Rebirth of the National Marshal

Mao Yuanshan never imagined that he would actually have the approval of the Japanese Emperor. You know, the Japanese Emperor would not give orders to his subordinates casually. Everything would be expressed according to the Japanese Emperor's unique ventriloquism. As the saying goes, he would pretend to be cool. If he had something to say, he would not say it directly, but recite a poem or something to express his meaning.

According to normal procedures, if the emperor had an order, it would first be given to the cabinet, then to the Japanese military, and the military would then give it to the garrison troops in North China.

Now the order to destroy the security corps was given directly to the commander of the North China Expeditionary Army, Umezu Michiro.

"Unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable. Order the 4th Division to attack Tianjin Railway Station with all its might." Now the Tianjin defense line is still in the hands of the 29th Army. No matter how powerful the North China Expeditionary Force is, it has no way to fly to the capital, so it can only launch an attack on a part of the security corps, that is, the independent battalion stationed in Tianjin.

When the battle in the capital was about to come to an end, Mao Yuanshan had already sent a warning to Tianjin, telling them that the Japanese might launch a large-scale attack.

The independent battalion in Tianjin can be said to have been doing pretty well these past few days. Although they were in the middle of the entire defense line, no one came to provoke them because all the troops that attacked them had failed.

Following the sound of a shell exploding, cheers rang out from the independent battalion's position.

"Battalion Commander, this 100mm mortar is really powerful. It has such a long range and such great power. The Japanese artillery positions have been giving us a hard time these past few days." Guo Liang, the company commander of the independent battalion's artillery company, said loudly.

Originally, Guo Liang was the chief artillery commander of the entire security regiment, but after Sun Desheng came, that guy's ability was one level higher than Guo Liang's, so Guo Liang could only become the company commander of the artillery company of the independent battalion.

During a recent supply operation, the Quartermaster Corps brought over 100mm mortars and several basic quantities of artillery shells.

In China, 70mm artillery is called heavy artillery. They had only heard of this 100mm artillery before but had never seen it. This time they fired one directly and felt very satisfied.

In fact, the 100mm artillery of this era was not that scary. It was only slightly more powerful than the Type infantry gun.

This 100mm mortar is from 1989.

"Captain Guo, we have only five mortars. Don't take them out yet. They have already said that they will send us 10 more. Then we can collectively give the Japanese a surprise." The number is too small now and can't cause any harm to the Japanese. When the time comes, when all 15 artillery pieces are gathered, it will be enough to give the Japanese a good beating.

"Battalion Commander, the Japanese seem to have occupied the bank over there. A company of the 29th Army was guarding the building over there, but now it seems that they are all dead." The report sent back from the forward observation post made Xie Tianhua feel a little depressed. The Japanese devils failed to take down the train station after attacking it for a long time, so they directly attacked all the strongholds around the train station.

"Battalion Commander, the Japanese have killed all our friendly forces around us. Now we seem to be isolated. Except for this passage behind us that can deliver supplies to us, we have no more people in other directions." Originally, the independent battalion was positioned a little further back, but now their position has moved forward one step.

"This is as obvious as lice on a bald head. Our commander killed 8000 people from their two regiments in the capital. Now they want to attack us, but we men are not soft persimmons. If he wants to eat us, we have to see if he has the ability to do so." The company commander of the independent battalion said with a stern face.

After several days of fighting, the officers and soldiers of the independent battalion also realized that the Japanese were not that powerful. As long as we remain calm and rely on the well-built fortifications and the weapons in our hands, it will be no problem to defeat them.

In addition, the commander over there won such a great victory, and morale can be said to be at an unprecedented high.

Although the aid from the capital had arrived, Xie Tianhua also discovered a very serious problem, that is, the troops attacking them changed from ordinary garrison troops to the Japanese 4th Division.

The Japanese Army's 4th Division can be said to have made great military achievements. It has existed for a long time from the Meiji era to the present, and the quality of its soldiers is definitely not comparable to that of third-rate garrison forces.

The three shells fired from the grenade launcher just now hit two light machine guns in succession.

Although the mortars here quickly killed them, this kind of war of attrition is definitely not what we want to fight, because the enemy has more people and we have fewer people.

Xie Tianhua felt strange, and the Fourth Division felt even stranger.

Since entering China, the 4th Division has not encountered any decent resistance. A regiment of the 29th Army was wiped out by them in just 15 minutes.

They had just started attacking the train station, but the situation was different from what they had expected. Shouldn't the Chinese army have fled at the sight of the enemy? Why was the resistance so fierce? Only a few of the three squadrons that had been thrown in had returned.

The 121st Regiment of the 122th Division was responsible for the main attack, and the nd Regiment was responsible for the support. The order issued by the division commander was that this independent battalion must be wiped out, if for no other reason, because they were the capital's security corps, and this was an order from His Majesty the Emperor.

The other troops of the 29th Army had fought back hard, but the gap between their weapons and training was too big for the Japanese devils. They wanted to kill the enemy but were powerless to turn the tide. Although they wanted to help the people in the independent battalion, they still failed to recapture the position after suffering huge casualties.

Xie Tianhua has sent a telegram to the 29th Army, asking them not to suffer unnecessary casualties.

After Mao Yuanshan's reinforcement in the past few days, the independent battalion has reached 5000 troops. We lost about 1000 people in the past few days, but we quickly replenished them because the central government gave us 3000 additional soldiers.

The central government is still very good to the troops on the front line. The military pay of the 29th Army will not be delayed even a minute and will be delivered as soon as it is allocated.

The war continued for a day, and more than half of the 29 troops of the 10th Army had suffered casualties.

The independent battalion also suffered 1000 casualties under the fierce attack of the th Division.

The Japanese Army's 4th Division had already made a desperate gesture, and they engaged in a war of attrition with the independent battalion.

Xie Tianhua’s combat mission is now very heavy. He must ensure that the front line of defense is not lost, and at the same time ensure that the transportation channel at the rear is unobstructed. Xie Tianhua believes that the transportation channel at the rear is more important than the front one. If the transportation channel is lost, they will not be able to obtain ammunition and food supplies, and the entire army may not be able to hold out for two days.

The repairs in the capital have also been completed. After a great battle, the soldiers of the security corps need to rest for a day before setting out on the road to support Tianjin.

A division of the Central Army stayed behind to continue defending the capital, and a battalion of the Security Corps stayed behind to assist in defending the capital. Together with more than 29 people from the 1th Army, the defense of the capital was sufficient.

The security corps assembled 28,000 people to support Tianjin.

"I would rather die than be a slave to a conquered nation."

"As long as Tianjin is not lost, Beijing will not be lost, and North China will not be lost."

"The Chinese nation is on the brink of extinction."

All major domestic media were reporting similar content. Mao Yuanshan took a look at the newspaper and threw it aside.

The domestic media naturally reported this great victory around the capital city vigorously, but Mao Yuanshan also realized that at best, more than 8000 Japanese devils were annihilated, and more than 1000 were still trapped on the hillside.

Although the conspiracy of the Japanese army to assemble was crushed, it did not have a big impact on the overall situation, mainly because the number of Japanese in Tianjin area had reached 8.

The Central Military and Political Department has already dispatched six divisions of troops to fight, and the number of Chinese troops in the Tianjin area has reached 17.

If war was just a matter of numbers, there wouldn't be so many wins and losses. We could just pull people out. Unfortunately, war is about many things. Although the security team's weapons and equipment are relatively advanced, training problems still emerge.

Although Mao Yuanshan had thought of many ways to let the soldiers feel the atmosphere of the battlefield first during training, when the real war began, the new recruits would inevitably be afraid. Under this fear, many mistakes would occur. A small mistake made by a soldier is nothing, but when all these mistakes are gathered together, it is not a small matter.

Tianjin Railway Station is divided into two buildings, north and south. In the battle this morning, the north building was still in the hands of the security team, but the south building had been lost.

The war was extremely fierce. The Japanese devils didn't care about their own casualties at all. It cost them 1200 lives to capture the entire South Building.

The security team suffered slightly less losses as the holding side, but 600 of them also closed their eyes forever.

Fortunately, at this time Mao Yuanshan arrived by car with 3000 reinforcements.

"Commander, the Japanese have been like crazy these past two days, attacking us recklessly." Xie Tianhua recounted yesterday's battle. The Japanese navy dispatched more than 20 planes to bombard the independent battalion's positions, mainly the South Tower, which was why the South Tower was lost.

"Our anti-aircraft firepower needs to be strengthened." Now the security regiment has no anti-aircraft guns, and can only set up 12.7mm large-caliber heavy machine guns to use as anti-aircraft machine guns.

This time we brought more than 100 anti-aircraft machine guns. I believe that when the Japanese planes come again, they will not get any advantage from the hands of the security team.

"It doesn't matter, it's lost. We have held on for a long time. Even if we die in battle now, we will have done our best for the country." Mao Yuanshan did not scold the leader here like other military commanders, because he knew that it was already very good to be able to fight to this extent.

Since the South Tower had been lost, which used to be their barrier, was of no use now that it was occupied by the Japanese devils. Mao Yuanshan ordered the artillery to line up 30 100mm mortars in a row to directly blow up the South Tower.

The 100mm mortar has a maximum rate of fire of 18 rounds per minute.

In just three minutes, a four-story building disappeared in Tianjin City.