May 1, 1941 was a memorable day in the history of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and this day was heavily recorded in the military history of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, because after this day, the Inner Mongolia Military Region truly completed the transformation from a huge small number of troops to a large group army, and at the same time, it was also the overall tactics of the Inner Mongolia Military Region from a small-scale guerrilla war to a large-scale positional warfare.

After completing the agreement with Ilanova, Ilanova didn't have the heart to stay in the Inner Mongolia Military Region anymore, and at Ilanova's request, Han Yunhua sent a 60-person special combat team to send Ilanova back directly on the Outer Mongolia route.

After Ilanova left, Han Yunhua entered a new busy state, because a new meeting of the military region was about to be held, and this meeting was related to the development of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the next two years, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region would not have the opportunity and energy to carry out such a large-scale reorganization in at least two years. Therefore, there are a lot of plans and related materials needed, coupled with this short-term battle summary and battle results report, etc., which directly turned Han Yunhua, a general in command, into a copywriter.

Time passed quickly, and seeing that the time had reached 30 April, the responsible persons of various departments of the military region and the military and political cadres who were fighting on the front line rushed back to Guisui one after another.

On the evening of 30 April, Han Yunhua summoned military and political cadres from more than a dozen divisions in his office and talked with them about the reform of the military units and the innovation of tactics. After all, this meeting was not an ordinary meeting, and every time the army was reorganized before, the military and political cadres were appointed by Han Yunhua, and as long as no one objected, he would directly take office. Originally, these things should have been discussed by the party committee of the military region, but the party committee of the Inner Mongolia Military Region could not play a role at all, and the northern bureau responsible for the party and government construction in northern Cyprus was basically an empty shell, and Han Yunhua, the acting secretary, would not act according to the evaluation of later generations, and the meeting of the northern bureau basically never held, although Han Yunhua also knew the gold content of the golden signboard of the acting secretary of the northern bureau, but because of the turmoil in the entire North China region in the past year, the war has been continuous. Therefore, he, the leader of the military region who wears many hats, can only put all his energy on the side of operational command.

Although Han Yunhua's previous appointment was also clear that there was a certain risk, it was not fatal, because the previous direct appointment was only some cadres at the level of division and brigade commanders, and even if something happened, it would not cause irreparable huge losses.

However, this time it was different, because the troops were reorganized on a large scale at this meeting, and it was necessary to appoint not only cadres at the division and brigade level of military regions, but even many military and sub-district leaders. As far as the strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is concerned, the establishment of military sub-districts is equivalent to the group army of the Nationalist Government, and each military sub-district is a vassal sitting on one side, so the appointment of military and political cadres must be cautious.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of 1 May, the Inner Mongolia Military Region's 1941 spring operational summary meeting was held in the auditorium of the Saibei Military Command College of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

The development of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has far exceeded everyone's expectations, including these veterans who came to Saibei with Han Yunhua. Of course, it also includes Han Yunhua himself. Taking up arms to fight the Japanese invaders was an instinct in Han Yunhua's view, and it was the duty of a glorious PLA soldier, even though he was a PLA soldier from later generations.

Originally, he didn't expect that he could lead a unit on the verge of collapse into such a behemoth with his foresight, let alone that he would also be crowned as a national hero, an anti-Japanese heroic model and so on in the process. In Han Yunhua's view, this honor is not only the recognition and affirmation of the people of the whole country, but also a spur and encouragement.

Sitting on the rostrum in the auditorium of the Saibei Military Academy, Han Yunhua's mood was mixed, a junior officer in later generations became the commander of millions of soldiers, Han Yunhua has experienced a lot and learned a lot, all the way through the wind and rain, all the way through the ups and downs, now sitting here he feels more like a witness, witnessing the rise of this ragtag army.

"Comrades, today is destined to be an extraordinary day, because from today onwards our army will truly go to the world in the form of a group army of workers and peasants. The center of discussion at this meeting was the issue of the large-scale reorganization of the armed forces and the division of defense zones, and I would like to invite Political Commissar Luo to give you a briefing on the current situation in the military region. As the host of the conference, Cheng Zihua briefly said the opening speech of the conference. …,

Cheng Zihua's opening speech made Han Yunhua refreshed, whether it was in his previous life or in his present life, Han Yunhua also participated in a lot of meetings, and even participated in a lot of foreign military combat meetings. But no matter what kind of meeting it is, the host's opening speech, which is as long as an old lady's footcloth, is always a pain in the eye.

Luo Ronghuan is one of the older cadres in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and in terms of qualifications, even Han Yunhua can't compare with this big one, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region may only have a limited number of people who can compare their qualifications with this big political commissar, such as Tan Zhenlin, Su Yu, and Chen Geng.

Now Luo Ronghuan is becoming more and more like the head of a large military region with a million strong soldiers, and I saw that the political commissar Luo walked up to the podium with great grace and said: "Comrades, in the past year, our military region has made tremendous achievements, and this is worthy of affirmation, and the lone troops of our military region have won the entire North China region back from the hands of the Japanese army and liberated more than 50 million people, and the people of the whole country will not forget this feat. After several years of development, our Inner Mongolia Military Region now actually controls the entire three provinces of Suiyuan, Chahar, and Hebei, as well as most of the Rehe and Beijing-Tianjin regions. According to statistics some time ago, the population of our military region has now skyrocketed to 100 million, accounting for one-fourth of the country's total population. As of 20 April 1941, our military region had 1.18 million regular troops, 150,000 militiamen, and 280,000 other public officials. At present, our military region has 51 infantry divisions, 12 cavalry divisions, 9 independent infantry brigades and garrison brigades, 22 independent regiment guard regiments, 12 brigades, 1 tank brigade, 5 artillery brigades, and 1 aviation brigade. In accordance with the instructions of the leaders at higher levels, in the previous battles, our army highlighted the command contradictions between small establishments and large battles, so the commander reported to the Yan'an Central Committee, and after careful consideration by the central leaders, they also believed that the existing model of our military region was no longer suitable for future development, so they agreed to the reorganization plan of our military region. Comrade Han Yunhua is solely responsible for the reorganization of the military region, and I would like to invite Comrade Han Yunhua to talk about the specific reorganization plan for us. ”

After the applause, Han Yunhua strode onto the rostrum.

Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar faces in the auditorium, Han Yunhua's eyes couldn't help but moisten a little, to be honest, there are many people here that he is very familiar with, such as Luo Ronghuan, Su Yu, Tan Zhenlin, Chen Geng, Xiao Hua, Yang Chengwu, Fu Qiutao, Cheng Zihua, etc., each of them is a famous general and marshal of the Republic in later generations.

But seeing these veterans and handsomes now sitting below and listening to themselves seriously, Han Yunhua felt how unreal everything was, but looking at his beloved wife Han Yunhua not far away, he felt that he should and must forget everything before, because he already had concerns in this time and space, and he was already a dignified man who had to be responsible in this time and space. Now he is not only a soldier and a soldier of the chairman, but also a husband of a woman and a father of three children, and now he needs to protect not only the ordinary people in the base area, but also many close relatives who need to puff up their chests to protect them from the wind and rain.

"Comrades, I am very happy and excited to see that you can all come to this meeting, and I only have one word to see you, and that is that it is good to be alive. We have paid a heavy enough price for this damned war, our relatives and friends, each of us has an unbearable past, some comrades died before they got out of school, and left this world with full regret, so I am very happy to see that everyone is back alive, although some comrades are missing some parts, but compared to those comrades who have incarnated white bones or have no bones, we should feel lucky, So far, we have not been killed by the last bullet of the enemy in the last battle. So I think we should cherish everything in front of us, and at the same time cherish everything. ”

"As a commander, our responsibility is not only to command the troops to win the battle, but also to protect our soldiers, to win the battle while also controlling casualties, and to bury a large number of soldiers in each battle. Although there is an iron law of war, people are inevitable, as soldiers we are not afraid of death, but people are emotional animals, watching their relatives and brothers die in front of themselves, this feeling is not pleasant. Therefore, we must constantly innovate our tactics and use the most advanced tactics and the most rational allocation of troops to deal with the enemy; only when the enemy is frightened will they be afraid of our strength and will not dare to start a war lightly. ”…,

"Comrades, as the political commissar just said, our military district has developed by leaps and bounds in the past year, and no one can deny this, and I am proud of you. In the past year and two months, our army has suffered more than 120,000 casualties, of which more than 73,000 were killed and more than 50,000 were wounded. I do not deny the greatness of this battle, but the casualties are so great that attention must be paid to. After analysis, I found that part of the reason why the casualties of the troops were so large was that the quality of our soldiers had declined in the past year, and the reason was that there were too many new recruits, and most of them were sent to the battlefield just after three months of recruiting. Not to mention the combat effectiveness of such a unit, but the combat casualties alone are absolutely insignificant, and this is no wonder to everyone. But another reason for the heavy casualties of the troops is the disorder of the chain of command, which sounds like disorder, not chaos. The command system of our army is not bad at the division and brigade level, and the command is quite flexible. However, once a large corps operation is carried out, the disadvantages of our army become prominent, and not only do we have no experience in group army operations, but still less do we have experience in commanding operations with millions of people, which is extremely terrible for a mature political party and army. Therefore, for the sake of the development of the armed forces and the development of the party, it is imperative to expand the establishment of the armed forces. ”

Speaking of this, Han Yunhua slowed down, he knew very well that in the past year, everyone had led troops to fight outside, and what he heard every day was that so-and-so's troops had won another battle, how many enemies had been annihilated, how many officers of the Japanese puppet army had been killed, how many puppet troops had been captured, or how many people had been expanded to that force now, and what level it was equivalent to on the Kuomintang side. However, few people have counted how many people the Inner Mongolia Military Region has lost in the past year or so, and now they are all shocked when they hear that the big guys are shocked, what is the concept of more than 100,000 people, put it aside four years ago, these more than 100,000 people are really incredible, I think that when the Central Red Army was on the Long March, there were only 80,000 people, and when the Red Army accepted the reorganization, there were only more than 40,000 people left, which means that the losses of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in one year were more than three times the total strength of the Red Army in the past.

It is no wonder that these leading cadres were shocked, and even Han Yunhua was extremely shocked when he received the statistics. Think about the tragic situation when I first came to Saibei, at that time, an infantry brigade of the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division turned one of Han Yunhua's regiments into a battalion, and the main leaders of the whole regiment were almost wiped out, and the highest ranks were left Han Yunhua, Ye Baoguo and Li Dayong, and even Li Dayong, a cadre at the company level, became a "senior cadre", how miserable it was. But looking at the present, the number of casualties in a year is more than 100,000, which is not the same.

"Comrades, our Communist Party is a democratic party, and although the Central Committee has already been consulted by the Military Region, the Central Committee has also agreed to the reorganization plan of our Military Region. However, I still hope that you will actively speak and express your opinions, because the military region is not for me alone or for a few ministers who are stationed in the military region, and the opinions of you cadres who have been fighting on the front line all the year round are the most valuable. ”

Han Yunhua's words were very inflammatory, and the first to speak was Tan Zhenlin, Tan Zhenlin was a pioneer of the anti-Japanese base area in the south of the Yangtze River, so he can be regarded as an outstanding talent in the army who understands both military and political affairs. To be honest, Tan Zhenlin still focuses more on political cadres, so as soon as he opened his mouth, he raised a more acute question: "Commander, according to the development of the anti-Japanese situation, it is imperative for the large corps and the large military region, and I have no objection to this. But what I want to say is a question of how we coordinate with the leaders of the Central Committee and other troops, and the development of our military region has been noticeable enough, and now which of you here is not a division commander or a division political commissar. However, if we think about our comrades who used to fight side by side and our old leaders, their current positions are only a division commander or inferior to a division commander, and this has aroused the envy and jealousy of many people, and if we expand the establishment regardless of the feelings of other troops, then it is very easy to arouse the dissatisfaction of other troops, after all, they will have to call us the head of the unit according to the level of the unit in the future, so we must face up to this problem. ”…,

Although the question raised by Tan Zhenlin is very uncomfortable, it is very realistic, this problem is a big problem that really exists, imagine if one day Commander Zhu sees Han Yunhua and has to call the chief, then the world will not be chaotic. This is not impossible to happen, you must know that according to the military rank or the position of the troops, Commander-in-Chief Zhu is just the commander-in-chief of a group army, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region is already as big as several major theaters combined with its current establishment, and Han Yunhua's position is definitely much larger than that of the commander-in-chief of a group army.

In this way, a very practical problem is placed in front of the cadres of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and how to coordinate the relations between various units, especially with the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Jizhong Military Region, and so on, has become a problem that urgently needs to be resolved.

Han Yunhua knows Tan Zhenlin very well, and knows that this is a real political master, who once served as the political commissar of the second and fourth columns of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the political commissar of the 12th Army of the Red First Army, a member of the Executive Committee of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic and a member of the Central Military Commission, and a political commissar, commander and political commissar of the Fujian Military Region. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as deputy secretary of the Central China Branch, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Central China Military Region, and political commissar of the Central China Field Army. In 1947, he served as the first deputy political commissar of the Central China Field Army, commanding the inner line "Corps" to win the victory in the Jiaodong Campaign. In 1948, he commanded and launched the Western Section of the Jiaoji Line, the Weixian Campaign, the Yanzhou Campaign, and the Jinan Campaign. Subsequently, he formed a general front committee with Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, and Su Yu to command the Huaihai Campaign, personally led three columns to coerce the Kuomintang Feng Zi'an to revolt, and annihilated Huang Botao's corps with his brother troops. In 1949, he served as the first deputy political commissar of the Third Field Army. He also participated in and commanded the People's Liberation Army's battle to capture Nanjing, etc., and can be regarded as a genius general with outstanding military achievements. So the question raised by such a big man worthy of Han Yunhua's respect had to be taken seriously by Han Yunhua, and this question did bother Han Yunhua for a long time......