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 for a relatively solid 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, which took only more than ten days, but the entire offensive and defensive battle of Datong was extremely fierce, and the Japanese army was armed with the Takagi Division as the main defensive force, with nearly 20,000 Japanese young and middle-aged expatriates and more than 20,000 puppet troops, with a total strength of 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 Jinbei, 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 lot of 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 will not waste anything 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 women and children, 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 ronins. …,

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 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 did not feel embarrassed about these Japanese women and children, and all of them were sent back to Jining together 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 the Communists 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, Wang Zhiguo of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the Yuanping region in the north (the current commander of the Third Field Division) has 50,000 Chen soldiers, and Li Jingquan's headquarters in the east has 40,000 Chen soldiers in Wutai County. 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. …,

The situation in Hebei is even more serious, although the headquarters of the North China Front Army in the Beijing-Tianjin region has not been threatened at present, and Tangshan and Zhangjiakou have still not been broken through, starting from Laiyuan, Han Yunhua's headquarters has already formed a trend of cutting down the Japanese puppet army in Hebei. As long as Han Yunhua's headquarters took Baoding, then all the air superiority of the Japanese army in the North China battlefield would be lost, and after taking Baoding, it would not only be able to cut off the connection between the Japanese army in the Shimen area and the General Headquarters of the North China Front, but also be able to flank the Beijing-Tianjin area from the north and south with the independent 77th Division, the 6th Field Division, and the 7th Field Division.

Not to mention the situation in southern Hebei, since the end of the last southern Hebei war, the North China Front Army has lost control of the southern Hebei region, although later due to the vigorous attack of the Japanese army, Gao Shuxun's department withdrew from Handan, but it controlled the vast majority of the county towns in southern Hebei, the new Eighth Army and the 39th Army formed by the 69th Army after the reorganization is even more powerful, plus hundreds of thousands of troops of the Eighth Route Army gathered in southern Hebei, the Japanese puppet army in southern Hebei is extremely air disaster, General Tada Jun in order to prevent being broken by the Chinese army, so he ordered all the Japanese puppet troops in southern Hebei to retreat to a few large cities with complete fortifications to wait for reinforcements, and the entire southern Hebei region can be said to have fallen.

The best situation is in Shandong, because the number of Chinese troops in Shandong is not large, only less than 100,000 people, although the number is more than the Japanese puppet army, but the Eighth Route Army in Shandong is mainly guerrillas, and the regular army only has an infantry division of the first field division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and there is no regular force outside, and at this time in addition to a small number of puppet troops stationed in Shandong, the vast majority of the rest are real Japanese troops, although not all of them are the elite of the Japanese army, But there was no problem in dealing with those guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

But looking at the entire battlefield, you will find that if the Japanese army at this time does not have enough reinforcements to support, then the best result is only to withdraw from North China, if Han Yunhua does not go directly south to Jingcheng Pass and cut off the return route of the first army stationed in Shanxi, then the tens of thousands of Japanese puppet troops stranded on the Shanxi battlefield are really no way to enter the heavens and the earth.

Therefore, after seeing the situation clearly, General Tada Jun hurriedly sent the only infantry brigade in his hand to Shimen, and together with the 26th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Shimen, he held the line from Shimen to Jingcheng Pass to ensure the rear road of the First Army stationed in Shanxi. At the same time, Tada Jun did not hesitate to put down his posture and ask for help from the Japanese base camp, because at this time, the North China Front was really at a critical juncture of life and death.

Tada Jun can also be regarded as a tumbler in the officialdom in Japan, and he still has a certain foundation in the country, so his telegram for help was sent directly to the desk of Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace as soon as it was sent to Japan.

During this period, it was no secret that the news about the unfavorable war in North China was not good, and both the Asahi Shimbun, the most important media in Japan, and the newspapers of other countries in Tokyo rushed to report on the poor performance of the Japanese army in the North China battlefield. However, neither Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace nor Emperor Hirohito of Japan expected that the situation would be so eroded, and that it was still a simple defeat in the war, which was clearly a great rout, and it was also a major rout of a front army, and the consequences were simply catastrophic.

After reading Tada's telegram, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace was taken aback, and immediately went to the palace to meet the Japanese emperor, and immediately issued Japan's third national war mobilization to the whole country after obtaining the emperor's consent, preparing to continue to form new troops, and planned to recruit 400,000 people within three months and form 20 infantry divisions to be put into the Chinese battlefield.

As for the current chaos in North China, Prince Gongzaihito did not let it rot like this, and he personally ordered the Kwantung Army to immediately transfer the Third Army into Guannai and directly attack the troops in the eastern Hebei region of the Inner Mongolia Military Region from the northeast to the south, and also transfer all of Okamura Ningji's 11th Army and two other independent mixed brigades into North China to assist General Tada Jun in garrisoning North China. …,

But it's a pity that this time the Chinese army is surprisingly tacit, and they don't give the Japanese army this opportunity at all, Okamura Ningji is now in Henan, and is fighting with Xue Yue's First Corps, and the main force of the 11th Army is in Hubei, and the telegram from the Japanese army base camp has just been intercepted by the Kuomintang military commanders as soon as it arrives in Nanjing, and then it was sent to Dai Li's hands as quickly as possible, and then Dai Li directly broke into Chiang Kai-shek's study and presented this important information to Chiang Kai-shek.

Although Chiang Kai-shek was not a qualified commander, he was a qualified and even excellent politician, and he saw at a glance the potential value of this information, and the Japanese army actually transferred the 11th Army into North China, so it can only explain one problem, that is, the little devils in North China cannot withstand it, that is to say, as long as they work harder, they can take back the entire North China region, and even severely damage the Japanese North China Front, this temptation is not ordinary.

But now the problem is that it was not the Central Army that he was proud of that defeated the Japanese army in North China, but the Communist forces, and now the Communist Party has occupied most of the northern part of Saibei, the entire northern Jin and northwest Jin, and most of the eastern Hebei, if the Communist Party is allowed to occupy the entire North China, then it will be disastrous for the Nationalist Government, and the external troubles have not been eliminated and the internal worries have arisen, which makes Chiang Kai-shek very entangled.

Originally, according to Chiang Kai-shek's approach, the Japanese army was allowed to go north, and the Japanese army and the Communist Eighth Route Army fought to the death, while his Central Army was the last to clean up the battlefield. However, there are still some people with a more strategic vision in the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, and Bai Chongxi, who is still the chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Nationalist Government, resolutely opposes letting the 11th Army go north, because the Japanese army has now occupied the whole of Southeast Asia, and the troops have already invaded the territory of Burma, and the British army stationed in Burma is not a level opponent with the Japanese army in terms of combat effectiveness or will to fight, so the competition between the government and the Japanese army in Burma has become the general trend, and the current progress of the expeditionary force in northern Burma is not ideal. Therefore, it is inevitable that one day the Japanese army will directly attack the rear from Yunnan and other places, and then the government can only withdraw to the more remote Qinghai or Gansu, and it is really unknown whether the government can exist at that time.

In this way, the Communist Party will certainly show the favor of the government, and the government can also take this opportunity to win more US aid and improve the government's international relations and international image. At the same time, we can also take this opportunity to recruit more people into the army, so it is beneficial for the country and the nation to drag down the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, and even all the Japanese puppet troops in Henan, so what the government has to do now is to drag the Japanese puppet army in the south at all costs, and it is absolutely impossible to let them go north to support the old devil Tada Jun.

Of course, the government should immediately send a negotiating team to negotiate with the Communists and distribute the recovered territory in North China.

Bai Chongxi, known as Xiao Zhuge and a famous general in the Gui army, so in terms of strategy, Chiang Kai-shek still trusts Bai Chongxi, although Chiang Kai-shek has also competed with the Gui army before. Moreover, even Chen Cheng, Minister of National Defense at this time, and He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, did not approve of letting the Japanese army go north, so Chiang Kai-shek decided to immediately send a high-level negotiation team to Yan'an to negotiate with the Chinese Communists, and at the same time ordered Zhang Fakui's Second Corps and Tang Enbo's 21st Group Army in the First Theater to immediately prepare for battle and be ready to fight the Japanese 11th Army at any time.

Let's not say that Tada Jun is waiting for reinforcements on his side, let's just say that Okamura Ninji is really doing his best, and Okamura Ninji is indeed a terrible commander, and his operational command level is far more clever than the Japanese commanders such as Tani Shofu, Binshan Moto, and Terauchi Shouichi. But the Chinese commander opposite him is the Chinese warrior Xue Yue, whose command level is no worse than Okamura Ningji, the two of them are chess opponents will meet good talents, and in 1938 in the Battle of Lanfeng Xue Yue was defeated in Henan, so this has become Xue Yue's heart disease in recent years, so in a trip to Henan, Xue Yue vowed to be ashamed. Therefore, the First Corps burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness and cohesion from top to bottom, and for a time the tens of thousands of troops under the command of Okamura Ningji were unable to break through the defense line of Xue Yue's department, and the two sides confronted each other in the Xuchang area of Henan for more than a week.......