After giving the order to the two division commanders to retreat, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto sat in his new office and looked at the large battle map of the entire Shanxi battlefield on the wall, his eyes swept from the north of Jin to the northwest of Jin, and then from the northwest of Jin to the great sweep that was going on in the southeast of Jin.

This heart is inexplicably hanging all the time, and there is always a feeling that I have missed something. What exactly these things are involved, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi has never been able to grasp the feeling. These missed things, like a meteor, quickly crossed his mind. But this fleeting feeling has passed, and I can't grasp it again.

Although I didn't figure out what I missed for a while, I had many years of staff career and served as chief of staff in many important aspects. After many years of experience in the staff business, he has developed a delicate Yoshimoto Sadaichi, but he has a faint feeling that this thing is likely to determine the fate of the entire Shanxi battlefield and the outcome of this battle. But he missed it, but Yoshimoto Sadachi never caught it.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't figure it out, and Yoshimoto Sadachi, who had missed the calculation there, was disturbed by this not very good premonition in his heart. In the end, Yoshimoto sent another telegram to the commanders of the two divisions. Let them immediately start deploying a retreat, as quickly as possible.

Compared with Yoshimoto Sadachi, who had a headache, after receiving a report from Sui Changqing that he had attacked on all fronts, completed the division of the main force of the 32nd Division in front of him, and was encircling the 212th Wing, the main force of the battlefield in Qiying County. Chen Hanzhang, whose command post was now set up at the head of the god, could only shake his head speechlessly.

The real purpose of placing the 10th Division in Yingxian was not only to block the 32nd Division, but also to ensure that the entire battlefield was not divided by the Japanese army. The real purpose is to be fundamentally prepared to deal with enemy forces that have not yet appeared on the battlefield. The two regiments with Mu Changqiu in Laoxian County became the two emergency forces in the north and south, and firmly held the junction between the two battlefields in the northeast and north of Shanxi.

Defending the two wings of a 32nd division alone, he can't afford to put the most complete and only fully equipped infantry division in the entire northern Shanxi battlefield, and his 32nd division does not have such a big face. The main forces of the 10th Division were placed there in order to deal with the possibility of a new enemy situation.

In order to prevent new accidents from happening before the battle outside the Yanmen Pass ends. That is to say, in fact, a considerable part of Sui Changqing's 10th Division played the role of a general reserve on the battlefield in northern Shanxi. But now this guy has already mixed up with the troops of the 32nd Division in front of Yingxian before reporting for action.

Although he had a meritorious role in concentrating his forces to defeat the Japanese army in the middle, he was extremely passive. Even if he reports before he acts, he can make himself mentally prepared and prepared for contingencies. Now that he is attacking so freely, his entire contingency plan will be completely disrupted.

If the Yingxian battlefield can be quickly resolved and the enemy in front of him can be defeated before a new enemy situation appears, it will not be a big problem. But Chen Hanzhang was very worried that his offensive would be stuck by the Japanese army. That will have a follow-up impact on the battle situation, but it cannot be solved by defeating a 32nd division.

Sui Changqing invested only five battalions in Yingxian to counterattack, and he had to face the main force of the 212th Wing, which was still alive, and the 211th Wing was added, and the strength was only roughly equal. In terms of artillery firepower, except for the 107th rocket battalion, the rest did not have an absolute advantage.

In this situation, it is very difficult to solve the battle in a short time. And even if he defeated the two wings of the 32nd Division in front of Yingxian, once the casualties were too heavy, it would have a great impact on the next battle. Tapping on the map, Chen Hanzhang's red and blue pencils expanded from the Yingxian battlefield to the wings.

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Hanzhang sent a telegram to Du Kaishan, asking Du Kaishan to immediately transfer two tank companies and two infantry battalions from the Hunyuan battlefield, plus one or two one-two-two rocket artillery companies to immediately advance eastward, and arrive at the Yingxian battlefield no later than noon tomorrow, all under the command of the 10th Division.

A regiment in Beiyue District, which is currently constructing fortifications in Xifang City, was ordered to immediately move south and cross the line of Beiloukou, deploy a guard to the front line of Daying and Hesha on the south line, and monitor the Pingxingguan and Wutai sides. If any anomalies are found, they are to be transferred to blocking on the spot and reported immediately.

Mu Changqiu's headquarters was ordered to immediately expand along the entire line from Laoxian County to Taiyuan. At the same time, two companies of tank units were concentrated, plus an infantry battalion, and a competent commander was assigned to take charge. Through the west between Fanzhi and Dai County, it was directly inserted into the back of the 32nd Division of Ruyuekou. If you encounter the Japanese army along the way, you are not allowed to fight.

Fanzhi is the location of the headquarters of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, and Daixian is the location of the baggage troops and division headquarters of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army. The 32nd Division was commanded by Major General Ishida Yasutada, commander of the 32nd Infantry Regiment, and the 21st Division was commanded by Major General Kameiichiro Nagano, commander of the 21st Division. As for the two division commanders, one was in Fanzhi and the other was in Dai County, and neither of them came to the front line to command.

There are two divisions and regimental headquarters in these two counties, and they are also the main supply towns in the rear, and there are also two regiments of Mu Changqiu in Lao County behind them. In this situation, although most of the troops have been put into front-line operations, the rear guard force is slightly insufficient. However, between the two counties, where the location is critical, there will definitely be Japanese troops deployed.

If the troops sent by Mu Changqiu were stuck by these Japanese troops, it would be easy to delay the big thing. Therefore, Chen Hanzhang repeatedly explained to Mu Changqiu that the interspersed troops should take tanks as the lead and cover the infantry to force a high-speed passage through Guò. Encounters with Japanese troops along the way, absolutely no love is allowed. The fact that his reinforcements could arrive at Ruyuekou as soon as possible was an early response to the county war situation.

The troops left behind in Lao County immediately made preparations for first-class operations. Once the Japanese reinforcements arrived, it was to come to the two divisions, and they would have to hold out for at least three days. It is necessary to pay attention not only to the direction of Wutai Mountain in the front, but also to the safety of the rear of the main flank of the Jinsui Military Region, which is besieging the left detachment in the northwest of Jin.

After giving the latest transfer order to his troops, Chen Hanzhang sent a report to the deputy commander-in-chief who was sitting in Jinchaji. It is hoped that the first and second subdivisions of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region will monitor all the highways and passes in the Hengshan, Taihang, and Wutai mountains as much as possible.

Although a counter-sweep is now underway, there are still some troops in the Taihang troops who are on alert in the direction of Liaoxian to Yushe and Heshun. Strengthen mutual intelligence communication, especially coordination. It can monitor and provide the movement of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army in Liaoxian County and the surrounding areas at any time for the battlefield in northern Shanxi.

After giving several orders in a row, Chen Hanzhang hesitated for a long time. He personally made a phone call to Wang Minggui, who was currently commanding on the front line, and ordered the front-line troops of Zhangzhuang and Mayi to intensify their attacks. Strive to reduce the Japanese positions by at least one-third. For the headquarters to take the final solution to the 21st Division, to create a best fighter.

In fact, after receiving the order from the headquarters to compress the 21st Division as much as possible, Chen Hanzhang had vaguely guessed what the headquarters' plan for solving the main force of the 21st Division was. The carpet bombing on the battlefields of Suidong and Chaxi really left a deep impression on him.

Only with such a plan will the headquarters repeatedly order itself to compress the main force of the 21st Division as much as possible into a regiment. Instead of ordering himself to adopt a division tactic that is more suitable for tank assault, he used the advantage of the armored cluster to divide and encircle them and annihilate them one by one.

For Chen Hanzhang, who had seen the power of this kind of carpet bombing with his own eyes, the tactics that the headquarters planned to adopt were a little more expensive. However, it can give the Japanese army maximum damage in the shortest possible time, and shorten the time for the progress of the war as much as possible.

Although according to this order, he knew that the tank troops he had put into the front line might suffer heavy losses under the two dozen or so new anti-tank guns of the Japanese army, coupled with their constant offensive of meat bullets. But Sui Changqing stuck this pole on the battlefield in Yingxian County, and he could no longer allow him to fight steadily.

It's better to take a risk than to drag on indefinitely. If you can solve some of it first, try not to delay as much as possible. The 32nd Division is in danger, and the Japanese army will definitely draw new reinforcements as quickly as possible. If the problem cannot be solved before a new enemy situation appears, then the development of the entire battle situation will also fall into a certain passivity.

Moreover, Chen Hanzhang adjusted his deployment so much, not hesitating to risk heavy losses. And he accelerated the offensive on the 21st Division. Not only because of Sui Changqing's adventure on the battlefield in Yingxian, but also because he had to prepare to deal with the 15th Division. It's more because now he is already thinking about ending the Battle of Northern Jin.

Not only in the continuous fighting, the number of casualties in the troops has not been replenished for a long time, but it has also become extremely exhausted, and the wear and tear of heavy equipment is increasing. The most important thing is the huge consumption of logistics, which makes Chen Hanzhang feel somewhat breathless, and even on the battlefield, it affects his deployment in a certain way.

At present, the amount of grain replenished by the base areas in the northwest of Shanxi Province to the battlefield in northern Shanxi Province has become smaller and smaller. Moreover, with the return of the main force of Jin Sui, it is now in the northwestern base area of Jin Province, which is in short supply, and I am afraid that it is no longer able to provide any food. This also means that the combat forces in northern Jin have lost at least one-third of their food sources.

And the local food potential in northern Shanxi has been tapped. In the Battle of Datong, the dying Japanese army set fire to a large amount of grain that had been stored in the city. Although the Anti-Japanese Union occupied Datong, almost no grain was seized on the battlefield of Datong. The rest of northern Shanxi is not a grain-producing area in itself.

If we raise food locally, I am afraid that we will not be able to leave even the rations and seed food of the common people. Continuing to raise funds not only hurts the hearts of the people, but is also suspected of killing the people and raising the army. And Jinchaji, not only can not provide food now, but also needs to receive some relief from northern Jin from time to time.

Although the lone army is in the enemy-occupied area, this area is an area that was not destroyed by the Japanese army last year, and the people still have a certain amount of grain reserves. In addition, he continued to send small troops, taking advantage of the relatively empty situation of the Japanese army, and constantly attacking to raise food, which could obtain a part of the food supplement.

However, all the troops in other directions of the battlefield in northern Shanxi, not only the anti-United Nations troops participating in the war, but also all the food, ammunition and materials needed need to be transported from the northeast thousands of miles away. Even the troops in all aspects of the battlefield in northern Jin already need food supplies from the northeast to maintain their combat effectiveness.

And as time goes by, the consumption on the battlefield is increasing, the food supplement available from other sources is becoming less and less, and the problem of ammunition and food transportation conflicts is becoming more and more acute. Even in order to ensure the food supply of the combat troops in northern Jinbei, the supply of ammunition has been reduced by one-third in logistics.

At the same time, with the gradual consumption of embers of the oil captured in Guisui and Baotou, the huge fuel consumption required by a large number of tanks and mechanized troops in the Shanxi battlefield now has to occupy a certain transportation force. In doing so, the already overburdened logistics themselves are further exacerbated.