On July 29, 1941, Han Yunhua issued Order No. 11 of the commander of the military region, ordering the troops of the former Jizhong Military Region to be the backbone, and the Jizhong Military Subdivision of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to be formed on the basis of the territory of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Jizhong Military Region, and the 9th Division of Li Jingquan and He Guangyu's 17th Division were immediately merged into the Jizhong Military Subdivision, and the newly formed 17th Cavalry Division was transferred to the Central Hebei Army.

At the same time, Han Yunhua also ordered the original units of the Jizhong Military Region to be reorganized into two infantry divisions, with the unit numbers of the 59th Division and the 60th Division. 59th Division Commander Meng Qingshan, Political Commissar Li Yingwu; Wang Ping, commander of the 60th Division, and Sun Yi, political commissar, due to the small number of troops in the Jizhong Military Region, both the 59th Division and the 60th Division are rare divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region with two brigades and four regiments.

The leading cadres of the newly established Jizhong Military Sub-district have also been adjusted, and Lu Zhengcao is no longer the commander of the Jizhong Military Region and has been transferred to another position. Li Jingquan was promoted to commander of the Jizhong Military Division and commander of the 9th Division, and He Guangyu was appointed political commissar and commander of the 17th Division. The entire Jizhong Military Sub-district has four infantry divisions and one cavalry division, with a total strength of more than 93,000 troops, which is the smallest number of troops among all military sub-divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Not long ago, Wan Guoquan sent a telegram from Erenhot, saying that they had already made contact with the Soviet Red Army and had received the equipment, and at the same time the two sides had also had a relatively good exchange, and the Soviet comrades were surprised by the quality of the cadres of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and highly appreciated the soldiers of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

According to Wan Guoquan, the Soviet Union supported the Inner Mongolia Military Region with a total of 231 BT-5 tanks and about one infantry division, including 76 105-caliber guns.

Han Yunhua thought carefully about the performance of this BT-5 tank, Han Yunhua is familiar with the T series, the main tank of the Soviet Union during World War II, and he also has a certain understanding of this BT series, but his understanding is very limited. Now just listening to the name and model will definitely not understand its performance, but no matter what the performance of the tanks supported by the Soviet Union is, but Han Yunhua thought that the things produced in the Soviet Union were worse than the kind of tanks produced in Japan that were not tank tanks and combat vehicles and were not called chariots, so he ordered Wan Guoquan to pull back whatever the Soviet Union gave.

In fact, what Han Yunhua wants most is the main battle tank of the Soviet Union - the T34 tank, which played a certain role in the performance of the Soviet Union as the main battle tank of the Soviet Union in World War II and its superior performance in actual combat. Another key point is that the tank is easy to operate, and it is no exaggeration to say that a farmer who has never learned to drive a tank can learn how to drive a T34 in a few days.

Han Yunhua remembers that the legend about the T34 is recorded in the historical records, it is said that in the Battle of Stalingrad, the workers in the factories in the city were working hard to make the T34 tanks, and whenever the Nazi troops came, the workers of the tank repair factory drove the T34 tanks to fight the Nazi army. The Battle of Kursk was the largest decisive battle of tanks in World War II, and the Soviet Union's losses amounted to 6,064 vehicles, and the main reason for its large losses was the serious lack of pre-war training of tank crews. Such a simple tank can be called a miracle in the military history of the world, and the rapid production capacity in various countries in the world can indeed quickly replenish combat losses, but the training of tankmen takes time, and a qualified tanker cannot be trained successfully casually. So the T34 But this simple and easy-to-build tank is very popular with all countries, especially those small countries with low productivity and countries with low cultural education for the whole population.

But Han Yunhua also knew that the Soviet Union itself was not enough for such an advanced tank, so how could it support the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and it was only 1941, and the production of T34 tanks may not have been put on the agenda, so it would be useless for him to think about it here. Although the BT5 is not clear about the performance, it should not be too bad to think about it, even if it can't deal with the Japanese main battle tank, but it is always possible to fight the infantry, anyway, in a word, give it, we are not picky. …,

All aspects of the military region have entered the normal, and Han Yunhua can finally come down easily. Han Yunhua made a plan for himself, just wait for Wan Guoquan to send the Soviet-supported tanks to Guisui, he will hand over all the trivial matters of the military district to Luo Da Political Commissar to deal with, and concentrate on troop building.

On July 31, Wan Guoquan and others finally returned to Guisui, and Han Yunhua was overjoyed and immediately rushed to Guisui by train.

After seeing the so-called BT-5 tank, Han Yunhua smiled bitterly, the Soviet Union is really speechless, this BT-5 tank Han Yunhua has also seen, it is in the military museum of later generations. This tank was successfully developed by the Soviet Union in 1933, and the entire Soviet Union produced 1,884 tanks in the first few years, of which only 263 were equipped with radio stations and frame-type antenna-type BT-5, and the tanks supported by the Inner Mongolia Military Region were all without radio. The hull and turret of this tank are a hybrid structure of steel armor riveted and welded. The front part of the hull is the cab, the middle part is the fighting compartment, and the rear part is the power compartment. The wheelhouse and the fighting compartment are connected, and the fighting compartment and the power compartment are separated by partitions. Power-The transmission device is rear-mounted, and the exhaust pipe of the engine is equipped with a silencing device. The engine's power is first driven by the cooling fan and then transmitted to the gearbox through the main clutch.

The performance of this tank can only be said to be average, it is a kind of imitation of the United States a light tank successfully developed, the total weight of the entire tank battle is 11.6 tons, vehicle length: 5.50m, vehicle width: 2.23m, vehicle height: 2.174m, armor thickness: the maximum armor thickness is 13mm (front and side of the hull and turret), the armor behind the hull is 10mm, the bottom is 6mm, and the staffing is 3 crew members.

The main armament of the BT-5 is a M1932 45mm tank gun, which is not bad, the armor-piercing shells fired by the 45mm tank gun can penetrate the 43mm steel armor at a distance of 300m, the 35mm steel armor at a distance of 1000m, and a 7.62mm machine gun as a paving weapon. The maximum speed is 52 km / h on tracks, 70 km / h on wheels. The maximum travel is 200km for crawler m and wheel.

The entire BT-5 only has armor thickness and firepower configuration to make Han Yunhua quite satisfied, and Han Yunhua also knows the combat vehicles produced by the Japanese army, and the main combat vehicles of the Japanese army are the 94-type light chariot and the 95-type medium chariot, as for the latest 97-type chariot, there are only a small number. The Type 94 light tank was developed by Japan's Hino Motor Co., Ltd. in 1933, and the prototype was completed in 1934. It entered service in 1935 and was soon deployed in the poorly paved area of Manchukuo, where it fought as an infantry division with separate chariot companies (6 vehicles per chariot company). After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the Type 94 light combat vehicle was also put into actual combat, mainly used for infantry support, reconnaissance support and armored hauling.

The performance of the Type 94 light tank was very poor, the engine was 1 Mitsubishi air-cooled four-stroke gasoline engine, the armament system was only a 1x6.5mm Type 91 machine gun or a 1x7.7mm Type 92 machine gun, and the armor thickness was about 6-12mm, which was far worse than the BT-5. Even though China had little armor and no anti-tank weapons, it was quickly discovered that a way to deal with the Type 94 could easily destroy the weakly armored Type 94 light tanks with a pack of explosives and a bundle of grenades, which were only 6 mm of armor at the thinnest point and could sometimes even be penetrated by rifles. Taking the BT-5 against the Japanese Type 94 tank is not a matter of adults beating children and catching them.

What made Han Yunhua happiest was that the Soviet Union knew that the Inner Mongolia Military Region could not produce shells for the M1932 45mm tank gun, so it specially provided the Inner Mongolia Military Region with a set of production lines for the M1932 45mm tank gun shells, although it could only produce more than 5,000 shells a month, but it could basically meet the combat needs of the troops.

This time, the Soviet Union also supported the Inner Mongolia Military Region with 20,000 M1891 rifles and 500 Dzhegalev M7.62mm light machine guns. The Dzhegalev M7.62mm light machine gun was designed by the former Soviet Union Deggalev, designed in 1926, equipped with the Soviet Army in 1928, and played an important role in World War II. Although this light machine gun was found in use, after the gun was fired continuously, the barrel heated and the re-entry spring under the barrel was heated and changed its performance, affecting the normal operation of the weapon, but the number of 500 was still considerable, and it was still barely usable. But the M1891 rifle is a complete chicken rib, and after seeing this kind of gun, Han Yunhua's favorability towards the Soviet Union has plummeted a lot. …,

As the name suggests, this gun is a rifle produced during the Tsarist period, the 1891 rifle has a hexagonal receiver profile, the gun has a strap swivel, and the detachable four-edged bayonet is attached to the muzzle by a tubular socket, and when the bayonet is loaded, it looks a lot like an old-fashioned front-loading gun. The M1891 rifle has changed a lot, the earliest model did not have an upper handguard and was equipped with a strap swivel instead of the strap slot on the later model, around 1894, the gun type was changed to add a wooden upper handguard, and this style of the M1891 rifle was produced until 1908. Between 1892 and 1908, the Russians received a total of 313,375 M1891 infantry rifles and another 54,235 single-shot training rifles.

In 1923, the Soviet Red Army decided to replace all M1891 rifles, so the M1891 infantry rifle was discontinued, which means that the Soviet Union now has at least hundreds of thousands of these old rifles. With this kind of performance of the rifle, not to mention the 38 Gadzpardle with the Japanese army, even the standard equipment of the National Government Fu is much better than it. Han Yunhua's department can't look down on this kind of gun, and even if it looks good, it can't produce bullets, no, what can the ammunition supported by the Soviet Union do, thinking about it, Han Yunhua can only send 20,000 rifles to the Saibei Military University as training guns.

In short, the quantity of weapons and ammunition that the Soviet Union provided to the Inner Mongolia Military Region this time was quite objective, but the quality was not complimentary. It's not a little bit worse, and the more than 200 tanks are still somewhat useful, and other than that, they can almost only be used for training.

Han Yunhua handed over all the weapons and equipment to Wan Guoquan and asked him to send this batch of equipment according to his own wishes, and the military region headquarters only kept the more than 200 tanks.

Now the Inner Mongolia Military Region has been equipped with 448 large and small tanks, and its armored strength is almost a division, so under Han Yunhua's order, the First Armored Division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was established, and Wan Guoquan was finally promoted to division commander.

Although the air force has only a pitiful 80-odd planes, after all, it is also the air force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and when necessary, it can also provide some air support for the troops and carry out some urgent tasks.

The last stone fell to the ground, and Han Yunhua could finally let go and do a great job. Now that Luo Ronghuan is in charge of the political life of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and Chen Yun is in command of economic development and production, then he, as the commander, can let go of his own army building.

In the past few years, Han Yunhua has carried out the education popularization system in the Saibei region, and more and more young people have graduated from junior high school in recent years, and although these young people have lost the opportunity to continue their studies, it has provided the Inner Mongolia Military Region with a large number of military and political cadres who can be trained.

Therefore, after arriving in Guisui, Han Yunhua sent a telegram to Luo Ronghuan and Chen Yun, telling them about his arrangements for the next period of time, and the meaning was very clear, that is, don't bother him if it is not necessary, he wants to conduct an inspection of the entire Saibei.

Luo Ronghuan and Chen Yun could only smile bitterly after receiving the telegram, this commander is usually shrewd, but how can he be so speechless when he makes a mistake, although there are many guards around Han Yunhua, but if his whereabouts are detected by the little devil, he may not take risks. But although Luo Ronghuan and Chen Yun were very worried, but now that Han Yunhua was in Guisui, even if they had the strength to stop him. So Luo Ronghuan and Chen Yun discussed it and decided to secretly inform Tan Zhenlin and Yang Chengwu that the Saibei Military Subdivision and the Southern Hebei Military Subdivision would immediately enter the first-level alert in case something happened.

Han Yunhua didn't care how nervous Luo Ronghuan and Chen Yun were, he set off with more than 2,000 graduating students from the Special Operations Academy after staying at Saibei University for a week. Han Yunhua's purpose is to inspect and train all the way, and with the continuous expansion of Saibei University, the teaching quality has also improved a lot, and the teaching method has also undergone great changes. …,

Han Yunhua brought out more than 2,000 special combat personnel who were about to graduate this time, on the one hand, to test the combat effectiveness of these special combat personnel who were about to graduate, and on the other hand, to replenish some fresh blood for the 1st and 2nd Special Combat Divisions. The special combat personnel who graduated in the past two years have been asked to leave by various divisions, and the special combat teams of the military region have not actually replenished many new recruits. This time, Han Yunhua transferred all the graduates to give a clear signal to each division, and it was impossible to want a special combat team.

The second stop is Baotou, as the only heavy industry area in the northern part of the Saibei region, its status is far more important than the Mongolian holy city of Guisui, so the troops stationed in Baotou are also the most in the northern part of the Saibei. At the same time, after the formation of the Saibei Military Division, Tan Zhenlin, the commander of the military region, was basically stationed in Baotou. On the one hand, it is because of the important geographical location of Baotou, and on the other hand, because Guisui is too close to Zhangjiakou, and it is indeed too far away from Suixi, the westernmost one, which is not conducive to the control of the troops, and Baotou is different. Baotou is only more than 300 kilometers away from Guisui and not far from Linhe, so it can directly control Bayannur, Ordos and other places.

Therefore, after receiving the telegram from the cadres of Guisui, Tan Zhenlin sent troops to wait for Han Yunhua and others more than a hundred miles east of Baotou. But this kind of waiting is very boiling, Han Yunhua and the others have no news for a whole week, which can frighten Tan Zhenlin and the others, if Han Yunhua has an accident on the territory of Saibei, then he, the commander of the Saibei Military Division, will not be able to get out of it.

Tan Zhenlin did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Zhangjiakou Military Region to report the situation. As soon as this telegram was sent to Zhangjiakou, the high-level leaders of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region were alarmed, but Han Yunqian, who was Han Yunhua's guard commander and sister, was very calm, she told Luo Ronghuan and others that if her brother and more than 2,000 special combat personnel could be quietly cleaned up, then they would be even more unsafe, and there were more than 400 elite guards around his brother, but the essence of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region could cause a commotion if he was released casually. With these people in safety, that's not a problem at all. Since the Saibei Military Division has waited for a week and has not waited, then his old brother must be training a special combat team.

Luo Ronghuan and the others thought about it and felt that Han Yunqian's idea was likely to be correct, so they ordered Tan Zhenlin to continue searching, but there was no need to make a fuss.

But what happened next was a big surprise to Tan Zhenlin and others, first of all, the headquarters of the defenders of several counties around Baotou were raided by unknown enemies, and the main cadres of the defenders of several counties disappeared overnight, and the troops suffered extremely heavy losses.

The military situation was reported to the Saibei Military Division, Tan Zhenlin and the others were shocked, there was such a powerful enemy in the surrounding area of Baotou, but their military division had no news at all, it can be seen how serious the matter is, plus now Commander Han Yunhua and his guards are training around Baotou, if these people meet the commander, it will be a big deal.

While Tan Zhenlin reported the military situation to Zhangjiakou, he immediately transferred a brigade of troops from Guisui to Baotou, and at the same time, the Saibei Military Sub-district immediately entered a wartime state, and the ammunition of each unit was even more than 10 days of ammunition required for ......the operation, and the atmosphere became extremely tense for a while.