February 18 is the Spring Festival of the Chinese lunar calendar, and people who have been busy all year long relax on this day. Chinese people want a "reunion", and the Spring Festival is a time for the whole family to reunite. Chinese people have a sense of reunion since ancient times, so no matter what, they will return to their families during the Spring Festival as much as possible. As a foreign friend commented: "A thing called the Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner binds them together, ostensibly a meal, but in fact it is a deep-rooted spiritual sustenance." ”

The Spring Festival of 1939 was the most stable Spring Festival for the people of Saibei in the past two years, and this time of the year was also the most frequent time for the little devils, and many villages were razed to the ground on the Chinese New Year's Eve, so the people in the Saibei area had a very low-key Spring Festival in the past two years. However, seeing that the year is different, because of the strong force to rely on, and although the harvest is not good this year, Mr. Han has exempted all taxes, and in the past few days, the troops in various counties have built a large market, and sold cloth, cotton, salt, white flour, rice and other items to the local people at the cheapest price. Although there is a certain limit for each household, it is like that each household may not buy more than ten cloths for ten people, and each person may not buy more than fifty catties of white flour and rice. However, the common people are still very grateful to the army for these things they have done, the common people are simple, and they also understand the difficulties of the military region, and the entire income of the military region is only a small amount of taxes paid by the merchants in the city, while the vast rural areas in northern Cyprus still need a certain amount of subsidies from the military region.

In the first three days of the Spring Festival, the Inner Mongolia Military Region sent a condolence team to visit all the herdsmen's families in the area. Although there were not many gifts, those bold herdsmen and brothers still sent their friendship to the military region, first of all, the Mongolian nobleman Ai Yuegra of the Siziwang Banner led the two banner owners of the Mongolian nationality and the management of more than a dozen pastoral areas to Guisui Jin to meet Han Yunhua. Soon after, the Mongolian representatives of Daqi also sent people to Guisui to meet Han Yunhua, agreeing that Daqi and several banner counties around Daqi should obey the full management of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and that Han Yunhua's subordinates would recruit troops in Daqi and other places. So far, the work of the Inner Mongolia Military Region in the Saibei region has made new progress, and seeing the strong force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, almost all the Mongolian nobles have chosen to identify and obey.

The Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters were extremely surprised that Han Yunhua had been able to win the recognition of the ethnic minorities in the territory for more than a year. You must know that the Mongolian people have been a heroic and unruly nation since ancient times, and few foreigners can win their recognition. It was only a little more than a year since Han Yunhua's troops arrived in the Saibei area, but it was more than a year that he not only created a brilliant record that the entire Chinese people were amazed by, recovered a part of Chahar, Suiyuan, and Rehe provinces, and expanded the jurisdiction to more than 30 banner counties, becoming the largest anti-Japanese base under the leadership of [***]. At the same time, the armed forces of Han Yunhua's department are also booming, according to incomplete statistics, in addition to the Han nationality, Han Yunhua's department also has fighters from 27 other ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority officers and administrative officers also account for a large part of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. More than half of the cavalry units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are Mongolian soldiers, and half of the officers are from the Mongolian ethnic group. Among the senior officers of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, there are also many Mongolians, and although there are no officers at or above the division level for the time being, there are still many at the brigade commander level. So now Han Yunhua is also famous, and almost all ethnic minorities know that the Han governor in Saibei will not discriminate against them as non-Han members. Therefore, recently, many middle-aged men and women of ethnic minorities have come to join the army, and for this reason, Han Yunhua also specially instructed the armed forces department to set up a women's special service battalion.

Seeing that the Spring Festival is coming soon, according to the ideas of Political Commissar Zuo and Shen Yuquan and others, it is enough to give the soldiers a few good meals in the Spring Festival. But Han Yunhua did not agree to do this, and he personally arranged the activities from the first day of the Spring Festival to the third day of the New Year.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole army ate dumplings, and after eating dumplings, they watched the wonderful performances brought by the army's art troupe; in addition to Peking opera, dramas, and songs, Han Yunhua also specially moved the recitation of patriotic poems to the stage, and he himself also took the stage to sing a song "Serving the Country with Loyalty" affectionately, which attracted full applause.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, in addition to paying New Year's greetings to Yan'an, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the base areas of major military regions, Han Yunhua also held a grand military parade in Guisui. Senior officials of the National Political Axe and some senior leaders of the Jinsui Army in the Second War Zone were invited to watch the ceremony, and at the same time, the Yan'an Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters sent people to congratulate them.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Han Yunhua personally led all the senior leaders of the military region to the Guisui Martyrs' Cemetery to pay respects to the comrades who sacrificed their lives for the great cause of the motherland's resistance, and also made a wonderful speech on the famous "On the Chinese Spirit" in the Martyrs' Cemetery: "Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has been famous overseas for being a country of benevolence and righteousness, and we often regard ourselves as gentlemen, so the first spirit of Chinese is the surname of a gentleman. Therefore, our nation is a peace-loving nation without an aggressive surname, and all wars and hatreds are imposed on us by imperialist and militarist aggressors. Therefore, our War of Resistance was a just war, and I also believe that our country and our nation will be able to uphold justice without fear of violence, and will eventually be able to defeat the aggressor and win the country's reading power and national self-improvement. I believe that the people of the world, who are full of a sense of justice and compassion, will not allow evil to take over the world and control the world, and I believe that in the near future, many powerful countries like China will join in this just action against aggression and war. I am more convinced that a great storm is brewing in the world right now, just like the brutal invaders, whose allies will bring nightmares to the whole world, whether it is the mighty Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and its dependencies...... When the time comes, I hope that we can unite and unite all countries and nations that aspire to justice, eliminate all evil, and restore a peaceful world to the world. Many foreign friends think that the real Chinese may be rude, but I want to say that maybe the Chinese have rudeness, but there is no rudeness in our rudeness; The real Chinese may be ugly, but his ugliness is not terrible; The real Chinese may be vulgar, but there is no aggression in the vulgar; The real Chinese may be stupid, but there is no absurdity in the ignorance; The real Chinese may be cunning, but there is no evil in his cunning. We Chinese do have many shortcomings, but these shortcomings reveal a bit of cuteness. The most important thing is that we Chinese pursue a stable, harmonious and beautiful life, not the war and exploitation and oppression imposed on our heads. I warn those countries and forces that will not be kind to you that when you stretch out your evil hand, all your actions will be severely punished by the Chinese people and I, Han Yunhua, and this punishment has no time and space limit. I believe in my vision that in the near future, China will appear in front of the world as a victorious country and a world power, and the 40,000,000 Chinese people will surely win the final victory............"

Behind Han Yunhua's speech, which was hailed as a great prophecy, was reprinted in major newspapers across the country the next day, and a few days later the article appeared in the world's major newspapers. Regarding Han Yunhua's short-sighted prophecy speech, countries around the world reacted differently, with some despising, some approving, and some thoughtful. Among them, those British gentlemen directly refuted Han Yunhua as a stupid oriental general, and even several British knights openly condemned Han Yunhua in the newspaper as an evil person who intended to provoke war.

Han Yunhua didn't see the international reaction, what he wanted to do was a gesture, my Han Yunhua's strategic vision is to be more long-term than you, that is, stronger than you. Follow me, everyone's interests are equal, if you don't like me, then you will be prepared to be unlucky.

On the other hand, the United States has done very well, and President Roosevelt has proposed a new bill to aid China, which will be submitted to Congress for deliberation. At the same time, the United States sent two delegations to China, to Yucheng, the capital of the National People's Political Axe, and Yan'an, the seat of the Party Central Committee.

However, Han Yunhua only scoffed at this, he knew what the United States was, and he saw it more clearly than ordinary people. In Han Yunhua's eyes, the mighty United States of America is an out-and-out arms dealer and a promoter of war. As early as 1931, when Ben launched the '918 Incident' and invaded Northeast China. The United States supplied $181 million in arms to the company, and the vast majority of these arms were used in northeast China, indirectly helping the economy on the verge of collapse at that time. At the same time, Hoover, then President of the United States, shamelessly and sympathetically viewed the military invasion of China in 1931, and Hoover shamelessly declared: "There is some truth in this." Our friendship with it is long-standing and deep-rooted. We should consider Ben's situation amicably. Because of this attitude of the American political axe, the DuPont family signed a lucrative agreement with him that year, selling the formula of ammonia explosives, which he had studied for a long time but had not made much progress. Although Stimson, then U.S. Secretary of State, had condemned the attack on Manchuria, shortly after that, managers from the Mitsui Chemicals Consortium met with DuPont managers in Wilmington and paid more than $900,000 in exchange for the formula for DuPont's ammonia explosives, a method used to produce cheaper munitions. The State Department, despite Stimson's public rhetoric, privately expressed its full approval of the DuPont deal. In 1937, the "77 Incident" launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. At this time, the United States played a very disgraceful role in this, saying that at the end of the 30s of the 20th century, 90% of its domestic oil demand came from imports, and 85% of it came from the United States, the main oil exporter at that time. According to official statistics, in the first half of 1937 alone, it imported 1.3 million tons of steel from the United States; Within one year after the "77 Incident," the United States shipped 92 percent of its military strategic materials to Japan. In other words, 92 of the 100 bullets fired on the battlefield in China came from the United States, and although this analogy is inappropriate, it is enough to show that the United States is acting with a kind of contempt and harm to China. Therefore, in Han Yunhua's view, the United States is the executioner who provides power for this high-speed chariot, and half of the responsibility for the more than 300,000 unjust souls in Nanjing should be attributed to the United States.

Moreover, Han Yunhua also knew that on September 14, 1937, the United States announced a ban on the export of weapons and military equipment loaded on American ships. This decree of the United States seems to be fair, but Han Yunhua knows that this is just a trick of the United States, which seems to be very neutral and fair, and does not use American ships to serve the arms procurement of either side of the war. However, if we want to think clearly about the situation of the war in China at that time, the Chinese navy was almost completely annihilated, and the sea control of the entire ocean was lost, but at this time, the navy was extremely powerful in the world, and it was a well-deserved giant in the Asian region, so this policy was suitable for the requirements of having a strong navy, and it was extremely unfavorable to China's war of resistance. This is because when the navy is in control of the waters between China and China, it is said that the ships loaded with weapons, military equipment, and other strategic materials from the United States can be unimpeded. What made Han Yunhua speechless the most was that on December 12, 1937, the invading army deliberately created an extremely provocative incident: sinking the US 'Pane' on the Nanjing River, resulting in the death of more than 70 US people. Such a serious political and diplomatic incident should have been handled in a high-profile manner, but the US political axe still showed amazing patience and calmly dealt with it, as always, to provide loans and sell strategic materials to Ben. Shortly thereafter, the United States Department of State informed the American Aircraft Corporation that the United States political axe did not agree to sell the aircraft and aircraft parts to countries that were bombing indiscriminately. This is known as the "moral embargo". In 1937, the value of the planes sold by the United States to the company was $2.484 million, but in 1938, after the so-called 'moral embargo', the value of the planes sold by the United States to the company increased to $17.454 million, and in 1938, the Soviet Union provided China with a loan of $100 million to buy Soviet weapons. In 1938, the United States gave $125 million in loans and credits to the United States to purchase strategic materials such as machine tools and strengthen the war machine of the United States' invasion of China.

Although the US political axe is really dirty, Han Yunhua has to admit that the American people are very good, with the demeanor and quality of a great country. The US political axe's support for Ben's aggression against China has long aroused the dissatisfaction of the American people. In 1936, there was a seamen's strike on the west coast of the United States against the sale of military supplies to China for its invasion of China. However, the determination of the people could not change the attitude of the American political axe, so we see the following record in the "Tao Xingzhi Yue Zhi": "The Norwegian cargo ship (which transported scrap steel to the Ben) set sail, and seventeen seafarers refused to go to the Ben and were detained by the Texas Magistrate of Justice. According to the figures provided by Tao Xingzhi Yuezhi, in 1937 the United States accounted for 54.4 percent of the strategic materials shipped to the United States, 17.5 percent to the United Kingdom, and 3.8 percent to Germany. In terms of classification, the proportion of the United States is: 92.9 percent copper, 60.5 percent of various oils, 91.2 percent of automobiles and parts, iron (scrap steel?). 59.7 percent, cast iron 41.6 percent, all kinds of machinery, engines 48.5 percent. When Mr. Tao Xingzhi left the United States, he once said in his parting speech: "I went back to China to participate in the Anti-Japanese War. If one day I am killed by this bomb, please do not forget that 54.4 percent of my body was killed by you, the United States. At a rally-meeting of 5,000 people in Los Angeles, Congressman Mr. Scott told the crowd: "Please remember that when Ben killed a million people in China, 544,000 were killed by American accomplices." Whoever does not wish to be an accomplice, please stand up! The audience stood up unanimously to express their determination to embargo.

The Americans also knew that "more than half of the raw materials that kept the war machine running, especially iron, steel, and oil, were obtained from the United States," so the people were extremely dissatisfied with the political axe's almost open support for China's aggression against China, so there has always been an endless stream of actions to support China's war of resistance. As a result, the prestige of the US political axe among the people has declined rapidly, so the US political axe has to use some tricks to confuse the people at home. Han Yunhua did not think that Roosevelt's bill to aid China could be passed, and he knew that in this year, the United States lost military supplies to Japan and broke a new high, reaching 186.9 million US dollars, accounting for about 86% of all US exports to Japan that year. From 1937 to 1940, the United States imported a total of $986.7 million in supplies, of which $703.9 million was worth military supplies.

Han Yunhua understands that the reason why the United States put forward the bill to aid China at this time is that on the one hand, it is to confuse the crazy people in China, and on the other hand, it wants to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, and knock on the tiger a little. In view of the threat posed to the United States by the occupation of Hainan Island not long ago (February 1939), Roosevelt had to remind the country of aggression. It is important to know that Hainan Island is a different place from ordinary islands, and the occupation of Hainan Island by the army will become a base for advancing to Indochina and other parts of Southeast Asia. Therefore, this move seriously threatens the security of the United States, which is why the China Aid Act was proposed. But all the time this was a trick on the part of the United States, and the threat to him was not as shocking as a strike by workers in a factory in the United States.

I also know that the United States also wants to get a piece of the pie from this war, but regardless of the fact that people want to be both a bitch and a chastity archway, they are not as naked as they are, and they just want to be an invisible executioner. Therefore, I do not believe that the United States will really turn against the empire, and besides, there are two views on the future strategic layout in China, one is the northward faction and the other is the southward faction. The northward advance refers to using the Korean Peninsula and northeast China as a springboard to attack the Soviet Union's Far East, and at this time, the northward expansion faction was stronger, so in order to connive at and support the invasion of China, the United States and Britain did not hesitate to sacrifice China's interests. Therefore, despite the frequent occurrence of strikes and demonstrations in the United States, he was not at all worried about the sudden severance of "exchanges" between the Americans and them.

Han Yunhua himself expressed his appreciation for the United States' role in the "Nine. For more than a decade after the "18 Incident" and before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was extremely annoyed and even hated from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, he is also extremely disgusted by this hypocritical action of the United States, and Han Yunhua knows better what kind of bitter fruit the United States has tasted in the end.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Han Yunhua did not go down to the grassroots level with the leaders of the military region to comfort the soldiers and civilians, but took Yuhan and Yun Qian to walk the street with Xiao Sihan in her arms. For more than a year, he has either led troops to fight or worked hard to accumulate strength, so he didn't take too much care of Yuhan and Yunqian, but he often had to be taken care of by Yuhan, and even all the dirty clothes were washed by Yuhan. Now he has quietly caused a little trouble for Yuhan, which makes Han Yunhua feel guilty. Anyway, the little devil was very well-behaved during this time, so Han Yunhua temporarily relaxed his guard against the Yue Army, and just ordered the intelligence department to secretly monitor the actions of the Yue Army.

Guisui City is not very big, and the city is very chaotic, and the whole city is poorly planned, like a combination of rural and urban areas. In the words of Han Yunhua: "The city of Guisui is like the countryside, and the countryside of Guisui is like the city." There are many famous attractions in the city, such as the Princess's Mansion, Jokhang Temple, and Xiaozhao Temple, which are all very good, so taking advantage of this time, Han Yunhua plans to accompany his wife and daughter.

Although Han Yunhua is the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, in fact, not many ordinary people know him, because Han Yunhua himself is a special forces soldier, so he is very good at protecting himself, he knows that a famous celebrity is the focus wherever he goes, and only pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is the king. No matter how powerful a sniper is, as long as he is famous and remembered for his appearance, then this sniper will be in trouble in the future, and it is not very safe to disguise himself. Therefore, in addition to the affairs of the military region, local affairs are generally handled by Shen Yuquan and others, and he generally rarely shows up, because he himself often has to carry out tasks and cannot let too many people know his true face.

Therefore, although Han Yunhua traveled with no less guards, he was all in plain clothes. Today, Han Yunhua is dressed like a successful businessman, wearing a black and blue robe and a black top hat, coupled with his extraordinary appearance, no one dares to recognize him as a soldier. And Yuhan and Yun Qian are dressed in the classic dress of girls in the Republic of China, with a small short coat of floral colors on the upper body and a light-colored long skirt on the lower body. This season is the coldest period in Saibei, so the two girls are wearing temporary cotton clothes. The happiest thing is Xiao Sihan, the whole body is made of cotton clothes and cotton pants made by Li Yuhan's novices, and even the little swaddling clothes are newly made by Yuhan. On the one hand, Han Yunhua considered that Xiao Sihan had the right to know his life when he grew up, so he put away all the things left by Xiao Sihan's biological mother and the jade pendants and longevity locks she carried in advance, and even the clothes she wore and the swaddling clothes made of whole tiger skins were saved by Han Yunhua, and he would take them out when necessary.

After this period of care, Xiao Sihan has also become very dependent on Yuhan. Except for Han Yunhua, only Yuhan can hold her, and anyone else will cry as soon as they touch her, not even Yun Qian's aunt, who can only see Yun Qian depressed. Han Yunhua's love for this little guy full of spiritual surnames was beyond words, and he ordered that the military region's matter about Xiao Sihan was not allowed to be spread privately, and violators were severely punished.

As long as there is time, Han Yunhua will start to teach Xiao Sihan to speak, although the little guy who has begun to babble can only "Ah... Yikes... But Han Yunhua had to teach her to have a conversation every day, which made Yuhan feel that Han Yunhua was a considerate and careful person.

After consulting Yuhan and Yun Qian, the first stop Han Yunhua and the others went to was the Qing Princess Mansion in Guisui City. Han Yunhua is no stranger to this princess's mansion, after graduating from the military academy in his previous life, he was thrown to serve as the captain of a border brigade in the northern part of the country, although the stationing of the unit was far away in Erenhot City. But when Han Yunhua first came, Guisui, which had been renamed Hohhot, lived in a military guest house not far from the princess's mansion. So when he has nothing to do, he goes to the princess's mansion and the princess's mansion park, so he is also very familiar with the history of this princess's mansion. In fact, this Qing princess's mansion is also very famous in the Saibei area, it is the mansion of Princess Kejing, the sixth daughter of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. There are 5 entrances in the house, there are halls, halls and inner courtyards, the front of the door stands on the wall, and there are rockeries, ponds and marshes in the east. The fourth daughter of Shunzhi, Princess Jingyi, the great-granddaughter of Dolgon, and Shuogege, the sixth daughter of Kangxi, lived in the mansion successively. Although the old site of the mansion has been rebuilt many times, its old pattern can still be vaguely seen. The Qing Dynasty implemented a policy of tenderness towards Mongolia, and married Princess Kejing to Dundob Dorji, the son of Tushetu Khan of the Khalkha Mongolian Tribe, and was first named Princess Heshuo, then Princess Kejing, and then Princess Gulun Kejing. The princess's mansion has been moved three times, the first residence in Qingshuihe County Garden Lane, and then moved to the west bank of the Zadahai River in the northwest of Suicheng, and the existing mansion was built during the Yongzheng period.

Han Yunhua explained the history of the princess's mansion to Yuhan and others while walking, not pointing to a few rockeries or pavilions for Yuhan and others to watch. Before Han Yunhua's troops occupied Guisui, this was the Beppu of Lieutenant General Lian Nupan, commander of the Mongolian Corps of the Yue Army. Every week, Lieutenant General Lian Nu Pan would stay here for one night, and after Han Yunhua's subordinates took Guisui, it was changed by Han Yunhua into a place to welcome Mongolian nobles and other ethnic minority leaders. As long as the Mongolian princes and nobles come to Guisui, Han Yunhua will let them stay in the princess's mansion, on the one hand, it is a respect for these Mongolian princes, and on the other hand, those Mongolian princes also recognize the princess's mansion very much. You must know that Guisui has always been a holy city in the hearts of the Mongols, and the Mongolian people's feelings for Guisui are no less than those Middle Eastern believers worship Jerusalem. Therefore, after Han Yunhua's subordinates took Guisui, they did not rectify the buildings and other things in the city, but just cleaned up the collapsed rubble in the city and repaired the collapsed city walls. did not raze many buildings that hindered military operations like the Yue army, and it was precisely because of this that Han Yunhua's department was able to win the recognition of the Mongolian compatriots in such a short time.

(To be continued)