Han Yunhua was very satisfied with the attack of the Second Brigade and other units of the assault, and now the Inner Mongolia Military Region, from the commander down to the ordinary soldiers, knew that the battle situation was very unfavorable to the military region, and if they did not fight well this time, not only would their beloved commanders be in trouble, but even the millions of ordinary people in the base areas behind them would be tragically ravaged by the army.

During the period after marching into eastern Hebei, they had already seen too many tragedies of slaughtering villages and exterminating clans, so every soldier was holding back a breath of anger in their hearts. Therefore, during the offensive, the combat effectiveness of the troops increased exponentially, and whether it was Xia Chicheng or Zhanfengning, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region showed a momentum of looking at death as if they were at home, and it was by virtue of this momentum that they inadvertently created a miracle in the history of Chinese warfare.

Since the march into eastern Hebei, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has successively captured Chicheng County, Fengning County, Guyuan County, and Weichang County in a short period of four days. This kind of attack speed was not only shocking to Shouichi Terauchi, but even Han Yunhua, the commander, felt a little incredible.

With the light emitted by the artillery fire, Han Yunhua saw from the captured high-powered military binoculars that the opposing army had done a very good job in arranging troops and the civil engineering of the position, which showed that the command level of the commander of the army on the opposite side was very high. However, Han Yunhua also saw that the combat quality of the ordinary soldiers on the opposite side was indeed not very good, and it was a miracle that he could support it until now.

From intelligence, it is known that the only brigade-level military unit in eastern Hebei is the Chengde Garrison Brigade and Regiment, which is subordinate to the North China Front. Although Han Yunhua is familiar with history, he has no influence on this Junichi Hiraizumi, he thought that this Junichi Hiraizumi was of average level, so he was unknown in the history of the Anti-Japanese War. Now it seems that history sometimes jokes with future generations, and this Hiraizumi Junichi's command talent is no worse than that of Yamashita Fumi, a fierce general who was later called the "Tiger of the Malays".

Seeing that the war had been stalemate, Han Yunhua was also a little anxious. It's nothing on his side, but Yang Ruihua's side is a little unbearable now, since last night until now, the army Gu Shoufu's department has launched a 24-hour uninterrupted attack on Jining City. The heavy artillery wing under the command of the 6th Division continued to pour steel shells on the positions of the defenders of Jining City, causing extremely heavy casualties to the troops defending the city.

In less than 30 hours, the more than 20,000 troops under Yang Ruihua's command lost more than 4,000 troops, accounting for almost one-fifth of Yang Ruihua's total strength. What frightened Yang Ruihua the most was that the army used poison gas on Jining City in one day, and the troops defending the city had already prepared nothing, but the people stranded in the city and the tens of thousands of victims from Henan were not so lucky, and countless ordinary people died under the poisonous gas of the Yue army.

According to Gu Shoufu's level of attack, it will not be long before the army can break through the outer positions of Jining City. However, the casualties of the army were not small, and according to the observation of the forward positions, the number of the troops attacking the 6th Division was changed by four in one day. As the attacking side, the casualties of Tani's troops were at least more than 3,000.

However, now it is said that the military family has a great cause, and it is not at all comparable to that of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. The loss of 100,000 people in the army can only make the base camp hurt for a while, but if the Inner Mongolia Military Region loses 100,000 people, then the Inner Mongolia Military Region will become history. So when the attack of the Yue army slowed down slightly, Yang Ruihua hurriedly sent a telegram to Han Yunhua to report the battle situation in Jining City to Han Yunhua.

After receiving Yang Ruihua's telegram, Han Yunhua knew that Shouichi Terauchi was forced by himself, and now it was the most critical juncture for the competition between the two sides. Whoever lasts longer than the other will be the winner.

Han Yunhua handed the telegram in his hand to the guard on the side, picked up the pencil on the folding table, lightly compared it on the military map spread on the table, and ordered the operator behind him: "Send a telegram to Wan Guoquan, order the other regiments of the Second Assault Brigade to attack, and before 12 o'clock, the Second Assault Brigade must take down the blue flag of Longhua's West Portal." After taking the Blue Flag, the 2nd Assault Brigade was divided into two routes to complete the encirclement of the Taipingzhuang and Fengshan armies, and finally joined the 77th Brigade and the 1st and 2nd Supplementary Corps to join the division in Longhua County. The 1st and 2nd Cavalry Brigades were ordered to quickly move south, detour to the south line of the Rehe River, and directly attack the Han Ma Battalion between Longhua and Chengde. Ordered the fire support regiment, the engineer regiment, and the saber special operations brigade to attack Chengde. ”

Han Yunhua's order immediately escalated, at first Han Yunhua took into account the casualties of the troops, so he only allowed an infantry regiment to be placed in front of the defensive position of the army, so a large number of troops were concentrated on the line from Longhua to Luanping. After Han Yunhua's attack order was issued, the units of the 2nd Assault Brigade, the 1st Supplementary Corps, the 77th Ready Brigade, and the 2nd Supplementary Corps placed an infantry regiment in the forward positions of their respective attacks.

Suddenly, Major General Junichi Hiraizumi felt the pressure double, and half an hour later, the Blue Banner defense line was crushed by the Eighth Route Army, and the wing that defended the position fled back with less than 1,000 men, and a full 2,500 people were annihilated by the Shina army. The moment the Blue Flag position was lost, he ordered the defenders of several other positions to immediately get rid of the Eighth Route Army in front of him and withdraw to Longhua County, and he wanted to rely on the complete city defense fortifications of Longhua County to block Han Yunhua's troops.

On July 9, it was not a good day for Shouichi Terauchi and Han Yunhua. In the early morning of the 9th, Han Yunhua led all the troops to complete the siege of Longhua City, and randomly carried out a certain tentative attack on Longhua City. At the same time, the two cavalry brigades now stationed on the periphery of the enclosure also began to move south, and they could reach the Han Ma camp in a day and a half at most. And the Saber Special Operations Brigade has also reached the periphery of Chengde and can launch an attack on Chengde at any time.

Originally, the war had begun to develop in favor of the Eighth Route Army, but a telegram from the Daqingshan headquarters completely ignited Han Yunhua's anger. At a quarter past 2 a.m. on 9 July, Guo Weidong, who was left behind at the headquarters of the military region, sent a telegram saying that an hour earlier, the headquarters in Daqingshan had been attacked by a small unit of the Chinese army, and that a guard battalion and a security regiment temporarily transferred to the headquarters had been routed by the devils, with more than 1,500 dead and wounded. What made Han Yunhua angry the most was that Yuhan was missing!

According to Guo Weidong's call, because during this period of time, the vanguard troops of the army have entered the territory of Xinghe County, so the base area has entered a state of high alert, and there are more than one battalion of troops patrolling every night, and the light and dark sentinels are all over Daqingshan, but those devils seem to be very clear about the layout of Daqingshan, especially the defense force of Daqingshan is not bad at all, so when the devils attack the mountain, most of the soldiers did not notice. It wasn't until all the patrols and sentry posts were unknowingly touched by the devils that the devils were secretly slaughtering the people on the mountain and the soldiers in the barracks that they were discovered by Li Yuhan's guards. Although Wang Wenshan, the head of the security regiment at that time, quickly organized a counterattack, it was too late at that time, and the continuous explosions had already blown the entire Daqing Mountain into ruins.

In this battle, the headquarters of Daqingshan was almost destroyed, all ground facilities were destroyed, and the soldiers suffered casualties of nearly three integrated battalions, of which the absolute loss was 1,358 people, accounting for 89% of all losses, and at the same time, more than 5,000 ordinary people were brutally killed or blown up by devils, and countless people were injured. And Li Yuhan, who was on the mountain at the time, also disappeared mysteriously, and at the same time disappeared as Han Yunhua's guard assigned to Li Yuhan, and now Guo Weidong has returned to Daqingshan from Xinghe County to preside over the reconstruction of the headquarters and the treatment of the wounded.

(To be continued)