On March 8, after the 77th Division of Reading Li took the four forks, the whole army advanced along the highway towards Chengde, but was stubbornly blocked by the Second Division in Hanjiadian, and the two sides fought fiercely for a night, and the 77th Division of Reading Li could not advance an inch, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

Hanjiadian is the only way to Chengde, and the army established a stronghold here as early as 35 years. During the first Battle of Saibei, when the main force of Han Yunhua's department retreated, he took the road from Hanjiadian to Guyuan, so afterwards the army established more than ten pillboxes along the mountain here. Since the largest caliber artillery of the 77th Reading Division was only 75mm, these reinforced concrete fortifications did not work at all, and the battle situation was temporarily deadlocked.

At the same time, the two regiments of the 2nd Assault Brigade of the 300th Division were successfully reunited with the northbound detachment led by Commander Nie (Rong Zhen) in Wei County, and Commander Nie also smoothly took over the command of the southern front. However, because the main field wing of the 14th Division of the Yue Army was stationed in Wei County, and because Wei County was an important military town in Jizhong, the Yue Army built a large number of fortifications after occupying Wei County, so the southward detachment besieged the county seat of Wei County for two days and one night and still did not take it, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

On March 9, the battle situation on the southern front took the lead in turning around, and Commander Nie, with the cooperation of the underground party comrades in the city of Wei County, attacked the headquarters of the Qiaotian Wing. He seriously injured the commander of the Hashida's wing, Taro Hashida, causing temporary confusion in the front-line command of the Japanese army. The Second Assault Brigade seized the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Yue army, and after three hours of fierce fighting, the Yue army was finally driven out of the county seat of Wei County.

However, the main force of the Hashida United was still alive, and under the command of Deputy Wing Commander Sakata Nakasa, it was withdrawn to a small town 30 kilometers south of Ul County and waited for reinforcements.

On the periphery of the southern battlefield, the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army and the 8th and 9th Brigades of the Reading Force were rushing to Wei County for reinforcements, and in order to prevent Han Yunhua's headquarters from escaping northward, the headquarters of the North China Front Army dispatched more than 150 planes and dropped a brigade of paratroopers in the mountainous area leading from Xinghe to Tianzhen on the morning of 9 July, completely cutting off the communication links between Han Yunhua's headquarters and the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

On the morning of 10 March, the headquarters of the North China Front held a news conference in Beiping, at which Major General Kunisaki, spokesman for the North China Front, declared that the main force of Han Yunhua's headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which was extremely arrogant, had been surrounded by the Imperial Army of the Great Emperor in Tianzhen and Yangyuan, and that the main force of the North China Front Army of the Great Imperial Army was now making every effort to encircle and annihilate this unit, and had made breakthrough progress. In view of the threat posed by the Korean army to the Great Empire and the huge losses caused, the Imperial Army did not accept the surrender of the Korean army.

The North China Front can be said to have played this trick quite cleverly, and as soon as the news came out, the whole country was shaken. The eyes of the whole country are focused on the small place of Yangyuan, the headquarters of the Central Committee, the Eighth Route Army, and the headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are constantly telegraphing, and both the Nationalist Axe Authorities and the Mingzhuo Party are concerned about the safety of Han Yunhua's department.

At the beginning, after receiving the telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Han Yunhua was still a little puzzled, what kind of medicine did the two bosses take, and why did they start to retreat. Later, Han Yunhua, who knew the truth of the matter, was a little crying and laughing, isn't it just a paratrooper brigade? To put it bluntly, the paratrooper brigade of the Chinese army is an infantry brigade that is not satisfied with its members, and its combat effectiveness is not necessarily as strong as that of a field brigade of the Chinese army. With such a paratrooper brigade, he wanted to cut off the pace of Han Yunhua's troops going north, and General Bin Shanyuan could think that as long as Han Yunhua was willing, he could defeat this paratrooper brigade by putting together a special combat team. You must know that the paratroopers of the army are notoriously rubbish in the world, and their combat ability is not even satisfactory, and they are called the worst and stupidest paratroopers in the world by their teachers, the German paratrooper instructors. The paratroopers of the Yue Army performed very badly in several battles during their stay in China, so Han Yunhua did not think that this encirclement of the Yue Army was much of a threat to the more than 50,000 troops under his command.

But now the domestic public opinion is very unfavorable to [***], and they have asked the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to send a large army to rescue Han Yunhua's department, so at this time Han Yunhua has to take a position on this. At 8:10 p.m. on March 10, exactly 12 hours after the news was released, Han Yunhua's headquarters issued a telegram on the radio: "The [***] Committee of the Chinese People's Republic of China, the [***] Central Committee, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the people of the whole country, all friendly troops, and all foreign friends who love and sympathize with China's suffering: Oriental clowns are grandstanding and unashamed of their wolf ambitions, and they want to peep into our Chinese artifact, and such a shameless country is in fact the public enemy of all peace-loving countries in the world. If you don't get rid of the Oriental puppy, it will definitely raise a tiger and threaten the peace of the world, and then the victim country will definitely not be the Republic of China, and England, the United States, France, and the Red Soviet Union will not be spared. Today, I heard that Dongyang children actually spoke wildly, wanting to encircle and annihilate our troops in Tian, Yang, and Wei counties. What is even more ridiculous is that the dignified North China Front Command actually said that it would not allow our army to surrender, but I remind His Excellency Binshan Yuan that it is still too early to make a presumptuous assertion at this time, and what happened to His Excellency Terauchi Shouichi is a lesson for you. Since Your Excellency wants to take the noble heads of tens of thousands of soldiers of our army and leave no chance of life, our troops will not spare any hand in this battle, and all the captured captives of your country will be hanged, and as for the expectation of Your Excellency Binshan Yuan, it is not expected that it will be realized, so let us wait and see........."

As soon as this plain-code telegram without a title was issued, it aroused wide repercussions at home and abroad. A few hours ago, the headquarters of the North China Front showed the reporters attending the meeting some evidence that Han Yunhua's headquarters had been surrounded, which made the entire Chinese nation worry about the safety of this legendary general. The whole thing suddenly became confusing, and they were all speculating whether this was the end of Han Yunhua's strong crossbow, the dead duck's mouth was stiff, or there was a backup move.

This is tantamount to a letter of declaration of war, and it is a war letter issued to the North China Front Army in front of the whole world, and General Binshan Yuan has to accept it. But this is the original intention of Bin Shanyuan to hold that press conference, since Han Yunhua took the initiative to challenge, then what reason did he have to refuse. Immediately, a sternly worded order reached the provisional headquarters of the 5th Division, ordering Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando to settle the battle within five days.

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando was not a dry eater, and immediately sent a telegram to Major General Yoshito Takagi and Major General Yamashita Fumi, commanders of the Eastern and Western Route Army, ordering them to meet at Tianzhen within two days, and then quickly move south to join forces with the Fifth Division under Yangyuan Castle.

The wish is good, but the reality is cruel, the progress of the three-way army is extremely slow, and it is stubbornly blocked by Han Yunhua's troops in Yanggao and Huai'an respectively. Not to mention the heavy casualties of the troops, they were not allowed to advance an inch, and the main force led by himself was pulled by Commander Nie to Huajialing, a mountainous area north of Wei County, to fight and consume. Commander Nie occupied the geographical advantage of the right position, and also built strong fortifications, although he took the initiative to abandon the county seat of Weixian, but the defense of the troops did not decline in the slightest. In addition, the supply replenishment location of Nie's headquarters was in Yangyuan, less than 80 kilometers away from the defensive position on the southern front, while the supply station of the Yue army was in Laiyuan County, which was hundreds of miles away. Therefore, after three days and three nights of fighting, Commander Nie's troops suffered heavy losses, but the losses of the army were also quite small, and what was even more terrifying was that the sharp spirit of the troops had dropped a lot, and it was less than two days before the five days given by His Excellency the commander, and Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi was extremely anxious.

The battle on the southern front fell into a stalemate, and no one could help anyone in a short period of time, although from the overall point of view, the army still had an advantage, but Han Yunhua's department was not without a chance to turn around. However, Han Yunhua's order to the commanders of the various units was quite strange, on the premise of ensuring casualties, try to delay the troops in front of him, and the time must be more than five days.

Lieutenant General Yasui Toji, commander of the garrison in eastern Hebei, did not expect that the attack of the 77th Division would be so sharp, and under the light enemy, the defense line at the fork was defeated by the 77th Division in one night, and the 7,000 defenders fled back less than 4,000, and most of them were wounded of varying severity. Fortunately, the bunker group in Hanjiadian played a big role, and a wing was stunned to block the 77th Reading Division for three days and three nights, causing great losses to the Reading 77th Division.

According to Lieutenant General Yasui Toji's prediction, as long as the troops, weapons and ammunition are sufficient, the Hanjiadian position can become the western gate of the entire eastern Hebei. During this time, he also investigated clearly, and there were only more than 15,000 people in the 77th Division of Zhina, and there were only more than 20,000 people in some miscellaneous troops. The defeat in the battle some time ago was just that he underestimated the enemy, and now as long as Han Jiadian drags this branch of the army, and then sends a large army to go around the back of the branch army, this branch of the army will definitely collapse in a short time under the front and rear attacks.

This kind of tactics of bypassing the rear army and flank of the attacking enemy army is the most commonly used tactic of the Chinese army, and the general squadron will not care about the safety of the flank, let alone build a flank and rear flank position, which can be effectively proved by repeated major defeats since the start of the all-out war. After the 77 Incident, Seishiro Itagaki's Fifth Division marched south from Chahar, and the cities of Zhangjiakou and Datong were captured one after another. In order to reverse the military decline, Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater of Operations, ordered more than 30 divisions of the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army to join forces at Xinkou for a battle.

Due to unfamiliarity with the combat methods of the Yue Army and the lack of unity of command, more than 30 [***] divisions actually reached a draw with one of Itagaki Seishiro's divisions, and no one could help anyone. In desperation, Itagaki Seishiro then ordered a partial division to send troops to Niangzi Pass to attack the flank of the Jin Sui army, and the front-line troops who were afraid of being wrapped in dumplings were suddenly confused, Yan Xishan did not give the order to the front-line war and was quickly defeated, and finally more than 100,000 or 200,000 people ran out of hundreds of kilometers in a few days, and tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded and captured, and the second theater of the Xinkou Battle was defeated. So Lieutenant General Yasui Fujiji is going to teach the 77th Division a lesson as well, so that the [***] team can see what the real tactics are.

(To be continued)