On February 5, 1940, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Yanqing, with the cooperation of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Tank Division, launched an attack on the 6th and 7th Field Divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region stationed in the Zhangjiakou area. At the same time, the other line of Japanese troops, mainly the 38th Division, with the cooperation of the 6th Tank Brigade, made a detour back to the Chicheng area east of Zhangjiakou, preparing to encircle the 6th and 7th Field Divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the Zhangjiakou area.

The combat effectiveness of these two divisions is not the strongest among the 10 field divisions of the military region, but the leaders of these two divisions are all well-known generals in history, such as Xu Shiyou, commander of the Sixth Field Division, Zhang Beihua, political commissar, Liu Xiyuan, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office, He Guangyu, commander of the Seventh Field Division, Peng Shaohui, political commissar, and Dun Xingyun, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office, are all senior generals who have been carefully selected by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. After receiving the telegram from the front, Xu Shiyou, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Zhangjiakou front, felt a lot of pressure on his body, the total strength of the three divisions of the Japanese army reached a terrifying more than 56,000 people, and at the same time there were about 12,000 puppet troops, and the troops that could be used in his hands were less than 35,000 people.

"Lao He, now that the devil's leading force is about to arrive in Xuanhua, let's hurry up and think of countermeasures, this time it seems that the little devil is ready to fight hard, how should we fight?" Xu Shiyou stared at He Guangyu on the side.

He Guangyu frowned and thought for a while and said: "Lao Xu, if you want to say that it is the infantry division of the dog day, Lao Tzu is not afraid, although the fifth division of the dog day is a few elite divisions in small Japan, but our two divisions are now booming, so they are not afraid of the little rabbit cub in Yasui at all." But that chariot brigade is not something we can shake now, if our two divisions can't even pack up this chariot third division in the field, let alone more than 50,000 infantry, I think this battle really can't be fought."

Zhang Beihua, political commissar of the Sixth Field Division, said: "This time the devil is powerful, and hard fighting is not the way, and besides, none of us have any experience in commanding large-scale positional warfare, but the commander has already arrived at the front line, I think it is better to let the commander have an idea, after all, he is an expert in this kind of positional warfare of large corps." ”

This is the voice of Xu Shiyou's guard Zhang Zhigang outside the door: "What person? ”

"Military Region Emergency Electricity"

At this time, a telegraph operator ran in and said: "Report to the chief, the military region has an urgent telegram."

"Read," Xu Shiyou said hurriedly.

"Xu, Zhang, He, and Peng: Order your troops to block the Japanese army along the favorable terrain along the line of Xuanhua, Shaziling, Dongwangshan, Sanchakou, Longguan, Xiamashan, Xiangtian, and Xingrenbao, and hereby allocate 12 mine experts, 3,000 heavy artillery bombs, and 200 heavy machine guns. At the same time, your unit must do a good job in the transfer of the masses of the people, do a good job in clearing the walls of the army and the people, and your unit should try to kill and injure the living forces of the Japanese puppet army when the devils arrive in Zhangjiakou City, and you can authorize your unit to abandon Zhangjiakou if necessary. Headquarters Han February 5"

What the telegram said was very clear, that is, Han Yunhua authorized Xu Shiyou and others to abandon Zhangjiakou when necessary, and did not have to defend this important provincial capital.

"Commander, what do you mean by that? Zhangjiakou is the capital city of Chahar, how can you say that you will discard it? Xu Shiyou asked with some puzzlement.

However, He Guangyu saw the way at this time, so he said: "I think the commander must have a deep meaning in doing this, you see that the commander told us that these places are all terrain and dangerous terrain, and they are also places that the Japanese army must pass through, and the commander asked us to defend it, but he did not order us to defend it, so I think the commander is a living force that allows us to kill and injure a large number of enemies at all costs, even if it is a heavy city like Zhangjiakou." ”

"Even the territory has been lost, even if it is a little devil who kills and injures more, what is the use, when we counterattack, don't we have to pay the same price to recover?". Dun Xingyun, deputy commander of the Seventh Field Division and director of the Political Training Office, asked suspiciously.

Xu Shiyou also saw the true intention of this telegram at this time, and while admiring it, he also had to admire the twenty-six-year-old commander, and said with a smile: "Xingyun, the commander is a trick for the little devil, how many mountains and dangerous places do you want to have along the way from Beiping to Zhangjiakou, and how many dangerous places from Zhangjiakou to Xinghe and to Zhangbei." How many troops will be lost by the devils all the way down, and there are no less than ten fortresses between Zhangjiakou and Zhangbei, if the Japanese army dares to go, even if they finally take Zhangbei County, there will not be many of these 60,000 or 70,000 people left. And we are different, we are defending according to the danger, and the casualties are much smaller than the Japanese army, but the chariot division of the devil is a trouble, I don't know how the commander is going to deal with those Iron King Ba"...,

"Hehehe, Lao Xu, you don't know this, I see that the mine experts mentioned in the commander's telegram may be the secret weapon against the Japanese tank." He Guangyu said with a smile.

"Mines can indeed deal with combat vehicles, but ordinary mines can't completely blow up combat vehicles at all, at most they can blow up the tracks of the combat vehicles, barely paralyzing that guy, as long as the devil puts on a spare track, he can start again, I think the commander's method may not work." Xu Shiyou said worriedly.

Zhang Beihua still believed in Han Yunhua, so he smiled and said: "Lao Xu, let's not guess here, let's go and see what the commander sent us. ”

"Hehehe, Lao Zhang is right, it's better for us to go and have a look, let's take a walk," Liu Xiyuan, deputy commander of the Sixth Field Division and director of the Political Training Office, said with a smile.

In fact, Xu Shiyou and others guessed correctly, Han Yunhua did let them occupy favorable terrain and kill and injure a large number of Japanese puppet troops, don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place. In the early days of the War of Liberation, there were about 4.3 million troops of the people, and all of them were well-armed elites.

In the same period, the number of PLA was only about 1.3 million, and the armament was still millet plus rifles, not to mention that there were no planes and tanks, and there were not even a few artillery. In the face of the all-round attack of the people, Chairman Mao's response was to let the Kuomintang troops attack, and the PLA would be defeated in every battle. However, the Kuomintang troops fought very hard in every battle, losing an average of 7,000 men for each city they occupied, and although they occupied more than 70 cities controlled by the People's Liberation Army in half a year, they lost nearly 800,000 people, and the Kuomintang had to leave a part of the troops to garrison each city they occupied, so soon the Nationalist Government found that the troops they used to attack were getting smaller and fewer, and finally had to stop attacking. As a result, the all-out offensive plan formulated by the Kuomintang was completely bankrupt, and although the PLA lost more than 70 cities, the troops only lost tens of thousands of people, and when the PLA counterattacked, it regained all the lost territory at a very small price.

Han Yunhua is also ready to use this tactic to deal with the Japanese attack this time, Han Yunhua transferred all the regular troops to the Mongolian-Hebei border, he is ready to give up all the territory in Hebei except for the eastern Hebei region, and if necessary, Xinghe, Fengzhen, Shangdu, and Shangyi will also be lost to the Japanese army, but the premise must be that the Japanese army will exchange human lives.

Now the enemy is strong and I am weak, but Han Yunhua predicts that when these places are lost, the strength of the enemy and us will be almost equal, and when the Eighth Route Army headquarters and other armed forces attack at the same time, then there will be Tada Jun, the old devil cried, Han Yunhua has always believed that the person who has the last laugh is happy.

Now the most depressed in the entire Japanese army is Major General Kunizaki Noboru, since his nephew Sakurai Shaozo was kidnapped by Chinese agents, his mood has been extremely bad, just had some eyebrows, he received an order from the division commander, the ninth brigade was immediately rebuilt, and the whole army was very anxious to go to Beiping to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Han Yunhua's headquarters. But so far his nephew has not been saved, and although the conditions of the Kuomintang have been passed back to the people he left in Jining, he has never been able to make a decision. Because the conditions on the Kuomintang side were really harsh, especially the demand that he immediately release an agent of the Kuomintang Military Command Bureau who had been arrested. However, this agent has just been confirmed to be a high-ranking agent of the National Government's Military Command Bureau, and his rank is much higher than that of the agent station chief of a province, and Kunizaki believes that no one can hold out under the torture of the Imperial Army for much longer, and if the high-ranking agent can be made to defect, it will be quite helpful for the Holy War of the Empire.

But then Sakurai will be dead, he can't make this decision, exchanging his son's life for a high-level agent is indeed beneficial to the country, but it is a big loss for himself, although he also has a son, but for this son he feels guilty about, he really has a very special feeling, he doesn't want to talk about this guilt rising to guilt. …,

As a result of his northward campaign, the people suddenly stepped up their persecution, and even threatened to unload a few parts from Sakurai's body to him at one point, which made Kunizaki Noboru very worried.

"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, we have arrived at Wangjialou, are we stationed here tonight?" A young staff officer walked over and asked.

"Wang Jialou, what kind of place is this, and how long is it until Xuanhua?" Noboru Kunisaki asked.

The staff officers of the Ninth Brigade are all graduates of the Staff Department of the Imperial Army University, and they are a good hand when they look at the map, and this staff officer looks at the map and says: "Report to Your Excellency Brigade Commander, Wangjialou is still more than 120 kilometers away from Xuanhua, and we still have to walk more than 10 hours to arrive at our current speed, but it is now close to dark, and if we continue to walk, we may be attacked by the guerrillas in China." ”

When he heard the word sneak attack, Major General Kunizaki Noboru disdainfully sneered, along the way, the Chinese army also sneaked up on their Ninth Brigade, because the combat effectiveness of the Ninth Brigade was the highest in the entire Fifth Division, so Lieutenant General Yasui regarded the Ninth Brigade as the vanguard of the large army, and also assigned a brigade of chariot units of the Ninth Brigade to fight together.

Along the way, there are Chinese troops attacking their marching troops almost all the time, but the casualties caused to the entire army are really minimal, especially the land mines of the Chinese army are constantly blowing up the tracks of the chariots, even if the soldiers step on them, they will only suffer a little injury, and generally will not die. So along the way, he didn't bother to send the engineer unit to clear the mines, and directly drove the two tanks to the front of the army to open the way for the large army.

However, the guerrilla attack caused a lot of losses to the Ninth Brigade, and every time those guerrillas were hit-and-run, each time they killed a dozen Imperial soldiers and then went into the mountains, and when the Imperial Army sent troops to pursue, it was long gone, which was very annoying, and in a whole day, the entire Ninth Brigade was attacked by 19 sneak attacks after marching only 50 miles, 12 soldiers were killed, 85 soldiers were wounded, and the damned sneak attacker only left a corpse.

Although the losses were no more than 100 men, which was not even a drop in the bucket compared to the huge strength of more than 9,000 men of the Sixth Brigade, it made the people panic, and the soldiers were even more suspicious, and from time to time panicked soldiers in the marching ranks opened fire on the hill. And as soon as someone shoots at the whole force, the whole force immediately stops the counterattack, which does not look like an elite army on the march at all, which makes Major General Kunisaki even more angry.

"Order, the whole army will storm into the Wangjialou, collect the military rations on the spot, and tell the soldiers that they can not be disciplined tonight," Kunisaki Noboru ordered ferociously.

The officer who conveyed the order was immediately overjoyed, and he knew very well what His Excellency the brigade commander meant, and that the meaning of not binding military discipline meant that the soldiers could be allowed to act at will, and that the city of Nanjing became a hell on earth because of such an order from the Japanese military authorities. With this order, the soldiers could rob the treasure of the people of China and the flower girls of China with impunity

As soon as the officer who gave the order passed the order, Kunizaki Noboru heard the huge cheers of the soldiers outside the armored car, although Wangjialou is just a small town, but the Beijing-Tianjin area is one of the most densely populated areas in the north, and a small town here sometimes has thousands of households, and the population will exceed 10,000 people, which makes the soldiers of the 9th Brigade very excited.

Noboru Kunisaki's goal was achieved, and the morale of the Chinese guerrillas, which had been severely beaten before, was restored. Kunizaki Noboru maliciously thought that as long as you have villages and towns, the morale of the imperial soldiers will quickly recover, and the stupid pigs of Hum China, you can sneak attack as much as you want

Soon, the troops of the Ninth Brigade stopped less than a kilometer outside Wangjialou Town, and a cavalryman dressed as a squad leader rushed over and said to Major General Kunisaki Noboru who was holding a telescope to observe the terrain: "Report to Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, our unit is less than a kilometer away from Wangjialou, do you want to send a small unit to search for it?" ”

Originally, Major General Kunizaki Noboru was going to kill him directly, but out of prudence, he still adopted the suggestion of the squad leader and said: "Send a team to search in first, see if there is any work for the guerrillas, go quickly."

"Hail"

Kunisaki Noboru didn't believe that there would be Eighth Route Army guerrillas in this place at all, you must know that the Eighth Route Army guerrillas would only sneak attack in the steep mountainous areas, and a behemoth like his Ninth Brigade was not something that a guerrilla force of three or four hundred people could compete with, and Wangjialou was flat, and once it was discovered, it would be difficult to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army, so Kunizaki Noboru thought that the cavalry squad would come back soon. …,

But after waiting for half an hour, they didn't see any cavalry squad come back, and now all the Japanese troops were in a hurry, and they were not worried about the safety of any cavalry squadron, after all, there was not even a trace of noise in the town, which meant that those guys were not in danger at all. They were worried that those guys who were the first to enter the town were probably robbing the richest landlord in the town, which is why they didn't come out for so long.

Major General Kunisaki Noboru was also a little impatient, he and those soldiers had the same idea, thinking that which cavalry squad forgot to think about their own return for the sake of robbery, so he said to a staff officer next to him with some dissatisfaction: "Send another squadron in to take a look, it's fast."

"Hail"

This time it didn't make Kunisaki wait long, but not long after the infantry squadron entered Wangjialou, there was a fierce exchange of fire and explosions in the town, and the exchange of fire between the two sides only lasted for two or three minutes before stopping, followed by only scattered gunshots.

Major General Kunizaki Noboru knew that something was wrong when he heard it, so he ordered loudly: "Order, the whole army is assaulted, immediately enter the small town of Shina in front, and let the chariot troops go to the front to open the way for the troops"

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

The chariot started loudly, more than 40 chariots under the order of Kunisaki Noboru launched a charge towards the Wangjialou, the dust raised by the chariot and the thick black smoke from the rear of the chariot rendered the whole battlefield into a unique picture, the formation was like a tiger descending the mountain, bound to overwhelm all the forces that dared to resist, only to see the Japanese infantry behind him excited.

Soon the chariot troops rushed into Wangjialou Town, but there was no more sound of firefighting, and Major General Kunisaki Noboru secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seemed that the search squadron had eliminated the guerrillas in the town, not the guerrillas in the town who had eaten the infantry squadron.

But Kunizaki Deng's good mood lasted just three minutes before it turned cloudy again, and his face turned iron blue and iron blue, and soon turned into willow green and willow ......green.