Now the entire northern region of China has become a pot of porridge, from the land of the Three Jin Dynasty to the Jizhong Plain to the Saiwai grassland. After more than a month of anti-encirclement, suppression, and sweeping battles, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the 129th Division finally annihilated a reorganized and reinforced brigade of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army and a puppet army garrison regiment in the Battle of Lucheng, forcing the 109th Division to withdraw its troops back to Lucheng.

The battle that lasted for a month and a half in the southeast of Jin finally eased, although the devils still occupied almost all the county towns in the southeast of Jin, but they were only guarding a few empty cities, and the people in the cities had already been transferred to other places by the Eighth Route Army. This is the established strategy agreed upon by Han Yunhua, Commander-in-Chief Zhu and other leaders of the headquarters, as long as the devils send troops to sweep and once the strength exceeds one wing, then the comrades who organize the work of local political power should immediately organize the transfer of the masses.

During this period of battle, Han Yunhua successively assigned to the command of the headquarters of those units made great contributions, especially the headquarters special service regiment, which was composed of reserve members of the special operations brigade as the backbone, served as a sharp knife unit in the battle, and came and went freely in the 50,000 or 60,000 troops of the Japanese army, taking information, cutting off the enemy's head, capturing prisoners, eliminating traitors, and breaking the enemy's fort almost anything. The 109th Division, which was not unfamiliar with special operations, suffered a big loss, although there was only one brigade that was completely annihilated in the formation, but the scattered and killed troops also had at least one wing. The heaviest losses were the officers, especially the middle and lower ranks, who were the backbone of the Japanese army, and were sniped by the soldiers of the special service regiment almost as soon as they entered the battlefield.

For this reason, the head of the General Headquarters specially awarded the special mission a collective first-class merit, and more than 100 instructor-level soldiers were awarded individual first-class merit, which really made the soldiers of other units envious.

In other battlefields, the 120th Division, the 115th Division, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region all made their own gains, and after losing some of their armament, the troops all gained a certain amount of development. In particular, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region this time opened the eyes of other units of the Eighth Route Army, and it turned out that there were still such resistance in the anti-Japanese resistance, and the war could be fought in this way. Competing with more than 100,000 elites of the Japanese army on thousands of square kilometers of land is such a leaky thing, whenever the headquarters distributes the battle report of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to other troops, it will always cause the soldiers of other units to rush to each other. Whenever the thought of such a powerful military force in northern China makes the soldiers' blood boil.

It can be said that the Inner Mongolia Military Region is now a banner in the Eighth Route Army, and Han Yunhua, a young commander who is only in his twenties, has successfully established the image of the god of war in the hearts of the soldiers, and in the hearts of ordinary soldiers, Han Yunhua, commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, is the invincible god of war and the nemesis of the little Japanese devils.

Now the most fierce battle is the battle on the battlefield of Zhangjiakou, Shen Yuquan is desperate in order to create pressure on General Shouyi in the temple, and the remnants of less than a hundred people led by Major General Fengwen in Zhangjiakou City are still holding the bunker of the garrison headquarters, and Shen Yuquan has no way to do anything about these devils hidden in turtle shells, but Yang Ruihua understands the feelings of Lieutenant General Gu Shoufu, and thinks that he also dealt with Gu Shoufu's department in this way.

In the periphery of Zhangjiakou, there are also two integrated wings of the Japanese army, one of which is the most elite general reserve of the North China Front, which is a guard unit used to protect the headquarters of the North China Front. This wing, which numbered more than 5,000 people, was equipped with more than 50 combat vehicles, and it was covered by planes during the day, which was extremely extravagant.

Secondly, the troops of the 21st, 26th, and 6th divisions of the Japanese army also began to assemble in Zhangjiakou. Now Terauchi Shouichi already knows the news that Zhangjiakou was occupied by the squadron, but General Terauchi Shouichi also knows that Major General Yamashita Fengwen is still holding on to Zhangjiakou City. As long as they "regained" Zhangjiakou City before Major General Fengwen was completely killed at Yamashita, then the Japanese army would not lose the battle.

Zhangjiakou was like a whirlpool attracting a steady stream of Japanese troops, and because the number and combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army in Saibei far exceeded the Japanese army's estimates, even Yanagi Jun, who had always regarded himself as a special operations expert, had a trace of fear for Han Yunhua's department, and the more he learned about it, the more he felt that the commander of the branch who had never met him was terrible. Liu Shengjun is now very sympathetic to his old classmate, how can he stand up to such a difficult opponent, and it is not a lucky thing to be hostile to such a person. ,

Besides, after Han Yunhua arranged the retreat, he immediately took the remaining members of the Saber Special Operations Brigade and the two cavalry brigades to set off at night, as for Han Yunhua's combat mission this time, no one knew about it, even the two brigade commanders of the cavalry brigade, Xie Legge and Barth, did not know.

The soldiers who fought with Han Yunhua were all cavalry, not a single infantry, and even the soldiers of the Saber Special Operations Brigade were equipped with horses. After leaving Chengde City, Han Yunhua commanded the troops to go north along the main road, and as soon as the troops passed Gaositai, Han Yunhua ordered all the soldiers to change into Japanese combat uniforms. The khaki Japanese military costume is still very good in the eastern Hebei region, at least the puppet army traitors and the like will take a detour.

On the galloping horse, Han Yunhua, who was wearing a military uniform, looked very mighty. Undulating horses galloped across the grasslands of northern Saibei, and tens of thousands of cavalry troops behind them stirred up layers of soil waves in the vast land.

"Commander, where are we going, why are we even wearing the devil's yellow dog skin?" He asked, leaning on a horse with pure black coat.

Han Yunhua said loudly: "You are familiar with the place we are going to, your hometown of Horqin. ”

"Korqin, is this true? I haven't been home for over three years, I wonder if Amma is okay with them? Boiling said with some emotion.

Han Yunhua laughed and said: "I really can't see it, Lie Ge also knows how to be homesick, this is not your character, I thought Lie didn't care about anything." Hahahaha"

He said with a flushed face: "We Mongolians are very straightforward, rough and heroic are the nature given to us by the great Immortal Heaven, yes, yes, no, it is not really is our best praise." It's like you Han people have more than a dozen eyes in your heart, it's too bad, homesickness is my truest thought, the commander actually laughed at me, and when I get to my house, I will let my brothers pour you well. ”

To tell the truth, Han Yunhua can do anything, but this amount of alcohol needs to be improved, every time he drinks, he is always the first to be poured down, every time he drinks wine, people can find him on the table, which means that Commander Han Yunhua has drunk well today, but most of the time people can only carry him back from under the table to rest.

Because of the problem of drinking, Han Yunhua asked Li Yuhan to clean up, but since he became the commander, few people dared to force him to drink, but Lie and Bart were among the few people who were not afraid of Han Yunhua.

"I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed this time, although the place we're going to is not far from your home, it's not the real Horqin Prairie, so I can't let you go home. The target of our battle this time is Chifeng, hehehe, let's be disappointed but it doesn't matter, sooner or later we will have to go to your hometown, and when the time comes, I will let you personally lead tens of thousands of iron horsemen to return to their hometown, and we can be regarded as returning to our hometown. Han Yunhua patted the horse and said.

Lie said with some disappointment: "It's going to Chifeng, I really thought it was going to our Horqin."

Yes, Han Yunhua's target this time is Chifeng in the east of Suiyuan, and the Kwantung Army will go south to eastern Hebei, strategically forming a huge encirclement of Han Yunhua's troops left in eastern Hebei, if he doesn't want to find a way to break this not strict circle, then Han Yunhua will not be in a passive situation.

Since the problem lies with the Kwantung Army, then the solution should also start with the Kwantung Army. Therefore, Han Yunhua came up with this little trick to divert the tiger from the mountain, thinking that with the strategic level of General Terauchi Shouichi, it is not difficult to see through Han Yunhua's not clever plan at all, but the situation is forced, even if General Terauchi Shouichi knows it in his heart, he can't help but rescue Chifeng.

On August 3, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo led the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army, the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, and the Mukden Garrison Brigade to Chengde. And in the afternoon of the same day... and the 77th Separate Brigade came into fire, and the battle began to heat up.

The soldiers of the 77th Independent Brigade have the responsibility to defend the territory and have the heavy responsibility of covering, so the soldiers are not afraid of death, guarding the positions on the periphery of Chengde, and fighting fiercely with the devils. However, the Kwantung Army's entry into the customs was time-sensitive and highly anticipated, and the country hoped to use the hands of the Kwantung Army to sweep away the decline of the North China Front Army in the recent period.

The Second Division of the Kwantung Army is a well-known fierce army in the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness is more than that of the Sixth Division, and unlike the Sixth Division, the Second Division is very popular with the Japanese Imperial Family, and the Second Division is the first to equip the Second Division with any good weapons and equipment. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the 2nd Division can be said to be the most effective unit in the Japanese Army except for the 5th Division. ,

Moreover, the Second Division was also the most ferocious first-class division in the invasion of China and other parts of Asia, and because of the poor natural conditions in northeastern Japan, where the people were strong, brave and aggressive, the Second Division formed in Sendai was more adapted to the cold climate. When the Kwantung Army launched the "918" incident, it dispatched this second division. Moreover, the Second Division is also one of the rare motorized infantry divisions in the Japanese army, and it has been in the Kwantung Army for a long time.

When he was the commander of the new regiment, Han Yunhua carefully sorted out the powerful combat units in the Japanese army that invaded China, among which the second, third, fifth, sixth, and sixteenth divisions were listed by Han Yunhua as the divisions with the strongest combat effectiveness. The 14th Division was listed by Han Yunhua as the division with the most bizarre combat methods. The Fourth Division was listed by Han Yunhua as the division he most hoped to encounter on the battlefield.

The reason why Han Yunhua arranged the Japanese infantry divisions in this way was mainly based on the conclusion of the knowledge he learned in later generations.

The Second Division suffered a heavy loss at the beginning of the attack, and because it was stationed in northeast China all the year round, the soldiers of the Second Division did not adapt to the sweltering weather in the eastern Hebei region, and their combat effectiveness declined. In addition, along the way, the Second Division successively regained strategic locations such as Funing, Changli, Leting, Qianxi, Qian'an, and Kuancheng, and subconsciously the Second Division did not look down on Han Yunhua, an army that was almost mythologized.

In the first charge, the second division lost more than 1,000 people, which is almost the strength of an integrated brigade. These devils were all killed and wounded by the powerful automatic fire of the 77th Independent Brigade, which can be regarded as giving the Japanese army a big dismount.

The second division's counterattack was also very timely, and the fierce artillery fire continued to explode on the positions outside Chengde, and the second division consumed more than 1,000 tons of artillery shells in one afternoon. The positions of the Eighth Route Army outside Chengde were completely destroyed, and the 77th Independent Brigade suffered heavy casualties.

But Wang Jian had already prepared for this, and when building a defensive position, Wang Jian asked the soldiers to build three lines of defense outside Chengde City, each of which was built with many air-raid shelters made of reinforced concrete and strong train sleepers. Although the losses of the 77th Independent Brigade were indeed heavy under the continuous shelling of the Japanese army, they were far less severe than estimated by the 2nd Division.

The Japanese offensive continued until 8 p.m., and in order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from escaping, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo ordered the 2nd Division to place a wing of troops in each of the four directions of Chengde, and once the 8th Route Army wanted to escape, the Japanese troops in several other directions would swarm in.

On August 5, Han Yunhua sent a telegram to Wang Jian, telling Wang Jian that the other troops had safely withdrawn to the Chahar area, and that the 77th Independent Brigade could not break through, and that he would launch a sneak attack on the military town of Chifeng in the northern region to attract the main force of the devils to the north to relieve the pressure on the Independent 77th Brigade.

At ten o'clock in the evening of the same day, Han Yunhua's department, which was hidden on the periphery of Chifeng, with the assistance of the saber special combat team, the cavalry brigade easily opened the gate of Chifeng, and the unsuspecting Japanese army was taken by surprise. At the same time, the troops led by Han Yunhua were wearing all the same Japanese military uniforms, which caused great confusion to the Chifeng defenders. Chifeng's garrison commander Jiang Ying organized troops to counterattack many times according to Major General Jiro, but with little success, and had no choice but to lead the remnants to break through.

However, it was unwise to flee in front of the cavalry, and if it was in the city, the cavalry brigade was greatly hindered by the terrain. However, when Chiang Ying broke through under the orders of Major General Jiro, the battle quickly took a turn for the worse. Under the continuous impact of the cavalry brigade and tens of thousands of iron cavalry, the Japanese army was scattered by the cavalry brigade not long after escaping from the city.

In front of the cavalry's sabers, the infantry's bayonets hardly played a role, and a reinforced Japanese army was gorgeously annihilated by Han Yunhua's troops. In this battle, it took only one and a half hours from the beginning of the battle to the total annihilation of the Chifeng garrison wing, during which the commander of the Chifeng garrison, Major General Jiang Ying, did not have time to send a telegram asking for help to his superiors from beginning to end.

In order to prevent accidents, Han Yunhua had already let the special combat personnel who had infiltrated Chifeng City control all the radio stations in the city, which was a simple signal jammer made by Han Yunhua using later technology. Although it is not very useful for those high-power radios, it is still very useful for the low-power radio used by the Chifeng defenders. Moreover, at the beginning of the battle, Han Yunhua asked the special combat team to cut off all the telephone lines in and out of the city, and even the only power supply station in the city was controlled by the special combat team. It can be said that the Chifeng sneak attack was a combination of a typical special operation and the traditional operation of the Eighth Route Army, and in the face of this new combat concept, the Japanese army was almost powerless to fight back, and a reinforced garrison wing was annihilated in this way. ,

At the same time as the sneak attack on Chifeng began, the independent 77th Brigade also started the battle of breakthrough. In fact, the siege of Chengde was not the entire strength of the Second Division, but only a part of the main force of the Second Division, with a total strength of about one infantry brigade plus an artillery wing. Although it is not much, because the combat effectiveness of the second division is much stronger than that of the middle first team, basically the second division is much stronger than any division on both sides of the Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party if it comes up with a wing casually. That's why Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo will hold this door big and let the more than 10,000 Japanese troops surround Chengde Castle on all sides.

Han Yunhua had already told Wang Jian about the retreat plan of the Independent 77th Brigade, and before the Japanese army encircled Chengde, the artillery battalion and fire support regiment of the Independent 77th Brigade were lurking in the mountains and forests outside the city, and when the Independent 77th Brigade was attacked by the second division, Wang Jian did not use this strange army.

At half past ten o'clock in the evening of August 5, the Second Division had just rested, and except for the soldiers on duty, only patrols were left in the entire western camp that shuttled by from time to time. At this moment, a red signal flare suddenly rose in the sky, and in the dark night, a bright red color was so eerie.

Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, who was inspecting the barracks, suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately ordered the guards around him: "Immediately order the troops to assemble, and the people of Shina should make a big move, and quickly tell Yamazaki-kun to prepare his tank brigade for battle." “

Despite the agility of Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo's sense of battle, it was too late. A sharp and piercing sound suddenly sounded over the camp on the western side of the Japanese army, and the experienced Hideki Tojo immediately judged that it was the sound of an 80mm caliber mortar shell in flight. Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo looked at Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, commander of the 2nd Division, who was also lying on the ground.

Such a large number of shells indicate that at least one artillery brigade of the Chinese army was nearby, and even more. With such a potential threat with strong firepower, they have no idea that this is a failure and a serious dereliction of duty. Everyone knows the destructive power of artillery, and the kind of strategic equipment with huge lethality deserves to be called the "god of war", and the destructive power of artillery is almost dozens of times that of infantry when it is unexpected.