Han Yunhua's repeated big moves really made General Bin Shan Yuan unable to step down, and Bin Shan Yuan, who has always been insidious, was really angry this time. In Bin Shanyuan's view, Han Yunhua did not know how to lift, and originally the two sides had a strange tacit understanding in the past six months, that is, Han Yunhua's troops stuck to the territory they had now occupied, and did not expand to Hebei and eastern Hebei, and the North China Front Army did not march to the Saibei region, especially not to send air forces to cities and industrial areas controlled by the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Now, Han Yunhua's department took the lead in breaking this tacit understanding, which was really a resounding slap in the face to Bin Shanyuan. How could Binshan Yuan be afraid of Han Yunhua, a small commander under the leadership of [***], who didn't have time to do anything before, but since you, a small branch of the Eight Roads, dare to argue with my dignified commander of the Imperial Army, then don't blame me for the Yin Shan Yuan envoy's tricks.

However, General Binshan Yuan's current situation is not easy, and the pressure to start an all-out war with Han Yunhua's department is not small. Although the battle situation in southern Hebei is not optimistic, General Binshan Yuan still values Han Yunhua's department in the north, and as for the Eighth Route Army that jumped in the south of Hebei, in the eyes of General Binshan Yuan, it is just a trick to [***], and the purpose is just to want the empire to draw a large army to rescue, so as to create opportunities for Han Yunhua's department.

General Binshan Yuan, who figured this out, was rarely strong this time, and he directly began to arrange the operational arrangements without even holding a military meeting. At present, General Binshan Yuan still has six infantry divisions and five reading infantry brigades in his hands, which is much more than Han Yunhua and others imagined, and at the same time, the four infantry divisions and regiments in the Wuhan battlefield can be transferred back at any time. In the eyes of General Binshan Yuan, it is not easy for so many troops to pack up a small Han Yunhua, although he also knows that Han Yunhua is not easy to get along with, and his superb tactics are not comparable to ordinary lieutenant generals, and even his strategic level is extremely superb, which can be said to be an all-round hand.

However, General Binshan Yuan knows better that in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are paper tigers, and they cannot stand the test. He did not believe that with the strength of two divisions and one brigade in the north of Serbia, he could compete with his ten divisions and five infantry brigades, and he still had a certain understanding of the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, the weapons and equipment of the army were also among the most famous in the world, although the artillery support capabilities of the army and the surname of the tanks and tanks were indeed not comparable to those of several other military powers, but compared with those troops of [***], the weapons and equipment of the army can be called luxurious. Moreover, according to the news from the front a few days ago, it can be judged that the most elite mechanized troops under Han Yunhua's department are in Xilinhot at this time, and they will not be able to rush back to the Zhangjiakou front line in a short time. As soon as General Binshan Yuan saw an opportunity, he believed that as long as Han Yunhua's troops lost their mobility in Saibei, it would be easy to entangle Han Yunhua's troops with the powerful offensive ability of the imperial army, and as long as the army completed the encirclement, there would still be a good chance to eliminate the main force of Han Yunhua's troops.

Moreover, General Binshan Yuan knew that the allies of the empire would immediately provide direct support for their holy war, and at that time, whether it was the invincible British or the arrogant French, they would probably be dragged down by Hitler's mustache, and would never interfere with the great cause of the empire for no reason, and the red Soviet Union in the north would certainly not stay out of the matter, even if Stalin's bearded man barely resisted Hitler's mustache's attack itself, his vitality would be greatly damaged, let alone attack the "territory" of the empire Manchuria at that time. Even self-protection is reluctant.

As one of the few strategists in the Great Empire, General Binshan Yuan is still very proud, even when facing His Royal Highness the Prince of Xianyuan Palace, General Binshan Yuan does not think that he is worse than anyone else. To tell the truth, although the North China Front Army has suffered a lot of losses at the hands of the Eighth Route Army during this period of time, General Binshan Yuan did not think that the Yue Army was inferior to the Eighth Route Army in his heart, but only attributed the reason for the defeat to the fact that the main force of the Yue Army went south to participate in the Second Battle of Wuhan. If those first-class field divisions with strong combat effectiveness were still there, no matter how strong the Eighth Route Army was, it would not be as rampant as it is now.

I have to say that General Binshan Yuan deceived himself, and now the strength of the troops of the Eighth Route Army, especially Han Yunhua's department, is well known. The difference in the situation of the Eighth Route Army two years ago is also obvious to all, and the reason why such a tremendous change can take place in such a short period of time is that although Binshan Yuanda has thought about it, and other senior generals of the Yue Army who have served in the North China Front Army have also made detailed analyses, they have not found the real reason for the rapid development of the Eighth Route Army and its strong combat effectiveness.

General Binshan Yuan is also very helpless now, at this time the north of China is full of smoke, northern Hebei, Saibei, southern Hebei, Qilu land northwest Jin, southeast Jin are all fighting, but almost all the mobile forces of the army have been dispatched, the news that has come in recent days has become more and more worrying, especially the "Lu Zhengying" department in the southern Hebei region is jumping a little out of line.

What worries General Binshanyuan the most is Han Yunhua's department in Saibei, you must know that dogs that can bite people don't bark, in Binshanyuan's eyes, Han Yunhua's department is a mad dog who doesn't know what to do, or obediently don't move, and it is earth-shattering when he moves. finally lurked for half a year, and this move was to annihilate all the puppet army in Saibei, and even the puppet regime supported by the army was also served by Han Yunhua's department. Let the tank go to surround and kill the cavalry, and Han Yunhua can think of it.

The battle situation on the front line in Zhangjiakou was even more in a state of stalemate, with the Shanxia Division, the 9th Brigade of Reading Li, the 1st Infantry Wing of the Chinese Garrison Army, the Military Police Brigade of the North China Front Army, and the 11th, 13th, 16th, and 3rd Groups of the North China Public Security Army fighting Han Yunhua's headquarters on the front line of Zhangjiakou, Wanquan, Huai'an, Shanfangbao, and Gaojiaying. Although the Yamashita Division has an absolute advantage in numbers, judging from the current battle situation, the Yamashita Division is still at a disadvantage.

Although Lieutenant General Yamashita was still a capable high-ranking officer, he could only defend himself in the face of the strange tactics of the Yunhua Division in North Korea, and just an hour ago, the Yamashita Division sent an urgent telegram that Huai'an was lost, and an infantry wing defending the city escaped with less than 1,000 people, and more than 2,000 imperial troops were killed or captured by the Chinese army. Of the more than 3,000 people of the Third Group of the North China Public Security Army, who assisted the imperial army in defending Huai'an, less than 500 people died, and the rest all surrendered, and even the group commander was not spared.

Huai'an is the only way to Zhangjiakou Xicheng District, although at this time Han Yunhua's infantry brigade has arrived at Zhangjiakou North City outside the dining fort, but there is still a considerable distance from the department's comprehensive attack on Zhangjiakou, at the moment Gaojiaying in the northeast of Zhangjiakou and Wanquan and Huai'an counties in the west have become the focus of defense of the Zhangjiakou defenders, as long as Han Yunhua's troops in the direction of Tianzhen successfully capture Huai'an and Wanquan, then Zhangjiakou has really become a lonely city, At that time, even if Yamashita Fengwen has the ability to turn the sky upside down, don't want to keep Zhangjiakou.

The geographical location of Zhangjiakou is destined to be an important city that cannot be lost, and Zhangjiakou is also known as "Zhangyuan" and "Wucheng". Located in the south of Chahar, it is the capital city of Chahar Province and the last major city in Suiyuan and Chahar regions that are still under the control of the Japanese army. Zhangjiakou is located at the junction of Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi and Mongolia, which is the north gate of Yanjing, and is also a battleground for soldiers in history, and an important geographical and cultural city. Whether or not Zhangjiakou can be held is necessary for the Yue army, both from a political and military point of view.

Hold Zhangjiakou, then the repeated defeats of the army in Saibei can be attributed to the defeat of the war, and the attack has encountered setbacks. But if Zhangjiakou is recovered by the Chinese, then the last stronghold of the Yue army in Saibei will also be lost, and the Yue army will really be defeated. At the same time, Zhangjiakou is the gateway of Yanjing, Zhangjiakou is lost, and Yanjing is directly within the range of Han Yunhua's artillery, and the next is likely to be the offensive and defensive battle of Beiping.

Compared with the strategic significance of Zhangjiakou, the significance of Beiping is obviously much greater, although General Binshanyuan is an army general, but he does not dare to take this risk. The offensive and defensive battle of Zhangjiakou was actually a struggle between China and China for the initiative in the Pingjin area.

In order to contain the powerful offensive of Han Yunhua's troops, General Binshan Yuan had to temporarily adjust his strategic deployment and transfer another infantry brigade from the already overstretched defenders of Beiping to deploy on the front line in Zhangjiakou. At the same time, Senior General Binshan Mototo sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, who was commanding operations on the Wuhan front, ordering General Okamura Ninji to ship more than 100,000 troops of the four field divisions fighting on the southern front and return to the north as soon as possible. As for the major event that the empire is preparing in the south, there are still several other fronts to help.

In order to quell the war in North China as soon as possible, Senior General Binshan Yuan ordered the 12th Army stationed in Shandong and the 1st Army stationed in Shanxi, which were in a relatively stable situation, to send one infantry division each into Hebei, and to connect the 20th Infantry Division in central Hebei, several infantry brigades in central Hebei, and the eight groups of the North China Public Security Army to encircle and annihilate all the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Hebei near Handan, and deal a severe blow to the Eighth Route Army.

But unfortunately, this plan was stillborn before it could be implemented. The reason is that the 129th Division quickly sensed the army's attempt to make a move, and while informing Han Yunhua's headquarters, it also sent heavy troops to attack Xiangning County, an important town in the southeast of Jin, and in a short time, an infantry brigade of the defenders was routed and occupied Xiangning County. At the same time, Wang Xinting, commander of the 386th Brigade, directly attacked Linfen, an important military town in Shanxi, and forced Umezu Mijiro, commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, to cancel the order to send troops to Hebei.

(To be continued)