Although Han Yunhua had a vague guess about the abnormal behavior of the Japanese army, due to the limited intelligence, Han Yunhua couldn't think of what kind of medicine the Japanese army was selling in the gourd for the time being. Danshi Han Yunhua knew that the more this happened, the more it showed that the little devils were not small, and it also showed that they had the more necessary to attack. Therefore, Han Yunhua instructed all the troops on the front line not to let the little devil's temporary strategic retreat confuse his eyes, and it is advisable to chase after the poor man, since the little devil's intention is not clear, then he will expose his intentions.

Under Han Yunhua's instructions, the 3rd Route Army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region did not stop attacking, but attacked more bravely, occupying a large number of towns in northwest Shandong in just three days. Although the Inner Mongolia Military Region did not make a breakthrough for the time being due to the heavy defense of the Japanese army in Dezhou and Leling, Danshi still achieved major results in the vast township areas and in the hilly and mountainous areas.

On October 16, the two infantry divisions of the North Route Army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region surrounded the 21st Division of the Japanese Army outside the city of Leling, and launched a crazy attack on Leling on the same day.

At the same time, the other two armies of the Inner Mongolia Military Region also launched a siege on the two important military towns of Dezhou and Linqing, and Han Yunhua's request was that there was no need to make a major breakthrough immediately, and the troops had time, as long as the strategic intentions of the Japanese army were brought out.

Although the Inner Mongolia Military Region spared no effort to attack, the Japanese army was in an absolute defensive state in Yijing, northwest of Shandong, the Japanese army still did not have the intention of counterattacking, but even more shrinked, and according to the intelligence personnel in the city Huilai news, the Japanese army seems to be going to build several key cities such as Dezhou and Leling and Linqing into bunker cities, and now these cities will have Japanese engineering units and civilians forcibly recruited by them to build fortifications in these cities day and night. Many old urban areas have been completely transformed into bunker areas, and a large number of houses that hinder the shooting of bunkers have been forcibly demolished, and there is a feeling that there is no way to die.

The abnormal behavior of the Japanese army made Han Yunhua even more puzzled, this is not Okamura Ningji's style, what kind of person is Gangmura, that is the only god of war in the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War that can make the Eighth Route Army and the National Government suffer big losses in North China, he will be afraid of the more than 200,000 people in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, obviously not, this can only show that the little devil has a big operation, and it is a huge and shocking plan.

Han Yunhua carefully combed it through, and thought about it around 41 years ago, the Japanese army didn't seem to have any big moves, originally the Japanese army did a Pearl Harbor incident in 41 years, and this incident happened as early as a year ago, Han Yunhua didn't think about it and didn't know what the xiangdao little devil wanted to do.

However, Han Yunhua is not discouraged if he can't figure it out, this is a good thing for Han Yunhua and the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region for the Japanese to retreat, and it is not necessarily a good thing to really force Okamura Ningji and the Inner Mongolia Military Region to work hard, Okamura Ningji's strategic command level is not comparable to that of ordinary Japanese officers, and since Okamura Ningji arrived in Shandong to take charge of the North China Front Army, Han Yunhua has deeply felt tremendous pressure. Why do you say that, not to mention anything else, the guerrillas in Shandong were extremely active before the arrival of Okamura Ningji, and there were often astonishing moves to fight devils and pull out strongholds, and to rob trains on railways, and the results continued, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were extremely prosperous in the whole Shandong region from south to Lunan and then to Luxi in central Shandong, and the traitors and puppet armies of all sizes did not dare to move when they saw the guerrillas.

Danshi Since Okamura Ningji took office, the Japanese army was not busy dealing with Han Yunhua's subordinates, and even ignored the newly established Sulu Theater of the Nationalist Government, but concentrated its forces to launch a brutal sweep against the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, and even more shamelessly sent special forces to continuously sneak attack the well-known guerrillas. Not to mention that the small group of guerrillas struggled to survive, even the Shandong instructors led by Wang Weizhou had to temporarily withdraw from Shandong. This is Okamura Ningji's power, now after more than half a year of rectification and sweeping, the strength of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Shandong has dropped to a freezing point, so Han Yunhua has to make a move, otherwise the entire Shandong will be operated by Okamura Ningji into an iron bucket within a year or two, and it will not be easy to make a move at that time. …,

Fortunately, Han Yunhua made up his mind to fight Texas this time, otherwise he really didn't find the abnormality of the little devil, although he still didn't know what the little devil wanted to do, at least Han Yunhua Yijing began to order the whole military region to enter a state of first-level alert, and the villages and towns near Shandong began to be consciously merged, and the villagers in the weakly defended areas were even collectively relocated to the nearby county town to prevent unnecessary losses.

Time flies quickly, in a blink of an eye, Yijing arrived on October 25th, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region Yijing have been fighting in the northwest of Shandong for more than a month, and now the situation in the northwest of Shandong is very complicated, and the most powerful Yijing Japanese puppet army has become the Eighth Route Army of Han Yunhua's department. The Japanese army was compressed in several large cities and more than a dozen county towns such as Dezhou, Leling and Linqing, while Han Yunhua ordered the troops not to attack the county towns heavily guarded by the Japanese army at will, but only to occupy the vast rural areas, because according to the experience gained in the previous war, the Japanese army Yijing had deployed heavy troops in all the counties along the railway line from Dezhou to Jinan, and there were ironclad patrols along the line, and it was difficult for the troops to make progress.

Not long ago, the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment of the 300th Division carried out a surprise attack on a Japanese station in Pingyuan County, Danshi was stubbornly blocked by the Japanese heavy troops, and the Japanese army used favorable terrain and strong fortifications to cause huge losses to the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment, with the support of the Japanese skyplanes and ground artillery, the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment had to retreat after a day and a night of fierce attack, and the whole regiment suffered more than one-third of the casualties, while the Japanese army stationed only one infantry brigade at that station.

This incident reminded Yang Chengwu and Han Yunhua that if the Japanese army does not attack, it will not attack, and danshi does not mean that the Japanese army has reached the point of defeat, but the Japanese army is now just retracting its fists, in order to be more powerful when it comes out again. The Japanese army used strong fortifications and powerful terrain to inflict at least 20,000 casualties on the Inner Mongolia Military Region in just one month, although the losses of the Japanese puppet army were also huge, almost all the rural towns in the entire northwest of Shandong were lost, and the few large cities left behind were also in danger, if the North China Front Command did not come up with a new response plan in a short period of time, the loss of northwest Shandong was almost only a matter of time. Danshi, this yijing is the best command level that the North China Front can do in order to protect the overall situation, and it is rare to be able to reach this level.

After receiving Han Yunhua's instructions, the Inner Mongolia Military Region began to encircle Dezhou and other places without fighting, but instead used its heart for the vast rural areas; with the requirements and support of the troops, all counties in northwestern Shandong established people's political power in a very short period of time, and also formed their own armed forces; in order to support and guide the anti-Japanese situation in northwest Shandong, Han Yunhua submitted to the party Central Committee the establishment of the Shandong Military Region and the Shandong Sub-Bureau.

In fact, as early as the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Party Central Committee set up a Shandong branch in Shandong, but in 1938, the Shandong branch suffered a major setback and had to withdraw to southern Hebei to recuperate, and then the central government sent Han Yunhua to lead more than 1,000 people into Shandong to guide the anti-Japanese war work in Shandong. Danshi Han Yunhua's continuous attacks in Shandong directly angered the Japanese army, and Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo, who was the commander of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army, suddenly dispatched 50,000 troops to besiege Luxi, and Han Yunhua's troops had to withdraw from Luxi. After that, due to the outbreak of the defense of Saibei, Han Yunhua had to return to Saibei to command the battle, and the troops on the Shandong front were handed over to Jiang Yunshan's command. Since Han Yunhua has always been the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and later directly served as the secretary of the Northern Bureau, and the troops under the leadership of the original Shandong Branch were either broken up or Yijing was absorbed by Han Yunhua's department, the Party Central Committee has never made up its mind to rebuild the Shandong Branch.

Danshi Now that Han Yunhua has personally mentioned it, the Party Central Committee has to think about it carefully. On October 27, 1941, the Central Committee decided to send Comrade ** to lead the students who graduated from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the Northern Shaanxi Public School, as well as a part of the Red Army cadres and nearly 400 cadres from the former White Zone to rebuild the Shandong Branch. At the same time, the appointments of the Shandong Branch were announced, and according to the decision of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Shandong Branch of the CPC Central Committee was rebuilt, Comrade Xu Xiangqian was appointed secretary of the Shandong Branch, and Zhang Jingwu, Li Yu, Zhu Rui, Chen Guang, and Peng Xuefeng were members, and Comrade Xu Xiangqian was appointed as the secretary of the Shandong Branch, and Comrade Xu Xiangqian was appointed as the secretary of the Shandong Branch, and Comrade Xu Jingwu, Li Yu, Zhu Rui, Chen Guang, and Peng Xuefeng were the members, and Comrade Xu Xiangqian coordinated the work of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Shandong Branch. …,

At the same time, the Central Military Commission decided that part of the remnants of the original Shandong Column would be placed under the command of the 115th Division. Instructions "The administrative organ of the Shandong Column shall be changed to the administrative organ of the Shandong Military Region, and the subordinate units shall be classified as local armies." The 115th Division commands the units under the Shandong Military Region in a unified manner." Subsequently, the Central Committee issued the "Decision on Unifying the Party Leadership in the Anti-Japanese Base Areas and Adjusting the Relations between Various Organizations." The 115th Division was merged with the Shandong Military Region to form a new Shandong Military Region, and the number of the 115th Division was retained. The numbers of the brigades and detachments under the 115th Division and the Shandong Military Region were abolished, the organs of the brigades and detachments and the military regions and military subdivisions were merged, and the main forces were localized. The unit was reorganized into 25 main regiments with strong personnel and strong leadership, and the rest were organized into local armed forces. The Shandong Military Region and the 115th Division were headed by Xu Xiang as commander and acting division commander, Chen Guang as political commissar, Li Yu as deputy political commissar, Zhang Jingwu as director of the Political Department, Li Zuopeng as chief of staff, Lu Lin and Zhou Xian as ministers of supply and political commissar, and Bai Beiwu and Gu Guangshan as ministers and political commissars respectively.

The party Central Committee's actions were very fast, and as soon as the order was issued, the whole army immediately took action, and Han Yunhua was also very happy with the establishment of the Shandong sub-bureau; with the Shandong sub-bureau and the Shandong Military Region, there will certainly be new changes in the anti-Japanese situation in the entire Shandong Province, and with the Shandong Military Region inside and the Inner Mongolia Military Region outside, the recovery of Shandong will certainly be much smoother. Moreover, the troops of the Shandong Military Region are the main force of the original 115th Division, and the full 25 infantry regiments are equivalent to the strength of 8 infantry divisions.

After being happy, Han Yunhua immediately sent 5 transport planes to Yan'an secretly to transport Comrade ** and others to the front line. At the same time, troops from southern Hebei were sent to meet Xu Xiangqian, Chen Guang and others to lead the troops to Shandong.

The battle on the front line is still continuing, but Danshi Han Yunhua has been very happy during this time, and the latest movements of the intelligence department about the Japanese army have also been continuously sent to the front line headquarters. At this time, the troops reported that the main force of the 115th Division had passed through Shijiazhuang and would reach Hengshui in two days, and the guard regiment and the two leaders of the 15th Division would be able to reach Hengshui tonight.

The arrival of Xu Xiangqian and Chen Guang in Hengshui was a major event for Han Yunhua and the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region, and Han Yunhua immediately ordered martial law to be imposed on the whole city tonight, and all units entered a state of battle, all streets and places with poor public order in peacetime were guarded by troops, and all newly established pickets were also dispatched.

The Inner Mongolia Military Region is now a behemoth that spans several provinces and controls hundreds of large and small cities and hundreds of large and small counties, so the previous military management method is not suitable for the troops, so with the strong support of Han Yunhua, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has established pickets in all cities, and its functions are equivalent to the public security bureau and the police department of the national government in later generations, but because many revolutionaries of the older generation and the Red Army veterans who have participated in the Long March hate the police station very much. So Han Yunhua had no choice but to remodel the police station into a picket, because he had established more than one picket team before, and he was very kind to the big guys in this organization or organizational department, and he also had a certain sense of belonging.

All the pickets of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were directly converted from the troops, of course, whether it was the puppet police left by the Japanese puppet army or the police during the ruling period of the Nationalist Government, all of them were directly thrown into the army by Han Yunhua for reform. Han Yunhua believed that the Inner Mongolia Military Region's troops were a melting pot, and as long as they were not traitors and evildoers, they would be able to transform into real people's fighters, and even if the transformation was not successful, they would not be able to become a danger to society.

At 7:00 p.m. on October 29, under the opening of a cavalry, the headquarters of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, that is, the headquarters of the Central Shandong Military Region, arrived in Hengshui, and the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region Han Yunhua, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy Yang Chengwu, and the commander of the 49th Division, Fu Qiutao, went to the city gate to greet Xu Xiangqian and other people. …,

After a period of greetings, Han Yunhua invited the leaders of the 115th Division to the Hengshui Garrison Headquarters, which is Yang Chengwu's former enemy headquarters, and the guard regiment of the 115th Division was handed over to Yang Chengwu for arrangement.

After dinner, Han Yunhua did not allow Xu Xiangqian and the others to rest, and several important leaders of the two military regions went directly to the operational command room of the front-line command headquarters to conduct strategic analysis and discuss some matters of immediate importance.

Han Yunhua took a whip and pointed to the huge military map on the wall and said: "Two, our military region has now occupied all the areas in the northwest of Shandong except for the counties and cities of Dezhou, Leling, Pingyuan, Linqing, Xiajin, and Wuxian, and now the 3 divisions of the Japanese army, 4 puppet infantry divisions and two cavalry wings are huddled in these counties and stations along the line, and our army is operating in the vast rural areas. Our army can't do anything about their turtle shells, this is the current situation. ”

"Comrade Yunhua, how many troops have you dispatched this time, and how many heavy weapons have you had?" Xu Xiangqian asked.

Han Yunhua knew that the founding marshal of the later Republic of China had a relatively silent personality, cherished words like gold, and spoke very concisely. So he replied: "10 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry division, heavy weapons have 3 artillery regiments and a tank brigade and 2 unconscionable artillery regiments, the Japanese army has 2 artillery wings and a large number of aviation and aircraft support, there is about a tank brigade on the ground mechanized troops, there are about 20 Iron King Eight on the railway, our army has an absolute advantage in strength, and the overall strength of the little devils in heavy weapons is much stronger than ours, plus *** occupies an absolute terrain advantage, our army has attacked several times, Danshi has failed." , and the troops suffered heavy losses. ”

"Hehehe, it is not an exaggeration to say that you Han Yunhua is now a rich man, it is not an exaggeration at all, I was robbed by the chairman some time ago, and I recovered so quickly, it seems that not long ago you also supported a batch of weapons and equipment of the 129th Division, and even sent a complete infantry regiment to the 385th Brigade, your military region is really wealthy, this has been dispatched to 10 divisions, and there are so many powerful troops, people are more popular than people, Before I came, I thought that more than 80,000 people in our 115th Division were enough to cause panic among the little devils, but now it seems that we don't even have a single leg of Commander Han, so this is the gap."

Han Yunhua was stunned for a while by Xu Xiangqian's endless compliments that are not compliments, envy is not envy, and jealousy is not jealousy, is this still the commander-in-chief Xu who is not good at words, is this still the former comrade who has always been taciturn?

Han Yunhua really didn't adapt to Xu Xiangqian's sudden change, but then Han Yunhua reacted, good guy, this is a trick for yourself, and the next thing should be to fight the local tyrants and divide the land.

However, during this time, the consumption of the Inner Mongolia Military Region itself is also very large, and Han Yunhua does not dare to support others at will before he obtains an effective supplement, if the little devil comes over at this time, it will be troublesome, and now Yijing has basically judged the movements and goals of the Japanese, and a new round of war is about to kick off.

Before Xu Xiangqian's words fell, Han Yunhua suddenly frowned, and then said: "Ah, I'm sorry for the two of you, I suddenly remembered that there was a document from the central government that I forgot to reply, let's discuss it with the two of you tomorrow, I want to go, the two of you will spend the night in the guest house of our military region tonight, if you have anything to say, we will talk about it tomorrow." After speaking, Han Yunhua left in a hurry with an apologetic voice.

After Han Yunhua left, Chen Guang glanced at Xu Xiangqian and said with a smile: "Commander, you are scaring our Commander Han, hehehe!" ”

"Yes, no, I was planning to ask for a cavalry division with him, which scared me."

Chen Gang was speechless

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