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Although the actual combat strength of the First Theater was much weaker than that of Han Yunhua's department, Han Yunhua's move to send troops to Henan and eat up an infantry battalion of the 40th Army still greatly embarrassed the top level of the Nationalist Government, especially Chiang Kai-shek himself and Minister He of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

Considering that Han Yunhua's troops also had to deal with the tremendous pressure of the Japanese North China Front and the Kwantung Army, the Nationalist Government did not think that Han Yunhua dared to transfer all his troops to Henan to participate in the war, so Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin, and Bai Chongxi all believed that it was necessary to deal a severe blow to Han Yunhua's reckless impulsiveness, and the Communist Party must not be allowed to be so arrogant.

Therefore, after high-level deliberation and decision of the Nationalist Government, Pang Bingxun's 40th Army, the 27th and 31st Divisions of the Second Group Army, and the 79th Army of the Northern Henan Self-Defense Army were ordered to go north, and Han Yunhua's troops were ordered to return to southern Hebei immediately.

As soon as this order of the Nationalist Government came out, the domestic situation suddenly surged, obviously this time the friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has attracted a lot of people's attention, the original situation in southern Anhui is enough to make people worry, and now that Han Yunhua has inserted such a kick, the confidence of the Chinese people in the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cannot help but be shaken.

On August 16, the 40th Army was stationed in Puyang, and on the same day, the 27th Division of the Second Army was also stationed in Anyang. On the 17th, the 31st Division was stationed in Tangyin, and soon Zhu Huaibing's 79th Army was also stationed in Xinxiang and Hebi.

On August 16, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China ordered Han Yunhua's headquarters to immediately withdraw to southern Hebei, and strictly prohibited the Inner Mongolia Military Region from creating friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party for any reason.

However, Han Yunhua did not receive a response, and Han Yunhua reported his judgment of the situation in southern Anhui to Yan'an, hoping that the central government could support their plan to move south to deal with the New Fourth Army. However, out of the defense of the anti-Japanese national united front, the central government categorically rejected Han Yunhua's request and ordered Han Yunhua to immediately return to southern Hebei with his troops and horses.

Han Yunhua understands the central government's considerations very well, but he knows the truth of the incident in southern Anhui. Therefore, Han Yunhua, Luo Ronghuan, Chen Yun, and all the military and political cadres of the Northern Bureau and the Inner Mongolia Military Region jointly requested that the Inner Mongolia Military Region immediately withdraw its troops as long as the New Fourth Army can smoothly move north. If the Nationalist Government makes the slightest move, the Inner Mongolia Military Region will strike first.

Although the central authorities were very annoyed by Han Yunhua's disobedience and disrespect, out of their consistent trust in Han Yunhua and his judgment of the situation, they finally agreed to Han Yunhua's request, but it was strictly forbidden for the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Nationalist Government to clash, and it was necessary to restrain their emotions and not cause uncontrollable disasters.

Southern Hebei. Daimyo Front Command.

"Report, military sub-district emergency call."

"Reading"

"Xu, Meng, Wang: Order your 3rd Division to immediately move south, and authorize your division to immediately negotiate with the 40th Army of the Nationalist Government, and ask the Nationalist Government to guarantee the safety of the New Fourth Army, as long as the New Fourth Army retreats safely to the north, then your division will immediately withdraw its troops, otherwise it will completely occupy Henan Province, Han and Luo."

"Lao Meng, are your 59th Division ready?" After listening to the telegram sent by Han Yunhua, Xu Shiyou asked solemnly.

"It's ready, our 59th Division only has 12,000 people, so it's very convenient to assemble, besides, we came out of the ravine, and the march transfer is our strength." Meng Qingshan replied.

Xu Shiyou said: "That's good, that's good, Lao Meng, the weapons and equipment of your 59th Division are really poor, and the quality of the soldiers is very good, so you go to the logistics to get the equipment of a reinforced regiment now, and then unify the weapons of the troops. But in the future, we have to fight with the little devils with real swords and guns, and the role of weapons and equipment will be the key, so we will use this battle to train our troops. ”…,

"Okay, hehe, I'm thinking about how to ask the commander for some weapons and equipment these days, our Jizhong Military Region is poor, and many troops can't even reach a gun per person, such a force is okay to fight bandits and puppet troops, if it is against the little devils, it will be a lot worse. Fortunately, the weapons and equipment of a reinforced regiment can be regarded as a great help to us, and with so many new weapons, the combat effectiveness of the 59th Division will rise to a new level. Meng Qingshan said excitedly.

"Hehehe, Lao Meng, the commander is good to your Jizhong Military Region, our troops were captured by themselves, and the higher departments have never given any support, and they have to hand over part of the captured loot. But I think you are only giving some preferential treatment at this stage, and after this period of time, when your division's combat effectiveness comes up, everything will depend on you. By the way, the number of your 59th Division is really too small, and the 12,000 people in other units of our military region are only 3 reinforced regiments, you must know that before a brigade of several masters of our military region reached more than 25,000 people, and your 59th is not even half of a brigade when you are left there, so the most important thing for you now is to recruit troops and expand the strength of your troops to a real division. Xu Shiyou suggested.

Meng Qingshan said with a wry smile: "I have long heard that the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are all wealthy, and if they don't make a move, they will be shocked as soon as they make a move, and now it seems that it is really like this, I really can't imagine what a scene of more than 25,000 people in an infantry brigade is, is it possible that each regiment also has eight or nine thousand people, but Lao Xu You have a sentence that is very right, everything in this era depends on strength, and the commander can give us support the weapons and equipment of a reinforced regiment, but the time will definitely not be too long, This time, when we came from Jizhong, we heard Lao Li say that the military region seems to have begun to recruit new recruits again, and I am afraid that the commanders of our old troops will not have time to take care of it, and we will have to rely on ourselves for future development. ”

"Hehehe, okay, let's go and prepare, let's go and meet Pang Bingxun, this old boy, hello to everyone who knows each other, I am good, if you don't know each other, you have to wronged him and his 40th Army to our prisoner of war camp as a guest." Xu Shiyou said domineeringly.

"That's a good dare, hehe, I think the commander wants us to send troops to Henan, but I can't figure it out a little, there are so many divisions and brigades with strong combat effectiveness in the military region, why do you want to transfer our 59th Division, a recruit division, to the south, what does the commander mean?" Meng Qingshan asked suspiciously.

"Lao Meng, it can only be said that the commander cares for your division, you must know that many infantry divisions in the rear are busy saying good things about the relationship these days, and the purpose is to go to the front line. Why, because all the consumption of the troops on the front line is in the hands of the military region, and only half of the captured booty is to be handed over, and the captured prisoners are all handed over to the political department of the military region for ideological education, and after passing the qualifications, half of the number of troops surrendered by each unit will be returned. So you kid would be content, if it weren't for the fact that the commander favored your 59th Division. Xu Shiyou explained.

"So that's the case, hehehe, okay, this time I promise not to disgrace the commander, although our 59th Division is from the ravine, but no matter how you say it, it is also an old army that has been dealing with little devils for 4 years, and our old foundation is also a regular army, we have never been afraid of fighting, this time it depends on the performance of our 59th Division." Meng Qingshan patted his chest and said.

Xu Shiyou said loudly: "Okay, it is necessary to have this kind of momentum, our team is the elite of fighting devils, if we can't even clean up the miscellaneous armies of the Kuomintang, I think I will go home as soon as possible to pick up the child, I will be relieved to have your Lao Meng's words, a mouthful of spit and a nail, since the words have come to this, then I will also make a statement, if Pang Bingxun of the dog day does not give us the face of the Eighth Route Army, Lao Tzu will destroy his 40th Army, if Wei Lihuang does not let us meet the New Fourth Army, Lao Tzu will occupy his northern Henan." ”…,

"Okay, just do it"

Jinan, Shandong. Headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese Army.

Reports

"Come in," Okamura Ninji looked at Yamaguchi Umeko who walked in with a grim face.

"Yamaguchi, what the hell is the job, why do you want to destroy Huang's intelligence system, don't you know that Huang is a friend of the imperial army?" Okamura asked angrily.

"Your Excellency Commander, please calm your anger, Huang has betrayed the imperial army, we have conclusive evidence that Huang has defected to Han Yunhua's department, and at the same time Huang is still working for the government of China, a secret mobile detachment of the imperial army is on his territory, and he was brutally killed in northern Henan, but we found the relics of the jade broken soldiers in Huang's home, so he and his intelligence organization will be completely destroyed." Umeko Yamaguchi said unhurriedly.

"Yaga, why don't you report to the headquarters and work privately, stupidly" Okamura Ninjiyuan can see more clearly than Yamaguchi Umeko, the current situation is very complicated, the rift between the Shina government and the Communist Party is getting bigger and bigger, this is a rare good news for the imperial army, all the empire has to do now is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. But at this time, the special high-tech actually dispatched special forces to wipe out the sub-station of the Military Command Bureau in northern Henan, which almost broke the big thing.

"Hai, Your Excellency Commander, as the person in charge of the Imperial Army's Special High-Tech North China Region, I have the right to deal with all military intelligence and related personnel, and Huang's behavior is enough for the Imperial Army to deal with, so please forgive me for the inconvenience caused to Your Excellency the Commander." Yamaguchi Umeko-do.

Okamura relieved his irritability and asked, "What happened between the Shina government and the CPC?" ”

"According to the information sent back by our intelligence officers, Han Yunhua's 100,000-strong army has already occupied a county town controlled by the government of China and annihilated an infantry battalion of the government of China. The government of China also sent two armies and two infantry divisions to press on the northeastern part of Henan, and the situation was very tense and there was a feeling that it was about to erupt. Umeko Yamaguchi's tone was a little excited.

"Yo Xi, how's Yamaguchi's preparation for our secret weapon?" Okamura Ninji Road.

"I have already landed from Qingdao, and now I am preparing to train the Imperial Army, as long as the training is completed, it can be put into the battlefield." Umeko Yamaguchi replied.

"Yo Xi, step up your training, during this time, you special high-tech don't provoke the government and the Eighth Route Army at will, you know?". Okamura Ninji said loudly.

"Nani? Why. Umeko Yamaguchi asked in surprise.

Okamura Ninji didn't expect Yamaguchi Umeko to dare to question his orders, and he was immediately furious, got up and slapped him with two big slaps, and said angrily at the same time: "Yaga, Yamaguchi, you are too presumptuous, what is the duty of a soldier, you have forgotten it all." ”

The corners of Yamaguchi's mouth were bleeding from the beating, but she could only stand up straight and replied loudly: "Hay, Yamaguchi knows that he is wrong, please calm his anger, Your Excellency, Yamaguchi will spare no effort to carry out your orders." ”

"Please don't make such a stupid mistake again, the people of China were not monolithic in the first place, which can be seen from the political structure before the arrival of the imperial army, China is a country under the rule of large and small warlords, and their government definitely does not have the credibility and deterrence of the empire, so the empire dared to do that at that time. But it is such a country that has completed the rectification and alliance in a short period of time under the strong pressure of the empire, and even the two major political parties in China have maintained a high degree of unity, and the reason is that the pressure on the government of China is too great, so they have to choose to resist, which we have to say is the failure of the empire. Now that the rift between the government and the Communist Party is widening, as long as we no longer maintain a high degree of military oppression, then the government of China will not be afraid of the empire taking advantage of the situation, then there will be a big war between the government of China and the Communist Party, and their so-called anti-Japanese national united front will soon cease to exist, so all we have to do now is wait, understand? ”。 The more Okamura Ninji said, the more excited the expression on his face became, and he seemed to have seen the breakdown of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Japanese army taking advantage of the weakness, and all the resistance in the whole of China had collapsed. …,

"Your Excellency the Commander is Wise"

Puyang. Military headquarters of the 40th Army.

"Junza, how should we talk to the Communist Party?" Deputy Commander Ma Fawu spoke.

Pang Bingxun touched his gray hair and said: "We can't solve this problem, let's let Chief Wei Lihuang decide, we will guard Puyang now, as long as the Communist Party's troops go south to Puyang to fight us, then we will not provoke the Communist Party." ”

At this time, Pang Bingxun couldn't help but think of last year's Magnetic, Lin, Wu, and Sheen campaigns, when Chairman Chiang mobilized troops to launch a larger-scale offensive against the anti-Japanese base areas such as Taihang and southern Hebei under the unfavorable situation of the anti-communist military offensive. The 97th Army of the Kuomintang Army in the western Hebei region took the lead in attacking Wu'an in the south, attacking the advance detachment and youth column of the 129th Division, causing more than 100 casualties in the two divisions, and the attacked troops withdrew from their original positions. Subsequently, the supreme authorities ordered his 40th Army and Zhang Yinwu and Hou Ruyong to attack the Eighth Route Army. At that time, they had an absolute advantage in terms of troops, and the weapons and equipment and ammunition were more than the Eighth Route Army, but Zhu Huaibing's 97th Army was annihilated more than 10,000 people, and the other two suffered heavy losses, if it weren't for his 40th Army feeling that things were not good, and did not go north with the army to avoid being killed, that battle of the Communist Eighth Route Army left a deep impression on Pang Bingxun, although the Eighth Route Army was dressed in tatters, but it was a first-class powerful in the battle, and it was obviously unwise to provoke such an enemy.

"Commander, what did Chief Wei say?" Ma Fawu continued to ask.

"It's not a sound yet, the telegram has been sent for nearly an hour, but there is still no movement in Luoyang, I don't think the chief Wei himself is sure, maybe he is asking the chairman now, hehehe" Pang Bingxun smiled.

Not to mention, it was really guessed by Pang Bingxun, after Xu Shiyou sent the letter to Pang Bingxun's headquarters and reported it to the First War Zone, Wei Lihuang also felt extremely tricky, so he had no choice but to forward the telegram to Chongqing and ask Chiang Kai-shek.

Xu Shiyou's letter made it very clear that the purpose of the Inner Mongolia Military Region's southward move this time was to meet the New Fourth Army's northward movement, and if the New Fourth Army went north safely, then they would immediately withdraw their troops, but if anything else happened to the New Fourth Army, then Inner Mongolia and its main forces would fight all the way to southern Anhui.

Wei Lihuang didn't think that Han Yunhua was joking, although according to Pang Bingxun, the letter was sent by Xu Shiyou, commander of the 13th Division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, but anyone with a discerning eye knew what Han Yunhua meant. Wei Lihuang has not been dealing with Han Yunhua for a day or two, and he knows that this person is definitely not a person who seems to be with him, a full smiling tiger.

Chiang Kai-shek was angry with Xu Shiyou, a division commander of the Communist Party and a miscellaneous division commander recognized by the Central Committee dared to threaten the Central Committee, and this was repaid, if he agreed to his request, then where would the face of the Nationalist Government go, so he personally gave the 40th Army a death order, ordering Pang Bingxun to destroy the infantry brigade that Han Yunhua's unit broke into Henan at all costs, and must not compromise and retreat.

The order was issued to the 40th Army through the First War Zone, although Pang Bingxun was very reluctant to fight with the Eighth Route Army, but now that it has reached this point, he has no way at all. Therefore, under the order of Pang Bingxun, two infantry divisions and one cavalry brigade under the command of the 40th Army immediately went north to attack Xu Shiyou's department.

Hengshui. Southern Hebei Army Divisional Headquarters.

"The commander just received the news that Pang Bingxun's 40th Army was all going north and killing Xu Shiyou's brigade, what should we do?" Yang Chengwu whispered.

Han Yunhua looked at Yang Chengwu and said with a smile: "What can I do, cold salad, since Chiang Kai-shek has made a move, we are really sorry for his old man if we don't follow, order Xu Shiyou, let him let go of his hands and feet, and if he can annihilate it, he will never let it go, it is best to capture Pang Bingxun's old thing alive." ”

"Commander, didn't the central authorities tell us to take it easy and never allow friction with the Nationalist Government? Moreover, the 40th Army is also a heroic army, and if we annihilate them, we will be poked in the backbone by the people. Yang Chengwu reminded......,