Although he knew that our army was not the opponent of the devil at all, Li Han's heart was still very uncomfortable when he heard the news, which meant that all the obstacles he had done in the past four days were useless, Chaoyang County was still lost, and the sacrifice of thousands of brothers was worthless. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although he felt uncomfortable, Li Han was still very grateful to Dong Futing for informing him in time, otherwise if he continued to fight, his troops might be rounded up by devils.

In this case, even if there is more unwillingness, the county town must give up and defend it any longer, except for the annihilation of the whole army, there will be no second way out at all, and no other troops will come to rescue his battalion again.

In order to avoid being detected by the Japanese army, Li Han withdrew from Jianping City overnight with his troops.

After the order was delivered, several of the leading officers gathered around Li Han fell silent, and in this city they held out for four days in the face of the superior enemy attack, and more than two-thirds of the brothers remained in the bloodstained city forever. Now they will retreat, and there will be no retreat of defeat.

"Brethren, we are retreating today only to save ourselves for now. Fight devils, it's up to us! In the future, we must save our useful bodies, and there will be many opportunities to fight with devils in the future, so now listen to my orders, gather troops in each company, organize equipment, and retreat tonight. ”

Until Li Han and the others all left the city, the devils didn't notice it at all. Today they fought for a whole day, one by one no different from a dead dog, and after eating, they immediately began to sleep, probably in a hurry to replenish their strength, so that they could continue to attack tomorrow.

Due to the loss of Chaoyang Road, Li Han planned to withdraw to Beipiao and Dong Futing first, so that he would have a greater chance of surviving on the battlefield.

However, halfway through, the news came that Beipiao and Nanling had been lost one after another, and history was repeated again, and Shao Benliang surrendered to the Japanese army with his regiment on the battlefield.

This almost killed Dong Futing, and in the end, the embarrassed Brigade Commander Dong had to lead the remnants to flee to Ling Yuan under the cover of his brother Zhang Yuwen.

As soon as Li Han looked at this posture, he was afraid that the idea of the large army hugging his thighs could not be counted on, and even Dong Futing, a fairly determined anti-Japanese general, could not hold the position, and the other half-hearted troops were even more unreliable.

After thinking about it, Li Han's goal was Tang Yulin, the deputy commander-in-chief, and his general thigh was unreliable, so he had to find an elephant's leg to hug.

So Li Han withdrew directly to Chengde with his troops, in his opinion, Chengde is Tang Yulin's lair, and he must have the most soldiers.

Because even if Tang Yulin plans to escape, he will put a lot of guards around him, and when this army is in chaos, if he doesn't bring troops around him, who will ensure his safety.

At this time, Li Han even felt that even Zhang Zuoxiang, the commander, did not necessarily have many troops under Tang Yulin, because Tang Yulin's territory was in Rehe, so he must have the most troops under his command.

Although Tang Yulin's character is not good, he is also a staunch anti-Japanese faction, so Li Han does not have to worry that he will surrender to the little devil at a critical time.

At the same time that Li Han withdrew to Chengde, the Japanese army began to advance all the way.

After the Japanese army captured Beipiao and Chaoyang, it soon made a new aggressive deployment: Kawahara Jin, the commander of the 16th Brigade, led his troops to advance rapidly along the Chaoyang, Lingyuan, and Pingyuan roads for the Central Route Army, and directly attacked Chengde.

The North Road sent a detachment through Jianping Town to attack Chifeng directly and cooperate with the Sixth Division. Nanlu sent a detachment to attack Jianchang.

Garrisoned in the Lingyuan area, there are Ding Xichun and Miao Chengliu of the Northeast Army. Sun Dequan's three brigades, but these officers were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they had no determination to resist Japan at all.

Before attacking Lingyuan, the main force of the Japanese 8th Division began to attack Ye Baishou, but was resisted by the defenders of the Heilongjiang Provincial Army Yu Zhaolin Brigade.

Yu Zhaolin's brigade was fiercely attacked by more than 5,000 Japanese troops, nine planes, and more than 30 tanks, and fought fiercely with the little devils for six or seven hours, but it was never captured.

Unexpectedly, Ling Yuan, who had three brigade guards, gave Ling Yuan to the Japanese army in less than a day, which made Yu Zhaolin almost vomit blood when he heard the news, and he felt that he had been blocking in front for a long time Quan Bai was busy.

After the loss of Lingyuan, the Northeast Army in the Rehe area was shaken on all fronts. Soon the plain was also lost, and the Japanese army broke through the defense line together on the north, south, and east lines and attacked the hinterland of Rehe.

After the collapse of the Redong defensive line, one gate of Chengde had been opened by the Japanese army, and the other gate, Chifeng City, was also attacked by the main force of the Japanese Sixth Division at this time.

On the day that Li Han arrived in Chengde, the Japanese army also exchanged fire with Sun Dianying's troops on the front line of the mountain slope in the eastern suburbs of Chifeng, and then the battle of Chifeng began.

The Battle of Chifeng can be said to be the only record of the Chinese army during the Battle of Rehe, but the only record that can be won is that of Sun Dianying.

Although Sun Dianying is also nominally a subordinate of the Northeast Army, anyone with a discerning eye knows that he is an old unit of the Northwest Army.

What is even more ironic is that only two years ago, it was because of the entry of the Northeast Army that the Northwest Army fell apart, and it was at that time that many troops of the Northwest Army, such as Sun Dianying and Song Zheyuan, were absorbed by the Northeast Army.

However, less than two years later, the Northeast Army's own territory has been reduced to the point that it is saved by the defeat of its former subordinates.

Even later, Tang Yulin's troops were absorbed by Song Zheyuan, and even he himself lost his military power, which has to be said to be the sorrow of the entire Northeast Army.

Hearing that the devils were attacking Chifeng, Li Han knew that the Battle of Rehe had come to an end, and although Sun Dianying was determined to fight to the death with the Japanese army, the gap between his troops and the Japanese army was very obvious.

Sun Dianying's armament was poor in the Northeast Army, and like the troops of the other Northwest Army, the officers and men of the 41st Army were almost always armed with a big blade.

However, in addition to the broadsword, in terms of weapons and numbers, the equipment of the 41st Army was not as good as that of the 29th Army, which was also from the Northwest Army and was equally backward in equipment.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, if our army wanted to draw with the devils, at least in terms of troops, it was three or five times that of the devils, and this could only be done by the elite troops of the national army.

Now the Japanese army also has an advantage in terms of strength, and even if Sun Dianying's 41st Army is all gone, it will not be able to stop the advance of the Japanese army.

In the end, the flesh and blood could not stop the steel shells, and the Japanese troops soon entered the city of Chifeng, seeing that the city was about to meet with artillery fire.

In order to protect the safety of ordinary people in the city, the Chifeng government department asked Sun Dianying to retreat, and finally under the plea of Song Zi'an, the president of the Chifeng Peasant Association, Sun Dianying finally shed tears and led the army to break through to Xitun.

Chifeng is in full swing, and people in Chengde City are also panicking, seeing that the devil is about to hit here, many rich people are packing up and going to other cities to take refuge, even the owner of Rehe, Tang Yulin's mansion also showed a trace of unusual signs.

But after all, the rich are only a few, but more ordinary people can only stay in the city and resign themselves to their fate.

While the Japanese army was still blocked in Chifeng, Li Han asked several company commanders under his command to patrol several avenues leading to Chengde every day with two companies of troops.

Li Han saw a glimmer of opportunity in this, his troops lost more than two-thirds in the battle of Jianping, and even if they later absorbed the two companies sent by Gao Jianhe and the 107th Brigade to support, there were less than 500 people, and many of them were wounded.

Five hundred people is a lot for a battalion, but for Li Han this is far from enough, the number of devils near Chengde is quite a lot, there is at least one detachment of troops on each front, it is difficult for his own people to keep the building system in this big battle, and they may be defeated by the Japanese army at any time.

Although the recruiting points set up by Li Han have been recruiting troops these days, due to the deterioration of the war situation day by day, there are fewer and fewer people willing to join the army, and a few days have passed, and the number of new recruits at the three recruitment points combined has not exceeded 100.

In desperation, Li Han paid attention to the rout, these rout soldiers were all retreated after the front-line troops were scattered, in groups of three or five, from officers to soldiers, everyone had a panicked look on their faces.

In the face of the integration of the heavily armed patrol sent by Li Han, there was no need to explain at all, and most of the routs chose to compromise. After all, no matter what team it is, as long as it is an army, they will have food and drink.

Of course, the rout army is so easy to be co-opted, and they also have their own ideas.

Now that the war is tense, the Japanese army may hit Chengde at any time, and they have a higher chance of surviving if they integrate into the large army, and they don't have to worry about being treated as deserters.

After only one day, several patrols received more than 300 routs, and several main companies quickly swelled.

Li Han, who tasted the sweetness, directly ordered that each company should collect the defeated troops on its own, and all the defeated soldiers received would be directly supplemented to their respective companies, and this order directly detonated the enthusiasm of the officers to collect the defeated troops.

Of course, not all the defeated soldiers are willing to be recruited, because there are still many officers among these defeated soldiers, and the highest rank on Li Han's side is the major.

On the contrary, there are many lieutenant colonels and even colonels in the rout ranks, and a major goes to recruit lieutenant colonels and colonels from other people's homes, and if it is you, will you agree? It's only the next day, and trouble is about to follow.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Han came with the guard platoon to check the results of the company's collection of troops. When he came to the area in charge of Hu Zhi's second company, he saw that the temporary gathering station was full of hundreds of people, and there were shouts and scolding from time to time.

"Nonsense! Do you know what you're doing? Who gave you the right to dare to co-opt friendly forces here, do you know what kind of crime it is? ”

Li Han took a closer look, and an officer with a colonel's epaulette was pointing at Hu Zhi's nose and shouting a reprimand.

"Report to the chief, it's a lowly and self-righteous initiative, in order to gather the rout and prepare to fight with the little devils!" Hu Zhi thought about it for a long time before he held back this sentence that he thought was more reasonable.

He had been scolded by this colonel for a long time, and if it weren't for the fact that he was a colonel, he would have done it a long time ago, because he really couldn't stand the colonel's arrogant tone.

Fucking it's a rout, and it's so justifiable. However, this person is a colonel after all, older than his battalion commander, and he himself is not afraid of offending this defeated colonel, but he doesn't want to cause trouble to Li Han.