Ishihara's initial suggestion was to abandon North China and Jiangnan, gather all troops on the Shanhai line, and support each other in the Kwantung Army and the North China Dispatch Army, ensure the security of Manchukuo, and force peace talks between China and the Soviet Union. It's a pity that he Okamura Ninji didn't realize the cleverness of this strategy until now.

Ayutthaya was still hard to accept, and it was only five days after the battle began, and for such a massive retreat, in some ways it would have been more appropriate to say that it had been abandoned.

Okamura's tone contained great pain: "If Xuanhua Xin'an does not have the Zhina Army, even if Gu'an is lost, or even Langfang is lost, we still have hope, but General China makes full use of the superior forces he has mastered to attack the Imperial Army in a vast space, our army is insufficient, outnumbered everywhere, passive everywhere, Gu'an Xin'an is the weakest two links on our defensive line, all of them were captured by him, if only one is captured, we can still fight, these two lost ,..."

Okamura no longer spoke, looking at the courtyard with a little despair, the snow that began to melt, the Zhongnanhai in early spring, has revealed a little greenery, the ancient courtyard is waking up from the loneliness of winter, but Okamura Ninji did not have the slightest throbbing of early spring, only a chill hit after a while.

Yes, the chill, Ojodo Sanji is still drafting orders, and the Banzai telegram in the middle of the Gu'an flowers and trees will be sent to Okamura's desk, if this is still within Okamura's estimate, the commander of the 116th Division, Shunjiro Takeuchi, sent an urgent telegram, and a large number of Shina troops appeared on the front line of the Pingzhang Highway.

"Xuanhua, Xin'an, and Zhuolu have been divided by the Zhina Army, and it is the 49th Group Army that is currently besieging Xin'an, the New Sixth Army besieging Zhuolu, and the 14th Group Army and the New First Army of the Zhina that surround Xuanhua, in addition to the 89th Army of the 89th Army and the New Fourth Army under the GCD, Guanzhina has invested 40 troops on the front line of Zhuolu in Xuanhua Xinbao, and the Pingzhang Highway has been cut off! The puppet army garrison stationed near the Pingzhang Highway has all defected! ”

In order to cut off the Pingzhang Highway and completely annihilate the imperial army on the northern front, General Shina invested 400,000 troops at once, so together with the Zhina Army besieging Zhangjiakou, the Zhina Army participating in the northern front operation was as high as 780,000 people, and the interspersed troops were all elites of China, needless to say, the New First Army and the New Sixth Army, two elite branches of China that had fought in Burma, also appeared in this area. General China's goal was not limited to the elimination of the seventy or eighty thousand imperial troops on the northern front.

But the next blow really knocked down Okamura, and the staff officer sent an urgent telegram from Zhangjiakou Yoshiki Sadachi to Okamura, and Okamura felt the golden flowers in front of him, his body shook, and Oshiro hurriedly stepped forward to help him.

"This morning, the 35th Army of the Chinese Army and the New 11th Army, passing through the desert area outside the Great Wall, suddenly appeared in Zhangbei in the early hours of this morning, the imperial army was caught off guard, and Zhangbei fell. At the same time as attacking Zhangbei, the Chinese army took tanks and cavalry as the vanguard, quickly moved south, attacked Wanquan, and sent the 118th Division to help, but was heavily bombed by the Chinese Air Force, the reinforcements were blocked, and all the jade of the Mucun Brigade of the Wanquan defenders was shattered, and the connection between the 63rd Division, the 129th Division and the 126th Division Xinghe Wing, which blocked the Zhina Army in the Huai'an area, was cut off from Zhangjiakou. ”

After seeing the big city, five thunders thundered, which is equivalent to more than half of the Zhangjiakou defenders were surrounded in the mountainous area between Wanquan and Huai'an, and Zhangjiakou only had a wing of the 118th Division and the 126th Division, with a total strength of less than 20,000.

"Order Yoshiki Sadachi, the 63rd Division and the 129th Division to break through immediately, and after they break through, immediately abandon Zhangjiakou, don't go to Xuanhua anymore, retreat to Rehe, and retreat directly to Chicheng."

After Okamura came to his senses, he immediately made adjustments: "Order the commander of the Takeuchi Division to stick to Xuanhua and cover the southern flank of Zhangjiakou." ”

Okamura's face was a little angry, he didn't expect that the actions of the Shina Army would be so fast, and all sides would cooperate so closely, after these two swords, the entire northern front had been shattered, and it was necessary to invest troops to save the situation, but where were the troops? The only second division that can be moved, this division is the standing division of the imperial army, which has participated in all foreign wars of the imperial army, from the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War to the China Incident, the Japanese-Soviet War, and the Pacific War.

Okamura had served as the commander of this division, but he did not dare to pin his hopes on these samurai from Sendai, who could not solve the dilemma in front of him even if they had three heads and six arms.

"Order Nakajima Yasuken to immediately lead the Fifth Division and the 3rd and 4th Chariot Divisions to the north at once and assemble in Huailai, and the 2nd Division to Huailai immediately and hold on to Huailai."

Okamura almost completely overturned the deployment just now: "Yusue Seizan took the 56th Division to return north, and Yokoyama Yong held on to Tianjin, and transferred the 132nd Division and the 114th Division, the 9th Division, and the 18th Division to assemble in Tongzhou, and telegraphed to Kawabe Shozo that he had only one day to withdraw from Langfang, and his troops were assembled in Tongzhou; Tell Isamu Yokoyama that the troops must arrive in Tongzhou before dawn tomorrow. ”

"Order Gu Shoufu to leave one or two divisions to hold Zhuozhou, and the rest of the troops will be withdrawn, let him formulate the specific plan by himself, and order it to be reported to the dispatch army headquarters before noon today." Okamura Ningji is very open in this regard, and he is not unclear about the situation in Zhuozhou, but in the end, the two divisions left, or Gu Shoufu knows best, and the retreat during the day will be heavily bombed by the Shina Air Force, and the losses will be very serious.

"Telegraphed to Commander Umezu that there were major twists and turns in the Battle of Pingjin, the troops on the northern front were divided and surrounded, I have adjusted the battlefield on the southern front, and the Kwantung Army must enter the customs within ten days, otherwise the Battle of Pingjin will be irretrievable! Cut! Cut! ”

Okamura pinned his hopes on the Kwantung Army entering the pass, and now on the Pingjin battlefield, he can only withdraw the east wall to make up the west wall, and draw so many troops from the southern front, but there can only be one, Beiping Tianjin will be surrounded, and Langfang and Zhuozhou will all be lost.

Okamura no longer cares about how much the troops will suffer if the enemy changes formation, as long as these troops can be withdrawn, even if some of them can be done.

Outside the new security city, the dust was flying, and the troops were struggling to dig trenches, and the Japanese troops at the head of the city fired a few shots from time to time, but they had no effect on the trenches that were gradually forming.

In the distance, on the hills, among the woods and rocks, the headquarters of the 49th Army was located. Guo Xunqi was looking at the map, there were many antennas in the grove, the telegraph was very busy, and the situation from all over the world was constantly gathering here.

The troops began to attack last night, and the 101st Army cut off the connection between Xin'an and Xuanhua, and launched a defense against Xuanhua, and the three divisions of the 102nd Army swept through the perimeter of Xin'an from three sides, and in just half a day, all the Japanese troops on the periphery were wiped out, and all the Japanese troops in Xin'an were surrounded.

It was an arduous march through Xishan, and there was a road from Yixian to Zhuolu, but this road was seriously damaged when the Japanese retreated, and for the sake of secrecy, the 85th Army and the New Fourth Army walked at the forefront of the entire army, building roads along the way. Fortunately, this area has always been the base of GCD, and there is a well-established grassroots government. With the support of the local government and the help of a large number of people, transportation did not bring great difficulties.

However, the problem is that the plan proposed by Wei Lihuang is not to solve the Japanese army in Zhuolu step by step, but to call for simultaneous action, and the first battle is to divide and surround Zhuolu Xinbao Xuanhua and conquer Zhuolu and Xinbao by surprise attack. For this reason, Wei Lihuang ordered the 14th Group Army, the 49th Group Army, and the Guerrilla Corps to leave the highway and insert the new security from the road to Zhuolu.

After entering the mountainous area, the 49th Army detained all the residents who were foreseen along the way and moved with the army. This caused dissatisfaction among the GCD regimes along the way, but the interspersed troops from Wei Lihuang to Guo Xunqi insisted on doing so, and Chen Geng once lodged a strong protest, but in the end did not insist, after all, they were not mistreated, and the troops also paid one fiat currency per person per day.

After eight days of arduous marching, the troops arrived at their destination two days ahead of schedule. This interspersed march, Guo Xunqi understood how the Eighth Route Army held out behind enemy lines, the residents here can always find a way, and more importantly, Guo Xunqi was worried that the food carried by the troops was insufficient, in addition to carrying ammunition, each soldier could carry up to seven days of food, but he did not expect that the people along the way under the local government organization, take the initiative to provide them with food and help transport ammunition. As soon as the troops were inserted into place, the local government sent people to contact them, and the front team had already been prepared, and the deployment map of the Japanese army was completely placed in front of him.

According to this troop deployment map, Guo Xunqi calmly deployed his troops and began to attack yesterday evening, and overnight, pulled out all the Japanese strongholds outside the city.

According to the information transmitted by the theater command before the war, the distribution of Japanese troops from Xin'an to Xuanhua was as follows: the 15th Mixed Brigade was guarding Xin'an, the 125th Division was guarding Zhuolu, and the 116th Division was in Xuanhua. Wei Lihuang's plan was for the 49th Group Army to attack Xin'an, the 14th Group Army to attack Xuanhua, and the New First Army and the New Sixth Army to attack Zhuolu. The 89th Army of the Eighth Route Army was responsible for cooperating with the attack on Zhuolu, the New Fourth Army was responsible for cooperating with the attack on Xuanhua, and Chen Geng's guerrilla corps was responsible for cooperating with the attack on Xinbao.

For this task, Guo Xunqi understood Wei Lihuang's purpose, which was to ask him to take the new security in the shortest possible time, annihilate the 15th Mixed Brigade, close the door for the Japanese army to flee to Beiping, and at the same time block the possible reinforcements of the Japanese army.

The 49th Group Army now has three armies, the 101st Army, the 102nd Army, and the 103rd Army; The total strength is as high as 130,000, except for the 107th Division, which stayed on the southern front to confuse Okamura, the rest of the troops are in the vicinity of Xin'an. Among the three armies, Guo Xunqi trusted the two armies of the original 49th Group Army the most, the 103rd Army was a newly formed unit, and the army commander Zhang Lingfu was a fierce general, but the newly formed 21st Division was adapted from a puppet army unit, and he was not sure of his combat effectiveness, so he kept the 103rd Army as a reserve, and the guerrilla corps was on alert in the direction of Huailai.

"Commander, Commander-in-Chief Wei has called, ordering us to deal with the enemy of the new security within forty-eight hours." Fu Chang handed the telegram he had just received to Guo Xunqi.

Guo Xunqi didn't look at it at all, and replied with his head raised: "Call back, take down the new security guard within 24 hours, and the ministry is willing to make a military order!" ”

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