Liu Cheng could fully understand Gao Yuan's worries, after all, this time they were facing a full brigade from the First Division.

Compared with the previous Japanese troops scattered in various places, this team has stronger combat effectiveness and better weapons and equipment.

Although Song Zheyuan sent the 37th Division and the 2nd Provisional Division to support in time, and almost took out two-thirds of Chahar's troops, Liu Cheng was still a little worried in the face of this strong enemy.

The victory or defeat of this battle will directly determine whether he and Zhou Zuopeng's two teams can gain a firm foothold in Chahar, if they are easily defeated by the Japanese army, then they will have no face to continue to rely here, and Song Zheyuan will not allow them to continue to stay.

Sixty miles away from Taolin, the temporary command post of the Tanaka Brigade has been erected.

Tanaka-kun, his two wing commanders, and a group of team leaders were discussing and formulating a battle plan in front of an operational map.

Prior to this, Tanaka had already decided that the 1st Wing would take the lead in launching an attack with the 115th Regiment of the Zhishan Division, and the target was tentatively set as Xinghe County.

Liu Cheng's "old acquaintance" Kasahara Kawakiichi will also take his Kasawara task force as the vanguard of the 1st Wing and attack Xinghe at the same time.

Due to the limited information that Tanaka Jun and he has at present, it is still impossible to determine the focus of Liu Cheng's defensive deployment and his own position, so Tanaka Jun and He wants to find out the details of his opponent through a tentative battle.

However, according to the information currently available, Song Zheyuan has assigned several important county flags on the Chahar border to Liu Cheng and Zhou Zuopeng to garrison, but he cannot tell where the focus of defense is.

It seems that the defenses along the entire border line are more or less the same, and the distribution of forces is very even, and it is difficult to see where the focus is.

Tanaka-kun's brows were tightly locked, and his eyes were fixed on the battle map on the table, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

From the perspective of strategic topography, the location of Xinghe is slightly higher than that of several other county flags, which is equivalent to a small door in Chahar, which is of great significance.

Once this small door is opened, it is equivalent to losing the outer city in the defense of the city, although there is still an inner wall in the way, but the city is already in danger.

Therefore, Tanaka Junji concluded that Liu Cheng would never dare to ignore Xinghe's safety, and once he attacked Xinghe with a wing and the strength of the 115th Regiment, he would inevitably be able to force Liu Cheng to mobilize the main force to Xinghe to support.

In this way, Tanaka will be able to identify the weak points of the overall defense line and break them down in one fell swoop.

It's just that he still has a trace of doubt in his heart.

According to Tanaka-kun and all the materials about Liu Cheng in his possession, this person is by no means a brave and unscrupulous person.

Although it seems that Liu Cheng has taken the most stupid way to evenly distribute the forces for defense at the moment, Tanaka Junji will never believe that this is Liu Cheng's real plan and deployment.

Therefore, he asked the commander of the first wing, Haruto Sakamoto, to be cautious, and once he found that the opponent had reinforcements within the expected time, he immediately stopped the attack and retreated, waiting for him to make tactical adjustments.

Tanaka Junji is not a deer hair tiger hero, and his team is not a puppet army under the deer hair tiger under the deer hair tiger who has forgotten his ancestors and forgotten his roots, and he must not take risks easily.

Zhou Zuopeng also couldn't understand Liu Cheng's defensive arrangement and slow combat methods.

Especially Liu Cheng had already discovered it when the Japanese army was still about 100 miles away from Chahar, but he had not made any response until now, which made Zhou Zuopeng very puzzled.

The only reason that can be found for Liu Cheng is that the Chahar border area is dominated by grassland terrain for hundreds of miles, which is open and flat, which is not conducive to hiding.

However, the three counties and three banners handed over to them by Song Zheyuan are also in no danger to defend, and only the fortifications built and strengthened by the 29th Army in the past few years can barely be relied on.

Regarding the doubts of Feng Zhi'an and others, Liu Cheng did not explain much, but asked them to support and cooperate without being humble or arrogant; And said that all the consequences will be borne by him.

Song Zheyuan, who received Feng Zhi'an's telegram, was also a little apprehensive in his heart, because this battle was equally important to him.

Victory, you can get valuable rest time in a short time, at least the devil will not attack Chahar again until he is fully prepared.

However, if defeated, the Japanese would inevitably take the opportunity to occupy some areas of Chahar and further reduce his area of activity.

The attitude of the Jinling side has always been to seek peace, and they have repeatedly asked him not to engage in large-scale frontal clashes with the Japanese.

But what he is doing now is completely contrary to the meaning of the bald head.

If he wins the war, it is better to say, at least the people and public opinion will be on his side, and the bald head will have some scruples even if he wants to deal with him.

But once he fails, then he Song Zheyuan will really become a street rat, and it will be difficult to turn over.

At this time, Song Zheyuan had already begun to regret it, regretting that he should not easily hand over the three counties and three flags to Liu Cheng and Zhou Zuopeng, so that he completely fell into passivity.

But now that he has spoken it, and according to Liu Cheng's results all the time, Song Zheyuan can hardly believe that Liu Chengzhen has come to this day completely by luck.

After thinking about it, he still decided to believe Liu Cheng and take a gamble!

Song Zheyuan made such a decision not out of blind impulse, but the increasing pressure exerted by the Japanese, and if he could not successfully and effectively deal a blow to the arrogance of the little devil, his Chahar would soon become a second Rehe.

At the same time, Liu Cheng, who was in Taolin, was also making final tactical adjustments.

Just half an hour ago, Liu Cheng received news from the scouts that an integrated wing of the Japanese army had left the station of the Tanaka Brigade with a puppet regiment and was heading in the direction of Xinghe County.

Liu Cheng stood in front of the map and looked at it without saying a word for more than ten minutes before turning around and giving an order to the herald:

"Order Tian Liuwa to command the 1st Company, 4th Company and Transport Company to defend; They will not receive any support for at least two hours after the battle begins; However, they must defend Xinghe County to the death, even if they use corpses to pile up, they must pile up an impregnable line of defense for Lao Tzu! ”

After the herald left, Liu Cheng asked people to call Song Wen again.

After Song Wen entered the room, Liu Cheng personally walked over and closed the door, leaned in front of Song Wen and said in a low voice:

"You select six or ten fighters from the special operations company, each of whom picks two fast horses, with enough ammunition and dry food, to be ready at all times;

If I'm not mistaken, this time the little devils will definitely use planes again, and there will be more of them than the last time.

As soon as the planes appear, you have to keep a firm eye on me, and when the planes come back, you will take people to catch up with them, and you must find out where those planes are coming from! ”