Handan. The headquarters of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army.

Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro was extremely depressed at this time, and had just received a telegram from the headquarters of the Front Army, His Excellency Tada Jun was very dissatisfied with the performance of the 32nd Division in this battle, especially in the military report of the Shina people, it was mentioned that the Imperial Japanese Army abandoned the city and fled without firing a single shot in the battle of Zhao County, which greatly insulted the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army.

In fact, this rumor Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro has also heard of it, but he thinks that this is a person who is deliberately belittling the Imperial Japanese Army, so he has not taken it seriously, and the infantry squadron stationed in Zhao County, Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro is the nephew of Lord Ushijima, and in the past combat missions, that Captain Yamada has always performed very well, so after Kimura Hyotaro learned that one of the protagonists of this matter turned out to be Captain Yamada, he did not delve into it.

However, according to the information collected by the intelligence officers of the special high-tech department, in the process of the Chinese attacking Zhao County, Captain Yamada did flee without firing a shot, and the Chinese easily occupied Zhao County, and what is even more incredible is that when Yamada fled, he did not destroy the arms in the arsenal and the materials in the warehouse, and left all the materials in the Chinese people, and his stupidity was simply jaw-dropping, so the North China Front Army Headquarters ordered the 32nd Division to immediately give an explanation to the front army on this matter.

Kimura Hyotaro did not expect Captain Yamada to make such an unforgivable mistake, although he had the face of His Excellency Ushijima, but this matter was not something he could cover up, so he immediately ordered the gendarmerie to arrest Captain Yamada and the three squad leaders. Wait for the disposal of the division and regimental headquarters.

Kimura Hyotaro didn't have too many thoughts about the life and death of the four little people, no matter whether the decision made by the division headquarters was to shoot him on the spot or order him to commit suicide by caesarean section, or to send him to a military court, these were all handled in accordance with normal procedures, even Ushijima Minoru couldn't say anything, let alone have any dissatisfaction with himself, after all, this was the request of the Front Army Command, and even the request of His Excellency Tada Jun, even if it was replaced by Ushijima himself, I am afraid there was no other way.

Kimura's biggest concern now is how to defend southern Hebei. The attack of the Chinese army was too sharp. In just two days, the 32nd Division lost six county towns and nearly one-fifth of its territory. The most important thing is that, according to the information sent back by the intelligence department, one of the two divisions under Yang Aiyuan's division in the Second Theater of China was stationed in Liao County. One is stationed in Licheng County. Tremendous pressure was exerted on the positions of the left flank of the 32nd Division.

Meantime. News came from northern Henan that more than 15,000 people from Sun Dianying's headquarters in the first war zone had been transferred to Linzhou, and Gao Guizi's headquarters under the 14th Group Army, the main force of the first war zone, had also been urgently stationed in Anyang. There is a large northward attack on the Linzhang and Cixian lines at the junction of Henan and Hebei.

Now the main force of the 32nd Division has been transferred to the northern front to block Chen Feng's headquarters from moving south, and there are only less than two wings of garrison troops left in the department, as well as 1 puppet army division and 2 puppet army newly formed infantry regiments, and there are more than 10,000 people in the full battle, and there are more than 40,000 people in the first war zone of China, and the number of people in the second war zone is slightly less, but there are about 20,000 people.

After two days of discussions, the North China Front Army has made a preliminary decision on how to deal with the joint siege of the four units of the three major theaters of China, and the North China Front Army Headquarters has decided to adopt the tactics of dealing with each of the Chinese troops separately for this siege, and the Japanese army believes that Chen Feng's unit, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, must be strictly guarded against fire, prevent theft, and guard against Chen Feng, and absolutely cannot give that branch of China any opportunity to take advantage of.

The Imperial Japanese Army has proved with the price of blood that Chen Feng's department is a hungry wolf, ready to choose someone to devour, once he is targeted, then he must deal with it with twelve points of spirit, otherwise, Sakai Hoji, Abe Norihide, Hasushi Zhaopan, Houguan Chun, Shinozuka Yoshio and others are role models.

With the miserable end of these major generals and lieutenant generals ahead, neither Tada Jun nor Kimura Hyotaro dared to despise Chen Feng's subordinates. Therefore, the North China Front Army Headquarters decided to increase the number of divisions and regiments to southern Hebei, and strictly ordered the 32nd Division to hold the three major towns of Hengshui, Nangong, and Xingtai.

For the first theater of operations in China, the Japanese army believed that although Wei Lihuang had the idea of going north to assist Chen Feng's department, and he must have formulated a detailed operational plan, it was undeniable that the center of gravity of Wei Lihuang's department was definitely still in Henan, so as long as the 12th Army was in eastern Henan, Chen Bing and two divisions could even launch a small-scale attack on eastern Henan and attack one or two small county towns. In this way, it must be able to greatly deter Wei Lihuang's subordinates, so that they do not dare to go north immediately, this move is to encircle Wei and save Zhao in the words of the Zhina.

Yan Xishan's department is a bit troublesome, the southeast of Jin and the south of Hebei are connected, and the terrain is high in the west and low in the east, the troops of the second theater can directly threaten Handan, the center of domination in the south of Hebei, so the troops in the second theater should pay special attention to it, and after thinking about it again and again, the North China Front Army Headquarters decided to quietly send the Yamamoto special operations wing to Shanxi, so that they can find an opportunity to destroy the command center of the second theater, and it would be best to kill Yan Xishan, but if they can't kill Yan Xishan, Then find an opportunity to kill Yang Aiyuan, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Group Army, or Xu Tiancheng and Wang Aihu, the two division commanders responsible for this dispatch to the southeast of Shanxi.

For the Eighth Route Army, Tada Jun himself and all the officers of the North China Front Army are extremely hated, because the Eighth Route Army is not only strange in its whereabouts, but often hits the soft underbelly of the Japanese army as soon as it strikes.

The most troublesome thing for the Japanese army is that although the combat effectiveness of these Tuba Road is average, the impact and destructive power of the war is not small at all, such a thing often occurs on the battlefield in North China, the front battle is in full swing, and the defenders are struggling to wait for reinforcements from the front army. But overnight, all the roads leading to the battlefield were destroyed, and even the roads were full of mine traps, and the journey that originally took only a few hours suddenly became more than a dozen hours or even days to complete, and by the time the reinforcements arrived at the battlefield, the battle had been over for a long time.

In addition, the instigation effect of the Tuba Road on the people in the security area is even greater, and wherever the Tuba Road goes, it will not take long for the local people of China to rebel, and even secretly assist the Tuba Road to oppose the Imperial Japanese Army, so in the eyes of the Japanese army, the crimes of the Eighth Route Army are innumerable.

In the view of Tada Jun and others, although the Eighth Route Army was ready to move this time, it certainly caused a certain amount of pressure on the front army, but this was not an excellent opportunity for the front army to gather and annihilate the Eighth Route Army, so for the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army decided to gather and annihilate it this time, and formulated a detailed operational plan for this purpose.

On 7 November, when the battle of Gaoyi was on the second day, the 21st Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jinan and the 114th Division stationed in Qingdao urgently transferred to Liaocheng and Gaotang, and had the intention of immediately entering southern Hebei to fight.

The various intentions of the Japanese army caused the former enemy command of the Eighth Theater and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to unanimously believe that the Japanese army planned to transfer 2 to 3 divisions from Shandong to the west to reinforce southern Hebei, and the 3rd Tank Division and the 3rd Flying Group would also join the battle. Therefore, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram to the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and immediately began to assemble in southern and central Lu, ready to attack Zaozhuang and Yimeng at any time, connect the Luxi base area with the Lunan base area, and at the same time open up the road into the Yimeng mountainous area.

However, neither Chen Feng's headquarters nor the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army knew what was going on, and just when they were planning to ruthlessly inflict a ruthless blow on the Japanese army in Shandong, the two Japanese divisions stationed near Beiping and Tianjin quietly disappeared.

These two divisions are the 36th and 37th divisions that have just been incorporated into the North China Front, both of which were formed in Japan on August 7, 1939, and were transferred to North China not long ago.

After receiving the news from the 12th Army and learning of the large-scale assembly of the Tuba Road in the areas of Luxi and Lunan, the North China Front formulated an operational plan to lure the snake out of the hole and gather and annihilate it. In the view of Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, the most important problem in dealing with the Tsuchihachi Road is not how to defeat the Tsuchihachi, but how to find the Tsubachilu, and if you want to destroy it, you must first gather it.

It is not an easy thing to get together in the Dirt Eight Roads, the reason why the Dirt Eight Roads are called the Dirt Eight Roads is because they are slippery like soil rats, and when the Imperial Japanese Army is strong, the Dirt Eight Roads will hide in the deep mountains and dense forests, and even turn into ordinary people, and it is not easy to find them.

Once the Great Japanese Imperial Army is weakened, these dirt roads will suddenly appear like mushrooms after the rain, and the Imperial Army will be caught off guard and extremely annoying.

Since the Tubalu had the intention to make trouble this time, then the Japanese Imperial Army would give them this opportunity, so Okabe Naosaburo suggested that Tada Jun transfer two of the four main divisions of the Twelfth Army to Luxi, and make a posture to reinforce southern Hebei, and the other division went west to eastern Henan, leaving only one division to garrison Jinan, so that the hinterland of Shandong would be empty, and Tubalu would definitely take the opportunity to attack.

As long as the imperial army quietly mobilizes reinforcements from two divisions to Shandong, it will definitely be caught off guard by the Tuba Road, and the 21st and 114th divisions will still move westward to reinforce southern Hebei, and the 36th and 37th divisions will encircle and suppress the Tuba Road in the hinterland of Shandong, which is really a double win. (To be continued......)