Now that he has made up his mind to clean up Han Yunhua's department, General Binshan Yuan will no longer delay. According to the intelligence collected by the special high-tech department, Han Yunhua personally led about 30,000 troops to the south this time. Therefore, for the sake of insurance, General Binshan Yuan mobilized heavy troops of one division and six brigades to encircle and annihilate Han Yunhua's headquarters with all his might. In the eyes of General Binshan Yuan, the more than 30,000 people led by Han Yunhua were not far from the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division, and the six Reading Brigade also crushed Han Yunhua's troops to death.

As for Jidong, he is not even more worried, although the second division has suffered a temporary defeat, the foundation is still there. What kind of unit is the second division, it is a stronger existence than the fifth division, and it is really not good, isn't there those masters of the gendarmerie? Don't those guys usually shout that they can fight ten with one, then I will treat your two thousand people as 20,000 people this time, and if you are defeated, you can also kill the majesty of the gendarmerie, these guys in the province have their eyes on the top of their heads every day, and they look like the second and third of the earth, and no one is extremely annoying in their eyes. Now what General Binshan Yuan is most afraid of is that Han Yunhua's troops will retreat before the main force of the front army encircles and annihilate his main force, so there will be no need to mobilize the army.

After two days of fighting, Han Yunhua's headquarters went smoothly, and Tianzhen, Yanggao, Yangyuan, and Huai'an had all fallen into the hands of the reorganized 300th Division. Moreover, the northbound detachment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters has also reached Guangling, and will soon be able to join the troops under Han Yunhua in Wei County.

"Report, Minister Qian sent an urgent call!" The operator came in and reported loudly.

Han Yunhua put down the pencil in his hand, shifted his gaze back from the map, and said solemnly: "Read! ”

"On the morning of 7 March, the main force of the 39th Brigade of the Chinese Army stationed in Datong, together with more than 12,000 people from two infantry divisions and one cavalry regiment of the puppet army, attacked the defenders of our army in Yanggao County on a large scale with the cooperation of aircraft, and exchanged fire with the 1st assault brigade and 1 regiment. On the same day, the Shanxia Brigade, the 3rd Brigade and the 4th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade stationed in Zhangjiakou urgently went south, and now they have reached Wanquan. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th, a heavy army of the Japanese army assembled at the port of Tianjin, with the number of the Fifth Division and the Eighth and Ninth Brigades. Now this unit is heading to the theater of operations, and their target is our army...... According to the investigation of our intelligence personnel, Senior General Binshan Yuan, commander of the North China Front of the 5th Chinese Army, held an emergency military meeting in Peiping, including Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki, commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Anto, commander of the 5th Division, and Takeosa Sakurada, chief of staff. Lieutenant General Washsutsu 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 Toichi Sasaki, commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Reading Force, Major General Kaoru Kawamura, commander of the 4th Brigade of the Reading Force, Major General Yamashita Fumi, commander of the Yamashita Brigade, and other senior officers of the army attended the military meeting. However, after this meeting, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Anto, commander of the 5th Division, uncharacteristically commanded the 8th and 9th Brigades. The telegrams sent by the Fifth Division to the armies in North China increased suddenly, and after our unit deciphered the intercepted telecommunication code, we learned that the Fifth Division, together with the Yamashita Brigade, the 39th Brigade, and the 3rd and 4th Brigades of Reading Force, as well as a large number of puppet troops, seemed to be secretly besieging our army. However, due to the limited ability of our department to decipher codes, I can only hear a rough ......."

The swiftness of the army's action greatly exceeded Han Yunhua's expectations, and the Yamashita Brigade, the 39th Brigade, and the 3rd and 4th Brigades were also arranged, and Han Yunhua had already made arrangements for these troops, but the appearance of the remaining troops on the battlefield was really beyond Han Yunhua's expectations. The Fifth Division originally belonged to the 2nd Army, and on July 4, 1938, it was transferred to the North China Front Army directly under the North China Front Army, and was responsible for the garrison along the Jiaoji line. On 19 September, the division was transferred to the 21st Army's battle sequence, set off from Qingdao by boat on 13 October, assembled at Daya Bay (known as Bai Yashi Bay) on the 20th, entered Lingding Island on the 22nd, and occupied the Humen fortress on the 23rd. Now it should be fighting in South China, why did it suddenly appear in North China again. And the commander of the Fifth Division during this period should be Lieutenant General Jun Imamura, how can he still be the same Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando. Moreover, the 3rd and 4th brigades should be subordinate to the battle sequence of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, when did they quietly transfer to Zhangjiakou, and if the 8th and 9th brigades were mixed into the original direction of history, they should now be in the assembly, and the reading force was mixed into the 8th brigade, and the brigade commander was Major General Yoshishige Mizuhara. The brigade was formed on January 14, 1939 in the Utsunomiya Palace, and was under the jurisdiction of the 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, and 35th Infantry Brigades, Artillery Corps, Engineer Corps, and Signal Corps. Reading power mixed into the 9th Brigade, Brigade Commander Major General Koshii Toranosuke. The brigade was formed on January 4, 1939 in Kanazawa, and was under the jurisdiction of the 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th, and 40th Infantry Brigades, an artillery team, an engineer team, and a communications team. It seems that the Yue army has long planned to take action against the military region, and no matter how many secret troops have gathered in the North China battlefield, the plan of the Yue army seems to be quite small, and it seems that the move to take the initiative to attack is the right move. Han Yunhua also discovered a loophole in his arrangement, that is, he did not expect the increase in troops in the army. In fact, he had already considered it at that time, but Han Yunhua expected that the battle would end in half a month at most, and it was impossible to complete the reinforcements in the army from the assembly to the boarding and then to China. However, it now seems that these units of the Chinese army have already secretly assembled in North China, and so far there are about 60,000 more people in one division and four brigades, and it is not known whether there are any hidden troops.

Han Yunhua climbed on the map for about an hour, and then saw a huge encirclement from his current position, and the army seemed to want to form a huge encirclement around the periphery of the reorganized 300th Division, and in one fell swoop, the reorganized 300th Division was encircled and annihilated in a narrow area south of Datong, Yanggao, Tianzhen, and Huai'an. After coming to this conclusion, Han Yunhua was not in a hurry, but turned his attention to the eastern Hebei region.

From the very beginning, Han Yunhua knew that the reorganization of the 300th Division was just a cover, and the real killing move was in Jidong. As long as the 60,000 or 70,000 little devils don't go to eastern Hebei, then General Binshanyuan's poisonous plan can only harm others and himself, and it will not play a big role at all, let alone encircle and annihilate the 300th division.

After having a heart, Han Yunhua no longer worries. It would take five to six days for the Fifth Division to join the battle at the earliest, which was a rare opportunity for Han Yunhua's subordinates, as long as they entered the Jizhong Plain, the position of the Yue army would be in chaos. At that time, let alone encircling and annihilating the 300th Division, even if you want to send Han Yunhua's subordinates out of the country, it will be a troublesome matter. Jidong was so troubled by Han Yunhua, and the economy retreated for more than ten years, if Jizhong was also harmed, then even if the army finally eliminated Han Yunhua's department, it would be worth the loss. Han Yunhua was not in a hurry now, but instead ordered the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the 2nd Assault Brigade to take Wei County overnight and join forces with the troops of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

It's hard to say anything else about the Eighth Route Army, but when it comes to guerrilla warfare, the little devils are definitely not opponents. The two regiments of the 300th Division were fully 7,000 people, plus the four infantry regiments of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and some troops of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, nearly 20,000 people had gathered in Han Yunhua's headquarters on the southern front, and even if the Fifth Division and the two infantry brigades were all used to destroy the second and third regiments of the assault brigade, it would not be possible to deal with it in a short time. In addition, Han Yunhua was confident that he would force the Fifth Division to go north before the Fifth Division encircled and annihilated the troops on the Southern Front, completely smashing the conspiracy of the North China Front, and letting Binshanyuan, an old devil, lose his wife and lose his troops.

The Second Assault Brigade was the elite of Han Yunhua's department, and the brigade commander Wang Jian was one of the only remaining company commanders after the original new regiment withdrew to Chahar, although it was only a deputy company commander, but it was also the pillar of the new regiment at that time. When Han Yunhua and Ye Baoguo were seriously injured and could not command the troops, it was Wang Jian and Li Dayong who commanded the troops, so after Han Yunhua recovered from his injuries, he took good care of Li Dayong and a group of other veteran officers. The new regiment is the military soul created by Han Yunhua for this unit, and every soldier is an elite who has been carefully cast by Han Yunhua, so almost none of the soldiers in the new regiment who are still alive so far are ordinary soldiers. It turned out that the officers who belonged to the new regiment were at least a deputy regiment commander, and the ordinary soldiers were at least a recruit platoon commander, as for Li Dayong and Wang Jian, they directly became the commanders of the first brigade. And Wang Jian didn't embarrass Han Yunhua, he fought countless big and small battles, and every battle was decent, although it was not a classic example, but he couldn't find fault with it from the tactical level, so Han Yunhua was also relieved to hand over the battle on the southern front to Wang Jian to command. Moreover, the northbound detachment composed of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was commanded by Commander Nie (Rong Zhen), and after the two armies met, the battle on the southern front was directly under his command, and Han Yunhua was even more relieved.

The battle on the Eastern Front was commanded by Yang Chengwu and Yang Da Political Commissar, and the number of troops was also about 10,000, and the opponent was also Yamashita Fengwen, who Yang Chengwu was very familiar with.

Although there is only one regiment of troops on the Western Front, and the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Yue Army has tens of thousands of people, Han Yunhua is the most reassuring battlefield, after the continuous attacks of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the 39th Infantry Brigade is already the elite of the army, don't look at the 39th Brigade now there are more than 5,000 troops, but the vast majority of them are supplementary troops who have not been on the battlefield.

The remaining more than 7,000 puppet troops can't be counted on, not to mention that there are already three infantry regiments in it that have been directly controlled by the intelligence department, even if there is no such hand, these more than 7,000 puppet troops dare not do anything with Han Yunhua's department, the officers above may not be afraid of Han Yunhua, the big devil, but the small soldiers below are direct combat effectiveness, they are afraid. A month ago, hundreds of puppet troops on several lines of defense on the periphery of Tianzhen were bloody lessons, and they would never leave a living mouth when they were killed with a knife, and the puppet army who cleaned up the battlefield and collected the corpses saw the miserable appearance of the puppet army in the two lines of defense of Shifo Temple and Wayaokou, and they were directly scared to pee (sui).

After taking a closer look and finding no fatal loopholes, Han Yunhua immediately sent a report to the commanders of all directions, ordering them to drag the opponent for ten days and a half months to create an opportunity for the victory in eastern Hebei. At the same time, Han Yunhua sent a long telegram to Master Chen, ordering the 77th Division, the Eighth Brigade of Duli, the Mechanized Brigade, and the Artillery Brigade to directly advance the originally planned battle line to the areas of Qianxi, Qian'an, and Lulong.

To everyone's expectations, Han Yunhua also asked Master Chen to prepare a small and elite army to lurk in the coastal area for urgent tasks to be completed, Han Yunhua did not say how many people this small army needed, let alone when it would leave, anyway, let Master Chen himself want to go. In order to make up for the shortage of troops in the eastward column, Han Yunhua ordered Li Dayong and Bao Sen's headquarters to be directly placed under the command of Master Chen, and at the same time sent the general reserve led by Ye Baoguo to eastern Hebei to reinforce Master Chen, so that Master Chen had one division, three brigades, six regiments, another detachment (Li Dingguo), and another guerrilla corps (Bao Sen), with a total strength of more than 65,000 people. The puppet army in eastern Hebei said that there were more than 40,000 people in the sky, and those with combat effectiveness were more than 10,000 people of the Second Division, and the rest were all local chickens and dogs. In addition, the Second Division suffered a big loss in the Sichakou offensive and defensive battle, losing nearly 5,000 elites, although there were still nearly 4,000 troops withdrawn, not the 2,000 people reported to the North China Front Headquarters by Lieutenant General Yasui Toji, but the people who could really fight with guns were about 2,000 people. Therefore, so far, the entire eastern Hebei region has combat effectiveness, and there are only about 5,000 troops left that can pose a deadly threat to Han Yunhua's subordinates.

Due to an erroneous analysis of the battle situation, the North China Front used its main force on the southern front battlefield to encircle and annihilate Han Yunhua's headquarters, but did not send a single reinforcement to the eastern Hebei battlefield, which was crucial to the Japanese army. In the words of General Binshan Yuan: "The Second Division is the most elite army in the empire, and it is nonsense to take one as ten, but it is no problem to take one enemy and three." In addition, there are more than 10,000 people of the Fourth Division in the eastern Hebei region, more than 2,000 people of the gendarmerie and 31 regiments of the Imperial Allied Army, and it is not a problem at all to deal with the 20,000 people in the Zhina District. If this "invading" Chinese army can't be annihilated, Fujiji Yasui should take the initiative to go home and coax the children to ........."

When the deployment and defense of the army in eastern Hebei were reported to the Yangyuan front line where Han Yunhua was located, Han Yunhua knew that there was no suspense in this battle, and it was up to Master Chen to seize the opportunity to maximize the results. Under the rolling iron flow of mechanized troops, Han Yunhua did not think that the puppet army in eastern Hebei would be able to hold out for a few days. Although Han Yunhua's mechanized brigade lacked ammunition and gasoline training, the soldiers of the mechanized brigade were composed of Han Yunhua's original two cadet corps and all educated young people in the whole army. Han Yunhua built an elite armored force and deliberately took more than three months to command and train the mechanized brigade. Since both the Eighth Brigade and the Mechanized Brigade were stationed in Baotou, the Eighth Brigade also occupied all of them and became the infantry in Han Yunhua's training and infantry training, which was also the main reason for the Eighth Brigade to operate together with the mechanized brigade and the artillery brigade this time.

The tactics learned with the mechanized brigade are definitely the pinnacle tactics in this era, and even the mechanized troops of the Chinese army can end the battle in a very short time. In Han Yunhua's opinion. Although the little devil suffered a small loss in Zhang Gufeng, before the battle at Nomenkan and before he saw the real steel torrent, the army would not realize what the real modern steel war was.

Thinking of this, Han Yunhua couldn't help but think of the Zhang Gufeng conflict a few months ago. Why do you want to mention Zhang Gufeng here, in fact, the conflict between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union has a long history, from the beginning of the conflict of interests in China to the conflict between the two countries' strategies, and the hostility between the two countries for half a century has brought the two stubborn countries to the point of incompatibility. Although the Soviet Union is now called the Red Soviet Union, Lao Maozi's domineering practices are as despicable as Tsarist Russia, and Lenin has long said that the Soviet Union is not an aggressor country, and all the foreign territories occupied will be returned to its sovereign state, including the large territory of China. However, after Stalin came to power, everything changed, and the relevant policies formulated during the Lenin period were completely discarded, so Han Yunhua's dislike of the current Soviet Union is no less than his hatred of the army. However, Zhang Gufeng's Soviet army's battle against the Yue army greatly inspired Han Yunhua, causing Han Yunhua to have a Chinese version of the Zhang Gufeng battle in eastern Hebei early.

Zhanggufeng is a place on the border between North Korea, the Soviet Union and China that cannot be found on a general map, and the railway from Najin, North Korea to Hunchun, Jilin Province passes under the mountain. It was originally Chinese territory, but the Sino-Russian Treaty of Linghui signed in 1858 between Tsarist Russia and Qing Zhengaxe forcibly ceded this beautiful and rich place from China. There is a hill from North Korea across the Tumen River from the border with the Soviet Union called Zhanggufeng. According to the 1858 Sino-Russian Treaty of Linghui, this is the border between the two countries, but there are no stakes, and the boundary is unknown. The Soviet Union called it Lake Hassan, and it was a strategic point overlooking Vladivostok from the east.

At the end of June 1938, the Soviet army suddenly occupied Zhanggufeng, built fortifications on the mountain, and laid out barbed wire. He himself, who had already classified the northeast as a puppet "Manchukuo" and made Korea his colony, quit his work. In his own opinion, the Soviet army's occupation of Zhanggufeng was equivalent to having a strategic point that could control Korea and Northeast China. However, as the Chinese army was preparing to attack Wuhan, the various Japanese armies were making frequent movements, and it was difficult to clash with the Soviet army on a large scale. The base camp had no choice but to order the Kwantung Army to enter a state of first-class combat readiness, and at the same time, the cabinet instructed the ambassador to the Soviet Union, Shigemitsu Aoi, to mediate with the Soviet Union. However, the Soviet Union, which had its own plans, made it clear that it was impossible to withdraw its troops from Zhang Gufeng, and this led to a deadlock in the diplomatic mediation of Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Aoi. The base camp of the army made a painful decision: to recapture Zhang Gufeng. In order to avoid the further expansion of the situation and lead the war to the northeast, thus affecting the situation in Central China in the decisive battle with the Chinese [***] team, the base camp ordered the army stationed in Korea to complete this task.

With the strength of a division in July, the Korean army recaptured this place after three days of fighting with the cooperation of heavy artillery fire and some armored vehicles and aircraft, and drove the Soviet army to Ussuriysk, and the army won a complete victory. The Soviets opened their doors and sent the invincible army into the Ussuriysk steppe. The army was still a little worried that the Soviet army would not be easy to deal with, but the Soviet army was also defeated in front of the imperial army. This made the army extremely excited, and the Soviets were nothing more than that.

On 1 August, more than 20,000 people from two divisions of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District, under the command of General Sukolov, of the First Army of the Far East, equipped with nearly 100 artillery pieces, more than 200 tanks, and hundreds of new aircraft, began to counterattack the army.

In the early morning of this day, the Yue Jun who was sleeping was suddenly awakened by the roar of rolling thunder from far and near in the sky. Before the panicked Japanese troops entered the position, the roaring group of planes poured down dense bombs and machine-gun bullets like raindrops, and the roaring muzzles in the distance erupted one after another of firelight, and the smoke and flames engulfed the Japanese army's position. As soon as the bombing and artillery bombardment had passed, a terrifying scene appeared that the Chinese army will never forget: On the boundless steppe, more than 100 Soviet tanks roared and formed a torrent of steel hundreds of meters wide, crushing the Japanese army's position in a decisive posture. The smoke from the tank engine was like a dark cloud rolling up in the sky, and the grassland swept by the track shook with the roar of the engine. Tank guns and machine guns smashed the positions of the Japanese army into a sea of fire, and the heavy tracks pressed against the military fortifications. Despite the stubborn resistance of the Yamato samurai, many of whom were strapped to the tanks with grenades and explosives, all to no avail. The Soviets threw their arrogance into the Tumen River with absolute superiority.

In just a few days of fighting at Zhanggufeng, the army announced a total of 1,440 casualties, of which 526 were killed. The 75th Wing, which had captured the Zhanggufeng Heights, suffered heavy casualties, with a total of 708 casualties, of which 241 were killed. But there is obviously something greasy in this, and it is not known how many troops Han Yunhua has lost in the end, but the Soviet army's siege of the army is a classic. Although the current armored force of Han Yunhua's department is still very weak, and all the armored forces are only the two or three hundred taels of captured tanks and armored vehicles, plus the gasoline used by tanks and combat vehicles, Han Yunhua's department cannot produce it for the time being, and can only use the gasoline in the oil depots that the army has stored in Baotou. Therefore, the mechanized brigade under Han Yunhua's command can be said to be "short of food and clothing" and has not been supplemented. Compared to the European armored forces of the same period, it is simply pediatric. But dealing with the unprepared puppet army in the eastern Hebei region is no different from stepping on an ant, coupled with the advanced tactics trained by Han Yunhua, Han Yunhua is confident that he will give the army a lesson in eastern Hebei that will never be forgotten.

(To be continued)