After listening to Yamaguchi Umeko's report, General Binshan Yuan squatted on the chair decadently. It took a long pause to ease up a bit. The blood-red little eyes opened again, and he continued to ask in a hoarse voice: "If there is any bad news, I can bear it." ”

Umeko Yamaguchi looked at His Excellency the Admiral who was sitting in the chair, and then continued: "Ten minutes ago, His Excellency Yasui sent a telegram that he had decided to live and die with Chengde, and now he has reduced the troops near Chengde to Chengde City. And the vanguard of the Chinese army had already occupied Longhua and was on its way to Chengde. At the same time, the Southern Route Army of China also moved towards Shuangqiao, which means that His Excellency Toji Yasui and the remnants of the 2nd Division have been surrounded by the troops of China. ”

The news of Yamaguchi Umeko once made General Binshan Moto fall into a rage, and His Excellency, a general who has always been praised for his leniency in the Imperial Army, gasped, roared angrily, drew his command knife and split the desk in front of him in half, and roared angrily: "Yaga, where did the people of China get so many armored troops, is it the Central Army of Chiang, the leader of China, who cooperated with the actions of the Han Department?" How did you do it, since you didn't find out about such important information at all. I remember that the reconnaissance unit of your special high-tech department and the aviation regiment reported the result of the investigation that in the eastern Hebei region, except for the more than 20,000 people of the independent 77th Division who confronted that bastard of Yasui Toji, there are no more formed Chinese troops, let alone any armored troops, how do you explain it? ”

The cold voice of General Binshan Yuan once again sounded in the ears of Yamaguchi Meizi, and the biting cold made His Excellency the noble and high-ranking Major General shiver, if she could not satisfy His Excellency the General today, she and the commander of the Aviation Corps, Lieutenant General Dechang, would probably be used as scapegoats for the fiasco in Jidong. Although her father controlled almost the entire military department, it was not easy to excuse her in the face of such a fiasco, although she would not go to court-martial, but at least her military career was ruined, of course, this is what her father wanted to see.

Thinking of her stern and old-fashioned father, Yamaguchi felt uncomfortable, as an illegitimate daughter she had been discriminated against and insulted by the other children in the family almost from birth. Her father, on the other hand, watched from the sidelines, but never said a word for her. She had six older sisters, four of whom were concubines like her or directly illegitimate daughters, all of whom were married off by their father early as tools for marriage. They don't have the right to choose their own marriage and their own happiness, which makes young Umeko Yamaguchi feel in crisis. But there is an exception here, the sixth sister Dongxiang Ping relied on her own efforts to break free from her father's shackles, which greatly touched the young Yamaguchi Meizi. Although Dongxiang Ping had been married to the son of a general by her father at a very young age, Dongxiang Ping did not succumb to the pressure of the family, but still chose to resist gently. While agreeing to the marriage arranged by his father, Dongxiang Ping was admitted to the Imperial Army University behind his family's back and graduated with honors. At the time of graduation, Dongxiang Ping was already a junior rank, two orders higher than the graduates of the same period. After graduation, Dongxiang Ping was even more out of control, and it only took three years to be promoted to the army general. In Dazuo, the key general Kan Kagami Dongxiang Ping only took two years to become a general, and from then on he was qualified to be called Your Excellency. What happened to Higashigo Ping made Yamaguchi Meizi, who has the same background experience, very envious, and Yamaguchi Meizi has had a dream since she was a child, that is, she wants to become stronger.

When her father was about to marry Umeko Yamaguchi to Prime Minister Fumima Konoe's straw-bale nephew, Umeko Yamaguchi finally chose the same way of resistance as the sixth sister, agreeing to marry Fumima Konoe's nephew first, and on the other hand, she was quickly admitted to the Imperial Army University. Because of her excellent performance in school, Yamaguchi Umeko was taken by Kenji Dohihara, the head of the Imperial Intelligence Agency, as a disciple. After graduating, Yamaguchi Umeko was transferred to serve in the Kwantung Army under the care and guidance of Dohihara, and Yamaguchi Umeko did not disappoint her teacher Tohihara, and it took less than a year to be promoted to the army major, and in the fourth year of graduation, she was transferred to the North China Front Army to serve, and was soon promoted to the army general, and not long ago was directly promoted to the army major general due to outstanding performance. is different from the sixth sister Dongxiang Ping when she mixed the military world, at that time, Dongxiang Ping was more or less able to receive some help from her father, who was the chief of staff of the empire at the time, but when she was admitted to Lu University, her father clearly told her that the family would not give her any help, and everything depended on herself. If you can't get along, you have to come back and marry that big straw bag, which is an order and what your father expects. In the eyes of his father, who is in a high position, it is enough for the family to have an alternative to Dongxiang Ping, and there is no need and cannot appear a second "rebel", if she is used as a scapegoat for the fiasco in Jidong this time, Yamaguchi Meizi knows very well what fate awaits him, so he must not give in to Binshan Yuan, even if he is His Excellency the General Commander and is her top boss. ,

"Your Excellency, you can't blame our intelligence agencies for this, you must know that in this fiasco, our special high-tech department and the gendarmerie also suffered heavy losses, among which the excellent gendarmerie alone lost more than 2,000 people, almost reaching more than half of the total strength of the military police of the Chinese dispatch army. And I don't think that the armored force that attacked His Excellency Shigeru Sawada could not have been the troops of Chiang, the leader of China, according to the information collected before the war, China did have a fully mechanized force, its external name was the fifth jun of China, and the commander of the army was the famous general Du Yanming of China. And the Fifth Army was the descendant of Chiang, the leader of China, and was fighting against the imperial forces in the south of China at this time, so it was impossible and did not have the time and energy to come here to attack our army. The most important thing is that the equipment of the Fifth Army is all German-made weapons and equipment, and just now the news came from the high-ranking spy of the special high-tech department who risked his life that the armored unit of the branch that attacked His Excellency Sawada Shigeru was equipped with all the imperial standard armored equipment, including the 94 type, the 95 type, and the latest 97 type. So I don't think that this is a joint operation of the leader of China, Jiang He, but it should be a disaster caused by the surprise of Han Yunhua's own armored forces in China. ”

"Nani? Do you mean to say that Han Yunhua's department has its own armored forces? General Binshan Yuan asked in surprise, he had been to the Shanxi First Army garrison area some time ago to inspect, and also saw the captured weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army of China, it is indeed much better than before, there are almost few of the kind of inferior guns called the old sleeve and Hanyang, although the imperial 38 rifle is not too much, but there are still a large part, and the most is the most advanced gun made in China - the formal rifle. The most important thing is that all these weapons and equipment were captured by the troops directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and it stands to reason that the troops of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army should be equipped with the most sophisticated equipment of the Eighth Route Army. Even the weapons and equipment of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army are not comparable to the general second-line troops of the empire, so how can Han Yunhua's subordinate to the Eighth Route Army have elite armored troops.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I think my guess is correct, and I am almost certain of the origin of the weapons and equipment of this batch of armored troops. Half a year ago, in the first battle of Saibei, our army not only suffered a major defeat in eastern Hebei, but also lost troops in the two provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan in northern Saibei, and almost all the entire Saibei grassland fell into the hands of Han Yunhua's department. Most importantly, the empire also lost all the equipment that had just been transported to Baotou to prepare for the formation of the armored corps, including nearly three armored vehicles and tanks. However, after the fact, the senior spies sent by the Imperial Base Camp reported back that this batch of equipment had been completely destroyed in the battle, and most of them were self-destructed by Imperial soldiers, so the weapons and equipment of this batch of armored troops no longer attracted the attention of the military department. Now I am sure that the military department has fallen for that cunning Han Yunhua, and that batch of equipment has not actually been destroyed, and it is likely that it has been fully equipped by Han Yunhua's department and formed into a new armored unit. And Han Yunhua's military operation this time was actually dominated by this armored force, and the other troops were just trying to confuse our army. "Umeko Yamaguchi has a clear mind, and for the sake of her own fate, she had to detain this basin to the heads of Lieutenant General Hasunuma Pan, who had already died in battle, and General Shouichi Terauchi, who had already gone down. The most important thing is that her analysis is almost completely correct, in order to prevent Japanese planes from bombing the station of the mechanized brigade, Han Yunhua deliberately put the collected wreckage of Japanese combat vehicles in the center of Baotou City after the war to display it to the people, and then transported the wreckage of these tanks and armored vehicles to Guisui Jining and other places for exhibition, and hyped up in the war report that he had completely annihilated an armored division of the Japanese army, destroyed more than 300 Japanese combat vehicles and tanks, and captured 11 intact combat vehicles. As a result, Japan no longer cared about the lost armored equipment.

General Binshan Yuan's disordered thinking suddenly became extremely clear, and he suddenly found that from the beginning this was a set given to him by Han Yunhua, Han Yunhua's more than 30,000 people attacked the northern Hebei region of Jinbei Jizhong, although it had the intention of rescuing the Eighth Route Army in the southern Hebei region, but to a large extent, it was to attract all the main forces of the front army to the area of northern Hebei and central Jin, so as to create an opportunity for its armored forces to severely damage the troops in eastern Hebei. Now that he has won, a large-scale armored force has directly annihilated all the mobile forces in eastern Jidong, and the rest are either surrounded or too weak in combat. So far, each of the more than a dozen counties and cities in eastern Hebei has defenders ranging from 300 to 500, adding up to five or six thousand, and with the imperial army, it can also reach more than 13,000 people, but these more than 10,000 people are scattered in more than a dozen regions, and they are not under each other's control, and they are completely scattered, and Han Yunhua's department only needs to dispatch a complete infantry regiment to clean up the remaining troops in a short period of time, and the fiasco in eastern Hebei is a foregone conclusion. "Do you mean that this mysterious armored unit was the equipment of the lost armored unit of the Mongolian Corps, and the erroneous information provided by the Imperial base camp led to this disaster?" ,

"Your Excellency Commander Hai, the Chinese troops are very cunning, and they have secretly trained this armored force in the northern part of the Saibei region with the aim of attacking or encircling and annihilating the main force of our front army by surprise. Now His Excellency Toji Yasui is in danger, and if he is not rescued, Yasui-kun is likely to die with the remnants of the Second Division and Chengde Castle. In order to avoid a greater catastrophe, we must mobilize our troops to the north as soon as possible. Umeko Yamaguchi suggested loudly that she believed that Binyama Yuan would not make trouble for herself, and since the matter had been taken care of by the dead Hasunuma Pan and Shouichi Terauchi, who had been put on hold for the reserve pension, then it was impossible for Binshan Yuan to trouble her again.

"Yo Xi, the situation is critical now, Yasui Fujiji's bastard and some remnants of the Second Division are surrounded in Chengde City, and more than 20,000 people from Han Yunhua have occupied all the areas west of Chengde from west to east, and it will not take a day to complete the complete encirclement of Chengde, plus the armored force south of Chengde, it is indeed difficult to rescue the Second Division" General Binshan Yuan relieved himself, drank a few sips of cold tea by the way, and then continued: " At present, there are more than 10,000 troops in the eastern Hebei region, although they are all some second-line garrison troops, most of them are squadron-level formations, and the imperial alliance army also accounts for a large proportion, but now we can't let these troops be eaten by Han Yunhua's troops for no reason, so we order the defenders of all counties and cities in eastern Hebei to immediately withdraw to Qinhuangdao. At the same time, it was now necessary to send troops north to rescue the 2nd Division, but it became a problem to transfer that force. First of all, the troops on the southern front have entered the most critical time, and the main force of the 129th Brigade of the 386th Division of the Eighth Route Army has been surrounded, and it only takes three to five days to completely annihilate this force. The troops in northern Shanxi and Jizhong also achieved certain results, although the losses were very large, but now the fifth division has taken the county seat of Weixian. No matter how the troops are transferred, all the achievements will be wasted, and the most troublesome thing is that the current Chinese side will definitely not let our army withdraw from the battle easily, especially Han Yunhua, whose main force is still in the area of northern Shanxi and Jizhong. Therefore, we must draw up a reinforcement plan as soon as possible, and we must not blindly transfer troops, because that will make our army's gains outweigh its losses. ”

Binshan Yuan is worthy of being a rare tactician in the Japanese Army, and he analyzed the key to this battle at a glance. Now that he had calmed down, Bin Shan Yuan looked even more terrifying, and his keen eyes swept around the huge military map, looking for loopholes in the defense of Han Yunhua's headquarters and the entire Eighth Route Army.

Ten minutes later, Bin Shan Yuan said with a happy face: "Yamaguchi, now I order you to immediately lead your special high-tech and gendarmerie teams and Your Excellency Liu Sheng's special combat team into the Shandong region and annihilate all the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the entire Shandong region. When the time comes, I will let the Twelfth Army cooperate with you, knowing that the whole of North China is an interconnected situation. Now Han Yunhua's department has an absolute advantage in the overall situation of eastern Hebei and the entire North China, if I don't equalize this advantage, no matter how hard I try, I will be led by his nose, so we should play our own advantage and occupy an advantage in another area, so that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and Han Yunhua's department have to send troops to come to the rescue, and this matter will be handed over to you. ”

"Haiyi Pass will never disappoint the high expectations of His Excellency the Commander, and I will use the heads of all the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong to pay tribute to the imperial warriors who died in eastern Hebei." Yamaguchi Umeko said coldly, her beautiful face slightly hideous.

After Yamaguchi Meizi finished speaking, she turned around and walked out, and there was only one person left in the office of Nuo University, General Binshan Yuan. After waiting for a while, Bin Shan Yuan said loudly: "Guards..."

"Hay, what do you command, Your Excellency, Commander?" Outside the door, a young captain of the guard hurriedly walked in and asked, bowing his head and clasping his legs together, looking deferential.

"Pass my order, send a report to the commander of the 10th Division, order the troops on the southern front to withdraw from the battle as soon as possible, and the main force of the troops should rush back to Shijiazhuang as quickly as possible, and then take the train north to Beiping and wait for the order. A telegram was sent to Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Anto, commander of the 5th Division of the 5th Division, ordering the headquarters of the 5th Division to drive Han Yunhua's headquarters back to Chahar as soon as possible, and the paratroopers to withdraw immediately, and at the same time to transfer the 8th and 9th Brigades to return to Beiping. Order these bastards that the troops must be in place within three days, or else they will apologize to His Majesty the Emperor by seppuku. General Binshanyuan's voice was very loud, and the undisguised murderous intent in the order made the captain of the guard feel creepy.

"Hai"

The telegram sent by Han Yunhua's headquarters was received by other troops, the Kuomintang, and even the radio stations of other countries, and as soon as the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar. In this battle, which was not optimistic, Han Yunhua's troops defeated the strong with the weak, and wiped out more than 20,000 Japanese puppet troops, such a record has to make people doubt its authenticity. However, since Han Yunhua's department dared to send a report in clear code, he would definitely not come up with such a fake war report to fool people, and this matter was very likely to be true. Moreover, the Japanese North China Front Command did not refute it at the first time, which also made the battle situation in eastern Hebei confusing, and in the eyes of the outside world, now Han Yunhua's department and even the entire Eighth Route Army are at an absolute disadvantage. On the southern front, the 129th Division has been fighting hard with the Japanese army for more than half a month, and the casualties of the 386th Brigade have reached one-third, but the crisis in southern Hebei has not yet been resolved, and there is still a danger of getting deeper and deeper. On the middle line, the main force of Han Yunhua's department, including Han Yunhua himself, was surrounded by 50,000 or 60,000 Japanese troops, although this encirclement was a bit big, but it really existed. On the northern front, an infantry division under Han Yunhua's command had to deal with half of the Japanese army's elite second division and more than half of the strength of the fourth division, and at the same time it was also not optimistic about dealing with a large number of local second-line garrisons and puppet troops. Therefore, the first reaction when receiving the telegram was that it was a fake, and it was a ploy by Han Yunhua's subordinates to boost morale and shake the morale of the Japanese army.