In the whole of North China, there were millions of Chinese troops.

Shandong Han Fuyu's Third Group Army claimed to have "300,000 troops", but in any case, his regular troops, plus the militia regiments built by the local gentry, still had more than 200,000.

The Huaxia army entrenched in Hebei, as well as Shang Zhen's 20th Group Army, Liu Zhi's 2nd Group Army, and Song Zheyuan's 1st Group Army, these are three real group armies, and if you add the local team headquarters, there are more than 300,000 horses.

As for Shanxi's Jin Sui Army, it is even more bullish, and the regular group army formed by Guangcheng has three numbers, namely Yang Aiyuan's Sixth Group Army, Fu Zuoyi's Seventh Group Army, and the Thirteenth Group led by Yan Xishan.

What's more, Shanxi has been rich since ancient times, and there is Taiyuan Arsenal available.

Once necessary, Yan Xishan could even expand his troops at any time, which was the real reason why a large number of Japanese troops had gathered in the Pingjin area, but they did not dare to fight south.

Therefore, while the Battle of Songhu was in full swing, the Japanese army in North China was vigorously attacking Shanxi and Suiyuan, the purpose of which was to eliminate their worries when they went south.

It is really a bit difficult for the two permanent divisions of the Japanese army to fight against the more than 1.2 million Chinese army.

As early as the Battle of Nankou in early August, the Japanese army faced Tang Enbo's 13th Army, there was a strange thing that could not be attacked for a long time, and finally two divisions and several independent brigades were dispatched to reluctantly occupy Zhangjiakou and Nankou, causing the Japanese army to think that this was an exception.

Because Tang Enbo's department, after all, is a descendant of Nanjing's troops, or a well-known elite army, so the combat power is a little too strong, and it is understandable, but with the gradual expansion of the battle line, especially to the north of Yanmen Pass, and the area of Xinkou and Heping Pass, the Japanese army in North China knew that they were wrong.

Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army was also not easy to deal with.

In particular, Fu Zuoyi's department is more powerful than the Central Army in Huaxia, and a Seventh Army is enough to compete with a permanent division, and the Japanese army still has some air force advantages, but the Shanxi air force is not weak, and it also pulls in the air force of Xi'an and Yan'an as foreign aid, and the air force of the Japanese army cannot hold on.

By the way, not long ago, the Japanese army was also attacked by the Eighth Route Army at Yangmingbao Airport, losing nearly 30 fighters.

For the sake of jihad, the Japanese army had no choice but to continue to fight.

The 14th Group Army led by General Wei Lihuang, a famous general in the Central Army, is even sharper and better at fighting.

This group army was the first central descendant unit in Nanjing to enter North China after the "77 Incident," and it was even better than Tang Enbo's unit; it fought against Japan in areas west of Peiping and other areas, and now it is in the battle of Xinkou and is serving as the main force of the central defense group, and its combat effectiveness can be seen.

It is said that the Sichuan army and the Yan'an army are relatively easy to deal with.

In fact, this is not the case, after the Sichuan army has gone through the "Fucheng military exercise", they have all become all mountain infantry, with the friendly sponsorship of the West Sichuan Arsenal, and the equipment of Yiying is even more speechless, the 72-type infantry gun and 82 mm mortars have become the standard equipment of the Sichuan army, and an ordinary Sichuan army infantry regiment has more than 30 infantry guns, which is already comparable to the artillery fire of a Japanese brigade.

As for the individual firepower of the Sichuan army, it is not bad, an ordinary infantry squad of thirteen people, with seven 98K rifles, four Thomson submachine guns, and a Czech light machine gun, can be said to be armed to the teeth.

Moreover, the Sichuan army is very familiar with the combat habits of the Japanese army, and when it is fighting, it also particularly does not like to talk about the rules, and when it sees a favorable opportunity, it almost rushes up, and when it sees that the situation is not good, it hurriedly drills into the mountain and enters the cave, without the slightest dignified samurai style, because the Sichuan army is a guest army, even if the Japanese devils want to use hostages to force them to fight, it is a futile joke.

On the surface, the lethality of the Sichuan army was not high, and they did not dare to fight against the Japanese army at all.

However, the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army once counted a statistic that since the Sichuan army entered the war, the Japanese army has suffered nearly 1,000 casualties every day, and they are inextricably linked with the Sichuan army, so the 50,000 or 60,000 Sichuan troops fighting as guest troops have long become a thorn in the side of the Japanese army, and the danger coefficient even exceeds that of the Central Army.

As for the Yan'an army, it is the Chinese army that the Japanese army is most unwilling to face, in terms of fighting spirit and will, it has surpassed the Great Japanese Imperial Army, which has been nurtured by the spirit of bushido since childhood, and the Fifth Division, known as the "Steel Army", has been heavily damaged by the Eighth Route Army and almost broken the invincible golden body.

On September 25, 1937, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army set up an ambush near Pingxingguan to encircle and annihilate a Japanese baggage wing, as well as a number of brigades and squadrons that came to reinforce it, raising the tactic of "encircling points and sending reinforcements" to the height of art, annihilating more than 3,700 Japanese troops.

The battle also made the Japanese army in North China learn from a good way, and from then on they no longer dared to attack the large army of China with one or two hundred people.

In the face of such a tragic scene in Shanxi, even Tu Feiyuan himself was a little unable to speak.

Not to mention the Song Zheyuan Division, Tang Enbo's Division, and the Shang Zhen Division, which were even more hateful, from time to time using the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line to attack the Japanese strongholds in the Pingjin area, as well as some important transportation lines.

As for Hideki Tojo's "bold" plan, Dohihara really didn't dare to compliment.

He also had another motive for coming to Ishihara's thatched cottage this time, that is, to ask Ishihara to say that the Kwantung Army, which was stationed in northeastern China, should allocate a part of its military strength to join the battlefield in North China, so as to extricate the Japanese army in North China from its current predicament as soon as possible, so as to free up its hands and advance to the hinterland of the Central Plains in China.

This is his original intention to send the confidential information of the Soviet Russian rebellion to Tojo and Ishihara for circulation.

To his surprise, Ishihara's "wisdom" was not so wise, he was simply a pig, and Hideki Tojo, who was really reckless with the name "bold", actually had a nest of snakes and rats, and actually wanted to draw elites from the North China dispatch army, which was seriously understaffed, to form the 10th Army and the 11th Army.

Tu Feiyuan had the urge to spit in the faces of these two bear children several times.

Of course, he still has self-knowledge, and he knows the reckless kendo cultivation of Tojo, so he has to swallow his anger.

Ishihara Guaner compared himself to Zhuge Liang, how could Tu Feiyuan's thoughts be hidden from his eyes, so he quietly opened the map of North China and told his true battle plan.

First of all, there was the deployment of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

First, Chahar sent the Corps, and Hideki Tojo resigned as commander and was replaced by Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara.

The corps will send three mixed brigades and several brigade-level detachments to advance to the Zhangjiakou area of China to take over the defense of the Japanese army in North China, and if conditions permit, they will also flank the Chinese army in the Shanxi area from the flank of Xinkou.

The second is the Corps stationed in Mongolia, with Lieutenant General Liannuma as the commander, who will personally lead the 26th Division and five independent brigades to attack Guisui and Baotou, and while monitoring Ningxia, Suiyuan, and Inner and Outer Mongolia, he will wait for an opportunity to send troops from the Mongolian steppe to attack Taiyuan and northern Jin.

Secondly, there is the question of the formation of the 10th and 11th armies of the Japanese army.

This is even easier to do, the required elite troops, there is no intention to completely draw from the Japanese army in North China, only a sixth division, as for the rest of the elite troops needed, will be drawn from the Japanese mainland or the Korean garrison, well, the Kwantung Army will also do its best.

It really made Tu Feiyuan breathe a sigh of relief, oops, it was really a big favor.

Thinking about it in a blink of an eye, Ishihara and Tojo really deserve to be big officials, and they do things in an orderly and thorough manner, which not only saves the face of His Majesty the Emperor, but also keeps the strength of the North China Front from being too seriously damaged.

In the future, if he has the opportunity, he should repay the friendship of this day.

However, Tu Feiyuan is also a little strange, Ishihara Wan'er is not a god, overnight, where did he conjure up hundreds of thousands of troops, even if they can do tricks, even if they can temporarily gather more than 200,000 elites, but logistics materials and armament materials, how to transport them one by one?

Regarding Kenji Dohihara's doubts, Hideki Tojo only smiled slightly.

Tojo's task is also very heavy, in addition to strictly guarding the southward movement of Soviet Russia, but also taking into account the garrison problems in the areas of Pingjin, Chahar and Rehe, the anti-Japanese coalition forces in the northeast are very rampant, in case of a negligence one day, these guys will definitely dare to attack Shenyang or Xinjing.

At that time, the imperial army was embarrassed.

Ishihara didn't explain in detail, but asked him not to think about it too much, or to do a good job in the North China Front's own problems, as long as the Japanese offensive in North China was fierce enough, Nanjing had to send elite troops to the north, so it could be regarded as a disguised support for the Songhu battlefield.

However, he repeatedly reminded Tufeiyuan that once the Japanese army in North China occupied Shijiazhuang and moved south along the Pinghan Railway Line or the Jinpu Line, it must pay attention to the United Group Army, which was a formidable opponent and a strategic reserve built by the Nanjing government with a lot of money, and its combat effectiveness was very considerable.

"Nani, Shijiazhuang? Ishihara-kun, how did you know? ”

Tu Feiyuan asked silently, the joint group army stationed in Luoyang and Zhengzhou was too far away for him.

The only thing that shocked him was the strategic place of Shijiazhuang, he had been planning for a long time, and had never talked to anyone, he just wanted to wait until the time was ripe, and hit with one blow, in his opinion, "Shijiazhuang" - was the winner and loser of the North China battlefield.

Ishihara didn't pay much attention to him, and pointed to the map of Huaxia on his desk, which was exactly the location of "Shijiazhuang".

This guy said with a little regret, "This place is also known as Shimen, is the intersection of Zhengding County, Hebei Province-Shanxi Taiyuan Railway, and Beiping-Hankou Railway, because of the small number of products, and the terrain is complex, it is still only a small town of thousands of people, but the strategic position is extremely important."

"Hehe, the ridiculous thing is that the army stationed here is actually a garrison of more than 100 people, in terms of actual status, it is just a small town in Zhengding County, if it is not the intersection of railway lines, some scattered marshalling stations, I am afraid that no one even wants to station this small garrison."

Tsuchihara's face turned pale when he heard it, and from Ishihara's words, he heard a lot of sarcasm.

Although Ishihara Waner has the meaning of ridiculing the ignorance of the Chinese people, he also has the painstaking calculation of Tu Feiyuan, feeling contemptuous and ridiculous, he has such a simple plan, and he dares to show off in front of him, the "Japanese version of Zhuge Liang", it is really Confucius's door to sell articles, Guan Yu in front of the big knife, isn't it ridiculous, or what.

It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, but Tu Feiyuan has a feeling of wanting to vomit blood.

Shijiazhuang was the winner or loser of the Japanese army in North China, and if this place fell into his hands, the whole of North China would become the world of the Japanese army.

At that time, whether it was westward to Taihang Mountain and Niangzi Pass, and flanking Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi, or continuing to go south, directly taking Handan and Zhengzhou, threatening the Longhai railway line, and the main force of China would hunt in the Central Plains, or eastward to invade Shandong, Jinan and other places, you can calmly advance and retreat or deploy.

Seeing the declining face of Tu Feiyuan, Ishihara knew that the heat was almost over, and if he beat it again, it would only backfire.

This guy smiled hypocritically, "I know about Shijiazhuang, not because of how smart I am, but when I was serving in the General Staff Headquarters, when I had nothing to do, except for reading some of the latest information, I was thinking about it all day long, oops, Shijiazhuang, but the winner of the imperial army's attack on North China."

"Because you refused to go south in Pingjin, this caught my attention."

Seeing the cunning and obscene Ishihara, people wanted to slap him a few times, and Dohihara suddenly remembered a past incident, when Ishihara was serving in the staff headquarters, everyone gave him a nickname - "the old bastard that everyone knows", Yaga, is really an old bastard.

Later, he remembered an ancient Chinese admonition, "When a secret is known by a third person, it is no longer a secret."

He, Ishihara, and Tojo, aren't they exactly three people?

As soon as he thought of the Shijiazhuang Raiders and being exposed by Ishihara, a bastard, Tu Feiyuan felt that he was in a bad mood, because Nanjing's secret service was very powerful.

If I guessed correctly, the content of the secret conversation between the three of them here should soon be sent to Chiang Kai-shek, in case Huaxia sent heavy troops to hoard in Shijiazhuang, his years of hard work would be in vain, and he would suddenly lose the Yaxing to talk about again.

Seeing the hastily departed Tsuchihara, Ishihara and Tojo sneered.

They have long wanted to beat this arrogant guy, this guy has conspired with Konoe Fumiji and others to get rid of Ishihara Wan'er as deputy chief of staff, and now they want to use the Soviet Russia's rebellion and inability to go south as an excuse to gradually disintegrate the Kwantung Army.

An enemy is a person who seriously harms his own interests.

In the past, Ishihara and Tojo may have been a little soft-hearted, but now when someone wants to move their roots, the "Great Japanese Kwantung Army", they really can't bear it, and it is 10,000 times worse than Jiang Guangtou.

On the night of the secret talk, a mysterious radio wave was transmitted from Tokyo, Japan to Nanjing, China.