Chapter 510: The merger of the three major military regions that have been concentrating on development
The Soviet Union was very satisfied with the support of the Chinese Communists and Han Yunhua's subordinates for the Soviet Union, and made great noise for the Chinese Communists in international public opinion, and Stalin repeatedly called the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, saying that Han Yunhua was a loyal communist fighter and a Communist Party member worthy of training, and he praised him with great praise.
However, Han Yunhua was not very happy about this and was even a little annoyed, so that later he simply handed over the matter of dealing with the Soviet Union to Luo Ronghuan, and he was relieved to deal with other things in the military region. Because he was well aware of the habits of the Soviet Union, in the Soviet Union or in Stalin's personal heart, communism was his belief, but the great Slavic nation was the most important, and any interest that conflicted with the national interests of the Soviet Union would be devastated. This can be seen from the relationship between the Soviet Union and China and the CCP during the Anti-Japanese War.
Since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Union has constantly adjusted its policy toward the CCP while developing Sino-Soviet relations under the guidance of its national interests and its foreign policy of peace. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the Soviet Union gave public opinion and moral support, but refused military assistance, and asked the CCP to compromise and retreat to the Kuomintang, and the Soviet Union could support the equipment of more than a dozen divisions of the Nationalist Government at one time, but did not give the CCP any substantial assistance.
Before and after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union repeatedly demanded that the CCP "defend the Soviet Union with arms" and praised and supported the battlefields in the liberated areas. Before and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Soviet Union recognized the Kuomintang government as the sole legitimate government of China, and at the same time tried to belittle the CCP. These policies objectively supported and assisted the Chinese people's national self-defense war, and also showed the tendency of the Soviet Union's great power chauvinism and power politics, hurt the national feelings of the Chinese people, and brought unfavorable factors to China. Han Yunhua believes that not only can he see this clearly, but also the high-level leaders of the CPC Central Committee can see it clearly, and it is wishful thinking that the Soviet Union wants to ask Han Yunhua to give him his life in a few words.
No matter how Han Yunhua evaluated the Soviet high-level in his heart, especially the tricks of Stalin himself, he still spoke highly of the Soviet Union's weapons and equipment. According to the cooperation agreement between the two sides, the Soviet Union will provide the Inner Mongolia Military District with about 200 tanks and a large number of light weapons in the shortest possible time.
The Soviet Union did not dare to play Han Yunhua at this time, and at the same time that the Soviet-trained troops arrived in Guisui, this batch of weapons and equipment also arrived at the Sino-Mongolian border. In view of the fact that the target of more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles was too large, the Soviet side asked Han Yunhua's unit to send troops to the border area to receive equipment in order not to provoke the Japanese.
Han Yunhua still understands this very well, after all, the situation facing the Soviet Union is different now, and he really needs to be cautious, so he plans to personally go to the Sino-Mongolian border to receive this batch of weapons and equipment.
However, Han Yunhua's wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, Luo Ronghuan, Cheng Zihua and others resolutely oppose Han Yunhua's northward ascension, and the reasons are of course very sufficient. Luo Ronghuan believes that Han Yunhua, as the supreme leader of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the core figure of this army, can go to a place where there is no guarantee of safety at will. A commander has the duty of a commander, and the duty of a commander is not to charge into battle, but to control the overall situation, guide the development of the troops, or win any war.
Han Yunhua is very clear about the current situation, as long as it is something that is opposed by Luo Da Political Commissar, he can't find any reason to refute it, Luo Ronghuan usually doesn't care what Han Yunhua does, just like the division of labor between the two of them, political life belongs to the political commissar, and military command and strategy formulation are managed by the commander, so the opinions of the two people on general matters are still the same. But Han Yunhua has a lot of ghost ideas, so he often does something unexpected, but the accustomed Luo Da Political Commissar will not object as long as Han Yunhua is not too out of line, he will only turn a blind eye and see nothing. …,
But Luo Ronghuan went north to receive equipment in person like this, and he didn't agree to anything, and the political commissar Luo and Han Yunhua have been partners for a long time, and they have a certain understanding of his character, and they know that they must not open this mouth, otherwise it will become a habit in the future.
Han Yunhua was caught in the middle by a large group of old **, even if he had a big idea, he couldn't implement it, so he could only order Cheng Zihua and Wan Guoquan to receive this batch of Soviet weapons and equipment together with a wry smile.
Cheng Zihua and Wan Guoquan were happy, what a glorious thing, and they still received heavy weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles, and Wan Guoquan was excited when they thought of more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles. In fact, the most depressed person in the past two years is the brigade commander of his mechanized brigade. From the new regiment to the current Inner Mongolia Military Region, Wan Guoquan has been under Han Yunhua for more than 4 years, but Wan Guoquan is the slowest one in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, not because Han Yunhua doesn't appreciate Wan Guoquan, but because of Wan Guoquan's own problems.
Wan Guoquan was originally an infantryman, but later he fell in love with the command of mechanized troops such as chariots and tanks, and he was very talented in this area. But talent alone is not enough, the Inner Mongolia Military Region after Han Yunhua's hard work in the end only got less than 300 Japanese tanks, and the models are not uniform, there are Japan's latest Type 97, and there are also Type 95 and Type 95 that are about to be eliminated before. After that, the tank units were never equipped with new weapons, and there were no fewer losses in the battles of the previous period.
In the past two years, with the continuous expansion of the troops, the cadres of the Inner Mongolia Military Region have been promoted at a fast speed, and those who are about the same qualifications as Wan Guoquan are already division commanders, such as Li Dayong, Yang Chengwu and others. However, Wan Guoquan was reluctant to abandon the mechanized troops, so he was only a tank brigade commander until now.
Originally, Han Yunhua was interested in transferring him to other units to serve as division commander or division political commissar, but he was rejected by Wan Guoquan, because he really liked the offensive method of the chariot unit and the chariot unit. At present, the Soviet Union is supporting weapons and equipment, especially I heard that the most weapons and equipment supported are combat vehicles and tanks, so Wan Guoquan is the happiest among these people. The thought of commanding a complete tank division was exciting, it was a tank division.
In order to smoothly receive this batch of weapons and equipment, in addition to mobilizing 400 tankers and 300 large trucks, Han Yunhua also mobilized a cavalry division to go north with Wan Guoquan and others.
After Wan Guoquan and the others left, Han Yunhua turned his attention to the land of the Northeast. Now that both China and Japan have tacitly agreed not to trouble each other, even the Japanese troops in the direction of Burma have stopped besieging the expeditionary force, and Du Yanming and Sun Liren can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Although due to Han Yunhua's reminder and the change in the way of thinking of Sun Liren and others, the Chinese Expeditionary Force did not defeat the Savage Mountain as it did in history, but because the Japanese army spent a large part of its energy on the expeditionary force attacking Burma, the life of the expeditionary force was not easy.
Since both sides have no intention of going to war for the time being, Han Yunhua does not want to destroy this rare and short-term peace, so he does not plan to send troops to the Northeast, because the odds of winning that way are less than two, and it is Han Yunhua's style not to fight a battle that he is not sure of.
However, not sending troops to the Northeast does not mean that Han Yunhua can make the Japanese puppet army feel better, and the fact that the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region do not move does not mean that no one is looking for trouble with the Japanese puppet army. Due to the support of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Far East Military Region of the Soviet Red Army, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation has developed rapidly, and many cadres brought by Li Dingguo have already held important positions in the Anti-Japanese Federation, so Han Yunhua plans to use the foundation of the Anti-Japanese Federation to build a new army.
Han Yunhua immediately ordered the formation of the Northeast Field Army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, which was different from the four fields of later generations, and the main target of the four fields after the formation of the four fields was the Kuomintang reactionaries, and now the primary target of the Northeast Field Army after the formation of the Japanese puppet army entrenched in the northeast. …,
On July 22, 1941, Han Yunhua applied to the Central Committee to transfer Lu Zhengcao to work in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the Central Committee soon called back to reject Han Yunhua's request, on the grounds that the Jizhong Military Region was now in a golden period of rapid development, and Lu Zheng's operation as the commander of the Jizhong Military Region was the soul of the Jizhong Military Region, so he could not be transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region.
But Han Yunhua needed Lu Zhengcao, a veteran of the Northeast Army, so soon there was another application for Lu Zhengcao's transfer. Han Yunhua did not say that Lu Zhengcao would be thrown to the northeast now, but said that there is no Japanese puppet army in Jizhong now, although the Jizhong Military Region is still called the Jizhong Military Region, but in fact there is no opponent, and the first force their troops face when they go out of the military region is the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Southern Hebei Military Region, so there is no need for the Jizhong Military Region to exist, Han Yunhua suggested that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China should cut the Jincha-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region together, and then form a new military region. For example, the Central Plains Military Region or the Shanxi-Shandong-Henan Military Region and other large military regions that are in direct contact with the territory of the Japanese puppet army.
The chairman and others did not expect that Han Yunhua would be so unrelenting in wanting to transfer Lu Zhengcao, and in order to transfer Lu Zhengcao to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it can be said that they did not use all means, and even used the methods of disbanding the Jizhong Military Region and the Jinchaji Military Region. This has attracted the attention of the Central Committee, and some members of the Central Committee even thought that Han Yunhua was pulling the mountain, so the bigwigs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China also deliberately took out Lu Zhengcao's resume and files to look at and look at them, and they didn't find that this Lu Zhengcao was much more than others.
However, Vice Chairman Zhou understood a little, he knew that Han Yunhua did not lack military cadres who could fight, and for any military and political cadre, Han Yunhua did not apply for the transfer again and again, which was not Han Yunhua's style. Although Lu Zhengcao's combat command ability is indeed good, it is not the most powerful, and it is not impossible for military cadres with stronger command ability than Lu Zhengcao, but it is obviously unreasonable for Han Yunhua to insist on this Lu Zhengcao.
If you want to say that Han Yunhua is not right to pull the mountain, Lu Zhengcao and Han Yunhua can be said to have no friendship at all, although the two have cooperated in several battles, but basically speaking, the Jizhong Military Region belongs to the kind of soy sauce player, and it can hardly help much, and according to the investigation of the comrades of the Central Special Branch, the friendship between Han Yunhua and Lu Zhengcao is very weak, and the two have met no more than twice.
As the founder of the Central Special Branch, Vice Chairman Zhou believes that the reason why Han Yunhua is so eager to transfer Lu Zhengcao to the north must have a special role. The Inner Mongolia Military Region is now next to the Northeast Region, and Lu Zhengcao is from the Northeast Army, so Vice Chairman Zhou believes that Han Yunhua's transfer of Lu Zhengcao to the north must have something to do with the Northeast Region. Vice Chairman Zhou's proposal made the heads of the Central Committee suddenly dazzle, and they all agreed with Vice Chairman Zhou's judgment.
Vice Chairman Zhou's words suddenly made a possibility suddenly come to the chairman's mind, that is, whether Han Yunhua is preparing to send troops to the northeast, and according to the record of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the central government, the largest number of people among the five major military subdivisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are Shen Yuquan's Northeast Military Subdivision and Chen Geng's Eastern Hebei Military Subdivision, which has to make people have other ideas. However, Chairman Han Yunhua's proposal to disband the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region was also very interesting, because the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region could indeed no longer play much role, and it was necessary to merge the two military regions into the Inner Mongolia Military Region or take them out separately, so the chairman proposed to discuss the dissolution of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region.
As a result of the discussions, the central authorities decided to merge the Central Hebei Military Region into the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region into the Eighth Route Army, and the units under the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to be organized into the 121st Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the territory to be incorporated into the Inner Mongolia Military Region. The 121st Division is the integrated infantry division newly allocated by the Nationalist Government to Han Yunhua's department, but Han Yunhua didn't look down on it, so he lost it to the Party Central Committee for processing, but he didn't expect it to become the general number of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. The 121st Division was composed of Nie Rongzhen as division commander and political commissar, Xiao Ke as deputy division commander, Tang Yanjie as chief of staff, and Shu Tong as director of the Political Department. …,
Whether it was Han Yunhua, Lu Zhengcao, or Nie Rongzhen, they didn't expect the central government to issue such an order, Han Yunhua could say that he had a certain understanding of this matter after all, and this matter itself was proposed by him. But Lu Zhengcao and Nie Rongzhen are not very happy, especially Nie Rongzhen, the Jinchaji Military Region is developing well, just because you Han Yunhua said that it will be disbanded, what is this doing.
You must know that after several years of development, although it is not as perverted as the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it has developed into an armed force that the Japanese puppet army has to pay attention to, and now the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is under the jurisdiction of: 1st Army Division, (jurisdiction over the 1st, 3rd, 20th, 25th regiments and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd district teams); 2nd Army Division, with 4th, 19th, 24th Regiments and 4th and 5th Regiments); 3rd Army Division, (2nd and 42nd Regiments and Cavalry Regiments and 6th and 7th Sector Teams); 4th Army Division, (with the 5th, 30th, 35th, 36th Regiments and the 8th and 9th Districts); 5th Army Division, (with jurisdiction over the 6th Regiment and the 10th and 11th Districts); 6th Army Division, (31st and 44th Divisions); 7th Army Division, (32nd, 36th, and 45th Divisions); 8th Army Division, (33rd, 37th, and 41st Divisions); 9th Army Division, (under the jurisdiction of the 34th Division); 10th Army Division, (35th and 43rd Divisions); 11th Army Division, (7th, 9th and 12th Regiments); The 13th Army Division, (under the jurisdiction of the 11th, 12th, 13th regiments and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th divisions), the total number of troops reached more than 100,000.
Although Nie Rongzhen and the others felt very uncomfortable, as a member of the Communist Party, the orders issued by them still needed to be carried out, and it was indeed necessary to disband the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region, because the Inner Mongolia Military Region was sandwiched between them and the Japanese puppet army, and almost overnight, the troops of the two military regions lost their targets and opponents, which was not conducive to the development of any army.
Although the central government's order should be carried out, Nie Rongzhen did not want to let Han Yunhua go, the initiator, just like that, so he took several senior cadres of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to Zhangjiakou under the protection of a cavalry battalion, saying that he wanted to discuss with Han Yunhua about the handover of the defense area, but no one knew what he was actually going to do.
In fact, Han Yunhua still felt that he was at a loss, wasn't it just one more sentence, he didn't expect that the chairman would have such a high efficiency, and the order would be issued to all military regions so quickly, which made him embarrassed.
Nie Rongzhen stayed in Zhangjiakou for 3 days, and what he talked about with Han Yunhua was probably only known to the high-level of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, but no one revealed the secrets between them, only that Master Nie Rongzhen was angry when he came, and he was jubilant when he left. As for our great Han Yunhua, Commander Han had a sad face when he greeted Commander Nie and his party, and his face was even longer when he sent people away.
It is also worth mentioning that when Division Commander Nie came, he only brought a battalion of cavalry, and when he left, he became a cavalry of a brigade.
In the conference room of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Han Yunhua sat in his place excitedly, how could he still have the dead face just now.
On the contrary, Luo Ronghuan, Yang Ruihua and others did not look good, especially Yang Ruihua, the big housekeeper, and Minister Chen Yun and Chen, who were in charge of the economy, also looked entangled.
"Commander, how do I feel that you are not distressed at all, it is a whole cavalry brigade, not only is it fully equipped with weapons and equipment, but even the people are ours, and we will lose a lot of money at this time." Yang Ruihua couldn't help but ask.
Han Yunhua smiled and said: "What do I feel sorry for, isn't it just a cavalry brigade, hehehe, Lao Yang, what we control now is the territory of several provinces and more than one million troops, so we must take a long-term view, and the cavalry of a brigade is only more than 5,000 people, so it will not hurt our military region." Besides, such a large piece of territory in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region has been handed over to us, do you think we will suffer? If we talk about it in detail this time, we should have made a lot of money, and we have made a lot of money. ”
"Earned? Yunhua, did we really make money? Then you still had a dead face just now, which made us all afraid that Comrade Nie Rongzhen would be angry, causing the relationship between our two troops to stalemate? Luo Ronghuan said......,