Not to mention the embarrassed appearance of Shi Yousan, who was forced by the Japanese army to have no way out, the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei is now highly motivated, and because of Han Yunhua's coordination with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the head of the headquarters temporarily transferred Deng Political Commissar of the 129th Division to the 115th Division as the acting division commander, while Chen Guang and the 334th Brigade were transferred to southern Hebei to serve as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy headquarters in southern Hebei.

Under Han Yunhua's reminder, Chen Guangshi Yousan paid great attention to the wall-head grass, although the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei is now concentrated in Daming County, but the surveillance of Handan and the surrounding counties and cities has not been relaxed at all. As soon as the Japanese army arrived at Shimen, Chen Guang and others received accurate information from the intelligence department of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

The strength of the two divisions and two brigades of the Japanese army is indeed extraordinary, not counting the supernumerary puppet army, there are 50,000 people, and the puppet army in southern Hebei is also well-known, the puppet North China Security Army already has six infantry groups (brigades) stationed in southern Hebei, in addition to a cavalry group, although each group of the puppet North China Security Army is only two or three thousand people, but there are many numbers of dogs, there are more than 20,000 troops with names and surnames, and there are more than 20,000 people in the regular establishment of the army.

In addition to the more than 40,000 instructors, more than 8,000 people of the 334th Brigade, and more than 6,000 people under the jurisdiction of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, the entire southern Hebei former enemy command can use more than 55,000 troops. Although the previous battle achieved brilliant results, it also caused a certain number of casualties among the instructors, so Chen Guang can now mobilize about 50,000 troops with combat effectiveness, while the enemy has nearly 80,000, and the disparity between the enemy and our forces is far beyond the expectations of Chen Guang and others.

What worries Chen Guang the most is the 69th Army of the National ** Army, which now occupies six counties in Handan City, that is, Shi Yousan's troops, according to the intelligence sent by Han Yunhua, Shi Yousan is likely to lead his troops to defect to the enemy and treason. Although Shi Yousan's troops were less than 20,000 people, if Shi Yousan had betrayed the country, the enemy's strength would have reached a terrifying 100,000 people, more than twice that of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei. Moreover, this time, Han Yunhua gave Chen Guang and the former enemy command headquarters in southern Hebei to completely annihilate a division of the Japanese army, which was a dead mission that must be completed.

It has been almost three years since the Sino-Japanese war began, and several units have completely annihilated the integrated divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, not to mention that the infantry divisions and regiments of the Japanese army are often equipped with infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering, communications, combat vehicles, and other technical arms, and their combat effectiveness is already much stronger than that of the Eighth Route Army of the same number. In addition to the full support of the Japanese troops, in addition to the ground reinforcements, there was also air support. Therefore, the total annihilation of an infantry division must use five times the enemy's strength to achieve the strategic objective at the same cost of casualties.

After arriving at Shimen, the Japanese army did not immediately move south to fight, but began to attack the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army along the railway. In fact, Shimen is still a considerable distance from southern Hebei, but Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro, the supreme commander of the Japanese army who fought south this time, put the logistics base in Shimen.

Speaking of Shimen, everyone may not know what kind of place it is, but when it comes to Shijiazhuang, everyone must be no stranger, because now everyone will definitely talk about Shijiazhuang when they mention Hebei. But few people know that Shimen is actually Shijiazhuang. Shijiazhuang was formerly known as "Shimen". Shimen is located in the south-central part of Hebei Province, which is an area with an early development of human civilization and a very profound cultural heritage.

Shimen can be said to be the youngest city in the country, in the early 20th century, Shijiazhuang is really called Shijiazhuang Village, is a real small and medium-sized village in Hebei, the whole village has only 93 households, 578 people, an area of about 0.1 square kilometers.

The development of Shimen is inseparable from transportation, especially the railway. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Pinghan Railway (now the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway) and the Zhengtai Railway (now the Shitai Railway) were built one after another, and they intersected here, and Shijiazhuang gradually developed along with the construction of the railway. In 1925, the city was originally called Shimen City (later renamed Shijiazhuang City), so it was only 14 years after Shimen was established at this time. In 1902, the Jinghan Railway built by France and Belgium passed through here and set up a station, because Shijiazhuang is not very famous, it was named after Zhentou Town, which is not far away, called Zhentou Station. In 1907, the Zhengtai Railway (Zhengding to Taiyuan) was opened to traffic, and in order to avoid building a bridge on the Hutuo River, the Zhengtai Railway was connected with the Jinghan Railway in Shijiazhuang, and the starting point of the Zhengtai Railway was changed from Zhengding to Shijiazhuang, and Shijiazhuang became the intersection of the two railways, and gradually became a traffic artery and a commodity distribution center. In the same year, the first railway highway overpass "Dashiqiao" in Hebei Province across the Jinghan Railway and Zhengtai Railway was completed, and since then Shijiazhuang has been divided into Qiaodong District and Qiaoxi District with Dashiqiao as the boundary. A number of traffic arteries converge here, and the geographical location of Shimen suddenly stands out. …,

After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, the invading Japanese army occupied the Pingjin area at the end of August, and then attacked North China with 300,000 troops by land, sea and air along the main line of the Pingsui, Pinghan and Jinpu railways. On 14 September, the forces of three divisions attacked south along the Pinghan Road and on both sides. On the same day, the Japanese army dispatched planes to carry out reconnaissance bombing of Zhengding and Shijiazhuang, which were important towns in North China. The Kuomintang defenders along the route fought hard, but were unable to stop the Japanese advancing southward. From September 23, 1937, when the Japanese army occupied Xinle County in Shijiazhuang area, to December 30, when Zanhuang County fell, in just three months, most of Shijiazhuang counties except Shenze and Jin counties fell into the hands of the enemy. Everywhere the Japanese army went, they burned, killed, and plundered, and did all kinds of evil, causing a horrific tragedy.

Shimen, such an important transportation hub, must be the focus of the Japanese army's contention, and on October 10, 1937, the Japanese invading army invaded Shimen. Since the invaders stepped into the beautiful and rich land of Shijiazhuang, they have taken this place as the rear base and base camp for their invasion of North China and even the whole of China, occupying large tracts of fertile land, building barracks, digging trenches, paving roads and bridges, opening airports, supporting local puppets, establishing Japanese puppet regimes, establishing consulates, and opening businesses, with great ambitions to build Shijiazhuang into one of the six major metropolises in North China, in a vain attempt to strengthen the long-term rule and occupation of central and southern Hebei with this as the center. After the Japanese invading army occupied Shimen, it stationed one-third of the total strength of the Japanese army in North China. From the first commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi to the current General Binshan Yuan, they all attached great importance to the transportation status of Shimen, and the Japanese army adopted a series of measures to cultivate Shimen into a military base for long-term occupation of North China. On the one hand, it has greatly increased the number of troops, expanded the scale of the city, and strengthened the military position of the city. On the other hand, a puppet regime was fostered here, and on January 15, 1938, the pseudo "Preparatory Office of Shimen Municipal Office" was established.

Historical events are like a kaleidoscope, leaving the world overwhelmed. Due to accidental factors, Shijiazhuang became the intersection of two railways, and this brought about a major change in a region at the beginning of the century, a rural village was held up by the rumbling wheels, so that the political, economic, military, and cultural center of a region moved south, first replacing Zhengding, and then replacing Baoding, and becoming an important town in North China that controls the south gate of Yanjing, chokes the throat of Hebei and Jin, and connects the Qilu Central Plains. At the beginning of the 20th century, Shijiazhuang was still a small village under the jurisdiction of Lu County, at that time the Lu was the cargo distribution center of Tongyan Zhao and Lian Sanjin, known as the "dry wharf of the day into the gold", but with the construction and opening of the Zhengtai railway, the dry wharf of the day into the gold gradually moved eastward, and the business and service industry of Shijiazhuang became more and more prosperous, gradually replacing the status of the deer, and became the new center of economy, culture, transportation, postal and communication in this area.

After the Japanese occupied Shimen, both the Communist Party and the Kuomintang sent a large number of troops to fight for this area, and after the failure of the frontal battle, they went underground to fight, and if they failed, they formed guerrilla units and night raid teams to sabotage, and the Chinese tried every means to prevent the Zhengtai Railway and other transportation arteries from serving the Japanese army.

The unscrupulous resistance of the Chinese people is still very powerful; when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression just broke out, the Zhengtai Railway was paralyzed once in three days and two days, and the Japanese military columns that derailed and overturned were also one after another, so the Japanese army had to set up a railway road patrol unit equipped with patrol combat vehicles.

But the communist guerrilla warfare is a tactic rooted in the masses of the people, and there are guerrillas where there are people, and guerrillas where there are villages. Even though the Japanese army sent a large force to sweep many times, the guerrilla threat to Shimen railway traffic still existed. Therefore, after Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro led his troops to Shimen, he did not dare to go further south, because all the supplies of his troops had to be transported to the battlefield in the south through the railway line at Shimen, and if the railway line at Shimen was cut off or destroyed by the Chinese army, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Originally, General Binshan Yuan sent Abe Norihide to sweep Jizhong and Beiyue Mountains in order to contain the two most active Eighth Route Army units in Hebei and indirectly support Kimura Hyotaro's southern front operations. But it's a pity that Abe Norihide is too angry, and he went to Jin to see Amaterasu in less than half a month in Jizhong, and he received the news of Abe's death before Lieutenant General Kimura's sweep was over, and he only heard Lieutenant General Kimura dumbfounded.

The death of Abe Norihide still had a great impact on Kimura Hyotaro, and the originally solid rear defense line was torn apart at once, and once the troops of the Jizhong Military Region and the troops of the Jinchaji Military Region suddenly moved south, then Kimura Hyotaro was likely to be attacked by the Chinese army from both sides. …,

It is not a good feeling to be attacked on the belly and back, especially when surrounded by an extremely strong fighting force. Therefore, Kimura Hyotaro sent people to continue to force Ishiyuzo to surrender on the one hand, and on the other hand, he concentrated all his troops to sweep the Chinese army near Ishimon.

The main target of Kimura Hyotaro's sweep was the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in the counties and townships around Shimen, so a large number of Japanese troops poured into the Chinese countryside like locusts, burning, killing and looting, not to mention, what is even more odious is that the Japanese army completely arrested all the young and middle-aged men and women in the counties and townships around Shimen County, on the one hand, forcing these people to build fortifications, and on the other hand, they concentrated on guarding these Chinese farmers. In Kimura's words, the guerrillas are also human beings, and as long as all the young and middle-aged people in Shimen are eliminated, the guerrillas in Shina will have no basis for existence, and the "banditry trouble" in Jizhong will be completely solved.

In fact, the idea of killing all Chinese and then immigrating to the Japanese to live was very common in Japan at that time, and it was not uncommon for Japanese soldiers to hold this view. At that time, the invasion of China was the most basic premise, and on the basis of agreeing to this premise, the Japanese soldiers still held two views, the first was the above-mentioned theory of extermination, which was to annex the whole of China to Japan by destroying the existing races on Chinese soil. The second was to support the establishment of a puppet regime in China, to rule China through a puppet regime, and then to achieve the goal of complete subjugation of China through enslavement education, which was the mainstream at that time.

Obviously, Lieutenant General Kimura's views are exactly the theory of extermination, so it is not uncommon for Chinese civilians to be massacred in his troops. So when Han Yunhua heard that the supreme commander of the Japanese army attacking southern Hebei this time was Kimura, his heart was unbalanced. The total annihilation of an infantry division of the Japanese army This is an order issued by Han Yunhua to Chen Guang and the entire southern Hebei army, and at the same time, it is not a spur to himself. Han Yunhua, a war criminal who invaded China, is all too familiar with Kimura Hyotaro, and you must know that Kimura Hyotaro was the last Japanese war criminal to be hanged after the war.

Hyotaro Kimura was born into a military family, and his father was Army Major Isuke Sakimura (Lu Shijiu 4th period, killed in the Russo-Japanese War). On May 27, 1908, Kimura graduated from the 20th Artillery Section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School (15th out of 276 people), and on December 25 of the same year, he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant in artillery and was attached to the 16th Field Artillery Wing. On November 26, 1912, he graduated from the 18th Higher Section of the Army Artillery School and served as an instructor at the Army Field Artillery Shooting School. On November 25, 1916, he graduated from the 28th class of the Army University (9th out of 56 students). He successively served as a member of the General Staff Headquarters, a member of the General Staff Headquarters, a staff officer of the 3rd Division, a member of the General Staff Headquarters, a member of the General Staff Headquarters, a member of the General Staff Headquarters and an instructor of the Army University, a member of the 24th Field Artillery Wing, a member of the Artillery Supervisory Command, an instructor of the Army Field Artillery School, a member of the General Staff Headquarters and a member of the Military Command Department. Captain of the 22nd Field Artillery Wing (918 Incident), member of the Army Technical Headquarters and instructor of the Field Artillery School, and head of the Ruling Division of the Army Ministry Improvement Bureau in March 1935. He was promoted to Major General on August 1, 1936. In August 1936, he was transferred to the chief of the Ordnance Bureau, and in November 1937, he was also the chief of the field weapons of the base camp. Until this time, Kimura Hyotaro had always been an artillery expert in the Japanese Army, responsible for the development and development of field weapons and equipment. In March 1939, Kimura Hyotaro was appointed by the Japanese headquarters as the commander of the 32nd Division as a lieutenant general.

Historically, soon after Kimura Hyotaro became the commander of the 32nd Division, he led his troops to Yanzhou, Shandong, and immediately began to prepare for a frenzied sweep of our Shandong base area. On April 14, 1939, Kimura Hyotaro led more than 8,000 Japanese troops from Zou County, Teng County, Zaozhuang, Linyi and other places to carry out a "sweep" to the Baoqinggu Mountain Area by different routes, in an attempt to find and annihilate the main force of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and destroy our anti-Japanese base in southern Lunan. Before leading the troops to "set out," Kimura Hyotaro issued a combat order to the troops: The Eighth Route Army and the base areas must be completely annihilated at all costs, and all the people in the base areas, regardless of men, women, and children, must be killed, leaving no future troubles, all houses must be burned, and all grain and grass that cannot be carried must also be burned. His arrogance is really arrogant. However, the vigorous Kimura Division was dragged away by the guerrilla warfare of the 115th Division of our Eighth Route Army, and was exhausted. In a fit of rage, Kimura ordered the Japanese soldiers to carry out a bloody massacre of the unarmed people. Kimura Hyotaro ordered his soldiers to imprison more than 2,000 ordinary people in the Xinhuain concentration camp in Jinan. Every laborer who was sent here would have 200cc of blood drawn every day, and the Japanese army deceived the laborers into saying that it was for laboratory testing, but in fact it was for blood transfusions for the wounded of the Japanese army, and many people died due to excessive blood drawing. Some of those who resisted were severely tortured and even bitten by the wolfdogs that were released. The walls of the concentration camp were surrounded by high-voltage power grids, and many of the escaped laborers were electrocuted to death, and those who were captured were killed by the Japanese army using extremely cruel methods. During the day, he ordered the Japanese to take the "prisoners" to do hard labor, and at night they were locked in cold, damp, and stinking black rooms, and often only three days before one meal. If someone expresses the slightest displeasure or resistance, they will severely beat them or release vicious wolfdogs to bite them. For those who escaped, they pierced their palms with wires and hanged them from trees, or forced them to dig their own pits with bayonets, and then stabbed them to death and buried them. Kimura Hyotaro's cruelty is well-known in the Japanese army, so among so many war criminals in Japan, Han Yunhua has a deep memory of this person. …,

Han Yunhua still knew a lot about Kimura's cruelty, and the most unacceptable thing for him was that after Kimura was transferred to the post of chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he continued to adhere to the tough stance of the army faction, actively brewed a special large-scale exercise of the Kwantung Army (referred to as "Guan Special Exercise"), and planned to start a war against the Soviet Union. During this period, he ordered the establishment of the "Public Security Work Guidance Department" in Harbin, which carried out the White Terror and killed thousands of Chinese people. At the same time, Kimura Hyotaro also reached an agreement with the North China Dispatch Army to transport a large number of Chinese laborers captured in the name of "military crusade" and "law and order" to Northeast China, amounting to more than 100,000 people every year, some of whom were also taken to Japan and died in foreign lands. Kimura Hyotaro ordered the Kwantung Army to send the laborers to the Liaoyuan mining area in Jilin Province, and built two barbed wire fences around it, a high-voltage power grid sandwiched in the middle, and an earthen wall more than one zhang high was built in the innermost part to prevent the laborers from escaping because they could not bear the hard labor. The laborers toiled all day long under the whips of the murderous Japanese officers and soldiers, and countless laborers were tortured to death due to hunger and cold. In addition, because the Japanese army only drove the laborers to dig coal without any consideration for safety measures, it was not uncommon for workers to die from mine collapses, gas poisoning, or gas explosions. Kimura also ordered the laborers to dig a "mass grave" near the mine to bury the dead laborers. It took less than a year and eight months for this "mass grave" to be filled with corpses. Before Kimura was transferred from the Kwantung Army, as many as 10,000 Chinese laborers died in hard labor. At the same time, in order to intensify preparations for war against the Soviet Union, Kimura Hyotaro also ordered the Kwantung Army to capture hundreds of thousands of laborers from all over the country to build fortifications in the Sino-Soviet border area.

After learning that Kimura Hyotaro's 32nd Infantry Division had arrived in southern Hebei, Han Yunhua actively prepared for war, and the instructor and the 115th Division and other troops were also gearing up, ready to give Kimura an unforgettable ......lesson.