With the order of the command of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, it was given.

The divisions and brigades of the 11th Army retreated on all fronts.

When the commander of the Devil Brigade stationed in Xuzhou heard the news, he was immediately frightened.

Even the 11th Army of the Locust Army was defeated, how could this little force in his hands withstand the attack of the Eighth Route Army?

The Devil Brigade immediately requested tactical guidance from the Dispatch Army Headquarters.

Since the 11th Army was going north, the Japanese army sent the army headquarters and did not gather more Japanese troops in the Xuzhou area.

It was believed that the 11th Army could defeat the Eighth Route Army.

But the idea is very plump, but the reality is very skinny.

Less than a week after the battle, the Japanese 11th Army was defeated by the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

The news of the defeat of the 11th Army soon reached the Japanese base camp.

Wa Kingdom.

Tokyo.

Prime Minister's Office.

"Report to Your Excellency Prime Minister, I have just received a report from Shunroku Hatata, commander of the Shina Dispatch Army."

"The 11th Army was defeated by the Chinese army in the Xuzhou area and suffered heavy losses, and at present, Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama is leading the troops of the 11th Army into Central China."

Major General Eiichiro Sanada held a telegram in his hand and reported to Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

"Nani?"

Hideki Tojo stood up abruptly when he heard this, and a look of disbelief suddenly appeared on his face.

Tojo Hideji's life has not been easy lately.

Although at the end of last year, the army achieved good results in Southeast Asia.

But from the beginning of the year to the end of this year, the Japanese army has been suffering defeats.

The 5th Division and the 1st Army and other units were all shattered, and the Battle of Midway was defeated...

Up to now, the North China Front has been defeated again and again, and the Japanese Navy is at a disadvantage in the battle with the US forces.

His cabinet, both economically and politically, was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Whether it's the Army or the Navy, Hideji Tojo continues to win to save his cabinet from bankruptcy.

Tojo Hideji hoped that in the battle in North China, the Imperial Army would be able to turn things around.

It was impossible to win the Eighth Route Army by relying on the group of wastes of the North China Front, so Tojo Hideji sent the Kwantung Army and the 11th Army to reinforce the North China Front.

Unexpectedly, the 11th Army was also defeated.

"Where has the Kwantung Army gone?"

Hideki Tojo asked in a deep voice.

"At present, the Kwantung Army has passed through Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao and is about to arrive in Tangshan."

Major General Eichiro Sanada reported:

"However, Beiping has been captured by the Eighth Route Army, and the main force of the Kwantung Army is preparing to make a detour from Tianjin to Baoding!"

Tojo Hideji said in a deep voice again: "What about the 43rd, 46th, and 47th Divisions that went to North China from the mainland? When to arrive in Baoding? ”

These three divisions, like the 42nd Division of the Japanese Army, are the latest three-unit B divisions formed by the Japanese army on the mainland.

It is in a state of full strength, and its combat effectiveness is not bad.

These divisions were all reinforced as local divisions, but due to the tense war in North China, Tojo Hideki transferred them to North China by transport ship.

When the war in North China is over, Tojo Hideji will look at the situation again and see whether to transfer these divisions back to the mainland.

"The 43rd, 46th and 47th Divisions have landed at the port of Tianjin."

Major General Sanada Kinichiro said in a deep voice:

"There are about two days left, and these three divisions will be able to arrive in Baoding!"

Hideji Tojo calculated carefully.

At the beginning of the war, the North China Front had 12 divisions and 3 mixed brigades.

The Kwantung Army dispatched 7 divisions and 2 mixed brigades.

The 11th Army dispatched 7 divisions and 3 mixed brigades.

plus the 3 B divisions transferred from the mainland.

In this battle, the Japanese army prepared 29 divisions and 8 mixed brigades, with a total strength of about 500,000 people.

With such a luxurious configuration, it still can't beat the Eighth Route Army.

Okamura Ninji is simply a waste, and Isamu Yokoyama is simply a waste.

Umezu Mijiro is also a waste, for such a long time, he has not been able to rush to North China and Baoding, but let the Eighth Route Army capture Beiping.

Thinking of this, Tojo Hideji was suddenly furious.

Even if he is the prime minister and is wise and powerful, he can't stand his subordinates too rubbish, and Tojo Hideji can't wait to shoot Okamura Ninji and Yokoyama Isamu These wastes are all killed.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, since the 11th Army has been defeated, will the central flowering tactics continue this time?"

A lieutenant general staff officer next to him asked in a deep voice.

In this battle of Baoding, the Japanese army fought the wishful thinking of the central flowering tactics.

The Japanese base camp also knew very well that the North China Front could never be the opponent of the Eighth Route Army.

So.

The Japanese army mobilized the main force of the Kwantung Army, mobilized the main force of the Japanese 11th Army, and even mobilized three more divisions from the mainland, preparing to build a large-scale center to blossom, severely damage the main force of the new 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and complete its work in one battle.

But.

Tojo Hideji obviously didn't expect that not only was the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army difficult to mess with, but even the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army was also a strong horse.

At the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army only invested more than 220,000 people in 9 divisions, and more than 700,000 people in 73 divisions of the national army lost their armor.

This time, the strength of the Chinese army was not as good as that of the Japanese army, but the result was completely reversed, and the Chinese army defeated the Japanese army and abandoned its armor.

Tojo Hideji didn't know if the Kwantung Army was grinding foreign workers and deliberately arriving late in North China, or if the Kwantung Army's marching speed was so slow.

"The telegram ordered Okamura Ningji, commander of the North China Front, to abandon North China and move from Tianjin to Tangshan."

After thinking for a moment, Tojo Hideji said in a deep voice.

Now that the 11th Army has been defeated, there are only 5 divisions and 3 brigades of locust troops in Baoding, and it is impossible to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

These five divisions and three brigades will inevitably be completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army if they continue to fight in Baoding.

Because the main force of more than 100,000 Eighth Route Army that captured Beiping will inevitably not allow the Kwantung Army to move south smoothly.

Stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, as long as the strength is preserved, the locust army still has a chance to capture Beiping.

"Hey."

Major General Tenichiro Sanada bowed his head suddenly, turned around and walked away quickly.

Looking at the back of Major General Eiichiro Sanada leaving, Hideji Tojo sighed faintly.

At the beginning, the locust army spent so much effort to occupy North China, in order to turn North China into the granary of the Japanese army, into the Japanese army's military station, and absorb a large number of soldiers.

For example, after the locust army occupied the peninsula and the treasure island, there were many people from the peninsula and the treasure island who joined the locust army to fight for the locust army.

However, the resistance of the Chinese military and civilians in North China was beyond the imagination of the Japanese army of Tojo Hideji.

In the past few years, the mainland has transfused so much blood into North China and mobilized so many war materials and troops in order to completely dominate North China.

However, the North China Front was defeated again and again, and now it is on the verge of losing all of North China.

At first, Hideji Tojo did not notice the Chinese Eighth Route Army in Shanxi.

Although the Eighth Route Army was a unit with strong combat effectiveness in the entire China Army.

But they were too backward, a whole group of peasants, and their government didn't pay them.

Even the whole of Shanxi, in the strategic pattern of the entire East, belongs to the land of projectiles.

Who would have thought.

In just two or three years, that inconspicuous small army can grow into a modern army that can threaten the entire Japanese army?

……

Baoding battlefield.

The Commander-in-Chief Headquarters of the Front of the Japanese Army in North China.

Inside the Underground Command.

The cannon of the Eighth Route Army rumbled.

Okamura Ninji sat with the general's sword.

In front of Okamura Ninji, the communications staff officer was reporting to Okamura Ninji a telegram from the 11th Army:

"Our 11th Army and the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army have been fighting for several days, the enemy's firepower is very strong, our army is short of ammunition, and it has been strategically transferred to Central China. Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, commander of the 11th Army, His Majesty the Locust and the Locust Army of the Empire of Japan. ”

When the last Jingsan and a group of devil staff officers heard this, their faces suddenly became more and more ugly.

All of you here are devils and spirits, so you can naturally hear the meaning of the telegram.

What Isamu Yokoyama really means is that our 11th Army has been defeated and has to flee to Central China.

The so-called emergency and strategic shift of ammunition is nothing more than a fig leaf.

Okamura Ninji, on the other hand, had a solemn and calm face, as if he was expecting it.

Isamu Yokoyama and the 11th Army did not fight against the Eighth Route Army, so it was inevitable that the enemy would be careless.

He had already reminded Yokoyama that it was impossible for the Eighth Route Army to run out of ammunition and food, but it was clear that Yokoyama did not listen to him.

Pity.

Because of the defeat of the 11th Army, the strategy of the entire North China Front can no longer be completed.

At this moment, a staff officer hurriedly ran in:

"General, the passage to Tianjin and Cangzhou was cut off by the armored forces and cavalry units of the Eighth Route Army."

As soon as the staff officer's voice fell, the faces of the devils in the headquarters changed in unison, and their eyes showed despair.

Although in these two days, the Eighth Route Army did not attack on a large scale, and more than 300,000 shells were smashed into Japanese positions every day.

But it is clear that the armored and cavalry units of the Eighth Route Army were not idle, and had already gone around to the rear of Baoding and cut off the retreat.

Under the Eighth Route Army's 300,000 rounds of artillery shells per day, many of which were heavy artillery shells, and more than 100 tons of aerial bombs per day.

The air-raid shelters built by Japanese engineers were blown up one by one, and the puppet army was on the verge of collapse and almost lost its combat capability.

And the Japanese soldiers also suffered heavy losses.

Including Okamura Ninji and the Devil officers, as well as many Japanese soldiers, had been beaten out of a deep phobia of insufficient firepower.

If the reinforcements do not come again, most of the Japanese army and the puppet army will be killed alive by the shells and aerial bombs of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army did not have as many troops as the devils and the puppet army, and it was impossible to surround the devils and the puppet army.

But this is in the North China Plain, and the Eighth Route Army can cut off the escape route of the devils at any time.

There was no way back to Beiping, and now the Japanese army could only flee from Tianjin to Manchuria, and from the Shandong Peninsula to the peninsula or the mainland by boat.

At this moment, a communications soldier held a telegram in his hand, walked in quickly, and handed it to Hakuo Kitani, a communications staff officer.

After taking the telegram and reading it, Osamu Kitani reported to Okamura Ninji: "General, just now Prime Minister Tojo of the base camp has given an order, let us immediately transfer to Tianjin, and the Kwantung Army and the three divisions of the mainland will come to meet us. ”

"Got it."

Okamura nodded, letting the dust from the explosion of the shell scatter all over his body, and his face was expressionless the whole time.

Actually, Okamura Ninji was entangled in his heart.

In this defeat, the Imperial Army suffered heavy losses again.

As the commander of the North China Front Army and the main person in charge of this campaign, he must be responsible for this defeat.

Should I apologize for my sins? Or don't you apologize?

……

At the same time.

The new regiment, inside the General Headquarters of the Front.

At this time, Li Yunlong stared at the map tightly, his eyes sharp.

The 11th Army was defeated by the 129th Division, and the news that the main force of the 129th Division was attacking the city of Xuzhou had reached the headquarters of the new regiment.

In the battle of Xuzhou, the 129th Division killed the main force of 670,000 devils of the 11th Army.

However, due to the lack of strength of the 129th Division, it was obvious that it could not eat all the devils of the 11th Army.

If Yokoyama led the 11th Army to still face the Eighth Route Army in the Xuzhou area.

Then it was only a matter of time before the 129th Division took out the Japanese 11th Army.

But after all, the devil has legs, and he can't beat the Eighth Route Army, and the devil knows how to run.

Now that the troops of the 11th Army of the devils have been defeated, and the Kwantung Army is still far from Baoding.

Then the central flowering tactics that Okamura Ninji engaged in in the Baoding area will also be declared bankrupt.

Although the troops of the three divisions of the devil have landed at the port of Tianjin, he has already sent an independent regiment to cut off the passage from Tianjin to Baoding.

Right now.

The main goal and task of the new regiment and the Jizhong troops is to eat the five devil divisions and three mixed brigades in Baoding, as well as 200,000 puppet army troops.

What will the devils in Baoding do?

Stick to Baoding, or run away?

Li Yunlong's eyes were thoughtful, and his fingers tapped lightly on the table.

"Commander."

Just then, the communications staff officer walked in:

"I have just received a report from the armored forces and cavalry units that the passage from Baoding to Tianjin and Cangzhou has been cut off."

"Got it."

Li Yunlong nodded, his face unchanged.

Although the armored forces and cavalry units, cut off the devil's access to Tianjin and Cangzhou.

But it doesn't mean that the devils have already been surrounded.

Because this is a plain terrain, cutting off road and rail access can only make it impossible for the devil's trucks, artillery, etc. to leave.

The devils can break through from all directions, and the new regiment and the Jizhong troops are insufficient, so it is obviously impossible to surround many devils.

If these devils continue to stay in Baoding, there is only one way to die.

The North China Front, in Li Yunlong's eyes, is a big fat meat that is about to flow with oil, and it is about to reach his mouth, can he let it run?

If the Devil's North China Front Army is picked up by three divisions from the mainland and the Kwantung Army, it will be difficult to eat it again.

Li Yunlong thought again and again, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle's falcon: "The devil must run, pass on my orders, all troops are not afraid of fatigue, difficulties, hunger, casualties, disrupted the system, and are not afraid of being blocked by rivers. ”

With the issuance of the order of the regiment headquarters, all units of the new regiment and the fraternal units of the Jizhong Military Region began to prepare.

I have to say that today's Li Yunlong is very strategic.

At the same time.

Baoding City.

Underground Air Defense Command of the North China Front.

Okamura Ninji summoned the division commanders of each division and gave the order to alternately cover the transfer to Tianjin.

After some mental struggle, Okamura Ninji decided not to apologize for the time being, and he wanted to keep this useful body to make contributions to the locust.

Following the Japanese 11th Army led by Isamu Yokoyama, Okamura Ninji was also preparing to lead the North China Front Army to start running away with buckets.

At the same time, Okamura Ninji also gave the 1st Division, the 26th Division, and the 71st Division an order to abandon Zhangjiakou and move into Chengde.

It is no longer necessary to continue to hold Zhangjiakou, and when the main force of the Eighth Route Army is freed up, the 1st Division, the 26th Division, and the 71st Division will definitely be wiped out.

……

(Brothers, after 6 days of perseverance, the state collapsed again, and it was uncomfortable.) One more chapter today. (End of chapter)