But at the moment, in the hands of Uchiyama Eitaro, there is only such a small number of troops left. ∽ ↗ For the defense line of his 12th Army, which stretched from Puyang in the west to Bohai Bay in the east, it was almost insignificant. As for the 22nd Division, because of the heavy losses in the battle, it could only withdraw to Xuzhou to rest and replenish. In a short period of time, it will be impossible to go to the battlefield.

This does not include the 13th Army, which is currently grinding and chirping, constantly sending him reports and wanting the 65th Division to return to its establishment. But for Uchiyama Eitaro, this 65th Division will not be returned to the 13th Army. What are you kidding, with such a small amount of troops in hand, the 65th Division is being transferred, isn't the entire Luzhong defense line wide open?

As long as he, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitarō, has not received the order to dismiss him, and remains in the position of commander of the 12th Army for a day, it will be impossible for the 65th Division to be returned to its formation, at least until new reinforcements arrive. Of course, Uchiyama Eitaro also knows that it is estimated that when the base camp is studied, his army commander will also receive an order to remove him.

But this is obviously still more responsible, thinking that before the dismissal order from the base camp comes down, he will have to be a monk for a day, and he will be the commander of the 12th Army who will be enlightened for a day. still stubbornly refused the request of the 13th Army, privately detained the 65th Division in disguise, and revoked the order given to the 48th Division to rescue the battlefield east of Texas.

In fact, before receiving the order, he hurried and hurried but still did not have time to arrive at the battlefield, and the entire Jilu border battlefield had already ended. At this moment, I have just arrived in Boxing, and I have not yet had time to cross the Yellow River. After the curtain had come down on the Jilu border battlefield, he did not need to give an order to stop the advance, and the commander of the 48th Division, Lieutenant General Kazuo Kitakawa, had already issued an order to stop the advance.

Uchiyama Eitaro is shrewd, but Kazuo Kitagawa is not a stupid hat. Everyone came out of the Army University, and under the training system of the Japanese Army, the strategic vision is half a catty to eight taels, and no one is better than anyone else. Uchiyama Eitaro is calculating, as a front-line commander, Lieutenant General Kitagawa Kazuo, who doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of his alumni, isn't he calculating?

The two divisions in the battlefield east of Texas have lost contact. At present, there are only two infantry wings, and even the 48th Division, which does not have much artillery, naturally will not be bored to touch the tiger's butt. At least until the wing that was transferred out returned to the building, he definitely didn't want to cross the Yellow River.

Lieutenant General Kazuo Kitagawa is not stupid, without the cooperation of friendly forces. With two infantry wings that are pure, and there are not even a few anti-aircraft guns, go to the armored cluster of two tank divisions under the enemy's command to go head-to-head. The 48th Division, which now had no friendly troops to rescue, had stopped advancing before receiving the order.

After Uchiyama Eitaro's order was given, Kitagawa Kazuo happily accepted the order. It was located on the line from Qingcheng to Xinzhai along the Yellow River, and was transferred to the whole line of defense. In addition to repeatedly urging Uchiyama Eitaro to return a wing to the formation as soon as possible, he immediately began to build large anti-tank trenches and various fortifications.

Although the defense area designated by Uchiyama Eitaro for the 48th Division was not far from the Jiaodong Peninsula, it was not the main scope of activity of the Shandong Communist Army. Although the garrison here should always be on guard, the Northeast Communist Army in front of him killed the Yellow River, which had not much water.

But after all, there is no need to deal with those Shandong Communist Army who have no samurai spirit, only engage in sneak attacks all day long, and stir up people who cannot even sleep all day long, making the 48th Division feel like living in a nightmare all day long. Although the hundreds of tanks on the north bank of the Yellow River were like a nightmare, the 48th Division was terrified.

I was afraid that the opponent had killed the Yellow River, which had not much water that day, but at least the 48th Division could sleep well. Of course, if the supplies of the 12th Army can be in place on time. As far as the 48th Division is concerned, it is also necessary to be vigilant about the opposite side and to make every effort to repair all kinds of anti-tank fortifications. Compared with the previous days in Jiaodong, the current days are also like heaven.

For Uchiyama Eitarō, the two divisions that were originally scheduled to be rescued had become gods collectively, and the 22nd Division and the 65th Division collectively withdrew to the south of the Yellow River. The entire battlefield north of the Yellow River basically has no room for redemption. Naturally, it is not stupid to lose two of them, but also to catch one.

After the gunfire in the combat direction of the 115th Division subsided, Eitaro Uchiyama simply and neatly gave the 48th Division an order to stop the advance and transfer to the garrison defense and build a defensive line on the spot. These were already the only two divisions left in the hands of his 12th Army after this unprecedented battle.

If this point is finally formed into a force, it will suffer some heavy losses. He, the commander of the 12th Army, and his old classmate from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, became a bare-bones commander who was difficult to fight. And with such a small number of troops, if they are all lost north of the Yellow River, what else will he use to defend Luzhong? Once Luzhong is controlled by the enemy, the whole of Shandong will not be protected.

Shandong is lost, and the entire Jianghuai region is also wide open. If the North China Front Army can't do it well, it will have to go to sleep with the 13th Army on the same kang. At that time, I am afraid that it will be impossible for the North China Front to be established without revocation. The territory is gone, and it was driven to Central China, can it still be called the North China Front?

So Uchiyama Eitaro, who reacted quickly, immediately issued an order to stop going north after the battle ended in the east of Texas. At the same time, we immediately tried to find a way to mobilize supplementary troops for the 22nd Division, hoping that we could restore this division to the point where it could fight.

In order to raise enough troops, Uchiyama Eitaro even abandoned Okamura Ninji's blockade line. As well as the entire Jiaodong Peninsula except Qingdao, concentrate all the troops along the Yellow River and both sides of the Jinpu Railway, and ensure the safety of Jinan and the Jinpu Road.

Qingdao is the territory of the navy, and what the navy does has nothing to do with him. He could only retreat all his land forces and control the area west of Licheng from Linyi to Licheng. Anyway, the army is already working on the expansion of Lianyungang, losing Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai, as long as the section east of Xuzhou on the Longhai Railway is unblocked, it will be enough for the current North China Front. As for Admiral Okamura's blockade zone, to hell with him.

The entire Jilu border battlefield, along with the two divisions of the Dezhou battlefield, adopted an unscrupulous retreat method to ensure their final safe withdrawal from the north of the Yellow River in the entire Shandong territory, and the Japanese army was the last to control the zhì area. It also announced that the battle between the east and west of the two major battlefields, the eastern front of the Jilu border battlefield, completely came to an end.

At the same time that the curtain came down on the battlefield on the Hebei-Shandong border, the First Army, which suffered equally heavy losses on the Pinghan Line, also successively abandoned Handan and Cixian, the last two cities controlled by southern Hebei, as well as the entire strategic towns such as Anyang and Xinxiang in northern Henan north of the Yellow River, as well as the Daoqing Railway. All the remaining troops were withdrawn from the Yellow River in one go.

Because the First Army is in the whole battle plan, it is itself a partial division. Therefore, in terms of strength and firepower, it was far inferior to the 12th Army, which fought against the Eastern Cluster of the Anti-United Alliance, and suffered more heavy losses in this battle. The 50th Division and the 117th Division that attacked head-on on the Pinghan Line were all defeated, and the two fully equipped divisions together only withdrew more than 1,000 people.

Except for one of the two division commanders who were safely withdrawn from the two divisions of the main attack on the Pinghan Line, and the other was seriously injured by the anti-coalition artillery fire, he was lucky enough to save his life. He has served as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army for many years, and his time dealing with the Anti-Japanese Federation is far from Yoshimoto Sadachi, who can be compared to Uchiyama Eitaro.

During this battle, it was strictly ordered that the commanders of all participating units and divisions under the First Army, except for the battlefield in the southeast of Jinjin, were not allowed to enter the theater of operations in front of the Pinghan Line. The headquarters of two divisions and regiments must command in the rear at a distance of at least thirty kilometers from the battlefield.

All divisions and regiments participating in the battle are not allowed to carry military flags, and their front-line command is coordinated by the chiefs of staff of each division and regiment. In addition to Yoshimoto Sadachi's painstaking calculations, the division commanders and first-class officers of the Japanese troops who fought on the Pinghan Line did not die honorably on the battlefield like their colleagues on the Eastern Front, or received a long-term free residence permit for the prisoner of war camp of the squadron.

Although the commander of the 50th Division, Lieutenant General Sadamao Ishimoto, when the whole army was defeated, in order to organize the retreat of the troops and boost the morale of the opponents, he violated the order to enter the war zone. His convoy was seriously injured when it was hit by the anti-United Nations long-range artillery, but Lai also escaped, neither captured nor killed, but eventually ran back alive.

This is undoubtedly a great miracle for the Japanese army, which is currently killing more and more officers at the rank of lieutenant general. Of course, this miracle was based on the fact that the divisions and regiments under the First Army, and the officers at the level of division commanders did not enter the theater at all, but only set up command posts in Handan and Daimyo in the rear.

However, although the two division commanders with the rank of lieutenant general did not suffer heavy losses as on the Eastern Front. However, the officers above Osa, who participated in the battle, together with the officers of the Osa-level level, only ran back with the captain of the 302nd Wing of the 50th Division, Chiaki Nagano Osa. The rest of the first-class officers of Dazuo were either killed in battle or disappeared on the southern Hebei Plain. The two divisions that attacked frontally on the Pinghan Line, and the two chiefs of staff who were sent to the front line to coordinate and command, were all missing.

Among the several major generals, only one escaped early evacuation because of a mortar shell that broke his leg. This result can be described as a heavy loss for the current First Army. The commanders of the two divisions survived and basically withdrew safely, but they looked better on their faces, and in their bones they were actually the same as their colleagues on the Eastern Front.

The entire Pinghan line collapsed, and the two divisions that participated in the battle were completely annihilated. However, the two divisions that went too deep into the "behind enemy lines" on the battlefield in the southeast of Jin, after receiving the order to retreat at the cost of Yoshimoto Sadachi, although they adopted the tactics of gecko tail breaking, desperately fought to open a bloody road, and reluctantly withdrew to the territory of Jincheng.

But these two divisions, which have been targeted by the deputy commander-in-chief, want to retreat, how easy is it. Although a division that was divided and surrounded around Changzhi finally broke out of the encirclement under the response of another division at any cost, the total casualties of the whole division also reached 70%. In the end, only 20% of the troops reluctantly broke out after losing all the heavy equipment and wounded.

The other was in a better situation, but suffered considerable losses in a long and fierce battle. In particular, during the retreat, the troops of the 18th Group Army in the southeastern battlefield of Shanxi Province were encountered, and more than half of the casualties were lost under the multi-way interspersed and detoured in a large area, as well as the tactics of mobile ambush and multi-way interception. Without long-term reorganization, it will be completely incapacitated.

At present, the same tragic situation tells Sù Yoshimoto Sadachi, at the moment that his First Army, which does not even have the strength to tear down the east wall and make up for the west wall, if it continues to entangle itself on the Pinghan Line and continues to invest troops in it, it can only increase the losses of the First Army. At present, the entire battle situation has collapsed on all fronts, and whoever comes is already powerless, so don't hold on to it for the sake of saving face.