As a commander with rich combat experience, Han Yunhua deeply understood the dangers of low morale, and looking at the listless appearance of the soldiers, Han Yunhua knew that the first task of his confidant was to raise morale.

As a professional soldier, Han Yunhua also fantasized about leading thousands of troops and horses to gallop on the battlefield, snow the humiliation of his ancestors, and raise the national prestige of China. But when everything really came, Han Yunhua really felt his insignificance. How about the top students of the National Defense University of Science and Technology, and what about the outstanding graduates of the Amazon International Military Command College, who have no guns or artillery, soldiers who are inferior to people, and weapons who are inferior to people, how easy it is to change history.

Han Yunhua has never been a person who is afraid of things, in response to that sentence, if there are conditions, you must go up, if you don't have the conditions to create conditions, you have to fight, if you can't create conditions, you have to fight, not only to fight, but also to win, this is a battle to the death related to the fortune of the country, if you win, the fortune of the country will prosper, and if you lose, you will destroy the country and destroy the species.

According to statistics, the resources at his disposal are: 460 soldiers, 212 Chinese rifles, 41 Hanyang-made rifles, 12 old sleeves, 333 machetes, one Czech-style, 12,000 rounds of various bullets, 3 horses, 2,200 grenades, 45 explosives packs, no heavy machine guns, no mortars, very little food, and only enough to meet the needs of the troops for a week.

Looking at the rudimentary weapons and equipment in the hands of the soldiers, Han Yunhua couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, just with these miscellaneous weapons and insufficient ammunition in his hands, they dared to fight to the death with the devil's ace Fifth Division, even if they knew that they were invincible and had little chance of winning, but they did not surrender, and rushed out of a bloody way in the hands of the Fifth Division, known as mechanized infantry, with the flesh and blood of the soldiers. This may be the spirit of the bright sword summarized by Li Yunlong in "Bright Sword" based on decades of combat experience, that is, this kind of spiritual temperament that fought to the end completely moved Han Yunhua.

Han Yunhua knew that with the current new regiment, it was impossible to go to the Fifth Division for revenge, and according to his own understanding of history, he learned that the commander of the Fifth Division, Lieutenant General Seishiro Sakagaki, and the chief of staff Nishimura Riwen Daisa. The division has two infantry brigades, one cavalry wing, one engineer wing, one artillery wing, one tank brigade, and one transport brigade. The total strength of the entire Fifth Division is as high as 28,976 people, and such a behemoth is not at all something that the current new regiment can provoke.

Looking at the statistical list and the new group of soldiers in front of him who were full of hatred and frightened eyes flashed from time to time, Han Yunhua secretly sighed that the equipment of the Eighth Route Army was poor, and the gap between him and the devil was simply the difference between cloud and mud. According to the literature, the army had 13 people per squad, including a squad leader, 4 machine gun shooters, and 8 riflemen. There is a light machine gun with four men (commander, shooter, two secondary shooters with ammunition), who are still armed with self-defense pistols and sometimes carry rifles in battle (except machine gun shooters); The remaining eight riflemen, each with a single-shot rifle. Among the specially reinforced units, the reinforced squad will be equipped with an additional 50-mm grenadier carried by two people. The squad of the army consisted of three squads and one grenadier squad equipped with three grenadiers. A total of 54 people. A standard infantry squadron of 180 men in the army includes: a 19-man squadron department: squadron leader, executive officer, 3 sergeants, 4 hygienists, officers' orderlies, division officers, and 8 communicators), and 3 aforementioned 54-man squads (to explain the content of the surname, the reader must know the basic establishment of the army, so that the reader can have a relatively correct assessment of the combat effectiveness of the army).

Compared with the Yue Army, the Eighth Route Army is like a force called Huazi. Han Yunhua unified and reorganized all the soldiers into three reinforced companies, each company has four platoons with a total of 156 people, each platoon has a platoon leader, two deputy platoon commanders, each company has a company commander, three deputy company commanders, one instructor, and three deputy instructors.

Because the new regiment has just arrived, it has not made any major achievements, and it has not yet won the recognition and trust of the local people, so the supplies and personnel of the troops cannot be replenished, so the new regiment urgently needs a victory to boost morale and open up a new situation.

Xinghe County is located at the junction of Chahar, Suiyuan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces, but due to backward transportation, barren land, and no mineral resources can be utilized, so all along, Xinghe is a three-regardless zone, sparsely populated, fierce people, bandits, after the devil occupies Xinghe County, it is only a symbol of the surname of a squadron stationed in the county seat, and then two turrets were built in the two townships of Mudong and Taijimiao, each turret has 13 devil guards, in order to maintain the rule in the local area.

Through reconnaissance, Han Yunhua also learned that the devil squadron stationed in Xinghe County was actually a squadron with discontent, and there were only 2 squads in the entire squadron, which means that there were only more than 120 devil defenders in the entire Xinghe County, which was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for the new regiment.

Han Yunhua stood alone in the courtyard and carefully recalled the composition of the troops sent by Chahar. In order to command the operations in the Chahar area, on August 14, 1937, the Kwantung Army ordered the formation of the Chahar Dispatch Corps Headquarters, and on the 17th, the Chahar Dispatch Corps Combat Command was established in Duolun, and on August 19, the headquarters was moved to Zhangbei. The commander, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, was succeeded by Major General Yukio Kasawara, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, on 2 September. Major General Yukio Kasawara, who was supposed to arrive in history, has not arrived for some reason, so the commander of the Chahar Dispatch Corps is still temporarily held by Hideki Tojo. It has jurisdiction over the 1st and 2nd Brigades, the 15th Brigade, the Dike Detachment, and the Daquan Detachment. After considering all aspects of the situation, Han Yunhua found that in the Chahar region, the Chahar Dispatch Corps was an absolute head snake, but he was not a dragon crossing the river, at best he was just a soft-footed shrimp.

However, although the strength of the Chahar Dispatch Corps was the strongest in the entire Chahar region, in the small place of Xinghe, the strength of the garrison was very weak, and Han Yunhua believed that with the troops in his hands, he should be able to completely annihilate the defenders of the entire Xinghe County.

Now that the Anti-Japanese War has just broken out, the Eighth Route Army has little contact with the devils, and they do not know much about the fighting methods of the devils, and they have not yet formed an effective combat method against the devils. I was a little overwhelmed by the fierce artillery fire of the devils, so the battle with the devils was basically invincible. But Han Yunhua is different from others, when he was studying at the National Defense University of Science and Technology, the classic tactics during the Anti-Japanese War were all compulsory courses, so he already had a preliminary idea of the army stationed in Xinghe.

Han Yunhua asked Huzi to invite Li Dayong, the commander of the first company, Wang Jian, the commander of the second company, Chen Shangming, the commander of the third company, and Ye Baoguo, the chief of staff who was already able to move around the ground. I told them my thoughts, and further solicited their opinions, although there were doubts, Ye Baoguo and the others were very consistent, that is, to fight, and we must win.

According to Han Yunhua's battle plan, this operation was divided into three steps: encirclement and reinforcement, camouflage and sneak attack, and annihilation in one fell swoop. First of all, let Li Dayong lead a company to besiege the defenders in the turret of the Devil's Taiji Temple stronghold, but asked to fight but not annihilate, forcing the devils in the turret to ask for help from the defenders in the county, and then Han Yunhua himself led the second and third companies to ambush the devil's reinforcements halfway, so as to completely annihilate the reinforcements. In the end, he joined forces with Li Dayong, disguised as an army to attack the county seat, and then took Xinghe County in one fell swoop.

Before the troops set off, Han Yunhua gathered all the soldiers in an open wasteland, and he wanted to make a pre-war mobilization for this battle: "Comrades, soldiers, brothers: we should be proud, although we have backward weapons and insufficient training, maybe our casualties in the battle are indeed greater than the enemy, but we still fought to the death, and gave the enemy heavy casualties, we did make the enemy return blood for blood." In this war of resistance that can be sung and wept, we, the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, fought to the death against the aggressors without fear of a strong enemy. Despite the huge disparity in national strength, our [***] team still made the invincible "Imperial Army" pay a heavy price. No matter how long it lasts, whether it is five years or ten years, we will eventually hold out until the day when we announce defeat and surrender. Before leaving, I encouraged you with a song, called "Loyal to the Country", and I also hope that everyone will be loyal and filial to the country and family. ”

Clearing his throat, Han Yunhua sang loudly: "The wolf smoke rises and the country looks north, and the dragon curls the horse and hisses like frost. The heart is like the water of the Yellow River, who can resist in 20 years. Hatred is mad and long, and how many siblings are loyal to their souls. What a pity to die to repay the family and country, endure sighing and regretting, and are speechless with blood and tears. The horseshoe goes south and people look north, and people look north and the grass is green and yellow and the dust is flying. I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory, and China will let the Quartet come to congratulate ............."

The loud and majestic song echoed in the desolate wilderness, and also echoed in the hearts of every warrior, for a long, long time.