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Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters, Shanghai.

At this time, the Japanese soldier Tian Huang's condition seemed to have stabilized a lot, but what worried the Japanese was that they still had not discovered where Tian Huang's symptoms came from.

Even though the Kwantung Army's medical team has arrived, the Japanese still can't figure it out.

Faced with their locusts, the Japanese fell into a misunderstanding. They are still thinking about how to understand from a medical perspective what their locusts are.

If it were an expert in nuclear physics, he would probably immediately understand what their sky locusts are.

"Mr. Matsui Iwane, why are you here?"

When the guards of the devil Tianhuang saw Matsui Iwane, they asked in surprise.

"How is the Emperor's health?"

"Although the condition has stabilized, there is still no sign of recovery in the body, and it may get out of control at any time."

Upon hearing this, Matsui Iwane was silent for a moment.

He didn't know whether he should report the current situation in North China to His Majesty Tian Huang.

Seeing that Matsui Iwane was hesitant to speak, Hirohito's personal guard asked, "General, what happened?"

"Just now, General Shinozuka Yoshio sent back news that the Yellow River defense line has collapsed and the entire North China region has been lost."

"Nani?!"

When the Japanese guards heard this, they didn't know what to say for a moment.

After all, there are millions of troops on the Yellow River defense line!
In just a few days, such a big change occurred on the entire front line, so that the entire North China was lost.

Isn't Shinozuka Yoshio the Japanese general who is known to know the Heian County Security Corps best? !
How did the war turn out like this? !
Looking at the shocked guards, Matsui Iwane said, "Your Majesty Tianhuang is ill. I shouldn't have come to disturb him, but the situation on the battlefield is changing too fast. I have to come and report to Tianhuang, but..."

"Yes, the condition of the locusts has just been brought under control. Your Excellency the General should discuss this with the cabinet first."

"Alas, it has to be this way!"

While Matsui Iwane was discussing with the cabinet, large Japanese troops were also being mobilized towards east China.

In addition to the Guards stationed in Shanghai and the remnants of the North China Front Army brought back by Yoshio Shinozuka, the Japanese also transferred back an army of troops from the Dagushan offensive front for defense.

While the Red Alert was counterattacking from north to south, the Japanese still had three armies attacking the Red Alert headquarters in the southern part of Dagu Mountain.

However, the troops now responding to this and other attacks by the Japanese army are not the main forces of the Red Alert Force, but the militia forces based in Dagushan and the Security Department of the Red Alert Force.

But even though they were not the main force, the militia and soldiers from the Security Department, under the cover of various bunkers and fortifications, still prevented the Japanese army from making any progress.

This made the Japanese very uncomfortable.

Ever since these three armies arrived here, the Japanese have not advanced even a single step!
The entire battlefield has changed from the Japanese offensive to a positional battle, and when the Red Alert forces launched a counterattack, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties.

However, as time went on, the Japanese discovered that the Ping'an County Security Corps was not as aggressive as previously rumored.

Now on the southern defense line of Dagu Mountain, the Red Alert Force has been trying to maintain firepower parity with the Japanese army.

When the Japanese did not use heavy artillery, the Ping'an County Security Corps would not use heavy artillery. When the Japanese did not use planes, the Ping'an County Security Corps would certainly not use the air force.

Even when the Japanese did not take the initiative to attack, the Ping'an County Security Corps would not take the initiative to attack the Japanese.

After the Japanese army understood the current situation, the intensity of combat on the entire battlefield began to gradually decrease.

After a long confrontation, the Japanese gradually got the hang of it.

Isn't this delaying their troops?

But even if they understood that the Ping'an County Security Corps was delaying them and dispersing the Japanese forces, the Japs were reluctant to retreat at this time.

After all, they are now close to Daogu Mountain. Since 1938, they have not been so close to Daogu Mountain.

And most importantly, the combat effectiveness of the troops here is at least one level lower than that of the Ping'an County Security Corps they have seen before!
For the Japanese army, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The Red Alert Force took advantage of this and has been able to hold back the three Japanese armies until now.

However, at this time, the Japanese troops had received orders from Shanghai, requiring them to transfer an army to the East China region, and also sent back the news that the entire North China had fallen.

After hearing the news, the three Japanese army commanders all fell silent.

Although they had lost the radio signal around Dagu Mountain at this time, they still set up a radio contact station outside the electromagnetic interference coverage of the Red Alert Force and communicated with the front-line command through telephone lines.

So they also knew that Yoshio Shinozuka led a million-strong army to build a defense line along the Yellow River.

But they didn't expect that their Yellow River defense line would be so vulnerable.

"Let the Fifth Army defend this time. North China has been captured by the Ping'an County Security Corps. I estimate that their next attack direction will be East China."

"Yoshi, then let our Seventh Army return!"

As one of the top ten reinforced armies of the Japanese Army, the Fifth Army had the largest remaining troops among the Fifth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Armies in Dagushan, and was also the most combat-effective.

Afterwards, the commander of the Fifth Army, Yamashita Tomoyuki, began to return to East China with his remaining nearly 170,000 troops.

At the same time, the Japanese Seventh Army, which was responsible for controlling the wind direction, also received an order to return to East China immediately.

Jiang Wen, who originally had limited military strength, saw the Japanese began to retreat, and immediately launched a counterattack, killing nearly 10,000 Japanese troops in the counterattack.

Now there is only one combined battalion of troops deployed at the Fengyang base, and the soldiers are very tired both mentally and physically after a long period of fighting.

"Send a telegram to Dagu Mountain, the Japanese troops have evacuated Fengyang Mountain, Fengyang Mountain has adjusted its combat readiness level from level one to level three, order the troops to start resting immediately. Fengyang Mountain has been defended, and we will attack next!" "Yes! Deputy Commander!"

After issuing the order, Jiang Wen, the first deputy commander of the Red Alert Force, breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally I can take a break!
Fengyang base can breathe a sigh of relief, but the Red Alert’s battle in Shandong is not over yet.

After being defeated, there were still too many Japanese troops left in Shandong!
These scattered Japanese troops even started guerrilla warfare with the Red Alert in the jungles and mountains. Although the Japanese army's guerrilla warfare level was not good at all, and the predecessor of the Red Alert was also guerrilla warfare, the Red Alert usually did not suffer casualties when conducting guerrilla warfare.

But the Red Alert force is short of time now!

The Red Alert had no good way to clean up these scattered Japanese devils and could only surround and annihilate them one by one.

However, a lot of time will be wasted when surrounding them one by one.

In addition, after completing the battle in Shandong, the Red Alert troops had another reason to rest.

That is, the armored cluster now needs to undergo a large-scale comprehensive overhaul. As an armored action force, its motorized mileage is usually around several hundred kilometers.

During the mobile operations across the Shandong Plain, the mobility distance of the Red Alert Force's armored cluster had already exceeded this number. Before the battle was over, the armored cluster's maintenance battalion had already received a large number of faulty armored vehicles. After the battle was over, the soldiers of the four maintenance battalions were so tired that they almost cursed!
It’s not because the Red Alert’s tanks are difficult to repair, but because there are just too many of them.

Currently, the entire armored cluster has less than 10% of the armored vehicles that can be deployed, and it will take a week for the armored cluster to have a 50% attendance rate.

This seriously affects the next combat plan and action plan.

Therefore, the Japanese troops in East China also had time to carry out mobile deployment at this time.

After subsequent statistics, the troops brought back by Yoshio Shinozuka totaled 29 people. These troops were a mixture of the th Army, the th Army of the Kwantung Army, and a large number of independent troops.

After arriving in Yancheng, Yoshio Shinozuka immediately announced the reorganization of the remaining troops under the order of Iwane Matsui.

Among them, 6 Japanese troops will be used as supplementary forces and will be transferred to the Fifth Army and the Seventh Army withdrawn from Dagu Mountain and Fengyang Mountain. About of the original Kwantung Army will be reorganized into the th Division of the Kwantung Army.

The division of 6 troops is probably the largest division in the history of the Japanese army.

The remaining troops were all reorganized into the 10th Army, restoring the 10th Army to its full strength.

As Yoshio Shinozuka's direct troops, the Tenth Army's organization must be completed.

At the same time, Yamamoto Ikki, who had completed the retreat earlier, also found Shinozuka Yoshio to report.

"General, all the 88mm anti-aircraft guns we took away have been transported back. Do you think we should re-equip the troops?"

Yoshio Shinozuka looked at the 88 cannon pulled back by Yamamoto Ikki, and he immediately felt confident.

These anti-aircraft guns not only belong to their 10th Army, but also to the 13th Army, the 19th Army and the independent air defense division.

As for these huge number of 88mm guns, Yoshio Shinozuka had just retreated and had no way of thinking of keeping them for himself. After all, he had just suffered a defeat and lost more than 70 troops. If he kept all these equipment for himself, other Japanese generals would probably eat him alive.

How can you, a defeated player, have so many 88 guns? !

So, for the sake of his own life, Yoshio Shinozuka began to distribute these 88 cannons.

"Send 16 88mm guns to the 8th Division, 20 to each of the 15th and 88th Armies, to the Guards, and to the headquarters in Shanghai. The remaining mm guns will be equipped back to the troops!"

"Hai, General!"

After completing the arrangements, Yoshio Shinozuka personally delivered the 88-caliber guns that were to support the Imperial Guards and the headquarters back to Shanghai.

"Commander, sir, Gou Mennasai!"

Facing the commander who had high hopes for him, Yoshio Shinozuka, upholding the Japanese spirit of craftsmanship, bowed deeply to Iwane Matsui to express his apology.

However, Matsui Iwane did not say much about this. Instead, after comforting him, he directly discussed the next countermeasures with Shinozuka Yoshio.

"The East China region is different from the North China Plain. It is densely covered with mountains and rivers. The main reason for our defeat in North China was because of an armored unit of the Ping'an County Security Corps equipped with a large number of armored forces. These troops suddenly appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River, leaving the Eighth Army troops with no time to react, resulting in the collapse of the Yellow River defense line."

"If it were in East China, the Ping'an County Security Corps would not be able to deploy its forces at all, so we can defeat their armored forces one by one!"

"And we can also conduct research on the local area of ​​the Ping'an County Security Corps!"

Hearing Shinozuka Yoshio's thoughts, Matsui Iwane frowned and asked, "What about their infantry? The infantry of the Ping'an County Security Corps is not something we can easily break, right?"

"We can have the Seventh Army and the Fifth Army defend Jiangsu. If the result is not satisfactory, we can retreat and be supported by the Tenth Army and the Guards."

After that, Shinozuka Yoshio looked at Matsui Iwane with a burning gaze and said, "We must be prepared for the worst, so Your Excellency the Commander, we should now order the Imperial Guards to build fortifications in Shanghai City and prepare for street fighting with the Ping'an County Security Corps."

"idiot!"

Upon hearing this, Iwane Matsui gave Yoshio Shinozuka a big slap.

"How many times have I told you? Don't attack Chinese civilians. Tokyo and Hiroshima. Are you really that brave?!"

Thinking of the experiences of his compatriots in China, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't help but shudder.

Yes, no one can bear this kind of blow!
Despite this, Yoshio Shinozuka still determined that the Ping'an County Security Corps would definitely attack Shanghai, an important trade center. Subsequently, in order to circumvent the requirements of the Red Alert Force, the Japanese army dispatched troops in advance to drive some residents of Shanghai out of their homes and at the same time built street fighting positions.

The Japanese have seen many of the Red Alert's extremely vicious state. If they anger the Ping'an County Security Corps again, wouldn't the Japanese army lose more than it gains?
So the Japanese began to frantically clear out the Chinese in the city, fearing that the Ping'an County Security Corps would use some unknown equipment to attack them again.

At the same time, the 13th Division of the Japanese Army's four armies also received the final mobilization order.

The main reason for the mobilization order was also due to the need to deploy defenses in the Jiangsu area.

After all, the 10th and 13th armies no longer have the will to fight (End of this chapter)