The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

The military remonstration was not smooth, and the warlords in the south were all focused on the invading Japanese invaders on the southeast coast.

The so-called joint anti-Japanese war was proposed by Xiao Zhang. It is necessary to connect all the military forces of China together, support each other, reinforce each other, and jointly drive the Japanese out of China.

But no one wanted to listen to him.

After all, in their opinion, this land has not been united for many years... Everyone is in charge of their own territory, and even if Xiao Zhang wants to command outside the Great Wall, it is not very smooth;

Do you want these local tyrants to stand up and work together to fight the Japanese?
Right now, no one is willing to do this before they have learned enough lessons - and this person is even less willing.

What is he thinking about?
There are forces of other powers in Shanghai and even in most parts of the south, especially in the International Concession - can the foreigners just watch the Japanese fighting each other like this?

To put it bluntly, he still planned to use the foreigners to force the Japanese to return to the negotiating table; while he would continue to fight the civil war and deal with those who were disobedient and the threats he perceived.

So, they invited him to Huaqing Pool, and the bloody military remonstrance broke out:
Bai Fengxiang's cavalry bayonets broke through the morning mist, and Sun Mingjiu led the second battalion of the guards to break into the second gate of Huaqing Pool.

Soldiers of the Northeast Army charged forward on the blue bricks of the Tang Dynasty bathhouse ruins and engaged in close combat with the gendarmerie from the south.

When Lieutenant Colonel Secretary Xiao Naihua raised his gun to fight back, he was pierced through the chest by three 7.92mm bullets, and blood seeped into the cracks of the "Haitangtang" imperial concubine bath.

In a panic, his bodyguard Jiang Xiaozhen carried Jiang, who was only wearing a nightgown, over the east wall, but he didn't know there was a 20-foot-deep ditch outside the wall. Jiang felt a sharp pain in his lumbar spine when he fell to the ground, and his bare feet broke the thin ice of Mount Li, leaving a winding blood trail in the minus ten degree cold wind.

Even though he was wearing a gray blanket and ran barefoot along the mountain road to the mountain pavilion, and even hid in the crevices of tiger-striped rocks, he was still caught by the Northeast Army soldiers who caught up with him.

After being brought down the mountain, Zhang and Yang sent a telegram to the whole country: Unite to resist Japan!
But just as the whole country was connected, something really happened in the Northeast...

As if something had come true, the Japanese Combined Fleet bypassed the Yellow Sea from the outer edge of Jeju Island and headed straight for Yingkou!

At this time, the Northeast Navy, led by Zhang Tingshu, was patrolling in the Japanese waters... Because after their submarine was sunk in the Tumen River, even Jiang Cheng believed that the Japanese army would definitely head for Jilin or Vladivostok.

But the cunning Japanese did not play by the rules and actually chose Feng Province as the location for the sneak attack!
The Northeast Army generals who received the news were all beating their chests and stamping their feet in rage.

Because of the September 18th Incident, the defense of the entire Fengtian Province has not yet been fully restored - especially the artillery batteries in Yingkou, Huludao and other places, which were completely destroyed by the evacuating Japanese devils, and even the coastal artillery had just been assembled.

We have been debugging and rebuilding the fortifications for the past two months, and the entire sea area has been struggling to resist the Japanese.

Tianjin Port was even more unlucky. The Japanese invaded from an unexpected sea area and launched a heavy bombing at the cost of three ships running aground on the reefs...

If there was some resistance in Huludao and Yingkou, the defenders in Tianjin and Qinhuangdao were no different from the Beidaying on the night of September 18th.
When the two commanders discovered that the Japanese were coming, they packed up their wives, concubines, and valuables onto a truck and ran away with their personal soldiers.

When the Japanese bombers were bombing everywhere, the carriage of the man from Qinhuangdao was hit by a "bomb with eyes" and was sent directly to hell, and his wives and valuables were also blown into the sky - and then a "golden" and "silver" rain fell around them.

Behind them, this city and port, which had been named since the Qin Emperor's time, was attacked by a storm of metal and fire.

Japanese fighter planes swooped down like a swarm of locusts, and torpedoes and bombs followed under their wings. Armor-piercing shells penetrated the front deck of the warship in the harbor, and the moment the ammunition depot exploded, the hull broke apart like a volcanic eruption. Thousands of sailors were thrown hundreds of meters into the air by the air wave, and the burning fuel wrapped the human body fragments and fell into the hangar.

The mechanic who was repairing a fighter plane had his head cut off by the spinning propeller, and his headless body, still holding the wrench tightly, fell into a sea of ​​oil and fire.

Amid the shrill alarms and explosions, the lookouts on the battleship Dinghai witnessed a hellish spectacle: the fighter planes dived at a suicidal angle, and the torpedoes dropped from their bellies drew strange white trails in the shallow waters, piercing the left side of the Weiyuan one after another.

When the ship capsized, hundreds of people in the cabin were squeezed and rolled continuously like strips of meat in a red oil pan, and their bodies left countless bloody marks on the steel bulkhead.

The second wave of Japanese attacks followed. High-altitude bombers rained armor-piercing bullets on the Qinhuangdao outer airport, and the steel plates on the hangar ceiling flew like pieces of paper.

The pilot who tried to take off was torn to pieces by the 12.7mm machine gun of the Japanese fighter plane. Fragments of the dashboard embedded in the pupils of the tower commander, who was holding the distress message that he had not yet sent until his death.

Two hours after the attack, thick smoke obscured the narrow Liaodong Bay.

Several warships in the Qinhuangdao military port were severely damaged. The only remaining bridge tower of the Dingyuan was tilted and inserted into the seabed. The oil released before sinking was burning on the sea surface. The sailors struggling in the fire waves were boiled in boiling water and their skin fell off like gloves.

Medical soldiers dug out shrapnel from the wounded's eyeballs with their bare hands in the field hospital, and gauze soaked in blood plasma piled up into small hills... But what they didn't know was that the officers who could command in the port had either run away or died, and the troops who could support them were still on the way.

Chengde was the first to respond, but the Japanese landing had already begun:

The entire Liaodong Bay was filled with landing craft. The Japanese soldiers with white cloth wrapped around their heads and holding Type 38 rifles all had sharp eyes.

With the support of fighter jets, all possible defense points in this sea area were destroyed.

There was still unburned kerosene rolling on the bloody sea, swollen and whitened bodies were floating everywhere, and the beach was dead silent!
"Warriors of the Empire, charge!"

The leading lieutenant officer picked up his chrysanthemum saber, jumped into the waist-deep sea water, and led the soldiers to charge along the beach.

Even if they occasionally encountered some resistance, it was quickly suppressed by these brutal invaders.

"I knew it - the Japanese would definitely come. We,"

After receiving the call for help, Wang Yizhe was the first to curse, "Fortunately we didn't rush south, otherwise, wouldn't we have been robbed?"

In fact, Jiang Cheng also wanted to curse.

He knew that the defensive pressure in Yingkou and Huludao would be very great, but he really didn't expect that Qinhuangdao and Tianjin were so weak.

When he heard that it was the commander who ran away first, his eyes became a little swollen.

This guy is running away from the battlefield. I'll catch him and skin him into shrimps!
But being angry is useless. The most important thing now is to prevent the Japanese army from continuing to advance westward. (End of this chapter)