Hebei Province has been an important place for soldiers to fight for since ancient times, which is of course inseparable from a series of objective factors such as Hebei's geographical location and natural resources. Hebei Province is located in the north of the Zhanghe River in North China, east of the Bohai Sea around Yanjing, west of the Taihang Mountains, north of the Yanshan Mountains, north of the Yanshan Plateau, the rest of the Hebei Plain, with an area of 180,000 square kilometers and a population of 50 million. The highest peak in the province, Xiaowutai Mountain (2,882 meters above sea level), 43% of the plains are less than 100 meters above sea level. It is adjacent to Tianjin City in the east and close to the Bohai Sea, Shandong and Henan provinces in the southeast and south, Shanxi Province in the west by Taihang Mountain, Chahar Suiyuan in the northwest and north, and Rehe and Liaoning in the northeast.

Hebei has diverse surface landforms, abundant sunshine, a monsoon climate in the warm temperate continental zone, and relatively complete water conservancy facilities, which is a province with relatively rich agricultural resources and a large province with sufficient strategic materials. Hebei's agricultural development has a history of several thousand years, the planting industry is relatively developed, and it has accumulated rich experience in the development of agricultural resources, and its grain supply covers the entire North China region, including the Beijing-Tianjin region. The output of many major products ranks among the top in the country, and has a pivotal position in North China and even the whole country. Hebei is an important grain and cotton producing area in China. There are 5.559 million hectares of cultivated land, and crops can be harvested twice a year in most areas, but the cultivation system varies greatly from place to place. The sown grain area in the province accounts for more than 80 percent of the total cultivated area, and the main grain crops are: wheat, corn, sorghum, millet, and potatoes. Cotton is the most important cash crop, and the province is an important cotton production base in China. The southern Hebei region that Han Yunhua's department marched into is a famous cotton producing area in Hebei, that is, Xingtai and Handan, known as the "South Hebei Cotton Sea". In addition, oilseeds, hemp, sugar beet, and tobacco are also important, and cotton is the five major cash crops in the province. Animal husbandry is an important agricultural sector in Hebei Province after farming, and Cangzhou is very famous for its beef and mutton. Hebei is also one of the important fishing areas in China, with coastal fisheries as the main and Tangshan as the main center. The province is rich in chestnuts, apricots, persimmons, pears and other fruits. The main coal mines include Kailuan, Jingcheng, Fengfeng and so on, and some of the products are exported abroad.

Because of this, it is also decided that Hebei will definitely become the focus of contention. It is a pity that in this battle, China lost very early. In order to realize the established national policy of annexing North China and then monopolizing China, the Military Headquarters and the Kwantung Army took advantage of the Kuomintang's policy of non-resistance to comprehensively implement the separation of North China and turn North China into a "second Manchukuo." However, due to inadequate preparations, he took the form of stepping up the plundering of North China's resources economically, creating a split politically, and instigating the five provinces of North China, namely Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Chahar, and Suiyuan, to launch the so-called "anti-communist autonomy movement" to achieve the goal of occupying North China through the method of specialization of political power in North China. As early as 1935, he took advantage of the fact that Hu Enpu, the director of the Han Jianbao "Guoquan" and Bai Yuhuan, the director of the "Zhenbao" newspaper in the Tianjin Concession, were killed one after another to exert pressure on the national political axe, in a vain attempt to achieve the dream of expelling the national political axe forces from North China. Regarding the killing of Hu and Bai, he accused the Kuomintang of doing it, and it was an act of exclusion to exert pressure on the Beiping Branch of the Kuomintang.

At the same time, on May 15, 1935, Sun Yongqin, an anti-Japanese volunteer army operating in the south of the Rehe River, was pursued by the Yue army and retreated into the "demilitarized zone" south of the Great Wall. On 29 May, Takashi Sakai, chief of staff of the Tianjin garrison, made representations to the Kuomintang political axe. This is the so-called "Hebei Incident". He took advantage of this incident and forced the Kuomintang political axe to accept the various demands put forward by the Kuomintang under the intimidation of force. In response to the unreasonable demands of the army, the Kuomintang implemented the so-called policy of first securing the interior of the country when fighting abroad, and all conditions were accepted.

However, the policy of the aggressors on the invasion and occupation of China could not be dispelled by temporary concessions, and the repeated concessions and promises of the Kuomintang authorities did not satisfy the Yue army. In order to extract benefits to a greater extent and force the national political axe to back down, he said that he forced the national political axe to reply in the form of a document so that it could be used as evidence. On June 11, 1935, the Chinese side sent a "memorandum" signed by Umezu Mijiro, commander of the North China Garrison Army, to the Beiping Military Branch, asking the Chinese side to copy a copy, and He Yingqin signed and sent it to Umezu Mijiro. This is known as the Homy Agreement.

According to a number of provisions of the He-Mei Agreement, the Kuomintang Party headquarters in Hebei and Pingjin were abolished; retreat from the 3rd Regiment of the Northeast Army, the Central Army and the Military Police stationed in Hebei; the removal of the chairman of Hebei Province and the mayors of Pingjin and Tianjin of the Kuomintang; Banning anti-Japanese groups and anti-Japanese activities in Hebei Province, and so on. This agreement actually gave up sovereignty over North China, and laid a greater hidden danger for Ben to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China two years later.

At the same time, he also demanded that the Nationalist Government draw a ceasefire line and recognize the legal surname of the person he occupied. The Central Army, the central government's dispatched agency in North China, withdrew from North China, and the Third Military Police Regiment withdrew from Beiping, prohibiting the Blue Coat Society from operating in the Pingjin area. Punish Jiang Xiaoxian, the head of the third regiment of the gendarmerie, the backbone of the Blue Coat Society, Zheng Jiemin, Zeng Kuanqing, and Yu Lexing. In addition, there are brigade commander Zhao Dengyu and division commander Tong Linge.

In fact, the signing of the "He-Mei Agreement" has formally given up the ruling power of Hebei and ceded a large Hebei in Nuoda to Yue himself, and it has created a large number of shameless traitors such as Yin Rugeng. For a time, the whole Hebei was a miasma, saying that he was rampant, and the people suffered.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the entire Great Hebei was quickly captured by the Yue army. A large number of cities such as Pingjin, Baoding, Qinhuangdao, Zhengding, Xingtai, and Handan fell into the hands of the enemy. At the same time, the whole of Hebei turned out to be the logistics base of the Chinese army, and almost all the supplies, food, and even weapons and ammunition of the Chinese army in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Anhui were also transported from Hebei.

If Han Yunhua can break the situation between Hebei and China this time, then a big game of chess in the entire North China region will be alive. Hebei Province is lost, Pingjin and Shanxi can't take care of each other, plus most of the territory in eastern Hebei is now occupied by Han Yunhua's department, and even Chengde, a military town in eastern Hebei, is also under the control of Han Yunhua's department, so this battle is self-evident for Han Yunhua, who has already made certain preparations.

However, the difficulty is also quite comparable, not to mention the huge number of puppet troops, even defending so many counties and towns is a major burden. Although the Eighth Route Army has developed to a certain extent, it does not yet have the strength to occupy key areas on a large scale. Not to mention the army, even the national political axe can't pass the level.

In the past two years, with the development of the Eighth Route Army, the wave of the national political axe has also been wave after wave, and it seems to have become a law during the Anti-Japanese War. This time, Han Yunhua also expected that the national political axe would definitely not be resigned to others, but for the Hebei region, Han Yunhua also knew that such a large piece of territory could not be eaten by the Eighth Route Army, since it could not be eaten, it was better to fight it down as a bargaining chip for negotiations with the national political axe, anyway, the fuel in the Inner Mongolia Military Region was not much, and more than half of the national political axe had been provided before.

Having figured this out, the final order for the Great War was issued. The first to suffer was the Dewang Department of Xilin Gol, since being driven out of Guisui by Han Yunhua's Department, the Dewang Department has been staying in his hometown Xilin Gol. However, due to the blows of Han Yunhua's subordinates, King De has become a lot more obedient, and his contacts with the Yue army are not as frequent as before.

Thinking about it, it's also something that can't be done when I say it. There is no need to say the reason, now that the master of himself has been deflated in the hands of Han Yunhua, and even the holy city that he has managed to get his hands on has been lost, which makes King De very dissatisfied. On the one hand, they were dissatisfied with the troops under Li Shouxin, and on the other hand, they were directed at Yu himself.

After such a toss by Han Yunhua's department, King De's psychology has undergone a huge change, and it turns out that he is not invincible. Therefore, although King De has been in contact with Yue himself for so long, the relationship between the two sides has faded a lot. said that there was nothing they could do about it, and they did not think about "replacing people" and replacing Li Shouxin with their spokesperson in the Saibei grassland, but in the end they still did not implement the "substitution" plan. On the one hand, it is because King De still has a certain prestige in the hearts of the Mongolian people, which is not something that Li Shouxin can replace. At the same time, King De's own strength is also very important, and the tens of thousands of elite cavalry in his hands are still very deterrent.

At present, the war in the south is tight, and the situation in the north is also changing, and a bad one is likely to push King De to Han Yunhua's department, which is certainly not what the army wants to see. In order to be safe, the army still made contact with King De with a hard nose, and also sent a large amount of aid to King De. But even so, King De is much more careful this time than before, glory and wealth are important, but it must also have a life to enjoy. I don't know if the killing god will suddenly come down one day, just like the last time, he was shouted in his sleep, if it weren't for Li Shouxin's conscience and didn't ignore him, otherwise it's really hard to say what kind of survival state he will be in now.

Of course, King De's "performance" Han Yunhua also saw it, but while the iron was hot, since King De had the intention of repenting, then Han Yunhua didn't mind giving him a little more pressure. This time to attack Xilin Gol, Han Yunhua's intention was very clear, he wanted to clear out all the forces in the Saibei grassland. But it is unrealistic to let Han Yunhua's troops send a large army to garrison the Xilin Gol grassland, so in the end, the grassland still needs a real Mongol to manage, as long as King De behaves neatly, then Han Yunhua does not mind handing over Xilin Gol to him to manage.

(To be continued)