In order to be able to retreat safely, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi, who was calculating hard, and his chief of staff, Nakanishi Manchuku Jiro Osa, did not know. The 115th Division received this telegram not from the communications staff officer of the 115th Division, let alone Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Sugiura, commander of the 115th Division.

The telegram he received was a reconnaissance unit formed by the 115th Division's frontal anti-coalition troops, which dispatched a group of scouts from various units to penetrate deep into the rear of the 115th Division and carry out sabotage. Yanagawa Shinichi, who originally wanted to pull a cushion, didn't know that this telegram, which marked the idea of retreat and the detailed retreat route, became a talisman for him and his 120th division.

After receiving Chen Hanzhang's full-front counterattack, the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield in Dezhou was firmly contained, and the order to ensure the smooth detour of Du Kaishan's subordinates. The anti-coalition troops in front of the 115th Division not only mobilized all the units that could still fight, but also launched a tactical counterattack on the whole front.

A group of scouts from various regiments were also dispatched to take advantage of the gaps in the battle line to penetrate into the depth of the 115th Division and carry out attacks on various strategic targets in the depth of the 115th Division, so as to cooperate with the troops in the frontal counterattack and firmly contain the 115th Division in the frontal battlefield of Ningjin and Tianjin, so that it could not draw troops to the south.

The targets of this group ranged from the ammunition hoarding of the 115th Division, the material replenishment base to the cable communication station, and the reconnaissance troops including the headquarters at all levels, after infiltrating the rear of the 115th Division. I inadvertently touched the headquarters of the 115th Division, which is located in the northeast of Ningjin and Houwang Village.

At the beginning, a reconnaissance platoon infiltrated and knew that the heavily guarded village in front of them was the regimental headquarters of the 115th Division. As early as the beginning of the campaign, the anti-coalition troops opposite the 115th Division had specially organized troops to continuously launch surprise attacks on the 115th Division. The headquarters of Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Sugiura's division is a constant transfer of stations three times a day.

It was not until six weeks after the battle was in full swing that the anti-coalition troops in front of them stopped this attack on the rear of the 115th Division because the fighting was too tense. However, some Lieutenant General Sugiura Hideyoshi, who is full of soldiers, still transfers his division headquarters every two to three days.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he was transferred to Houwang, he was touched by the scouts re-sent by the Anti-Japanese Federation. Although a deputy company commander who led the team did not know that the division headquarters of the 115th Division was in front of him, he looked at the high-power radio antennas added up and thought that it was at least a brigade ≠ ≠≠≠, m▲c, and ≥ divisions, so he immediately launched an attack without the slightest hesitation.

However, the deputy company commander who led the team was an experienced veteran. He knew that with a platoon in his hands, it would be difficult to solve this target with a squadron guard. Before the attack, several reconnaissance squads operating in the surrounding area were summoned by walkie-talkie, and they only launched a forcible attack after nearly a company.

Although the scouts of the ordinary combat forces of the Anti-Japanese Union are inferior to the direct special forces in terms of weapons and equipment and in some aspects. However, in terms of tactical reconnaissance capability and the combat quality of the troops, it is not much worse. In this harassment operation behind enemy lines, the equipment of the troops has been readjusted.

Each reconnaissance squad was equipped with a grenade launcher and reloaded with two MP 40 submachine guns, as well as an increased number of snipers. Both melee rapid-fire firepower and long-range precision firepower have been greatly enhanced. Compared with the 115th Division's regimental guards with all hand rifles and three crooked handles, this melee firepower is far behind.

Although the resistance of the Japanese guard squadron was too fierce, the reconnaissance company paid a third of the cost of casualties. However, after fierce fighting for most of the time, the regimental headquarters of the 115th Division was also wiped out. Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Sugiura, who resisted with two southern-style pistols, was killed in his own combat room along with his chief of staff.

The communications staff officer in charge of the radio station was killed, several messengers and receivers were captured, and the high-power radio stations and code books equipped with the divisional headquarters were all captured because they were not destroyed in time. As soon as the battle was over, the well-preserved radio station received a telegram from Lieutenant General Shinichi Yanagawa.

The anti-United Nations signal soldiers who followed the action found that the signal light of the Japanese radio was flashing and sent out a message with an incoming call. Without the slightest politeness, the seized codebook was used on the spot, and with the cooperation of the interpreters who accompanied the team to cooperate with the interrogation, the telegram was directly translated. After receiving the contents of this telegram, the troops participating in the battle, who knew that this information was crucial, did not dare to delay in the slightest, and immediately reported this important information to their own divisions.

After receiving this report, the division commander of this unit did not dare to neglect anything until the war situation was urgent. immediately reported this information directly to Chen Hanzhang. And according to this letter from Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi, the key information he sent to the door, Chen Hanzhang, who was responsible for commanding the entire Jilu border battlefield, reacted quite quickly.

Immediately mobilize the forces that can be mobilized in his hands, and set up an ambush circle for this 120th Division that is trying to slip away from under his nose. And Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi didn't know that at this moment, on his retreat route, a division of Tao Jingfei's department, which had rushed from the Tianjin battlefield to reinforce, had already arrived at the front line of Yan's housework in the northeast of Qingyun.

A large net has been opened, waiting for them to throw themselves into the net. Originally, according to the plan, after this division arrived at the Jilu border front, the area it was scheduled to participate in was the Ningjin line, where the 115th Division was located. This division was eventually transferred to the Ningling battlefield, which was also the blessing of Shinichi Toyanagawa for this telegram.

This division is one of the only two infantry divisions left after the end of the Tianjin Campaign and most of the participating troops were successively transferred to the Jilu border battlefield. After the Japanese army and navy landing force appeared at Qikou, Yang Zhen believed that the enemy forces had already landed in other directions of the Bohai Bay at least for a short time.

Therefore, he ordered the last two divisions of Tao Jingfei's division, which had been waiting in Tianjin, to hand over the defense of Tianjin to the Eastern Hebei Military Region, which had already completed the operation in eastern Hebei, and to the first division of the Jinchaji Military Region. Tao Jingfei personally commanded two infantry divisions and used the Jinpu Railway to move south quickly. After arriving in Cangzhou and getting off the train, he was transferred to Chen Hanzhang's command.

Yang Zhen was ready to take advantage of these two because after the end of the Tianjin Campaign, he was always on standby on the line from Beitang to Tanggu in Tianjin. And because of the convenient location, it has been fully reorganized by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and it is the two divisions with the most complete strength and structure among the various departments participating in the anti-alliance war in the entire North China battlefield.

After the start of the second phase of the battle, because the continuous operations did not get any rest and replacement, the Eastern Front Cluster commanded by Chen Hanzhang, who was already extremely tired and suffered heavy casualties, dealt the most fatal blow to the Japanese army in the theater on the Jilu border battlefield, so as to completely solve the battle that had been going on for several months.

According to Chen Hanzhang's original plan, after the arrival of Tao Jingfei's two divisions that went south to reinforce him. Prepare for the battlefield east of Texas and adopt the tactics of the black tiger digging out the heart. Using the two newly arrived divisions of Tao Jingfei's department, which were fully manned, they first attacked the 115th Division in the middle, tore the entire Japanese front east of Texas from the center, and cut off the connection between the various units of the Japanese army in the battlefield east of Texas.

After the 115th Division was settled, concentrate its forces, and at the same time launch a final general attack on the 22nd Division on the Dezhou Battlefield and the 120th Division on the Leling Line. However, after completing the encirclement and annihilation of the 100th Division from the Enxian to Dezhou battlefield, the 65th Division of the Japanese Army's rescue of the 100th Division suddenly and quickly shrank back to the Jinpu line. Chen Hanzhang was immediately keenly aware that the Japanese army was going to implement a general retreat.

However, the changes in the development of the shape shì, as well as Du Kaishan's roundabout interspersed with shun lì, made Chen Hanzhang finally change the original plan after several considerations according to the change of the shape shì. He sent a telegram to the division of Tao Jingfei's unit, which had just gotten off in Cangzhou, asking them to speed up their actions and immediately rush to the Qingyun line via the Cangqing Highway.

In cooperation with the west of Texas and the frontal departments, the original Black Tiger heart-digging tactics were changed to pinch the head and remove the tail. With the strength of the frontal battlefield in Dezhou and the strength of the battlefield west of Dezhou, the 22nd Division and the 65th Division on the Jinpu Line were first delayed. Using the two elite divisions of Tao Jingfei's division, the 120th division in the east was first attacked. And with a force, cooperate with the Ningjin frontal troops to solve the 115th Division.

At the same time, he ordered all units in Ningjin to launch a tactical counterattack on the 115th Division on the whole line. Rigidly entangled the 115th Division, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from Tao Jingfei's department, and completely solving the 115th Division. On the Texas battlefield, the 22nd Division was entangled to the death, and the 65th Division and the 48th Division were pinned down with the strength west of Texas. Hold these two Japanese troops, unable to retreat before Du Kaishan arrives.

As for Chen Hanzhanglai, changing the original plan of solving the enemy in the entire Jilu border battlefield to first solving the enemy in the eastern battlefield of Dezhou is also a helpless move based on the current actual situation. The various units participating in the battle west of the Texas Battlefield were not only extremely tired because of the continuous fighting, but also suffered heavy casualties among the troops of each division after encircling and annihilating the 100th Division.

In the northwest of Texas, the various units of the Northwest Lu Battlefield have actually no sustained assault capability at present. It could only continue to use tactical attacks to contain the 65th Division and be unable to reinforce other battlefields. The participating divisions in the battlefield west of Texas were unable to continue to launch attacks, and relying solely on the headquarters in the front of Texas, they simply did not have the strength to swallow the 22nd and 65th divisions on the Jinpu Road in one go.

After several considerations and a comprehensive review of the battle situation on the entire Eastern Front, the Jilu border battlefield, as well as the current allocation of enemy and enemy forces, plus the follow-up forces that the enemy may invest. After Du Kaishan began to move south, Chen Hanzhang asked Yang Zhen to throw the two fully equipped two divisions of Tao Jingfei's department into the battlefield east of Dezhou.

As for the west of Texas and the frontal battlefield, Chen Hanzhang still decided to focus on containing his troops first. After first solving the 115th and 120th divisions on the line from Ningjin to Qingyun, wait for Du Kaishan's headquarters to be interspersed in place, and then outflank the Japanese troops along the Tianjin-Pudong Railway.

In Chen Hanzhang's view, the 115th Division and the 120th Division have suffered heavy casualties in the repeated tug-of-war for nearly a month. The ability to sustain combat has been effectively lost. Even the combined strength of the two divisions was roughly equal to that of the 65th Division, which was still fully manned.

At present, on the battlefield of Jinpu Road, the 22nd Division and the 65th Division, which are close together, have relatively sufficient troops. In particular, the 65th Division, one of the two divisions, has not yet been severely attacked, and its structure and strength are relatively intact. In addition, a detachment of the 48th Division has been strengthened, and the overall strength ratio is quite strong.

Compared with the battlefield west of Texas, the strength of these two Japanese divisions in the battlefield east of Texas was weaker. It has become the soft persimmon that is relatively easy to pinch in the entire Jilu border battlefield. The most important thing is that Chen Hanzhang believes that at present, the troops themselves are extremely tired, and the network is getting bigger and bigger, and the battlefield area is also expanding.

With a large number of troops, it was held back by a relatively strong enemy heavy army group on the Jinpu Road. It is better to deal with the weaker of the two enemy forces first. After the entire battlefield east of Texas has been freed up by all the participating units, they will concentrate their superior forces to solve the enemy on the Jinpu Road.