Han Yunhua has invested a lot of money this time, he knows that the position he is in now is very embarrassing, if he doesn't beat him, he will be sorry for the trust and expectations of the 40,000,000 compatriots in China. However, if we lose the war, it will be irresponsible to the party and the people, and the blow to the morale of the entire Chinese nation will be predictable. Therefore, Han Yunhua knows very well the significance of this battle, and it is impossible not to spend blood.

However, Han Yunhua himself also has a trace of expectation in his heart, the risk and opportunity are the same, and the larger the capital, the more profit he will get when the time comes, and of course, the loss is the same. This time, Han Yunhua was ready to fight hard, he not only ordered more than 40,000 people to participate in this battle, but also invested more than 8,000 people from the Southern Hebei Administrative Office and about 7,000 people from the main force of the 115th Division, and Han Yunhua also mobilized two integrated divisions and one reading brigade of the Inner Mongolia Military Region plus more than 50,000 local troops, totaling about 140,000 troops.

Therefore, Han Yunhua himself didn't realize it at first, but when he mobilized troops in the past few days, he suddenly realized that what he was commanding now was not 32,000 troops, and this time there was no clear battle Han Yunhua's troops invested a total of 200,000 troops, although it was still not as large as the 400,000 troops in the upcoming 100-regiment battle, but this was also unprecedented in [***] history.

Originally, he was going to fight a medium-sized battle of acceptable scale to boost the morale of the whole country, but now it seems that the trend of things has greatly deviated from Han Yunhua's own expectations. However, Han Yunhua is not worried, looking at the current situation, although it has deviated from Han Yunhua's expectations, everything is in favor of Han Yunhua's department.

Han Yunhua judged that the Yue Army was now preparing to be established in the south as the Nanjing Nationalist Axe, that is, the notorious Wang puppet regime, so in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, he would not launch a new offensive against the Eighth Route Army or even the troops of the Nationalist Axe for the time being. There will not be many troops to clean up the security in the occupied areas, and the battles that occurred during this period fully show Han Yunhua's expectations.

In this way, Han Yunhua has a bottom in his heart, he has no intention of calculating, as long as he is well prepared and has a reasonable plan, he will definitely have unexpected gains when the time comes. At present, in the entire northern region of China, except for the northeastern region, although the Yue army has a certain advantage, it is no longer in an absolute advantage. Whether it is the regular army of the national political axe, the Jin Sui army led by Yan Xishan, or even the Eighth Route Army led by [***], it has made great progress in the past two years. Although the army still occupies most of the wealthy towns in Hebei, Shandong, Rehe, Suiyuan, Shanxi, Henan, and Anhui, and almost all the transportation arteries and railway hubs. However, all this is only superficial, and more than 80 percent of the rural areas and 50 percent of the townships and towns are still openly and covertly subject to the constraints and jurisdiction of China's political axe, especially in the provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong, where the number of the Eighth Route Army and the Yue Army is almost the same, and even the Eighth Route Army is even more than the Yue Army.

Of course, this is not only manifested in the number of people, but also in terms of combat effectiveness, and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is rising steadily, and the combat effectiveness of the army has also decreased a lot.

Under the elimination of the advantages of the other, the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy and the enemy have narrowed a lot. Although due to historical and practical reasons, China is still not an opponent of the Chinese military in terms of comprehensive national strength, this gap is gradually narrowing with the passage of time. In North China, due to the strong rise of Han Yunhua's subordinates, the army lost a large number of experienced veterans, and more importantly, many middle and senior officers.

The loss of soldiers is okay, after all, there is such a large base, and more training and more training expenses can create a lot of experienced veterans and excellent soldiers. But those excellent commanders and discerning staff officers are not something that can be bought with money, they can only be cultivated at a great cost to the country, and the losses are heavy for each one. However, Han Yunhua's subordinates rose on the bones of these elite commanders, and such a huge loss could not even be borne by the first country in East Asia.

Han Yunhua alone weighed the strength in his hands and the manpower and material resources that the North China Front Army could mobilize, and found that his side still had a great advantage, in a word: This battle can be fought.

The arrival of reinforcements greatly relieved the defenders in the county seat of Feixiang County. The originally good situation suddenly became turbulent, and even the invincible Imperial Army was also frustrated again and again, which made the devils in Feixiang County feel pressure. A suffocating aura unconsciously appeared in the Feixiang County Army, and it has a tendency to spread.

This directly caused the actions of the ghost soldiers to be a little nervous, looking at every Chinese as if they saw death, there had been more than one bloody clash in the entire county, although the dead were some Zhina, the soldiers of the imperial army did not receive any substantial damage, but this also made the commander of the army in Feixiang County feel deeply uneasy.

Although the reinforcements of more than 2,000 troops are not much, they are more than enough to appease the morale of the army. The commander of the army in Feixiang County was not an idiot, and he knew the important surname of Feixiang County's geographical location, so he built a long defense line south of the county seat of Feixiang County, and at the same time established two blockade lines on the road leading to Feixiang County in Binh Dinh and Guangping counties.

For the sake of insurance, the commander of the Feixiang County Army also specially requested operational guidance from the Handan Army Garrison Headquarters. However, because there was a batch of reinforcements, this time the commander of the army in Feixiang County said it more tactfully.

The commander of the garrison headquarters of the army in Handan, Yamazaki Hautaro, is a well-known short-sighted in the army, because the Yamazaki family is also a very influential samurai family in the army, and has a certain amount of power in the army. In addition, Yamazaki Harutaro's swordsmanship since he was a child has been well-known in the country, so Yamazaki Harutaro naturally enlisted in the army as a soldier and was admitted to Lu University.

Although Harutaro Yamazaki was a qualified samurai, he was definitely not a qualified commander. Like the vast majority of manual laborers, Harutaro Yamazaki was clearly not intellectually strong enough to command an infantry brigade. Maybe he was successful as a soldier and not bad as a non-commissioned officer, but as a senior commander in charge of the overall situation, Harutaro Yamazaki didn't have that kind of courage and strategic vision.

The previous transfer of more than 2,000 reinforcements to Feixiang County was unprecedented in the eyes of Major General Harutaro Yamazaki, and it was a special greeting from General Binshan Moto. And Major General Harutaro Yamazaki also felt the pressure from various channels and his own feelings, so he transferred nearly 3,000 people from the already small number of troops in his hands to support Feixiang County.

And now the commander of Feixiang County said it more tactfully, so the previous tension and pressure disappeared immediately, so he was indifferent to the message of the commander of the Feixiang County Army for help. At this time, Han Yunhua seized the opportunity to complete the roundabout encirclement of Feixiang County, as long as Han Yunhua was willing, he could eat the army of Feixiang County at any time.

However, considering the casualties, Han Yunhua did not take immediate action. Instead, he moved the vast majority of his troops to other counties and districts north of Feixiang County, preparing to dispose of all the strongholds in the towns of Feixiang County, and finally completing the steps of tooth extraction. At the same time, two infantry brigades of the second brigade and the third brigade were transferred to the periphery of Handan to prepare for a surprise attack on Handan City.

But Han Yunhua also knew how tightly Handan City was defended, and even with the help of the special combat team, he might not be able to take Handan City in a short time. However, it is good to be able to take Handan City, and it doesn't matter if you can't take it, after all, the important surname of Handan City is not comparable to ordinary cities. As the gateway to Beiping, the garrison of Handan City was full of one infantry wing, two cavalry brigades and one chariot brigade, and even the heavy artillery, which was rare among the elite units of the army and navy, also had a brigade.

With such a powerful firepower, even if a pig is used to defend the effect, the effect will not be much worse, and Major General Yamazaki Haruichiro is not a pig, so Han Yunhua does not expect to kill all the defenders of Handan at once. However, compared with Feixiang County, Handan's important surname is self-evident.

As long as Handan is attacked and is in danger, there is no need for Han Yunhua to attack at that time, and the army of Feixiang County will take the initiative to come out to help Handan. At that time, it was not up to Han Yunhua to decide how to fight, so Han Yunhua did not order the troops to attack Feixiang County. Picking up grass and beating rabbits is easy, and he doesn't want to do so much trouble.

At the same time, Han Yunhua ordered all the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to start moving closer to the area occupied by the Yue army, and the mechanized brigade and cavalry brigade marching in the Saibei grassland even faster the march, as long as they reached the location and did not need to report to Han Yunhua, they could directly launch an attack. Han Yunhua believed that the two brigades could definitely sweep the Xilin Gol prairie and sweep away all the forces of King De and the Yue army from Suiyuan.

Compared with the strange soldier on the Xilin Gol grassland, the troops on the southern front are much more traditional, and all the infantry of the 300th Division are not so planned, so they have one thought - to take Zhangjiakou. Han Yunhua has long been salivating for Hebei Province, not only because of a series of objective reasons such as Hebei Province's fertile land, large population, and developed economy, but because the geographical location of Hebei Province has to make Han Yunhua pay attention to it.

(To be continued)