Takagi Yoshito's command was still very clever, so Zhang Hao had to order a regiment to quickly withdraw from Fengzhen County.

Fortunately, the first echelon of the Japanese army was frightened by a regiment, and although he saw a regiment withdraw from the county from a distance, the commander of the first echelon, Kotobu Xingo, did not dare to order the troops to pursue.

Soon after the withdrawal of the first regiment, the Lideng Xingda Zuo Division occupied the county seat of Fengzhen, and the first county seat under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region fell. At the same time, the Sixth Division under Gu Shoufu's command also occupied the county seat of Zhuozishan after paying a certain amount of casualties, and lost a quarter of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in just one day. More importantly, the Japanese troops under the command of Gu Shoufu and Takagi Yoshito set out from Zhuozishan and Fengzhen respectively, forming a trend of flanking the front and back of Jining, the largest city under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

That night, when the battle report was sent to the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Front Army was full of joy, and even the curfew was lifted in Beiping City that night, which was the first major victory in many battles between the North China Front Army and Han Yunhua's headquarters.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning of 6 July, the Zhangjiakou Japanese garrison headquarters, which is now the former enemy command headquarters, sent an urgent telegram to the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Beiping, saying that four hours earlier, Xuanhua and Chongli counties had been attacked by unknown armed forces at the same time, that all the soldiers of a brigade in the two county towns had been shattered, a large number of weapons and equipment had been lost, and more importantly, a batch of special smoke (poison gas) and special bombs (poison gas bombs) had been transported to the Zhangjiakou front.

Terauchi Shouichi knew that this was a big deal, and now it was not only the North China Front that was in big trouble, but the entire Imperial Japanese Army would be implicated. If the unidentified forces destroyed the things on the spot, there would be nothing to fear, but if they turned the things (poison gas bombs) around and attacked the Imperial Japanese Army, the consequences were not something he, an army general, could bear.

Terauchi Shouichi ordered Takagi Yoshito and Gu Shoufu to step up their attacks, and it was necessary to take Han Yunhua's old nest Xinghe County by July 10. At the same time, Terauchi Shouichi ordered the Japanese former enemy headquarters in Zhangjiakou to suspend the attack on the Zhina troops in Zhangbei County, and asked the division commander of the 21st Division to send someone to make contact with the Zhina troops in Zhangbei to inquire about the specific whereabouts of the internationally prohibited weapons.

Like Terauchi Shouichi, Han Yunhua was also extremely irritable now, he didn't expect the Japanese army to attack so strongly, although he knew in his heart that the more crazy the Japanese army was now, the more brilliant the results they could achieve in the future. However, in a short period of time, the territory of the Inner Mongolia Military Region lost a quarter, and this result was really difficult for Han Yunhua to accept.

Shortly after the 1st Cavalry Brigade captured Chicheng County, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade sent back a telegram saying that they had broken through Xuanhua City 10 minutes earlier and completely annihilated the two reinforced squadrons of the Xuanhua defenders, and then sent a telegram saying that the 2nd Cavalry Brigade and the 3rd Regiment had attacked Chongli County at 8 p.m. on July 6 and completely annihilated the defenders of the two squadrons in Chongli County. At the same time, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade also said in the telegram that in Xuanhua County, they had seized a large number of weapons and ammunition and materials to be transported to the front, including more than 200 boxes of artillery shells and iron bottles that had never been seen before.

After Han Yunhua inquired carefully, he finally determined that the batch of things captured by the Second Cavalry Brigade was the poison gas bombs of the Japanese army, and even Han Yunhua was a little excited, and he immediately ordered Barth, the commander of the Second Cavalry Brigade, to abandon the battle plan of attacking Huailai, and escort the captured weapons and ammunition back to Chicheng County immediately.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 7th, the Second Assault Brigade finally returned to Chicheng County, and Han Yunhua, who was a little impatient, took a guard and several regimental-level officers who remained in Chicheng County to the city gate to greet the triumph of the Second Cavalry Brigade.

This surprise attack on Xuanhua and Chongli counties by the Second Cavalry Brigade really achieved the effect of taking them by surprise and attacking them unprepared, and the entire cavalry brigade basically suffered no losses, except for two or three hundred men in the final battle of annihilation. However, for a battle of this scale, three or four hundred casualties can be described as harmless.

Han Yunhua said hello to Bart, and couldn't wait for Bart to take him to see the special weapons and ammunition that had been captured. ,

Bart didn't dare to slack off, from the beginning Bart knew that those things were not simple, although Bart's cultural level was not high, and he could basically be said to be illiterate, but after following Han Yunhua for so long, Bart still learned some practical things. From the outer box of that batch of ammunition, Bart saw a particularly dangerous signal, it was a sign of death, the first time he listened to Han Yunhua's lecture, Han Yunhua specially asked the trained officers to remember a few signs, and that death mark was specially mentioned by Han Yunhua, so Bart still remembers it deeply.

Therefore, Bart ordered the troops to guard the items closely at the moment of capture, and no one was allowed to approach them, let alone open the outer boxes at will, and those who violated the order were severely punished.

Han Yunhua followed Bart to the center of the team, and Han Yunhua saw that the cavalry of nearly a regiment was carefully protecting more than fifty large trucks, and fifteen of them were particularly tightly protected. From a distance, Han Yunhua saw that each big truck was loaded with more than a dozen large boxes, each of which had a volume of about one cubic meter.

Carefully opening a box containing the ammunition that Bart said he had never seen before, Han Yunhua's eyes were met by two protected dead iron bottles, maybe the others present didn't know what they were, but Han Yunhua clearly knew that it was filled with deadly poisonous gas.

Han Yunhua knew that the Japanese army had a poison gas factory in Shanghai and Shenyang, but unfortunately did not know the specific location of these two poison gas plants. , otherwise, with Han Yunhua's character, he would have to send someone to bulldoze these two poison gas plants.

After opening another box, Han Yunhua was a little excited and couldn't control himself, the box contained the latest poison gas bomb researched by the Japanese army, which was a poison gas shell fired from a Type 92 infantry gun. With this batch of poison gas, Han Yunhua could attack the various city strongholds defended by the Japanese army as he wanted, and he no longer had to worry about the poison gas of the Japanese army.

Han Yunhua ordered the Second Cavalry Brigade to transport part of this batch of gas bombs to Yang Chengwu's brigade, and asked Bart to tell Yang Chengwu that if necessary, he could let the devils also taste the taste of gas bombs, and he didn't need to keep his hands, just fight.

At half past six o'clock in the evening of the 7th, the news of the loss of Chicheng County and Fengning County reached the headquarters of the North China Front, and at the same time, the news of the attack on Guyuan County also reached the headquarters of the North China Front.

Shouyi couldn't figure out how Han Yunhua's department suddenly appeared in the northern Hebei region, and besides, there were any strategic places in the northern Hebei region that were worth Han Yunhua's shot, except for the three cities of Beiping, Chengde, and Tianjin, other places were really not worth his Han Yunhua's hard work.

Shouichi Terauchi immediately asked the operational staff officer to notify all officers at or above the brigade level of the headquarters to convene an emergency military meeting, and ordered Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira, commander of the 21st Division stationed on the Zhangjiakou front, to suspend the intensity of the offensive and withdraw 20 kilometers of troops and horses, so as to prevent the Chinese army in the direction of Chicheng County and the Chinese army in the northern direction from attacking the 21st Division and the Yamashita Brigade in the direction of Zhangbei and seize the opportunity to seize Zhangjiakou.

Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Front.

Terauchi Shouichi looked gloomily at the dozen or so senior officers at the division and brigade level present here, and then said bluntly: "Ladies and gentlemen, since His Majesty the Meiji Emperor, the Great Japanese Empire has only had one major military mistake, and that was the battle with that big stupid bear in the north in that ghost place at Nomenkan. Other than that, there have been few such fiascos, especially since the outbreak of the full-scale Sino-Japanese War, and every duel between us and Shina has basically won a major victory at a small cost. ”

Speaking of this, Terauchi Shouichi's emotions suddenly got a little out of control, he stood up with a bloody face, and continued to say loudly: "However, since Han Yunhua of the Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared, we have been hit hard by this department in a row, first the reinforcements of the Fifth Division supporting Tianzhen more than 3,500 people were inexplicably wiped out, and then many units of our North China Front Army were devastated, and the establishment of more than four wings was completely erased by this Han Yunhua from the establishment of the Great Japanese Army. Even the Sixth Division, which had always claimed to be a fierce army within the Imperial Army, had suffered a great loss at the hands of this Han Yunhua, and now according to reliable intelligence, the troops in the hands of this Han Yunhua had reached a terrifying scale of about 100,000 people. Gentlemen, please think about it carefully, this Han Yunhua has only appeared in our sight for more than ten months, and this speed of development is really shocking. Shouichi Terauchi said as he picked up a telegram from the table and handed it to the combat staff officer on the side.

The operational staff officer skillfully took the telegram and solemnly handed it to Major General Toshitoshi Yagyu, who was sitting in the first seat of Shou Shoichi Terauchi.