Chapter Ninety-Six: The Peak Duel (10)
That night, Han Yunhua sent a new combat order to the 1st Assault Brigade on the way to the rapid march, and Han Yunhua ordered Yang Chengwu to quickly move all the wounded to a safe place, and if necessary, they could be sent to Daqingshan Mountain. At the same time, Yang Chengwu was authorized to temporarily form one or two regiments of troops, and the batch of weapons and equipment captured by the First Assault Brigade did not need to be handed over to the headquarters of the Military Region except for the eight field heavy artillery, and the First Assault Brigade could handle it on its own. However, the combat mission assigned by the military region must be completed even if the assault brigade is fought to the last soldier.
After sending the telegram, Han Yunhua ordered the troops to speed up despite fatigue, and he wanted to completely provoke Terauchi Shouichi's nerves before the devils invaded the hinterland of the base area.
Soon after the battle in the village of Cundigou began, the highest Kuomintang authorities sent a telegram to the headquarters of the commander of the Second Theater, ordering Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater, to pay close attention to the changes in the war in Zhangbei, and to report to the highest authorities immediately if the battle situation changed.
At the same time, Yan'an also sent a harshly worded telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, ordering the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to send troops to rescue Han Yunhua at all costs when an irreversible crisis occurred. Of course, the Inner Mongolia Military Region also received many telegrams from Yan'an and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, requiring them to report a battle report every half hour.
Han Yunhua's operational plan for sending troops to Jizhong this time was not reported to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and of course, he was now the chief commander of a provincial-level military region, and he did not need to obtain the consent of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in everything before implementing it. However, according to the military regulations of the Eighth Route Army, it is completely necessary to obtain the consent of the head of the headquarters for such a large-scale battle, but Han Yunhua decided to get used to it alone, so this time he did it according to his habits.
However, he did not give any notice to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but he said it more vaguely, and the scale of the battle was much smaller than what he was going to say now.
On 4 July, Terauchi Shouichi finally waited for an investigation team sent by the base camp, and the leader of the team was a high-ranking officer of the Army University, a well-known expert in secret warfare in the army, and he was very good at studying China's national and military conditions. Also present was a full-time instructor at the Secret Service Training School, who had a high attainment in special operations such as investigation and tracking. In addition, the base camp of the army also selected 25 elites from the Army University to follow their teacher, Major General Liu Shengjun, to China to investigate Han Yunhua's department.
Originally, Rear Admiral Yanagi Toshi, Kuwabara Heijiro Osa, and their entourage had arrived on the Navy's ocean-going warship, but they had only been away for half a day when they received an order to urgently transfer to the planes on the warships and rush to China, with an aircraft carrier serving as a temporary airfield to refuel their planes on the way.
At eight o'clock in the evening of July 4, the plane in which Liu Shengjun and his entourage were traveling finally landed at Tianjin Airport. After getting off the plane, Yanagi and the others rushed to Beiping in the car that had been prepared by the North China Front Headquarters to meet with General Terauchi Shouichi.
Terauchi Shouichi now has a deep hatred for Han Yunhua, in less than a year, four complete wings under his command have been completely annihilated by Han Yunhua's troops, not counting the wings and brigades that he defeated or annihilated the main force.
In Terauchi Shouichi's opinion, the total annihilation of a wing is far more serious than the killing of a major general, and the major general can be promoted from the Great Zuo, but if a wing is completely annihilated, then this wing will completely disappear in the formation of the Great Army, and will not be rebuilt. As a commander, his troops were wiped out by the enemy one after another, and he was ashamed of the idea of disemboweling his stomach to thank His Majesty the Emperor for his trust.
In the conference room of the headquarters of the North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi met with Major General Yanagi Toshishi and Kuwabara Heijiro Osa, among others.
Yanagi Jun is a classmate of Terauchi Shouichi at the Army University, but Yanagi has been specializing in tactical reform all his life, rarely participates in large-scale offensive and defensive operations, and Yanagi Jun has been a lecturer at the Army University and the head of the tactical reform team in China all the year round, so now Yanagi Jun's military rank is only a major general, and the worst of those outstanding graduates in the same period is only a major general, among which Xiang Terauchi Shouichi and others have become generals.
But Terauchi Shouichi did not underestimate Yanagi because of this, he knew that although Yanagi Shengjun was not famous, his achievements in China were really not small, especially the several special operations teams he trained by himself were even more terrifying.
It may be a bit inappropriate to describe it as creepy, but it is enough to prove that Terauchi Shouichi has a great respect and appreciation for the special operations team that Yanagi has trained.
For the strong rise of Han Yunhua's department, Liu Shengjun saw it more thoroughly than others, and through the battle report reported to the base camp by the North China Front Headquarters, Liu Shengjun found many suspicious points, among which Liu Shengjun was most surprised that he seemed to see a shadow similar to the "special task force" in the previous operations of Han Yunhua's department.
However, due to the lack of effective evidence, he is not sure whether there are really special forces in the Eighth Route Army in China, after all, special forces are only an idea in the world, and no country has really trained perfect special forces, and it seems that such an elite force will not exist in this backward country.
Moreover, intelligence gathered before the war showed that there was only one unit in China that could be called a special combat unit, and that was the guards of Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme leader of the national axe of China, also known as the "Chinese military police". The "Chinese military police" is the only information about the Chinese special forces that he knows, but it also shows that China does have a real special forces, although the base camp has not yet determined the combat effectiveness of this mysterious special forces.
Now the world for special forces is only a period of transition from theory to practice, as long as there are powerful countries and powers will form several "special forces", but because there are no successful examples for reference, so the special forces of various countries have this or that defects, so although such special forces are called special forces in name, but other countries do not recognize this.
In 1934, at the military parade of the Kuomintang political axe, there was a miraculous army that came into the sight of the ministers of various countries, which was a team of about 4,000 people, and everyone in the team was very capable and murderous. Moreover, these people were dressed in German [***] uniforms, and the weapons they were equipped with were also the most advanced German submachine guns at that time. Anyone with a modicum of military common sense can see that this is a unit with extremely strong combat effectiveness. According to Shao Zeming, the secretary of the National Axe at the time, recalled many years later: "At that time, the British ambassador was stunned, and the ambassador was pale, and the German ambassador smiled and said to the French ambassador that this is the army trained by our Germans. The American ambassador said with admiration that this was one of the two best Chinese troops, and the German ambassador was unconvinced and asked rhetorically, what other troops in China could compete with them? The American ambassador said with emotion that there was only one, and that was Genghis Khan's troops. ”
It was precisely because of the existence of the "Chinese military police" that he was forced to start forming his own special forces, that is, in that year, he sent a study abroad group of about 120 outstanding graduates of the Army University, which was funded by the military department to study at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany for a three-year study abroad, and three-tenths of these people were assigned to the special operations section to study special operations.
The strong rise of Han Yunhua's subordinates in a short period of time not only dealt a heavy blow to the army materially, but also dealt a heavy blow to the army mentally. Now the puppet army in the Chahar region is not as rampant as before, such as the Li Shouxin Department of the puppet Mongolian army.
In the many battles carried out by Han Yunhua's department, in addition to the powerful attack ability of Han Yunhua's department, the base camp of the army can also see Han Yunhua's personal super strategic layout ability.
(To be continued)