When the news of the breakthrough made by the Northeast Army Subdivision on the Shuangliao front came, the entire Ulanhot Command suddenly boiled; since the military region now adopts a temporary system of two sets of team management, all the situations on the northern front will be reported to Ulanhot as soon as possible, and then sent to the place where it should be sent after Han Yunhua's approval

After reading the good news jointly sent by Shen Yuquan and Wang Weizhou, Han Yunhua was overjoyed and immediately reported the victory to the Yan'an Party Central Committee, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the Military Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and the Zhangjiakou Headquarters. Wang Weizhou, commander of the Second Division of the Northeast Military Division, Jiang Feng, political commissar, and Huri Chabilige, commander of the Cavalry Division, were recorded as first-class meritorious service, and Wang Zhifu, commander of the First Brigade of the Second Division, Ju Fei, commander of the Second Brigade, and Lin Yongxiang, commander of the Third Brigade of the Second Division, were recorded as second-class meritorious service.

The Northeast Military Division's ability to achieve such results was both expected by Han Yunhua and unexpected by Han Yunhua, and this sentence seems to be contradictory, but in fact it is easy to understand. The Northeast Army Subdivision is attacking the Kwantung Army in the Northeast with all its might, and more than 200,000 troops is not a small number, and the Northeast Army Subdivision is the only strategic group in the Inner Mongolia Military Region that is dominated by cavalry. However, the role of cavalry on the Chinese battlefield is still undoubted, as long as cavalry is not used to attack cities or to fight enemy armored forces in the field, cavalry is still very useful.

As far as the two arms of infantry and cavalry are concerned, there is no comparison between the two sides in the field, and a well-equipped cavalry has no problem at all in dealing with more than three infantry, and the cavalry divisions of the Northeast Army Division alone have exceeded 12, and the number of invoices has exceeded 150,000, which requires the Kwantung Army to mobilize at least 500,000 cavalry units in order to confront the cavalry units of the Northeast Army Division in the field. In addition, the infantry units of the Northeast Army Division are also very strong, and on the whole, a single Northeast Army Division needs at least 50-600,000 troops of the Kwantung Army to fight against it, of course, this is only an ideal data, and does not count the gap between the weapons and equipment and logistical support of the two sides.

Therefore, the victory of the Northeast Army Division this time was basically predictable, and Han Yunhua also allocated the most powerful ace armored unit in his hand to the Northeast Army Division. If you want to talk about the general armored forces, it is good to say, as far as the BT-7 tank is concerned, it is not much cheaper than the Japanese Type 97. But who let Han Yunhua just pick out a T-34 tank brigade from Stalin. You must know that the T-34, a new type of tank, has just been equipped to the troops in the Soviet Union, although they gave Han Yunhua a trial model produced last year, which is worse than the current white-spoon improved model, but this has already made Comrade Stalin very painful. For these 150 T-34 tanks, Han Yunhua also paid a lot, the most direct manifestation is that in the final stage of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Inner Mongolia Military Region will drag Japan into at all costs, even if Germany jumps under the wall to force Japan to attack, Han Yunhua agreed, and also took the initiative to launch the largest battle in history against the Japanese Kwantung Army.

However, what made Han Yunhua feel unbelievable was that the Northeast Army Sub-district Jingran had achieved such remarkable results in a short period of time, completely annihilating an infantry brigade and a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army, killing one Japanese major general, 3 senior generals, 48 officers below the middle level, and capturing nearly 700 Japanese brigade chiefs of staff and below. Although there were fewer weapons and ammunition seized and not much equipment to be said, it was still a rare victory.

Originally, Han Yunhua thought that even if the Northeast Army Division wanted to break through the Japanese defense line, it would take 10 years at the shortest, and it would be a miracle if it broke through within a week, but he didn't expect that they would break through in 3 years, to be precise, it should be 75 hours to break through, which surprised Han Yunhua, a guy who was used to seeing big scenes and big battles. …,

Afterwards, Han Yunhua thought about it for a long time and always felt that the luck component of this battle accounted for a large part, but luck is also a kind of strength, and the military and political departments at their level still see this truth very thoroughly.

Although this crusade had a good start, there were still many problems, and the most worrying thing for Han Yunhua was the threat of the Japanese air force. At present, the Japanese army still uses some old fighters in the northeast region, and the most advanced ones are only Type 96 fighters, and they are not even as advanced as the fighters captured by the Japanese army by the aviation unit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

But as the fighting escalates, the Japanese army will inevitably equip the most advanced fighters produced in China to the northeast. Now that the Japanese army's aviation units have gained almost all air supremacy in the northeast region, the armored units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region do not dare to attack in vain. After experiencing a sneak attack at night a few years ago, he had to pay attention when marching at night, which made Han Yunhua feel very aggrieved and at the same time feel a great crisis.

Han Yunhua knew that in the Bishan air battle a year ago, Japan used the latest Zero fighter to give the Nationalist Government a jaw-dropping result of 27:0 with almost zero casualties, and even Chairman Chiang scolded the Air Force for its incompetence. Obviously, Lao Chiang did not know or did not know the huge gap between the Yi-15 and Yi-16 fighters and the Japanese Zero fighters who were piloting the Soviet Union's aid to China at that time, and the 13 fighters of the Zero formation in that World War I took off from Hankou at 8:30 a.m. and landed at the forward base Yichang at 9:30 a.m. for refueling and pilot rest. At 12 o'clock, the formation took off again, showing a rendezvous with the middle attack group (27 aircraft) at 1:10 p.m., and after 20 minutes, the bombing of Chongqing began to return. According to Japanese records, about 20 minutes later, the Japanese 97th Division reconnaissance plane spotted the fighter formation of the Chinese Air Force, and the Japanese plane turned again. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese planes discovered the E15 formation of the Chinese Air Force at an altitude of 6,500 meters and the subsequent E16 (a total of 30 aircraft) at an altitude of 5,000 meters, and began to launch a surprise attack with lightning speed. It was undoubtedly a one-sided battle for the Japanese fighters with the advantage of altitude and equipment, and as the sky gradually calmed down, the Japanese planes returned to Yichang one after another, and the last Kitabatake Saburo fighter landed at 4:20 p.m. Subsequently, the Japanese media advertised the results of this battle as shooting down 30 Chinese planes, and some recorded that they shot down 27 planes, and they did not lose a single one. According to the records of the Chinese Air Force, 13 of the E1525 and E169 of the third and fourth teams were shot down in air battles, 11 were injured and forced to land, and 10 pilots were killed and 8 were wounded.

Although Japan's Zero fighter began production in 1939, it was actually equipped with less than 300 by 1942. Han Yunhua knows that starting this year, the Japanese army's production of Zero fighters will enter a peak, and in the next few years, the production of this most famous aircraft of the Japanese naval aviation during World War II and the signature model of Japan in World War II will directly exceed tens of thousands.

Han Yunhua didn't care about it before, anyway, the Inner Mongolia Military Region didn't have many strategic targets at that time, and Japan made a big move, but now it's different, the Inner Mongolia Military Region not only has its own aviation units, but also has its own armored forces and transport units, which are always threatened by Japanese fighters. The Inner Mongolia Military Region must have its own air force, and at the same time it needs a large amount of air defense equipment.

At present, there are only two countries capable of supporting the Inner Mongolia Military Region, one is the Soviet Union and the other is the United States. Now that both countries have a similar attitude toward China, both of which see China as the most important pawn to contain Japan, Han Yunhua pondered how to get something good out of the hands of Stalin and Roosevelt.

After the telegram was forwarded to Moscow through the Central Committee, Stalin quickly sent a telegram back, giving a very high evaluation of the actions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and at the same time greatly praising Han Yunhua, a high-ranking officer. Of course, Stalin also knew Han Yunhua's temper, and knew that the ** general did not value those false things, and he really came to the end of the telegram with an exciting remark, 150 Iraq-15, 150 Iraq-16, and 50 MiG-1 are ready, and they will take off from Siberian Airport in 5 years, transfer to Ulaanbaatar Airport, and then fly directly to Sui. At the same time, Stalin also conveyed to Han Yunhua through the Red Army Command in the Far East and the special combat team trained in the northeast that a breakthrough had been made in the Battle of Stalingrad and was expected to end in mid-April or early April. Some 200,000 German soldiers, as well as German Field Marshal Paulus, had fallen into the encirclement of the Soviet army, and it was only a matter of time before they would fall. …,

Seeing that the Soviet Union was willing to support so many fighters and was willing to provide a certain amount of aviation fuel, the central government was very excited, and the chairman and others directly sent a telegram and ordered the Inner Mongolia Military Region to prepare for it. But Han Yunhua was not very happy, the performance of the Yi-15 and Yi-16 fighters Han Yunhua had heard a little, which was the first Soviet fighter with a cantilever lower wing and retractable landing gear. The prototype TsKB-12 was designed by Polikarpov in 1933. In 1935, the Type 4 made its first appearance at a mass rally on Red Square to commemorate May Day, flying in formation over Red Square. Subsequently, about 4 units of the Type 400 were produced, which began to equip the troops. In July 1935, production began of Type 5 with an M-25 engine and a ShKAS machine gun, with a production of about 1,500 units.

If you put it four years ago, this type of fighter was already the fastest flying fighter in the world at that time, whether it was in the previous Spanish Civil War, the War of Resistance against Japan, and the subsequent Battle of Nomenkan. But when the Japanese Zero fighter and the German BF109 fighter appeared, the Soviet Union's old 1-day fighter was basically in the sequence of complete elimination. Otherwise, 350 fighters is not a small number, Stalin will not send them in casually, and now the Soviet Union also lacks a large number of fighters, if it were not for this type of fighter plane, it is too old, basically the pilot will know that he has little chance of returning to the ground safely as soon as he takes off on this kind of plane.

However, the news that the Battle of Stalingrad was about to end made Han Yunhua very excited, the Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the European theater of World War II, so that the Soviet Union reversed the unfavorable situation since the beginning of the war, and initially grasped the initiative in the war, and now from 1942, almost a year earlier than in history, according to this development, the entire World War II may really end ahead of schedule, which is good news for the suffering Chinese nation and the whole world.

Han Yunhua himself has about 40 Zero fighters, although it is the most elementary model, there is a certain gap compared to the improved model of the Zero fighter used by Japan in the Pacific Theater, but the gap is not big, so he knows very well the technical gap between the two fighters, so Han Yunhua forwarded Stalin through the central government, hoping that the great Soviet can support China's 200 Lager-5 fighters or 200 MiG-3 fighters, otherwise the Chinese Air Force will not be able to cope with the attack from the early air. Tank units on the ground will not be able to attack, and the consequences will be even more serious.

At the same time, 35 US officers on active duty from the first inspection group of the inspection group organized by the US Department of Defense have also arrived in Xilinhot, and with Han Yunhua's consent, these US officers will continue to fight with the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region for the next two months, although none of them will go to the front line to directly enter into a showdown with Japan.

The supreme commander of these 35 US officers was US Army Colonel Mesler, and through telegraphic talks with Han Yunhua, Colonel Mesler divided the 35 officers into three groups and sent them to the three battlefields of Jidong, Suidong, and Ulanhot, where they were fighting, while Colonel Mesler himself was rushing to Ulanhot overnight with 15 officers.

Han Yunhua also knew what the idea of the United States was attacking, but Han Yunhua did not feel sympathy at all for the current situation of the United States, all of this was the result of their breeding of tigers, and he was not worthy of sympathy at all. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese government hoped or pleaded with the U.S. government not to sell Japanese resources to the war, let alone to help the war abuse, knowing that every kilogram of steel and rubber would be made into aircraft cannons, and then slaughter hundreds of Chinese soldiers or unarmed civilians on the battlefields of China.

But the U.S. government's indifference to the pleading of the Chinese government and the people of China has ended up brewing itself a bitter wine that is hard to swallow. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan was invincible in a short period of time, and the United States and Britain and other ** teams pointed by Jianfeng went all the way, not to mention the shameless second-rate country of Britain, if it were not for the Chinese Expeditionary Force with 100,000 troops and tens of thousands of overseas Chinese volunteers for them to resist the Japanese invasion of the army, I am afraid that now even India, the most beautiful jewel in their queen's crown, has been lost. Let's take the United States as an example, although the army and navy have been in a hurry, Bi Jing has also made effective resistance, at least MacArthur also commanded more than 100,000 Filipino mercenaries to resist for a few weeks. As for the U.S. Air Force, the appearance of Japan's Zero fighter caused an unprecedented disaster to the Allied flight units, giving the Allied forces the greatest shock, and the Japanese army wiped out two-thirds of the Allied fighter units in the Pacific region a few months after the start of the war. The armies of the United States, Britain and other countries that have lost air supremacy are basically like naked women who have stripped naked, and have no ability to protect themselves at all, and in the end they almost lost all of Southeast Asia, and even Australia almost did not keep it. …,

However, just when the United States was at a loss, the distant Chinese battlefield was full of good news, and the dying squadron seemed to wake up overnight, first destroying the invincible Japanese Army one brigade after another, and then it became a wing, brigade, and even a division to destroy the Japanese army. Not long ago, the squadron achieved a major victory in Shandong, not only opened the door to Shandong, but also captured the Japanese prince and rescued nearly 3,000 allied nationals, so the US government decided to support China's ** force, and also wanted to see how the war was fought, so it sent more than 100 officers to China to seek experience. Seventy of these officers went to the Nationalist government under the leadership of Colonel Barak, because they also seemed to know that the Chinese government forces seemed to be making big moves. The remaining 35 officers accompanied Colonel Mesler to Yan'an, and after leaving behind the politicians who accompanied him, Colonel Mesler specified that he would go to the Inner Mongolia Military Region to investigate.

Colonel Mesler was greeted not by a lavish dinner, but by a large number of military maps and topographical sandboxes. However, in Colonel Mesler's opinion, these things were more to his liking than delicate Chinese food, because he was a military recruit, a military recruiter used to fight.

Colonel Mesler never thought that in this remote Chinese town, he could draw such a delicate topographic map and make such a detailed sand table, although he did not know what kind of topographic sand table this was, but it did not prevent him from judging the strength of both China and Japan in this area.

"Your Excellency General, when I came again, I heard that your troops had won another battle, and this time it seemed that they had completely annihilated an infantry brigade entered by Japan, I wonder if this news is true?" Mesler was obviously concerned about this matter, so he raised the issue shortly after meeting Han Yunhua.

(To be continued)