Chapter 342: Battle of Southern Hebei (2)

Han Yunhua's troops moved extremely quickly, and they did not give the Japanese army time to react at all. What Han Yunhua wants is to be lightning fast, and what he wants is to beat the little devil to death and beat him to death.

On July 28, the 1st Brigade uprooted all the devil strongholds in Daimyo County except for the county seat, and at the same time routed the reinforcements of an infantry brigade of the Japanese army in the Sungandian stronghold. On the same day, the county seat of Guangping County was breached by the Second Brigade, and more than 500 devils from an infantry squadron, two infantry squads, and a machine gun squad were all killed.

On July 29, the Third Brigade fought an ambush at Shuangmiao in the west of Wei County, surrounded and sent reinforcements to eliminate the main force of the Japanese army in Wei County, and in the evening of the same day, the county seat of Wei County was defeated, eliminating more than 800 Japanese puppet troops, and at the same time killing 23 officers under Tian Shun Dazuo, the commander of the Japanese garrison wing in southern Hebei, including two Dazuo, three Zhongzuo, five Shaozuo, and thirteen Wei-level officers. A large number of munitions hoarded by the Japanese army in Wei County were captured, including 300 rounds of poison gas bombs newly developed by the Japanese army.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of July 29, 11 guerrilla units of two infantry regiments under Chen Guangsuo, totaling more than 6,000 people, completed the final encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese puppet army in Linzhang.

As for the instructor's guard regiment, although it did not take Feixiang County, it accidentally wiped out the main force of the Japanese puppet army in Cheng'an County at the junction of Feixiang County and Cheng'an County. Although the purpose of the guard regiment's trip has been exposed, the gain is not small, with an infantry regiment actually annihilating an infantry squadron of the Japanese puppet army plus two infantry regiments on the spot, the gain is not small.

Han Yunhua was not hypocritical, and ordered all the weapons and equipment captured by the troops to be immediately equipped to all units, and those who lacked soldiers should immediately be recruited into those puppet army prisoners who were willing to participate in the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time, the army continued to attack forward, forming a situation of encirclement of Feixiang County.

The actions of Han Yunhua's headquarters greatly angered the senior generals of the North China Front Headquarters, and even General Binshan Yuan, who had always been moody, scolded at the table for "Eight Geya Road", and at the same time, General Binshan Yuan had to order Major General Tokugawa Yaichiro, commander of the Japanese garrison headquarters in Handan, to send a large army to quell the chaos.

After receiving the news that the Japanese reinforcements had set off from Handan, Han Yunhua immediately sent a telegram to the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, requesting Yang Xiufeng to immediately mobilize all the guerrillas and even militia of the Eighth Route Army to immediately launch guerrilla warfare, sabotage warfare, sparrow warfare, harassment warfare and other available tactics, hoping to slow down the marching speed of the enemy's reinforcements.

Regardless of whether Han Yunhua's arrangement is right or wrong, the effect it plays is still obvious. The Japanese army, who originally planned to take the train, had to break down when it marched less than 10 kilometers north of Handan, because all the railways and bridges from Handan to Feixiang County were all blown up by the cunning Eighth Route Army.

This not only greatly limited the speed of the Japanese army's march, but also dealt a great blow to the morale of the Japanese army, and a unit often did not lose at the hands of the enemy, but failed in its own contest with itself, especially in the test of perseverance. Although marching on foot is one of the courses that the army must learn, if you are endlessly harassed and attacked, or even watch your teammates die one by one, as long as you are alive, you will have a sense of fear, and you will subconsciously think that the next person to die will not be himself.

However, the Japanese army's will to fight was still very tenacious, and the Japanese soldiers armed with the spirit of bushido were indeed not comparable to the Chinese soldiers who went to the battlefield with their enthusiasm alone. As soon as the order from above came, no matter how much wind and rain were blocked on the road ahead, the Japanese soldiers would still catch up. …,

The endless harassment and sabotage raids by the troops of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office certainly greatly slowed down the Japanese army's marching speed, and to a certain extent, greatly damaged the morale of the Japanese army. But it also angered the Japanese puppet army, and the Japanese army began to use bayonets to force the puppet army to walk in front as cannon fodder to open the way for the little devils.

However, the Eighth Route Army showed no mercy to the puppet army that cowered and walked at the front of the team, what kind of goods these people were, as most of the soldiers were from the troops of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, they knew nothing about these puppet troops. There is an essential difference from the puppet army in other places, the vast majority of the soldiers of the puppet North China Security Army did not become traitors of the puppet army because they could not survive, but automatically went from being the minions of the Japanese army for their own interests...... At the same time, they actively carried out the directives of the Japanese "North China Front" Command that "the target of public security in North China will be the communist army in the future," actively carried out the "campaign to strengthen public order," and constantly "crusaded," "swept up," burned, killed, looted, wantonly arrested anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, committed heinous crimes, and slaughtered villages and exterminated ethnic groups. Therefore, when Han Yunhua dealt with the puppet North China Security Army, he particularly emphasized that these puppet army traitors should not be treated as ordinary traitors, and if one was caught, one would be shot, and two would be dealt with when they were caught.

This can't be blamed on Han Yunhua's absoluteness, but because the security army has done a lot of evil, the people hate it to the core. In order to crack down on the reactionary arrogance of the security army, the CPC Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army even decided to intensify the work of attacking the traitors and puppet troops in the enemy-occupied areas with troops going to southern and central Hebei, and even launched a special campaign to concentrate their forces on attacking the security army.

Han Yunhua is very clear about the attitude of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army towards the so-called North China Public Security Army in southern Hebei, and there have been nine major battles in the history of the Eighth Route Army's campaign against the Public Security Army: the ambush of Shilipu on December 15, 1941, the battle of Dongshuangchengzi on December 26, 1941, the battle of Liu Beizhai on January 3, 1942, the battle of Mazhuang Huzhumaling on January 4, 1942, the battle of Xijiuzhai on January 6, 1942, the battle along the Guohe River on January 13, 1942, On January 20, 1942, the battle of Yangdianzi, on February 4, 1942, the battle of Liangzihe, and on February 5, 1942, the battle of Jia Zhuangzi. There were also 14 smaller battles, for a total of 23.

It can be seen from this that the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party hated the Japanese puppet army, especially the North China Security Army. That's why he dared to attack the North China Security Army so unscrupulously.

If it is said that the most powerful fight against the puppet North China Security Army is the troops under Han Yunhua, speaking of which, I have to talk about Bao Sen, a senior general of the Eighth Route Army who has not been mentioned for a long time. Due to Han Yunhua's successive victories in eastern Hebei, the big Japanese puppet army collapsed, so Bao Sen's department, which had been persisting in the war of resistance in eastern Hebei, was quickly incorporated into his own army by Han Yunhua. And Bao Sen did not disappoint Han Yunhua, although he was only the head of the main regiment, but the development of Bao Sen's department was still very fast, especially the battle of Bao Sen's department against the security army was a classic, not to mention the success, but also perfectly showed the decisiveness and ruthlessness of the Eighth Route Army to the Japanese army. In particular, Bao Sen commanded seven battalions of the Jidong Independent Regiment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to fight a battle of annihilation along the Guohe River, completely annihilating two entire regiments of the Fourth Group of the Public Security Army, defeating the units directly under the Third Group and the Sixth Group Army, and killing and wounding more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops. For this, Bao Sen was also commended by the Inner Mongolia Military Region. In this battle, the two pseudo-commanders of the 4th and 10th regiments escaped from the battlefield by chance. However, they did not escape death and were executed by the General Headquarters of the Security Forces. In this battle, other units of the security forces were also traumatized. In the whole campaign, more than 5,600 officers and men below the rank of deputy lieutenant colonel were killed and captured, 10 Japanese instructors were killed, and two mountain guns, 6 mortars, 6 heavy machine guns, 62 light rifles, more than 3,500 long and short guns, and 1,247,000 rounds of ammunition were captured. …,

In order to buy time for Han Yunhua's subordinates to take Feixiang County before August, but it is a pity that the Japanese army is very important to the big gateway of Handan, and after paying huge casualties, they finally rushed to Feixiang County on the morning of July 31, and strengthened the defense of Feixiang County before Han Yunhua's subordinates surrounded Feixiang County.

The Japanese reinforcements originally looked down on Han Yunhua's fighting style, but when they arrived at Feixiang County, they suddenly found that the combat effectiveness of this Japanese army that suddenly appeared was indeed extraordinary, and they captured Daming County, Guangping County, Wei County, Linzhang County, and Anping County in just four or five days. Not to mention the bitterness of the Eighth Route Army, even the Japanese army, which has always been wealthy, does not want to give up.

Originally, the Japanese army thought that it could avoid the positions and facilities carefully arranged by the Eighth Route Army, but the Japanese army's usual tactics were to encircle in a roundabout way, and from the perspective of positional defense, there were also deficiencies and mistakes in operational guidance: first of all, the troops were scattered, and defensive battles were carried out in continuous first-line positions, and the troops were used one by one, lacking a strong strategic reserve corps. However, Han Yunhua's subordinates were also very advantageous, and the most troublesome thing for the Japanese army was that Han Yunhua's subordinates didn't care about the honor of any soldier at all, how to fight what was easy to fight, and used all three indiscriminate tactics, and even used poison gas bombs at will on the way of the Japanese army, which made the Japanese soldiers panic.

But in any case, the Japanese reinforcements still rushed to Feixiang County, blocking the rapid marching troops of Han Yunhua's troops here, even if the reinforcements that arrived were only 26,700 people, but compared to the entire instructor guard regiment, it was also a behemoth that could not be shaken......