(Well, the results of this book have been tepid, and the updates have been the same, for more than half a year, it has been two updates a day.) The previous practice of adding a deacon and adding a new chapter was not adhered to. Hammer is deeply sorry. However, as an office worker, sometimes I am a little busy, and I have not stopped updating until now, and I am already insisting, and the data of the book is a little bleak. But Hammer will insist on finishing the book. Well, I guess there's still at least a month or two left in the budget.

Well, without further ado, let's start talking about the main point now, during the May Day period, the hammer took advantage of the holiday and saved a little bit of the manuscript. Tomorrow there will be a small outbreak. Well, it started at 0:05 when it broke out. At least 6 chapters in half an hour. It depends on the situation throughout the day, and whether it is more depends on the outbreak tomorrow. Please pay attention to the book friends. ）

On the one hand, Yan Xishan was indeed selfish, and on the other hand, the situation in Shanxi was indeed too embarrassing at this time, and the defenders of all fronts suffered heavy losses under the fierce attack of the Japanese army. All the troops were reaching out to him, the commander of the theater, for ammunition, food, and replenishment. Yan Xishan was also a little unsustainable.

Zhao Shoushan led the 17th Division to fight fiercely with the Japanese army for nine days and nights, and the entire division of more than 13,000 people fought to the point that there were only 3,000 people, including the wounded, and there was no way to continue, so he could only retreat backwards with the remnants.

After paying nearly 40,000 casualties, Xinkou was finally taken. At this point, Taiyuan has completely opened up to the Japanese army.

"What an eventful season!" After receiving the telegram, Li Du, who personally greeted Jiang Li in Baotou, was wearing a military coat and a long cloak at this time. Northland in December. The cold wind was already quite bitter. Even if it is wrapped in a woolen coat produced in the Northwest. Wearing military boots. Under this cold wind, there is not much warmth on the body.

"It's winter now, and before I came, there was a light snow in Lanzhou."

When Jiang Li spoke, white gas gushed from his mouth, and it wouldn't be long before the northern country would turn into a snow-capped country of ice and snow. The eventful time that Li Du said was in the last month. It was the failure of the Battle of Xinkou and the Battle of Songhu, and then the two group armies of Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu, as well as Song Zheyuan and Sun Dianying, also withdrew from Baoding and Cangzhou and retreated to Shijiazhuang. The 5th Army led by Li Du fought no less than 100 battles with the Japanese army, and finally gave up Guisui and temporarily withdrew westward. Battle of Guisui. Ended in the victory of the Japanese army.

Nanjing, on the other hand, fought fiercely with the Japanese army at Songhu for several months. The expected intervention of the Great Powers has also been delayed. In the end, it was declared a failure.

The defeat of the Republic of China in four directions in a row did raise the morale of the Japanese army, which had been frustrated in the attack, and although the will of the Republic of China was still resolute in resisting the war, a pessimistic atmosphere did linger.

"Nanjing, the Battle of Songhu failed, hundreds of thousands of troops were congested on the retreating road, all messed up, and then the Japanese planes were blown up from the air, completely collapsed, hundreds of thousands of people, to drive the ducks all the way to the east, the casualties are not counted, those soldiers who did not die on the battlefield died on the way to escape, even if they retreat to Nanjing, it is difficult to recover their vitality, Nanjing is afraid that this time I am really unable to keep it." Li Du sighed heavily, although the northwest has deduced the war situation of the Republic of China against Japan countless times, and has already expected the result of the fall of Nanjing, but Nanjing at this time is still the political center of the Republic of China after all, and it is really time for this moment to come. I was a little reluctant to accept it.

"The Jin Sui Army, as well as Wei Lihuang's 14th Group Army, and Zhu Zong's 18th Group Army suffered small losses in Shanxi. In particular, Yan Xishan's spirit was also defeated in this battle, and now he only thinks about moving things out of Taiyuan as much as possible, and it is only a matter of time before Taiyuan falls. Xing Zhanqing continued, "In comparison, our Northwest Army's current losses are relatively small, and it still has the strength to arrange large-scale battles, and now that the cold winter has arrived, the Japanese army will definitely not be able to maintain the previous advance speed." It's a blessing in misfortune. ”

"The Japanese army's three-plate axe is only the first axe now, and the difficult days are still very long."

Jiang Li shook his head, maybe he didn't know about every war against Japan in history, but Jiang Li still remembered the general process in history. According to the course of the original history, half a month ago, Taiyuan and Shanghai had already fallen, while Shijiazhuang and Handan had long fallen into the hands of the Japanese army. The Japanese took Hebei almost effortlessly. In the Battle of Baoding, the Japanese army again lost nearly 7,000 casualties, plus more than 28,000 wounded.

At this time, the Japanese army directly killed nearly 30,000 people in Hebei alone, and nearly 70,000 were lightly and seriously wounded. In history, because Song Zheyuan's preparation was not enough, because of Liu Zhi's collapse. The Japanese army took the whole of Hebei at the cost of less than 3,000 men, and at this time, the Japanese army spent more than ten times the cost to defeat half of it.

It took three months for the Japanese army to fight all the way to Taiyuan. With more than 100 casualties, most of Suiyuan was taken. And now, the Japanese army paid almost the same price to lay the Xinkou front. More than 6,000 Japanese soldiers were killed before they were defeated.

"In the entire Northern Theater, the Japanese army directly killed nearly 60,000 people. The loss of land and the preservation of people, the loss of the Japanese army was also quite large. If we count the losses of the Japanese army in Songhu, in less than half a year, the Japanese army lost nearly 80,000 people, the Japanese army has completed the set strategic goal, and our battle plan has also been completed. In this way, if it takes a few more years, the Japanese army will be exhausted. After saying all the bad news, compared to the gloomy clouds in public opinion now, Li Du showed a smile on his face.

One hundred or two hundred thousand Japanese troops can be consumed in a year, and in a few years, the elite veterans of the Japanese army will be almost exhausted, and the quality will inevitably decline sharply in the future, and the casualties will only get bigger and bigger. The situation that Li Du said is also what the Northwest General Staff hopes to achieve.

"Let's go, I'll go see how the fortifications around Baotou are being built. If it's not built, it's going to fall on you. ”

Jiang Li strode forward. Li Du fought neatly in the first battle of Suiyuan, easily cleaned up the five or six thousand Japanese puppet army, and completely knocked out the courage of the puppet army in the first battle. It also caused the Japanese army on the Shanxi side to have to draw reinforcements to reinforce it. The war that followed was decent, and there were no major moves. On the one hand, there is Hebei, and Henan involves too much energy in the northwest. In addition, on the more important aspect, Jiang Li did not really want to have a big showdown with the Japanese army in Guisui, but took advantage of the opportunity to fight the Japanese army in Guisui to build a defensive line on the outer positions of Baotou. Operate the permanent fortification group here, and at the same time, make preliminary preparations for the development of Baotou iron mine. While the Japanese army was carrying out the Battle of Baoding and the Battle of Xinkou, it did not have the energy to launch another large-scale offensive in Suiyuan. After all, on the front line of Xinkou, if it wasn't for the success of the flank attack on Niangziguan, the Japanese army might have to pay more heavy casualties, at least before taking Taiyuan, there was no energy to deal with the Northwest Army in Suiyuan for the time being. At this time, the main task of the 5th Army was not to start a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Suiyuan, but to protect the safety of the Baotou front line, and to hold back a part of the Japanese army, so that the North China Front Army needed to transfer a force to hold the rear passage at any time. (To be continued.) )