In fact, the reason for the southward movement of the Soviet Red Army's position was not as speculated by the Japanese military leadership, but a knee-jerk action made by Ivanov on a temporary basis. Originally, Ivanov meant to create a little tense atmosphere for the Japanese army, so that the Kwantung Army would not keep its eyes on the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, and of course, not at the representatives he sent to the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Speaking of this representative, he has a very close relationship with Ivanov, and this time the representative who was sent by the command of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District to meet with Han Yunhua in Saibei is named Ilanova. Kavic, Ivanov's sister, is also a member of the State Political Security Bureau, the Soviet intelligence agency, and at a high level.

How could Ivanov not be worried about his own sister's "mission" to China, because the current situation in China is not much better than that in the western part of the Soviet Union, and even more chaotic. After all, the Soviet Union has now stabilized the front, and it is no longer possible for Germany to completely eliminate the Soviet Union in a short period of time, but on the contrary, a large number of munitions industrial enterprises established by the Soviet Union in Siberia have begun to play a role, and a large number of weapons and ammunition have begun to be delivered to Moscow and other battlefields. In the just-concluded Battle of Leningrad, Germany failed to take Leningrad although it inflicted heavy losses on the Soviet Union's Northwest Front. Before the war, Hitler's clamor to wipe Leningrad off the face of the earth became the laughing stock of everyone, and with the current development of the situation, the Soviet Union was still very promising.

However, China is different now, Japan has now basically occupied Burma, and Thailand has now completely surrendered to Japan and has become Japan's "ally". As long as the Japanese army can break through the defense line of the Chinese expeditionary force, then it will cross the Nu River through the Yunnan-Burma Highway and directly attack China's rear, and China will not be far from the end of the country.

In addition, the domestic political situation in China is even more flattering, in addition to the joint resistance of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government and the CCP led by ***, a large number of puppet regimes have emerged in northern and southern China. Although Ivanov hated and looked down on those who betrayed the interests of his motherland and people, it was undeniable that the strength of China's current White Army was enough to pose a threat to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government and the CCP led by ***.

Although Japan had sent troops south to compete with Britain and the United States for the Pacific islands, it still had hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in northeast China, which exerted great pressure on the Red Army in the Soviet Far East. Although the Japanese were currently worried about being flanked by the Chinese and Soviet forces, they generally took a defensive stance against the Soviet military operations. However, this does not mean that Japan will watch the Soviets and Han Yunhua's subordinates contact, and the Japanese army's style of doing things will definitely spare no effort to sabotage the Sino-Soviet talks.

If it was a real Soviet officer, Ivanov would not be so worried, after all, even if Ilanova let the Japanese take prisoner, given the current tension between Japan and the Soviet Union, the Japanese army would not do anything to her, and when the time comes, Ivanov will probably be released if he puts some pressure on the Kwantung Army.

But now the problem is that Ilanova is not an officer of the Soviet Union, even if a state cadre is now infiltrating China in this capacity, once it is discovered, there is absolutely only one outcome, that is, to be disposed of as a spy. Espionage refers to agents secretly dispatched by espionage and intelligence agencies to the target country to engage in various illegal espionage activities, mainly stealing secrets, and the latter refers to their own citizens who are secretly recruited by the espionage and intelligence agencies of the other side to serve them. Broadly speaking, a spy is a person who works as a secret detective to spy on confidential information or sabotage from an adversary or competitor in order to benefit the party he is working for. Also known as spies and secret agents. One of the main tasks of espionage is to use illegal or legal means to steal information through secret or open channels, and also to carry out covert acts such as subversion, assassination, kidnapping, explosion, psychological warfare, and sabotage. Persons sent or bribed to engage in espionage, intelligence or sabotage. And Ilanova secretly infiltrated China as an ordinary person, which was a kind of espionage for the Japanese. The world is extremely disgusted with the identity of a spy, so the usual way to deal with enemy spies is to torture and extract all the useful information before executing them.

We must first understand two concepts, that is, spies and captives are different, prisoners refer to all regular armed forces captured in the war, including guerrillas, and both sides should be given preferential treatment for prisoners, of course, whether the prisoners are treated preferentially in practice, it is not necessarily, the massacre of prisoners is a common thing in the war, and there are many reasons, sometimes for the sake of food and the combat capability of the troops, and some for political reasons. For the Japanese army, it was even more common to slaughter prisoners who had laid down their arms, let alone spies. …,

However, Ivanov himself didn't know, in fact, the Japanese army had been exhausted by Han Yunhua's provocation during this time, how could he still have the energy to arrest Ilanova, and under the control of Li Dingguo, the Japanese army brigade did not dare to go out of the county ten miles. The Japanese have not received any news about Illanova's secret visit to China until now, let alone sent troops to search for Illanova.

The tension between the Soviet Union and Japan relieved Han Yunhua, and it was impossible to retreat to the Chinese army according to the consistent style of the Kwantung Army, even if it suffered heavy losses in the previous war, but it did not hurt the bones of the Kwantung Army, so it was impossible for General Umezu Yoshijiro to take Tongliao, an important city that controlled the entire Horqin steppe.

However, due to Ivanov's "inadvertent" move, the sensitive General Umezu Mijiro had to withdraw from the military enclave of Tongliao, which was cheapened by Han Yunhua's headquarters in vain.

However, after all, the Soviet Union could not fight with Japan, which Han Yunhua knew better than anyone that although the Soviet Union now said that it had a tendency to turn the tide of the war, it was no longer like when it was just started the war and had no power to fight back, and a large area of the country was lost. However, the Soviet Union still did not have any advantage over the current Germany, and even in terms of the combat effectiveness of its troops, it was much worse. Moreover, Han Yunhua also knew that Germany's new round of military operations against the Soviet Union had reached the execution stage, and in three months at most, Germany's millions of troops would come to Moscow, staging a real military presence in the city.

Therefore, in the current situation, Japan does not dare to go to war with the Soviet Union, and how can the Soviet Union dare to act like Japan. Han Yunhua is also a wise person, knowing that with the current strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it is impossible to compete with the Japanese Kwantung Army, so after Shen Yuquan's department occupied Tongliao, Han Yunhua ordered the Suidong Army Division to stop its eastward advance and set the battle line on the border between Suiyuan and the northeast.

Shen Yuquan is also a person who understands, and knows that with the current strength of the Suidong Army Division, if he fights to the death with the Kwantung Army, the chances of victory are not great, and even if he barely wins, the losses will be very heavy. In addition, the soldiers of the Suidong Army Division were all puppet Manchukuo's national defense forces before, and if they were to fight with their former colleagues now, they would definitely not be able to accept it emotionally, and it would be really difficult to say how many layers the combat effectiveness of the troops would be at that time.

On April 14, Shen Yuquan sent a telegram from Tongliao saying that Li Dingguo had joined up with Ilanova and was now heading straight for Tongliao.

Han Yunhua secretly said "It's so fast", from Boli to Guisui is five or six thousand miles away, this foreign girl is fast enough, it has only been half a month since they set off, that is to say, the average daily march distance of Ilanova and others is more than two hundred miles. It's easy to say in other places, but it's much more difficult in Northeast China, because the development of Northeast China at this time is not enough, and many places still don't have any roads to go, and there are vast forests everywhere, and you will get lost if you are not careful in this kind of place.

In addition, the northeast is now the territory of the Japanese, and there are Japanese guards everywhere, so it is really not possible for ordinary people for such a force to travel 200 miles a day to pass through the blockade line of the Japanese puppet army.

Although Han Yunhua was very puzzled in his heart, after all, he was a person who was picked up by the comrades of the Anti-Japanese Federation from the command of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District in Boli, and there should be no problem with his identity. What's more, now the Soviet Union's influence on the CCP is not small, and many party members still value the Soviet Union as the most powerful support for China's red **. Therefore, whether Han Yunhua wants it or not, he must receive this guest from the kingdom well.

There were at least five or six days left before Ilanova and the others arrived in Guisui, so Han Yunhua issued an urgent order to the military and political chiefs of all units in the military region, ordering all the troops in the military region to immediately report their numbers, and at the same time ordering the military region headquarters to make preparations for relocation.

On April 19, Han Yunhua issued an order for the military region headquarters to move to Zhangjiakou. Originally, according to the opinions of Political Commissar Luo and others, it was planned to set up the military district headquarters in Beiping or Baoding, but Han Yunhua resolutely opposed the relocation of the military district headquarters to Beiping. Mainly because Beiping is too close to Tianjin and has no strategic depth. Moreover, now the Inner Mongolia Military Region does not have a navy, and if the Japanese army sends a large number of navies to attack the port of Tianjin, then as long as Tianjin is lost, Beiping will be in danger.

But Zhangjiakou is different, Zhangjiakou is located in the northwest of Beiping more than 600 kilometers, can control the Beijing-Tianjin region nearby, at the same time Zhangjiakou can enter the south to Shandong, retreat can retreat to the north, the geographical conditions are very good. In addition, Zhangjiakou is basically an empty city now, which is conducive to the modification of the layout of the troops. …,

Han Yunhua planned to build Zhangjiakou directly into a steel bunker, anyway, there were hundreds of cement factories left in North China by the Japanese puppet army, and as long as they found enough manpower, these cement factories could start construction quickly. In addition, Han Yunhua studied at the National University of Defense Technology before, and has a certain understanding of the special types of cement used in national defense projects in later generations, and he believes that as long as there are enough people, he can produce slightly worse quality special cement.

The reason why it is called special cement is because the hardness and resistance of this cement are very strong, not to mention the kind of small steel cannon commonly used in small Japan, even if it is an infantry gun and 75 mountain artillery and field artillery, it cannot crush the national defense project made of cement.

Of course, the Japanese army's field heavy artillery can still cause fatal damage to this kind of fortification, but during the entire war, the Japanese army only produced only six or seven thousand such heavy artillery, and the speed of their production of heavy artillery was not as fast as the Chinese army's time for repairing fortifications, and the Japanese army also had clear regulations on the use of field heavy artillery, and field heavy artillery had high requirements for the use of various conditions. Take the Inner Mongolia Military Region as an example, field heavy artillery is not without it, there are 40 field heavy artillery pieces quietly piled up in the warehouse in Guisui alone, and nearly 150 field heavy artillery pieces are also piled up in the warehouses on the Beiping ammunition depot and the Tianjin wharf. But no one wanted to use that guy, the power of field heavy artillery is certainly great. But he also has high requirements for objective conditions, and he can really hit some fixed targets, which is a chicken rib for Han Yunhua's department.

The relocation of the headquarters is not something that can be completed in a day or two, and Han Yunhua assigned three engineering regiments to Zhangjiakou to conduct site survey and basic civil construction construction in the early stage. At the same time, Han Yunhua also ordered the garrison in Zhangjiakou to fully cooperate with the work of the engineering troops, and the chief of the foreign ash under the jurisdiction of the military region also stepped up the production of special cement.

The construction of the entire Zhangjiakou New Town was designed by Han Yunhua, and in Han Yunhua's design, Zhangjiakou is a huge castle with a core area of about five square kilometers, which is mainly used to build the office building of the military region and the military compound of the headquarters. In addition, there are a large number of conjoined bunkers built in the inner ring of the city, which is difficult to say in normal times, but in the event of a major battle, these bunkers are enough to become an obstacle to the advance of any enemy.

Just when the Zhangjiakou New City was being rebuilt, a delegation of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District headed by Ilanova also rushed to Guisui. There were 12 members of Iranova's party, and in addition to Illanova, the head of the delegation, there were 8 bodyguards, 1 clerk, 1 interpreter, and 1 officer.

The welcoming ceremony was simple, but it was very solemn, and fifty or sixty officers and high-ranking cadres, including the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the political commissar, and the minister of armed forces, went to greet the Soviet delegation, which flattered Ilynova.

Due to her work, Ilanova had heard of Han Yunhua, a Chinese general, in China for a long time, and was very surprised by the rise of this legendary general, which was simply a miracle for her. Due to the special nature of her work, Ilanova has collected more information about Han Yunhua than ordinary people, and she also has a general understanding of the character of this CCP general, and knows that Han Yunhua is an extremely rational and proud person.

But this Han Yunhua's youth and easy-going gave Ilanova a great shock, and she couldn't imagine that the white and pure young man in front of her was the Chinese general who was losing and retreating in small Japan with hundreds of thousands of troops. Ilanova secretly calculated in her heart, according to the number of troops she had, Han Yunhua's current military rank should be at least a general. And as far as she knows, this Han Yunhua is not yet 27 years old this year, and what a glory a 27-year-old general is.

Ilanova speaks Chinese quite well, although she is not as fluent as the translator on the side, but she is much more fluent than other members of the Soviet Union: "Comrade Han Yunhua, thank you very much for coming here to greet us, on behalf of the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I greet the Chinese comrades, long live Stalin, long live socialism." ”

Although Ilanova didn't speak much Chinese, Han Yunhua still heard the meaning clearly, so Han Yunhua said with a smile: "You're welcome, it's already very good that Soviet comrades can come to our military region, since our country suffered from the evil Japanese invasion, you are the first batch of Soviet comrades to come to China." ”…,

Although Han Yunhua's words are nothing to hear, but you can hear the meaning of them if you taste them carefully, Han Yunhua clearly blames the Soviet Union for not giving aid to the CCP before, but also signed the so-called Soviet-Japanese non-aggression pact with Japan.

How shrewd Ilanova is, Ilanova is more of a politician and diplomat than Ivanov, a pure officer. Although she only understood Han Yunhua's words, when she listened to the translator's translation, she could hear Han Yunhua's voiceover.

Ilanova was not embarrassed at all, and said with a smile: "We now have a common goal, although Japan looks like a jumper jumping around in East Asia, if it weren't for the invasion of the great Soviet in Europe by the evil Germany, Japan would not be able to be slapped to death with a single slap." Although the great Soviet cannot look eastward, it still holds back nearly 800,000 elites in Japan. And your military region is now threatened by evil Japan, so we have a basis for cooperation, don't we? ”。

Han Yunhua didn't expect this woman to be so difficult, she could change the concept between opening and closing, and she was indeed not a fuel-efficient lamp. Han Yunhua knew that it was wrong as soon as he heard what he said just now, and now it was obviously the sudden appearance of the Inner Mongolia Military Region that put great pressure on the Japanese Kwantung Army, but in Ilanova's mouth, it became the Kwantung Army, which posed a huge threat to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. The sentence she said before was even more insidious, she was reminding Han Yunhua that if it weren't for the containment of the Soviet Red Army, the 800,000 troops of the Kwantung Army would have gone south long ago.

Judging from China's current situation, if the 800,000 Kwantung Army really suddenly moved south, the consequences would be catastrophic, and the first to suffer must be Han Yunhua's department. Although Ilanova's words are not long, they are quite profound.

However, Han Yunhua also knew that what Ilanova said was also very reasonable, but the environment in which the two sides were in different places and looked at the problem from different angles, these words that we had just met could not represent each other's views at all, and Ilanova did not know the actual strength of the military region, so it was inevitable that her tone was a little arrogant now. So you don't need to care about what you say now, anyway, the two sides haven't had formal negotiations yet, what you have to do now is to let Illanova realize the strength of Han Yunhua's department, no matter when there is strength, there is capital, and only when there is capital can there be bargaining chips ......,