Chapter 418: Special Warfare Elites Trouble North China (Final)

However, at this time, the Japanese army attacked Sun Dianying's headquarters, and according to the news from the front-line intelligence officers, the two sides fought very fiercely, and the Japanese army even dispatched aircraft and field artillery units to conduct an artillery battle. This made the national government very happy, it seems that Sun Dianying and the Japanese army fell out, with this battle, although it is not certain that Sun Dianying will not defect to the enemy again, but in the short term, Sun Dianying's department can still rest assured, so the first theater quickly replied to Sun Dianying's department, a division's reinforcements will soon arrive, and Sun Dianying's department must persist until the arrival of reinforcements.

As for the Cheetah special combat team that successfully provoked a local battle between Sun Dianying's unit and the Japanese army, after seeing that the entire northern Henan was a pot of porridge, it left one squadron to continue to fan the flames, while the other troops immediately moved to southern Hebei, preparing to play with the Japanese puppet army in the Hebei region.

After successfully blowing up two military columns, it directly led the headquarters of the First Army of the North China Front Army in Shanxi to order the Japanese troops in Datong, Shuozhou and other places to encircle and annihilate this bold Chinese army, because Kong Yang and others were well hidden, so Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, who had just been promoted to the commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, thought that it was just a coincidence caused by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, but then the convoys were constantly attacked. The news of the annihilation of the troops on patrol and the sniping of officers was reported to the headquarters of the First Army, and it was only when Yoshio Shinozuka realized the seriousness of the matter.

As one of the senior officers of the Japanese Army who has been fighting with Han Yunhua's department for the longest time, Yoshio Shinozuka immediately thought of the special combat team of the Inner Mongolia Military Region after receiving information from various places. Later, when he learned that the Liusheng special combat team that surprised him was almost wiped out again, he became even more terrified of this special combat team trained by Han Yunhua, the supreme commander of the northern region of China.

The measures taken by Noboru Kunisaki were almost identical, and what was not advisable to deal with such an elusive and powerful force would only be broken by the Chinese army when attacking in all directions. Moreover, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka believes that the vision of a special combat team like this must be very high, and ordinary military objectives cannot arouse the interest of these people, so as long as it is a target outside the city, except for the moving military columns and large bridges, there is almost nothing worthy of the special combat team, so he judged that soon the Chinese special combat team will enter the city to look for targets.

Therefore, a series of military orders, such as taking strict precautions and being ready for battle at any time, were issued by the headquarters of the First Army to garrisons in various parts of Shanxi. However, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka did not know what the main purpose of Han Yunhua's special combat team attack was this time, so in the next two weeks, the Eagle Special Operations Brigade saw that the defense of each city was extremely tight, so Kong Yang directly ordered more than 20 sniper teams to freely find targets to hunt, while he himself led others to attack the devil strongholds in various towns and towns and the traitor families with great public anger.

After their uproar, the entire Shanxi Province suddenly became a rumor, and Yoshio Shinozuka was also a little speechless by Han Yunhua's subordinates, and Yoshio Shinozuka urgently convened a military meeting, and the agenda of the meeting had only one goal, that is, to figure out what the Chinese army was going to do.

You must know that every special force is extremely valuable to both China and Japan, as the saying goes, it is just about to be used on the blade, and an elite unit like the special combat team will not attack unless it is a special mission, otherwise it will seem that the special combat team is too worthless. But Han Yunhua sent so many special forces to Shanxi this time in order to blast a few artillery towers and end a few township strongholds, why is this?

In the end, Yoshio Shinozuka thought of a possibility, that is, Han Yunhua's department was training in battle, training their special combat team in actual combat in the occupied area of the empire. At the same time, the North China Front Command also sent a telegram, saying that traces of the China Special Combat Team had been found in Shandong, Hebei and other places, and even in the northeast, and this discovery made Shinozuka Yoshio firmly believe that his idea was correct, so Shinozuka Yoshio reported his thoughts to the North China Front Headquarters.

After reading the telegram sent by Yoshio Shinozuka, Tada Jun also thought that Yoshio Shinozuka's idea was correct, so he immediately convened a meeting to take corresponding measures. However, the best way to deal with special combat teams is to use special combat teams to deal with special combat teams, but there are only so many special combat teams in the whole of Japan, and although there are nearly 2,000 special combat personnel who are about to graduate from the special operations school that has just been established in Tokyo, these special combat personnel are all special forces who have not undergone many combat tests, so for the time being, the base camp has not yet considered sending this unit to that front army. Therefore, Tada Jun ordered the troops directly under the First Army, the Twelfth Army, and the Front Army stationed in Shanxi to immediately form a command headquarters to lure and annihilate the special combat team under Han Yunhua's department. At the same time, in the name of the commander of the North China Front Headquarters, Tada Jun sent a telegram to the base camp and the Kwantung Army Headquarters, in which he asked the base camp to immediately transfer the graduating group of special forces to North China, just like Han Yunhua's unit, to train in battles and consolidate the combat effectiveness of the special combat units with actual combat. …,

And Tada Jun also analyzed the pros and cons of the bigwigs in the base camp, and the final conclusion was that as long as Han Yunhua's special combat team was eliminated, then the combat effectiveness of Han Yunhua's department would drop by about half. In the telegram to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, it was hoped that when the North China Front attacked Han Yunhua's headquarters, the Kwantung Army would be able to mobilize at least five divisions to attack Han Yunhua's headquarters from behind Han Yunhua's headquarters, and encircle and annihilate Han Yunhua's headquarters in Saibei in one fell swoop. At the same time, he also reminded the Kwantung Army that he unabashedly pointed out the terror of Han Yunhua's unit and the strength of that special combat team, and asked the Kwantung Army Headquarters to pay special attention to the sneak attack of Han Yunhua's unit.

The Japanese base camp was very interested in Tadajun's proposal, but of course they still fancied Tadajun's assertion that if the special combat team under Han Yunhua's unit was eliminated, the strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region would be reduced by more than half, so it was decided to first transfer 800 special combat personnel from Yanagi Shengjun's special combat school to form a special combat team, and then work with the more than 100 special combat personnel of the North China Front Army who had really passed the test of blood and fire to complete the task of gathering and annihilating Han Yunhua's special combat team.

However, Tada Jun was very dissatisfied with the Kwantung Army's performance, because Japan and the Soviet Union were engaged in fierce negotiations on the defense of the Far East, and the Kwantung Army Command did not dare to arbitrarily express whether it could support the North China Front in the operation before the results of the negotiations were out. After all, the strength shown by the Inner Mongolia Military Region is indeed extraordinary, several times with the North China Front Army are losses and generals, this time if you want to completely annihilate Han Yunhua's department, I don't know how long it will take, if the Soviet Union intervenes at this time, then the entire Kwantung Army will be in trouble, the result of the Battle of Nomenkan made the entire Kwantung Army Command feel covered in a cold sweat, although it is claimed that they are slightly behind, but in fact, their losses are only clear to themselves, When the Soviet tanks and armored vehicles were overwhelming, they seemed to foresee the fragility of the bushido spirit.

In addition, there are a large number of Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in the puppet Manchuria, although the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchurian government's three-year public security purge plan has achieved great results, a large part of the anti-Japanese troops had to hide in the deep mountains and dense forests and did not dare to come out, and even their leader Yang Jingyu was killed by the imperial army, but the threat of the Anti-Japanese Union to the entire puppet Manchukuo is still very great, if there are not enough troops to deal with these forces, the Kwantung Army is likely to be defeated under internal and external attacks. Therefore, the Kwantung Army Command was not very interested in the plan proposed by the North China Front Army to go south and attack Han Yunhua's headquarters. Of course, General Umezu Yoshijiro, who once served as the commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi and is now the commander of the Kwantung Army, still has a lot of feelings for the North China Front, not to mention that the First Army of the North China Front did not suffer less losses from the Eighth Route Army when he was in his hands, so Umezu Mijiro did not immediately reject Tadajun's proposal, but said that he could not reply to him for the time being, and could only reply to him by waiting for the news from the domestic negotiation team with the Soviet Union.

However, Umezu Mijiro was very concerned about Tada's reminder of the Kwantung Army's special combat team to strictly guard against Han Yunhua's special combat team, after all, Han Yunhua's special combat team was there, and it had just appeared in the northeast to annihilate an elite squadron of the Kwantung Army, and it also rebelled against a regular infantry regiment of the "Manchukuo Army".

It is important to know that the military strength of the puppet Manchukuo is mainly composed of three parts: the "Manchukuo State Army", the "Rear Guard", and the "Public Order Maintenance", which is controlled by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the "Manchukuo State Army" is the most elite and loyal force of the puppet Manchukuo, which is the foundation of the puppet Manchukuo State. All the officers in the "Manchukuo Army" were officers trained by the Central Army Training Department under the General Staff Department of the Puppet Military and Political Department, the earliest puppet military training organ, so they were very favored by the Japanese army and their status was also very high, but it was such a unit that was rebelled by the special combat team in a short period of time, which made General Umezu Mijiro very worried, so he ordered the special high school to immediately collect information about the special combat team in the northeast region, and at the same time sent five elite infantry brigades to encircle and annihilate this special combat team.

Not to mention that the entire Japanese army north of the Yangtze River is arresting special combat teams everywhere, and the war situation in the entire northern China is even more confusing, but the entire Eighth Route Army is very strong during this time, first of all, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram to Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater, hoping that the Second Theater can organize a large-scale counterattack, and the goal is to recover the Jinnan region in a short period of time and threaten Taiyuan, the nest of the First Army. The Eighth Route Army was preparing to cooperate with the Second Theater to attack from the Luliang area and capture the areas of Pingyao, Yushe, and Liaoxian (which had not been renamed Zuoquan at this time). …,

However, in view of the fact that the Japanese reinforcements had arrived and there was no longer much chance of victory in another attack, the Second Theater rejected the proposal of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, but out of support for the Eighth Route Army, Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater, ordered to allocate 200,000 rounds of ammunition and 5,000 grenades to the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time mobilized three divisions to meet the various units of the Eighth Route Army on the Linfen and Changzhi lines.

In fact, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters did not really ask the Second War Zone to send troops, but to the Second War Zone, mainly to remind Yan Xishan himself and his Jin Sui Army, meaning that our Eighth Route Army is going to make a big move, and it doesn't matter if you don't help the Second War Zone, but you must not hold us back.

Although Yan Xishan was very dissatisfied with the rapid development of the Eighth Route Army during this time, what is Shanxi, that is his Yan Laoxi's territory, although most of Shanxi is now occupied by the Japanese, but that is also his Yan Xishan's territory. However, since the Eighth Route Army came, the entire Shanxi has been full of the Eighth Route Army, especially in the northwest of Shanxi, which has almost become the world of the Communist Party, how can this reassure Commander Yan, not to mention that now Han Yunhua's department in the northern part of the country has simply become a giant, and the whole division and the entire division are eaten by the devils, and afterwards without worrying about the retaliation of the Japanese army, he Yan Xishan nominally controlled the two provinces of Shanxi and Suiyuan, Shanxi was plagued by the Japanese devils, and most of Suiyuan became the Communist Party. This made Yan Laoxi very dissatisfied, and he was constantly in conflict with the Eighth Route Army in private.

But now the Eighth Route Army wants to clearly resist the Japanese army, which is exactly what he wants, so Yan Xishan showed a lot of generosity, 200,000 rounds of ammunition and 5,000 grenades are all materials to support the Eighth Route Army, and it also shows that he Yan Xishan is anti-Japanese and will not make small moves behind his back, if your Eighth Route Army is defeated by devils, I, Yan Xishan, will be able to support you for a few days.

After receiving Yan Xishan's reply, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was also relieved, as long as Yan Xishan did not engage in internal friction with them at this time, then it would not be a problem to hold back the Japanese army for a period of time, and it would not be a blocking war anyway, just to attract the main force of the Japanese army, it would not be difficult to prevent them from going north to fight.

In the name of the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, General Peng issued an order for the winter counterattack, in fact, this time in history was the time when the Japanese army attacked the most fiercely, but due to the change of history, it has now become the time for the Eighth Route Army to counterattack. In accordance with the order of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the 129th Division, the 120th Division, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and the Jizhong Military Region each sent 10 regiments of troops to launch a large-scale sabotage battle along the Zhengtai Railway.

For a time, there were explosions everywhere along the Zhengtai Railway, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also calculated the meaning that the Japanese army was now unwilling to leave the city at will, and concentrated its forces to uproot hundreds of Japanese strongholds within a few days, which greatly shocked the Japanese North China Front. Suddenly, the Eighth Route Army became the focus of the whole country, and major newspapers called the Eighth Route Army's operation the Second Battle of North China or a continuation of the Battle of North China.

The media in Japan also reported on this incident, and for a time public opinion at home and abroad was very unfavorable to the North China Front. In order to reverse the unfavorable atmosphere of public opinion, the North China Front Army Headquarters had to temporarily make strategic adjustments and ordered the First Army stationed in Shanxi and the 42nd Division of the Front Army to cooperate with the garrisons along the Zhengtai Railway to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army.

However, what made the North China Front Army depressed was that when their army entered the Zhengtai Railway, the Eighth Route Army's vigorous offensive suddenly stopped, and the 50,000 or 60,000 Eighth Route Army a few days ago also disappeared as if out of thin air, no matter how the Japanese army searched for it, there was no trace of it.

However, when the Japanese army had just relaxed for a few days, the Eighth Route Army appeared like a ghost on the periphery of Pingding County, and blew up 11 large and small bridges and 29 Japanese puppet army strongholds around Pingding County overnight, and more than 300 Japanese puppet troops were swallowed up completely.

The North China region was turbulent, but the Saibei region did not make any waves, and under Han Yunhua's order, the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region entered the final stage of intensive training. Although there are still some units directly under the command that have not conducted intensive training, almost all field units have conducted intensive training for more than three months.

In addition, during this period of time, Han Yunhua has invested in armed forces regardless of the cost, and more than a dozen arsenals of various sizes in Baotou and Guisui have worked overtime day and night to produce, and now the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region is not only strong and strong, but also has extremely sufficient ammunition for the troops, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers is even more unprecedentedly high.

After unified consultations among the party committee of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it was decided to set up an operational command headquarters of the former enemy to give unified command over the next battle against the North China Front. Han Yunhua, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy headquarters, and Chen Geng and Wang Weizhou, deputy commanders-in-chief. Once the current North China Front Army has finished fighting in the south and concentrated its forces to invade the northern part of the country, the Inner Mongolia Military Region will launch an encirclement and annihilation of the North China Front Army with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.

In order to ensure the foolproof nature of this battle, Han Yunhua upgraded the infantry regiment of the puppet Manchukuo that had just rebelled, and the small regiment that originally had only 1,200 people was suddenly upgraded by Han Yunhua to an infantry brigade with a strength of more than 4,500 people, and each of the infantry brigades was equipped with a war horse, and weapons and ammunition were the best supplies. At the same time, more than 50 officers with combat experience were transferred to the infantry brigade. Then, the newly established "First Group Army of the Northeast Democratic Anti-Japanese Allied Army" was sent back to the northeast, and at the same time, the Feilong Special Combat Team was incorporated into this group army, and the commander of this group army was, of course, Li Dingguo assumed the position.

Han Yunhua's purpose is very simple, that is, to use this terrifying force with a big name to fool the main force of the Kwantung Army in puppet Manchukuo, and there is no need for them to fight to the death with the Kwantung Army, there is a Flying Dragon Special Operations Brigade, this anti-coalition group army only needs to appear in the right place and eliminate the suitable Japanese puppet army, and all the logistics are ...... by the Inner Mongolia Military Region.