Chapter Forty-Eight: March Break
On 25 March, Han Yunhua returned to Daqingshan with the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, the 4th Cavalry Regiment, the Guard Regiment, the Temporary Artillery Regiment, the 1st Battalion of the Fire Support Regiment, the two special operations brigades of Cheetah and Eagle, and a cavalry cluster of more than 3,000 people temporarily formed with the captured puppet army.
When separating from the 120th Division, Han Yunhua gave the 120th Division a complete cavalry battalion of all the equipment, and as a return gift, Master Cong gave Han Yunhua an adjutant sword.
In the battle of more than half a month, the 77th Independent Brigade defeated 3 county seats, uprooted 24 strongholds of devils, killed more than 2,900 Japanese troops, killed more than 1,400 puppet troops, captured more than 2,700 puppet soldiers, and rescued more than 2,000 prisoners of the national army. 4,325 Type 38 rifles, 465 Taisho Type 11 light machine guns, 234 Japanese Type 96 light machine guns, and 157 artillery pieces of various types were captured, and the 77th Independent Brigade also captured the weapons and equipment of a complete cavalry division of the puppet army.
Master He saw that Han Yunhua's unit had grown from more than 4,000 people when he sent troops to more than 9,300 people like a snowball, and he admired Han Yunhua's courage and his unique method of leading troops. The 120th Division's method of treating captured national army prisoners was the same as that of other units of the Eighth Route Army, that is, they tried to fight for it as much as they could, and if they were unwilling, they would send them home with travel expenses. However, the method of the independent 77th Brigade to treat the prisoners of the puppet army is coercion and inducement, coupled with force deterrence, which basically achieves the goal of capturing a puppet army unit to increase the number of fighters, and the combat effectiveness of the troops has not declined, which makes Master He think of a new method for the expansion and development of the troops.
After returning to the base area, Han Yunhua reported the summary of the operation and the results of the dispatch to the northwest of Shanxi to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and then led his troops to rest on Daqing Mountain.
The General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was extremely satisfied with the results of the Inner Mongolia Military Region's dispatch to the northwest of Shanxi Province, and after obtaining the approval of the central authorities, it conferred the Inner Mongolia Military Region a collective first-class meritorious service and sent a new round of central appointments to the military region.
On January 5, 1938, ** appointed Deng Lao as the political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and no longer served as the deputy director of the General Political Department.
On February 28, 1938, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to appear in the name of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time decided to rename the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army on the North China Front as the Field Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, and Fu Zhong served as the deputy director of the Political Department and the director of the Field Administration of the Eighth Route Army.
In February 1938, the Eighth Route Army successively established the Third and Fourth Columns. Decisive death of the three columns, political commissar Rong Zihe, column leader Chen Guangdou (old officer), director of the political department Dong Tianzhi; The four columns were killed, political commissar Lei Renmin, column leader Liang Hao (old officer), and director of the Political Department Li Liguo. They went to the northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest of Shanxi to carry out guerrilla warfare and establish anti-Japanese base areas.
On March 20, 1938, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to send troops from the 77th Independent Brigade of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to establish an anti-Japanese base in Daqingshan (Hohhot).
Han Yunhua, who received the order, immediately discussed with Shen Yuquan, who was fighting on the southern front, and finally decided to form a northward detachment with Li Dayong's 88th Regiment, a newly formed cavalry regiment, and a machine gun battalion, and send troops to the Daqingshan area near Hohhot to create the Saibei Army Division.
The newly established Saibei Military Sub-district was headed by Li Dayong as commander and Yang Guohua as political commissar, and the 88 th Regiment (regiment commander Li Guichang and political commissar Yue Yousheng), the Independent Regiment (regiment commander Liu Yinxiang and political commissar Yao Zhonghuai), the Seventh Cavalry Regiment (regiment commander Ji Letu and political commissar Wang Ming), the independent machine gun battalion (battalion commander Shen Shunzeng, political commissar Chen Yin), the military sub-district guard battalion, and some units directly under the military sub-district, with a total strength of about 8,600 troops. Because the number of troops of the original 88th Regiment was far beyond the establishment of the regiment, Han Yunhua decided to divide the original 88th Regiment into two and organize it into the 88th Regiment and the Independent Regiment, Li Dayong no longer served as the head of the 88th Regiment, and the defense area of the original 88th Regiment was taken over by the newly formed Military Region Guard Regiment.
On 1 April, the New Third Regiment sent a good news that after nearly a month of fighting, the New Third Regiment had wiped out or expelled all the Japanese troops in the Shangdu and Huade frontline areas, and successfully completed the combat mission assigned by the Military Region.
On 4 April, the Chengdong Advance Detachment that attacked Huai'an also received good news that the New Fifth Regiment had gained a firm foothold in the Huai'an area and had also established its own base, and Ye Baoguo had prepared to return to the headquarters of the Daqingshan Military Region with the first battalion of the fire support regiment and the first battalion of the artillery regiment.
On April 9, the new 2nd Regiment, the 1st Cavalry Regiment, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, and the 5th Cavalry Regiment were equipped with the 2nd Battalion of the Fire Support Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the Artillery Regiment and the Feilong Special Operations Squadron to form the southward detachment, but the news was not very good, and on 6 April, the Japanese army suddenly increased its troops in the area of Tianzhen and Yanggao, and according to the Feilong Special Operations Squadron eavesdropping on the Japanese army's telephone calls, it was learned that about 8,000 people from the 77th Infantry Wing and the 78th Infantry Wing of the 39th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Zhulu were advancing in the direction of Tianzhen. At the same time, about 4,000 people of the 26th Brigade of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Datong, accompanied by a large number of combat vehicles, were also heading towards Yanggao. In the past few days, there have not been a large number of planes flying over the Tianzhen and Yanggao areas, and as long as there is a suspicious target, the Japanese bombers will drop a large number of bombs, and a cavalry battalion of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment was taken by surprise by the Japanese air force without defense, and a complete cavalry battalion was only 50 people left under the Japanese bombardment. ,
Han Yunhua stared at the military map and looked again and again, and found that the target of the devil was not only Tianzhen and Yanggao, two counties with average military value, but Han Yunhua couldn't think of what the ultimate goal of the Japanese army was.
Since he could not see the intentions of the Japanese army, Han Yunhua decided to respond to all changes with no change, and immediately ordered the southward detachment to quickly withdraw from Tianzhen and Yanggao counties, leaving an infantry battalion, a cavalry battalion, and a machine gun company to fight guerrilla operations in the local area, and the other troops immediately returned to the base area and built a defensive line on the Chaji-Hebei border.
At the same time, Han Yunhua quickly reduced his forces to prevent a new round of Japanese raids on the base area, and in two days, he used the cavalry cluster of more than 3,000 people brought back from the northwest of Shanxi Province and the two county brigades in the base area to form three cavalry regiments: the Eighth Cavalry Regiment, the Ninth Cavalry Regiment, and the Tenth Cavalry Regiment.
Han Yunhua was busy here, and the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps was full of laughter, in view of the vast area of Chahar and Suiyuan and the very important strategic location, coupled with the serious banditry in the area, the strength of a division and five infantry brigades of the Mongolian Corps could no longer meet the rule of the Mongolian region, so the Japanese army base camp decided to increase the number of divisions and regiments in Mongolia and to complete the 26th Division with heavy losses in the shortest possible time, after more than a month of discussion and preparation, One division of the base camp and two wings of the Mongolian Corps were finally replenished to Guisui.
The reinforcements assigned to the Mongolian Army Corps by the Japanese base camp were none other than the Sixth Division, one of the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre. Due to some unknown reasons, Lieutenant General Toshio Tani, commander of the 6th Division, was not transferred back to Japan, but still held the position of commander of the 6th Division, and was also transferred to the battle sequence of the Mongolian Army Corps, which was unfavorable in the war, replacing the independent mixed 2nd Brigade that was originally incorporated into the Mongolian Corps on March 12.
Because Pan Liannuma was really scared by the independent 77th brigade, even if a large number of reinforcements came, Pan Liannuma did not immediately find trouble with the independent 77th brigade, but first reorganized and supplemented the troops under his jurisdiction, and the 26th division was supplemented by 2 wings, and all the losses, including the battle in the northwest of Shanxi, were all made up, and the 26th division became a fully equipped division again. At the same time, Pan Liannuma also allocated the base camp to another wing of the Mongolian Corps, two infantry brigades, an artillery brigade and a cavalry brigade directly under the corps to form a detachment directly under the corps.
After the reorganization of the troops, Lieutenant General Pan Liannuma summoned Major General Ishimoto Inzo, chief of staff of the Mongolian Corps, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, commander of the 6th Division, Shimono-Huo Dazuo, chief of staff, Major General Sakai Tokutaro, commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, Major General Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant General Goguan Jun, commander of the 26th Division, Lieutenant General Shigeji Shigeji, chief of staff, and Major General Kuroda Shigetoku, commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment, to hold a military meeting against Han Yunhua's headquarters.
At the beginning of the meeting, Pan Liannuma pointed to an extremely beautiful female officer sitting under him and said: "Gentlemen, this is the head of the North China Region of the Special High-tech Branch of the Military Department, Miss Yamaguchi, who knows more about Miss Yamaguchi than us of the Eighth Route Army's Eighth Route Army, which is active in the Chahar region. ”
Yamaguchi Meizi looked around coldly and arrogantly at the officials present, and then said loudly: "Han Yunhua, male, 22 years old, commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region of the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party of China and commander of the 77th Independent Brigade. He participated in what the Communist Party called the Long March, and after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he served as the deputy commander of the new 1st Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Han Yunhua first appeared in the field of vision of the imperial high-level in November last year, when Commander Terauchi Shouichi launched a comprehensive sweep of the Eighth Route Army troops in the Wutai Mountain area, Han Yunhua rescued the Eighth Route Army in the Wutai Mountain area, led the troops to attack the south, two battles and two victories, and broke through two county towns in just 9 days, killing more than 4,900 people of our army and more than 3,000 people of the Imperial Army. It was only at this time that the Reich began to pay attention to this Shina officer, who was only the head of the regiment, and also set up a separate file for him. ”
Yamaguchi Umeko continued slowly: "Since then, Han Yunhua's department has been valued by the National Government of China, and the army has been expanded into a brigade-level military unit. However, according to the investigation after the fact, Han Yunhua's so-called brigade was actually far beyond the establishment of a brigade-level military unit of the Chinese army. Subsequently, His Excellency Commander Terauchi Shouichi and Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo of the Kwantung Army sent four wings to besiege Han Yunhua's headquarters, but unfortunately because they had too little knowledge of the enemy's situation, this military operation suffered a crushing defeat, one infantry wing and one cavalry wing were completely annihilated by the Shina army, and the remaining two infantry wings also suffered heavy losses. In the service, Major General Shinogen Joichiro, the commander of the 15th Mixed Brigade, was martyred. Since then, Han Yunhua's troops have frequently launched large-scale attacks on the counties and districts of the Mongolian Corps and the counties and cities of the North China Front's military defense area. According to our investigation by the special high-tech department, there are now at least 10 reorganized regiments under Han Yunhua's department, and the territories directly controlled by the department include Xinghe County, Chahar Right Wing Early Stage, Chahar Right Wing Central Banner, Chahar Right Wing Rear Banner, Fengzhen, and most areas of Zhangbei County, Huai'an County, Tianzhen County, Yanggao County, and Zhuozishan County. ”
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