It is difficult for Han Yunhua's subordinates to find out about such a huge action of the North China Front, and besides, Tada Jun is playing with power to suppress people, and he does not hide it at all, or he does not bother to hide it at all. Although the North China Front did not explicitly announce the number of troops to be sent to the outside world, because this was a military secret after all, the numbers of all the troops involved in the offensive of the North China Front were made public, and all of them could be investigated with a little investigation, except for the reserves hidden in the Beijing-Tianjin area, of course.

After Han Yunhua received the urgent telegram from the intelligence department, he was also taken aback after reading the information collected by the intelligence officers, originally he expected that the North China Front Army would transfer a maximum of six to seven divisions and regiments, plus five independent mixed brigades and 150,000 troops, which was already the limit, after all, the North China Front Army had just suffered a heavy blow, and even with the support of the nurse, it would be impossible to fully recover in a short period of time. Just like the Inner Mongolia Military Region, even if the more than 40,000 troops lost are given to another 100,000 troops, they may not be as strong as the 40,000 fighters, after all, the newly formed recruit units cannot be compared with veterans with rich combat experience.

But Tada Jun, an old devil, does have two hands, and as soon as he came up, he gave Han Yunhua a dismount. According to the information collected by the intelligence department, there were at least two infantry divisions and one chariot division between Zhangjiakou and Beiping, as well as a large number of puppet troops, numbering at least 75,000 people. Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army in the direction of Zhangjiakou are more than one step stronger than the Japanese army in the other two places, at least one tank division is worth four infantry divisions, and it seems that the little devils are still determined to recover Zhangjiakou.

There were two Japanese army assembly points on the Jizhong line, one was Zhulu and the other was Laiyuan. According to intelligence, the Japanese army in the direction of Zhulu is about 50,000 people in four divisions, while the Japanese army in the direction of Laiyuan is about three divisions and more than 40,000 people, and there are about 40,000 to 50,000 puppet troops in both directions. The intelligence department judged that the Japanese army dispatched at least 200,000 troops to attack the Eighth Route Army in North China this time.

However, Han Yunhua believed that there were far more than 200,000 troops, and that there were as many as 150,000 Japanese troops in the three directions of Zhangjiakou, Zhulu, and Laiyuan alone, plus 50,000 or 60,000 puppet troops, so there were as many as 200,000 troops directly involved in the battle. And Han Yunhua judged that Tada Jun still had at least 50,000 to 80,000 reserves, and during the last Battle of North China, General Binshan Yuan suffered the loss of having no reserves and the troops were too scattered. Therefore, Han Yunhua doesn't think that with Tada Jun's intelligence, he can't see this, and if he doesn't leave a little reserve, he will be sorry for Tada Jun's great reputation.

What's more, according to Han Yunhua's estimate, the Japanese army in North China has at least 350,000 troops, and the reason why he did not expect the Japanese army to be able to draw so many troops is entirely because although the North China Front Army has a lot of troops, the North China Front Army can hold a lot of territory, and according to the calculation of the area now occupied by the North China Front Army, the entire territory of Shandong, most of Hebei and Shanxi, half of Henan, and the Beijing-Tianjin region are small. With such a vast territory, there are no less than 100 cities alone, and according to the calculation of at least 1,000 defenders in each city, more than 100,000 people are also needed to garrison the entire Japanese army. Moreover, military towns like Beiping, Tianjin, Jinan, Taiyuan, and Shimen do not need to be guarded by 10,000 people. Therefore, according to Han Yunhua's estimate, the Japanese army will have at least about 200,000 defenders left in the rear alone. So many attack troops that Tian Jun can draw out are only 100,000 people when they are full, but the corresponding Inner Mongolia Military Region has nearly 300,000 elites, even if it deducts more than 100,000 troops to stay in the base area, but there are also more than 200,000 elites used to counterattack the Japanese army, so Han Yunhua has never been worried about fighting against the North China Front. …,

But now it seems that Han Yunhua underestimated Tada Jun, an old devil, and he was a big deal as soon as he made a move, and this time the North China Front Army deployed at least more than 300,000 troops. Among them, the purebred Japanese army should be about 250,000, and the puppet army also has 670,000, which almost accounts for more than 60 of the Japanese puppet army in North China. This put a lot of pressure on Han Yunhua, and at the same time, what worried Han Yunhua the most was that the Japanese army base camp actually handed over the third tank division, one of the few tank units in the entire Japan, to Tada Jun, an old devil, which is not good news.

Speaking of the Japanese army's Third Tank Division and Han Yunhua, they can be regarded as old enemies, although the two sides have never fought each other, but the relationship is not shallow. At that time, Han Yunhua's unit attacked Baotou and looted all the chariot equipment that had just been transported to Baotou, resulting in the Third Division still in the northeast having to return to China for installation.

As the saying goes, the retribution of the present world comes quickly, no, people have just finished arranging and coming back for revenge after a period of training. Han Yunhua knows a lot about this third tank division, which is the only tank unit on the Chinese battlefield that fights from north to south. Historically, the Third Chariot Division was formed in Baotou with a new outfit, and then attacked all the way to the south, fighting with more than 70 Chinese divisions, and it was still more victorious than defeated, and even participated in the Battle of Central Henan in 1944. This third tank division alone is enough for Han Yunhua's department to drink a pot, although the Inner Mongolia Military Region also has a tank brigade, but if it fights with this tank third division, it is really difficult to say whether it will win or lose.

Besides, Han Yunhua really didn't dare to let the mechanized brigade fight with the third division of the chariot, because the heavy equipment of the chariot can not be produced by the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and it is difficult to replenish it once the loss is large, and Japan's military production capacity is more than ten times stronger than that of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and even the whole of China, and even the chariots and tanks, which belong to strategic equipment in this era, can be mass-produced. Therefore, how to deal with this tank division of the Japanese army has also become a problem that plagues Han Yunhua.

These things in Han Yunhua's mind only came to mind in a short period of time, but how to solve them was not up to him alone, and he made a decision after discussion by the entire military region. Han Yunhua said loudly outside the door: "Notice, at two o'clock in the afternoon, cadres above the head of the military region will come to the conference room for a meeting, and immediately notify you." By the way, tell Comrade Yuhan, just say that I won't go back to eat today, let her eat by herself."

Two o'clock in the afternoon, small conference room.

The small conference room is also called the internal conference room because this conference room can only accommodate more than a dozen people for meetings, and the people who usually come here for meetings are senior cadres of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the general military rank must reach at least the level of division commander or the level of division political commissar cadres to be qualified to hold meetings here, so it is jokingly called the internal conference room or the general conference room by the soldiers.

The telegram sent by Qian Zhuangfei was sent to Luo Ronghuan and the others to read, and then Han Yunhua spoke: "Comrades, this time is a critical moment related to the life and death of our Inner Mongolia Military Region and the life and death of our entire Chinese nation. is different from the last time, although the last time the little devil also dispatched an army of more than 100,000, but it was not as crazy as this time the old devil Tada Jun. Everyone has read the information just now, the Japanese puppet army in the entire North China region adds up, and it is only about 500,000 when it is full, but this time the little devil actually mobilized more than 300,000 troops to attack our Eighth Route Army, it seems that the little devil has reached the limit of patience, and this time he is determined to clean up our Eighth Route Army. What do you think about this battle, talk about it, and then we will discuss it in detail? ”…,

There were only eight people in attendance, so although the atmosphere was tense, it was not at all inhibited. As soon as Han Yunhua finished speaking, Luo Ronghuan spoke: "Yunhua, I think you still have to command this battle, on the one hand, you know the troops of the military region best, and you know where it is most appropriate to put them. Secondly, to be honest, as far as our Eighth Route Army is concerned, there are only you who can fight positional warfare and fight positional warfare well, except for Principal Lin, or you are an absolute expert in fighting positional warfare. The most taboo thing to do is for the layman to command the insider, so I think you have to command this battle. ”

"I agree with the political commissar that the last time our military region was able to achieve such a big result at a small cost was entirely because of your command, so this time only you personally went out to win the victory of the counter-sweep. We will do a good job of logistics and sitting in the rear, and we will have to rely on you to put things on the front line," Zuo Quan echoed.

Qian Zhuangfei is the head of the intelligence department of the military region, so he knows much more about the situation on the front line than ordinary people, so as soon as he opened his mouth, he attracted everyone's attention: "Commander, the situation this time is not optimistic, although the vast majority of our troops have gone through three months of intensive training, and the momentum and combat effectiveness of the troops have been greatly improved. At present, the number of all the elite regular troops in our military region is about 300,000, but the Japanese army has a full 380,000 or a little more, plus nearly 190,000 puppet troops, then the strength of the Japanese puppet forces entrenched in North China is at least between 680,000 and 700,000, and the ratio of enemy strength is 2.3:1. Secondly, the equipment of the Japanese army has been greatly improved compared with that of two years ago, although we have also undergone many changes before, and the weapons and equipment of the troops are not much worse than the Japanese army in 1937. However, the news that has just come back from our intelligence personnel says that they have just discovered that the Japanese army's weapons and equipment are much better than before, and the rifles are not much stronger than the 38 big covers, and they are not as good as the Mauser K98 used by some of our current troops. There is also the way the Japanese army attacked, the last time in the Battle of North China, the little devils attacked everywhere and made enemies everywhere. But this time, the Japanese army was determined to attack our Eighth Route Army, and ignored the troops of the people who were close at hand, as if they did not exist. At the same time, the Japanese army is also very tightly arranged, and it seems that they do not want to fight us in the overall situation, but only want to drive us out of Hebei, which is not good news for us, so it is very difficult to grasp how to start a counterattack. ”

After listening to the speeches of all the cadres, Han Yunhua said: "Comrades, our pressure is indeed very great, the Japanese army has gathered more than 300,000 troops to launch a large-scale attack on our base area, and its spearhead is directly aimed at our Eighth Route Army, and the target of the concentrated attack is our Inner Mongolia Military Region, which can be said to be aimed at us. Just as Comrade Qian Zhuangfei analyzed, there is a huge disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, and the strength of the army has reached such a huge ratio of 2.3:1, but we are not without the strength to fight. Since the founding of our Inner Mongolia Military Region, we have said that we are fighting the elite, and we will fight the little devil unit when it is in the limelight; since he, the old devil Tatian Jun, dares to shout at us and dare to stretch out his claws to us, we will chop off his claws. ”

After speaking, Han Yunhua pointed to the military map of North China on the wall and said: "Comrades, please see, the Japanese army now has three field divisions on the periphery of Zhangjiakou, and there is also a chariot division, their purpose must be to keep an eye on Zhangjiakou, there is no doubt about this, if you don't take Zhangjiakou first, the others will be in vain." We can send troops to threaten the Beijing-Tianjin region at any time, so that all their plans will be bankrupt like the last time we dealt with that old devil of Binshanyuan, so taking the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou is really the first step. ”…,

After digesting it for a few minutes, Han Yunhua continued: "Comrades, look at it again, here (Zhulu) the Japanese army has placed two divisions and three independent mixed brigades, which seem to be preparing to wipe out our troops in the northwest of Hebei, and the front of the troops is directly aimed at the front line of Weixian, Yangyuan, and Tianzhen. As for the three divisions and regiments that the Japanese army had deployed here (Laiyuan), they were completely aimed at Nie Rongzhen's Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and Lu Zhengcao's Jizhong Military Region, and the purpose was to prevent these two military regions from supporting our troops in the vicinity on the one hand, and at the same time, to make preliminary preparations for the Japanese to completely eliminate the resistance forces in North China, after all, these two military regions were too deep into the enemy's hinterland, and in particular, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region directly threatened the Baoding Airport, the largest military airfield of the Japanese army in North China. From the perspective of the overall strategy, the reason why the Japanese army did not send troops to Jidong this time was completely because they learned the lesson of the last time, and the old boy Tada Jun did not want to repeat the mistake of the old devil of Binshan Yuan. Speaking of this, Han Yunhua sighed deeply and praised sincerely: "Comrades, I have to say that this old devil Tada Jun is much stronger than Binshan Yuan, this old devil obviously saw our layout last time, and knew that if we don't cut off the connection between the military region and eastern Jidong, then even if he sends more troops to it, it will be in vain, and we will continue to give blood transfusion to eastern Hebei." Moreover, the Japanese army is not very familiar with the terrain of eastern Hebei, so they thought of cutting off the hinterland of our military region with eastern Hebei with heavy troops, and then sending a large army to sweep eastern Hebei.

Seeing Han Yunhua admiring Tada Jun's layout like this, Luo Ronghuan asked with some concern: "Yunhua, then what are our chances of winning this time, a few days ago, we bragged in front of Chairman Mao by the Party Central Committee, if we were really cleaned up by the little devils this time, then the face of our entire military region would be embarrassed." ”

Han Yunhua smiled and said, "Lao Luo, don't worry, although the little devils are fierce this time, I already have a way to deal with them, but this requires your help and trust." ”

"That's no problem, as long as it's beneficial to the war, I support it, Yunhua, how are you going to deal with the little devil?" Luo Ronghuan couldn't wait to ask.

Han Yunhua said calmly: "This time it is not as easy to deal with the little devil as before, although the last time we looked very dangerous, even I, the commander, almost became the turtle in the urn of the little devil, but in fact, it is relatively easy for our army to win, just a strategic place in Qian'an can contain most of the Japanese army's strength, and the remaining half of the troops have become the meat of our mouths since they stepped into Xinghe County, and they have fallen into the encirclement of our army on all sides, even if Sun Wu is reborn." But this time it is different, Tada Jun, this old devil is a full old fox, his tactical command level is very high, and after two years of struggle, the Japanese army has found some tricks to deal with our army, so this battle must be very tragic and bitter, so you are also ready to fight a big battle. ”

"What does that require us to do?" This time it was Yang Ruihua, Minister of Logistics Support, who spoke.

Han Yunhua said seriously: "Now I will divide the tasks, the political commissar will sit in Guisui, and after I go to the front line, all the affairs of the military region will be handled by the political commissar." Lao Yang, you are the logistics minister of our military region, so I will entrust you with the logistics support of the soldiers during the battle, and at the same time, now immediately send a batch of materials to Xilinhot, mainly ammunition, just in case. Lao Shen, you, Lao Liu and Lao Ye continued to stare at the recruitment station in the base area for me during this time, and recruited me at all costs, and now we have recruited nearly 100,000 new soldiers, plus more than a dozen security regiments that were cut before, and we now have a total strength of more than 400,000, so the defense of the base area will be handed over to you, and I will transfer all the regular troops of the military region to the front line. At the same time, I also have to transfer all the equipment of the military district to the front line, and all the shells of the field heavy artillery will also be transported to the front line, and the heavy artillery will be left in Guisui, that thing is not easy to move, and it is not suitable for this battle, and at the same time all the gas masks in our inventory will also be transferred to the front line, and each soldier will be given a white towel in case the little devil dog jumps off the wall"......,