Jiang Li looked at Dai Jitao with a snort, this guy didn't have a provocative meaning in his words, did he really think he couldn't hear it?

Hearing Jiang Li's exposure of Nanjing's successive defeats on the battlefield so openly, Dai Jitao's face froze, but after all, he had experienced a lot of winds and waves, how could he lose his sense of proportion because of one or two words. smiled at the moment, "The Japanese army is strong, and it is reasonable to have occasional defeats, and the central government is now mobilizing troops to fight a bloody battle with the Japanese army in Songhu, although it has suffered heavy losses, but it has not lost too many places." Didn't the north also lose Pingjin under the attack of the Japanese army? ”

"Dead ducks have hard mouths. Do I dare to take out the casualty report of the Northwest Army in Hebei and Suiyuan, and the Central Committee dare to take out the casualty report in Songhu? The 29th Army and the 2nd Army successively surrounded and annihilated two wings of the Japanese army, can you do it? It seems that in the early days of the Battle of Songhu, a group army fought for several days around the Japanese army of less than 4,000 people without results, right? In a battle to defend Langfang, my mechanized brigade killed dozens of Japanese tanks, and you don't have this record now, right? Jiang Li smiled and said.

"In short, it is not easy for you to come to Lanzhou this time, so I will bring a message to Chairman Jiang, at the moment I don't have the energy to take care of the south, and I also ask Chairman Jiang to concentrate on the southern battlefield, this time I will do something to Henan, and it is true that Nanjing does not have the ability to run the Henan battlefield. Songhu saw that it could not be defended, Nanjing could only retreat to Wuhan, and the Northwest Army guarded the north of Pinghan Road, and the north of Wuhan could at least sit back and relax. I also don't want the basket to go out from the south, and the Japanese army will go north from the Pinghan Road. As long as we can hold the two points of Zhengzhou and Wuhan, we can hold back the main force of the Japanese army. Drag the Japanese army into the bottomless abyss of a war of attrition. The Japanese army lacked stamina. Consume three or four years. It's exhausting. We still have a chance to win this battle, it's just a little longer. ”

Although Jiang Li is young, his joy and anger are invisible, and he is perfect at controlling his emotions. Although the young marshal still has a certain influence on the Northeast Army, more than a dozen divisions of the Northeast Army have been sent to various places and can no longer form an effective joint force. The Northwest will definitely not allow the Northeast Army to gather in one place again. With the rest of the Northeast Army's shallow views on the generals. Although Yu Xuezhong, Liu Duoquan, Wu Keren and others and He Zhuguo still have friendship with Zhang Xueliang, they already have a good impression of the Northwest Army's resoluteness in the War of Resistance. He has also served the battlefield several times and made great achievements. Zhang Xueliang himself, although he may not have the heart to retreat, but in Lanzhou, he is already lonely, and he has no intention of resolutely confronting Jiang Li. See the rest. Within three and five years, the Northeast Army will be completely annexed by the Northwest Army.

After all, Zhang Xueliang still wanted the Northeast Army to fight the Japanese. And so far, there is no doubt that only the Northwest Army and the Japanese army are fighting the most fiercely, and the Northeast Army, which was defeated by the Japanese army in the past, has also been reborn this time, which is also what Zhang Xueliang is willing to see. After realizing how he agitated, Zhang Xueliang would not completely confront Jiang Li, and after realizing Jiang Li's degree of control over the northwest, with such a conclusion, Dai Jitao left Lanzhou with some regret. However, when he left Lanzhou, Dai Jitao was also a little fortunate in his heart, fortunately there was at least such a strong man in the north, maybe only such an extremely confident and strong person could integrate the north into one, firmly block the Japanese army in the north, and avoid the successful meeting of the Japanese army in the two directions of North China and East China. The northwest is no longer a threat to Nanjing, after all, it is only an internal enemy, and it is no better than a foreign thief.

The defeat suffered by the Pingsui detachment and the puppet army in the western part of Suiyuan made the Japanese high-level look sideways again. And the Mengjiang Army, which gathered one division and two mixed brigades, and a large number of puppet army retinues, was defeated one after another in front of Li Du's 5th Army. Even due to the fiasco of the Pingsui detachment, the Japanese army, which had not yet gained a firm foothold in Guisui, was even driven out. This made Guisui the first provincial capital city that could be successfully recovered by the Republic of China after the Japanese occupation. The morale of the Republic of China was greatly encouraged, and the Japanese army was naturally shaken even more.

While the Northwest fought hard with the main force of the North China Front in Hebei, inflicting huge casualties on the North China Front, it was still capable of launching a counteroffensive of such a scale in Suiyuan. In the final analysis, it was the Japanese army that assigned Jingsui to the North China Front, and the technical units allocated to the Mengjiang Army were insufficient, if it were not for the air power that still suppressed the front line of the Northwest Army, perhaps the 5th Army would have stepped on the road east of Guisui at this time. Rao is so, and it is enough for the Japanese army to break out in a cold sweat, after all, if the northwest really has the strength to suppress the Mengjiang army, if there are hole cards behind, and hit Datong in one go, then the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops who entered Shanxi will have no way forward, and there will be pursuers later. Fortunately, the Northwest Army still took the initiative to stop at Guisui after all. did not show the posture and intention of further eastward advance, even if this was pro, the Japanese army had to urgently transfer two infantry wings from the North China Front, and cooperate with heavy artillery, engineers, and armored troops to form a detachment again and temporarily assign it to the command of the Mengjiang Army, so as to re-suppress Li Du's 5th Army.

However, due to the excessive deployment of troops, the number of Japanese troops who launched the Battle of Xinkou was insufficient. In history, more than 100,000 Japanese troops opened a front on the front line of Xinkou and attacked fiercely. At this time, due to the pressure of the Suiyuan front, the Japanese army had to transfer a capable force to Suiyuan to the north, and at the same time, it also reserved a force in the Datong and Zhangjiakou areas to prevent the situation in Suiyuan from changing again, leading to irreparable consequences. As a result, the number of troops thrown by the Japanese army on the Xinkou line was reduced by nearly one-fifth compared with history. greatly relieved the pressure on the defenders on the front line of Xinkou.

The Japanese army attacked Xinkou several times without success, and suffered serious casualties, so a force was sent to flank Niangzi Pass, because the Japanese army marched extremely fast, originally there were Sun Lianzhong, Feng Qinya's 26, 27 Route Army on the front line of Niangzi Pass. However, Feng Qinya's prestige at this time was not enough to deter his subordinate departments, coupled with the inconvenience of communication, he could not coordinate the contact between the various departments in time, and the army was not subordinate to each other, and the command was extremely chaotic while the Japanese army was pressing the border. Yan Xishan only had time to send the 17th Division for reinforcements. The warehouse of the 17th Division rushed to Niangzi Pass, and the Japanese army had already arrived before it had much time to prepare, and the area around Niangzi Pass was full of mountains, and the defenders had to use sacks to build some extremely simple fortifications, and use these fortifications to resist the attack of Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery.

The Japanese army engaged in fierce battles with the defenders at the Xuehua Mountain and Donkey Ridge positions, and the positions changed hands several times.

Division Commander Zhao led the 17th Division to fight fiercely with the Japanese army in important positions such as Jingcheng, Xuehua Mountain, and Donkey Ridge, and suffered great losses. He had called Nanjing several times to ask for a supplement, but Nanjing only called back that he should obey Yan and Huang. (To be continued.) )