Han Yunhua didn't stay in Baotou for a long time, and what Han Yunhua saw in just three days was something on the surface, and he felt extremely unfamiliar with Han Yunhua, a city in northern Saibei that has only really rejuvenated in recent years, especially when he saw that the Baotou Arsenal was constantly producing Japanese weapons and equipment and Germany's main rifles, Han Yunhua felt extremely unreal.

In addition, the millions of people in Baotou City also made Han Yunhua feel unfamiliar, although Baotou in later generations as the largest city in the north of the country also had a population of several million, but now in this troubled era, there are not many cities with a population of more than one million, and more than a few cities are only possible in the rear of the city and cities like Beiping, Nanjing, and Wuhan within the occupied area. However, now Baotou not only has a trace of the atmosphere of an international metropolis in later generations, but also has the enthusiasm and vitality that most modern cities do not have.

During his three-day stay in Baotou, Han Yunhua visited the arsenal and barracks, and also inspected the Baotou refugee camp and the large-scale national defense and livelihood projects built through work-for-relief. The results of the experiments were very satisfactory, and neither the "Japanese army" could use heavy bombs or heavy artillery to break down the solid bomb shelters.

After leaving Baotou, Han Yunhua did not stay any longer, but took a car and went straight to Yan'an. Because Han Yunhua's troops had previously sent troops to the northwest of Shanxi and strongly defeated the Kuroda Shigetoku Brigade, the Japanese army's strength had shrunk to the area of Datong Shuo County for a long time, and it was rarely active in the northwest of Shanxi. Therefore, on the way from the Inner Mongolia Military Region to Yan'an, Han Yunhua only encountered a few interrogations of the Jin Sui Army, but when those soldiers of the Jin Sui Army saw that it was a senior officer of a friendly army, although he did not see which commander it was, but the cars and cars on the march and the more than 200 soldiers with submachine guns and shell guns all showed the high position of this commander. Moreover, the northwest region of Jin is now the world of the Communist Eighth Route Army, although the Jin Sui Army is still the controller of this land, but when the 120th Division defeated the Japanese army's several large armies here, the Jin Sui Army has lost control here, so the patrol force of the Jin Sui Army does not dare to trouble Han Yunhua and others.

On April 2, 1940, Han Yunhua and his entourage finally arrived in Yan'an, and the chairman and others who received the news personally went to the north gate of Yan'an to greet Han Yunhua. Because it was already late, the chairman and others exchanged a few words with Han Yunhua and then took Han Yunhua and his party back to the cave where he lived to wash the dust for Han Yunhua and others.

The strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is obvious to all, and the current Inner Mongolia Military Region can be said to be the most powerful army controlled by the Communist Party, whether it is in terms of numbers or the combat effectiveness of the troops, Han Yunhua's department is the strongest, and even the Inner Mongolia Military Region has its own arsenal, since the establishment of the army, it has not let the Party Central Committee invest much personnel and funds, so now the voice of the party against Han Yunhua is much smaller, because the vast majority of people know that Han Yunhua's rise is unstoppable, It is undoubtedly stupid to go against such a young and powerful general with troops, so this time Han Yunhua's first feeling when he came to Yan'an was that Yan'an was surprisingly enthusiastic about him, which made Han Yunhua suddenly a little uncomfortable.

This time when he went to Yan'an, Han Yunhua did not plan to return to Saibei in a short time, but planned to stay in Yan'an for a while longer, so at today's dinner, Han Yunhua did not say the purpose of his return to Yan'an this time, but drank a meal with the chairman and others.

The dinner didn't end until after eleven o'clock at night, and Han Yunhua was already unconscious from drinking at this time. Fortunately, the chairman and others did not drink high, so Han Yunqian helped Han Yunhua to his room to rest, and Han Yunhua's original wish to go to his mother-in-law's house to rest at night was also disappointed. …,

After Han Yunhua got up the next day, he only felt that the world was spinning, his head was even more headache, and the sequelae of drunkenness still hadn't passed. Han Yunhua smiled bitterly, and secretly said that he couldn't drink so much wine in the future, this drunken taste was not good.

After washing up, Han Yunhua changed into clean clothes and went out with a guard team, because there was a meeting, so the chairman and others went out early, originally planned to let Han Yunhua also go to the meeting, but seeing Han Yunhua's snoring sleeping posture, and his mouth was still drooling, the chairman and Vice Chairman Zhou looked at each other with a wry smile, and then left Han Yunhua with two guards who were familiar with the terrain and went to the meeting.

The two guards left by the chairman for Han Yunhua are all natives of Yan'an, they are very familiar with the terrain of Yan'an, and they are both veterans who have been in the army for more than five years, so let them take Han Yunhua to get acquainted with Chairman Yan'an and others.

Han Yunhua hopes to really understand the lifestyle and quality of life of the people in Yan'an in this era, and what people in later generations think is that although Yan'an at this time is occupied by the Communist Party, Yan'an has not been hit and restricted, but because Yan'an is located in the rear, it is relatively stable, and business is very active.

Along the way, Han Yunhua saw that Yan'an was full of small stalls and vendors, most of the shops along the street were open, only some shops with "dang" or "tickets" were half-covered and half-open, and there were many people building houses on the street.

Although Yan'an City is very small, there are really a lot of people, in just over an hour, Han Yunhua heard no less than a dozen dialects, including Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and even Cantonese.

"Xiao Zhang, are there so many people on Yan'an Street every day?". Han Yunhua asked Xiao Zhang, the chairman's guard company commander.

Xiao Zhang's name is Zhang Zhiguo, and he is the guard company commander that the chairman only found after Han Yunhua arrived at the front line, so Han Yunhua is not too familiar with Zhang Zhiguo.

Zhang Zhiguo is very familiar with Han Yunhua, of course, the people of Yan'an and the army who don't know Han Yunhua's name, Yan'an has established dozens of loudspeakers every day to write about Han Yunhua's deeds, and there are many people who don't know him Han Yunhua, but there are really not many people who don't know Han Yunhua's deeds. Today, when he learned that the chief he was going to accompany was the famous commander Han Yunhua, Zhang Zhiguo's mood was very excited, and when he saw Han Yunhua asking, Zhang Zhiguo immediately saluted and replied loudly: "Report to the chief, Yan'an."

Zhang Zhiguo was interrupted by Han Yunhua as soon as he spoke: "Xiao Zhang, don't be nervous, don't be so formal, let's come out to take a look at the customs of Yan'an and understand the real life of the people in the rear, after all, the Anti-Japanese War had just broken out when I left, and people's lives were not as hard as they are now, so we are going to many places today, if you keep saluting me like this, then I have to keep giving you a salute in return, forget it, we can communicate normally." ”

Zhang Zhiguo also felt that he was a little nervous today, although he was very strange that he was not nervous when he saw the chairman and others for the first time, but he behaved so badly today, but he still smiled and said: "The chief is right, I am indeed a little nervous today, hehe, there are not so many people in Yan'an every day, but the Japanese planes only came before yesterday, so according to the general law, the Japanese army will not send bombers to bomb Yan'an in three days. Therefore, when the Japanese planes did not come, people hurried into the city to buy some daily necessities, and small traders also took this opportunity to come out and sell their goods. So it seems that there are a lot of people today, but there are not so many people in normal times"...,

Hearing Zhang Zhiguo say this, Han Yunhua was also relieved, so many people are about to catch up with big cities like Zhangjiakou and Guisui, it is indeed a little abnormal, it turns out that people have gathered to go out in the past few days.

"Do Japanese planes often come to bomb? Do our air defense facilities work? ”。 Han Yunhua asked again.

Zhang Zhiguo smiled bitterly: "I often come, when the chief left Yan'an, the Japanese army didn't think much of our Eighth Route Army, so they didn't send the air force to deal with us." However, the 115th Division of our Eighth Route Army, Mr. Lin, annihilated nearly 1,000 enemies in the Battle of Pingxingguan, and after achieving the first great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army began to send troops to attack our Eighth Route Army, and even prepared to use Shanxi as a springboard to directly capture Yan'an. However, the 120th Division of you and Commander He was caught off guard in the northwest of Jin, and the troops suffered heavy losses. After that, the embarrassed and angry Japanese army dispatched troops to attack the Yellow River defense line in the eastern part of our border area, but was met with a head-on attack by the anti-Japanese warriors of the Eighth Route Army. After the Japanese invaders failed on the ground, they retaliated by means of air raids on the border areas. On November 20, 38, the Japanese army sent aviation units to bomb Yan'an for the first time. Because the preparations were very inadequate, and it was a Sunday, people came and went in Yan'an, and when the seven planes of the Japanese invaders flew over Yan'an, people panicked, people shouted horses neighing, and yellow dust was rolling. Enemy planes strafed and dropped bombs at the crowd, and houses collapsed in an instant. Yan'an was bombed into a pile of rubble, and there were many casualties. After that, the Japanese army continuously sent aviation units to bomb, although we also took some prevention and control measures, but because we lacked anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns to deal with aircraft, the effect of anti-air raids was very bad, the casualties of the military and civilians were very large, 380 houses were blown up, and the school building of Kang Da was destroyed; Jin Daosong, deputy commander of the Guanzhong Military Division of the Eighth Route Army, who remained behind in the rear of the Eighth Route Army, died. ”

Saying that, Zhang Zhiguo took Han Yunhua and others to a place on Yan'an Street where people were concentrated, only to see many people gathered in front of a stone wall and discussed. Seeing Han Yunhua's puzzled eyes, Zhang Zhiguo explained: "This is a place where our Yan'an Border District Government posts notices and propaganda newspapers and the like, just like a news concentration station, once the border government has any new regulations or a new war report, it will be posted here for people to see, of course, major news will be broadcast in the big broadcast." ”

Han Yunhua squeezed in slightly, and then saw a lot of big red paper and newspapers posted on the wall, the big red paper is generally written with the latest battle report, on which Han Yunhua saw the battle report about their total annihilation of the 33rd Division of the Japanese army a few days ago, and later Han Yunhua saw a piece of "Statistical Table of Japanese Bombing Losses in Yan'an" in a relatively high place, which clearly stated that since the Japanese bombed Yan'an for the first time in 1938, all the Japanese bombing records and the losses caused by the bombing to Yan'an, Han Yunhua patiently watched them one by one.

"The two bombings on November 20 and 21, 1938, each flew seven sorties, dropped 110 bombs, killed 30 people, wounded 122 people, and destroyed 109 houses."

"On December 12, 1938, the third air raid carried out 7 sorties, dropped more than 40 bombs, destroyed more than 100 houses, and killed no casualties."

"The fourth air raid on December 14, 1938, with 7 sorties of incoming aircraft and 45 bombs, caused very little damage."

"On August 15, 1939, the fifth air raid was carried out by 10 sorties, 40 bombs were dropped, 6 people were killed and wounded, and 27 houses were destroyed."

"On September 8, 939, the Japanese army flew 43 sorties from morning to night, attacked Yan'an three times, dropped more than 200 bombs, killed and wounded more than 50 people, destroyed more than 100 houses, one cow, one horse, and four pigs."

"On September 10, 1939, the ninth air raid, 10 sorties of incoming aircraft, bombing and strafing, Comrade Zhong Jiaopan of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army was blown up and killed."

"On the morning of October 15, 1939, the 11th and 12th air raids dropped a total of 122 bombs, killing 23 people, destroying 30 houses, and killing several livestock."

"On April 2, 1940, the thirteenth air raid carried out 43 sorties, 52 bombs, 6 houses were destroyed, 4 holes in stone kilns, one dead horse, and no casualties." …,

Han Yunhua saw that the bombing on April 2 happened to be the day they arrived in Yan'an, but fortunately, it was already about seven o'clock in the evening when his convoy entered the city, and if he had found it for a few hours, he was afraid that he would have to meet the devil's plane head-on.

After taking a closer look, Han Yunhua found that the intensity of the Japanese bombing was getting greater and greater every time, from the 7 planes at the beginning to the 43 planes dispatched yesterday, it was obvious that the Japanese army was paying more and more attention to the Eighth Route Army, so it directly led to the Japanese army's attack on the Eighth Route Army becoming heavier and heavier day by day.

Judging from the fact that the first bombing caused more than 30 casualties in Yan'an to yesterday's damage to several houses caused by 43 enemy planes, although Yan'an did not have many effective air defense facilities, it had its own set of methods for dealing with the Japanese bombing, and the results seemed to be very good, which was worth learning from the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

"Then how did you defend the air, I saw that yesterday's bombing by the devils also caused damage to several houses, and there were almost no casualties, what is going on?"

"Chief, in order to prevent air raids, the Party Central Committee ordered the central organs, units, and schools in Yan'an City to move to the ravines outside the city. In addition, the Party Central Committee ordered that the urban area of Yan'an be expanded, that the population should not be excessively concentrated, that those who have the conditions should dig caves to live, and that the masses should also evacuate in an orderly manner and not panic. Therefore, when the enemy planes returned, the masses evacuated and hid in an orderly manner, so that in addition to some houses that were damaged, the casualties dropped rapidly. Later, Japanese planes bombed Yan'an many times, but the results were not good, and even the pagoda mountain outside Yan'an was not blown up. ”

Han Yunhua originally thought that the measures that the Party Central Committee would take, but it turned out to be just some simple methods, but the combination of these originally very simple things can have such a powerful effect, and the chairman and others are indeed powerful. However, Zhang Zhiguo's statement that the Yan'an Pagoda survived because of the poor bombing effect of the Japanese army is not true.

In fact, people are also puzzled that the brick tower built in the Tang Dynasty (rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty) with a plane of 8 sides, 8 corners, 9 floors and a height of 44 meters can miraculously survive during the Anti-Japanese War, but according to the data obtained by people's research, there are two reasons why the Japanese army did not bomb the Yan'an Pagoda. The first is that because the Yan'an Pagoda is outside Yan'an City, there are no important targets around, so the Japanese army has no need to bomb, let alone waste ammunition for a pagoda. What's more important is that the coordinates of the small city of Yan'an on the map are very small, and there are no landmarks, so in order to facilitate the search for Yan'an, the Japanese army retained the Yan'an Pagoda as the geographical coordinates for the bombing of Yan'an, but Han Yunhua did not refute Zhang Zhiguo's words, but continued to follow Zhang Zhiguo forward.

Except for being bombed by the Japanese air force, Yan'an was hardly attacked at all, and because of the strong strength of the Eighth Route Army, the Nationalist government also restrained a lot of anti-communist friction. Because in Chiang Kai-shek's view, the current Communist Party already has the capital to cooperate with the Japanese army, and if the Communist Party gives up the anti-Japanese national united front and cooperates with the Japanese, his Nationalist government will collapse immediately, so Chiang Kai-shek at this time is shocked and frightened by the Communist Party and the entire Eighth Route Army.

From the bottom of his heart, Chiang Kai-shek did not want to see the Eighth Route Army growing, and everyone understands this without explanation. But now the development of the Communist Eighth Route Army far exceeded Chiang Kai-shek's expectations, and even threatened the survival of an entire front of the Japanese army. However, the more this happened, the more Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to provoke the Communists, although he also believed that the Communists would not cooperate with the Japanese army, after all, this was not consistent with the ideas that the Communists had always shouted and propagated, but out of the usual doubts of a political veteran, he still did not dare to guarantee that the Communists would not cooperate with the Japanese army. Therefore, during this period of time, Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to show his teeth against the Communists, and even the established plan to eliminate and expel the New Fourth Army south of the Yangtze River had to be canceled. Therefore, at this time, the streets of Yan'an seemed to be full of singing and dancing, and even some yellow-haired and blue-eyed foreigners could be seen, and there was a posture of all countries coming to court, which made Han Yunhua very ......satisfied.