Although the intelligence was insufficient, Okamura still analyzed and guessed the military operations of Han Yunhua's department. With the cooperation of Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, Okamura Ninji believed that the focus of Han Yunhua's attack was still in Dezhou, and there were only two possibilities for the squadrons in Cangzhou and Feixiang. The first possibility is that the squadrons in these two places were originally an ornament, the purpose of which was to confuse the sight of the Imperial Japanese Army and interfere with the normal troop deployment of the Imperial Army. The second possibility is that the Chinese army in these two places also served as the main attack, and the main attack direction was the north and south directions of Texas, and then the three armies combined under the city of Texas, and then took Texas and its surrounding areas under several flanking attacks.

I have to say that Okamura Ningji's judgment is indeed extraordinary, although he has not yet fully guessed Han Yunhua's intentions, but it is indeed commendable to guess this point from just a little bit of information collected by Tegaoke. Although Okamura Ninji has not been able to determine the target of Han Yunhua's final attack, Okamura Ninji has ordered Yoshio Shinozuka and his First Army to reinforce Texas.

On October 2, just as the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region had arrived in the Jilu border area, Han Yunhua received a very bad telegram.

"Report!"

"Come in!"

"Report to the commander, the Japanese North China Front Command sent Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army, to suddenly inspect the military administration in northwest Shandong this morning, and the main destination is Dezhou, and at the same time, the First Army will be transferred to northwest Shandong and undertake the garrison work together with the 21st Division of the Japanese Army, which was originally stationed in northwest Shandong."

"Got it!" After listening to the operator's words, Han Yunhua said slowly.

Han Yunhua did not expect the Japanese army's response to be so rapid, but he did not have the slightest frustration, if Okamura Ningji is easy to deal with, it is not him Okamura Ningji, you must know that Okamura Ningji is a famous Japanese general, his strategic vision can be described as the first person in the Japanese Army, when he was in charge of North China, whether it was military encirclement or political inducement, he achieved unprecedented results, which was incomparable to several of his predecessors and marshals, and because of this, Okamura Ningji was also the first Chinese to hold a grudge.

Han Yunhua's calm does not mean that other comrades can also be so calm. After the operator withdrew, Luo Ronghuan couldn't help but ask: "Yunhua, what should I do, it seems that the little devil has discovered our strategic intentions, should we continue this battle?" ”

"Hit. Why not fight? Han Yunhua asked in surprise.

"Now the Japanese have discovered the strategic intentions of our army, if our army still advances into the big cities heavily defended by the enemy. At that time, the casualties of the troops will definitely not be small, and I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses. Luo Ronghuan took into account the casualties of the troops.

Although Han Yunhua also agreed with Luo Ronghuan's point of view, he was more rational and calm than Luo Ronghuan, Han Yunhua's cold face showed a more resolute look, and said: "No matter how big the casualties are, they will be beaten." We are now a Chinese regular army shouldering the responsibility of defending the territory, and we have our own responsibilities and obligations, so we must need a strong elite army. Moreover, now that our family has a great business, every step of the military region has to attract the attention of many people, and it is no longer possible to achieve comprehensive concealment as before. In the past, we may not know where our troops are ten minutes before the Japanese army enters the ambush circle. Which stronghold will you attack next? However, whether it is a military region headquarters, a military subdivision, or other divisions and brigade-level units, we are now attracting the attention of the people and the enemy, and perhaps every word we say now will appear in the newspapers in a short time, do you think we can still be quiet? When we were young, we were fish, and we were able to swim in the water. But now we are the real masters of the land. The Japanese puppet army has become rats, so we have to adapt to the change of each other's identities. This battle must be fought, and the scale must be expanded as much as possible to a point that the Japanese puppet army is afraid of. ”

"The commander is right, there are iron laws in war, and casualties are necessary. The troops have developed to the point where our military region can no longer fight a war as secretly as before, so we will fight this battle even if we smash the pot and sell iron, and perhaps the decision we make now will become an important turning point in changing history, and this battle will be fought. "The Minister of Armed Forces, Cheng Zihua, is silent. But every time he opened his mouth, it was a blockbuster. …,

"Hehehe, it's definitely going to be a fight. But we can't do it brutely, this time we don't just have to take Shandong. In addition, it is necessary to restore the democratic regime and guerrilla forces in Shandong and guide and support the anti-aggression struggle of the Shandong people. Luo Ronghuan said with a smile.

"What the political commissar said makes sense, in addition to the Shandong side we have to pay attention to, we have done so much work in the northeast region should also be effective, while attacking Shandong, we should not let the little devils in the northeast be idle, I will leave the battle in Shandong to you, according to the battle plan and implement it step by step, if you fight this battle, you can take Texas with a small number of casualties, and if you don't fight well, the casualties will definitely be larger, but no matter how you fight Texas, you must take it, this is a dead order. As for the war in the northeast, I will personally take command, and in the near future, I will personally go north to the northeast. Han Yunhua threw out another astonishing decision.

As soon as Han Yunhua's words fell, several senior cadres in the operational command room objected in unison, and the most fierce reaction was Luo Ronghuan, the political commissar of Luo: "No, resolutely not, how can you, the commander of the military region, go north when the war is imminent, few of us have no experience in commanding the corps, you are a senior commander, you should know the consequences of making a wrong decision, besides, with your current status, go deep into the enemy-occupied area, do you think this is a wise move?" ”

"Commander, what the political commissar said is reasonable, and it is not a problem for our military region to talk about fighting guerrilla warfare. There are more expert-level commanders, but there are really few such talents in positional warfare at the level of a large corps, so it is not possible to leave you. On the other hand, the pimple in the northeast is different, where do you go to command the troops to fight is purely useful, kill chickens with a knife, just have Lu Zhengcao and Li Dingguo, I heard that those two guys have made a good name in the northeast region, fought several big battles and won battles, commander, you yourself can't play much role in the past, I think it's better not to go. Compared with Luo Ronghuan's fierce opposition, Cheng Zihua's opposition is much more tactful.

"Commander, during this time the economy of our military district has developed greatly. The issuance of renminbi has basically been recognized by the masses of the people, and the common people in Shanxi, Hebei, Suiyuan, Beiping, Tianjin, Rehe, and northern Shaanxi have begun to exchange their silver dollars and fiat currency at home for renminbi one after another, and the economic situation is very good. In addition, it is already October, and the crops in the northern part of the country are about to be harvested, so I am afraid that you will not be able to leave the military region at this time. Even if you want to leave, you are not in a hurry, and it is not too late to wait for the autumn harvest to leave. Chen Yun also opened his mouth to persuade.

Han Yunhua knew that as soon as he opened his mouth, the situation must be like this. But thinking about what they said is also very reasonable, but he has to go north this time, so Han Yunhua said: "Don't get excited, I have a reason to go north to the northeast this time, not just to command the battle in the northeast." Of course, if we want to open up the situation in the northeast region, it will not have a big impact on whether or not I am the commander of the military region. But this time our troops in the northeast region are not only us, or not only us Chinese, where there are still 7 or 800 Soviet Red Army, after more than half a year of training, the Soviet Red Army has made great progress, according to the telegram sent back by Li Dingguo. These Soviet Red Army already had the considerable strength of our cadet special combat team, and even surpassed the cadet special combat team that had just graduated, so I think the time has come to hand over the task to the Soviet Red Army, to Comrade Stalin. In addition, after the completion of the training of the special forces of the Soviet Red Army, they will certainly play a huge role in the Soviet-German battlefield. Of course, when they shine, they will also speed up cooperation with the CPSU, and then we will be able to win more support, so I think it is necessary for me to meet with Ivanov. ”

"What, the special operations team of the Soviet Red Army has already finished training and has achieved such a high level, is it possible?" Yang Ruihua, who knew what had happened, asked in surprise.

"What's this, you must know that the Soviet Union sent elite soldiers who have been tested on the Soviet-German battlefield this time, and you don't know the Soviet military uniform. Based on the uniforms they wore when they came, I found that basically none of these people were privates, and the lowest rank was a warrant officer. That is, the Soviets sent all their reserve officers who had been tested on the battlefield. The quality of these people can be imagined, and it is understandable that they can achieve such results. Han Yunhua explained. …,

"That's not going to work either. Say that you can't leave the military region at this time, how the Soviet Red Army is that is a matter of the Soviet Union, and we have nothing to do with it, besides, we Chinese did not fight for their Soviet Union, without them the Soviet Union, resources we would not fight devils, China is China, the Soviet Union is the Soviet Union, the anti-Japanese armed forces led by China ** are definitely not developed by relying on the support of the Soviet Union, so at this critical juncture, you, the commander, must not venture to that broken place. No matter what Han Yunhua said, Luo Ronghuan was still resolutely opposed.

Although Luo Ronghuan's opposition = is still fierce, Han Yunhua is still very happy about Luo Ronghuan's change, especially the change in thinking, what he just said is sonorous and passionate, and what he said is loud, this point of view is the point of view that Han Yunhua has been advocating, which shows that his efforts have not been in vain. The viewpoint of a political commissar of a military region represents, to a large extent, the thinking of the cadres and fighters of a military region.

"Okay, then I'll wait for this battle to be over, but the anti-Japanese struggle in the northeast must develop at a high speed now, and I think that in the next two years, the world anti-fascist struggle will take a major turn, and the fastest battlefield to enter a full-scale counteroffensive is likely to be the Soviet-German battlefield. So we must seize the opportunity to establish a base in China's northeast region that is large and solid enough to meet the possible turning point. This is the focus of our army's strategic layout in the next one to two years. In North China, we must keep a close eye on the provinces of Henan, Shandong, and Anhui, and if we are able, we must go all out to win these provinces, and in the northeast we must make even more efforts, and we may have to have friction with the Nationalist Government in attacking Shandong and Henan, but this is not the case in the northeast, and now there are no more Kuomintang troops in the northeast, and in addition to the tens of thousands of men and horses in the entire northeast who are still struggling to support the anti-Japanese alliance, only the people of our military region are left to resist, so it is only natural for us to occupy the northeast. No matter how clever Chiang Kai-shek is, he can't say anything, so our military region in the northeast is bound to win. Han Yunhua said.

"It is said that you Han Yunhua has hills and valleys in his heart, but I didn't expect the Qiankun in our commander's heart to be so clear, what you see in your eyes is not the acre and three points of land in North China, but the whole of China, and even the world. I have to say that at this point, several of us have fallen behind, and now I understand why only this remnant army of only 3 or 400 people led by you can dominate the ranks of so many revolutionary base areas in the whole country, because you are a real strategist, and of course, a tactician. Although our comrades are now opposing you, if you insist on going north, we will still support you. Still, we hope that the commander will think twice. Chen Yun said slowly, he is the highest-ranking of all military and political cadres in the Inner Mongolia Military Region. In the central government, neither Han Yunhua nor Luo Ronghuan can compare to Chen Yun's status, so as soon as Chen Yun's attitude is clear, everyone stopped talking, waiting for Han Yunhua to make a statement.

Han Yunhua thought for a while and said: "Lao Chen has won the award, but I did rely on the judgment of the overall situation to bring up this unit, and I don't want to deny this." As you say. It is precisely because I see the development trend of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War in the future that I will spare no effort to lay out the layout in the northeast region. Let me now quietly reveal to you that in recent years, we have invested more than 30,000 regular troops, 800 special combat personnel, and dozens of regiments of weapons and equipment in the northeast region. At present, the armed forces of our army in the three northeastern provinces have exceeded 200,000, of which 80,000 are the original Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, and there are about 120 bandit armed groups that have been adapted or have the intention to be reorganized, accounting for about 40,000 people. The remaining 80,000 people are the armed forces developed by our troops themselves, which is why I transferred Lu Zhengcao, the commander of the dignified military region, to the northeast region, simply because he is from the northeast. With such a large force, we must integrate them into a powerful anti-Japanese force in the shortest possible time, so as not to be broken by the Kwantung Army. ”

"What. Even the troops in the northeast have grown to 200,000, so isn't the current number of troops in our military region nearly 1.5 million? Cheng Zihua asked in surprise. …,

What's more, Cheng Zihua's eyes are like lanterns, and when he looks at the other people, they are full of surprise.

Han Yunhua smiled and said: "Do you think that our military region invests so much in the northeast every year is in vain, although our military region has developed a lot in the past two years, there is not much room for development, in the south there is Yan Xishan, the old warlord on top, and the Henan region is the world of the Kuomintang troops, which is the forbidden area of our army." As you saw some time ago, our army only occupies a mere county in Nanle. However, it caused a big stir in the national government. In Shandong, we will face the joint suppression of hundreds of thousands of Japanese puppet troops, and we will not be able to make a major breakthrough with us in a short period of time. So the only thing we can develop now is the Northeast region. Therefore, I began to lay out in the northeast region a long time ago, and now we have set up two military subdivisions in the northeast near the northeast, and arranged nearly 400,000 troops, plus nearly 200,000 troops in the northeast and the Soviet Red Army on the Sino-Soviet border, it is more than enough to contain 800,000 Japanese troops, which not only directly supports our army's fighting in North China, but also helps our army's future development. 200,000 troops may be a lot, but compared with Japan's national strength, the role played by these 200,000 troops is still very limited, and the actual combat effectiveness of these 200,000 children from Northeast China is very poor, and the reason for this is that there is no military backbone to command operations in Northeast China, and the role that a mere Lu Zhengcao can play is very limited, so I plan to increase support for party members and cadres in Northeast China from now on."

Han Yunhua spoke for nearly half an hour, and finally shocked several senior cadres of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the combat command room. Although in the end, Han Yun's plan to go north to China was not approved, the top level of the Inner Mongolia Military Region achieved ideological unity on the future development, and this plan laid a solid foundation for his continuous victories in the near future.

Let's not mention that the Inner Mongolia Military Region Headquarters has been arguing for most of the morning, let's just say that the southern Hebei frontline command is also very tense, and the information on Yoshio Shinozuka's inspection of northwest Lu was quickly sent to the frontline headquarters, and many leading cadres think that action should be postponed, and they are making plans after Yoshio Shinozuka returns to Jinan.

But like Han Yunhua's temper, Yang Chengwu was resolutely opposed to the suspension of action, and he proposed that morale should be like a tiger in one blow, and then decline and exhaustion. Now the fighters have received orders to attack, and morale is high, and if the operation is suspended, it will be a great blow to the morale of the troops. In addition, the troops fought against all the Japanese puppet troops, including him Yoshio Shinozuka, and it cannot be said that Yoshio Shinozuka was more powerful in marching and fighting, so he avoided his edge, this is not the style of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so Yang Chengwu insisted on continuing to march towards Shandong