In Yoshimoto's view, in accordance with the requirements of the base camp, the First Army was not only to ensure the stability of the Shanxi combat area, but also to prevent the Chongqing First Theater on the south bank of the Yellow River from counterattacking Jinnan. It is also necessary to suppress the second theater of operations in the southwest of Shanxi Province and not to make any rash moves, lest they have ideas that they should not have, and the troops themselves have already been used to the point of being overstretched.

Even under such circumstances, it is necessary to allocate a limited number of troops to supervise and cooperate with the troops newly recruited by the Nanjing Government that have been transferred to Shanxi by General Okamura, and to sweep up the so-called Taihang and Taiyue base areas of the communist army.

If you want to send reinforcements, you can either give up Yuncheng and transfer the main force of the 37th Division, and concentrate all your efforts to deal with the battle situation in northern Jin first. Either you, General Okamura, will transfer the 15th Division, or you, General Okamura, will find a way to transfer new divisions and regiments to participate in the battle from the base camp or the dispatch army.

In fact, for the counterattack against northern Jin organized by the North China Front, Yoshimoto Sadachi is now very depressed. In the entire Shanxi battlefield, the battle situation is obviously one, and he should be the commander of the entire Shanxi First Army under his jurisdiction, and he is fully responsible for commanding the entire Shanxi battlefield. This will be more conducive to coordinating combat operations and making unified deployments.

But what was originally a complete battlefield was created by General Okamura on two battlefields. As the highest-ranking military self in the entire Shanxi battlefield, he can only command the 32nd Division and the 21st Division, as well as the Zuojian Detachment, which is now surrounded and beaten by the Jinsui armed forces of the Communist Army.

However, all the troops on the battlefield in the northeast of Jin Province were handed over to the unified command of Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi, the commander of the 116th Division. In the name of sweeping the Taihang District, the 15th Division, which was retransferred to Shanxi after the reorganization, was directly commanded by Okamura Ningji. In this way, his First Army, which was originally the heaviest burden and was already stretched thin in terms of the use of troops, could command two divisions and regiments at the front.

Not only was the entire front unable to be coordinated, but the most fundamental aspect of command was also constrained in many ways. And even so, he General Okamura Ninji often crossed the headquarters of the First Army and gave orders directly to the two divisions below. This time, the 32nd Division ignored its repeated orders to divide its troops, and I am afraid that it was General Okamura who bypassed him and gave the order to the 32nd Division.

If the 32nd Division of the Well Iron Vault can form a whole coordination with the 21st Division on the left flank according to its own orders. With the 21st Division as the flank, the remaining defensive forces of the Northern Jin Anti-Japanese Union were pulled apart, and the whole division was held together and pressed horizontally in the direction of Datong. Although the speed of such action is a little slower, it is at least a little more stable. Even if the northern part of Jin cannot be recaptured, the main force of the division will not suffer great damage.

The whole heaviest burden was given to him, but only half of the troops were given to him. Because in the whole plan of General Okamura, the two divisions of the 21st and 32nd divisions were used to attack. The one division and two brigades in the northeast of Jin were used to attract the main force of the Northern Jin Anti-Union in the battlefield in the northeast of Jin, causing the flank to be empty, and creating conditions for the two divisions to attack.

Under the desperate efforts of General Okamura, the 15th Division, which is now fully manned, was used as the final decisive force. It is used as a mobile unit of the entire front army, and it will not be put into front-line combat until it is absolutely necessary. Only the 21st and 32nd divisions under the command of the First Army were the ones who really undertook the recovery of northern Jin.

Regarding General Okamura's entire strategic deployment for the recovery of northern Jin, although he Yoshimoto Sadaichi and General Okamura also have certain differences, they can be roughly reluctantly agreed. However, there are quite a lot of opinions on the division of command. The battlefield in northern Jin is a whole, what do you mean by coming up with two command systems?

The only mobile force on the entire battlefield is also directly assigned to the front army, and it does not accept orders from anyone except you, General Okamura. As for the strength of the two brigades and one division on the battlefield in the northeast of Jin, not only could they not command themselves, but they could not do it even if they wanted to unite the battle situation.

These deployments have indeed played a role in distracting and containing the attention of the anti-coalition forces. But now it is blocked by people in several counties, and even the city can't get out. Even the strength of the Wunei detachment in Hunyuan has been surrounded. Cut off the connection with the 69th Brigade of Guangling, the mountain village detachment of Lingqiu. He was crying out under the attack of the enemy, and there was still the strength to support the 32nd Division.

Originally, according to General Okamura's plan, the Wuuchi detachment marched westward from Yuanping and Xinxian through the mountain village detachments of Yushe, Taigu, Taiyuan, and Daixian, and arrived at Hunyuan through Fanzhi. The 69th Brigade was reduced to Guangling, and the Shancun detachment was stationed in Lingqiu, forming a triangular situation in the northeast of Shanxi. These three divisions were backed by the 48th Division and threatened the junction of the battlefields of northern Shanxi and southern Chanan.

In order to attract the main force of the Northern Jin Anti-Japanese Alliance, in order to ensure the safety of the flank of the northern Jin Dynasty and the junction with the southern battlefield, it had to be transferred eastward. Moreover, the large number of troops invested forced it to transfer most of its troops in the north of Jin to the northeast of Jin in order to ensure the safety of the junction and the flanks, so as to open up the gap in its defense.

At the same time, this line is used as the junction of the Hengshan Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, and the mountainous terrain is complex, so that the enemy cannot invest troops on a large scale in the use of tanks. At the same time, the left detachment advanced westward, attracting its so-called local forces to the northwest of Jin and pinning down the remaining forces in its front.

In order to create a powerful fighter for the two divisions attacking head-on, they would go north and create a powerful fighter plane. This plan is indeed a good battle plan, if there is no new reinforcements from the enemy, judging from the current battle situation in the northeast of Jin, it cannot but be regarded as a considerable success.

It's just that General Okamura's intention was indeed achieved, but he didn't expect that the anti-union on the opposite side would move faster, and these troops would be stationed at the designated place on the front foot, and they would surround them from behind. As a result, the three Japanese armies did not have an advantage in terms of strength and firepower. As a result, two brigades and one mixed division transferred to the northeast of Shanxi Province were blocked in the city and could not get out.

The connection between each other is fragmented. The roads connecting several county towns have been cut off. Even the Wunei Division stationed in Hunyuan was not only cut off from the other two divisions. They were also divided by others, and they made dumplings.

The Takeuchi Division went out of the city many times to fight, trying to rescue a field wing of the Takeuchi Division that had been divided by the enemy and trapped in Wanghu Fort. As a result, many rescue operations were either blown back by dense shells, or pressed back by the enemy's superior forces. The entire wing of Wanghu Castle, which could only be watched by, was torn to pieces by ground-air firepower and a large number of enemy troops.

It is estimated that the Anti-Japanese Federation had already set its sights on them as the backbone of the northeastern Jin triangle formation when this Wunei detachment moved to the northeast of Jin, otherwise it would have moved so fast. Moreover, the speed and courage of its troop mobilization were almost beyond everyone's expectations.

The courage to dare to disregard the safety of the rear road and dare to dispatch troops fighting in Suidong to the south quickly while the 110th Division was still resisting, this courage can be described as astonishing. If you change any army, you will not draw troops in your deadliest parts when there is still considerable resistance behind you. But the current opponent did just that.

The current situation in the northeast of Jinxi is of course the anti-Japanese alliance does not dare, and it is impossible to draw troops to reinforce other fronts. However, these troops deployed by General Okamura in the northeast of Jin are now equivalent to being locked up, and they are also a little tight. The other two-front operations could not be supported at all once they were in a critical situation.

In this northward operation to recover northern Jinbei, the 32nd Division on the central front and the 21st Division on the western front were the backbone forces. In particular, the 32nd Division, which was located on the central line, played an important role in connecting the two flanks in the whole campaign. If the 32nd Division is defeated, this counterattack in northern Jin will also be a complete failure.

But now the fatal problem is not in the northeast of Jin, but in the two divisions that are attacking head-on. The division of command between the two battlefields has led to a lack of unity in command. As a result, when General Okamura was carrying out this deployment, the most dangerous situation that he had not anticipated at the beginning appeared.

Now in the most difficult area, it is the two divisions that are being used as the main force of the offensive. In their own battles, and they all faced difficulties, they could not get any reinforcements from friendly forces in the northeast of Jin. In particular, the 32nd Division, which was originally thought to be the safest and the most obedient, also fell into danger, and I am afraid that this result was not expected by General Okamura at the beginning.

In the face of such a development, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto received a telegram from Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo asking for help, and without any reinforcement or modification, he directly forwarded the telegram from Iide Tetsuzo to the North China Front without any additions or modifications. You General Okamura made such a hand, you better wipe your ass yourself.

Anyway, the only mobile force that can be mobilized on the entire Shanxi battlefield is also in your hands. The First Army just wanted to rescue, and unless it violated the order of the base camp and abandoned the Jinnan control area, it would not be able to draw troops. If he General Okamura doesn't want to lose this battle too completely, he will find a way to do it himself.

General Okamura's calculations were very clear, but he forgot a little. That is, the empire is mobilizing reinforcements to reinforce the North China battlefield, but the Anti-Japanese Federation can also mobilize assistance. He had persuaded him more than once that he could not look at this army from the same perspective as other armies.

Even on the battlefield, this army, which is now fighting on two fronts, ostensibly uses its strength to the extreme, but they will always find a way to come up with something new at the most critical moment. The Kwantung Army has suffered heavy losses more than once in this matter. In many cases, the battle situation that was originally stalemate was defeated because they suddenly invested new vitality at the most critical moment.

When he was the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, the Kwantung Army had dealt with them for so many years, and he could not find out exactly how many troops they had and the maximum number of troops they could mobilize when needed. The Kwantung Army's grasp of the population of the districts under their control could only be used to estimate the number of troops they could mobilize. The exact extent of this calculation is probably only known to God.

In addition, although they do not have railways to use, they have a large number of trucks that can mobilize a large number of troops at any time to maneuver. In the shortest possible time, reinforcements can be mobilized from the northeast to the north of Jin. The combination of mobility and suddenness can be a key factor in determining the direction of the battlefield at any time.

According to the original information, the so-called 10th Division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had been fighting in the Xinjing Theater in the Northeast Theater, but was withdrawn and reorganized after suffering heavy losses in the First Battle of Xinjing. Now it not only appears in the north of Jin, but even fully equipped, which shows that even if it fights on two fronts, it is not really exhausted in terms of soldier potential.

Judging by Yoshimoto Sadachi's tenure in the Kwantung Army, with only half of the troops at the moment, and the 32nd Division itself is still a public security division, I am afraid it is difficult to be the opponent of this fully equipped new army. In particular, under the circumstance that it can also receive a large amount of air support at any time, the 32nd Division must either receive reinforcements in a short period of time or retreat immediately, otherwise the outcome of the 32nd Division may not be very good.