[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 825: Smoke Rises (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the situation is very bad, the Chinese are equipped with a large number of vehicles, their speed is far beyond our expectations, and now the troops on the east and west sides have exchanged fire with the Chinese people, but the losses are very large, and the cavalry troops were collectively shattered five minutes ago. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Aso said with his head down.

"I... Target... Feeling... How's it going? ”

Seeing Saburo Aso's silent expression, Major General Hojo felt cold in his heart, knowing that the situation was definitely not very optimistic.

"Fate... Cause... Chief of Staff Aso... Temporary... Commander... Office... And then... Command the troops... Fall back... Send a report to the division headquarters... Request for combat guidance..."After Major General Hojo finished speaking, the whole person fainted again!

When I came, I was uninvited, but when I left, it was not easy to go, and the main force of the Second Division was actually so easy to break through, but fortunately, the Japanese army found out early, and the Second Division had not yet pierced the opening, so it left a chance for the Japanese army to escape.

Despite this, the Japanese army still paid heavy casualties, and when Aso Saburo Dazuo gained a foothold in Gujiaying Town, he counted his troops and found that there were only more than 12,000 people left in the entire infantry division, and more than 5,600 casualties in a day and a night, of which more than 3,000 were produced in the course of fighting with the Third Brigade, and the rest were beaten by other units of the Second Division in the last half hour of the battle.

More importantly, the vast majority of the wounded in this battle have not had time to be sent back to the rear hospital, and together with the field hospital, they have become prisoners of the Chinese people.

When the news reached Beiping, General Okamura Ninji was shocked, although he had already judged China. The army may have launched an attack from the front line of Zhangjiakou, but I did not expect the scale to be so large, the first batch of troops to participate in the attack had one integrated infantry division, in addition to a large number of artillery and chariot troops, it is no wonder that the 10th Division suffered a big loss without knowing it.

Thinking that there was now only one infantry division on the Xiayuan front, and now that this infantry division had suffered heavy losses, General Okamura Ninji did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade in Beiping to rush to Xiahuayuan, and at the same time ordered the 32nd Division in southern Hebei and the 7th Mixed Brigade in Tianjin to immediately go north and enter Beiping.

Out of the importance he attached to the Suicha Military Region, Okamura Ninji sent another telegram to the domestic base camp, requesting the base camp to immediately order the newly formed troops to be loaded and transported to the Chinese battlefield on ships, and to disembark and land in Tianjin.

However, what General Okamura Ninji didn't expect was that this was just the beginning, the 10th Division you had just gained a foothold in Gujiaying Town, and you hadn't even had time to build a defensive position. The army had already arrived, and the two sides had a confrontation across the town of Gujiaying.

On the afternoon of the 9th, two infantry brigades and one artillery regiment of the Suicha Military Region, with the cooperation of the cavalry, suddenly moved south and launched a fierce attack on the Jingle and Xinkou lines where the First Army was stationed.

Although the offensive did not last long, it caused great pressure on the imperial army on the front line, and the 37th Division, which had just been replenished, lost more than 1,600 people in just half a day, and its morale dropped significantly.

What made Okamura Ningji most angry was that while the 32nd Division of the Imperial Army was heading north, the Tuba Road, which had not moved, suddenly dispatched, and actually gathered more than 20,000 people in a short period of time to besiege Handan City, apparently not wanting the Imperial Army to go north for reinforcements.

Handan is an important city in southern Hebei, the city not only hoarded a large number of weapons and ammunition, but also a large number of looted materials and plundered mineral resources, these things are the fundamental guarantee of the imperial army's next battle, absolutely can not fall into the hands of the people, in desperation General Okamura Ningji had to transfer an infantry wing from the independent mixed ninth brigade stationed in Shimen, and transferred two infantry brigades from the puppet North China Security Army to cooperate with the infantry wing to go south.

Okamura Ninji did not force them to completely annihilate those hateful dirt roads, but asked them to ensure the safety of Handan City, at least to ensure the material safety of the city within half a month.

Okamura Ninji thought that in half a month, the domestic recruits should also arrive, and then the troops will be sufficient, and it is not certain who will fight who will fight at that time.

Not only that, in addition to the hateful Tubalu, there are signs of large-scale assembly in the first and second war zones of China, and these branches of the North China army Okamura Ninji are not clear, this group of hateful China people have long reached a tacit understanding, whether it is the south or the north, as long as there is one side fighting the imperial army, then several other armies will jump out, even if they don't really want to fight to the death with the imperial army, they will make a big mess for a while, extremely annoying.

There is no need to think about it, this time the troops of the first and second theaters of the China will definitely be mixed up, and now General Okamura Ninji is most worried that if these armies are all determined to fight to the death with the imperial army, the consequences will be very serious.

The staff officers of the General Staff Department of the Front Army just now counted that the Zhina Suicha Military Region has now opened up two battlefields on the first line of defense of the Imperial Army, and although there are not many troops invested, there are about 50,000 or 60,000 people, including many artillery units and chariot units, and the pressure on the front army is not ordinarily great.

According to the intelligence collected by the intelligence organs, the 4th, 6th, and 7th Group Armies of the Second Theater of Operations in China have been frequently mobilized, and there are signs of overwhelming dispatches, and if Yan Xishan really did this, it would be nearly 200,000 troops, and the pressure on the First Army was not small.

There is also the first war zone in China, and the news from the intelligence department is that two divisions of the 15th Army of the 14th Group Army in the first war zone in China suddenly moved to Anyang, which made General Okamura Ningji very uneasy, Anyang is the northern gateway of Henan, and out of Anyang, you can go straight to southern Hebei and then attack Handan and Xingtai. The 39th Group Army stationed in southern Hebei is also massing on a large scale, and its target must be the imperial army in southern Hebei.

If all these armies were to rush together, their total strength would be at least 350,000. If reinforcements do not arrive in time, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After analyzing the situation on the battlefield, Chief of Staff Yukio Kasawara believes that the most important thing now is to hold four points, the first point is the lower garden, which is the gateway to Beiping, and there is no room for loss. The second point is Xinkou, which is a springboard for attacking Taiyuan, as long as Xinkou is held, the people of China will not be able to capture Taiyuan.

The third point is Shimen, which is the most important transportation hub in North China. At the same time, it is also the logistics base of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, as long as Shimen is not lost, even if Taiyuan is lost, the First Army stationed in Shanxi can calmly withdraw into the central Hebei region, and then wait for the opportunity to move.

The fourth point is Handan, which is an important town in southern Hebei. Once something happened in Handan, the Chinese army would quickly go north to besiege Shimen.

General Okamura Ninji felt that what Kasahara Yukio said was very reasonable, now the enemy is strong and I am weak, and how to defend is the last word, so Okamura Ninji decided to appoint Kasahara Yukio as the commander-in-chief of the northern front, responsible for the battle in the direction of Shimozona, after all, this is the main battlefield, and it is not allowed to be sloppy.

The war situation in northern China quickly escalated into a duel between hundreds of thousands of troops in a few days, and the eyes of all countries in the world also converged on northern China, and American commentators even said: "This is the pinnacle showdown between the largest strategic blocs of China and Japan, and this battle will be a major turning point in the Sino-Japanese war." If China wins, the adverse effects of separatism in the south will be eliminated in a very short period of time, and the situation of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression will also be fundamentally reversed. If the Japanese win, then the bad effects of the division will be unprecedentedly intensified, and the war will develop in a direction that is unfavorable to China. ”

Ma Zheng didn't take the reaction of the outside world to heart, this time he didn't think that this would turn North China upside down, but he just wanted to mobilize the First Army stationed in Shanxi and the Japanese army in the Pingjin area, so that they had no time to take care of it, and let Lao Jiang sing a good play in Changsha. (To be continued.) )