After some dispatch by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the existing nearly 300,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army began to move, and for a time the haze of war spread in the area controlled by the Eighth Route Army, and even ordinary people could see that the Eighth Route Army was about to fight a big battle again.

On 12 June, Han Yunhua ordered the clothing factories, bullet reloading factories, and gunpowder factories in the base areas, as well as the children in the base areas, to quickly move to the northwestern Shanxi region, and thousands of villages in one city and eight counties under the control of the military region were ready to be relocated at any time. As soon as this order was given, the 110,000 troops of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region moved like high-speed machines.

Han Yunhua knew that once this war broke out, the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Yue army would be in a situation of endless death, either the army would wipe out Han Yunhua on the spot or expel him from the Chahar region, or he Han Yunhua would clean up the forces in the Chahar and Suiyuan areas. However, judging from the current situation, whether it is in terms of weapons and equipment or in terms of the quality of soldiers, it seems that everything is unfavorable to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, which means that the chances of Han Yunhua's troops winning this battle are very small. However, Han Yunhua didn't think much about it, and he who had received modern military education always understood a truth, that war is not something that can be won with a large number of people, nor can it be won with good weapons and equipment, and there are many factors related to the victory or defeat of a war, but it is strategy and tactics that play a decisive role. As long as the strategy is properly laid out and the tactics are used reasonably, a rabble can defeat an enemy ten times stronger than itself.

In Han Yunhua's view, it seems that the army has taken the lead now, and the army also has a certain advantage in other aspects, but Han Yunhua knows that it is impossible for the army to find out his true strength so quickly, that is to say, now the enemy is in the open and he is in the dark. What's more, he still has the sharp blade of the Saber Special Operations Brigade in his hand, which can have unexpected effects when it is critical.

At the same time, Han Yunhua knew that [***] and the entire Eighth Route Army urgently needed a stable and vast rear base area, although Yan'an was far away from the battlefield, there was no problem in terms of security, but the entire Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region, including Yan'an, was very barren, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the land was mostly dry land and thin fields, so it was impossible to feed too many troops. Although the Chahar region, where the Inner Mongolia Military Region is located, is relatively close to the advance of the Yue army, its geographical and strategic location is not too sensitive, and the power of the Yue army here is not too strong, and more importantly, after occupying this place, it will not cause too much trouble for Chiang Kai-shek's political axe, after all, this place has long been out of the control of the national political axe.

Based on this situation, Han Yunhua decided to completely expel the Yue army here even if he took tens of thousands of troops, and connected it with the northwest of Shanxi and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area to create a huge base across the six provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Jinchaji, and Sui.

Once the six provincial base areas conceived by Han Yunhua are completed and consolidated, the situation of China's War of Resistance will undergo earth-shaking changes, and at that time, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not only contain the enemy behind enemy lines as it did in history, and will not be able to fight positional warfare with devils. At that time, the Eighth Route Army will not only fight a battle of 100 regiments, but also organize a new general battle, so as to improve the status of [***] and the Eighth Route Army at home and abroad.

Han Yunhua knew that in the first two years of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, both the regular army of the Kuomintang and the local armies, including the Eighth Route Army, suffered heavy casualties, and although the Eighth Route Army had grown from 45,000 at the beginning of its reorganization to 300,000 now, aside from the strange army under Han Yunhua's department, in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army had grown to a limited extent. Why do you say that, because at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, although the troops of the Eighth Route Army were extremely poorly armed and equipped, every soldier of the Eighth Route Army was adapted from the Red Army soldiers who had gone through the 25,000-mile Long March. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army at that time was still very considerable, after all, the soldiers at that time were all real gold left after the big waves and sand, and they were the elites of the hundreds of thousands of troops commanded by [***]. However, after more than a year of hard fighting, a large number of elite soldiers were consumed by the army, although more troops were replenished, but the combat effectiveness was difficult to recover to the peak in a short period of time, so although the number of the current Eighth Route Army has increased by six or seven times, the real combat effectiveness may not be much stronger than before.

In the same way, the most elite Central Army of the Kuomintang has been exhausted after the Shanghai War of Resistance in 1932 and several large-scale battles after the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In 1928, the Nationalist decided to build a new army based on the German system, with the application of German equipment and German-style training. In 1934, a large amount of German-made equipment was shipped to China, and the so-called German mechanics division began. However, not all German divisions were treated the same, and according to Chiang Kai-shek's consistent preference for a close surname, Chiang Kai-shek was the most popular among the dozens of German divisions established by the Kuomintang, and there were only four of them, namely the Central Teaching Corps, the 36th Division, the 87th Division, and the 88th Division.

In March 1931, Chiang Kai-shek divided this guard division into two and split it into two integrated divisions with two brigades and four regiments, numbered the 1st Guard Division and the 2nd Guard Division, which were the predecessors of the 87th Division and the 88th Division. Speaking of which, Aotian had to explain a few issues: At that time, it was necessary to form two integrated divisions, but in fact they had not yet become real integrated divisions, and according to the plan proposed by the German adviser Seckert's "Proposal for Army Reform", it was proposed that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Axe reorganize the national army into 60 divisions, called integrated divisions. All of these integrated divisions must be equipped with weapons imported from Germany and apply Germany's advanced military system and training methods. In 1933, the Nanjing Central Political Axe National Axe Military Affairs Department began a vast army reorganization plan according to the suggestions put forward by the German affairs advisers. In the process of reorganizing the army, different units have different names, mainly four titles: "reorganization division", "reorganization division", "adjustment division", and "new formation division".

At that time, there were two main types of German-style divisions of the Central Army, one was the Central Army Teaching Corps, which was the most well-equipped and most regularly trained elite division. In November 1937, it was expanded into a division of the 3rd Brigade and 6th Regiment, with a total strength of more than 30,000 people, of which 3 regiments, namely the 1st, 3rd, and 5th regiments, were all-German equipment, and the other 3 regiments (mostly recruits) were in training. The other type is the so-called new-style Central Army represented by the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions. Until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. The army reorganization plan has been carried out in two phases, with a total of 20 divisions, and 10 divisions in the third phase are underway. Of the 20 divisions that have completed the reorganization, the only units that have actually received training and guidance from the German adviser system are the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 14th, 36th, 87th, 88th, and teaching corps, as well as the tax police corps that is not part of the regular army system. That is, Chiang Kai-shek was not completely well treated, and these two super descendants of the troops were quickly put into battle.

As far back as the 128th Shanghai Incident in 1931, the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Axe used the three most senior troops that had just been redressed, including the 87th Division, the 88th Division, and the Teaching Corps, and these three units all suffered heavy casualties, otherwise they would have entered as early as the 128th Shanghai Incident. At the same time, the teaching corps, the 87th and 88th divisions also participated in the Battle of Songhu, which shows that Chiang Kai-shek did not retain any strength in the early stage of the war, and his attitude in the early stage of the war was also clear and hard. Therefore, at the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the three most elite model units of all the Kuomintang descendants, the 87th and 88th Divisions and the Teaching Corps, were thrown into the most dangerous Battle of Songhu.

After continuous fighting, from Shanghai to Nanjing, and then to Xuzhou and other places, the Central Army of the Kuomintang basically changed its troops. Although Chiang Kai-shek now has a much larger number of troops than before, from more than 2 million to more than 3 million at present, his combat effectiveness has plummeted, and this can be seen from the fact that the number of troops surrendered in previous battles has increased by a lot. In 1937, the Nationalist Axe could raise 600,000 troops to fight the Battle of Shansong and Shanghai, but now if he wanted to fight a battle of the same scale, Chiang Kai-shek would have to raise at least 1 million troops.

What's more, after the July 7 Incident, the Yue army quickly occupied the Beijing-Tianjin region in northern China, Guangdong, Hankou, Shanghai, Nanjing and other central, eastern, and southern China regions in the south, including China's major cities, 95% of the industry, and 50% of the population. More importantly, almost all the ports along the coast of China fell into the hands of Yue himself. The war turned into a war of attrition. For China, the problem of material supply is extremely serious at this time. Now that the Chinese army has occupied all the ports along China's coast, the Republic of China cannot find a channel to communicate with the outside world. Before 1938, the Nationalist Political Axe could still use the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to receive imported materials and foreign aid, and could also contact Kazakhstan and the Soviet Union through Xinjiang Province, but after the fall of Guangzhou, the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway has been controlled within the combat radius of the bombers of the Yue Army, and the volume of transportation has been sharply reduced, while the Soviet Union has to unilaterally sign a contract with the German side in order to cope with the pressure of the German side. Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union also cut off aid to China, and up to this point China's only foreign contact was also cut off, which means that China could no longer receive aid from abroad during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.