Mr. Peng's words really reminded Mr. Zhu that the reason why the Eighth Route Army was able to stubbornly survive while the enemy was still fed and grew up step by step in the battle, in addition to the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee, a very important factor was that it gave full play to the essence of guerrilla warfare and movement warfare, and dragged the enemy to death during the movement. It is precisely for this reason that the CPC Central Committee has repeatedly issued orders and reaffirmed emphatically that all units must remember not to engage in a decisive battle with the main force of the army, and must correctly apply strategy and tactics.

First, with the efforts of the entire Eighth Route Army, the entire army will be defeated and retreated, and the situation in Shanxi, Hebei, and Rehe provinces will be very good. In the second scenario, the army counterattacked with all its might, and the North China Front concentrated all its forces to engage in a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army was outnumbered and suffered a crushing defeat. But no matter what kind of national political axe is not easy to say, what kind of temper the veteran is, as a "friend of life and death" for more than ten years, the two bosses are still very clear, if the Eighth Route Army has been lurking behind the enemy, Lao Jiang will also say a few words at most "guerrilla guerrillas, guerrillas but not attacks", but if the strength of the Eighth Route Army is too great, Lao Jiang will be unhappy, and if the veteran is unhappy, then [***] will not have a good life. With Lao Jiang's person, although he can't do anything with the Yue Army, it is certain that he will find the Eighth Route Army a little uncomfortable.

"Lao Peng is right, we really have to be cautious, once our Eighth Route Army takes out all the hole cards, then Lao Jiang and the devil will be unhappy. The devil is so unhappy that it has nothing to do with us, but Lao Jiang is unhappy that we will be unlucky, even if there will be no major casualties, but the unprepared troublesome thing alone can kill you. But we don't need to be too timid, just limit things to a certain range. This time, the main purpose was to solve the crisis in the southern Hebei region, and there was no need to engage in a decisive battle with the main force of the army, so I suggested that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army only send the special service regiment (regiment commander Yin Xianbing, political commissar Li Zhimin), artillery regiment (regiment commander Wu Ting, political commissar Qiu Chuangcheng), and Suiying School (principal Wei Guoqing, political commissar Chen Buming) to participate in the battle. As for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, there is no need to send many troops, two infantry regiments are enough. I don't think this kind of scale can arouse the panic of General Binshan Yuan, at most, it is only to withdraw the main forces of the four divisions that attacked the southern Hebei region, and there is no need to concentrate many troops to fight a decisive battle with our army. "Commander-in-Chief Zhu analyzed it very thoroughly, and he knew that the current principles and policies of the party, and the battle plan that was too risky would not be approved at all.

Soon, a reply from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was sent to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. As soon as he received the telegram, Han Yunhua issued an order to all the officers, and according to the battle plan, Han Yunhua would personally lead the troops south. This time, Han Yunhua completely suppressed the momentum of the North China Front, and deliberately used the mechanized brigade and artillery brigade that had been kept secret.

Han Yunhua's headquarters moved quickly, and on March 3, the whole army marched to the predetermined area, and launched an attack on the Yue army in a short time. Because Han Yunhua's actions were too big, the special high-tech department of the army soon received the news, of course, Han Yunhua didn't think about keeping it secret from the beginning, because there was no secret at all in the big operation of **10,000 people.

However, Han Yunhua was still very "cunning", and the infantry marched completely openly, especially the more than 25,000 infantry of the 300th Division, and their whereabouts along the road were all carried out under the supervision of the Yue army, and the Yue army also sent several planes from time to time to "welcome and welcome." However, the actions of the mechanized brigade and the artillery brigade after the completion of the reorganization were much more secretive, and two days after the infantry left, Wan Guoquan led the mechanized brigade and artillery brigade to start from Baotou, and this time Wan Guoquan's task was not to go south to join Han Yunhua's department, but to turn to the eastern Hebei region to assist the 77th Division of Reading Li to capture eastern Hebei.

Originally, the mechanized brigade and artillery brigade belonged to the reorganized 300 division, but because the direction of Han Yunhua's attack was from north to south, the main breakthrough point of the attack was the line of Tianzhen, Yangyuan, Weixian, Guangling, and Hunyuan. The eastern Hebei region is different. The vast majority of cities and counties in Lulong, Qian'an, Funing, Changli, Luanxian, Leting, Linyu, Fengrun, Ninghe, Tongxian, Sanhe, Baodi, Jixian, Xianghe, Changping, Shunyi, Miyun, Huairou, Pinggu, Zunhua, Xinglong, and Yutian in 22 counties in eastern Hebei are flat plains, and even if there are mountainous areas, they are all low hills, and there are no large mountains like the Taihang Mountains. Therefore, the eastern Hebei region is extremely suitable for mechanized troops to march and fight, and the defenders in eastern Hebei are mainly elite troops mainly based on the second division of the Yue Army. That's why Han Yunhua will send the baby bump in his hand to Jidong, otherwise it will be troublesome if he encounters the chariot troops of the second division.

At present, there are only two anti-Japanese armed forces left in eastern Hebei, and the first is the anti-Japanese advance detachment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, that is, the unit developed by Li Dingguo with the Feilong special squadron in his hands. The other is the army led by the famous anti-Japanese general Bao Sen, who has dealt with Han Yunhua, but the two have never met.

Bao Sen (1911-1942), formerly known as Zhao Baosen, also known as Zhao Han, was a native of Pucheng County, Shaanxi. In February 1932, he joined China [***]. In March 1937, he went to Yan'an to study at the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was sent to work in the Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Base Area Reading Li Division and served as the secretary of the general branch of the 33rd Brigade. After the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Bao Sen crossed the Yellow River north with the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Yan'an. In June 1938, he led more than 40 people to eastern Hebei to open up an anti-guerrilla zone in the Xinglong area of Hebei. When Bao Sen was ordered to be in danger, he was responsible for leading the anti-Japanese guerrilla struggle behind enemy lines in the eastern Hebei region.

At the time of the first Battle of Saibei, Bao Sen had just come to eastern Hebei, and pulled up a team of more than 1,000 people to preside over the anti-Japanese struggle in the Xinglong area, and Bao Sen at that time also had contacts with Li Yunchang and others. More than 100,000 people from several divisions of the army followed Han Yunhua's division into eastern Hebei, and the second division of the army also went south to support the army in eastern Hebei. Originally, Bao Sen was also preparing to lead his troops to return to Chahar with Han Yunhua, but due to the rapid southward movement of the Sixth Division, the road to the north of Bao Sen's division was cut off. Therefore, Bao Sen had to lead a part of the troops to the east and move to the west, because it still belonged to the hinterland of eastern Hebei, and in the context of the retreat of Han Yunhua's troops, Bao Sen's 1,800 people were still safe in Qianxi County, so after the first battle of Saibei, Bao Sen led his troops and horses to preside over the anti-Japanese struggle in the areas of Qianxi, Qian'an, and Zunhua.

As for Bao Sen, the military and political leaders at all levels of the Eighth Route Army have a very high evaluation. It is not only because Bao Sen was able to persist in the struggle against the Japanese in such a harsh environment, which made up for the power gap left by Han Yunhua's troops after the retreat, and gave the people of eastern Hebei a hope. Ye Jianying, then chief of the general staff of the Eighth Route Army, called him "China's Xia Boyang"; Li Yunchang, the former commander of the Eighth Route Army's Eastern Hebei Army Division, said with emotion: "Bao Sen is fighting the world in eastern Hebei"; Even the chief Okamura Ningci lamented: "Going to the east of Hebei is like entering the sea of suffering"; As for those puppet soldiers, they often use "going out to fight and meeting Bao Sen" as a mantra.

Bao Sen's command ability is not inferior to that of the units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region that have been trained by Han Yunhua, and with the establishment and development of the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in eastern Hebei, his outstanding leadership skills and extraordinary strategies and tactics have been displayed more and more. In the course of persisting in the anti-Japanese guerrilla struggle behind enemy lines in the eastern Hebei region, Bao Sen fully embodied the flexible application of the strategic and tactical thinking on protracted resistance against Japanese aggression behind enemy lines, and effectively countered the rumors of the Kuomintang rightists that "the Eighth Route Army guerrilla but not attacked." Moreover, it was precisely because Bao Sen insisted on waging a guerrilla war of resistance behind enemy lines and frequently harassed the garrisons of the Yue army in the eastern Hebei region, which not only effectively eliminated the effective force of the Yue army, but also seriously obstructed the smooth flow of communication lines for the Yue army to invade the mainland of China in the south, forcing the Yue army to draw a large number of troops to deal with the Eighth Route Army in eastern Hebei, thus cooperating with and supporting the war of resistance throughout the country. At the same time, Bao Sen persisted in the anti-Japanese guerrilla struggle behind enemy lines in the eastern Hebei region, and also extensively organized and mobilized the broad masses of the people to expand the anti-Japanese forces to the greatest extent, so that the anti-Japanese guerrilla base areas in eastern Hebei continued to develop and grow rapidly.

Although Bao Sen had dealt with Han Yunhua's department, Han Yunhua didn't know much about this person, maybe Bao Sen died too early and did not become the first batch of generals after the founding of the Republic, so Han Yunhua knew very little about Bao Sen, who was very famous in history. If it weren't for the telegram sent by Li Dingguo some time ago to mention this person, Han Yunhua wouldn't have known that there was such a number one person in Jidong. Then Han Yunhua carefully recalled the deeds about Bao Sen, and after thinking about it, Han Yunhua only remembered two things about Bao Sen. The first thing was that Bao Sen's subordinates skillfully captured alive the cousin of Emperor Samoto and the gendarmerie Akamoto who came to arrest him, which shook the government and the opposition for a while. The second thing is that Bao Sen's department encountered the puppet department in the area of Yehu Mountain in Zunhua, and unfortunately was shot in the chest and died at the age of 31 during the battle.

The reason why Han Yunhua knows these things is completely influenced by the movie "Sword Roars East of the Great Wall", as far as he knows, the protagonist Bao Zhen in the movie who is terrifying, and the prototype of his artistic image is one of the main founders of the Eastern Hebei Anti-Japanese Base Area - Bao Sen, deputy commander of the Eastern Hebei Military Division and head of the 13th Regiment.

After knowing who Bao Sen was, Han Yunhua was overjoyed and ordered Li Dingguo to quickly get in touch with Bao Sen, and ordered Li Dingguo to support Bao Sen with a batch of surplus weapons and equipment, and this batch of weapons and equipment would be supplemented by the advance detachment after the incident. At the same time, Han Yunhua ordered Li Dingguo and Bao Sen to join forces, ready to give the army in eastern Hebei a ruthless attack at any time.

(To be continued)