He Zhishan's feeling was not wrong. The chaos that the enemy defenders in the Japanese Concession were currently in was indeed the battalion of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division that was trapped in Hexi after the Japanese Bridge was destroyed. It was currently in the original Japanese Concession in the key defense area of the Japanese defenders in Tianjin.
Wreaking havoc in the Heavenly Palace and going on a rampage.
There are secrets of the Japanese army hidden in the Japanese Concession, so whether the enemy is willing or not, they must completely eliminate them before they threaten these secrets. Just one move affects the whole body. In order to contain the Japanese defenders in the Japanese Concession,
No reinforcements were sent in other directions. Tao Jingfei deployed a full division of troops on the battlefield in the Japanese Concession and the adjacent French Concession battlefield.
Coupled with a regiment attacking from south to north in the British concession in the south, although the pressure on the Japanese concession's defenders was not great on the front, the overall pressure they faced was great. The use of troops on the entire front was also highly tense. In addition,
The Anti-Japanese Alliance launched a feint attack in this direction, and a series of fierce battles came down to the forward positions, with the two sides also fighting each other.
Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for the enemy defenders in the Japanese Concession to mobilize troops to return reinforcements without causing a certain chaos in the forward deployment. Moreover, it weakens the strength of the defenders at the frontier, which also gives the frontier a tight grip on them.
The first division of troops created a rare fighter opportunity. He Zhishan reacted very quickly and immediately stepped up the offensive against the Japanese Concession, turning the battlefield of the Japanese Concession from a feint attack into a main attack.
As for the Third Division troops trapped along the Haihe River in the Japanese Concession, the reason why the Japanese Concession, which was originally a stable war situation, was turned into a pot of porridge is also very simple. One of them dared to fight, and the entire 11th Division
, the battalion commander who is most familiar with Tianjin’s terrain.
After the Japanese Bridge was destroyed and the connection with the main force was cut off, Liu Guanghua, who served as the battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Anti-Japanese Division and the battalion commander of the sharp knife battalion of the regiment, was completely destroyed when the Japanese fleet on the Haihe River was lifted.
After the threat from behind, facing the approaching Japanese troops from the surrounding areas, they refused to retreat and instead advanced.
Taking advantage of the fact that he was born and raised in Tianjin. Before he was captured by the Japanese army and sent to the Northeast to work as a laborer, he worked as a dock worker at Yingshang Wharf in Tianjin. He was very familiar with the terrain of Tianjin, especially the urban structure on both sides of the Haihe River. With his own troops, he went to
The Japanese Concession penetrated her deeply and hard.
This Liu Guanghua is none other than Liu Heiwa, who had a fight with Yang Jicai at the recruit training base when he joined the army. Maybe they didn't know each other before the fight. After that fight, he and Yang Jicai became life-or-death friends. In the recruit camp
When he was young, Yang Jicai not only helped him complete recruit training, but also helped him with cultural subsidies whenever he had time.
After joining the army, whenever he had the chance to meet Yang Jicai, Yang Jicai would do his best to help him and improve his abilities and military literacy. For this brother who had never known each other before, Yang Jicai used his experience in every battle to make up for it with almost nothing.
Give whatever you have reserved to everyone.
Even after the large-scale expansion of the army, it was difficult for the two to meet. But Yang Jicai always wrote to him, telling him his experience in every battle without reservation, as long as it did not involve leaking secrets. Although Liu Jicai
Because of his low educational level, Hei Wa was not selected into the teaching team after completing recruit training like Yang Jicai, but was directly assigned to the combat unit.
But over the past few years, with Yang Jicai's painstaking help, he also relied on his performance on the battlefield to step by step from a recruit to the position of battalion commander. However, most of the time, he was in a staff position.
Unlike Yang Jicai, who spent his military career in the field army, he worked his way up from squad leader step by step through his own efforts.
With the help of Yang Jicai, his military theory level improved rapidly. Coupled with his own efforts, the progress was still considerable. When he was the platoon leader, he led a platoon of sharp knives that was famous in the army. When he was the company commander,
He brought out a company that was famous throughout the army for its ability to attack and defend well.
When I served as the chief officer of the grassroots troops, the troops I led were always the sharp knives and fists of the troops to which I was affiliated. When the troops were expanded before the launch of this battle, I took the position of deputy battalion captain and operational staff officer, and was personally approved by the division commander.
Will be assigned to the grassroots units as battalion commanders.
His name Liu Guanghua was also changed by Yang Jicai with the help of him. It can be said that Yang Jicai was a very important person in his growth trajectory. However, the old saying that birds of a feather flock together is still very reasonable. This guy
In terms of tactics, he was greatly helped by Yang Jicai. But in terms of personality, he was even more influenced by Yang Jicai.
Because he was born in poverty and was a filial son, he was very reserved by nature. Under the influence of Yang Jicai, he became quite daring and courageous. However, he had been in the field army and was far less lucky than Yang Jicai.
.After several years of bloody battles, there are scars of all sizes all over his body.
The back road was cut off, and the radio they carried was the last to cross the river, and when the Japanese bridge was covered by Japanese artillery fire, they were blown up on the bridge together. In the previous battle, one of the three walkie-talkies was lost, and one had problems.
, the only remaining one was damaged by a machine gun bullet as soon as it crossed the river.
He lost almost all contact with his superiors and friendly troops in Hedong. After crossing the river, he was besieged by a large number of Japanese troops. Liu Guanghua knew that if he stayed at the Japanese bridgehead, he would only be beaten little by little by the Japanese troops swarming up.
Light. It would even be torn apart by the use of artillery fire by the Japanese army who did not care about the life or death of the Chinese.
The wooden bridge behind him had been completely destroyed by Japanese artillery fire. The main force could not get up, and almost all the radios and walkie-talkies in his hands were lost. Under the fire suppression of the Japanese warships on the Haihe River behind him, the semaphore liaison officer he sent,
It's almost as if one of them went up and the other was knocked down, which has no effect at all.
The current method of semaphore communication and signal tone communication, due to the widespread popularity of walkie-talkies, only serves as an auxiliary and backup means of communication in the Anti-Japanese War. There is only one person in each company of his battalion, plus the battalion
He is a member of the corps, and his entire battalion only has four semaphore liaison officers and three trumpeters.
Of the four flag language players, except for one who was killed in the previous battle, the remaining three were knocked out by the Japanese army in just a few minutes. As a result, Liu Guanghua cannot send out a single chess language player. Although the instructors of each company are not
He understands the flag language, but in this situation, if three instructors are allowed to go into battle, not to mention that the instructors will definitely not agree, even he himself is reluctant to do so.
The sound communication was also greatly affected by the battlefield environment, and the effect was very unsatisfactory. He, Liu Guanghua, was from Tianjin, and he knew that sending people to swim across the Haihe River to deliver messages at this time would be equivalent to sending people to death. According to the temperature of the river in this season, I am afraid that this
The person froze as soon as he got down.
After losing contact with the rear, the Japanese troops were quickly mobilizing again. With the cooperation of the firepower of several gunboats behind them, they quickly besieged them and assumed a posture of driving them down the Haihe River. Liu Guanghua knew that at least within a short period of time, he could advance or retreat.
I have no choice but to fight alone.
When he was cut off from the main force behind him, Liu Guanghua fought extremely hard. The Japanese warships on the Haihe River behind him kept firing artillery shells into his control area. The 25mm anti-aircraft guns and 13mm anti-aircraft guns fired horizontally.
The machine gun hit him so hard that he couldn't even raise his head. The Japanese troops in front of him counterattacked with all their strength at any cost, desperately squeezing him towards the edge of the Haihe River.
If he hadn't acted quickly, ignored the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, and seized several Japanese banks and warehouses on the Haihe River in the shortest time, and used the sturdy buildings of these banks and warehouses as fortifications, I'm afraid that
Maybe they were really squeezed into the Haihe River by the crazy Japanese counterattack from the surrounding areas.
As soon as his troops crossed the Haihe River, Liu Guanghua felt like he had stabbed an ant's nest. The Japanese troops in the entire Japanese concession actually ignored the pressure from their brothers' troops in front of him and mobilized heavy troops to quickly outflank him.
Regardless of the narrow terrain, they adopted a heavy siege posture.
The Japanese fleet on the Haihe River also allocated a considerable part to deal with itself. The caliber of the artillery shells that hit its head became larger and larger. The Japanese army on the east bank of the river also had a considerable part of its firepower, pressing towards its back. As soon as they crossed the river
, a battalion led by Liu Guanghua fell into a situation of being attacked from both sides by enemies from both sides.
Liu Guanghua was able to sustain himself. In addition to strengthening his defensive firepower by capturing two Japanese double-25 anti-aircraft guns and a 13mm machine gun in Qiaoxi, Liu Guanghua relied on the tenacity and willpower of himself and his troops, as well as the Japanese
The solid buildings of the Japanese foreign companies in the concession dock area struggled to support themselves. They survived the most difficult moment before the Japanese fleet was eliminated and the Hedong follow-up troops deployed northward, leaving the Hedong Japanese army unable to take care of the Hexi battlefield.
After the pressure he was under was relieved, Liu Guanghua's mind wandered a little. He knew that his original battalion strength had defended its existing position in the face of the Japanese army's two-sided attack during the nearly four-hour hard battle.
His own casualties were also quite heavy.
When he entered the battlefield, he reorganized a whole battalion, and now only more than half of the battalion's strength was left. In other words, during the four hours of fierce fighting, he lost half of his troops and his control area was reduced by one-third.
Of the several foreign banks it occupied, except for Okura & Company, which survived because its buildings were relatively strong, the rest had all been completely destroyed by Japanese artillery fire.
Liu Guanghua knew that although the threat behind him had been eliminated, the intensity of the Japanese counterattack from the front had not diminished, but was actually continuing to increase. Especially the pressure from the front was getting bigger and bigger. If he was being beaten so passively,
If it goes on, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to hold on until the main force arrives.
After another Japanese counterattack was defeated, Liu Guanghua discussed with the instructor Li Meng: "Old Li, these little devils today are so damn evil. They seem to have spotted us. From the time we crossed the river to now, it has been so long
The momentum of this counterattack has not weakened. If the fight continues like this, I am afraid that if we cannot hold on until the main force arrives, the entire army will be destroyed."
"We have now lost all means of communication with the main force of the regiment behind us. Although we are only separated by a river from the main force, we cannot get close to the main force now. The main force does not know the battle situation on our side, and our superiors have strictly ordered us to stay within the city.
The use of artillery is prohibited, and they cannot give us any support. We are basically fighting alone now."
"I think we can't hold on here. Otherwise, we will either be forced into the river by the Japanese troops who are surrounding us, or we will be beaten down here bit by bit by the Japanese troops. I think this is the case. Let's adjust our tactics.
The troops are divided into two groups, and you and I each lead one. I will lead three platoons to penetrate deep into the Japanese army, leading the battle deeper into the Japanese army and spreading the pressure here."
"You take a reinforced platoon and all the lightly wounded who can still hold guns, protect the severely wounded who can't move, abandon the surrounding positions, and hold on to Okura Yoko with all your strength. Now that the threat behind us has been removed, I am attracting them.
For most of the Japanese troops, if you hold on here until the main force arrives, there won't be any big problems."