July 20, 1939!

China's Second War Zone Briefing was published in a public report on the victory of the anti-mopping uprising battle in southern Hebei!

"Under the leadership of the Hebei Southern Hebei Office, 3 million soldiers and civilians in southern Hebei have started to fight back and smash the infamous "Action Operation" of the Japanese invaders since May, annihilated more than 4,000 Japanese invaders. In mid-July, in order to guard the lives and property of the vast majority of people, under the unified command of the Hebei Southern Hebei Office, the first part of the 80th Group Army and the second part of the Four Regiment jointly launched a counterattack. They fought fiercely with the enemy 10th Division in Zhaojiazhuang area of ​​Lincheng County, XT City for several days, killing more than 9,000 Japanese invaders at the cost of 2,000 casualties, severely damaging the 10th Division, and achieving another brilliant victory on the battlefield in North China!"

This report is like a thunder, which not only made the whole Chinese military and civilians happy, but also the Western world was in an uproar.

In the two years since the war started, nearly 10,000 Japanese invaders were not uncommon, especially in large-scale battles such as the Central China Battle, where the Japanese casualties were at the level of tens of thousands, but that was the result of the tens of thousands of troops being put into place by both sides of the war.

On the battlefield behind enemy lines like the southern Hebei region, there were nearly 10,000 Japanese invaders, which was the first time in two years since the war started.

In particular, some well-informed people found out from the government that the southern Hebei region actually invested only 20,000 troops on the battlefield, which was roughly the same as the total strength of the Japanese 10th Division, which was even more shocked.

The troops were roughly the same, but the Japanese army could fully utilize cannons and tanks' plain terrain, and still achieved a battle loss ratio of nearly 1 to 5. This incentive to the national morale far exceeded that of winning the battlefield itself.

"This is a victory of strong defeating strong. Chinese soldiers used the bloody corpses of Japanese people to tell the Japanese that we have the ability to guard our homes, and any robber will be sent back to their cherry blossom trees by death." The Yamashiro Daily reprinted the report of the Second War Zone as the front page of its newspaper in the afternoon, and added its own opinions at the end of the report.

This is also the first time that China regards itself as a strong side in the official media and does not place itself as a weak side.

In addition, the Ministry of Military Affairs also called the Second War Zone Command: "The Military Commission issued an order to reward all officers and soldiers participating in the war in southern Hebei, and rewarded the divisions, brigades and regiments with bonuses of 100,000, 50,000, and 20,000 oceans! All military expenditures in the first half of the year will be distributed."

"Haha! Political Commissar, why do you think this kid Tang Dao is so good at calculating? He knew that even if he pinched his nose, he would have to vigorously promote our army's battle. He would even calculate the owed military expenses that he would pay in place. I think he would not be the regiment commander, and he would just set up a stall for fortune tellers, and he could become a rich man." Commander Liu received a telegram from the Military Affairs Department transferred from the Army Department of the Group, and rarely joked with his partner.

Tang Dao was able to allow the 772nd Regiment to march hundreds of miles apart to participate in the war on that day, not only relying on his own personal relationship with the generals of the 921st Division, but ensuring that the government would vigorously promote the war and pay military expenses that had been owed for half a year.

After the 921st Division asked the headquarters for instructions, it finally agreed to cooperate with Tang Dao's plan to fight the decisive battle with the 10th Division, which was beyond bold.

But the two chief officers of the 921st Division headquarters in Shancheng did not have any confidence in the battle. Seeing that the combat effectiveness of the Hebei sub-district troops was so strong, the one who was not willing to suppress him was good, and he still hoped that he would use the media to vigorously promote and distribute military expenses?

Who knew that as Tang Dao said, these two seemingly impossible points happened. How could Commander Liu be so unhappy!

"That kid not only has a delicate heart with seven orifices, but also knows how to take advantage of the situation! This is the information sent from Jiangcheng, please take a look." The political commissar said with a calm expression and handed over a telegram he had just received.

"The Japanese are quietly gathering troops towards the Miluo River, Xiushui area?" Commander Liu glanced at the intelligence and couldn't help but take a breath. "The Japanese used radio a month ago. The newspaper vigorously promoted them to attack Yiling. After a long time, they wanted to play the world and attack the world again! No wonder, that person was going to pinch his nose and vigorously promote the battle in southern Hebei!"

It turned out that this was also the suggestion of the think tank around him. Although the man was very unhappy, after all, most of the troops participating in the southern Hebei war came from his old rivals, the domestic battlefield changed again. Under the leadership of Xiaoci, the 11th Japanese Army, more than 120,000 troops had already assembled, and the first battle in Tanzhou was on the verge of being on the string.

Considering the upcoming battle to defend Tanzhou, Hunan Province is one of the most important grain-producing areas in the country and must not be lost easily. After thinking for a long time, the man finally pinched his nose and agreed to vigorously promote the counterattack that broke out in the Japanese-occupied area of ​​the North China battlefield.

"This situation is good! I think when that kid guaranteed us a few days ago, he probably guessed that the Japanese army would have ideas about Tanzhou. This kind of sensitivity to military is even better than that of us old corps. It's such a monster!" Commander Liu sighed.

"Fortunately, this monster is Chinese and even more of our comrades. I can only say that God blesses China!" The political commissar looked glad.

"I notify the kitchen team that brigade commander Cheng is coming today, make two meat dishes and add a meal for him!" Commander Liu in a good mood turned around and called his correspondent.

"That guy is not a good person. When you see this situation, you know that you are in a good mood. You must take the opportunity to ask for equipment and supplies. Why do you say I, the political commissar, refuse!" The political commissar also smiled.

"Haha! It is said that a thousand-mile horse is easy to find, but Bole is hard to find. It is not his brigade commander Cheng Da. We will have that little monster. As long as he dares to ask for it, you should not be too stingy. Give him an infantry platoon equipment and supplies." Commander Liu laughed loudly.

"Then commander, you have hurt me. That guy will definitely press the stingy name that originally belonged to the Grand Commander on my head!" The political commissar shook his head and smiled with Chuanyin.

The laughter resounded throughout the division headquarters, causing the combat staff from outside to look at each other. The two leaders have been serious these days. It would have been two or three months ago when they were so happy together.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Compared with China, which has been greatly excited by the long drought, the Western world where it received information was in an uproar.

Especially within the German military, which was actively seeking alliances, generals like Guderian who advocated high-speed advancement of the Mechanical Corps originally looked down on Japan's army that basically dominated tactics with pure infantry. As a result, it turned out that Japan's dignified A-type division could not even defeat a group of "peasant army", so it was even more disliked.

The government originally planned to list Japan as its core ally, but the military's attitude made them suspend the negotiations with the Japanese ambassador, which caused the Japanese ambassador to jump up and down, visiting the top leaders of the Germanic government everywhere, and even giving gifts alone.

The alliance with the German Empire allowed the ambitious German Empire to involve the entire European military forces so that the Japanese military could easily solve Southeast Asia and obtain oil. This was a strategy set by the Japanese government after confirming that it could not obtain oil from Northeast China.

Southeast Asia has always been a forbidden vein of Western powers, such as Indochina, a colony of the Gaul rooster; and Malaysia, controlled by the Empire of Sun-Down, has both coveted rich rubber resources and is a place at the intersection of the world, and is even more necessary for Japan, which hopes to control the ocean; there are also the Philippines controlled by American cowboys, and Indonesia, which is controlled by the Dutch, with rich oil resources...

That area controlled by Western powers is even more important for the Japanese country, which has entered the middle stage of the war, to urgently need war resources, than conquering the entire China, where everything they want.

But without the German Empire restraining the main force of the Western powers in their homeland, no matter how arrogant the Japanese are, they dare not attack this area they have been coveting for a long time.

Don’t say that the Japanese still have this self-knowledge. In the time and space, it was in the first place that the German Empire started the war and beat the Gaul roosters to their own lives. In 1941, Japan officially sent troops to Indochina. In just a few days, the Gaul roosters were beaten to the point of being dismantled.

Then, on December 7 of that year, he attacked Pearl Harbor and was stunned by the American cowboys. While the American cowboys who had always had a sense of superiority were still immersed in pain, they targeted the Sun-Down Empire.

In the blitzkrieg, the little fans of the German Empire did a good job. In just five months, they swept across Southeast Asia and drove the Western powers out of their respective territory. With the successive elimination of Western powers in this big game in the Far East, the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle" emphasized by Tojo Koji seemed to have also shown its prototype.

But the self-knowledge of the Japanese lacked enough vision. Just when they were celebrating in the glory of the prosperous times, they did not expect that this was the highest moment of their entire war.

There is a saying among Chinese people that "prosperity and decline", which is an inevitable law of the development of things, not to mention that the Japanese are simply weak and prosperous times created by themselves.

What they defeated with blitzkriegs were colonial garrisons far away from local supplies and unstable morale. It was not a matter of pride that they had carefully arranged regular troops to defeat them in a rapid raid.

The expansion of the Japanese Empire after taking over Southeast Asia has made itself a major concern in the eyes of the bears and American cowboys, and they are about to dispatch their abundant resources across the country to fight to the end with Japan...

The hairy bears are crazy about the soldiers, while the American cowboys are crazy about building aircraft carriers, aircraft and tanks!

According to historical data, by the late period of the war, the total number of Mao Xiong Army was about 16 million, with more than 30 million soldiers invested, while Japan only had only 7 million.

During the entire war, the United States launched 147 aircraft carriers. Until Japan surrendered, eight of them could already go out to sea, while Japan had only 25 in total.

Several big guys could only use a fraction of the time to press Japan to the ground and rub it. But at this moment, Japan had already made up her mind to hold her bearded thighs tightly, and suddenly found that her thighs seemed to not want him anymore. So why don’t you be angry?

Fortunately, Xiaowang also understands the principle of "snapping tall among short men". It is very difficult for the Japanese to defeat the Chinese "peasant army" by a division, but if you think about the scumbags in Italy, Bulgaria, Finland, and Hungary, the Japanese seem to be so strong.

So, after nearly a week of debate, the ambassador finally faced with a haggard face and minimized the bad impact of the defeated war in North China.

The bad influence brought by diplomacy is inevitably transmitted to the Japanese military. The Japanese prince naturally angrily generated electricity to push him up and cursed Duotianjun, who was about to advance to the army general, and his face was gone.

Allies don’t like it, and Western countries that are already wary of Japan and the German United alliance are naturally a joke.

As the Brigadier General Smalette, who had left office but was still in the concession, said to the Times reporter who came to interview him: "Two years ago, when I stood less than 400 meters from the last line of defense of the Chinese and witnessed the Chinese women dancing for their soldiers with their lives, I told my current successor, Brigadier James, that the Japanese could not win this war.

Almost two years have passed now, and I still won't take back this sentence.

This battlefield located in the northern plains of China has fully proved my prediction that Chinese soldiers are becoming stronger and the Japanese are becoming weaker. Even if they still occupy the initiative on the battlefield, the Chinese are exchanging time for space. I believe that as the Japanese advance the longer the front line, they are not far from the day of defeat."

If Brigadier General Smallet's speech was not enough to make the Japanese senior officials look disgraceful, the mockery from an important member of the royal family of the Empire of the Sun never set: "Japan is a ridiculous short man who learns to walk in Handan. Just this, he dares to learn from the Empire to call himself the Great Japanese Empire..."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although it is a Western mockery with a strong sense of superiority, it is roughly what it means when translated in Chinese.

This completely angered the Japanese senior officials who had learned the Western model for decades and felt that it was the right way. In the future Southeast Asian battles, the most Japanese slaughtered were the soldiers of the Imperial Empire.

Misfortune comes from the mouth, nothing more than this!

Of course, this also led to the post-war liquidation. The Empire of Sun-Don't Set also spared no effort, death from exhaustion, starvation, and thirst, the Japanese who died of death from Southeast Asian prisoners of war camps far exceeded their losses on the battlefield.

It’s just that it’s time to report back to report back to report back!

But the one that caused the most shock to this battle was not China or the West, but from Japan.

The Japanese people who were still chanting long live because of the successive victory in the war, could not accept that the imperial permanent divisions failed in the battle against the "Pean Army". In the midst of the turmoil, some people were required to be responsible for the defeat of this battle.

Some people even committed suicide by cesarean section in the square opposite the palace, in order to "awaken" the sleeping emperor.

Now, the emperor, who originally wanted to give his uncle a face, could not ignore it, so he could only issue an edict to stop the promotion ceremony of the generals on the Chinese battlefield that will be held at the end of the month.

Not only did Tatsujun expects the army generals, but they also involved the promotion of Japanese Middle-zoic generals such as Shiro Itagaki and Koji Kamura. Even Saburo Okabe, who had received the transfer order to go to the First Division, was suspended from leaving office.

What the hell is that a group of idiots are defeated and implicated teammates in pigs?

As the saying goes, "Severe the future of a person is like killing his parents." The senior Japanese generals in China almost collectively cursed the Japanese North China Front Army.

The reason why they did not publicly curse in the media was to give face to a certain prince, but it was not that Lieutenant General Duotianjun was popular. The Japanese North China Front Army went from commander Duotianjun to a group of lieutenant generals, and their collective face was lost.

The strategy of "clearing the countryside" led by Duotianjun to sweep away the vast rural areas has also been questioned, and the failure of orders from the superiors is even more taboo in the military. This has also led to the fact that no matter how furious Duotianjun is at the headquarters, several lieutenant generals who have seen the power of defeat in the war adhere to the concept of "If I don't do it, I won't make mistakes", and fooling has become the main theme of Japan's garrison in the occupied areas.

Duo Tianjun's prestige disappeared after the battle of Zhaojiazhuang, and leaving office was almost a foregone conclusion.

The influence of this incident was not only on the battlefield in North China. Because the rank could not be promoted, the morale of the Japanese generals who were leading the Battle of Tanzhou was also depressed.

But there are also those with strong temperaments, such as the commander of the 11th Army, Guangangmura Koji, who soon emerged from the shadow of being unable to be promoted to a general quickly, and devoted himself to the strategy of the Ninth War Zone of China, which was about to fight him to the decisive battle with him.

Of course, this has a lot to do with his knowledge that he is getting closer and closer to taking over as commander of the North China Front Army.

After all, the worse Duotianjun did, the faster he would get out. As long as he added another glory to his resume, it would be a foregone conclusion to take over as commander of the North China Front Army.

In addition to Tatsushi Jun, another Japanese Army general who was not affected at all must be Major General Yukiosuke Okuba. This guy feels that he can get through the Major General's brigade commander is already in the ancestral grave.

He had no intention of continuing to advance in the army at all. He was protected by a boss and followed by a younger brother. He was at ease to make money on this fertile land of China. Isn’t it good to him?

Mr. Shen promised to give him penicillin a year younger than that, at the cost of asking him to exchange it with cultural relics collected from the occupied areas. This is simply no different from giving it for free.

The Chinese, who are so poor that they can't get rid of the blame, are willing to hand over the broken porcelain bowls, porcelain cups or calligraphy and paintings left by their ancestors. Originally, he took it seriously, but when these rags were piled up in the warehouse, he felt that they were almost the same as garbage.

Collection of golden times in troubled times is not a troubled time. How can those ragged things be found in golden fragrances?

Anyway, Major General Yukinosuke Okuba, who had diarrhea and four soldiers in this battle, returned to his original station happily, and didn't have to look at the unlucky face of Yoshio Shinozuka.

One has increased and the other has declined. The Japanese North China Front Army ended the Battle of Zhaojiazhuang in a daze. Not only did the people's enthusiasm for anti-Japanese war in southern Hebei areas rise unprecedentedly, but the anti-Japanese bases in eastern Hebei, northern Hebei, and Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei and Shandong are all prosperous.

From the end of July to mid-August alone, the number of soldiers in the six enemy bases was as high as 60,000, and 110,000 militias were developed.
Chapter completed!