War is fought to the death, and the goal is achieved by any means. Only the victor is qualified to evaluate right and wrong.
That ugly face is really worthless in a war.
Xie Tian never cared about face, and every battle he fought since he started the army was unscrupulous. As a result, now he met Meizu Yoshijiro, who was even more shameless and had no bottom line than him, making him furious.
We are all the same. The same method is just when I deal with you, but it is unacceptable when you deal with me. Just like Xie Tian used Red No. 1 to deal with Shiro Sumita in the battle to liberate Tianjin, that old bastard tried to The People's Liberation Army felt happy when they threw the red number one, but in turn, they started scolding Xie Tian when they threw the red number one.
Pang Yuan rushed to Tangshan. Seeing the tragic situation in Tangshan, Pang Yuan's eyes immediately turned red.
Pang Yuan quickly took over Tangshan's emergency and disaster relief work, established an emergency and disaster relief headquarters, urgently mobilized personnel and materials from Tianjin to support Tangshan, and set up more than a dozen temporary hospitals, dozens of rescue stations, and hundreds of resettlement sites throughout the ruins of Tangshan. We organized transport planes to airdrop medicines and food to Tangshan, and arranged for local governments in the liberated areas to organize people to donate clothes and food to support Tangshan and Zunhua.
"Liberation Daily" devoted two pages to reporting on the inhumane massacre carried out by the Japanese army in Tangshan and Zunhua. The unprecedented public opinion momentum made people across the country filled with impassioned indignation. People donated materials and organized volunteers to go to Tangshan and Zunhua.
The anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the Chinese people is unprecedentedly high. Several drunken Japanese businessmen in Nanjing were beaten to death on the streets late at night. Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Japanese Consulate in Harbin. A Japanese weaving factory in Qingdao was set on fire. The fire burned for three days and three days. Before the night could be extinguished, a bomb was planted in a Japanese club in Shanghai, killing and injuring more than a dozen Japanese, including the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai...
The Japanese military warned all Japanese nationals in the war zone to avoid traveling after dark.
International public opinion also unanimously condemned the crimes committed by the Japanese. Emperor Hirohito personally called Umezu Yoshijiro and tactfully reminded him that massacre of the city was not allowed, otherwise the Japanese government would be isolated in the international community. There are some countries that secretly provide strategic materials to Japan. Maybe it will also interrupt transactions with the Japanese.
Li Zongren and Director He originally planned to go to Tianjin. Now that such a big thing has happened, the two of them can no longer escape. They have to sit in Chongqing to deal with public opinion and arrange the army to take revenge against the Japanese army. They must gather heavy troops to regain Wuhan in one fell swoop.
Due to the miscarriage of secret negotiations between Chiang and his son and the Japanese, Wuhan is still under the control of the Japanese. This is also a hard problem that the Chongqing government has in its throat. It must be removed first and then quickly, otherwise Chongqing will always be under the control of Japanese aircraft. Within the bombing range, there is no peace of mind during the day and no sleep at night.
Although Li Zongren and Director He failed to make the trip, they arranged eight transport planes to support a large amount of medicines and supplies to Tangshan. They also dispatched a medical team from various hospitals in Chongqing to provide support, showing with actions that the National Government and the liberated areas were one family.
On the contrary, Yan'an only strongly condemned the Japanese atrocities in Xinhua Daily and called on the people of the country to unite as one to resist the Japanese aggression. In short, they shouted a lot of slogans but did not take any substantive actions. Perhaps It's probably because the Eighth Route Army is too poor and has nothing to offer except shouting slogans.
But, Xie Baoqing, can you please have some fucking face? Um?
The eight transport planes arranged by the Chongqing government to transport supplies to Tangshan were temporarily "borrowed" by Xie Baoqing and used as bombers to participate in the military operation of dropping Red No. 1 on Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan.
It was already noon when Li Yunlong led the Dongye First Army to Beidaihe on the outskirts of Qinhuangdao. The tank division and the cavalry division arrived almost one after another.
Li Yunlong was appointed as the commander-in-chief of this campaign. After the headquarters was set up, he immediately ordered the communications staff to send a telegram to Xie Tian, reporting that the troops had arrived at the outskirts of Qinhuangdao.
Xie Tian responded briefly to Li Yunlong and immediately ordered the air force, which was already well prepared, to launch an air attack on Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan.
The Japanese Army's air force has been crippled by Xie Tian. The two limited Army Aviation Groups of the Kwantung Army are all fighting the Soviet Far East Army in the northern part of Northeast China, and are unable to provide air support for the Qinhuangdao battlefield at all.
Umezu Yoshijiro knew that the People's Liberation Army had obtained a large number of American fighter jets, and the Kwantung Army had no air superiority over the People's Liberation Army, so it had to mobilize a large number of anti-aircraft guns and deploy them on the front lines of Qinhuangdao and Shanhaiguan.
Shanhaiguan is a strategic link in and out of the Northeast. Umezu Yoshijiro knew that if Shanhaiguan was lost, the entire Northeast would be opened.
Therefore, Shanhaiguan cannot be lost.
The Kwantung Army stationed at Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, had more troops than Xie Tian and Zhang Xueliang had expected.
The Kwantung Army originally stationed a brigade and a tank regiment in Qinhuangdao. When Pingjin was in emergency, Umezu Yoshijiro was ordered to mobilize the Yamamoto Division from Dalian to support Pingjin. As a result, the Yamamoto Division had just arrived in Qinhuangdao by train, and Tianjin had been liberated. , the Yamamoto Division was stationed on the spot in Qinhuangdao.
Also because of the emergency in Beijing and Tianjin, the 110th Division transferred from Japan from the mainland also transferred from the sea to Jinzhou Port to disembark, and also headed to the front line of Shanhaiguan.
Now originally stationed in the Tangshan Kurosawa Brigade, the Bancun Regiment stationed in Zunhua also retreated to Qinhuangdao after the massacre.
Some scattered troops and security forces originally stationed in counties near Tangshan and Qinhuangdao were also ordered to retreat to the Shanhaiguan line in Qinhuangdao.
Currently, two complete Japanese divisions, two fully-equipped brigades and a large number of Category C troops are stationed on the front line of Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao. The total strength has reached 130,000. This does not include the Manchukuo puppet troops stationed here. An infantry brigade and an artillery regiment have more than 10,000 people.
Umezu Yoshijiro ordered these 130,000 Japanese troops to be reorganized into the temporary First Corps, with the commander of the Corps, Lieutenant General Yamamoto Daio, as the commander of the Yamamoto Division.
Shinozuka Yoshio's North China First Army Corps has been defeated by Xie Tian. This number was used by Umezu Yoshijiro for this temporary army. I don't know if Yamamoto Daio will be happy to get this number.
Yamamoto did not expect that the People's Liberation Army's pursuit would come so quickly. As soon as the Kurosawa brigade arrived in Qinhuangdao, the People's Liberation Army troops caught up with them. They were tanks, cavalry, and infantry. There must be at least seven or eight Thousands of people.
What Yamamoto was most worried about was the People's Liberation Army's air force. At the same time, he also knew that the People's Liberation Army had weapons of mass destruction in its hands. He immediately ordered all the troops to abandon the peripheral fortifications of Qinhuangdao, and use small teams as combat units to disperse throughout the city of Qinhuangdao, using streets and residential buildings as the basis. The fortifications were strictly guarded.
Yamamoto's decision was undoubtedly extremely clever. It was equivalent to kidnapping 730,000 people in Qinhuangdao and using them as shields.
But who the hell would have thought that Xie Baoqing would be so crazy that he ordered the air force to throw red bombs at the entire city of Qinhuangdao, including the common people.
