The Japanese base camp, which was troubled by the quarrel between the Chinese Expeditionary Forces and the Kwantung Army, simply came to deal with these two major strategic groups. In August 1943, two troops were allocated to the Kwantung Army.
Hundreds of imitation German 50mm anti-tank guns, and eighty Type 88 anti-aircraft guns.
However, one of the tank regiments originally allocated to the Kwantung Army was transferred to the North China Front Army. At the same time, four additional tank regiments were added to the North China Front Army, and two tank brigades were added. And in
After accepting these five tank regiments, the original four tank regiments were added.
The North China Front has a total of nine tank regiments, and there are also two tank brigades with six independent tank squadrons each, with a total of 144 tanks. It has a total of various tanks and armored vehicles under its jurisdiction, totaling 1,000
More than 100 tanks. The number of tanks equipped with them accounted for nearly one-fifth of the total number of Japanese tanks.
Among them, the nearly 400 tanks in five regiments are all Type 1 tanks equipped with the latest 50mm tank guns, and most of the rest are 1997 modified and light tanks equipped with 47mm tank guns.
Except for some of the Type 95 tanks used for reconnaissance, all have been eliminated.
This latest modified Type 1 tank of the Japanese army is not only equipped with the most powerful tank gun in the Japanese army, but also has a greatly increased armor thickness. Its firepower and protection capabilities exceed the Japanese Type 97 and Type 97 modifications.
The overall performance of the two tanks also exceeds that of the American Type M III tank, and is almost the same as the later improved Type III tank.
The Japanese army greatly increased the number of tanks and equipped the North China Front with new anti-tank guns, which caused considerable losses to the Anti-Japanese Alliance's tank breakthrough in the Jizhong Plain. Many Anti-Union tanks were lost here.
Under the firepower of the latest Japanese tank.
The 50mm tank gun equipped on this tank is a Japanese imitation of the long-barreled 50mm tank gun of the late Panzer III tank equipped by the Anti-Japanese War. This tank gun was used by the Japanese army to exploit the secret submarine communication line between Japan and Germany.
, copied from a tank gun imported from Germany, it is also one of the best performing and most powerful tanks in active service in the Japanese army.
While mobilizing a large number of tanks for the North China Front, the Japanese base camp also allocated two heavy artillery regiments to the North China Front, plus four independent field heavy artillery brigades. These heavy artillery were originally intended to be used as follow-up troops to reinforce the Australian battlefield.
However, due to the blockade of the U.S. and British naval and air forces, it was no longer possible to evacuate the equipment. The base camp simply followed the trend and handed over these heavy artillery pieces to the North China Front Army. In terms of the production and deployment of heavy equipment, throughout the second half of 1943
, and also fully tilted toward the Chinese battlefield.
Compared with the Japanese base camp, which was busy allocating troops and equipment to the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army, and the Eleventh Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, which was unwilling to take over the entire Dongting Lake Plain in order to seize the most fertile land in China.
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As the supreme commander of the entire North China battlefield, Okamura Neiji, who wanted to avoid the humiliation of the defeat in 1942, could be said to have made more comprehensive preparations and much earlier. In order to prepare for the surprise attack of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, find and destroy the Anti-Japanese War.
The main storage area for the anti-Japanese forces going south was to store supplies, and try to cut off the southward route of the anti-alliance forces as much as possible.
Most of the mountainous areas in the entire North China battlefield were controlled by the 18th Army. Since March 1943, after the North China Front had completely recovered its strength, Okamura Neiji had assembled heavy troops more than once. In aviation and some departments
With the cooperation of the armored forces, multiple large-scale raids were carried out in the Pingxi and Beiyue areas of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
In addition to grabbing food, the raids he organized were aimed at weakening the combat capabilities of the troops in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region through constant raids. They also tried to find traces of clues through raids to prove that his judgment was correct. The most fundamental thing was to strive for continuous raids.
A large-scale sweep was carried out in order to defeat the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region so that when facing the counter-alliance, they could concentrate on dealing with a single front.
It's just that the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, which are now different from what they used to be, did not allow his mopping up troops to reap any good results. Although the Japanese army assembled heavy troops, the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region used mobile ambush and concentrated their troops and firepower to attack all the way.
This tactic killed several Japanese infantry brigades.
Faced with considerable losses in the second half of 1943, Okamura Neiji could only stop this approach that was not worth the gain. Instead, he sent a large number of small reconnaissance troops, as well as plainclothes and spy armed forces, especially traitors, into the base area to collect information.
Intelligence. Trying to find any clues to prove that one's judgment is correct.
Compared with the previous continuous dispatch of troops to carry out raids, the traitors and spies sent by Okamura Neji, as well as the small infiltration troops, brought greater trouble to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Especially those wearing the uniforms of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Army
, a Japanese task force using a full set of captured squadron standard equipment caused some chaos within the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
If we look at the original extremely poor equipment standards of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops, they are all equipped with Belgian-made rifles and Czech-made light machine guns. Their military uniforms are also quite neat, and their bullet belts are also full of Japanese task forces.
, it’s still relatively easy to find.
How can Tuba Road, where the poor are so poor, have such good equipment and neat military uniforms? The troops can only be given a dozen rounds of ammunition before the battle, let alone the bullet belts are so full. With this kind of equipment and equipment, then
There is no doubt that they are Japanese troops. However, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops, which have now replaced their guns with cannons, find it difficult to identify these cunning Japanese task forces.
At the beginning, the Japanese army also made a mistake. It turned out that the military uniforms of these Japanese soldiers were still based on the military uniforms of the old Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei army. They were all summer khaki military uniforms. But they did not expect that the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in 1943 would
All were dressed in grass-green khaki military uniforms provided by Northeast China. The Japanese task force was immediately exposed as soon as they entered the base area.
Later, the Japanese army responded very quickly and immediately put the task force into imitation grass green military uniforms. Although they used cotton cloth, who could quickly distinguish the fabric of the military uniforms in a short period of time given the same color?
Therefore, the infiltration and reconnaissance operations of these task forces have brought certain threats to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
There was even a group of Japanese soldiers who were discovered near the headquarters of the Hebei-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. The reason for this discovery was because the Japanese soldiers did not wear the American MK steel helmets that had become the standard equipment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, so they were discovered.
If it were any slower, the Hebei-Jinxi Military Region Headquarters might be in danger.
According to the regulations of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters, all troops must wear steel helmets when wearing weapons. This is to train the troops to wear helmets in wartime to reduce troop casualties. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters specially formulated
regulations. This Japanese army did not have such helmets and also carried a full set of weapons. After the security troops noticed something was wrong, they leaked the truth under cross-examination.
Without this provision, this Japanese task force of about 60 people might not have been able to directly attack the Hebei-Jinjun Military Region Headquarters, which had only one guard platoon around it at the time. Although this incident did not cause anything too serious,
The bad influence was discovered only after being touched by the Japanese army, which undoubtedly gave a warning to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops.
In order to deal with these traitors, spies, and a small group of Japanese infiltration reconnaissance troops in full 18th Army uniforms, the Anti-Japanese Alliance urgently airlifted four reconnaissance squadrons to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. They specifically cooperated with the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to deal with these Japanese task forces.
.The anti-alliance special operations forces that entered the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region managed to stop the Japanese task force’s madness with a few ruthless blows.
However, although the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region responded quickly, the spies and traitors sent by the Japanese army into the base area still caused certain troubles to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region's war preparations. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is located west of Huailai, in the Huangchang Mountains
A secret warehouse in the city was discovered by traitors and led by Japanese aircraft to blow it up.
During this bombing, all the secret warehouses were blown up, with a total loss of more than 20,000 kilograms of food, military uniforms and other materials. Although the number of these traitors and spies is not large, they are larger than the small Japanese reconnaissance troops and plainclothes armed forces.
Much more difficult to deal with. In order to eliminate the activities of these Japanese and puppet spies before the campaign was launched, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region spent a lot of effort.
After repeated raids by the special reconnaissance forces mobilized by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and a large number of plainclothes teams specially organized by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, as well as some targeted retaliation, more than 20 Japanese plainclothes armed forces and a small group of reconnaissance troops were eliminated.
This reduced the activity efficiency of the Japanese plainclothes armed forces.
However, the spies and traitors that the Japanese army infiltrated into the base area could not be completely eliminated until the battle started. It was just the development of the situation that it was no longer possible to wait until these traitors and spies were eliminated. According to the battle plan, the anti-alliance troops were on April 3rd.
In early October of that year, they began to secretly enter North China.
In order to cover the entry of the anti-alliance troops, starting from the end of September and the beginning of October, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, under the command of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, carried out attacks on some Japanese strongholds on the periphery of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, mainly in the Pingxi and Heping North Districts.
A large-scale point-taking operation was launched.
The tactics of mobilizing the masses for large-scale siege warfare and encirclement for reinforcements were adopted to squeeze away the Japanese strongholds in the Miyun and Changping mountainous areas, and captured Laiyuan County. The passage out of the mountains was opened, ensuring that the anti-alliance armored groups were able to attack.
position. At the same time, we started to mobilize the masses to strengthen bridges in Pingbei and Pingxi District and widen mountain roads.
While the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region continued to adopt tactics to clear out the Japanese and puppet strongholds in the base area, the Anti-Japanese Alliance adopted a method of combining vehicle transportation and foot marching, and various troops scheduled to enter the pass began to enter Jehol on a large scale.
As well as Cha'nan District. In order to conceal their strategic intentions, the anti-alliance forces on the Northeast battlefield also adopted large-scale feints.
Through various efforts, although they could not completely hide from the Japanese intelligence system, they also confused the Japanese army's analysis and judgment of the battle situation to a certain extent. Both the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army had lost control of the situation by late October 1943.
Shouting wolf to the Japanese base camp.
In response to the cries of the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army, the Japanese base camp urgently dispatched an education director to fly to Peiping and convene a joint operational meeting between the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army to finally determine where the Chinese would focus their attack. But this operational meeting, because
The differences between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army were too great and no consensus was reached.
The North China Front Army believes that since the Northeastern Communist Army failed to complete its combat mission last year, it will inevitably give up its attack on South Manchuria this year and enter the border on a large scale to relieve the North China Communist Army's predicament. Therefore, the most important thing for the base camp at the moment is to reinforce the North China Front Army.
, to ensure the stability of North China.
However, the Kwantung Army insists that judging from the current overall situation, the communist army in the Northeast is bound to move south in large numbers in an attempt to completely seize Southern Manchuria. In order to cut off the direct connection between the mainland and the mainland of China, it will also weaken the empire's military production capacity.
Once Southern Manchuria is lost, it will cause fatal damage to the empire's overall strategy.