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Chapter 116 Closing and leaping frogs

While Wang Mingzhang was making great victory after victory, Tanisuo had already met with Tanaka Hiraichi who was trapped in Hiraizumi. Although the process was not so smooth.

Tani Shouo led the eighth and ninth two almost full A-level divisions to rush the national defense line day and night to blockade the machine gun artillery. If these two A-level divisions had not taken away a large amount of food for the troops, almost everyone would have enough food on the last day, and they were moving forward lightly and had the cover of the 21st Division. I'm afraid that even more than 20,000 people would not be able to rush over now, which would be equivalent to throwing more than half of the troops on the road - the lethality of heavy machine guns is quite considerable.

The loss of people is not considered a loss. After replenishing various materials, Tani Shoufu added the supplementary troops carried by the 21st Division into the 8th Ninth Division, and the two A-level divisions were raised again. However, there was a slight shortage of personnel, and with the 21st Division, the strength was only three B-level divisions.

But although Pingquan County has food, staying here is not a long-term solution. When the heavy artillery position is idle, sometimes he will take care of the Japanese in Pingquan County. This heavy artillery shelling will cause dozens or even hundreds of casualties every time. Tanisuo led these three divisions to meet the troops of the Second Division, Meizu Mijiro and others. This time they encountered a more powerful firepower blockade. They even saw the plaster flag of the Second Division from afar, but they just couldn't rush over.

Tani Shouo didn't know that it was the Shangzhen Army, which was almost the weakest among the troops on the national defense line at the entrance from Chengde to Pingquan. Only then did the two divisions successfully rush to Pingquan. Many machine gunners in Shangzhen Army played machine guns for the first time before. The ones who blocked the reorganized 17th Army and the Central Army's fist troops were the reorganized 17th Army and the Central Army.

No matter how good the equipment is, it needs to be used by people, and the gun itself will not kill people. The level of training determines the lethality of a unit.

I couldn't rush here, and Imezu Mijiro on the opposite side could not rush, and more than 200 tanks on the front line of Peking (under the 17th Army and the 19th Army) pushed towards the Rehe area, and the Second Cavalry Army followed the tanks.

This final tank unit was a final move by the Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking. It was also after confirming that the Japanese Air Force was unable to attack. Song Ziwen spilled the tank troops out. Facing the huddles of the Japanese tanks, the artillery and machine guns on the Japanese tanks could best tear them apart. As for the scattered Japanese, are you still running on your legs?

Needless to say, the Japanese in Chengde area were so hungry that they couldn't run away. The tanks came up and fought around and handed them over to the cavalry behind them. The Second Cavalry Army did not catch the big fish. It turned out that the senior officials and brigade-level brigades such as Yanagawa Heisuke and the corps flag had already taken the plane to leave first. The Japanese brigade's plane could not pass, but one or two planes could still fly over occasionally.

But the Japanese also sent out this important news, Tanishou stepped up his breakthrough, and Mijiro Umezu also forgot to pick up Tanishou and hurriedly fled towards Liaoning.

Seeing that the tank troops were getting closer, Tani Shouo had to take several division commanders and brigade commanders to board the plane to pick up, and at the same time gave the troops the orders such as death, death, and jade shatter.

After Tani Shouyu and others left, the remaining dozens of regiment leaders broke through the northeast like crazy. No matter how powerful the firepower of the 17th Army was, they could not resist too much of this target. In the end, a small number of them finally broke through successfully. Most of the Japanese in Hiraizumi were jointly wiped out by the tank troops and the 17th Army in the national defense line fortifications.

After knocking out two groups of Japanese devils, the price paid by the Peking military government was to knock out more than 200 million machine gun bullets and one-third in a few days, and more than 70 tanks were buried due to the Japanese's jade attack. In this era, many people still shocked with flesh and blood to fight against armored troops.

The Japanese domestic newspapers and radios depict such warriors as heroes of the Iwa tribe. They called all citizens to learn from these people. The Japanese emperor Hirohito called such warriors the cherry blossom heroes because when they died, their bodies were like cherry blossoms at the Sakura Festival, and they all died like this after they were tied up with a large number of grenades on their bodies and exploded.

After a little rest, this mobile unit continued to pursue Meizu Mijiro's army. Meizu Mijiro's army broke through the encirclement and finally escaped from the encirclement and returned to Liaoning to join the Japanese troops. Only 300,000 elite Japanese soldiers were left with these 300,000 remaining defeated soldiers. In contrast, the losses of our side in the Rehe War were counted by the Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking, which was nearly 30,000. The troops with the largest casualties were three divisions of the Sichuan Army's 41st Army, and almost all of them were replaced. In addition, the blocking troops and air forces on the national defense line also had a small number of casualties, and the total number was almost 30,000.

The Japanese never dared to say that they had defeated us, which was a victory. The enemy's casualties were always more than ten times that of ours. It was a crime to read the enemy's newspaper and listen to the enemy's radio. The Emperor's army was never defeated. When the newspapers were advocating victory after victory, the base camp and the Kanto Army headquarters secretly filled all the ten divisions that were broken and completely wiped out. Fortunately, the corps flags were all in the division commander and brigade commander, and none of the generals were killed. Now the Kanto army gathered, and some supplementary troops were drawn from each unit to do this.

As the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Ishihara Kaner and others were studying the next plan. The Rehe River was incredible. Many Japanese named Rehe River, who could not get out. Chahar seemed to be one with Rehe River, and the bad luck there was the same as Rehe River. The sea and land were not accessible. In the eyes of the Japanese staff, there was no way out.

Ishihara Kaner looked at the map for a while, and suddenly he pointed: "Our next target for attack is here."

A group of staff members looked at the place where Ishihara Kaner pointed. Shaanxi, which is completely different from Liaoning. To fight Shaanxi, you must first fight Mongolia. How to fight this thousand miles of grassland? If you put a hundred thousand people in, you can't even splash water. Mongolia has no railways, so it's not enough to have a logistics life.

Ishihara Kanir explained: "This is a tactical leapfrog tactic, so I won't say much about this. I heard that there is oil underground in Shaanxi. It's true that we are the great powers, but we are also an oil-poor power. Now there are no great powers with 100% imported oil. Only us. And that is not the territory of the Central Army, and warlords from all over the country are also very resistant to the Central Army. In history, there have been many cases of rejecting the Central Army's transit in several northwestern provinces. The most recent one happened last year, which was called the Sima Sir Sun."

Another deputy chief of staff, Okamura, asked: "Ishihara, this plan may be really good. But what should we do with our army's supplies, marching, and logistics? The princes in the grassland may not have much power, but don't you think the logistics line of thousands of kilometers is too long?"
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