At this time, Han Yunhua did not notice the strange movements of the army, as a commander, Han Yunhua was very aware of the role of the military commander in the combat unit, so he still attached great importance to his own safety. However, this time, Han Yunhua obviously didn't know that the army had already judged his location through high technology, so he didn't feel that he was commanding the operation at the base.

The first anomaly was discovered by the 77th Division of Reading Li stationed on the front line of Zhangbei, Guyuan, and Chengde, and after the defeat of the Xishiyuan Brigade of the Shanxia Division, the 77th Brigade of Reading Li went north with a large force, leaving only one infantry regiment in the vicinity of Zhangbei and Shangyi to monitor the movements of the Zhangjiakou Army.

Master Chen's layout has reached the most critical time, the army really couldn't help but be lonely and began to make a detour to Qian'an to attack Chengde, and at this time, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were also very cooperative, and the entire Chengde City did not have any trace of the [***] team except for the existing more than 3,000 troops, so the North China Front Army Headquarters received such a piece of information.

Yamamoto Ichiro Shaozuo, head of the First Military Intelligence Section of the North China Region, wrote in a telegram from Chengde: "It has been more than half a month since the main force of the South Korean Department of China has been evacuated from Chengde, and now there is only a complete infantry regiment in the city of Chengde, and there is also a cavalry regiment and an artillery regiment hidden. The humble duty used the most important nail that I was lurking in the Han Department of China, and finally obtained more important information, China has hoarded more than 60,000 elite troops in Qian'an, preparing to conduct a decisive battle with the main force of the Imperial Army in Qian'an, so as to drag down the main force of our army, while the other main force of the South Korean Department is to quickly and secretly go south to the south of central Hebei, cooperate with the local Eighth Route Army guerrillas to encircle and annihilate our army's troops in southern Hebei, and strive to achieve the total annihilation of more than one division of our army. Then the Chinese army secretly went north to eastern Hebei, and together with the Chinese troops in Qian'an, they ate our troops in eastern Hebei, and then fought for the complete annihilation of an infantry division of our army......... The strength of the Chinese army in eastern Hebei is extremely empty, and the defenders in Qianxi, Kuancheng and other places are less than one-third of the original, and most of the troops have been transferred to other places........."

This telegram caused a lot of waves in the North China Front, you must know that this Yamamoto Ichiro is an authentic Chinese expert, or an authentic Chinese, he is an elite agent trained by the Great Empire for more than ten years, in addition to the education he received, the whole person is Chinese from the inside out, and now he is also the president of the Chengde Merchants' Federation and the chairman of the Peasant Association, with a very high status, and the relationship between [***] and the national political axe is very close, Therefore, General Binshan Yuan has no doubts about the real surname of this information. In addition, during this time, Han Yunhua's subordinates made a series of big moves, which led to the annihilation of the third and fourth brigades, which proved this information from the side.

General Binshan Yuan was very excited, he was over fifty years old, he rarely appeared in such an excited mood today, but his explosive and irritable surname was recuperated, and the whole person seemed to have some indisputable charm, but this charm was destroyed by his beige military coat.

First of all, he divided the entire battle in eastern Hebei into three battlefields and two stages, and the three battlefields were the battlefield of blocking the enemy's reinforcements in southern Hebei, the battlefield of annihilating the enemy in eastern Hebei, and the battlefield of capturing the enemy in Xinghe. As the name suggests, the part of the southern Hebei to block the enemy's reinforcements is to completely cut off the Chinese troops in the southern Hebei, mainly referring to the instructors of Han Yunhua's department in southern Hebei who went north to reinforce Han Yunhua's department, and this battlefield was rightly handed over to Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro. The battlefield of annihilating the enemy in eastern Hebei refers to concentrating all the existing forces to besiege the [***] team of Qian'an in eastern Hebei, and then mobilizing a part of the troops from the cavalry units with strong mobility to attack Chengde, a heavy city in eastern Hebei. As for the battlefield of Xinghe and capturing the enemy, it is a plan proposed by General Binshan Yuan not long ago to exchange Han Yunhua's surname for the life of Han Yunhua himself, and for this reason, General Binshan Yuan did not hesitate to take the risk of sending the most powerful Mashiko advance team of the North China Front Army. The specific operational measures were that at the same time as the cavalry unit raided Chengde, the field troops with the 20 th Division and the Yamashita Division as the main force, with the cooperation of the field heavy artillery brigade and two special combat units, went all out to attack Xinghe, the former enemy headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, with the focus on attacking the Daqingshan base area of Xinghe.

Binshan Yuan, the base of Daqingshan, is very clear, because Yamaguchi Meizi has lived on Daqingshan for three whole months, and it was only after Han Yunhua's attention that the army sent a large army to pick up Yamaguchi Meizi. Therefore, through the mouth of the mountain pass plum, Bin Shanyuan still has a certain understanding of the situation on Daqingshan, so he is also more aware of the geographical location of Daqingshan, which is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and also knows that Han Yunhua's department has already operated it into an iron barrel, and the bunkers, bunkers, Ming Pao, and hidden forts are almost all over the mountain road, and it is almost impossible to enter the hinterland of Daqingshan without alarming Han Yunhua's department. In view of this situation, Major General Binshan Yuan secretly mobilized paratroopers of an infantry wing to cooperate with the large force.

After such a long confrontation, General Binshan Yuan also knew that the Eighth Route Army and Han Yunhua's headquarters in the north of the country had a powerful intelligence network, and many times it was not that the eyeliner of the army was not strong, nor that their troops were not effective in combat, but that they lost in intelligence. So this time, all the actions of the army are secret, not to mention the young new lieutenant generals like Yamashita Fengfumi, even old fritters such as Yoshio Shinozuka and Kiyoshi Kazuki don't know what Binshan Yuan is doing.

At 7 o'clock in the evening of 29 August, the main force of the Yamashita Division, the main force of the 20th Infantry Division, the 1st Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Yanagi Special Combat Team, and the Mashiko Advance Team rushed to the front line of Shangyi and Zhangbei according to the predetermined plan, and the 1st Wing of the 1st Brigade of the Airborne Forces had already set off from Baoding Airport and flew to Xinghe County an hour earlier. At the same time, more than 15,000 cavalrymen composed of the cavalry group of the Yue Army, the cavalry wing of the 10th Division, the cavalry wing of the 21st Division, the cavalry wing of the 26th Division, the cavalry wing of the 2nd Division, and the cavalry wing of the 4th Division also set out from the Qian'an line to raid Chengde.

In fact, at this time, Master Chen had already completed the layout of the cavalry group of the Yue army, and at the first time of the attack of the cavalry group of the Yue army, Master Chen had already received a secret report from the informant, and Master Chen, who had received the secret report, immediately ordered Wan Guoquan's mechanized brigade and the 50,000 Mongolian cavalry troops temporarily commanded by Aolige to set up an ambush in Majiaping, 30 miles west of Kuancheng, to encircle and annihilate the cavalry group of the Yue army. The 1st Guard Division, the 2nd Field Division, the 77th Reading Division, and the 3rd Field Division under his command set out from Chengde and directly attacked Beiping, the old nest of the North China Front, through the Yingshouzi Mining Area, Xinglong, Miyun and other counties.

In order to achieve the effect of concealing the eyes and ears of the people, Master Chen ordered all the regular army guerrillas and local militia to the west of Qian'an and the east of Kuancheng to retreat after a slight resistance. Moreover, Master Chen also expected that the army in Zhangjiakou would definitely be unwilling to be lonely and want to intervene, so he ordered the troops of Zhangbei and Shangyi early to deal with the enemy to the end under the condition of ensuring that the casualties of the troops did not exceed a certain number, but if the casualties of the troops were too large, the enemy could be put in Kangbao and Guyuan to make calculations.

However, Master Chen never thought that when the Yue army occupied Shangyi and Zhangbei, it would suddenly turn around and advance westward, and did not flank the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei with the cavalry troops of the Yue army as Master Chen expected, but directly attacked Xinghe County, which did not have many defensive forces.

Lieutenant Shigeo Mashiko was particularly pleased tonight, for this was the first time he and his advance team had taken part in such an important combat mission. Before leaving, Commander Ushijima specially told him that Han Yunhua's department also had a special operations force with amazing combat effectiveness, and at least ten officers at the level of generals of the empire were folded in the hands of the special combat team of the Han department, and his Mashiko advance team was a special operations force that had just been established, although every soldier was an elite carefully selected from the entire North China Front Army, but after all, the army was formed for too short a time, so they were required to cooperate with the Yanagi special combat team to act together.

However, in the eyes of Mashiko Shigeo, his Mashiko Advance Team is already the most elite unit in the world, and in order to train this force, he has killed many Zhina, and even infiltrated Han Yunhua's defense area in China a month ago to assassinate several county magistrates in China, and also terminated a regimental headquarters under Han Yunhua's department. Although the Yanagi special combat team is strong in combat, it has lost troops and lost troops in the fight with the special combat team of China, so it cannot really be recognized by him and his team. However, in order to complete the mission, Shigeo Mashiko decided to reluctantly cooperate with the group of special operations teams dressed in fancy clothes and strange appearances.

He was proud to have graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and was a professional soldier who participated in the Manchurian Incident (9.18 Incident). More importantly, at the time of the Battle of the Central Plains, he and Xuanfu Officer, as advisers, entered the frontline and surrendered more than 3,000 officers and men of the Sixth Advance Column of the Central Army of the National Axe Army and the First Division of the 27th Army. Subsequently, because of his merits, Mashiko Shigeo was transferred to the staff of the 36th Division of the Japanese Army. He received the commendation of the commander of the First Army, and also received the Golden Bird Medal. Don't underestimate this Golden Bird Medal, it is an extremely important medal in the army, it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain, this kind of medal was formulated on February 11, 1890, a total of 7 levels, "meritorious service" down to "meritorious seventh" in the merit of the medal. Unlike the rank and rank of the Ruibao Medal or other medals, which are conditional on officials or civilians who have obtained a certain number of years of service, the Golden Bird Medal is only awarded to soldiers with military merits, and generals and imperial soldiers will not be awarded if they do not have military merits. Even if you receive a first-class or second-class medal such as the Xuyue Medal or the Ruibao Medal as a general or admiral, it may only be a soldier of the fifth or fourth rank of merit for the Golden Bird Medal. In addition, those who receive the medal from the first level to the seventh level of merit have an annuity payment of 900 yuan to 65 yuan. In the early Showa period, the monthly salary of a private-class soldier at that time was only 8 yen and 80 yuan, so it was quite high, which shows that Mashiko Shigeo's qualifications are definitely extraordinary.

The Mashiko Advance Team is a special force programmed in the name of Mashiko Shigeo, or a professional sabotage unit, which is not a special combat team in terms of professional surname, but in terms of sabotage surname, it far surpasses any special combat team in the history of the Japanese army. In order to deal with the "cunning" Eighth Route Army, the army decided to carry out a-for-tat special operation, with a small unit to carry out a ninja-like decapitation operation, directly attack the 8th Route headquarters, so the special forward team came into being, according to the order of the North China Front Army, the 223rd Infantry Wing of the 36th Division of the Army selected a capable infantry squadron to form a standing team, graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, participated in the Manchurian Incident, experienced, The brave and meticulous Lieutenant Shigeo Mashiko and his 3rd Infantry Squadron were honorably chosen.

The main force of the Mashiko Advance Team was the 9th Squadron of the 223rd Wing of the 36th Division (Snow Corps), including 4 commanders and 102 soldiers including Captain Mashiko Shigeo, and 18 Chinese spies and interpreters led by Commander Cao of the Amamiya Military Police, for a total of 124 people. It is equipped with sophisticated weapons such as heavy machine guns, heavy grenadiers, and small wireless communication machines. The main target of the Mashiko Advance Team was the Eighth Route Army, and even if the army began to attack, the Eighth Route Army was able to skillfully evade, hide supplies, and move to safety. Realizing that the existing methods of warfare have yielded little results, the army has demanded that all units update their tactics in order to completely wipe out and eradicate their forces. To this end, the 36th Division (Snow Corps) of the Japanese Army, which was the main force of the purging operation, formed two special advance teams (referred to as the advance team), which were led by Lieutenant Mashiko Shigeo, squadron leader of the 223rd Wing, and Lieutenant Momoyoshi Okawa, squadron leader of the 224th Wing. The two squadrons, all dressed up in disguise and dressed in the clothes of the Eighth Route Army, took advantage of the night to secretly enter the anti-Japanese base area from a weakly guarded place before their large units launched an operation, and aimed at reconnoitring and reporting on the location of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the location of the quartermaster, the assassination of the head of the Eighth Route Army, and the disrupting of the central command organ of the Eighth Route Army. In particular, I would like to mention the matter of the Mashiko Advance Team, and the losses caused to the Eighth Route Army by the Mashiko Advance Team were particularly heavy. In each battle, all the detachments were lightly armed, each carrying only 4 days' rations, 120 rounds of ammunition for a rifle, 1,000 rounds of ammunition for a machine gun, 40 rounds for one grenadier, and signal flares and smoke bombs for each squad. Each infantry carried 2 grenades and raincoats, for the sake of secrecy.

The marching formation of the Mashiko Advance Team was led by Chinese guides, followed by Sun Special Service Task Force, Zhang Yi, Advance Team Amamiya Caochang, Mashiko Squadron Leader, Eight Tengu Four Heavenly Kings, First Squad Leader Second Lieutenant Sasaki, First Sinisengumi, First Squad, Special Service Task Force (about 30 intelligence and spy Chinese troops below Amamiya Cao), wireless detachment, coolies who were responsible for material transportation, Second Squad-2nd Shinsengumi, Lieutenant of the Pig Guard, and special workers. The advance party was usually led by Chinese guides at night, marched against very detailed military maps, approached the destinations, camped in the more secluded ravines, ate dry rations, and began to organize the march before night if they wanted to move. Through the radio, it was learned when the large army began to sweep and the route of travel. After receiving the order to operate, they began to infiltrate the vicinity of the village, carry out surprise attacks and take advantage of the opportunity to kill, arrest people, snatch documents, set fires and carry out surprise attacks, fire signal flares, burn smoke agents, unfurl their own flags, or shout loudly to cause chaos in the vicinity of the command organs of the anti-Japanese troops, so as to achieve their objectives and complete their tasks.

Although Mashiko Shigeo's advance team was established in just a few months, it had already achieved good results, and its own casualties were very small. The reason why the Mashiko Advance Team suffered fewer casualties against the Eighth Route Army was related to his combat methods, and the main characteristics of the Mashiko Advance Team were concealed sneak attacks and not fighting against troops with strong firepower. When encountering the troops of the Eighth Route Army, which had strong combat effectiveness, they avoided detouring behind it and did not engage directly head-on. The Mashiko Shigeo clan knew his mission and aimed to complete it, and he did not love war, and attacked the non-combat units of the head of the Eighth Route Army.

In this decapitation operation, the Mashiko Advance Team carried radios and heavy machine guns, and wore the clothing of the Eighth Route Army. On August 29, 1939, under the cover of night, he left Zhangjiakou and entered Xinghe County in the south of Chahar. They wore the same military uniforms as the Eight Roads, took out the dry food they brought with them when they were hungry, slept in the wilderness and relied on their witty minds and luck, and successfully evaded the bright and covert reconnaissance and patrol posts on the front line of the Xinghe County Security Corps under Han Yunhua, and successfully infiltrated Gaomiaozi Township, more than 30 miles south of Xinghe County, and less than 25 miles away from Daqingshan, where Han Yunhua was located, and finally arrived at a small mountain village in the predetermined area at 5 o'clock in the morning on the 31st.

At the same time, the airborne wing of the Yue army also successfully assembled in Tucheng District, 30 miles north of Xinghe County, and in this way, before the arrival of the large force of the Yue army, an airborne wing and two special combat teams mixed into the hinterland of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and tens of thousands of troops were rapidly encircling Han Yunhua's headquarters in Daqingshan.

The communications agency of the Yue Army has been monitoring the radio station of Han Yunhua's department, and has been constantly informing the Mashiko Advance Team and the Yanagi Special Combat Team, which are also in Xinghe County at the same time in Xinghe County, which are constantly moving around and looking for Han Yunhua's headquarters, and a large number of troops, including the Mashiko Advance Team, are also constantly relying on this information to gradually approach the target.

The movement of the Yue army quickly attracted the attention of Master Chen and others, and when the troops of the Eighth Route Army who had withdrawn from Zhangbei County returned to investigate and learned that the Yue army had actually killed Xiang Xinghe County, Master Chen suddenly thought of the goal of the Yue army. Thinking that Han Yunhua now had only one guard regiment and a special combat team by his side, while the Yue Army had a full one and a half infantry divisions and a field heavy artillery brigade, Master Chen's face suddenly became extremely pale, and Gu Jing Bubo's face was also full of panic.

(To be continued)