After the 69th Division lost contact, the Chinese proverb that blessing is unparalleled and disaster is not a single line appeared in Okamura Ningji's mind. After the radio of the 69th Division completely lost contact, Okamura Ningji, who immediately reacted to the wrong situation, immediately dispatched reinforcements to detour to Liangcheng for direct reinforcements. As for the Datong direction, he temporarily put it aside.

Although the anti-Japanese alliance there has broken through into the city, it is in a fierce battle with the defenders in Datong City. However, the strength and fortification groups of Datong are still intact, and there are especially favorable fortification groups to rely on. Most of Datong's outlying positions were still in the hands of the defenders. As long as the defenders of Datong do not recklessly go out of the city to counterattack, there is no danger in holding on for ten days and half a month.

It's just that he did this so that he had just been transferred from the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army to the commander of the First Army, and as soon as the battle began, he made Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who was almost a bare-bones commander, no one can know. Okamura Ninji, who was anxious to rescue the 69th Division that might be in danger, could no longer care about his feelings at this time.

Before this battle, it was he, Okamura Ninji, in the name of the North China Front's lack of experience in fighting against the Anti-Japanese Alliance, to apply to the base camp for the transfer of a senior officer of the Kwantung Army to the North China Front Army as deputy chief of staff or chief of staff of that army. In particular, the Mongolian Army and the First Army are the two directions that Okamura believes should be strengthened.

However, the base camp didn't know what was going on, and in February this year, Lieutenant General Yoshio Iwamatsu, the former commander of the First Army, was transferred to the Xinmin Association as the top adviser. The chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Sadachi Yoshimoto, was transferred to the First Army as commander. And after Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto took office, he added a lot of blockages to Okamura Ningji.

Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who had fought many times with the Anti-Japanese Union during his tenure as chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and believed that he had a detailed understanding of the enemy army, directly demanded that Okamura Ninji abandon Chaxi and Suidong, withdraw the 26th Division and the 110th Division to the front line of Tuchengzi, Xinghe, and Zhangjiakou, and make every effort to hold the battlefields of southern and northern Shanxi to ensure the security of northern and southern Shanxi.

In addition, at least two infantry divisions and regiments were mobilized on the front line of Yanggao and Tianzhen in northern Shanxi and Fengzhen in southern Suinan to be used as the second echelon and mobile emergency forces. Yoshimoto Sadaichi believed that it would be difficult for the 26th Division, the 110th Division, and the Independent Mixed Ninth Brigade to hold on to the vast area of Chabei alone.

Rather than dividing the troops to defend and being broken by the enemy, it is better to retreat the troops to the line of Tuchengzi, Xinghe, and Zhangjiakou, and take advantage of the local terrain that is mainly mountainous and narrow in the plains, to consume the enemy's vital forces and material reserves little by little, and to lengthen the enemy's supply line as much as possible.

Hold on until mid-April, when the enemy's vehicle movement was limited and the maneuverability of the enemy was greatly reduced, and the counterattack was carried out on the whole line. At that time, the enemy's vital forces were too badly damaged, and the transportation of materials was affected by muddy roads, which also gave the Japanese an opportunity to annihilate the enemy forces on the Western Front in one fell swoop.

Lieutenant General Yoshimoto's plan, which has suffered many heavy losses in the anti-Japanese alliance and has not once accurately judged the enemy's troops, firepower, and equipment, is actually not complicated. It is to make way of a qiē terrain that is flat and can be used by enemy tanks to exert their power. The main line of defense was placed in the mountains.

Because Yoshimoto Sadaichi believes that although the Anti-Union itself cannot make such a high-tech weapon as a tank. However, in the case that the Empire has already started an all-out war with the United States and Britain, the United States and Britain will inevitably provide assistance to the United States and Britain in order to weaken the momentum of the Empire's offensive and disperse the Empire's forces fighting against the United States and Britain. The British, in particular, were quite skilled in pulling a dozen as early as the Napoleonic era.

Both the United States and Britain have the ability to produce and manufacture tanks in large quantities, and if they provide a large amount of aid to the anti-United Nations tanks, it is too dangerous to fight the anti-United Nations coaches in the plains. In particular, when the Japanese army's intelligence collection plan for the confrontation alliance has repeatedly failed, and it is almost impossible to obtain any useful information, the safest way is to stick to the mountains and abandon the plains.

Shorten your own supply lines and lengthen your opponents' supply lines. Crush the large-scale offensive of the enemy army with huge material consumption. The ghost knows what kind of surprise it will give the North China Front this time to play some new tricks for the Kwantung Army. For such an inscrutable army, sometimes it is necessary to give up something.

In fact, this idea of Yoshimoto Sadachi is most in line with the current situation of the strength and equipment of the Japanese army and the anti-Japanese coalition before the battle began. It is also an effective summary of his experience after years of losses. After the battle began, the progress of the entire battle situation was also developed according to his ideas. The number of tanks dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Union far exceeded the expectations of the Japanese army.

But although his idea is in line with reality in Okamura Ninji's opinion, after all, he Yoshimoto Sadachi is not the commander of the North China Front. As the commander of the First Army, he could abandon Chahar and Suidong and go all out to hold on to northern Jin, which was his duty as the commander of the First Army.

But Okamura Ninji couldn't do that. Without firing a single shot, they abandoned the entire Chahar except for Chanan, and even the entire Suidong, and reduced their forces to the Suizhong area. If Okamura Ninji does this today, the commander of this front army will have to be replaced tomorrow. He is also a high-ranking general of the empire, when has he ever seen something that the empire eats and spit it out without doing anything?

Although Yoshimoto Sadachi's idea could not be implemented, Okamura Ninji, who actually agreed with him very much in his heart, did not say much about his idea. However, among the top leaders of the North China Front, many people thought that Yoshimoto Sadachi's idea was to fully defend his First Army area.

In particular, Lieutenant General Nanata, commander of the Mongolian Army, had great opinions on this plan of Yoshimoto Sadachi. Okamura Ninji struggled to suppress the demands of some high-ranking generals to remove the new commander of the First Army, and only then did he retain the position of commander of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, and did not become the shortest-lived army commander in the history of the First Army.

However, Yoshimoto Sadachi was still not interested, and instead of understanding his painstaking efforts, he called the North China Front several times and resolutely demanded that his plan be carried out. Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto even suggested that if it was not carried out according to his plan, then the First Army would not participate in the operation.

Not to mention which of the three divisions and regiments under the North China Front Army and the two independent mixed brigades and regiments were transferred as a whole to participate in the war. Even if it is a squadron, the First Army will not agree. Because Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto insisted that it was to send the results of the war to the Anti-United Nations, not to fight.

The two of them had a lot of trouble because of the deployment. In the end, the chief of staff of the dispatch army, Lieutenant General Harem Jun, came forward to mediate, and this time in the battle in Chahar and Suiyuan, except for the independent third mixed brigade, the North China Front did not mobilize other troops of the First Army, and the North China Front was not strong enough troops, and the dispatch army was responsible for solving the matter before understanding the matter.

But after the Anti-Japanese Union broke into Datong, the two broke out into a quarrel again. Yoshimoto Sadachi insisted on not adding any reinforcements to Datong, but believed that the most important thing to do at the moment was to take advantage of the opportunity of the offensive of the Anti-Japanese Union to be dragged down by the Datong battlefield. Mobilize sufficient troops to build a second line of defense in large depth along the line of the inner Great Wall.

Because in the view of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, the situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation in Fengzhen, Jining, and Datong is obviously a siege point to send reinforcements. Although the enemy's forces attacking Datong were not large, they were supported by the communist forces in the south and could increase a large number of troops in the north at any time.

No matter how many reinforcements are mobilized, unless a large number of reinforcements are dispatched at the same time, they can only be eaten by the Anti-Japanese Federation. At present, how many troops are invested in the battlefields of Jining and Datong, the final result is to lose his wife and lose his troops. Rather than a large number of troops being consumed in vain, it is better to retreat to the line of the inner Great Wall, stick to various strategic points, and form a defense in great depth.

Although Okamura Ninji did not deny that Yoshimoto's opinion was correct, he was the commander of the North China Front, not the commander of the First Army. His jurisdiction was throughout North China, as well as Suiyuan and Chahar. If you give up Suinan without a fight, and sit back and watch Datong fight hard without rescue, the base camp will resolutely not allow it.

Therefore, after the battle situation took a sharp turn for the worse, in order to reduce the constraints of Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto, Okamura Ninji simply learned the method of inserting a lever horizontally and deploying his boss Shunroku Hata, who was disrupted. bypassing him, the corps commander, he directly mobilized the divisions and regiments under the First Army.

As for Lieutenant General Sadamichi Yoshimoto, who was made by him to be the commander of the light pole, Okamura Ninji gave him a new errand. That is, at any cost, to lure down the commander of the second theater. He even ordered Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi to evacuate all the garrisons in the counties west of the Tongpu Railway, except for the Yuncheng area from the gate of Nanyu in Jinnan to the south of Quwo.

At the same time, all the counties in the northwest of Jin were secretly transferred to the Jin Sui army. Let the Jin Sui Army replace the First Army, which was already insufficient, and wipe out the communist army in Luliang Mountain. If Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Zhenyi feels that he can control the rhythm, then he can hand over Qinyuan in the Taiyue Mountains, Yushe, Wuxiang, and Liao County in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains to the Jin Suijun.

And sent part of the troops to cover the Jin Sui army crossing the Tongpu railway. If there is friction between the Jin Sui Army and the troops under the Eighteenth Group Army, part of the troops will be transferred to cooperate with the military operations of the Jin Sui Army. In a word, it is necessary to be good at taking advantage of the contradictions within the Chinese. Let them kill each other in order to solve the current situation of insufficient Japanese troops.

Okamura Ninji was very vicious, using several prefectures as bait to lure the Second World War Zone, which was eager to expand its living space, to replace the insufficient First Army to fight against the Kannai troops. As for those counties that have given up, in Okamura's view, giving up is only temporary. If the commander of the second theater does not know how to lift, when the current crisis is solved, his first army can turn around at any time and completely solve the hundreds of thousands of troops in the second theater. It's just that although there is a more convenient railway to transport, there is a precedent for the main force of the 15th Division to be bombed. As for the transportation of reinforcements, Okamura Ninji did not dare to take the railway anymore no matter what.

Moreover, after the sudden appearance of the Anti-Japanese Union near Datong, the bombing intensity of enemy planes on the Tongpu railway immediately increased. The entire Beitongpu Railway was bombed and could only pass intermittently. Not to mention that the railway transportation is extremely dangerous, even if it can be used, the speed of reinforcement cannot be increased.

Since the railway is no longer usable, the only thing Okamura Ninji hopes for this time is the large number of trucks concentrated in his hands. A large number of trucks were used to transport these troops along the highway in the shortest possible time to the location they assigned to them. At present, rescuing the 69th Division, which is probably already in a predicament, has become Okamura Ninji's top priority.

The reason for the disappearance of the radio signal of the 69th Division was simple, because the headquarters of this division was not only knocked out, but even the main forces of its division were washed to pieces. The entire division and regiment has completed the division and encirclement of the anti-union from both sides, and is in the process of being encircled and annihilated. The division headquarters was knocked out, the entire organization was disrupted, and this high-power radio station naturally became unusable. R1292