On the Dezhou battlefield, after several days of fierce fighting, Liu Tiehan's Dongzhi troops suffered more than 30,000 casualties, more than the establishment of two whole brigades, and at this cost, more than 50,000 Japanese troops were killed, and the defense line was not lost, and more than 200,000 Japanese troops were pinned down in the Dezhou area, and they could no longer move forward.

The four brigades and one regiment directly under the newly added unit have a total of more than 60,000 troops, so the total strength of the Dongzhi troops has increased instead of decreasing, reaching more than 180,000 people, becoming the largest military force in the independent division system, and even exceeding the number of troops under the personal command of division commander Tang Qiuli.

Although the total strength of the Japanese army is still at a disadvantage, the difference is narrowed, and Liu Tiehan can breathe a sigh of relative relief, and on the local front, he can organize a large-scale attack and repel the Japanese army in front of him for more than ten kilometers.

On 14 November, more than 80,000 reinforcements led by Li Honggang, chief of staff of the Independent Division, totaled more than 80,000 troops, rushed to the Dezhou battlefield.

In this way, on the Dezhou battlefield, the three main forces of the independent division, totaling more than 390,000 people, were concentrated, and in terms of troops, they had greatly exceeded the total strength of the Japanese army after losses, and there was also a firepower advantage of more than twice that of the Japanese army, and it had the powerful conditions for encircling and annihilating the Japanese army that invaded Shandong.

Tang Qiuli's pre-war plan to find an opportunity to annihilate the Japanese army along the way finally became possible in the Dezhou area at the junction of Hebei and Shandong after more than ten days of war in the Yellow River Valley Theater.

The current situation is that with the Yellow River as the line, from west to east, an obvious battle line has been formed, and the westernmost point is the Datong battlefield dominated by the troops of Yan Xishan in Shanxi, containing about 200,000 Japanese troops, and in the middle section, with Niangziguan as the center, the current strength of more than 60,000 troops led by Feng Jiwu, deputy commander of the independent division, including two divisions of the Jin army, and 120,000 Japanese troops attacking the Niangziguan defense line, forming a stalemate.

In the easternmost Dezhou battlefield, the existing strength of the Japanese army is about 250,000 people, and it is the troops of the East Finger, who have been fighting fiercely for several days, thinking that they have lost all their vigor and become exhausted, and this is the most favorable direction for the independent division, and Tang Qiuli put the idea of annihilating the Japanese army all the way on Liu Tiehan, Tang Qiusheng, and Li Honggang.

Looking at the entire northern front, except for the Niangziguan battlefield in the middle section, it must be on the defensive, and the Datong battlefield and the Dezhou battlefield all have favorable conditions for launching a general attack on the Japanese army in front of them, but it is a pity that Yan Xishan in Shanxi, with more than 300,000 elite Jin troops in his hands, gathered in the direction of Datong, did not dare to launch a counterattack against the enemy on the opposite side.

Regarding Tang Qiuli's campaign plan of launching a counteroffensive in Datong and Dezhou at the same time, striving for annihilation, or at least defeating the main forces of the Japanese army on both roads, he was suspicious, afraid that his old man would lose everything, repeatedly emphasized the difficulties, and asked Tang Qiuli to send a certain number of reinforcements to reinforce the Datong front line and jointly launch an attack on the Japanese army.

After receiving a telegram from Yan Xishan, Tang Qiuli, who was in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, was furious, Yan Xishan was talking nonsense in broad daylight, and the use of his troops had reached the limit, and the only thing that could be used was more than 60,000 people in Feng Jiwu's hands, but they were guarding the Niangzi Pass at the east gate of Shanxi for him Yan Xishan.

Yan Xishan will not be unclear about this qiē, he is still making a small calculation, hoping that the troops of the independent division will take the lead for him in the direction of Datong, and the battle will go smoothly, his more than 300,000 troops will be pressed on the whole line, and the last punch will be given to the already shaky Japanese army, taking advantage of the chaos to win, think about it, defeat more than 200,000 Japanese troops in one fell swoop, this is a great result, so that Yan Xishan can obtain the greatest benefits at the minimum cost.

The war did not go well, and the troops of the independent division, the Japanese army, which had been defeated and wounded, could not move at all, and the defense line composed of more than 300,000 Jin troops who were waiting for work at ease, Datong was absolutely unharmed, no matter whether he won or lost, he Yan Xishan could get the benefits, it can be said that he was left and right, and took advantage of it.

Yan Xishan's small abacus, Tang Qiuli saw through it at a glance, and his telegram to Yan Xishan was extremely unkind, "Brother Baichuan, don't do anything more, the former, your strategic deployment of the theater of war, Yang Fengyin disobeys, with two divisions of weak brigades, to defend the important place Niangzi Pass, if it weren't for the headquarters of General Feng Jiwu, the deputy commander of my independent division, rushed to Niangzi Pass to deploy defense in the starry night, and seize the opportunity, the Japanese army has already arrived under Taiyuan City, Brother Baichuan still has leisure and leisure, in Taiyuan City, enjoy singing and dancing to promote peace?" I'm afraid I'm already on the way to flee in a panic. "Brother Baichuan's idea is that the troops of my independent division are in front, and Tang will definitely not let Niangzi Pass lose, and then, for my strict order to transfer the elite troops of the Jin Army to Niangzi Pass to garrison, you do everything you can to prevaricate, full of difficulties, the troops on the front line of Datong cannot be moved, then on the east bank of the Yellow River, the hundreds of thousands of Jin troops in the area of Liulin and Yonghe Pass, stranded in the place of the distant enemy, what is the intention?"

"After urging from many parties, to the 15th, there are two divisions of troops rushed to the front line of Niangzi Pass, resulting in the only mobile force of our independent division, in Niangzi Pass can not get out, to this day, the strength of the Japanese army far beyond the face of the Japanese army, and the situation is favorable, the Japanese army turned forward and Zhao Chengshou Department of the battle, frustrated the spirit, this attack, in fact, in response to the Japanese army action in my Taihang Mountain base area, Brother Baichuan not only did not think about it, but even wanted to have no soldiers to adjust Tang, reinforcement of the Datong front, this request, really made Tang embarrassed, I don't know what Brother Baichuan thought? Tang is quite confused? "Now, under the pretext of shirking the strategic deployment of the theater of operations, what Brother Baichuan has done has made Tang unbearable, and he has reported all his actions to the Military Commission of the National Government since the war in the north, and after repelling the Japanese attack, Tang will go to Taiyuan in person and reason with his brother face to face."

Tang Qiuli has long lost the least respect for this old abacus of trying to preserve his strength and beating other people's guys, and he is not polite at all, his heart is full of regret, with the current situation, in the direction of Datong and the direction of Dezhou, there are possibilities and opportunities to annihilate or defeat the Japanese army in front of him.

If this is the case, after a few battles, the Japanese army in North China will lose more than one-third of the overall number, and the pressure on himself in the future will be reduced a lot, but it is a pity that Yan Xishan has been playing his own small abacus behind closed doors, completely ignoring the overall situation, such a person will never become his own help and friend, Shanxi, sooner or later it will be in his own bag, Yan Xishan, you have to pay the price for this.

Tang Qiuli was secretly ruthless, I am afraid that Yan Xishan's future life will be much sadder, but he himself has not realized what kind of person he is angry about, and what price he will have to pay for it?

Tang Qiuli's oral message this time did not have the excitement and anger of the last time, and his tone was calm, but in the staff who recorded it, the words were like knives and words like arrows, and Mei Ting, who knew her husband, knew that under Tang Qiuli's seemingly calm appearance, her heart had already ignited a surge of anger, the cold light in her eyes appeared from time to time, and the murderous aura was hidden, she shook her head with a wry smile, feeling sorry for Yan Xishan, that Shanxi soil emperor, I am afraid that there will not be a good life in the future.

Yan Xishan, who was sitting in Taiyuan, after receiving Tang Qiuli's telegram, his eyes rolled wildly, with an obvious look of hesitation, and the generals and strategists under him, looking at Chief Yan's uncertain face, couldn't guess what kind of telegram it was, making the old man look like this?

Yan Xishan pondered for a long time, signaled to the adjutant, and handed over the telegram to everyone for circulation, these vested interests in Shanxi, when they saw the telegram, they were fried, and the crowd was indignant, if Tang Qiuli was in front of him, their spitting stars would definitely splash him in the face, no matter what Chief Yan said, he was also a member of the party, presiding over the military and political affairs of Shanxi, how could Tang Qiuli be so interrogated, threatened, and insulted.

Some people came up with an idea and immediately sent a telegram of appeal to the Nanjing Military Commission to take the initiative, not to let those senior officials of the national government believe Tang Qiuli's one-sided words, and some came up with an idea, simply negotiate peace with the Japanese army, reach a mutually satisfactory condition, and the Japanese army in front of Niangzi Pass, flank the front and back, kill more than 60,000 troops of the independent division, and break one of Tang Qiuli's arms first, so that he knows that Shanxi is not easy to provoke.

If it weren't for Tang Qiuli's independent division in North China, constantly provoking wars and making the Japanese suffer heavy losses one after another, the Japanese might not have spent such a lot of money to make this large-scale military operation to attack Shanxi.

For the former kind of Jianyì, Yan Xishan didn't even raise his eyelids, it was purely a scholar's opinion, Lao Jiang had been worried about Shanxi for many years, so did he succeed? Just with a telegram from Tang Qiuli, I still want my old man's head to be unprestigious? It's useful to fight a lawsuit.

Yan Xishan jumped in his heart when he heard this, raised his eyelids, and looked at those people, they are all guys who are close to the Japanese in their bones, and it is a matter of time before they negotiate with the Japanese, now is not the time, the Japanese army is pressing, which is equivalent to holding a gun to the head to negotiate, and it is not possible to take advantage of it at all.

Kill Tang Qiuli's 60,000 horses, just kidding, you should eat steamed buns as simple as that? Without two or three hundred thousand troops, it can't be done at all, besides, behind Tang Qiuli, there is Lao Jiang, and there are other hundreds of thousands of descendant troops, this is for my old man to openly break with the government and Tang Qiuli?

A few people who came up with this kind of idea, they have to be careful, don't let the Japanese give them some benefits that day, sell themselves, these ideas, Yan Xishan will not hang on his face at all, he said generously: "The war in North China is tight, the doll is young, the anger is bigger, and it is reasonable to say something excessive, I won't care about the old man, and you don't say something that is not conducive to sincere unity, remember?" ”

Everyone was stunned, Chief Yan, who has always held grudges, how could he suddenly have the prime minister's measure, he really couldn't figure it out, and then, he ordered to go to the Niangziguan battlefield and send another division, Datong Front, the Japanese don't move, don't move, even if the Japanese move, you must see it and then move, and don't take the initiative to attack.

Speaking of this, Yan Xishan, who had a simple face, suddenly revealed his murderous intentions, these people are all people who have cultivated for many years, and they vaguely guessed the old man's thoughts, but no one said anything, who is looking for that trouble?