Zuo Quan pointed to the map and looked at everyone, paused, and ordered: "The operational deployment is as follows, the first division starts from Baoding, marches to Xushui, Dingxing, and Laishui, sweeps away the Japanese puppet army in the southwest of Beiping and entrenches the above-mentioned strongholds, and then attacks Zhuozhou."

The 2nd Division marched north from Cangzhou, attacked Qingxian and Jinghai counties, and advanced to Tianjin to disperse the Japanese puppet army in the Pingjin area.

The Fourth Division set out from Hejian and Suning County, all the way to the north, attacked Renqiu, Wen'an, and Xiongxian areas, and then attacked Bazhou, and finally attacked Beiping City with the First Division.

The column directly under the heavy artillery brigade, tank armored brigade, air defense brigade, guard regiment, advance with the column headquarters and are responsible for receiving the attack of the above-mentioned three-way army.

This time, the three divisions should take Beiping first and Tianjin as their operational objective, the second division will be mainly responsible for the strategic feint, and the first and fourth divisions and the units directly under the column will mainly attack Beiping.

Your divisions are now equipped with air defense, tanks, artillery and other directly subordinate combat units, forming a complete combat unit with the ability to fight alone, it is time to give full play to your combat power and win glory for the country! ”

After a pause, Chief of Staff Zuo Quan looked at Guo Meng and said, "Director Guo, the logistics materials needed for the army to go north must be supplied in time to ensure that there are no worries about this battle!" ”

"Yes, please rest assured that the logistics department will go all out to provide abundant logistical support for the frontline troops!" Guo Meng immediately stood up and said.

"Hmm." Zuo Quan nodded approvingly, and then said: "Because the fourth division is still stationed in Pingshan, rushing to Suning, and it takes time to get to Hejian, so the above attack plan will be implemented after ten days, and in these ten days, I hope you can all prepare quickly, each of you will be in place, and after ten days, concentrate your forces and launch a comprehensive onslaught against the enemy in front of you." ”

"Yes!" Jiang Haidong, Ma Biao, Li Yunlong and others all stood up and responded in unison.

After arranging the operational deployment, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan discussed the situation of staying behind in the base camp of the base area, and in addition to the above four divisions and four directly subordinate combat brigade (regiment) units, the current Longya Column also has a unit that is not subordinate to any unit, and is directly under the command of Qiao Youhua like the guard regiment, that is, a garrison unit separated from the original guard regiment.

The Arsenal Garrison Independent Brigade commanded by the monkey has now expanded to 3,000 troops, which is actually a Class A regiment.

This regiment is also a mechanized infantry regiment with an air defense battalion, as well as all motorcycles and military trucks, and Qiao Youhua plans to equip it with a tank battalion or company in the future to enhance its strength.

After discussion, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan decided to officially reorganize this independent garrison brigade into a garrison regiment directly under the Dragon's Tooth Column, with the regiment leader Monkey (real name Ma Liuhou) and the deputy head Lin Mancang. The task of this garrison regiment is to be responsible for the defense of Pingshan County, Longya Military Academy, Arsenal, and other important units and areas in the base area after the army has set out for the expedition.

After the military deployment was completed, Jiang Haidong, Liu Yidao, Ma Biao, Zhou Dasheng and others left first and returned to their respective stations.

The next day, the Fourth Division, also under the leadership of Deputy Division Commander Li Yunlong and others, secretly left the Pingshan Base Area and secretly marched across the Hutuo River to Suning and the area between the rivers.

Speaking of the Hutuo River, it is worth mentioning that two of the four roads built by the Longya Column more than half a year ago passed through the Hutuo River, Pingshan and Zhengding sections respectively, so the Longya Column built two bridges made of steel and mixed earth for this purpose, which greatly facilitated the passage of the north and south banks of the Hutuo River.

Nowadays, it is even more convenient for the troops to be pulled, and the tanks, trucks and large numbers of infantry of the Fourth Division can continue to pass from the bridge to Guò, and then along the road all the way to the north, the marching speed is greatly increased, and at the same time, the transportation and supply of military materials in the logistics department will also be greatly facilitated in the future.

It saves a lot of trouble and time, and improves the efficiency of combat units and logistics units.

In the past six months, the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China has also received 100 fighters from its base camp, 20,000 cavalry of the Kwantung Army, and 30,000 infantry, and its strength has increased greatly.

Together with the Japanese troops originally stationed in and around Pingjin, Tada Jun now has 120,000 troops under his command, including 20,000 cavalry, 100,000 infantry, and 5,000 aviation and ground crew.

In addition, it also has more than 200,000 puppet troops, and the 1st and 3rd fleets of the Japanese naval fleet have sailed to Tianjin Port and other places, and these two fleets have hundreds of large and small ships, including several aircraft carriers, and the total number of carrier-based aircraft exceeds 200.

In addition to having strong naval artillery firepower and carrier-based air force, there are two brigade-level marines with a total strength of nearly 10,000.

It will serve as a strategic deterrent force to support the offensive operations that the North China Front may suffer.

What is even more beneficial to the North China Front Army is that the 150,000 retired servicemen who were reorganized and reorganized in its local base camp more than half a year ago have been recruited, and after more than half a year of integrated training and the all-out production of military enterprises in various localities, all kinds of weapons and equipment and strategic materials needed by the 150,000 troops have been prepared.

The 150,000 Japanese troops were really armed, but in fact, the most important thing was to slightly tilt part of the strategic resources that originally belonged to the navy to the army arsenal.

In just over half a year, the Japanese Army was able to regain a certain vitality and reorganize its 150,000-strong army.

Of course, the defeat in the Battle of Erlongshan more than half a year ago also affected to some extent the Japanese base camp's determination to increase the investment of strategic resources in the army, and it was only because of the successive defeats on the Chinese battlefield that the Japanese top leadership had to continue to increase the investment in the army.

After all, the war of aggression against China has been fought for three or four years now, and if we count the September 18 incident, it will be nine years, and Japanese imperialism has killed at least 500,000 soldiers on the battlefield in China, and millions have been wounded.

At this time, if Pingjin and Tianjin, the most prosperous and important military, political, and economic centers in North China, were lost, it would be impossible to explain to the Japanese emperor and the Japanese people.

Moreover, if the Eighth Route Army and other Chinese anti-Japanese forces were allowed to easily seize places such as Beiping and Tianjin, then sooner or later, Manchuria and even the Korean Peninsula could be attacked by the increasingly powerful Chinese anti-Japanese forces.

Therefore, in any case, the bigwigs of the top level of Japanese imperialism can only increase their military investment in North China, and even if they cannot hold Pingjin, they will still inflict heavy losses on the Dragon's Tooth Column, which poses the greatest threat to the Imperial Army!

It can be said that this Northern Expedition is full of difficulties, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything.