When Seishiro Itagaki heard the report of Major General Chief of Staff Hiroshi Nemoto, his brows furrowed tightly, and his eyes looked at the map, and Seishiro Itagaki fell into deep thought.

The troops of Sun Weiguo's 47th Group Army are strong in combat, and now Sun Weiguo's armored troops have penetrated deep into the flank of the Japanese army in Pubei County, which will not only cut off the supply line from Qinzhou Bay to Nanning, but also affect the supply of troops such as the Guards Division in Pubei County.

Itagaki Seishiro knew how bad the current situation of the Japanese army was, and he also knew that it was a good way to transfer troops such as the Special Marine Division to the vicinity of Qinzhou to attack Sun Weiguo's armored forces.

However, Seishiro Itagaki was a little worried in his heart, the combat effectiveness of the Special Marine Division and the 131st Division was not very strong, and there would definitely be no problem in letting them reinforce the Fifth Division and join forces with the troops of the Fifth Division to deal with other Chinese troops.

However, if they came back to deal with Sun Weiguo's armored forces, Itagaki Seishiro felt that this would be a big problem, and he was worried that even if these troops were transferred to the vicinity of Qinzhou, they might not be able to deal with Sun Weiguo's armored forces, after all, Sun Weiguo's armored troops were the most elite troops.

"Your Excellency Commander, now the Guards Division and other troops are fighting against Sun Weiguo's troops in Pubei County, if we send them back to fight, I am afraid that the defense line of Pubei County will be broken, and then Sun Weiguo's tens of thousands of troops will be able to go directly to the line from Qinzhou Bay to Nanning, in this case, our situation will be even worse."

Hiroshi Nemoto seemed to see Seishiro Itagaki's plan, and he looked at Seishiro Itagaki and reported softly.

Seishiro Itagaki glanced at Hiroshi Nemoto, his brow furrowed as he fell into deep thought.

The Special Marine Division and other units cannot be transferred back, they will not be the opponents of Sun Weiguo's armored forces, and the Guards Division and other troops cannot be transferred back, because they still have to block Sun Weiguo's infantry troops, and now it is Sun Weiguo's armored troops that have gone deep into the depths, and the current situation is somewhat the same as Itagaki Seishiro's previous bold assumptions.

Itagaki Seishiro had imagined before, giving way from here in Pubei County, so that Sun Weiguo's troops could directly enter the deep defense zone from here, and then the Japanese troops were flanking, and now Sun Weiguo's armored troops were entering the depth zone, but there were still Sun Weiguo's infantry units fighting on the periphery, which made Itagaki Seishiro have to think.

"Now there are 18th Division, 48th Division, 104th Division, Indochina Dispatch Army, independent mixed 20th Brigade, independent mixed 21st Brigade, we still have a very rich order in our hands, order the 18th Division, Indochina Dispatch Army troops immediately began to assemble, contact the Second Fleet of the Navy to China, and ask them to send warships to transport the 18th Division and Indochina Dispatch Army to Guangxi, participate in the battle against Sun Weiguo's troops, and send a telegram to Hashimoto's group, so that he must command the imperial army troops and severely damage Sun Weiguo's troops, Repelled the counterattack of the Chinese troops. ”

Seishiro Itagaki stared at the map for a while, and then he gave the order directly.

The South China Front Army has a strong force in its hands, and these Japanese troops are all aimed at dealing with Sun Weiguo, and now that Sun Weiguo's troops are appearing in Guangxi, Itagaki Seishiro does not plan to leave too many troops, he wants to transfer all the main forces of the South China Front Army to Guangxi to fight, and he wants to completely inflict heavy damage on Sun Weiguo's troops.

With Itagaki Seishiro once again increasing the number of troops in Guangxi, the troops under the command of the 22nd Army Hashimoto Group increased, and at present, the Japanese 5th Division, 16th Division, 57th Division, 18th Division, 131st Division, Navy Special Marine Division, Guards Division, 1st Independent Tank Brigade, 2nd Independent Tank Brigade, 9th Heavy Artillery Brigade, Indochina Dispatch Army.

Here in Guangxi, the little devils began to assemble seven divisions, two tank brigades, one heavy artillery brigade, and one Indochina dispatch army, with a total strength of nearly 200,000 devil soldiers.

At the same time, the Japanese army also had the 21st Independent Air Force, the 1st Air Force, and the 3rd Combined Air Force to support the operation, and the 2nd Fleet of the Navy to China was also ready to support the operation.

Counting the strength of the air force and navy, the little devils have deployed more than 200,000 troops in Guangxi.

And here in Pubei County, Itagaki Seishiro directly invested all the main forces, and his goal was to severely damage Sun Weiguo's troops.

At 8 o'clock in the evening of 20 December, the main force of the 3rd Cavalry Army began to enter the town of Long Beach, while the 18th Division of the Japanese Army and the Indochina Dispatch Army began to board ships and prepare to go to Guangxi to fight.

At this time, the Hashimoto Group, the headquarters of the 22nd Army, also began to order the 16th Division to transfer the 20th Wing, and the 33rd Wing to strengthen the Guards Division.

At half past eight o'clock in the evening, the commander of the Japanese Guards Division, Iida Shojiro, assembled more than 40,000 people from the 1st Guards Wing, the 2nd Guards Wing, the 3rd Guards Wing, the 20th Wing, the 33rd Wing, the 3rd Independent Tank Wing, the 4th Independent Tank Wing, the Guards Cavalry Wing, the Guards Field Artillery Wing, and the 11th Heavy Artillery Wing to start a counterattack against the troops of the Ninth Army.

The three divisions of the Ninth Army were forced to begin to enter a defensive state, and fierce fighting began between the two sides in the area of Pubei County.

At the same time, in the front-line headquarters of Yulin, Sun Weiguo immediately ordered the main force of the Third Cavalry Army to advance towards Qinzhou, and he knew that Qinzhou must be the location of the Japanese command organ.

In the course of one night, Iida Shojiro commanded tens of thousands of Japanese troops to counterattack the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army, and finally he also put the Fourth Wing of the Reserve Guards into the battlefield, and the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army were under tremendous pressure, and at about 3 o'clock in the morning of the 21st, the casualties of the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army exceeded 2,000, and the connection between the three divisions began to be severed.

With the three divisions unable to get in touch with each other, Sun Weiguo immediately began to order the acting army commander Zhang Wenbin to lead the troops to evacuate Pubei County first, and wait for the troops to rest and recuperate.

At the same time, the vanguard of the 201st Division, the main force of the Third Cavalry Army, had approached Qinzhou and exchanged fire with the troops of the 19th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

However, as the main force of the Third Cavalry Army arrived in Qinzhou, the bombers of the Japanese First Air Force began to take off and bomb the units of the Third Cavalry Army nearby.

On December 21, 1939, the main force of the Third Cavalry Army began to hit the periphery of Qinzhou, and the headquarters of the 22nd Army of the Japanese Army was under the attack of the Third Cavalry Army.

However, because there were Japanese aircraft carriers on the sea, the little devil aviation units were constantly dispatched, which brought great trouble to the troops of the Third Cavalry Army.

The most important point is that at present, the troops of the Third Cavalry Army are alone in penetrating deep behind enemy lines, and with the troops of the Pubei County Guards Division repelling the attack of the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army, the Third Cavalry Army has no supplies or any reinforcements, and the Japanese 18th Division and the Indochina Dispatch Army have begun to land in Qinzhou Bay.