The Inner Mongolia Military Region's battle summing up meeting was still going on, and Han Yunhua expounded to all officers at and above the brigade level on the issue of reorganizing the troops of the former Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Originally, the Inner Mongolia Military Region had about 120,000 regular armed forces alone, not including local security regiments, district squads in counties, and militias in villages. It can be said that after nearly a year of development, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has formed a huge military force in the Chahar region, which far exceeds the sum of all the military forces in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. Despite the complexity of this military force, its combat effectiveness is uneven. However, it was still the largest military group in Chahar and Suiyuan provinces, and even the Japanese army, which had always been high-flying and domineering, suffered many times in the face of this mysterious army.

However, after the Battle of Saibei, the strength of Han Yunhua's troops was seriously weakened, with more than 30,000 infantry losses alone, cavalry and artillery also suffered heavy losses, and the biggest losses were still the local security regiments and the district squads of various counties, especially the nine security regiments. Because Han Yunhua led the main force of the troops to the east, the strength of the regular troops in the base area was overstretched, and in desperation, he had no choice but to let the local security regiment, which had very weak combat effectiveness, fight fiercely with the devils. Whether it was the Battle of Jining or the Battle of Zhangbei to block the northward movement of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army, the local security regiment played a pivotal role.

The results of the battle were brilliant, but the losses were heavy, the survival rate of the nine local security regiments after the war was only 31%, and this also includes the lightly and seriously wounded who were lying in the field hospital, and the lightly wounded could be said to be able to return to the army after recovery, but those who were seriously wounded were in trouble, and even if they were wounded, they could not fight again. For example, after Yun Qian's Xinghe County Security Regiment participated in the Battle of Zhangbei, there were only more than 600 people left, and less than one-third of the original regiment of more than 1,900 people remained, including the regiment commander, political commissar, two deputy regiment commanders and four chief and deputy battalion commanders. Moreover, a large part of the 80,000 people now reorganized in the Inner Mongolia Military Region are new units that joined during the battle, such as Wu Yongjiang's bandit army, but this war also further promoted the maturity of the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Han Yunhua has always known that the maturity of the army cannot be achieved by hard training, but must go through the baptism of war. In addition, in the midst of war, the combat effectiveness of the troops can be enhanced, and the fighting qualities of the soldiers can be brought into play; the troops that have not been baptized in battle are at best just a group of new recruits, and no matter how hard they work in their daily training and how strict their discipline is, their actual combat effectiveness must be greatly discounted on this basis. In actual combat, it would be very good that the combat effectiveness of such a unit that had not been tested by cruel warfare could be brought into full play.

Just like the current local security forces, even if there are less than 6,000 people left, these 6,000 people are all real elites, and they are the real gold obtained after the big waves and sands. Han Yunhua believed that if these 6,000 people recovered, they would not be much worse than the previous combat effectiveness of more than 19,000 people. It is precisely because of this that Han Yunhua was prompted to cancel the establishment of the local security regiment, after all, there is less than one-third of the original security regiment left in the real sense, but the rest can no longer be used by the security regiment, if Han Yunhua uses these elites left after the war as security forces, then he is not Han Yunhua.

Han Yunhua also understands that the rise of a nation must go through a period of pain, especially now that the Chinese nation is at a critical juncture of life and death due to external and internal troubles, and any woman's kindness may bring irreparable trauma to the entire nation. However, if the Chinese nation wants to truly stand on the highest peak in the world and stand tall in the east of the world's nations, it will not work without a military force that is strong enough to shock the world. The Inner Mongolia Military Region used to be like an obese person, seemingly huge, but its combat effectiveness did not correspond to the strength it possessed, but now although it has collapsed, its whole body is full of muscles, and its combat effectiveness has not decreased much.

Then Han Yunhua said to Deng Hua, Song Shilun and others: "You were originally troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, but now you are stationed in our defense area, but did the head of the headquarters clearly state whether to put you under the command of our military region or let you return to the establishment in the future, just let me and Political Commissar Shen Yuquan reorganize and conduct preliminary training for you and the troops withdrawn from eastern Hebei, so I can't interfere too much in your actions." After discussing with Political Commissar Shen Yuquan, I decided to combine your Fourth Column and the 16 brigades withdrawn from eastern Hebei into eight integrated brigades, each of which has four infantry regiments, an engineer regiment, a heavy machine gun battalion, a guard battalion, a reconnaissance company, and a communications company, each with 13,900 men. As for the senior officers of the troops, they will not be appointed for the time being, and Secretary Li Yunchang and the officers of your fourth column will be assigned to take command on their behalf, waiting for the instructions of the head of the general headquarters. In the near future, I will not assign any tasks to your eight brigades, as long as your run-in training meets the standard, it is my personal guard team that trains your troops. Deng Hua and Song Shilun, you should assist Secretary Li Yunchang and other leaders of the Jire Special Committee in doing a good job in the ideological and daily training of the troops, and I will check the results of your training in a month. ,

After explaining these things, Han Yunhua announced the adjournment of the meeting, and before the adjournment of the meeting, he specially told all the officers present: "The content of this meeting is classified as a 2* level of secrecy, and some things cannot be said at will, especially the establishment of your various departments and the specific number of troops. ”

After the meeting ended, Han Yunhua left Qian Zhuangfei alone. After everyone else went out, Han Yunhua asked in a low voice, "Old Qian, how are things going, is there any news?" ”

Qian Zhuangfei hurriedly replied: "I already have a little eyebrows, but I am still not sure about the specific situation of Comrade Li Yuhan now, but I am sure that Comrade Li Yuhan has not sacrificed. When the Japanese army attacked the headquarters in Daqingshan, Comrade Li Yuhan was sorting out documents in your command post, that is, the commander's bedroom. Fortunately, Comrade Li Yuhan was surrounded by a group of guards with very strong combat effectiveness, and when the Japanese special combat team rushed into your command post, they were ambushed by Comrade Li Yuhan's guards and suffered heavy losses. After the war, we found eleven corpses of the Japanese special operations team outside your command post, and judging by the blood stains on the ground at that time, the Japanese army lost at least thirty or more people there. However, we did not find Comrade Li Yuhan, and Comrade Li Yuhan was missing Jiang Xueyin, an official of the Xinghe County Government. According to the evidence we have, the identity of this Jiang Xueyin is very suspicious, and it is very likely that it was this Jiang Xueyin who guided the devils to attack the headquarters of our military region. ”

"Jiang Xueyin, how did this person enter our military region, didn't your intelligence department investigate her?" Han Yunhua asked unhappily.

"I have investigated, this Jiang Xueyin followed Liu Laohei to defect, she was rescued from the devil by Liu Laohei together with many low-level officers of the Kuomintang and Communist armies, and later Liu Laohei asked Yang Chengwu for help, and finally led his troops to join our Eighth Route Army at the invitation of Yang Chengwu. Jiang Xueyin and most of the captured officers of the Kuomintang also joined our unit at that time, and we also made a detailed investigation of these people afterwards, and also found out two nails planted by the Japanese army. However, it was with the help of this Jiang Xueyin that we found out the two traitors, and now it seems that those two nails are just chess pieces specially released by the Japanese army to confuse our sight, and they are covering for this Jiang Xueyin. Qian Zhuangfei said regretfully.

Han Yunhua thought for a while and said, "Then how did you realize that something was wrong, and did the other officers who participated in us have problems?" ”

"That's right, the day after the Japanese army attacked the headquarters, we felt that something was wrong, first of all, the Japanese army was not discovered until it attacked the core area of the headquarters, this is obviously not that we are not careful enough, but that the Japanese army has figured out our defense map. Second, the location of your command post has to be changed every once in a while, but when the devil sneaked up on the headquarters of our military region, he actually came straight to your command post, which is very strange. When we investigated, Jiang Xueyin was on the mountain that day, and she came to the headquarters in the name of reporting work, and the object of her work report was Comrade Li Yuhan. We learned through other comrades in Xinghe County that no one allowed him to report to the headquarters, including the county magistrate of Xinghe County. As for the officers and branches of knowledge who came with him, of course, there is no problem with Liu Laohei's previous bandits, most of them performed quite well in this battle against the devils, and some of them have already died in their lives, including Liu Laohei, who died when he attacked Zhangjiakou. Qian Zhuangfei said.

"Well, that's okay, in this way, most of them are sincere in participating in our troops, and only this Jiang Xueyin may have different intentions, but since she has been exposed, then the harm to us has become minimal. Now, except for Yuhan, this Jiang Xueyin has lost its effect. Old Qian, where might Yuhan be now, have you found out? Han Yunhua asked.

Qian Zhuangfei said with a somewhat ugly face: "According to the traces left by Comrade Li Yuhan's guards, we have tracked them from Daqingshan to Shangdu, and we have never found any traces of them after that. Along the way, we found more than a dozen places where the two sides were fighting, and at the same time, we also found the bodies of nine Japanese special combat personnel and the remains of two Comrade Li Yuhan's guards. Now we have a preliminary judgment that Comrade Li Yuhan fled to the grasslands in the north under the protection of the guards, and it is very likely that he arrived at the yellow flag and the white flag. ”,

Han Yunhua sighed and said, "Yuhan is my Han Yunhua's woman, I can't watch him have an accident, otherwise I won't forgive myself in this life." Old Qian, I will now hand over the Flying Dragon Special Combat Team to you to command, no matter what method you use, but you must find Yuhan back for me within a month, can you do it? ”

Qian Zhuangfei said loudly: "Please rest assured, commander, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I will hand over Comrade Li Yuhan to you intact?" ”

After the meeting, Han Yunhua devoted himself wholeheartedly to the work of reorganizing the troops in the base areas, and since this was a major reorganization of all the units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, almost all the units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were involved. After the reorganization is completed this time, the Inner Mongolia Military Region will have three integrated infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade, one mechanized brigade, and one artillery brigade. The mechanized brigade and artillery brigade are only known as the trump cards of China's trump cards, and Chiang Kai-shek's descendant Fifth Army has this treatment, and it also has the strength to compete with Han Yunhua's subordinates.

On 22 August, all the units under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were reorganized, including Han Yunhua's heart-to-heart mechanized brigade. At present, a total of 11 infantry brigades, one cavalry brigade, one mechanized brigade, one artillery brigade, one cavalry corps, and one infantry corps have been assembled within the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, with a total strength of 230,000 troops.

Since the head of the General Headquarters has not yet clarified the question of the ownership of the rebel troops withdrawn from eastern Hebei, Han Yunhua cannot include these eight integrated brigades and regiments in the operational sequence of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. However, the head of the headquarters handed over these eight integrated brigades and regiments to the Inner Mongolia Military Region for training on his behalf, and Han Yunhua reluctantly discovered that the head of the headquarters had asked the Inner Mongolia Military Region to arm the more than 100,000 people with the materials he had captured.

However, Han Yunhua also knew that the head of the headquarters had his own difficulties, and after the encirclement and suppression of tens of thousands of devils, the headquarters and several other divisions of the Eighth Route Army suffered great losses, and they could not afford the food and weapons of these hundreds of thousands of people for the time being. And although Han Yunhua's department suffered a lot of losses this time, the seized materials alone were extremely huge, and in the eyes of the head of the headquarters, he Han Yunhua was a veritable landlord and old wealth, and he didn't rob anyone.

The most depressed is Yang Ruihua, the weapons and ammunition that have just been in storage for a few days are now being transported out vigorously, especially to equip those troops outside the military region, although he also knows that these are all troops under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army, but every time he thinks that these weapons and equipment are the soldiers of the Inner Mongolia Military Region have their lives and blood in exchange, they are given to others in vain, which really makes him a little puzzled. Although he felt uncomfortable, the commander had given orders, and he, Yang Ruihua, had to carry them out to the letter.

In order to make rational use of resources, Han Yunhua transferred the Guisui Garrison Brigade to Guisui to serve as the garrison of Guisui. The headquarters of the 1st Assault Brigade was located in Daqingshan, and was responsible for the defense of Xinghe, Shangdu, Kangbao, Zhangbei and other places, and also took on the task of monitoring the Japanese troops in Zhangjiakou. The cavalry brigade was transferred to Jining by Han Yunhua to serve as the defense of the Jining area, including the front line of Fengzhen. The Independent 77th Brigade was transferred to Baotou by Han Yunhua and stationed in Baotou City, along with the Independent 77th Brigade, the artillery brigade and the mechanized brigade that had just been reorganized.

The reorganization of the eastern Hebei uprising troops into the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th independent brigades of the eastern Hebei was placed by Han Yunhua in Xinghe, Guisui, Baotou, and Jining, and handed over to the saber special combat team for unified training together with several other brigades.

Han Yunhua himself rushed to Baotou to train the newly formed mechanized brigade and artillery brigade with the veteran members of a squadron's special combat team and 788 new members selected by Xintao. Han Yunhua was accompanied by the 1st and 2nd Regiments, Fire Support Regiments, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Artillery Regiments.

After coming to Baotou, Han Yunhua did not enter Baotou City, but went straight to the devil's chariot base. Han Yunhua met Guo Weidong in the chariot base built by the devil, and under Guo Weidong's introduction, Han Yunhua learned that there were a total of 342 Type 94 light chariots, 231 Type 95 light chariots, 79 Type 97 medium chariots, 287 motorcycles, and countless shells and gasoline in this devil chariot base.

Han Yunhua organized these tanks into three chariot regiments of 120 chariots, two Type 94 light chariot regiments, one Type 95 light chariot regiment, and as for the small number of Type 97 medium chariots, Han Yunhua transferred all of them to the special operations brigade. Some of the remaining chariots were sent to the warehouse by Han Yunhua for future replenishment, and some were used by Han Yunhua as ordinary practice vehicles. ,

In this way, the mechanized brigade of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was also formed under the personal command of Han Yunhua, and after the formation of the mechanized brigade, it had three tank regiments, a rapid reaction force composed of 220 motorcycles, and a logistics transportation regiment composed of 240 trucks. Since the artillery brigade also needs truck transportation, Han Yunhua temporarily merged the logistics and transportation regiment of the artillery brigade into the mechanized brigade for unified training.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were all engaged in the large-scale military training campaign, and Han Yunhua issued the second order of the head of the military region, ordering all the troops in the territory of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to form combat effectiveness by 20 September. At the same time, the responsible persons of all the local political power in the Inner Mongolia Military Region must vigorously organize the masses of the people to carry out production to save themselves and restore the economy that has been completely destroyed by the devils.

The factories of large and small enterprises that had been relocated or hidden before the war were all restored to production, and with the support of Han Yunhua, a number of new military enterprises were established. At present, the factories under the direct management of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are: Jining Large Military Uniform Factory, Guisui Quilt Factory, Baotou Military Factory, Baotou Firearms Repair Factory, Jining Iron Factory, Baotou Pig Iron and Steel Factory, Guisui Gunpowder Factory, Guisui Bullet Reloading Factory, and Guisui Grenade Factory. At the same time, Han Yunhua also took over a large number of enterprises and military factories left by the Japanese army and overseas Japanese. In these three cities, Han Yunhua initially established a logistical industrial support system belonging to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Although this logistical support system is incomplete in terms of productivity and durability, and the support coefficient is extremely poor, it is a precedent in the Eighth Route Army and has been well received by Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters.