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Volume One On the Songhua River Chapter 447 Baoding Changes Hands

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    Chapter 447: Baoding changes hands

    After the ** Division troops moved into Baoding City, they used two brigades to fight with the Japanese army in the city. They used the city to operate street fighting fortifications for more than a month, consuming and delaying the Japanese army's movements, luring the rest of us to fight in the streets, and the remaining troops passed through the city.  , preset positions on the left and right wings of Baoding.

    The Japanese army broke into Baoding City with a force of more than 100,000 people. They encountered fierce resistance from the defenders and suffered heavy casualties. Their advance was blocked and they only occupied a small part of the northern part of Baoding City. During this period, the Japanese army conducted multiple assaults on the defenders in the form of a regiment.  , all failed. The street fighting fortifications of the Japanese Army have been built underground, and there are fire points everywhere. No matter which direction the Japanese army attacks from, they will be fiercely hit by crossfire.

    In the afternoon of the battle, the Japanese army recruited aircraft to assist in the battle. The heavy bombs blew up the city of Baoding to almost rubble. The Japanese aircraft were hit by the anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese Army Division. After losing seven aircraft, the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force Air Force was already frightened.  , the losses of the previous few days were unbearable for him, so he ended it hastily.

    At this time, the Dusan Brigade and Duwu Brigade troops in the city of the ** Division had all moved to underground fortifications. The Japanese air firepower did not cause effective damage to the troops. Then, the Japanese army began to attack, and the defenders' firepower was as intensive and ferocious as before.  , the Japanese army failed to attack several times and retreated to the north of the city to occupy the area.

    Tang Qiuli used two brigades with less than 30,000 troops to strand and entangle the Japanese main attack force of more than 100,000 people in Baoding City. This was extremely bold. It also showed that the Japanese Army's careful preparations in Baoding for more than a month seemed to be  Today's battle has been anticipated for a long time.

    When the Japanese commander was engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders in the middle, the remaining troops, about 100,000 men, were divided into left and right wings, passing around Baoding City, encircling Baoding, cutting off its retreat, and annihilating the ** Division troops in Baoding City.  , Unexpectedly, on the outskirts of Baoding, they were suddenly ambushed by an equal force of the Japanese Army.

    The fierce fighting continued until dusk. The Japanese troops surrounded the troops on both sides. After losing more than 10,000 people, they retreated in shock. The Japanese commander's attempt failed and he threw all his troops into the battle for Baoding City.  Under the attack, the only third and fifth brigades of the ** division in the city resisted step by step and gradually retreated to the south of Baoding in an orderly manner. In the evening of that day, the battle line was fixed in the central area of ??Baoding City.

    At night, fires were everywhere in Baoding City. Thick smoke billowed out from the burning houses and various buildings, and the firelight turned half of the sky red. On the night of September 13th and 4th, Tang Qiuli commanded the troops to evacuate Baoding. At that time, in the city  It was deserted and all the residents had evacuated. Before retreating, Tang Qiuli concentrated the artillery of two artillery brigades and suddenly launched an indiscriminate bombardment on the central and northern parts of Baoding City, which lasted for an hour.

    It was impossible to predict the effect of this shelling. We only received reports from special operations units operating nearby. Thick black smoke was emitting from Baoding City, and there was an extremely strong smell of burning animal flesh. It was suspected that the Japanese army was burning the bodies of dead soldiers.  On the 14th, the Japanese army occupied Baoding, and what they got was an empty city with ruins everywhere and almost desolation.

    Tang Qiuli set up an ambush ring in the mountains around Boye and Wenren, hoping that the Japanese army would follow up and annihilate his vanguard troops, but to no avail. The Japanese army did not advance. They were busy setting up defense lines on the front line of Baoding and establishing a puppet regime. They seemed to want to have a long-term confrontation with the Japanese divisions.  , the plan came to nothing, the war in Hebei came to an end, and the war situation in North China was temporarily stable.

    This battle was the largest main force battle since the July 7th Incident. Tang Qiuli used 100,000 troops to fight against the Japanese army's 250,000 troops. In the early stage, he annihilated more than 20,000 enemies, and in the later stage, he annihilated more than 25,000 enemies.  This battle cost the ** division more than 13,000 casualties and abandoned Baoding, annihilating nearly 50,000 enemies, and ended with the Japanese occupation of Baoding, an important town in southern Hebei. General Tang Qiuli, who commanded the battle, and the Japanese command  Lieutenant General Guan Xiangyue Qingsi all believed that they had achieved the purpose of the campaign.

    Tang Qiuli believes that Baoding is isolated in the south of Hebei, close to Pingjin, and is an important node on the Ping-Han Road. The Japanese army cannot tolerate falling into the hands of the Japanese division, and will definitely capture it with heavy troops and compete with the superior Japanese army in Baoding.  The *** Division cannot withstand the consumption. He has long planned to abandon Baoding. He will not engage in a large-scale main force decisive battle with the Japanese army just because of an isolated city. With the current strength of the *** Division, it does not have all the conditions for a main force decisive battle with the Japanese army.  , and achieved the goal of killing a large number of Japanese troops, when enough was enough, the camera stopped. Moreover, after several days of fierce fighting, the Japanese division's casualties were close to the strength of a main brigade.

    Xiangyue Qingsi believed that by occupying Baoding, the North China Dispatch Army had a strategic advantage. The entire southern Hebei area fell under the control of the imperial army, and the geographical location of Baoding was like a fist extending from the Pingjin area.  , if you attack to the west, you can enter Shanxi, if you go south, you can attack Henan, and if you advance east, you can go straight to Shandong. It can be said that it takes advantage of the geographical convenience and has both sides. More importantly, it has occupied an important hub of the Ping-Han Railway.

    Although the Imperial Japanese Army suffered certain losses, it also inflicted heavy losses on the always arrogant North China Army and avenged the previously shattered Imperial warriors. The price paid was well worth it. The Japanese base camp and the baseThe camp representative, Prince Xianyuan Gong Zairen, Chief of General Staff, also approved of the battle of Baoding.

    Xiangyue Qingji also had some unspeakable little thoughts. Ever since he took over the position of commander of the North China Expedition Army from Anichiro Tashiro, he suffered a lot at the hands of Tang Qiuli and killed more than 300,000 people.  , and also caused the Itagaki Division to be wiped out. If he had not been protected by Prince Zain, his end would not have been much better. Many people in the military department had already criticized him.

    He urgently needed a victory to reverse the unfavorable situation and occupy Baoding, which was the pillow he sent to him when he was dozing off. He did not dare to be careless, fearing that if his troops were separated and left alone, Tang Qiuli would find a flaw. This China devil had no idea about the battle.  His insight is almost like that of a demon, so he can no longer afford to lose when he launches an attack with a large army group.

    His current idea is to occupy Baoding. As for killing Tang Qiuli's North China Army Division, he has never thought about it. Therefore, when the troops surrounding Baoding on the left and right wings were attacked by Tang Qiuli's equal forces, he did not even think about it.  Without hesitation, he immediately joined forces and attacked Baoding with all his strength. In this battle, he achieved his goal and won praise. This was the first time he had captured a city controlled by the Japanese Army since the beginning of the war in North China. It was of great significance.  Now that Yue Qingsi's position is secure, he can hold his head high, which was once half-lowered.

    The troops of the ** Division fully retreated southward from the southern Hebei area and re-established their positions on the Shijiazhuang line. Tang Qiuli hoped that Xiangyue Qingsi would launch another offensive. The vast area could disperse the Japanese troops and find suitable targets for the troops to attack.  Tang Qiu hopes that through several major annihilation battles, the Japanese army's advantage in military strength will be further weakened, and the current passive situation of being suppressed by heavy Japanese troops and being forced to defend can gradually be changed.

    However, from mid- to late-September, the Japanese troops in North China had no intention of continuing to attack southward. They were busy building solid fortifications, establishing a puppet regime, establishing various puppet organizations, and returning U.S. troops in the Beijing-Tianjin-Baodong triangle area.  Its name is "to stabilize the ruling order in the occupied areas and establish the North China Model Area of ??the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

    Tang Qiuli had organized several battles, but the Japanese army was unmoved. It was obviously not a wise move to attack a city where the Japanese army was well fortified and densely populated with troops. The plan failed. Xiangyue Qingsi seemed to have no intention of fighting with Tang Qiuli at all.  Large-scale battles took place in the vast area of ????Hebei.

    The battlefield in North China was so dull that Tang Qiuli almost went crazy because the Japanese troops were stuck on the spot and had no chance to annihilate the enemy. However, the battlefield in Songhu in East China was confusing. More than 40,000 of Matsui Iwane's defeated troops were wandering off the Yangtze River Estuary.  For more than twenty days, they neither attacked nor retreated, just lingering around Shanghai.

    However, Chairman Chiang reduced the military strength of the Shanghai garrison from the current 200,000 to 100,000. Some Central Army units gradually evacuated Shanghai. He also reorganized Shanghai's military structure and abolished the establishment of the Ninth and Tenth Group Armies.  With Zhang Zhizhong as the commander of the Shanghai garrison, he unified the defense forces of all parties in Shanghai, but the force in his hands was reduced by half.

    The Tenth Army resumed its designation as the Sulu Mobile Regiment of the North China First Division. Chang Feng's troops withdrew from Shanghai and returned to their organizational structure. Zhang Fakui's Eighth Army retained its original designation and continued to assume the garrison mission in the Hangzhou Bay area. However, it did not strengthen the Central Committee.  The main division of the army has not improved its equipment and is still the same miscellaneous army and local security regiment troops.

    Chairman Chiang called Tang Qiuli again to ask for his opinion. In view of the fact that the war in Songhu area has subsided, the Japanese army in North China is huge, and the Japanese army is unable to attack Shanghai, there is no need to maintain a huge military force in Shanghai. The Sulu Mobile Corps cannot stay in Suzhou and Hangzhou.  If necessary, whether it can be transferred back to the original defense position in Xuzhou, northern Jiangsu, to strengthen the Yellow River defense line.

    This is Tang Qiuli's face. In addition, in the Battle of Songhu, Chang Feng's troops fought very well and became the backbone and backbone of the defense. They killed the most Japanese troops. The old man knew it well and it was not easy to use up others.  Just kick him away. Besides, when Songhu was nervous, he asked Zhang Zhizhong to ask others to send troops for reinforcements, and then he asked Tang Qiuli for his opinion. If it were someone else, with an order, you would have to move even if you don't.  There is no room for negotiation.

    Tang Qiuli couldn¡¯t figure it out. Why did the old man think there would be no problems in Shanghai?  The Japanese are not afraid of being beaten and will not give up. The current situation is the calm before the storm. Besides, my troops stay in East China. They are to look after your homes and hospitals, and they do not eat or drink from you.  Yours, even the ammunition was transported from the Taihang Mountain base area, and you didn't need to replenish it with one from the central government. What's wrong with you?  Are you still afraid that Nanjing will be taken away from you?

    Tang Qiuli replied to Chairman Chiang: "The current situation in Shanghai is not as clear as it appears. The remnants of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Force are still in the open sea. Their intentions are very suspicious, and the Japanese are not yet incapable of attacking. Qiu Li thinks that Song  The war in Shanghai is bound to intensify. Tang Qiusheng's troops will stay in Suzhou and Hangzhou in case of emergency. The situation in North China is now stabilizing. There is no need for Tang Qiusheng's troops to move to northern Jiangsu. Please consider it."

    Commissioner Chiang Kai-shek??After receiving Tang Qiuli's call back, I didn't know what to think. Anyway, I no longer insisted on letting the Sulu Mobile Corps return to the Xuzhou area, so the matter was settled. Tang Qiuli predicted that there would be another outbreak in the Songhu area.  A new round of war was coming, and he didn't take it seriously, thinking that Tang Qiuli was worrying too much, which made Tang Qiuli depressed.

    (To be continued)
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