The Japanese base camp, which was caused by the quarrel between the Chinese Dispatch Army and the Kwantung Army, simply came to an impartial and unbiased position for these two strategic groups. In August 43, 200 imitation German 50-mm anti-tank guns and 80 Type 88 anti-aircraft guns were transferred to the Kwantung Army.

However, the tank wing, which was originally transferred to the Kwantung Army, was transferred to the North China Front Army. At the same time, four additional tank wings were added to the North China Front, and two tank brigades were added. And after accepting these five tank wings, the original four tank wings were added.

The North China Front had a total of nine tank wings, and two tank brigades with six separate tank squadrons each, totaling 144 tanks. A total of more than 1,100 tanks and armored vehicles of all kinds were under its jurisdiction. The number of tanks it was equipped with accounted for nearly one-fifth of the total number of tanks of the Japanese army.

The nearly 400 tanks of the five wings were all Type 1 tanks equipped with the latest 50-mm tank guns, and most of the rest were 97 modified tanks equipped with 47-mm tank guns. The light Type 95 tanks, with the exception of some used for reconnaissance, have been completely eliminated.

This latest modification of the Japanese army's one-type tank is not only equipped with the most powerful tank gun in the Japanese army, but also has a significant increase in armor thickness. In terms of firepower and protection capabilities, it surpassed the Japanese Army's Type 97 and Type 97 tanks. The overall performance also surpassed that of the American M-3 tank, and was almost the same as that of the late No. 3 Modification.

The Japanese army's large increase in tanks and new anti-tank guns for the North China Front brought considerable losses to the tank breakthrough of the Anti-Japanese Union in the Jizhong Plain. Many tanks of the Anti-United Nations were lost under the firepower of the latest tank of the Japanese army.

The 50-millimeter tank gun equipped with this tank is a Japanese imitation of the long-barreled 50-millimeter tank gun of the late No. 3 tank equipped by the Anti-United Nations. This tank gun was imitated by the Japanese army using the secret submarine communication line between Japan and Germany, and it was also the best and most powerful of all the active tanks of the Japanese army.

At the same time as mobilizing a large number of tanks for the North China Front, the Japanese base camp also allocated two heavy artillery wings to the North China Front, plus four independent field heavy artillery brigades. And these heavy artillery pieces were originally intended to be used as follow-up troops to reinforce the Australian battlefield.

However, due to the blockade of the US, Britain, Navy and Air Force, it is no longer possible to evacuate equipment. The base camp simply pushed the boat down the river and handed over this batch of heavy artillery to the North China Front. In the production and equipping of heavy equipment, in the second half of the entire fourth and third years, it also went all out to tilt toward the Chinese battlefield.

Compared with the Japanese army base camp that hurriedly allocated troops and equipment to the Kwantung Army and the North China Front. and the 11th Army under the Chinese Dispatch Army, which is unwilling, and is planning to seize the entire Dongting Lake Plain in order to seize the richest land of fish and rice in the whole of China.

As the supreme commander of the entire North China battlefield, Okamura Ningji, who was bent on the shame of Xue's defeat in 42 years. The preparation can be said to be much more comprehensive and much in advance. In order to prevent the surprise attack of the Anti-United Nations, find out and destroy the material hoarding place where the main force of the Anti-United Nations is going south, and cut off the route of the Anti-United Nations to the south as much as possible.

Most of the mountainous areas of the entire North China Theater were under the control of the Eighteenth Army. Beginning in March 43, after the North China Front Army had completely recovered its vitality, Okamura Ninji had gathered heavy troops on more than one occasion. With the cooperation of the aviation unit and some armored units, it carried out many large-scale sweeps in the Pingxi and Beiyue areas of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

In addition to grabbing grain, the sweeping operation he organized was an attempt to weaken the combat capability of the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region through constant sweeping. and by sweeping to find a trace of clues, to prove that his judgment is correct. The most fundamental thing is to strive for continuous sweeps in order to defeat the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. In order to contemplate a single front in the face of the Anti-United Nations.

It's just that the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, which are no longer what they used to be, did not let his sweeping troops have any good fruit to eat. Although the Japanese army gathered heavy troops, the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region used the tactics of moving ambushes and concentrating troops and firepower to attack all the way, which very much ate up several infantry brigades of the Japanese army.

In the second half of the fourth or third year, faced with a lot of losses, Okamura Ninji could only stop this method of outweighing the losses. Instead, a large number of small units of reconnaissance troops, as well as plainclothes and secret service forces, especially traitors, were sent into the base areas to collect intelligence. Try to find the slightest clue to prove that your judgment is correct.

Compared with the previous continuous dispatch of troops to sweep up, these traitors and spies sent by Okamura Ningji, as well as a small group of infiltration troops, brought more trouble to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. In particular, those Japanese contingents wearing the uniforms of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops and using the captured Chinese army's standard equipment in full have caused some confusion within the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

If we look at the original extremely poor equipment standards of the Jin-Cha-Ji troops, these are all Belgian-made rifles and Czech-made light machine guns, and the military uniforms on their bodies are also quite neat, and the bullet belts are also full of Japanese contingents, it is still relatively easy to find.

The poor are about to get rid of the scum, so there is such good equipment and neat military uniforms? The troops who can only give a dozen rounds of ammunition before the battle are even less likely to be so full of bullets. This kind of equipment and equipment, it must be a devil. However, now the Jin-Cha-Ji troops, who have changed their guns, have difficulty identifying these cunning Japanese contingents.

At the beginning, the Japanese army also made a mistake. It turned out that the military uniforms on these Japanese soldiers were still in accordance with the military uniforms of the old troops of Jinchaji and Hebei, and they were all summer khaki military uniforms. However, I did not expect that in 43 years, the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region all changed into grass-green khaki uniforms provided by the Northeast, and the Japanese contingent leaked stuffing as soon as it entered the base area.

Later, the Japanese army reacted very quickly, and immediately changed the task force into an imitation grass green uniform. Although cotton cloth is used, but in the case of the same color, who can quickly distinguish the fabric of the military uniform in a short time? Therefore, the infiltration and reconnaissance operations of these contingents have brought a certain threat to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

There was even a force of Japanese troops that was discovered when it touched the vicinity of the headquarters of the Jijin Military Region. The reason for this discovery is that this Japanese army did not wear American-made MK steel helmets, which have become the standard equipment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, so they were discovered. If it is any slower, the Hebei-Jin Military Region Headquarters may be in danger.

According to the regulations of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Command, all troops must wear steel helmets when wearing weapons. This is a special regulation formulated by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters in order to train troops to wear steel helmets in wartime to reduce casualties. This group of Japanese soldiers did not have such steel helmets, and they also carried a full set of weapons, and after being seen by the vigilant troops as wrong, they missed the horse's feet under interrogation.

If there was no such provision, this Japanese contingent of about 60 people would not have been able to do a good job, and it would have directly ended up with the Jijin Military Region Headquarters, which had only one guard platoon by its side at that time. Although this incident did not cause any too bad impact, it was discovered by the Japanese army when it was touched by the side, and it undoubtedly served as a wake-up call to the Jinchaji troops.

In order to deal with these traitors, spies, and a small group of Japanese infiltration reconnaissance units in full uniforms of the 18th Group Army, the Anti-Japanese Union urgently airlifted four reconnaissance squadrons to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Specially cooperate with the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to deal with these Japanese contingents. The anti-union special operations forces that entered Jinchaji made a few ruthless blows to stop the arrogance of the Japanese contingent.

However, despite the speed at which the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region responded quickly, the spies and traitors sent by the Japanese army to the base areas still brought certain troubles to the preparations for war in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region set up a secret warehouse in the Yellow Intestine Mountain, west of Huailai, which was discovered by traitors and led to blow up by Japanese planes.

During the bombing, the secret warehouse was completely destroyed, and a total of more than 20,000 kilograms of food, military uniforms and other materials were lost. Although the number of these traitors and spies is small, they are much more difficult to deal with than the small reconnaissance units of the Japanese army and the plainclothes armed forces. In order to eliminate the activities of these Japanese puppet spies before the campaign was launched, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region put a lot of effort into it.

It was only through the repeated purging of the special reconnaissance units mobilized by the Anti-Japanese Federation and the large number of plainclothes squads specially organized by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region that they eliminated more than 20 plainclothes Japanese armed forces and small units of reconnaissance units, thus reducing the efficiency of the activities of the plainclothes armed forces of the Japanese army.

However, the spies and traitors who infiltrated the base area by the Japanese army were not completely eliminated until the battle began. It's just that the development of the situation can no longer wait for the purge of these traitors and spies. According to the battle plan, the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union began to secretly enter North China in early October 43.

In order to cover the entry of the troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, under the command of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, began to carry out large-scale operations against the periphery of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, mainly some Japanese strongholds in Pingxi and Pingbei District, beginning in late September and early October.

And adopted the tactics of mobilizing the masses to besiege the masses and encircle the points to send reinforcements, squeezed out the strongholds of the Japanese army in the Miyun and Changping mountains, and captured Laiyuan County. The passage out of the mountain was opened, which ensured that the armored group of the Anti-United Nations could obtain the starting position for the attack. At the same time, we began to mobilize the masses to strengthen the bridges in Pingbei and Pingxi District, and to widen the mountain roads.

At the same time, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region continued to adopt the tactics of pulling out points and clearing the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army in the base area. The Anti-Japanese Union adopted the method of combining vehicle transportation with marching on foot, and the troops that were scheduled to enter the customs began to enter the Rehe and Chanan districts on a large scale. In order to conceal their strategic intentions, the anti-coalition forces in the northeastern battlefield also made large-scale feints.

Through various efforts, although they were unable to completely conceal the intelligence system of the Japanese, they also confused the analysis and judgment of the Japanese army on the war situation to a certain extent. Both the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army were shouting wolf to the Japanese base camp by the end of October 43.

In response to the shouts of the Kwantung Army and the North China Front, the Japanese army headquarters urgently sent the director of education to fly to Beiping to hold a joint combat meeting between the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army to finally determine where the Chinese would focus their attacks. However, this operational meeting did not reach any consensus because the differences between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army were too great.

The North China Front believed that under the circumstances of the failure of the Northeast Communist Army to complete its combat mission last year, it was bound to abandon its attack on South Manchuria this year and enter the pass on a large scale in order to relieve the predicament of the North China Communist Army. Therefore, the most important thing for the base camp at present is to reinforce the North China Front Army to ensure the stability of North China.

However, the Kwantung Army insisted that judging from the current overall situation, the communist army in the northeast would inevitably move southward in a big way in an attempt to completely seize South Manchuria. In order to cut off the direct connection between the mainland and the interior of China, it also weakened the military production capacity of the empire. Once the South Manchurians were lost, it would be fatal to the overall strategy of the Empire.