As a rather strategic vision, but not as arrogant as the Japanese generals, Okamura Ninji. No matter who your opponent is, she has always attached great importance to it. He was also accustomed to making more preparations in the battle, instead of being like other generals of the Japanese army, not only the opponent was dismissive, but he often walked to the end.

The reason why he did this was in addition to being fully prepared according to his judgment, and there were many things that he could hide if he wanted to. In fact, in his heart, he also hoped that the Anti-United Nations would be able to change the direction of the main attack after detecting these situations. The original target of Suidong was changed to enter the Pingjin area via Chanan.

In this way, he can completely take advantage of the mountains of Dama Mountains, Yan Mountains, and Jundu Mountains between the inner and outer Great Walls north of Chanan and Pingjin, and consume the living forces of the Anti-Japanese Union in endless mountain warfare one by one. That would be much easier for the North China Front than resisting the onslaught of the armored clusters of the Anti-United Nations on the grasslands and Gobi landforms of Chadong.

Although the mountainous area of Chanan has been called the gateway to Pingjin since ancient times, it is very important for the North China Front. But Okamura Ninji believes that in the case of the opponent's firepower and equipment, it is very strong. If the Anti-Japanese Union can be dragged into the mountains of southern Chasan, it will be most beneficial to the North China Front.

In addition to tactical considerations, the strategic risk of placing the main forces on the front line of Chadong is also something that Okamura Ninji must consider. Although he believed that his judgment was not wrong, for him, the commander of the North China Front, it was necessary to make a few more preparations.

Except for two divisions and an independent mixed brigade, he did not dare to put too many troops in Chadong. The focus of his defense is actually on a certain distance, in fact, it is still the gateway to the North China Plain and the southern part of the Pingjin Belt. He was the commander of the North China Front, not the commander of the Mongolian Xinjiang garrison.

He put the strength of an entire field division on the front line of Zhangjiakou, which was used as a mobile force. Once the main direction of attack of the Anti-Union is Suidong as judged by itself, this division can cooperate with the troops dispatched from northern Jin and the original defenders to flank the attacking forces of the Anti-United Nations.

If his judgment is wrong, the anti-union to the west is just a false shot, and its real main direction of attack is ultimately Chanan. Then the divisions and regiments deployed on the front line of Zhangjiakou can form a second brigade and regiment deployed in the north of Zhangjiakou, and cooperate with each other to use the mountains to block the attack layer by layer, so as to buy time for the front army to mobilize reinforcements.

Then as long as the defenders in the Zhangjiakou area can buy a certain amount of time for the front army to mobilize troops. The front army can make use of the Pingzhang Railway and the concentration of a large number of automobiles to transfer the second-line troops deployed in the Pingjin area and even along the Jinpu Road to the front line to participate in the war in the fastest time.

Okamura Ninji thinks that his deployment is actually killing two birds with one stone, and he can play a role in improvising according to the changes in the battle situation. If the main target of the Anti-Japanese Federation is not Suidong, he has a contingency in his hands. And if one's judgment is correct, the troops deployed on the front line of Zhangjiakou can also be used as a mobile force.

If its own deterrence strategy has worked and can attract the main vital forces of the Anti-United Nations from Suidong to Chanan, then such a deployment can just form a three-sided encirclement and encircle and annihilate the main offensive forces of the Anti-United Nations in the mountainous area of Chanan. Of course, the premise is that the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the real goal, can be attracted to the front line of Chanan.

Although this was done for Okamura Ninji, who was the commander of the North China Front, he was well aware of the risks. It is more clear what will happen if Chanan, which is the gateway to Pingjin and North China, is lost, and what will happen if the opponent enters the North China Plain.

This is not just that the communist army in North China will rely on the equipment provided by the Anti-Japanese Federation to recover its vitality in a short period of time, and let North China, which has been stabilized after many brutal sweeps, fall back into the situation of last year. More importantly, it is possible to lose the Japanese army in China, the most important grain and cotton production base in the North China Great Plain.

The Anti-Union was not a weakly equipped communist army, they had planes, tanks and heavy artillery. Beyond the Pingjin line is the endless and undefendable Great Plain of North China, and this terrain is very conducive to the rapid breakthrough of their armored clusters, but it is extremely unfavorable for defense.

At that time, the Imperial Army did not take advantage of mechanization and rampaged across the North China Plain, capturing most of Hebei in a short period of time. Judging from the example of this battle, the Anti-Japanese Union obviously studied tank cluster operations more deeply than the Japanese army back then.

Once they enter the North China Plain, as long as the fuel is sufficient, their tank clusters can rush to the edge of the Yellow River in one go, or even cross the Yellow River into the Huanghuai Plain. The North China Plain was the main base of grain and other agricultural products for the Japanese invasion of China, especially cotton and oilseeds, which were urgently needed by Japan to maintain the war. Once it is broken into here by the Anti-Japanese Union, it will be a heavy blow to Japan's overall strategy.

Although this is very risky, the layers of mountains north of Pingjin have become the best barrier for the Japanese army at this moment. The terrain in the mountains is also the best battlefield to block the anti-United Nations tank cluster. Okamura's purpose is not just to hold his own turf. If the attack troops of the Anti-United Nations can be gathered and annihilated in the mountainous area of Chanan, then it will be a great achievement for him.

But before the battle started and the main direction of the Anti-Japanese Union could be truly determined, Okamura Ninji did not dare to pin all his hopes on his intuition. Therefore, his troop deployment looks like the focus on Chadong on the surface, but in fact it is still in Chanan. However, its troop deployment in Chanan was placed in a rather advantageous position. In the end, it was the opponent that Yang Zhen valued very much, and it was also the strongest opponent that Yang Zhen encountered during the entire Anti-Japanese War. Okamura's instincts were quite accurate and well prepared. This series of adjustments has brought considerable battle losses to the upcoming offensive of the Anti-United Nations.

The price paid in this battle against the United Nations exceeded the price paid in previous battles with the Kwantung Army. In the end, the T-26 tank, which participated in the war of the Anti-Japanese Federation, suffered heavy losses with the worst protection, and after this battle, all of them withdrew from the front-line combat and turned to training or modified for other purposes.

Although the battle was won in the end, it also paid an extremely heavy price. Yang Zhen, who had recuperated for nearly a year before recovering his vitality, had a much higher evaluation of Okamura Ninji after the war than General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army, believing that this was the strongest opponent he had encountered after the re-emergence of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

It is also the toughest opponent that the Anti-Union will encounter when the whole army goes south in the future. This victory, in addition to the heavy losses for the Anti-Alliance, there are some luck factors in Yang Zhen's view. If it weren't for the opponent's misjudgment in the number and performance of the tanks of the Anti-United Nations, it would still use the T-26 tank, which the Japanese army was more familiar with, as the main equipment of the Anti-United Nations, and ignore the new tanks that the Anti-United Nations might be equipped with. In this battle, it is really impossible to say who will die in the end......

The number of T 34 tanks equipped by the Anti-United Nations was only 90. However, these 90 T-34 tanks, whose protective strength far exceeded the Japanese army's expectations against the main battle tanks of the United Nations, played a decisive role in the battle to break through the Japanese army's blocking line by virtue of their protection and fairly good maneuverability.

In addition, more than 100 Matilda II infantry tanks were finally put into the eastern direction of Chadong, relying on their own protective capabilities, so that the Japanese anti-tank firepower was helpless, and broke through the dense anti-tank defense line of the Japanese army from the front. Without these two tanks, it is very likely that the anti-United Nations armored group will run out of blood in front of the fire hedgehog-like anti-tank fire points deployed by Okamura Ninji.

The shields made by the British army were not able to stop their own spears in the end. The two-pounder anti-tank gun was almost useless for the T 34 tank at the beginning, and the Matilda II infantry tank that was put into service later. Although many T26 tanks were destroyed, they were never able to penetrate the armor of the two main tanks of the Anti-United Nations.

Although the British and Japanese field guns, which lack specialized armor-piercing shells, have a large caliber, the high-explosive grenades they use are almost useless for these two tanks. While there are some threats, they are just that. Although the Type 38 field artillery used Type 95 armor-piercing grenades on the battlefield, the weak armor-piercing ability of this shell and the excessively rare number of these shells did not pose a threat to these two tanks.

Before the war, Okamura Ninji proposed to the base camp that he should produce some armor-piercing shells for the Japanese-made 75 field artillery to meet the needs of the battlefield. In the end, it was rejected by the top brass of the army who were competing for steel resources in the navy because the use of armor-piercing shells in ordinary field artillery would reduce the service life of the barrel.

For the Army's top brass, who are at a disadvantage in the competition with the Navy for steel resources, this method of reducing the life of artillery is not cost-effective. The army has only a little iron and steel resources, and it has to be careful in the production of armaments. And these artillery pieces are still quite important for the army.

At present, the army's powerful Type 96 150-mm howitzers have all been discontinued. Where are you willing to risk drastically reducing the life of the artillery barrel to Lang these for the Army, which is now quite valuable for the active artillery? By the time the Japanese woke up after the war, it was too late.

If the Japanese base camp was more generous before the war, some armor-piercing shells were produced for the most powerful British 25-pounder field guns, or Type 38 field guns. This batch of field artillery can really shoulder the burden of anti-tank, and can destroy the two most hard-skinned tanks of the Anti-United Nations.

Judging from the number of artillery pieces deployed by Okamura Ninji and the density of anti-tank fire points, the outcome of this battle may be rewritten. At least Yang Zhen's armored assault tactics have much greater losses, and even the armored forces of the Anti-United Nations are likely to be injured.

Even so, the loss of the armored forces of the Anti-United Nations in this battle was quite huge for the overall number of tanks before the Anti-United Nations War. If it weren't for the Soviets providing a batch of captured German-made tanks, and the Kwantung Army did not adopt the tactics of the North China Front, then after this battle, according to the number of losses on the battlefield, the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Union would have been at least half crippled.

Therefore, during the post-war review, Yang Zhen thought that the victory of the Anti-Japanese Federation was somewhat lucky. If the Japanese army had obtained information on the two new tanks of the Anti-United Nations before the war and had taken countermeasures, I am afraid that the Anti-United Nations would have suffered a big loss in this battle according to Okamura Ninji's deployment.

Because of the alliance between the Japanese and the Germans, the Japanese were not very unfamiliar with these two main opponents that the Germans encountered in the North African and Soviet-German theaters. And with the industrial strength of the Japanese, once they know that this anti-union is also equipped with these two tanks, they will be fully prepared.

Although it is too late to develop new anti-tank weapons, they can produce a batch of armor-piercing shells for a large number of field guns, and at the same time speed up the production of new type 1 anti-tank guns. In this way, the threat to the armored forces of the confrontation union is much greater. It can be said that the Japanese did not lose in this battle in terms of strategy and tactics, but ultimately lost in their own stinginess.