The day after the agreement was signed, He Yingqin and his entourage returned to Wuhan. However, for **, although the Kuomintang delegation is gone, the matter is not over. The agreement was signed, but the question of which troops to send to participate in the Battle of Wuhan became a problem.

It stands to reason that if we want to go to the national control region to participate in the war, the troops dispatched must be strong in combat, and at the same time, the cohesion of the troops must also be improved. The troops that meet this condition are not nothing, but they can't move, in the many armed forces led by the first, the 129th Division and the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army all meet this condition, but these two divisions suffered heavy losses in the previous period of war, and they have not fully recovered until now, and these two divisions are mainly active in the southeast of Shanxi, responsible for guarding the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and cannot be transferred south on a large scale for the time being.

Originally, the Party Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army hoped to transfer troops from the Inner Mongolia Military Region to the south, but they also considered that most of the soldiers in the Inner Mongolia Military Region were adapted from the puppet army that had been taken on the battlefield or captured, and the vast majority of the puppet army turned out to be Kuomintang troops. At present, the Party Central Committee is really not at ease to let these troops, which have a complex composition and a large number of former Kuomintang officers, serve as officers, go to the Kuomintang to fight against the Japanese invaders.

The leaders of the Party Central Committee in Yan'an and the head of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters had been discussing for more than a day, and dozens of telegrams had been sent, but still no result had been discussed.

However, just when ** was urgently discussing which unit should be sent to Wuhan to fight, the Japanese army began to make a big move again. On September 14, the Botian detachment (Taiwan mixed brigade) marched west from Wuhu to the west, and that night the Botian detachment took advantage of the rainy night to raid Anqing, and it was the Yang Sen Department of the 27th Group Army of the Sichuan Army stationed in Anqing.

Yang Sen's division of the Sichuan army took into account the strong combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and thought that the weapons and equipment were far inferior to the Japanese army, which led to the ineffective operation of the unit and was expelled from the city overnight. After the loss of Anqing, the news reached Wuhan, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious and called Yang Sen: "Abandon the famous city and laugh at friends." and ordered the 27th Army to counterattack Anqing.

However, Yang Sen was also an old warlord, and he had his own way of dealing with Chiang Kai-shek's orders. Yang Sen immediately called back to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army could not withstand the attack of the Japanese follow-up troops, exposing the flank of the 27th Group Army, and he had no choice but to withdraw from Anqing. For an old warlord like Yang Sen, Chiang Kai-shek has no way at all, although he knows that Yang Sen's words are false, even if Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army is not effective in combat, it is not a reason for him to abandon the city and flee, but once Yang Sen is dealt with, then other warlords in the country will definitely be in danger, and this matter has no choice but to end.

The Potian detachment did not rest for long after the capture of Anqing, and on September 16 the main force of the Potian detachment regrouped, continued to advance west along the Yangtze River on naval ships, and arrived outside the blockade line of the Jiangfang fortress Madang on September 21.

In response to a series of military operations by the Japanese army, the Wuhan Garrison Command urgently mobilized a large army to defend Wuhan, and at the same time issued a first-class combat readiness order. The Wuhan Garrison General Headquarters of the Nationalist Government was formally established on January 17, 1938, with Chen Cheng as the commander-in-chief of the garrison, and the garrison under the Wuhan Garrison General Headquarters at that time consisted of 14 divisions, 1 brigade and a special forces.

Subsequently, the Nationalist Government mobilized seven divisions to form a river defense force, and appointed Liu Xing as the commander-in-chief of the river defense, responsible for defending the Yangtze River fortresses such as Madang, Hukou, Jiujiang, and Tianjiazhen in the lower reaches of Wuhan. After the fall of Xuzhou, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government further adjusted and strengthened the command structure and strength of the operation to defend Wuhan. According to the "Operational Plan for the Defense of Wuhan" formulated subsequently, the Nationalist Government decided to transfer the troops of the 5th Theater from the Xuzhou battlefield to the Henan-Anhui border "to ensure the main position in the Dabie Mountains and actively break the enemy attacking along the river and southern Henan in the current situation." The Military Council then ordered the newly established Ninth Theater to be responsible for the defense of Wuhan and south of the Yangtze River.

At this point, the strength and defense line of the defense of Wuhan were finally determined: Chen Cheng's 9th Theater was responsible for the defense of the south bank of the Yangtze River and Wuhan, and the total number of troops under his command was 23 armies and 49 divisions. The 5th Theater, with Li Zongren as the commander of the theater, was responsible for the defense of the north and south flanks of the Dabie Mountains and the north bank of the Yangtze River, with a total of 26 armies and 58 divisions. Together with the reinforcements of the 3rd and 1st Theaters, cavalry, artillery, engineers, navy, and air force, about 1 million troops participated in the defense of Wuhan. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Ministry of Military Affairs to publicize the newly signed "Joint Declaration of the Chahar and Suiyuan Incidents of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party", urging ** to send troops south as soon as possible, and Chiang Kai-shek publicly stated that he hoped that ** could send Han Yunhua's headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to the south. ,

Under the deliberate promotion of the national government, a storm of Han Yunhua's subordinates was formed in a very short period of time, forcing ** to make a decision as soon as possible. Chiang Kai-shek also had his considerations in doing this, and the senior officers of the Nationalist Government discussed for a long time, carefully searched for those troops under his command, and finally agreed that only Han Yunhua's troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region would help this big war to a certain extent, and even if other troops came, they would not play a role.

Chiang Kai-shek also has such a consideration, through Dai Li's spy organization Chiang Kai-shek learned that the weapons equipped by the army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are the most sophisticated among all the leading troops, if he comes to the 129th, 115th, 120th or other troops of the Eighth Route Army, he Chiang Kai-shek has to issue a batch of weapons and equipment even if he is unwilling, otherwise the people at home and abroad can really spit on him to death, after all, people are here to help you fight devils, and you can't say anything if you don't give you any weapons and equipment.

In addition, Chiang Kai-shek knew that Han Yunhua's unit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was particularly good at fighting positional defensive warfare, and according to the information obtained by the intelligence department, Chiang Kai-shek learned that during the Battle of Saibei, a brigade of Han Yunhua's unit was fiercely attacked by the most elite Sixth Division of the Japanese army, and held a small city without a city wall. Such a record was not only unattainable by the miscellaneous army of the Fifth Theater, but also difficult to achieve even by the descendants of Chiang Kai-shek in the Ninth Theater. Moreover, in order to defend Wuhan, the Nationalist Government ordered the garrisons to step up the construction of fortifications on various defensive lines. By the beginning of September, a total of 950 permanent fortifications (650 in history) had been built in the Wuhan urban defense area from Hengdian in the north, Heshengqiao in the south, Gedian in the east, and Xingou in the west, constituting a large-depth defensive position with Wuhan as the core. And at the foot of Dabie Mountain, the fortification lines built mainly include Liuhuo Line, Lishang Line, Huangguangluo Line, and Changxinwu Line. Its most important positions include the Yejiaji area of the Liushang Highway, the Xiaojieling area of the Shangma Highway, and the Wushengguan, Pingjingguan, and Jiuliguan areas. On the border of Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei, the second-line positions have been built in the Wuning Henglu District, the Xiushui Tonggu District, the Yangxin Xintanpu District and the eastern section of the Xiangbei and Hunan-Jiangxi Railways. In the section of the Yangtze River from Anqing to Wuhan, the Yangtze River defense fortifications such as Madang, Hukou and Tianjiazhen were successively constructed and expanded.

At this point, the deployment of the defense of Wuhan was basically completed. Fortresses and bunkers are built, but they need a few troops who are particularly good at defensive warfare to defend them, otherwise no matter how strong the fortress is, it will only be a king and eight shells, and it will be easy to overturn. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek strongly requested that Han Yunhua's troops be sent south, although Chiang Kai-shek's move had the intention of using the hands of the Japanese army to consume the elite of the Eighth Route Army, but it was not forced by the devil to be anxious.

The Japanese base camp ordered the Central China Dispatch Army to coordinate with the Chinese fleet of the Navy to capture Anqing, Madang, Hukou and Jiujiang as an advance base for attacking Wuhan. On 10 September, General Shunroku Hatata, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, issued an operational order, with the Pota Detachment as the main force and with the coordination of the Navy and the Air Force, to advance west from Wuhu and attack Anqing, Madang, Hukou, and Jiujiang. In addition, with the 16th Division as the main force, with the coordination of the 3rd Flying Regiment, it attacked Shucheng, Tongcheng, Qianshan, Taihu, Huangmei and other places from Hefei, and planned to fight against the offensive troops on the river. On September 8, the Japanese 16th Division occupied Shucheng. On 11 September, the Japanese naval authorities informed the consuls in Hankou that the attack on Wuhan had begun. On September 14, the Japanese Botian detachment occupied Anqing. On the same day, the Japanese 16th Division occupied Tongcheng, and then occupied Qianshan on the 17th. The Anqing operation opened the prelude to the Battle of Wuhan.

On the third day of the fall of Anqing, the Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters negotiated and decided to send Han Yunhua's unit south to Wuhan to participate in the defense of Wuhan, and Han Yunhua served as the commander of the southward detachment, and all the troops and weapons and equipment required by the department were decided by Han Yunhua and the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region Committee through consultation. After Han Yunhua left, the work of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was presided over by Shen Yuquan and Yang Ruihua. At the same time, the Party Central Committee decided to move the entire Northern Bureau to Chahar.

The decision to move the entire Northern Bureau to the north was made after careful consideration by the Party Central Committee, which was established in September 1927 as a dispatched organ of the Central Committee in northern China during the democratic period, and led the work of the Party in the northern region on behalf of the Central Committee. Later, due to the erroneous leadership of the "leftist" line, the organization of China in the Kuomintang-ruled areas was greatly damaged. In order to adapt to the development of the national anti-Japanese and salvation situation, realize the complete transformation of the party's work in the Kuomintang-ruled areas, and further strengthen the leadership of the party organizations in the northern region, in May 1935, the Central Committee decided to rebuild the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee on the basis of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee. On December 29, 1935, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee held a meeting and decided to send a representative of the Central Committee to preside over the work of the Northern Bureau. ,

** He only had a short year in charge of the work of the Northern Bureau, but in this short year he did a lot of fruitful work, and made immortal historical contributions to the rectification of the party's political line in the north, the development and expansion of the party's organization, and the formation of the anti-Japanese national united front. At that time, the Party Central Committee spoke highly of this section of the work in Tianjin, holding that "the work of the Party in the north has undergone a fundamental change since the arrival of Comrade Hu Fu (i.e., **)", and that "these major changes are enough to lay the foundation for victory and develop a bright and brilliant great future." ”

Although he is still the secretary of the Northern Bureau, it is actually Comrade Yang Shangkun, deputy secretary of the Central Northern Bureau, who is actually presiding over the work of the Northern Bureau. Han Yunhua is still very familiar with Yang Shangkun, although Yang Shangkun in this period is not very famous, even the current Han Yunhua is more significant than his reputation. But after the liberation, Yang Shangkun, especially a soldier of Han Yunhua's age, is no stranger to this ** old-timer who has dedicated his life to the country and the nation. Especially Yang Shangkun has basically dedicated his life to the army, so Han Yunhua, a junior from later generations, admires this senior very much.

Moreover, Han Yunhua knows that Yang Shangkun's work ability is very outstanding, and he is highly respected in the Northern Bureau, and he is a senior leader second only to the first, Yang Shangkun is a person with strong principles, abides by the party's discipline, maintains the party's unity, always follows the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and works conscientiously for the cause of the party and the people. He adheres to the mass line, keeps close contact with the masses, has a democratic style, is approachable, is good at listening to all kinds of different opinions, brainstorming, and is resourceful and decisive; He was strict with himself, lived a frugal life, was honest and honest, set strict demands on his relatives, and always maintained and carried forward the party's fine traditions and work style. He treated people leniently, cared for his comrades, cared for his cadres, followed the good path, and taught people tirelessly. In Han Yunhua's image, Yang Shangkun is almost a perfect **, so Han Yunhua is very relieved to have him in the Inner Mongolia Military Region to help take care of the family.

After Han Yunhua discussed with Shen Yuquan, Ye Baoguo, Yang Ruihua, Li Dayong, and others, the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region Committee unanimously decided that Han Yunhua would lead four infantry regiments, one engineer regiment, one artillery regiment, two fire support regiments, one cavalry regiment, a guard battalion, and a cheetah special operations squadron, totaling 16,941 people, to the south to participate in the Battle of Wuhan.

In addition to Li Dayong, the brigade-level officers who followed Han Yunhua to the south also included Wang Yuanhua and Wan Guoquan. These four infantry regiments were one regiment from each of the Guisui Garrison Brigade, the 1st Assault Brigade, and the 77th Independent Brigade, and then one infantry regiment was transferred from units directly under the Inner Mongolia Military Region. The four infantry regiments were each commanded by Li Dayong and Wan Guoquan, while the artillery regiment and fire support regiment and the cavalry regiment were commanded by Wang Yuanhua.

Now that the troops going south have been determined, everything is much simpler, all the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region have just been reorganized, so the establishment and personnel of the troops are complete, and the weapons and equipment have just been replenished, and Han Yunhua led the troops to set off almost without much preparation. Since the northern part of Henan has now been occupied by devils, the traffic from the south to the north has been cut off, so Han Yunhua's department can only make a detour to the southwest of Shaanxi.

On September 21, Han Yunhua led the troops heading south to Yan'an by car, and then prepared to go from Yan'an to Xi'an, and then from Xi'an to Wuhan. It's a long road, but it's safe. Besides, I can go to Yan'an by the way to meet ** and Vice Chairman Zhou and others, which can be regarded as a regret in my heart.

Because the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have now reached a consensus on the ownership of Chahar, it is almost possible to go directly from Chahar to Yan'an, except for a part of Fu Zuoyi's defense area along the way, the rest are all operating on the territory controlled by the Eighth Route Army, so Han Yunhua directly took out the baby car to transport the soldiers.

Moreover, due to the strength of Han Yunhua's department, Fu Zuoyi's department almost did not station any troops on the periphery of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, not even a platoon of regular troops, only a dozen river defense troops, but these river defense troops were the guardians of large local families, not real river defense troops.

The road was very smooth, and there was a cheetah special operations squadron along the way, so Fu Zuoyi's troops almost didn't feel it, and when Han Yunhua's convoy passed through Fu Zuoyi's defense area. It is worth mentioning that when Han Yunhua left this time, he specially removed 300 people from the special combat team members who were about to "graduate" and formed a special operations brigade, which had two special operations squadrons under its jurisdiction, equipped with almost all the special combat equipment, and could almost be said to be armed to the teeth. ,

This special operations squadron was named "Bullet" by Han Yunhua, and the "Bullet" was a guard unit specially equipped by Han Yunhua for the leadership of the Party Central Committee in Yan'an. Historically, the Japanese army not only sent troops to attack the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but also prepared to send a special combat team to attack Yan'an, but unfortunately the plan to attack Yan'an did not succeed in the end. But now the trend of history has changed, so Han Yunhua has to guard against it.

After three days and three nights of galloping, Han Yunhua's department finally arrived in Yan'an.

At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 24th, Han Yunhua's department held a grand ceremony to enter the city, and **, Vice Chairman Zhou, Comrade Jiaxiang, Comrade Bi Shi, Comrade Shaoqi, Comrade ** and others all went to the gate of Yan'an City to greet Han Yunhua's department.

There are now more than a dozen middle-aged people in neat clothes standing at the gate of Yan'an City, and hundreds of guards around them are looking around vigilantly, and the guns on the nose of the machine are always warning those with bad intentions.

** took a hard breath of dry smoke, quickly swallowed the smoke out of his mouth, and asked, "Xiao Zhang, where did Commander Han Yunhua go?" ”

"Report to the chairman, Commander Han Yunhua called half an hour ago and said that he had already walked to Yaodian, and it was less than thirty miles away from Yan'an, I am afraid that it is almost there, why don't I let people go to the front to take a look?" **'s guard Xiao Zhang replied.

Vice Chairman Zhou said: "Chairman, don't worry, Xiao Huazi they are in a car, and they will arrive soon, you should be patient and wait, I think this kid is coming up with something like a moth, I think this time it is another big scene that is not shocking and endless, but I heard that Lao Peng They were choked by this kid enough, especially the Xinghe County military parade, that scene can make Lao Peng excited, and now he is very excited when he talks about it." ”

Vice Chairman Zhou's remarks amused all the leaders present, and the tense atmosphere was relieved a lot.