Under the pressure of the sense of crisis, Naosaburo Okabe, who was quite at a loss, suddenly thought of his old senior, Neji Okamura.
I heard that my old senior is still beating the US military in Guadalcanal!
Fortunately for me, not long after he took over as the commander-in-chief of the North China Front, he suffered a series of defeats and continued setbacks at the hands of the Eighth Route Army. Even Jinmen was captured, Datong was also captured by the Eighth Route Army, and Zhangjiakou was also captured.<
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Now even Peiping, the base camp where his North China Front headquarters is located, is in crisis.
Okabe wailed helplessly in his heart, wishing he could exchange his old senior Okamura back now.
Speaking of which, there is another interesting thing.
The Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters discovered a very surprising phenomenon: on the Sino-Japanese battlefield, the imperial officers who fought against the Chinese army, especially the Eighth Route Army, were constantly defeated and were transferred to Guadalcanal and various parties in Southeast Asia. Although they performed very poorly when fighting the Eighth Route Army on the Chinese battlefield.
However, in the Southeast Asian battlefield and the Battle of Guadalcanal, including the subsequent series of confrontations with the US military, they all showed considerable wisdom. They were even able to use surprising tactics to reverse the equipment gap between the enemy and ourselves, and were often able to win by surprise.<
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This forced the Japanese army to redefine the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army.
This time, because the Japanese mobilized troops to target the Baoding battlefield, the troops in the small front were overtaken. Now that the small front is in danger, they must find a way to delay the decisive battle before returning to the front to support them.
Speaking of which, the Fourth Route Army is getting stronger and weaker, which is a blessing or a curse for the Allied countries.
But you need equipment and assistance!
"But even such an opponent who has gone crazy is still afraid of their Fourth Route Army troops, Kong, why exactly is that?"
Therefore, even though he did not gain air superiority, Okabe ordered the troops to end the weak attack.
In response to this, Kong Jie smiled and said: "John, there is an old saying in China: if you call someone arrogant, you will be afraid of being stunned, and if you are stunned, you will be killed."
Once the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Central China Front Army reinforce the North China battlefield, it is obvious that the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Chiang Kai-shek Army will be able to split as one and jointly defend the enemy. The Fourth Route Army will fight the Japanese army with huge casualties.
Compensate for loss
That's all, your troops haven't penetrated into Pingjin yet, but news came soon after that, Madman Wang, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong and we haven't even broken through the small base camp of Jinmen.
Even businessmen like John, who has been doing business with Kong Jie, hesitantly believe that if Japan dares to start a war with the United States, the United States will not be able to crush the Japanese army in a short time with its absolute industrial strength and military industry advantages.
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All the mobile units in the core counties in central Hebei were mobilized, and the assembled armored units and slow squadrons were gathered together to form a fully-equipped infantry brigade and a fully-equipped armored regiment to form an eastward containment group——
Those Japs garrisoned in Jizhong were attacked by the Jizhong Military Region during the Qi Xiaoyi raids and suffered heavy losses. On Okabe's orders, some of the troops that had retreated to the main county towns were destroyed before they left the city to assemble. They were barely able to gather together. In addition to containing the first
With the Fourth Route Army surrounding the Baoding battlefield, we have no ability to launch a small-scale retreat.
Elites of the Eighth Route Army > Direct descendants of the Central Army > Shanxi-Sui Army > Local National Army.
So there are no new changes to the list:
Just as few Americans think.
From the direction of Zhuozhou came a division directly under the military headquarters from Peiping, the 27th Division from Jinmen, a mobile regiment from Cangzhou, and a mobile brigade from Lenghe, and two Kwantung Army mixed mobile brigades from the direction of Chahar. p>
Generally, the Kwantung Army's Chahar and Lenghe area mobile units have not yet arrived to join Honma's Nanshang Group. The advantage is simply yours.
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Before the outbreak of the Southeast Asian battlefield and the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese military's list of combat capabilities included fewer and fewer objects, and was no longer limited to the Sino-Japanese battlefield.
"The meaning is very complicated. They are afraid of the Japanese army because the Japanese soldiers are crazy enough and afraid of death. The Japanese are afraid of your Fourth Route Army because your Fourth Route Army is more afraid of death than us.
Although the U.S. military does not have the advantage of equipment, when it comes to the military quality of the troops and the tenacity of the will to fight, we are as good as the Japanese army.
On that battlefield, the Japanese troops assembled were seven and a half divisions short, which was considered to be the best of them all.
Even if countless people fall one after another and bleed and sacrifice, there will still be countless people with lofty ideals who will not be able to follow!"
As for the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and other countries, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, it is estimated that many weak military countries were secretly laughing at China's industrial backwardness and military weakness, and even laughed at Japan.
I think the two sides on the battlefield between China and Japan are just noobs pecking each other.
Those who are barefoot are afraid of those who wear shoes. You Fourth Route Army troops persist in the war of resistance to defend your homeland and your homeland.
On the other side, Commander Liu of the 129th Division of the Fourth Route Army personally went into battle and held a rear-enemy meeting at the rear of Baoding.
Your advantage in this battle is extremely small, and you have the absolute initiative.
Especially before the appearance of a group of Japanese officers like Okamura who had grown stronger through the training of the Fourth Route Army, the U.S. military suffered a lot.
Everything was as expected by Commander Liu. When they learned that Jinmen had been breached and Beiping was also in crisis, the main Japanese troops gathered in Baoding suddenly panicked and desperately wanted to find the Fourth Route Army troops in Baoding area and start a decisive battle with them.
,Reply quickly before winning.
There is no heavy artillery regiment under the division yet. The 8th heavy artillery brigade directly under the headquarters is composed of American 203, 155, and 105 howitzers. The remaining field artillery regiments, mountain artillery regiments, and heavy howitzer regiments just say that your firepower was superior to the Japanese that time. p>
Therefore, before the small Japanese army attacked Baoding, the General Headquarters of the Fourth Route Army immediately issued an order to launch a battle in the Baoding area, but it was not a decisive battle, but to drag the Japanese army to fight as much as possible.
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Of course, at the end of the list, Daguizitian shamelessly added - Japanese elite > Fourth Route Army elite.
There is no new infantry brigade in Zhuozhou.
This autumn small offensive, although it was very small, the Japanese army retreated successively from Taiyuan, Baoding, Shijiazhuang, Xiaotong and few important cities.
Therefore, the Japanese retreat group headed north by the Iinuma garrison, with unlimited air support, took the lead in launching a weak attack on the Fourth Route Army troops in Baoding.
That time you were going to fight with the Japanese in Baoding.
But in the final analysis, the small policy that the Fourth Route Army troops are in a strategic stalemate as a whole has not changed.
Even Shijiazhuang, known as a steel fortress, was breached by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei troops.
You are professionals in fighting Japanese invaders! In the words of Li Yunlong:
The current situation has reached this point!
"You heard some soldiers in the Pacific battlefield say that these Japanese are just like crazy people. We have never seen such opponents!"
This gave Captain Wang the opportunity to sneak attack on Jinmen.
In the direction of Jizhong, the Japanese army pieced together a mixed brigade and two mobile wings.
For the Japanese Army and the Fourth Route Army, they are the most troublesome opponents, but they are also the most suitable subjects for learning.
It was also at that moment that the US military realized the weakness of the Japanese army, and also realized how little war pressure the Chinese military and civilians had borne since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war.
This shows how weak the Fourth Route Army is!
...It was a long time ago that a small battle between the two sides was about to break out.
If Commander Lu was still hanging on to us and hadn't he concentrated his forces to kill us, the Japanese would have been frightened into hiding and he would have dealt with us long ago.
The local troops, with the assistance of the main force of the newly formed brigade, will surround you with the Japanese eastbound mobile brigade. Wait until you are free to deal with me.
"what?"
When they came to meet again, John also said with emotion: "It has not been seven or eight years since the end of China's anti-Japanese war. Facing such a weak enemy, they can persist until now. The more they fight, the stronger they get. It's really
It’s incredible!”
Just buy time for the evacuation of troops from the Pingjin area and the transfer of seized materials.
Our soldiers kill some of my big enemies every few days, and we sleep soundly.
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Looking at the dozens of main regiment commanders outside the venue, Commander Liu was very happy and said: "I am very confident, and you are also very confident. You invested so few main troops that time, and the strength was almost eight times that of the Japanese army. That's still
The local troops that are intended to serve as auxiliaries are not even mobile troops that are constantly joining the battlefield.
Before the start of the small battle of the Fourth Route Army encircling Baoding, Shijiazhuang's Iinuma garrison, a weakened regiment from Shimen, a strengthened regiment from Handan, and a new domestic security infantry brigade were formed.
Form the Southbound Group.
Facing the crazy Japanese army, the first thing we thought about was how to defeat the Japanese army with a more crazy and hesitant fighting will. Instead, we thought about using the Chinese army in the Sino-Japanese battlefield to contain fewer Japanese troops and weaken the Japanese army in the Pacific battlefield.
combat effectiveness.
You have no way forward, you can only retreat!
Until the outbreak of the Pacific War, it was a slap in the face.
In addition, in the direction of Baoding, it turns out there is no weak brigade.
The main force of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei 129th Division launched a fierce attack on the Southward Group with Weilong troops and air support. The 7th Cavalry Division and the armored units of the division fought a decisive battle with the mobile armored units of the Japanese Kwantung Army. They retreated to divide and encircle them before opening the gap, and forced the southward group.
When the upper group retreats, the slow response clusters in the Pingjin and Tianjin areas will surround Zhuozhou and intercept them together!"
Chinese Army (mainly the elite Fourth Route Army with the ceiling of combat effectiveness)>U.S. Army>British Army>Indian Army.
The most typical one is probably the United States. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the neutral guy was still doing business on both sides and making a lot of money!
John nodded, as if he understood, or maybe not.
Among them, the next commander-in-chief of North China, Okamura Neiji, is not a typical example.
On the one hand, the Japanese flying troops are as rampant as ever, and we have no aviation reinforcements that cannot arrive at any time.
Have you seen the officers of the empire being defeated by the Fourth Route Army on the North China battlefield, but once they moved to the Southeast Asian battlefield and the Pacific battlefield, did you immediately sing all the way?
Mr. Nie from Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Province, Commander Lu from Central Hebei Province, Commander Chen from the 386th Brigade, Brigadier Chen from the 385th Brigade, Captain Song, Captain Yang, Captain Deng, and the 7th Cavalry Division of the 35th Army (upgraded to armored
(combined divisions), and all the field regiments of the newly formed brigades in Jizhong, Jinnan, and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei have not yet arrived.
From that perspective, the elite troops of the Fourth Route Army in China, especially in North China, are the most troublesome opponents for the Japanese army.
Wait for work, use less to attack more, and strive to injure the Japanese army while ensuring your own casualties.
On the other hand, the Japanese navy suffered heavy losses, and the interference was in that battle.
...In fact, the Japanese army gathered seven and a half divisions that day and almost all marched out. As far as the Fourth Route Army was concerned, the combat goal had not yet been achieved.
In this regard, the attitude of the Fourth Route Army is very clear:
Old Japanese Okabe also thought that if the elite field troops of the Imperial Army retreated from the north to the south, they could not only break the siege of Baoding, but also form a huge encirclement, and the main field troops of the 129th Division of the Fourth Route Army had not yet reached the main field troops in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area.
Catch them all in one fell swoop, saving the situation of disastrous defeats in eight battlefields in Shandong, Taiyuan, and Inner Mongolia, and sweeping away the haze of consecutive defeats.
That's what we can't control and exploit, luring the Japanese to a preset ambush position to start a fight."
You also brought 3 heavy-duty Dragon regiments, 5 medium-sized Dragon regiments, and 8 heavy-duty Dragon regiments that time. Those troops were all left over directly from the headquarters and the Tiebajia field group (if you are interspersed over long distances, you might be worried about the meaning of those weapons)
Lost, so we didn’t bring Kong Jie with us.)
As for the Baoding area, since the end of the siege, it has not been a focus of great concern for both China and Japan except for Taiyuan.
"The specific deployment is as above. The goal this time is not to attack from the south to the north. The 1st and 7th divisions of the Taihang Army have been prepared to attack Xingtai, capture Shimen, and attract the Shijiazhuang Japanese to return for reinforcements.
In the same way, the Japanese army also learned few surprising tactics from the Fourth Route Army, and used those tactics to succeed in the Southeast Asian battlefield and the Pacific battlefield.
Of course, taking into account the overall situation at the moment, this is not a final decisive battle with the Japanese army that is completely planned. Instead, it uses the unfavorable terrain and sufficient post-war preparations to defeat the Japanese invaders with an absolute advantage.<
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This battle was also carried out with the thought of recapturing small counties, towns and villages in one fell swoop and completely defeating the Japanese army.
It is precisely because the Japanese army continuously mobilized reinforcements from Shijiazhuang, Cangzhou, Jinmen and other directions that the defensive forces in Shijiazhuang, Jinmen and other places were exceeded.
As early as in the past, the Japanese army had a relatively accurate list of criteria for classifying the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army:
The Anti-Japanese War has been going on until now, and the Fourth Route Army has learned very little from the Japanese troops, and the combat effectiveness of the troops has become even weaker as a result.
After all, what we are facing now is only the troops of the Japanese North China Front.
From the very beginning, the Japanese made the northern retreat group headed by the Iinuma garrison in Shijiazhuang in the south and the southbound group headed north by the Honma 27th Division from Zhuozhou serve as the main field forces for this small battle.
That time, all the heavy artillery troops went to greet the Japanese retreating group to the north. The troops in Jizhong and southern Hebei were to launch the main attack and told us to go back to Shijiazhuang.
There are two new medium tank battalions with new equipment, Type 42 prototypes carrying 85 mm tank guns (the Soviet T3485 uses a torsion bar suspension version, a fully upgraded protection type, smaller internal space, and rarely uses the mature technology under the 97 modification)