The dispatched army's reinforcements are very fast, but the dispatched army itself, which has been stretched to its extreme strength, does not have the ability to completely rescue the Hebei battlefield. Compared with the dispatched army, the attitude of the base camp is very subtle. Although it has always maintained its focus on the Chinese battlefield
Reinforcements were sent, but the speed and intensity of the reinforcements seemed too slow.
Each time, there are two divisions, two divisions of reinforcements. How can such a small number of troops be enough in the face of the ever-changing battle situation? How can such milking reinforcements meet such huge needs in the Hebei battlefield? The enemy troops are coming.
It was not just a few divisions, but also a few corps with poor equipment. It was an overwhelming group of tanks, heavy artillery, bombers, and hundreds of thousands of troops with well-equipped weapons and equipment.
In such a situation, what effect can the two infantry-based divisions that you bring in like squeezing toothpaste every time have? Isn’t this just putting meat into the tiger’s mouth? Sometimes Eitaro Uchiyama really doesn’t understand.
, did the base camp really not take the Hebei battlefield seriously, or did it really not take the opponent seriously?
Uchiyama Eitaro believed that the base camp made several mistakes in this battle. The first point was that it was too greedy. No matter how important the Shanxi battlefield is, if it is lost in northern Shanxi, the entire Shanxi battlefield has been opened wide. The entire Shanxi battlefield is already surrounded by enemies from all sides.
The advantage of an army is gone.
At present, the 18th Group Army, which has an absolute advantage in terms of strength and control area on the Shanxi battlefield, has been completely transformed with the support of the Northeast Communist Army, and its equipment and tactics have been greatly improved. Today is not the same as before.
Compared to that, it is no longer an armed force that, apart from being firm-willed, is overall short of guns and ammunition.
Under this situation, they still clung to the Shanxi battlefield. In order to maintain the offensive posture against Shaanxi, they were desperate to save face and suffer. A large number of troops were restrained to the Shanxi battlefield, and not only could they not escape and be unable to give to the Hebei battlefield
Any support is provided, and it puts itself in an unsafe situation.
If the Hebei battlefield, not to mention the Pingjin battlefield, had just started, the main force of the First Army immediately got rid of the harassment and containment of the surrounding North China Communist Army and concentrated its forces eastward out of the Taihang Mountains. The situation would not have deteriorated so quickly. At least it could have been in the first place.
The Ping-Tianjin line that has received reinforcements will not be lost so quickly. But if the Ping-Tianjin line is lost, the entire door of Hebei will be opened.
Shanxi's mountains and rivers inside and outside are indeed important strategically. But once Hebei and Pingjin are lost, the First Army will become an isolated army. No matter how important the strategic position is, what's the use? Not only will it not be able to dominate the entire Chinese battlefield strategic pattern,
Although they can play the role that the base camp expects them to play, the base camp still has to worry about rescuing the First Army.
If last year's battle had ended, the base camp had decisively abandoned the Shanxi battlefield and handed over Shanxi to the Chongqing second theater. Taking advantage of the Chinese people's own internal contradictions, the effect would have been much better. The base camp did not abandon it when it should have, resulting in the distance
The nearest supporting army in the Hebei battlefield is now trapped in a lonely city. Now I agree, but it is already too late.
The second point is the insufficient judgment on the strength of the enemy's march south. It is generally believed that Manchuria is still under attack from both sides by the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army, and the enemy does not dare to send too many troops into the pass to fight south. As a result, the entire judgment
The mistake resulted in insufficient troop input from the North China Front at the beginning.
As a result, at the beginning of this battle, the entire North China Front Army was always passive, which also led to the loss of Peiping and handed over the entire transportation hub of North China to the enemy. This battle was too frustrating for the North China Front Army.
, if there had been three to five more divisions on the Beiping battlefield, the Beiping battlefield would never have been lost so quickly.
The third point is that the enemy's tactical use in moving south was completely wrong. It was believed that the terrain around Beiping, and even the terrain around Pingjin as a whole, was not conducive to the enemy's large-scale concentrated tank clusters. The enemy forces around the Pingjin battlefield were
There was a serious error in judging the number of tanks that the army might invest.
Although during the battle between Jin and Sui last year, there were already examples of enemy tanks crossing the entire Yinshan Mountains and suddenly inserting themselves into the Suinan battlefield. Even as an opponent, Eitaro Uchiyama had to say something wonderful about this move taken by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
But this year, the base camp and even the North China Front headquarters did not pay much attention to the enemy's tank battles in the mountains.
I just found a few staff officers of the Mongolian garrison at that time, visited Pingxi and Pingbei, and made a certain comparison between the mountainous areas around Peiping and the entire Yinshan Mountains at that time. I thought that except for a few roads, the enemy troops in the rest of the area
It is not possible to use tanks to fight an interlude battle.
Because the enemy troops crossed the Yinshan Mountains last year and also used the roads and passes in the Yinshan Mountains. The mountainous areas around Peiping are even more rugged than the Yinshan Mountains back then. Several passes are also extremely steep and are not conducive to tank operations. As long as a few of them are controlled
It is a road that is impossible for enemy tanks to cross.
Except for maintaining strict control over a few highways, no attention was paid to the mountainous areas around Beiping. The entire defense, except for Xishan, placed most of its troops in Pingbei. As a result, it was again defeated by others, and again
The area that was considered impossible to penetrate was caught off guard.
Who knows how the enemy managed to insert hundreds of tanks from the steep mountainous terrain of Pingxi. But for the base camp, it has been slapped before, but it still has no long memory. This is the entire strategy and tactics
The mistakes in the battle also caused the premature collapse of the Beiping battlefield.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance's black tiger heart-breaking tactic is indeed powerful. Who would have thought that the enemy forces are still in fierce fighting on both wings, and they have not even been able to grasp the initiative in the Pingxi theater. They dare to risk the enemy from both sides and risk it.
An armored brigade penetrated the mountainous area with almost no roads and penetrated directly into the city of Peiping.
All Japanese troops fighting in the entire Pingxi battlefield were cut off from Peiping City, and the connection between Peiping and Pingnan was cut off. This attack also hit the weak spots of the entire Beiping battlefield, the North China Front Army deployment, and even
It can be said that the main reason for the complete collapse of the entire Beiping battlefield was precisely here.
The fourth point is that when the enemy's main force was restrained on the Pingjin front line for a short period of time, the base camp's judgment of the battle situation was too optimistic. It did not mobilize troops in time to strengthen the second-line deployment in the Hebei battlefield. If the base camp could have transferred the four troops now transferred to the North China Front Army,
divisions, plus the troops gradually reinforced by the dispatched army, were allocated to the North China Front Army as soon as possible.
Even if it is not placed in the Pingjin area, and the first and second line defenses are not strengthened for the time being. Instead, it is deployed in Jizhong as a mobile force to form a large-depth, multi-echelon complete defense system behind the Pingjin front line, then the entire war situation will not deteriorate at the same speed.
As for being so fast.
The enemy's tanks are indeed large in number, and the terrain in Jizhong is indeed suitable for tanks to penetrate and fight. However, as long as a complete and deep defense is formed, its assault force will be weakened layer by layer. Even if the enemy's tanks cannot be completely consumed, the enemy's
It is impossible to progress so fast in such a short period of time.
The fifth point is also the most critical point. Whether it is the base camp or the North China Front, the most serious mistakes have been made in judging the number of tanks invested by the enemy. Still looking at the Japanese army's logistics supply, they still look at what they have already done today.
An unparalleled opponent.
It is believed that with such a long supply line, the number of tanks invested by the enemy in the Hebei battlefield is absolutely impossible. Because after the enemy enters Hebei, all fuel, ammunition and other materials must be transferred from Beiman. This consumption
The amount is impossible for the enemy to afford.
Therefore, the base camp has always believed that the enemy will invest tanks in the Hebei battlefield. After all, the Jizhong Great Plains is the best natural battlefield for tank operations, but the number of inputs will never be too much. Because of the terrain of Rehe and Chahar
, will greatly limit the endurance of the enemy's logistics supply line.
Unexpectedly, they were able to gather tens of thousands of trucks. This not only ensured the supply of materials on the front line without railway support, but also greatly increased the mobility of their own troops. To be honest, they served as interspersed troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
, appeared in the Jizhong Plain, Uchiyama Eitaro was also shocked.
His opponents all used trucks to maneuver. This not only ensured the mobility of the troops, but also ensured that the troops would not be excessively exhausted by long-distance marches. The enemy troops all used American-made large-capacity trucks, which made Eitaro Uchiyama depressed.
At the same time, I couldn't help but lament that the enemy's army was no longer what it used to be.
The empire did not have the ability to invest tens of thousands of trucks on a battlefield, even when it was only facing the Nationalist government. Even the entire Chinese dispatched army would have difficulty gathering so many trucks. It is not so
With so many trucks, the enemy simply cannot guarantee such a large investment in the Jizhong battlefield. Not to mention anything else, the fuel required for so many tanks will overwhelm the enemy's logistics.
Indeed, the base camp also tried every means to mobilize a large number of tanks for the North China Front Army. It can even be said that most of the armor strength of the entire Imperial Army was transferred to the North China Front Army. However, the performance gap between the tanks between the two sides is really too big, and the tactical application
He is also far less skilled than others.
Their tank clusters are prepared for launching an attack. However, the armored troops of the North China Front are prepared for defense and counterattack. This can be said to be at a disadvantage in terms of tactics. In addition, both sides use tank tactics.
The gap between them caused the Japanese army's own tank troops to fail to play the role that the base camp expected them to play.
A series of misjudgments caused the entire situation to become passive, and then quickly eroded. The base camp’s follow-up decision-making also made consecutive mistakes. The pace of reinforcements was delayed, knowing that shipping was no longer safe, so it was not a one-time decision.
Reinforce enough troops,
With only one division of reinforcements in hand, Uchiyama Eitaro can be said to be helpless. With such a division, it is impossible to restore public order in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area and ensure the safety behind the Jizhong battlefield, but it still has the ability to rescue the Jizhong battlefield. North China
The damn Jiluyu Military Region of the Communist Army is simply a scam.
When a large force passes by, other than a few sap shots, there is no large-scale interception at all. But as soon as your large force passes, unless you leave a large number of troops behind to ensure safety behind them, it will be as if they came out of the ground.
The rear area was a mess. Supplies could not be brought in, and the wounded and sick could not be evacuated.
Each frontline division can only rely on the ammunition it carries and limited aerial supplies. As for food, it can only be requisitioned. The current Sixty-fourth Division, from the division commander to the soldiers below, can only eat one meal a day.
A meal. The 22nd Division was even worse. Some squadrons could not even get any supplies for three days.
The entire Imperial Army in the Hebei battlefield is now focusing on one thing and not the other. If it can take care of the front, it cannot take care of the rear. And if too many troops are invested in the rear, then the already insufficient troops on the front will become even more inadequate. The battle situation on the front is going badly, and the rear will be even more inadequate.
The situation is not optimistic either. If this war situation continues, we will starve ourselves without having to fight ourselves.