On April 6, 1938, the Isogu Division of the Yue Army attacking Taierzhuang had completely collapsed, and the first line of Taierzhuang [***] attacked on all fronts, killing the sky. Most of the army's motor vehicles were destroyed, and the rest were also paralyzed due to lack of gasoline, and they ran out of ammunition and food, and they were so frightened that they only cared about breaking through the siege and fleeing for their lives. The morale was high, and the legions pursued the enemy fiercely, like a wind sweeping away the leaves, unstoppable.

In the end, the commander of the Isogu Division led the remnants of more than 10,000 people to break through and enter Yixian County, and began to defend the door behind closed doors, losing confidence in battle, and there was no longer the slightest threat to [***]. The battle of Taierzhuang has won a complete victory so far.

After the war, the battlefield was counted, and only nearly 10,000 corpses of the Japanese army were buried, the total number of enemy casualties was more than 20,000, more than 30 tanks were destroyed, more than 70 artillery pieces of various kinds were captured, more than 40 combat vehicles, more than 70 armored vehicles, more than 100 automobiles, hundreds of machine guns, and tens of thousands of rifles. After the good news, the whole country of China was ecstatic, and the morale of the front [***] was greatly boosted.

At this point, the offensive and defensive battle of Taierzhuang came to an end. On the 8th, the front army explicitly ordered the Sakamoto detachment to be under the command of the 10th Division. In the battle, the 5th Division suffered 6,759 casualties; The 10th Division suffered 5,225 casualties.

After the battle of Taierzhuang, the base camp judged that the battle of Taierzhuang meant that Chiang Kai-shek had concentrated the main force near Xuzhou to prepare for a decisive battle (the base camp believed that the presence of Chiang Kai-shek's descendant Tang Enbo's army in Taierzhuang could be proof). Taking advantage of this opportunity to capture Xuzhou will definitely deal a fatal blow to the Chinese [***] team, and at the same time create a favorable situation for the capture of Wuhan. Based on the above judgment, the base camp issued an order to capture Xuzhou on April 7.

According to this order, on April 10, the North China Front formulated a guiding policy for the Xuzhou operation, and divided the Battle of Xuzhou into three phases: The first phase was the preparatory stage, mainly to supplement the strength of the 2nd Army, and the 114th Division (owed 1 brigade), the 16th Division, the 2nd Tank Brigade, the 3rd and 6th Wing of Field Heavy Artillery, the 1st Reserve Infantry Brigade, and the Reading Engineer Wing were assigned to the 2nd Army. The team was pinned down to the south of Xuzhou. The second phase is the outer combat phase of Xuzhou. At this stage, an attack was launched in the form of a surprise attack, with a force moving south from the west side of Weishan Lake, quickly occupying the west and southwest areas of Xuzhou, and encircling Xuzhou with the Central China Army; In addition, a force (about 1 division) crossed the Yellow River in the area from Lanfeng (Lankao) to Fanxian County, cutting off the Longhai line east of Lanfeng and the Pinghan line south of Zhengzhou. The third phase is the stage of the general attack on Xuzhou, capturing Xuzhou, and capturing Kaifeng and Zhengzhou.

On 12 April, the North China Front issued a preparatory order for the capture of Xuzhou, and at the same time assigned four brigades of the 114th Division and one brigade of the 16th Division to the 10th Division to make up for the losses of the 10th Division in the battle of Taierzhuang and restore its combat effectiveness. After the 10th Division was strengthened, the Nagase Detachment (based on the main force of the 39th and 40th Infantry Wings), which had been assigned to the garrison, was replaced to participate in the Xuzhou operation.

In order to contain the main force of the Eighth Route Army, on 4 April, the North China Front Army Headquarters drew up an operational plan for the 9th Route of the Jindong Army to besiege the Chinese army, and planned to take the commander of the First Army of the North China Front Army, Xiangyue Qingji, as the commander, and lead the 20th Division, the 16th Division, the 108th Division, and the 109th Division, with a total of more than 30,000 people each under the command to attack the southeastern area of Shanxi Province by nine routes, in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and other units and the Kuomintang troops operating in this area in the area of Yushe Wuxiang in Liao County. At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the north-south communication line and prevent the various units of the Eighth Route Army from disturbing and affecting the Battle of Xuzhou, the North China Front Army Headquarters ordered the Corps stationed in Mongolia to take the 6th Division and the 26th Division as the main force, and to cooperate with Li Shouxin, Dewang and other troops to attack Han Yunhua's troops entrenched at the junction of Cha (Har), Sui (Yuan), Hebei (Hebei), and Jin (Shanxi).

Lieutenant General Pan Liannuma, who received the order, dispatched the main forces of the 6th Division and the 26th Division to besiege the Inner Mongolia Military Region in four directions according to the plan formulated before the war, together with a large number of puppet troops.

By 12 April, the Inner Mongolia Military Region had 88 regiments, 99 regiments, new 1st regiments, 2nd regiments, 3rd regiments, 4th regiments, 5th regiments, 6th regiments, guard regiments, reading regiments, 1st cavalry regiments, 2nd cavalry regiments, 3rd cavalry regiments, 4th cavalry regiments, 7th cavalry regiments, 8th cavalry regiments, 9th cavalry regiments, 10th cavalry regiments, fire support regiments, and 1st artillery regiments. The 2nd Artillery Regiment and other regular units of 10 infantry regiments, 8 cavalry regiments, and 3 machine artillery regiments, as well as four special combat units with super combat effectiveness, eight newly formed brigades (battalions) of Yuli County, and 40 district squadrons (companies). In addition, due to the tense war in the southeast of Shanxi, Han Yunhua and Shen Yuquan decided after discussing it that the Fifth Cavalry Regiment that had promised to be sent to the headquarters should be rebuilt immediately, and at the same time, 156 reserve special combat members of the newly formed Sixth Cavalry Regiment and the First Special Operations Reserve were sent to the headquarters to protect the safety of the headquarters chief.

On the morning of 13 April, the Saibei Military Region, which was first active in the Guisui area, sent a telegram saying that a large number of devils had come out of Guisui City by car or on foot, with a total strength of about 15,000 troops, and were heading for the direction of the central banner of the right wing of Chahar, where the 99th Regiment was stationed. Soon after, the guard regiment of the military region also sent a telegram saying that about a wing of the Japanese army had been found at the junction of Fengzhen and Datong, and that it was also equipped with cavalry and a large number of artillery. Later, the new regiment also sent a telegram saying that an infantry wing and a cavalry wing from the direction of Zhangjiakou had been connected with the troops on the periphery of the new regiment, and that these devils had come by train, so the speed was quite fast. The southern front that Shen Yuquan was in charge of also received news that the infantry of the 20th Division of the Chinese Army and the 39th Brigade of the Infantry Regiment were killing the base area with the cooperation of a tank brigade and a puppet infantry division.

Han Yunhua calculated that the number of troops attacking the base area this time reached more than 45,000, which is equivalent to two first-class divisions or three third-class divisions of the Japanese army. The most troublesome thing for Han Yunhua is that three of the four devils are equipped with cavalry, two are equipped with chariots, and one is equipped with a large number of cars, which means that the devils who came this time are strong enough in terms of firepower and mobility, far from being comparable to the combined troops sent by Terauchi Shouichi and Hideki Tojo last time. Moreover, this time the devils came very quickly, and the military region did not even have time to transfer the masses, and the situation was very critical.

On the one hand, Han Yunhua sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to explain the enemy situation, and on the other hand, he urgently ordered all units of the military region to rely on the favorable terrain to block the attack step by step, and the county brigades, districts, and squads in the base areas should cooperate with the county party committees and county political axes to transfer the masses in the shortest possible time, so as to ensure that the walls are fortified and the wilderness is cleared. At the same time, Han Yunhua ordered the intelligence section to immediately find out the detailed numbers and firepower distribution of the attacking base areas, and also to find out the remaining troops in Guisui, Baotou, Wuchuan, Tumut Left Banner, Tumut Right Banner, Tuoketuo, Liangcheng, Siziwang Banner, and other counties and cities. The "Flying Dragon," "Cheetah," and "Eagle" special combat teams also quickly attacked, freely searching for fighter planes, and the "Young Phoenix" special combat team led 867 new members who had participated in the special combat team training to go to the front line to cooperate with the regiments and act as snipers on the battlefield.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Qian Zhuangfei, chief of the intelligence section, personally rushed over from Fengzhen to report the enemy situation to Han Yunhua. After more than half a year of development, Qian Zhuangfei's intelligence department has also developed to an extremely astonishing extent, with the strong support of Han Yunhua's large quantities of silver dollars and gold and the most advanced weapons, the intelligence department led by Qian Zhuangfei has grown from a small group of only 30 people to include Xinghe County, the early stage of the Chahar Right Wing, the Central Banner of the Chahar Right Wing, the rear banner of the right wing of Chahar, Fengzhen, Zhangbei County, Huai'an County, Tianzhen County, Yanggao County, Zhuozishan County, Jining, Guisui, Baotou, Datong, Zhangjiakou, Xuanhua, Kangbao, Liangcheng, Siziwang Banner, Wuchuan, Tumut Left Banner, Tumut Right Banner and other counties and cities including a huge intelligence network. Qian Zhuangfei, a former Kuomintang officer, now leads the largest intelligence network under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, with more than 800 core agents alone, and an armed force composed of 36 elite members of the same army who have been drawn from the special combat team; although the number of armed forces directly under this intelligence section is only more than 200, its influence is greater than that of any regiment in the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

The reason for this is that after the special combat team became an army, in order to pass on the bloody killing order, which threatened the puppet army, and to better cooperate with the work of the intelligence department, Han Yunhua set up this armed team called "Shadow" at the request of Qian Zhuangfei, and then the bloody killing order spread in the counties and cities around the base area, and one by one the large and small Han annihilation, puppet army officers, and stragglers of the Yue army were assassinated, although everyone did not know where this blood killing order came from, but they all knew that this blood killing order was aimed at the puppet army and the lackeys of the Han annihilation. It dealt a great blow to the Han annihilation puppet army in the Cha (Har), Sui (Yuan), Hebei (Hebei), and Jin (Shanxi) regions, and at the same time made some repentant puppet soldiers Han Annihilation firm their determination to repent.

I haven't seen Han Yunhua for half a year, and when I saw Han Yunhua's somewhat tired face, Qian Zhuangfei was indescribably excited in his heart. Although he vigorously fought for the service of the Kuomintang troops, his defense against Kuomintang officers was no less than that of the Kuomintang, and he, a Kuomintang officer with a background in intelligence, was even more unpopular with [***], and he was only a small platoon commander when he joined the Eighth Route Army for a long time. But since he met Han Yunhua, it can be regarded as a time to operate, Han Yunhua trusts him very much, and hands over the largest but only intelligence department in the base area to him to lead. Not long ago, when the eastward detachment attacked the Huai'an area, Qian Zhuangfei, with the cooperation of Ye Baoguo, assassinated Liang Yunfu, a Han annihilation in the Zhangjiakou area, and avenged half of his family's revenge.

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