As Han Yunhua expected, the development plan initially formulated by the North China Front Army also affirmed the strength of Han Yunhua's troops, and the established plan was not to clash with the Chinese army, especially Han Yunhua's troops, for the time being, and even if there was a conflict, large-scale battles would not be allowed, because the Japanese base camp had already begun to prepare for the implementation of the plan to move south.

Originally, according to Germany's demand, Japan was supposed to launch a surprise attack on the Soviet Far East from northeastern China and the Saibei steppe, while Germany attacked the traditional areas of the Soviet Union from Poland and the whole of Eastern Europe, and the two cities simultaneously attacked the behemoth Soviet Union in the east and west directions. However, Japan has been frightened by the steel lion of the Soviet Union, and the First World War of Nomenkan showed the entire Japanese Empire what is truly mechanized and modernized troops, and what is truly modern warfare. When Zhukov led thousands of tanks to form a steel monster and suddenly launched an attack on the Japanese army, the Japanese army suddenly found that they were also human beings, and the spirit of bushido could not make them invulnerable, everything was a floating cloud in the face of the powerful artillery fire of the Soviet Union, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops became ashes in a very short period of time, so although the plan to go north was mentioned some time ago, it was very little adapted.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about the characteristics of Japan and the so-called Yamato nation, Japan is a standard country that worships the strong, in front of the strong they are willing to be a dog, but when the strong are not strong, they will immediately bite back, in the Tang Dynasty, Japan sent Tang envoys to China more than a dozen times in a row, and even theirs were built by imitation of the Tang Dynasty.

But when the Ming Dynasty was unable to govern the vast generals, Japan produced a class of ronins, the number of which was unexpected, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible without the support of the Japanese government at that time. The plague of the Ming Dynasty has become a major problem for the rulers of the Ming Dynasty, for which there is the famous Qi Jiguang anti-Japanese trouble. When the Qing Dynasty was about to collapse, Japan took advantage of the opportunity of the Sino-Japanese War to extort and plunder the blood and sweat of the Chinese people, a full 230 million taels of silver, what kind of concept is that, the total annual tax of the Qing Dynasty was only 80 million taels, that is to say, during the Sino-Japanese War alone, Japan took away the tax revenue of the Qing government for three years at one time. However, evil will be rewarded, Han Yunhua is very clear about the fate of the Japanese, after the end of the war of aggression against China for half a century, or even longer, Japan will not be a general, and all activities will be based on the face of the United States

In fact, if according to Germany's plan, Japan attacked the Soviet Far East from several directions, then even if the big guy of the Soviet Union survived in the end, it would definitely not have the glory of the next few decades, and the millions of Kwantung Army left by Japan in northeast China would not have collapsed, and Japan would have had the same tragic situation as later generations.

But things in the world are so wonderful, Japan is finally ready to move to the United States, in order to achieve the expected goal, Japan began to draw troops from the Chinese battlefield to form the Southern Front. However, all this was done in secret, and even some high-ranking officers of the Japanese army did not know very well.

In order to monitor the movements of the Japanese army, Han Yunhua wantonly sprinkled nails in North China, and the establishment and scale of the intelligence department became larger and larger, and the regular armed forces in Qian Zhuangfei's hands alone had reached as many as 8,000 people, and they were all elite forces. As far as the internal security forces and external hoeing units of the intelligence department are concerned, they can pull out a random one, which is no worse than any elite squad of the Japanese army. …,

It's just that due to the nature of the work of the intelligence services, these units carry out their tasks in the form of small detachments, so these people are not good at positional warfare. But if it is said that the intelligence is investigated or the assassination is carried out, then the intelligence department is still very satisfactory. In order to ensure the accuracy and accuracy of the intelligence, Qian Zhuangfei sent all the officers in his hands out and began to collect intelligence according to Han Yunhua's requirements.

"Commander, on March 28, the 108th Division of the Japanese Army set off from Taiyuan by car and began to rush to Beiping, this is already the fifth division of the Japanese Army transferred from North China, and in the past few days, the North China Front of the Japanese Army has been continuously transferred away, because the Japanese army has imposed martial law on Tianjin Port, so we have not obtained much useful information, and it is not clear that these devils have been transferred there" Qian Zhuangfei, who was sitting opposite Han Yunhua, said a little unwillingly.

During this time, Qian Zhuangfei's intelligence department dispatched almost all the elite forces, but the news obtained was not satisfactory, the Japanese army's various units were transferred very frequently, but as soon as these troops entered Tianjin Port, no news could be detected, which made Qian Zhuangfei very dissatisfied.

But Han Yunhua on the other side seemed very calm, every move of the Japanese army now strongly implied that Han Yunhua and they were going to fight with the Yankees, Han Yunhua knew that some time ago, the Japanese army and the Chinese Dispatch Army Command began to make a small range of adjustments to various units of the Chinese Dispatch Army, but because the intensity of the adjustment was not large, it did not attract the attention of the Chinese side.

"Zhuang Fei, it's okay, these Japanese troops have been transferred back to Japan, and then the Japanese army will transfer many troops back to China, and the Japanese army in North China will leave at most seven to eight divisions and two to three infantry brigades, and the rest of the Japanese army will be of other uses. Therefore, you should not disturb the movement of the Japanese army, just watch from a distance. How's the preparation going? ”

"Commander, everything is almost ready, we can return to Yan'an after you take care of the work at hand, and the central government has also sent a telegram back, saying that it will send a regiment of troops to the Shanxi-Shaanxi border to meet us."

"You send a telegram to the chairman, just say that we will send troops to protect it, after all, it is Yan Xishan's territory, and we rashly send a regiment over is likely to cause Yan Xishan's dissatisfaction, Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army is not easy to provoke, we will have to mix in Saibei in the future, it is not good to provoke Fu Zuoyi."

"Okay, I'll go now" After speaking, Qian Zhuangfei got up and walked out.

After Qian Zhuang flew out, Han Yunhua sorted out his thoughts, he knew that the Pacific War was imminent, and it seemed that the Japanese military was preparing to attack the US military in advance, and this time would not exceed three months at most. The Pacific War was a rare opportunity for China, and the Yankees, who had suffered the consequences, were bullied by the Japanese during the period when the Pacific War just broke out, not to mention the hundreds of large ships at Pearl Harbor, and even the US troops stationed on the Pacific islands were devastated, and even MacArthur, the principal of the American military god West Point, almost became a prisoner of the Japanese, so the Yankees had to seek help from the Chinese, and the word US aid truly reflected its might.

Moreover, on the eve of the outbreak of the Pacific War in history, in order to prepare for the southward advance, the base camp ordered the cancellation of the battle sequence of the South China Front Army, organized into the 23rd Army, and organized the 23rd Army into the battle sequence of the Chinese Dispatch Army, and then organized the main 48th Division into the Taiwan Army (later transferred to Southeast Asia), and at the same time transferred the 51st Division under the Kwantung Army to the 23rd Army. In addition, due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army was set up in Nanjing, and the 20th, 101st, 106th, and 108th Divisions and the 22nd Army Headquarters were successively transferred back to China, among which the 20th Division was incorporated into the Korean Army, and the 101st, 106th, and 108th Divisions and the 22nd Army Headquarters were demobilized. All in all, due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan temporarily relaxed its military offensive against China, giving China a respite. …,

Of course, this only refers to the frontal battlefield, and for the Eighth Route Army, which was in the battlefield behind enemy lines, the real hard days after the outbreak of the Pacific War really came. Because the Japanese army began to target all the spearheads of the offensive at the Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas behind enemy lines, and it was precisely because the Japanese army continued to carry out brutal sweeps and attacks on the base areas, causing the base areas controlled by the Chinese Communists to more than double in a short period of time, and the population also dropped rapidly from 100 million to 50 million, so Han Yunhua had to make preparations in advance.

However, the Pacific War was also an opportunity in Han Yunhua's view, because the Japanese army in North China and even the whole of China was in a period of absolute lack of troops, and the Japanese were said to have attacked, and even passive defense seemed inadequate. If the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang troops could seize the opportunity to fight a counterattack at this time, then the result would definitely be very good, and they would also win more US aid.

However, these things are not something that Han Yunhua can make alone, so Han Yunhua plans to use this rare spare time to go back to Yan'an and have a good talk with the chairman and others.

Han Yunhua's return to Yan'an, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, and others were still very welcome, and they replied with a welcoming telegram shortly after Han Yunhua's telegram was sent. put aside the work at hand, and then gave some work to Luo Ronghuan and Zuo Quan, and Han Yunhua was ready to go back to Yan'an.

But before that, Han Yunhua went back to Guisui first, after all, it had been out for so long, and Han Yunhua was also a little homesick. Compared with those great people of this era, Han Yunhua seems to be a little homesick, especially after the birth of his son, Han Yunhua feels that his fighting spirit has been consumed a lot.

After seeing Yuhan, Han Yunhua didn't stay at home for long, originally Han Yunhua planned to take her and the child back to Yan'an, after all, the mother-in-law lives in Yan'an, and it is still necessary to go back to let grandma take a look after her grandson has been born. But Yuhan is reluctant to go back now, on the one hand, because Han Yunhua went back to Yan'an with a mission this time, and it is definitely inconvenient to take her, and she is unwilling to drag Han Yunhua down. On the other hand, because his son is too young, he is afraid that he will not be able to withstand the wind and rain along the way.

Mother-in-law Jiang Lifang is the only elder of Han Yunhua in this world, so Han Yunhua really hopes to make her happy, but he also knows that what Yuhan said makes sense. So after staying at home for three days, Han Yunhua set off with his own guards, and at the same time took a few family photos of Li Yuhan, his son and daughter, and their family.

Although in Han Yunhua's opinion, the photos taken by the black and white camera at this time are seriously distorted, and the effect is also very poor, but after all, this is also a missing, and bringing it back will always make the elders happy.

Han Yunhua didn't bring many people with him when he returned to Yan'an, except for a special operations squadron, there were only a few "experts" who made unconscionable cannons. In addition to returning to Yan'an this time, Han Yunhua also prepared to inspect Baotou and other places, so the first stop Han Yunhua arrived in Baotou.

Han Yunhua came to the city of Baotou more than 100 times in his previous life, and during the three years he served in Saibei, Han Yunhua had to run from Hohhot to Baotou almost every once in a while. But in this era, Han Yunhua came to Baotou for the first time, and unlike the prosperous first city in Saibei, Baotou now only has the prototype of becoming a big city. At this time, there was a relatively complete city wall in Baotou, which was built by the people organized by Han Yunhua's department after recovering Baotou.

Thirty years ago, Baotou had only a small urban area, but now the urban area of Baotou has more than doubled, because with the construction of the industrial base of General Han Yunhua's district in Baotou, a large number of laborers and refugees seeking a way to survive have also come to Baotou, so it has injected a lot of vitality into Baotou at once. According to a report by Guo Weidong, commander of the Baotou Military Sub-district and commander of the Eighth Field Division, Baotou and its nearby counties and districts now have a population of about 2.3 million, making it the most populous city in northern Cyprus. …,

Guo Weidong, who greeted Han Yunhua, Huang Yanqing, political commissar of the Eighth Division, Wen Niansheng, deputy division commander and director of the Political Training Office, and Li Yannian, the top person in charge of the Baotou Ordnance Industrial Enterprise, and others. Han Yunhua did not go to the Baotou Garrison Headquarters, but went directly to the Baotou Arsenal.

The site of the arsenal was built near Qingshan in the outer city of Baotou, and some unimportant factories were built in the wilderness and were not concentrated. All other important factories were built in the heart of the mountain, and the entire Qingshan area was under martial law by the troops, and no one was allowed to approach the industrial zone except for warrants and passwords from the garrison headquarters.

In peacetime, approximately one infantry regiment is stationed in the vicinity of the industrial zone, as well as a motorized infantry battalion and tank company. There are countless secret sentinels along the way, let alone an army, even the most elite special combat team of the Japanese army may not be able to sneak in. Since the establishment of the industrial zone, this unit has cracked a total of 86 cases of attempting to spy on the intelligence of the industrial zone, captured 140 Japanese spies, and defeated two infiltration and sabotage by Japanese special forces.

Han Yunhua's car was intercepted by the guards just ten miles away from the industrial zone, and a force of about 200 people stopped Han Yunhua and his party with the cooperation of two combat vehicles. However, when Guo Weidong took out the warrant of the Baotou Garrison Headquarters, he matched today's password and entered the industrial zone under the "protection" of this army.

"Commander, division commander, Zheng Jianguo, commander of the First Garrison Regiment of the Baotou Garrison Brigade, reports to you" At the only entrance to the mountain pass in the hinterland of the industrial zone, a cadre wearing camouflage uniforms and several battalion and company commanders were waiting for Han Yunhua and his party in the mountain pass.

Han Yunhua is very familiar with the young cadre in front of him, according to Han Yunqian, this Zheng Jianguo's father is also an old **, and Han Yunhua's old man Han Laohu is pulling the pole to make trouble together, the two old men are very good comrades-in-arms, and they were also sacrificed in the same battle, Zheng Jianguo and the little sister of the Han family grew up together, and the relationship between several people has always been very good. Zheng Jianguo, who served as a battalion commander at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army last year, was transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and Han Yunhua threw him to the Saibei Military Command College for further study, and after graduating half a year ago, he was transferred to Baotou as the head of the garrison regiment.

"Head Zheng, you know the situation here best, so please tell us about the internal situation," Han Yunhua said with a smile.

Zheng Jianguo said loudly: "Report to the commander, you are now in the Baotou Arsenal of our Inner Mongolia Military Region, where there is a large arsenal, a steel factory, a foundry, and a machine manufacturing factory, and the arsenal is divided into a rifle manufacturing workshop, a machine gun manufacturing workshop, a mortar manufacturing workshop, a grenade manufacturing workshop, a conscienceless cannon manufacturing workshop, a gunpowder manufacturing workshop, and an ammunition manufacturing workshop." Zheng Jianguo explained some of the situation of the arsenal to Han Yunhua with ease.

"What is the capacity of each factory?" Han Yunhua asked again.

"I don't know the specific production capacity, because our garrison regiment is only responsible for the security of the industrial zone, and Comrade Li Yannian is responsible for the specific production problems." Zheng Jianguo said loudly.

Han Yunhua asked again: "How is the defense of the factory doing, and is there any intention to destroy the arsenal?" ”

"Our regiment is on duty 24 hours a day, and the whole regiment is divided into two systems, one on duty and one on training, which is carried out in turns. Since the establishment of the arsenal, we have successfully prevented the infiltration and sabotage of small Japanese troops many times, and even two months ago, the Japanese army's special combat team lurked in Baotou, preparing to storm the arsenal, but we were actually destroyed by the regiment. Please rest assured that our garrison regiment will protect the arsenal with their lives, even if it is the last man in the battle. ”

"Very good, please lead the way"

"Yes"

Han Yunhua is still very relieved about the guard unit of the Baotou Arsenal, because although this garrison regiment is called a garrison regiment, it is a second-line garrison infantry regiment, but in fact, this garrison regiment is a veteran of a hundred battles from the regiment commander to the ordinary soldiers, and the shortest military age is more than four years. Moreover, the number of this garrison regiment is far higher than that of a regiment, and the garrison regiment has four infantry battalions, each infantry battalion has four infantry companies, and each infantry company has four infantry platoons, and the total number of the regiment is as high as 4,200 people. In addition, the equipment of the garrison regiment is also the best in the entire military region, almost comparable to Han Yunhua's guard regiment, the whole regiment has Mauser K98 rifles, and even a submachine gun company and a tank company. Therefore, Han Yunhua did not do an in-depth investigation into the guarding situation of the industrial zone, and he believed that Zheng Jianguo would not ......let him down.