Han Yunhua's telegram caused an uproar, and the vast majority of [***] generals scoffed at it, thinking that it was Han Yunhua grandstanding. You must know that since the beginning of the war, the national political axe has organized so many general battles, and there are not a few military units at the division and regimental level that have suffered heavy losses, but the total annihilation of a brigade and regiment of the army has never happened, let alone the total annihilation of an elite division.

But not everyone thinks so, at least Xue Yue and Chen Cheng and Yu Jishi, the commander of the 74th Army, don't think so, Xue Yue and Chen Cheng both know that although Han Yunhua is young, his attainments in military command are comparable to very people, [***] They know the situation of the Eighth Route Army better than anyone, especially Xue Yue. During the Long March, Xue Yue was ordered to lead the troops to block the Red Army on the Xiangjiang River, which battle the Red Army lost one-third of its troops, and the Red Army soldiers each had five bullets, and the situation of wearing single clothes in the winter left a deep impact on Xue Yue. Since the Second Battle of Daqingshan, the Nationalist Political Axe has sent a large number of spies to the north, the main purpose of which is to collect information about Han Yunhua's department.

Although Han Yunhua's intelligence secrecy work is indeed very good, the seamless style of the military commander still collects a lot of useful information, among which the most surprising thing for the core bigwigs of the national political axe is that Han Yunhua actually turned a remnant of the defeated army into an anti-Japanese iron army in just half a year, and what Chen Cheng and even Chiang Kai-shek admired the most was Han Yunhua's boldness. According to incomplete statistics, more than 45 percent of Han Yunhua's soldiers were recruited from the Kuomintang prisoners, more than 30 percent were from the incorporated puppet army, and 5 percent were from ethnic minorities in the north, mainly Mongolians, Manchus, and Hui. Less than 20 percent of the troops were recruited by Han Yunhua from the local area, and this bold approach surprised not only Chen Cheng, but even Chairman Chiang, who had always boasted that "Mount Tai does not bend down when the top of Mount Tai is pressed and the sky collapses and does not change the color in front of him."

Judging from the information collected, Han Yunhua is a person who would rather bend than bend and not eat, but he is extremely trustworthy, and in the words of General Shouichi Terauchi to Han Yunhua, "the stones in the pit are smelly and hard." On this occasion, Chen Cheng didn't think that Han Yunhua dared to tease them, at this time, Han Yunhua not only represented him personally, but now he is a representative of [***], and everything he says and does represents [***].

Ignoring the rude insults and pretended contempt of the generals below, Chen Cheng asked the adjutant to forward Han Yunhua's telegram to Yan'an, although he did not add a word, but the meaning was very clear.

[***] and others are not very clear about the Haikou boasted by Han Yunhua, but Han Yunhua has always performed so well, never fighting uncertain battles, although the 106th Division is indeed a little difficult to fight, but the central government still decided to believe in this [***] fierce general.

The call back to Chen Cheng was very short, only four words: "Wait for good news". The meaning is very clear, we believe that Comrade Han Yunhua will fight this battle well, and if he can annihilate the 106th Division, then the 106th Division will definitely not be spared. He said that if he could capture Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura alive, then the old devil Matsuura would definitely not be able to escape.

This telegram was indeed very effective, and the originally noisy Wuhan Garrison Headquarters suddenly calmed down, although they still didn't believe that Han Yunhua's troops could have such combat effectiveness, but they were not as unscrupulous and contemptuous as just now. Chen Cheng was now interested in Han Yunhua's subordinates, and ordered the guards to get ready, he was going to Jiujiang to inspect the defense, and by the way, he also had to go to the De'an front line to have a look.

Just the day before Chen Cheng was about to leave, news came from the front that the 9th Division of the Yue Army had left the Kuomintang troops in front of him and rushed to the direction of Duchang with all his might, apparently wanting to cross Poyang Lake and join the 106th Division on the west bank.

Xue Yue was also not idle during this time, he led the First Corps to fight hard against the 110th Division, the 27th Division and the powerful Botian Detachment in the vast area west of Madang Fortress on the east bank of Poyang Lake. After nearly a week of layout, now the 27th Division has gone deep into the hinterland of the First Corps alone, Xue Yue is preparing to encircle the 27th Division in the past few days, and then this arrogant army thinks that the opportunity is rare, and then immediately sends the Wuhan Military Commission and the 9th Theater Command to completely eliminate the elite of the army, and Xue Yue has a great grasp of this operation. As long as there are no major changes, the 27th Division will never be lucky, and its destruction is a foregone conclusion.

However, the appearance of the Ninth Division made Xue Yue's heart hang for a long time, if the army knew that the 27th Division was about to be encircled, then the Ninth Division would turn its head and pounce on the Hukou line at the first time, so that the situation that Xue Yue had worked so hard to manage would probably end here.

However, what happened next made Xue Yue breathe a sigh of relief, the Ninth Division didn't know what medicine it was taking, and it was desperate to cross the lake, gathering all the fishing boats in Duchang County, and even snatching a lot of boats from other places.

Seeing this posture, although Xue Yue was a little puzzled, it was very good news that the Ninth Division would not go north to Hukou. He stepped up his deployment, and made sure to drive the 27th Division into the urn as soon as the 9th Division crossed Poyang Lake, and then annihilate it with lightning speed, so as to teach the army a hard lesson.

At the same time, Han Yunhua sent the Cheetah Special Combat Team to borrow gunboats from the Navy of the Kuomintang, saying that Admiral Chen Shaokuan thanked Han Yunhua's department for his righteousness and gave the navy hope for its rebirth, and specially lent all 38 gunboats under the navy's command to Han Yunhua's department, and also sent many gunners to assist in the battle.

On October 27, the remnants of the 106th Division broke through to the Wanjialing area southwest of De'an, and on the way to break through, the 106th Division met unexpectedly with a local miscellaneous division of the Kuomintang, and the two sides fought an encounter.

After receiving the report of the front-line pursuit troops, Han Yunhua scolded the national political axe and the miscellaneous troops in these places for adding to the chaos. Originally, according to the situation of the 106th Division, it could not support it for even a day, and it ran out of ammunition and food. But now, because a Chinese division has been completely annihilated and a large number of Chinese weapons have been seized, and according to the previous practice, the army will not take these "rags" into account, and most of them will be used to arm those puppet armies.

However, in this situation, these rags have undoubtedly become the last straw for the army to save their lives, and after being partially replenished, the morale of the 106th Division has been restored, and as long as the 9th Division can reach the west bank of Poyang Lake on time, the 106th Division's successful escape from Ascension should not be a problem.

Han Yunhua is not a vegetarian, after hearing that a Chinese division was completely annihilated by the 106th Division in this way, Han Yunhua was greatly annoyed, and gave the final order to Li Dayong, who commanded the troops at the front, that all the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region immediately launched an encirclement and annihilation of the 106th Division.

At half past five o'clock in the afternoon of 27 July, the 1st Assault Brigade and 1st Regiment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region launched a series of attacks on the Yue Army, which had occupied the Wanjialing and Beji Street areas. At this time, the 106th Division fought back desperately under the cover of the planes that came to support the operation, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Until 7 o'clock in the morning of the 28th, the two sides were still fighting fiercely in the areas of Xiaojinshan, Wanjialing, Zhanggushan, and Jianlusu, and the positions changed hands several times. However, at this time, the 106th Division was already at the end of its strong crossbow, and there were less than 3,000 people left in the entire division, and they were surrounded by Han Yunhua in four positions. At this time, the various units dispatched by Han Yunhua had been approaching one after another, and the 106th Division had formed a situation of encirclement.

Okamura Ninji, who was in Madang Fortress, discovered from the air force reconnaissance that the 106th Division had entered the pocket formation set up by the squadron, and now it was unable to break through, so he immediately ordered the four small groups of the 106th Division to immediately move closer to each other and wait for reinforcements. At the same time, the 27th Division was ordered to immediately cross the lake and move closer to the 106th Division, and at the same time, the 110th Division was ordered to be responsible for guarding the right flank of the 27th Division, in an attempt to take the 106th Division out of the encirclement.

Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, commander of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, received an order from Okamura and hurriedly acted, but at a critical juncture, Junrokuro Matsuura and his staff officers found that they had lost contact with the three positions of the Japanese army, Xiaojinshan, Wanjialing, and Jianlusu!

What frightened Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura the most was that one in 50,000 military maps had failed here, or rather the compass that identified directions. In the Battle of Wuhan, the military map used by the army in a scale of 1/50,000 was stolen by Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji from Sun Chuanfang in 1926, and printed and distributed to all units by the General Staff Headquarters. The 106th Division, which had lost its sense of direction, rushed into the mountains like headless flies, and was blocked by the [***] team everywhere, and the 106th Division was doomed to be doomed, and its destruction had entered the countdown.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th, Han Yunhua believed that the time had come to annihilate the army in front of him, and issued an operational order to launch a general attack on the enemy's 106th Division. In the afternoon of the same day, the general attack began, and the assault brigade and regiment attacked the main position of Wanjialing, responsible for eliminating the location of the division headquarters of the 106th Division, and it was necessary to capture and attack Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura alive. The 88th Regiment of the 77th Brigade of Reading Li was responsible for attacking the position of the Xiaojinshan Army, the 1st Garrison Regiment of the Guisui Garrison Brigade was responsible for attacking the position of the Yuejun Army in Zhanggushan, and Han Yunhua himself led a regiment directly under the Military Region to attack the position of the Jianlu Su Army.

(To be continued)