But just when Li Mingfeng had just completed the adjustment of the structure of the opponent's troops and was preparing for the whole army to go south. An order from the Tongliao headquarters to stop the offensive and shrink the troops and turn to the defense on the spot made him unwilling to abandon the original plan, not to mention that all the troops that had entered western Liaoning could only retreat.

Despite his unwillingness, Li Mingfeng did not dare to disobey the order. And he also knew that he was able to win the battle before, mainly because the main force of the Kwantung Army was attracted by the Siping battlefield. At present, the fighting in the Siping direction has stopped, and it is impossible to confront the main force of the Kwantung Army that has been freed up by relying on the forces in his own hands alone.

Therefore, after receiving the order, he honestly followed the requirements of the order, and shrunk back the troops that had already attacked the Chaoyang and Beipiao sections of the Jincheng Railway, and did not dare to play any yang and yin violations. And he also handed over the task of rearming to Chai Shirong, who came to supervise his contraction and replace him, and returned to the headquarters to report according to the orders of his superiors.

At this time, it was not only the Jianping battlefield that was built, but also the participating troops of the Anti-Japanese Union stopped military operations and turned to defense. At the same time that Li Mingfeng began to shrink his defense, all the troops participating in the war on the entire front of the Anti-Japanese Union basically switched to a state of local defense and rest.

As early as the same time when the Jianping battlefield entered the most critical moment, on the battlefield of northern Shanxi hundreds of kilometers away from Jianping. With the vigorous support of the air force, Chen Hanzhang has completed the complete settlement of the two divisions and regiments of the Japanese army. After a carpet bombardment by the air force, the 21st Division of the 21st Division, which was trapped on the Sanggan River Plain in front of Hongtao Mountain, was completely defeated by a rapid assault by tanks and cavalry.

After losing the 21st Division's strategy, the 32nd Division, which was already difficult to support on the battlefield in Yingxian County, was completely crippled under the impact of the tank and cavalry clusters that immediately turned around after Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement and annihilation of the 21st Division. In the end, the troops that withdrew to the north entrance of the building were less than one infantry brigade.

Without the response of these two divisions, the two brigade-level detachments and one division-level detachment of the Japanese army in the northeast of Shanxi Province trapped by Du Kaishan have actually become a situation of lone army breaking in. Under the orders of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was worried that he would be completely encircled, except for the enemy who was holding Laiyuan, the rest of the Takeuchi and Yamamura detachments, ignoring the orders of General Okamura Ninji to hold on repeatedly, forcibly broke through from their current stations and prepared to withdraw to Tangxian and Wutai in Hebei respectively for rest.

Du Kaishan, who was responsible for the operation of the Japanese army in the northeast of Jinjin, when his limited forces were no longer enough to launch a three-way attack at the same time, took the approach of moving out of the front and did not give any resistance to the Japanese army that broke through. Instead, during the retreat of the Japanese army, the tactics of encircling three and one were adopted, and an ambush circle was set up for the Japanese troops along the way.

However, in the selection of targets, he did not take the Takeuchi detachment, which has the largest number of troops, as the combat target. This actual strength is equivalent to the Wunei detachment of a division, and the strength is the strongest in the iron triangle of the Japanese army in the northeast of Shanxi. Du Kaishan, who had a limited number of troops in his hands, knew that he didn't have such a good appetite to eat it in one bite now.

After much consideration, he set the main target on the mountain village detachment, which had only five infantry brigades and had suffered the heaviest losses in previous battles. After the Japanese retreat began, he made a feint to attack the Wunai detachment, but in fact secretly dispatched troops and set up an ambush circle for the mountain village detachment in the Hengshan Mountains.

With the cooperation of the troops left behind in the Beiyue District of Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei, they concentrated their forces in the Hengshan Mountains and fought a clean and neat mountain ambush battle. Under the support of the air, the tactics of besieging and dividing and encircling on all sides were adopted, and after a day and a night of fierce fighting, the mountain village detachment was completely encircled and annihilated in the Hengshan Mountain Range.

The only regret is that although the main force of the detachment was surrounded and annihilated in the Hengshan Mountain Range. But the head of the detachment of the unit, Major General Osamu Yamamura, and three officers of the detachment of the rank of Osa. Under the cover of the first contingent of the Japanese North China Front, which cooperated with the unit and was familiar with the terrain and people's conditions in Beiyue District, it slipped out of the encirclement.

At the time of the fierce battle in northern Jin, Okamura Ningji was not willing to put the reorganized 15th Division into the battlefield of northern Jinbei again. Instead, it was deployed along the Zhengtai Railway and the Tongpu Railway to ensure the rear of the Japanese army in southern Jinnan, as well as to deal with the Second World War zone trapped in the southwest of Jinnan.

In addition to the 36th Division of Yuncheng in Jinnan, he had such a complete division left in the entire Shanxi battlefield. In the entire North China Battlefield, except for the two divisions of the 12th Army in Shandong, the rest of the divisions and regiments have either been wiped out on the battlefield or have suffered heavy losses.

His North China Front is now a complete division of the 15th Division. Once the 15th Division encountered any mishaps, he could not even find a force that could be rescued. After several hesitations, Okamura Ninji finally chose to leave the 15th Division behind to hold the rear.

Before the curtain came down on the battlefield in northern Shanxi, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army, who acted as the commander of the 129th Division and the commander of the Taihang Military Region, had already commanded the troops of the Taihang, Hebei, Luyu, Taiyue, and Southern Hebei Military Regions, and with the cooperation of artillery, tanks, and cavalry commanded by Su Yingqi, he used large-scale mountain movement warfare to defeat the two puppet army divisions that had entered the Taihang base area in advance.

However, the second ambush circle set up by the ministry in the southeast of Jin, but did not wait for the follow-up puppet army. The former deputy commander-in-chief of the Chongqing Front Group Army, who had just been reorganized into the puppet Second Front Army, stayed on the front line of Jincheng and Changzhi after the two main divisions were encircled and annihilated, and refused to take a step forward.

In the words of a puppet army division commander who escaped from the ambush circle, the artillery fire of the Eighth Road in this battle was extremely fierce, even above the Japanese army. One of his divisions didn't even have time to set up a formation before it was brutally crushed by the dense artillery fire of the eight routes. If it weren't for the fact that the main attention of the Tsuchibachi Road was on the passing Japanese troops, he would not have had a chance to escape at all.

This division commander's description of the battle situation, in the eyes of the Wang puppet Second Front Army, the former fierce general of the Northwest Army, although it meant to relieve himself. But when an infantry brigade of the Japanese army accompanied by him did not run back a few people. made this frightened old man who was beaten by the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, but no matter whether the Japanese army coerced or lured, he did not take a step towards Taihang Mountain at all.

After several threats were useless, it was considered that once this guy was disposed of, it would be unfavorable to win over other Chongqing troops who were willing to serve the Nanjing government. Killing chickens and monkeys is not a good choice at this time. Especially at present, the Japanese army is attacking from multiple directions, resulting in a long battle line, and the strength of the army is becoming more and more unable to meet the needs. When dealing with the anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines, the dependence on the puppet army is increasing.

After some consideration, Okamura Ningji finally transferred this armed force, which still had more than 10,000 people, to Kaifeng and used it to deal with the communist army in southern Hebei and Hebei, Shandong, and Henan. And taking into account the fact that after the loss of two divisions, only half of the forces remained. He was even allowed to recruit troops on the spot in the Japanese-occupied area of Henan, and the two divisions that had been defeated in the Taihang area were replenished.

However, the refusal of the Wang Puppet Second Front Army to enter the Taihang Mountains also caused Okamura Ningji's plan to sweep the Taihang Military Region to end here. Without the cooperation of the puppet army, the Japanese army alone would not be able to complete the sweep of the Taihang Mountains under the condition that the First Army had already suffered heavy losses.

In this battle, the Taihang Base Area cooperated with the Taiyue Base Area, not only defeating the two puppet army divisions that took the lead, but also severely damaged the two Japanese infantry brigades that supervised the battle. He also took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Japanese army was attracted by the battle situation in northern Shanxi and the situation that the local puppet army in most parts of Shanxi was not strong in combat, and launched continuous tactical counterattacks, restoring the base area to the situation before the Japanese army's sweep last year.

Although on the battlefield in the southeast of Shanxi, the Taihang base area solved the two puppet army divisions that served as the vanguard of the Japanese army's sweep. However, in the northwest battlefield of Shanxi, although the Jinsui Military Region concentrated all the main forces and mobilized most of the local armed forces to participate in the battle, it was unable to completely encircle and annihilate the Zuojian detachment in the end.

Although the Japanese army in this unit suffered heavy losses, in the end, under the response of the 15th Division, the encirclement of the main force of the Jinsui Military Region was highlighted. However, although this left detachment broke out of the encirclement, after breaking through, the detachment had already lost two-thirds of its troops. At the same time, several secret bases left by the Japanese army in the northwest of Shanxi were all exposed during this battle.

In this battle, the main force of the Jinsui Military Region not only ate up most of the troops of the left detachment. At the southern foot of Luya Mountain and Yunzhong Mountain, a large number of secret warehouses of the Japanese army were discovered. A large amount of ammunition and food were seized, of which food alone was enough for the main force of the Jinsui Military Region to use for a year.

With the withdrawal of the Zuojian detachment to Jiexiu and the Pingyao line for rest, Du Kaishan completely solved the Japanese mountain village detachment in the Heng Mountain, and the Wunei detachment withdrew from the northeast of Jin. Under the circumstance that the Japanese army was no longer able to continue to launch a large-scale offensive, the entire Shanxi battlefield had tended to ease up and calm down.

The entire Shanxi battlefield has been greatly damaged, and at present, even the Japanese army, which is not strong enough to defend the inner Great Wall, has all retreated to the Tongpu Railway within the Inner Great Wall, as well as along the Zhengtai and Baijin Railways. In order to shrink its strength, the First Army abandoned all its strongholds in the Wutai Mountains and Hengshan Mountains under the jurisdiction of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and in the Luliang Mountains where the Jinsui Military Region was located.

For the first time, the entire northwest of Shanxi Province was completely controlled by the Jinsui Military Region. In the northeastern part of Shanxi, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region also completely controlled the Beiyue Mountains and the Wutai Mountains. To a certain extent, strength has also recovered. Last year's embarrassment has also been completely alleviated.

In the battlefield of Chanan, although the advance army failed to completely defeat the 48th Division, it captured Zhangjiakou, an important town outside North China. After the capture of Zhangjiakou, he was also highly exhausted by casualties and continuous battles, and gradually began to turn to the defense under the situation of being unable to continue fighting.

In the face of changes in the overall battle situation, it is still when the war on the Jianping battlefield is burning. After studying with Guo Bingxun, Yang Zhen believes that the goal of launching the battle has been basically achieved. Moreover, at present, the whole army is in urgent need of replenishment due to the excessive casualties in continuous operations, and there is no rest and recuperation in continuous operations, and the troops are exhausted.

Stocks of fuel and ammunition have basically been depleted, especially aerial bombs and fuel have been basically depleted, there are not many stocks of artillery shells of more than 100 mm calibre, and there are not many rocket shells left. The offensive of the whole army has been weakened, and it is in urgent need of rest, and the fighting is delayed, and the troops can no longer bear it. After reporting to the central authorities for approval, the whole line began to be transferred to defense one after another.

After the Jianping battlefield was all over, Yang Zhen issued an order to the front-line combat troops to stop the offensive and turn all to the defense.

Therefore, after the end of the Jianping battlefield, Yang Zhen not only gave Li Mingfeng, who was bent on taking Ling Yuan and Chaoyang, an order to stop the attack, shrink the whole army back to the front line of Jianping, and use the Nuruer Tiger Mountain as the main defensive barrier.

In the situation that the troops were already weak and in urgent need of rest, Yang Zhen obviously did not want to be involved in any unauthorized actions on the battlefield. In order to put a hanger on this lawless guy, after giving the order, Yang Zhen's special platoon deputy chief of staff Chai Shirong rushed to Jianping to supervise his retreat and take over his position.