September 18, 1940, Peking City
That afternoon, just as the Eighth Route Army units outside Peiping were adjusting their encirclement and deployment, Japanese fighter jets appeared in the sky over Peiping for the first time. The Eighth Route Army aviation force, which was performing a bombing mission, suffered its first loss in several days. 12 French-made The Botai-25 light bomber was easily shot down by Japanese fighter jets. Eight pilots died on the spot, 12 were captured by the Japanese, and only 4 were rescued by our army.
Soon, intelligence came in. It turned out that the Japanese fighter jets took off from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Tianjin. This was the gap. Even though Wang Yue had wiped out all the Japanese aviation forces in North China, the Japanese did not just sit back and die. They had aircraft carriers. .
Last night, after confirming that the North China Air Force was almost completely destroyed, the Combined Fleet sent an aircraft carrier from Liaodong over, and an aircraft carrier on the Korean Peninsula also maneuvered here. The fighter jets of the two aircraft carriers were enough to defeat the Japanese in Peiping. Provides battlefield coverage.
Shortly after the departure of the Japanese naval aviation, a Japanese bomber formation taking off from Liaodong also flew over Peiping. Although it was unable to carry out low-altitude bombing under the firepower of the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft machine guns, nearly a hundred bombers still attacked the exposed Eighth Route Army troops. It caused considerable losses. Many artillery positions were attacked, and an ammunition storage point was also hit.
According to the intelligence that has been continuously collected, the Japanese have also temporarily repaired ten field airports in the northeastern and northwest Hebei areas. Now that the sites have been leveled, as long as the subsequent fuel is shipped, the Japanese will deploy part of the aviation force there. There, the frequency of aircraft operations will be greatly increased.
Several regiments in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area have already begun to attack these airports, but the Japanese army is also resisting desperately. The two sides are in a stalemate that refuses to give in. Although this can delay it for a while, no one can guarantee that the Japanese will not have other places outside these areas. The field airport is undergoing repairs, and a new field airport will definitely be put into use soon.
The Japanese comrades of the anti-war alliance also sent back information that the Japanese base camp is concentrating aircraft from Kyrgyzstan, Heilongjiang, and Koryo Province to Liaodong. It is planned to concentrate at least 300 fighter planes and 5,000 tons of aviation materials. It is estimated that by tomorrow, Liaodong alone will take off. The bombers can cover the Peiping battlefield, and the situation of the Eighth Route Army will only become more difficult.
In response to the Japanese deployment in Liaodong, the Eighth Route Army could not make much counterattack. The Japs' encirclement and suppression campaign against the Allied Forces has continued over the years. Northern Shaanxi's strength in the four eastern provinces has become increasingly weak, and it is even more serious in the Liaodong region. Not only The strength is weak and there is no direct communication channel. Even if there are armed forces, they cannot go into battle.
At the critical moment, the military commander took the initiative to contact the local Anti-Japanese Anti-Japanese Arson Team, a peripheral organization of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The two parties coordinated the attack and burned down the port warehouse area and the South-Manchuria Railway warehouse near Tuchengzi Airport. Finally, some supplies and aviation materials were burned. , but at best this only played a certain delaying role, but the price was that the military command and the "anti-Japanese arson team" in southern Liaoning were almost completely wiped out.
The Japs in Peiping were not having a good time either. Although they used dishonorable means to block the Eighth Route Army, their bottomless approach also angered the Imperial Army and the pseudo-police in the city. They were accused of being traitors and gave you It’s okay to be cannon fodder, but you actually used our wives and children to block the holes of the bullets, and threatened to massacre the city. Damn, you are trying to cut off our roots. If you really succeed, how can we men live? ?
So, on the afternoon of that day, a riot broke out in the Dongcheng Detention Center in Peiping. More than a hundred pseudo police officers, led by the director, killed two Japanese deputy directors. Then they were led by two "gendarmes" and went to The nearby Japanese clinic bound the wounded and medical staff inside the clinic into a detention center for "protection." 33
It was only then that the Japanese realized that the pseudo-police had rioted again. So they quickly dispatched troops to encircle and suppress the army. According to the gendarmerie's plan, they must use thunder to wipe out the rebellion and frighten the pseudo-police in the city. However, with the spread of the people, before the gendarmerie could take action, there was a large number of foreigners in the detention center. The incident with the wounded spread, and many temporarily recruited expatriate volunteer teams began to commotion and refused to carry out the attack order.
Although these guys kill Chinese people without mercy at all, it is different if they really want to kill their own people. There are hundreds of civilians. No one wants to bear such responsibility. If they really attack by force, Liancheng will be afraid. Riots will break out among expatriate volunteers in other areas of the country.
Although I look down upon the combat effectiveness of the expatriate volunteers, the reality is that after a morning of fierce fighting, there are only less than 7,000 Japanese regular troops left in the city. This small number of people, let alone defending the city, just want to defend the city. It is impossible to protect the city. On the other hand, the Expatriate Volunteer Corps has a total of 30,000 people. Now if the Expatriate Volunteer Corps is unstable, how can they control the Imperial Army and the pseudo-police? You know, there are more than 20,000 people. People and guns.
Helpless, Neji Okamura had no choice but to order the police to surround the detention center and start negotiations with the other party. What could he do? Fight. Definitely not fight. Threats with family members would not work either. The police station would not cooperate at all, and even the police officers’ files were not available. It disappeared. It can be seen that the police in many other areas are passively confronting and waiting. If they really ignore the attack, it is likely to cause even greater riots.
But the Japanese army wanted to appease the police, but the people below did not think so, because just after the top Japanese army made the decision, something went wrong with the Expatriate Volunteer Team. The police station files were gone, but everyone was there. Ah, many of these expats have been in Peiping for many years and have their own information channels, so they quickly found many family members of the rebellious police officers and mobilized personnel to surround them.
They started arresting people at that time. The actions of these expatriate volunteer teams were not serious. After a while, there were casualties. But what they did not expect was that the nearby police had already rushed here, and a firefight broke out between the two sides. At first, the exchange of fire was only limited to the vicinity of Xidan, but soon the scope of the conflict expanded. Thousands of police officers and nearly 3,000 expatriate volunteer teams were involved in the conflict.
Although these expatriate volunteer teams have a large number of people and their equipment is similar to that of the police, the problem is that these thousands of police officers are all street police. Not only are they familiar with the local terrain, but they also have the support of countless ordinary people. They want to It is not easy to surround these policemen and annihilate them.
Moreover, the thousands of volunteers still had to guard against the common people in the martial law area. What happened in the morning had already spread, and the common people were worried that the Japanese would use them as human shields, so the situation soon turned into a police force leading the common people. Encirclement and suppression of the overseas Chinese volunteer team.
Helpless, the Peking Military Police Headquarters had to send out the only mobile force it had. With the help of its armored force, it finally stabilized the local situation. There was no other choice but to stabilize the situation. The police who participated in the riot had long been hidden. If If we want to search further, I'm afraid we will have to fight. There is no other way. The Japanese army no longer has the strength to do so.
After a while, it was night, but both the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army were tense. Everyone knew that this night was not going to be easy.
Some people died, but not completely...
