Zhangjiakou is the capital city of Chahar Province, with a population of about 450,000 at this time. The Japanese army can not consider the life and death of the Chinese in any city in China, they can create the horrific Nanjing Massacre in a frenzy, they can also use chemical weapons in any Chinese city without scruples, even if it is the kind of poison gas bombs with erosive chemical components that are banned internationally, and even they will regard the Chinese as their experimental subjects for developing poison gas and viruses. The reason why the Eighth Route Army suffered such high casualties in history was not because the Eighth Route Army had already regarded the protection of the masses as one thing it had to do, even if it was a guerrilla force with only 180 people, it would not abandon the masses of the people at will when the Japanese army came, so how to settle the people of Zhangjiakou in a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou has become the most crucial link.

However, the people of Zhangjiakou still understood the feelings of the officers and men of the Inner Mongolia Military Region very well, and they knew that the Eighth Route Army was really thinking about their lives, so soon after the order of the Sixth Field Division to empty Zhangjiakou within two months was issued, a large number of Zhangjiakou people spontaneously began to move to the hinterland of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Of course, among the more than 400,000 people, there must be those who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, and Han Yunhua also gave enough understanding to the people who are unwilling to leave Zhangjiakou, but no matter what they are staying in Zhangjiakou for, they must withdraw from Zhangjiakou City before the arrival of the Japanese army, even if they hide in the suburbs or nearby counties and townships, as long as they do not return to the city before the end of the war.

As for those people who are willing to relocate to Saibei, Han Yunhua has made a bloody investment, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region has promised the people of Zhangjiakou that as long as they are willing to live in any town in Saibei, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has promised to give each family 20 acres of land and temporarily habitable houses, and each family will also be given 500 catties of grain.

The land and houses are okay to say, the years of war are not only in the northern part of the country, but everywhere in China, there is barren land everywhere, and the northern part of the country is even more vast and sparsely populated, not to mention 20 acres per household, even if it is 100 acres per household, there is no problem. In terms of houses, there are no thirty or fifty uninhabited houses in that village, and there is no one left in some villages or even the whole village, so it is not a problem to resettle these people. However, more than 300,000 people, 890,000 households, and 500 catties of grain per household are enough to need more than 50 catties of grain. You must know that now the daily food quota of a regiment under Han Yunhua's department is more than 2,000 catties, and the rest is all supplemented with miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables, and 50 million catties of grain is enough for more than 20 regiments of Han Yunhua's subordinate to eat for three months, and the grain stockpiled by the Inner Mongolia Military Region was scattered by one-twentieth at once, which really made Yang Ruihua feel distressed for a while.

Moreover, in order to enable these people with their families to evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible, the Inner Mongolia Military Region mobilized more than 500 vehicles to help relocate. Of course, such a large-scale relocation movement could not escape the detection of the Japanese army, and the scale of the convoy composed of hundreds of cars really frightened General Tadajun, who thought that Han Yunhua's unit would increase the number of troops in Zhangjiakou on a large scale, so he ordered the North China Front Air Group to destroy the convoy of the Inner Mongolia Military Region at all costs.

In North China, the Japanese army had absolute air supremacy, and except for a limited number of units under Han Yunhua's unit, which had antiaircraft machine guns against Japanese aircraft, the rest of the units could only be passively beaten in battles with the Japanese air force. Therefore, under the frantic bombing of dozens of Japanese bombers, Han Yunhua's transport team suffered great losses, so it had to adjust the time of the transport to the evening. Under the frantic transportation of more than 500 cars, more than 300,000 people in Zhangjiakou were evacuated from Zhangjiakou in just one month.

From two months ago, at the request of Han Yunhua, the Sixth Field Division mobilized nearly 200,000 young and middle-aged people to help build Zhangjiakou's city defense fortifications, in fact, Zhangjiakou's city defense at this time was already very complete, it was built by Yamashita Fengwen in order to deal with the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and it was precisely because of these city fortifications that although Han Yunhua's troops gathered in Zhangjiakou, they still let Yamashita Fengwen and others escape. …,

However, although the Zhangjiakou defense system painstakingly operated by Yamashita Fengwen did not play much role in the hands of the Japanese army, it was expanded and improved in the hands of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and under the painstaking construction of 250,000 soldiers and civilians for more than two months, Zhangjiakou's city defense could not be called a fortress, but its scale and strength of defense were the first in the north of the country.

The fortifications of the entire city of Zhangjiakou are divided into four parts, the first part is four trench defense lines of about 150 kilometers consisting of anti-tank trenches and a large number of pillboxes and air-raid shelters; The second part is a huge underground transportation system, at this time the underground of Zhangjiakou has been hollowed out by the military and civilians of the Sixth Field Division, the core of Zhangjiakou City forty-one pillbox group, each pillbox group is composed of a main fort and more than a dozen sub-forts, each pillbox group in addition to the firing port, other structures are all buried deep underground, on the top of the pillbox also laid thick logs and sandbags, used to prevent the attack of the Japanese heavy aerial bombs.

In the underground of Zhangjiakou City, the Sixth Field Division built a huge underground project, which was divided into two parts, the first layer was the area where the soldiers rested and lived, and the second layer was the place where weapons and ammunition were stored. Therefore, these huge underground works constitute the third part of the Zhangjiakou defense system, and they are also the main part of the Zhangjiakou defense system.

As for the fourth sub-project, it is much simpler, that is, the 6th and 7th divisions in the Zhangjiakou field use a large number of underground passages to link all the pillbox groups, unless the Japanese army breaks through all the pillboxes at the same time, otherwise even if a Japanese division attacks a pillbox group, it will be in vain, because the troops of the 6th and 7th divisions will continue to transfuse blood to the attacked pillboxes.

With these projects, Han Yunhua dared to use two infantry divisions and several security regiments to wrestle with the 5th Division and the 38th Division, the most elite of the Japanese army. It's not that Han Yunhua himself doesn't have his own prestige, just with the more than 40,000 troops of the 6th and 7th Divisions fighting a field battle with the Japanese army on the plains, without the 38th Division, with the 5th Division and the 3rd Chariot Division, the 6th and 7th Divisions can be defeated head-on in three days at most. The maximum power of Butan's coordinated operations has not yet been explored by the Japanese army, so the Japanese army at this time used the tank as an infantry fire support weapon, although Germany used blitzkrieg to achieve a brilliant victory in the European theater, but this tactic The Japanese army has not yet learned to master. However, even so, the more than 200 new tanks of the 3rd Tank Division were enough to crush the 6th and 7th Field Divisions to pieces.

However, with these fortifications, Han Yunhua is not worried, although these fortifications alone are not enough to prevent the Japanese army from occupying Zhangjiakou, but they can cause huge casualties to the Japanese army, and this alone is enough.

As a matter of fact, when the Fifth Division arrived at the periphery of Zhangjiakou, it had already noticed the strangeness of Zhangjiakou; judging from the aerial photographs transmitted by the reconnaissance planes, the whole of Zhangjiakou was like a dead city, and the Japanese reconnaissance planes took dozens of aerial photographs in spite of the danger of being shot down.

Xuanhua, the headquarters of the 5th Division.

Yesterday Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando arrived here and established his former enemy command here.

A chessboard, two teacups, and a pot of tea are simple things that make up Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando's reception room and bedroom. Toshikichi Ando considers himself a simple man, and he has few special hobbies other than fighting and drinking tea.

At this time, sitting opposite Ando Toshiyoshi was none other than the commander of the Fifth Division and the commander of the 3rd Chariot Division, Lieutenant General Saigen Seichi.

Toshikichi Ando picked up a fine porcelain teacup made in China and gently took a sip of the fine fragrant tea, and then closed his eyes as if he was enjoying it, not looking at the anxious look on his face at all.

Nishigen Ceichi is an anxious man, he won't hide anything in his heart, he was very anxious when he saw Ando Toshiyoshi's indifferent face, just now the aviation regiment came with the latest telegram, saying that their reconnaissance plane had detected some strange situations in the sky over Zhangjiakou, so the front army headquarters forwarded these abnormal situations to their front-line command.

"Ando-kun, what do the people of China want to do, do you know how to work?" Saigen Ceichi finally couldn't help but ask. …,

Ando Toshikichi looked at Saigen Seichi, smiled and said, "Nishigen-kun is a little restless, just calm down the two infantry divisions, what are they going to do is important to us?" As long as they don't flee from Zhangjiakou, isn't it better for us, I have always believed that any conspiracy and trickery is working on paper tigers in the face of absolute strength, what do you say Xiyuanjun"

Nishigen Ceichi chewed Ando Toshiki's words carefully, after all, he is also a smart person, although his personality is very irritable, but this does not prevent him from becoming an excellent commander. Although he admired Ando Toshikichi's open-mindedness and the courage of a soldier, he couldn't help but remind: "Ando-kun, you know how to work, Han Yunhua is not an ordinary general of Dizhina, he is very cunning, and the weapons and equipment of his troops are not much worse than those of the field troops of the empire, your appetite is great, but I still have to remind you to be careful of being fooled." ”

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando pointed to a few photos on the coffee table and said: "Xiyuanjun, don't worry, although these photos are unusual, they definitely don't show any problems, isn't there no one in the entire Zhangjiakou, and there is no trace of cooking on the fire?" Hehehe, the people of China have already emptied Zhangjiakou some time ago, and we dispatched almost all the aviation troops that can be dispatched to intercept them, so even if we take Zhangjiakou, we will only get an empty city that is almost in ruins, and it is better to explain that there is no activity of the people in the city, and two days ago, our intelligence officers who were lurking in Zhangjiakou sent back news that after occupying Zhangjiakou, in addition to moving Zhangjiakou, the two divisions of China also drove out all the people who were unwilling to follow them to Saibei. And also built a large number of fortifications in Zhangjiakou, including hundreds of pillboxes alone, and the war is imminent, if you dare to walk around the street at this time, you are abnormal. ”

"Then why don't you see any traces of the Zhina people cooking in the entire Zhangjiakou, don't the Zhina people have to eat?" Saigen Zeichi continued to ask.

"Xiyuanjun, it is impossible for the people of China not to eat, but when the people of China eat, they will never let our aviation detect it, you should know that in the North China region and even in the entire battlefield of China, the people of China have lost almost all their aircraft, and the empire has mastered absolute air supremacy, so the people of China must be eating, of course, there will be traces of cooking, but our aviation cannot detect it." Toshiyoshi Ando said pleasantly.

Saigen Tsueichi agreed with Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando's analysis, because as the supreme commander of a tank division, he was well aware of the threat of the air force to the infantry and the tank unit, and as long as the people of China were not kicked in the head by a donkey, they would never let the air force reconnoiter their military camps, training grounds, ammunition depots, command headquarters, oil depots and other strategic places.

"Yo Xi, Ando-kun is reasonable, but I still think that the intentions of the people of China are not small, and they definitely have intentions to defend the empty city of Zhangjiakou?"

"Hehehe, Xiyuanjun, don't underestimate the Zhina people, the wisdom of the Zhina people is not something we can underestimate, Han Yunhua is not a person to mess with, that person is full of wolf nature, Qi is cunning like a fox and fierce like a wolf, he sent two elite infantry divisions to be stationed here It is a very clever tactic, these two infantry divisions are not used to prevent our army from occupying Zhangjiakou, but to kill and injure the living forces of our army."

"What the hell did the Nanichina people have in mind?" Lieutenant General Saigen Zeichi asked in surprise.

Ando Rikichi's eyes turned, his eyes showed a fierce light, and then he said loudly: "The intentions of the people of China are very simple, they have not concealed their intentions, Han Yunhua just wants to use these towns in exchange for living space, and also has a large number of low-damage imperial army living forces, so that every time the empire occupies a city, it has to fill it with the lives of a large number of imperial warriors." Since the start of the battle on February 5, the Imperial Army has lost more than 20,000 elite infantry, and at the same time, the Imperial Allied Army has also lost more than 30,000 people, and the Front Army has only dispatched less than 300,000 men this time, and it has lost one-sixth in less than 20 days."

"Baga, it's terrible that the people of China are so cunning, Han Yunhua is indeed a devil, I must use my chariot to crush them into pulp" Xi Yuance roared loudly. …,

Ando Rikichi took a sip of tea to ease his slightly excited mood, and then said: "Xiyuanjun, Han Yunhua has seen the weakness of the imperial army, the Zhangjiakou Imperial Army is determined to win, even if the troops with more losses must be defeated, otherwise the imperial army will go to the strategic initiative, and the imperial army in Beiping and Tianjin must be stationed in a large number of troops at any time to prevent the enemy who may appear at any time." Therefore, even if the imperial army loses 100,000 people in the battle of Zhangjiakou this time, we can only pinch our noses and admit it."

"Then how many casualties does the imperial army have to pay at least this time to completely occupy Zhangjiakou?"

"According to the results of the sand table deduction of the staff officers of the division and regiment headquarters, the situation is very unfavorable to the empire, and the empire is being beaten almost everywhere in North China, and the troops stationed in the Pingjin area in peacetime have at least three divisions, and if there are less, they are likely to be broken by Han Yunhua's subordinates. Therefore, the imperial army must win this battle, but the imperial army must pay huge sacrifices to win, and the result of the division and regimental staff deduced is that the imperial army wants to take Zhangjiakou City at least 80,000 casualties, while the casualties of the Chinese people are only 8,000, and the ratio of casualties between the enemy and us is ten to one. ”

"Nani 80,000?" Lieutenant General Saigen Teichi was once again stunned by Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando.

Toshikichi Ando continued: "Yes, the people of China mobilized more than 200,000 farmers to build the Zhangjiakou Fortress for more than two months, using more than 100,000 tons of reinforced concrete. ”

"Nani, 100,000 tons, do the people of China have so much steel and cement? As far as I know, although Han Yunhua's department has established its own industrial base, which can produce steel and cement, and even its own munitions, its scale is very small, especially the cement factory. Quite a few words," asked Seichi Nishimoto.

Ando Rikichi said with mixed feelings: "This is all the fault of that fool under the mountain, but the people of China do not have the ability to build such a large-scale fortification, but the fool under the mountain left enough building materials for the people of China." At that time, the army of China came too fast, so Yamashita Fengwen almost didn't even have time to escape, and he could still take care of those altars and jars, so all the materials hoarded on the front line by the Yamashita division and the advancing army, including a large number of building materials mobilized by Yamashita himself from the front army, also fell into the hands of the people, so the people of Zhangjiakou Fortress did not invest even a single silver dollar except for sending hundreds of thousands of farmers, so I think that the fool under the mountain should apologize to His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Ando Toshikichi said a little hysterical, two days ago, when the spies of Tegaoke sent the information collected about the enemy situation in the Zhangjiakou area to Ando Toshikishi, Ando Toshikichi almost went crazy, their fifth division this time was facing a well-fortified bunker group, this is still an ordinary Chinese city, this is clearly a large military fortress ......,