Master Chen's war acumen is still very high, and it is easy to think of the ultimate intention of the Yue army's big move this time, the Yue army is ready to exchange the heavy price of two divisions for Han Yunhua's head. What is Xinghe, that is the starting nest of Han Yunhua and the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region, although it cannot be said that it is impregnable by Han Yunhua, but its defense is still very few people who can stand out.

The most important thing is that Xinghe, as a logistics base for battlefields such as eastern Hebei and northern Shanxi, in addition to hoarding a large number of weapons and equipment, food and ammunition, also has a lot of garrisons. In addition to the two infantry regiments of the integrated 300th Division stationed in the county seat, a local garrison regiment was stationed in Ordong, fifteen kilometers west of the county seat. In addition, once the county seat of Xinghe is attacked, the main force of the integrated 300th Division stationed on the front line of Tianzhen and the troops stationed in Chengde can also return to rescue as soon as possible, and the troops of Jining, a military town not far from Xinghe County, can also arrive within half a day.

Therefore, it is not said whether the army can defeat Xinghe County with the large army this time, but as long as the large army enters Xinghe County, then it is very likely to be surrounded by the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region on all sides. Therefore, although Xinghe County is less than 100 miles away from Zhangbei in a straight line, the vast majority of cadres, including Han Yunhua, did not think that the Yue army would send a large army to attack Xinghe County, because that would not be in the interests of the Yue army at all.

However, Han Yunhua and others obviously underestimated the great value of Han Yunhua himself in the Yue Army, and did not expect that the commander of the North China Front, General Binshan Yuan, would dare to put nearly 40,000 people in two divisions into a dangerous situation in order to kill him.

Master Chen didn't dare to slack off, he reported such important information to Han Yunhua as soon as possible. After receiving Master Chen's telegram, Han Yunhua was also taken aback, but he knew that the troops attacking Zhangbei had a reorganized division, a complete infantry brigade and a field heavy artillery brigade, and if such a huge force was all turned around to attack Xinghe County, it would be a disaster for himself and the entire Xinghe County.

However, there are challenges, there are opportunities, although the pressure of the army is likely to cause huge casualties, but if the operation is good, Han Yunhua believes that the military region has the ability to eat this strange army of General Binshan Yuan, and will annihilate the main force of this army in the end.

But judging from his current situation, it is not ordinarily difficult to annihilate the main force of the Yue Army in this way. First of all, there is direct military pressure from the Yue army, the Yue army that attacked Xinghe County this time is not only a few hundred or thousand, but at least 30,000 or 40,000 people, or even more, and it is still unknown whether the defenders of Xinghe County will live in the county seat. On the other hand, the main purpose of the Yue Army's current purpose was to eliminate the command headquarters on Daqing Mountain, or rather, this military adventure of the Yue Army was completely aimed at him, and in addition to the guard regiment, there were only two squadrons of the Young Phoenix Special Combat Team with more than 300 special combat members. Although the special combat team is strong in combat, this kind of combat is not suitable for the special combat team. Therefore, this attack of the Yue army completely put Han Yunhua in an extremely dangerous situation, and it was not enough to protect himself, and it was even more difficult to annihilate the enemy.

In addition, the army even used field heavy artillery this time, and although the fortifications on Daqingshan were strong, they could definitely not support the fierce bombardment of field heavy artillery, and the inherent geographical advantages of Daqingshan were weakened a lot without the peripheral fortifications. At that time, the gap between the enemy and us will be further widened, and Han Yunhua was also frightened into a cold sweat by General Binshan Yuan this time, and secretly said that Jiang is still old and spicy.

Han Yunhua did not dare to slack off, and immediately called the troops in Xinghe County, telling them that the army would soon arrive in the county seat and let them prepare for battle. However, as soon as the phone call was made, the Xinghe county town started, and an infantry wing of the Yue army suddenly appeared at the gate of the county town and started a fierce battle with the troops at the gate of the city.

The supreme commander of the Xinghe County garrison was Zhang Dabing, the commander of the first brigade and one regiment of the 300th Division, this guy was originally a battalion commander of the 79th Army of the Central Army, and was later captured by the Yue Army on the Shanxi battlefield. However, Zhang Dabing was also capable, and he escaped on the way to the Sino-Soviet border, and rescued nearly 600 prisoners of war with the same status. However, because Zhang Dabing killed an important person in the process of escaping this time, he was pursued by the joint encirclement and suppression of the Yue army, and the two sides fought from the northeast to the north, and finally Zhang Dabing's more than 600 people were only less than 200 people when they were besieged by the Yue army on the strange mountain, Han Yunhua immediately sent a cavalry brigade to rescue Zhang Dabing and his comrades. In order to thank Han Yunhua for saving his life, and at the same time, he deeply despised the mutual oppression of various warlords and the cruel exploitation of soldiers by the various warlords of the national political axe, so Zhang Dabing and his comrades-in-arms joined the Eighth Route Army together.

Zhang Dabing is not quite the same as the vast majority of the cadres of the Eighth Route Army, because he is a class student with systematic military education, an elite cadet who graduated from the Army University, and has his own set of rules in marching and fighting, so he is quite appreciated by Han Yunhua, so this time he will hand over the task of garrisoning the rear logistics base to him and his regiment.

The sudden appearance of the Yue army really scared Zhang Dabing, and the appearance of this group of devils was too weird. Although the commander had just called, he said that a heavy army of devils was rushing to Xinghe County to prepare him for battle. But Zhang Dabing didn't expect that the army would come so quickly. When the gunshots outside the city reached the city, Zhang Dabing finally knew the seriousness of the matter. He immediately ordered the soldiers at the gate of the city to hold out for half an hour, and at the same time urgently sounded the alarm in the county seat of Xinghe County, and a large number of troops who heard the alarm began to receive orders to support the gates of Xinghe County.

The army that attacked the county seat of Xinghe County was none other than the First Wing of the First Brigade of the Airborne Forces led by Inoue Daisa. Inoue Daisa, who was full of confidence in the task of this surprise attack on Xinghe County, used an airborne wing to surprise attack a small Chinese county town guarded by only two infantry regiments, which was simply a knife to kill chickens.

However, it turns out that Inoue Osa Manquan underestimated the combat effectiveness of the [***] team, or it can be said that Inoue Osa seriously overestimated the combat effectiveness of his airborne wing. In fact, although the airborne troops of the Chinese army have a long history of formation, it was not until September 1941 that the airborne troops of the Chinese army were able to begin air training after obtaining German airborne equipment. After the formation of the army, due to the backwardness of military thinking and equipment, the airborne training has always been limited to basic training such as primitive tower jumping, and the focus of the tactical and technical training of paratroopers is still on shooting and assassinating infantry. More importantly, the selection of the airborne troops of the Chinese army is not based on the standards of the airborne troops, but the elite of the infantry is selected for training. Unfortunately, many of these "elite" soldiers, selected from the infantry, suffered from fear of heights and other psychological disorders, and although they barely managed to maintain their training under the high pressure of officers, they were repeatedly suspended from training due to frequent accidents. During the actual exercises, the airborne troops of the Chinese army had frequent accidents and created many "miracles" in the history of airborne; among them, during a parachute training, two transport planes collided with each other shortly after taking off, and the paratroopers on board were "loyal" to the emperor before they took part in a single actual battle. When the airborne landing was carried out, the pilot of the first plane misjudged the airborne landing site due to flight illusions, and actually threw all the airborne detachments into the sea, and the planes behind also followed closely and "unloaded" their own paratroopers into the sea, causing dozens of soldiers to drown because they could not break free from the parachutes in time. As a result of this accident, the airborne live exercise was urgently stopped, and the commander who commanded the exercise was also dismissed. While Germany has repeatedly achieved positive results in the use of airborne troops in the European theater, the airborne troops have been plagued by frequent accidents and have never been able to talk about any combat effectiveness. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the paratrooper units of the army is okay on land, but once it is involved in the plane, it will be greatly reduced.

This time was no exception, a full 3,200 people had a complete airborne wing, and the North China Front used a total of 20 fighters and 100 transport planes to drop so many airborne troops into the hinterland of Xinghe County. However, because it was dark, the planes of the Yue Army were lucky enough to make a mistake in the airborne landing site, turning the landing site of a large area of flat open space into a mountainous area, although this mountainous area was less than five kilometers away from the original landing point, but the effect of the airborne landing was far away. By the time Inoue arrived at the scheduled assembly point, a complete airborne wing had only arrived with more than 2,400 people, but the other 800 or so could not arrive this time. According to the post-war investigation, this failed airborne landing caused a total of 325 direct deaths, 511 injuries and lost, which can be said to be an extremely rubbish airborne.

However, in any case, Inoue Osa still gathered more than 2,000 people. Although the performance of these airborne troops in their own work can only be described as unsatisfactory, but if they go to land, it is different, these people were originally drawn from the elite of the army, so these people are still very good at infantry combat, and their combat effectiveness is indeed extraordinary, which is also the source of Inoue Daisa's confidence.

The army came suddenly, so the defenders of Xinghe County were taken by surprise, and an infantry company guarding the first line of defense outside the gate of the east city had to give up the first line of defense after holding on for less than ten minutes. However, soon a regiment of soldiers quickly rushed to the city gate, and organized a second line of defense less than a hundred meters away from the city gate, and at the same time, with Han Yunhua's consent, used part of the weapons and ammunition stored in the city, and even used a few artillery pieces captured during this time.

It has to be said that the paratrooper units of the Japanese army are indeed very strong in land battles, although the whole army has no heavy weapons except for heavy machine guns, not even the most common mortars, and the ammunition is not sufficient. Fortunately, after a period of panic, the first brigade and one regiment of the reorganized 300th Division finally gained a firm foothold and began to organize troops to carry out active counterattacks.

The first regiment is not vegetarian, although the army has begun to be taken by surprise, but after all, the first regiment is the most powerful infantry regiment of the 300th Division, and there is no one. They soon discovered the weakness of the paratroopers of the Yue Army, and although the overall combat effectiveness of the paratrooper wing of the entire Yue Army was quite good, due to the lack of heavy weapons, the firepower of the entire army was not strong. Zhang Dabing seized the opportunity and ordered the soldiers of the first regiment to take out all the light and heavy machine guns stored in the city and equip them to the troops, and at the same time all the machine gunners of the second regiment of the reserve were also transferred to the first regiment to participate in the battle.

With these measures, the firepower of a group suddenly increased greatly. For a time, Inoue Daisa's wing was forcibly pushed back by more than 200 meters, and the infantry squadron that had just charged only withdrew more than 20 people, and the rest were all left on the position. Inoue Osa knew very well that this sneak attack plan could be said to be a complete failure, and both Inoue Osa and General Binshan Yuan, who was far away in Beiping, had great confidence in this airborne raid. But the reality is cruel, although Han Yunhua did not expect that the army would send paratroopers, but he knew that Xinghe County must not afford to lose, because this is the general logistics base of more than 100,000 people in five divisions in eastern Hebei and one division in northern Shanxi.

Inoue Osa is very clear about this military plan, although he knows that if he continues to fight, he will not have much success, and it seems that even if he fights, his wing will suffer a loss. In just one hour, half of the combat strength of the Inoue Wing had already been put into it.

However, despite this, Inoue Osa ordered his troops to continue the attack, but the rest of the attack was completely fake, and there were almost no infantry of any rank and size charged, but the same regiment was fired at each other through the improvised trenches.

In his opinion, the current tactics of the Yue army do not seem to be to occupy Xinghe County, but to contain the troops in the city. Zhang Dabing, who had figured this out, suddenly became anxious, since the main target of the army was not Xinghe County, then such a mobilization of the army must have a bigger and more important goal than Xinghe County. Zhang Dabing knew very well what the strategic goal in Xinghe County was more valuable than the county seat, and that was their commander Han Yunhua.

Although the telephone call on Daqingshan just now said that a large force of Chinese troops had arrived in Xinghe County in the afternoon, it did not say that it was to strike at that strategic target. Now it seems that the little devil knows that the commander is on Daqingshan, and he is ready to take down the commander first in a desperate gamble, compared to a small Xinghe county town is much more insignificant.

Zhang Dabing did not dare to slack off, and immediately made a phone call to the command headquarters on Daqingshan, but unfortunately the phone could not be reached, Zhang Dabing knew that Daqingshan must have been attacked by the army, and the army cut off the telephone line to the county seat. Since the phone couldn't get through, it was better to make sure it was okay, so Zhang Dabing immediately ordered the newspaper soldiers to send a telegram to the headquarters to inquire about the battle situation.

As Zhang Dabing expected, Daqingshan was also fiercely attacked by the Yue army at this time, although the battle was still in the outer position of Daqingshan, but the army attacked Daqingshan from the north and south of Daqingshan and due west in three directions.

At this time, the atmosphere on Daqing Mountain was extremely tense, and when he first received the telegram from Master Chen, both Zuo Quan and Han Yunqian, the head of the guard, strongly advised Han Yunhua to transfer immediately. However, Han Yunhua knew that even if it was too late to leave now, the army would invade the territory of Zhangbei County on the afternoon of the 29th, and even if it was all marching on foot, it would not be later than ten o'clock in the evening when the large army of the army arrived in Xinghe County.

Now the transfer is not to mention the cost, not to mention the suffering of the masses of the people, and it is very likely that they will encounter the Yue army on the march. At present, Han Yunhua has only one guard regiment and three or four hundred special combat personnel around him, and at the same time, there are also a large number of staff officers, administrative personnel, and logistics personnel. If it was transferred, Han Yunhua himself and the troops would be fine, but the administrative staff and logistics personnel, especially the field hospital, would be in trouble, so Han Yunhua finally decided to stay in Daqingshan and wait for reinforcements.

On the one hand, Han Yunhua is still very confident in the geographical location and fortifications of Daqingshan, although there is no fortress in the world that cannot be attacked, but you must know that a well-fortified military fortress is not so easy to break. Moreover, the predecessor of Daqingshan was the old nest of Han Yunhua's department, and most of the troops grew up after long-term training in Daqingshan, so almost every soldier in the Inner Mongolia Military Region at this time was very familiar with Daqingshan. In addition to the soldiers being familiar with the terrain, Han Yunhua also knew that there were a lot of weapons, ammunition and food stored on Daqing Mountain. I don't dare to say it for ten years or eight years, but it can still be supported for a year and a half, so Han Yunhua finally decided to stay in Daqingshan.

Another very important point is that the Yue army is obviously making a desperate gamble this time, and it is a military adventure with extremely high risks; not to mention that the 20 th Division of the Yue Army itself is in danger of being encircled and annihilated, as far as the situation in North China as a whole is concerned, there will be loopholes everywhere in the defense system of the Yue army, among which Zhangjiakou and Beiping are the biggest loopholes, especially Beiping. As long as Han Yunhua's side can support it for more than half a month, the army will have a hard time, but that is only on the premise that Han Yunhua's department can support it for more than fifteen days.

The outer positions of Daqingshan were quickly captured by the Yue army, and during this period, Han Yunhua's Xiaofeng special combat team and a special combat team with strong combat effectiveness fought hard for a long time. However, in view of the fact that the number of the Yue army was too large, Han Yunhua ordered the young phoenix special combat team to jump out of the encirclement of the Yue army and then seek an opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Yue army.

Compared with the large troops around Han Yunhua, the three hundred people of the special combat team can break through a lot. Although Han Yunhua could also leave Daqing Mountain smoothly under the protection of the special combat team, Han Yunhua still did not leave considering the blow to morale after the headquarters was captured.

(To be continued)