Master Chen's side was playing hot, and Han Yunhua was not idle here. Although Han Yunhua also knows that the independent 77th Division is the protagonist, he is only a second-class supporting role, and the first-class supporting role has to be kept for Bin Shan Yuan. But Han Yunhua also knew that his side still had to attract some of the devil's firepower, otherwise the crisis in southern Hebei would not be solved.

After saying goodbye to his wife and daughter, Han Yunhua led more than 25,000 troops of the 300th Division to quickly move south and captured Tianzhen County that night. The next day, that is, the same day that Master Chen attacked the four forks, Han Yunhua ordered Jiang Yunshan, commander of the 1st Assault Brigade, to lead the 1st Assault Brigade and 1st Regiment, Artillery Regiment, and Guard Battalion to attack from east to west, and be sure to take and hold Yanggao County on March 7. Yang Chengwu, political commissar of the reorganized 300th Division, led the 1st Assault Brigade, 2nd Regiment, 3rd Regiment, Cavalry Regiment, Baggage Battalion, and Engineer Battalion to attack Huai'an from west to east. Han Yunhua himself personally led the Second Assault Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, Liu Huaqiang of the Engineer Regiment, and the Guard Battalion to attack from north to south.

Han Yunhua thought very simply, anyway, the strength of the Japanese army on the front line of Tianzhen is relatively weak, and it is not the real elite of the Japanese army, so there is no problem in tossing in a short period of time. If General Binshan Yuan wanted to destroy them, he would have to send heavy troops to come, and now the North China Front was overstretched in all parts of the army, and only a few infantry divisions could be used. Therefore, Han Yunhua was not worried that Binshan Yuan would not give in, because he had no choice, unless the base camp could transfer a large number of troops to the North China Front Army in a short period of time.

The task of reorganizing the 300th Division is to attract firepower, and the greater the commotion on their side, the safer the southern Hebei region will be, and the pressure on the independent 77th Division will be less, and the task will be relatively easier to complete.

On March 6, Han Yunhua's headquarters attacked Yangyuan, the Japanese logistics base, and at the same time, two regiments of the Second Assault Brigade also urgently went to Wei County, a large county in central Hebei.

The large-scale action of Han Yunhua's headquarters caused the Japanese North China Front to be greatly annoyed, and the commander-in-chief, General Binshan Yuan, could only urgently convene a military meeting to discuss countermeasures.

In addition to the commander of the North China Front, Bin Shan Yuan, there were also Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki, commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the 5th Division, and Takeosa Sakurada, chief of staff. Lieutenant General Washzu Matsudaira, commander of the 21st Division, Lieutenant General Shoichi Naito, commander of the cavalry group, Einosuke Sudo, captain of the North China Front Flying Team, Major General Toiichi Sasaki, commander of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, Major General Kaoru Kawamura, commander of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, Major General Kaoru Kawamura, and Major General Fumimi Yamashita, commander of the Yamashita Brigade............

"Ladies and gentlemen, General Han Yunhua of China has entangled heavy troops to launch a large-scale attack on the area occupied by us, let Major General Yamaguchi talk about the current situation first" General Binshan Yuan said with a pale face, the continuous bad news in the past few days has made this hypocritical Japanese general on the verge of breaking out.

The one who got up to speak was Yamaguchi Umeko, who had just been promoted to the commander of the North China Corps of the Japanese Military Police Headquarters in China and the head of the North China Region of the Special High-tech Branch, because Yamaguchi Umeko was one of the few important people who had direct contact with Han Yunhua's department, and Yamaguchi Umeko controlled almost all the intelligence networks of the North China Front, so Yamaguchi Umeko had to be present at every military meeting.

In the past few days, Yamaguchi Meizi's mood is also very unhappy, her two spy stations were broken by the intelligence network of Han Yunhua's department two days ago, and a total of thirty-five senior spies in the two military stations were all shattered, and their bodies were hung on the head of Jining City. Therefore, Yamaguchi Umeko's tone was also very blunt, and she said loudly in an arrogant Kyoto accent: "According to the telegram sent from the front line, the Korean Department of the Eighth Route Army of China has entangled more than 20,000 people in a division on the eastern front, including a field artillery regiment, focusing on attacking the defensive area of the Second Division, and its leader is Chen Geng, the commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the former Eighth Route Army. On the southern front, the ROK Department tangled up about 10 regiments with more than 30,000 troops, and launched large-scale attacks on our Datong, Huai'an, Tianzhen, Yanggao, Yangwon, Ulxian, and other places. The Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army also entangled the strength of five regiments to sneak attack Lingqiu, and it seemed that it wanted to attack our army from the north and south with the South Korean Department. Now the offensive of the Shina troops is fierce, and yesterday the Suzuki wing of the 2nd Division suffered a fatal blow, and the wing commander Shigeichi Suzuki apologized for his seppuku. Nearly 6,000 troops were completely destroyed overnight, less than 2,000 people had withdrawn to Hanjiadian, and their weapons and ammunition were also lost. On the 4th, the county seat of Tianzhen was attacked by Han Yunhua's headquarters, and the defenders of more than 1,500 imperial warriors and more than 2,000 imperial troops were ordered to withdraw from the county, but the imperial troops who safely withdrew to Datong were less than 1,000 people, and the imperial army was intercepted by the cavalry troops of China halfway, and all of them surrendered. On the morning of the 5th, Yanggao County was attacked by Han Yunhua's headquarters, and the defenders suffered heavy losses. On the same day, Huai'an was attacked by two infantry regiments of the Chinese army, and the defenders were completely annihilated, and all the jade was shattered. Today, the transportation hub and baggage base Yangyuan in Jizhong were attacked, but fortunately, the Honda United stationed in Wei County rescued in time, so so far Yangyuan will be safe and sound. However, this is also a delaying tactic, which cannot fundamentally solve the threat of Han Yunhua's subordinates. The situation is roughly like this, please tell us if you have any good suggestions or strategies for dealing with the enemy. ”,

As soon as Yamaguchi Meizi's words fell, the deep voice of General Binshan Yuan rang out again: "Gentlemen, the stink bugs dare to offend our great Japanese Empire, and we must suppress it with all our might, you will first discuss how to send troops, and this time we must eliminate this nasty Chinese army at all costs." ”

Senior General Binshan's words were like a catalyst, and they quickly spread throughout the conference room, and the first to speak was the newly appointed commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki. Izuki Takamasa, who had just taken over as Kenji Dohihara and became the commander of the 14th Division, didn't know much about Han Yunhua's department at all, plus he had just seen the strength of the First War Zone of the Nationalist Government in Henan, and now he can be described as full of arrogance. So without thinking, he said: "Your Excellency, what is it to worry about less than 100,000 troops, you must know that even the regular army of 100,000 troops is no match for our North China Front Army, I think that as long as two divisions are sent north, we can solve that nasty bedbug." "What Lieutenant General Jingguan Takasho said was impassioned, and he had the momentum that the army in the world was all chickens and dogs. If it was in normal times, the big guy would just smile, and even look at the face of the commander of his lieutenant general division and echo a few words, but now at this juncture, everyone's eyes are full of disdain and contempt when they look at Takamasa Iseki, and even his friend Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi, the commander of the 5th Division, looks at him like an idiot.

General Binshan Yuan, who was already depressed and entangled, heard Jingguan Takachang's comment on Han Yunhua's department, and immediately became angry, and his hypocritical face suddenly broke out: "Baga, you big bastard, if Han Yunhua, the general of the Zhina, is so easy to clean up, do we still need to gather here as a group of senior officers of the Great Japanese Empire?" I don't understand how you got mixed up with this lieutenant general's division commander. ”

Although "Hai" was 100,000 unconvinced in his heart, he could only bow his head side by side and accept Binshan Yuan's reprimand. Although he is now also the commander of the lieutenant general division and is already at the top of the Japanese army's rank system, he is still a long way from the commander of the general's front army. In the face of the rebuke of His Excellency the General, he could only accept it with an open mind, otherwise he, the commander of the division, would probably offend the commander of the General for this.

Seeing that his friend was reprimanded, Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi, commander of the 5th Division, had no choice but to get up and say: "Your Excellency, Commander, I have just calculated and found that now Han Yunhua's department has only dispatched more than 50,000 troops, although it is still unknown how many troops Han Yunhua's department has, but through the previous operations, we can preliminarily determine that this Inner Mongolia Military Region has at least 100,000 troops. In this way, can we judge that Han Yunhua's troops did not want to have a decisive battle with the front army, and their purpose was just for the group of earth monkeys in southern Hebei. After finishing speaking, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando did not sit down immediately, but waited for His Excellency the General's instructions.

General Binshan Yuan compared it on the map, and then pondered for a long time before saying: "Yo Xian Tengjun is worthy of being the elite of the Imperial Army, and his strategic vision is extraordinary, your analysis is very likely, Major General Yamaguchi also once said that Han Yunhua's troops are more than 100,000. Now that we have analyzed the strategic intention of the ROK to take the initiative to attack, what should our army do? Ando-kun, tell me your opinion. ”

"There is an old saying in China: It is better to cut off one of its ten fingers than to hurt it, and it is better to destroy one of its ten divisions than to destroy one of its divisions militarily. He believes that the most important thing for us now is to find out the direction of the main attack of this Chinese army, and then concentrate our forces to annihilate one of them. I think in this way, Han Yunhua's attack will be self-defeating. Lieutenant General Toshikichi Ando continued, his venomous little eyes shining with a terrifying and fierce light.

General Binshan Yuan nodded with satisfaction and said: "The Fifth Division is worthy of being the elite of the elites of the empire, the successive division commanders are not general, Ando-kun's predecessor Itagaki-kun is a famous tactician in the empire, he swept the entire North China with a division and I really admire, especially during the Battle of Xinkou, Itagaki-kun with half a division against more than 30 divisions led by Admiral Yan Xishan can still use reasonable tactics to defeat it, Ando has the demeanor of his predecessors."

"His Excellency the Commander's praise Ando is ashamed, Itagaki-kun is a model for my generation of soldiers, and it really makes Ando admire." Speaking of which, the reason why Toshikichi Ando was able to serve as the commander of the Fifth Division was that Seishiro Itagaki really contributed a lot, so Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando was grateful to Seishiro Itagaki from the bottom of his heart. ,

General Binshan Yuan glanced at the generals in the conference room, his expression was very serious, and his originally kind face said with a somewhat hideous face: "Now that we have preliminarily judged the strategic intentions of Han Yunhua's department, we can also deduce that the main direction of attack of the troops in the country should be the south, because the south is relatively close to southern Hebei, and it is easier to force our army to return to help." But the hateful Han Yunhua didn't know that the more than 40,000 troops allocated to our front army from the base camp had already landed in the port of Tianjin, and he was destined to be disappointed this time. Therefore, I ordered: First, the Eastern Hebei Front Army is under the full command of Lieutenant General Yasui Toji, and it is necessary to hold back the main force of the Chen Division, and after the Front Army has eliminated the main force of the southward detachment led by Han Yunhua, it will send troops to encircle and annihilate the Chen Division. Second, mobilize the 5th Division, the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade, the Yamashita Brigade, and the 39th Infantry Brigade to encircle and annihilate Han Yunhua's headquarters. The task of encircling and annihilating the Korean Ministry was under the full command of Ando-kun. Third, the special forces and gendarmerie were mobilized to form a special attack team to act independently and assist Lieutenant General Ando in his operations. Fourth, order Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the 10th Division, to suspend the speed of encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Road in southern Hebei. ”

"Hail"

"Hail"

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After the meeting was adjourned, all the participating officers withdrew one after another, and General Binshan Yuan was the only one left in the conference room. At the beginning of the full-scale war of aggression against China, the main decision-makers in the empire believed that only a "single blow to China" could force China to submit. When the Emperor of Japan asked how long the war would take, he brazenly said that "one or two months is enough."

But what General Binshan did not expect was that the government of China, which has always been weak and bullied, would fight the empire at all costs this time, and forced the empire to increase its troops three times during the Battle of Songhu, and for the first time dispatched more than 300,000 troops for a local battle, which is not unheard of in Japanese history, but it is quite rare. Although they won the battle and captured the city that the whole world coveted, they soon took Nanjing, the capital of China. However, the will of the Chinese people to resist did not collapse as they imagined, but under the leadership of the government of China and the local warlord parties, they fought bravely, from Shanghai to Nanjing, from Jinan to Taierzhuang, from Xinkou to Taiyuan, the army of China fought for every inch of land. This may also be unexpected by the leader of China, Jiang, and it is no wonder that he was able to write heroic poems of "an inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood, 100,000 young men and 100,000 soldiers". After nearly two years, the Chinese army on the frontal battlefield was neither wiped out, nor did the Chinese government give in, and still insisted on resisting the war. The enemy on the battlefield behind enemy lines became stronger and stronger, established a large number of anti-Japanese base areas, and recaptured large areas of occupied areas. In particular, Han Yunhua's department of the Eighth Route Army was born out of thin air, and many senior imperial officers were lost in his hands, and even the famous lieutenant general Lian Nuan Pan in the emperor was also in his hands, and almost all of the Mongolian Xinjiang region fell into the hands of Han Yunhua, and the wings of the department were already full, which directly threatened the empire's rule in the north of China.

Now the empire is most worried that the United States and Britain and other Western powers will support China, but fortunately, the empire's foreign ministry is still attentive, and with their efforts, the United States and Britain basically did not aid China during this period. Moreover, in order to push the empire's chariot onto the red Soviet Union, the United States and Britain tried their best to pursue a "policy of appeasement" and even continued to sell the empire the strategic materials that the empire lacked most.

Although the Red Soviet Union had given China strong aid, it had to repay the weapons and equipment it had sold with rare metals and agricultural and animal husbandry products, and the burden on China's national economy increased sharply. In order to avoid a two-sided war, the Red Soviet Union also took a "neutral" position of non-interference in the Reich in international relations. However, even so, under such difficult conditions, the poor and backward China mainly relied on its own strength to resist the attack of the empire, forcing the empire's strategic plan to conquer China in a short period of time and turn China into a base for "southward expansion" or "northward expansion" completely aborted. What is even more terrifying is that the empire is now stuck in the "Chinese quagmire" and cannot extricate itself, and the national economy has begun to decline seriously. ,

Not long ago, General Terauchi Shouichi, former commander of the Imperial North China Front, reported to His Majesty the Emperor on the situation of the resistance forces in North China in his "Report on the Situation of the Resistance Forces in North China": "The occupied areas are ...... The enemy's guerrilla activities were gradually active...... Its actions are extremely rampant. Incidents such as sabotage of railways, attacks on various places, etc., are constantly occurring. The so-called 'law and order restoration areas' are in fact limited to a few kilometres on either side of the main communication routes. ”

As the first commander of the North China Front, His Excellency Terauchi Shouichi still had a very insightful view, and he very much agreed with and appreciated the views of General Terauchi Shouichi. In addition, at this time, Japan not only suffered serious setbacks militarily, the momentum of strategic offensive had become the end of a strong crossbow, but also gradually fell into difficulties economically, its national strength began to decline, and there was a lack of strategic raw materials; Moreover, due to the continuous increase in the number of soldiers, labor, energy, and food are all insufficient. So in the eyes of General Binshan Yuan, there was a huge crisis under the halo of imperial glory. According to data obtained some time ago, in 1938, the military expenditure of the empire was already as high as 6.156 billion yen, and the production plan of the defense industry could no longer be completed. In the winter of that year, "Japan's national strength poverty has become superficial rapidly" and it has lost its ability to guarantee the supply of military materials to the army, thus "aggravating the pain and pressure of the head of the Central High Command." On October 2 of that year, Sawada Shigeru, who took office as deputy chief of staff, gave this account of the situation at that time: "Strengthening foreign countries and leading cadres in the middle is a portrayal of our country today, and it cannot be maintained for a long time. This is also the judgment of the land minister. There is no way out by relying on the decisive battle of force to resolve the incident in China. In fact, his former deputy chief of staff, Nakajima Tetsuzo, also had basically the same opinion as him, believing that it would be very detrimental to Japan to continue fighting; Even if Wuhan and Guangdong are defeated, it will not be possible to bring China to its knees, and "due to the deterioration of people's morale in Japan, the problems in the lives of the unemployed, and the emergence of anti-war ideas, it will be even more difficult." It was precisely because of China's insistence on the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that Japan gradually fell into the predicament of "China's quagmire" and could not extricate itself.

Another point that worries Senior General Binshan Motomo is that the political situation in the country is unstable, and the struggles between the cabinets have come and gone, and Prime Minister Fumima Konoe, who has just taken office, has been provoked by Kiichiro Hiranuma, Nobuyuki Abe, Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, and others on more than one occasion, and there is almost no suspense in changing the cabinet. However, their policy toward China, especially toward the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in North China, was capricious, and although they constantly changed their tactics toward China and adopted various means such as "strategic bombing," "naval blockade," "three-light policy," "using China to contain China," and "using war to nourish war," they still failed to reverse this unfavorable situation, which was getting deeper and deeper. Senior General Binshan Mototo believes that the several cabinet changes during the incident are in themselves exposing Japan's weakness to the world.

Not long ago, the headquarters sent a secret plan from the Imperial General Staff Headquarters to draw up a secret plan to end the war, and there were several passages in the plan that shocked General Binshan Yuan, such as: "If the war continues in the future, it will be in vain." It is impossible to comprehensively solve the China problem in one fell swoop through this incident. The broad masses of the people are already tired, and chaos will inevitably arise after a long war. ”

Despite the internal troubles of the empire, General Binshan Moto would never allow the empire to end the war, and the holy war of the empire was aimed at the complete occupation of China, not just extortion of some property. So he had to fight a big war in the fastest possible time, attract all the eyes of the empire, let those who were short-sighted see the strength of the Great Japanese Empire, and let them see the might of the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire.

Since General Binshan Yuan is ready to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, then this chicken and monkey must be found, the monkey is ready-made, and those guys in the country who threaten to end the war are the targets of his Binshan Yuan's threat. As for the chicken used to scare the monkeys, it is difficult to find, this chicken is thin and does not work, do you say that a dignified imperial front army has packed up a guerrilla force of 200 people? If you don't get those guys laughing out of their big teeth, it can still serve the purpose of scaring the monkeys. But if the chicken is too fat, it will be a lot of trouble to clean up. For example, the stingy and cunning Yan Xishan, that guy also graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army School, and the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command are still very combative, especially the army in the hands of the commander surnamed Fu, which is not much worse than the second-line garrison of the empire, and even surpasses it.

Thinking about it, General Binshan Yuan set his eyes on this place in Saibei, isn't there a self-righteous chicken entrenched here? Besides, this guy's reputation is also famous enough, so that those guys in China always talk about this guy, and they don't clean up his domestic guys for a day. Although this guy doesn't show strength like a chicken, he looks like a tiger. However, General Binshan Yuan still felt that in comparison, Han Yunhua's department in Saibei seemed to be a soft persimmon, at least in his eyes, Han Yunhua's department was much easier to clean up than Chief Yan's hundreds of thousands of troops.

What makes General Binshan Gen even more happy is that this guy took the initiative to provoke the incident, could it be that Amaterasu is blessing the Japanese Empire to bless him Binshan Yuan? As long as the hateful army is cleaned up, those guys in the country will have no capital to preach, and it is not up to the military department to decide what to do when the time comes, General Binshan Yuan thought in his heart.