Saibei. Jining, former enemy headquarters.

Han Yunhua stood in front of a huge military sand table, staring at the small red and blue flags on the sand table, and asked the staff officers beside him from time to time.

"Is there any news from Jidong?".

"Report to the commander, half an hour ago, Commander Chen sent a telegram saying that their former enemy headquarters in eastern Hebei had completed its deployment in accordance with the plan of the military region headquarters, and that the 77th Independent Division and the 18th, 19th, and 28th Divisions had arrived at the predetermined combat position and could launch an attack on the remnants of the enemy in eastern Hebei at any time." Qian Zhuangfei on the side immediately replied.

"The focus of the battle in eastern Hebei was in Tangshan, where the Japanese army stationed a regular force of an infantry brigade, in addition to a tank brigade and an expatriate division, and the strength should not be underestimated. In addition, the Japanese army has already taken Beiping, Tianjin, Tangshan, and Zhangjiakou, which had just been reoccupied by the Japanese army, and these four cities constitute the largest defensive circle of the Japanese army in North China. Turning around, Han Yunhua asked Luo Ronghuan on the side: "Political commissar, how is the progress of Zhangjiakou and the northwest region of northern Jin and Jin?" ”

Luo Ronghuan said with a smile: "The progress of all the armies is going very well, especially the third field division in the northwest of Jin, which is like a no-man's land, and soon drove all the remnants of the Japanese army stationed in the northwest of Shanxi out of the northwest of Shanxi, and now part of the Japanese army's strength is concentrated in Shuo County and Datong, and part of it is shrunk to Ningwu County." The progress in the direction of northern Jin is not too big, because the defenders of Datong, a major city in northern Jin Province, are the famous fierce general Takagi Yoshito in the Japanese army, this Takagi used to be the brigade commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, and now the Japanese Takagi Division stationed in Datong is actually expanded from the 39th Infantry Brigade, and its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. The direction of Zhangjiakou is the same, stationed in Zhangjiakou is the Japanese Fifth Division and the 38th Division, in addition to the five infantry divisions of the puppet army, together with more than ten counties and cities outside Zhangjiakou are operated like an iron bucket by little devils. However, this is only the beginning of the war, and the two sides only had a contact exchange of fire yesterday, so the commander should not be in a hurry. ”

"Hehehe, there is a little bit of anxiety, but this battle is related to the future of the whole nation, this battle is fought without war in North China, if it is not fought well, it will attract more reinforcements from the Japanese army, although the situation will not be too bad, but it is not what I want. In addition, what did the Jin Suijun do on their side. Han Yunhua said with a smile.

Speaking of the Jin Sui Army, Luo Ronghuan couldn't help but want to laugh, pointed at Han Yunhua and said: "The commander really has the pulse of Yan Xishan, this old thing, just when our army sent troops to the northwest of Jin, Yan Xishan also sent the most elite 35th Army in the Second War Zone to attack the Japanese army on the front line of Fangshan, Jingle and Lanxian, in addition, the Jin Sui Army also dispatched another 4 infantry divisions and a cavalry division from the southeast of Jin to the Taiyuan area, it seems that he is afraid that our army will drive straight into Taiyuan City and directly attack Taiyuan City." ”

"Hehehe, Yan Laoxi is an old warlord to put it bluntly, this old thing values this piece of territory in Shanxi, whoever wants to rob him will fight with whom, Chiang Kai-shek wants to rob Shanxi, he will fight against Chiang with Feng Yuxiang and others, and the Japanese will fight hard with the Japanese when they rob Shanxi, and now he can see clearly, the strength of our Eighth Route Army is already very strong, and it is attacking the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong provinces and regions to launch a crazy attack, and the posture is to recover the entire North China, If we recover North China, then he, the governor of the Second World War Zone, will lose a lot, so he must send troops for both public and private purposes, otherwise Taiyuan and the whole of Shanxi will have the surname Gong instead of Yan. However, we can't be too optimistic about Yan Xishan, although the old thing sent troops to Taiyuan, but once our army's attack is poked, then the Jin Sui army will withdraw as soon as possible. ”…,

Luo Ronghuan said with a smile: "This is already very good, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army still has some combat effectiveness, the Red Army's eastward advance has fought with the Jin Sui army, we say that you are very big, and the two sides almost fought a draw." And most of Yan Xishan Shanxi has been lost, and now there are only these troops left, do you think he can be careless? If even this little bit of troops is lost, then Shanxi will still be his Yan Xishan, and there are still fewer warlords and warlords who have been annexed by Chiang Kai-shek in recent years, so it is normal for Yan Xishan to do this, anyway, we don't ask him for much help, we just hope that he won't come to pull us back. ”

"What about the Central Army, is there any movement?" Han Yunhua asked again.

"The number of the Central Army in the Dongjo Mountain area is quite large, but there are many factions, but on the whole, it is still headed by General Wei Lihuang, General Wei Lihuang is a real soldier, after seeing that we and the Jin Sui Army are fighting against the Japanese army, so the Central Army is no longer hidden, yesterday Tang Huiyuan's Third Army, Wu Shimin's 98th Army defense area advanced 25 kilometers, forming a semi-encirclement of Yuncheng. However, the defense areas of the 14th Group Army, the 14th Army, and the 9th Army have not moved, and the troops have not received combat orders.

Han Yunhua said with a smile: "It's okay, it's not that General Wei Lihuang is not optimistic about our operation, but that the Japanese army they are facing is too strong." Of the eight field divisions that the Japanese army now remains in North China, except for the 5th and 38th Divisions remaining on the Northern Front and the 26th Division stationed in the Beijing-Tianjin area, three of the remaining five divisions are in Shanxi, one in Shimen, and one in Shandong. And two of the three infantry divisions stationed in Shanxi are staring at Zhongtiao Mountain, and the two old devils Anda Thirty-two and Qing Shui Qingqing are not easy to mess with, and they have not made trouble for the Kuomintang troops in Zhongtiao Mountain in the past two years, so General Wei Lihuang does not dare to use this part of the troops excessively, and it is already very good to be able to dispatch two armies. Don't worry, as long as our side is well fought, the Japanese army will definitely send troops to Shanxi for reinforcements, and then the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army will play a role. ”

After the two talked for a while, Han Yunhua spoke: "Political commissar, I'm going to the front line soon, and the matter of the rear will be handed over to you, this time our soldiers will fight all the way to Henan, Anhui, Shandong, and other provinces and regions, so you must also be prepared here, and a new army will be formed when it is time to form a new army, and soon more than 100,000 miners in Datong will be sent back, and you will convert these miners and the Kuomintang prisoners of war and the puppet army prisoners captured some time ago into our soldiers in a very short time, and I will solve the problem with weapons and ammunition, Our military region has been developing intensively for more than three years, and it is time to make a splash. ”

"Don't worry, you just have to fight forward, the base will be handed over to me, I will form another 300,000 troops within three months, this time I will accompany you crazy, I am very optimistic about your battle plan, the attack of the third field division in two consecutive days completely solved the Japanese puppet army in the northwest of Shanxi, the captured weapons and ammunition are enough to equip an infantry division, the 20th division behind them is now fully equipped, the 21st division is also equipped with a small part, and a supplementary regiment has been formed with the captured puppet army, and it will continue to develop like this, Not to mention a million troops, even five million troops are possible. Luo Ronghuan said with emotion.

Han Yunhua said: "There are no guns and no cannons, the enemy makes them for us." China's tomorrow will not be made by words, but by fighting. No matter how powerful the Japanese army is, their war potential has been almost consumed, and now it is consumed with the behemoth of the United States, hehehe, I think the little devils will soon carry out a new round of mobilization for the national war, and when the little devil recruits are formed, it will be when the Japanese national economy collapses, and our opportunity has come. ”…,

Soon Han Yunhua led his guard troops to the front line to command the operation, because Datong is one of the main battlefields of this war, and it is also one of the best places to break through this war, so Han Yunhua is ready to personally command this side of the battle.

The atmosphere in the front enemy headquarters in Datong was very tense, and Li Jingquan, commander of the Fourth Field Division, looked at these military and political cadres in front of him with a gloomy face, and the attacking troops did not push forward a single step for a whole day, and they also lost more than 1,000 people.

"Comrades, the performance of all units today is very unsatisfactory, the 22nd and 23rd divisions actually deserted, and they also broke out one company after another, which is extremely rare in the history of our Eighth Route Army, especially our Inner Mongolia Military Region, this is a very serious problem, I hope the commanders of your two divisions can give me an explanation." Li Jingquan asked angrily.

Although Li Jingquan is now only the commander of the Fourth Field Division, Li Jingquan participated in the ** in 1926 and became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1930. He successively served as Secretary General of the Political Commissar's Office of the General Headquarters of the Red First Army, Political Commissar of the 35th Red Division, Political Commissar of the 3rd Independent Division of the Red Army, and Political Commissar of the 1st and 3rd Supplementary Divisions of the 3rd Army Corps of the Red Army. In 1934, he participated in the Long March of the Red Army; In June of the following year, after the Red First and Fourth Front Armies met, they were transferred to the Red Fourth Front Army. In 1936, he served as political commissar of the Fourth Division of the Second Army. Before being transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, he was the deputy brigade commander of the 358th Brigade of the 129th Division, and he was Han Yunhua's previous boss, and his qualifications and experience were rarely comparable to him in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so this time he was appointed by Han Yunhua as the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army.

The commander of the 22nd Division is the former commander of the 1st detachment of the New Fourth Army Fu Qiutao, Fu Qiutao's qualifications are older than Li Jingquan, Fu Qiutao participated in the ** in 1925, is an old cadre with extremely rich combat experience, but because he has just been transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region for less than three months, he has only taken over the work of the 22nd Division for less than two months, and the vast majority of the soldiers of the 22nd Division are farmers who have just put down their hoes, and there are not even a few prisoners of the puppet army and prisoners of war of the Kuomintang, and the weapons and equipment of the whole division are even worse. In addition to more than 2,000 old-fashioned rifles, there were only 5 crooked handles, which were much worse than the weapons and ammunition of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army before him. Therefore, he was indeed wronged enough for the problem of desertion this time, but as a member of the Communist Party, Fu Qiutao knew that there were deserters in the army, and they were also deserters from one company to another, and he, the supreme leader, could not get rid of it.

So Fu Qiutao stood up and replied: "Commander-in-chief, if there are deserters in the 22nd Division, I should and must bear unshirkable responsibility, and I will ask the headquarters to apply for punishment." ”

Li Jingquan looked at Fu Qiutao, and then said: "Hey, in fact, it's no wonder to you, I still know the situation of your division relatively well, except for one brigade and one regiment, which is relatively good, the remaining troops have almost no combat effectiveness, I specially transferred an infantry battalion from each of your two divisions this time just to see the combat effectiveness of your two divisions." But now it seems that it is still a lot worse, not to mention compared with the integrated 300th Division and the independent 77th Division, even with the Fourth Field Division, which has been in the army for less than two years, it cannot be compared, and your weapons and ammunition are also a problem, I will find a way to solve it as soon as possible, our division still has a batch of weapons and ammunition that is temporarily useless, there are about 5,000 rifles, you two divisions will use it first, and you will be able to really form an army when you defeat Datong, and then there will be no such thing as today, What are you going to do with the two infantry company commanders? ”

Fu Qiutao said: "My opinion is to shoot it directly, a cadre does not lead by example, but leads the army as a deserter, shame"

Yan Hongyan, commander of the 23rd Division, also responded: "The consistent practice of our Eighth Route Army to deal with deserters is to shoot them, so I also think that the two deserter company commanders should be shot." ”…,

Li Jingquan thought for a while and said, "Then the gun" Before Li Jingquan could finish his words, an operational staff officer hurriedly broke into the conference room and sent a telegram to Li Jingquan.

After reading the telegram, Li Jingquan immediately got up and said: "Comrades, Commander Han Yunhua has now passed Fengzhen County, which is less than 20 kilometers away from our headquarters.

Han Yunhua and his party were all in cars, so the speed was very fast, and Li Jingquan and the others only waited outside the headquarters for a short time before they saw Han Yunhua's motorcade.

Fu Qiutao and the others have only met Han Yunhua a few times since they came to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, although they have long heard of this legendary general, but they have never seen Han Yunhua personally command the troops. However, this time he was taken aback by Han Yunhua's guard troops, although Han Yunhua's guard troops only had the strength of a regiment, but the luxury of the equipment of this regiment was far beyond the expectations of Fu Qiutao and others, starting with fifty sideways three-wheeled motorcycles, each with a light machine gun on it. Twenty armored vehicles followed, followed by more than fifty military vehicles, each with more than thirty soldiers standing on it, each with an artillery cannon behind it, and a standard cavalry battalion at the back. Fu Qiutao and the others believed that this guard regiment alone would be enough to eat all of their recruit divisions.

Accompanied by Li Jingquan and others, Han Yunhua and others came to the temporary combat headquarters of the Second Route Army, and as soon as the group sat down, Li Jingquan reported to Han Yunhua about the situation of their Second Route Army.

After Li Jingquan finished his report, Han Yunhua looked around at all the military and political cadres of the Second Route Army, and then said: "The progress of the troops is not going well is also expected by the military region headquarters, because what you are facing is not an ordinary Japanese army, and the Takagi Division is stationed in Datong, which was expanded from the 39th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division of the former Japanese Army, and its division commander Yoshito Takagi is an officer with very rich combat experience, so it is normal that the attack did not go well at the beginning." As for the appearance of deserters, it is not a big deal, although it must be brought to our attention, but this is also inevitable, you must know that we have formed a new unit of more than 400,000 recruits in just seven months, the vast majority of these recruits have never been on the battlefield, hearing the sound of artillery and constantly falling to the ground comrades are inevitably a little afraid and frightened, this is also human nature, so you don't care, as for the two cadres who took the lead in escaping, they can't just be pulled out and shot, this is not legal. ”

"If you let them go like this, I'm afraid more people will follow suit." Li Jingquan said worriedly.

"Who said that they should be released like this, but no matter how they are handled, they need a legal way and a reasonable explanation, first put the two officers who took the lead in escaping into custody, and when the battle is over, they will be handed over to a military court, and let the law try them, we can't shoot anyone at will, even if he is guilty, except for traitors and devils, of course, because they are not human beings." Han Yunhua said.

Then Han Yunhua said: "Datong is not an ordinary city, in addition to a large number of regular troops stationed here, there are dozens of large and small companies, they are frantically plundering our country's coal resources, there are tens of thousands of Japanese expatriates there, and now those Japanese expatriates are also all armed, so this time we can't treat them as ordinary expatriates at will, any Japanese may be an enemy with weapons, so after the meeting is over, they will each issue an order to the troops, That is, regardless of men, women, children, as long as they do not voluntarily surrender to our army, they will all be shot and killed, this is discipline. In addition, attacking the big cities heavily defended by the Japanese army is not as brutal as you, if you are allowed to continue fighting like this, even if we destroy the Japanese army and our own casualties, we will lose the ability to continue the attack. From now on, I will personally take over the command of the front. ”

Then Han Yunhua said loudly: "Order: The 1st Brigade of the 4th Field Division will continue to attack the Japanese positions in Majiayao Village and Houjinggou Village, and the military region will allocate you fifty unconscionable guns and enough shells, and my guard regiment will also assist you in the attack." The 2nd Brigade of the 4th Field Division, the 1st Brigade of the 22nd Division, and the 1st Brigade of the 23rd Division returned to Qi'ershan Town, cooperated with the First Route Army to attack Zuoyun and Youyu counties, and then the whole army surrounded Datong City. ”……，