In fact, as early as after receiving the order from Okamura Ninji to immediately abandon Jining and the whole division to withdraw south to the same line, Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei, the commander of the 69th Division, did not want to carry out this order, which he thought was to be sent to death. After all, he was the commander of the division fighting on the front line, and Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei had a very clear judgment of the battle situation and the enemy's situation.

He clearly knew that all his men were infantry, and their mobility was very poor. The opponents around Jining are equipped with a large number of tanks, and their mobility far exceeds their own. Once you break away from the cover of the fortified city and force your way south, you are likely to be divided and surrounded by the enemy's tank cluster.

However, Lieutenant General Inoue's opposition had no effect on Okamura Ninji. He insisted that the 69th Division and the Jining defenders immediately retreat south, and rushed to the Datong line as quickly as possible. In Suixi Yidi, the entire northern Jin Dynasty has been exposed to the artillery of the Anti-Japanese Union, and shrinking the forces to stick to the northern Jin Dynasty was the issue that Okamura Ningji considered at that time.

Although the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, also opposed this decision of Senior General Okamura Ninji. Privately, he gave Lieutenant General Inoue Sadae an order to act at the right time. However, these four words do not mean that Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi will openly support him against the commander of the front army.

In desperation, Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei could only stubbornly lead his troops and prepare to break through from Sanchakou and Jining City to the south. In order to ensure that the main force of the division could safely withdraw to Datong, Fengzhen had been lost and there were a large number of enemy tanks and mechanized troops around him.

In order to ensure a safe evacuation and not to be eaten by the enemy on the road, the deployment of Lieutenant General Inoue Sadae on the breakthrough can be described as painstaking. He ordered the two infantry brigades at the three forks, plus part of the strength of the 3rd Brigade Regiment in the various strongholds of the Pingsui Line east of his battalion, to immediately retreat to Liangcheng in the southwest direction at any cost. Detoured to kill the tiger's mouth, directly withdrew to the territory of Youyu, and withdrew to Datong through Youyu.

The two infantry battalions of the Red Spit were ordered to immediately break through the enemy's resistance and go north to meet the main force of the division. Even if you can't completely distract the attention of the Anti-League around you, you must at least attract part of the attention of the Anti-League and distract the enemy forces around Jining City. More importantly, to confuse the surrounding anti-coalition forces.

As for the Japanese troops in Jining City, he mixed the two squadrons of the 3rd Brigade and the remnants of the 118th Independent Infantry Brigade into a temporary brigade, plus the three infantry brigades trapped in Jining City, a total of four infantry brigades were held together and retreated south by means of group marching.

As for all the ammunition and food that could not be carried in Jining City, they were all thrown away. Bomb, that will attract the attention of the enemy. He is breaking through the encirclement and fleeing, not going to armed tourism and sweeping, let alone taking the initiative to attack. It's too earth-shattering, and you'll end up unlucky.

Although Okamura Ninji gave Inoue Sadae the order to retreat, the commander of the 69th Division never thought of retreating at all. From the moment he received the order, he regarded this retreat as a retreat. What are you kidding, in the situation that a large number of tanks and mechanized cavalry clusters of the surrounding enemy forces are eyeing each other, it is a retreat to break away from the fortified city fortifications? That's whether it's good to flee or not.

Although in order to maintain the dignity of the imperial army, he did not say anything, but in action, Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei consciously equated this retreat with the escape. What he did in some things was indeed a bit like a flight. A large number of wounded soldiers were directly thrown away as a burden when they could not be transported.

Before the troops left, not only the seriously wounded, but also the lightly wounded who could barely walk were also lost. The seriously wounded were each given a grenade to make them loyal to the emperor. The lightly wounded were given a rifle each, and 200 rounds of ammunition were left to attract the attention of the enemy.

As for the Japanese expatriates in Jining City, men, regardless of their age, as long as they were over 15 years old, were given one gun and 150 rounds of ammunition. Although the number of guns is insufficient, it is almost enough to collect the weapons in the hands of the puppet army and puppet police in Jining City. Bullets, the entire Jining City is piled up.

Integrate these hundreds of expatriates into the army, so that you can fill up the points, right? The women each had a grenade and gave it to them to use for suicide. For the large and small pseudo-military and political personnel in Jining City, they will directly discard and not carry a single person. For those pseudo-military and political personnel who give a large number of gifts, the gift recipients are driven out.

For the sake of safety, Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei specially set the time for the evacuation of the main force of the division and the headquarters of the Red Sha Spit six hours after the start of the retreat of the two infantry brigades at the three forks. In fact, the two infantry brigades at the fork in the road were regarded by him as a chess piece that he consciously threw to attract the attention of the surrounding anti-Japanese alliances.

There is no way, if you don't turn the attention of the anti-union around you, I am afraid that as soon as your retreat moves out of the city, you will be bitten by the other party by taking advantage of the advantage of mobility. In that case, let alone retreat to Datong, even Fengzhen will not be able to arrive. And once bitten, the 69th Division is finished.

In the fierce fighting in the past few days, although the battle in Jining City was due to the lack of offensive troops of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the main force of the division suffered heavy casualties. However, both the troops at the three forks and the two brigades at Hongshazui suffered considerable casualties in the fierce battle with the enemy's main force when they approached the main force of the Jining Division.

Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei knew very well that the two infantry brigades on the front line of the Red Sand Spit did not have the strength to meet their own strength at all. The right thing to do right now is to distract the enemy. And the two infantry brigades on the front line of the three forks, which had been beaten to half-cripples, attracted the enemy troops around them to the direction of Liangcheng, which was also a helpless choice for Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei.

Although this kind of deployment of letting his subordinates use as targets to attract enemy troops, Lieutenant General Inoue Sadawei blamed himself very much. However, the subsequent withdrawal of most of the troops blockaded by the Anti-Japanese Union on the southern and eastern fronts gave him hope of a successful breakthrough. Immediately, that bit of self-blame has long been wiped out with the self-righteous success of the clever plan.

It's just that the development of the situation is not as he judged, and the enemy forces around him are really attracted by the actions in the direction of the three forks. His bravado did almost deceive his direct opponent Yi Liangpin. But for Chen Hanzhang, the superior of Yi Liangpin, who has experience in playing this kind of tricks, far more than him, his tricks and the capital he gave up are not enough.

After receiving the front line at the three-way crossing, the Japanese army not only stopped its previous desperate attack to the east, but also tried to get closer to the main force of the division. On the contrary, they concentrated their forces and desperately retreated in the direction of Liangcheng in the southwest. However, the Japanese troops in Jining City did not report any movements.

Chen Hanzhang, who had already received Yang Zhen's request for the troops in Jining to withdraw from the Jining battlefield and find a way to release the 69th Division out of the city. From the actions of the enemy at the fork in the road, the first feeling was that the 69th Division was going to run. And this time the Japanese army will definitely not be a bluff.

Although it had given way to the east before, the 69th Division did not leave Jining Jiancheng. Even the Japanese troops at the three-way crossing and the Red Sand Spit stopped trying to converge with the main forces of the division. Honestly in the three forks and Hongsha Tsui, build fortifications and stick to it.

But at present, the Japanese troops on the front line of the three forks not only stopped their eastward advance, but instead made a move to retreat to Liangcheng in the southwest direction. Based on this, Chen Hanzhang easily judged that the 69th Division could not sit still. The Japanese army at the three-way crossing was bluffing to cover the main actions of his division.

Chen Hanzhang, who tasted what was wrong, immediately stopped Yi Liangpin's idea of taking the opportunity to concentrate his forces and solve the enemy at the fork in the road first. Instead, he ordered his forces to immediately shrink in the east and south directions of Jining City, and withdraw all his troops to the north shore of the Yellow Flag Sea southeast of Jining to hide and wait. And get out of the way of the Red Spit line, so that the Japanese troops there and the main force of the 69th Division converge.

It's just that Chen Hanzhang didn't judge whether the 69th Division's move was to go east to join the 110th Division, or to go south to relieve Datong's current crisis. Therefore, he withdrew the main force of Yiliangpin to Dachengdian, a strategic point in the east of Jining. Whether Inoue is retreating to the east or south, he can use his mechanized advantage to arrive quickly.

On the other hand, he dispatched two battalions of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and most of the tank units that followed his actions, and immediately advanced to the northwest, to the first line of Bayintan and Banjing, so as to cut off the Japanese army's attempt to retreat through the hilly areas west of Jining. When forcing the 69th Division to retreat, it could only take the plain area between the Huangqihai and the Pingsui Railway.

And with Yi Liangpin's department, the east and west prepared to flank the main force of the 69th Division. As for the Japanese army that broke through to Liangcheng at the three forks, he sent a cavalry battalion of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, plus a mechanized battalion originally deployed in that direction by Yi Liangpin to solve the problem. Two and a half crippled infantry brigades were not worth his use of too many troops.

At this time, Chen Hanzhang's confidence was very sufficient, and he didn't have any worries about Datong at all. After learning the news that No. 1 had replaced Liu Changshun with Du Kaishan, Chen Hanzhang, who knew Du Kaishan's character, knew that his old comrade-in-arms, who would stab his buttocks when the gun rang, would definitely not sit back and watch him fight hard here.

Although this guy hasn't replied to him yet, according to the character of this guy he knows, he will definitely do something earth-shattering. Reinforcements without him are already on their way. Therefore, Chen Hanzhang simply put all the troops around him into the battlefield.

Taking advantage of the situation, he took advantage of the favorable opportunity for the Japanese army to break through the encirclement, avoided the casualties caused by the strong attack, and made maximum use of the impact of its own tank cluster to completely defeat the 69th Division in one fell swoop. Avoiding a war of attrition with him is what he thinks should be done right now.

It's just that where to put this battlefield is somewhat embarrassing for Chen Hanzhang. The main force of the 69th Division, if it is surrounded by **, it is easy to do. On the western shore of Yihe Zhuoer Lake between Jining and Xinghe, the terrain is flat and the feng shui looks good, making it a good cemetery for the 69th Division.

But if the 69th Division broke through to the south, it would make him a little worried. If it is too close to Jining City, the 69th Division, which is not easy to show its head, is shrinking back. If you put some dozen to the south, it is too close to Fengzhen. If you send all your troops out, there will only be two tanks left in the entire Fengzhen City, plus the strength of a cavalry company.

Judging from the current situation of the entire battlefield, although it is temporarily impossible to determine the direction of the retreat of the main Japanese army in Jining City. However, Chen Hanzhang believed that since the enemy of Sanchahe was now retreating in the direction of Liangcheng, the retreat direction of the Japanese army in Jining was likely to choose to the south. This is because judging from the battlefield situation, the southward retreat is the most beneficial to the 69th Division.

If the battlefield is placed too far south, even a little negligence on the battlefield may allow this 69th Division to break through the front line of Fengzhen and rush through the Outer Great Wall from the victory pass into the Datong Basin, then it will be dangerous for Yi Liangpin, who has now used his strength to the limit.

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