The rapid collapse of the puppet army on the Miyun front completely caused panic among the senior officials in Beiping City. If other troops hit the city, they could still resist stubbornly, but if the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were close to the city, everyone, including General Binshan Yuan, would have to consider whether they could stay in the city any longer. Han Yunhua's headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is a golden signboard, and so far there is no city that can hold on to even half a month under the all-encompassing attack of Han Yunhua's headquarters.

What is Miyun, it can almost be said to be the suburbs of Beiping, and a large part of the water in Beicheng District of Beiping is transported by the Miyun area. What's more, there are only three or two kittens in the defenders in Beiping City now, and there are only one brigade of the Marine Corps and one brigade of the Military Police Headquarters when they are full, and there are only 4,000 people when they count the part of the defeated army that has returned from Miyun. However, according to the retreating troops, the large army of China had a full 30,000 or 40,000, which was equivalent to the strength of four to five infantry divisions of the National Axe of China.

Regardless of the entanglement in the hearts of the Binshan Yuan army, Master Chen would not give any face to the little devil, and the distance of the army from Beiping City was less than thirty kilometers, which made all the officers of the 77th Division, including Master Chen, very excited. What kind of city is Beiping, no one knows better than Master Chen. Beiping is a famous historical city, and it is the political, cultural, military and economic center of the entire north at this time, and its military and political status is extremely prominent. Beiping is a famous city throughout Chinese history, and it was first called Beiping in the Sui Dynasty (581-618 AD) (see "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", which called Luo Yi the king of Jingbian Beiping, that is, Luo Yi (Luo Cheng's father), the king of Beiping). On September 12, 1368 (the first year of Hongwu), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the general Xu Da to march north, capture the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, that is, today's Yanjing City, and renamed the capital Beiping Mansion. In 1403, Zhu Di won the throne and built Beiping City, and in 1421 (the nineteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty), Zhu Di moved the capital from Nanjing to Beiping, and changed Beiping to Yanjing. With Shuntianfu Yanjing as the capital teacher, Nanjing as the capital. During the Qing Dynasty, Yanjing was also known as Jingshi Shuntianfu. The Qing soldiers entered the customs and set the capital in Yanjing, so the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties lasted for more than 800 years, and the political center of the country was Yanjing.

After the Northern Expedition in 1928, the capital of China was moved to Nanjing, and Yanjing was renamed Beiping Special City. In June 1930, Beiping was established as a provincial municipality of Hebei Province, and in December of the same year, it was re-promoted to a municipality under the jurisdiction of the hospital. During this period, although Yanjing did not have the status of the capital, it still had key advantages in culture and education, and was known as "China's Boston" by international people. July 1937. After the Seven Incidents, Beiping was occupied by Yueben, and the invaders supported the Han Dynasty to destroy Wang Kemin, Wang Yitang and others to establish the puppet Republic of China Provisional Political Axe here, and renamed Beiping Yanjing. Therefore, this historical city was the center of the puppet rule of North China and even the whole of North China at this time, and the political significance of conquering Beiping was far greater than the military significance.

Master Chen knew better what Han Yunhua was waiting for, Han Yunhua put himself in danger and attracted the heavy troops of the Yue Army to besiege Daqingshan in order to create such a condition for the 77th Division of Reading Power. Otherwise, with the strength of the Yue Army, he would stick to Zhangjiakou, Miyun, Xinglong, Zunhua, Tangshan and other places, let alone 30,000 people, and it would be said that Han Yunhua might not be able to defeat Beiping with all the 400,000 troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

But now the main force of the army has been transferred away by Han Yunhua with his own tempting bait, and all that remains is an empty city with empty defenses, if he doesn't take advantage of this time to take Beiping, it will not be him Master Chen, and he will not live up to Commander Han Yunhua's painstaking efforts.

The soldiers are very fast, and Master Chen knows that the army will definitely not be captured, if Beiping is lost, let alone General Binshan Yuan, even the entire military department will have to think about how to deal with the emperor's anger. Therefore, Master Chen ordered the troops to continue to advance and strive to reach Beiping City before dawn.

General Binshan Yuan's mood at this time can be imagined, he has now understood what Han Yunhua is thinking, Daqingshan is obviously a trap, although Han Yunhua is indeed on the mountain, but that cunning General Zhina wants this result. In addition to the 80,000 troops in eastern Hebei, there were also 40,000 people on the Daqingshan side, and all the imperial troops in northern China, especially in Hebei, Rehe, and Chahar, were concentrated in two places, that is to say, in addition to these two places, the Chinese troops could fight wherever they wanted. Today their target is Beiping, and perhaps Tianjin will be next, or even second-tier cities such as Cangzhou and Zhulu.

It was a conspiracy from beginning to end, a conspiracy against him and the entire North China Front. Now the enemy has come to the city, but he cannot withdraw, because if he withdraws, it means that the Great Empire has given up its rule over the whole of northern China, which is a great crime that will bring disaster to his wife and children, and even if he dies, he will be scolded by the people of the entire Great Empire.

However, he is not without a chance to turn the tables, this general battle, it is inevitable that the front army will suffer, but as long as he takes Han Yunhua, the scourge hated by the top of the empire, and then keeps Beiping City, Binshan Yuan believes that the military department will not do anything to him, anyway, he will return to China within this month or two to report on his work, and the rest of the matter will be handed over to others to deal with.

Now the 10th Division is marching towards Beiping overnight, and it will be able to rush back in three days at most, which means that as long as the troops in Beiping City hold out for three days, then things will take a turn for the better. However, these three days are not easy to keep, you must know that 40,000 against 4,000, the disparity in strength can be seen. What's more, Beiping City is not comparable to the county seat of Xinghe County, 3,000 people are stationed in a county seat, and even if you attack with hundreds of thousands of people, you can hold it for ten days and half a month, but it is not possible to garrison a big city like Beiping without 20,000 or 30,000 people, and 4,000 people can't even defend a few gates in Beiping, let alone other places. Moreover, there are too many sections of the Beiping city wall, and the troops are likely to be broken by the Eighth Route Army if they are scattered in a single way.

Binshan Yuan was also forced by Master Chen, and at this time Binshan Yuan had no choice, so he had to order the troops to arm all the expatriates and ronins in Beiping City, and then send them to the city wall, General Binshan Yuan knew that if these people fought with the Eighth Route Army in the trenches, they would not be able to hold out for even a day, so he had to send these people directly to the city wall with firing ports and battlements to protect.

"Yoshida-kun, where is the Shina troops, and how is our organization?" Bin Shan Yuan asked in a stern voice.

"Report to Your Excellency, Commander, that the Chinese army has reached the city and is now storming the city walls. We have formed a provisional army of 10,000, including nearly 4,000 soldiers in the township, and Harada is organizing these temporary troops to block the attack of the Shina troops. According to your instructions, our troops have abandoned all the outlying positions, and all the troops have been withdrawn to the city. "Yoshida Nobunaga is the chief of staff of the North China Front Army who has just been transferred, and he is already very dissatisfied with the frequent faint moves of General Binshan Yuan during this period of time, and he is already very dissatisfied with the anxiety of being beaten by the Chinese army, but the strict system of the army makes him dare to be angry and dare not speak, he knows that once he expresses any dissatisfaction, what awaits him will be endless exile.

Regarding the words of the major general for a few days, Bin Shan Yuan did not give any instructions, but turned his head to Yamaguchi Meizi on the side and asked: "Yamaguchi, have you found out, what is the army under Han Yunhua outside, who is the commander, I don't want to die and I don't know who killed me." ”

Yamaguchi Meizi still had that expression, and said coldly: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, we have investigated clearly, it was the 77th Division of Reading Li under the command of Han Yunhua of the Inner Mongolia Military Region of China, as well as the Second Field Division and the First Guard Division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region of China that attacked Beiping City, and their commander-in-chief was the famous Chen Geng in the Zhina Army, and the rank was given according to the National Political Axe of China, but you know that the general military rank system is not implemented in the Eighth Route Army of China, so they do not recognize the rank of the Zhina Political Axe. ”

"Yo Xi, Chen Geng! I've heard that he is a famous general in the Eighth Route Army of China, and you can tell me the details of this Chen Geng! Binshan Genda continued.

Yamaguchi Meizi opened a folder, and then slowly read: "Chinese name: Chen Geng, alias: original name Chen Shukang." Nationality: Chinese. Nationality: Han nationality. Place of birth: Xiangxiang, Hunan, China. Marital status: Married. Family situation: wife Wang Genying, son. Date of birth: February 27, 1903. Occupation: Chinese active military officer, currently the commander of the 77th Division of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army. Military rank: Lieutenant General. Graduated from: The first phase of the National Political Axe Whampoa Military Academy. Faith: [***]. Hobbies: ....................."

I have to admire the intelligence gathering ability of Te Gao Ke, this information collection of Master Chen is quite accurate and comprehensive, and the level of detail of this information is not so comprehensive even in Master Chen's personal file.

"Yo Xi, Chen Geng, Yamaguchi, whether your troops can participate in the war now, how many people can be mobilized, I don't want to listen to any reason, you just need to say whether you can or can't, how many." General Binshan Yuan knew that the military system of Tegaoke, which was outside the entire front army, had its own military strength, and although he did not know how many people there were, he still hoped that he could mobilize some and strengthen the strength of the garrison at this critical juncture.

Yamaguchi Meizi thought about it for a moment, and then said: "Yes, we have about 6,000 direct troops in the special high-tech department, but there are less than 1,000 people planted in Beiping City, if you count our lower line and all the guards under control, we can mobilize about 1,800 people to participate in the battle." ”

"Yo Xi, you go and gather your troops now, I'll take care of anything that happens."

"Hay!"

Let's not mention that Beiping City was beaten into a pot of porridge, and the army even rushed to the head of the city, let's just say that the situation in Daqingshan has also been reversed, first of all, the 300th Division of the reorganization broke through the defense line of the blocking troops of the army, although Lieutenant General Ushijima urgently sent troops to reinforce the 39th Infantry Brigade and stabilized the defense line, but in fact it has been pushed forward by a full 10 kilometers, and now the main force of the 300th Division is less than 15 kilometers away from Xinghe County.

At the same time, Jining's reinforcements also launched an attack on the paratroopers outside Xinghe County, although they failed to break through the position of the Yue Army for a while, but they drove the blocking troops of the Yue Army to the vicinity of Erdaowa Village, ten kilometers from the east gate of the county seat, and less than ten kilometers away from Daqingshan. This caused tremendous pressure on Ushijima, originally according to Ushijima's tactics, first attack with infantry, and if the infantry could not attack, use artillery units, especially field heavy artillery brigades to open the way, in Ushijima's view, even if the fortifications of the squadron were repaired, it would not be able to withstand the attack of field heavy artillery.

Facts have proved that Ushijima's judgment was fought for, although the defensive positions of Daqingshan were all built with concrete, but due to the lack of steel bars, they did not meet Han Yunhua's requirements. However, Han Yunhua also knows that the objective conditions are like this, and there is no way but to do so. Therefore, under the blow of the field heavy artillery of the Yue army, the most important valley position on the front line could no longer be defended after only three hours, and after four days of fierce attack, the Yue army finally captured the exit pass of Daqingshan.

However, the next battle made Ushijima even more painful, and there was only a very narrow passage up and down Daqing Mountain, so the field heavy artillery of the Yue army could not be transported up the mountain at all. Once the field heavy artillery loses its effect, then it is absolutely not possible to occupy the dangerous Daqingshan with the infantry of the Yue Army.

But Ushijima is very clear about his current situation, whether the entire North China Front can get out of the predicament depends entirely on the progress of the 20th Division, as long as he captures Daqingshan, it is best to capture Han Yunhua alive, and then use that cunning general to negotiate with the Eighth Route Army, otherwise, if the current situation continues, the losses of the front army will be great, and it is even possible to lose control of the entire North China.

Yesterday, Commander Xiangyue Qingji sent a telegram to inquire about the progress of the battle, and at the same time by the way, he also talked about the situation of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, in which Commander Xiangyue Qingji told Ushijima very clearly that the battle situation in the whole of North China is now a little better except for Shanxi, and under the stubborn resistance of other troops of the First Army, the battle line is temporarily controlled in southern Jin, but the situation is not too ideal, first of all, the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi has attacked repeatedly, and the Yue Army in this area has been defeated, and several county towns have been lost, and even Shuozhou has been almost lost. The northern part of Jin was also attacked by the Chinese army, and the Takagi Brigade, which had just been renamed the 18th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, was besieged at one time, fortunately, the brigade's brigade commander, Lieutenant General Takagi Yoshito, was accustomed to being besieged by the Chinese army, and the tactical arrangement was very reasonable, and the Chinese troops attacked for four or five days and lost a large number of troops before stopping the attack, which may be a rare highlight of the Great Empire in the Battle of North China. This is still the best situation in Shanxi, the situation in several other provinces is not optimistic, Hebei and Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan not to mention, take Shandong, which has always been very calm, for example, this period of time is also said to be very difficult, most of the troops were transferred to Saibei by the front army headquarters, so the 12th Army headquarters can mobilize extremely limited troops. At present, there is only one division of the Fifth Division and the 10th Mixed Brigade that was disabled by the instructor in the whole of Shandong. However, the Chinese side attacked Shandong, but the troops had a whole group army, and I don't know what kind of medicine they took, and Sun Lianzhong, the commander of the Second Front Army of China, actually stormed the Lunan region at all costs, and the Fifth Division of the Fifth Division complained of hardship, and what was even more troublesome was that there was a mysterious Eighth Route Army unit hidden in Shandong, and there were quite a few of them, and they attacked everywhere in peacetime with a small force, bombing railways, hijacking trains, ambushing consignments, and gathering large troops to besiege the county seat when necessary. Huge losses were inflicted on the Twelfth Army, and the two armies completely destroyed the law and order in the whole of Shandong. What is even more terrifying is that there is still a special combat team in that Eighth Route Army, and some time ago, the military police headquarters of four county towns were blown up in succession, and the commanders were assassinated, which greatly weakened the control of the 12th Army over Shandong.

This telegram from Kiyoji Kazuki put a lot of pressure on Ushijima, and the news from all sides indicated that his army was likely to be surrounded by the Shina army, and the most important thing was that without the order of the front army headquarters, his army could not retreat, and even if it did, it would be extremely risky at this time. Therefore, Ushijima was ruthless and ordered the troops not to rest, and the whole army took turns to attack the Daqingshan Mountain Road.

According to the investigation, there are a total of three checkpoints on Daqing Mountain, all of which are in the mode of pillboxes and trenches. This pattern is common, but it can be tricky on steep and treacherous mountains. And the mountain is surrounded by the most capable general in the entire China, and it is also the demon king of the China that everyone fears and hates in the Imperial Army, which makes Ushijima feel like taking a piece of chicken ribs, and it is a pity to abandon it tastelessly.

However, the current situation forced Ushijima to bite the bullet, and he divided the troops that could be used now into six echelons, three echelons took turns to attack the mountain road, and the other three echelons were looking for other possible places to go up the mountain from the northwest two directions of Daqingshan.

Not to mention, it really allowed him to find a defense hole in Daqingshan. The west side of Daqing Mountain is a cliff of 100 meters high, and it is like being cut by a knife artificially, the surrounding area is extremely smooth and extremely unsuitable for climbing, when Ushijima first arrived, he wanted to climb the mountain directly from the back cliff, but he tried several times and failed, and even the Yagyu Special Combat Team and Mashiko Advance Team, who had high hopes this time, were helpless against this cliff.

But a soldier who had been a miner offered a plan to destroy the entire cliff by blasting, and then drive it up from the back cliff that had slowed down. After many arguments by all the officers in the command, Ushijima finally thought that there was a great chance of success, so he urgently transferred the demolition team and tried to blast from the back cliff.

Han Yunhua, who was on Daqing Mountain, had not yet realized that the danger was approaching, and he was paying attention to the battle situation in the direction of Zhangjiakou at this time. After a night's march, the Wanguo Quan Department finally arrived at the city of Zhangjiakou at 1 a.m.

(To be continued)