Bao Sen is really clever in this hand, although there is Li Dayong's command in this, but it is Bao Sen himself who plays the lead. Han Yunhua was very happy when he learned of the situation, although Bao Sen is now only a small regiment commander, but as far as Han Yunhua knows, Bao Sen's regiment is even better than the ordinary Kuomintang brigade, which is directly reflected in the fact that the common people in several counties in eastern Hebei know Bao Sen's name.

If Han Yunhua is a household name in the entire Chinese battlefield, then Bao Sen is thunderous in eastern Hebei. In terms of the one-acre and three-point land in Jidong, Bao Sen's name is definitely much louder than Han Yunhua. And such a tiger general is exactly what Han Yunhua needs, and if the Inner Mongolia Military Region wants to compete with the Yue army in the entire North China region, then military talents who can attack and retreat are indispensable. And the existing military cadres of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will definitely not do anything if they are passive, but if they want to march into the entire North China, then Han Yunhua deeply feels that there are very few generals in his hands.

It is very cost-effective for the Inner Mongolia Military Region to exchange a county town for an infantry wing of the Yue Army, but anyway, under the attack of the strong forces of the Yue Army, it is still unknown whether Lulong County will be able to defend it. Now, in addition to not having to send troops to garrison Lulong County, 5,000 elites can also be freed up, and most importantly, more than 3,000 troops have been eliminated. Moreover, at the same time, the defense task of Lulong County was handed over to the Yue Army, and a part of the Yue Army could be consumed without any troops.

However, there are pros and cons, there is no doubt that Lu Long's geographical location is important, otherwise Han Yunhua would not have placed Bao Sen's department there. Although the army has lost an infantry wing, in terms of the reputation of the Fourth Division in the army, it is not impossible to lose even an infantry brigade. However, the loss of an infantry wing and the occupation of a strategic point are quite cost-effective for General Binshan Yuan, who has a great layout, anyway, when the Yamada Wing set out to attack Lulong County, General Binshan Yuan also expected that the casualties should not be small, after all, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are not muddy, let alone paper.

Although the casualties are much larger than expected, they are also within the range that General Binshan Yuan can bear. Despite this, General Binshanyuan's mood was still extremely depressed, and the tactics of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were really beyond the expectations of the vast majority of people. In any case, the Yamada Wing was completely annihilated, which rarely happened after the Great Empire "entered" China, and it was also one of the few times since he took charge of the North China Front that the troops were completely annihilated.

But there is no regret medicine in the world, and it is difficult to buy it if you have money. At this point, Binshan Yuanda is powerless, but in Binshan Yuan's heart, the Inner Mongolia Military Region is already a squadron that must be eliminated, and it must be eliminated at all costs.

The main force of the 2nd Division of the Yue Army soon killed Li Dayong's headquarters along the road from Lulong to Qian'an, and at the same time, the main force of the 10th Division of the Yue Army defeated the Chinese defenders of Luan County head-on and occupied the county seat of Luanxian County, Liang Xudong, the head of the Luan County Security Regiment and secretary of the Luan County Party Committee, died heroically, and the 1st Field Division, 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment responsible for garrisoning Luan County also suffered heavy casualties, and the remnants were forced to move to Qian'an.

The 1st Brigade and the 2nd Regiment and the Luanxian Security Regiment were Li Dayong's test of the Yue Army, but he wanted to see what kind of skills the little devil had and dared to come to Jidong to make trouble. However, facts have proved that the elite of the Yue army is indeed not something that ordinary troops can contend with, and the troops of the Yue army attacking the county seat of Luan County are less than 8,000 people, and the security regiment and the 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment also have nearly 6,000 people, but the 6,000 people who rely on strong fortifications to defend themselves have suffered a big loss in Luan County. Of the 6,000 people, less than 4,000 were evacuated to Qian'an, and more than 2,000 people remained in Luanxian.

Li Dayong's tank can be described as a loss of soldiers, but it allowed him to test the strength of the army, and when he received the battle report from the front, Li Dayong took a breath of cold air in his heart. Secretly: "Awesome".

Li Dayong did not fight with the Yue army, but he used up the more than 6,000 troops under his command in one day, and there were not many Yue troops who could steal meat from him to eat, and moreover, they defeated the elite Yue army of the 1st Field Division on the battlefield. However, Li Dayong did not know that the 10th Division of the Chinese Army could indeed be called the elite infantry division of the Japanese Army, and this division could be said to be an old opponent of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

The 10th Division was a new infantry division established after the First Sino-Japanese War, and its main force was composed of soldiers from the three prefectures of Hyogo, Okayama, and Tottori, as well as part of Shimane Prefecture. At the time of its formation, there were four infantry wings, namely: the 10th Infantry Wing (also known as Okayama Wing), the 39th Infantry Wing (Himeji Wing), the 40th Infantry Wing (Tottori Wing), and the 63rd Infantry Wing (Matsue Wing), and the 10th Division also had an internal code name recognized by the vast majority of the Japanese army within the army: "Iron Corps", which is self-evident.

From the beginning of its establishment, it was a rare field division in the army, and the history of the 10th Division fighting in China is also extremely long, as early as the Russian War, the 10th Division was transferred to Northeast China to fight against the Russians, and the 10th Division at that time was subordinate to the 4th Army led by General Nozu Michikan, and participated in the Battle of Liaoyang, the Battle of Shahe, the Battle of Mukden and other battles.

And the 10th Division participated in the war of aggression against China much earlier than the ordinary army. As early as 1931, after the outbreak of the "918" incident, the 10th Division was immediately organized into a mixed 8th Brigade and dispatched in December, and after entering the full, it participated in the operation in the Songhua River basin and the crusade in Jilin Province, and only officially returned to China for reorganization in March 1934.

In mid-August 1937, it landed in Dagu from the mainland and assembled in Tianjin, and then was incorporated into the 2nd Army. In mid to late September, it fought on the east road of the northern section of Jinpu Road, occupying Botou and Dexian, in early November, Linyi and Shanghe, and in December, Jinan was occupied; In January 1938, Yanzhou was occupied. Of course, at this time, the division commander of the 10th Division was not the familiar Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, but Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya.

Around March 1938, the Seya Qi Brigade advanced alone and broke through the Sichuan Army's Wang Mingzhang Department in Tengxian County with a brigade, but planted a big heel in Taierzhuang. In the face of the Northwest Army, which was ten times its size, and Tang Enbo's Central Army, although it claimed to be retreating, it failed to achieve its tactical goal in a series of offensives in which the army was overwhelmed, and in fact the 10th Division did lose face. Later, in the Battle of Xuzhou, the 63rd Wing of the 33rd Brigade broke through the 40,000 people of the Dian army at Yuwang Mountain, reinvigorated its strength, and on June 18, the commander of the division was changed to Yoshio Shinozuka.

However, history has changed slightly, in fact, according to the original historical trend, the 10th Division was no longer in China at this time, and the 10th Division was transferred back to the original in August 1939. However, due to the appearance of Han Yunhua, history is no longer a copy of the original history, so the 10th Division at this time will appear in eastern Hebei, and it will also be consumed with Li Dayong's department.

After the 10th Division captured Luanxian, it did not stop at all, except for an infantry brigade in Luanxian to guard the supply of heavy weapons, and the rest of the troops rushed to Qian'an immediately after lunch. By about 6 o'clock in the afternoon of 17 August, the 10th Division had already advanced to the junction of Luan County, Lulong and Qian'an, and the main force of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Division of the Chinese Army with Lu Long had completed the rendezvous at Taipingzhuang.

According to the battle plan drawn up by all the senior officers of the former enemy command in eastern Hebei, the main combat task of Li Dayong's 1st Field Division is to act as a bait to attract all the main forces of the Chinese army to Qian'an, and the 1st Field Division is actually just one or two pieces of fragrant fat, and his role is to attract the 10th Division, the cavalry group, the 2nd Brigade of the Chinese Garrison Army, the 21st Division, and the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division to Qian'an. Cooperate with the next big move of the big army.

In order to induce the main force of the army to gather in Qian'an, Master Chen mobilized all the squadrons near Qian'an to Qian'an, and as early as a month ago, he mobilized more than 700,000 people to build Qian'an fortifications. Moreover, the defense system of Qian'an was personally designed by Han Yunhua according to the geographical environment of Qian'an, and the entire defense circle of Qian'an has three layers from the outside to the inside, each layer is a group of reinforced concrete pillboxes and bunkers, and the trenches are wrapped in a layer, and there are 40,000 people in the [***] team participating in the defensive battle of Qian'an, and it is no exaggeration to say that the Inner Mongolia Military Region has built the entire city of Qian'an into a bunker, and the entire city is the battlefield of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Of course, there are no more residents in Qian'an City, and all the residents have been forcibly relocated to Chengde by the army.

At the same time, according to the instructions of Master Chen, Li Dayong and the leaders of the 1st Field Division frequently appeared in front of the positions on the periphery of Qian'an. Master Chen wanted to make the Yue army think that Qian'an was the main force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region's eastern Hebei team, and that the Inner Mongolia Military Region was going to fight a decisive battle with the Yue army in eastern Hebei.

Master Chen's attention is actually very simple, he sees that the army does not know the real strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so he wants to make some articles on this. In fact, it is not too clear how many troops there are in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, whether it is the political commissar Zuo or Master Chen. Except for Han Yunhua, who could predict the approximate strength of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region, no one else knew the true strength of the military region. It's not that Han Yunhua deliberately kept it a secret from his own people. However, since the Inner Mongolia Military Region has implemented the strategy of sharing the fruits of its own development, all units have recruited troops on the basis of battalions and companies, and the military region will not limit the establishment of troops. Even if you have ten battalions in a regiment, and each battalion has ten companies and districts, you will be recognized as long as you can provide for the arms and ammunition of the troops.

As a result of this, the military region's units are all overstaffed, so there are such strange establishments as super regiments and super battalions, just like Bao Sen's department, which is obviously an infantry regiment of less than 3,000 people, but it has six infantry battalions, two cavalry battalions, an artillery battalion, an engineer battalion, and a guard battalion, with a total strength of more than 5,700 people. Therefore, no one knows how many troops there are in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, this is a fact, and whether Master Chen Changcheng acknowledges it or not, the establishment of each unit reported to the military region does not correspond to the actual number.

Since the leaders of the Inner Mongolia Military Region themselves are not clear, it is even more impossible for the little devils to know. Master Chen believes that as long as the little devils think that the main force of the Eastern Hebei Brigade of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is surrounded by them in Qian'an, then the remaining Yue Army will definitely lose no time in advancing into the hinterland of eastern Hebei, and will even wait for the opportunity to seize Chengde and other important cities.

Moreover, part of the main force of the army is besieging Li Dayong in Qian'an, and the other part is fighting with other troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so the defense of the hinterland of the occupied area of the army will be very empty.

Sure enough, after the 10th Division and the 2nd Division joined the main forces, the two armies quickly rushed to Qian'an, but soon encountered stubborn resistance from the [***] team in Qian'an, and this time the [***] team had complete fortifications, and the will to resist was extremely tenacious, and almost every victory of the army must be obtained on the premise that all the Chinese defenders died in battle. Although the quality of these Chinese defenders was not high, and some of them could not even use the reinforced concrete fortifications that had been built, this did not mean that the army felt much light.

For two whole days, one division and two other infantry brigades of the Chinese army were stunned and were blocked from advancing on the outskirts of Qian'an. In desperation, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka had no choice but to order Chief of Staff Tsutsumi Bujia Gui Daisa to lead the 39th Wing of the Eighth Infantry Brigade to bypass the first line of defense on the periphery of Qian'an to see if he could find a way to enter the perimeter of Qian'an Castle.

However, it is a pity that the squadron has already operated an iron bucket in the entire Qian'an, and the chief of staff of the embankment does not clamp Gui Dazuo soon encountered the ring fortifications built by the Inner Mongolia Military Region in a place in the Pig Brain Mountain, and the two sides fought a bloody battle in the Pig Brain Mountain, and the tragedy was not much smaller than the first line of defense of Li Jiaji.

At this point, Yoshio Shinozuka realized that the rumors that the middle [***] team was going to have a main decisive battle with the Great Empire in Qian'an may not be false, and in the two days of fighting, the middle [***] team on the opposite position also suffered at least more than a thousand casualties, but the vitality of the opposite side was still extremely violent. Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka judged that the squadron [***] team on the opposite side also had at least one division of strength, coupled with the news from Tsuki Bujia Gui Daisa, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka found that there were at least two infantry divisions in the [***] team in Qian'an.

According to the judgment of General Binshan Yuan and the senior agents of the special high class, the army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is indeed quite large, and it should be the largest number of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army, and its strength should be at least more than 100,000 people, and the two infantry divisions have at least 20,000 people, that is to say, one-fifth of the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are stationed in this small place of Qian'an.

Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported the request to Beiping.

Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Front.

General Binshan Yuan is in a good mood today, wearing the new general's uniform to look particularly energetic, although his figure is not high, but he looks very strong. After receiving the telegram from the 10th Division, Senior General Binshan Yuan attached great importance to it and immediately ordered Major General Umeko Yamaguchi, the head of the North China Region of the Special High Division, to be called.

"Report!" The crisp and clear voice outside the door made Bin Shan Yuan immediately judge who the person who came out.

"Come in!" Admiral Binshan Mototo gently put the pen in his hand on the desk, and then raised his head to look at Yamaguchi Umeko, who walked in quickly.

"Your Excellency Commander, you are looking for me, if you have anything that you need me or the special high-tech service, please give me a lot of advice." Umeko Yamaguchi doesn't speak fast, but her volume is very high.

General Binshan Yuan stroked his glasses, and then said slowly: "Yamaguchi, I called you here now to determine the true surname of a piece of information, and I hope that your special high-tech department can judge the authenticity of this information and its possible surname, which is very important for the next battle of the Imperial Army." ”

"What kind of intelligence will make His Excellency the Commander attach so much importance to it, and please tell me, during this time, the main energy of our Special High-tech Branch is to collect the intelligence of Han Yunhua's headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the 69th Army that began to plot against Shi Yousan, so it is inevitable to relax the intelligence collection in other places, so I don't dare to guarantee the question of His Excellency the Commander, and I ask Your Excellency the Commander to forgive me. Of course, the humiliation is only an assumption, and perhaps I know it is not necessarily, but I also ask His Excellency the Commander to make it clear what the question is. Yamaguchi Umeko said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Although Yamaguchi Meizi's tone was very cold, Binshan Yuan, who was familiar with his surname, was not angry, and besides, depending on the face of which big man in the base camp, General Binshan Yuan really couldn't be more serious with Yamaguchi Meizi, so General Binshan Yuan still said clearly: "That's the case, just now His Excellency Shinozuka, the commander of the 10th Division, sent a telegram saying that they found the main force of the Chinese army in the direction of Qian'an in eastern Hebei, and it is conservatively estimated that there should be two divisions, and they have also built complete fortifications, all of which are reinforced concrete projects. And the formation was fought to the death with Yoshio Shinozuka's 10th Division, and the combat effectiveness of this branch army was also extremely strong, and it could be said to be the first-class elite of the Eighth Route Army, so the 10th Division was blocked on the front line of Li Jiaji and Pig Brain Mountain. Moreover, according to the judgment of Jun Shinozuka, the Shina army seems to want to have a decisive battle with our army in Qian'an. I don't know how much truth you have about the investigation and punishment of the A-Ministry, please tell me. ”

(To be continued)