After receiving the report of the second lieutenant of the garrison at that road in Pingquan County, the Chengde Garrison Headquarters immediately sent a report to the Kwantung Army Headquarters asking if this was the case.

After a while, the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Zhi Tian Kenji, personally gave an instruction, saying that their Kwantung Army did not have the Yoshida Transport Brigade, and Chengde found out that the Shaozo named Yoshida Ryogisa had died in the Chahar area last year, so the Kwantung Army Command determined that the transport brigade must be a pretending to be the Chida Army.

After receiving a reply from the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the Chengde Garrison Headquarters immediately sent a report to the defenders in Chifeng, Karaqin Banner, Longhua and other places, ordering them to quickly send troops to intercept this convoy along the main communication routes.

And this incident also attracted the attention of Terauchi Shouichi, in the north of China, in addition to Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army, there was only the army of Han Yunhua of the Eighth Route Army. And Yan Xishan's lair is in Shanxi, and his sphere of influence is only limited to Shanxi and a part of Suiyuan, and he has no ability to expedition to Rehe Province at all.

Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi judged that this branch of the transport brigade must be the unit of Han Yunhua of the Eighth Route Army, combined with the secret message of the cherry blossoms received a few days ago, Terauchi Shouichi was very surprised to realize that Han Yunhua was very likely to be in this transport brigade.

According to the report of the defenders of Pingquan County, the mysterious Shina transport brigade had more than 40 large trucks and only more than 400 soldiers escorted. Terauchi Shouichi realized that this was the best time to deal with Han Yunhua, the "god of war" of the Eighth Route Army, and what was worth Han Yunhua's personal risk to transport was definitely not ordinary.

Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi immediately sent a clear report, ordering all units of the North China Front, most of the corps stationed in Mongolia, and the second and third divisions of Li Shouxin's puppet Mongolian army to quickly move towards the area around the enclosure with white flags, while the defenders of Chengde, Fengning, and Guyuan immediately sent their main forces along the road leading to the Chahar area to pursue the Yoshida brigade disguised by Han Yunhua of the Eighth Route Army. As soon as the enemy's traces are discovered, immediately entangle the enemy, and if the enemy cannot be completely annihilated for the time being, block it on the spot to prevent the enemy from escaping, and at the same time report to the command headquarters at the first time.

Terauchi Shouichi ordered all units of the army to find the transport convoy in China, at least not to allow Han Yunhua's troops to smoothly transport the goods to his old nest Daqingshan.

As soon as Shouichi Terauchi's order was issued, the army from the north poured into the Chifeng area like crazy. Suddenly, Han Yunhua and the others obviously felt the pressure, and after arriving at the Karaqin Banner, they had to change the route of the march again.

Although Terauchi Shouichi didn't know where Han Yunhua was now, Terauchi Shouichi knew that the final destination of Han Yunhua and his party was to return to the Daqingshan area. Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi took the east of the Daqingshan base area as the boundary, sent all the troops at his disposal to block the communication arteries along the way, and also sent a large number of mobile troops to press east.

As soon as Han Yunhua's convoy arrived at the Karaqin Banner, the combat team sent out to explore the road in front sent a telegram saying that a puppet army division was rushing to the Karaqin Banner from the paddock, and at the same time, an elite infantry brigade of devils was also coming from the direction of Chifeng, and a large group of devil infantry was also found on the road from Longhua to the Karaqin Banner.

Han Yunhua thought about it and asked the troops to immediately divert to the east. Han Yunhua thought that the devils now knew their identities, and of course they also knew the destination of their trip. Therefore, he judged that the road to the Daqingshan base area must be full of ambushes, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and people who prefer to go to the tiger mountains, they are either fools or madmen, Han Yunhua knows how many catties and taels he has now, and he really doesn't dare to play a confrontation game with the devil's heavy soldiers like this.

Han Yunhua analyzed that the devils are now at a critical juncture in the southern front, and the troops left behind in the rear are limited, so they have no ability to encircle them at all, so Han Yunhuajue's devils do not have many troops in the east or south.

However, due to their robbery of the Lulong arsenal, the devil defenders in the south have been prepared to fight grass and snakes, and now they can only go east, enter the Yuanbao Mountain, bypass Chifeng and enter the Wengniute Banner and the Bahrain Left Banner, and finally return to Daqing Mountain through the Xilin Gol grassland.

Han Yunhua's decision was undoubtedly correct, just as Han Yunhua expected, Terauchi Shouichi did not have so many troops to spread a net to search for his small army in such a large area. There are not many troops in the vast area leading to the east, and it can be said that the east is the weak point of Terauchi Shouichi.

Han Yunhua's hand completely disrupted the deployment of Shouichi in the temple, and tens of thousands of troops waited stupidly for two days to the west of Chifeng without finding Han Yunhua and the others. Shouichi Terauchi hurriedly sent a reconnaissance plane to conduct a carpet search, but Han Yunhua was never found.

Terauchi Shouichi was not a fool either, and after careful analysis, he judged that the transport brigade under Han Yunhua must have fled eastward. After secretly scolding Han Yunhua for a while, Terauchi Shouichi immediately sent a report to King Dewang, chairman of the autonomous political axe of the puppet Mongolian Alliance, and Li Shouxin, vice chairman, ordering them to lead their men and horses to set up an interception line in the Xilin Gol League, and block the transport brigade of the Eighth Route Army at all costs. He also told Li Shouxin, who was in charge of military affairs, that as long as he could wipe out this transport brigade on the spot, the imperial army would immediately increase the establishment of two divisions to his troops, and that a large number of elite imperial troops would cooperate in this military operation.

Sending King De and Li Shouxin's troops to intercept Han Yunhua, Terauchi Shouichi also had no choice. Compared with the provinces and cities of Hebei and Shanxi, the Mongolian Plateau is too big, so big that he does not have the strength to completely control these places, and he must need Mongolian nobles and princes to coordinate management.

Terauchi Shouichi also knew what kind of goods the divisions under Li Shouxin's command were, and their combat effectiveness was really weak, compared to those old soldiers and child soldiers in the domestic reserves. However, now that the North China Front was in a tight position on all fronts, the supreme military authority in the southern front of China ordered Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations in China, to concentrate his forces near Xuzhou and prepare to gather and annihilate the Imperial Army again. However, after learning the lessons of the Battle of Taierzhuang, Lieutenant General Nishio Zaoshou changed to use part of his forces to contain the opponent in the front, and the main force made a detour to the west, trying to encircle Xuzhou from the flank and annihilate the main force of the Fifth Theater. On April 18, the 10th and 5th Divisions of the Imperial Army advanced south from Yicheng (now Zaozhuang) in Shandong Province and the Yitang area northwest of Linyi respectively, and carried out a diversionary attack on the defending 2nd Army, the 20th and 3rd Army Corps, and the 59th Army of the 27th Army Corps. The defenders resisted stubbornly, and by the end of the month, the imperial army was stopped on the front line of Hanzhuang, Pixian (present-day Pizhou) and Tancheng. On May 5, the imperial army began to encircle the west side of Xuzhou from the north and south. In the south, the 9th and 13th Divisions marched north along the west bank of the Beiqi River and the Whirlpool River from the Bengbu area, and on the 13th, after capturing Mengcheng and Yongcheng (Henan), they attacked Xiaoxian and Dangshan (now Anhui) in Jiangsu; The 3rd Division entered the Dayingji area from Bengbu and attacked Suxian (present-day Suzhou). In the north, the 16th Division crossed the canal from Jining, Shandong, to the 14th, after capturing Yuncheng, Shanxian, Jinxiang, and Yutai, and advanced to Fengxian and Dangshan in Jiangsu; The 14th Division crossed the Yellow River from Puyang, Henan, and after trapping Heze and Cao counties in Shandong, it went straight to Lanfeng, Henan (now Lankao); At the same time, after the 10th Division handed over the operations in the Hanzhuang and Taierzhuang areas to the 114th Division, it crossed Weishan Lake near Xiazhen and attacked Peixian (belonging to Jiangsu).

The current battle situation in Xuzhou is extremely favorable to the imperial army, and the central [***] team has already shown its face to be defeated, so the base camp of the army ordered the North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army to completely annihilate the main force of the Fifth Theater of the National Axe of China near Xuzhou, and teach Jiang Zhengax a lesson to him, telling him that only cooperation with the imperial army is the wisest choice, and resistance will only lead to self-destruction. Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi has already divided the 5th Division, the 10th Division, the 110th Division, the 114th Division, the Yamamoto Brigade of the 111th Division, the 105th Brigade of the 113th Division, the Sakata Brigade of the 28th Division, the Sakai Corps, the main force of the Yamashita Corps, and the 1st Main Force of the 210th Division, a total of seven divisions and regiments, not counting a large number of field artillery and air force.

On the Western Front, with the Jin Sui Army of the great warlord Yan Xishan as the main force, and with the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army and the Second Theater of the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Second Theater of China was also frequently attacked during this time, and even the large-scale siege of the First Army was repulsed. During this time, the resistance in the second theater of war in China was reared again, and the empire had to leave the elite First Army in the land of the Three Jin Dynasty and the vast North China Plain.

On the northern front, Han Yunhua, who suddenly appeared, and his mysterious Inner Mongolia Military Region also posed a great threat to the imperial army. What you don't understand is the most terrible, just like primitive people don't understand the natural phenomenon of thunder and rain, so they are so in awe of the so-called "thunder gong" and "electric mother". And this Han Yunhua did not have any records about him before the outbreak of the war, and there was no mention of any information about him in the materials collected by the Imperial Special High-tech Branch for several years about the officers above the major general of China.

However, it was such a little-known person who continuously stirred the nerves of the North China Front and brought shame to him, the commander of the North China Front and the entire North China Front, even if he used the water of the entire East China Sea. However, Han Yunhua's department has done a very good job of secrecy, and so far the front army has not even known how many troops this mysterious Inner Mongolia Military Region has, what its foreign name is, and the name and resume of the military commander.

This Inner Mongolia Military Region alone has pinned down the two elite infantry divisions of the empire, resulting in the entire front army now being like a paper tiger, which looks very powerful on the outside, but is very empty on the inside. Therefore, now he clearly knows that the core figure of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is very likely to be in that transport brigade, but he can't cast a net to solve this trouble, and can only pin his hopes on the Imperial Allied Army, which he has always looked down on.