[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 687: Battle Plan No. 1 (Subscription Requested!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The battle on the Zhongtiao Mountain side has entered the most fierce white-hot stage, and after the Japanese army broke through all the defensive positions in the Zhongtiao Mountain area, it quickly completed the double encirclement of the **** inside and outside, and then turned into repeated sweeps of the Chinese defenders. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Japanese offensive caused heavy losses to the troops left behind in the First Theater to defend Zhongtiao Mountain, many units were annihilated in formations, senior generals were killed one by one, and the entire line was crumbling, especially the Fifth Army and the 14th Army were still in the encirclement of the Japanese army, and there was no hope of breaking through, and the situation was extremely dangerous.

But at this moment, news suddenly came from the rear that the main force of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army raided Zaozhuang, an important town in southern Lunan, and used the usual encirclement tactics to completely annihilate the reinforcements of an infantry brigade on the Linyi side, and successfully captured the two big cities of Zaozhuang and Linyi at two o'clock in the morning on the 19th, annihilating more than 3,000 Japanese puppet troops, more than 1,600 puppet troops, and capturing 1,200 people.

More importantly, after the Eighth Route Army captured Zaozhuang, the main force did not flee far, but went directly south, threatening the security of the military town of Xuzhou.

A few days ago, because Yan'an had not replied to the Nationalist Government for a long time, it was attacked by some people who did not know the truth. I didn't expect that in the past few days, the Eighth Route Army would have fought such a battle in Lunan, it was a slap in the face!

Zaozhuang and Linyi were captured, the important town of Xuzhou was in danger, Ma Zheng hit the waist pole of the Japanese army directly, and the angry Tada Jun had to order the 21st Division and the 33rd Division on the Zhongtiao Mountain front line to immediately return to Shandong.

The 1st Theater of the Nationalist Government took this opportunity to order the main force to break through the encirclement, and after four days and five nights of continuous fighting, the main force of the defenders broke through one after another after suffering heavy casualties. The remnants of the 3rd and 15th armies, led by Zeng Wanzhong, commander of the 5th Group Army, crossed the Yellow River to the west and moved to Luoyang and Xin'an for rectification.

The troops that retreated to the Taiyue District were under the command of Liu Kan, commander of the 93rd Army. When it was learned that it was no longer possible to retreat south, they moved westward through the enemy's gaps, crossed the southern section of Tongpu Road, crossed the Yellow River west of Vang Vieng County to Hancheng in Shaanxi Province, and then returned to the 1st Theater of Operations.

The first part of the 98th Army also entered the Taiyue Mountains, the 43rd Army moved to Fushan and Yicheng, and the main force of the 9th Army crossed south from Xiaodu and Guanyang Ferry respectively after guerrilla attacks in the western section of Daoqing Road and Jiyuan Mountain for several days......

With the withdrawal of most of the defenders of Nakajo Mountain from the Nakajo Mountain area, the Battle of Nakajo Mountain came to an end.

On December 25, the North China Front Army Headquarters announced the end of the "Central Plains Battle" for the attack on Zhongtiao Mountain, and then the North China Front Army held a summary meeting in Beiping.

Tada Jun, commander of the North China Front, delivered a speech at the summing up meeting, fully affirming the results of the operation and putting forward his views on the future public order operations in North China. The participants had a discussion. At the end of the meeting, Tada Jun pointed out in particular that it is necessary to actively fight and adopt a combination of military and political forces to thoroughly wipe out the Eighth Route Army, guerrillas, and militia forces in North China.

On the same day, after joint discussions among the commanders of the divisions and brigades of the North China Front, a plan called "Operation No. 1" was decided, which was mainly aimed at the Eighth Route Army in North China, which was also the first operational plan that the Japanese army was preparing to implement in 1940.

According to the plan, Lieutenant General Tada Jun ordered the various divisions and regiments that had attacked Zhongtiao Mountain some time ago to be quickly rebuilt, and urgently transferred the 32nd and 35th divisions to southern Hebei, while the 10th, 26th, 21st, 20th, 5th, 36th, 37th, and 41st divisions, as well as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 9th brigades of the independent mixed brigade also joined the battle to participate in the attack on Yan Xishan's headquarters in the second war zone. The 26th Division, which had weak combat effectiveness, launched a large-scale attack on the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong with the cooperation of the 7th Independent Regiment and the 8th Brigade.

Lieutenant General Tada Jun has made a bloody investment this time, in order to be foolproof, this time he even did not call a single soldier of the puppet army, but only ordered all the puppet troops to cooperate with the Japanese army that did not have an offensive combat mission to defend the cities in the rear.

In addition, General Tada Jun can be regarded as mobilizing all the troops that can be mobilized, and the troops directly involved in the attack on the second war zone have reached 4 divisions and 4 independent mixed infantry brigades, with a total strength of 100,000 troops.

The number of troops participating in the attack on Jizhong also reached one division and two mixed brigades, with a total strength of about 30,000. There were also two divisions of more than 30,000 people attacking southern Hebei, with a total strength of 160,000 troops, which was almost all the mobile forces that Tada Jun could use.

In fact, it was completely predictable that the Japanese army would concentrate on dealing with the Eighth Route Army, and after Ma Zheng's headquarters captured northern Jin and also attacked Qingdao and Tianjin, the Japanese high-level view of the Eighth Route Army changed qualitatively.

In the past, in the eyes of the Japanese military leadership, the Eighth Route Army was nothing more than incurable psoriasis, which was painful but not fatal. However, now it is different, psoriasis has become cancerous, not only painful, but also fatal, and the slightest carelessness may lead to death.

The growth of the strength of the Eighth Route Army in recent years is obvious to all, and this is not a trivial matter. This is intolerable to the little devils who are bent on establishing the so-called Greater East Asia Co-prosperity, and they absolutely do not want to see the emergence of a force in the puppet Manchurians and North China that can threaten the security of the Japanese army, and it is inevitable to launch a comprehensive purge of the Eighth Route Army.

It's just that the resistance of the Nationalist Government in the south is still fierce, and the two sides have been stumbling in Wuhan and its surrounding areas for a while. Although the Nationalist government was defeated in this battle, it still caused great casualties to the Japanese army. This made it impossible for the Japanese army to attack Changsha and Chongqing, and at the same time, it had to station large troops around Wuhan to prevent a possible counteroffensive by the Nationalist government.

Because of this, the Japanese army was severely short of troops in other theaters of China. Coupled with the continuous strikes of Ma Zheng's troops in the north, the North China Front has been in a state of imbalance in strength for a long time.

Originally, the North China Front believed that the strength of nine divisions, four independent mixed brigades, and six independent wings under its jurisdiction, together with some puppet armies, could completely meet the control of North China. However, since the Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River eastward and came to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, the good days of the Japanese army have come to an end.

Although the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army did not fight a few decent battles of annihilation, the results achieved by the guerrilla tactics of cold guns and cold artillery were equally surprising. Moreover, Ma Zheng's subordinate created a shocking military legend, with a remnant battalion developing into a behemoth that people look up to in three years.

The army is insufficient, and the loss of cities and lands has become the norm. In the past, what was damaged was only the barren land of the two provinces of Suicha, but now not only the entire Suicha prairie is occupied by Ma Zheng's department, but even the eastern Hebei and northern Hebei and northern Jin, which connect the inside and outside the Guan, are under the threat of killing the gods of that Zhina.

Especially this time, Ma Zheng's headquarters directly hit Beiping City, and almost gave the North China Front Army Headquarters a pot, which made Lieutenant General Tada Jun really see the strength of Ma Zheng's department. With what he knows about Ma Zheng, this is definitely a difficult opponent. Either you don't do it, or if you want to do it, you have to thunder and kill with one blow. With such a powerful opponent eyeing him around, even Tada, a high-ranking general who prides himself on being a true Yamato warrior, is terrified!

What's more, this time, when the Eighth Route Army was organizing the Battle of the Central Plains, he slapped him in Lunan with a cold shot, so that the entire battle fell short. Seeing that the army was about to encircle and annihilate the main force of the first war zone in Zhongtiao Mountain, there was a dangerous situation in the rear, and it had to abandon the original battle plan and urgently return to Xuzhou.

This made Tada Jun more clearly aware of the danger of the Eighth Route Army, and he must immediately remove these "tumors", otherwise he might wake up one day and become a prisoner of the Chinese people, and it is even possible that he will be dragged around by the Chinese people like His Excellency Hasunuma Pan. Thinking of these Tada Jun, I couldn't help but be frightened, so I made up my mind to solve the problem of the Eighth Route Army. (To be continued.) )