Guo Bingxun walked to the front of the map, drew a large circle in the direction of Siping with the red and blue pencil in his hand, and continued after marking a key symbol on the position of Siping: "Our army has now used its strength to the extreme, and the supply of oil and materials is struggling. The Japanese army, which stretched farther away, was similarly difficult to support in terms of troop investment. ”

"I am afraid that it will be even more difficult for us to face the frontal battlefield in Kannai, as well as the battlefields behind enemy lines in Shandong and Central China, as well as the vast battlefields in Southeast Asia from the Philippines to the west to Burma and to the east to New Guinea. At present, the few divisions and regiments they have invested in the North China battlefield are already the limit of their reinforcements. ”

"There are no integrated divisions in its homeland except for the new divisions that are still being reorganized. Even the Guards Division, which was at the bottom of the box, had been transferred to the French Indochina battlefield for use as an occupying force. Judging from the current situation of the Japanese army's entire force, it is impossible for its southern army to draw any troops before it has been able to solve the Indian British army and the Australian army in the South Pacific. ”

"The oil and aluminum mines of the Dutch East Indies, and the rubber and rice of Southeast Asian countries were all urgently needed by Japan to sustain the war. Since they have swallowed it, it is impossible for them to spit it out. If they wanted to continue to reinforce North China, the only way was to draw from the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army. ”

"Therefore, instead of reducing the continuous attack on Siping, we even had to put the last division into it, so that the main forces of the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army could be firmly attracted to the northeast battlefield, so that they could not be transferred to any other battlefield. At the same time, the bloodletting process of the Japanese army should be accelerated as much as possible, so that the speed of their recovery will be slowed down. ”

"The whole situation of the current battle, whether for us or for the Japanese army, has reached a time when it comes to who can hold out for the last five minutes. As long as we can grit our teeth and hold on for the last five minutes, the victory of this battle will be firmly in our hands. ”

"Not only does the battlefield in northern Jin need to respond to the Northeast war situation, but the advance army that is besieging Zhangjiakou also needs our Northeast war situation to respond. If Zhangjiakou is not taken, the battlefields of northern Jin and southern Chanan will always be divided into two sections. And Zhangjiakou is likely to become a knife in our chest after the war. ”

"Therefore, no matter from the current war situation or the post-war pattern of North China, Zhangjiakou must be won. The Japanese troops facing the advance are the remnants of the 27th Division and the newly reinforced 48th Division. Although the pressure is not very high, the subsequent pressure faced is likely to be great. ”

"As long as our army's offensive posture in the northeast continues, the North China Front will not dare to transfer the Japanese army from Pingjin to join the battlefield in southern Chasan. Because although our army's main offensive is concentrated on the Siping front, our posture in the northeast battlefield is not isolated. In order to alleviate the pressure on our northeastern battlefield, our troops in Rehe can also go south to fight at any time. ”

"The Rehe battlefield seems to be too far away from several other battlefields, but it is at the center of the whole battle. If our army does not make progress in the northeast battlefield for a long time, in order to relieve the pressure on our front, we will send troops south from Rehe, cut off the Beining railway, and even enter eastern Hebei, then the pressure on the Japanese troops on the Pingjin front line will be quite great. ”

"Battlefield command in war is a combination of frontal attacks and flank detours. When a frontal attack is frustrated, it is also a normal command mode to take advantage of the frontal enemy to be pinned down, to re-select the breakthrough point on both flanks, and to carry out a breakthrough. In particular, in previous battles, our army was originally good at using the flank detour to break through tactics. ”

"Our army on several battlefields seems to be scattered, but in fact, whether it is the southern part of Chasan, the northern part of Jin, or the Rehe and northeast battlefields, it is actually an overall battle situation. On these battlefields, both our army and the various units of the Japanese army are holding each other back and responding to each other. Our army maintained an offensive in the northeastern theater and played a role in more than just relieving pressure on other fronts. ”

"In the same way, in the mobilization of the Japanese army, it is also a cooperation for other battlefields. Since our army re-emerged from the mountains to the present, the use of troops has always been a combination of odd and positive. When fighting against the Kwantung Army, the focus of the blow often appeared in the place where the enemy considered himself safest. This habit of our army, presumably Okamura Ninji should be very clear by now. ”

"It is precisely because of this characteristic that our army has shown in previous operations that when it is containing the strength of the Japanese army, it often puts greater psychological pressure on the enemy army. Because they never knew where the focus of our army's offensive would be next. Especially in the situation that repeated attacks on the Siping battlefield cannot succeed, will our army change the focus of the attack? ”

"If, in the case of a frontal setback, our army wants to choose a flank breakthrough, then the current Rehe is the best choice point. Although the Japanese army relied on the natural danger of Nuruer Hushan to confront our army, as long as our army broke through the line of western Liaoning, the front of the army could reach the hinterland of Nanman. And to the south into the Gubei port, you can directly enter the Pingjin line, completely cut off the Pingsui railway. The line out of Xifengkou can sweep the entire eastern Hebei and directly threaten Tianjin, the most important port of the Japanese army in North China. ”

"The Rehe battlefield seems to be the calmest now, but it is close to the most important communication line of the Japanese army in the entire Chinese theater at the moment. Similarly, the distance between Pingjin and Tianjin, the two largest cities in North China, is not too far. Under such a situation, the Japanese army did not dare to take this aspect lightly at all. ”

"He not only has to be on guard at any time to prevent our army from penetrating directly into the Bac Ninh Railway and cutting off the lifeline between the Kwantung Army and the North China Front. It is all the more necessary to guard against our army's strategic re-selection of breakthrough points after suffering setbacks in the northeastern battlefield. In order to attract me to face the Japanese army, divide the troops and march westward. ”

"But once I switch to the defense in the northeast battlefield, there will be no longer a threat to the eastern Hebei and Pingjin directions, and the Japanese army can transfer troops stationed in the Pingjin area to the southern Chanan battlefield. In this way, the follow-up pressure that the advance army will have to bear will be very great. The battlefield in Chanan will also fall into the point of indefinite delay. ”

"No. 1, I think that our army cannot stop its offensive in the northeast under any circumstances, whether from the perspective of the overall strategic pattern, or from the point of view of the psychological crushing of the Japanese army, and the response to other fronts. At least the offensive on the four flat lines must not be stopped now. ”

"And on the Rehe battlefield, it is also necessary to do a certain amount of troop mobilization. Put on a posture that cooperates with the Siping battlefield and prepares to attack from the flanks. This bluff must not only be done, but must be done sufficiently. Let the Japanese army believe that our army's ability to continue fighting is still there, and in the case of a setback in the northeast offensive, it is still capable of launching a new wave of offensive in the Rehe area to break the current stalemate in the northeast battlefield. ”

"Now the situation of the entire battlefield is the northern Jin battlefield, as long as the two divisions are defeated before the new reinforcements of the Japanese army are dispatched, the northern Jin battlefield will have no worries. Even if the 15th Division of the Japanese Army was dispatched immediately, as long as it could not break through the blocking line deployed by Chen Hanzhang in Laoxian County in a short period of time, it would no longer be able to change the tide of the battle. ”

"The most important thing is that I think that since the start of the war, Okamura Ninji's cousin, he should not be the kind of Japanese general who generally has a two-hundred-five personality, and many times he comes up is blindly brute and does not hesitate to pay a price for the honor he has done. This person's ability to grasp the entire battle situation, as well as his calmness at critical times, is still very set. ”

"Judging from the current situation on the battlefield in Shanxi, this guy still has a very good set of marching formations. If it weren't for us taking the lead and airlifting the 10th Division from the northeast to the battlefield in northern Shanxi, we would have blocked the gap first. Judging by its deployment during the entire counterattack operation alone, we are likely to lose a battle on the Shanxi battlefield. ”

It is from this point that we can judge that if Chen Hanzhang defeats the 21st and 32nd divisions first, he will completely grasp the opportunity strategically. Judging from the fact that this person has always been not a brute, he will not be throwing new divisions into the battlefield in northern Jin. ”

And the Japanese army on the battlefield in the northeast of Jin Province also became a lone army after losing the strategy of these two divisions. There are only two choices in front of Okamura Ninji, either to put this Japanese army on the lips of our army as a piece of fat, or to abandon the general retreat of the whole army in the control area in the northeast of Jin. ”

"Even after the two divisions in the front were defeated, he Okamura Ningji wanted to be stiff and stubbornly put this Japanese army in the northeast of Jin. However, after the loss of Zhangjiakou, in the face of our army's two-sided attack, I am afraid that it will not be able to stand on the battlefield in the northeast of Shanxi. Unless he really doesn't want this one division, two brigade and regimental detachments. ”

"The top priority now is not to stop the offensive in the northeast completely, but to urge Chen Hanzhang to complete the battle plan and completely defeat the two Japanese divisions in front. Find a way to urge the advance army and speed up the scramble for Zhangjiakou. As long as Zhangjiakou is taken, no matter how many troops the Japanese army in northern Jin invests, it will not be able to turn the foundation. ”

"But what I'm most worried about now is that if we first defeat the two divisions of the Japanese army in front, we won't be able to mobilize the 15th Division to participate in the battle. When our army enters the stage of defense and recuperation, will Okamura Ningji, who is helpless against our army, spread his anger in other directions, especially the two military regions of Taihang and Jinsui. ”

Guo Bingxun's persuasion just spoke to Yang Zhen's heart. In fact, Guo Bingxun's idea is also Yang Zhen's idea. But as a military commander, he could not fail to take into account the enormous supply pressure that the logistics department was currently under, as well as the number of casualties in the troops, which were increasing every day.

In particular, the troops have been used to the extreme, and the continuous combat units are exhausted. Casualties are not replenished, and lost equipment is not replenished. All units on the front line are generally short of personnel, and their combat effectiveness has declined sharply. Many of the lightly wounded, after recovering from their injuries, have already gone to the battlefield for the second time in a short period of time.

However, this will not be able to effectively make up for the lack of sufficient supplementary troops, let alone the troops that can replace the troops that have been fighting the front line for nearly two months. The newly mobilized recruits from the new area, as well as the laborers who were snatched from the Fushun coal mines, Benxi and Liaoyang iron mines in South Manchuria, still needed a lot of time to retrain.

If it cannot be transferred to the defense in time, once the Japanese army ignores the threats from other sides, mobilizes its forces to concentrate on counterattacking the northeast battlefield. Under the severe shortage caused by the huge casualties after a long battle, and the general fatigue of the troops, the front-line troops were even in danger of being eaten by the Japanese army.

Many times, there are some things, I know that I have to stick to it, but because of the limitations of many factors, there is often some wavering in my heart. Even if Yang Zhen's heart is as strong as iron now, but in the current situation, it is not surprising that there is some hesitation in his heart.

Coupled with the slow replenishment of materials, the production capacity of the military industry has also reached the limit, and a series of things have put Yang Zhen under tremendous pressure. It is said that if you survive this final stage of gnashing your teeth, the final victory will be ahead. But this stage is the most difficult, especially for the manager of a large army, this pressure is usually unimaginable for ordinary people.