There is only one, but Eitaro Uchiyama can't figure it out. Such a large-scale deployment of the enemy's troops in the battlefield east of the entire Jinpu Road not only concealed the eyes of the intelligence agencies at all levels of the entire North China Front. It also concealed the fact that before the start of the second phase of the battle, the navy dispatched reconnaissance planes on many occasions to conduct large-scale aerial reconnaissance of the entire Jilu border battlefield.

Before the start of the Qikou landing battle, the entire North China Front Army, which had been looking for the specific locations of these two tank divisions, did not notice that these two tank divisions and so many heavy artillery pieces were deployed on the Qikou line, which was close at hand from Leling to Qingyun on the Eastern Front.

How did they manage to hide it? This is not just two infantry divisions, but two tank divisions plus a large number of heavy artillery units. Such a large-scale troop movement was still placed in such a key position, and no trace was exposed. The commander of the enemy army can be described as a lot of painstaking calculations.

With the start of the battle at Qikou, the entire deployment of the enemy army can now be fully exposed. But when faced with the overall shape of the hand exposed, it made Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro feel quite afraid. Especially the location of those two tank divisions, which made Uchiyama Eitaro reveal a layer of white sweat.

The enemy commander was so calm that he fought in the battlefield from Bohai Bay to the southeast of Jinjin. On the battlefield west of Texas, the breakthrough of the enemy army has been opened. The 100th Division was surrounded by it, and it had to deal with the 65th Division and the 22nd Division, desperately rescuing, so that the battlefield west of Texas was always under considerable pressure.

However, because of the continuous lack of investment in troops, the whole battle situation is somewhat stalemate, but he can still be so calm. These two elite tank divisions have always been on the front line of Qikou to wait for the base camp to send the two divisions to the door in a hurry.

Aren't they worried that the naval fleet's shelling of the Qikou line at the beginning of the battle was a bluff and a deliberate action to distract them? If the landing operation is delayed, will these two tank divisions have been waiting in Qikou and Xinhai?

Of course, Eitaro Uchiyama also knows that this situation is simply not possible. Under the terrain of this plain, the mobility of tanks far exceeds that of infantry. As long as the enemy wants to move, then these two tank divisions can ★★★★ rush to any designated place in a very short time.

The most important thing is that the Qikou battlefield is close to the Leling and Qingyun lines of the entire battlefield east of Dezhou. The distance of more than 100 kilometers may be a long distance for the infantry. But for a mechanized army, it's a matter of a few hours. They can be there whenever they are needed, wherever they are needed.

Thinking of this, Uchiyama Eitaro was even a little afraid. If it weren't for the fact that the enemy, in order to carry out anti-landing operations, would have kept the two tank divisions on the Qikou line. After the 72nd Division was completely wiped out, if these two tank divisions were to cooperate with the northwestern Shandong theater from the theater east of Texas, then all their forces in the battlefield east of Texas would fall into a large encirclement.

Just like the Germans during the Battle of Kiev, it was precisely by taking advantage of the high mobility of the tank that the two wings were interspersed with large depths. On the battlefield of Kiev, six or seven hundred thousand Soviet troops were encircled at once. Although the Imperial Army will not be defeated in the shortest possible time, as the Soviet Army was in the past. But once it is surrounded, I am afraid the consequences will not be much better.

His old classmate, plus the navy, which was responsible for escort and fire support, had so far actually failed in the landing operation. Judging from the current battle situation, some of them have carried a black pot for themselves. Otherwise, no matter how these two tank divisions are put into the battlefield on the Jilu border, judging from the current number of troops and terrain, the entire battlefield will be in danger of completely collapsing.

It was the landing operations of the 9th and 44th Divisions, which in fact saved themselves the blow of destruction. The strength of the two tank divisions will be frightened by whoever they put on them. This is a tank with hundreds of tanks that far exceed the performance of the Imperial Army's tanks in terms of performance and power.

The two divisions that landed at Qikou attracted these two tank divisions to it, just so that they could breathe a sigh of relief and carefully ponder what to do next. Uchiyama Eitaro can be sure that once the Qikou first-line landing force is completely annihilated. These two tank divisions of the enemy army will definitely complete the turn at the first time. At that time, no matter how you put yourself into that direction, it will not be a good choice for yourself.

Looking at the chaos on the map, hundreds of kilometers of battle from the Pinghan Line to Leling. Including the southeastern battlefield of Jindong, which is not progressing smoothly, and the current precarious battlefields of Qikou and northwest Shandong, the battle has been launched to the present, and for the first time in the heart of Uchiyama Eitaro has the idea of retreating the whole army to the south of the Yellow River, relying on the natural danger of the Yellow River to hold Shandong and central Henan.

Uchiyama Eitaro knew that even if the Ninth Division on the Qikou battlefield was completely eliminated, the enemy troops on the Qikou front line might be free to move south. After all, the strength of the Ninth Division, which is currently trapped in Tiger Wolf Village, does not use the strength of two tank divisions at all.

Thinking that these two tank divisions would fall on his head in the next wave, Uchiyama Eitaro felt a little frightened. On the terrain on the Jilu border, where there are flat rivers and no shelters, and there are not even large rivers that can be used as natural barriers, if the enemy's two tank divisions turn their eyes to the south, it will be a disaster for the entire Jilu border battlefield.

Sent away Lieutenant General Yueliangfu, who was painstakingly fooled by himself, and finally calmed down his anger a little. Before Uchiyama Eitaro could calm down from the surprise brought by the sudden thought that popped up from his heart. The urgent report of the chief of staff of the Twelfth Army turned him into petrified in an instant.

At the time of the talks between Uchiyama Eitaro and Yoshio last month, the radio contact between the headquarters of the 12th Army and the 100th Division and the 118th Division in the battlefield west of Texas had all been cut off. Judging by the military headquarters from the current changes in the battle situation in the entire battlefield west of Texas, the two divisions have lost contact, and I am afraid that they are all over.

After receiving the report of his chief of staff, Eitaro Uchiyama, who had just finished pacifying and had almost been beaten into a bare-bones commander Yoshio Kamitsuki, did not expect that he would receive a more severe blow than his old classmate. The annihilation of two more divisions meant that the entire Texas battlefield, including the 65th Division in the battlefield west of Texas, had all its flanks exposed.

If the enemy wants to pull his hand and penetrate from the west of Texas, the two divisions of the Texas battlefield will be cut off from all the rear routes. That is to say, the annihilation of the entire 100th Division will bring about the impact and consequences that will lead to the danger of collapse of the entire frontal battlefield in Texas at any time.

In addition to the Qikou battlefield, the two tank divisions that have basically been freed up and can move south at any time. That is, the current situation is not good, but it is not just the frontal battlefield in Texas. In the entire front-line battlefield from Dezhou to Bohai Bay, after many days of hard fighting, several divisions and regiments that suffered heavy losses were in danger of being surrounded by enemy forces north of the Maji River.

Eitaro Uchiyama, who sensed that the entire Texas battlefield was not in shape, immediately ordered all the troops that rescued the 100th Division to immediately shrink back to the Jinpu Railway. The troops drawn from the Texas battlefield immediately moved closer to the main force of the 22nd Division. One of the participating divisions in the battlefield east of Texas was counted as one, and all of them gave up entanglement with the enemy in front of them, and the whole army withdrew to the south bank of the Maji River.

At the same time, he immediately decided that Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro immediately sent a report to Senior General Okamura Ninji and Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi on the Western Front, and after informing the 12th Army of the current battle situation and the latest huge losses suffered, he directly demanded a general retreat on the entire front in the Shandong battlefield.

Uchiyama Eitaro telegraphed directly to Senior General Okamura Ninji and the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi. After the 118th Division lost contact, it is very likely that it has been completely wiped out in the northwestern battlefield of Shandong. In fact, the connection between the First Army and the Twelfth Army in this battle has been completely severed without the input of follow-up forces.

Similarly, when the landing force on the Qikou battlefield was basically facing the annihilation of the entire army, a large number of tanks and mechanized troops invested by the enemy in Qikou could be freed at any time. Taking advantage of the high mobility of its tank troops, it either outflanked the entire Dezhou battlefield to the east, or outflanked the southern Hebei and northern Henan battlefields to the west.

Once the enemy forces carry out large-scale tank penetration operations on the Eastern Front, all the divisions and regiments of the 12th Army north of the Maji River will be encircled. If the enemy throws these forces into the western front, once the enemy forces cut off the Longhai railway, it will go straight to the north of the Yellow River. Then not only the two divisions on the current Pinghan line, but the back road will be completely cut off. Even the battlefield in the southeast of Jin will completely lose a qiē support.

Judging from the current situation, it is better to stop this all-out offensive operation immediately. Taking advantage of the enemy's tank forces in Shandong, before the last chance to turn south or turn to other battlefields, the whole army withdrew to the southern line of the Maji River, and even directly withdrew across the Yellow River. Blow up the iron bridge over the Yellow River on the Jinpu line, abandon Dezhou and the entire area north of the Yellow River, and go all out to hold on to the south of the Yellow River.

Uchiyama Eitaro directly told General Okamura Ninji in a telegram that if he did not want to continue to increase his losses, then it would be best to take advantage of the last opportunity of the enemy's two tank divisions at Qikou to carry out a general retreat of the whole army. Otherwise, once the main forces of the enemy's tank forces are freed up, the consequences will be unimaginable.

From this telegram, as well as several orders issued in succession to the battlefield west of Texas, it should be that Uchiyama Eitaro is still experienced in the end, and his judgment of the shape shì is still quite accurate. He demanded a general retreat on the Jilu border battlefield, and this request was not wrong.

It's just that the telegrams and orders he sent have fallen behind in terms of deployment. If he had made a retreat deployment as early as last month when Liangfu came to ask for help, it would have been too late. But waiting until the 100th division lost contact to carry out a general retreat could already be a step too late.

It can be that for the current Uchiyama Eitaro in the future, he is afraid of something. At almost the same time when he gave the general retreat order to the various divisions and regiments that were still fighting on the Jilu border battlefield. At this moment, the two tank divisions of the Anti-Union in the Qikou battlefield, as well as in addition to one infantry division and some artillery directly under it.

At this time, the main forces of the whole army had all been withdrawn from the battle against the Ninth Division. When he gave orders to all divisions and regiments on the front, the anti-coalition forces in Qikou, led by two tank divisions, had already launched a large-scale interspersed operation on the entire Jilu border battlefield, aiming directly at the flanks of several divisions and regiments in the battlefield east of Texas.

If it weren't for the main force of the Qikou battlefield, they would all have begun to move south. With Du Kaishan's character and personality, will he give Lieutenant General Yuan Shou a chance to ask for help? They had already rushed up and eaten the remnants of the Ninth Division. Du Kaishan, who has never been a conformist, has no interest in face-to-face consumption with such a military face.