Talking about the issue of air forces, the boss knocked lightly on the table and muttered a little before he said: "The fighter and attack aircraft units of the air force, as well as the central air defense force, will be left behind for the time being. That medium bomber group, you should transfer back. The entire city around the North China battlefield is the Chinese's own city. ”

"Leaving these bombers useless, are we going to blow up our own cities? And if we bomb the Japanese transport fleet on the Yangtze River, it will be politically disadvantageous for us. If the Japanese army does not counterattack, these bomber groups with a short range and bomb load will basically have no great effect if they remain in the North China battlefield. ”

"Unlike you in the Tohoku Battlefield, it is very close to the Japanese army and naval bases on the Korean Peninsula. If these bombers are transferred back, you can also bomb Japanese bases on the Korean Peninsula. They can play a greater role when they are transferred back to the northeast to fight than if they stay on the battlefield in North China. ”

"On the infantry side, the chairman and I are advised to leave three to five divisions for the time being. As for the artillery regiments, automobile regiments, and air defense units you promised, the central authorities will accept them in full according to your plan. The foundation of this family is now thicker, but it has been broken by others. ”

"But I'll be right here. These artillery regiments and automobile regiments, as well as your air defense units, the central government will not be completely returned to Zhao. The area of our base area has expanded, and the pressure on our defense and the requirements for the mobility of our troops, especially in terms of tactical supply, have also increased a lot. ”

"At present, although the equipment of the various units in the North China battlefield has been greatly improved, there is still a great shortage of heavy weapons. Tactical mobility is still mainly based on foot marching and a small number of mules and horses. When the troops are fighting, they still mainly rely on their own carrying capacity for ammunition and materials, and their ability to sustain combat is still very limited. ”

"You can't eat meat and fat while the other brothers gnaw their bones there. Therefore, these artillery regiments and automobile regiments, the central government all stayed. Not only cannons and cars can't be returned to you, but even artillery and car crews, as well as those commanders, can't be returned to you. ”

The boss's words, Yang Zhen smiled and said: "If you stay, you will stay, they are all brother troops under the same banner, what else do you and me share?" Ours, that is, the whole army. As long as we can enhance the combat strength of our↘ whole army, we will no longer fire with a Miga rifle and counting bullets as before. Even if all the weapons of the Anti-Japanese Federation are transferred to the brother troops in Guannai, I have no opinion. ”

"In terms of infantry divisions, as long as North China can support supplies, the number of troops left behind should be more than less. In my opinion, five infantry divisions are still left, and two are placed on the line between Tianjin and eastern Hebei to ensure the safety of the northeast of Beiping, which is the closest to the Japanese army. The remaining three divisions, in my opinion, are placed on the line from Dezhou to Ningling. Of course, I'm just offering some advice. The specific arrangements still depend on the opinions of the central authorities. ”

"As for the air force, I think the scale of the transfer to North China will be expanded. In this way, the 500 air crew members we have trained for the Kannai troops have basically completed the training program. Although all the equipment cannot be put in place for a while, we can transfer all the three brigades that have completed the equipment back to the customs to take up combat readiness tasks. ”

"Boss, I'm preparing to report to the Central Committee. At present, the battlefields of the Northeast and Kannai have actually been connected. Shouldn't we now set up a unified command structure for the Air Force and Air Defense Force directly under the Central Military Commission? In order to unify the deployment of aviation units and operational command according to the battlefield situation? ”

Yang Zhen replied crisply, and the boss smiled and didn't have anything. As for Yang Zhen's proposal to set up his own air force command organization, the boss just sued him. This was built and waited until after returning to Yan'an, in the study with the central government. Now his job is to do a good job of sweeping the tail end of this battle. Don't be in this stall, being bitten by the Japanese army in the back, it will be a bit of a big loss.

Since the boss is like this, Yang Zhen is not mentioning it. And afterwards, Yang Zhen also did it, not only did he leave all the troops and equipment he promised. Before the main forces withdrew to the northeast, the Guannai troops were left with seven divisional artillery regiments and nine infantry divisions with all the anti-aircraft fire equipment.

And the war was transported to North China, but the materials that could not be used up were all left to the brother troops in North China. At the same time, some of the equipment of the Kwantung Army captured in the Northeast Battlefield was also transferred to the Guannai and handed over to the central government, and supplemented to the Guannai brother troops. As for how to divide the equipment he left behind, it is the central government and the major strategic regions in North China that are their own affairs, and Yang Zhen did not participate in it.

And now, after ending the conversation with the boss, Yang Zhen still needs to focus on the battlefield. After all, no matter how much equipment and troops are left after the war, it will be a post-war thing. At present, the war has not completely ended, and his focus is still on the battlefield.

Just like the boss, the whole battle has now reached the final stage. If at this time, the Japanese army finds an opportunity to bite back, it will be more than worth the loss. Although the Texas battlefield was due to the Japanese army's large-scale kidnapping operation, it was somewhat constrained and unable to continue the next move.

However, in the battlefield east of Texas and the battlefield on the Pinghan Line, fierce battles are still ongoing. Seizing the time to clear the enemy forces in these two directions and concentrating forces to deal with the follow-up counterattack that the Japanese army does not know whether it is capable or not at the moment is the most important thing to do at the moment.

After receiving Yang Zhen's order, Chen Hanzhang sent personnel to reach an agreement with the chiefs of staff of the two Japanese divisions and regiments that Lai was not leaving the front line. In the north of Dezhou and northwest of Jinpu Road, he retreated 10 kilometers and disengaged with the Japanese army in front of him. In the east of the Jinpu line, Du Kaishan is in the first line of Gaoyi.

At the same time, the Japanese army also fulfilled part of its promise, after retreating 10 kilometers back to the anti-coalition forces in person. First released the elderly, weak, women and children who were taken hostage by them and among the hundreds of thousands of Chinese people. At the same time, after not destroying the city of Texas, they withdrew from the battlefield of Texas one after another.

After the two divisions and regiments all withdrew from the Yellow River, all the remaining civilians were released on the spot in accordance with the requirements stipulated in the agreement. In this exchange, I may also feel that I am a little ashamed of this approach. The Japanese army basically fulfilled its original promise and did not do anything harmful to these detained Chinese people.

With the withdrawal of all the Japanese troops along the Jinpu Road from Dezhou to the Yellow River Iron Bridge, the fighting on the entire Jinpu Road has subsided. In the battlefield east of Dezhou, Tao Jingfei took advantage of all the current energy of the Japanese army to focus on the frontal battlefield of Dezhou and the opportunity of the battle along the Jinpu Road, concentrated all his forces, and launched a final general attack on the two brigades of the 115th Division.

After completing the ambush of the 120th Division, one division on the front line of Yan's housework, except for one regiment, crossed the Mache River and spread south. The main force immediately marched westward with all its might, and in accordance with Tao Jingfei's deployment, regardless of the strength of the 85th Brigade that was engaged in fierce fighting, went straight to the position of the 86th Brigade in the west of Ningjin.

After completing the encirclement of the 86th Brigade and the anti-coalition forces that launched a frontal attack, they immediately launched an encirclement and annihilation battle. After two days of fierce fighting, the 86th Brigade was completely annihilated. On its right flank, the 85th Brigade concentrated, with most of the remaining strength of the 115th Division. was also completely annihilated by Tao Jingfei the day before in the line from Changguan Town between Leling and Ningjin to Citoubao,

The 115th Division was completely annihilated, and the two brigades and regiments only fled scattered with more than 200 stragglers. One lieutenant general and two major generals, only Major General Kiyonoru Higuchi, commander of the 86th Infantry Brigade, took a few guards and ran to the nearest defense area of the 22nd Division of Dezhou with a few guards.

The two remaining generals, the division commander, Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Sugiura, were killed in battle, and the commander of the 85th Brigade, Major General Mitsuharu Mitsumiya, was missing. The entire division, apart from these two hundred stragglers, barely managed to get out of the way. At the same time, the hundreds of remnants of the 120th Division who were left behind to contain the anti-union in person were all wiped out. In the entire battlefield east of Texas, the sound of gunfire has completely subsided.

And just when Tao Jingfei swept the battlefield east of Texas, the Qikou line behind the entire battlefield east of Texas. The main force of the Bohai Naval Region, with the cooperation of the First Division of the Anti-Japanese Federation, also completed the complete annihilation of the remnants of the Japanese Ninth Division trapped on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village after two full days of fierce fighting.

Uchiyama Eitaro's airdrop did not delay the Ninth Division for too long. The transport planes airdropped by the Japanese Navy could only be airdropped at high altitudes with very poor accuracy under heavy ground artillery fire. The spring sea breeze in Bohai Bay caused less than one in ten of the airdropped ammunition and supplies to fall into the hands of the Ninth Division.

Of the 300,000 rounds of ammunition airdropped by the Navy for the Ninth Division, only 20,000 fell into the hands of the Ninth Division. A large number of field food is even more scarce. The Navy's airdrop did not change the situation of the remnants of the Ninth Division on the ground, which was short of food and ammunition, and had no food and clothing.

And this unsuccessful airdrop is also the only supply obtained by the remnants of the Ninth Division on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village. After this naval airdrop, under the blockade line formed by the aviation forces urgently mobilized by the Anti-Japanese Union and the strengthened ground anti-aircraft fire blockade, the Japanese army did not have a single transport plane that could fly into the Qikou battlefield.

After more than a dozen of them were shot down by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, including the transport planes urgently mobilized by the headquarters of the Dispatch Army and the bombers that were temporarily rerouted, Uchiyama Eitaro decisively stopped this kind of airdrop, which did not outweigh the losses. If the airdrop continues, I am afraid that the only transport aircraft group of the dispatch army will also be put in.

After the failure of the airdrop, at the insistence of Lieutenant General Yoshio last month. The Army Air Force dispatched a Type 98 direct reconnaissance plane that could take off and land at a front-line airstrip for a short distance, selected one of its best pilots, and took advantage of the darkness of night to adopt the method of ultra-low-altitude flight to take over Lieutenant General Haramoru Hara, commander of the Ninth Division, and the chief of staff of the division.

The low-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers below, Lieutenant General Yoshio last month can be left alone. For Lieutenant Lieutenant Tsuyo last month, these people are just consumables. However, Lieutenant General Yuan Shou, the commander of the Ninth Division, who was still on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village, and the military flag of the Ninth Division, he had to take them out.

This lieutenant general division commander is already the only one left among the two divisions to which he belongs. If Lieutenant General Yuan Shou loses in Tiger Wolf Village again, he, the commander of the army, will really become a bare-bones commander. Despite the current war situation in the base camp, in order to stabilize the morale and morale of the army, senior officers have always been encouraged to live and die with their subordinates.

However, he could not sit idly by and let the commander of a lieutenant general's division fall into a predicament. As for whether the former lieutenant general was asked by the base camp to apologize for his guilt after he returned by himself, or whether he would be held accountable in other ways, that is a later story. But now, Lieutenant General Hara Shou must be rescued. This is what he, the commander of the army, must do no matter what.

Although he was still tough at this time, Lieutenant General Haramori, who was ready to choose to live and die with his only remaining subordinates in the end, has been refusing Yoshio Kamitsuki's request to evacuate. But after Yoshio's continuous tough pressure last month, he finally chose to agree to evacuate according to the orders of the army commander.