Now the North China Front is like a snake that has swallowed too much and is too greedy when it encounters danger, but refuses to give up everything that has been swallowed or eaten in its mouth. That is, they do not want to give up any of the occupied areas in Shanxi, and they also want to contain the offensive of the enemy forces in southern Chanan, northern Shanxi, and even the entire Suiyuan battlefield.

The greedy Japanese army didn't want to throw away anything, and they never knew how to give up. But the current shape is forcing them to make a choice between continuing to persist and giving up. Although this is undoubtedly quite difficult for Japanese people who refuse to spit out what they have eaten.

But in the end, he is a more sober-minded person, and Okamura Ninji knows that it is time for him to make a choice. As long as the 69th Division and Datong are kept as a base for northward advances, Suinan will be temporarily lost. But when reinforcements arrive, they can be recaptured. If even Datong and the 69th Division are lost, then not only Suinan may be lost, but the whole of Shanxi will also be threatened by the Anti-Japanese Federation.

Looking at the map and pondering for a long time, Okamura Ningji ordered the 69th Division on the Jining battlefield to be independently mixed into the third brigade and regiment, immediately abandon Jining, avoid the anti-coalition troops on the front line of Fengzhen, and retreat to Datong through the Jingyubao Pass. Order the defenders of Datong to hold Datong with all their strength and wait for reinforcements from the front army.

The commander of the 110th Division, Lieutenant General Iinuma Mamoru was ordered to hold the front line of Huade and Shangdu for at least a week at any cost. In Okamura's view, the 26th Division was able to rely on the more unfavorable terrain and hold out for more than ten days. Then, with the support of favorable terrain, the 110th Division can hold on for a longer time.

What's more, after the 26th Division was encircled, a considerable part of the heavy artillery units that had been reinforced to the 26th Division were withdrawn to the operational area of the 110th Division. Moreover, the Shangdu, where the 110th Division is located, is the logistics supply base for the entire Suidong and Chaxi battlefields. The amount of food and ammunition reserves there was enough for two divisions to hold out for three months.

At the same time, as early as the end of last year, the front army built a large number of fortified areas in the territory of Huade, Shangdu, and Zhenghuangqi. Although it is not as large as the area of the 26th Division's combat direction. However, the solidity and concealment of the design are not inferior to the fortified area where the 26th Division was originally located.

In Okamura's view, as long as the 69th Division can break through the enemy's blockade line on the outskirts of Jining, which is not wide, cooperate with the 15th Division, which launched a frontal counterattack, and make every effort to deal with the enemy troops in the direction of Fengzhen and Datong first, the number is not too large. Then the entire Suinan battlefield will have room for counterattack.

After successively issuing orders to the 69th Division and the 110th Division, Okamura Ninji sent Lieutenant General An Da 23 to Linfen in person, asking Lieutenant General Shimizu Rules, commander of the 41st Division, to do his best to get rid of the entanglement of the surrounding communist forces and go all out to reinforce the north.

The commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Tuqiao I, was ordered to immediately mobilize the 32nd Division stationed in Yanzhou to assemble in Yanzhou immediately, and transfer it from the Jinpu Railway to Beiping via Shimen by car, and participate in the deployment of defense on the front line of Juyong Pass. The main force of the 15th Division was ordered to immediately transport from Shimen to Taiyuan by railway to reinforce the Datong battlefield.

The 32nd Division stationed in Yanzhou was dispatched north for reinforcements, and Okamura Ningji was carefully considered. Yanzhou is an important town in southern Lunan, bordering the jurisdiction of the 17th Division of Xuzhou to the south, the jurisdiction of the 35th Division stationed in Kaifeng to the west, and the 59th Division stationed in Jinan to the north.

Some of the important strongholds held by the 32nd Division were left as the backbone, and the main defensive tasks were handed over to the public security army and the imperial army, and all non-important strongholds were evacuated. As for the defensive gaps in Yanzhou, Jining, and other areas, one of the 35 th and 17 th Divisions could be transferred to take over.

In addition to the 32nd Division, Okamura also formed the 5th, 6th, and 7th Brigades from the 12th Army, each with five infantry squadrons. Three infantry squadrons were drawn from the independent mixed brigades directly under the Front that had not yet participated in the battle. A reinforced detachment was formed, commanded by the commander of the 6th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Formation, Major General Torajiro Iwai, and immediately went north to the Pingjin line.

With the 225th Infantry Wing of the 37th Division of the First Army stationed in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province as the backbone, the 35th Division of the 12th Army was reinforced in Kaifeng, and the 35th Division of the 12th Army was dispatched to form three infantry brigades, and the 59th Division was dispatched to form six infantry squadrons to form a detachment, which was commanded by Major General Nakajima Kichizaburo, commander of the 37th Infantry Regiment under the 37th Division, and immediately reinforced northern Jin.

It's just that for Okamura Ninji, it is easy to say that the 32nd Division that withdrew from Yanzhou left a blank in the defense area. Although the 17th Division was a subordinate unit of the 13th Army, there was no problem in asking him to take care of it for the time being, given his relationship with the commander of the 13th Army, Lieutenant General Shimomura.

It's just that for Okamura Ninji, it is not enough to send only one 32nd Division and two detachments to the north for reinforcements. The battlefield in southern Cha is partially guaranteed, so what should I do about the battlefield in northern Shanxi? For the anti-union troops in Jining, Fengzhen, and Datong, the anti-union itself will also try its best to reinforce them.

Judging from the combat effectiveness and firepower of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the previous battle, even if the 41st Division and the Nakajima Detachment are added, I am afraid that the number of reinforcements will not necessarily meet the needs. And with such a transfer, the entire front army will no longer have reserves to use.

After hesitating for a long time, in the end, Okamura Ninji still didn't care about his face. A telegram was sent to General Shunroku Hatata, commander of the Shina Dispatch Army in Nanjing, and to the Tokyo base camp. After giving a truthful report on the battle situation, he directly told General Shunroku Sùhata and the Tokyo base camp.

If you want to ensure the Pingjin area, as well as continue to control Shanxi. Either in the shortest possible time, two more divisions and regiments should be added to the North China Front. Either abandon the Jinnan area west of the Tongpu Railway, and withdraw the 37th Division stationed in Yuncheng to the area north of Jiexiu, so as to free up the 37th Division to go north to reinforce northern Jin.

Even Okamura Ninji thinks that when necessary, even Nagaji can be abandoned. The two divisions south of the Zhengtai Railway were withdrawn west of Tongpu Road to the north of the Pingyao-Liulin Highway. To the east of the Tongpu Railway, it was withdrawn to the areas north of Pingyao, Yushe, and Liao County.

Okamura Ninji's abandonment of Yuncheng was not purely based on the reinforcement of the northern Jin battlefield. Many of his ideas are based on the current political situation in China. As a China expert, when solving the China problem, he prefers that the Chinese themselves will be in turmoil.

Effectively making use of the contradictions among the Chinese, reducing the pressure of the Japanese army on the battlefield, and shortening the Japanese front is the best way to solve the Chinese incident. He proposed to cede the entire southern part of Jin to the Second Theater dominated by the Jin Sui Army, which included the Luliang, Taiyue, and Taihang Mountains, where the Eighteenth Army had the most frequent activities, and the Zhongtiao Mountains, which originally belonged to the First War Zone.

In Okamura's view, the so-called unanimity of the Chinese to the outside world has long become a slogan. In fact, there has long been a split within the interior because of various contradictions on the battlefield. If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army was still in China, the two sides would definitely have started by now.

During the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain last year, when the North China Front launched an attack on the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Second Theater of Operations, which was close at hand, sat idly by. With more than 100,000 troops empty, it did not send a single division of reinforcements. Even Chongqing asked it to send troops to cover the defeated defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain, but they did not do so.

Now the king of Shanxi, who can only be trapped in a dozen counties in the southwest of Jin, has avoided a military action. It's more about preserving strength. In order to preserve their own strength and not be completely annexed by Chongqing, the king of Shanxi and his so-called Jin Suijun were full of contradictions with Chongqing.

At the same time, in order to compete for territory, there was constant friction with the communist army in Shanxi. If the territory of Jinnan can be handed over to this king of Shanxi, the Chinese of Jinnan will fight themselves. The Jin Sui army, which was eager to expand its living space in the hands of the king of Shanxi, and the central army that wanted to go north to recapture Zhongtiao Mountain, the barrier of Henan, would have a conflict with the CCP that controlled most of the rural areas of Shanxi.

As for the Japanese army, even if Jinnan is abandoned in a short period of time, it is judged by the strength and combat effectiveness of the second theater. As long as you want, the North China Front can be recaptured at any time. The short-term abandonment has caused contradictions among the Chinese. The best choice at present is to put the current operational focus of the North China Front Army on the battlefields of northern Shanxi, southern Chanan, and southern Suinan.

This is far better than mobilizing reinforcements for the North China Front from thousands of miles away and dispersing the Japanese army's strength in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. At least in terms of speed, it is much faster than mobilizing reinforcements from the mainland and other battlefields. The dilemma of insufficient troops of the North China Front can be solved at the first time.

However, Okamura Ninji's construction is absolutely unacceptable, whether it is for the base camp or the dispatch army of China. The dispatch army of China never gave up the idea of completely occupying China, and it could not accept the abandonment of Jinnan, which has now become the starting point for the Japanese army to attack the hinterland of Shaanxi and Henan.

However, considering the current development of the war situation, both Pingjin and Shanxi are already facing a real threat. If Jinbei and Chanan are lost, the chain reaction triggered by it is something that the Tokyo base camp cannot but consider. With the North China Front still having to maintain the various occupied areas and the strength of the troops has been used to the extreme, increasing reinforcements has become the only option.

However, fortunately, the Japanese offensive in Southeast Asia was progressing very smoothly, and the forces originally planned to be used in the Dutch East Indies had all been freed up and could be transferred to other directions. Therefore, the base camp also happily agreed to complete the 48th Division of the Bataan Peninsula operation.

and now a unit directly under the Southern Army, which is on standby in the Indochina Peninsula, and the 21st Division, which was originally intended to be used to attack India, was transferred to the North China Front. As for the 5th and 16th Divisions named by Okamura Ninji, the base camp really couldn't agree. As for the Fourth Division, which is currently the most leisurely, Okamura Ninji himself does not want to live or die.

However, the base camp of the Guards Division absolutely did not dare to be transferred to North China to compete with this anti-Japanese alliance. For the base camp, the Guards Division, the emperor's imperial soldiers, is more suitable to pinch soft persimmons. It is really not suitable to fight against the lion force of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

After weighing and weighing, in the end, the base camp decided to transfer these two divisions and regiments, which are currently not on combat duty, to the North China Front. As for the plan to attack India, it is better to wait until the complete occupation of Burma is planned. Burma is not completely occupied, and the next battle plan cannot be implemented.

In fact, the base camp and Nanjing agreed so happily to Okamura Ningji to send reinforcements, and he should be grateful to the Kwantung Army. If it weren't for the fact that the Kwantung Army suffered successive defeats in the hands of this army, the base camp had a new understanding of this anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese bandit force that was originally in the mouth of the Kwantung Army.

Otherwise, the battle would be like this, and he would still have the opportunity to bargain with the base camp like this. If nothing else, the Mongolian army was completely wiped out, and it was enough for him to go home and eat himself. The army stationed in Mongolia was specially formed by the Japanese army base camp in order to outflank the hinterland of China from the west, and now that the whole army has been destroyed, how can the base camp spare him?

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