The battle at Jiayingguan was a key battle that changed the situation in North China. Major media in the Kuomintang-controlled area called it the Great Victory of the Yellow River.
The Battle of Jingxing made the Japanese army in North China even worse. Only the 37th Division of the Twelfth Army was left, which was already in name only.
The Ninth Division of the First Army was dragged down by Yamada Mizo's wrong command and was annihilated at Jingxing. Now the First Army only has the Peking Sixth Division, the Tianjin Fourteenth Division, and the Kwantung Army to support the North China Front Army. Only less than half of the Nakamura Division and the 20th Division scattered across North China are left, as well as the independent mixed Third Brigade, Fourth Brigade, Ninth Brigade, Fourteenth Brigade, and Sixteenth Brigade. .
In the shameless group guerrilla warfare of the 49th Army and the Tank Division, the Japanese 20th Division has also existed in name only. The regiments and brigades stationed in various cities and counties have been wiped out. Now the 20th Division has been beaten to nothing. One and a half regiments remained.
Lieutenant General Shiro Sumita, who was appointed by the Japanese Army Headquarters to temporarily act as the commander-in-chief of the North China Front, ordered the remnants of the 20th Division and the scattered brigades to abandon their small strongholds in small counties and concentrate on various central cities to make the final resistance.
Sumita Shiro voluntarily abandoned the county seat and other places, which caused the People's Liberation Army troops to advance in an unstoppable manner. At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing also issued an order for a full-scale counterattack, and the local troops of the Central Army also seemed to emerge from the soil to pick peaches. As soon as the Japs left the county town, a few people with letters of appointment from the National Government appeared and announced that they had recovered and taken over the county town. I don’t know where these guys hid when the Japanese were there. They were mushrooming after the rain.
The People's Liberation Army doesn't care about this. It just chases and kills the Japanese. As for who will take over the recaptured areas and who wants to take over Xie Tian's orders, we can't care about it for the time being and let them fight for it.
Qin Fen led the 49th Army and the Li Changshun Tank Division to take Cangzhou in one go. After joining up with Chu Yunfei, the three of them bumped heads. Two armies and one division attacked in all directions to eliminate the remaining enemies on the north bank of the old Yellow River.
Group guerrilla warfare, damn it, Xie Tian has coined a new term. They have already fought in groups and fought guerrilla warfare. Isn't this obviously relying on superior strength to bully others?
The key is that you don't want the captured territory yet, so you don't have to worry about spreading your troops to garrison, just like a machete, you can kill but not bury it.
The four main forces of the Japanese Army are the Kwantung Army, the North China Army, the Central China Army, and the Southern Army. Now the North China Army has been crippled by Xie Tian's gangster tactics. The Kwantung Army is also facing pressure from the Soviet Far East Army and cannot spare any troops. To support North China, the Central China Army occupies important cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan. It has to face several theaters of the Chongqing government and has no time to look north. The Southern Army mainly fights in Southeast Asia such as Singapore, the Philippines, Malay, Myanmar, and Vietnam. It has no hope Not on.
Shiro Sumita, who is now the temporary commander of the North China Army, can only mobilize the Mongolian garrison and the troops of the Mongolian and Puppet Prince De and Wang Puppet to survive, trying to defend several central cities in North China and wait for external support.
In urban warfare, the people who are kidnapped are the people living in the cities. These central cities often have a population of several million, and all life is devastated by the war.
This point hit Xie Tian's weakness. Even if he had a heaven-defying weapon in his hand, he would not be able to use it in a city battle.
However, after this melee, the anti-war situation in China's battlefield has undergone earth-shaking changes.
First of all, on the Sino-Japanese side, most of the Japanese war zones in the North China Plain have returned to the control of the Chinese army. Although the Japanese North China Front still controls the important cities in North China: Beiping, Tianjin, Zhangjiakou, Qinhuangdao, Dezhou, Jinan, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Xuchang and other places are obviously at a disadvantage, especially since the two major transportation arteries, the Ping-Han Railway and the Jin-Pu Railway, have been lost. The Kwantung Army and the North and Central China Front have lost their land transportation connections and have been completely separated.
Great changes have also taken place in the situation between the enemy and ourselves in the Chinese military, but it is estimated that not many people have really noticed the significance of these changes.
First of all, the Tenth War Zone has firmly controlled the line from Shijiazhuang, Hengshui, Baoding, Bazhou to Cangzhou. The northern plains of North China have all planted the flag of the People's Liberation Army. Even Pang Yuan moved to Baoding and established the Shanxi-Hebei Camp in Baoding. The North China War Zone Commissioner's Office, personally taking charge of the stability of the newly liberated areas.
Parts of Xingtai and Hengshui south of Shijiazhuang are under the control of the Eighth Route Army. Handan and Wu'an Linqing are under the control of the Central Army. They are directly facing the remnants of the Japanese 12th Army Corps that are still stationed in Zhengzhou and Xuchang.
Yan Xishan's three armies in the north have successfully recaptured Ulanqab north of Datong. The second theater finally extended its tentacles and cut off the connection between the Japanese army in Guisui (Hohhot) and the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou.
It is not that these troops under Yan Xishan cannot fight. His troops have been fighting all the way since their establishment. They fought vigorously against Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing. Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, they have also fought many tough battles with the Japanese army, but unfortunately they have lost them all. , was discouraged.
Now Yan Xishan is taking advantage of the spring breeze of Xie Tian to make a comeback to reap the fruits of victory. As for what plans he has in his belly, only he knows.
But it doesn't matter to Xie Tian, as long as you start fighting, it will be a good thing. Yan Xishan helped him hold off the Japanese troops in Guisui and Zhangjiakou, which relieved some of the pressure on the People's Liberation Army.
Now the two major armies of the People's Liberation Army can concentrate on dealing with the remnants of the Japanese North China Army.
Fu Zuoyi's 42nd Army has already stationed troops in Bazhou, and its sword is pointed directly at Pingjin and Tianjin. It can capture Langfang at any time and cut off the connection between Pingjin and Tianjin.
Xu Shiyou's 41st Group Army deployed along Cangzhou, Hengshui, Shijiazhuang. In the Cangzhou area, Qin Fen's 49th Army, Chu Yunfei's 50th Army and the tank division directly under the group army were gathered, the three most powerful units.
After the 51st Army ended the Jingxing battle, the 301st and 302nd Divisions were deployed to the Jinghai and Yangliuqing areas to participate in the siege of the Japanese troops in Tianjin and consolidate the occupation of the Liberated Areas of the North China Plain.
Xie Tian was currently in Duliu Town, Jinghai, where he established the General Forward Command of the Tenth War Zone and personally commanded the campaign against Pingjin.
Fu Zuoyi rushed from Bazhou to the military camp on the bank of Duliu Zhenjia River. In the big tent, he saw Xie Tian who was standing in front of the sand table in deep thought.
When Xie Tian saw Fu Zuoyi coming in, he smiled and stretched out his hand: "Thank you, Mr. Fu. I have to trouble you to run hundreds of miles."
Fu Zuoyi first saluted Xie Tian with a military salute, then held Xie Tian's hand with both hands and laughed loudly: "You can't compare to the commander-in-chief. Once you get on the plane, you will be thousands of miles away in the blink of an eye. Even if we break our butts in half, we can't catch up." As fast as the Commander-in-Chief.”
Xie Tian laughed: "Mr. Fu is blaming me for not equipping you with a special plane."
