Chapter 144 The Forty-eighth Division Headquarters Disappeared
But what makes Tao Jingfei a little confused is that although most of the main force of the Japanese army in Tianjin has been annihilated, the commander of the 48th Division, Lieutenant General Dohashi Yuichi, who can also serve as the commander of the Tianjin garrison and fully command the Japanese army and navy operations in Tianjin, and his division headquarters,
But he has never been found. Not only is there no one alive, but no body is found even if he is dead.
Among the Japanese commanders at all levels responsible for the Tianjin operation, the commander of the 110th Division and Lieutenant General Takachiji, who were responsible for the entire Hexi operation, were shot dead in the basement of the former Japanese Consulate in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin. The 50th commander responsible for the Hedong operation in Tianjin
The commander of the Ninth Division was also captured in a hidden room in the Concession.
But Lieutenant General Dohashi Yuuichi, who had full authority to command the Tianjin defense war, and his headquarters seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Not only was his life and death unknown, but his whereabouts were unknown, as were all the personnel of the 48th Division under his leadership.
, also disappeared without a trace.
Although during the search for this guy, in the basement of the Bank of Korea and Zhengjin Bank in Tianjin, more than 10,000 taels of gold plundered by the Japanese army from the Zhaoyuan Gold Mine in Shandong Province were seized, as well as a large sum of foreign exchange, oceans, antiques, and huge sums.
funds. However, these discoveries cannot make up for the hidden dangers caused by the collective disappearance of the Japanese Supreme Command in Tianjin.
Tao Jingfei gave orders to all the attacking troops. They had to dig out Lieutenant General Tuqiao Yongyi and his headquarters in every possible place in the entire Tianjin city, even if the ground was dug three feet.
Seeing corpses. For Tao Jingfei, if the Japanese headquarters is not found, the Battle of Tianjin will not be completed.
After the gunfire in the city fell completely, comrades from the former Tianjin Underground Working Committee who cooperated with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to take over Tianjin also mobilized the masses to cooperate with the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the investigation. Based on the prisoners' confessions, Tao Jingfei was certain that Lieutenant General Tuqiao Yongyi was still alive.
There is his headquarters, which is still in the city.
After staring at the map of Tianjin for a long time, Tao Jingfei defined two major areas for the search team. One is the area south of the 14th Road in the old Russian concession in Hedong, and the entire Belgian concession area. The other is the old German concession in Hexi, and
The junction of the British Concession and the German Concession.
These two areas are not the key attack directions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance siege forces. Even if they pass by, they pass quickly. After the battle, many times of investigation, these two areas are not the key directions. Since they are in the original
If this cunning guy is not found within the search range, then the scope of the dragnet will be expanded southward.
After expanding the scope of the search for the search force, Tao Jingfei ordered personnel from the Ministry of Social Affairs to re-examine all captured Japanese nationals. All men over thirty and under sixty must be re-examined one by one. Tao Jingfei did not believe it.
, such a huge command headquarters can just disappear under your nose?
The re-examination of the Japanese expatriates yielded unexpected results. Among the Japanese expatriates, they found one major general, five colonels, and eleven others in the army and navy who had taken off their military uniforms and put on civilian clothes in an attempt to get through.
Lieutenant Colonel. As for middle and lower-level officers, there are dozens of them.
The Japanese officers selected from the Japanese expatriates were mostly officers from the navy and logistics, baggage, management, health and other departments. There were very few officers in the field forces. There were two rear admirals of the Japanese army and navy, and one was the commander of the Tianjin ad hoc fleet.
Officer. After the fleet encountered air attacks, he moved the headquarters to land.
After the offensive and defensive battle in Tianjin came to an end, he and his subordinates collectively changed into civilian clothes and blended into the Japanese expatriates. As a result, they did not expect to escape the first day of junior high school, and ultimately did not escape the fifteenth day. During this investigation,
He was still censored and became the only Japanese naval officer captured by the Anti-Japanese Alliance during the entire Anti-Japanese War.
Not only did this man become the only senior Japanese naval officer captured by the Anti-Japanese War during the entire Anti-Japanese War. Perhaps the Japanese Navy, which has always studied the British Navy, had relatively more contact with Western society, so the so-called bushido spirit among Japanese naval officers was far inferior to
The Japanese Army is strong.
During this screening of Japanese expatriates, Japanese naval officers accounted for more than half of the officers above the rank of lieutenant colonel captured. Except for some Japanese naval agencies in Tianjin, most of them were officers of the Japanese naval fleet in Tianjin. As for the other one
He was the commander of the northern China anchorage, and there was no commander of the Japanese field troops.
However, during the re-examination, although the harvest was quite fruitful. In this net, not only a lot of big fish were caught, but also a lot of trash fish were caught. But for Lieutenant General Dohashi Yongyi, there is still
There were traces of the officers from his headquarters, but still nothing was found.
The lieutenant general's location was not found in a wide-ranging investigation of the original German Concession and the Belgian Concession. Although Tao Jingfei expanded the scope of the search to the entire British Concession and all the surrounding Chinese communities, he was not found.
Figure of Army Lieutenant General and his command.
Although he has been unable to capture the Japanese Army Lieutenant General who seemed to disappear out of thin air, all Tao Jingfei's energy cannot be entangled in this matter. After the remaining enemies in Tianjin were completely eliminated, Tao Jingfei followed Yang Zhen's deployment, except for leaving behind
One division plus two regiments were tasked with guarding Tianjin and the main force was transferred out of Tianjin.
They were transferred to the south of Dagukou, as well as Haigu, Xiaozhan, Beitang to Tanggu, and in the direction of Hangu and Lutai to prepare for anti-landing in the northern part of the Bohai Bay. At the same time, after receiving the order from No. 1, he also
Workers at the Dagu Shipyard were organized to salvage the sunk Japanese naval ships on the Haihe River. The heavy follow-up work after the war left him without much energy to focus on this one thing.
But he was unwilling to give up and ordered the troops staying in Tianjin to continue to seize the time to carry out arrests. He ordered the attached technical department to continue to implement radio surveillance of the entire urban area of Tianjin. He still said the same thing, if you want to see someone alive, if you want to die,
Seeing the corpse, Tao Jingfei didn't believe that Lieutenant General Doqiao Yongyi could fly away with his wings?
Just when Tao Jingfei was confused about the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Doqiao Yongyi, Du Kaishan, who was surveying the artillery positions along the Bohai Bay with a light command post, arrived in Tianjin at this time. Not that
Du Kaishan took this opportunity and wanted to come and see Tianjin.
But after completing the survey along the Bohai Bay south of Qikou, we learned that the Tianjin Campaign has ended. The entire Jidong area battle has also been roughly completed. After careful consideration, after asking Yang Zhen for instructions, we prepared to take advantage of the Bohai Bay.
Before the civilization, we headed north to inspect the northern part of the Bohai Bay.
Of course, coming to see his old partner is one of the purposes of Du Kaishan's trip. The two of them have always cooperated quite well when they were working together. Although the two have not been together for a long time, they have also cultivated each other.
We have developed a deep relationship. Taking this opportunity to see our old comrades can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.
Although Yang Zhen, who had returned to Hejian, was hesitant about Du Kaishan's request for instructions, he finally approved his request. Some things are unclear to the authorities but clear to onlookers. Although Tao Jingfei was slightly worse than Du Kaishan on the battlefield, in terms of discussion
In some aspects of experience, he is much more mature than Du Kaishan as a political cadre.
If Du Kaishan is in awe and even fearful of himself and Guo Bingxun, but he and Tao Jingfei are, in the words of later generations, the kind of iron buddies who are too fat to wear a pair of pants. At this time, let Du Kaishan go
Meeting Tao Jingfei is a good choice.
At least Du Kaishan could listen to Tao Jingfei's words. Compared with his pressured way of talking, Tao Jingfei, who knew him thoroughly, could talk to him openly, and could talk to him heart-to-heart, talking to him might have a better understanding of Du Kaishan.
Opening a mountain can be of some help.
With Yang Zhen's approval, Du Kaishan had no worries. He went directly from Jinghai, the last destination of the inspection, and drove all night to arrive at Tao Jingfei's headquarters in Haiguang Temple, Tianjin. But as soon as he entered the door, he saw a face
Tao Jingfei is depressed and confused.
After listening to Tao Jingfei's doubts, Du Kaishan pondered for a long time and said: "Old man, you made some mistakes in choosing the target of your search, and you even took it too much for granted. When you are searching, you cannot narrow down the scope of your search.
It should only be placed in the concession area, and the horizons should be wider."
"I took a look on the way here. The living conditions and all aspects of the entire Tianjin Concession are indeed better than those in the Chinese Concession. There are small Western-style buildings everywhere in the British and French Concession. But for a city that is equivalent to the military level
As far as the garrison headquarters is concerned, the shortcomings of the concession area are equally serious, that is, the target is too obvious."
"When I came here, I looked at the information about Tianjin and found that most of the entire urban area of Tianjin, except for the old Tianjin County, was developed from the concession area. Except for the shortest Austrian Concession,
, all the rest of the concessions are the most developed areas of Tianjin City. In addition, except for some factories, all the most valuable things in Tianjin City are basically within the scope of the concessions.
"Railways, river terminals, as well as postal and telecommunications, electricity, tap water, tram and other systems were all built by Westerners. At the same time, they may have been frightened by successive civil wars and greedy forces. Not only did the concessions have a large number of
Foreign banks, even Chinese banks, are basically within the scope of the concession."
"That is to say, the most valuable soft targets in the entire Tianjin city are basically in the concession area. Overall, although these targets have little military significance, their political and economic significance is extraordinary. Incomplete recapture
These things, for Tianjin City, not only do not have any economic or political significance for us, but they are a burden to us."
"If it were me, I would not put my headquarters in the concession area, such an obvious area. Whether it is the British, French and American concessions with the best conditions, the relatively poor Italian concessions, or the Japanese concessions they are most familiar with.
Concession. Even if it is the German Concession, the Russian Concession or the Belgian Concession that has been returned to China long ago and has become Chinese jurisdiction, I will not choose it."
"First of all, there is a Japanese bacteriological warfare unit in the Japanese Concession, which is not suitable for being a high-level headquarters in the first place. We are horrified by the mention of these bacterial weapons. But aren't they afraid of the little devils? Once the plague, cholera or typhoid fever becomes contagious,
, can you tell whether he is Chinese or Japanese?"
"We are afraid of these plagues. The little devils are also human beings, and they are also afraid. Therefore, if there is this germ warfare unit in the Japanese Concession, their highest military command in Tianjin will definitely not choose to be in the Japanese Concession. Because for germ warfare,
The real power, as the developer, is much clearer than us."
"Even the headquarters of the 110th Division, which is responsible for commanding the entire Hexi battlefield, is located in the British Concession. This shows that even as developers, they are still quite afraid of these gadgets. Think about it, how easy it is for a little devil to do this
To set up the highest headquarters of a war zone close to the site where the most lethal weapons are developed? So at least the area north of Suma Street in the Japanese Concession is basically unlikely to be the chosen location."