Chapter 139: The Secret of the Japanese Concession
Relying on the experience of fighting on the battlefield in the past few years, Liu Guanghua judged that the Japanese army would launch at least one more fierce attack before it completely darkened. But after dark, I am afraid they would not continue to attack. According to the Japanese army's current situation,
We must completely deal with our troops in Hedong.
After dark, the visual distance is limited, and launching an attack at this time will create loopholes. If the Japanese army cannot solve itself with the last attack, they will adopt a siege tactic instead. They will not risk the possibility of something slipping through the net.
Dangerous, attacking at night.
Because of the special structure of the city, even if flares are used during combat, the effect will not be too obvious. As for the street lights in this area, they have long been blown up by the Japanese artillery shells. In a street battle of this scale,
If you use searchlights to illuminate the battlefield, you will die too slowly.
So he was waiting for the Japanese army to attack for the last time before dark, and took advantage of the paralysis that he had caused to the Japanese army by passively defending. Before the Japanese army launched the last attack, he took advantage of the Japanese army's expansion and concentrated its forces mainly on the front and southwest.
, concentrate the troops to protrude from the northwest corner of the battlefield.
Before the Japanese army could react, they rushed through Fukushima Street and entered the residential area around Nanghua Pavilion. As long as they could rush through Fukushima Street and enter the residential area to its west, for me, who was familiar with every street and alley in the Japanese Concession,
It can be said that the dragon has entered the sea. When the Japanese army wants to catch them again, it will not be so easy. This is the so-called strong dragon but not the local snake.
Although Liu Guanghua knew very well that the Japanese army would definitely mobilize as many troops as possible in the last attack before dark. The northwest corner, which was not the focus of the Japanese army's deployment, may also be blocked. Choosing to break out at this time is not
A favorable situation.
But Liu Guanghua still chose this time to break out. In addition to achieving maximum tactical surprise, he could also attract the surrounding Japanese targets to the maximum extent. He could not leave all the Japanese troops with only one platoon in hand, and also brought
There are many instructors who are responsible for the wounded.
The Japanese army in front of Liu Guanghua did not leave him much preparation time. Just when Liu Guanghua had just gathered the troops scheduled to attack to the west of Okura Yanghang, the Japanese army began to prepare artillery fire before the attack. Nine Gates
Infantry artillery, four mountain artillery, and two 120mm howitzers once again covered the Okura Foreign Company held by Liu Guanghua under artillery fire.
As if this attack was going to be fully effective, the artillery cover before the Japanese attack lasted for a long time. A full half an hour later, it still did not calm down. A large number of artillery shells continued to explode inside and outside Okura Yokoyoshi.
, blowing up the already riddled foreign bank and its attached warehouses into even more dilapidated conditions.
Even if the Japanese did not cut corners and built this foreign store as solidly as possible, after all, it was just an ordinary civilian building. Moreover, it had been severely damaged by the Japanese army's artillery fire for a long time.
Even the roof of Okura & Co., which was completely lifted off, appeared to be crumbling under the intensive bombardment.
Facing the Japanese artillery bombardment that had lasted for half an hour but still had not subsided, Liu Guanghua seemed unusually steady. He and his troops patiently hid in the foreign bank, waiting for the Japanese artillery bombardment to end.
Behind him, a Japanese 25mm anti-aircraft gun that Li Meng insisted on transferring over was ready to fire.
In front of Okura Foreign Company, all the cadres and soldiers of the holding force commanded by Li Meng, as well as all the lightly wounded who could fight, neatly stacked the grenades and magazines of the automatic rifles in their hands beside them, and prepared for a decisive battle.
preparations. The seriously wounded man was holding a grenade tightly in his hands, waiting for the last moment to come.
Although the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, it would eventually end. As soon as the preparations for the Japanese artillery fire ended, as Liu Guanghua raised his left hand and slashed hard, the 25mm anti-aircraft gun behind him used
The large hole opened by the Japanese artillery fire immediately opened fire, hitting the northwest corner of the foreign bank.
Under the cover of this anti-aircraft gun and all the machine guns, Liu Guanghua jumped out with a submachine gun and all the attacking troops. With a dense rain of grenades and the intensive firepower of the squad machine gun hanging on his chest, he opened the way and faced
The Japanese troops from the northwest rushed over quickly.
Opposite them, a Japanese squadron that had just gathered and was preparing to launch an attack was obviously fooled by Liu Guanghua's hand. The firepower of the 25mm anti-aircraft cannon that was swept over was knocked down in an instant. And before he could wait,
After these Japanese troops recovered, Liu Guanghua led his three reinforced platoons and, under the cover of machine guns and grenades, rushed to the front of the Japanese troops.
At present, the Anti-Japanese Alliance only uses automatic firepower, and the Japanese army cannot compete in this kind of close combat. The troops commanded by Liu Guanghua easily opened a hole in the front of the Japanese army in the northwest direction. Before the Japanese artillery fire could react, they implemented a fire blockade.
, rushed through Fukushima Street and entered the Japanese inhabited area to the west.
Then the troops divided into two groups and quickly rushed deep into the Japanese Concession. Li Meng, who was behind him, was greatly relieved when he saw his partner leading the troops disappearing across Fukushima Street. Regardless of Liu Guanghua
Can this move attract the surrounding Japanese troops? But now it seems that the first step has been successful.
Liu Guanghua's move caught the Japanese army off guard. Only when the troops led by Liu Guanghua had disappeared to the west of Fukushima Street did the Japanese officer in charge of the command react. After discovering that the main force of the Anti-Alliance troops in front of them had fallen out of the network, the Japanese officer in charge
The Japanese officer who directed the attack on Okura Yoko and knew what the consequences would be if the Anti-Union forces got behind him immediately gave up the continued attack on Okura Yoko.
He immediately transferred his troops to pursue Liu Guanghua's troops, and mobilized his troops to Qiaodate Street and Asahi Street to outflank him. As for Okura Yoko, he had already lost sight of it. Even if there were anti-Union troops inside, but compared to
For the anti-alliance forces that broke out of the network, they were much less threatening.
Unexpectedly, although his actions were timely, the protruding anti-alliance troops were slipperier than fish and moved quite fast. By the time his outflanking troops were in place, the three platoons led by Liu Guanghua were already in
To the west of the Bank of Korea, cross Xubei Street.
They also took advantage of the alleys extending in all directions south of Asahi Street, between No. 41 and No. 43 Fukushima Street, and then jumped to the east of Fukushima Street. They directly defeated the Japanese troops responsible for outflanking the Hashidate Street front line.
They reached the front line of Hashidate Street. At the same time, they got rid of the Japanese pursuit troops that were quickly coming up behind them.
As Liu Guanghua originally judged, the current deployment situation of the Japanese defenders in the entire Japanese Concession is heavy at the two ends and light in the middle. The Japanese army that concentrated too many troops at the two ends has almost no power in depth. After Liu Guanghua crossed Xu Street,
We almost didn't encounter large groups of Japanese troops, and we moved through them very quickly. Although we took a little detour in order to escape the pursuit of the Japanese troops behind us, we were moving quite fast.
Originally, Liu Guanghua's move was to avoid the pursuit and outflanking of the Japanese army behind him. However, he did not expect that on the route he chose, the Japanese military police in the former Japanese concession were in front of him. Together with the Japanese military police, they were on Rong Street.
Zhonghe Hospital, which is very close to the team, and Renai Hospital, which is across the road from Zhonghe Hospital, hide the biggest secret of the Japanese army in Tianjin.
In fact, when Liu Guanghua crossed Xu Street, he chose the breakthrough point in the underground vault of the Bank of Korea. There was another secret hidden in it. It was just that in order to quickly pass through Xu Street, Liu Guanghua did not pay attention to the heavily guarded North Korean bank.
Tianjin Branch.
At that time, Liu Guanghua was a little surprised when he crossed Xu Street next to the Tianjin Branch of the Bank of Korea. There were a lot of Japanese security troops here. Why did he not attack to intercept or pursue any pursuit when he passed quickly?
Stick to it in the bank.
But as the Japanese pursuers behind him were about to catch up, Liu Guanghua didn't bother to carefully check what was weird here. He led his troops to quickly bypass the heavily guarded bank and move quickly toward the southeast.
In the past, since the Japanese troops here took the initiative to make way for themselves, what else could I have to worry about?
However, when Liu Guanghua broke through Xu Street, he did not pay attention to the weird things in the North Korean bank where he broke through. But when he hit Rong Street, he really poked a hole in the sky of the entire Japanese Concession. The secrets here are important to the entire Japanese North China Front.
Even for the entire Japanese army, once exposed, it would be extremely fatal.
In order to keep this secret, almost all Japanese troops in the entire Japanese Concession were mobilized. The top commander of the Japanese garrison in Tianjin also gave a death order to all Japanese troops. At any cost, even if the frontline is shaken, these troops must be eliminated.
The small anti-alliance force that inserted its butt into his stomach was completely eliminated. No single soldier of this small anti-alliance force was allowed to even approach Zhonghe Hospital and Renai Hospital.
There was no other reason why the Japanese defenders in Tianjin wanted to eliminate all Liu Guanghua's troops at the risk of shaking the battlefield in the Japanese Concession. There was Zhonghe Hospital in the Japanese Concession, and the Renai Hospital across Miyajima Street.
Inside, there is hidden the so-called North China Front Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department transferred from Peiping.
The Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department of the North China Front Army is just the cover code name of this unit in the Japanese army. Just like the 731st Unit was known to the outside world as the Kwantung Army's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department. The real designation of this Japanese army is the North Branch A-1855 Unit.
It was a germ warfare unit under the Japanese North China Front.
After the Kwantung Army's 731st Unit and 100th Unit were completely wiped out by the Anti-Japanese Resistance Alliance, this germ warfare unit of the Japanese North China Front quickly joined forces with the Nanjing Rongzi 1644th Unit and the Guangzhou Bozi 8604th Unit.
The troops became the only three remaining germ warfare units of the Japanese army.
This Japanese bacteriological warfare unit, codenamed North Branch A 1855, was originally stationed in the Temple of Heaven in Peking. It was the largest and most technically powerful bacteriological warfare unit among the three Japanese bacteriological warfare units in the entire Guannei battlefield.
After the annihilation of Unit 731, this germ warfare unit of the Japanese North China Front became the backbone force for the Japanese army to develop and launch germ warfare.
It's just that compared with the 731 unit that brought together almost all of Japan's best bacteriological warfare experts. The technical capabilities of this bacteriological warfare unit of the Japanese North China Front Army were the strongest among the three bacteriological warfare units of the Japanese army in the pass.
.However, the overall strength and scale, as well as the research and development capabilities of bacterial weapons, are far inferior to those of the 731 Force.
After the battle ended last year, Peiping was already under the gunfire of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. In order to conceal the secret of this germ warfare unit, the Japanese army urgently moved this germ warfare unit from the original base of Tiantan on the outskirts of Peiping to Tianjin.
When the situation is critical, you can board a ship and evacuate urgently. If the situation really does not allow it, the worst option is to sink everything in the Haihe River, and you can also destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.