"The Eighth Route Army is really equipped with advanced radar."

Listening to the staff officer's report, Umezu Mijiro took a deep breath and his eyes were gloomy.

Due to the neglect of the importance of radar by the Japanese ordnance department, the Japanese Navy suffered heavy losses in the Pacific theater.

At this time, the Japanese ordnance department was making up for the loss of sheep and researching radar technology.

However, so far, the performance of the radar products taken out by the Japanese ordnance department is very stretched.

Umezu Mijiro was a little glad that he did not send the Kwantung Army Aviation Unit to support the North China Front.

Otherwise, the aviation units of the Kwantung Army will probably suffer heavy losses.

But Umezu Mijiro couldn't be happy, there is an idiom in China called the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and now the North China Front Army is almost completely annihilated, and the next strategic target of the main force of the Eighth Route Army must be the Manchurian and Kwantung Army.

And they are now facing the attack of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army.

The 200,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army, hundreds of heavy artillery pieces and hundreds of heavy tanks, were approaching Tianjin.

If one is not good, I am afraid that the main force of the Kwantung Army will also have to defeat North China.

Umezu Mijiro's face was solemn, and he personally drafted a telegram and handed it to the communications staff officer Jun Akamatsu: "Akamatsu-kun, immediately send this telegram to Prime Minister Tojo in the base camp." ”

"Hey."

Akamatsu Junnaka Saku bowed his head suddenly, holding the telegram in his hand, and turned around and walked away quickly.

Looking at the back of Akamatsu Nakasa leaving, Umezu Mijiro sighed deeply.

It was a telegram requesting tactical guidance.

At present, there are 10 divisions and 2 brigades of the Japanese army in Tianjin, with a total strength of nearly 200,000 troops.

But!

The three divisions from the mainland fought fiercely in Tianjin for several days, and they no longer had any combat effectiveness.

The 7 divisions and 2 brigades brought by Umezu Mijiro are already exhausted divisions, and it is not bad to have half of the peak combat effectiveness.

Although the troops of the Eighth Route Army were also very tired, the Eighth Route Army had just won a big victory, and its morale was strong.

Coupled with the fact that the Eighth Route Army had an advantage in weapons and troops, it was impossible for Tianjin to hold it.

So Umezu Mijiro, in addition to truthfully reporting to Hideji Tojo, also asked for the withdrawal of troops.

By now, the Japanese army had no choice but to abandon North China, a rich strategic location.

……

The front command of the new regiment.

Li Yunlong was sitting in a Willis jeep, following the march of the large army.

As the main force of the North China Front Army was eaten by the new regiment and the main force of the Jizhong Military Region, almost the entire Hebei Province was recovered by the Eighth Route Army.

Li Yunlong, dressed in a black leather coat and a pair of sunglasses, stood up from the co-pilot of the jeep.

He looked at the marching procession behind him with binoculars, and saw countless trucks of various mountain guns and howitzers, and a new regiment of soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition were sitting on the trucks.

Directly ahead, almost 200 tanks of the new regiment of heavy tank battalions, which pulled out a line of almost 2 kilometers on the road.

On the body of the tank, in addition to hanging oil drums, there are also soldiers with grass rings on their heads and holding various weapons.

On both sides of the road, a new regiment of infantry fighters was marching.

In the sky, a new regiment of fighters and reconnaissance bombers swept by.

Sitting back on the co-pilot, Grand Master Li's expression was extremely satisfied.

The fighting will and combat effectiveness of a team can be seen from the state of marching.

And the troops of the new regiment marched, and a momentum of slaughter did not disperse, just by letting people see it, they knew that this army was definitely an elite division in a hundred battles.

At present, among the troops in Asia, such a momentum can only be achieved by the Japanese army's A division.

After eating the main force of the North China Front, Li Yunlong listened to the report of the flying brigade that the main force of the Kwantung Army had arrived in Tianjin.

Therefore, Li Yunlong ordered the troops to assemble according to the formation and prepare to attack Tianjin.

According to reconnaissance and intelligence, the strength of the Kwantung Army troops entering the pass is only more than 100,000, and with the addition of the three divisions of the devils from the mainland, the total strength of the devils does not exceed 200,000 at most.

On the side of the Eighth Route Army, the new first regiment, the independent regiment, the new second regiment and the main force of the Jizhong Military Region combined were about 300,000 people.

Coupled with the 100,000 main reserves sent by the headquarters, the total strength is about 400,000.

At the same time, Li Yunlong had already given an order to Ding Wei, and the main force of the new second regiment was also moving in the direction of Tianjin.

400,000 beats 200,000, the advantage is mine.

"Regiment commander, just now the Independent Flying Squadron sent a telegram that it was the devil's reconnaissance planes that entered North China, about 20 of them, all of which have been killed by the Independent Flying Squadron."

The jeep stopped, and Wang Dehou jumped down from a telecommunications reconnaissance vehicle and reported to Li Yunlong.

One of the telecommunications reconnaissance vehicles has a high-power reconnaissance radio station that can monitor the radio signal within a radius of several hundred kilometers and determine its approximate location.

This requires a professional telegraph operator, but the headquarters has already sent an expert in this area to the new regiment, a female comrade, who is very good at surveillance.

Li Yunlong nodded, indicating that he understood.

Since the Devil's reconnaissance planes came a little too much, and they flew in dispersion, the marching contingent of the new regiment and the general reserve had already been seen by the Devil's reconnaissance planes.

However, it is not a big problem, more than 200,000 troops marched on the plains, and it was not easy to cover up.

"This little devil is cautious enough, he only dares to send reconnaissance planes, not fighters and bombers."

Li Yunlong's tone was a little regretful.

If there are enough devil fighters and bombers, then he can make a fortune.

At present, Boss Chen's planes have been delivered, and the new regiment has organized three new flight groups, 200 new pilots, and more than 150 new fighters, bombers, transport planes, and reconnaissance planes.

Air support capabilities have been greatly enhanced.

"I guess the devil is looking for the North China Front."

Wang Dehou smiled slightly.

Thinking of the scuffle a few days ago, Wang Dehou couldn't help but sigh.

At that time, the formation of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army was all in chaos, the platoon could not find a company, the company could not find a battalion, and the soldiers did it when they saw the devil.

However, the formation of the devils is even more chaotic, the squad cannot find the squadron, the squadron cannot find the brigade, the brigade cannot find the wing, the wing cannot find the division, and the division cannot find the headquarters.

Even the formation of the devil's squad was disrupted.

After a scuffle, the main force of the devils of the North China Front was completely annihilated.

Of course, the new regiment and the Jizhong Military Region also paid some price, but the price was within an acceptable range.

Moreover, after the structure was disrupted, it took a lot of time for the troops to return to their structure, and some units and fighters still have not returned to the organization.

That is, the Eighth Route Army dared to fight like this because of its strong organization.

If it is replaced by a national army unit and dares to disrupt the formation to fight the devils, the troops will be dispersed directly.

After all, every soldier has an independent mind, and the unification of the thinking of so many soldiers is enough to show how powerful the political commissars, instructors and instructors of the Eighth Route Army are.

"Haven't you found the two old devils Okamura Ninji and Yusue Seizo?"

Li Yunlong's words changed.

Wang Dehou shook his head.

"Not yet!"

"The final news from Deputy Commander Ma is that our cavalry unit has captured a few devil cavalry alive, and they don't know where Okamura Ningji went."

"At that time, as soon as our plane came, hundreds of devil cavalry, including Okamura and the commanders of various divisions, all scattered and fled."

"But what is certain is that the commanders of the divisions of Okamura and the North China Front must be among those cavalry units."

Two days passed, and the cavalry units of the new regiment and the separate regiment carried out a carpet search in the bombed area and even in the coastal zone.

But Okamura was still not found, and even Okamura's body was not found.

However, it has been confirmed that Lieutenant General Kusaichi Tanaka, commander of the 21st Division of the North China Front, Lieutenant General Kumayoshi Harada, commander of the 35th Division, and Major General Shunzaburo Maikura, commander of the 11th Mixed Brigade, have been killed.

After a pause, Wang Dehou said again: "Maybe Okamura and Seizo Arise were beaten to pieces by our 20-mm aerial guns, and they were blown to ashes by aerial bombs." ”

Li Yunlong nodded: "It's not that it's impossible." ”

The power of 20-mm aerial artillery shells can even be broken into pieces of minced meat, let alone devils.

Not to mention the power of aerial bombs, and the Sabre fighter carries napalm, which can directly burn both the devil and the devil Toyoma to ashes.

The area that happened to be bombed by the plane was a flat area, and there were not many woods nearby.

Of course, the devil cavalry did not concentrate to bomb the planes of the new regiment, but dispersed and fled.

From hearing the sound of the plane to the plane flying over the devil's head, the devil has a time to react.

By the time the plane flew over the head of the devil cavalry, the devil cavalry had already scattered in all directions, so the planes of the new regiment could only kill most of the devil cavalry at most, but not all the devil cavalry.

There must be some devils who have slipped through the net, but there are very few.

Wang Dehou continued to report: "However, our reconnaissance planes have been ambushing and reconnoitring along the coastline for the past two days, and no devil transport ships have been found, and our reconnaissance radio station has been turned on, and the high-power radio station of the North China Front has never been turned on. ”

"Forget it!" Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this!" ”

"Now that the main force of the North China Front has been killed, it is best if the old devil in Okamura is dead."

"Even if that old devil doesn't die, he has become the commander of the light pole, and neither Tojo Eiji nor the locust can spare him."

"Order the troops to speed up the march, let's go to the Kwantung Army."

Wang Dehou: "Yes! ”

……

At the same time.

Wa Kingdom.

Tokyo.

Prime Minister's Office.

"Nani? The North China Front was defeated? The whereabouts of the commander of the North China Front, General Okamura, are unknown? ”

After listening to the staff officer's report, Tojo Hideki stood up suddenly, and an expression of disbelief gradually crept up on his face.

The news came too suddenly, and Tojo Hideji at this time even slowed down the beating of his heart a few beats.

More than 200,000 Imperial Army troops and tens of thousands of tons of war materials were thrown into it, and this was the end?

Hideji Tojo was a little difficult to accept this result for a while.

Didn't he already give the order to retreat?

Why was the North China Front still defeated?

The whereabouts of Admiral Okamura are unknown? Did Okamura surrender the Eighth Route Army with his troops?

Okamura Ninji is a waste, and it has long been rumored that Okamura Ninji is a high-level spy of the Eighth Route Army lurking in the North China Front.

Tojo's intestines are about to repent, he should have asked Okamura Ninji to apologize for his sins!

A waste like Okamura can only lead a locust army to defeat the battle.

The defeat of the North China Front this time must have someone to take the blame, and the first person to bear the blame must be Okamura.

But if Okamura dies in battle, then the person who bears the blame is him Hideji Tojo, and the defeat in this battle is simply too serious.

"How much did the North China Front lose troops?" Okamura asked in a deep voice with a gloomy face.

At the beginning of the battle, the North China Front had 12 divisions and 3 brigades, with a total strength of about 200,000 troops.

"It's not clear yet!"

"Umezu Yoshijiro sent a telegram saying that the main force of the North China Front had been replaced by the Shina Army... Exterminate. ”

The staff officer of the major general who reported paused, and he really couldn't think of words to describe it, so he had to use two words:

"At this time, hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Eighth Route Army are approaching Tianjin, preparing to attack the Kwantung Army and the three divisions of the mainland heading to North China, General Umezu Mijiro requests tactical guidance!"

The corners of Tojo's mouth twitched suddenly.

The Eighth Route Army was too much, it ate the main force of the North China Front, and still wanted to eat the main force of the Kwantung Army?

But Tojo Hideji had no choice, the main force of the 11th Army was defeated in the Xuzhou area, relying only on the hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Kwantung Army, and it was also the main force that had been marching for half a month, I am afraid that it was not the opponent of the Eighth Route Army.

If the main forces of the Kwantung Army were killed, then Manchuria would certainly not be protected.

Manchuria was the rear of the Japanese army, where there were a large number of arsenals and airfields of the Japanese army, and if Manchuria was lost, the cabinet headed by him would surely fall.

"Immediately call back General Umezu Yoshijiro and order them to figure out the losses of the North China Front as soon as possible."

Hideji Tojo took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:

"Order the Kwantung Army, the 43rd Division, the 46th Division, and the 47th Division to immediately transfer to Manchuria, but send heavy troops to garrison Shanhaiguan, and absolutely not let the troops of the Eighth Route Army leave the customs!"

"Hey."

The staff officer jerked his head down and turned to leave.

"Yaga!"

After the staff officer left, Tojo Hideji couldn't hold back any longer, and took out the general's war knife on the knife rack and slashed indiscriminately, and several blue and white porcelain vases and chess tables were all chopped to pieces.

Although the defeat of the North China Front could not shake the foundation of the Japanese Army.

However, this defeat was undoubtedly a huge blow to Japan, both militarily and politically.

And the Eight Road gang won the battle, and they like to spread propaganda all over the world, and they can't wait for everyone in the world to know.

Thinking of this, Tojo Hideji has a headache.

In addition, after such a big defeat, how should I explain to His Majesty the Locust?

……

With the order of the Japanese base camp was issued.

The main forces of the Kwantung Army, the 43rd, 46th, and 47th Divisions, quickly fled in the direction of Tangshan before the North China Front could reach Tianjin.

The reconnaissance planes of the Eighth Route Army soon discovered the situation.

Fighters and bombers were immediately dispatched to bomb the devil's marching contingent indiscriminately.

It wasn't until after dark that the bombardment of the devils stopped.

The devils of Lu Province also escaped by transport ship from the coast, and after the devils fled, the Eighth Route Army recovered the North China Plain west of Shanhaiguan in only a few days.

Since then, the Central Plains and the North China Plain have become the territory of the Eighth Route Army, with an area of more than 1 million square kilometers and a population of more than 100 million.

Coupled with the business gains of this battle, the Eighth Route Army is about to usher in the fastest period of development in history.

……

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