Gritting his teeth, Okamura Ningji ordered that the five wings that had already arrived in Kaifeng and were going north through Xinxiang did not have to get out of the car before arriving in Wangdu. He would order the lieutenant general of the aviation corps to go down the mountain and send all the planes to cover it with all his might, so as to speed up the reinforcement of the Japanese army to the Baoding battlefield.

At the same time, he ordered the command of these five infantry wings to go north, and Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro, commander of the 12th Army, who had already rushed to the Shimen front line at this time, took over the front-line operational command of Lieutenant General Sakai Yasushi on the spot from the Shimen line, and took full responsibility for the entire Jizhong operation. In other words, this Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro is not only responsible for the entire Jizhong operation, but also responsible for the specific command of the Baoding battlefield.

As for Lieutenant General Yasushi Sakai, he was already ready to send the lieutenant general home directly after Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro arrived. The current North China Front Army really can't afford to be wasted in such a careless way by the commander of the 17th Division.

In just a few days, the dude will have three separate tank wings, a tank brigade. In addition to the two wings of his 17th Division, and the reinforcement of the 55th Infantry Brigade of the 35th Division, all of them were wasted. This kind of style of a loser, his North China Front really can't afford it.

When Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro took over his command, he Lieutenant General Yasushi Sakai had not been killed. Senior General Okamura Ninji has decided to give him a ticket to return to China directly. This super loser is willing to go to whichever army he wants. As long as it's not in his North China Front, if you like to go, go there.

And Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama, although he is a general from artillery. But he was born in a military family, and he has extremely rich combat experience, and he is good at persevering in the face of adversity. It is extremely determined to fight, and is very good at both offense and defense. In particular, the ability to grasp the adaptability of fighters is extremely good.

This is also the main reason why when selecting candidates for the commander of the 12th Army, General Okamura vetoed the transfer of the base camp to Lieutenant General Sumita Mashiro, the former commander of the 39th Division, and took over as the commander of the 12th Army, who was in a key position in the defense of the Jinpu Road, and designated Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama to take over.

Of course, since Okamura Ninji appointed this Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro to take over the entire Jizhong Plain, he would not let him command only five wings to attack from the front line of Baoding. In to Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama. After taking over the command of Lieutenant General Yasushi Sakai immediately at Shimen, Senior General Okamura Ninji also issued a number of orders to the various support forces that had already arrived in Jizhong.

The headquarters of the 68th Division on the south bank of the Hutuo River was ordered to immediately turn around and force the Zhulong River to attack the Gaoyang line, cutting off the connection between the Baoding battlefield and the river. The main force of the 64th Division was ordered to immediately launch an attack on the front line of Hejian and Suning without resting.

Major General Ryuo Shimoeda, commander of the 66th Infantry Brigade of the 63rd Division on the front line of Cangzhou, was ordered to transfer all offensive tasks to the 22nd Division. It crosses the Hutuo River with the Shahe Bridge and plunges into Renqiu behind the river. His order to Major General Ryuo Shimoeda was that even if there was only one soldier left in the 66th Infantry Brigade, the imperial flag should be replanted in Renqiu County.

In order to cover the arrival of all units in the designated combat area as soon as possible, especially the safe arrival of the five infantry wings reinforced by the 11th Army. Okamura Ninji gave Lieutenant General Shimoyama Takuma, commander of the 3rd Flying Division, a death order to ensure that the military column transporting these five wings at all costs could not drop a single bomb on his head.

At the same time, he issued a death order to all departments along the Pinghan Railway, and it was necessary to keep the line from Baoding to Xinxiang on the Pinghan Line unblocked. If there is a problem in that section, the commander of the garrison in that area will be subject to the most severe military sanctions. He won't even give these people a chance to cut their stomachs.

It's just that although the five wings reinforced by the Eleventh Army are about to arrive, Okamura Ningji still feels that the troops on the Jizhong battlefield are still insufficient. Because he knows very well that the troops of the North China Communist Army in Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu and Henan have not made much movement yet. And once the banks of the Hutuo River are really launched, these communist armies will drill out of the Taihang Mountains like rats.

The Jizhong Plain must be secured, and the rear of the battlefield on the north bank of the Hutuo River, which is about to start in full swing, must also ensure safety and must not be harassed in any way. In particular, the eastern and southern Henan regions must ensure the current situation and there must be no confusion.

It was possible to send troops from there to reinforce Jizhong, but it was an unusual headache for Okamura Ningji. Before a local division could land in Tanggu, it was raided by the anti-coalition air force, and most of it was sent into the Bohai Bay by the enemy. Whether a subsequent division or regiment will be transferred to the Chinese battlefield or not, the base camp is still hesitating.

At present, the 11th Army and the 15th Army have not been able to draw too many troops. Unless the base camp risks the counterattack on all fronts from Chongqing, it continues to draw troops from these two armies. Some of the reinforcements drawn by the 23rd Army have just landed in Qingdao, and some are still hanging out at sea.

The 2nd Guards Division, which was drawn from the Southern Army, has just been concentrated in Singapore. I don't know when I'll be able to arrive. In other words, not to mention the current Okamura Ningji, it is the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army, and unless the troops are reduced on the whole front, there are basically no troops to be sent.

After thinking about it, Okamura Ninji still sent an urgent telegram to the base camp, asking the base camp to reinforce the Chinese battlefield as originally planned. Now, after suffering heavy losses at sea due to the first wave of reinforcements, the 89th Division, which was somewhat hesitant to reinforce or not to reinforce the second division, immediately landed in Qingdao by sea from the mainland.

After sending a telegram to the base camp in urgent need of reinforcements, Okamura Ninji sent reinforcements to the 23rd Army, which had now arrived in Qingdao, but it was a detachment that was trapped in Qingdao because the Jiaoji line had been cut off. Immediately forcibly break through the blockade of the Shandong Communist Army, advance to the Jinpu Railway, and make every effort to ensure the smooth flow of the Jinpu Railway.

With Okamura Ninji's telegrams going down, the situation on the entire Jizhong battlefield suddenly became tense. On the Cangzhou battlefield, the 22nd Division continued to increase its offensive intensity, trying to converge with the remnants of the 32nd Division trapped in Cangzhou. The 32nd Division of the Japanese Army in Cangzhou City was also constantly organizing troops to counterattack outside the city, trying to defeat the enemy forces around Cangzhou with internal and external cooperation.

On the frontal battlefield between the rivers, the 64th Division of the Japanese Army, under the cover of a large number of artillery and aviation units, as well as the 2nd Tank Brigade and Regiment, launched many attacks, constantly trying to break through the Hutuo River. and a division of Du Kaishan's department, fighting fiercely on both sides of the Hutuo River.

Along the Pinghan Railway south of Baoding, the troops of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region continued to attack along the Pinghan Railway south of Shimen in order to support the frontal operations in Jizhong. At one time, Yuanshi and Gaoyi were captured, but under the desperate resistance of the remaining troops of the 17th Division and the desperate cover of the aviation troops.

I didn't expect the Japanese reinforcements to be so fast, and under the high pressure of the Japanese reinforcements, they could only abandon the Yuanshi and Gaoyi lines again. Instead, many rivers are used to continuously block layer by layer. However, the momentum of the Japanese reinforcements was extremely fierce, and the blocking troops suffered heavy casualties.

Considering the next step of the war, Yang Zhen directly telegraphed to the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region not to fight head-on with Japanese reinforcements. After the Japanese reinforcements passed, they launched an offensive in the depth of the enemy army by means of mercury. Give full play to the strengths of the Kannai team, cut off the logistics supply of the Japanese army with the tactics of mobile warfare, and cut off the connection between the Japanese army in eastern Henan and the Japanese army in southern Hebei.

In order to weaken the Japanese reinforcements and reduce the speed of the Japanese reinforcements, the Air Resistance League concentrated a large number of attack planes to carry out continuous assaults on the Pinghan Railway and intensified the blockade of the Shide Railway and the Jinpu Line in Shandong. In particular, Shimen, the intersection of the Pinghan Railway, the Zhengtai Railway, and the Shide Railway, was the focus of the Anti-Japanese Union's bombing of the Pinghan Railway.

Although the bombers and attack aircraft of the Anti-Union destroyed the Shimen Railway Station and the dispatch yard, they did not slow down the reinforcement of the Japanese reinforcements. The attack on the Japanese reinforcements in the military column was also due to the Japanese air force dispatching superior forces to cover with all its strength, and the Japanese army added anti-aircraft guns to the military column, and the results were not very many.

In order to cover the five wings reinforced by the Eleventh Army, they successfully arrived at the Baoding battlefield. The Japanese air force transferred to North China was almost dispatched. With the cover aircraft group of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, a large-scale air battle was launched in the southern and central Hebei regions. The reinforcements of the Japanese army this time were all veterans of the pilots, which undoubtedly exacerbated the difficulties of the anti-coalition air forces in the struggle for air supremacy.

With the continuous arrival of Japanese reinforcements, the entire bank of the Hutuo River until the Baoding battlefield was full of dense gunfire sounds. In the Baoding battlefield, the Japanese army did not rush to put reinforcements into the battlefield immediately. Instead, the whole army went down to Wangdu Station south of Baoding and entered the battlefield in a unified manner.

The arrival of the five field wings of the Japanese army, and the offensive launched by the six infantry brigades of the 68th Division to the front line of Gaoyang, made Chen Hanzhang immediately feel the pressure doubled. The five infantry wings of the Japanese army that arrived at the Baoding battlefield, under the command of Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama, who arrived in Baoding and personally commanded them, immediately went out of the city to launch a counterattack against the anti-coalition forces that had arrived outside the city.

Compared with the Jizhong Battlefield, which has entered the most brutal stage, the Pingjin Battlefield, which is close to ending at this time, mainly the battlefields around Beiping, seems to be much calmer. With Yang Zhen increasing the investment of troops, after several days of fierce fighting and hard fighting, the Japanese troops on the periphery of Beiping have been completely separated.

The 63rd Division of the Japanese Army in the Pingbei Battlefield has basically been completely annihilated, and most of the 110th Division in the Pingxi area has been surrounded and annihilated, and the remnants can only hold a few sporadic positions such as Mentougou, and the straight-line connection with Beiping City has been cut off. As for the independent mixed Eighth Brigade on the front line of the three stores, it has long been completely wiped out.

As for the Tongzhou battlefield, the encirclement and annihilation of the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade has been completed. At present, we are concentrating our forces to carry out the final encirclement and annihilation of the 59th Division, which has been divided into five complementary parts. The battle situation outside the entire city of Beiping has been basically finalized. Under Yang Zhen's painstaking management, the main battle was completed in the battlefields around Beiping.

At the same time when the war in Jizhong entered the most brutal stage, the Anti-Japanese Federation had completed the final encirclement of the Beiping battlefield. At this time, in the entire city of Beiping, even the military police were counted, and the defensive strength was less than 2,000 people. Okamura Ninji refused to give up the peripheral positions around Beiping, but he threw the main forces of the Beiping battlefield around Beiping.

On the same day that the five Japanese wings entered the Baoding battlefield, a tank company of the Anti-Japanese Union carried a reinforced company and even rushed into Beiping City from Xizhimen. After rampage in the city, he hit Shichahai in one go, and was ordered to withdraw to Xizhimen to wait for help.

However, despite the withdrawal of Xizhimen, this anti-coalition force has always firmly controlled Xizhimen and the Xizhimen station outside the city. At the same time, a large number of anti-union troops have appeared outside the Fucheng Gate in the west and the Desheng Gate and Anding Gate in the north. At present, not only has the Temple of Earth been lost, but even the waterworks in the north of the city have been occupied by the Anti-Japanese Federation. As for the Dongzhimen in the east, it has been under artillery fire. At present, Beiping City is already surrounded on all sides.