A regiment invested by the Anti-Japanese Federation in the direction of Xinguangwu has become an empty shelf. The 82nd Wing of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army, which was responsible for garrisoning the old and new Guangwu and Yanmen Pass, also exhausted almost all of its combat units. In this bloody battle, Chen Hanzhang finally achieved the tactical intention of dividing the action sequence of the 21st Division, but the price paid was also huge.

At the beginning, in order to keep the new Guangwu, the troops were no longer enough. In order to make up for the lack of troops, this Miyoshi Okada not only sent three squadrons of engineers to the front line. The baggage wing was also directly left behind, and half of the wing, which was responsible for ensuring the transportation of food and ammunition for the whole division, was also transferred.

As a result, he ignored the opposition of the commander of the division's baggage wing, and forcibly requisitioned two baggage squadrons, which consumed the embers in less than half a day. By this point in the battle, his 83rd Wing was already in an embarrassing situation where he had no troops to adjust. Not to mention counterattacking the old Guangwu, even to guard against the new Guangwu, it is actually to the point where it is powerless.

Not only was there very little infantry left, but even the two mountain artillery squadrons, three rapid-fire artillery squadrons, six brigade artillery squadrons, two anti-aircraft artillery squadrons and one anti-aircraft machine gun squadron left to him by the 21st Division, all the artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns together were now very little.

What annoyed the captain of the Great Zuo Wing the most was that the division commander, His Excellency Kuichi Tanaka, had a large number of tanks in the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and he was very good at using tanks to intersperse in a roundabout. In order to ensure Yanmen Pass, the lifeline of the 21st Division's northward operation, as well as a way to retreat when necessary.

Nearly half of the 56 German-made 50-mm anti-aircraft guns that were specially reinforced for the 21st Division were left behind and handed over to the 82nd Wing. is afraid that the Anti-Japanese Federation will take the tank as the forerunner and forcibly intersperse behind itself. As for the information sent by the 32nd Division on the tank cluster of the Anti-Japanese Union in northern Shanxi, which had all been attracted by it to the information between Sanyin and Yingxian, Lieutenant General Tanaka Kuichi had always scoffed at it.

The old fox didn't trust any kind of information at all except what he had seen with his own eyes. Whether it is a friendly army, or the first army of Shanxi. Even the information from the North China Front had to be verified again and again before he could partially believe it. Although the commander of the 32nd Division, Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo, swore an oath, he still left half of the new anti-tank guns allocated by the base camp at Yanmen Pass.

But I didn't expect these latest and most powerful PAK Type 38 50mm anti-tank guns imported from Germany at the last moment before the outbreak of the Imperial Pacific War. In just one and a half days in this battle, only the four gates in Yanmen Pass were left behind.

You must know that these anti-tank guns, which are extremely excellent in performance and far more powerful than the Empire's latest rapid-fire guns, have imported less than a hundred of them. With the exception of the necessary imitations that remained as standard, the 21st Division was currently the only division in the entire Imperial Army to be equipped with this weapon.

After the 21st Division arrived in North China, it changed the previous practice of the Japanese army to dispatch vigorously and resolutely, preferring to sit back and watch the best fighters miss in vain, and wait for a short time in Hebei. Except partly because it was to adjust the original weapons and equipment that were specifically designed to fight in Southeast Asia, but were not suitable for fighting in the Chinese theater. The real main reason is to wait for these dozens of new anti-tank guns.

The armored cluster offensive adopted by the Anti-Japanese Federation on the Suiyuan battlefield and the northern Jin battlefield made even the North China Front, which had long been psychologically prepared, extremely surprised. What made him even more stunned was the anti-tank weapons at hand, whether it was the two-pounder gun of the captured British trophies, or the Type 97 rapid-fire gun originally equipped by the Japanese army, and even the latest type of the Japanese rapid-fire gun, which could hardly cope with some tanks in the United Nations.

In particular, the Maltida II and T III and IV tanks had almost no weapons to deal with. Even the Type 38 field artillery was helpless to fire flat fire at close range, and the Type 90 field guns with a small number of equipment, as well as the captured British-made field guns, although the power was sufficient. However, after all, their number is limited, and it is somewhat powerless to undertake anti-tank tasks under the condition that they still have to bear fire suppression and support. The most important thing is quantity, which is simply not enough to meet the needs.

The information transmitted from the battlefields of Huade, Shangdu, and Datong was sent to the base camp by planes of the North China Front within the first time. The photos taken by the defenders of Datong and received by small planes, as well as the photos of anti-union tanks from the Xinjing battlefield in the northeast, and the limited information from the battlefields of Shangdu and Huade, were confirmed to be Soviet-made T-34 tanks and British-made Matilda 2 tanks after interpretation by the base camp.

The Tokyo base camp, which was also worried about the deterioration of the war situation in North China, knew that once the Anti-Japanese Union opened up the land connection with Kannai. At that time, the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which has been supplemented by abundant human resources in China's Guan, I am afraid that the Kwantung Army will no longer be able to suppress it.

The base camp of the Japanese army understood very well that everything is a chain reaction. If we do not want to find a way to contain the tank offensive of the Anti-United Nations, it is very likely that the operation of the North China Front will be completely defeated. And once the Anti-Japanese Union opens up the connection with North China, it will not only be the Kwantung Army that will be unlucky at that time. Similarly, the North China Communist Army, which can rely on the support of the military industry that the Anti-Japanese Union is rapidly building, will once again plunge the North China Front into a state of eternal peace.

Moreover, the United States and Britain ignored China's current situation, made direct contact with the squadron, and gave a considerable amount of aid, which made the base camp feel worried. On the battlefield, the Matilda II tank, the Crusader cruiser tank, and the British light bombers that also appeared in large numbers in the Southeast Asian theater.

In addition, the Japanese army also encountered the American-made M-3 light tank in the Southeast Asian theater in the later stage. These standard weapons and equipment of the US and British armies have already indicated that the United States and Britain are now beginning to provide assistance to the United States. And this aid was given to the Anti-Japanese Union, which also belonged to the Communist Army, which actually meant that it would also be transferred to the Communist Army in North China.

Once the communist army in North China was replenished with sufficient equipment and ammunition, it became stronger. These communist armies, which were like maggots on the tarsal bones for the Japanese army, would make North China never have peace. In 41 years, the Japanese army paid a heavy price in exchange for some relatively stable situation in North China, and all of them will be in vain.

The ability of these communist armies to survive and develop is too terrifying. If it weren't for their lack of guns and ammunition and lack of training, the Japanese army would have paid a greater price to deal with these people. Now, if it is adequately replenished, it will be even more powerful. Then waiting for the results of the Japanese army in North China can only be unacceptable to Japan.

Now more than half of the Northeast has been lost, and only one-third of the once Manchurian lifeline is now left. If North China is no longer stable, the new Fourth Army in Central China and East China will also belong to its operational sequence. The Japanese army's plan to rely on China's abundant resources to support its war will be completely broken.

Although the strategic vision of the Japanese in this war can only be described as unsatisfactory and barely qualified. However, in terms of the absolute failure to allow the Anti-Japanese Union to open up ground links with the North China Communist Army, and the chain reaction brought about by the opening up, we still look at it quite long-term.

Otherwise, he would not have repeatedly agreed to Okamura Ninji when the force had been used to the extreme, and even in the eyes of Shunroku Hatata, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army, there were some seemingly unreasonable demands. Forming a division, a large number of anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns and other equipment, food, ammunition and other materials, these are not easy things for the current Japanese army to make up what he wants.

In order to avoid further deterioration of the situation in North China, the armored cluster offensive of the Anti-Union was contained, so as to ensure that the North China Front could expel the Anti-Japanese Union that had entered northern Shanxi. The Tokyo base camp not only really made a bloody investment, but also did not hesitate to suspend the offensive in Southeast Asia and transfer back two divisions.

Even after thinking about it again and again, 56 of the 90 latest PAK 38-type 50-mm anti-tank guns were specially imported from Germany and used as housekeeping treasures and prepared to be copied on a large scale before the decision to start a war against the United States and Britain last year, and 56 of them were transferred to the 21st Division.

And before entering the battlefield, under the repeated reminders of the former chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and the current commander of the First Army of the North China Front. Lieutenant General Kuichi Tanaka, commander of the 21st Division, thought twice about it, and in order to ensure the safety of his own rear road, he left half of it to the 82nd Wing that remained behind.

As a result, although this old man gave full play to the real role of these new, and now the most powerful anti-tank guns of the Japanese army. Indeed, it also curbed the attempt of the Anti-Japanese Union to outflank and capture the old Guangwu in the movement, and it was also used in the right place.

However, after Chen Hanzhang changed his tactics, except for the four guards who stayed at Yanmen Pass, the rest were under the blockade of the Anti-Japanese Union and could not be withdrawn from the front line, and could only be used as infantry artillery. And in the repeated tug-of-war, they were either destroyed, or they ran out of ammunition and had to blow up themselves. And in the same repeated tug-of-war, the main force of his 82nd Wing also consumed the embers little by little.

Chen Hanzhang's judgment was not wrong, he threw in the troops interspersed in front of Yanmen Pass, and the casualties were indeed not light. However, under the superior firepower concentrated by the Anti-Japanese Federation and the absolute superiority of individual firepower, the 82nd Wing of the 21st Division and the 82nd Regiment, which was firmly on the front line of Yanmen Pass, also ran out of its own blood.

With the little remaining troops on hand, Okada Miyoshi Osa didn't dare to reinforce Shinhirowu no matter what. Yanmen Pass is the retreat of the 21st Division, even if the old and new Guangwu are lost, as long as the Yanmen Pass is in hand, once the main force of the division and regiment comes back to help, there will still be room for relaxation. But if even the Yanmen Pass is lost, then the 21st Division will really be trapped in the battlefield of northern Shanxi.

What's more, of the only one and a half squadrons left around him, half of the squadron was not a combat unit at all. Except for half of the people who are handymen and horsemen, the remaining half of them are actually cremators who are specifically responsible for cremating the corpses of Japanese soldiers killed in battle, and they don't even have guns. In such a situation, Miyoshi Okada still dares to send troops to reinforce the new Guangwu battlefield that has entered the final moment?

Except for sending an infantry squad and an engineer squad for symbolic reinforcements, there is no need to draw a single soldier at all. And these two squads, except for one lost in the artillery blockade area of the Tongguò Anti-Alliance. The rest were also on the anticline position of Xinguangwu, and were blown up by a mortar shell.

The troops that really rushed to the reinforcements of Xinguangwu were only more than ten people. He could only keep sending telegrams to the division headquarters, demanding that the division headquarters immediately return to the division to recapture the old and new Guangwu, and give reinforcements to the first line of Yanmen Pass. In order to protect the lifeline of the 21st Division, as well as the last way to retreat.

Miyoshi Okada, whose strength has consumed the embers, is no longer able to reinforce Shinhirobu. And Chen Hanzhang was also unable to continue to go south after taking Xinguangwu. He could only use the original regiment in the Beiyue District, plus the remaining troops, and leave an artillery unit to hold Xinguangwu on the spot.