As soon as the news of Tong Jiayong's capture of Liaocheng came out, the entire North China Front Army was greatly frightened, fearing that this mysterious army of China had more than 30,000 people, and the result would be troublesome. On the surface, it seems that the North China Front has unlimited scenery in attacking everywhere, but in fact the internal defense of the occupied areas is extremely weak, especially in Shandong. Shandong's geographical location is extremely important, so when General Binshan Yuan transferred troops, he deliberately left an infantry division and two infantry brigades for Shandong.

However, compared with the vast area of Shandong, the strength of one infantry division and two infantry brigades can hardly guarantee the safety of all the counties in Shandong, let alone the counties and townships below. Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the resistance in Shandong has risen one after another, which has given the army a headache.

Now Shandong's defense is empty, if there is another mysterious and strong [***] team in Shandong, then the situation in the entire Shandong will immediately be chaotic, and there will even be a large-scale uprising, which Binshan Yuan does not want to see.

Binshan Yuanda was also very worried about the situation in Shandong, because some time ago the Twelfth Army suffered a lot of losses on the Liaocheng and Yanggu lines, although the Twelfth Army finally dispatched a large army to completely expel the rebellious Chinese army from Shandong, and even the Huyan family, the largest feudal family in Shandong, was also sent out of the country, and finally restored the calm of Shandong, which was about to break out. But now it seems that the results of the previous sweep were not as brilliant as imagined, and the Chinese army was not completely expelled from Shandong, but a large part of it was hidden.

General Binshan Yuan did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo to immediately withdraw the Fifth Division and the 10th Brigade of Reading Power to Shandong, so as to quickly get rid of the entanglement of the Second Army, and then the army immediately stationed in the Liaocheng area to search for this mysterious Chinese army. At the same time, Senior General Binshan Yuan also issued a contract to Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka of the First Army stationed in Shanxi and the Qian'an front, ordering them to increase the intensity and intensity of their attacks, and there was no need to achieve huge results or decide on victory in early September. The southern Hebei army received an order to occupy Handan within a week, and if Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro still did not take Handan within a week, then he would commit suicide to thank His Majesty the Emperor.

However, Sun Lianzhong, commander of the Second Group Army, also saw the intention of the Yue Army to retreat, but he also thought that the Yue Army wanted to increase troops in southern Hebei, so he commanded the troops to attack the Yue Army in a frenzy, so that the Fifth Division's plan to retreat was aborted, and he could only engage the Second Army step by step.

This is undoubtedly good news for Tong Jiayong's department, the seizure of so many weapons and equipment is a good period for the development of the troops, through negotiation, Tong Jiayong used 2,000 rifles to exchange 5,000 disciples each to Shenxian Dao and Anlemen, and Tong Jiayong formed three infantry regiments at once.

Because there were enough weapons and ammunition, and enough food and medicine for Tong Jiayong to squander, he commanded his troops to send 5,000 rifles, 300 light and heavy machine guns, 1,000 boxes of grenades, 5 million rounds of ammunition, 10,000 shells, and a large number of military uniforms to the former enemy headquarters in southern Hebei stationed in Daming County. Although Tong Jiayong still has a lot of inventory, due to the limitation of transportation capacity, these are already the largest amount he can send to southern Hebei.

Han Yunhua was of course very happy to receive Tong Jiayong's telegram, Tong Jiayong's department was a secret chess piece for him to stay in Shandong to contain the Yue army and confuse the Yue army, but he did not expect that Tong Jiayong would play such a big role at a critical moment. Han Yunhua judged that this batch of materials was prepared by the army to be transported to northern Jiangsu or northern Henan, with this, although the army would not have a general collapse, it was impossible to achieve any major results.

Under the high-pressure policy of General Binshan Yuan, all units of the Yue army were as crazy as chicken blood, and with the support of aircraft and artillery, the Yue army has made certain progress in various battlefields, but the casualties of the Yue army are also very great, which makes the situation even worse for Binshan Yuan, who is already overstretched. Han Yunhua saw all this more clearly than anyone else, he knew that the battle situation in the entire North China had ushered in a new big turn, and seizing the opportunity, Han Yunhua ordered all troops to enter the countdown to the counteroffensive.

First of all, the instructors in southern Hebei traveled all night and night, and finally arrived at the periphery of Wu'an on August 27, and formed a huge encirclement around Wu'an. Although Major General Sasaki to the first major general also quickly discovered the instructor, but it was too late, more than 40,000 troops suddenly poured out from around the third and fourth brigades of the Reading Force, and the 181st Division of the 69th Army, which had been surrounded by the army for nearly a week, also seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack against the army.

At this time, there were less than 10,000 people left in the third and fourth brigades of the Reading Force, and the most important thing was that the weapons and ammunition of the Japanese army were almost exhausted, but fortunately, the radio was still there, so that afternoon Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro learned that the third and fourth brigades of the Reading Force were surrounded by the [***] team and were in danger.

The situation took a turn for the worse, and Kimura Hyotaro had the intention to take Handan City in one fell swoop, but General Binshan Yuan learned from Tegaoke that it was the instructor of the Eighth Route Army who surrounded Sasaki to the first department, and it was not important which unit it was, what mattered was that this instructor belonged to the battle sequence of Han Yunhua's department of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. General Binshan Yuan and Han Yunhua have not been fighting for a day or two, and they know Han Yunhua's surname. He knew very well that Han Yunhua was a persistent person, and he was also a commander who didn't like to do useless work. If there is no other purpose, then the intention of encircling Sasaki to Ichibu this time must be to completely erase the third and fourth brigades of Reading Li into the battle sequence of the North China Front.

If others dared to do this, General Binshan Yuan would definitely laugh at him for being incompetent and shooting himself in the foot, but the battle launched by Han Yunhua's department was different, and now Han Yunhua has been demonized in the army, of course, most of them are made up, but one thing is very true, that is, Mei of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will tear off a piece of meat from the army when he makes a sortie.

Moreover, there is such a rumor circulating in the Yue army, that is, Han Yunhua looks down on the troops below the level of the Yue Army Brigade, and the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region rarely go to specifically clean up the troops of the size of the Yue Army Brigade, and that "demon" either does not make a move, or if he wants to make a move, he will attack the wings, brigades, and even divisions of the empire. The troops targeted by the "demons" are generally difficult to escape, whether it is the 106th Division with average combat effectiveness or the 2nd Division with strong combat effectiveness, the fate is the same, and no unit has ever been able to escape the pursuit of Han Yunhua's subordinates.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that the third and fourth brigades led by Major General Sasaki were surrounded by Han Yunhua's subordinates, General Binshan Yuan's first reaction was that it was over, and at the same time, his hands and feet were cold and light-headed, and it took a while to ease up. After looking at the map for a long time, General Binshan Moto didn't see clearly where the so-called instructor had come from, bypassing the eyes and ears of Tegaoke, and quietly arrived at the back of Sasaki to the back of the department.

However, the situation on the old map was still very clear to General Binshan Yuan, and the 3rd and 4th Brigades were surrounded on a hill with a radius of less than two kilometers, and Major General Sasaki had already commanded his troops to build simple fortifications on that hill, which was expected to support at least three days of fighting. However, the premise is that the ammunition must be sufficient, otherwise it will not be able to support even two days.

General Binshan Gen also knew that this was not the time to joke, and knew that if he hadn't really reached the place where the oil had run out, it would have been impossible for Sasaki Jiichi, who was a gendarmerie in the intelligence department, to ask him for help. Therefore, General Binshan Yuan did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the aviation to carry a large amount of ammunition to southern Hebei, and then prepared to airdrop it to Sasaki to the first department.

However, Han Yunhua already had a perfect strategy to guard against the tricks that the army might use, so when the air force of the army reached the sky above Cishan, he could only see the smoke and looming soldiers around him. This was the artificial smoke created by Han Yunhua's order to come early and the wet firewood of the brigade was ignited, and more than 40,000 troops worked together, and the result was that the fighters of the army could not see anyone when they came, let alone the positions on the ground.

However, the matter is not over here, Binshan Yuan not only does not want Sasaki to go to the ministry to get the airdropped materials, but also wants to control the heavenly materials in his hands, so he has opened up a new battlefield on the outskirts of Cishan, and specially sent soldiers of an infantry regiment to put on the clothes of the army and exchange fire with the soldiers of the instructor.

After careful judgment, the air force of the army finally found the battlefield of the "warriors" of the empire, and immediately under the deliberate lure of Han Yunhua's department, a large number of weapons and ammunition were thrown into the "army." In the last count, the army actually airdropped a total of 10 tons of ammunition, 200 submachine guns, and 50 heavy machine guns to the "warriors" of the great "Great Empire."

After receiving the "support" of the Japanese army, the instructor who had become more generous suddenly increased the intensity of the attack, and the cannonballs fell on the head of Sasaki to Ichibu as if they wanted to pay for it, and the third and fourth brigades, which were originally at the end of the crossbow, suddenly felt the pressure doubled, and the telegram for help flew like snowflakes on the desks of Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro and General Binshan Moto.

In desperation, while appeasing Sasaki to the first department, Binshan Yuan strictly ordered the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army to immediately rush to Cishan to rescue Sasaki to the first department. However, at this point, although Kimura Hyotaro did not want to withdraw his troops, he knew very well that the [***] team in Handan City had reached the point of running out of ammunition and food, and it would not be long before the warriors of the empire could completely occupy this famous city in southern Hebei.

However, Kimura Hyotaro also knew that even if he took Handan City, there would not be much success, compared to the two infantry brigades surrounded by the Shina army, the new Eighth Army of Shina was obviously not enough, and it was difficult for him to say if General Binshan Moto tracked him down, after all, it was under his command that was surrounded. Therefore, after weighing it for a while, Kimura Hyotaro decided to lead the troops who had returned in vain and rushed to Mt. Magneti to rescue Sasaki to a department.

On the Cishan front, the reading force of the army was mixed into the temporary headquarters of the 3rd and 4th Brigades.

Major General Sasaki Toichi is in a very complicated mood now, he has been surrounded by this bullshit hill for two days, and the food has already been eaten, and everyone, including him, the supreme commander, has not eaten for more than a day, not even a drop of water. No less than 30 telegrams for help had been sent, but the response from the headquarters was to hold on, and the reinforcements would arrive two days later.

It will last for two more days, in fact, Major General Sasaki is not optimistic in his heart, but he also knows that now he must be strong. If even he loses his confidence, then the whole army will collapse completely.

"Ito-kun, how many troops do we have now, and how much ammunition do we have left?" Sasaki had to ask the quartermaster at the brigade headquarters again.

"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, we now have just over 6,000 people left, of which 1,310 are lightly wounded and 204 are seriously wounded, and one hundred and sixty-one people have just been shattered. We also had very little ammunition left, except for less than ten rounds of ammunition in the hands of each soldier, less than 20,000 rifle rounds in our brigade and regimental headquarters, machine gun shells and grenades and artillery shells had been exhausted an hour earlier, and we had two radio stations and ten boxes of explosives. Quartermaster Ito Kimchi said loudly.

The reduction in troops is good, at least 6,000 people, much better than I expected. However, it was a thorny problem that there was only a small amount of ammunition left, and the average of each soldier was less than 15 rounds, and with the intensity of the current engagement, the troops would run out of ammunition in fifteen minutes at most.

"And what is the morale of the soldiers?"

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, we are all true samurai of the Great Emperor Empire, and we are loyal servants of His Majesty the Emperor, no matter what time it is, our warriors are ready to break the jade for His Majesty the Emperor at any time. Although the morale of some soldiers is indeed very low, the vast majority of soldiers are ready to fight bayonets. Ito replied loudly.

Major General Sasaki to a major general engaged in intelligence, from the very beginning of the siege, he found that the opposite side of the Chinese army is not simple, not only the advance and retreat, but also the cooperation between the soldiers is also extremely skilled, and at the same time there are snipers equipped with sniper rifles, this is not a pseudo sniper with a 38 cover, but a real sniper equipped with a sniper rifle of the hair color series. There is even a regular artillery brigade, which even has sharp artillery such as war defense artillery, and the vast majority of the soldiers who fought against them were wearing tattered clothes, some in military uniforms, some in civilian clothes, and some even wore the clothes of a civilian farmer. At this time, Sasaki Zhiichi already knew that they were surrounded by the [***] Eighth Route Army, and there was only one person in the entire North China who dared to beat the attention of his two infantry brigades, and that was Han Yunhua in Saibei, and no one else had this courage except him.

As soon as he thought of this, Sasaki Zhiyi's heart was half cold, as the former head of the special high-tech department in North China, Sasaki Zhiyi's understanding of Han Yunhua was definitely much stronger than that of ordinary officers. He knew that he might be more than lucky this time, so he was ready to die in battle.

However, Major General Sasaki still had a little luck in his heart, and he thought that with the support of aircraft artillery, he might be able to break through the encirclement. But the idea is good, but the truth is cruel. Although his infantry fought bravely, they were completely passively beaten, and his troops lost all the initiative at the beginning of the battle, not to mention the loss of troops, and in the end he could only command the troops to retreat, and then they were trapped on this unknown hill. Since the opposite squadron [***] deceived the headquarters of the airdropped weapons and equipment, it suddenly became wealthy, and every half an hour it would continue to shell for ten minutes, and the strength of the third and fourth brigades was reduced from 10,000 to 6,000, and most of them were killed by dense shells. So by now, Major General Sasaki had completely given up the idea of escaping and breaking through, because he knew that it was all in vain.

"Order, in fifteen minutes all bayonets, and then fight hand-to-hand with the Chinese army, and never retreat until the last man does not fight, go!" Sasaki ordered coldly.

After the telegram was sent, he did not wait for the North China Front Command to call back, and casually pulled out the war knife he carried with him, and after a flash of the knife, the two operators all fell in a pool of blood, and then Sasaki to the first major general smashed all the two incomplete radio stations, and then walked towards the front line trench with the guards.

Jiang Yunshan, the commander of the Second Brigade of the instructor, saw through the telescope that the troops had once again been repelled by the army, but this time the army's light and heavy machine guns were completely muted after less than two minutes, and the gunfire of the army became obviously sparse. Jiang Yunshan knew that the army was really running out of ammunition and food this time, but Jiang Yunshan was not in a hurry to order the soldiers to continue the attack, but ordered the soldiers to concentrate all the light machine guns and submachine guns of each battalion at the front of the charging force, and then the whole division launched a charge together.

Jiang Yunshan's judgment was completely correct, the gunfire on the position of the Yue army only rang out for less than a minute and then there was no more sound, but one by one the soldiers stood up from the trenches with bayonets, and launched a counter-charge towards the instructor, a large number of devil soldiers rushed down the hillside with a scream, the momentum was very terrifying, but they were already at the end of the crossbow, and some of the soldiers fell down by themselves as soon as they rushed halfway.

People who have been hungry for two or three days can still launch a counter-charge, Jiang Yunshan still admires this, but seeing that most of the soldiers are running and swinging, Jiang Yunshan is still polite to them, and hundreds of light and heavy machine guns are fired at the same time...............

(To be continued)