On June 22, intelligence officers lurking in Yanggu County came with news that just last night the troops of the Huyan family in the county seat of Yanggu County had withdrawn, and that the current Yanggu County was already an empty city, and the security in the city was jointly presided over by the Wanjia Buddha, the Immortal Dao, and the Anlemen. Because the Huyan family left extremely suddenly, the army had not yet had time to send troops to accept Yanggu County, so Yanggu County at this time was an undefended city.

Although Han Yunhua also knew that this was the best time to seize the county seat of Yanggu County, Han Yunhua knew better that as long as Han Yunhua moved now, then the one sent by Major General Changshui Nobuno would definitely not be a small garrison, but a large army. Han Yunhua also knew that if the Huyan family withdrew from the Shandong region, then his unit would become the only Chinese unit in the Liaocheng area that could compete with the 10th Infantry Brigade of the Yue Army. Although there are still a few friendly forces in the Lunan area, except for Chang Endo's troops, the rest are only nominal friendly forces.

In fact, Han Yunhua was not very afraid of the puppet army in Shandong, but Han Yunhua did not want to start a fierce frontal conflict with the puppet army before the soldiers and horses in his department were ready. But the current situation Han Yunhua himself is also very clear, and he will eventually realize that the Eighth Route Army will be their new challenge, and this day will not be too far away. The guerrilla warfare led by [***] and [***] has to a certain extent restrained more than half of the puppet forces in North China, and if this continues, the energy of the Syrian army on the frontal battlefield will be seriously depleted.

Han Yunhua is very aware of the change in his view of the Eighth Route Army, from sneering at the beginning to avoiding the flood beast later. Even if Han Yunhua doesn't do anything now, it won't be long before the army will make more significant strategic adjustments, and of course this is not Han Yunhua's casual nonsense, there is a basis for this. According to the history of the army's war, "The Chinese Incident in the Chronicles of the Operation", in 1940, the North China Front Army had regarded the [***] guerrillas as the "biggest cancer" and edited the "Guide to Suppressing the Communist Party" to inform the whole army. And this is only historical information, but now due to the appearance of Han Yunhua, the North China Front of the Yue Army has suffered big losses in the hands of Han Yunhua, and the lieutenant general and major general have lost more than a dozen.

However, Han Yunhua did not care about this, and already had a relatively mature set of tactics in his heart, that is, guerrilla warfare on the plains and large-scale regular warfare. This was because as early as soon after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Party Central Committee had a relatively sober understanding of the future development of the Eighth Route Army. After the loss of Xuzhou, different understandings once again appeared within the party about the development of the future war situation and the next development direction of the Eighth Route Army. After occupying Xuzhou and opening up the Jinpu Road, will the army continue to move south, thus providing the Eighth Route Army with a more favorable space for development behind enemy lines, or will it return the main force to North China to clear the rear and cause greater difficulties in guerrilla warfare? The judgment of this situation will determine whether or not the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army can seize the opportunity of the development of the base areas and determine the future development of the war of resistance behind enemy lines. As early as November 1937, [***], who had already gained a firm foothold in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, pointed out in a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and to Zhou Enlai, Zhou Enlai, and Yang Shangkun that the invading army would never allow the Eighth Route Army to make it uneasy at night in its rear, and that it "will soon move its main forces to attack the key points of the inland counties," and that such an attack would be extremely cruel. As for the future offensive of the Yue army, [***] foresaw that "the scale and extent of the Eighth Route Army's mobilization of the masses behind enemy lines and the establishment of anti-Japanese revolutionary base areas will directly affect the ability to resist the offensive of the Yue army in the future." At the historical juncture of the southward march of the Yue army in 1938, [***] judged that the main force of the Yue army turned to North China and that "the arrival of this step will be later." At present, the targets of the army's offensive are Wuhan and Guangzhou, so "guerrilla warfare in North China is still a favorable opportunity for extensive development." They keenly seized the fighter plane, and took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Yue army was moving southward and the regular Kuomintang army was holding them back, and decisively made the important decision to enter the plains from the mountains of North China to carry out guerrilla warfare.

In fact, there is a big question mark in the mind of every senior general of the Eighth Route Army about the chairman's decision, because since the era of the Red Army, the armed forces led by [***] have been relying on the mountains to start and eat. In guerrilla warfare in the plains, the cadres lack experience and confidence.

Speaking of this, Han Yunhua has to admire [***]'s farsightedness, in fact, as early as the Luochuan Conference, [***] proposed that the Eighth Route Army should adopt the strategic policy of mountain guerrilla warfare with independent reading power, which included the development of guerrilla warfare in the plains. It was realized that although the mountainous areas had the advantage of being suitable for guerrilla warfare, they were inferior in terms of property and population to the plains, and that the plains, although the terrain was not conducive to guerrilla warfare, had a much greater material advantage than the mountainous areas. In addition, the compatriots in the occupied areas (including the plains), which had been slaughtered and ravaged by the invading army, were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the anti-Japanese army that could lead them to defend their homeland, and this was a new favorable space for the growth and development of the Eighth Route Army.

Originally, according to the development model of the Eighth Route Army, Han Yunhua should have engaged in guerrilla warfare on the plains with peace of mind. After all, there is experience to follow, and it is just an adventure to believe in untested theories. But there are already relatively successful practices for human theories, so there is no need for Han Yunhua to take risks for this. As early as December 1937, when the anti-siege struggle in the Jin-Chahar-Hebei border area was underway, [***] learned from Nie Rongzhen's telegram that the army in the Jizhong Plain was empty, and he immediately sent a telegram to Zhu De and Ren Bi, proposing that the 129th Division and Nie Rongzhen's unit each send a detachment to the plain area east of the Pinghan Railway to carry out guerrilla warfare. At that time, Lu Zhengying, who was already a member of the [***] army, led a regiment of the 53rd Army of the former Northeast Army stationed in central Hebei to break away from the original structure, and combined it with the anti-Japanese armed forces under the leadership of the party organization in the central Hebei region, and opened up the first anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines in the plain area. After that, [***] successively dispatched capable cadres to eastern Hebei and Shandong to open up new guerrilla experimental areas.

However, Han Yunhua also knew that guerrilla warfare on the plains was not something that could be carried out if he wanted to, and he needed a large number of people to trust the army and help the army. At the same time, there are still many shortcomings in guerrilla warfare on the plains, and in the face of such a ferocious beast force as the Yue Army, they will be angry with the common people if they cannot find the Eighth Route Army, so every time the puppet army is swept away, there will be a miserable scene in the base area where every family wears linen and wears filial piety, and the dead people in the villages carry coffins. Therefore, Han Yunhua decided not to engage in simple guerrilla warfare on the plains, but to move large-scale positional warfare to the plains.

Isn't it impossible for little devils to fight guerrillas? Then I will crush you in positional warfare, so that you cannot hold your head up in any way. Now that the defense of Yanggu County has spent so much effort, it will definitely not give up Yanggu County. Therefore, a force will definitely be sent to take over the defense of Yanggu County in the near future, but Han Yunhua has no intention of letting the army enter Yanggu County at all. Yanggu County is a bait for fishing in Han Yunhua's eyes, whether you can catch little devils and how many little devils you can catch depends on whether the bait in Yanggu County is attractive enough.

After discussion, Han Yunhua decided to send an infantry regiment to Song Village, Dingshui Town, north of Yanggu County, which was divided into Former Song Village and Later Song Village. These two villages have a characteristic, that is, they are relatively close to the traffic arteries, and the army from Liaocheng must pass through here. Therefore, Han Yunhua is ready to send a force here to be ruthless to the puppet army that came to take over the defense, so that the fathers and villagers in Yanggu County know that although the Huyan family has withdrawn, it does not mean that the Chinese have given up here. There is also an army and its leaders who remember them and care about them.

It was already evening when Wang Zhifu led the instructor's brigade and regiment to Songcun, and according to the information sent back by the intelligence officers, the troops sent by the army this time were not many, only less than one infantry squadron, but they were very well equipped, and in addition to one cavalry squad, there were two chariots. Not to mention the stragglers of the Huyan family, even Han Yunhua's department will suffer a big loss before they are prepared.

That's why Han Yunhua asked Wang Zhifu to come over in advance to make some necessary preparations, Song Village was originally a big village in Dingshui Town, but since the devil came, Song Village has suffered a big disaster. Three times the army was stationed in Song Village, and each time Song Village had to experience a catastrophe. So far, 21 young men have been killed and 65 people have been taken away as strong men, and there has been no news of them so far. Therefore, since then, the villagers of Song Village have fled to other places as long as they are able, and a prosperous village in the former Nuoda is now a barren and dead silence.

Wang Zhifu was silent for a while after hearing the news from the scouts, since the little devils invaded China, how many ancient cities have been slaughtered, even the historical city of Nanjing has not been spared, and there are so many small villages like Song Village in the whole of China. Wang Zhifu's own ability is limited until now, even if he is a commander who exists like a god in his eyes, he is helpless in the face of a large number of well-equipped people, and he, the acting brigade commander, cannot save so many people in the country. However, Wang Zhifu knew that he could get the entire Dingshui Town and save Yanggu County.

The first regiment is now a large regiment with 3,214 people, and although the equipment is varied, it is also equipped with more than 2,000 long and short guns and eight artillery pieces. However, this small army is equipped with chariots and cavalry, and the cavalry is fine, although it has a certain impact force, but the number is small, and a few snipers can calmly solve it. But those two chariots are not easy to deal with, let alone a mess, even the entire instructor does not have a single artillery that can deal with chariots, God gave Wang Zhifu a big problem.

(To be continued)