It's not that General Terauchi Shouichi doesn't want to take the opportunity to capture Zhangjiakou again, but the mess in the Pingjin area still needs time to clean up, so now the entire North China Front Army is busy licking its wounds, plus the Nationalist Army on the Xinkou front is still attacking, although the 108th and 109th divisions temporarily withstood the attack of the 10th Army and the 6th Army in the Second Theater, but they are already at a disadvantage, and the defeat is revealed, so the entire North China Front Army has no energy to continue the war with the 61st Army.

The Japanese army only reoccupied several counties and districts around Beiping after the retreat of the 61st Army, but the front of the troops stopped at Huailai County, which was 55 kilometers away from the position of the 402nd Regiment of the 77th Independent Division of the 61st Army.

After discovering that the Japanese army showed no signs of attacking Zhangjiakou, Chen Feng was temporarily relieved, and although the 61st Army had achieved brilliant results this time, the troop attrition was also very serious.

On February 7, 1938, Chen Feng convened a meeting of divisional and brigade-level officers in Datong, which was attended by full-time officers of all units.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Chen Feng arrived at the conference room on time, and all the officers attending the meeting had already arrived. Since the sugar-coated shells of the Nationalist Government and the Second World War Zone were fired, Yeherina and the brigade commanders of the three garrison brigades were also present at the meeting.

"Stand up!"

"Salute!"

Chen Feng returned a military salute to all the officers and said loudly: "Sit!" ”

According to the latest battle report, the Japanese army did not continue to attack Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, and Tianzhen, and the Japanese 2nd Division had withdrawn from Beiping to the northeast overnight yesterday, leaving only the 8th Division still in Beiping. However, it seems that they have also withdrawn in the past three or two days. In addition, the Second Army of the Fifth Theater of the Nationalist Government captured Linyi the day before yesterday, which posed a huge threat to Jinan and Jining, the shipping center, and the main force of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army has also moved south to the Shandong battlefield, and the Japanese army in the Pingjin area only has two complete divisions left, so the Japanese army will not launch an attack on our army for the time being, so the anti-Japanese four-way siege campaign has ended! Chen Feng said loudly.

"Bang Bang!" As soon as Chen Feng's words fell, warm applause rang out in the conference room, and Li Yifeng and others even applauded loudly, and the atmosphere was very warm.

"Everyone be quiet, the battle is over. But there's a lot to do. First of all, each unit reported its casualties. Start with the 101st Division! Chen Feng said.

Hearing Chen Feng's roll call, Li Wensheng got up and said: "Report to the military seat, although our department was fiercely attacked by the two elite divisions of the Japanese army, it was due to the complete fortifications of Datong. So the losses are not very large. According to statistics, our department lost a total of 3,765 soldiers in this battle. Of these, 1,456 were killed and 876 seriously wounded, while the rest were lightly wounded. The actual number of employees was reduced by 2,332. In addition, our unit lost 71 light and heavy machine guns, 1,145 rifles, and 54 artillery pieces in the battle, most of which were caused by the shelling of Japanese artillery and aviation. ”

Li Yifeng, commander of the 222nd Division, then got up and said: "Report to the military seat, our 222nd Division lost a total of 2,746 soldiers in this battle, of which 1,321 were killed in battle, 265 were seriously wounded, and the rest were slightly wounded. In this battle, our unit lost a total of 612 guns and 16 light and heavy machine guns, and other weapons and equipment suffered relatively small losses. During the service, our army annihilated 12,198 Japanese puppet troops, captured 23,176 people, blew up 13 Japanese tanks, shot down 9 fighters, and captured 31,887 guns, 769 light and heavy machine guns, 29 artillery pieces, 27,658 sabers, 9,863 war horses, and a number of silver dollars and grain. ”

After Li Yifeng sat down, Xu Bao, commander of the Seventh Independent Division, got up and said: "Report to the military seat, our army suffered heavy losses in this battle, and the 403rd Regiment defending Tianzhen was almost wiped out, with a total loss of 5,217 soldiers, accounting for one-fourth of the total strength of our army. Among them, 2,609 were killed in battle, 1,277 were seriously wounded, and the rest were lightly wounded, and the actual attrition was 3,888. However, our army also achieved major results, the Japanese army left more than 7,000 corpses outside Tianzhen City, plus the Shalingzi ambush and other sporadic battles, our army annihilated a total of 16,754 Japanese puppet troops without taking prisoners. More importantly, our unit suffered heavy losses on the Yamashita Brigade of the Japanese Army, and less than 2,000 of the more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers fled back to Baoding, and they were unable to restore their combat effectiveness in a short period of time. ”

After Li Yifeng sat down, Ye Helina, the commander-in-chief of the cavalry group, got up and said: "In this battle, our troops have traveled more than 2,600 kilometers for a long distance, transferred to 11 counties and districts, captured 6 county seats, and 1 heavy city. The headquarters lost 1,768 people, 116 were seriously wounded, no minor injuries, and the rest were all killed in battle. Our army annihilated a total of 4,856 Japanese puppet troops and captured 2,312 people. In addition, large quantities of military and civilian materials were seized, the exact quantities of which were too large to be calculated. ”

Shi Jianfei, the commander of the teaching brigade, got up and said: "Report to the military seat, I did not assist the 101st Division in defending Datong this time, and the losses of the headquarters were relatively small, with a total loss of 1,211 soldiers, of which 234 were killed in battle, 235 were seriously wounded, and 469 were actually reduced. The equipment of the department suffered considerable losses, totaling 2,311 rifles, 26 machine guns, 11 artillery pieces, and a number of other weapons and equipment. ”

Since the Xinghe Garrison Brigade, Jining Garrison Brigade, and Taolin Garrison Brigade were acting with Chen Feng, the casualties had already been reported to the military headquarters, so Wang Hansheng got up alone to report: "The report to the military seat is that the Xinghe Garrison Brigade, Jining Garrison Brigade, and Taolin Garrison Brigade were transferred to more than 10 cities in Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, Huailai, Yanqing, Xiahuayuan, and Beiping, and fought with many armies including the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, garrison wing, and military police, and the headquarters suffered heavy losses, and the three brigades lost a total of 11,289 soldiers in this battle. Among them, 4,212 were killed in battle, 1,762 were seriously wounded, and 5,974 were actually reduced. The losses were heavy, but the results achieved by our army were brilliant, as our army captured 5 county towns and 1 provincial capital, annihilating a total of 14,734 Japanese puppet troops and capturing 4,465 people. In addition, according to the preliminary inference of our army, the Japanese defenders guarding Beiping lost about 36,000 soldiers, so our army annihilated a total of between 55,000 and 60,000 Japanese puppet troops. This time, our army completely annihilated the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army's field heavy artillery in a systematic manner, and captured more than 3,800 people, including Lieutenant General Tsubasa Ueda, commander of the brigade, Major General Iwataro Ozuka, deputy brigade commander, and shocked the Japanese militarist government and the public. During this service, our unit captured 108 Japanese field heavy artillery pieces and more than 20,000 tons of shells. In addition, the weapons and equipment of two infantry wings of the Japanese army were captured, and a lot of them were captured. ”

After Wang Hansheng finished speaking, Chen Feng got up and said: "All the division and brigade commanders have talked about the casualties of their respective troops, so I will make a summary here." In this campaign, the Japanese army dispatched a four-way army to besiege our office, and sent heavy troops to attack the important military towns of Suiyuan Province, Guisui and Baotou, in an attempt to strategically complete the encirclement of our 61st Army, thus annihilating our army in one fell swoop. With the cooperation of infantry, engineering, cavalry, artillery, chariots, aviation, and other arms, the two major strategic groups of the Japanese army in North China and the Mongolian garrison dispatched a total of 186,000 troops, and with the cooperation of infantry, engineering, cavalry, artillery, chariots, and aviation units, they brazenly launched an all-out attack on the garrison of our 61 st Army. Under the circumstance that there was a huge disparity between the enemy's and our forces, our army adopted the tactic of holding on to important cities with a small number of troops and the main force of the army headquarters jumping to the enemy's periphery, and successfully occupied the enemy's rear bases of Zhangjiakou and Tianjin, and at the same time completed the tactical encirclement of Beiping City, the headquarters of the Japanese army's command, thus gaining the initiative in the entire campaign. ”

"In this service, our army annihilated and captured more than 130,000 Japanese puppet troops, including more than 80,000 regular troops, more than 30,000 city defense troops composed of Japanese overseas Chinese, and the rest were 20,000 Japanese overseas Chinese captured in Tianjin, causing heavy losses to the Japanese army in North China and greatly damaging their vitality. During this service, our army also captured three of the only four airfields of the Japanese army in North China, shot down 154 captured Japanese fighters of various kinds, and inflicted heavy damage on the Temporary Aviation Regiment of the Japanese North China Front. At the same time, the Fourth Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery of the Japanese Strategic Forces was completely annihilated, reducing the number of its strategic heavy artillery units from six to five. At the same time, our army also seized a large number of strategic materials, totaling 220,000 tons, totaling 128 types, of which about 130,000 tons were rushed back to the administrative offices, more than 70,000 tons were handed over to the central government, more than 10,000 tons were distributed to the people of Tianjin, and more than 10,000 tons were donated to other anti-Japanese forces and mass organizations, including concessions, schools, and other departments. In addition, our army also burned down a total of 178 Japanese companies and foreign banks, destroyed 157 factories of various kinds, and confiscated 14 banks, causing devastating damage to the economic foundation of the Japanese puppet forces in the Pingjin area. Chen Feng paused and continued: "In this battle, our army also recruited more than 10,000 students and more than 40,000 recruits in the Pingjin area, and nearly 100,000 refugees were successfully transferred back to Zhangjiakou from the Pingjin area. At the same time, our army also created a number of firsts, the first total annihilation of the Japanese army's heavy artillery brigade, the first capture of large warships, the first capture of combat aircraft, the first large-scale capture of combat vehicles and tanks, the first recovery of provincial capitals, and so on. The most important thing is that after this battle, the prestige of our army in North China has been increased again, and the prestige of the Japanese army in North China has been hit again, especially its combat effectiveness has been seriously doubted by the puppet army and other anti-Japanese groups, I dare to conclude that after this battle, North China will usher in a new anti-Japanese upsurge. In addition, the trauma inflicted on the Japanese army by our army in political, military, economic, and other aspects this time will not allow the Japanese army to recover to the level before the second battle in a year or two. (To be continued......)