to the front line of Jintang Bridge.
In order to protect the Jintang Bridge and the Jingang Bridge to the death, the Japanese army was forced to deploy its fleet on the Hai River to assemble towards the Jintang Bridge line. At the same time, the troops attacking north from the Italian Concession in the east of the river also went straight up the river to attack the east bank of the Jintang Bridge.
The two 76mm cannons transferred into the city at the same time were erected just north of the Nippon Bridge.
Hedong and Hexi started at the same time. With the cooperation of the attacking troops northeast of Jintang Bridge, they launched a new round of offensive on the two wings of Jintang Bridge. In particular, the front and flanks of Hexi were interspersed and outflanked in multiple ways, allowing the Japanese defenders on both sides of Jintang Bridge to
, and in an instant, he was caught in a three-sided attack.
Under tremendous pressure, the Japanese defenders of Jintang Bridge fell into a situation of being trapped on the left and right in a short period of time. Under the situation that the reinforcement route for deploying troops on the ground had been cut off. At the request of the defenders of Jintang Bridge, the Japanese army almost
All the ships, especially those equipped with large-caliber artillery, which posed the greatest threat to the Anti-Alliance attack force, were concentrated on the river on both sides of the Jintang Bridge, trying to cooperate with the defenders on both sides, repeating their old tricks to suppress the Anti-Alliance attack.
force.
This time the Anti-Alliance offensive was very fierce. After adjusting the tactics, multiple penetrations were inserted into the front to force the assault to cooperate, which made the defenders of Jintangqiao unable to adapt for a while. In addition, the target of the Anti-Alliance offensive in other directions was very clear, which was the Japanese army.
The artillery deployed in various strongholds made these artillery temporarily unable to support the frontline operations of Jintang Bridge.
The entire Jintang Bridge line fell into a dangerous situation less than two hours after the Anti-Alliance offensive was launched. The Japanese army still knew what losing the Jintang Bridge meant. Under such circumstances, the Japanese army mobilized naval ships to go back to Jintang Bridge.
On both sides of the bridge, providing artillery support to the defenders became the only option for the Japanese army. It was at this moment that Tao Jingfei made such a big determination and adjusted his deployment.
Tao Jingfei did not wait until all the Japanese ships entered his fire ambush circle before ordering the opening of fire. Instead, he received a notification from an air plane that most of the remaining Japanese ships on the Haihe River had entered the fire ambush circle he had set.
, immediately ordered all artillery units participating in the battle to fire according to the instructions from their superiors.
With an order, three artillery battalions and two strengthened divisional artillery battalions simultaneously launched a 76mm direct-aiming artillery position on the entire Haihe City section, starting from the north of Jintang Bridge and east of Japan Bridge.
The area is the tail section of the river. The dense artillery shells instantly covered this section of the river, setting off dense water columns on the river on both sides of Jintang Bridge.
As the two most threatening Japanese warships of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the gunboat Suma and the sea sweeper No. 101 were the first to hit the jackpot in this dense rain of bullets. The shells fired by the Anti-Japanese Alliance were really too much.
The two ships were the biggest targets. Due to their own combat characteristics, they had almost no armor. The ships, which could only rely on the Anti-League's order to strictly prohibit the use of artillery in urban operations, were able to run rampant in the Haihe River, received more than a dozen artillery shells.
Due to their special needs in use, these two ships were almost unarmored and could withstand the bombardment of more than a dozen 150 shells. Before the first round of gunfire ended, the ship was bombed.
Everything was in disarray, and all the artillery was silenced.
After barely holding on for more than ten minutes, it couldn't bear the falling shells, and it swirled and sank to the bottom of the river. Along with the two ships, there were two more sluggish modified barges, one was sunk.
The icebreaker plus three gunboats. For these light ships, every 150mm grenade is like a heavy hammer falling from the sky, which is simply not something they can bear.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining Japanese warships did not care about cooperating with the army. They turned around and tried to escape downstream. However, the narrow Haihe River was not a wide sea, so there was no way they could turn around so easily. The two ships panicked and chose their way out.
The Japanese gunboat came directly for a kiss and sunk itself.
After Italy withdrew from the war, the Japanese did not hesitate to snatch it from their former ally. The modified Narumi shallow-water gunboat simply crashed into the embankment on the river bank. The remaining Japanese warships continued to rain down shells.
Among them, they were either sunk or paralyzed one after another.
Although the remaining Japanese ships continued to try to break through the artillery blockade area of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, under the guidance of the artillery observation aircraft in the sky and the observers deployed by the Anti-Alliance on several high-rise buildings in the control area, the Anti-Alliance artillery fire almost chased them.
Japanese warships were bombing. In particular, a cannon battery deployed on both sides of the Japanese Bridge used direct fire to directly cut off the retreat of these ships.
Tatara, Fushimi Hogawa shallow-water gunboat, special sea sweeper No. 22, special laying boat Huanghe, Chidori mine boat, temporary gunboats modified from icebreakers, barges and motor sailing ships. One by one or
They were sunk by the bombing, or they were seriously injured and paralyzed on the river, or they were stranded on the river embankment in a panic.
When the Anti-Japanese League's one-hour shelling stopped, the entire river below the Jintang Bridge on the Haihe River was littered with the remains of Japanese warships. Since hundreds of thousands of Tianjin citizens were taken as hostages, it never occurred to them that the Anti-Japanese League that had previously resorted to warring tactics would eventually
Launch artillery into the battlefield.
The Japanese navy, which was almost unprepared to face such a powerful bombardment by the coalition, suffered a heavy loss. Because most of the Japanese navy ships entering the Haihe River to fight were unarmored inland river ships. There were even a few shallow water inland river ships.
The gunboat doesn't even have the most basic armor.
Even among all the artillery invested by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, except for the 76mm cannon which used some armor-piercing projectiles, almost no armor-piercing projectiles were used. However, these large-caliber ordinary anti-personnel blasting grenades are also quite lethal to these unarmored ships.
A large-caliber near-miss missile is enough to pose a fatal threat to these ships.
Except for two small inland river gunboats that escaped disaster by hiding under the Jintang Bridge due to their short stature, all the ships deployed on the Haihe River were sunk. There was even a gunboat that was set off by a 150mm grenade.