It is precisely because of Yamashita Fengwen's attention that the army can organize an effective defense on the periphery of Zhangjiakou and block the attack of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the Zhangjiakou area.

On August 1, 1939, the army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region once again exchanged fire with Fengwen's troops under the mountain in Zhangjiakou, and this time the Inner Mongolia Military Region even used poison gas bombs and other precious weapons.

As the most promising senior officer of the North China Front, Yamashita had long expected that Han Yunhua's troops would dispatch the mysterious special forces. Besides, Yamashita Fengwen has suffered a lot from the special forces, and he has grown wise, so a year ago, Yamashita Fengwen also began to form his own so-called "special forces", but due to lack of experience and whether there are enough training funds, the special forces cultivated by Yamashita Fengwen are simply painted tigers and not anti-dogs.

Later, after General Binshan Yuan learned of this incident, he specially transferred a special operations team from the special combat team directly under the North China Front Army to serve as an instructor. Not to mention, in just one year, Yamashita Fengwen really found a lot of tricks, and the special combat team of the corresponding Yamashita Division also made it look like it. This time, the Inner Mongolia Military Region sent a total of 66 members of two special combat teams to Zhangjiakou to wait for an opportunity to sneak into the city and open the gates of Zhangjiakou.

However, Yamashita Fengwen was extremely strict in defending this point, and Yamashita Fengwen was a very powerful person, when his soldiers told him that it was likely that a Chinese intermediary had infiltrated Zhangjiakou City, Yamashita Fengwen did not show much surprise, and at that time he had already judged that it was the special combat team of the Eighth Route Army. However, instead of sending people to immediately search for and arrest the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, he ordered the special combat team of the special high-tech department to follow and monitor the 30 or so special combat personnel who had infiltrated the city throughout the whole process, and at the same time secretly mobilized the special combat team in the Yamashita division and regiment, preparing to use the special combat team to encircle and annihilate the special combat team under Han Yunhua's department.

Of course, this is due to the fact that the combat effectiveness of the special combat units is generally relatively strong, and it is far from being able to compete with ordinary troops, and a bad battle against such a unit is very likely to cause heavy losses. The special combat team can often exert 120% combat effectiveness in street fighting, and it is definitely not a good thing to exchange fire with the special combat team in the city. Therefore, on the one hand, Yamashita Fengwen sent people to monitor the traces of the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and on the other hand, he mobilized his own special combat team to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region with superior troops.

In that battle, although Yamashita Fengwen's special combat team also paid great losses, the special combat team that infiltrated Zhangjiakou City paid a heavy price for the annihilation of the entire army. After the news spread back to Sui, Political Commissar Zuo and Master Chen were surprised that they knew the strength of the special combat team trained by Han Yunhua, although this time it was not the most elite who went to Zhangjiakou to carry out the mission, but the student soldiers who had just graduated from the Saibei Military Command College. However, this student special combat team won the first place in the all-army martial arts competition, and it is a top soldier unit that the Inner Mongolia Military Region focuses on cultivating.

Moreover, Han Yunhua also knew about this unit, and he was ready to transfer this unit to southern Hebei to listen to his command, but now he was completely annihilated by the army after just performing a few combat missions, and this result made it difficult for several bigwigs in the Inner Mongolia Military Region to accept. After such a long period of actual combat testing, some officers of the Inner Mongolia Military Region have blind confidence in the special combat team, believing that as long as the special combat team is out of the army, there is nothing that cannot be done, and even Master Chen and others are convinced of this.

The fiasco of the special operations team hit these senior officers hard, but Han Yunhua did not think it was a bad thing. Although he was also extremely sad that 33 special combat soldiers died in battle, Han Yunhua also knew the truth that Ci was not in charge of the army, and fighting would kill people, which Han Yunhua knew very well from the beginning. At the same time, the failure of the special combat team this time also sounded a wake-up call to the top level of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, telling them that the special combat team is not omnipotent, and the rise of a country is not the business of a small army, so the special combat team can make indelible contributions to China's liberation cause, but it is not enough to change the course of history. It is still necessary to rely on ordinary troops to fight a war, especially to fight a big war, a hard battle, and a hard battle.

But Han Yunhua's surname was bullied to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and Yamashita Fengwen gave him a trap to eat one of his special operations teams, so Han Yunhua couldn't help but keep silent, or that sentence, this is not his Han Yunhua's style.

Han Yunhua also knew that Yamashita Fengwen was proud of the spring breeze at this time, and if the appointment of the commander of the Chinese Tun Mixed Brigade indicated that Yamashita Fengwen had begun to walk out of the shadow of "226", then the promotion to the division commander of the Yamashita Division could be said that Yamashita Fengwen had basically gotten rid of the influence of "226" and had become the core figure of power in North China. In fact, Yamashita Fengwen, who was promoted to the commander of the division, naturally has some "ambitions"! But the current situation in front of him is getting worse and worse! In the summer of 1939, the battlefield behind enemy lines led by China was a period of great development. The Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area has been developed and consolidated considerably; The anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in the central Hebei region developed rapidly, and the Central Hebei Military Region was established in May 1939...... In addition, there is still a tiger of the Inner Mongolia Military Region lying next to him, and Yamashita Fengwen is now walking on thin ice as if dancing on a cliff, and if he is not good, he will be crushed.

After eating a special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, such an achievement was very gratifying to Yamashita Fengwen and the entire Yamashita Division, and after reporting to the North China Front Headquarters and receiving a commendation from the headquarters, Yamashita Fengwen began to prepare for a major counterattack.

In order to enlist the support of the North China Front Command, Yamashita Fengfu also specially sent a letter to General Binshan Yuan about the latest data on the equipment and strength you don't feel. Although the contents of the telegram were not considered military secrets, they surprised Senior General Binshan Moto and Major General Umeko Yamaguchi.

Therefore, General Binshan Yuan ordered the Yue army stationed in Shimen, Zhengding, Baoding, Xingtai, Beiping Garrison Headquarters, and Tianjin Garrison Headquarters to transfer six infantry wings, two cavalry wings, three chariot brigades, and five infantry groups of the Imperial Allied Army, totaling more than 36,000 people, to supplement the Yamashita Division.

However, Han Yunhua ordered all the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to slowly retreat from Zhangjiakou, Weixian and other places, waiting for further orders. However, Han Yunhua, who commanded the operation on the southern front, waved his pen and ordered the instructor, the administrative office, the 115th Division, and other troops to advance to Handan with all their might, not to care about the gains and losses of one army in one city and one place, and to break Handan, an important military town in southern Hebei, in the shortest possible time.

The 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade of the Instructor were the first to launch an attack on Handan as the vanguard of the attack, and except for a part of the two brigades that set up an ambush to attack the army in Feixiang County, the rest of the troops were all engaged in the battle sequence of attacking Handan.

At this time, although there was less than one infantry company on the periphery of Handan, plus an infantry group of the Imperial Cooperative Army, there were nearly 6,000 people, but it was a pity that these people were relatively scattered, most of them were in the counties and townships on the periphery of Handan and the strongholds of larger villages, and the puppet army in the city of Handan was less than 3,000 people. The two infantry brigades of the instructor took part in the attack, which numbered more than 23,000 people, and the army was defeated in a blind way, and Major General Yamazaki Haruichiro was shocked at first, and laughed at the commander of an infantry brigade who reported to him that the Eighth Route Army was asking for his own death.

However, less than two hours after the start of the battle, almost all the strongholds on the periphery of Handan Cheng were declared lost, which indicated that nearly 3,000 puppet troops were all wiped out by the [***] team.

At this moment, Major General Yamazaki Haruichiro panicked and immediately sent a telegram for help to the 20th Infantry Division stationed at Shimen, begging the 20th Division to send troops south to rescue them quickly, otherwise Handan would investigate the danger. At the same time, he ordered the puppet army around Handan to immediately return to Handan, and ordered the army reinforcements who had just arrived in Feixiang County a few days ago, including the original defenders of Feixiang County, to abandon Feixiang and return to Handan with all the materials they could take.

After receiving a telegram from Major General Haruichiro Yamazaki, the commander of the 20th Division, Lieutenant General Minoru Ushijima, was shocked. Although the Yamazaki family is not visible in both the military and political worlds, only the real high-level knows the horror of the Yamazaki family, which is the most trusted samurai family of His Majesty the Emperor, and nearly half of the officers of the Guards Division are from the Yamazaki family. And nearly a third of the soldiers in the palace are also surnamed Yamazaki.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru knows very well the terrible Yamazaki family, not to mention that Yamazaki Haruichiro is the eldest son and eldest grandson of the Yamazaki family, and he is a super master who has reached eight dans, and he is very heavy in the entire Yamazaki family, so if something happens to Yamazaki, it will definitely be another big earthquake in the military and political circles, and when the Yamazaki family settles accounts after the autumn, the fate of him, the commander of the infantry division who will not be saved, will definitely not be much better. If the Yamazaki family wanted to clean him up as the commander of an infantry division with no background, it would be no different from pinching an ant to death, and it would not take much effort at all.

(To be continued)