After hesitating for a long time, Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama finally made up his mind to transfer one wing of the 48th Division as the backbone, plus five of the only seven motorized infantry squadrons from the garrisons along the entire Jinpu line, and three squadrons of armored vehicles to form a reinforced detachment.

In addition, before the landing, the two divisions and regiments that had withdrawn to Yantai with Yoshio last month each had an engineer squadron, a search wing and four squadrons of baggage. Along the Bohai Bay east of Leling, forcibly interspersed in the direction of Qikou. Attract at least one of the enemy forces around the 9th Division to the south to relieve the pressure on the 9th Division.

At the same time, the 120th Division of Leling was ordered to transfer all troops, including baggage and engineers, to the front line. When the detachment was interspersed with the Qikou battlefield, it did not hesitate to drag the anti-coalition troops in front of it at any cost. He also contacted the naval aviation in the Shandong battlefield and asked them to send transport planes to the Qikou front line and airdrop some ammunition.

After the 48th Division transferred a wing, in order to maintain the blockade line on the Jiaodong Peninsula, all the non-combatants of all army departments in Shandong, as well as all the armed expatriates who had been mobilized in the whole of Shandong Province, except for Dezhou, took over the task of continuing the blockade.

In order to continue to ensure the tightness of the blockade, Uchiyama Eitaro even except Jinan, the military police of other Japanese-controlled areas, as well as the Japanese police in the puppet police station, were all transferred. Although he also knew that the combat effectiveness of these stragglers was inferior to that of a field infantry brigade. But he can't help it, at least the blockade must be maintained.

Moreover, the Shandong Communist Army, which was trapped on the Jiaodong Peninsula, constantly tried to cross the Jiaoji Railway and the blockade line to the west. The two blockade lines in the north and west are now quite tense. The Western Front, in particular, has been broken through several times. If you don't find enough replacement troops, you really can't trap the communist army in Jiaodong.

Once they are really allowed to highlight the lockdown zone, Eitaro Uchiyama knows that his backyard will be a fire. At present, the so-called left-behind troops of the Shandong Communist Army in the Lunan Military Region and the Luzhong Military Region are frequently dispatched, which has already made the garrisons in various places anxious. If the main force of the communist army in Jiaodong highlights the blockade area on the whole line, will it be okay?

So for Uchiyama Eitaro to come, it would be better not to increase troops to the north, but this blockade zone should also be preserved. It is absolutely impossible to let ⊙▽⊙▽⊙▽⊙▽, m≡c↑ The communist army in Shandong highlight the Jiaodong Peninsula. Otherwise, once it cooperates with the Northeast Communist Army, which has already fought close to the north, then the 12th Army will be waiting for the entire rear to catch fire, and this result is absolutely unacceptable to him.

And the Twelfth Army doesn't have any ability to deal with the sky-high fire that may burn behind it. These communist armies are like maggots on tarsal bones, once they are allowed to infiltrate their rear in large numbers, then the entire Jilu border battlefield will once again be selected into a nightmare.

These can't be cleaned no matter how they are suppressed, even if they encounter the harshest blows. However, as soon as the form eased slightly, the communist army, which immediately revived, was much more difficult to cope with than the regular army of the Nationalist government. General Okamura made such a great determination and paid such a great price to painstakingly trap the Shandong Communist Army on the Jiaodong Peninsula. At least during the battle, it is absolutely impossible to make them turn the tables.

After issuing this series of orders in succession, Uchiyama Eitaro hesitated, but still sent a telegram to Okamura Ninji and the headquarters of the Nanjing Dispatch Army, hoping to mobilize several transport planes in the shortest possible time to strengthen the airdrop force. After all, the Navy still has some fighters and bombers on the Shandong battlefield, but the Navy has only three Zero Type 22 transport planes.

Relying on these three transport planes, even if you want to meet the minimum supply of the 9th Division, it is far from enough. Without reinforcements from the front, even if these three transport planes broke through the enemy's air defense line, the 9th Division on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village would still have to go hungry. And what they need right now is not only food and supplies, but more importantly, ammunition.

The Imperial Army did pay attention to bushido and paid attention to white-knuckle combat training, but bushido was to improve the army's will to fight, so that the troops would have the will to die when fighting, and there would be no collapse due to low morale. It will not surrender when the battle is lost, as is the case with the armies of other countries.

As for white-knuckle warfare, it is the last resort that will be used at the most critical moment. And in order to be used as a means of victory in melee when needed. But when did the Imperial Army fight a white-knuckle battle as long as it had a firepower advantage? Even if the firepower is not superior, it will be compensated for by guò tactics.

Moreover, the opponent has a large number of tanks, and he fights with tanks with bayonets, doesn't that make the whole world laugh at the lack of heart and eyes of the Imperial Army. I'm afraid that before I got close, I was beaten into a beecom's nest by enemy infantry fire. The tank tactics of the Soviet army in the Normenkhand battlefield were quite clumsy in all respects, except for the firepower and the amount of input. Taking a meat bullet offensive can play an unexpected role.

But the Northeast Communist Army in front of it was different, the enemy's tanks always formed a careful coordination with the infantry, and the infantry had an absolute advantage in firepower. In this case, if you take close combat, white-knuckle combat, and flesh-and-bullet attacks, you will think that you have too many subordinates.

Therefore, Uchiyama Eitaro believes that in addition to food, in order to maintain the operation of the 9th Division, it is more important to airdrop ammunition, especially anti-tank weapons, to the 9th Division. Otherwise, with the strength of the 9th Division at the moment, it will lose all flank support. The enemy's two tank divisions can be completely destroyed with a single charge.

Uchiyama Eitaro believes that although the performance of this German bazooka copied by the base camp is indeed a little bad in the face of the enemy's well-thought-out infantry and tank synthesis tactics. With a range of only 30 meters, this is a bit too much. Within range, enemy infantry followed.

The 100th Division, which was also used at the front, was also quite dissatisfied with these bazookas, mainly with the range. It was agreed that in the context of mountain or street fighting, and relying on anti-tank fortifications for defense, this thing might be useful. But on this flat and unobstructed terrain of the Great Plains, it is really a little too tricky.

In addition to the time when they were first put into battle, these bazookas did play a role, destroying a large number of enemy tanks. But as time dragged on, and the enemy quickly adjusted their tactics, this thing was basically in a situation where it couldn't fight back after being beaten. The range of thirty meters is really thanks to what the base camp came up with.

However, Uchiyama Eitaro thinks that although this thing is a little shorter, it is better than nothing. In any case, if this can really touch the distance of thirty meters, it is stronger than a meat bullet. If the Ninth Division can get a batch, it may be able to hold out for a while longer.

He also had a batch of more than 500 bazookas left behind after replenishing the 100th Division. The Ninth Division, which is also heavily equipped with this weapon, is no stranger to this weapon. As long as the naval planes can be airdropped to the Qikou battlefield, it will definitely be of some help to the Ninth Division, and no matter what, it will be better than a meat bullet offensive.

Of course, the premise is that the Ninth Division in Qikou can hold out until the arrival of naval airdrop planes and can receive this batch of airdropped weapons. However, considering the current situation of the 9th Division, Uchiyama Eitaro kept urging the navy. I hope they can move faster, and don't wait for the bones of the Ninth Division to be cold before they move.

Uchiyama Eitaro has been busy for a while, and finally calmed the anger in Yoshio last month's heart a little. The headquarters of the dispatch army also responded to Eitaro Uchiyama's request in the shortest possible time. Within five hours at the latest, the first batch of seven transport planes will arrive at Xuzhou Airport from Nanjing. The second batch of five transport planes will arrive at Xuzhou Airport from Wuhan within seven hours.

Regarding the reply of the dispatch army, Eitaro Uchiyama and Yoshio Kazuki could only smile bitterly when they looked at each other. Although they also knew that there were not many transport planes in the first place, they were able to mobilize so many troops in such a short time, and they were already doing their best. But in five hours, it is really difficult for the Ninth Division to hold out.

In fact, both of them know that all the efforts they have made now are actually in vain. Unless, within a few hours, add at least one wing to the strength of the 9th Division, plus no less than five squadrons of anti-tank artillery. Otherwise, all the efforts would not be able to give any help to the 9th Division.

Because no matter how fast the reinforcements move, it is impossible to put on wings and fly to Qikou. Of course, if a large number of aviation troops are mobilized to fully support them, there may be some way. Whether it is the actions taken by Eitaro Uchiyama or the promise of sending troops, it is actually nothing more than a consolation prize.

But last month, Yoshio also knew that these were already the best efforts that his old classmate could do. It was simply impossible for the 120th Division to break through the enemy resistance on the front line of Leling and Qingyun in such a short period of time and quickly reinforce the Qikou battlefield. If the 120th Division could do this, why did it carry out this landing operation?

Although the 120th Division was still reluctantly launching an offensive, both of them knew that if it were not for the support of all the inherent bushido will of the Imperial Army, according to the current casualty ratio of the 120th Division, any army would have been withdrawn from the battlefield a long time ago.

And the reason why the division can still go on the offensive is that the enemy's heavy forces are not in this direction. Except for some tactical counterattacks, most of the rest of the time was spent on holding. The enemy's firepower deployment in this direction was also not heavy. The entire battlefield is still dominated by divisional artillery, and the number of so-called rocket artillery and large-caliber artillery is not large.

It turned out that Uchiyama Eitaro had never understood why the enemy was so bold in its deployment on the Eastern Front. Judging from the situation exposed before, Senior General Okamura Ninji and he have always believed that the enemy's troop deployment in the entire battlefield around Texas is mainly based on the battlefield west of Texas.

They are still doubting why the enemy's entire deployment posture of emphasizing the west and ignoring the east is not afraid of breaking through the eastern front by themselves, and carrying out shallow and deep encirclement and outflanking of the troops deployed in the front line of Texas. After the battlefield west of Texas was fully launched, according to the main direction of the enemy's counterattack, it was still believed that they mainly used the Pinghan Line and the Northwest Lu Battlefield to ensure the junction of the two major battlefields, and the Northwest Lu Battlefield was the main battlefield.

And the left flank of the frontal battlefield in Texas was the main breakthrough, and the main battlefield was still in the area west of Texas. The Hebei battlefield and the southeast Shanxi battlefield and the Pinghan Road battlefield form a trinity situation. That is, the entire deployment posture of the enemy army should be to defend in the east and attack in the west.

Now that I can see it, they secretly gathered a large number of troops on the line of Qikou and Xinhai in the depths of Leling. Its two tank divisions, which have never appeared on the battlefield, are also deployed on the front line of Qikou and Xinhai, and can advance and retreat freely.

If the Leling line was broken through by the 120th Division, the two tank divisions deployed in the depth of Qikou. It is completely possible to reach the war zone north of the Horse Cheek River within 24 hours. If there is not much change on the front line of Leling, these two tank divisions, together with a large number of infantry attached to them, can stop and wait for the Japanese landing force to send them to the door.