Adhering to this point of view, it was not only the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, General Shunroku Hatata, who was in charge of the battle in Beiping, but also the chief of staff of the North China Front, as well as almost all the operational staff officers. Even Lieutenant General Nanada Ichiro, commander of the Mongolian garrison, thinks so.

Of course, there were still sober people in the entire North China Front, at least their commander Okamura Ninji didn't think so. Although he did not think that the large number of enemy troops that appeared on the Guisui side had a large number of tanks, as reported by Nishihara Kazuce. But the real hostility is certainly not Nishihara's bluff.

But he has now put all his mobile forces into the battlefield. Unless you really plan to give up the control of some areas of Shanxi, you will draw a large number of troops from Shanxi, which is currently unstable, and send out to reinforce the front line of Guisui. Otherwise, with the forces he can mobilize now, he will really not be able to draw troops to support Guisui.

Originally, according to his intentions, it was best to give up for the time being. To concentrate limited forces to defend northern Jin as much as possible. As for the Guisui line, if you give up, you can still take it back at any time. However, the six generals who came to Beiping stubbornly believed that the territory laid by his predecessor must not be lost in his own hands.

The six generals of Toshibatake would rather take the risk of dividing their troops to defend than stick to Guisui and Baotou. Even Okamura Ninji had the cavalry group abandon Baotou's order and the whole army shrink to Guisui's order. He was also directly dismissed by his student at the Army University, Lieutenant General Nishihara Kazuse.

Of course, there are also Nishihara Isse himself who believes that the two strategic points of Guisui and Baotou are basically located behind the entire front, and there are Yinshan natural dangers to rely on in the north. With the exception of the enemy forces on the Hetao, it is difficult for the enemy forces on the eastern battlefield to threaten this direction in a short time.

It itself was the farthest western control area of the Japanese army in Chinese mainland, and was connected to the rear by rail. It was part of the reason why the Japanese army attacked westward to occupy Ningxia and Gansu, or went south to Shaanxi to outflank the advance base of the rear of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and stubbornly unwilling to abandon Baotou.

If Nishihara Kazusei can follow Okamura Ninji's order, withdraw the defenders of Baotou back to Sui. Then even the Fourth Cavalry Brigade was annihilated by Mu Changqiu's entire army outside Guisui City. But the entire Guisui City will not finally reach the point where there are no soldiers to defend and will be broken in a short time.

If the Guisui operation drags on for a long time, it will occupy one-third of the entire roundabout interspersed troops, and the infantry will even occupy half of the troops, and they will not be able to put into the Jining battlefield in a short time. Then the number of troops that the Anti-Japanese Federation can invest in Suinan will be insufficient.

And what is even stricter is that if Nishihara Yice takes the initiative to give up Baotou. Then the Hetao side will definitely take advantage of the situation, seize Baotou, and even fight for Guisui to the east. Unless Yang Zhen wants to be in the same room at this time, his entire combat goal will not be achieved at all, at least Baotou's control will be different.

However, it was General Shunliu Hata's command and deployment of the North China Front that constantly pointed fingers at him, and interfered with Okamura Ninji's overall command quite strictly. However, Lieutenant General Nishihara Ichice was stubbornly unwilling to give up Baotou, and shrunk the whole army to Guisui to deal with it, and directly led Guisui City to change hands in a short period of time.

Moreover, the troublemaking of the two teachers and students also made Okamura Ningji concentrate his forces to hold on to Chadong and Chanan, consume the active forces of the Anti-Japanese Union with favorable terrain, and then mobilize the reserves to counterattack The whole plan was completely disrupted. Nishihara Kazuse is now in the West, but his stubbornness has brought danger to the entire war situation of the Japanese army, which is difficult for the Japanese army to make up.

Senior General Okamura Ninji's battle plan was repeatedly interfered with by his immediate superiors, which was certainly the reason why the Japanese army had fallen into passivity until now. However, Okamura Ninji himself did not expect at all that the Anti-Japanese Union would really dispatch an entire armored division to strengthen a large number of infantry and cavalry, and adopt this tactic of interspersing in a large range of roundabouts and directly crossing the Yinshan Mountains and directly penetrating Suinan.

This time, Okamura Ninji, who has always had a keen sense of smell, did make some mistakes in judgment. Even if Nishihara Kazusei sent an urgent telegram, he didn't completely disbelieve it, but he was always skeptical. After receiving a high-level telegram from Nishihara Kazuce, he still didn't think that the steep Yinshan Mountain Range could be crossed by tanks.

Okamura Ningji thinks that even if there is a road from Bailing Temple and Ulanhua to Guisui. However, this kind of terrain is not suitable for large-scale armored and mechanized cluster interspersed operations, let alone such a large-scale armored cluster over Yinshan. Can tanks be used on a large scale in mountain warfare?

Even Okamura Ningji made a mistake in judgment, so whether it was the 69th Division that was assembling in Jining, or the independent mixed 3rd Brigade that was transferred from northern Shanxi at the end of last year to take over the defense of northern Jinbei from the 26th Division. There is little preparedness for a possible crisis in the north.

In addition, after Yang Zhen's roundabout interspersed operation in Chen Hanzhang was launched, large-scale electronic jamming and suppression were carried out throughout the Suidong region. Radio communication between the Japanese army was always intermittent, and most of the intelligence exchange could only be through wired communication, which was not very reliable. First-hand information often could not be ascertained in the first place, and it also affected the Japanese army's judgment of the war situation in many cases.

After the roundabout interspersed troop operations led by Chen Hanzhang began, the entire North China Front, including the Japanese troops in the Suidong area, had a poor grasp of the front-line situation. The 26th Division was encircled, and it also relied on the 110th Division to report by wired telephone.

Nishihara Kazusake's telegram to Ichiro Nanata's request for help was the first to be sent. But in the subsequent telegrams, Nanata Ichiro did not receive it at all. Before committing suicide, he sent a farewell message to Ichiro Nanata, but Ichiro Nanata simply failed to receive it. That is, the assault clusters on the Eastern Front have all hit Jining, and the North China Front here does not know that Guisui has been lost.

In this way, it was not until the tanks of the Anti-United Nations had already rushed to the front that the 26th Division reacted. But reacting to it and coming up with a corresponding strategy immediately are completely different things. In addition to the fact that the anti-coalition air forces came from time to time to bomb indiscriminately, even if the Japanese army was well-trained, it was impossible to stabilize it in a short period of time.

As soon as they got off the train at Jining, Sanchakou, and Sujizhu stations on the Pingsui Railway Line, the troops of the 26th Division that were about to assemble were suddenly rushed into a chaotic formation. Except for the two brigades of the 59th Independent Brigade that got off at the Hongsha Tsui station, the position of getting off the train was in depth and had not been attacked for the time being.

All the troops that were assembling or had just entered the pit station and were about to get off the car were all overwhelmed by the armored infantry covered by the tanks of the Anti-Union. Even the troops who had just entered the station at the three-way station and had not yet had time to get off the train. A tank company of the Anti-Union that suddenly rushed over was blocked in the compartment, and suffered heavy casualties under the blows of the on-board machine guns and tank guns.

An ammunition train that was docking at Sanchakou Station was hit by an anti-coalition tank gun that rushed towards it, triggering a violent explosion. The large number of shells loaded on this train, and the smoke caused by the explosion of the martyrdom, can be clearly seen in Jining County, more than ten kilometers away.

Faced with the chaos caused by the sudden onslaught of tanks. Lieutenant General Sadao Inoue, commander of the 69th Division, and Ryoichi Yamamoto, chief of staff. In the absence of radio contact, an armored train on the line of Zhuozi Mountain, which had not yet been cut off, was immediately mobilized and deployed using the wired telephone of the railway system, which had not yet been cut off.

The intention of these two men was obvious, that is, to use the heavy armor of the Japanese Type 94 armored train, as well as the powerful firepower of the two Taisho 14 Type 105 mm anti-aircraft guns and two Type 88 75 mm antiaircraft guns on the train, to disrupt the enemy's tank clusters and cover the completion of the assembly of the divisional troops. Didn't the enemy army have tanks? Can't I use an armored train against you?

It's just that as soon as this armored train passed through Basumu Station, it didn't have time to approach Jining. It was cross-cut with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, ready to be used to attack the flank of the Japanese army in Jining, and encountered a mechanized infantry battalion under the cover of a tank reinforcement company. The two sides, both of which were highly tense, began a fierce artillery battle as soon as they met each other.

Although this armored train was equipped with two 100-mm anti-aircraft guns that could be used as anti-tank weapons, and two 70-mm anti-aircraft guns, which were also the most powerful in the Japanese army in this battle. With artillery fire fired from a distance of 600 meters, the opening record destroyed a T-34 tank and a BT fast tank that rushed towards him.

But the four guns of this armored train, which were immediately pressed by the whole line of the Anti-United Nations, and the other tanks that rushed up, were all dumbed down after the first salvo. Without artillery, this armored train would have become a toothless tiger. Five minutes later, it was destroyed on the railway line between the two stations of Basumu and Sanchakou.

The two 105-millimeter anti-aircraft guns equipped with armor-piercing shells on this armored train became the only weapons of the Japanese army in this battle that could penetrate the anti-United Nations T 34 tanks. And this unlucky tank also became the only T 34 tank destroyed by Japanese artillery at a long distance in this battle.

Although the losses in this battle were not large, the inherent backwardness of the observation and sighting system of the T 34 tanks and the problem of the commander serving as a loader were exposed. In this battle, it was originally this tank that faced the Japanese army's first vehicle, but the backwardness of the sighting system and the distance of 600 meters, the first shell fired directly flew away.

When the commander redetermined the accurate target and was loading the second shell, the Japanese shell flew first. Although the Japanese army's observation and sighting system is only average, the large space in the tall body of the armored train makes the accuracy and distance of the observation and sighting equipment of the artillery on the car exceed that of the Soviet-made tanks in the anti-Japanese alliance.

Coupled with the Japanese army's training process, the armor-piercing shell fired by the 105-mm anti-aircraft gun directly hit the hull of the tank. Although the Japanese were only equipped with ordinary armor-piercing blaster grenades, the 1005-millimeter shell that hit directly within 600 meters also caused devastating damage to the tank.

A BT tank that followed behind this tank was also destroyed by an armor-piercing blasting grenade fired by a Japanese 70-mm anti-aircraft gun. In just a few minutes, two tanks were destroyed in a row, and one of them was the tank with the best anti-union protection performance, which undoubtedly tells us something.

There were only four guns on the Japanese armored train, but the first round of fire destroyed two anti-United Nations tanks in high-speed movement, which is enough to show the high level of training of the crew of the Japanese armored train. If the distance between the two sides is farther away, the agility of this armored train is higher, and the target of the operation is smaller, I am afraid that the losses of the anti-United Nations armored forces encountered with it will be even greater.

Especially those behind the tanks, the defensive performance of which could only withstand the fire of small arms dozens of infantry-laden half-tracked armored vehicles. Under the circumstance that the Japanese army is so far away and so high, coupled with the power of the Japanese artillery, I am afraid that the loss figure will definitely not be light.