This time, the meeting aimed at the [***] team in North China, mainly for the Eighth Route Army and the Inner Mongolia Military Region, lasted for 11 hours. Although all the senior officers of the army were exhausted, there was not a trace of displeasure on everyone's face. In particular, when the 77th Division of Reading Li besieged Beiping, it killed nearly 20,000 armed forces, mainly soldiers in the countryside and overseas Chinese, which made the entire North China Front Army reprimanded in their own country after the war, otherwise the failure of a single battle would not have caused so many officers of the North China Front to be implicated.

Let's put it this way, due to the mistake of the command of the North China Front, Han Yunhua's department took advantage of the loophole, resulting in nearly 50,000 overseas Chinese in Beiping, Tianjin, and the entire North China region being killed or captured, and more than 1,000 people were born and died, and there were no corpses, including many members of the Guixun wealthy consortium and even members of the imperial family. Many people wrote directly to the military headquarters and the emperor that they wanted Daidai Binshan to pay for the lives of their deceased relatives.

Under such a tide, even if the military department and the emperor wanted to favor the officers of the North China Front headed by Binshan Yuan, they couldn't, the public opinion could not be violated, and the power of so many consortiums jointly signed a letter was not comparable to tens of thousands of ordinary people, and in the end, Binshan Yuan, a chess piece, had no choice but to be abandoned. Perhaps it is the greatest shame in his life for a soldier not to be able to die on the battlefield, so when he received the emperor's will and the order sent by the military headquarters, he did not defend himself, but only made a request to Emperor Yumoto, that is, to ask the emperor to pardon all the officers below the rank of lieutenant general of the North China Front Army and let these people return to the battlefield as soon as possible, because these people are the officers of the [***] team who know the most in the entire Saiben and have an immeasurable role in eliminating the resistance of the Chinese army.

Out of respect for this veteran, Emperor Komoto agreed to Binyamamoto's request without the slightest hesitation, and at this time, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace of the Military Department also wrote a letter asking the emperor to absolve Yamashita Fumiya and others of their guilt and let those people return to the battlefield as soon as possible. Anyway, the death of an army general could completely calm the anger of the people in the country, and Emperor Moto was happy to sell the face of Prince Binshan Moto and Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace, so he issued an edict to pardon the five generals and 41 adjutants led by Yamashita Fumi, and rebuild the Yamashita Division with these people as the backbone.

Although the fiasco in the Battle of North China ended temporarily with Binshan Yuan's self-determination, no one jumped out to hold the political axe and the military department accountable. But soon a problem was put in front of all the high-level leaders in the base camp, although some time ago the fiasco has been responsible for this, but now many people are pointing the finger at revenge, the person directly responsible for the self-judgment is very satisfied, but the murderer who caused the death or disappearance of their relatives is still at large, so a new wave of demand for revenge of the political axe has set off in Tokyo, and this time it is more powerful than the previous stage of protest.

Some time ago, most of the people who put pressure on the political axe and the military department were relatives of the overseas Chinese who died in the Beijing-Tianjin area, but this time it was the entire strata of the Japanese who demanded that the debts of the soldiers and overseas Chinese who died in the war be repaid as soon as possible, including many high-ranking military officers and political axe officers.

Although Hirohito hated being persecuted in this way, especially by his own people and ministers, as a monarch who commanded more than 80 million people, Hirohito knew better than anyone the power of public opinion. This time was no exception, when the book of ten thousand words flew like snowflakes to the base camp and in front of Emperor Hirohito, Hirohito knew that he could not be silent, but he did not know much about marching warfare, although he had served in the army for a short time, but he was not an expert when it came to marching and fighting.

Soon, Hirohito's edict reached the base camp, demanding that the base camp immediately urge the North China Front to immediately start the battle plan of the counteroffensive, and the results must be produced in three months at most, otherwise the wave of protests in the country will further expand.

After receiving the Emperor's edict, the entire base camp was busy, and although His Majesty the Emperor was also very concerned about the development of the war situation since the beginning of the war with China, he paid little attention to the specific course of the war, and generally left it to the military headquarters to deal with it himself. Even for such a big event as the defeat of Taierzhuang, His Majesty the Emperor did not say too much.

But this time, he personally issued an edict to avenge the dead warriors, which could not but cause a shock to the entire base camp. However, the base camp is not an ordinary department, it is the highest military headquarters during the war, and it is also the most important department at this time. Moreover, the base camp is not a permanent department, and it is not allowed to set up such a military command department with such a concentration of power in peacetime. Originally, in the early days of the war, neither China nor China had formally declared war on each other, so the base camp could not be established. However, regulations are regulations, and regulations must also be changed according to practical needs, so on November 18, 1937 (Showa 12), the current Emperor Hirohito issued Imperial Decree No. 658, abolishing the rule that the base camp could only be set up in wartime, and issuing a base camp order stipulating that the base camp could also be set up in the event of an incident. On November 20, a base camp was set up in accordance with the new order, and this time the base camp was set up until September 13, 1945, after the end of the Pacific War. The headquarters meeting consisted of the Emperor, the Chief and Deputy Chiefs of Staff, the Chief and Deputy Chiefs of the Military Command Department, the First Chief of the General Staff Headquarters (in charge of operational affairs) and the Chief of the Operations Division, the First Director of the Military Command Department and the Chief of the Operations Division. The Ministers of War and the Navy attended the meeting as observers, but did not have the right to speak. The headquarters does not include the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and other political and civilian officials, and most of the institutions under the headquarters are the General Staff Headquarters and the Military Command Department.

The operation of such a complex military organization is very strict and cumbersome, and every major battle or incident must go through a long period of study and demonstration, and then a detailed plan must be drawn up, and finally it will be issued to the troops who will carry it out. Therefore, after Hirohito's edict reached the base camp, it caused a panic, and the base camp immediately sent an urgent telegram to Tada Jun, the commander of the North China Front, ordering the North China side to come up with a feasible battle plan as soon as possible, and to fight a beautiful battle within three months, otherwise the entire Imperial Army would fall into an embarrassing passivity.

So Tada Juncai convened this meeting without the slightest preparation, but although the meeting was also a little discordant, the result was very satisfactory. The commanders of the various divisions of the front army were indeed angered by the Han general in the north, although the big guys did not dare to fight indiscriminately, let alone pack a ticket to say that they would definitely be able to do what Han Yunhua would do, but everyone advocated washing away the humiliation of the front army as soon as possible, and there was no doubt that Han Yunhua would not go to war, and the commander of the 10th Division gave a lot of suggestions for the specific operational command, and now Tada Jun has a certain confidence in the next battle in his heart.

Soon after, Tada Jun, commander of the North China Front Headquarters, issued Commander Order No. 765, ordering all units of the North China Front to immediately prepare for battle, to store ammunition as quickly as possible to replenish the soldiers, and to step up the collection of sufficient food and wages from the peasants in the occupied areas.

Because the territory of the North China Front has shrunk a lot this year, the number of various units has increased a lot in a short period of time, and even the 114th Division, which is about to return to China, has been urgently left in North China, so it has increased a lot of burden on the peasants in the occupied areas, and the grain and salary collected by the army this year has increased by four layers compared with previous years.

In previous years, although the big guys said that they were not having a good time, they were busy surviving for a year, getting rid of the landlord's family, and then being robbed by the Han devils for a while, and then taking advantage of the end of the autumn harvest to go to the mountains to pick some wild meat and pick some wild vegetables and other things can barely survive, at least not in the family and the northwest of the New Year, and when the spring bark and tender grass and other things are opened, they can also wrap their stomachs, and they can barely come down for a year. However, this year's heavy taxes have put many families in a desperate situation due to such heavy taxes in the occupied areas, and many families have calculated that every person in a year will not even get two taels of grain a day, and suddenly the people in the entire occupied areas have fallen into a panic.

The panic in the occupied area was soon transmitted back to Guisui, and the first information that Han Yunhua received when he officially went to work for the first time after Xidejiaer was about the occupied area. Han Yunhua has a deep understanding of the life of the people in the occupied areas, and it is a real life of a slave who has died in the country. Not to mention that the army wants to bully them, the people of this country can run rampant and domineering in the entire occupied area with a pair of national flags, and those Han annihilation puppet troops who are attached to the army are even more tigers, and they are groveling to the army, but they have a different face when facing their compatriots.

When he learned that the entire occupied area was panicked because of the army's requisition of grain, Han Yunhua keenly judged that it was not simple at this time. As far as Han Yunhua knows, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were as many as one million soldiers stationed in Chinese mainland, and this was only the number of combat soldiers who went directly to the battlefield to participate in the battle. Add to that the logistical and civilian staff, the diaspora, the numbers are huge. Food is vital to the life and death of the army, and it is a key issue whether the invading army can rely on Chinese mainland to fight. However, the consumption of military rations is huge, and the length of the transportation route is beyond the reach of the local forces. In addition, due to the material losses of the Chinese battlefield for many years, the Chinese army was gradually cut off from the supply of the Chinese battlefield and could only meet its needs for weapons and ammunition, so the Chinese battlefield army was forced to extensively carry out a campaign of self-cultivation on the spot. Later, the invading army set up maintenance associations in various cities and villages, and ordered them to regularly and quantitatively hand over to the army foodstuffs and supplies such as rice, oil, poultry, firewood, tobacco and alcohol, in exchange for an empty guarantee that they would not indiscriminately burn and kill. Since August 1937, with the smooth progress of the military operations of the Japanese army, the puppet army and the puppet regime and other autonomous committees have been established one after another, and for the Japanese army, providing military rations is an important "duty" and "obligation" of the puppet regime at all levels. Only one county in Wujiang, Zhejiang, at the beginning of the occupation, the Wujiang puppet regime provided the army with food and salary from the expropriated land endowment, and the actual levy of legal currency was 860,000 yuan in 1938, which increased to 1.35 million yuan in 1939.

However, in Han Yunhua's memory, the matter of the Chinese army's indiscriminate and frantic collection of grain and wages from Chinese peasants regardless of the economic situation in the occupied areas should have started after 1941, and although the current army is crazy, it will still take into account the economic development of the occupied areas to some extent, after all, according to the initial plan of the Yue army, they did not invade China and leave, but to stay in China, and to completely include China in the territory of the Yue Ben. It was not in the interests of the Chinese army to bring down the economy of the occupied areas, but after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the pressure on the Chinese army increased sharply, and the competition with the US army on the southern front became fierce, so the supply of troops on the Chinese battlefield was much more restricted, and by 1942, except for some ammunition that could not be produced in the occupied areas of China, other materials would hardly be transported to the Chinese battlefield, and at the same time, a large number of materials and raw materials on the Chinese battlefield had to be plundered back from the Chinese battlefield.

Therefore, at this point, part of the energy of the Chinese army on the battlefield gradually shifted to self-sufficiency, and if there was no food, they went to grab and plant it themselves, and in 1942, the army invented the "Qingxiang" movement, which was more severe than the sweeping. It severely undermined the economic development of the occupied areas, and at the same time forced more Chinese to rise up against his own brutal rule.

However, in 1939, the army was not so desperate to levy food and wages, and at this time, the Tianping-Yang War had not yet broken out, and the country had not been greatly threatened, and grain production had not been affected, so it could basically meet the needs of the troops. Even though the army has lost a lot of territory in North China this year, the real grain production in North China has hardly been affected, and it is a bit strange that the army has done this. Moreover, North China has just experienced a major war, especially the North China Front Army has suffered heavy losses over the years, at this time, the most urgent thing for the army to do is to maintain stability and comprehensive management, rather than making the entire occupied area panic like now, so Han Yunhua judged that the army must have its intentions in doing this, but he couldn't guess what the army was going to do.

Although it is not clear what the army is doing this, Han Yunhua knows that the trouble of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is coming, and although the army is so ignorant at this time, it is not all due to the pressure of food and military salaries, but now the lack of grain in the army is basically a fact, and now the peasants have just harvested grain, and it is inevitable that the army will send troops to the countryside to grab grain, and even go to the area controlled by the military region to grab it, so it is imperative to protect the grain.

According to the regulations of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, starting in October, all units must conduct military training for more than three months, and although the degree of training is not as arduous as that of the special combat units, the amount of training is not small. In addition, the military region's units still have other tasks to perform, so Han Yunhua ordered all units to conduct rotational training, that is, each unit will divide the training tasks of the whole army into two stages, the first is to send a part of the troops directly under the army to carry out the tasks, the field troops will be included in the training plan, and after three months, the field units will be transferred with the units directly under the troops performing the tasks, so that all the units of the whole army can be trained intensively in half a year.

However, now the army is ready to move, and it is precisely the units directly under the unit that has weak combat effectiveness that are carrying out the task, and the most important thing is that compared with the field troops, the number of units directly under each unit is not large, and the defense of the base area can only be described as reluctant. If these troops are allowed to go to the occupied areas or the border areas between the base areas and the occupied areas to fight to the death with the army, not to mention whether these directly subordinate troops can complete their tasks, the vast majority of the directly subordinate troops are technical arms, and every time Han Yunhua is killed or injured, Han Yunhua will definitely not do it. However, the rotational training of all units must be completed, and the units have just been reorganized, and there must be a run-in period, and the time must not be less than three months. If the rotation training is stopped now, all the efforts made in the first two months will be in vain, and the training of the field troops is more important than the directly subordinate troops, so Han Yunhua suddenly fell into a dilemma.

Han Yunhua walked out of his office with a telegram and went straight to Political Commissar Luo's office, there were a lot of people in Political Commissar Luo's office, Chief of Staff Zuo and Shen Yuquan were there, and when they saw Han Yunhua walking in, they hurriedly got up to say hello.

"Yunhua, why did you remember that I am here today, hehehe, I am not at home with my daughter-in-law?" Commissar Luo quipped.

Han Yunhua smiled and said: "I also want to continue to accompany my wife Jia'er at home, but it's a pity that your political commissar Luo only approved me for two weeks of leave, how dare I stay at home for one more day, isn't this the holiday coming as soon as it arrives?" ”

"You kid will be flamboyant, you must know that you are the commander of our Inner Mongolia Military Region, I, the political commissar, do not have the right to give you a fake note, and then help you work for a week, and you can't even eat every day when you are tired, you are good, you have a wife at home, this is not to say how to thank you Brother Luo, but I made a joke about me, you kid should be kind!" Political Commissar Luo also responded with a smile.

Han Yunhua hurriedly said: "Hehehe, you really forgot if you didn't finish speaking, my son will be full moon in a few days, Yuhan and I discussed it, and I was going to invite a few of you to have a meal that day, by the way, thank you Brother Luo for taking care of our young couple during this time." ”

(To be continued)