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Chapter 187: The Destruction of the North China Expeditionary Force 3

"Mom! Will those Japanese let us go?" A boy, only seven or eight years old, followed closely behind his parents and grandfather.

The mother's palms were sweaty as she held his hands, and the little boy was also nervous.

"Don't talk! Follow your grandpa closely! He will find a way to get out!" The young woman, who looked to be in her twenties, whispered to her son.

At this moment, the South Gate of Tianjin was already crowded with people. Countless people with their families flocked here, hoping to leave the city to avoid the battle that was about to break out.

These days, there have been planes with the blue sky and white sun emblem printed on them flying back and forth over the city.

They dropped a few bombs from time to time, destroying some Japanese military camps and warehouses.

Every explosion would cause panic and chaos among the crowd. People would flee in all directions, with screams and cries heard one after another.

The little boy clung to his mother's clothes tightly, his eyes full of fear and helplessness. He didn't understand why this happened and why they couldn't live peacefully as usual.

His mother comforted him: "Don't be afraid, child, just follow Grandpa, we will definitely find a safe place."

She said with a trembling voice, but her heart was just as filled with worry.

My father said nothing, holding the bag tightly in his hands, his eyes looking around ready to deal with possible dangers.

He knew that they must have the courage and determination to protect their families in the face of an unknown enemy.

In this chaotic situation, everyone carries with them uncertainty about the future and cherishes life. They hope to escape from this war and find a peaceful land.

However, they did not know what fate awaited them, and no one knew their fate!

At the beginning, the Japanese would send fighter planes to intercept, but as time went on, under the watchful eyes of the entire city, those Japanese fighter planes that took off to intercept were shot down one by one.

The people in the city who saw the air battle were all very happy and excited, but they didn't dare to show it. However, the expressions on their faces could not lie.

Later, the Japanese felt that since the air force could not defeat them, they simply stopped sending fighter jets to intercept them, and instead used ground-based anti-aircraft guns to keep firing to drive away these annoying flies.

Many flyers are dropped in various cities every day, and the content of the latest flyer this morning was simply shocking.

Our 78th Army Group had a head-on confrontation with the main force of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army on the northern front in the north of Changping yesterday morning and won the final victory!

In this battle, more than 23 Japanese troops were annihilated, more than 500 enemy tanks and armored vehicles, more than 1700 trucks, more than artillery pieces were destroyed, and a large number of weapons, equipment and supplies were seized.

At the same time, our army successfully recovered lost territory and killed senior Japanese generals including Lieutenant General Watanabe Isamu, which greatly hit the enemy's morale!

The victory of this battle marked a significant improvement in our army's strategic situation in North China, and also injected strong impetus into the people of the whole country to fight against the Japanese invaders.

We firmly believe that as long as all the military and civilians unite as one and jointly resist foreign invasion, we will be able to achieve final victory!

The Japanese would naturally try their best to collect such leaflets, but the leaflets flying all over the sky could not restrict the Chinese fighter planes, and such restriction had no effect at all.

In the end, the Japanese troops in Tianjin simply gave up and decided that as long as they didn't carry out the propaganda in front of them, the Japanese would pretend not to see it.

Except for a small number of the more than 300,000 Japanese troops who escaped into the city of Peking, the rest all became the victims of the Chinese army.

Now the tank troops of the 78th Army are chasing down the remaining defeated Japanese soldiers. I believe that in the next few days, there will be earth-shaking changes on the Chinese battlefield.

After more than ten years of hard fighting, the Chinese people finally ushered in the dawn of victory.

"Everyone go back! It's restricted time now, no one is allowed to leave the city!"

An interpreter with a middle-parted hairstyle and a box gun hanging diagonally kept shouting at the people who were trying to leave the city.

Behind him stood a team of Japanese military police, holding Type 38 rifles. The bayonets on the guns flashed coldly under the sunlight, making the people feel increasingly chilled.

However, unlike usual times, this time the Japanese devils did not directly stab the civilians to death with bayonets, but instead stared at them viciously with ferocious looks on their faces.

Some people with a little more insight began to think about it, and considering the content of the leaflets dropped from the air in recent days, it seemed that they could guess that the Japanese army had suffered a major defeat.

This speculation is not groundless, because if not, why would these Japanese devils who are usually extremely brutal suddenly become so restrained?

In their hearts, they may be filled with fear of the national army not far away, and worry that another wanton massacre of Chinese people will provoke their revenge.

This thought lingered in the minds of some people, making them feel a glimmer of hope and expectation.

At this moment, the crowd gathered in the surrounding streets near the city gate, forming a crowded scene.

However, the Japanese military police did not seem to care, as long as people did not try to attack the city gate, they would not take any action. This strange tacit understanding made the whole scene seem a little weird.

At the same time, Japanese soldiers from outside the city continued to drive in. Some of the Japanese soldiers were carrying large and small packages, obviously carrying their own belongings.

There were also some Japanese soldiers who looked very miserable, with bandages wrapped around their bodies. Surprisingly, although these soldiers were injured, it did not have much impact on their movements.

What is even more striking is that many people noticed an abnormal phenomenon: among the large number of Japanese troops, there were almost no seriously wounded soldiers.

Even in the trucks carrying doctors and nurses, there were no seriously injured people.

This discovery aroused the vigilance of intelligence personnel from various forces mixed in the crowd, and they immediately realized that the Japanese might have abandoned the seriously wounded.

When would an army choose to abandon seriously injured soldiers? The answer is obvious: it would only do so when faced with desperate situations, lack of resources, or unable to bear the burden of treating seriously injured soldiers.

This means that the Japanese situation may be more difficult than imagined.

These sharp intelligence personnel immediately captured this important information and quickly sent it out via telegram.

This astonishing discovery may change all parties' assessment of the Japanese army's strength and situation, triggering a series of chain reactions, and all this happened in this seemingly peaceful city.

Qian Wei had half of his body out of the tank, and through the telescope he could already vaguely see the outline of Tianjin's city wall.

The Japanese troops in the entire Pingjin area all retreated to major strongholds and cities, which defeated the reinforcements that had originally planned to intercept the Japanese troops in the field in one fell swoop.

Now news of the great defeat on the northern front has come, and the main force of the North China Expeditionary Army has been almost completely lost. These Japanese troops have become the last mobile forces of the Japanese army.

It was impossible for General Okamura to continue to let them stay outside. He had to gather them all to defend the main cities and try to continue to resist.