It's just that despite receiving the order from Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro to quickly get rid of the enemy in front of him and quickly retreat to Dingxian. However, several wings around the Baoding battlefield, in order to carry out the order of the army commander, concentrated their forces and constantly launched counter-charges. They tried to repel the anti-coalition forces that were entangled in them so that they could withdraw to the south of Baoding as soon as possible as soon as possible.

In fact, as soon as the all-out counterattack of the Anti-Japanese Federation began, several wings around the Baoding battlefield already felt that something was wrong without Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro giving orders. It was so easy for these wings, which had always been on the offensive before, to turn around and retreat.

Chen Hanzhang, who was in front of them, had already kept this salient and was ready to go west first and then east. Although the Japanese army on the battlefield in Baoding came up with five wings, Chen Hanzhang still had no intention of changing his plan. Okamura Ninji invested five wings of troops in Baoding at once, trying to support his opponent.

It's just that these five are according to Okamura Ninji's request, no matter where the direction of attack chosen by Eitaro Uchiyama is. However, when it is put into the battlefield, it is necessary to ensure the complete formation of the wing. Regardless of the situation in office, the use of troops should not be dispersed. At the time of the offensive, the Japanese wing with a full wing formation was always maintained.

For Chen Hanzhang's previous deployment around Baoding, but for the strength of a reinforced division, it was indeed a bit too stressful. Coupled with the six infantry brigades dispatched by the Japanese army in the direction of Gaoyang on the flank, he felt a little stumbling. In other words, the five infantry wings that Okamura Ninji invested all at once did make him feel a little overwhelmed.

But in terms of Chen Hanzhang's personality, since Okamura Ningji sent this piece of fat to his mouth, he would not easily spit out the piece of fat that he bit in his mouth. Although he has been struggling to support, at the most critical moment, even his own guard battalion was sent up, and he did not flinch.

Even when a Japanese army used the front-line forces to the extreme, it infiltrated the headquarters where there was only one guard platoon away from him, but at a distance of only one thousand meters, even when the staff officers and officers of his headquarters picked up their rifles and were ready to fight to the death, Chen Hanzhang still did not waver.

He didn't even look at the Japanese troops who had already hit the edge of his headquarters. If it weren't for the quick response of the artillery, the concentration of two artillery batteries, the desperate blockade of the passage between this Japanese army and his headquarters, and the time for the arrival of reinforcements, it would not have necessarily led to any consequences.

But even though the headquarters encountered danger, Chen Hanzhang still did not agree to Du Kaishan to transfer two regiments of reinforcements to him from the Western Front, where the pressure was relatively low. Or concentrate all the tank clusters and solve the enemy's suggestion in Baoding first. Instead, he insisted that Du Kaishan was on the second line, and a considerable number of reserves must be retained.

Moreover, Chen Hanzhang believed that it was not yet time to counterattack, the Japanese army's offensive had just begun, and its strength and strength had not yet been weakened. The most critical thing is that it is not yet entangled with the Japanese army, and at this time, it is easy to launch a counterattack in advance, not to mention the snake, and it is difficult to complete the total annihilation of these five wings. On the contrary, on the Eastern Front, it is not possible to bring fighters to the enemy.

Once the Japanese army suffered a blow and retreated westward to the Taihang Mountains, the consequences would be serious. The most important thing is that the five wings of the Japanese army are still complete in structure, the overall strength is still there, and the entanglement is not tight enough. Even if the tank cluster is concentrated, with the tenacious strength of the Japanese army, if the battle drags on, it will be very unfavorable to the entire Jizhong front. If there were other changes in the Japanese army, it was very likely that they would lose sight of one or the other.

In a word, Chen Hanzhang believes that although the battle situation continues, the follow-up reinforcements that the Japanese army may arrive at any time will make his counterattack very likely to become complicated. But he still believes that it is not time to fight back on all fronts. At least when the Japanese army is still cautiously taking a line of flat pushing, and if it encounters a blow, it is easy to turn around and run, and it is still necessary to wait patiently.

Therefore, before the main force around the Beiping battlefield went south, he stood under the huge pressure of the Baoding battlefield, and still stood still, and he was struggling to support the Baoding battlefield with the existing troops. The subsequent sudden breakthrough of the 66th Brigade of the Japanese Army through the Ziya River also proved the accuracy of Chen Hanzhang's judgment.

If a counterattack is launched in advance, after the main forces are all transferred eastward, the strength of the entire eastern front in depth and the defensive positions of the second line will be reduced to a dangerous level. In that way, after the 66th Brigade of the Japanese Army breaks through the line of the Ziya River, it will be able to hit wherever it wants in the depth of the Eastern Front. If we fail to do a good job of the defense system from Hejian to Cangzhou, there is a danger of complete collapse.

However, although he rejected the proposal to reinforce and launch a counterattack in advance, when facing the attack of five Japanese wings with the strength of a reinforced division, Chen Hanzhang took into account the current situation required for counterattack operations. When commanding the defense, consciously staggered the battle lines of the two sides, and you have me, I have you.

It is still possible for the Japanese army to advance, but it will be quite difficult to break away or retreat. Chen Hanzhang risked the danger of being broken through by the Japanese army on the Baoding battlefield, and created this situation for the sake of the current counterattack. After the all-out counterattack began, this situation played a very key role. Chen Hanzhang's patience finally waited for the moment when it blossomed and came to fruition.

Several wings of the Japanese army on the Baoding battlefield were entangled in the existing battlefield, and they were not given any chance to get rid of themselves at all. These five Japanese wings are now unable to advance, and they want to retreat and use eighteen weapons, but they can't get rid of their opponents like maggots on tarsal bones.

I could only watch as the anti-coalition troops who came out of the two wings tore through the weak defense line of their own wings and penetrated into their own depth. I didn't think of getting closer together before, but when I thought of getting closer, it was more than one step late.

The six infantry brigades of the Japanese army in front of Gaoyang are indeed relatively sufficient. If it can really get closer to the Japanese army in Baoding, then the speed of the counterattack of the Anti-Japanese Union will not be able to progress so quickly. At least the troops attacking from between Gaoyang and Baoding would not have so quickly crushed a Japanese wing on the left flank of the Baoding battlefield and directly inserted themselves into the Baoding battlefield.

Moreover, the counterattack launched by the Anti-Japanese Federation at the same time in front of Gaoyang made the pressure they faced far exceed that of the Baoding battlefield. A division of the Anti-Japanese Union pressed from the front of Gaoyang, plus the troops of the two flanks assault, launched a fierce attack at the same time, so that these six infantry brigades fell into a situation in a very short period of time, and it was difficult to protect themselves.

Not to mention moving closer to the Baoding battlefield, the Japanese army in the Baoding battlefield was disengaged from the frontal resistance alliance, that is, it itself was in danger. The only consolation is that on the battlefield of Gaoyang, the number of tanks invested by the Anti-Union is not so much. Although it is in danger, there are not too many problems in persevering in a short period of time.

At least they could barely hold out for a while before the anti-union who outflanked the Baoding battlefield turned their heads. Although a division of the Anti-United Nations that launched a frontal counterattack made it fall into a bitter battle. But for the order of Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama, he was willing but powerless.

A wing deployed on the left flank of the entire Baoding battlefield has become the top priority of the anti-coalition attack because of its location. Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama made a wing that had suffered a lot of losses in the previous battle. The mechanized infantry cluster that blocked the resistance was too much to take for granted.

Under the ferocious strangulation of the frontal and flank attack troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the blocking position of this wing was rushed to pieces in one day. Even more serious was the fact that the command post of his wing was hit by a 150-mm howitzer shell, and none of the entire command post survived. As soon as the counterattack of the anti-union began, the wing lost its unified command.

After tearing through the defense line of this wing, the anti-coalition troops who attacked from Gaoyang to the Baoding battlefield did not have much time entangled with these Japanese troops. In addition to leaving a part of the troops to encircle and annihilate the remnants of this wing. The main force swept directly towards the main force of the Japanese army on the battlefield of Baoding.

On the Hejian battlefield, the 64th Division was also caught in a bitter battle with the anti-coalition forces that launched a counterattack in front of them. Although the situation it faced was stronger than that of the Baoding battlefield, the entire front of the division, which was equipped with effective anti-tank weapons, was torn open by the Second Armored Division on the first day.

Helpless in the face of the thick-skinned tanks, the division offered the last killer weapon of the Japanese army against the tanks. Constantly organizing human bombs in an attempt to drive the tank clusters of the Anti-United Nations out of the tore open breach. At least in the event of an order to retreat, a complete posture can be maintained.

It's just that this is neither the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia, nor the mountainous areas of Pingbei and Pingxi. This is the Jizhong Plain of Pingchuan, and there is not even a green gauze tent that can be concealed in winter battles. On the bare Jizhong Plain, this kind of flesh-and-air attack of the Japanese army has little effect except for the futile continuous rescue of human lives.

The current tactics of anti-union infantry and tan coordination have become increasingly proficient. Although the counterattack was dominated by tanks, each tank cluster also strengthened a large number of infantry. These infantry who attack in a tank or a half-track armored vehicle will easily not let these meat bullets get close to the tank.

Every flesh bullet that tried to get close was beaten into honeycomb coal by the infantry covering the tank. The only place where this tactic was effective was that it was basically useless outside of their own trenches. However, the tanks invested by the Anti-United Nations are not one or several, but dozens or even hundreds.

The infantry protects the tanks, and the tanks cover the infantry. According to the tactics of the anti-coalition armored forces, the tank absolutely does not deviate from the requirements of the infantry's independent activities, and the two sides cooperate extremely tacitly. When the Japanese army used the trenches to launch meat bomb tactics, even if they blew up a tank of the Anti-United Nations, it also meant that the infantry of the Anti-United Nations had already reached the edge of the trenches.

Once caught in this kind of close combat, the bolt-action rifles of the Japanese army were no match at all in the face of the anti-coalition automatic fire. Under the strangulation of the coordinated tactics of the infantry and tanks, whether it was the Baoding battlefield or the frontal battlefield between the rivers, including the Gaoyang battlefield between the two, the Japanese army was almost helpless against the attack of tank clusters under this plain terrain.

Although as soon as the units arrived at the designated battlefield, both Okamura Ninji and Uchiyama Eitaro demanded that the divisions pay attention to digging anti-tank trenches in the absence of effective anti-tank fire. However, with the cooperation of the anti-United Nations engineers, they still failed to stop the tank offensive of the anti-United Nations.

Under the condition that the Japanese army could not advance and could not withdraw, the various Japanese forces were constantly divided and isolated. Especially on the front line of Baoding, after the first day of fighting, most of the wing of a wing was crushed. Although under the command of the first brigade commander who took over the command, he still desperately resisted and tried to get back together. But in any case, this wing is not only no longer able to serve as the defense line of the left flank of the Baoding battlefield, but also has fallen into turmoil.