Chapter 393: Battle of North China

Han Yunhua has really been beaten out of the fire by Ushijima in the past few days, although in Han Yunhua's eyes, Ushijima and his troops have long been caught in the urn, but Han Yunhua didn't expect that he was stunned by a boiled duck and pecked hard, and after Ushijima's department escaped, Han Yunhua asked Han Yunqian to count the casualties of the troops, and the result was that there were only more than 580 people left in the entire guard regiment of more than 3,300 people, and more than 2,800 casualties, of which more than 2,000 died directly.

Han Yunhua felt guilty for such a heavy loss to the guard regiment, if he accepted Han Yunqian's suggestion to retreat early, then the loss of the guard regiment could have been completely avoided, so Han Yunhua was full of guilt for the soldiers who died in the guard regiment. But Han Yunhua also knew that only if he stayed in Daqingshan could he contain the Niudao Department in Daqingshan, otherwise, how could he achieve such a big result. If this pit is not dug for Niudao, this North China battle will be a draw, and how can a city like Zhangjiakou be recovered in just a few days.

Despite this, Han Yunhua hated the Ushijima headquarters that besieged him for eleven days, so he ordered all the troops who had no combat mission for the time being to besiege and annihilate the Ushijima subsidiaries.

Not to mention the embarrassment of Lieutenant General Ushijima's hasty escape, the siege of Beiping City at this time has also entered the most critical time, although Master Chen knows that there are not many troops in Beiping City, but he did not expect that the fortifications of Beiping City will be so complete. General Binshan Yuan also saw this, so he gathered all the troops around Beiping City into the city and fought to the death with the 77th Division.

The battle in the first two days was quite smooth, because the army was overstretched, so the outer positions of Beiping City soon fell into the control of the 77th Division, and Miyun and Changping counties were also recovered one after another. However, Master Chen soon encountered desperate resistance from the Yue army, and for the sake of insufficient troops, the Yue army was stunned to arm all the more than 20,000 Yue Ben expatriates living in Beiping and pulled them to the city.

Although these expatriates are not professional soldiers, many of them are retired veterans, so their combat effectiveness is not as weak as the 77th Division imagined. In addition, this is the nest of the puppet regime of the Wang puppet regime in Beiping, so thousands of Han and annihilation lackeys of all sizes live here, so the safety of Beiping City is also related to the life and death of these people. If other troops attack Beiping, although these Han annihilators will also make a little resistance, it will definitely not be too fierce, and everyone is familiar with Mingzhe to protect himself. But who let the troops of the Great Demon King Han Yunhua attack Beiping, Yunhua is a signboard in North Korea, and almost all Han annihilation knows that there is no other way to survive if they fall into the hands of Han Yunhua except to be executed in public.

With this superficial consensus, when the 77th Division of Reading Force attacked Beiping City, the Han anniversaries of all sizes in Beiping City were stunned and handed over all the strength in their hands to the command of Binshanyuan, which greatly moved Binshanyuan, an old devil.

If these more than 40,000 miscellaneous troops and the 77th Division of Reading Force fight a positional battle, Master Chen is confident that he will eat up more than 40,000 people in one day, but this time people do not fight a positional battle with him, General Binshan Yuan pulled all the troops into the complete fortification group and the city wall to confront the 77th Division of Reading Force.

Although the 77th Reading Division had an absolute advantage in all aspects, like Han Yunhua's insistence on Daqing Mountain, the huge geographical and terrain advantages still caused the Reading 77th Division to pay great casualties. On the evening of September 1, Master Chen organized a large-scale night raid and also used special forces, although the Beiping Gate was taken, but the troops fell into street fighting.

Master Chen knew that as far as a big city like Beiping City was concerned, it would not be possible to completely occupy Beiping without a week of street fighting. Although the 50,000 cavalry allocated by Han Yunhua arrived in Beiping on the afternoon of the 1st, the cavalry in the street battle could not help at all, and the arrival of these 50,000 cavalry was also an ornament.

To make matters worse, all the troops besieging Qian'an had withdrawn to aid Beiping City, while Yoshio Shinozuka's 10th Division had already arrived in Tangshan, and if you took the train, the 10th Division would be able to reach Beiping in one day at most, and the other troops would be able to return in two days at most.

Master Chen knew that it was not a way to carry it down with Bin Shanyuan in Beiping, the environment was becoming more and more unfavorable for the 77th Division, and the army had the help of planes in the daytime battle, and it would lose a lot of troops every day, so the attack of the 77th Division was mainly at night, and the street fighting at night was also very unfavorable to the attacking side. Therefore, the gain of the 77th Division after two days of fighting was not great, so Master Chen had a plan to withdraw the army.

Master Chen couldn't decide on this kind of thing by himself, so he had to ask Han Yunhua. Han Yunhua agreed in principle with the withdrawal of the 77th Division, but Han Yunhua thought that it was not cost-effective for the troops to finally hit the Beijing-Tianjin area and come back in disgrace, so he ordered the cavalry troops to go south to Tianjin immediately, and they must take Tianjin City within half a day.

Master Chen will not discount Han Yunhua's order, although he does not agree with Han Yunhua's seemingly risky action this time, because Master Chen is very aware of the current battlefield situation between the fifth and second sides, and the army seems to have lost battles everywhere, a bit like the end of the Xishan crossbow, but in fact, the loss of the army in eastern Hebei is not large. In addition to the 15,000 cavalry of the cavalry group, the 80,000 troops sent by the North China Front to eastern Hebei lost less than 10,000 troops, so at least 50,000 troops returned to Beiping at this time.

The corresponding 77th Division still has less than 35,000 troops with combat effectiveness, and the cavalry troops are quite numerous, but the cavalry troops are okay to fight a good battle, after all, the fighting will of these troops who have just been transformed from the puppet army is still very weak, and it is not okay. Therefore, in a battle of this level, the help of the cavalry unit to the 77th Division of Reading is extremely limited.

Master Chen was very worried that the troops and the army would have a tug-of-war in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and the result would be troublesome. After more than a month of continuous fighting, the troops were already exhausted, and if the fighting continued, the casualties of the troops would certainly rise in a straight line, which was not in line with the spirit of the central authorities. However, thinking about the great victory achieved by the military region in the process of counter-sweeping this time, Master Chen still decided to take this risk with Han Yunhua.

Tianjin, referred to as Tianjin, is located in the North China Plain. After more than 600 years, especially in the modern century, Tianjin has created a unique urban style that combines Chinese and Western, ancient and modern. As the most important satellite city of Beiping, "Tianjin in the modern century" has become the consensus of the world. After Tianjin became a treaty port in 1860, many Western countries set up concessions in Tianjin, and Tianjin became the frontier of northern China's opening up and the base of the "Westernization" movement in modern China. The military modernization that began in Tianjin, as well as the construction of railways, telegraphs, telephones, postal services, mining, modern education, and justice, all set a precedent in China. Tianjin became one of the second largest industrial and commercial cities in China at that time and the largest financial and commercial center in the north.

In 1937, the Japanese army occupied Tianjin. It is said that Tianjin is basically ruled by force. It is said that the soldiers wantonly burned, killed and looted Tianjin, coupled with the floods in Tianjin at that time, made Tianjin a veritable hell on earth, and the people were miserable. Moreover, because Tianjin was the most important port city in northern China at that time, it became an important wharf for the military to transport the industrial raw materials and wealth plundered in China, and the army plundered labor in addition to wealth, and the "laborers" who were captured in Tianjin reached 30,000 in just two years.

For Tianjin Han Yunhua is salivating, Tianjin and other places in China have essential differences, maybe in terms of politics Tianjin is not as good as Nanjing and Beiping, economic aspects are not as good as Shanghai at this time, but on the whole, Tianjin's important surname is not worse than several other first-tier cities. Politically, Tianjin is an important satellite city of Beiping, the most important foreign port in northern China, almost 70% of the materials of the invading army were landed through the port of Tianjin, and almost the entire wealth plundered by the army in northern China was transported to the capital through Tianjin. Not to mention the economic aspect, the whole Tianjin is a new city that developed after the Westernization Movement, in terms of the pace of modernization, Tianjin is not much later than Shanghai, and Tianjin at this time is the second largest city in Asia and the most important financial city, far from Beiping and Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuhan can be compared. More importantly, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Tianjin was one of China's major intelligence centers, and its strategic position was second only to Shanghai and as important as Hong Kong.

Because Tianjin has a concession and connects North China and Northeast China. It is precisely because of these understandings that Han Yunhua is very greedy for Tianjin's wealth. According to the telegram sent by the intelligence officers lurking in Tianjin, almost all the troops of the Yue Army have been concentrated in Beiping at present, and all the defenders in Tianjin at this time are less than 1,000 people, and the armed forces of the underground party and Qian Zhuangfei's intelligence department in Tianjin are as many as 500 people, how can Han Yunhua miss such a good opportunity, so this time he wants to borrow some money from Tianjin.

With Han Yunhua's instructions, Aolige's cavalry troops soon arrived in Tianjin, and because he was afraid that Han Yunhua's troops would break the defenders of Tianjin, Bin Shanyuan ordered all the defenders of Tianjin to concentrate in Tianjin. All the counties and districts on the periphery of Tianjin were lost to the [***] team.

According to the commander's intentions, the task of their cavalry group this time is to rob Tianjin, as long as Tianjin City is captured, the cavalry troops will immediately snatch all the fake wealth in Tianjin City back to the base area.

The attack on Tianjin went well, and although the fortifications of Tianjin were no worse than those of Beiping, it is not at all true that the strongest fortresses often broke through from the inside. After receiving Han Yunhua's order, the Chinese intelligence organs lurking in Tianjin, in accordance with Han Yunhua's instructions, contacted the "Anti-Japanese Hoe and Annihilation Regiment," an organization on the periphery of the Kuomintang military command, overnight, and worked with the intelligence department of Han Yunhua's department to coordinate the cavalry troops.

At the first time of the siege of the city, more than 300 elite agents under the command of Qian Zhuangfei's intelligence department quickly occupied the railway station and port of Tianjin, while the more than 100 armed forces of the Chinese underground party and more than 400 members of the anti-Japanese hoe annihilation regiment attacked the north gate of Tianjin with the headquarters of the Aurege station, and the north gate of Tianjin was lost in less than an hour.

At the same time, Aurege ordered his troops to immediately take over all the strategic points in the city, including railway stations, ports, banks, municipal axes, concessions, foreign banks, etc., and more than 40 cargo ships anchored at the wharf of Tianjin became the trophies of Aurege's troops.

After the occupation of Tianjin, Aolige immediately contacted the underground party organization of [***], asking them to immediately organize people to rush to transport supplies, in order to thank the hoe annihilation regiment for their help this time, after obtaining Han Yunhua's consent, Aolige suddenly gave all the equipment of an infantry battalion of the hoe annihilation regiment.

Han Yunhua still knows a lot about this anti-hoe annihilation regiment, speaking of which, Han Yunhua also pretended to be a hoe annihilation regiment when he was in Shandong. Han Yunhua knew that the Anti-Japanese Fighting and Annihilation Regiment was formed by Feng Yunxiu, a 16-year-old student of Tianjin Zhongyue Middle School, and others, and that most of the members of the "Anti-Japanese Killing and Annihilation Regiment" were high school students from famous middle schools in Tianjin, such as Beiman Girls' Middle School, Yuying Middle School, Tianjin Zhongyue Middle School, Nankai Middle School, and Datong Middle School. Almost all of these student killers have prominent backgrounds, including Zheng Tongwan and Zheng Kunwan, the grandsons of the puppet Manchurian Prime Minister Zheng Xiaoxu, Yuan Shikai's nephews Yuan Hanxun and Yuan Hanjun, Tongrentang's eldest lady Le Qianwen, Sun Lianzhong's daughter Sun Huijun, and Feng Jianmei, the niece of General Feng Zhi'an...... The assassination weapons they used were often the lightest and most sophisticated weapons in the world at the time, such as the "palm mines", and even jeweled on the hilts of their guns. Feng Yunxiu is one of the core members, and Feng Yunxiu's family background is not simple. Because his uncle was the supervisor of the North China Puppet Public Security Bureau, Feng Yunxiu often had the opportunity to go in and out of the barracks, and trained to become a sharpshooter in the name of learning to shoot and hunt.

However, at this time, the Anti-Shoe Annihilation Regiment was no longer an organization of Reading Power, so Han Yunhua had to be cautious when he asked for help from the Anti-Hoe Annihilation Regiment. The reason is that Dai Li, the head of the Kuomintang Political Axe Army, quickly took a fancy to this assassination group composed of "young masters and lambs", and ordered Wang Tianmu, the head of the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, to form a brother with the members of the "Anti-Japanese Killing and Annihilation Regiment", and ordered Zeng Che, secretary of the Tianjin Station, to infiltrate Nankai and become a member of the "Anti-Killing Group". Zeng Che, who was later promoted to head of the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, regarded the "Anti-Regiment" as a peripheral organization of the Military Command, but the members of the "Anti-Regiment" did not know about it.

However, Han Yunhua clearly remembered that the outcome of the anti-regiment in history was not good, and the main reason was that on September 27, 1939, Zeng Che, the head of the Tianjin Station of the Military Command, was arrested on Dajing Road in Tianjin. After Zeng Che's death, the "August Raid" opened a wide net in Pingjin and Tianjin. He said that he had blocked the news, abandoned the police forces of Pingjin and Tianjin, and mobilized the puppet Manchurian military and police to enter the customs, and the rich social relations and powerful intelligence system of the "anti-regiment" were completely out of order.

The prelude to the failure of the anti-war hoe annihilation regiment was about to begin, so Han Yunhua also reminded this group of young patriots while seeking help from the anti-gang group. And this opportunity, Han Yunhua successfully placed about 100 special combat personnel in Tianjin, waiting for future needs.

The underground organization and the Aolige Department moved quickly, because the wealth contained in Tianjin City was too huge, fortunately, the army had a large number of cars stored in Tianjin City, and the cavalry troops were most indispensable for war horses, so the rush to transport supplies was still very smooth.

However, because the army plundered too many materials, and some of them were really not suitable for transportation, and some of the things captured this time really could not be taken away, such as the dozens of cargo ships and speedboats of the Japanese army, there was no way to reach Guisui at all, even if the Yellow River could reach Baotou and other places, but the river defense army of the Yue army in Jining, Shandong Province, could not let a fleet of such a scale reach Guisui smoothly. Therefore, for the seized materials, Aolige gave priority to rushing to transport the most valuable weapons and equipment, medicines, and medical equipment, while food and cultural relics ranked last, while only a part of the gold, silver, jewelry, and silver dollar currencies were transported, and the vast majority were left to the local underground party, and directly deposited into the Tianjin branch of the Citibank of the United States under the connection of the underground party.

On September 6, the 10th Division of the Chinese Army finally rushed back to Beiping under the harassment of Li Dingguo's department, but at this time the 10th Division was also exhausted, and Li Dingguo, as the best commander of Han Yunhua's special forces, was one of the officers with Han Yunhua's highest expectations. After being transferred from the Flying Dragon Special Warfare Squadron to Eastern Hebei, Li Dayong used the Flying Dragon Special Warfare Squadron as a strategic force, even if it was surrounded by heavy troops in Qian'an this time, and the situation was precarious, Li Dayong never used Li Dingguo's department.

This time, it was learned that the army of the Yue Army had returned to Beiping City, so Li Dayong issued the first combat order since the Battle of North China to Li Dingguo and the entire Feilong Special Combat Team, who had been lurking for nearly a month, to block the enemy's reinforcements.

Li Dingguo was an excellent commander, and he knew very well that the best way for the army to return to Beiping as quickly as possible was to take a train, and the train from eastern Hebei to Beiping would arrive in a day and a half at most, but it would take at least five and a half to six days to walk on foot. After more than a year of development, there are now more than 4,000 people in Li Dingguo's department, and in addition to the 3,000 people who reinforced Li Dayong at the beginning of the North China Campaign, there were 1,100 people in Li Dingguo's department at this time, of which more than 200 were special combat personnel, and the rest were all elite trained by Li Dingguo using the training methods of special forces.

It is indeed difficult to use 1,110 people to block the 50,000 people of the Yue army, but it is still very easy for Li Dingguo to contain and slow down the marching speed of the Yue army. After blowing up the railway from Qian'an to Tangshan, the army could only march on foot, and along the way, more than 30 snipers of the special combat team beat the army into a disillusionment, and in the end it took the army nearly seven days to rush to the periphery of Beiping, but there were still more than 40 kilometers away from Beiping City.

After learning that the troops of the large army returning to Beiping had arrived at the periphery of Beiping, Master Chen knew that the opportunity to take Beiping had been missed, although there were less than 10,000 troops left in the city, but it was impossible to recover Beiping, and the Aolige Division had all withdrawn from Tianjin City in the morning, and only the 77th Division of Reading was left in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, so Master Chen also decisively issued the order to retreat.

And just two days ago, the remnants led by Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru were also surrounded by the squadron [***] who rushed from all directions near Shangyi, this time Ushijima did not order the troops to resist stubbornly, but made a surprising move, he went to the headquarters of the 300th Division alone to negotiate with Han Yunhua, and after Han Yunhua promised to guarantee the basic conditions of the life safety of his subordinates with the honor of a soldier, Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru led the remnants of about 20,000 people to surrender to Han Yunhua's department. However, it is a pity that Ushijima, a lieutenant general of the army, ended his life with a pistol in the barracks after giving the surrender order, which made Han Yunhua feel extremely sorry.

At the same time, the instructor in southern Hebei also received Han Yunhua's order to immediately march east to Shandong, and withdrew the battle sequence of attacking Shimen, ending the battle in southern Hebei. At this point, the Battle of North China, which lasted one month and eleven days, finally came to an end, and all the units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region withdrew from the battle to digest the results of the battle, and Han Yunhua's subordinate and the army ushered in a short vacation.

(To be continued)