Taking advantage of the day that the cavalry brigade had gained, Chen Hanzhang concentrated all the firepower that could be mobilized to complete the battlefield north of Baoding, and after two days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army that had been crippled was finally encircled and annihilated. Except for a Japanese army that used the cover of night to find a gap and quietly escape back to Baoding City, most of the two infantry wings participating in the battle were annihilated.

Chen Hanzhang's western cluster in the First World War north of Baoding was at the cost of losing more than 70 tanks. Completely destroyed more than 200 tanks of three tank wings of the Japanese army, and defeated two field infantry wings of the Japanese army. The biggest threat on the battlefield of Baoding was eliminated before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements. In order to finally achieve the victory of the Jizhong Campaign, lay a solid foundation.

However, in this battle, Lieutenant General Yasushi Sakai lost embers in three days, despite the cost of his participating forces. It also dragged the anti-union western cluster to continue southward and buy time for the arrival of a large number of reinforcements, which can also be said to have been finally achieved. At the same time, it brought losses of more than 70 tanks to the 1st Anti-Union Armored Division, which accounted for one-third of the number of tanks equipped by the 1st Armored Division.

Although this loss was for the 1st Armored Division, it was also a strain to a certain extent, weakening the ability to resist the continuous assault of the Western Cluster. However, the No. 4 tank, which had the best performance, was destroyed in the tank battle that lasted for most of the day, and most of the main force remained.

After the two battalions of the 17th Independent Tank Regiment were incorporated into the 1st Armored Division, the battle damage of the 1st Armored Division was basically effectively replenished and the vitality of the 1st Armored Division was restored. So that Xiong Botao's follow-up breakthrough action, its attack spearhead can be kept sharp enough.

In the northern battlefield of Baoding, after defeating the three tank wings supported by the Japanese army, Chen Hanzhang's infantry losses were not large in the follow-up operations. In addition to rockets and 150 howitzer shells, the consumption of ammunition is not too large. In addition to oil, the amount of other supplies consumed is also acceptable.

The most fundamental thing is that through the battle of Baoding North, the confidence of the puppet military and political system in central Hebei was completely broken. It has brought great convenience to the troops left behind in the Jizhong Military Region, the various armed engineering teams that have infiltrated subsequently, and the personnel of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region who have returned to the base area with Chen Hanzhang to carry out their work again.

Although the area around Baoding was not originally the core area of the Jizhong Military Region, it was also the old area of the former Jizhong District, and the mass base was still quite level. After the end of the First World War in Baoding, the difficult situation of mass mobilization work in various localities was fundamentally reversed in a short period of time, and the enthusiasm of the masses was also greatly enhanced.

With the cooperation of the personnel of the former Jizhong Military Region, who returned to Jizhong with Chen Hanzhang, a large amount of food was raised for the interspersed troops of the Anti-Japanese Federation in a short period of time, and a considerable number of front-line personnel were mobilized to carry the wounded and transport food and other materials. The local political power that had been hidden in the past has also been transferred back to the ground, and the speed of recovery and development has been very fast.

It's just that whether it is Du Kaishan on the eastern front or Chen Hanzhang on the western front, the main energy is still to deal with the Japanese army in the front and prepare for the subsequent counterattack of the Japanese army. For the countless Japanese puppet army strongholds scattered on the Jizhong Plain, there is no energy to take care of it. Fortunately, these people are very honest now, and they can't survive in various county towns or larger strongholds.

Chen Hanzhang and Du Kaishan did not have the energy to take care of these miscellaneous items, but the regrouped troops of the various divisions of the former Jizhong Military Region, as well as the armed forces of various counties and districts, did not forget them. At the same time as the two major interspersed units of the Anti-Japanese Federation fought fiercely with Japanese reinforcements, the reorganized Jizhong Military Region also launched a campaign to clear the base areas.

However, in these battles, the Anti-United Nations can only provide part of the weapon support. How to fight, still have to rely on themselves. However, the re-energized armed forces of the Jizhong Military Region and the large quantities of grain and other materials raised by the Anti-Japanese Federation have also greatly reduced the logistical pressure on the Anti-Japanese Federation. Moreover, the resettlement of the wounded and sick, especially the transfer to the old base in western Hebei, has also received considerable assistance.

The reorganized troops of the Jizhong Military Region, in coordination with the anti-Japanese forces, opened up the highways from Xincheng to Yixian and from Gaobeidian to Xushui. At the same time, in cooperation with a brigade of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, it completely recovered the county seat of Yixian County and the entire territory of Laishui, ensured the absolute safety of the field airfield in the Xiling area of the Qing Dynasty, and completely solved the worries of entering the anti-United Nations aviation unit in western Hebei.

Compared with the Jizhong Military Region, which recovered quickly, Chen Hanzhang, who was responsible for the unified command of the Jizhong battlefield, put more energy on dealing with the follow-up Japanese counterattack. It was believed that in the next Baoding battlefield, as long as there was sufficient air support, one reinforced infantry division could attract at least two divisions of the Japanese army.

If the tactics are used properly, even if the Japanese army presses the 1st Tank Brigade in its entirety, it will not be completely irresistible. In Chen Hanzhang's view, no matter how many reinforcements the Japanese army is about to arrive, there are only three counterattack routes in front of them at most. The Dongjinpu line, the Xipinghan line, and the Hejian battlefield in between.

As for the Taihang Mountains on the flank, unless it was the First Army of Shanxi that forcibly assaulted outside Niangzi Pass despite the obstruction of the brother troops in Shanxi Pass. Reinforcements from the Shanxi battlefield not only had to pass through several major base areas in the Guannai, but the operation could not be kept secret. It also has to face the blocking and harassment of troops in the major base areas, and the efficiency of this operation is absolutely not high.

Therefore, the possibility of the Japanese army taking Shanxi to reinforce in a roundabout way is almost minimal. Of course, the reminder from the headquarters will definitely not be misjudged. While attacking head-on, the Japanese army will still form several detachment-sized forces and move north along the Taihang Mountains to detour their flanks in shallow depth.

Therefore, after freeing up his hands, Chen Hanzhang did not advance but retreated, and immediately began to shrink the deployment. According to the original plan, between the Cao River and the Pu River, an ambush circle was set up for the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Tank. At the same time, along the line of the highway from Baoding to Gaoyang, the final deployment of the entire defense was completed.

After a day of hard fighting, after finally breaking through the first line of resistance in Wangdu, the main force of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Tank entered Baoding City with the cooperation of the five infantry brigades of the 35th Division. But the delay of this day allowed Chen Hanzhang to complete the final preparations.

The Japanese army, whose reinforcement speed is not slow, has only one day left for Chen Hanzhang to adjust and deploy. On the same day that the Japanese troops reinforced along the Pinghan Road entered Baoding, Japanese reinforcements from Gaoyang to Hejian on the southern line also appeared on the south bank of the Hutuo River, trying to force the Hutuo River into the Hejian line.

In the face of the drastic deterioration of the situation on the battlefield in North China, and the war situation that cannot but be reinforced as soon as possible. The General Headquarters of the Japanese Army's Chinese Dispatch Army had to summarily terminate the Battle of Changde. After getting rid of the weak pursuit of the 6th and 9th Theaters in Chongqing, which seemed to be sending off guests, the Japanese divisions and regiments that participated in the battle were quickly returned to their original structures.

The main force of the 64th Division stationed in Yangzhou and the six infantry brigades of the 68th Division stationed in Jiujiang were transferred from the 11th Army and the 15th Army respectively, and some of the artillery were strengthened. Under the cover of aviation, the starry night and night went north for reinforcements. On the day when the main force of the 1st Tank Brigade entered Baoding City, the main force of its reinforcements had already arrived at the line of Xianxian, Raoyang, and Anping on the south bank of the Hutuo River.

On the day when the Japanese reinforcements on the western and central lines arrived one after another, the main force of the Qinghe Military Region of the Shandong Military Region on the Cangzhou front. In cooperation with the first section of the Anti-Japanese Union and reinforcements along the Jinpu Railway, the vanguard has arrived at the front line of Cangzhou, and the main force of the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army and the 1st Division of the 63rd Division under the cover of the three squadrons of the 2nd Brigade of the Tank Regiment fell into a fierce battle.

At the same time, the Japanese army drew the 3rd, 13th, and 59th divisions of the 11th Army from Changde, and a total of five wings of reinforcements were drawn. After assembling from Wuhan, it was transported to Pukou by water, along the Jinpu Railway from Xuzhou to the Longhai line, and after getting off the train through Kaifeng to assemble and cross the Yellow River, it was re-boarded in Xinxiang and arrived at Shimen through the Pinghan line, and the starry night was combined to reinforce the battlefield in Jizhong.

Because along the Jinpu Railway in Shandong, it is already unsafe. In addition, taking the Jinpu Railway to Shide Railway Line is already within the combat radius of the long-range bombers of the Anti-United Nations. For the sake of safety, and at the same time to avoid the already quite unsafe Shandong section of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, the Japanese army chose to transfer from Xuzhou to the Longhai Line to Xuzhou and march towards the Jizhong Plain.

However, in this way, these five wings transferred from the Japanese army in Central China will undoubtedly delay some time by going to Jinpu and Longhai, crossing the Yellow River in Xinxiang, and pedaling into the Pinghan line. However, although it was delayed a little, it was much better than opening the road along the Tianjin-Pudong Railway in Shandong and being bombed on the Shide Railway Line.

Not only did these five wings go around in a circle, but the 22nd Division that was transferred from Jinhua, Zhejiang, also took this road. In order to mobilize this 22nd Division to participate in the war, the Japanese army even took the initiative to abandon Jinhua and the surrounding areas on the battlefield in Zhejiang. The control area was shrunk back to the line from Xiaoshan to Hangzhou, and only one 70th Division was left in the whole of Zhejiang.

At the same time, in South China, the Japanese base camp was transferred from the 23rd Army stationed in South China, with the 161st Independent Infantry Wing of the 104th Division as the backbone, to strengthen two field artillery squadrons and one mountain artillery squadron. and two infantry brigades drawn from the 19th, 22nd, and 23rd Brigades, each of which were independently mixed, were embarking from Guangzhou and were on their way to Qingdao.

The two newly formed divisions that were originally intended to be used in the Nanyang battlefield were also all drawn out from Nagasaki Port to reinforce Tianjin. Trying to take advantage of the last navigation time before the freezing of Tanggu Port to quickly reinforce the Pingjin battlefield. However, it was unfortunate for the two divisions to set off first, and as soon as Nagasaki left the port, a US submarine carrying out reconnaissance missions around the Japanese archipelago sank a transport ship loaded with all the heavy weapons of the division.

The Japanese navy was now strained in strength, and because it believed that the voyage was in the inland sea under its tight control, it only sent a few coastal defense ships as escort ships. Just as the boss judged, the US Navy, which originally planned to set up a submarine blockade line in the Bohai Strait, had indeed released the anti-United Nations pigeons.

In the huge Bohai Strait, the US military only sent two submarines this time to form a blockade line full of loopholes. During the entire battle, with the exception of a submarine carrying out a reconnaissance mission off the coast of Japan, which sank a Japanese troop carrier, the so-called blockade line set up along the Bohai Strait was basically zero.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from increasing troops in the Pingjin area by sea, the air force specially used to suppress Tianjin and Tanggu ports of the Anti-Japanese Union could only carry the burden of this service by itself. Under the desperate attack of the anti-coalition air force, although it was unable to completely block the Bohai Bay. But it also brought extremely serious losses to the Japanese army's sea transportation.

After the Japanese fleet crossed Beihuangcheng Island, it was targeted by long-range reconnaissance planes of the Anti-Japanese Union. Its speed and direction of travel, along with the radio waves, are constantly transmitted back to the forward command post of the aviation unit set up in Chengde. Since the convoy entered the Bohai Bay, it has been subjected to constant bombardment by swarming anti-United Nations planes. The escort group, which consisted of only three coastal defense ships and two submarine destroyers, was completely powerless to confront the air force dispatched by the Anti-United Nations.