Yang Zhen insisted on fighting the enemy in Beiping first, and there was another reason why he had no way to say it clearly. That is, if you attack Tianjin first, you will not only have to pay a heavy price, but you may not be able to succeed. Once Tianjin and Tanggu were lost, the entire rear route of the Japanese army in Beiping was completely cut off.

In this way, not only could it not play a big role in the entire battle situation, but it also dispersed its own forces in disguise, and it was easy to force the Japanese army in Beiping to the point of jumping over the wall in a hurry. The Japanese army in Peiping had almost no choice but to fight to the death and fight to the death except for unconditional surrender.

And the Japanese army is not at all the kind of army that will voluntarily surrender under unfavorable circumstances. As soon as Tianjin and Tanggu were lost, almost all the retreats had been lost, and all the units of the Japanese army deployed outside the city of Beiping were either all shrinking into the city and holding the city to the death, or they were dying. These two choices are difficult for Yang Zhen to accept.

At the same time, judging from Yang Zhen's character judgment of Okamura Ningji, Okamura Ningji, who is a little gloomy in personality, is definitely not the kind of person who crushes jade at every turn. Once Tianjin and Tanggu were lost, he would immediately shrink most of the main forces outside the city back to Beiping City, waiting for reinforcements from other directions to arrive.

If all the Japanese army really shrank back into the city of Beiping, in the face of an opponent like the Japanese army, it would be impossible to defeat Beiping, the thousand-year-old capital. What can be done even if it is under siege? The Japanese army, which has always been stubborn, will never surrender. But he does not produce food in the city of Beiping, and in addition to the Japanese puppet military and political personnel, there are millions of civilians in the city.

Do you want these Chinese people to be buried with the Japanese army and starve to death in Beiping City? What's more, with the current strength of the Japanese army around Beiping City, according to the requirement of at least three to one force superiority in the siege battle. In the case of dealing with other battlefields, it is difficult for the troops to draw too many troops to besiege Beiping City for a long time.

In this way, he was restrained. The Chinese threw a rat into Beiping and could not let go of it. The Japanese don't care if the ancient capital doesn't shatter and if the millions of people in the city starve to death. The most critical thing is that the barren Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, which has not yet recovered from the natural disasters for two consecutive years, is also unable to support a large number of troops in the vicinity of Beiping City for a long time.

And even at a huge price, he took Tianjin and Tanggu. But how can the troops, who are sure to pay huge casualties, deal with the new enemy situation? Even if the Japanese army can honestly stay in Beiping, the troops who paid a huge price in the battles of Tianjin and Tanggu still have the ability to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy in Beiping by turning around, or even encircled it?

Once the Japanese army in Beiping broke through to Tianjin with all its might, would the troops still have the ability to annihilate the enemy in the movement? If the Japanese army had invested a large number of troops and landed in Beitang, Dagu, and even around the entire Tianjin coastline, would the troops still have the ability to deal with the new enemy situation? It's all an unknown.

It is also a considerable price to pay, and it is not as good as the Japanese army around Beiping City, which is still mainly fighting for the periphery. The fierce battle outside the city will not hurt the characteristics of the ancient buildings inside and around Beiping. First solve the heavy Japanese army cluster in Beiping. At the very least, it can be used to ensure the security of supply lines and the rear for the southward movement that has already begun.

It can force them to take the initiative to abandon Beiping and retreat to Tianjin, which is the best result, and it can also preserve Beiping, the thousand-year-old capital. When the troops approached the line of Tongzhou, Daxing, and Nanyuan, Okamura Ninji mobilized heavy troops to fight for the line of Tongzhou, which already showed that they wanted to ensure the communication between Pingzhou and Tianjin, and had the intention of securing a route for retreating to Tianjin if necessary.

Although it is not necessarily that the Japanese army is desperately fighting for the first line of Tongzhou, it must be in order to keep the breakthrough route when the battle situation is unfavorable. However, the strategic deployment of attacking Beiping first and pinning down Tianjin, even if it could not force them to take the initiative to break through, could at least attract the attention of the Japanese army from Jizhong to Beiping. Compared with the Jizhong Plain, Yang Zhen believes that the Japanese base camp pays more attention to the gains and losses of Pingjin.

Regardless of Tianjin and Tanggu combined, this is the largest port in northern China. It is also an important strategic location of the two places, as well as the location of the headquarters of the North China Front, which are the key points that the Japanese army must rescue. Use the Pingjin area to extend the battle line as much as possible with the possible reinforcements of the Japanese army. As for the ports of Tianjin and Tanggu, Yang Zhen believed that the blockade by aviation was sufficient.

The Americans could take advantage of the superiority of their aviation forces to send the entire ship and the entire ship of the Japanese elite to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. So why can't the Chinese adopt the same tactic and send Japanese reinforcements to the Bohai Dragon King to live permanently? Isn't it a high price to spend on capturing Tianjin and Tanggu to save a lot of troops?

Yang Zhen insisted on his plan, which made the boss very dissatisfied and embarrassed. The intention of the central authorities is still to attack Tianjin first, to form a situation of closing the door and fighting dogs in the entire North China battlefield, to completely remove the maritime threat to the North China base areas, and to shorten the battle line to deal with the Japanese counterattack.

But Yang Zhen's persistence and stubbornness made the boss a headache. The price that may be paid for attacking Tianjin and Tanggu at the moment is still clear in the boss's heart. However, the attack on Tianjin and Tanggu was quite beneficial to the whole battle situation. Judging from the overall situation of the war, this price is still cost-effective.

But the young commander in front of him stubbornly insisted on fighting Beiping. For the line between Tianjin and Tanggu, it is still dominated by air blockade, which makes the boss very dissatisfied. If a few dozen bombers alone can play the role of ground equipment, then what else do you need infantry?

It's just that the boss doesn't know that Yang Zhen's plan is not a temporary idea. It was one of several contingency plans that Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun came up with after the entire battle plan was formulated. The line between Tianjin and Tanggu was not included in Yang Zhen's attack plan at all.

Especially after the Japanese Navy transferred part of its fleet to Huludao and Lushun before the war, Yang Zhen simply directly seized Tianjin and Tanggu and completely deleted it from all his plans. His idea was still to clamp down on the enemy in Tianjin and eastern Hebei, blockade Tianjin and Tanggu Port with air force, and focus on the direction of Beiping.

For this reason, the Anti-Japanese Union specially transferred the first batch of US-aided SBD dreadnought dive bombers and all three combat squadrons to several field airfields in Genan. At the same time, taking into account the problem of combat radius, a squadron of Blenheim bombers was also mobilized to blockade the ports of Tianjin and Tanggu.

With the change in the overall war situation in the second half of the fourth and third years, the Americans have always been second-rate in providing fighter aid, and only gave them the P-40 fighters that had been phased out one after another. But in terms of the assistance of attack aircraft, it has always been relatively generous.

In the case that the A20 attack aircraft still needs to be allocated to the Soviets, and they themselves will have to be used in large quantities. Began to transfer SBD dive bombers, which the US Navy and Army had begun to retool, to the anti-United Nations side. These three squadrons are the first batch of modified aircraft received by the Anti-Japanese Union, and the most important thing is that the pilots of these three squadrons have been trained in sea attack.

Taking into account the decent range of such an aircraft, as well as the relatively high bombing accuracy. Under the circumstance that a large number of A-20 attack planes are still needed in other theaters, the US dive bombers were handed over to this kind of US dive bomber for the combat mission of blockading the ports of Tianjin and Tanggu. The A20 attack aircraft, which has better mobilization performance but higher take-off and landing standards, is not as good as the mobilization performance.

However, in order to deal with unexpected situations, there are two squadrons of A20 attack aircraft on the Tongliao line, which are also on standby according to the order, ready to reinforce the North China battlefield at any time. These two A-20 attack aircraft squadrons are the only ones among all the attack aircraft units of the Anti-United Nations Air Force that have experience in actual combat against ships.

Although before the war, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain were constantly in contact with each other, trying to win or even purchase a batch of aviation anti-ship torpedoes. However, the efforts of the Anti-United Nations were still rejected by the three countries. The United States and Britain believed that the Anti-Japanese Union had no outlet to the sea and there was no need to equip aviation torpedoes, so they bluntly refused.

The Soviets, on the other hand, did not want to be provoked again and again, and the Japanese, who were convulsive at every turn, refused to provide any torpedoes. Even if they had a large number of torpedoes aided by the United States and Britain, they refused to provide even one aviation anti-ship torpedo to the Anti-United Nations. Only 20 torpedo boats were given for naval torpedoes, but not a single torpedo boat was given to the Anti-United Nations.

In the absence of special aviation torpedoes, the contingency plan formulated by the Anti-United Nations in desperation could only be based on ordinary aerial bombs. This made Yang Zhen very stimulated, and he talked to the military industry department of the Anti-Japanese Federation. Let them develop an aviation torpedo on the basis of the ship torpedo given by the USSR.

But although Yang Zhen has made a certain determination, the development of an equipment cannot be achieved overnight, at least in a short period of time, the Anti-United Nations cannot be counted on. At present, the anti-United Nations can only use ordinary aerial bombs and ground-to-ground rockets for anti-ship warfare.

Fortunately, Pearson was still full of interest, and collected a large number of US Army and Navy air forces in the Pacific theater and the experience of fighting Japanese ships. In particular, the tactics used by the US military, which had great lethality and ricocheted bombs against ships, were handed over to the Anti-United Nations.

In order to avoid besieging Tianjin and Tanggu under the superiority of the Japanese army's sea and land firepower as much as possible, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun can be described as painstaking. Although there was a lack of the most powerful aviation torpedoes and specialized torpedo attack planes, and the most powerful aviation anti-ship torpedoes could not be used, the air force was still ordered to select the most suitable aircraft and specially formulated a targeted plan.

It's just this contingency plan, because considering that the central government, which has a lot of concerns, does not agree with the original opinion of using Beiping as the main battlefield from the beginning, so Yang Zhen has not reported this plan to the central government. Although there was a certain degree of ventilation in advance, Yang Zhen finally suppressed this contingency plan.

Yang Zhen knows very well that he is a soldier, and he can think about how to achieve the combat goal on the battlefield, and he can fight how he wants. However, the central authorities should not consider as much as they do, and the central authorities should not only consider military gains and losses, but also political gains and losses. Once Beiping, a thousand-year-old capital with a large number of ancient buildings, is destroyed, the central government will face heavy political pressure.

The pressure on education and intellectuals alone will be difficult for the central government to bear. Even a lot of the work done in the past few years could be ruined. As the region's top military commander, Yang Zhen could not help but consider the heavy pressure that the central government might face.

It was precisely because he knew the importance of the complete capture of Beiping to the future development and work of the central government, and Yang Zhen did not report this contingency plan. And in his original plan, Beiping was one of the main battlefields, and it was also the last choice among all the plans.

But the current development of the whole situation has gone to his most reluctant side. No matter what he did, he would never have turned a blind eye to the Japanese heavy army clusters around Beiping. The overall change in the situation on the battlefield forced him to make the most difficult choice. But although this choice is very difficult, unless there is a big change in the battle situation, Yang Zhen's determination will not make any changes.