Location, and Man Looking at the map on the table, I did some mental calculations: a Japanese infantry regiment was roughly four thousand men, meaning there were four thousand troops in each of the four directions around Beiping.
Our army had ten thousand men, and from a single direction, ten thousand men should be enough to deal with four thousand Japanese soldiers, but I knew it was far from enough. Someone had done a statistic that the Japanese army's firepower was roughly four times that of the National Revolutionary Army, and considering the difference in quality, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was at least five times that of ours. If that's the case, then each side of Beiping is defended by an equal number of 20,000 Nationalist troops…
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