Chapter Ninety-Eight: Chaotic War

The Inner Mongolia Military Region is a newly opened anti-Japanese base area, and although the number of troops is large and the base area is also very large, it is very thin in terms of talent reserves.

The Inner Mongolia Military Region has done a fairly good job in the training and reserve of officers, but it has great deficiencies in the training of administrative officers, and the talents who are proficient in both military and political affairs are even rarer; except for Han Yunhua and Shen Yuquan, everyone else in the entire military region is a one-size-fits-all, and only Yang Ruihua can be regarded as a half-rounder.

This time, the Japanese army attacked the Inner Mongolia Military Region on a large scale, and Han Yunhua transferred the main force of the military region to the central and northern Hebei regions, although there were still nearly 30,000 troops in the entire base area, but the combat effectiveness of these 30,000 people even Han Yunhua himself was a little worried, let alone Yang Ruihua

It is said that there are 30,000 people, except for the temporary independent first brigade, the others are some local security regiments, not to mention the combat effectiveness, and the weapons and equipment are incomparable with the devils, those security regiments are similar to the real Eighth Route Army in history, fighting guerrilla warfare and relying on a solid and reasonable position to fight a defensive war, but if you fight a field battle with the devils, Han Yunhua believes that these 30,000 people will not be able to support even half a month under the guns of Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division.

However, this time Yang Ruihua's task was not to fight a field battle with the devils, their main task was to slow down the Japanese army's offensive speed as much as possible and protect the safety of the people in the base area.

At present, the Inner Mongolia Military Region can really be described as having internal and external troubles, with an army of devils pressing the border, and hundreds of thousands of refugees waiting to be rescued, and the contradictions between refugees and aborigines in large and medium-sized cities and towns under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are very prominent, and because the rescue capacity of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is limited, the vast majority of refugees can only eat one or two very thin porridges a day, and they will barely die.

If the base area is stable, it would be okay at all, but now the devils are about to enter the base area, so these refugees are also panicked, so the frequent occurrence of theft, robbery and other crimes in the base area has caused a lot of pressure on Yang Ruihua. But fortunately, the people in the base area are still very face-saving to Han Yunhua, the boss, so there has been no head-on conflict with the refugees so far.

After reading Yang Ruihua's telegram, Han Yunhua immediately sent him a reply telegram, in which he ordered Yang Ruihua to take unified command of the nearly 30,000 troops left behind in the base area, rely on the favorable terrain and the ** county town in the base area to block the enemy step by step, and at the same time kill and injure a large number of devils, it is also necessary to protect the lives and safety of the people in the base area, and try to avoid the occurrence of the incident of the devils slaughtering the village.

If nothing can be done, at a critical moment, Han Yunhua authorized Yang Ruihua to break up the troops into pieces and go into the mountains to fight guerrillas, and all the county towns under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the only medium-sized city of Jining can be lost. But Han Yunhua also put forward his own requirements, the troops can enter the mountain, but the safety of the people must be guaranteed. The county seat can be lost, and Jining can be lost into a city, but it must be lost meaningfully, and every city lost must make the devils pay a heavy price, and a large number of devils must be killed.

Now that the sky is already bright, it won't be long before the devil's reconnaissance plane will come to patrol, and by then Han Yunhua's 60,000 troops will definitely have nothing to hide, unless they hide in the dense forest or in the valley as before.

But today, Han Yunhua did not let the troops avoid the enemy as usual, but ordered the troops to check their weapons and equipment and prepare for battle, and at the same time, officers at and above the brigade level went to Han Yunhua for an emergency meeting.

Wan Guoquan, Xi Legge, Bart, Zhang Tianhao (Captain of the First Supplementary Corps), and Ma Yingying (Captain of the Second Supplementary Corps) were all the brigade commander-level military commanders who followed Han Yun's eastern expedition to the east, while Shi Zhaoqi, Ning Mingbo, and Tong Jiayong were the only three brigade-level political commissars who followed Han Yun's eastern expedition this time.

Wan Guoquan and others knew that the great war was about to begin. As a soldier, especially a general with heavy troops, these senior officers under Han Yunhua have a natural ** for combat, just like himself.

Due to the limited conditions, Han Yunhua could only choose the address of the meeting in a small mountain pass, and after letting the Saber Special Operations Brigade send a squadron to guard, Han Yunhua said: "Comrades, after more than three days of rapid marching, we have arrived in Chicheng County in the northern Hebei region, which is not far from Zhangjiakou, Chongli, Fengning Yanqing, Miyun Wanquan, and Xuanhua. Or the same sentence: "When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins", think about the people behind us, comrades, are you ready? ”,

All the brigade-level military and political commanders said loudly: "Always be ready to use me in the first battle, and use me to win"

Han Yunhua said with satisfaction: "Okay! Now listen to my orders: the 1st Cavalry Brigade will attack Chicheng County, and I will enter the city to rest in two hours. The Second Cavalry Brigade gave me the south to Xuanhua, and your combat mission is to break through the two county towns of Xuanhua and Chongli in the shortest possible time, and withdraw to the county seat of Chicheng immediately after breaking through the city. The 2nd Assault Brigade, the 1st Supplementary Corps, and the 1st Artillery Regiment marched east to Fengning, and your combat mission was to attack all the way east, and as long as the enemy stood in front of you, they would all be destroyed on the spot. The 2nd Supplementary Corps swept through all the devil's strongholds in Chicheng County as a regiment, and I will hear the news of the occupation of the entire territory of Chicheng County by this evening. The fire support regiment, the engineer regiment, and the saber special operations brigade bypassed Fengning and went straight to Chengde, I ask you to advance as covertly as possible, give you half a month, and you will take Chengde City for me. Remember that you are now fighting on your own, leave everyone else alone, just complete your own mission, and I will show you your next steps when it is done. ”

The order was issued quite quickly, and Wan Guoquan and the others answered quite simply, although each of them had a lot of opinions about Han Yunhua's arrangement of troops, but out of their consistent trust in Han Yunhua, no one said it, and they all happily carried out the order.

The horn of war sounded again, and what followed would be an unprecedented peak showdown, Han Yunhua looked at the teams of troops that were gradually moving away, the corners of his eyes were filled with tears unconsciously, Han Yunhua didn't know how many of them could come back alive, but Han Yunhua knew that all this was necessary, including death.

At the same time that Han Yunhua gave the order to attack, the county seat of Zhuozishan and the county seat of Fengzhen were fiercely attacked by the Japanese army at the same time. More than 16,000 people, including the main four infantry wings, one cavalry wing, three artillery brigades, and two engineer brigades of the 39th Brigade and the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, were divided into three attack echelons and went straight to Fengzhen County.

Fengzhen is the southern gate of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, where a large number of troops have always been stationed, from the beginning of the 88th Regiment to the later guard brigade, until now the temporary independent first brigade, are the key training troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Garrisoned in the county seat of Fengzhen was the 1st Regiment of the 1st Provisional Independent Brigade, which was composed of rescued miners and Kuomintang prisoners, and this regiment has been the absolute main force of the 1st Provisional Independent Brigade since its formation.

When forming the First Provisional Independent Brigade and the Second Provisional Independent Brigade, Han Yunhua once said that if these two brigades do not fight well and their combat effectiveness does not meet Han Yunhua's minimum requirements, then these two brigades will be completely disbanded, and the troops will be disorganized and supplemented to several other brigades.

However, if the combat effectiveness of these two brigades is not bad, and they are brilliant in fighting, then these two brigades will be upgraded to the official establishment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and will not be the current temporary units.