The garrison of the First Army of the North China Front Army in Shanxi was originally not large, and it was in a precarious situation after being crushed by the army in the Second World War Zone, and the new commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly mobilized the elite 20th Division of the First Army to Luliang to reinforce the mixed Third Brigade.

Unlike the arrogance and arrogance of ordinary Japanese officers, Yoshio Shinozuka will not underestimate any Chinese army, graduated from the 23rd class of the Japanese Army University, not only has excellent grades, but also went to Germany in January 1914 to study military affairs. After seeing the powerful military power of European countries, Yoshio Shinozuka knew very well that the current Japanese Empire seemed to be powerful, but it was still far from a real power. Therefore, he also developed the habit of Yoshio Shinozuka facing his opponent and respecting his opponent!

Although there were major battles in Shanxi and Hebei, the Japanese army's determination to capture Henan did not waver in the slightest. From the 25th, the headquarters of the Japanese 12th Army moved forward to Xuzhou, and the main forces of the Japanese army gathered on the Lanfeng line also frequently shelled the Second Army of the First Theater of the Nationalist Government stationed on the other side of the river.

On the 26th, the Japanese army, with the 110th and 119th divisions as the vanguard, launched an attack on Lankao under the opening of the chariot wing and the heavy artillery brigade, and at the same time, the Japanese 32nd Division and the mixed 7th brigade attacked the front line of Anyang and Tangyin, and the defense of Henan broke out in an all-round way!

However, the battle was extremely unfavorable to the 1st theater from the beginning, and an infantry brigade of the 2nd Army stationed in Lankao resisted for less than two hours before being forced to retreat due to heavy casualties, and the Japanese captured Lankao at 3 pm on the 26th.

After the capture of Lankao. The Japanese army did not stop at all, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops, with the assistance of aircraft and artillery, marched towards Kaifeng, an important military town in Henan. Kaifeng was known as Tokyo and Bianjing in ancient times, and was known as "the ancient capital of the Ten Dynasties" and "the capital of the Seven Dynasties". It is 500 kilometers away from the Yellow Sea, adjacent to the provincial capital Zhengzhou in the west, Xuchang City and Zhoukou City in the south, the Yellow River in the north, and Xinxiang City across the river. If the Japanese army captures Kaifeng. Then it is equivalent to controlling the Great Plain of Eastern Henan.

In order to hold Kaifeng and hold the Great Plain of Eastern Henan, the First Theater mobilized the 30th Army, the 42nd Army, and the 55th Army of the Second Group Army, and at the same time mobilized 25 newly formed new regiments to go to eastern Henan. The order given by Wei Lihuang, the new commander of the First Theater, to Sun Lianzhong, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, was: Prevent the Japanese army from capturing Kaifeng at all costs. Wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the 8th Theater of Operations.

After receiving the latest battle report from the intelligence department. On the one hand, Chen Feng ordered the troops fighting in the south to speed up their marches, and at the same time, the 40th Group Army and the troops directly under the theater immediately left Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass to launch an all-out attack on the defense area of the Japanese First Army. Meantime. The 52nd Army also crossed Xuanhua and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese troops on the outskirts of Beiping.

So far, the Japanese puppet army in North China and the first, second, and eighth three theaters of the Nationalist Government launched a full-scale war within a radius of thousands of miles, and the war was not only participated in by the Central Army of the Nationalist Government, but also the Jin Sui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Shaanxi Army, and the Chen Feng Army, which was called the Saibei Army by various factions, and the Eighth Route Army subordinate to Yan'an. The total number of Chinese troops participating in this battle was about 650,000, and the battlefield included Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces, which can be said to be the largest battle in North China since the beginning of the war!

In the current form, Henan is divided into two major battlefields, northern Henan and eastern Henan, which is also the main battlefield of the Sino-Japanese battle, and it is also the battlefield with the largest number of troops participating in the battle and the largest number of heavy weapons. The second is the Hebei battlefield, the Hebei battlefield is divided into the southern Hebei battlefield and the northern Hebei battlefield, the southern Hebei battlefield is dominated by the Eighth Route Army, the main combat mission is to attack the transportation arteries in the southern Hebei region, contain or even force the Japanese army in the southern Hebei to return to help. The main force in the Northern Hebei Theater was the 52nd Army of the Eighth Theater, the main purpose of which was to put pressure on the Japanese troops in the Pingjin area.

The Shanxi battlefield is divided into the western Shanxi battlefield and the northern Shanxi battlefield, the main force of the western Shanxi battlefield is the two major armies of the second theater, commanded by Fu Zuoyi, commander-in-chief of the Seventh Group Army, the main purpose of the operation is to recover the Luliang mountainous area, the Japanese army broke into the western Shanxi force to completely expel out of the Lu. The main force of the Northern Shanxi Battlefield is the 40th Group Army of the Eighth Theater and the troops directly under the theater, which is also the largest strategic corps in addition to the main battlefield, with a total strength of 150,000 troops. The purpose of this operation of the 40th Group of the Eighth Theater is only one, that is, to teach a hard lesson to the First Army of the First Strategic Group, the largest strategic group of the North China Front, and to let Binshanyuan, an old thing, remember that this little force in his hand is just a small loach, and he is very reluctant to protect himself, and he is still far from stirring up the situation in North China.

In addition, in the hinterland of Shandong, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese 12th Army to fight southward, and concentrated more than 50,000 troops to launch a vigorous sabotage battle against the Luxi and Luzhong areas.

More importantly, the Eighth Route Army in Shandong had an elusive railway guerrilla force, which posed a huge threat to the Japanese army's lines of communication. Since the 18th, a total of 7 bridges garrisoned by Japanese troops have been blown up by railway guerrillas, and three military trains have also been bombed, and the Japanese army has suffered extremely heavy losses!

The situation in North China has changed abruptly, and the North China Front did not expect such a big reaction from the Chinese side, and in their opinion, under the condition that Wuhan is about to be destroyed, the people of China will not and cannot concentrate their forces in Henan to open another battlefield with them. However, the truth is very cruel, the Chinese not only opened a battlefield in Henan, but also opened a battlefield in Hebei, Shanxi, and even Shandong, and for a time the Japanese army in North China was called a wind and a crane and a grass and trees, and the 400,000 Japanese puppet army was everywhere to make up holes, and still felt that the strength was stretched!

In fact, it was because the Japanese army chose the wrong target, if they launched an attack to the west, Chen Feng would not fight the Japanese army at this juncture, even if he knew that the second war zone in the road could not withstand the attack of the Japanese army. Who let Bin Shanyuan want to seize Henan, who let Chen Feng know that the Nationalist Government may adopt the tactic of replacing troops with water, for the sake of the 12 million people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, even if the loss is great, Chen Feng will insist on fighting this battle.

Following the loss of Nanchang, the Japanese army once again concentrated its forces to Wuhan, and the closest of the Japanese forward troops was less than 80 kilometers away from Wuhan, and during this time, the Japanese army had to send at least two or three air wings to launch air raids on Wuhan every day, and every day there was to be one or even several air games over Wuhan.

At this time, whether it is a student in class, a factory worker, or an ordinary citizen, they will gather in various squares and wharves in Wuhan city to silently watch the air battle in the sky, blessing and cheering for the best men of the Chinese nation, once a Chinese fighter plane is shot down, people go to rescue the pilot regardless of the danger of their lives, in this war, the will of the Chinese people is condensing, and the blood of the Chinese nation is exploding.

In order to support this campaign, the name was changed to transport the accumulated medicines worth 500 million to the Wuhan front, and Chen Feng also urgently dispatched 500 million free medicines to the Wuhan front.

Unlike in the past, although the Nationalist government suffered the same heavy casualties in this war, the actual casualties were at least half or even more than in the past. Many of the injuries that used to be fatal have been treated well, and tens of thousands of wounded have basically not died from inflammation of their wounds.

The whole of China was fighting in the north and south of the great river, and except for the Kwantung Army, which was not involved, all other armies participated in the invasion of China, and six of the nine theaters of the Nationalist Government were also forced to participate in the war, and the scale of this battle was beyond the expectations of China and Japan.

The East Asian theater is under heavy artillery fire, and Eastern Europe is not at peace. Under the lightning frenzied attack of the German army, the Polish army completely fell into a situation of passive beating. By 15 September, Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps had encircled Brest-Litovsk, and its 3rd Panzer Division and 2nd Motorized Division continued to advance south in order to complete the deepest encirclement with Liszt's 14th Corps, the right flank of Army Group South. At the same time, the vanguard of the 14th Army, Kleist's 22nd Panzer Corps, encircled Lviv and continued its northward advance, and on the 16th joined up with Army Group North in the Vhuodava area, encircling the Polish army that had retreated in the triangle of the Bug, San and Vistula rivers.

On 17 September, the Germans, having completed the siege of Warsaw, ordered the Warsaw authorities to surrender within 12 hours. The Polish government and the Polish high command had fled across the border to Romania on the 16th.

What shocked the British, French, and Polish governments the most was that not only Germany launched an attack on Poland, but the Soviet Union, which had already negotiated with Germany to partition Poland, was also brazenly attacking at this time. The Soviet government declared that the Soviet-Polish non-aggression pact was no longer in force since the Polish government ceased to exist.

"In order to protect the interests of Ukrainian and Belarusian minorities," the USSR decided to station in the eastern regions of Poland. In the early morning of September 17, the Soviet Belorussian Front and the Ukrainian Front, led by General Kovalev and Timoshenko, respectively, crossed the eastern border of Poland and advanced westward.

On September 18, German and Soviet armies met in Brest-Litovsk. Hitler wanted to take Warsaw as soon as possible, ordering that the Germans must take Warsaw by the end of September. Subsequently, the Germans began shelling forts, strongholds and important supply centers around Warsaw. On the 28th, the commander of the defenders of Warsaw formally signed the instrument of surrender to the commander of the German 8th Army Corps, General Blaskowice. By 2 October, Gdynia, the last city to resist had ceased to resist.

At this point, this war of aggression initiated by the German conspiracy lasted only one month and came to an end, with 200,000 Polish casualties and more than 400,000 prisoners. The Germans suffered 43,600 casualties and 3,400 missing. A miracle in military history! (To be continued......)

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