This is one of the reasons why Han Yunhua pit Shi Yousan, and the other reason is that Shi Yousan's attitude towards [***] also prompted Han Yunhua to want to solve this scourge as soon as possible.

In 1938, after Shandong was occupied, Shi Yousan was ordered to stay behind enemy lines to conduct guerrilla warfare. In order to preserve his strength, Shi Yousan turned to cooperate with China [***], hoping to establish control over Shandong with its support, and Deng Xiaoping and Yang Xiufeng worked in Shi Yousan. With the strong support of various units of the Eighth Route Army, Shi Yousan quickly gained a firm foothold in the chaotic Shandong, and also achieved certain results. So at the end of the same year, Shi Yousan was promoted to commander of the 39th Group Army.

In April 1939, Chiang secretly ordered Shi Yousan to [***] on the condition of ruling North China, and Shi Yousan's position immediately changed to complete [***], requiring all officers and soldiers to join the Kuomintang, and constantly clashing with the Eighth Route Army. In 1939, with the withdrawal of our party cadres from the Shiyou Third Division. Soon after, Shi Yousan was appointed chairman of Chahar Province.

What worries Han Yunhua the most is that in history, in February 1940 (the 29th year of the Republic of China), in the War of Resistance against Japan, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army fought a campaign against the recalcitrant army west of the Weihe River in Hebei Province. And the protagonists of this battle are Shi Yousan and Zhu Huaibing.

In January 1940, Shiyou's 3rd Division successively surrounded and disarmed two companies of the 129th Division's eastward column and 1 platoon of the Youth Column, and besieged the 3rd Regiment of the eastward column and the two county brigades of Qingjiang and Qinghe, and wiped out most of the Qinghe County Brigade. In order to defend itself, the 129th Division decided to concentrate the troops of the Southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Jizhong Military Regions while the recalcitrant army Zhu Huaibing's troops were retreating south and the recalcitrant army Gao Shuxun's troops were still east of the Wei River, and annihilated the recalcitrant army Shi You's three divisions and Sun Liangcheng's troops in the area west of the Wei River. On February 9, Shi You's three departments secretly fled south. The 129th Division immediately ordered the participating troops to pursue and intercept. On the 11th, the 771st Regiment of the Youth Column, the Special Service Regiment of the Southern Hebei Military Region and other units eliminated one regiment of Sun Liangcheng's department in the wolf's den west of the Qinghe River; The 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the Eastward Advance Column and the 23rd Regiment of the Jizhong Military Region fought fiercely with the 3rd Provisional Division of Shiyou 3rd Division in the northeast of Wei County in the vicinity of Shijiazhuang and Zaoke, and annihilated two of its battalions; One regiment each of the Eastward Advance Column, the Youth Column, the First Construction Column, and the 4th Regiment of the 386th Brigade fought fiercely with the 181st Division of Shiyou's 3rd Division in the area of Zhongxingji in the southwest of the Qinghe River, blocking its evacuation. The Later Eighth Route Army surrounded the main force of the recalcitrant army in the area of Xiabao Temple and Mawutang Yao'an Town in the southeast of Wei County, and launched a fierce attack. On the 13th, more than 3,000 people from Sun Liangcheng's department broke through the siege and retreated south, escaped across the Weihe River and entered the Nanle area. Shiyou's three divisions were besieged, suffered heavy casualties, and broke through the siege and fled west on the night of the 15th. The 771st Regiment of the Zhaili and Youth Columns of the Eastward Advance Column and the Zhao Tan Detachment of the Jizhong Military Region immediately pursued in parallel along the left and right sides of the recalcitrant army. At this time, it was said that the puppet army dispatched more than 3,000 people from Guangping, Jinxian, Quzhou, Yongnian, Feixiang, and Wei counties to the area between Guangping and Qiu counties, and attacked the Eighth Route Army to cover the three divisions of Shiyou. Shiyou Sanbu took the opportunity to cross the Zhanghe River from Daimyo and Linzhang, and retreated to the southeast area of Qingfeng. At the 18th of the battle, the Eighth Route Army stopped pursuing. In this battle, the Eighth Route Army killed, wounded and captured more than 2,800 recalcitrant soldiers.

And Shi You's three divisions in southern Hebei and northern Henan, staring at the Eighth Route Army also caused a certain amount of pressure on Han Yunhua, and for the sake of the safety of the rear, Han Yunhua decided to completely solve the threat of Shi You's three divisions.

Although Shi You's three departments were reactionary enough and had eyebrows with him, because they were in the context of the National War of Resistance, in order to maintain the anti-Japanese national united front, Han Yunhua had to go through some twists and turns if he wanted to completely solve Shiyou's three departments, otherwise Lao Jiang would not be able to explain it, and if this incident caused friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at this time, this would not be what Han Yunhua wanted.

Han Yunhua himself knew very well that the reason why the Chinese people were able to persist in the eight-year war of resistance was because of the existence of this invisible united front and the maintenance of the anti-national united front that the people of different political parties and religious beliefs throughout China were able to work together to share weal and woe. The anti-national united front must not go wrong, and this is the consensus of all leaders, including Han Yunhua.

Since it doesn't work to do it directly to Shi Yousan, it is too late to wait for Gao Shuxun to do it, or Han Yunhua himself can't wait, so letting Yu himself clean up Shi Yousan has become the best way.

Moreover, Han Yunhua also expected that once the war was unfavorable, Shi Yousan was likely to surrender to the Yue army as soon as possible. However, Han Yunhua was not worried that although the surrender of a Kuomintang lieutenant general to the Yue army would to a certain extent undermine the confidence of the Chinese people in resisting the Yue army, in this case, an exposed Han annihilation would pose much less threat to the entire Chinese nation than a dangerous element lurking within the Chinese people.

Besides, who is Han Yunhua, since he has thought of this, he will definitely have a corresponding way to deal with it, how can he let Shi Yousan surrender smoothly. The corresponding Han Yunhua also believes that Shi Yousan will voluntarily drill this trap, because a greedy person like Shi Yousan will not miss such a good opportunity.

The development of things was as Han Yunhua expected, Shi Yousan after three days of observation, coupled with the big moves of the army in northern Hebei, made Shi Yousan mistakenly believe that Han Yunhua's troops were doing this to shrink their troops, and then support the war in Saibei. Therefore, he thinks that the timing of receiving southern Hebei at this time is very appropriate, as long as he can hold out in southern Hebei for two months, no, as long as it is more than a month, Chiang Kai-shek himself or the Chinese political axe behind Chiang Kai-shek will be happy to have a famous Chinese general.

Shi Yousan's family was poor when he was young, and his father made a living by driving a big car for the landlord's family. So it also led to Shi Yousan's idea of wanting to be a master since he was a child, coupled with the warlord melee where Shi Yousan lived, and having money, food and army is the uncle, so it also caused Shi Yousan to be extremely worshipful of the power in his hands, except for trusting himself, no one else is in his eyes, let alone trusting. It is precisely this kind of thinking that will do whatever it takes to achieve the end that laid a certain foundation for Shi Yousan's several rebellions in the future. Fortunately, Shi Yousan worked as an apprentice in a grain store, and was sponsored by his employer, the young master Bi Guanghuan, to enter Changchun Dongguan Longwangmiao Primary School, where he studied under the guidance of Shang Zhen. And in 1908, he joined the army and joined the third town of the Qing Dynasty New Army under Wu Peifu, stationed in Langfang, Hebei.

After many years of fighting in the north, Shi Yousan is very familiar with the situation in the north, especially the situation in Hebei and other places. What is the place in southern Hebei, southern Hebei, a geographical concept, including Xingtai City and Handan City in the south of Hebei Province. The area is an important coal and steel base in Hebei Province, and it is also the area with the longest history, the history of the two cities is more than 3,000 years, among which Xingtai City was the ancient capital of Yin Shang, the capital of Xingguo of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Later Zhao Dynasty, and Handan was the capital of the Zhao State during the Warring States Period.

Based on the coveting of Handan and Xingtai and the desire for the rank of general, Shi Yousan soon made contact with the Southern Hebei Administrative Office. Under Han Yunhua's instructions, the two sides hit it off. In the end, Shi Yousan agreed to take over the vast southern Hebei region, including Handan, from Han Yunhua in exchange for 1.2 million oceans of military support.

The transaction between the two parties was fast, and it was a secret transaction. When Han Yunhua's troops withdrew to the Daimyo area, the army still did not notice anything unusual.

Han Yunhua's actions have always been imaginative, whether it is the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army or the Yan'an Party Central Committee for Han Yunhua's military action, they are only ideological guidance and do not interfere in action, even if some comrades in the party have different opinions on Han Yunhua's "sale" of a city and six counties in southern Hebei to the national political axe, but [***] still decided to let Han Yunhua play by himself.

Although the war in southern Hebei has nothing to do with Han Yunhua, maintaining military pressure on northern and eastern Hebei is still ongoing, which is much more unexpected than Shi Yousan. In Shi Yousan's view, there are no more than two reasons why the Eighth Route Army sold southern Hebei, the first is that he wants to use him Shi Yousan to resist himself, and the other is that the Eighth Route Army is close to running out of oil.

As we all know, the Eighth Route Army lacked medical treatment and medicine, and there was a serious shortage of munitions, and only a few bases of ammunition were distributed, and even a larger battle could not necessarily be sustained. And the war in southern Hebei lasted for more than a month, not to mention the bitterness of the Eighth Route Army, even he, a dignified general in the regular army, could not afford to fight. The Eighth Route Army's running out of ammunition and food was almost predictable, as long as a military commander with a brain could imagine it.

But after all, southern Hebei was the result of the Eighth Route Army's battle for more than a month, so he was definitely unwilling to let the Eighth Route Army take it back, and whether the Eighth Route Army itself had the strength to compete with the Yue Army, at this time, he was a lieutenant general who had the support of the national political axe and was close to southern Hebei.

Shi Yousan is a realistic person who doesn't believe in vanity like friendship. In his mind, in addition to himself, he was calculating others, he didn't believe that the Eighth Route Army would really hand over the huge area of southern Hebei to him, the Eighth Route Army just wanted to use him Shi Yousan to attract the firepower of the Yue Army to consume the strength of the Yue Army, and the Eighth Route Army itself was hiding in the safe rear to recuperate.

Although Shi Yousan also thought of this, this temptation was still too tempting, so that Shi Yousan couldn't help jumping into it knowing that it was a trap.

With Shi Yousan's rich experience in struggle, it is easy to think of the next problems he will face, first of all, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not militarily contain the Yue army in the northern part of the country, and when the time comes, a large number of the Yue army will definitely go south to clean up the mess in southern Hebei, and he, the new anti-Japanese hero who is about to be released, will definitely bear the brunt.

However, Shi Yousan is not worried, he knows his current position very well, and although he wants to "regain the lost territory", but the repeatedly battered national political axe needs a big victory to recover its political and military decline, and then his position Shi Yousan will be much more sensitive, and Chiang Kai-shek can't help but send a large army to rescue him.

Moreover, Shi Yousan also has an unknown secret, that is, since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he and Yue himself have been in secret contact. Before, it was because he was victorious in the military, and he was disdainful of a little minion like him, and he said that the imperial army was still not looking down on the 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers in his hand, so the two sides had been unable to negotiate the conditions for surrender.

But since last year, the Yue army has suffered major setbacks in Saibei one after another, so it seems much more sincere to win over Shi Yousan. However, at this time, Shi Yousan also saw his own decline, but he hesitated, who had always been cautious. So that matter was put aside, and when the time came, as long as the war was unfavorable, he could turn against him at any time, and jointly said that he would counterattack the national political axe, no matter what he did, he Shi Yousan would not suffer, so why not.

(To be continued)