Guo Bingxun walked to the front of the map, used the red and blue pencil in his hand to draw a large circle in the direction of Siping, put a key mark on the location of Siping and continued: "Our army has now used its troops to the extreme, and the supply of oil and materials
It was difficult. The Japanese army, which had reached farther, was equally difficult to support in terms of troop investment."
"The Japanese army also has to face the frontal battlefields in Guanhai, as well as the battlefields behind enemy lines in Shandong and Central China, as well as the vast battlefields in Southeast Asia from the Philippines to Burma in the west, and to New Guinea in the east. I am afraid it will be more difficult than us. At present, they are investing in the North China battlefield.
These divisions are already at the limit of their reinforcement capacity."
"Except for the new divisions that are still being reorganized, there are no reorganized divisions in its homeland. Even the Guards Division, which is under pressure, has been transferred to the French Indochina battlefield to be used as an occupying force. From now on, the Japanese army
Judging from the entire force situation, it is impossible for the Southern Army to deploy any troops before it has been able to deal with the British Army in India and the Australian Army in the South Pacific."
"Oil, aluminum ore from the Dutch East Indies, rubber and rice from Southeast Asian countries are all urgently needed by Japan to maintain the war. Since they have swallowed them, they cannot spit them out. If they want to continue to reinforce North China, the only way
The only way is to draw from the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army."
"So not only can we not reduce the continuous attack on Siping, we even have to invest the last division to firmly attract the main forces of the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army to the Northeast battlefield, making it impossible to transfer to any other battlefield. At the same time,
Speed up the bloodletting process of the Japanese troops as much as possible and slow down their recovery."
"The entire war situation now, both for us and the Japanese army, has reached a point where the competition is about who can hold on for the last five minutes. As long as we can grit our teeth and hold on for the last five minutes, the victory of this battle will be firm
It’s in our hands.”
"Not only does the northern Shanxi battlefield require support from the Northeastern campaign, but the advancing army that is besieging Zhangjiakou also needs our Northeastern campaign support. Without taking Zhangjiakou, the northern Shanxi and Chanan battlefields will always be divided into two sections. And Zhangjiakou is in
After the war, it is very likely that it will become a knife stuck in our chest."
"So whether looking at the current war situation or the pattern of North China after the war, Zhangjiakou must be captured. The Japanese troops facing the advancing army now are the remnants of the 27th Division and the newly reinforced 48th Division. Although the pressure is not very great
, but the follow-up pressure is likely to be great."
"As long as our army's offensive posture in the Northeast continues, the North China Front Army will not dare to mobilize the Japanese troops from Pingjin and Tianjin to join the Cha'nan battlefield. Because although our army's main offensive is concentrated on the Siping front line, our posture in the Northeast battlefield is not isolated.
.In order to reduce the pressure on our northeastern battlefield, our troops in Jehol can also go south to fight at any time."
"The Rehe battlefield seems to be too far away from several other battlefields, but it is at the center of the entire battle. If our army cannot make progress in the Northeast battlefield, in order to reduce the pressure on our front, we will deploy troops from Rehe.
Going south of Hebei, cutting off the Beining Railway and even entering Jidong, the pressure on the Japanese troops on the Beiping-Tianjin line will be quite great."
"Battlefield command in war is a combination of frontal attack and flanking detours. When the frontal attack is thwarted, it is also a normal command mode to use the frontal enemy to be contained, to re-select a breakthrough point on both wings, and to implement a breakthrough. Especially this is a normal command pattern.
It is because our army has been good at using flanking tactics to break through in previous battles."
"Our troops on several battlefields seem to be scattered, but in fact, whether it is Chanan, northern Shanxi, or the Rehe and Northeast battlefields, it is actually an overall battle situation. On these battlefields, both our troops and the various departments of the Japanese army are all
We are restraining each other and supporting each other. Our army maintains an offensive in the Northeast battlefield, which plays a role not only in reducing the pressure on other fronts."
"Similarly, the mobilization of Japanese troops also cooperates with other battlefields. Since our army re-emerged until now, the use of troops has always been a combination of odd and positive forces. When fighting the Kwantung Army, the focus of the attack often appears where the enemy thinks it is safest.
This is a place where Neji Okamura must be very aware of this habit of our army."
"It is precisely because of this characteristic that our army has shown in previous battles that when it restrains the strength of the Japanese army, it often puts greater psychological pressure on the enemy. Because they never know our army's next offensive.
Where will the focus appear? Especially when repeated attacks on the Siping battlefield fail to succeed, will our army change the focus of the attack?"
"If our army wants to break through from the flanks when faced with a frontal setback, then Rehe is now the best choice point. Although the Japanese army relies on the Nuruerhu Mountain natural barrier to confront our army, our army only needs to break through western Liaoning
On the front line, the frontline can reach the hinterland of Nanman. If you go south to Gubeikou, you can directly reach the Pingjin line, completely cutting off the Pingsui Railway. Exiting the Xifengkou line, you can sweep across the entire eastern Hebei, directly threatening the most important Japanese army in North China.
The port of Tianjin.”
"The Rehe battlefield seems to be the calmest now, but it is very close to the most important communication line of the Japanese army in the entire Chinese battlefield. Likewise, the distance between Pingjin and Tianjin, the two largest cities in North China, is not too far. In
Under this situation, the Japanese army simply did not dare to take this aspect lightly."
"He must not only be wary of our army's direct penetration of the Beining Railway at any time, cutting off the lifeline between the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army. He must also be wary of our army strategically re-selecting a breakthrough point after its setback in the Northeast battlefield to attract the Japanese army in front of us.
Divide your forces and march westward."
"But once I switch to defense in the Northeastern battlefield, there will no longer be a threat to Jidong and Pingjin, and the Japanese army can deploy troops stationed in the Pingjin area to invest in the Chanan battlefield. In this way, the follow-up pressure that the advancing army will bear will be great.
The Chanan battlefield will also be stalled indefinitely."
"No. 1, I think that no matter from the perspective of the entire strategic pattern, from the perspective of psychologically crushing the Japanese army, and from the perspective of the response to other fronts, our army cannot stop its offensive in the Northeast no matter what. At least for Siping
The front-line offensive must not stop now."
"Moreover, on the Jehol battlefield, we must mobilize a certain amount of troops. We must coordinate with the Siping battlefield and prepare to attack from the flanks. This bluff must not only be done, but must be done enough to make the Japanese army believe in me.
The army's sustained combat capabilities are still there, and even if the Northeast offensive is frustrated, it still has the ability to launch a new wave of offensives in the Jehol area to break the current deadlock on the Northeast battlefield."
"The current situation of the entire battlefield is that of the northern Shanxi battlefield. As long as these two divisions are defeated before the new Japanese reinforcements are dispatched, the northern Shanxi battlefield will have no worries. Even if the Japanese 15th Division is dispatched immediately, as long as it is within a short time
If we cannot break through the blocking line deployed by Chen Hanzhang in Nao County within the time limit, we will be unable to change the situation of the war."
"The most important thing is that I think based on Okamura Neji's performance since the war started, he shouldn't be the kind of Japanese soldier who generally has a dull personality. Many times he is blindly reckless and does whatever it takes for the honor he serves.
General. This person's ability to grasp the entire battle situation and his calmness at critical moments are quite good."
"Judging from the current situation on the battlefield in Shanxi, this guy is still very good at marching and forming. If we hadn't taken the lead and airlifted the 10th Division from the northeast to the battlefield in northern Shanxi, and blocked the gap first. Just
With its deployment during the entire counterattack, we are likely to suffer a defeat in the Shanxi battlefield."
"It is from this point that we can judge that if Chen Hanzhang defeated the 21st and 32nd divisions first, he would have completely gained the upper hand strategically. Judging from the fact that this person has never been reckless, he will not
We will put new divisions into the battlefield in northern Shanxi."
"And the Japanese army on the battlefield in northeastern Shanxi was left alone after losing the support of these two divisions. There were only two choices before Okamura Neji, either to treat this Japanese army as a piece of fat and put it on the battlefield.
Our army is on the verge of giving up the current control area in northeastern Shanxi and conducting a general retreat."
"Even after the two frontal divisions were defeated, Okamura Neiji wanted to stand firm and stubbornly placed the Japanese army in northeastern Shanxi. But after Zhangjiakou was lost, facing our army's flanking attack from both sides, on the battlefield in northeastern Shanxi
I’m afraid it’s untenable unless he really doesn’t want these division-level and two brigade-level detachments.”
"The top priority now is not to stop all offensives in the Northeast, but to urge Chen Hanzhang to complete the battle plan as soon as possible and completely defeat the two Japanese divisions in front. Find a way to urge the advancing army to speed up the fight for Zhangjiakou. As long as we win
In Zhangjiakou, even if the Japanese army in northern Shanxi invests more troops, they will not be able to recover their losses."
"But what I'm most worried about now is that if we defeat the two Japanese divisions in front of us first, we won't be able to mobilize the 15th Division to join the battle. When our army enters the defensive rest period, will Okamura Neiji, who has no choice but to do anything to our army, get angry?
Spread in other directions, especially the two military regions of Taihang and Jinsui."
Guo Bingxun's persuasion struck a chord in Yang Zhen's heart. In fact, Guo Bingxun's thoughts were exactly what Yang Zhen thought. But as the chief military officer, he had to consider the huge supply pressure that the logistics department was currently under, as well as the troops.
The number of casualties is increasing every day.
In particular, the current strength of the army has been used to the extreme, and the continuous combat troops are exhausted. The casualties cannot be replaced, and the lost equipment cannot be replaced. The frontline troops are generally seriously understaffed, and their combat effectiveness has declined sharply. Many lightly wounded people,
After recovering from his injuries, he went to the battlefield for the second time in a short period of time.
But this cannot effectively make up for the lack of sufficient replacement troops, and there are no troops to replace the troops who have been fighting hard on the front line for nearly two months. The newly mobilized recruits from the new district, as well as from the Fushun Coal Mine, Benxi and Liaoyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in southern Manchuria
The laborers snatched from the mines still need a lot of time to be trained.
If it cannot be transferred to defense in time, once the Japanese army ignores other threats and mobilizes troops to counterattack in the Northeast battlefield. After a long battle, the huge casualties caused serious shortages, and the troops generally showed a state of fatigue, the front-line troops
There is even the risk of being eaten back by the Japanese army.
Many times there are things that I know I have to stick to, but due to the restrictions of many factors, my heart often wavers. Even though Yang Zhen is now as strong as iron, under the current situation, his heart is still shaken.
Some hesitation is not surprising.
Coupled with the slow replenishment of supplies, military production capacity has also reached its limit. A series of things have put Yang Zhen under tremendous pressure. It is said that if you survive this final teething stage, the final victory lies ahead. But this stage is
The most difficult thing, especially for the coach of a large army, is that the pressure is usually unimaginable.