Chuan An Wensan and his subordinates were looking forward to it, waiting for the airdrop supplies to fall so that they could be replenished.

However, before the parachutes could be lowered, a cloud of fire suddenly rose from the bottom of the hillside, burst through the air with a piercing scream, and smashed the Japanese ring fortifications.

Bang! Bang! Dozens of shells whistled in, and there was a violent explosion when landing.

"General be careful." Takeshita hurriedly escorted Chuan An Wensan and squatted down, and the shock wave roared over their heads, and a large piece of dust fell on top of their heads, making the two of them disgraced on the spot.

The entire highland was soon plunged into a sea of fire, and the devil soldiers lay down and hid one after another, unable to provide guidance to the airdropped transport planes.

Some of the empty surrender parachutes that had already been dropped and were in accurate positions were affected by the heat generated by the violent explosion, and they actually changed direction and shifted their direction in the air.

In the end, they all fell to the blockade positions of the Dragon's Tooth Column around the heights.

When the devil's air raid was over and the fighters returned, the artillery fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column also stopped raging.

Chuan An crawled out of the fortifications with a disgraced face and found that there were very few military supplies that had fallen on their positions.

Suddenly he was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot.

Fortunately, it was the chief of staff Takeshita Nakasa who supported him in time and persuaded: "Your Excellency General, please hold on!" ”

Chuan An Wensan sat down a little lost and depressed, and muttered: It's over, it's over, the cunning Zhina person is extremely hateful!

Takeshita Nakasa sighed thoughtfully, without this batch of supplies, how would they face the onslaught of the dragon tooth column around the heights next?

"All bayonets, no bullets, we have to fight bloody battles with the Chinese people!" Chuan An Wensan suddenly stood up with red eyes, and burst out into a beast-like roar and roar.

On the Japanese position, the remaining more than 1,000 devil soldiers began to draw their bayonets and load their rifles with facial expressions, and the light and heavy machine gunners were also sorting out the ammunition they had.

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Bazhou City.

After receiving Qiao Youhua's latest instructions, Zuo Quan and Li Yunlong immediately changed their tactics, leaving the main infantry force of the Fourth Division, the air defense regiment, the heavy artillery brigade directly under the column, and the air defense brigade.

The tank regiment and column of the division headquarters directly under the tank armored brigade and a mechanized infantry regiment formed an assault force, bypassed Bazhou City, and under the leadership of Liu Jianhua, commander of the tank armored brigade, advanced straight to the direction of Beiping City.

At the same time, the 1st and 2nd Divisions also formed a roundabout attack force with the tank regiment directly under the division headquarters, plus a main infantry regiment.

Bypassing Zhuozhou and Jinghai City respectively, they marched rapidly in the direction of Tianjin and Beiping.

During the day, the land-based air group of the devils in Beiping took off almost non-stop and rushed to Bazhou, where the situation was most critical, to provide air fire support for the garrison there.

Therefore, the ground assault force of the Longya Column, which was the first to discover the roundabout, immediately reported the news to the North China Front Command.

After Okamura Ninji learned the news, he frowned and was discussing countermeasures with Mamoru Iizawa and other staff adjutants, when suddenly, the commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, walked in from the outside with a menacing attitude, followed by several guards.

Seeing this, Okamura Ninji and Iizawa Mamoru and other Japanese officers present hurriedly stepped forward and saluted respectfully: "Your Excellency Commander! Your Excellency, General! ”

Tada Jun came directly to Okamura Ninji and asked in a cold voice: "Okamura-kun, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation, why the Bashu front line was broken through by the Shina Army, your strategic detour plan didn't play any role at all." ”

Okamura Ninji also had a hard time, and the non-cooperation of the naval fleet command made him a little helpless, and he still didn't know what happened to the marines.

Tada Jun asked, obviously already knowing that there was a dragon tooth column that bypassed the front line of defense and was approaching Beiping and Tianjin.

At the moment, he explained stubbornly: "Your Excellency General, please calm your anger, I have arranged for the Tianjin garrison to go to meet the attack, and you should have no worries."

He believes that the main threat to the Chinese army is the roundabout assault force from Bazhou, because since the beginning of the campaign, the Chinese army has invested quite a lot of elite main forces in Bazhou.

Because of this, the imperial army's Bazhou defense line was the first to be in a hurry and was besieged by the Chinese army. ”

"As for the roundabout raids of the Marines, please be aware of the fact that you have not received any report from them on the situation of the battle since the beginning of the operation." Okamura Ninji said: "Admiral Mamoru Iizawa has repeatedly called the headquarters of the Navy's 1st and 3rd Fleets to inquire about the battle situation, but there has been no response. This point, General Iizawa Mamoru and all the imperial colleagues present here can testify to their humble duties. ”

Mamoru Iizawa nodded and said, "That's right, Your Excellency General, what Okamura-kun said is true, until now, we still don't know what the Marines are doing and whether they have achieved the strategic goals set by Okamura-kun." However, judging from the reaction of the Chinese army in various parts of the front line such as Bazhou. Most of them have not been achieved, otherwise the Chinese army should have sent reinforcements back to help, where would they wave their troops north at this juncture and go straight to Pingjin? ”

Hearing this, Tada Jun looked at the two of them, and slapped the conference table in front of him with a loud bang, and the teacups and other things on the table were shaken and staggered, rolled down, and fell to pieces.

"Yaga Tooth Road! These eight calves of the navy are so hateful, I want to complain to the base camp about them! Tada roared in exasperation.

Afterwards, he said to Okamura Ningji: "Okamura-kun, now that Beiping City is empty, what do you say we should do?" ”

Okamura Ninji met Tada Jun's stunning gaze and said helplessly: "Your Excellency General, for today's plan, only by transferring the 30,000 reinforcements who supported Bazhou back to Beiping can we resist the offensive of the roundabout troops of the Chinese army!" ”

Hearing this, Iizawa Mamoru hurriedly reminded: "Two generals, if this is the case, then Bazhou City may not be able to hold it, and once Bazhou is lost, the entire forward defense line will also collapse, at that time, there will be no danger to defend in the Pingjin area, and it will not be able to hold it, do we really want to give up Pingjin and North China?" ”

Tada Jun heard that it was a little difficult to choose, and then looked at Okamura Ningji and asked: "Okamura-kun, do you think that sending 20,000 troops back to Beiping can stop the roundabout attack of the Shina people?" ”