Okamura Neiji was very ambitious this time, and his appetite was not small. Japanese generals usually attached great importance to conquering cities and territories, but did not pay attention to the complete destruction of the opponent's effective strength. However, he did not do it again. Judging from his overall deployment,
He came for the entire Hebei battlefield as the main force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
He adopted a coordinated overall strategic deployment on the three battlefields on the Hebei-Shandong border, Hebei-Shandong-Henan, and southeastern Shanxi. He wanted to eat up the entire anti-alliance force in the Hebei battlefield in one go. He also severely damaged several major strategic areas in the Guan inner battlefield, causing
Its complete loss threatened the Japanese army's ability to rule in North China.
Perhaps the original intention of the Japanese base camp was not to be so open-minded. After all, for the Japanese army, mobilizing so many troops and maintaining such a large number of troops on the Chinese battlefield for a long time is not conducive to its overall strategic layout. But
The Japanese army invested so many troops at once in this battle, but it gave Okamura Neji a chance to turn the tide of the war.
According to Yang Zhen's judgment, the Japanese army's deployment plan does not seem to be the work of the Japanese base camp. If the Japanese base camp really has such great ambitions and transferred these new troops to the North China battlefield a month ago, I am afraid that the war situation will be different.
Something's happened.
At least in the first phase of the battle, I achieved much smaller results. It was precisely when the Japanese base camp was reinforcing the North China Front that it kept pressing the buttons, which allowed me to successfully create a beautiful time difference. According to
Judging from the intensity and speed of reinforcements to the Japanese base camp in the first phase, this deployment is not in line with its current situation.
For the Japanese base camp, it should be more in line with their thoughts to re-open the direct connection between the Chinese dispatched troops and the Kwantung Army. The Japanese army's current tactics in the North China battlefield are somewhat in line with Okamura Neji's style. But regardless of this
What is the intention of fighting the Japanese army? With the arrival of the Japanese troops one after another, it will be a battle that determines the final direction of the Chinese battlefield.
To this extent, this battle has actually become a turning point for the entire Guannai battlefield as a whole. If the Japanese army is defeated in this battle, judging from the current international situation, its offensive on the Chinese battlefield, at least on the Chinese battlefield north of the Yangtze River,
A complete loss of capabilities. The strategic pattern of China and Japan, especially the offensive and defensive pattern, will undergo a complete change.
If this battle fails, the chain reaction will be quite fatal. Not only the battlefield inside the Pass, but also the Northeastern battlefield will be affected. Once these troops entering the Pass and investing in the North China battlefield are defeated, the entire Anti-Japanese Alliance will also be destroyed.
Half or even more of the troops were lost.
And the long-term impact of the outcome of this battle will affect the entire post-war pattern of China, and even the overall direction. In other words, the long-term impact of the outcome of this battle is not just about this battle.
Among them, the question is who wins and who loses.
This battle must be won. This is almost a must for Yang Zhen. This is a choice without any second choice. But a thorough understanding is a thorough understanding. Faced with the current situation, how to adjust the overall deployment in the next step?
, but it made Yang Zhen fall into deep thought.
After staring at the map and thinking for a long time, Yang Zhen raised his head and said to Chai Shirong: "Lao Chai, you immediately send a report to the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Region and order the Wu'an front line to be immediately removed. All troops east of Pinghan Road should be transferred to the west of Wu'an.
In the Taihang Mountains, we will try our best to defend the passes of the Taihang Mountains west of Wu'an."
"Tell the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region that I don't care about what happened before, and I don't want to say anything else. But now if the 117th Division is allowed to have even one soldier and one soldier, enter southeastern Shanxi west of the line from Qingzhang River to Shahe River, I will
There will never be any more tolerance. Even if their troops west of Pinghan Road are wiped out, the Japanese army must be stopped outside the Taihang Mountains."
"Order the troops east of the Pinghan-Han line to get out of the way of the Jize line, and let the 50th Division continue to move north. Lead the 50th Division to the Renxian, Haoqiao, and Xingjiawan lines. No matter what method they take, they will definitely
The 50th Division cannot be allowed to turn eastward. After completing the task of containing the Japanese army from moving north, all its troops east of the Pinghan-Han Line jumped to the outside and launched a diversionary attack behind the 50th Division."
"Tell them the two divisions operating in northern Henan. I don't need them to annihilate many Japanese and puppet troops in northern Henan. But one thing must be done, that is, no matter how much it costs, the enemies in northern Henan and the enemy will be destroyed."
I have a close eye on the Ping-Han Line in the northern section of Henan. Even if the Japanese army mobilizes only one squadron, it must be immediately reported to me and the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region."
"At the same time, the troops of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region in northwest Shandong were ordered to adopt separate siege, multi-channel harassment, and containment tactics against the 118th Division. In a word, the 118th Division must not be allowed to successfully complete the turn.
But there is one thing for them to pay attention to. With their current strength, they are still unable to deal with the 118th Division."
"Let them not be eager for success, but adopt the tactics of killing chickens with a knife and knocking off the candy. Give full play to their strengths in mobile warfare and familiarity with the terrain, and don't think about how many Japanese troops they can eat in one bite. In a word, as long as they can make one
The 18th Division will be successful if its guns are silenced and one-third of its troops are contained."
"Order the 18th Division to strengthen the 68th Regiment of the 23rd Division, and immediately move south quickly to the Xisha River to the Pinghan-Han Road to spread out across the front. Tell the commander of the 18th Division that no matter what the outcome of the battle is in the east and west directions of the Ping-Han Railway
In this way, you don't care about his affairs. Before you receive orders from your superiors, you must be like a nail nailed to Shahe County and its two wings."
"Order the remaining troops of the Western Cluster to immediately prepare for the entire army to go south. Remember that in the process of going south, you must make a big fanfare. The bigger the momentum, the better. Order the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops attached to our army to organize themselves in columns and immediately
Gather them. Tell them that they must be ready to dispatch within 24 hours. As for what combat area they will be assigned to, let them wait for orders."
"Immediately draft a telegram to Tao Jingfei and ask his two divisions to immediately prepare to go south. At the same time, you are deploying a division and all the tank troops to move to Shimen in a concealed manner. Tell him that I don't care what he thinks of.
, or adopt some means. In short, the advance of this division must not be exposed."
"Tell Chen Hanzhang that the encirclement and annihilation of the 72nd Division must be fast, and he must not be stuck by it. He must not worry about his two wings. Let him ignore the wind coming from all directions and just fight all the way. As long as he can get ahead of one hundred
Division, we must deal with the 72nd Division before we arrive. No matter what the Japanese army’s follow-up deployment is, the threat to us has been reduced to the minimum.”
"Telegraph the Shandong Military Region and ask them to attack the line from Yantai to Changyi. Cooperate with a cavalry brigade of our unit that goes deep into Jiaodong to launch a large-scale attack on the road from Yantai to Shouguang. I don't need them to contain the commander of the 48th Division.
Time, as long as they can ensure that the main force of the 48th Division cannot leave Shouguang within three to five days, they will be the greatest help to us."
"Send our latest strategic determination to the Central Committee and forward it to the 18th Group Army Headquarters, the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region Headquarters, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. You tell the confidential room. We must maintain 24-hour communication with the battlefield in southeastern Shanxi.
To ensure smooth communication, special personnel and planes must be arranged to connect with the battlefield in southeastern Shanxi."
"As long as it is a telegram from the Central Committee, the Eighteenth Group Army Headquarters, the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, and the Shandong Military Region, no matter when it comes, it must be handed over to me as soon as possible. Remember, it is the first time, and there should be no interruptions in between.
Any delay, especially the battle reports on the southeastern Shanxi battlefield and the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Region, must be handed over to me as soon as possible."
After giving a few orders, Yang Zhen paused for a moment and then said: "I don't need to say more about discipline matters. You know it and they also know it. Remember, no matter when or where, you must do it as soon as possible.
When it is sent to me, there will be absolutely no delay in the process. If there is a problem in that link, I will hold that link accountable."
After quickly recording Yang Zhen's order, Chai Shirong did not dare to delay at all, and immediately turned around and went to the confidential room to send a telegram. After Chai Shirong left, Yang Zhen pondered for a long time, sat down in front of the table and drafted it by hand.
A telegram addressed to the deputy commander-in-chief and the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region.
After drafting the telegram, Yang Zhen put down the pen in his hand and rubbed his aching eyes. However, he did not immediately hand over the telegram to the staff for dispatch. Instead, he placed the telegram on the table and looked at it.
He pondered over the telegram. After a long time, he finally tore the telegram into pieces and burned it with a match.
Seeing this telegram that he had drafted but not sent out turned into a pile of paper dust. Yang Zhen did not miss the slightest bit and turned his attention back to the large map hanging on the wall. And this telegram
I'm afraid no one but himself will know what he actually wrote.
For the entire southeastern Shanxi battlefield, we can only really annihilate most of a Japanese division according to the deputy commander-in-chief's vision. Then the entire southeastern Shanxi battlefield will be completely alive. No matter whether the Japanese army is in southeastern Shanxi or the Hebei battlefield
Whatever the strategic intentions of the entire left wing are, they are all in vain.
But can the Japanese army give the deputy commander-in-chief this opportunity? Whether the Japanese troops deployed in eastern Henan and northern Henan will quickly move north to join the battlefield in southeastern Shanxi when the situation on the battlefield in southeastern Shanxi deteriorates is currently difficult to prove.
A single move can affect the whole body. If the Japanese army breaks through southeastern Shanxi, what should you do next?
After thinking for a long time, Yang Zhen stood up and drafted a telegram to the central government, the boss, and the deputy commander-in-chief, suggesting that all the troops in the entire Shanxi battlefield, regardless of the major strategic areas, uniformly deploy a group of main troops to form a strategic
The mobile force is under the unified command of the deputy commander-in-chief.
In major strategic areas, some areas with strong combat effectiveness should be upgraded as soon as possible and organized into strategic reserve forces for use. In the Taihang Military Region, certain operations should be carried out to clear the country, focusing on the counties along the highway at the junction of southeastern Shanxi and Shanxi-Hebei.
At the same time, the Anti-Japanese Alliance prepared to transfer two more independent automobile battalions from the Hebei battlefield to be used in the Shanxi battlefield.
After the telegram was sent, Yang Zhen's eyes shifted from the Pinghan-Hanzhang Line to the Jin-Pu Railway. After pondering for a long time, Yang Zhen sent a telegram to Chen Hanzhang, asking Chen Hanzhang if he could mobilize a force to attack Leling.
The front-line Japanese 120th Division launched a frontal counterattack.
In this telegram, Yang Zhen did not use a command tone, but an extremely rare tone of soliciting opinions. Looking at the current battle situation, Yang Zhen felt that Chen Hanzhang, apart from the current counterattack in Zaonan, the rest
The direction should also be able to write some articles appropriately.
The Japanese army is trying to use constant adjustments to mobilize its troops on a large scale in order to create opportunities for them. Can they also do the opposite in some aspects? They can also mobilize their forces through local counterattacks.
and disrupt the Japanese army's next strategic deployment.
Although its position in the battle situation is not very important at the moment, in the next battle of the Japanese army, it is likely to be a key node in the direction and make some relatively big movements. In this way, it can completely distract the Japanese army.