Although there were many things to discuss at this military meeting, due to the urgency of time, the whole meeting did not last long. The meeting began at 8 a.m. sharpest and ended at 12 p.m. Jiang Yunshan and the others didn't care about eating, and hurried back to their command post to deploy the next plan.

On the morning of July 12, Han Yunhua ordered the guard battalion to enter Yanggu County in full view, and for the first time played the banner of the Eighth Route Army in front of the people of Yanggu County. At the same time, except for the guard battalion and a small detachment of the special operations squadron of the 1st Brigade that remained in Yanggu County, the rest of the brigade began to move directly to the southern Hebei region.

Before the transfer, Han Yunhua specially sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, explaining his future military operations to the head of the headquarters, and at the same time soliciting the opinions of the head of the headquarters. It stands to reason that with Han Yunhua's level at this time, there is no need to report the battle plan to the Party Central Committee or the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, so Han Yunhua just sent a telegram to the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, asking the head of the headquarters to coordinate with the command of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei. After all, Han Yunhua wanted to develop on someone else's territory, so in order to avoid contradictions and unnecessary conflicts, Han Yunhua felt that it was necessary to let the head of the headquarters know his next move.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army also called back in a timely manner, and the head of the headquarters was very supportive of Han Yunhua's plan, so when he sent a reply to Han Yunhua, he also sent a telegram to Chen Guang, the acting commander of the 115th Division, conveying the situation of Han Yunhua's westward advance to the 115th Division, and ordering the 15th Division to fully cooperate with Han Yunhua's headquarters.

Chen Guang, who received the telegram from his superiors, also reacted immediately, and the two infantry brigades under his command quickly assembled and began to move closer to western Luxi, and at the same time, the remnants of the two infantry brigades that had been withdrawn from the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Political Axe to southern Hebei for rest and recuperation also received an order from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to assemble in Guangping County. Moreover, these two infantry brigades not only suffered heavy losses in soldiers due to the previous battle, but also killed all their senior commanders. When the two brigades, which originally had only four small regiments of 1,500 men, withdrew to southern Hebei, there were less than 2,000 people left, and only one cadre above the regiment commander level remained.

In fact, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is also very entangled in the whereabouts of these two infantry brigades, these two infantry brigades are the elite of the Shandong Eighth Route Army, although they were disabled by the army in order to cover the transfer of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Political Axe to break through, but they can still break through part of the main force under such harsh conditions, which is enough to show their excellence. However, it was precisely because this unit was so good that several other divisions of the Eighth Route Army hoped that the headquarters would integrate this unit into their own units.

However, the leaders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters took into account the problem of the reconstruction of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Political Axe, after all, even if the resistance suffered a big setback, they must not give up, and Shandong's prominent position also determines that [***] must not give up Shandong. It just so happened that Han Yunhua's headquarters was stationed in Shandong and opened up the situation in Shandong in a very short period of time, although the enemy was still outnumbered and the enemy was still strong and weak, but the annihilation of more than half of the enemy's brigade and the pulling up of a force of more than 40,000 people was a real achievement. Therefore, after some discussion, the leaders of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to transfer these two remnant brigades to the battle sequence of Han Yunhua's headquarters and unify them under Han Yunhua's command.

Han Yunhua was very moved by the support of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, to be honest, his battle plan was more risky than planned, there were too many uncertainties, and to be honest, it did not conform to the Eighth Route Army's consistent combat style of seeking stability. Maybe ordinary people can't see it, but which of those leaders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters can rub sand in their eyes, and the reason why they can agree or support this plan is completely based on Han Yunhua's past achievements, so they unanimously chose to support it. It is for this support and recognition that Han Yunhua must not let those veterans and coaches down. Han Yunhua is very clear about the next development trend of the entire Chinese nation, and he is also very clear about the next plan of action of the little devil, and Han Yunhua is also clear about the big plan that the Eighth Route Army headquarters has brewed in the future.

It can be said that the battle plan formulated by Han Yunhua is completely aimed at the next military plan of the Yue Army, but ordinary people do not know what the Yue Army is going to do next, so in the eyes of some people, the battle plan handed in by Han Yunhua is a bit taken for granted, and it is a risk in military professional terms.

However, whether the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was optimistic or not did not affect Han Yunhua's determination, because at this time, the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Shandong instructor led by Han Yunhua were directly under the Party Central Committee. The leaders of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters are very powerful, so Han Yunhua also feels that he should have this trust.

At the same time that Wang Zhifu's guard battalion occupied Yanggu County, the two infantry brigades of Jiang Yunshan and Tong Jiayong attacked with all their might, and more than 20,000 troops attacked in Dong'e, Pingyin, Shen County, Guanxian and other places. This time it was not a small fight, but the main target was to destroy the enemy's stronghold and kill and injure the living forces of the puppet army. And Jiang Yunshan and Tong Jiayong are not more entangled with the enemy, generally they leave after fighting, and they will fight if they can fight, if the resistance of the army is extremely tenacious and the terrain is also conducive to the puppet army, Jiang Yunshan and others will move to the next battlefield. In one night, 11 strongholds were destroyed and a county town was captured. At the same time, a large number of large enterprises and large corporations with capital and joint ventures were looted.

Han Yunhua's department is completely crazy to play, and it is not the consistent combat style of the Eighth Route Army at all. Although on the surface it looks very similar to the guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army, if you can fight it, you can fight it, and if you can't fight it, you will run away. However, if we analyze it deeply, we can see that there are some gaps, and usually in order not to cause a large-scale counterattack by the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army would not launch such a big attack, which does not conform to the operational characteristics of the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, the vast majority of the battles of the Eighth Route Army were random, especially like ambushes or something. But nowadays every battle is planned, there is a detailed plan, and almost a hit is guaranteed and rarely misses.

At this moment, Lieutenant General Zio Takakamizo could not sit still, and ordered Major General Kikui to immediately take over the supreme command of Liaocheng, and at the same time ordered Major General Kikui to immediately purge the army of China within the Liaocheng area. The so-called law and order purge is actually a sweep, but although Major General Kikui took over the command of Liaocheng, he did not immediately send troops to carry out a sweep, but ordered all the devils in Liaocheng to immediately assemble in a large stronghold or a county seat, and at the same time Major General Kikui ordered the reinforcements in Jining to immediately move westward.

On July 15, when the last batch of reinforcements and munitions arrived in Liaocheng by rail, Major General Kikui finally gave the operational order for a sweep. The troops participating in the sweep included three infantry brigades, three reading infantry wings, two cavalry wings, and four infantry divisions of the Imperial Allied Army, plus six newly formed security regiments and more than 20 plainclothes units. At the same time, the army also sent two artillery brigades and a tank brigade to support the firepower of the sweep.

The sweep of more than 47,000 people was the first in the history of Shandong's resistance, and even in the last war, the army only dispatched more than 30,000 people. This time, in order to thoroughly consolidate public order in Shandong, coupled with the major victory won by the Imperial Army in Wuhan, the confidence of a large number of middle and high-ranking officers of the Chinese army was extremely inflated, including Lieutenant General Otaka Kamizo, commander of the 12th Army stationed in Shandong. Lieutenant General Ogaka Kamizo believes that even if there are still troops of the Eighth Route Army or the National Axe in Shandong, there will not be too many, and the main force of the Shandong troops of the Eighth Route Army should be in southern Hebei, for the safety of Shandong, Huang Ju, it is necessary for you to carry out an effective attack on the Chinese army in western and southern Hebei.

However, it is obvious that the army did not find a routine this time, and Han Yunhua's original intention in this operation was to mess up the situation in Shandong, and he did not think about how much territory he would seize in Shandong. Therefore, when the reinforcements of the Yue army continued to pour into Liaocheng, Han Yunhua had already instructed Jiang Yunshan and Tong Jiayong to withdraw to southern Hebei, leaving only Tong Jiayong and three elite infantry battalions in Shandong.

Of course, in order to ensure Tong Jiayong's personal safety and the needs of the war, Han Yunhua deliberately left a special operations team. Although the three infantry battalions also had a small number of 2,000 men, it was not easy for the army to annihilate them in such a large area as four or five counties.

Han Yunhua also took such a risk because of this, after all, staying here can certainly contain a part of the army, and at the same time, it can also confuse the army and divert the attention of the army, but it also leaves the danger to Tong Jiayong and others. The military intelligence and reconnaissance capability of the Chinese army is still very strong, and in particular, it is very difficult for the Chinese military to guard against the reconnaissance of radio waves. Han Yunhua himself is powerless at this point, although he himself knows very well what this means to the Eighth Route Army, but he himself is not a student of radio communication technology, although he also knows a little about anti-reconnaissance technology, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, there are no tools and corresponding equipment, Han Yunhua himself can only warn Tong Jiayong to open the radio station as little as possible, and contact the division headquarters less.

Tong Jiayong still attaches great importance to Han Yunhua's admonition, after all, he has learned from the past. The reason why the more than 20,000 troops under the jurisdiction of the former Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Political Axe fell apart in just half a month was that in addition to the Han Dynasty's ventilation message, the radio signal of the Provincial Political Axe was searched by the Provincial Political Axe and some patterns were found, so it was able to attack the headquarters so accurately.

Major General Kikui's movement was very large, but the actual results achieved were not good. In order to expand the search area, the army divided the troops into squadrons as the basic combat units to conduct carpet searches. But the main force of Han Yunhua's department has been withdrawn, leaving only three elite infantry battalions, if the army has always maintained a search unit of the size of the brigade, Tong Jiayong will not dare to make any changes, but this time the army itself dispersed the troops, it is really too good for Tong Jiayong.

(To be continued)