In the early morning of September 13, the 29th year of the Republic of China, when the sky had just brightened and the sun was rising, the main force of more than 100,000 dragon tooth columns attacked from the front lines of Bazhou, Zhuozhou, and Jinghai again, and launched a comprehensive attack on the Japanese defense line.

For a time, the land of northern Hebei was full of flames, the sound of artillery guns, explosions, and shouts of killing resounded throughout the world, and both sides went all out to launch a fierce exchange of fire, and the casualties on both sides were increasing in alarming numbers.

Although there was no cover of tanks and armored vehicles, the Dragon's Tooth Column still had an advantage in firepower over anti-aircraft artillery groups, heavy artillery, machine guns, submachine guns, and semi-automatic rifles.

In particular, the 1st Division on the Western Front and the 4th Division on the Central Route, one of them was the first division to be equipped with semi-automatic rifles to destroy Japan, and the other was the air defense brigade directly under the column, the heavy artillery brigade and other powerful units to cooperate in the support operation, so the offensive was very rapid.

However, the devils and the puppet army also understood that Bazhou and Zhuozhou were their last line of defense, so they were extremely desperate, so the two sides fought fiercely from morning to afternoon, and the dragon tooth column failed to enter the city.

Even the outer defensive positions of the Japanese army in Tianjin and Jinghai were not able to be captured.

This is not to say that Ma Biao's Second Division is not strong in combat effectiveness, but for the time being, the Second Division is inferior to the First Division and the Fourth Division in terms of equipment and artillery and other combat units, and the entire Eastern Front battlefield is completely within the absolutely effective combat radius of the Japanese sea-based and land-based aviation.

While the 2nd Division was attacking, it also had to guard against the air raids of the devils, and there were many constraints, so it was reasonable that the offensive would progress slowly.

In fact, Qiao Youhua originally used the 2nd Division as a partial division, this Northern Expedition, the main direction of attack was Beiping, and the 2nd Division marched into Tianjin, in order to disperse the strength of the Japanese army as much as possible, and now the 2nd Division has attracted and contained at least more than 20,000 devils and tens of thousands of puppet traitor troops in the direction of Tianjin.

have done an excellent job of the task assigned to them by Qiao Youhua.

By the evening of 13 September, two more Japanese cavalry units had been discovered, one of the armored mechanized units of the Dragon's Tooth Tank that had arrived after hearing the news had been completely annihilated, and the other had been severely damaged and fled.

When night falls, the sky is dotted with stars, the stars are shining, and the slight breeze blows through the cool autumn mood.

Beiping City, the headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China, was brightly lit at the moment, and between its confidential room and conference room, there were constantly Japanese communications personnel shuttling back and forth in a hurry.

The battle on the front line is raging, and the devil's headquarters is also very busy.

During this period, Okamura Ninji and Iizawa Mamoru both paid close attention to the progress of the battle on the front line, and during this period, Okamura Ninji repeatedly ignored the opposition of the commanders of the land-based and sea-based air forces and forcibly ordered them to take off fighters and bombers and fly to the front-line combat areas to provide air fire support for their own defensive forces.

Although it assisted the ground forces to successfully repel the enemy's attack, it also paid a heavy price for the loss of more than a dozen fighters.

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the naval aviation unit and the air regiment subordinate to the North China Front, had even quietly sent an impeachment telegram to the War Department, his home base.

Accusing Okamura Ninji of disregarding the safety of the officers and men of the Air Corps and forcibly assigning them dangerous missions.

In this regard, Okamura Ninji was unmoved, and replied to the War Department's inquiry with a sentence that if he wanted to keep North China, he would not be stingy with the loss of air force.

After receiving such a reply, the War Department took a reassuring countermeasure against the impeachment of Tokukawa Yoshitoshi and others, ordering them to put the overall situation first, and in the future, the War Department of the base camp would provide them with priority personnel and fighter equipment supplements.

Okamura Ninji is in the office of the headquarters, the lights are bright, this Japanese Army's most outstanding commander-in-chief commander is burying his head in military literature at the moment, in order to keep Beiping and Tianjin, this guy can be regarded as exhausted.

Since taking over the command of the North China Front, he has not slept well for three days.

Mamoru Iizawa walked in from outside at this time and said to him, "Okamura-kun, you don't seem to have dinner yet, so let's rest for a while and eat something." ”

Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said, "Well, okay, I'll finish processing the batch of documents in my hand, and I'll go to eat." ”

After speaking, he continued to keep his head down and get busy, and suddenly, the old devil raised his head again and said, "By the way, Iizawa-kun, is there any news from the cavalry roundabout?" ”

Iizawa Mamoru shook his head and said: "Not yet, after our cavalry roundabout troops entered the base area of the Chinese army, they were divided into pieces, and those equipped with radio stations were at least at the wing level, and all the roundabout troops acted with brigades as combat units.

Therefore, we can only get in touch with a few of these troops, and for the time being, we are not able to grasp the results and losses of all the roundabout troops. ”

Okamura Ninji nodded and said, "As far as we can get in touch with them, order the cavalry unit carrying the radio to send liaison cavalry to maintain contact with other roundabout troops, and we must keep abreast of the battle situation in time." ”

Iizawa Mamoru nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it." ”

So, that night, the Japanese cavalry carrying the radio station, after receiving the orders of Okamura Ninji, sent the cavalry to search for and contact other devil cavalry units that were not equipped with radio stations.

However, Okamura Ninji ignored a strict problem, that is, all the Japanese cavalry units did not operate in the Japanese theater, but in the hinterland of the base area of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

Any action may be attacked and intercepted by the ubiquitous dragon's tooth anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, which can be said to be difficult.

Although it was a night operation, the devil cavalry, who were not familiar with the terrain and geography, and had no mass base, often did not find their target, and were shot by the local anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, stumbling and losing their lives.

Therefore, by dawn the next morning, the communication between the various cavalry units of the devil was not completed smoothly, and Okamura Ninji was almost ignorant of the situation facing the cavalry troops.

It's like being blind, this feeling made Okamura Ninji very unhappy, and prompted a decision in his heart, that is, in the future, he must vigorously popularize the application of radio and other communication equipment in the base camp.

Efforts should be made to equip all radios at the brigade level, even at the squadron level, so that when a large corps is commanding operations, it will be possible to effectively and quickly grasp the information and be able to command it like an arm's arm.

PS: Today Saburo sent my eldest son to kindergarten, and one day he was worried, he never left home, I don't know if he can adapt. But fortunately, the child is stronger than we imagined, and there is no trouble, which is quite gratifying.

There's no code word during the day.,Start the code at night.,But there's a chapter later.,I guess it should be around nine to nine-and-a-half.,Stay tuned.。

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