The key to the rapid implementation of Umezu Mijiro's strategic intentions was to have a strong force to carry out the break, but it seems that the First Front and the Second Front no longer have such a force capable of undertaking such an important task. Umezu Mijiro finally decided to transfer the 6th Division from the 3rd Front Army attacking Zhangjiakou, but was unexpectedly strongly resisted by Yamashita Fengfumi, and finally had no choice but to transfer the 13th Division, 16th Division, 18th Division, 101st Division, 114th Division, 116th Division, and the main force of the other four brigades and regiments from the North China Front under Okamura Ninji, and the 16th Brigade and Regiment of the 6th and 7th Brigades of the Field Heavy Artillery, and the 11th and 12th Wings of the Reading Tank, and the 16th Division. The 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery and the 12th Wing of the Reading Combat Vehicle acted as the blocking force, and the rest of the units quickly retreated and contracted their defenses.

In Zhang Xuewu's opinion, he said that he was not a master who would accept it when he saw it, and he also hit the south wall and did not look back. This is the old-fashioned trick I am used to.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu has been unhurriedly completing the strategic deployment of closing the network, he is afraid that the deployment will be too fast, and the army will be alarmed, but he did not expect that the trusted commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, predicted his encirclement and annihilation plan without any intelligence support and interpretation, and the remnants of the Kwantung Army immediately contracted and retreated, which once again caught Zhang Xuewu off guard. And it was an overnight escape with a lost armor? Even during the day, despite air raids, there is a frantic retreat along the road?

Zhang Xuewu ordered the entire Rehe Air Force to dispatch a strike at the retreating troops of the Yue Army along the way, and the 1st Armored Division, the 2nd Armored Division, the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Divisions of the Youth Army, the Huben Division, and the 1st Honor Division formed a front and crushed in the direction of the retreat of the Yue Army.

In the direction of Zhangjiakou, the garrison troops cooperated with the 9th, 10th, and 11th divisions of the Youth Army that had come from the reinforcements to carry out a counterattack on the Third Front Army of the Kwantung Army under the command of Fengwen at Yamashita Mountain, and the main force of the 3rd Armored Division cooperated with the 3rd and 12th Divisions of the Youth Army to enter Baotou, posing a threat to the Yue Army north of Taiyuan. Because in the sequence of the combat troops attacking Zhangjiakou, there was a unit of the army that had committed a lot of crimes, the sixth division of the army, in order to hide the whereabouts of its troops and the direction of the intention of the attack, the sixth division of the army slaughtered nearly 20,000 Chinese civilians along the way, and the army suffered heavy losses in Nanjing because of the strong resistance of the [***] team, so at this time all its beast surnames were vented to the innocent Chinese civilians, perhaps history is really irreversible?

The army failed to carry out the massacre in Nanjing, but slaughtered more than 50,000 innocent civilians in the attack on the 10th theater of operations, which was the most unbearable for Zhang Xuewu, robbery and forcible annihilation were no longer atrocities for the army, on the vast snowfield, thousands of corpses in different postures were frozen like statues piled up into a hill, and even smashed an ice hole on the frozen lake, pushing the Chinese people directly through the strings of wires. In the end, all kinds of faces froze under the ice on the surface of the lake! Zhang Xuewu personally inspected the plan before deciding to implement a comprehensive counterattack plan.

For this plan, Zhang Xuewu ignored his fuel reserves and ammunition reserves to reduce the minimum cordon, and after asking the Soviet side for urgent assistance has not been replied, Zhang Xuewu resolutely decided to take the risk of carrying out a counterattack on all fronts. The first, second, and third front armies of its main force have all suffered a certain amount of attrition, and the troops of the Chinese army, as the attacking side, have been fighting continuously in the ice and snow for more than a month, so the non-combat attrition of the various units of the Chinese army is also extremely serious.

Zhang Xuewu's counterattack was also greatly unexpected by Umezu Mijiro and Okamura Ninji, Umezu Mijiro thought that Zhang Xuewu was also very eager to rush to a truce to make up for it, after all, in this time the Chinese civil axe played an extremely disgraceful role in watching the tiger fight, so the tenth theater of operations will make corresponding measures to preserve strength, but Umezu Mijiro found that he was wrong, and he was very wrong, Mijiro Umezu, who thinks he understands the Chinese and knows the bones, can now only classify Zhang Xuewu as an outlier.

BF-109F, BF-109K, BF-109G, Saker fighters, battle fortresses, Zhang Xuewu dispatched almost all the air forces that could be dispatched from the 10th Theater, taking off from nine standing airfields and six field airfields to carry out air strikes against the retreating troops of the Japanese army.

Many years later, a first-class soldier Murakita who survived that year wrote a memoir "The Road of Bleeding", which sold millions of copies! The book records in detail the testimonies, testimonies and accounts of hundreds of survivors, and Private Murakita Mufu recalls that from the beginning of the quiet retreat of the troops, the various units of the First and Second Front armies began to abandon the wounded and sick, and due to the lack of supplies, they could not even give the wounded a grenade for suicide, or a grenade for a few wounded, but instead of being killed, they were blown up bloody and wailing in pain all night before dying, and their condition was extremely miserable, and more of the wounded were doused with cold water in the field to death. Like the Chinese civilians they executed, it seems that retribution will come sooner.

On the way to retreat, Private Murakita Mufu described in detail the overwhelming bombs and strafing planes that were constantly dropping bombs and strafing, and there were burning vehicles, dead corpses and mules and horses everywhere along the way, no one cared about the wounded, everyone was moving forward in obscurity, worried that they would be discovered by the planes in the sky as soon as they raised their heads.

It is said that the retreating casualties announced by the Kwantung Army in the war report were more than 36,000 people, including all non-combat attrition, but in fact, many historical scholars in later generations believe that the losses of the three armies of the Kwantung Army exceeded 80,000 people.

The 16th Division, the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, and the 12th Wing of the Reading Tank, as the broken rear troops of the 1st and 2nd Front Armies of the Kwantung Army to Jinzhou, prepared to meet the pursuing Zhong [***] in Twenty Jiazi Town, a ghost town that had previously been slaughtered by the Yue army.

Nakajima Imasago because of his extremely poor performance in the First Battle of Nanjing, and the guilty and meritorious Gu Shoufu all remained in the post of division commander, and Nakajima Imasato suffered with Nakajima Imasa, the unlucky chief of staff of the 16th Division, Nakazawa Mitsuo Daisa, in the ice and snow, hastily built field fortifications, can withstand the attack of at least eight or nine divisions of the middle [***]? Moreover, there are two armored divisions of the middle [***] elite, according to the latest engagement information, the Tiger Division and the Honor 1st Division also seem to be attacking in the direction of Jinzhou, and the third side except for the 6th Division, all the troops did not retreat to Shanhaiguan, but retreated to Jinzhou with the main force of Okamura Ningji's North China Front.

Nakajima looked at the situation of the enemy and the enemy on the map that changed almost every hour, and he knew that Shanhaiguan might not be able to hold it, otherwise Okamura Ninji and Yamashita Fengfumi would not be in a hurry to retreat to the direction of Jinzhou, without a strong city defense and artillery fire, the infantry lacking air support was committing suicide to deal with armored troops on the plain terrain!

Although all of them were shot down by the air force units of the 10 th Theater of Operations, the reconnaissance planes still sent the relevant reconnaissance information back to the front command of the Kwantung Army in Jinzhou, and Umezu Mijiro, who was sitting in Jinzhou, also quickly made adjustments on the basis of this information, and seven warships of the Fifth Detachment of the Chinese Dispatch Fleet of the Yumoto Navy in Huludao also set sail for Qinhuangdao.

Umezu Mijiro knew that whether it was the headquarters of the 6th Division behind the 3rd Front Army, or the 16th Division behind the 1st and 2nd Front Army, the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, and the 12th Wing of the Reading Tank, these troops would inevitably be defeated or even surrounded and annihilated by the attacking Zhong[***], sacrificing two divisions or even three divisions, as long as the remnants of the three front armies could be retreated to the Jinzhou line and stood for defense, then the entire Manchuria would be safe and sound, and Umezu Mijiro would have the bargaining chips and capital to prepare for war. Umezu Mijiro ordered the Kwantung Army Flying Division not to take the initiative to attack until the fighters of the Chinese Air Force in the 10th Theater were installed, and experienced pilots were preserved.

The losses of the infantry units of the Kwantung Army can be recovered in a year to a year and a half, but Umezu Mijiro knows very well that the losses of the army aviation units are difficult to make up, and at the beginning of the war, most of the pilots of the Kwantung Army's flight divisions were junior lieutenants, captains, and lieutenants, but now when I look at the roster, most of them are second lieutenants and non-commissioned officers, and the personnel supplemented by the aviation school are far from keeping up with the battle losses, and the difference in aircraft surnames has made the Kwantung Army flight division and the 27 flight squadrons stationed in North China a hard-hit area.

How to reduce losses and withdraw troops is what Umezu Mijiro is most concerned about at present, while Okamura Ninji is concerned about Nakajima Imago's 16th Division, the situation of the 6th Division is already so bad that it can't be worse, a medium [***] armored unit is less than 20 kilometers away from the 6th Division behind the retreating nave, this is the last report before the "Ezi" reconnaissance plane was shot down, the 6th Division is 30 kilometers away from the predetermined defensive site, and a field encounter is probably inevitable.

And although the 16th Division after the 20 Jiazi Town was firmly defended and was attached to the heavy artillery brigade and the combat vehicle wing, but in the case of no air supremacy, how much role can the 6th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 12th Reading Tank Wing play?

(To be continued)