Ma Yutang, who had his hands free, although he was very itchy in the face of the current blocking battle on the Tang River Bridge, and he really wanted to take advantage of the enemy troops that were dispatched in Dudu, and the number was not very large. But under Du Zifu's strict order when he left, he didn't dare to make any rash moves.

I could only patiently renovate the fortifications in Qingfengdian, preparing to meet the Japanese troops who might withdraw from the Baoding battlefield. No way, discipline is discipline, this is not negotiable. Although Ma Yutang is a cadre full of personality, it does not mean that he really takes discipline seriously.

For many years in the military, although for a long time, he has always engaged in local armed forces. But it was also during this period of time that his career in military and political affairs made him understand the importance of discipline in the army. Moreover, he is now a political commissar, and he also served as a political commissar when he was in the Guannai Army, so he understands the seriousness and importance of discipline even more.

He has a personality and can fight wars, whether it is political work or military work, he is very set, but this does not mean that he can be free from party discipline and military discipline. The stern tone of the political commissar when he was leaving, no matter how itchy his hands were, he could only suppress his thoughts in his heart.

The battle of Qingfeng Store came to an end, which not only relieved Lin Feng and Du Zifu in Dingxian. At the same time, it also made Chen Hanzhang in the northern battlefield of Baoding completely let go of his hands and no longer had any scruples. But for Yang Zhen, who is currently in Renqiu County, although the Qingfengdian battlefield is quite critical to the entire Baoding battle situation, the basis is only an inconspicuous battle.

By the end of the battle at Qingfeng Shop, the counterattack had been carried out for the third day. Although the progress of each battlefield varies, it is basically proceeding according to the original plan of counterattack. Although some faults have also been exposed, the large-scale interspersed and flank assault detours are basically carried out relatively ideally, and there have not been too many problems.

The troops that launched the attack on the Gaoyang battlefield, under the full cover of the air force and artillery, had already seized Suning and Lixian, cutting off the retreat of the enemy's six infantry brigades in front of them. And the counterattack troops launched head-on cooperated, completed the encirclement of the Japanese army in front of them, and carried out the final encirclement and annihilation.

At the same time, a force was used to forcibly intersperse the battlefield in Baoding. gave the five wings of the Japanese army on the Baoding battlefield a beautiful left hook. Hit the soft underbelly of the enemy in the depth of the Baoding battlefield. This unit inserted into the Baoding battlefield, like a sharp knife, stirred up the entire deployment of the Japanese army in the depth of the Baoding battlefield.

On the frontal battlefield east of the Baoding battlefield, although the follow-up progress was slightly unsmooth due to the stubborn resistance and counterattack of the Japanese army, it basically fulfilled the requirements of the headquarters and completed the division of the 64th Division in front of it. The entire 64th Division was divided into two separate parts, east and west.

It's just that the 64th Division, which maintains a complete structure, has an unusually strong counterattack. Every village in the war zone has to go through repeated battles before the ownership can be finally determined. The 2nd Panzer Division invested in the Hejian battlefield suffered heavy battle losses, and the consumption of ammunition far exceeded expectations.

In the most important battlefield of Baoding, Chen Hanzhang had already completed the division of the frontal enemy with the cooperation of the flank interspersed troops. And has already taken the lead in defeating two and a half wings, dividing the rest of the enemy on both sides of Pinghan Road. Although Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro repeatedly urged the enemy on the Baoding battlefield to retreat south quickly, under Chen Hanzhang's tactics of killing the old master with his fists, the Japanese army struggled but could not get rid of Chen Hanzhang's bite.

His own flesh and blood were constantly torn off by Chen Hanzhang's tanks and infantry. The remnants of the Japanese army on the battlefield in Baoding, the entire deployment has been completely disrupted. If there is no big accident, the Japanese army on the battlefield in Baoding will solve it, which is a matter of time.

The whole battle situation is going smoothly, and after the recovery of Beiping, the entire supply line has basically been opened, and there is no need to make a detour to the mountainous areas of western Hebei. Moreover, the volume of railway traffic far exceeds that of roads in extremely poor condition. It not only saves a lot of time and fuel, but also increases a lot of capacity.

Although Yang Zhen did not expect that after the recovery of Beiping, the Beiping Municipal Party Committee would organize a large number of railway workers in such a short period of time, and most of the railways around Beiping, which had been seriously damaged by the war, had already been built. In particular, the Pingzhang Railway and the Pingcheng Railway have basically been repaired.

The combat materials and ammunition transferred southward from the rear and the two most important material transit bases of Chengde and Zhangjiakou were almost directly sent to the front line. The fuel and ammunition sent from the northeast to the front line only had to be transferred from Tongliao to Chengde for a short distance.

By the third day of the entire counterattack campaign, the daily railway dispatch from Chengde to Beiping had reached the standard of 21 military columns per day. The military trains sent from Zhangjiakou to Beiping also reached the standard of six columns per day. Most of the railway was restored, ensuring supplies to the front.

At the same time, a large number of reinforcements drawn from the northeast were also transported to the North China battlefield by rail in the shortest possible time. On the first day of the counterattack campaign alone, 120 American-made M5 light tanks, 30 M4 medium tanks, and 30 T34 tanks were replenished from the northeast to the North China battlefield through the Pingcheng Railway.

Within three days, two additional automobile regiments were transferred to the North China battlefield, plus three separate automobile battalions. Two anti-aircraft artillery regiments, as well as 17 independent anti-aircraft artillery batteries, were also transported by rail to the North China battlefield. And the tanks damaged in the North China battlefield were sent back to the northeast for emergency repair. During the entire Battle of Jizhong, a large number of wounded were sent to Beiping for treatment through this railway.

Relying on the high medical level of Beiping, most of the seriously injured people were prevented from dying due to their injuries because they received timely treatment. The recovery of Beiping opened up the intestinal stem of the logistical supply of the Jizhong front during the entire battle period, and ensured the smooth progress of the entire campaign.

The complete opening of the supply line made Yang Zhen remove the biggest stone in his heart. Don't worry about the troops fighting, fighting, and the guns on the front line will run out of food. There is no need to worry about the large number of wounded, who will pay senseless sacrifices because they cannot be evacuated and cannot receive timely and effective treatment.

In this battle, in the case of Jizhong, in addition to food, Jizhong can hardly provide any battlefield support. What Yang Zhen is most worried about is whether the logistics supply line can be kept unblocked. This is also the main reason why he resolutely demanded to attack Beiping first in disregard of the attitude of the central authorities.

The recovery of Beiping, of course, has to pay some price, but it has completely opened up the largest intestinal infarction on the supply line. Taking Beiping is equivalent to opening up the Pingcheng Railway. The Pingcheng Railway has been opened, and the straight line connection with the Northeast has been completely opened. This result is what Yang Zhen wants the most.

The layman looks at the tactics, and the insider looks at the logistics. Whether the logistical supply can ensure the supply of the front-line troops is what Yang Zhen is most worried about at the place where the battle was launched. In particular, the armored troops dispatched in this battle are the largest since the establishment of the tank force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the supply line is also the longest.

Whether the entire logistical supply line can be unblocked, whether it can ensure the astronomical supply of materials required by the front line every day, and whether it can withstand the unprecedented test are the issues that Yang Zhen is most worried about in this battle. This worry was even much higher than Yang Zhen's concern about the number of troops that the Japanese might put into a counterattack.

At present, the opening of the largest intestinal infarction in the entire supply line is a quite favorable guarantee for the transfer of materials on the front line. Yang Zhen, who had the biggest heart disease, was removed, and put his main energy on combat. With the deployment of some units of the New Fourth Army to the battlefields of southern Hebei and Shandong, the coordination and coordination capabilities of the base areas in North China have also been strengthened.

Compared with Yang Zhen, who landed on the biggest stone in his heart, he was appointed to be responsible for the operational command of the entire Jizhong battlefield, but he was once elevated into a unit that his subordinates could command, but there were only five wings on the Baoding battlefield. Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama, who has only now been given real command, together with his superior Okamura Ninji, is living quite a long time.

After the battle began, there were successive defeats, and even Beiping, where the headquarters of the North China Front Army was located, was lost, and Okamura Ninji, who was almost not dismissed on the spot, still handed over the command of the Jizhong Theater to Uchiyama Eitaro. He relocated his headquarters from Tianjin to Okamura Ningci in Jinan, and finally focused on the Tianjin battlefield and the Bac Ninh line.

Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro, who finally got the real authorization, was quite depressed at this time. It is not a good thing to take over all the Jizhong battlefields at this time. By this time in the campaign, a draw was already hard to guarantee. When the time comes, the base camp will be held accountable, and he is not the only one for the dead ghost?

But as the front-line commander designated by Okamura Ninji, he can't help but take on this responsibility. Moreover, as a professional soldier, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro still has the necessary professional ethics for a soldier. Now for him, whether he can guarantee Jizhong is one thing, and whether he can withdraw as many troops from the front line as possible to the south bank of the Hutuo River is the most important thing.

The troops now being put into the Jizhong battlefield are the essence of China's dispatched troops. If China's troops still want to maintain their relative superiority on the Chinese battlefield, the consequences of losing all these forces will be extremely serious and unimaginable.

After receiving the information on the loss of the line from Dingxian to Qingfengdian, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro, who knew that if the Baoding battlefield could not get reinforcements in a short time, the five wings would completely lose the hope of breaking through. As if he had gone crazy, he kept sending reports to the base camp, the headquarters of the dispatch army, and the headquarters of the North China Front, asking that he be given at least one division within 24 hours.

And what made him a little uneasy was not just the already tilted battle situation on the battlefield in Jizhong. For him right now, the bad news is not just this. He had already received a secret report from the 35th Division. Chongqing's control of the first theater in central Henan is also frequently deploying troops. Troops are being transported to Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Xuchang, as well as replenishment of ammunition.

Judging from the current intelligence alone, only on the front line in Zhengzhou, a heavy artillery regiment has already appeared. At the same time, the two group armies of the First Theater were also assembling between Zhengzhou and Xuchang. The first part of the 47th Army and the three provisional brigades of the Pan-Eastern Advance Army have been assembled in Zhongmu and Weishi.

It is clear that Chongqing's First War Zone is in full swing preparing to launch a counterattack. As for their counterattack target, Uchiyama Eitaro's ability, you don't have to guess to know that it must be eastern and northern Henan. Once the Chongqing First War Zone enters eastern Henan, then it will be stabbed in the back.

What is the current place in Yudong? That was the rear of all the troops invested in the entire Jizhong battlefield. At present, there are only more than half of the 35th division in the entire eastern part of Henan, and the remaining troops have either been lost on the battlefield in central Hebei, or they have fought the battlefield in central Hebei, or even been surrounded.

Once there is a loss in eastern Henan, not only will all the combat units on the front line be cut off. Moreover, the entire Shandong section of the Jinpu Railway, as well as Luxi, northern Anhui, and northern Jiangsu, are in a dangerous state. What worries Uchiyama even more is that once the Chongqing side takes advantage of this opportunity to make any moves, I am afraid that the dispatch army headquarters will be even more unable to support the North China Front.