As judged by Han Yunhua, Okamura Ninji received a tip as early as the day after Han Yunhua returned to Guisui, but Han Yunhua's reason, wisdom and decisiveness all the time made Okamura Ninji suspect that this was a trick given to him by Han Yunhua, so although the Japanese army continued to gather in the northwest of Shandong, it never dared to cross the border between Hebei and Shandong.

However, this action of the Japanese army frightened the Nationalist Government enough, and the Nationalist Government's rare hardline attitude this time also made the Nationalist Government think that the Communist Party had no intention of getting involved in the Hebei region this time, or did not want to wade into the troubled waters. Under Chiang Kai-shek's personal order, a list of communists and progressives secretly detained by the Kuomintang was handed over to Yang Chengwu, and as long as the Inner Mongolia Military Region agreed to stay in Hebei, then everyone on this list would be safely sent to Yan'an.

Yang Chengwu didn't dare to call the shots in this kind of thing, and immediately sent this list to Han Yunhua and asked for Han Yunhua's opinion. After reading it, Han Yunhua immediately called back, told Yang Chengwu and asked him to add many names to the list, including Luo Shiwen, Song Yiyun, etc., and ordered Yang Chengwu to immediately contact the Kuomintang side, so that they must send these communists to Yan'an safely, otherwise the two sides will not be able to reach a consensus.

In fact, Han Yunhua knew that Chiang Kai-shek was playing tricks when he saw the list at first glance, and at first glance, Shi Fangde's list was full of a large piece of paper, and there were more than 200 people in detail, but Han Yunhua found that there were few important ones, either guerrilla leaders or county party committee clerks, and several important people arrested by the Communist Party did not mention any news.

Others may not know who is being held in the Xifeng concentration camp, but Han Yunhua knows everything about it. In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the 'Fourth. 12 'anti-** coup d'état, arrested many influential communists and progressives, and first imprisoned the Kuomintang in Nanjing's 'military prison'. 1937 'VII. Seven 'Incident, the Japanese invaded on a large scale, Nanjing was in danger, Chiang Kai-shek passively resisted Japan, actively anti-communist, ordered the military commander to move this group of people to Wuhan, and soon moved to Yiyang, Hunan, and finally transferred to Guizhou to build the Xifeng concentration camp.

There were four categories of people detained in the Xifeng concentration camp, the most important of which were Communist Party members arrested from various places, such as Luo Shiwen, representative of the First Route General Headquarters of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, secretary of the Chuankang Special Committee, and Che Yaoxian, military commissar of the Chuankang Special Committee; Song Qiyun, member of the Northwest Special Branch; Zhang Luping, secretary of the underground party special branch who broke into the headquarters of the military command, as well as Han Zidong, Xu Xiaoxuan, Liu Piguang, Wen Ze, etc.; The second ones were imprisoned were anti-Japanese generals and well-known patriotic people of all classes in society, such as Yang Hucheng, Huang Xiansheng, Xu Linxia, Yang Xingmin, Deng Yanda, Ma Yinchu, etc., and hot-blooded young people who were stopped and arrested on the way to Yan'an; There are also spies who have made mistakes within the military command and the so-called wavering elements within the military command, young women who have been abandoned after being raped by Dai Li, people who have lost the face of Chiang Kai-shek and the military commander (Chiang Kai-shek's brother Zheng Shaofa and others), and people in society who are suspected of leaking the secrets of the concentration camps by the military commanders; The last category was the most peculiar, that is, the imprisoned foreigners, such as the vagrant aristocrats, soldiers, priests, Czech progressives, Spanish businessmen, and overseas Chinese from all over the world who returned to participate in the anti-Japanese war and visit their relatives.

This time, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to reluctantly agree to Han Yunhua's request, but he did not intend to hand over those important cadres, especially people like Luo Shiwen and Che Yaoxian. However, Han Yunhua is also a stubborn man, he is most indignant at the secret execution of these patriots and outstanding Communist Party members by the Kuomintang on the eve of the liberation of New China.

After the telegram was replied, Han Yunhua no longer paid attention to this matter, he knew that now that Chiang Kai-shek and the entire Nationalist Government were king, it had fallen to the freezing point, and if the people were to see that the Nationalist Government had lost the whole of North China again, then how would the people of the whole country view the Nationalist Government. Therefore, Han Yunhua believes that as long as Chairman Jiang's head is not kicked by a donkey, he will definitely agree to his request.

Han Yunhua's most troublesome thing now is that the central leaders inspect the battle in Saibei and the eastern Hebei front, unlike Saibei, the troops in Saibei are facing the cavalry units of the Kwantung Army, and the number of puppet troops in this cavalry unit accounts for more than half, so Shen Yuquan's troops will win so easily. However, the eastern Hebei front is different, the Japanese troops on the eastern Hebei front are the elite of the Kwantung Army, and the strength of the army has been increasing during this time, from more than 50,000 people at the beginning to 120,000, and even the tank division and artillery brigade have been transferred to the periphery of Shanhaiguan. …,

Compared with the strength of the Kwantung Army, the strength of Chen Geng's division is much weaker, and in addition to the combat effectiveness of the independent 77th Division, which is not bad on the entire Shanhaiguan front, there is no unit that can compete with an integrated infantry division of the Japanese army. Although there are now nearly 150,000 troops stationed on the eastern Hebei front, it is much weaker than the southbound cluster of the Kwantung Army.

Fortunately, there is now the dangerous terrain of Shanhaiguan, coupled with the effective command of Master Chen, so far the eastern Hebei army division has not suffered losses, but the troops have fought quite hard during this time. In just one and a half months, the entire Eastern Hebei Army sub-region lost more than 30,000 soldiers, and although the vast majority of them were wounded, the number of dead exceeded 10,000.

To put it bluntly, the Inner Mongolia Military Region and even the entire Communist Eighth Route Army have a weak foundation, and it is okay to fight an ambush, because the casualties of the ambush are limited. However, if it is said that fighting positional warfare and attrition warfare is not what the Eighth Route Army is willing to do, because often even if the enemy is completely annihilated in a battle, its own casualties are enough to discourage people.

The war in eastern Hebei made Han Yunhua worried, but despite this, the eastern Hebei Army subdivision still persevered, because once Shanhaiguan was lost, the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army would definitely go south to assist the North China Front Army to recover North China, so Chen Geng's headquarters must hold on.

However, fortunately, Shen Yuquan's department was still very powerful, annihilating the 90,000 troops of the Japanese puppet army, and giving the Kwantung Army a powerful blow. In addition, Li Dingguo's troops had already entered Tongliao, threatening the safety of the Japanese puppet army's largest transit point on the northern steppe, and it was impossible for the Kwantung Army not to increase its troops.

However, the most important role of the Japanese Kwantung Army was to prevent the Soviet army from moving south, so the troops that could be drawn out to deal with the Inner Mongolia Military Region were originally very limited, so Han Yunhua judged that as long as the Inner Mongolia Military Region continued to increase troops in Suidong and continued to attack the Japanese puppet forces in the northeast and northwest, the Kwantung Army was likely to withdraw its troops from Shanhaiguan.

After thinking about it for a while, Han Yunhua sent a telegram to the Suidong Army Sub-district, ordering Shen Yuquan not to let the troops rest and recuperate, and the center of gravity of the entire Suidong Army Sub-district was moved to the east, and at the same time, he mobilized three newly formed infantry divisions for the Suidong Army Sub-district, so that the strength under the jurisdiction of the Suidong Army Sub-district reached a huge attack cluster of 210,000 people with a total of 5 infantry divisions and 8 cavalry divisions.

Han Yunhua knew very well that the military region had developed to the current scale, and it could no longer use the way of survival of other units of the Eighth Route Army to change places with one shot. What the Military Region has to do now is to attack, and the offensive is not to seize much territory, but to bring out the prestige of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so that those Japanese puppet troops will tremble when they hear the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and when the time comes, the Japanese will not dare to easily attack the attention of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, let alone use 100,000 troops, even if they use a million troops.

What the Inner Mongolia Military Region needs now is stable development, and the previous period of war has caused serious consumption of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Not only did the troops suffer heavy losses, but even the supply of ammunition was about to be unable to keep up with the consumption, so if this battle continued, it would not be something that a military region of the Inner Mongolia Military Region could afford. In addition, not long ago, the Japanese army base camp made a large-scale supplement to the Kwantung Army, and so far the Kwantung Army has expanded into a powerful field division with 22 strong field divisions, 5 rear garrison divisions, 9 independent mixed brigades, and dozens of puppet army infantry divisions and cavalry are powerful clusters. Equipped with a large number of divisions and regiments with strong combat effectiveness (the number is not more than 20), there are six divisions, including the 1st Division, the 8th Division, the 9th Division, the 10th Division, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, and the 14th Division, and the 23rd Division, the 24th Division, the 25th Division, the 28th Division, the 29th Division, and the 57th Division with slightly weaker combat effectiveness.

It can be said that the entire Kwantung Army is now in a period of strength, although it lost a lot of troops some time ago, but compared with the hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the Kwantung Army, the loss of tens of thousands of cavalry is not a bone-wrenching injury. Therefore, after receiving the news about the eastward advance of hundreds of thousands of troops in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, General Umezu Miji, commander of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, was extremely angry, and he did not expect that the Chinese army would not accept it when it saw a good situation, but instead sent a large army to come with intensification, which was clearly a provocation to the Kwantung Army.

However, General Umezu Mijiro is not an impulsive person, and an officer of his age has the rare foresight of half a young officer in addition to being ruthless. In the eyes of Umezu Miji, the abnormal behavior of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is clearly of profound significance, and how to solve the problem of the supply of food, grass and ammunition for such a large army advancing eastward. At that time, as long as the Kwantung Army sends a few more air regiments to bomb, then the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will face an embarrassing and dangerous situation of having guns and no bullets. …,

General Umezu Miji, who had previously served as the commander of the First Army of the North China Front Army in Shanxi, had a lot of dealings with Han Yunhua's subordinates, and he had a lot of battles, so he had a certain understanding of the Eighth Route Army, a very alternative army. In the consciousness of General Umezu Miji, the Eighth Route Army either did not make a move, or once it struck, it hit the vital point and broke the earth.

This time, Han Yunhua's subordinate behaved abnormally, obviously a little weird, with Han Yunhua's operational command, Shui Pin would not have thought of such a simple problem at all, so thinking about it, the Eighth Route Army must have full certainty that Han Yunhua's subordinate would not be so ignorant.

Coupled with the fact that the Kwantung Army had just sabotaged a case of espionage about the Soviets not long ago, this could not but make General Umezu Mijiro think of a lot of things. In the whole of Northeast Asia, there was only one army that could pose a threat to a military group like the Kwantung Army, and that was the Soviet Red Army stationed in the Far East.

Although Han Yunhua's department is also very combative, in the opinion of Umezu Miji, the Inner Mongolia Military Region is much worse than the Kwantung Army. Although Han Yunhua's subordinates defeated the North China Front Army some time ago, can the North China Front Army compare with the Kwantung Army? The North China Front Army is not comparable with the Kwantung Army in terms of numbers, the quality of its soldiers, weapons and equipment, and so on, and more importantly, the resistance forces in the Northeast are not half a star worse than the strength of the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang troops in North China, so General Umezu Mijira does not believe that Han Yunhua does not have the strength to annihilate the Kwantung Army.

This was not the case with the Soviet Red Army stationed in the Far East, where Japan, with the support of the United States and Britain, wanted to annex the Far East as early as the summer of 1919. However, the nascent Soviet Union was not as fragile as US imperialism imagined, and the Russian Red Army led by Lenin launched a counteroffensive against the Kolchak regime and the armed intervention forces of Japan, the United States, and Britain in the Far East. Red Army soldiers fought valiantly in the sparsely populated expanse of Siberian fields and finally consolidated Soviet power in the east. The victory of the Russian Red Army in the Far East dispersed the Japanese militarists' attempt to encroach on the Far East, and for the first time showed the invincible Japanese militarism what the real Soviet army was.

The reason why Japan dared to provoke the Soviet Union again and again was entirely against Germany, a powerful ally. Japan saw a very short period of time since fascist Germany tore up the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact and launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. The Red Army failed to stop the German offensive at the beginning of the war due to the fact that the Soviet Union underestimated the crisis of the war before the war, was not fully prepared to meet the war, misestimated the balance of forces between the two sides, and failed in strategic guidance. Soon, 89 infantry divisions and 20 tank divisions of the Red Army were annihilated. Immediately afterwards, the German army penetrated 850~1200 kilometers into the hinterland of the Soviet Union, and the Red Army lost about 7 million people, of which more than 3 million were captured. Therefore, Japan saw an opportunity and believed that as long as it attacked the Soviet Union from the east and west with Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union was imminent.

However, both Japan and Germany underestimated the Soviet Union's determination to resist and its war potential, and in order to resist aggression, the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union mobilized the military and people of the whole country to rise up in the Great Patriotic War. A total of 5.3 million people were drafted into the Red Army, and 291 divisions and 94 brigades were sent to the front. So far, more than 400 new divisions have been formed in the Red Army. The Central Committee of the CPSU mobilized Communists to join the army and fight in the war, and about 1.1 million Party members joined the Red Army. Many members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazzaville, the Central Committee of the Party of the Union Republics, the regional committees, the regional party committees and other leading organs of the Party held important leading positions in the Red Army. In order to cope with the increasingly complicated situation and strengthen the organization and leadership of the troops, the Red Army once again restored the political commissar system. In order to improve the organizational and command ability of commanders at all levels and solve the problem of a serious shortage of command cadres, the training of command cadres in wartime has been strengthened. Military academies and academies have increased their training capacity by expanding the number of cadets they enroll, shortening the length of schooling. The front and group armies held intensive training courses to train a large number of junior officers. At the same time, a large number of soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in combat have been promoted to enrich the ranks of grassroots cadres. As a result of the above-mentioned emergency measures, the combat capability of the Red Army was rapidly increased.

Not long ago, the Red Army had finally stopped the Germans from approaching Moscow and Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg) and created the conditions for a counteroffensive. More importantly, with the rapid development of the defense industry in wartime, the Red Army achieved superiority over the Germans in terms of military-technical equipment. So far, the combat units of the Red Army have more than 100,000 artillery pieces and mortars, more than 10,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, and more than 10,000 combat aircraft. At the same time, the Red Army already had 5 tank armies, 24 tank corps and 13 mechanized corps. Air divisions, corps, and air force group armies have also been further expanded. …,

The strength of the Soviet Red Army stationed in the Far East was even stronger, and because Japan's expansion in the Asian direction had aroused the serious vigilance of the Soviet Union, the Soviet leaders did not dare to excessively transfer the Red Army from the Far East to participate in the war, even though the war in Eastern Europe had reached the most critical moment. Therefore, at this time, the Far Eastern Red Army still maintained tremendous military pressure on the Japanese army in the territory of puppet Manchukuo, pinning down more than 70 elite Japanese Kwantung Army.

Despite the fact that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a non-aggression pact, the two countries were ostensibly non-hostile countries. But everyone knows that the so-called treaties are nothing more than things to tear up, and for a large country like the USSR, a piece of paper is nothing. Therefore, neither of the two countries dared to let down their vigilance, and the battle of Nomenkan was a lesson. Once the two countries are at war, the losses are not one or two regiments, but often in the tens of thousands.

Not daring to start a war does not mean that the Soviet Union and Japan can get along safely, in fact, the Soviet Red Army has long been in contact with the forces of the Anti-Japanese Union. In the early winter of 1939, Zhou Baozhong, commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Federation, Li Zhaolin, director of the General Political Department of the Anti-Japanese Federation, Feng Zhongyun, member of the Standing Committee of the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, director of the Propaganda Department and director of the Political Department of the Sixth Army, Chen Hanzhang, member of the South Manchurian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and commander of the Third Front Army of the Anti-Japanese Federation, Xu Hengzhi, member of the Executive Committee of the North Manchurian Provincial Party Committee and commander of the Third Army, and other generals held urgent consultations on the current situation and future direction. At the meeting, Zhou Baozhong analyzed the harsh situation faced by the Anti-Japanese Federation and emphasized that "it is necessary to guide the actions of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation with the strategic thinking of "On Protracted War". The comrades attending the meeting unanimously agreed with Zhou Baozhong's opinion on "preserving strength, crossing the border and crossing the river, and camping and training in the Far East of the Soviet Union."

In March 1940, Zhou Baozhong, Li Zhaolin, and Feng Zhongyun came to the headquarters of the Soviet Far Eastern Frontier Army in Khabarovsk, where they discussed with the Party Committee of the Far Eastern Territory and the Far Eastern Army the issue of camping across the border and across the river. Zhou Baozhong briefed Ivanov, secretary of the regional party committee of the Far Eastern Frontier and political commissar of the Military District, on the practical difficulties faced by the anti-Japanese coalition forces, and asked the Soviet side to proceed from the principled stand of internationalism and consider the request of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance to move to the Soviet side of the Sino-Soviet border to set up a camping camp and carry out a phased rest. The meeting went very smoothly, and the Soviet side agreed in principle to the transfer of ...... of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation.