Not to mention that Yoshio Shinozuka commanded tens of thousands of troops and Li Dayong's troops fought to the death in the Qian'an area, it was a death battle without the slightest retreat, and its tragedy can be imagined. However, for Han Yunhua, Li Dayong's desperate resistance was extremely meaningful, although Li Dayong's troops suffered heavy casualties, but it laid the foundation for the victory of the entire North China Battle.

Although General Binshanyuan's tactics of flowering on all sides were powerful, the Japanese army seriously underestimated the strength of Han Yunhua's troops, and Han Yunhua was able to deal with the Japanese army with far fewer people than them with a huge lineup. However, it was not the Inner Mongolia Military Region that took the first turn in the battle, but the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region.

More than 20,000 people were used by the Japanese army to sweep the occupied areas this time, including the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, the 1st and 2nd Independent Infantry Wings, and the 1st Cavalry Group.

Originally, in the eyes of General Binshan Yuan, compared with the Inner Mongolia Military Region, which is less than a thousand miles apart, the so-called Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region are actually a paper tiger, with 20,000 people enough. Moreover, the vast majority of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in Hebei are concentrated in the Taihang Mountains, Wutai Mountains and other mountainous areas, and if they are not familiar with the terrain, how many people will go in vain, and according to the news transmitted by the special high-tech department, the Eighth Route Army Jizhong Military Region has been established for a very short time, and it has not been more than a year now, and its strength is not strong.

In order to achieve the strategic goal of eliminating the Jizhong Military Region and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in one fell swoop, Binshanyuan, an old devil, was ruthless and sent Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, a rare mountain special operations expert in the Japanese army, to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. Moreover, in order to deal with the Eighth Route Army on the Jizhong Plain, General Binshanyuan insisted on dividing the originally small cavalry unit into a cavalry wing to Jizhong, and Binshanyuan believed that on the Jizhong Plain, a cavalry wing with extremely strong mobility could definitely be worth an infantry division.

However, to everyone's expectations, less than half a month after Abe Norihide led his troops to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region defense area, news came that the independent mixed second brigade had suffered a crushing defeat and that Lieutenant General Abe Norihide had been killed.

The telegram jointly issued by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and the Chinese and Japanese armies, who were already holding their breath, were taken aback, and in particular, General Binshan Yuan, who was sitting in Beiping, vomited blood in anger when he received the telegram from the special high-tech department, and ordered the troops attacking the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to immediately return to Dingzhou and wait for a new order from the front army.

And Han Yunhua was also surprised when he received the news from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, he knew this Abe Guixiu Han Yunhua very well. Born in 1886 in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, Abe's era, like all young people of that era, was an era of unprecedented expansion of Japanese militarist aggression and expansion. In the same way, becoming a "samurai" who "gallops across the battlefield and is loyal to the emperor" is also the life that Abe dreams of. In order to realize this "ideal", Abe Norihide was admitted to the Army Non-commissioned Officer School (Nippon Army Sergeant), which specializes in training army officers. In May 1907, at the age of 21, Norihide Abe graduated from the 19th Infantry Department of the Rikushi and began his career as a true "samurai". On December 26 of the same year, Norihide Abe was awarded the rank of corporal and began his service in the army.

Norihide Abe is an extremely persistent or extremely stubborn person, and he has a kind of attachment to "honor" and "glory" that surpasses that of ordinary soldiers; therefore, in the bloodthirsty war competition, he "stood out" and repeatedly made military exploits, and was quite appreciated by the base camp, and was known as the "flower of famous generals" in Japanese military circles. Since 1907, Abe has been promoted step by step in the army without any background, and has successively served as adjutant of the 32nd Infantry Wing, adjutant of the 8th Division, and staff officer of the 18th Division. On April 11, 1932, he was transferred to the Sendai Army Training School as the captain of the student team, and on August 1 of the following year, he was promoted to the rank of infantry commander. In August 1935, he served as the commander of the 32nd Infantry Wing of the 16th Infantry Brigade of the 8th Division. On August 2, 1937, he was promoted to major general. In just over 20 years, Norihide Abe has produced a student doll who has just graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and has grown into a major general in the Japanese Army, which is simply an incredible thing in the Japanese Army, which has always looked at the background of seniority. But Abe Norihide did it, so he was also called the "flower of famous generals" by the Japanese base camp. …,

In October 1938, after Chang Kuanzhi, the commander of the Second Independent Mixed Brigade of the former North China Front Army in Mongolia, was killed by the Eighth Route Army in Zhangjiawan, Guangling County, Hebei Province, the Japanese Military Department sent Abe Norihide to replace Chang Kuanzhi Brigade Commander. Soon after, Norihide Abe was promoted to lieutenant general.

Han Yunhua knows a lot about the death process of this energetic army lieutenant general, why do you say this, because Abe Norihide is the highest-ranking general killed by the Japanese army in the history of the real Anti-Japanese War. Therefore, whether it is the post-war materials compiled by the Nationalist Government or the historical materials of the Anti-Japanese War compiled by the Communist Party, Abe Norihide and his independent mixed second brigade are one of the most colorful. When Han Yunhua was a student in a military academy, he had watched many books and movies about the death process of this army lieutenant general, so he kept this Japanese army lieutenant general in mind.

According to the original historical trend, in the summer of 1939, Japan continued to intensify its focus on "sweeping" the base areas against Japan. The focus of the Japanese army's "sweeping" shifted from the Jizhong Plain to the Beiyue Mountains. In addition, in the autumn of 1939, the Japanese army mobilized more than 20,000 people from the 2nd Brigade and the 110th Division, which were independent and mixed, to carry out a larger and more brutal autumn "sweep" in the Beiyue Mountains, in an attempt to completely destroy the Jinchaji anti-Japanese base area. In late October 1939, Abe Norihide led the Independent Mixed Second Brigade to Laiyuan, and after a little repair, Abe Norihide immediately held an operational meeting to make specific combat arrangements: the fourth brigade set out from the arrow ridge to attack the horse station, and the first brigade set out from Baishikou to attack Yinfang. The operation began on the night of November 2.

As for the arrival of Abe Guixiu, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region also attach great importance to it. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region of the Eighth Route Army adopted the operational policy of "concentrating superior forces and breaking through each of them," and decided to use one force to pin down and block the enemy dispatched from Jianjian Ridge, and then concentrate the first and third regiments of the First Army Division, two battalions of the 25th Regiment, the third detachment of the guerrillas, and the second regiment of the Third Army Division, totaling 6,000 men, to ambush the enemy attacking Yinfang. On the morning of November 3, the first brigade that invaded Yinfang entered the Yansu Cliff Gorge under the bait attack of a small detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and was intercepted by the main force of the Eighth Route Army and surrounded in Yansu Cliff. By 4 p.m., the 1st Brigade had been annihilated, except for a few who had escaped and 13 who had been captured.

As soon as he was promoted to lieutenant general, he lost a brigade on the battlefield, and Abe Norihide was very ashamed and angry, and decided to personally lead more than 1,500 people from the second and fourth brigades to attack along the original route of the first brigade, so as to take the Eighth Route Army by surprise while the Eighth Route Army was still "digesting" the fruits of victory. On the night of November 4, Abe Norihide led his troops to cross Baishikou and enter the area of Yansu Cliff, but not even a shadow of the Eighth Route Army and the common people was found.

After Abe Norihide pounced on the air, he was impatient. The Japanese reconnaissance detachment finally discovered the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the area of Loess Ridge, and Abe Norihide, who was eager to fight, ignored the lone army and rushed straight to the main force of the Eighth Route Army along the rugged mountain road. On the morning of November 6, when Abe's troops broke into the Loess Ridge, the main force of the Eighth Route Army had formed an encirclement in the valley area east of the Loess Ridge. When he was about to enter the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, seeing the surrounding valley terrain, the cunning Abe Norihide suddenly realized that the Eighth Route Army was mixed into the second brigade with one yin* independently, and the main force was gathering near the Loess Ridge in an attempt to attack from behind the brigade. In order to get rid of the danger of the Eighth Route Army attacking from "behind" and avoid being annihilated again, in the early morning of the 7th, Abe Norihide urgently made a new deployment and made the decision to continue the eastward advance of the troops and return to the base camp through Zhaitou, Coal Toudian, and Futuyu. Abe ordered his subordinate troops to set out from Loess Ridge in batches. When advancing, the vanguard, armed with light and heavy machine guns, first occupied the high ground on both sides of the road, and then covered the slow advance of the brigade. The attempt is to strengthen the mobile response through such mutual interaction. …,

It was nearly noon, and the vanguard of Abe Guixiu arrived at Zhaituo Village east of the Loess Ridge, but the large army was still dragging on the line of Shangzhuangzi. It was not until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon that the rearguard troops left the Loess Ridge, and a long group of men and horses entered the path in the canyon one after another, stepping into the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army waited for this group of men and horses to enter the "bag" before tightening the "bag mouth" and "catching turtles in the urn" to carry out a joint attack from the south, north, and west. Under the attack of the Eighth Route Army, the main force of Abe Norihide was quickly compressed into a ravine about 5 miles long and more than 100 meters wide near Shangzhuangzi. After a violent attack, the entire valley was filled with thick smoke. Norihide's troops were beaten to pieces. In order to struggle to get rid of the encirclement, Abe Guixiu immediately reorganized the troops, relying on sophisticated equipment, to attack in the direction of the Eighth Route Army's Zhaituo position, and after being resolutely attacked, he turned around and headed east, in a vain attempt to break through from the Loess Ridge and flee back to Laiyuan. The 3rd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army held its position and blocked the retreat of the Japanese army. At this time, the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army also arrived on the battlefield, and they should join the battle from the left as the flank of the third regiment, so that the encirclement could be further closed, and the Japanese troops who were blocked in the rear could only resist on the spot. At about 16 o'clock, the main force of Abe's Norihide Brigade had suffered more than half of the casualties, and it was in chaos.

On 7 November, Chen Zhengxiang, commander of the First Regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, found that there were people wearing yellow tweed officer uniforms and carrying combat knives in the distance on the mountain bag who were observing with binoculars, and there was an independent courtyard 100 meters away from the mountain bag, and the enemy was constantly entering and leaving. Soldier Li Erxi rushed to the gun position with artillery, measured the range and direction at the fastest speed, and adjusted the gun position. Under an order, Li Erxi popped up with his hand and fired two shots in a row. Impartially, the shells blossomed in the small courtyard. Then, he quickly adjusted the gun position and fired the only two remaining rounds at the hill. As soon as the smoke cleared, Chen Zhengxiang was surprised to find with a telescope that the Japanese troops in the small courtyard were entering and exiting in a panic, and the Japanese troops in the mountain bag also dragged the wounded out in a hurry. Norihide Abe was at the command post at the time, wounding several wounds in his right abdomen and legs from mortar shrapnel. About 3 hours after being wounded, at 21:50 on November 7, Norihide Abe died of excessive blood loss at the age of 53. After Abe Norihide was killed, Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" even lamented with a column headline: "The flower of the famous general withered on Taihang Mountain." ”

This is real history, but since Han Yunhua pulled up the troops in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Han Yunhua has not thought about this matter, or he did not expect this to happen. Because he transferred Yang Chengwu, who commanded the front-line battle, to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it is really hard to say whether the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, which lost Yang Chengwu, can create this miracle, so Han Yunhua has long forgotten about this matter.

But now it seems that Abe Guixiu still hasn't escaped this catastrophe, and Han Yunhua can't help but sigh in his heart: "Damn people really can't live." As for whether this time Abe Guixiu was killed in the Loess Cliff as in history, Han Yunhua is not clear, and of course he does not have the energy to take care of the idle affairs of the Jinchaji Military Region. However, Han Yunhua knew that due to the sudden killing of Abe Guixiu, the Japanese army's attack in the Jizhong Military Region and the Beiyue Mountains was completely aborted, and even Abe Guixiu, a self-proclaimed mountain warfare expert, could not escape the fate of death, and others did not dare to compete with the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains.

Moreover, now that the North China Front of the Japanese Army can be said to have mobilized all the forces that can be mobilized, Han Yunhua judged that General Binshan Yuan would not be able to muster up many troops to clean up the mess in Jizhong and Beiyue for Lieutenant General Abe Guixiu.

In this way, the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region can be freed. Although General Binshanyuan's experience will definitely leave a part of his troops to monitor the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region, this does not prevent the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region from supporting other battlefields of the Eighth Route Army. If you make a mistake, you will lose the whole game, this is a true portrayal of General Binshanyuan's complicated mood now. …,

However, despite the erosion of the war situation in Jizhong, General Binshan Yuan still had no intention of withdrawing his troops. In the view of Senior General Binshan Yuan, the reason why Lieutenant General Abe Norihide was defeated so quickly was entirely because Abe Norihide himself was arrogant and underestimated the strength of the Jizhong Military Region and the Jinchaji Military Region. Therefore, as soon as he received the telegram that Abe Guixiu had died in battle, he airdropped a commander to Jizhong to be responsible for the war in Jizhong.

However, General Binshan Mototo did not expect that the loss of the 2nd Brigade of Abe Norihide was completely out of the new command, Major General Kimura. The strength of the five infantry brigades of the second brigade of the independent mixed brigade was completely wiped out by two and two of them were severely damaged by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and only one infantry brigade stationed in the base camp of Dingzhou was not hit, coupled with the sporadic results in other places, the loss of the independent mixed second brigade and regiment this time was not insignificant, so the new commander, Major General Kimura, was unable to sort out the clue for a while, and the entire battle situation in central Hebei was strangely calm.

The reversal of the situation in Jizhong is very important to the morale of the units of the Eighth Route Army, just as Han Yunhua said in his evaluation of the First Battle of Jizhong after the war: "The Jizhong Military Region has severely damaged the second brigade of the Japanese independent mixed brigade with a fearless spirit, and killed Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, it is precisely with such brilliant results, so all the Chinese troops in the entire North China battlefield are morale like a rainbow, which directly boosts the morale of all troops, and it can be said that the troops in Jizhong have made a good start to the entire North China Battle, without their sacrifices, Maybe the outcome of the Battle of North China this time will be ............"

The troops of the Central Hebei Military Region fought well, and the troops in southern Hebei were also very effective. As Han Yunhua expected, after the Japanese 32nd Division, 35th Division, and the 3rd and 4th Independent Mixed Brigades arrived in southern Hebei, they first dealt a devastating blow to Shiyou's 3rd Division entrenched in Handan.

This time, with the support of the accurate intelligence of the Japanese army's special high-tech department, the progress of the Japanese army was very smooth, and at the beginning Shi Yousan still had illusions, hoping to confront the Japanese army for a period of time, or to ask the Nationalist Government to force him to run for officials, but this time the Japanese army was determined to solve his wall. After the Japanese army arrived in southern Hebei, Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro, who served as the commander of the Japanese Army's Southern Route Army, gave Shi Yousan an ultimatum through secret channels.

In an extremely stern tone, Kimura Hyotaro warned Shi Yuzo that the 69th Army had been listed by the Imperial Army as one of the most untrustworthy and hated Chinese armies, and that if Shi Yusan surrendered to the Imperial Army now, then the conditions that the Imperial Army had promised Shi Yuzo would still be valid, and that the troops under his command would still be retained. But if Shi Yousan still wants to play tricks, then once the war starts, the Imperial Army will not accept the surrender of the 69th Army.

This ultimatum of the Japanese army can be regarded as frightened Shi Yousan, he knows that this time he was really forced to a dead end by the Eighth Route Army, or he would fight to the death with the Japanese army without any hope, and live and die with Handan City. Either surrender to the Japanese completely, and there is no middle way to go.

But Shi Yousan was not entangled, surrendering the Japanese was something he had always wanted to do, and now it was just a period of time in advance, which was not a big deal for him, so Shi Yousan "simply" gathered his henchmen to conspire, preparing to surrender to the Japanese army and immediately join the Japanese army to counterattack the Eighth Route Army troops in southern Hebei.

Shi Yousan's secret letter soon arrived on Kimura Hyotaro's desk, although solving the 69th Army will definitely not delay Lieutenant General Kimura's time, but Kimura Hyotaro is most lacking now is time, now the whole of North China is fighting, every morning to end a war zone, then the Japanese Empire can send a large number of troops to support the armies on other battlefields, so for Shi Yousan's acquaintance, Lieutenant General Kimura is still very satisfied......,