Although there were no suitable troops to rescue the remnants of the 2nd Division, General Binshan Yuan knew that he must not watch the 2nd Division be eaten and wiped out by the Chinese troops in this way. Otherwise, even if the North China Front Army achieves great results this time, then he, the commander of the North China Front, will not end well.

Bin Shan Yuan thought about it for a while, and now only the aviation regiment can help the second division, but almost all the aviation regiments of the North China Front have gone south to support the Central China Front Army to participate in the Battle of Nanchang, although it is expected that the time will not be too long, but it will not be able to come back in a short time. Although the remaining aviation units were not small, there were two flying wings, but most of them were sent by him to Shandong to cooperate with Yamaguchi Meizi.

After thinking about it, General Binshan Yuan had no choice but to be ruthless and ordered the two aviation squadrons guarding the safety of the Beiping Headquarters to rush to Chengde to support the Second Division in the battle. At the same time, Senior General Kenkichi Ueda sent a telegram hoping that the Kwantung Army Command would send one or two aviation brigades to support the Second Division's Toji Yasui.

Senior General Kenkichi Ueda is a native of Osaka Prefecture, and among all the generals of the Japanese army, only he and Hidera Obata who died in the battle are from Osaka. Unlike the "Kyushu boys" from Saga, Kumamoto, and Oita, Osaka people have always been known for their shrewdness and ability to do business. The best example of this is that the 4th Division, which was composed of Osaka people, was called an ultra-weak and useless division, while the 2nd and 6th Divisions were equally famous for their courage and the 4th Division. Ueda also studied business in his early years, and later changed his career to be admitted to the non-commissioned officer school. In 1932, he led the 9th Division of Kanazawa to Shanghai, and his 7th Wing Commander Lin Daba Dazuo was killed by the 19th Route Army. At the post-war celebration party, he was blown off the ball of his left foot by a bomb dropped by Yoon Bong-gil, a righteous soldier, and his left calf was taken to the hospital and forced to be amputated due to his injuries. Although his leg was lame, the officer was promoted, and immediately after the injury he was promoted to deputy chief of staff. Plus the latter two? He took the right position in the 26 incident and succeeded Minamijiro as the commander of the Kwantung Army.

Kenkichi Ueda, who became the commander of the Kwantung Army, was very dissatisfied with the continuous humiliation of the North China Front at the hands of the small Han Yunhua's subordinates, especially because of the mistakes of the North China Front, which led to the great disaster of the heroic second division of the Kwantung Army. Moreover, the activities of the Anti-United Nations in Manchuria were becoming more and more rampant at this time, and most of the troops of the Kwantung Army were monitoring the Red Soviet Union opposite, and it was also powerless to deal with the anti-United Nations bandits who were drilled in the old woods, and after the second division was transferred to the south, the Kwantung Army had to use the army of Manchukuo, which General Ueda Kenkichi hated.

Senior General Kenkichi Ueda did not dare to imagine what would happen to him, the commander of the Kwantung Army, if the 2nd Division was annihilated by the Shina troops. After receiving the telegram from General Binshan Moto, although General Ueda Kenkichi was dissatisfied and scolded for a long time, he finally agreed to send the air force south to support the Second Division and teach those dishonest Shina pigs a good lesson.

Senior General Kenkichi Ueda urgently ordered all the bombers of the 10th and 11th Wings of the Kwantung Army Flying Group to quickly mount and launch, and the target was Chengde.

At half past nine, two flying squadrons of the aviation unit of the Japanese North China Front finally arrived in Chengde and gave strong support to the 2nd Division. The offensive of Ye Baoguo's headquarters was slowed down, but soon the air defense positions of Ye Baoguo's headquarters played a great role, and the unsuspecting Japanese planes were shot down two and three were damaged at the first time, and the frightened Japanese bombers with weak protection no longer dared to drop bombs at low altitudes.

Taking this opportunity, Ye Baoguo's large army began to retreat, leaving only one infantry platoon at each city gate, which saw that it was the movement of the Japanese army. Soon after, the 10th and 11th Wings of the Kwantung Army Flying Group arrived and found that the hateful Shina troops had retreated, and after consulting General Kenyoshi Ueda, they had no choice but to return the same way.

Receiving a call from the front-line troops that the Shina troops outside the city had temporarily retreated, Lieutenant General Toji Yasui breathed a long sigh of relief. A month ago, he never imagined that the positions held by the warriors of the Second Division under his command would collapse several times in a single day. But now that he believes, he believes that His Excellency Terauchi and his predecessor, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, have a high opinion of this Chinese army.

Lieutenant General Yasui Toji knew that he could only hope to survive if he honestly held Chengde Castle, and he did not dare to think of the big words he had said in his telegram to General Binshan Yuan a few days ago that he could completely annihilate or defeat the Shina troops outside the city as soon as possible. This is the Tubalu he imagined, even the most elite Central Army can't compare to this army. ,

Throwing the faint fear in his mind subconsciously, Lieutenant General Yasui Toji immediately ordered the troops to count the number of casualties, seize the time to repair the broken fortifications, and at the same time do their best to rescue the wounded. In order to solve the problem of insufficient soldiers, Yasui Toji armed all the Japanese expatriates in Chengde City, and there were weapons and equipment in Chengde City anyway. Although there is not much ammunition, it should not be a problem to support it for three or four days. If reinforcements do not arrive in three or four days, no amount of weapons and ammunition will be in vain. He didn't believe that under such a fierce attack by the squadron, how many days would these five or six thousand remnants of the fighting spirit be able to hold out, and maybe it would not take him three days for him and the elite second division to fall and perish along with Chengde City. Therefore, leaving so many weapons and equipment is not to wait for the cheap Zhina troops, it is better to let all the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire in Chengde City do the final struggle together.

From more than ten o'clock in the morning, after the retreat of the ** army, until more than six o'clock in the afternoon, the ** squadron did not appear. But Lieutenant General Yasui Fujiji did not dare to lead the troops to break through, he knew that there were at least more than 20,000 squadrons around Chengde City waiting for him to die.

As soon as night fell, countless torches appeared outside Chengde City, and the squadron was once again ready to attack. After a day's rest and replenishment, Lieutenant General Yasui believes that tonight should not be in the same dangerous situation as last night.

However, as soon as the battle began, Lieutenant General Yasui Toji received a call that a large number of armored troops appeared outside the city, all the outer defense lines were lost, and the troops were defeated and returned to the city.

After four or five minutes of silence, Lieutenant General Toji Yasui sent the reserves of the last two squadrons in his hands to the West Gate and the South Gate, where the battle was at its most intense. Looking at my watch, I found that it was only less than nine o'clock, and there were still more than ten hours before dawn, and it would take at least eleven hours for the aviation unit. He knew that he and the 2nd Division were finished, but as an excellent commander of the Great Japanese Empire, he was not prepared to run away or hide, he had his own pride. Toji Yasui believes that a lieutenant general is on the battlefield and that it is his honor, and he can be defeated, but no one can deprive him of his honor.

After writing the farewell message, Lieutenant General Yasui Toji ordered the telegraph operator to send out the telegram and kill all the two telegraph operators with a backhand, because only they knew the top-secret code of the Great Japanese Empire in the entire division and regimental headquarters, so they must not fall into the hands of the squadron, and only the dead can achieve complete secrecy. After setting a fire in the headquarters where he had lived for more than three months, Lieutenant General Toji Yasui grabbed the command knife on his desk and walked out.

Subsequently, Lieutenant General Toji Yasui ordered all personnel of the divisional headquarters to assemble, including non-combatants. Each man was given sixty rounds of ammunition from a rifle and followed him to the front. In fact, there is no longer a distinction between the front line and the rear, and the entire city of Chengde has entered the stage of street fighting. Lieutenant General Yasui Toji led these miscellaneous officers not far from the headquarters when they encountered a squadron that had entered the city.

The 2nd Division was worthy of being the most elite unit of Japan, although it was caught off guard by the armored units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and completely lost its position outside Chengde. But when Ye Baoguo's headquarters entered the city, it encountered great obstacles, and all the Japanese army's current establishment has been disrupted, but Ye Baoguo's headquarters had to pay the price of blood for every step forward, and the scattered Japanese soldiers fought with Ye Baoguo's headquarters for every street and alley in Chengde City. The street fighting lasted for more than four hours, and it was not until two o'clock in the morning on the 19th that all the remnants of the enemy in Chengde City were cleared.

Han Yunhua did not participate in the siege and annihilation of the remnants of the enemy in Chengde City, he knew that Ye Baoguo was capable of this combat mission. When he arrived at Hanjiadian, he received a telegram from Ye Baoguo, saying that he had captured Chengde City and completely annihilated the remnants of the Second Division defending the city, and killed Lieutenant General Toji Yasui.

Han Yunhua knew that the order he gave to Ye Baoguo was to take Chengde at all costs and annihilate the Japanese troops defending the city. Attacking such an elite city as the 2nd Division, the casualties of the troops were definitely not a small number. So Han Yunhua didn't blame Ye Baoguo, he knew that whoever fought this battle would be the same, and if he went by himself, he wouldn't lose many troops less than Ye Baoguo. ,

Han Yunhua instructed Ye Baoguo to clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, and the mechanized brigade should be withdrawn immediately, and the Japanese planes would arrive as soon as dawn.

At this time, the headquarters of the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army were brightly lit, and Lieutenant General Yasui Fujiji's top-secret farewell message was sent to Beiping and Mukden (Shenyang) at the same time.

After listening to Major General Okada's report with a pale face, General Binshan immediately sent a telegram to Senior General Ueda Kenkichi to discuss the aftermath. The commander of the Second Division and nearly half of the troops were annihilated, and such a big responsibility was not something that Binshan Yuan could afford alone. In the Japanese Army, the relationship between combat and commander-in-chief was like this. The battle was fought well, and the official was promoted. If the battle is lost, the chief officer will definitely be unlucky, and there is almost no chance to turn over, such as General Terauchi Shouichi, who was removed from his post and transferred to the reserve half a year ago. Senior General Binshan Gen knew that if he did not handle it well this time, he and Ueda Kenkichi and the entire leadership of the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army would probably not be able to save all of them. Senior General Ueda Kenkichi said that even if he didn't have anything at all, he wouldn't be able to do it for a few years, after all, Senior General Ueda Kenkichi is now 64 and a half years old. Because the retirement age of Japanese generals is set at 65 years old, unless they receive the title of marshal before the age of 65, they can serve for life.

Less than a month after taking office, Ueda Kenkichi personally met with Pu Yi and informed him that the Kwantung Army had arrested Ling Sheng, the governor of North Hung Yen Province, and sentenced him to death. Kenkichi Ueda finally bluntly emphasized: "This is to make an example of a hundred people"

The Ling Sheng incident had a great impact on Pu Yi, and the Japanese colonial rulers wanted to make an example of the puppet officials by "killing one and making an example of a hundred", otherwise they would be punished by Ling Sheng. This private action of Senior General Ueda Kenkichi made Major General Sasaki Toichi, the top adviser of the puppet Manchukuo Army, very dissatisfied with Ueda about this matter, believing that he had destroyed the harmonious relations between Japan and Manchuria, which had been established with great difficulty. The majority of high-ranking officials in Japan also have very strong opinions on this, and this action by Ueda Kenkichi has caused the high-ranking officials of the puppet Manchukuo to be extremely shocked, and even the high-ranking officials at the level of provincial governors can be killed by the Japanese army if they want to, and there is nothing to remember if this official is not appropriate. There were not a few puppet Manchukuo officials who resigned for a time or even simply abandoned their posts and fled, and the puppet Manchukuo was on the verge of collapse.

This time, the main force of the 2nd Division was annihilated, and the division commander, Lieutenant General Yasui Toji, was killed, although it is said that the main responsibility this time is on the North China Front, and it is said that the responsibility should also be borne by Binshan Motodai in the future. However, it is important to know that Senior General Binshan Yuan is the former deputy chief of staff of the Ministry of the Army, and he has a very good relationship with the current chief of staff, Miyajihito Kanin, so it is impossible for Binshan Yuan to bear the responsibility for this defeat. Therefore, Senior General Ueda Kenkichi already knew his fate when he received the farewell message from Toji Yasui, and although the responsibility was not on his own, his best ending was also announced to step down because of defeat.

However, General Ueda Kenkichi also knew his current situation, and it was impossible to be promoted to marshal, and the Japanese Empire could tolerate a lame man as the commander of the general, but it would never allow the appearance of a captive marshal. That is to say, he has been in the army for more than half a year at most, but at this time, General Binshan Yuan is only fifty-eight years old, and the fifty-eight-year-old army general has a bright future

No one knows what General Binshan Gen said to Kenkichi Ueda, but after the battle, Kenkichi Ueda was ordered by the headquarters to return to China to report on his work, and the post of commander of the Kwantung Army was temporarily commanded by the chief of staff. However, General Binshan Yuan, who was directly responsible for this battle, was only severely reprimanded by the base camp and ordered the North China Front to "maintain a stable situation in the Shanxi region of North China that is now occupied, and strive to quickly restore law and order in the northern part of Hebei Province, Shandong Province, the western part of Shanxi Province, and the Inner Mongolia region, and ensure the safety of the main communication routes." ”

General Binshan Yuan knew that he would not be able to explain to the base camp without a great victory in a sweaty battle, and now that the remnants of the Second Division had been completely annihilated by the Zhina troops, there was no great thing to be done in the war in the entire eastern Hebei region. I just received news that more than 20,000 people from Han Yunhua's headquarters in northern Shanxi Province had sent troops to western Hebei to threaten Zhangjiakou, the capital city of Chahar Province, at any time, and at the same time, Beiping, where the headquarters of the North China Front Army was located, was also threatened by the Chinese army, so General Binshan Yuan had to order the Fengwen Department under the mountain to urgently return to Zhangjiakou. At present, the tactics of the North China Front Army's painstaking management of the three-way siege center were completely destroyed by Han Yunhua's troops not long after they were executed, and with the more than 30,000 people of the first division, it was impossible to recover the entire eastern Hebei in the large number of Chinese troops, so General Binshan Yuan personally sent a report to Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, the commander of the first division, ordering the first division to take Lulong County, and the troops should not attack to the west again, and the troops should go directly north, and the area west of Qian'an and Qinglong must be well defended. The railway arteries of the Kwantung Army's southward movement did not allow any mishaps. ,

At the same time, Senior General Binshan Mototo ordered Major General Umeko Yamaguchi, who was commanding operations in Shandong, and Lieutenant General Ogaka Kamezo, commander of the 12th Army, to launch a siege of all the Chinese troops in Shandong ahead of schedule, and it was necessary to uproot all the armed forces of China in Shandong within a week, especially the hateful Eighth Route Army of China.

Han Yunhua did not report the news of the Jidong troops of the Second Division of the Annihilation to the Yan'an Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, because he already knew that the independent 77th Division of Master Chen had already put the more than 10,000 miscellaneous troops from Qinhuangdao into an ambush circle.

On March 22, Han Yunhua led the special combat team and the transport team to finally rush back to Xinghe County. As long as it returns to Xinghe County, then this convoy does not need to hide, let alone travel day and night. The battles on the front line were nearing the end, and after the remnants of the Second Division were annihilated, the offensive of the mysterious Japanese army registered at the mouth of the Dapu River suddenly weakened a lot, and although the Eighth Brigade lost more than 2,000 troops, it finally stabilized the battle line at Zhaodianzi and Chenguantun, which were more than 50 kilometers east of Qian'an. And the Yamashita Fengwen Division, which attacked Zhangbei County, quickly withdrew back soon after the second assault brigade appeared in Huailai, just like the head of the thousand-year-old king. As for the Japanese army on the Qinhuangdao side, it is already the dish in the urn, and it has been recorded by Han Yunhua in the credit book of the independent 77th Division, so there are still runs. As for the troops on the southern front, there is no need to worry, the south of Wei County, including the county seat of Wei County, is the territory of the Japanese army, and the north of Huajialing is all the sphere of influence of Han Yunhua's department.

In this battle, Han Yunhua's headquarters transferred nearly 90,000 mobile troops from almost all the mobile units of his department, and personally commanded them under the command of the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, member of the ** Northern Bureau, commander of the reorganized 300 Division, and president of the Saibei Military Command College. So far, Han Yunhua's strategic and tactical goals of supporting the 129th Division, meeting the German "arms dealers", and expanding the base area have all been achieved, and at the same time, tens of thousands of Japanese puppet troops have been killed and wounded, and the arrogance of the Japanese army has been dealt a severe blow.