After reading the telegram, General Shouichi Terauchi slammed the telegram on the table and roared angrily: "Eight Grid Yalu, this must have been done by Han Yunhua's troops, it must be." Yaga, stupid Shina, you will pay for your stupidity. I have passed on my order that from now on, all units of the North China Front Army will make every effort to break through the enemy in front of them, and they must encircle and annihilate the main force of Han Yunhua's army in the eastern Hebei region at all costs. Send a telegram to Lieutenant General Hasunuma Pan, asking him to command Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division, Lieutenant General Houguan Chun's 26th Division, and all the troops of the First and Second Route Armies, and be sure to rush to Zhangbei County on July 14, and encircle and annihilate Yang Chengwu's headquarters in Zhangbei County with the 21st Division, and then the two troops will be combined into one, and attack the main force of Han Yunhua's department from west to east. ”

As soon as Terauchi Shouichi's order was finished, the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, reminded in a low voice: "Your Excellency Commander, what about the Shina troops in Jining?" ”

"What should I do?" Terauchi Shou Yiyin said deeply: "Of course, they are all dead, and I order Gu Shoufu's troops to attack Jining City at all costs, and if necessary, they can use yellow special smoke." ”

When General Terauchi mentioned the special smoke, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo's body couldn't help but tremble, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo knew better than anyone the horror of special cigarettes, and it was a thousand times more terrifying than the gas bomb.

To be honest, as a soldier, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe was very opposed to the use of such difficult biological and chemical weapons, especially in densely populated cities, but unfortunately, the Japanese Army, which was loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, from those field marshals to ordinary soldiers, had a special or blind trust in biological and chemical weapons. His opinion as a lieutenant general and chief of staff of the army did not play a role at all, so Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe never raised any objections, but only felt sad in his heart for the innocent but equally disgusting common people of China.

The chariots of the Empire of Japan were once again overloaded, and with the orders of the North China Front Command being issued one after another, the entire North China region was completely shrouded in the clouds of war. Not only Han Yunhua's troops left in Chahar were attacked by the devils, but even the other troops of the Eighth Route Army that were still in central Hebei and southeast of Shanxi were also fiercely attacked by the devils, and even the troops under the Nationalist Government in the Jin-Chahar-Hebei border area were also attacked indiscriminately by the devils, and for a time the entire northern region became a pot of porridge. Fortunately, Terauchi Shouichi transferred 40% of his troops to Chahar to encircle and suppress Han Yunhua's headquarters, otherwise with the strong strength of more than 300,000 troops of the North China Front, neither the Eighth Route Army nor Chiang Kai-shek dared to guarantee whether they could hold Shanxi Province.

However, the madness of the Japanese army still made Chiang Kai-shek very uneasy, although at the beginning of the year, the Japanese side had already implicitly thrown an olive branch to the Nationalist Government, and the subsequent action did have such intentions. However, now that the North China Front is desperately attacking the troops of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, is it possible that there has been a change in Japan's policy?

In order to prevent the Japanese army from breaking through the Tojo Mountain defense line and entering the northwest region, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Yan Xishan's Second Theater of Operations to block the Japanese army outside Tojo Mountain at his own cost. At the same time, the second theater should also pay attention to the situation of Han Yunhua's department at all times.

Han Yunhua was still very satisfied with the efficiency of the Saber Special Operations Brigade, and soon after receiving Han Yunhua's order, the Saber Special Operations Brigade launched an attack on Chengde. According to the plan that had been formulated long ago, the Saber Special Operations Brigade would first take the lead in lurking into the city of Chengde, and quietly touch the devil sentry at the West Gate to welcome other troops into the city. After the battle began, the Saber Special Operations Brigade had to seize the devil's arsenal and other commanding heights in the city as quickly as possible. And several artillery regiments were outside the city according to the well-marked shooting Zhu Yuan to shoot at the devil puppet army in the city for a long time, crushing the resistance morale of the devils in one fell swoop.

By about four o'clock in the morning, the battle in the city was basically over, and a Japanese infantry brigade plus three infantry divisions of the puppet army quickly collapsed under the attack of the Saber Special Operations Brigade and several other regiments of the Inner Mongolia Military District. The Inner Mongolia Military Region completely occupied Chengde, an important military town in eastern Hebei, at the cost of less than 500 casualties, creating a great miracle in military history.

After the battle, he ordered the troops not to rest, and immediately went door to door to search for the remnants of the devils and the Japanese overseas Chinese ronin in Chengde City, and even the non-military institutions such as the Japanese Budokan Ukajiin in the city were not spared, as long as they were Japanese, they would be supervised. ,

At the same time, all military and civilian materials in Chengde City were forcibly confiscated by the troops, and the scope of confiscation was limited to the scope of Japanese capital and Sino-Japanese joint ventures.

On July 10, the headquarters of the North China Front reported the news of the capture of Chengde to the Japanese base camp, and asked the base camp to allow the Kwantung Army in the northeast to go south to attack the main force of Han Yunhua's army.

Although the Japan-Soviet non-aggression pact had been signed, it still did not dispel the Japanese government's misgivings about the powerful Soviet Union, and the Kwantung Army stationed in northeastern China was not reduced, but was appropriately strengthened.

At this critical juncture, the base camp quickly rejected Terauchi Shouichi's request, and instead transferred the three newly formed infantry brigades in the country to North China to strengthen the strength of the North China Front.

Such a result is obviously not what General Terauchi Shouichi wants, and now that the entire north of China is at war, the strength of the North China Front has reached a stretched limit, although the total strength of the three brigades and regiments in the country is more than 20,000 people, which is already a large force for the current North China Front. But how can it be far away from the water to quench the thirst, waiting for the domestic troops to be loaded and transported to China and then go to the battlefield, it will take more than a month at the shortest, and by then he will not be able to catch up with the heat when he eats in the temple.

It has been nearly ten days since the outbreak of the battle, and in these ten days, Terauchi Shouichi finally realized the strength of Han Yunhua's department, and in his impression, no army in China dared to face the elite army of the Japanese Empire, not even the Central Army of the Kuomintang, which had always prided itself as a regular Chinese army.

And a small military subdivision of the Eighth Route Army, which had just risen for less than a year, not only fought with more than 100,000 troops of the Imperial Japanese Army in most of the northern part of China, but also fought a tie with his troops almost with the same strength. Although Terauchi Shouichi didn't want to admit it, but this was the case, his troops sneaked up on Han Yunhua's old nest Daqingshan, and Han Yunhua broke Chengde City with his backhand.

At eight o'clock on the morning of the 10th, Major General Tokutaro Sakai, commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division, who had been attacking all night, finally waited for the troops of Major General Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade, and he could finally take a break with his troops. Beginning on the morning of the 6th, the two infantry brigades under Gu Shoufu and other subordinate units had carried out a continuous attack on Jining City for five days and four nights. The two main brigades of the Sixth Division took turns to replace the main attack, but no matter what methods they used or what advanced weapons they used, even if the special smoke that had always been extremely secret in the troops was used, the Eighth Route Army in the city was still resisting, and the firepower did not weaken at all.

On the other hand, the 13th, 47th, 23rd, and 45th Infantry Wings, the 6th Cavalry Wing, the 6th Field Artillery Wing, the 6th Engineer Wing, and the 6th Light and Heavy Infantry Wing of the attacking Japanese army did not suffer heavy casualties. In this short period of five days, the Sixth Division alone lost two officers of the Dazuo rank, and the officers below the Zhongzuo level suffered numerous casualties.

According to the information sent by the intelligence officers on the inside line, the Jining garrison was only a temporary brigade of Han Yunhua's department, although the number was not clear, but it would not exceed 20,000 at most. However, the combat effectiveness and fighting will shown by this temporary brigade made Gu Shoufu feel frightened, and just such a unit blocked his Sixth Division under Jining City for five whole days, even if it attacked Nanjing City that year, it was not so weak.

Moreover, compared to the Nanjing city wall, which is 20 meters high and 13 meters wide, Jining, a city without any city wall defense measures, is simply not worth mentioning, but it is this small city in the north of China that actually blocked the advancing chariots of his elite Sixth Division, which is an unforgivable shame.