Chapter 459: No War in North China

The Datong offensive and defensive battle came to an end with the surrender of the remnants of the Takagi Division, and the reason why it is called the end rather than the end is entirely because there are still some Japanese troops resisting in the two Japanese defense lines in the north of Datong and refusing to accept the surrender order issued by Nakamura Daisa.

Although there is less than one infantry brigade left in this part of the Japanese army, Han Yunhua still does not dare to relax, because with this infantry brigade, the North China Front refuses to admit that Datong has been completely occupied by Han Yunhua's department, so Han Yunhua decided to solve this Japanese infantry brigade as soon as possible.

Because this defense line is more than ten kilometers outside the north city of Datong, the surrounding villages have been completely destroyed by the Japanese army, and there is nothing left except a relatively solid steel reinforced concrete defense line, so this time Han Yunhua has no scruples to order the artillery unit to use poison gas bombs, Han Yunhua is very simple, he is not as secretive as the Japanese army, obviously it is a poison gas bomb and has a more concealed name, what is it called special smoke. In Han Yunhua's eyes, the gas bomb is the gas bomb, and the evidence of the Japanese army's crime of using the gas bomb to harm the Chinese is conclusive, and it cannot be covered up by changing the name.

Due to the lack of necessary anti-poison equipment, the poisoning rate of the Japanese infantry brigade was as high as 85 or more, and Han Yunhua did not treat these poisoned Japanese soldiers, but simply buried them, which can be regarded as a little devil with evil retribution.

The offensive and defensive battle of Datong finally ended, it took only more than ten days, but the entire offensive and defensive battle of Datong was extremely fierce, the Japanese army was defended by the Takagi Division, with nearly 20,000 Japanese young and middle-aged expatriates and more than 20,000 puppet troops, the total strength reached more than 60,000 people, and Han Yunhua's department directly dispatched 6 infantry divisions and a guard regiment and several special combat teams, with a total strength of nearly 130,000 people. In ten days, the Japanese army was almost completely annihilated, killing more than 35,000 Japanese soldiers, capturing more than 6,000 people, and capturing nearly 10,000 puppet troops, not counting the more than 3,000 puppet troops who came over the battlefield anyway.

What made Han Yunhua happiest was that some of the recruits who had not been on the battlefield after the Datong Defense War had also accumulated considerable combat experience, and units such as the 3rd and 4th Field Divisions and the Guard Regiment had even accumulated experience in large-scale offensive and defensive warfare, thus laying the foundation for future expansion and development. In addition, the actual benefits of conquering Datong City are also many, first of all, Han Yunhua's department captured two huge arsenals of the Japanese army, which is the general arsenal of all the arms hoarded by the Japanese army in northern Jin, and Han Yunhua was surprised by the variety and quantity of weapons and ammunition in it. Coupled with all the weapons and ammunition of the Japanese puppet army captured this time, it was enough for Han Yunhua to arm all the four recruit divisions on the Datong front, and there was even a large surplus. You must know that the captured Japanese equipment alone is enough to equip two full infantry divisions, and there is no need to use those two arsenals at all.

In addition, this time, Han Yunhua's department also rescued more than 100,000 prisoners and miners of the Kuomintang Central Army, Jinsui Army, Eighth Route Army and other units that were captured by the Japanese army, among which the number of miners was the largest, reaching more than 80,000, and the number of prisoners was less than 30,000.

For these people, Han Yunhua didn't know how to pay at all, and sent these more than 100,000 people back to Jining for recuperation and reorganization as soon as possible. If it weren't for the fact that these miners and prisoners had been treated and oppressed by the Japanese for a long time, and their bodies were extremely weak, Han Yunhua would really want to arm these hundreds of thousands of people on the spot.

In addition, Han Yunhua's department also captured nearly 10,000 Japanese fù widows, because Datong is an important coal production base in China, so the Japanese army has long set its sights on Datong, and soon after the capture of Datong, hundreds of large Japanese enterprises went to Datong to plunder China's coal resources, followed by more and more Japanese expatriates and làng people.

These expatriates are usually for the people, but once the war is urgent, they will be immediately called up to participate in the battle, just like this war, the original Japanese defenders were less than 20,000 people, but with the addition of those armed expatriates, the number suddenly exceeded 40,000, and even when Han Yunhua's troops broke through Datong City, there were even Japanese women with pistols to attack Han Yunhua's soldiers, and many soldiers were caught off guard. Han Yunhua was not embarrassed by these Japanese fù widows, and all of them were sent back to Jining along with the prisoners, and then they were placed in centralized custody.

Han Yunhua did not participate in dealing with the aftermath, but ordered the troops to continue to attack southward, and due to the lack of containment by the Japanese army in the Datong direction, the more than 100,000 troops of the integrated 300th Division, the 5th Field Division, and the 24th, 25th, and 26th Divisions stationed in Tianzhen, Yanggao, Yangyuan, and Weixian were finally free. Under the order of Han Yunhua, the Fifth Route Army was formed with the 300th Division as the main force, and Yang Chengwu served as the commander-in-chief.

The direction of the attack of the Fifth Route Army, like that of the First and Second Route Armies, was to attack directly to the south. The First Route Army set out from Shuo County and went straight to the Japanese troops in Shenchi, Ningwu, Wuzhai and other counties. The Second Route Army, led by Li Jingquan, set out from Datong and went all the way south, passing through Huairen, Shanyin, Yingxian, Hunyuan, Guangling and other counties. The Fifth Route Army attacked from Wei County and went all the way to Laiyuan, Yixian, Fuping, and Baoding.

Han Yunhua's troops were like tigers descending from the mountains, majestic in all directions, almost all the Japanese puppet troops fled from the wind along the way, and the Japanese troops in northern Jin almost did not organize any effective resistance. It was not until December 15 that the army arrived at Yuanping City, because the main force of the Japanese 37th Division had already arrived in Yuanping City, and collected a large number of Japanese puppet troops who had retreated all the way to Yuanping, established a relatively stable defense line, and formed a confrontation situation with the First Route Army.

The Second Route Army and the Fifth Route Army also advanced extremely rapidly, and the Second Route Army also rushed to Wutai County on December 16, forming a tendency to flank the Japanese 37th Division from the east and north. Although the Fifth Route Army did not take Laiyuan County, which was heavily guarded by the Japanese army, it was the army that bypassed the source and directly took down the county towns of Yixian, Laishui, Gaopaidian, Dingxing, etc., and part of the troops had already gone north to attack Zhuozhou, and the main force of the reorganized 300th Division was to attack Baoding, a concentrated military town, in the south.

At the same time, Yan Xishan, who was anxious, was afraid that he would occupy the whole of Shanxi, and despite Chiang Kai-shek's opposition, he directly sent 200,000 troops to besiege Taiyuan in three ways. Even Wei Lihuang, who has always been known as an exemplary general, completely gave up his plan to hold on to Zhongtiao Mountain, and ordered his 100,000 troops to move together and immediately launch an attack on the Japanese army in the southeast of Jin, leaving only Hu Zongnan's subordinates, who were unwilling to send troops, to continue to hold on to Zhongtiao Mountain.

In addition, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also ordered the 129th, 115th, and 120th Divisions to immediately launch a final stop against the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in southern Hebei, and it was imperative to completely wipe out all the Japanese puppet troops in southern Hebei within a month, and form a consolidated anti-Japanese base area in southern Hebei.

For a time, the situation in the entire North China region suddenly changed, and General Tada Jun suddenly found that he had lost his grasp and control of the overall situation, and there were wars everywhere, and they were losing battles everywhere, and the situation in North and North China was out of control all of a sudden, and now in the entire Shanxi battlefield, the Japanese army almost lost the initiative, in addition to Taiyuan and the surrounding cities and counties are still under the control of the Japanese army, there are 50,000 Chen soldiers under Wang Zhiguo's headquarters in the Yuanping area in the north, and 40,000 Chen soldiers from Li Jingquan's headquarters in Wutai County in the east. The 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army in the west had 80,000 soldiers in Luliang Chen, and the 35th Army of the Jin Sui Army had 60,000 Chen soldiers in Fenyang, and Yan Xishan, the boss of the Jin Sui Army, personally led the main force of the Jin Sui Army to besiege Linfen, and Wei Lihuang led the Central Army to attack Jincheng, and the 129th Division and the 115th Division were also active in the southeast of Jin, and the hundreds of thousands of Japanese puppet troops on the entire Shanxi battlefield were already in a big drop of encirclement.

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