These staff officers thought that they were fighting positional warfare outside the city, and now the North China Front, which had only such a small number of troops left, was indeed no match for the enemy army. Moreover, even if those expatriates are armed, they are not strictly trained, and once they have no support outside the city, they may encounter the enemy army and rout more quickly.

However, relying on the countless streets and alleys in Beiping City, as well as a number of alleys that crisscross and crisscross, it is no problem to fight a decisive street battle with the enemy. What's more, the base camp will not sit idly by and watch Beiping lose, and will definitely reinforce at all costs. Relying on street fighting to persist as much as possible, maybe it will be possible to delay until reinforcements arrive?

These main battle factions who advocated a decisive battle even believed that if Beiping City could hold out for one day, it would hold back a large number of enemy troops and prevent them from moving south, which would be equivalent to favorable support for the Jizhong battlefield. If Beiping City is abandoned now, then the large number of enemy troops who have been freed up to go south will increase the burden on the battlefield in Jizhong, and even cause a rather undesirable chain reaction.

Compared with the more stable officers of the rank of Dazuo and above, most of these young officers of the rank of Shaozuo and Zhongzuo insisted on rejecting the enemy's proposal to negotiate. It was insisted that the Imperial Army had only officers who had died in battle, and there were no officers who flinched and fled. Although he did not dare to openly bring it up on the surface, the eyes of those hesitant senior officers were full of contempt.

Under the disturbance of a group of staff officers who were desperately trying to fight to the death, the operational meeting of the entire North China Front Army became a pot of porridge. Those who were inclined to accept the enemy's conditions and withdrew all from Beiping and withdrew to Tianjin and Tanggu quarreled with those who were resolutely opposed. But while everyone was arguing, they were intentional or unintentional, and they all looked at General Okamura Ninji, who was sitting on the top seat, but now he was speechless with a blue face.

Looking at the subordinates who were arguing in front of him, Okamura Ninji, who was sitting in the first place, just watched quietly and did not say a word. If you want to say that you are embarrassed to lose Beiping City, no one will be more disgraceful than him, the commander of the North China Front. What is Beiping City? It was the location of the headquarters of the North China Front.

If Beiping City is lost, then what will the base camp and the people think of him, the commander of the front army? How else could he explain to the base camp? But he knew better that even if the armed expatriates were mobilized, once the enemy army made up its mind to attack the city, the entire Beiping City would not be able to hold out for three days.

Even if you can take the transport plane currently stored at the temporary airport of the Temple of Heaven, you can leave Beiping, which has become an isolated city. What about the tens of thousands of expatriates in the city, as well as their subordinates? If you really leave all the expatriates behind, I am afraid that when the time comes, it will be almost impossible for you to wait for you, even if you want to transfer to the reserves.

He is not General Umezu Mijiro, and the emperor standing behind him is the emperor. After losing more than 100,000 expatriates, he was still able to sit in the position of commander of the Kwantung Army. If he loses these tens of thousands of expatriates in Beiping City, then the result of waiting for him may not be much better than the former commander of the Kwantung Army.

The focus now is not on the gains or losses of Beiping City. The line from Zhangjiakou to Suiyuan has been lost, and the route south of Beipingcheng on the Pinghan Railway has been cut off. At present, the strategic position of Beiping City has actually fallen to the point of dispensability. It doesn't matter if you can't hold it or not. But the tens of thousands of expatriates in Beiping City must not be lost.

But just giving up Beiping without a fight, and withdrawing in disgrace under the noses of the enemy, is also quite a shame for Okamura Ningji, and the base camp will not accept this result. It's easy to agree to this agreement, just nod your head. However, it is even more difficult to give an explanation to the base camp and the people.

I never thought that I would lose so badly, let alone that I would be in such a dilemma. Although this Okamura Ninji General is expressionless at the moment, he has always thought that he is decisive in killing, but he has never hesitated so much in his heart.

looked at the quarrel in the venue, and General Okamura Ninji who didn't say a word. Before the 63rd Division was completely defeated, the commander of the 63rd Division, who fled back from the Pingbei battlefield alone, tried to persuade him several times, but he never opened his mouth, and finally chose to remain silent. He, the general of the defeated army, still has some self-knowledge, and now he has no right to speak.

Compared with the quarrel in the headquarters of the North China Front, the general headquarters of the North China Battlefield, which has now been relocated to Shunyi, is unusually silent. In fact, both the boss and Yang Zhen were very reluctant to negotiate with the Japanese army in Beiping to deal with the only remaining remnants of the Japanese North China Front army trapped in Beiping, as well as the overseas Chinese who were sent back to Tianjin in exchange for their withdrawal from Beiping.

At present, the remnants of the Japanese army in Beiping City are less than 2,000 people. The remaining combat units are no more than a few squadrons. The largest part is only an infantry brigade under the North China Special Garrison of the Japanese Army, and the rest are some non-combat units such as military police and spies.

If we take Beiping now, it will not be a difficult thing. Yang Zhen even thought that if a division was transferred into the city, the battle could be ended in two days at most without using artillery of caliber of more than 75 mm. However, the pressure of public opinion at home and abroad has made the boss and Yang Zhen more and more headaches.

Since the start of the North China Battle, many well-intentioned people from all walks of life have continuously exerted pressure on the central authorities through various channels. Some democratic figures who have close ties with the central authorities have written letters and visited the Eighth Office in Chongqing and Chengdu on more than one occasion. Various departments of the Chongqing government have also frequently exerted pressure on the central government.

The central authorities are required to ensure that Beiping City, a thousand-year-old capital, will not suffer too much damage during this operation. Some experts and scholars even suggested that not a single grass or tree in Beiping should be damaged. Since the start of the battle around Beiping, the central government has always been under tremendous pressure from within the country politically.

Not only did well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad write letters to put pressure on the central authorities, but even Americans came to join in. The U.S. ambassador to China has been visiting the Eighth Office in Chongqing. It is required that the Anti-Japanese Federation must ensure the safety of American and British missionaries and professors detained by the Japanese army in Beiping City during the battle.

Considering the influence of these well-known scholars and experts, the impact on the work of the central government to win over intellectuals. The central authorities have repeatedly demanded that the Anti-Japanese Federation must be cautious in its operations. As much as possible, do not cause too much damage to the ancient buildings inside and outside the city of Beiping.

On the telegram, the central government kept reminding the boss and Yang Zhen. Even the chairman directly told Yang Zhen on a telegram that this is a political task and must be completed with quality and quantity. If there is really no guarantee that Beiping City will not be damaged, you can temporarily consider giving up the siege of Beiping City and changing to a long-term siege.

Even when the battlefield around Beiping was nearing the end and the troops had entered a siege posture. The Central Committee sent a long telegram to the General Front Committee, and the list of ancient buildings with requirements for absolute guarantee of undamaged buildings made Yang Zhen feel a little dizzy.

Not to mention the Forbidden City, Jingshan, Taimiao, Temple of Heaven and other well-known ancient buildings, plus Baiyun Temple, Lama Temple and other temples, there are many palaces in this list alone. There are still many ancient buildings, Yang Zhen, who was once a man for two lifetimes, has never heard of it. Yang Zhen really wanted to ask, what are these things?

What kind of big Gaoxuan Palace, who can tell him when there was such a building in Beiping City? What's this? What else is the Emperor Shichen, are these things all in Beiping City? Yang Zhen, who had been to Peking more than once in later generations, had never heard of it at all.

As for this life, although he has lived in Beiping for a few years, after all, the memory of that period has long since faded for Yang Zhen. For the current Beiping, a few years later, Beijing, Yang Zhen's memory is still mainly in the future. But Yang Zhen still doesn't know, when did Beiping City have so many more, or must there be safe ancient buildings?

Looking at the locations of these ancient buildings densely marked on the map, Yang Zhen had an unusually headache. According to this list, the battle in Beiping, which has no suspense, will not be fought at all. The list of the central government is much more detailed than the one that the boss made temporarily.

In order to complete this so-called political task, Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time, and finally proposed to send someone to negotiate with the Japanese army in the city. It was proposed that the Japanese army guarantee that the ancient buildings in Beiping City would not suffer any damage, and that all political prisoners and American and British people detained by them should be handed over.

All the Japanese troops withdrew peacefully from Beiping, and the surrounding Anti-Japanese Union and the troops of the 18th Group Army ensured that the Japanese army's retreat would not be interfered with in any way. In order to increase the bargaining chips for success, Yang Zhen even offered to stop the offensive on Fengtai Station, and the remnants of the 110th Division currently trapped in the Mentougou Mountains could be withdrawn to Fengtai Station.

At the same time, Yang Zhen also knew very well that once the Japanese army agreed to give up Beiping, the 59th Division in the current Tongzhou battlefield would also become a request put forward by the Japanese army. And the withdrawal of the 110th Division and the remnants of the 59th Division to Tianjin is the most reluctant for Yang Zhen.

The main force of the 110th Division has now been annihilated. The remaining troops are less than one-fifth of the troops, and they are currently trapped in the Mentougou mining area. Under the circumstance that the surrounding commanding heights have all been captured, the time for this reorganized 110th Division to remain in this world is already a handful.

In the Tongzhou battlefield, the division and encirclement of the 59th Division had been completed, and one-third of its strength had been resolved. It can be said that by this time of the battle, most of the enemy forces around the Beiping battlefield had already been resolved. The battlefield of Beiping has actually entered the end.

At present, there are still resisting Japanese troops outside the city, and the total strength of the total force is less than 6,000 people, of which the number of troops that can be used for front-line combat is even smaller, and it is divided into the two major battlefields of Pingxi and Pingdong. In terms of heavy equipment and air cover, the Anti-United Nations now has an absolute advantage.

At the same time, on the battlefields of Pingbei and Pingxi, the tank units of the Anti-United Nations have basically freed up their hands. The two reserve divisions that were transferred were also stationed in the west and north of Beiping, and took control of Xizhimen and Xizhimen Station. In Pingbei, the Temple of Earth has been captured, and the Desheng Gate and Anding Gate have been blocked, and the urn city of the Desheng Gate has been seized.

In the eastern direction of Pingping, the Anti-Japanese Union and the subordinate Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region have already entered Chaoyangmen and cut off the ring railway outside Beiping. The west and north directions of the entire Beiping City have been opened at this time, and the east direction of the city has also completed the sweep of the outer city.

As for the Anti-Japanese Federation, the losses in the first phase of the operation were not light. However, through an effective replenishment system, the troops that had suffered heavy losses in the previous battles have also completed the replenishment of most of the battle-damaged troops and restored most of their combat effectiveness through the transfer of reserve troops. In the current Beiping battlefield, there is actually no suspense. At this time, letting the remnants of the Japanese army go back to Tianjin, for Yang Zhen, who has always paid attention to hurting the enemy's ten fingers, it is better to cut off the enemy's fingers, his heart is quite reluctant.