[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 996: The Countermeasures of the Base Camp (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Okamura Ninji was unusually bitter at this time, he suddenly found that he had lost his grasp and control of the overall situation, and now there were wars everywhere, and they were losing battles everywhere, and the situation in North and North China was out of control all of a sudden. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Now the Japanese army on the entire Shanxi battlefield alone has almost lost the initiative, and even the situation in Hebei is the same, which is even more serious.

Although the headquarters of the North China Front in the Beijing-Tianjin area has not been threatened at present, and Tangshan and Zhulu have not yet been broken through, starting from Laiyuan, Ma Zheng's headquarters has formed a trend of cutting down the Japanese puppet army in the Hebei region. As long as Ma Zheng's troops won Zhulu, then all the air superiority of the Japanese army in the North China battlefield would be lost.

In addition, after winning Zhulu, Ma Zheng's troops could turn to attack Yixian in the west of Tianjin, and then they could not only cut off the connection between the Japanese army in the Hengshui area and the General Headquarters of the North China Front, but also attack the imperial army in Hengshui from the north and south with the troops in southern Hebei.

Not to mention the situation in southern Hebei, since the end of the last southern Hebei war, the North China Front has lost control of the southern Hebei region. Although later due to the vigorous attack of the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army and Gao Shuxun's headquarters withdrew from Jizhong, but they controlled most of the small towns in southern Hebei and central Hebei, and Ma Zheng's troops controlled important strongholds such as Shimen, Zhengding, and Zhulu.

Since Ma Zheng's department launched the war this time, the 39th Group Army after the reorganization has also attacked strongly, and tens of thousands of troops of the Eighth Route Army have gathered in southern Hebei, and the Japanese puppet army in southern Hebei has been extremely airtight to protect itself, so they have to withdraw to the front line of Hengshui to deploy defenses.

The best situation is in Shandong, because the number of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong is not large, and it is mainly guerrillas, and there is only a small part of the regular army, and at this time in Shandong except for a small number of puppet troops, the vast majority of the rest are real Japanese troops, although not all of them are the elite of the Japanese army, but there is still no problem in dealing with those guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

However, if you look at the entire battlefield, you will find that if the Japanese army at this time does not have enough reinforcements to support, then the best result is only to withdraw from North China.

Therefore, after seeing the situation clearly, General Okamura Ninji hurriedly sent the only infantry brigade in his hand to Zhulu, and together with the 26th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Zhulu, he held Zhulu City.

At the same time, Okamura Ninji did not hesitate to put down his posture and ask for help from the base camp, because the North China Front at this time was really at a critical juncture of life and death this time.

Okamura Ninji can also be regarded as a tumbler in the officialdom in Japan, and he still has a certain foundation in the country, so as soon as his telegram for help was sent to Japan, he was directly sent to the desk of Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace.

It was no secret that the news about the unfavorable war in North China during this period was not a secret, and both the Asahi Shimbun, the most important media in Japan, and the newspapers of other countries in Tokyo rushed to report on the poor performance of the Japanese army in the North China battlefield.

But neither Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace nor Emperor Hirohito of Japan thought that the situation would be so eroded, and it was still a simple defeat in the war, which was clearly a big rout, and it was also a big rout of a front army, and the consequences were simply catastrophic.

After reading Okamura Ninji's telegram, Prince Zaihito was taken aback, and immediately went to the palace to meet the Japanese emperor, and immediately after obtaining the emperor's consent, he immediately issued Japan's third national war mobilization to the whole country, preparing to continue to form new troops, and planned to recruit 400,000 people within three months and form 20 infantry divisions to be put into the Chinese battlefield.

As for the current mess in North China, Prince Zaihito of Xianyuan Palace did not let it rot like this, and he personally ordered the Kwantung Army to immediately transfer the Third Army into Guannai, and directly attack the troops in the eastern Hebei region of the Suicha Military Region from the northeast to the south, and also transfer all of the Eleventh Army and two other mixed brigades into North China to assist General Okamura Ninji in garrisoning North China.

But it's a pity that this time the Eighth Route Army had a surprisingly tacit understanding and didn't give the Japanese army this opportunity at all. Anan Weiji is now in Henan, and is fighting with Xue Yue's First Corps, and the main force of the 11th Army is in Hubei, and the telegram from the Japanese army base camp has just been intercepted by the Kuomintang military commanders as soon as it reaches Nanjing, and then it was sent to Dai Li's hands as quickly as possible, and then Dai Li directly broke into Lao Jiang's study and presented this important information to Lao Jiang.

Although Lao Chiang was not a qualified commander, he was a qualified and even excellent politician, and he saw the potential value of this information at a glance.

The Japanese army actually transferred the 11th Army into North China, then it can only explain one problem, that is, the little devils in North China can't withstand it, that is to say, as long as they work harder, they can take back the entire North China region, and even severely damage the Japanese North China Front, this temptation is not ordinary.

But now the problem is that it was not the Central Army that he was proud of that defeated the Japanese army in North China, but the troops of the Tugong (Communists), and now the forces of Yan'an are all over the north, and the territory under direct control is most of Suiyuan, the entire Chahar, the small half of Shanxi, Hebei and Rehe, if they are allowed to occupy the entire North China, then it will be disastrous for the Nationalist Government, and the external troubles have not been eliminated and the internal troubles have arisen, which makes Lao Jiang very entangled.

Originally, according to Lao Chiang's approach, he allowed the Japanese army to go north and let the Japanese army fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army, while his Central Army was the last to clean up the battlefield.

However, there were still some people with more strategic vision in the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, and Bai Chongxi, then chief of the Army General Staff of the Nationalist Government, was resolutely opposed to allowing the 11th Army to move north.

The reason is that the Japanese army has now occupied the whole of Southeast Asia, and the troops have invaded Burma, and the British army stationed in Burma is not a hierarchical opponent with the Japanese army in terms of combat effectiveness or will to fight, so the competition between the government and the Japanese army in Burma has become an inevitable trend.

At present, the progress of the expeditionary force in northern Burma is not ideal, so it is inevitable that one day the Japanese army will directly attack the rear from Yunnan and other places, and then the government can only withdraw to the more remote Qinghai or Gansu, and it is really unknown whether the government can exist at that time.

Therefore, the government must now establish good relations with the Yan'an side, and if it can, it can take advantage of this time to have a long talk with the Yan'an side and strive to recover some of the territory from the Yan'an side.

In this way, the Yan'an side will certainly show the government's affection, and the government can also take this opportunity to win more US aid and improve the government's international relations and international image. At the same time, the government can also take this opportunity to recruit more people into the army.

Therefore, it is beneficial for the country and the nation to drag the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, and even all the Japanese puppet troops in Henan, so what the government has to do now is to drag the Japanese puppet army in the south at all costs, and it is absolutely impossible to let them go north to support the old devil Okamura Ningji.

Of course, the government should not just let the Yan'an side take advantage, and the government should immediately send a negotiation team to contact and negotiate with the Yan'an side to distribute the recovered territory in North China.

Bai Chongxi, known as Xiao Zhuge and a famous general in the Gui army, so in terms of strategy, Lao Jiang still trusts Bai Chongxi, although Lao Jiang and the Gui army have also competed to the death.

Moreover, even Chen Cheng, Minister of National Defense at this time, and He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, did not approve of letting the Japanese army go north, so after thinking about it for a while, Lao Chiang decided to immediately send a high-level negotiation team to Yan'an to negotiate with Yan'an.

At the same time, Zhang Fakui's Second Corps and Tang Enbo's 21st Group Army in the First Theater were ordered to immediately prepare for battle and be ready to fight the Japanese 11th Army at any time.

Let's not mention that Okamura Ningji is waiting for reinforcements on his side, let's just say that Anan Weiji's side is indeed doing his best, but who made him the commander opposite is the Chinese warrior Xue Yue, whose command level is even higher than that of Anan Weiji.

Moreover, in 1938, Xue Yue was defeated in Henan during the Battle of Lanfeng, so it has become Xue Yue's heart disease in recent years, so in a dispatch to Henan, Xue Yue vowed to be ashamed.

Therefore, the First Corps burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness and cohesion from top to bottom, and for a time the tens of thousands of troops commanded by Anan Weiji were unable to break through the defense line of Xue Yue's department, and the two sides confronted each other in the Xuchang area of Henan for more than half a month.