The Japanese army deliberately chose to sweep the key areas last year, and even a considerable part of the area was a no-man's land created by them. On the route of the march, the only remaining areas of activity of the two divisions were specifically avoided. The Japanese puppet garrisons along the route were not notified, they did not enter any villages and towns to rest, and they were slaughtered and exterminated whenever they encountered Chinese along the way.

Several reasons were added together, which also caused the Japanese raid to cross most of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and it was not noticed. If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army's target this time was not the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, I am afraid that the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region would have suffered great losses. You must know that the deputy commander-in-chief who is now acting as the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the headquarters of the 18th Group Army are in Wutai Mountain.

But no matter what, Su Yingqi did not pay much price in this encounter, and at the same time figured out the movements of the 21st Division of the Japanese army. At the same time, the Jinchaji Second Sub-district, which came to respond, also reported these things to the deputy commander-in-chief who was in Wutai Mountain at this moment.

The situation is urgent, and the deputy commander-in-chief is in the Wutai Mountains at the moment. At this time, there were so many Japanese troops in the Wutai Mountains, and no one would be at ease if they changed. After urgent discussion with Su Yingqi, the commander of the Jinchaji Second Division left him a company, and left his best enemy engineering section chief and reconnaissance section chief to escort Su Yingqi south.

At the same time, the commander of the second division sent a report to the four divisions in front of him, asking the four divisions to send troops to respond in advance. He took the rest of the troops and turned around and returned to Wutai Mountain to protect the headquarters of the 18th Group Army, which was operating here and had only one special battalion by his side. Concern is chaos, not only on the battlefield of northern Jin.

Just kidding, if you learn that there is such a large group of Japanese troops in Wutai Mountain, and find that the area of the Japanese army is almost only a few mountain beams away from the headquarters of the 18th Group Army. If he could still be calm, then it would be impossible for this army to hold out for so many years in a cruel environment.

Faced with Su Yingqi's request for whether to concentrate on the existing strength and firepower of the escort troops, and to attack him first to disrupt the Japanese army's plan, Chen Hanzhang refused without the slightest hesitation. Although Su Yingqi reported in the telegram that he thought that it would be absolutely no problem to concentrate his escort troops, as well as dozens of mountain guns in his hands, plus a large number of shells, to stab him.

Even if it was not possible to completely defeat this Japanese army, it was not a big problem to disrupt the Japanese army's plan. This Japanese army is sneaky, just to avoid leaking the news. As long as he does it himself, no matter where his real target is, the Japanese army over there will definitely change the original goal, but Chen Hanzhang believes that his Su Yingqi's combat mission this time is to escort and reinforce the artillery fire in the Taihang area. Now that the Taihang District is in a critical situation, he can solve part of the difficulties by arriving a minute early. As for the 21st Division, they are not needed for the time being.

And since the Japanese army has already made a plan, it will not change because of the troublemaking of a small army. He had few fighters, many non-front-line combatants, and the equipment he carried was bulky. The strength of the Japanese army will definitely not be like that. Don't let the chicken not steal it, but toss yourself into it is a small matter, and it will affect the overall situation of the entire campaign, which is a big thing.

Compared with Su Yingqi's report, the report of the acting commander of the Jinsui Military Region to the boss is much simpler. The acting commander reported in the report that after careful investigation according to the advice provided by the boss, traces of the activities of Japanese troops were indeed found in the northwest direction of Jingle. However, it is still impossible to find out how many troops there are, and whether they are the main force of the left detachment.

As Yang Jicai judged, during the continuous sweep of the Japanese army in this area last year, most of the surrounding people were forcibly relocated by the Japanese army, and some of them were slaughtered by the Japanese army. Within a radius of several tens of square kilometers, it has basically become a no-man's land. The acting commander of the Jinsui Military Region has already dispatched the most capable reconnaissance personnel from the General Headquarters to continue reconnaissance.

Facing the two telegrams, Chen Hanzhang hesitated for a moment, and did not interfere too much in the battle situation in the northwest of Shanxi. just sent a report to Mu Changqiu, urging him to speed up his actions. And the six columns of Jinsui were transferred to the south of Shuoxian County. As for the other decisions, he didn't dwell too much.

Since it has been decided that direction to be handed over to the Jinsui Military Region to be responsible, it is better not to interfere with it. I have done as much as I could. As for the question of how to fight, it is still in accordance with the instructions of No. 1. Be prepared to respond, but don't interfere in command. Chen Hanzhang still focused his main energy on the Japanese army that suddenly appeared in the northeast of Jin.

Regardless of whether this Japanese army, the 21st Division or not, they must begin to prepare for the final decisive battle. After thinking hard for a long time, Chen Hanzhang still came up with a strategic decision to lure the enemy into depth. Maintain the current offensive in the northeastern part of Jinjin, and at the same time strengthen all tank units with one force as a mobile reserve.

At present, the situation in the northeast of Jin has been fully rolled out, and if you take the initiative, you will be too big. A fishing net with too large a mesh will eventually catch nothing. For an army like the Japanese army, which has a strong sense of active attack and a high level of tactical literacy, it is easy to be attacked by it.

Before Du Kaishan arrived, the forces in his hands were very limited now, and he couldn't all be put outside. The Japanese army is now making such a formation, in order to disperse its forces to the greatest extent, open up the gap for them to use, and then take a cold breath to give themselves a black tiger to dig out their hearts.

This 21st Division has already appeared on the battlefield, and there is also a 32nd Division in Taiyuan that can also be dispatched at any time. If he was a little careless on the entire battlefield, he leaked a loophole that could be used by the Japanese army, and the entire battle situation in northern Jin Province could be reversed in an instant. At that time, not only will the northern Jin Dynasty gain and lose, but it will even endanger the safety of the entire Chanan and Suiyuan.

Although the three Japanese troops in the northeast of Jinxi appeared to be somewhat scattered in terms of deployment, they were not grouped. However, the actual strength of its two brigades and one division has become an inverted triangle situation in which they can support and respond to each other. No matter which one you hit, the other two can be rescued with all your might. Moreover, judging from the deployment of its troops, it almost controls the commanding heights at the junction of the three provinces of Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei, and connects them into one.

These three Japanese troops appear to be scattered, but in fact they are connected. Jin can cut off the connection between the northern Jin and Chanan battlefields, and threaten the entire northern Jin battlefield from the right flank. For the three Japanese troops in the northeast of Jin, even if they have no strategic vision, they must find a way to solve them.

With the addition of this 21st Division, which has quietly touched it, its entire deployment will be completely disrupted and full of loopholes. At that time, the Japanese army is urgently mobilizing the 32nd Division, and then it will fall into passivity on the whole front. Rather than making his own forces too scattered, it is better to attract this 21st Division to its own depth and concentrate mechanized troops to deal with it first.

As for the 32nd Division, if it did not go to the northwest of Jin, it tried to go straight to the north of Jin along the Tongpu railway line. Then Mu Changqiu's two regiments are not vegetarians. At the very least, it is quite certain that it will be blocked on the Tongpu railway line to gain time for the encirclement and annihilation operations in the north.

Of course, the key issue now is not where the 21st Division is going, but to first disrupt the iron triangle of the Japanese army in the northeast of Jin. Don't eat them first, but also spread them out and make them fall into their own battles, so that you have a chance to fish in troubled waters.

When you concentrate your forces and firepower and solve the main force of the 21st Division, don't make any unexpected troubles for yourself. In particular, the strength and equipment of that almost surpassed a regular division and regiment, and there was a very strong Takenai detachment in his hands. The Japanese army did not have the habit of not saving themselves when they saw death, and if they wanted to solve the 21st Division, they had to trap this Takenai detachment.

Completely disrupting the battle situation in northeastern Jin, putting this Wunei detachment in a situation that is difficult to protect itself, or being trapped in northeastern Jindong and unable to advance westward, is the fundamental solution to the problem of the 21st Division. Therefore, in terms of deployment, even if Chen Hanzhang took out all the money in his hands, he did not draw too many troops from the battlefield in the northeast of Shanxi.

Chen Hanzhang actually knew very well that with the emergence of this 21st Division, the moment of decisive battle on the entire Shanxi battlefield had now arrived. In the case of insufficient troops, the only solution to the problem is one word, that is, to adjust the deployment quickly. Use the mobility of your own troops to offset the lack of troops.

As long as he can make moves in the shortest possible time, other Japanese troops in other battlefields in northeastern Shanxi will make moves, and before the situation in northwestern Shanxi changes. If you defeat this 21st Division in the middle of the movement, then you can say that you have a solid chance of winning in this decisive battle.

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Hanzhang secretly deployed the only reinforced regimental reserve in his hands, the tank regiment of the 1st armored division, the company of the 2nd tank regiment, and the four battalions drawn from the battlefield in northeastern Shanxi Province to the line from Hongtao Mountain to the Sanggan River. All tank units are concentrated in the rear and used as a counterattack force.

With all the current strength of the 1st Armored Brigade, plus the 1st Cavalry Brigade, which is currently the most complete, and the 1st Battalion and 1st Battalion of the 2nd Armored Infantry Regiment of the 1st Armored Division, they were secretly deployed in the mountainous areas east of Shentou and in the southwestern mountainous areas of Sanyin County. At the same time, Chen Hanzhang deployed the last two battalions of heavy artillery units and two battalions of rocket artillery units here.

Ordered all the departments participating in the war in the northeastern battlefield of Jin, and cut off the highway from Guangling to Hunyuan and from Guangling to Lingqiu at any cost. At the same time, the troops of the four regiments of the Beiyue District, which had arrived in northern Shanxi, immediately spread out along the line of Ruyuekou, Loubeikou, and Yanmen Pass along the line of the Inner Great Wall, taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to take charge of the vigilance.

Chen Hanzhang repeatedly warned the commanders of these Beiyue districts that their task was to be vigilant, not to block the speed of the Japanese army's advance. Except for the alert troops on the front line of Yanmen Pass, once traces of Japanese troops are found in the remaining directions, they must not exchange fire with the Japanese troops, but only report the situation immediately.

If the alert troops on the front line of Yanmen Pass found that the 21st Division was attacking, they would adopt the tactics of resisting one by one and lead it to the north of Zhangzhuang and the south bank of the Sanggan River. However, considering the possibility of accidents, Chen Hanzhang allocated 2,000 mines and some grenades to these regiments.

From the location where Su Yingqi discovered this 21st Division and its marching situation, Chen Hanzhang still concluded that this 21st Division would not join the battlefield in northeastern Shanxi. Its real goal should still be in the northwest or middle line of Shanxi. Therefore, after careful consideration, Chen Hanzhang decided to take advantage of the situation in the entire deployment.

He focused his deployment on the direction from Shentou to the southwest of San'in, and it was here that he set up an ambush circle for the 21st Division. However, according to Chen Hanzhang's consideration of contingencies, the ambush troops were almost all cavalry and mechanized troops, except for some infantry. Whatever the real goal of the Japanese army is, they can adapt to the situation. We should adjust our operational deployment as quickly as possible, so that the real target of the Japanese army will not deviate from its own judgment and fall into a certain passivity.