On August 31, 1937, the base camp of the Yue Army abolished the number of the Chinese garrison army and was organized into the North China Front Army, with General Terauchi Shouichi as the commander, under the jurisdiction of the 1st Army and the 2nd Army, directly under the jurisdiction of the 5th Division (Sakagaki Seishiro), the 109th Division, the 11th Brigade of the Chinese Garrison Tun Mixed Brigade (Suzuki Shigeyasu), and the Provisional Aviation Corps.

The commander of the 1st Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, was under the command of the 6th, 14th, and 20th Divisions, and was responsible for operations along the Pinghan Railway. The commander of the 2nd Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, was under the command of the 10th, 16th, and 109th Divisions, and was responsible for the operation on the Jinpu Road.

Operations in the direction of the Jinpu line: On August 14, the 10th Division arrived at Dagu and landed. On the 22nd, the division issued an order to attack Machang (south of Tianjin). On September 4, the 33rd Infantry Brigade of the 10th Division broke through the Kuomintang defenders' positions north of Machang and occupied Machang and Qingxian on the 11th, and at the same time, the 16th and 109th Divisions, reinforced by Yueben, landed in Tanggu and Tianjin respectively and immediately joined the battle (the 109th Division only participated in the battle with the 118th Brigade). On the 13th, the 10th Brigade of the 33rd Division occupied Xingji Town. On the 20th, the main force of the 10th Division began to attack Cangzhou.

Operations along the Pinghan Line: On September 11, the 1st Army of the Northern China Army issued an order to capture Baoding and Yizhou. On the 14th, the 6th, 14th, and 20th Divisions forcibly crossed the Yongding River from the Tong'an area. On the 15th, the 14th Division occupied Gu'an; The 20th Division attacked Fangshan. On the 17th, the 14th Division occupied Yixian, and on the 18th, the 6th Division occupied Yizhou and quickly advanced to Baoding, and has now reached the periphery of Baoding.

Jin Zhao frowned and looked at the huge sand table in front of him, and said to himself, "The division commander of the 6th Division is Gu Shoufu, right?" ”

The intelligence staff officer next to him thought that Jin Zhao was asking him, so he reported loudly, "The commander of the 6th Division is indeed Gu Shoufu, Gu Shoufu was born as a farmer in Gangshan County. In November 1903, he graduated from the 15th Infantry Section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was awarded the rank of second lieutenant in the following March. Participated in the Russo-Japanese War, during which he was promoted to lieutenant. In November 1912, he graduated from the 24th class of the Army University, ranking third in the term. ……”

The intelligence staff officer introduced to Jin Zhao in detail the information he knew about Gu Shoufu, but Jin Zhao didn't listen to a word. Because for Jin Zhao from later generations, it is impossible not to know the person Gu Shoufu, a Nanjing Massacre made all the people of later generations remember the name Gu Shoufu. Jin Zhao, who was in deep thought, thought that since Gu Shoufu and the Sixth Division participated in the Nanjing Massacre, they should be subordinate to the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and this 16th Division was also one of the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, so why did they all go to North China. Jin Zhao's mind was blank, and he found that the historical knowledge of his previous life was too lacking, and the most introduced in middle school history textbooks was the Eighth Route Army's War of Resistance behind enemy lines, but there was little introduction to the frontal battlefield, which made Jin Zhao extremely angry.

If history had not deviated from the original track, the 6th and 16th Divisions would have been urgently dispatched to Shanghai after the war situation in North China had stabilized. Jin Zhao remembers reluctantly in his memory that the Battle of Songhu, [***] fought fiercely with the Yue army on the Songhu battlefield for more than three months, and the battle was quite good at the beginning, but in the end the whole line collapsed. There is only one reason that can cause the collapse of our army on the whole front, and that is that the army received a large number of reinforcements at this time. Based on speculation, Jin Zhao concluded that this batch of reinforcements must have included the 6th Division and the 16th Division.

These two divisions must not be allowed to reinforce Shanghai! Jin Zhao secretly made up his mind. The reason why Jin Zhao was reluctant to let these two divisions reinforce Shanghai was not because he was afraid of causing the collapse of the Songhu battlefield; even if the army did not transfer these two divisions and regiments to the south, it would have been possible to transfer domestic troops to support Shanghai. The reason why Jin Zhao was reluctant to transfer these two divisions to the south was because these two divisions were the main culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, and more than half of the more than 300,000 compatriots killed in Nanjing died at the hands of these two divisions and regiments. Among them, the 16th Division alone slaughtered more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing, accounting for more than half of the compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre, and tens of thousands of people died at the hands of the Sixth Division.

But is it safe to put these beasts in North China? According to the reports of intelligence officers lurking in North China, these two divisions burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil along the way, and they were the units that did the most evil in the army. Hell is where these beasts should be! Jin Zhao gritted his teeth and thought.

"Commander-in-Chief Weng's 26th Group Army has arrived in Baoding!" Jin Zhao asked slowly.

"The 26th Group Army is now resting in the Baoding area, and the strategic materials have been replenished sufficiently, and the flight brigades of the 26th Group Army have all rushed to the Baoding airport." Chief of Staff Wen Yingxing said.

Jin Zhao nodded with satisfaction, in order to support Weng Zhaoyuan's 26th Group Army, which had traveled thousands of miles to aid North China. Jin Zhao specially formed a flying team to go north with the army, and this flying team had more than 100 fighters of all kinds. However, at this time, Lao Chiang had already transferred all the air forces in North China to the Shanghai battlefield, so in the vast sky of North China, there was now only this air force left.

However, at this time, the strength of the army and army in North China was also seriously insufficient, and there were only about 100 planes of various types, because the army also concentrated most of the fighters of the navy and army aviation on the Shanghai battlefield. As soon as he thought of this, Jin Zhao had to sigh that Ben's strong military strength (relative to our country). Although due to the addition of the Fujian Air Force, the Chinese army has lost more than 400 fighters of various types in Shanghai and Taiwan, the number of planes in the skies over Shanghai has never decreased, and has always remained above 300, while the Central Air Force of Nanjing's political axe has basically been exhausted, and now there are only a few dozen planes left that can take to the air for combat. The sky of Songhu can only rely on the support of the Fujian Air Force, for which the Fujian Air Force has lost nearly 100 fighters (there are not a few who have been shot down by military warships and ground anti-aircraft fire), but with the continuous replenishment, the Fujian Air Force has always maintained the scale of more than 100 fighters on the Songhu battlefield, although the Fujian Air Force fighters can be superior first, but they have been at a disadvantage in terms of quantity, so they have been unable to obtain Shanghai's air supremacy for several months.

Jin Zhao nodded with satisfaction, "In this case, we can have a big fight in Baoding!" It will be able to completely annihilate the Sixth Division of the Army. ”