Han Yunhua did not know that the Japanese army had begun to plan how to withdraw its troops at this time, and at the same time, it was also planning how to deal with the possible retaliation of Han Yunhua's troops. Now Han Yunhua still thinks that the Japanese army will follow the pace of the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region step by step as he set, so in the next few days, the front-line troops under Han Yunhua's department will continue to retreat and retreat and retreat.

However, Han Yunhua was not idle when he retreated, and he ordered the senior cadres of the military region who remained in Guisui to form a new unit as soon as possible. On the other hand, it is to order the intelligence department to step up the infiltration of the puppet North China security army, and be sure to give the Japanese puppet army a blow when needed. In addition, Han Yunhua also ordered the Xinghe County Government and the Tianzhen County Government to immediately call on the people to build a large fortress group at the junction of Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei; according to Han Yunhua's order, this is a hard task that the Xinghe County Government and the Tianzhen County Government must complete.

Although this task seems to be arduous, according to the construction drawings issued by Han Yunhua to the two county governments, this project will hollow out all the bellies of the 32 small hills on the way from Xinghe County to Tianzhen County. Moreover, at least 55 pillboxes should be built along the road, and at the same time, this sub-mother pillbox group composed of 13 main forts and 61 auxiliary pillboxes should be built in the mountain, except for the shooting holes. All of the alphabet forts required a large number of underground passages to connect them, and the amount of work was far greater than anyone expected. Even if the headquarters of the military region sent three engineering regiments to assist in the work, such a large amount of work could not be completed in a day or two, but fortunately, Han Yunhua gave the Xinghe County Government and Tianzhen County Government enough time.

Han Yunhua expects that it is unlikely that the Japanese army will take Yangyuan and Wanquan counties in Weixian County in a short time, and it is not difficult to take Yangyuan and other counties with the current strength of the Japanese army, but under the stubborn resistance of the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, this time will take one to two months at the shortest, Han Yunhua is a person who is good at calculation, so after careful calculation, Han Yunhua believes that as long as the raw materials can keep up, then this huge bunker group can be built in two months.

However, the situation from the front line was very strange, although the Japanese 33rd Division still advanced after taking Wei County, the speed slowed down unconsciously. As for the Japanese army in the direction of Zhangjiakou, there was no abnormal situation, the Ninth Brigade still attacked Xuanhua County recklessly, and although the Sixth Field Division achieved great results, it was still driven to Xuanhua City step by step by the Ninth Brigade.

The situation of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army attacking Chongli was the least optimistic, because the 38th Division was a three-unit garrison division that had just been formed, and the entire division directly governed three infantry wings, and there were no military units at the brigade level, so the entire 38th Division had only more than 13,240 people in total, and in addition to the veterans of an infantry wing, the rest of these troops were some soldiers who had just completed three months of basic military training for recruits. Such a force is okay to deal with the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, which are generally not high in combat effectiveness, but it is a little reluctant to let such a well-armed and well-trained regular army of the Japanese attack, let alone compete with the elite of Han Yunhua's department, even if it is against the elite of the Nationalist Government or the leader of the local miscellaneous army like the 35th Army in the Second War Zone, there may not be a chance of victory, if it weren't for the old devil Tada Jun who matched the 38th Division with a chariot brigade, The Seventh Field Division had long been unable to bear to swallow the 38th Division alive, and it was their turn to keep marching towards Zhangjiakou. …,

This is not a big talk from the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it is indeed the combat level of the 38th Division, which is not up to par; except for a veteran unit of less than 4,000 people, which is not right, it is simply a peasant who has just learned to shoot, and it is no better than the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and the accurate shooting that the Japanese army is proud of is not applicable to this unit at all.

However, because the 38th Division also had a tank brigade and a large number of aviation troops on the side, the 7th Field Division did not try to completely annihilate this infantry division, but the soldiers of the 7th Field Division were not vegetarians, and in less than half a month, they caused more than 11,000 casualties to the Japanese puppet army participating in the attack, and the Japanese puppet army directly killed more than 6,500 people, and the 38th Division lost more than 7,000 people in the middle period.

According to the general understanding of the 38th Division, a large part of the soldiers believed that the imperial army had only lost 3,000 recruits and recaptured the territory of dozens of towns in two county towns from Han Yunhua's headquarters. In the minds of all the officers of the Japanese army, the puppet army actually does not belong to the battle sequence of the Japanese army, and even sometimes they do not treat the puppet army as a human being. Therefore, it doesn't matter how many Japanese troops are lost, and of the 7,000 people lost by the 38th Division itself, only more than 3,000 died, and the rest were wounded of varying severity, and even more than 2,000 people could return to the battlefield after three or five days of cultivation at most, or they could still go to the battlefield to fight if they endured it, so the top leaders of the 38th Division believed that the Imperial Army had only lost more than 3,000 recruits.

After reading the latest battle report from the front, Han Yonghua's doubts in his heart became bigger and bigger, according to the Inner Mongolia Military Region's retreat, the Japanese army would definitely not be able to help but move forward even if it was vigilant, after all, winning every battle would definitely stimulate the soldiers' desire for victory and the desire to move towards a more brilliant victory, but now the Japanese army in the northwest of Hebei obviously did not follow the battle plan set for them by Han Yunhua, and it seemed that they were not interested in the nearby Yangyuan county town and the strategic place Tianzhen not far from Yangyuan. However, the interest in Zhangjiakou is quite large, and the attack on Xuanhua Chongli and other county towns is also very strong.

Han Yunhua, who was very sensitive to the war, did not think that the Japanese army was waiting for the news of the breakthrough of the troops in the direction of Zhangjiakou like Shen Yuquan and others, and he thought that the Japanese army seemed to have some big conspiracy in doing so. However, after all, the intelligence department has some knowledge, and it is not too clear about some of the activities of the Japanese military's top brass, and it is impossible to detect it, even if Han Yunhua himself has no way to deal with this situation.

Although it was not clear why the Japanese army suddenly slowed down the speed of its attack, Han Yunhua still decided to fight the Japanese army's intentions. According to Han Yunhua's thoughts, aren't you little devils playing weird, then I'll cut off one of your arms and see how you play.

As for which unit to fight, in fact, other people in the front command have a consensus in their hearts, after all, persimmons still have to be picked and pinched, judging from the strength of these Japanese troops alone, the strength of the 33rd Division is the weakest, and the strength of the 5th Division is the strongest. The 38th Division and the 40th Division were in the middle, mainly because the 38th Division had the 6th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Tank Regiment to assist, while the 40th Division did not suffer much losses in the previous period of attack, and there were two infantry brigades to assist. So this time, Han Yunhua put the target of the attack on the 33rd Division.

The 33rd Division still has a very high status in the hearts of the Chinese, and its reputation is not much smaller than that of the Fifth Division and other divisions, but the Fifth Division is famous for its strong combat effectiveness, while the 33rd Division is famous for its poor combat effectiveness and was painfully annihilated by the Chinese Expeditionary Force. In fact, when it comes to the Chinese Expeditionary Force's annihilation of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, everyone may not be clear, but if it is said that the Chinese Expeditionary Force rescued more than 7,000 British troops and more than 500 journalists and missionaries from the Japanese invaders, everyone is no stranger to the Battle of Ren'anqiang, and the protagonist of the Battle of Ren'anqiang is the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army in addition to General Sun Liren's 113th Regiment. …,

Shortly after the Chinese Expeditionary Force left Burma, the Japanese 33rd Division also entered Burma and engaged in the battle against the British troops stationed in Burma. The 33rd Division was the first to storm Rangoon and occupy the British Governor's residence, thus cutting off the entrance of American supplies to China and strengthening the blockade of China. After that, the 33rd Division attacked all the way north to the Ringanqiang oil field in Burma.

Subsequently, the 33rd Division, under the leadership of the Burmese guide, adopted covert interspersed tactics to quickly pass through the three defensive lines laid by the British and Indian troops, occupied the Binhe Bridge in the northwest of the Ringanqiang oil field, blocked the retreat of the British and Burmese troops, and surrounded more than 7,000 people of the 3rd Infantry Division and the 7th Armored Brigade of the British Army in Ringanqiang. In desperation, Alexander, the commander-in-chief of the British army in Burma, sent an urgent telegram to the Chinese expeditionary force that had just arrived in Burma for assistance.

The new 38th Division is the main force of the 66th Army of the Strategic Reserve of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the vanguard of entering Burma. Division commander Sun Liren and deputy division commander Qi Xueqi both graduated from Tsinghua University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. It was the 113th Regiment of the New 38th Division that took charge of the rescue mission, and Sun Liren, who came from the rear, personally led the attack. In the early morning of April 19, 1942, the 113th Regiment of the Expeditionary Force, under the command of Sun Liren and Commander Liu Fangwu, quietly approached the position of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army and suddenly launched a fierce attack. In the end, the 33rd Division did not resist the 113th Regiment's successive charges. In the afternoon, the 113th Regiment seized the Ringanqiang 501 Heights and the oilfield area, routed the main force of the 33rd Division, and recovered the Ringanqiang Oilfield by 17 o'clock. The 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, which has nearly 10,000 troops, left more than 1,200 corpses in this vicious battle, and more than half of the thousands of officers and soldiers of the 113th Regiment of the Expeditionary Force were also killed or wounded, and the battlefield was full of piles of corpses. In this battle, the Chinese army rescued more than 7,000 British and Burmese officers and soldiers surrounded by the Japanese army and more than 500 captured American missionaries and journalists under the clutches of the Japanese 33rd Division. When passing by the position of the expeditionary force, the British troops who escaped from danger raised their thumbs one by one and shouted "Long live China". The 33rd Division of the Japanese Army is also famous all over the world, and it has become the green leaf of the new 38th Division and General Sun Liren.

Although Han Yonghua did not know much about the 33rd Division at this time, based on the performance of the 33rd Division during this time, he knew that the 33rd Division at this time could not be compared with the 33rd Division that flaunted its might on the battlefield in Burma two years later.

However, compared with the existing strength of more than 12,000 troops of the 33rd Division, the strength of the 5th Field Division is only one division and is divided into two defensive groups, and the 5th Field Division alone cannot achieve the goal of defeating or completely annihilating the 33rd Division. Therefore, Han Yunhua ordered the reorganization of the 300th Division to go south overnight and deploy concealed defenses in the areas of Shilongpan, Huajialing, Luofengwa, and Miaoerliang, while the 1st Brigade of the 5th Field Division received an order that no matter what method was used, the anger of the 33rd Division must be hooked, and the main force of the 33rd Division would pursue the 5th Division and 1st Brigade.

The 300th Division has become even larger after the reorganization, and the nearly 30,000 infantry of the entire three brigades and nine infantry regiments are absolutely an outlier among the units of the Eighth Route Army; plus the tank brigade, cavalry regiment, artillery regiment, motorized infantry regiment, engineer regiment, fire support regiment, guard regiment, logistics support regiment, reconnaissance battalion, communications company, field hospital, and so on under the jurisdiction of the 300th Division, the entire integrated 300th Division is a giant. Not to mention an ambush, even if it is a frontal attack on the Japanese army, this 33rd Division is not a problem. You must know that the reorganization of the 300th Division is an absolute trump card created by Han Yunhua in accordance with the situation of the group army in later generations.

To say that although Han Yunhua is unwilling in his heart, he can still put Li Dayong and more than 40,000 miscellaneous soldiers into the death place of Qian'an in exchange for time to attack, but if the integrated 300th Division is also placed in the same situation, Han Yunhua himself thinks that he will not and is reluctant to leave the integrated 300th Division in Qian'an, which shows the status of the integrated 300th Division in Han Yunhua's heart. …,

As a commander, Han Yonghua can sacrifice any unit when necessary, even if it is the only eight field infantry divisions and four cavalry divisions in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, but unless it is absolutely necessary, Han Yunhua will never regard the reorganized 300th Division and the independent 77th Division as an outcast.

After receiving Han Yunhua's order, the commander of the 300th Division immediately left an infantry brigade to defend Tianzhen and Yanggao counties, mainly to prevent the Japanese army from encircling Tianzhen from the two directions of Wanquan and Datong. The rest of the troops were immediately assembled and marched south overnight, while the chariot brigade was to open the way for the large army as the vanguard of the whole army.

Night has fallen, and it has been another sleepless night. Today was another boring day for all the officers and men of the 33rd Division, although they still won a great victory in today's battle, they finally broke through the county seat of Wei County, a large county in Hebei, which had been deified, no, it should have been demonized, and the troops of China were quickly defeated under the fierce bombardment of the heroic 33rd Division, although those troops also put up stubborn resistance and caused a lot of casualties to the imperial army, but they were not defeated in the same way.

But even so, the soldiers of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army were not very excited, because the county seat of Weixian County, like all the other towns and villages passing by by the imperial army, was an out-and-out empty city, and there was no normal person in the whole city except for the old, weak, sick and disabled.

However, this is already a matter of course for the officers and men of the 33rd Division, because they have often encountered such things in recent times. Whether it is a big city or a small town, or a village near the highway, as long as it is a place where the imperial army is likely to attack, it is that people go to empty buildings. Originally, the soldiers of the 33rd Division were still very happy to attack the Inner Mongolia Military Region, especially to attack the relatively wealthy Wei County, after all, compared to other places, Wei County was still relatively wealthy. It also means that the benefits of each of them in this battle will be considerable.

But now the situation is not optimistic, the entire imperial army is obviously a locust in transit in the eyes of all the Chinese people, and as long as the Chinese people have the ability to move, they will flee at the first time. And such a large-scale migration must have been instructed and helped by the Zhina army, fortunately, the imperial army's action is still very fast, and the Zhina army has limited time after all, so the escape is only a few county Zhina people, the vast majority of rural people are just hiding in the nearby mountains, two days ago the 213 Wing to the county seat of Wei County when it captured nearly 1,500 Chinese people in the mountains, so that the 213 Wing up to the captain of the wing down to the ordinary soldiers have made a lot of money, Anyway, for these fleeing Chinese people, whether it is the headquarters of the China Dispatch Army or the headquarters of the North China Front, it is the same meaning, that is, to catch one and kill one, and catch two to kill one and kill a pair.

Therefore, although the officers and men of the 33rd Division were disappointed to see that the county seat of Weixian was an empty city, they were not depressed, because they had actually known a week ago that if they wanted to make a fortune at this time, they had to go to the mountains or to the remote villages of China. If you want the young flower girl to get more access to the countryside, now neither the landlords nor the ordinary farmers are willing to stay in the city, and some large families have even avoided the most remote mountains.

The commander of the 33th Division, Tagoro Gansu, didn't know what the soldiers below were thinking, but he knew that the current situation was very uncertain, and the information transmitted from the document issued by the front army headquarters two days ago was very strange. At present, the imperial army is progressing smoothly in all aspects, and although the resistance of the Chinese army is very tenacious, the territory they control is inevitably encroached upon by the imperial army step by step. If the battle continues at this rate, there is no problem at all for the front army to expel the Chinese army from the Hebei region, even if it is not impossible to completely annihilate Han Yunhua's department, but the front army headquarters ordered the 33rd Division to slow down the speed of attacking Yangyuan County, and strictly ordered the 33rd Division not to try to attack Tianzhen County, which made Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro very puzzled, but Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro did not think that Commander Tada Jun was unconscious, He judged that it must be a new adjustment to the strategy of China in China or in China, so in the past few days, he has also issued ......an order to the entire 33rd Division to fight steadily and steadily, not to venture in, let alone go out without permission to sweep the villages in the non-security area.